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0.97553 | I have read with interest your recent articles and letters regarding a site for a provincial heritage museum. I must say that I am in agreement that a museum must interpret the story of P.E.I. by showcasing both our natural and human heritage. If a museum is to accomplish these goals, and draw Islanders and tourists alike, refurbishing an old, surplus building would not be the way to proceed. The old Dominion Building in Charlottetown was an office building, and would be a poor fit for a museum.
While no expert, I do think that a purpose-built building would be required given the strict environmental controls needed for an artifactory and provincial archives. I am quite sure that among the goals the province might have for investing in a provincial museum, finding a use for surplus office buildings is not among them. A retrofit building would be hard pressed to provide the necessary archival standard for conservation and preservation. In Harry Baglole's letter on Jan. 5, he stated that a provincial museum should be housed in a purpose-built building located in a setting near woods or the shore. I would like to put forth the idea of Stratford's waterfront as the perfect location. Central location: The IRIS Group's heritage study recommended a museum be centrally located to make itself accessible to the highest number of visitors. Stratford is in the capital region, and is now connected to Charlottetown via public transportation. The location has the added attraction of sitting on the bank of the Hillsborough River, a designated Canadian Heritage River.- Space: Stratford's waterfront has adequate space not only for a museum and provincial archives but also for car and bus parking. The location would provide dramatic views of the harbour and Charlottetown's skyline.- Government presence: The provincial government has demonstrated its commitment to the concept of 'one Island community' by finding new homes for government departments. As the third-largest municipality in province, there is a conspicuous absence of government presence in Stratford. Locating the provincial museum in Stratford would go far to address this deficit.- Showcase opportunity: A purpose-built museum has the potential to be an architectural gem, reminiscent of the Canadian Museum of Civilization across the river from Ottawa. A provincial museum on the Stratford waterfront would be highly visible from Charlottetown and the Hillsborough Bridge. The design of a museum should be a drawing card in and of itself.- The future: At some point, a marina is planned for Stratford's waterfront. Both municipalities would benefit if summertime tourists were able to take a pedestrian ferry from historic downtown Charlottetown across the Hillsborough River to the provincial museum in Stratford. A ferry could even complete the triangle, connecting to Rocky Point (Port la Joye/Fort Amherst) before returning to Charlottetown. Before a location is chosen for the wrong reasons, let's hope the province follows the IRIS Group's recommendation and allows a professionally led study to recommend the preferred site for a provincial museum and archives.
Doug Kelly is chair of the Stratford Heritage Committee. |
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0.940619 | Host a meeting in the IDL boardroom.
This hearing accessible, non-smoking one room studio suite features one king-sized bed and a visual alarm and notification devices for the doorbell or door knock and incoming phone calls. The room features our clean and fresh Hampton bed®, comfortable sofa bed, microwave, refrigerator, wet bar, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. In the bath you will enjoy a WaterPik shower head and curved shower rod. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This hearing accessible, non-smoking room features one king-sized bed and a visual alarm and notification devices for the doorbell or door knock and incoming phone calls. The room features our clean and fresh Hampton bed®, comfortable soft seating, refrigerator, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. In the bath you will enjoy a WaterPik shower head and curved shower rod. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This mobility accessible, one-room, non-smoking studio suite features one king-sized bed featuring our clean and fresh Hampton bed®. The bath is equipped with accessible roll-in shower. The suite features a sofa bed, microwave, refrigerator, wet bar, comfortable soft seating, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This mobility accessible, one-room, non-smoking studio suite features one king-sized bed featuring our clean and fresh Hampton bed®. The bath is equipped with an accessible bath tub. The suite features include a sofa bed, microwave, refrigerator, wet bar, comfortable soft seating, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This mobility accessible, non-smoking room features one king-sized bed featuring our clean and fresh Hampton bed®. The bath is equipped with accessible bath tub. The room features comfortable soft seating, a refrigerator, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This hearing accessible, non-smoking room features two queen-sized beds and a visual alarm and notification devices for the doorbell or door knock and incoming phone calls. The room features our clean and fresh Hampton bed®, comfortable soft seating, refrigerator, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. In the bath you will enjoy a WaterPik shower head and curved shower rod. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This mobility accessible, non-smoking room features two queen-sized beds featuring our clean and fresh Hampton bed®. The bath is equipped with Accessible bath tub. The room features comfortable soft seating, a refrigerator, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature.
This mobility and hearing accessible, nonsmoking room features two queen-sized beds featuring our clean and fresh Hampton bed®. The bath is equipped with accessible roll-in shower. The room also has a visual alarm and notification devices for the doorbell or door knock and incoming phone calls. The room features comfortable soft seating, refrigerator, a HDTV, and easy to operate alarm clock/radio. The free WiFi will help you stay connected while on the road. You'll also enjoy the convenience of having a coffeemaker with tea service and iron/ironing board in your room. Any corresponding photo may not reflect the specific accessible room type or room feature. |
0.999985 | Add recipe reviews for Peas and Thank You: Simple Meatless Meals the Whole Family Will Love by Sarah Matheny here, and they will be added to the list. Thanks to lebkuchen for this list!
Pumpkin Spice-Roasted Chickpeas - LOVE these. I don't know why this flavor combo never occurred to me before, but it's awesome and so easy to make! I've already made this twice and my hubby and son love it, too.
Chewy Energy Bars - these are insanely delicious. I've made this twice already, too. I used buckwheat flour and cashew butter. After I baked and cooled the pan, I cut them into small bites and then froze them. They are so yummy out of the freezer!
Lemon Rosemary-Roasted Chickpeas - yum! Super flavorful. Good for snackage.
Blackberry basil smash smoothie- I love this! Before school started again, I was having one of these daily with lunch. Now it is sometimes desert. I've used a touch of agave instead of stevia, and the only downside to the recipe is the seeds at the bottom of the smoothie!
chocolate cherry almond smoothie: this is now my go-to breakfast (along with the other 3/4ths of the banana, since I make one at a time) until weather cools off and I go back to oatmeal. Again, I use agave instead of stevia, and this has also been an ice cream substitute some nights. It is not too sweet, and I feel very pious having 1/3 cup spinach before 7 am!
Skinny elvis sandwiches: these are pretty good, except I would not make them on corn tortillas. Too dry!
pumpkin spice chickpeas: addictive on their own, lovely on my salad in place of nuts.
lemon-rosemary chickpeas: these were too strongly flavored for me to eat on their own, but a nice accent on top of pasta and sauce.
spanish quinoa: this was dead simple to make, and quick too. The flavor is nice. It did not knock my socks off with complex and interesting layers, but the simplicity and the fact that the ingredients are usually in my pantry (and it reheats well) means I will probably make this over and over again.
energy bars: these were good with almond butter and chocolate chips and dried cherries instead of raisins. Very chewy in a good way. However, they were more calories than I would like for my energy bars. To fix this, I cut them up into 16 pieces instead of 10. Problem solved!
almond joy cookie bars: I adored these. Even a guest who says he usually does not like coconut couldn't stop eating them. They are not overpoweringly chocolatey or coconutty, but that is part of their charm. I like that they don't hit you over the head with sweetness. They're subtle, not too rich, and just right.
This was not bad, it was just meh. I have a fairly high soup standard, in order to be top marks a soup has to be something I would look forward to eating the leftovers for lunch the next day. This was too bland and not exciting enough. It was all right for dinner, but I probably won't make it again.
I baked instead of fried, but even still they were super moist after a very long cooking time... am thinking another 1/4 cup or so oats might help dry this out a little more. I also wasn't overly keen on the broccoli slaw, but it wasn't too overpowering so it was edible. I'd like to play around with this more because I think it has some potential.
I made it with Trader Joe's coconut milk (for drinking, not for cooking) instead of traditional coconut milk. But this was nice! Even though it makes 4 servings like the other smoothie recipes, the carbonation makes it fizz up to a much larger cup size than the other smoothies. It was refreshing, though I used about 2/3 of the cilantro. I like cilantro, but in small doses.
Those are actually two of the recipes I've been meaning to make next...thanks for the reviews!
Thai Veggie Burgers - These are the first veggie burgers I have ever made... but I thought they were pretty good. Although not as firm as I was hoping. They were flavourful although I think they tasted better before I panfried them! I ate it overtop veggies with pineapple and topped with a sweet chili sauce.
I thought these were good. They have a nice peanut butter flavor. The middle is a little doughy in texture but yet it is a little crumbly.
These are a nice fudgy brownie without the fat. My dad loves these and he can be really picky with his brownies.
Lebkuchen, that carrot cake sounds delicious! Is the carrot cake recipe in her book (which I don't have) pretty much the same as the recipe on her blog for carrot cake bars with "cream cheese" icing? I like that she steams & purees the carrots, a change-up from the usual carrot cake recipes I've made.
I had to do some digging on her blog, but yes, it does appear to be much the same (if not identical) recipe! That icing recipe...my Lord. I've made vegan cream cheese frosting before, but hers is THE.BEST.EVER!!!
Oh, no problem, willwolf! I didn't mean to imply that it was work for me...I was just surprised that it wasn't listed under her Recipeas. Actually, it does seem that quite a lot of her cookbook recipes are posted on her blog!
Better than ever black bean burgers - my current go-to burger recipe. Doesn't take too long and the flavor is great. |
0.941329 | Colorado ( or ) is a U.S. state encompassing most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Southwestern United States, and the Mountain States. Colorado is the 8th most extensive and the 22nd most populous of the 50 United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,355,866 on July 1, 2014, an increase of 6.50% since the 2010 United States Census.
The state was named for the Colorado River, which Spanish travelers named the Río Colorado for the ruddy (Spanish: ) silt the river carried from the mountains. The Territory of Colorado was organized on February 28, 1861, and on August 1, 1876, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado to the Union as the 38th state. Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it became a state 28 days after the centennial of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado. Residents of the state are properly known as "Coloradans", although the archaic term "Coloradoan" is still in use.
The U.S. relinquished its claim to all land south and west of the Arkansas River and south of 42nd parallel north and west of the 100th meridian west as part of its purchase of Florida from Spain with the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819. The treaty took effect February 22, 1821. Having settled its border with Spain, the U.S. admitted the southeastern portion of the Territory of Missouri to the Union as the state of Missouri on August 10, 1821. The remainder of Missouri Territory, including what would become northeastern Colorado, became unorganized territory, and remained so for 33 years over the question of slavery. After 11 years of war, Spain finally recognized the independence of Mexico with the Treaty of Córdoba signed on August 24, 1821. Mexico eventually ratified the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1831. The Texian Revolt of 1835–1836 fomented a dispute between the U.S. and Mexico which eventually erupted into the Mexican-American War in 1846. Mexico surrendered its northern territory to the U.S. with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the conclusion of the war in 1848.
Most American settlers traveling overland west to the Oregon Country, namely the new goldfields of California, or the new Mormon settlements of the State of Deseret in the Salt Lake Valley, avoided the rugged Southern Rocky Mountains, and instead followed the North Platte River and Sweetwater River to South Pass (Wyoming), the lowest crossing of the Continental Divide between the Southern Rocky Mountains and the Central Rocky Mountains. In 1849, the Mormons of the Salt Lake Valley organized the extralegal State of Deseret, claiming the entire Great Basin and all lands drained by the rivers Green, Grand, and Colorado. The federal government of the U.S. flatly refused to recognize the new Mormon government, because it was theocratic and sanctioned plural marriage. Instead, the Compromise of 1850 divided the Mexican Cession and the northwestern claims of Texas into a new state and two new territories, the state of California, the Territory of New Mexico, and the Territory of Utah. On April 9, 1851, Mexican American settlers from the area of Taos settled the village of San Luis, then in the New Mexico Territory, later to become Colorados first permanent Euro-American settlement.
CNBCs list of "Top States for Business for 2010" has recognized Colorado as the third best state in the nation, falling short to only Texas and Virginia.
Boulder, Colorado was named Americas Foodiest Town 2010 by Bon Appétit. Boulder, and Colorado in general, is home to a number of national food and beverage companies, top-tier restaurants and farmers markets. Boulder, Colorado also has more Master Sommeliers per capita than any other city, including San Francisco and New York. |
0.979944 | Richard Thomson, sometimes spelled Thompson, was a Dutch-born English theologian and translator. He was Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and the translator of Martial's epigrams and among the "First Westminster Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible. He was also known for his intemperance and his doctrinal belief in Arminianism.
Commonly called "Dutch Thomson", he was born in Holland of English parents, and received his education at Clare Hall, where he graduated B.A. in 1587 and was elected fellow. He commenced M.A. in 1591, and was incorporated in that degree at Oxford on 1 July 1596. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes presented him to the rectory of Snailwell, Cambridgeshire.
He was selected as one of the translators of the Bible, being one of the company to which the task was allotted of translating the Old Testament from Genesis to the second book of Kings inclusive. Thomas Farnaby states that Thomson lived for some time under the protection of Sir Robert Killigrew, and that he was a great interpreter of Martial.
Henry Hickman styles him ‘the grand propagator of Arminianism,’ and Prynne describes him as ‘a debosh'd drunken English Dutchman, who seldom went one night to bed sober;’ but on the other hand Richard Montagu, who knew him well, says that he was ‘a most admirable philologer,’ and that ‘he was better known in Italy, France, and Germany than at home.’ He was buried at St. Edward's, Cambridge, on 8 January 1613.
Elenchus Refutationis Pro … Episcopo Eliense adversus Martinum Becanum Jesuitam, authore Richardo Thomsonio Cantabrigiensi, London, 1611, dedicated to Sir Thomas Jermyn. Against Martinus Becanus and his attack on the Torturæ Torti, of Lancelot Andrewes, itself a controversial work against Robert Bellarmine in the allegiance oath controversy.
Diatriba de Amissione et Intercisione Gratiæ et Justificationis, Leyden, 1616 and 1618. An ‘Animadversio brevis’ on this work was published in 1618 by Robert Abbot.
"Thomson, Richard (d.1613)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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0.998609 | If I had to vote today on what would be my favorite thing to make in the Instant Pot, I would vote for risotto. I love risotto - the creamy rice, the endless meat and veggie combos, the "comfort food" component - I love everything about it. But I don't often have 30 minutes to stand at the stove and stir it. Enter the Instant Pot! It creates beautiful, creamy, delicious risotto with the cover on and sealed, and you can do something else in the meantime!
I have recipes here for risotto in the IP featuring shrimp and asparagus, Italian sausage, and I regularly adapt my favorite shrimp and spinach version for the IP too. But I knew there had to be other winning combinations.
As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and I had a few things to use up in the fridge. And it worked out beautifully. Salty bacon pairs well with mushrooms and peas - I like the textures, the colors and the flavors! A win-win-win all around.
Have you made risotto in your IP yet? I hope you'll try it, I know you'll love it!
There are more great ideas at Inspiration Monday, Busy Monday, Inspire Me, Inspire Me2, Show and Share, Fabulous, Hearth and Soul.
Set an electric pressure cooker to browning or saute, and add the cut up bacon. Stir and cook until bacon is almost done. Stir in the onion, and cook for 2 or 3 minutes, until the onion is translucent.
Add the rice and the mushrooms, and cook, stirring, for 4-5 minutes, until the rice is very lightly browning. Pour in the wine, which will bubble immediately. Stir for 1 minute, until most of the wine has been absorbed. Then add the chicken broth all at once.
Lock the cover and turn the pressure valve (so it's not on venting.) Set on High Pressure for 6 minutes.
When the cooker switches to Keep Warm, immediately release the pressure. After the pressure indicator drops, remove the cover.
Stir in the peas and parmesan cheese until the cheese is melted and peas are warmed through. Serve immediately. (Risotto left in the pot will thicken substantially.) Makes 4 servings. |
0.930655 | I agree with much of what you’ve said about bias and I would love to see more conservatives in academia, but my question for you is this: Is academia actively purging the liberals or simply converting the conservatives? Someone who is willing to open their mind and expand the body of knowledge (the goal of academia), is the definition of a liberal, right? Anyone in academia who wants to keep their job is expected to publish and trail blaze and explore new frontiers. I would argue that conversion to liberalism is structured into our system.
Conversion likely is a big factor, though the researchers do present evidence that non-liberals are pushed out.
I disagree, however, that open mindedness is the definition of liberal. I’ve met too many open minded conservatives and close minded liberals. Instead, I view left-wing political ideology as mainly focused on oppression, with people belonging to distinct groups that are either oppressed, oppressors, or privileged (not directly exploiting others) with government’s role being to level the playing field. And liberals tend to support corporatism with government as the dominant partner.
Right-wing politics in my opinion is primarily focused on traditional values (unless civilization crumble) with government’s role being the legislation of traditional morality and favoring corporatism with corporations as the dominant partner.
And libertarians are all about individual liberty, so they oppose all corporatism and legislation of morality, but they also oppose any public assistance for the less fortunate.
Each one has its valid points, and serious drawbacks. But the willingness to understand each perspective, even if one disagrees; and the willingness to accurately represent one’s opponents views without distortion, is how I view open mindedness. And I honestly think that the more strident or extreme people’s ideologies (regardless of whether it’s left or right), the less open minded they tend to be. |
0.95264 | How? – Find some long grass with a fluffy seed head on the top. Chase each other around trying to tickle each other.
Try – See who can find the longest tickling stick. |
0.926469 | Learning Target: I can write a program to get user input.
The best kinds of programs are often the interactive ones. Basic interactivity is easy to implement in python using the input function.
An important note: using the input function in the ActiveCode windows in the browser may have unintended side effects. For best results (and most accurate results), I highly advise you run this code in your own text-based python IDE.
The built-in input() function is a way to prompt the user to type something in. In python, this would be done in the console (where the output is). On this site, it will appear as a pop-up box. Inside the parentheses, you would put the prompt as a string. The prompt is what the user sees when you are asking for input. Run the following two examples as a demonstration.
They should both do the exact same thing. Notice how we put the input() function as part of a variable assignment statement. This is because the input() function actually represents a value - the value being whatever was typed in to the prompt.
An important question here is: what type of data does input() give you? We can easily find out using the type() function. Try running the example below.
So here, we’re asking the user Hello, what's your name? and saving their input in a variable called name. We then print the datatype of name using the type() function. The result is a string. What if you had typed in a number? Try running the example below.
In the space below on line 2, write a statement that will ask the user to enter in their favorite food using input() and save it in a variable called fav_food.
In the space below on line 2, write a statement that will ask the user to guess a number between 1 and 10 using input(), convert it to an integer, and save it in a variable called guess. |
0.998873 | How to get rid of snakes under a house When snakes are under a house or building, getting rid of them becomes much more difficult. The best way to catch a snake, short of hiring a professional to do the job for you, would be to purchase some snake traps and set them up in the area where the snakes are usually seen.
Mr Chapman said snake catchers also do more than just relocate snakes. “We’re not just here to catch a snake and remove it. We’re here to help the general public.
Don't discount a hiding place because you think it is too small or inaccessible - snakes, lizards, and even small mammals can fit through surprisingly small spaces. |
0.931069 | Son of George Metochites, a cleric of the Eastern Orthodox Church during the imperium of Emperor Michael VIII Paleologos, Theodore Metochites grew up in the cultural center of Constantinople. However, because his father George favored union with the Latin Church, the family was exiled. Theodore, nevertheless, received a good education and completed his enkyklios paideia by the time he was 20. Favored by Emperor Andronikos II, he became a close collaborator and counselor. In this capacity he made several important diplomatic missions to Cyprus, Serbia, and Thessaloniki, among others, and was appointed to several successively more important public offices. In 1304, Metochites was appointed to the highest position of the Byzantine administration, megas logothetes, or Grand Deputy, with duties equivalent to chancellor or prime minister, which he held until 1321.
Metochites's career ended when the emperor was deposed, and he was exiled by the new Emperor Andronikos III Paleologos. He died, as the monk Theoleptos, in 1332 at the Chora monastery in Constantinople to which he had donated his extensive library, and whose restoration work he had personally supported. Metochites's mosaic portrait in the monastery where he offers the Church of Chora to the enthroned Christ commemorates his extensive gifts to the institution.
Metochites was an exceptionally prolific writer and scholar, leaving behind works of rhetoric (royal eulogies and discourses), 20 poems, a literary testament in verse, a collection of philosophical texts, and two works on astronomy. His collection of texts, Hypomnematismoi kai semeoses gnomikai (Annotations and gnomic notes or Personal comments and annotations), an astonishing collection of essays and texts on history, literature, and thinking, includes material on over 70 Greek authors. It contains the most extensive commentary on Aristotelian philosophy of the late Byzantine period. Metochites's commentaries on the Dialogues of Plato had an important influence on the Platonic renaissance of the 15th century.
Metochites's work associated with astronomy includes his paraphrases of Aristotle's works on natural philosophy and his comprehensive introduction to Ptolemaic astronomy. His Stoicheiosis Astronomike (Elements of astronomy) revived Ptolemaic studies in Byzantium and gives evidence of the significance of contacts with Persian and Arabic science in astronomy as practiced in the period of the early Paleologai. In this work, Metochites described earlier astronomical studies and made a clear argument for the importance of astronomy over the other branches of mathematics. He clearly distinguished between astronomy and the then popular apotelesmatics (astrology), which he condemned. In his Semeoses gnomikai (Annotations), Metochites provided an important critique of Aristotle.
Bydén, Börje (2002). “To Every Argument there is a Counter‐Argument: Theodore Metochites' Defence of Scepticism (Semeiosis 61).” In Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources, edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, pp. 183‐217. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hult, Karen with Börje Bydén (2002). Theodore Metochites on Ancient Authors and Philosophy. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 65. Göteborg: Acta Universistatis Gothoburgensis.
Paschos, E. A. and P. Sotiroudis (1998). The Schemata of the Stars: Byzantine Astronomy from A.D. 1300. Singapore: World Scientific.
Talbot, Alice‐Mary (1991). “Metochites, Theodore.” In Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan. Vol. 2, pp. 1357–1358. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Underwood, P. A. (1966). The Kariye Djami. Vols. 1–4. New York: Bollingen Foundation. |
0.999995 | What is augmented reality? It’s commonly known as AR and often confused with VR, due to their similarities in their names and what they do.
Augmented Reality Examples: Why Your Business Should Act Now! |
0.931827 | How Do I Read Plumbing Blueprints?
Because there are hundreds of symbols that may be used in a plumbing blueprint, it is necessary for someone who is unfamiliar with plumbing systems to first obtain a guide to plumbing blueprint symbols. Lists of symbols are available online, and print guides to plumbing symbols are available for sale or to borrow at many libraries.
In the house-building process, it is the architects who are initially responsible for drawing up the blueprints, including the plumbing blueprints. For this reason, architects work closely with plumbers to remain up to speed on changes in plumbing codes and symbols. Most blueprints are accompanied with a schedule that lists the symbols used in the print but may not include the definitions of these symbols.
A guide to blueprint symbols makes it easier to identify the symbols in the accompanying schedule. The schedule also helps identify major plumbing fixtures, such as sinks, showers, bathtubs and toilets. Knowing the locations of the major fixtures makes it easier to trace the drain lines and vents throughout the house. It is also important to know the location of gas, sewer connections and water lines used for radiant heating so as not to cause damage to pre-existing systems. |
0.990474 | The northern polar region of Tethys, seen in this Cassini flyby image, is a ponderously ancient surface.
Colossal impacts in the outer reaches of the solar system may have bowled over remote, frozen moons, leading to vast cracks across their surfaces, research now suggests.
The many impact craters that have pocked our moon and Earth reveal our solar system can be like a shooting gallery, with asteroids and comets regularly striking planets and their companions. These monumental blows can literally set moons rocking, said researcher Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
To understand how this might happen with moons, first imagine a bowling ball as it rolls down an alley. It will often come to rest with its finger holes—where it has the least mass—resting on top, stabilizing itself. In much the same way, "if you carve a hole in a spinning planet, the planet will tilt over so that the hole ends up at the nearest pole," Nimmo told SPACE.com. "In the case of a planet, the hole is carved out by an asteroid or comet impact."
Often icy moons in the outer solar system boast large impact craters. Now researchers calculate the greatest of these craters might have tilted two of Saturn's moons, Tethys and Rhea, and Uranus's moon Titania roughly 4 degrees, 7 degrees and 12 degrees, respectively.
While these angles might not seem much, such tumbling would have dramatically increased stresses inside these moons, leading very likely to "a global pattern of tectonic fractures," Nimmo explained.
The scientists also theoretically investigated how Pluto and its moon Charon might roll, assuming they had large craters as Tethys, Rhea and Titania do. They spin more slowly than Saturn's moons, and thus are more likely to shift. "Think of a spinning top. When it spins fast, its axis stays steady, stable. As it slows down, its axis starts to wobble—unstable," Nimmo said.
If Pluto and Charon possess impact craters as large as those seen on Saturn's moons, they might have shifted 10 and 20 degrees, respectively, and perhaps "developed a global network of fractures," Nimmo added. This is a prediction that can be tested once the NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrives in 2015, the first probe specifically designed to fly by Pluto and its moons. Nimmo and his colleague Isamu Matsuyama at the Carnegie Institution of Washington detailed their findings in a recent issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Crater-triggered rolling might have happened to the Moon as well. "The Moon probably underwent multiple reorientation episodes when it was being battered by impacts early in its history," Nimmo said.
However, the new findings concerning the icy satellites may have failed to adequately consider the matter blown out by these impacts, said planetary scientist Jay Melosh at the University of Arizona at Tucson. After that debris settles back down around the rim of the crater, it could even out any instabilities, reducing any resulting tumbling by as much as a factor of five.
"There could still be some reorientation, and we should still look out for fractures, but this rim effect would be very important," Melosh said.
On the other hand, a huge crater near the south pole of Earth's moon—the Aitken basin—may be large enough to have triggered a dramatic roll early in the moon's history, Melosh noted. "That one's big enough to count," he said. |
0.926201 | Although the United States may not have as many notable statues as other areas of the world such as Europe, there are many interesting ones that can be found around the country.
Statues play an ornate tribute to persons or events.
A statue is a sculpture which can represent one or more people, animals, or an event. They can also represent abstract concepts and are generally close to life-size or even larger. Usually, statues have great historical meanings to people or depict something of importance. Statutes have been part of human culture from time immemorial to the modern day, and the oldest statute is estimated to be 30,000 years old. Most statutes are part of public art and are exhibited outdoors or in public buildings.
The Gateway Arch is a major landmark in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the tallest arch in the world, and the tallest man-made monument in all of the Western Hemisphere. It was intended as a monument of the westward expansion of the United States. Although it is prohibited, a number of amateur aviations have flown through the arch for publicity stunts. Several parachuters have also jumped from the arch.
The Statue of John Barry is a 6-foot monument made of bronze, established in 1906 in honor of Commodore John Barry who was an officer during the American Revolutionary war in both the Continental Navy and the United States Navy. John Barry was dubbed "The Father of the American Navy", due to his diligence and loyalty as a captain commandeering the first US warship. The statue is erected in several states including Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
The This Is the Place Monument a historical monument located in the eastern region of Salt Lake City, Utah at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. The statue, which was named for the Church of the Latter Day Saints leader Brigham Young, was sculpted from 1939 to 1947 by Mahonri M. Young, who is his grandson. The statue stands as a monument to the Mormon pioneers together with the settlers and explorers of the American West. The monument was dedicated on July 24th 1947 as the 100th anniversary of the pioneers infiltrating the Salt Lake Valley by George Albert Smith who was the 8th President of the Latter-Day Saints Church.
The Library Lions are the famous sculptures of marble lions that guard the main branch of the New York Public Library. The lions have been given many nicknames, including Leo Astor and Leo Lenox and Patience and Fortitude. They serve as not only mascots for the gigantic public library system of New York, but also as famous landmarks of New York City that are featured in many films and television shows.
The Spirit of Detroit is a large bronze statue located on Woodward Avenue, Detroit's main thoroughfare. It was designed by Marshall Fredericks and was crafted entirely from bronze in 1958. The monument features a large figure in a sitting position holding a sphere with an efflorescence that emblematizes God in its left hand, while in its right hand it holds a family group. The statue is a 26' foot sculpture and was the largest made from cast bronze when it was first installed since the Renaissance. In 2006, the statue went through a period of restoration which was financed by private donations and foundations.
Christ of the Ozarks is situated on top of the Magnetic Mountain close to Eureka Springs in Arkansas is a monumental sculpture depicting Jesus. The statue which had an estimated height of 65.5 feet was erected as a "Sacred Project" by an American clergyman Gerald L. K. Smith in 1966 and was intended to be part of a religious theme park. The statue was designed by Emmet Sullivan and features a figure of Christ with outstretched straight arms alluding to the crucifixion.
Located in the Loop central business district area of Chicago, Illinois is a public sculpture known as Cloud Gate. The monument was designed by Anish Kapoor, a British artist born in India. Cloud Gate is more commonly referred to as "The Bean" due to its shape. Construction took place between 2004 and 2006. The sculpture features about 168 plates welded together and made of stainless steel, whose highly polished exterior contains no visible stitching. The surface of the sculpture which reflects and disfigures the skyline of Chicago was inspired by liquid mercury.
Located in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota is Mount Rushmore National Memorial which is a sculpture carved into a batholiths, the granite face of Mount Rushmore. The sculpture was carved by Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum. It features 60 feet tall sculptures of the heads of four former presidents of the United States. The memorial park which stretches over 1278 acres and 5725 feet above sea level features the heads of former presidents US George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln from left to right. The sculptures were carved on March 3rd, 1925.
The statue of Abraham Lincoln is located inside the Lincoln Memorial and was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. The statue was designed in 1920 is an American National monument constructed in honour of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. The monument is in the western end the National Mall in Washington, D.C. There is much folklore surrounding the statue, including the speculation that Lincoln is showing his initials using sign language, although this is denied by the National Park Service.
The Statue of Liberty is located on Liberty Island in New York Harbour, New York City. The sculpture which was built from copper and was issued as a gift to the people of United States from the people of France. The statue was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor. The Statue of Liberty features a female figure in a robe also known as Lady Liberty. The statue was first displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Although it has not been open to the public since 1916, there is actually a small balcony surrounding the torch at the top of the statue.
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0.999983 | How to remove wrinkles under the right eye should begin by knowing what the cause of wrinkles is. Keep in mind that the appearance of wrinkles is influenced by many factors. Some of the risk factors for the appearance of wrinkles can still be controlled, such as smoking habits, repeated facial expression, and excessive exposure to ultraviolet light. Meanwhile, the risk factor that can not be controlled is the age factor. Cigarettes are predicted to make the aging process on the skin run faster than usual. This is probably because smoking risks changing blood supply to the skin. Regarding the relationship with facial expressions, such as narrowing the eyes often, the risk of triggering the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles on the skin.
Ultraviolet rays that hit the skin can break the connective tissue on the skin, such as collagen and elastin fibers. Without such supporting tissues, the skin will lose its flexibility resulting in early wrinkles. The age factor alone can certainly reduce the elasticity of the skin naturally due to decreased production of skin oil.
In addition to around the eyes, wrinkles usually occur also in other faces and neck. The steps below can be used to overcome the presence of wrinkles, including wrinkles under the eyes.
In general, eye cream contains a mild anti-aging ingredient for the skin. The concentration of the material used is also lower than for other body parts, considering the skin around the eyes is smoother than other parts. The usual ingredients contained in eye cream are retinoids, peptides, and hydrating agents (such as hyaluronic acid). These materials contribute to filling wrinkles around the eyes. Another recommended ingredient contained in the cream to reduce wrinkles under the eyes is coenzyme Q10. This material is also useful to protect the skin from damage caused by exposure to sunlight.
The creep cream can also be obtained without a doctor's prescription. Some of the active ingredients present in the over-the-counter creams include retinol, alpha hydroxy, antioxidants, and a number of peptides. Unfortunately, anti-wrinkle creams without prescription only contain a few active ingredients so the results are not as good as prescribed by a doctor.
To remove wrinkles under the eyes quickly, there are several ways that can be used. One of them is a botulinum toxin injection or commonly known as botox injections. In certain doses and performed by doctors, these injections will relax the muscles that cause wrinkles and wrinkles on the skin. Another way that can be used to remove wrinkles caused by exposure to sunlight (UV rays) or due to the age factor is by chemical peels. This facial treatment method aims to remove dead skin cells using chemicals. The new cells that appear next will form a smoother new layer of skin.
Another way that can be used is to use a laser. The use of lasers will stimulate the growth of collagen and new skin fibers are firmer and smoother. Dermabrasion and microdermabrasion can also be used to remove wrinkles under the eyes. This process is simply used to remove the wrinkled skin surface so that new skin layers grow there.
Another technique that can be done to remove wrinkles under the eyes is through the filling of soft tissues (filler technique). Soft tissues such as fat, collagen, and hyaluronic acid gel are injected into the wrinkles so that the faded wrinkles disappear. Finally, firming the skin with a heat-discharging device can be done to remove wrinkles under the eyes. Immediately apply how to remove wrinkles under the eyes as described above. Consult a physician to get treatment that suits your own condition.
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0.928911 | After the destruction of Númenor, Isildur and Anárion, the sons of Elendil, landed in Gondor. Isildur built Minas Ithil near the mountainous border of Mordor from where he would rule the fief of Ithilien; while Anárion built Minas Anor to rule over the fief of Anórien. Minas Ithil housed a palantír, the Ithil-stone.
When Sauron returned after escaping Númenor's destruction, he attacked the exiles of Númenor, and his forces took Minas Ithil by storm. When the Last Alliance of Elves and Men defeated Sauron in the year S.A. 3429, Minas Ithil was restored as a watchtower.
In T.A. 1980, the Nazgûl returned to Mordor (after the defeat of the Witch-king of Angmar in the north of Middle-earth).
The Ringwraiths laid siege to Minas Ithil shortly after their return, in T.A. 2002, and they took the city for their master, Sauron (who was still hidden at the time).
Minas Ithil was occupied by fell creatures, and it changed into a foul, evil place. As a result, it came to be called Minas Morgul, which in the tongue of Gondor means "Tower of Dark Sorcery". The Ithil-stone, was captured and later used by Sauron to influence Denethor II during the War of the Ring.
During the Watchful Peace the lords of Morgul had secretly bred the Uruk-hai, and in T.A. 2475 these creatures assailed and overran Ithilien.
During the War of the Ring, a host from Minas Morgul set forth toward Minas Tirith. The host was witnessed by Frodo, Sam and Gollum. After some opposition in Osgiliath, the Morgul-host proceeded to Pelennor Fields and lay siege. However the host, including the city's garrison was devastated during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Following the battle, the Army of the West pulled down the bridge leading to Morgul Vale and set its fields aflame. They met no opposition as the entire city's garrison had been killed at the Battle.
After the War of the Ring, Faramir was made Prince of Ithilien by King Elessar, who advised him to make his abode in the Emyn Arnen southeast of Minas Tirith for even though Minas Morgul was completely abandoned, the land was such a terror on the minds of Men that it would not be fit for habitation or even Mannish contact for many years. Eventually, the city was rebuilt as Minas Ithil and the evil that tainted the land was at last gone.
In its prime, Minas Ithil was a beautiful place. The moon cast silver light throughout the courtyards and streets, and reflected off the marble walls, so that it seemed to shine. The houses also shone white. The city also had one tall tower, with many windows, that rotated slowly. The city was accessed by a road, which was said to gleam like the city's white marble walls, running over a bridge as it crossed Imlad Morgul. Large meadows were placed on both banks of the stream.
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0.998967 | Many cognitive and motor functions are enabled by the temporal representation and processing of stimuli but it remains an open issue how neuronal circuits could reliably encode such sequences of information. We consider the task of generating and learning spatiotemporal spike patterns in the context of an attractor memory network, in which each memory is stored in a distributed fashion represented by increased firing in pools of excitatory neurons. Excitatory activity is locally modulated by inhibitory neurons representing lateral inhibition that generates a type of winner-take-all dynamics. Networks of this type have previously been shown to exhibit switching between a non-coding ground state and low-rate memory state activations displaying gamma oscillations ; however, stable sequential associations between different attractors were not present.
Assuming a probabilistic framework in which local neuron populations discretely encode uncertainty about an attribute in the external world (e.g. a column in visual cortex tuned to a specific edge orientation), we model inter-module synapses using the Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network (BCPNN) plasticity rule . We use a spike-based version of BCPNN in which synaptic weights are statistically inferred by estimating the posterior likelihood of activation for the postsynaptic cell upon presentation of evidence in the form of presynaptic activity patterns. Probabilities are estimated on-line using local exponentially weighted moving averages, with time scales that are biologically motivated by the cascade of events involved in the induction and maintenance of long-term plasticity. Modulating the kinetics of these traces is shown to shape the width of the STDP kernel, which in turn allows attractors to be learned forwards or backwards through time. Stable learning is confirmed by aunimodal stationary weight distribution. Inference additionally requires modification of a distinct neuronal component, which we interpret as a correlate of intrinsic excitability. Such synaptic and nonsynaptic mechanisms were specifically shown to be relevant for learning and inference. In broader terms, our model instead suggests the presence of and interaction between all of these processes in approximating Bayesian computation.
Introducing plastic BCPNN synaptic projections into the attractor network model allows for stable associations between distinct network states. Associations are mediated by different synaptic timescales with fast (AMPA type) and slower (NMDA type) dynamics that in conjunction with the spiking BCPNN rule produce sequences of attractor activations. We demonstrate the feasibility of our model using network simulations of integrate-and-fire neurons, and find that the ability to learn sequences depends on the specific structure of the inhibitory microcircuitry and on the local balance of excitation and inhibition in the network. Preliminary results show that the network can reliably store spatiotemporal patterns consisting of hundreds of discrete network states using just a few thousand neurons. Moreover, excitatory pools can participate multiple times in the sequence, suggesting that spiking attractor networks of this type could support an efficient combinatorial code. Our model provides novel insights into how local and global computations found throughout neocortex and hippocampus, framed in the context of probabilistic inference, could contribute to generating and learning sequential neural activity. |
0.976017 | Serbian alphabet redirects here. For the Latin variant of Serbian, see Gaj's Latin alphabet.
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (Serbian: српска ћирилица/srpska ćirilica, pronounced [sr̩̂pskaː t͡ɕirǐlit͡sa]) is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for Serbo-Croatian, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian and Montenegrin, the other being Latin. In Croatian and Bosnian , only the Latin alphabet is used.
Karadžić based his alphabet on the previous "Slavonic-Serbian" script, following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written", removing obsolete letters and letters representing iotified vowels, introducing ⟨J⟩ from the Latin alphabet instead, and adding several consonant letters for sounds specific to Serbian phonology. During the same period, Croatian linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted the Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets for Serbo-Croatian have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin digraphs Lj, Nj, and Dž counting as single letters.
Vuk's Cyrillic alphabet was officially adopted in Serbia in 1868, and was in exclusive use in the country up to the inter-war period. Both alphabets were co-official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Due to the shared cultural area, Gaj's Latin alphabet saw a gradual adoption in Serbia since, and both scripts are used to write modern standard Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian; Croatian only uses the Latin alphabet. In Serbia, Cyrillic is seen as being more traditional, and has the official status (designated in the Constitution as the "official script", compared to Latin's status of "script in official use" designated by a lower-level act). It is also an official script in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, along with Latin.
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was used as a basis for the Macedonian alphabet with the work of Krste Misirkov and Venko Markovski.
Cyrillic is in official use in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although the Bosnian language "officially accept[s] both alphabets", the Latin script is almost always used in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereas Cyrillic is in everyday use in Republika Srpska (and is used only by the Serbs in the country). The Serbian language in Croatia is officially recognized as a minority language, however, the use of Cyrillic in bilingual signs has sparked protests and vandalism.
Cyrillic is an important symbol of Serbian identity. In Serbia, official documents are printed in Cyrillic only even though, according to a 2014 survey, 47% of the Serbian population write in the Latin alphabet whereas 36% write in Cyrillic.
According to tradition, Glagolitic was invented by the Byzantine Christian missionaries and brothers Cyril and Methodius in the 860s, amid the Christianization of the Slavs. Glagolitic appears to be older, predating the introduction of Christianity, only formalized by Cyril and expanded to cover non-Greek sounds. Cyrillic was created by the orders of Boris I of Bulgaria by Cyril's disciples, perhaps at the Preslav Literary School in the 890s.
The earliest form of Cyrillic was the ustav, based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. There was no distinction between capital and lowercase letters. The literary Slavic language was based on the Bulgarian dialect of Thessaloniki.
Part of the Serbian literary heritage of the Middle Ages are works such as Vukan Gospels, St. Sava's Nomocanon, Dušan's Code, Munich Serbian Psalter, and others. The first printed book in Serbian was the Cetinje Octoechos (1494).
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (l. 1787–1864) fled Serbia during the Serbian Revolution in 1813, to Vienna. There he met Jernej Kopitar, a linguist with interest in slavistics. Kopitar and Sava Mrkalj helped Vuk to reform the Serbian language and its orthography. He finalized the alphabet in 1818 with the Serbian Dictionary.
Karadžić reformed the Serbian literary language and standardised the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by following strict phonemic principles on the Johann Christoph Adelung' model and Jan Hus' Czech alphabet. Karadžić's reforms of the Serbian literary language modernised it and distanced it from Serbian and Russian Church Slavonic, instead bringing it closer to common folk speech, specifically, to the dialect of Eastern Herzegovina which he spoke. Karadžić was, together with Đuro Daničić, the main Serbian signatory to the Vienna Literary Agreement of 1850 which, encouraged by Austrian authorities, laid the foundation for the Serbian language, various forms of which are used by Serbs in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia today. Karadžić also translated the New Testament into Serbian, which was published in 1868.
He wrote several books; Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pesnarica and Pismenica serbskoga jezika in 1814, and two more in 1815 and 1818, all with the alphabet still in progress. In his letters from 1815-1818 he used: Ю, Я, Ы and Ѳ. In his 1815 song book he dropped the Ѣ.
The alphabet was officially adopted in 1868, four years after his death.
Orders issued on the 3 and 13 October 1914 banned the use of Serbian Cyrillic in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, limiting it for use in religious instruction. A decree was passed on January 3, 1915, that banned Serbian Cyrillic completely from public use. An imperial order in October 25, 1915, banned the use of Serbian Cyrillic in the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, except "within the scope of Serb Orthodox Church authorities".
On April 25, 1941, Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini of Jerusalem, who was made chief architect of the Nazi German offensive in Bosnia, had Serbian Cyrillic outlawed. In 1941, the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia banned the use of Cyrillic, having regulated it on 25 April 1941, and in June 1941 began eliminating "Eastern" (Serbian) words from the Croatian language, and shut down Serbian schools.
The Serbian Cyrillic script was one of the two official scripts used to write the Serbo-Croatian language in Yugoslavia since its establishment in 1918, the other being Latin script (latinica).
With the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Serbo-Croatian was divided into its variants on ethnic lines (as it had been in pre-Yugoslav times) and Cyrillic is no longer used officially in Croatia, while in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro the Serbian Cyrillic stayed the official constitutional script.
Under the Constitution of Serbia of 2006, Cyrillic script is the only one in official use.
The ligatures ⟨Љ⟩ and ⟨Њ⟩, together with ⟨Џ⟩, ⟨Ђ⟩ and ⟨Ћ⟩ were developed specially for the Serbian alphabet.
Karadžić based the letters ⟨Љ⟩ and ⟨Њ⟩ on a design by Sava Mrkalj, combining the letters ⟨Л⟩ (L) and ⟨Н⟩ (N) with the soft sign (Ь).
Karadžić based ⟨Џ⟩ on letter "Gea" in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet.
⟨Ћ⟩ was adopted by Karadžić to represent the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate (IPA: /tɕ/). The letter was based on, but different in appearance to, the letter Djerv, which is the 12th letter of the Glagolitic alphabet; that letter had been used in written Serbian since the 12th century, to represent /ɡʲ/, dʲ/ and /dʑ/.
Karadžić adopted a design by Lukijan Mušicki for the letter ⟨Ђ⟩. It was based on the letter ⟨Ћ⟩, as adapted by Karadžić.
⟨Ј⟩ was adopted from the Latin alphabet.
⟨Љ⟩, ⟨Њ⟩ and ⟨Џ⟩ were later adopted for use in the Macedonian alphabet.
Serbian Cyrillic does not use several letters encountered in other Slavic Cyrillic alphabets. It does not use hard sign (ъ) and soft sign (ь), but the aforementioned soft-sign ligatures instead. It does not have Russian/Belorussian Э, the semi-vowels Й or Ў, nor the iotated letters Я (Russian/Bulgarian ya), Є (Ukrainian ye), Ї (yi), Ё (Russian yo) or Ю (yu), which are instead written as two separate letters: Ja, Je, Jи, Jo, Jy. J can also be used as a semi-vowel, in place of й. The letter Щ is not used. When necessary, it is transliterated as either ШЧ or ШT.
Serbian and Macedonian italic and cursive forms of lowercase letters б, г, д, п, and т, differ from those used in other Cyrillic alphabets (in Serbian ш can optionally be underlined, whereas in Macedonian it is never underlined). That presents an obstacle in Unicode modeling, as the glyphs differ only in italic versions, and historically non-italic letters have been used in the same code positions. Serbian professional typography uses fonts specially crafted for the language to overcome the problem, but texts printed from common computers contain East Slavic rather than Serbian italic glyphs. Cyrillic fonts from Adobe, Microsoft (Windows Vista and later) and a few other font houses include the Serbian variations (both regular and italic).
<span lang="ru" style="font-style: italic">бгдпт</span> produces бгдпт.
Since Unicode unified different characters in same script, OpenType locl (locale) support must be present to display the correct variant. Programs like Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice (currently under Linux only), and some others provide required OpenType support. Starting from CSS 3, web authors also have to use this: font-feature-settings: 'locl';. Of course, font families like GNU FreeFont, DejaVu, Ubuntu, Microsoft "C*" fonts from Windows Vista and above must be used.
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0.999998 | Any field I try to update using bulk edit fails with an error similar to this: A Database Error Occurred Error Number: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' system WHERE .system_id = system.system_id AND = '' AND system.man_status = '' at line 1 SELECT man_type FROM system WHERE system_id = '83' AND system_id in ( SELECT distinct(system.system_id) FROM , system WHERE .system_id = system.system_id AND = '' AND system.man_status = 'production' AND .timestamp = system.timestamp ) Filename: models/m_oa_group.php Line Number: 127 Tried with a change to asset number, purchase date and Status. Same with selecting a single PC or multiple PCs in a group.
This is version 1.8.1 running on Linux.
Sorry for not coming back to this issue for so long!
I updated to version 1.12.4 (actually made a new virtual machine, installed 1.8.1, restored database, then upgraded - old vm was i686 linux so had to build an x64 vm). Still having this same error message.
The bulk edit change actually succeeds, but the error still appears.When changing the Status field to Deleted, it actually gets changed to 'deleted' (lower case D) and so the machine still appears in production until I manually change each one to 'Deleted'.
I also confirmed I have no group where group_dynamic_select='' .
The edit does success, then updating the groups fails. I'll dig into this some more. Can you tell me which line is causing the issue?
JDC, If you're using Windows, first cd to the correct directory: cd c:\xampplite\mysql\bin Then log on to the MySQL console - mysql -u openaudit -popenauditpassword openaudit Next run the below SQL SELECT group_id, group_name FROM oa_group WHERE group_dynamic_select LIKE '%FROM , system%'; That should get you the id and name of the group causing the issue. From there you can go to the web interface and delete this group (menu -> Admin -> Groups -> List Groups then click the delete icon). Type 'exit' (sans quotes) to get out of the MySQL console. Mark.
Looks like you have a bad group definition stored in the database.
If you added any custom group definitions yourself, I'd try deleting them.
Failing that you can log in to MySQL and run the following to see which group is causing the issue.
You should see any groups without the required 'group_dyamic_select'. Note down the group name and id of any that appear and delete them using the web interface via menu -> Admin -> Groups -> List Groups. |
0.998128 | How Should High-end Floor Lamps Be Maintained to Prolong Life?
The use of floor lamps in the family has become more and more frequent, especially for creating a home atmosphere, which will have a very significant effect and significance. Especially for some people, when setting up some petty-family environment, high-end floor lamps become impossible. The lack of a home device has a very important role and significance in creating an atmosphere, but it also needs to pay attention to some related maintenance methods. Next, let's talk about some problems that should be paid attention to when paying attention to such floor lamps.
First of all, this high-end floor lamp must pay attention when it is used. It is the function of moisture-proof. The items of electrical appliances are more worried about moisture. Once there is a damp problem, it will not only reduce the service life, but even some electricity. The danger, so the most critical step in the maintenance of the floor lamp is to prevent moisture, no matter what. In the living room, or in the bathroom or bathroom, you need to install this moisture-proof lampshade. Another thing to note is that you must prevent the intrusion of moisture, and cause some decaying damage to the lamps, or leakage, which needs to be understood.
In the process of using high-grade floor lamps, regular dust removal is also required. Because the maintenance of floor lamps needs to ensure the treatment of some dust, especially for the lampshades of some floor lamps, the lampshade is very easy to accumulate dust, and it is easy to appear. Darkening, so this will directly affect the lighting effect, so regular cleaning, but also need to ensure that the lampshade will not be deformed when used, you can use dusty feather duster to remove dust. |
0.999586 | Can we sustain health spending?
Australian governments currently spend relatively little on health. Are cutbacks really what's needed?
The evidence usually cited to demonstrate the unsustainability of health spending is its impact on government finances. Between the 2001–02 and 2011–12 financial years, health expenditures by all levels of government rose from 19.8% to 25.6% of total tax revenues,5 and projections by the National Commission of Audit prior to the recent Budget suggested that federal spending alone could rise from $65 billion in 2013–14 to over $120 billion in 2023–24.6 These trends are commonly linked to the ageing of the population to conclude that significant structural reforms are needed to reduce spending on health services, and the recent budget measures may be seen as a first step in this direction.
Despite these projections, the unsustainability thesis is remarkably weak. Economies are flexible and the composition of spending varies significantly over time and between countries. At the time of federation, agriculture, manufacturing and the services sector accounted for 19%, 12% and 31% of gross domestic product (GDP), respectively. By 2011–12, the shares were 2%, 6% and 56%, respectively.7 Technological change reallocates resources, and the expansion of industries is usually seen as desirable because it employs the displaced workforce and generates additional benefits. The anomalous concern with the costs and not the benefits of an expanding health sector implies comparative lack of concern or confidence in the benefits despite evidence that better health is one of the diminishingly few ways in which we can improve the quality of life of the population.
The flexibility of economic systems is also apparent when countries are compared. Australia currently devotes 9.5% of GDP to health, while the proportion in the United States has reached 17.7% (Box). The efficiency of the US health system may be questioned, but there is no suggestion that it has impaired the economy or sapped the vitality of the country.
Nevertheless, the pressure from ageing is likely to intensify. By 2050 the proportion of the population above 65 years of age in Australia is likely to rise from 14% to 22% and the proportion over 80 years to double from 4% to 8%.8 The pressure is likely to be exacerbated by expensive health technologies targeting individuals rather than broad disease categories. However, even with the slowing in the rate of per capita GDP growth to the average 1.4% per annum that occurred between 1970 and 1990, by 2050 GDP per capita will expand by 65%. Even if total health expenditures rose to the US level of 17.7% of GDP there would be an expansion of non-health-related per capita GDP of 50%, which could be devoted to the improvement of the material standard of living. This is not a paradox. Even if GDP grows more slowly than health expenditures, the absolute (not percentage) increase will be greater than the absolute increase in health expenditures. A 65% rise in GDP from a (index) base of 100 will increase resources by 65 points. A 200% rise in health expenditures from a (index) base of 9.5 increases resource use by 19 points. Resources for other uses would rise by 46 points. Given the evident sustainability of health spending for some decades, it might be asked why health has been targeted for cutbacks. At 6.6% of GDP, public health expenditures by all governments in Australia are the tenth lowest of the 33 countries in the OECD database and the lowest among wealthy countries in the group (Box). Even US governments, which channel 8.3% of GDP into public health programs, outspend Australian governments. Further, as indicated in the Box, Australia has been relatively successful in restraining the growth of health spending.
A possible reason for the Minister's concern is that, irrespective of comparative statistics, health spending in Australia — or public health spending in particular — may be inefficient. For example, a survey by Runciman and colleagues13 found that compliance with indicators of appropriate care was highly variable as judged by a retrospective review of medical records and telephone interviews with at least 1000 Australians. However, neither this nor the many other problems with the organisation and provision of services are likely to be resolved by increased copayments or reduced public spending. Both options would increase pressure for private health insurance (PHI) to cover the gap, and there is little or no evidence that private insurers would be more willing than the public sector to undertake the reforms needed to improve the quality of care. In principle, managed care might be used by private health insurers to achieve this goal, but the evidence of its success is limited and it appears unlikely that this is an option that Australian governments would be prepared to pursue, at least in the short run.
It is possible that copayments are seen as a way of controlling total costs; however, the effect of the recent budgetary measures on economic costs — resource use — will be miniscule. Evidence unequivocally indicates that copayments have a relatively small effect on service use. The $6 copayment initially proposed by the Australian Centre for Health Research14 was estimated to reduce service use sufficiently to save $750 million over 4 years — 0.3% of federal health spending, 0.14% of total health spending. The greater part of the 4-year federal budgetary saving of $5.5 billion on Medicare Benefits Schedule items and $866 million from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will therefore be a result of cost shifting to the public, not reduced service use. However the burden of private spending falls unevenly on the public: it self-evidently falls on the sick. Bulk-billing primarily assists those who are on a low income. The principle effect of its elimination will be a redistribution of income from this group to the healthier, wealthier members of the community. Copayments will, additionally, divert patients from lower-cost general practitioner care to higher-cost outpatient care. Those who defer needed treatment are likely to eventually need more expensive specialist care.
Perversely, in the longer run, eliminating bulk-billing is likely to increase GP fees and expenditures by reducing competitive pressures. An increase in the copayment from $7 to $10 is less likely to adversely affect an individual GP practice than the cessation of bulk-billing and the initial introduction of a copayment. Inflation of fees will be accelerated when the government succumbs to pressure to allow PHI to cover the widening gap. Increased GP fees may be independently desirable given the low level of GP incomes — the lowest relative to average wages listed by the OECD after Estonia and Hungary. However, a more equitable remedy would be to increase, not decrease, the rebate.
Reduced budgetary expenditures are not a necessary response to unsustainable spending or a solution to demonstrated inefficiencies. Rather, they are a response to budgetary pressures arising from inadequate tax collections and the failure of successive governments to implement suggested reforms. The 26.5% of GDP raised by all forms of taxation in Australia in 2012 was the fourth lowest of the 34 OECD countries after Chile, Mexico and the US. Proportionally, Northern European countries collect 40%–75% more than Australia. The result of lower taxation is lower levels of community services and infrastructure, and a long-term structural problem for government finances — outcomes which are strikingly evident in the US.
The damage to be inflicted on the health sector by reduced public spending is part of the price Australians will pay for the persistent failure of government to address this problem and to raise taxation to a level that allows improvement in the economic infrastructure, better community services and spending on all of the health services which — after careful evaluation — have been shown to provide cost-effective health benefits to the Australian community.
GDP = gross domestic product. PP = percentage point. OECD = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. na = not applicable. AIHW = Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
* OECD.8 † OECD.9 ‡ World Bank.10 ¶ OECD.11 ** AIHW.5 †† 2011 figure, as 2012 figure was not available.
Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.
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0.941318 | In this section, you will learn how to help cover the costs of study abroad in the Czech Republic. With appropriate planning, most students that can afford to study at a U.S. college or university, can afford to study abroad in the Czech Republic. It is important to take into account all program costs to ensure you have sufficient funds for a healthy and safe experience in the Czech Republic.
Loans and Financial Aid: If you receive financial aid, study abroad in the Czech Republic may be partially or fully covered by the terms of your financial aid package. If the study abroad program you have chosen is directly associated with your U.S. home campus, you may have a better chance of having your financial aid money cover your program costs in the Czech Republic. However, you can't assume that financial aid will apply; even if it does, there may be limits as to what it covers. Inquire about the terms of your financial aid package at your college or university's financial aid office. You may also be eligible for a student loan, or an additional loan, if you receive federal work–study as part of your financial aid packet. Before asking for a bank loan, ask a financial aid adviser on your campus.
Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants: With advance planning, you may be able to obtain scholarship or grant money from your U.S. home university or even from the institution in the Czech Republic where you will study. There are many academic awards and fellowships available for students with an interest in study abroad or other international experiences. To find scholarship and fellowship opportunities, visit your college or university's financial aid office, search on–line, or consider purchasing one of the many books available on the subject. Many academic departments also offer student research grants for research completed abroad; most often, the fields of anthropology, geology, and medicine offer research grants.
Other Sources of Money: Even though it may be hard to juggle a full load of classes and a job, working is a great way to raise money for study abroad. Although working on–campus doesn't usually get you the highest salary possible, campus jobs do help your cash flow. Since your goal is to earn fast cash, you don't necessarily need to look for a job oriented around your future career. While career–oriented jobs can be terrific learning and networking opportunities, non–career jobs may have more flexible hours allowing you to work between classes. Also, try making appeals to your local community, religious and academic organizations. These groups may set aside funding, or take up special collections, for students. If you or your family happen to belong to any community or religious organizations, those groups may be more apt to sponsor you because they know you; these groups often see you as a representative or role model and may even ask you to speak at their meetings when you return from studying abroad. If your study abroad in the Czech Republic involves volunteer work or charitable activities, some organizations may also be more willing to support your efforts.
Some students create an entire, detailed budget and financial plan for their time in the Czech Republic only to discover that exchange rates fluctuate and economies can be unstable. When exchange rates were good, you could afford to study in the Czech Republic; now that exchange rates are not as good, you may not be able to afford it.
The value of the Koruna against the U.S. Dollar goes up or down significantly and can greatly affect a student's personal budget/financial plan. A solid budget/financial plan worked out months before leaving for the Czech Republic just may not work at the time of departure. From the time you first created your budget/financial plan for the Czech Republic, exchange rates changed and now your planning has been thrown off. To avoid this, consider making your personal budget/financial plan flexible. Include a high and low total spending amount to account for any possible fluctuations in currency value. Also, frequently check exchange rates to keep a better eye on the Czech and U.S. economies and better predict any drastic fluctuations.
For some students studying in the Czech Republic, having enough money is not a worry; they do not need to alter their lifestyle to fit a budget. For others, studying in the Czech Republic a may involve more financial planning and changes in lifestyle. If you don't already budget your money at home in the United States, you might want to start doing so when you go to the Czech Republic. Budgeting your money doesn't have to be boring or difficult. You can think of easy ways to help yourself remember how much you are spending. Often, foreign currency can seem like "fake" money. It can be difficult to know how much you're spending. This is especially true if you get in the habit of using your credit card for most purchases. A helpful way to convert foreign currency into U.S. dollars is to carry a small pocket calculator with you. You could also learn a few monetary equivalents and tell yourself: "For every Koruna I spend, I'm really spending so many dollars."
Below is a sample budget ledger you can print out, fill in, and take with you to help you better keep track of your spending in the Czech Republic. |
0.994473 | A daughter of Charles Lenglen and his wife, Anais, Suzanne Lenglen was born in Compiègne (in the department of the Oise), some 70 km north of Paris.
Lenglen, who had been told that her match would not start until much later, fainted upon being informed of her error, which was seen by aristocratic English attendees as an insult to the monarchy.
Lenglen, who was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1978, continues to be held by many as one of the best players in tennis history.
Suzanne Lenglen, born May 24, 1899 in Compiègne, Oise, France - died July 4, 1938 in Paris, France was an Olympic champion and one of the greatest players in the history of women's tennis.
Lenglen was the first female tennis celebrity, garnering much attention in the media when she appeared at the Wimbledon championships with her dress revealing bare forearms and cut just above the calf.
At the age 39, Suzanne Lenglen died of leukemia on July 4, 1938 and was interred in the Cimetière de Saint-Ouen at Saint-Ouen in Paris.
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 maggio 1899 – 4 luglio 1938) fu una tennista francese che ottenne grandi successi negli incontri femminili in Francia e Regno Unito tra il 1919 e il 1926, vincendo 25 titoli del Grande Slam.
Suzanne Lenglen, talvolta chiamata la diva o la prima donna del tennis, fu la prima giocatrice di tennis a diventare una celebrità internazionale.
Figlia di Charles Lenglen e della moglie Anais, Suzanne Lenglen macque a Compiègne (nel dipartimento dell'Oise), a circa 70 km a nord di Parigi.
Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labelled the diva or prima donna of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 May 1899 –; 4 July, 1938) was a French tennis player who achieved much success in the French and British women's game from 1919 to 1926, winning 25 Grand Slam titles.
Lenglen entered the tournament — her first on grass —; and met seven time winner Dorothea Douglass Chambers in the final.
Suzanne Lenglen, née le 24 mai 1899 à Paris (France) et décédée le 4 juillet 1938 à Paris (France), était une joueuse de tennis française.
C'est à Wimbledon (banlieue de Londres) que Lenglen fait son retour en 1919 et affronte Dorothea Lambert Chambers, âgée de 40 ans et qui a déjà remporté sept fois le tournoi.
Ce court, construit en 1994 portait auparavant le nom de court A avant d'être renommé court Suzanne Lenglen en 1997.
Suzanne was relentlessly coached by her father Charles, a Paris bus company owner and thanks to hours of such rigorous practice as learning to hit a handkerchief laid on court time after time, had already become a champion when hardly into her teens.
Lenglen was only 20 when she made her initial visit to Wimbledon for the 1919 Championships, the first to be held after the Great War.
Lenglen's last Wimbledon in 1926 ended in similar turmoil, but just prior to that she played perhaps her most famous match, in the Cannes tournament against Helen Wills, who would become her rival for the crown of greatest player between the wars.
The young Lenglen was in her revealing dress that shocked the British at the sight of ankles and forearms.
Lenglen's career was not free of setbacks, however.
At the age of 39, Lenglen died of pernicious anemia, July 4, 1938, in Paris.
Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938) was a French national hero and became royalty to a generation of admirers in both Europe and America.
Lenglen expressed a joy for living that was infectious, but relied on her father's decisions when she was on the court.
Lenglen was raised in a comfortable, middle class family by her father, Charles, and her mother, Anais.
Lenglen was the first female tennis celebrity, garnering much attention in the media when she appeared at the Wimbledon championships with her dress revealing bareforearms and cut just above the calf.
A sickly child, Lenglen suffered from numerous health problems, including chronic asthma that at times could be devastating.Taught to play by her father, she won her first national title at the age of fourteen.
Lenglen's only tournament defeat occurred in anunscheduled appearance in the 1921 U.S. Open championship,and that single loss was by default.
Suzanne Lenglen dominated womens tennis in the early 1920s.
Suzanne Lenglen also won Wimbledon 5 consecutive years from 1919 to 1923 and also added the 1925 Wimbledon title to her resume.
Suzanne Lenglen died in 1938 at the age of 39.
A daughter of Charles Lenglen and his wife, Anais, Suzanne Lenglen was born in Compiègne (in the department of the Oise), some 70 kilometrekm north of Paris.
Lenglen, who had been told that her match would not start until much later, fainted upon being informed of her error, which was seen by Aristocracyaristocratic English attendees as an insult to the monarchy.
Lenglen, who was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1978 in sports1978, continues to be held by many as one of the best players in tennis history.
Lenglen, Suzanne Rachel Flore (1899-1938), French tennis player, whose popularity in the 1920s helped establish women's tennis as a spectator sport.
In an era when female tennis players wore elaborate and concealing costumes on the court, Lenglen became celebrated for her tennis apparel, which exposed her forearms and calves.
Lenglen was the dominant female player of her time, and between her first win at Wimbledon in 1919 and when she retired from amateur competition in 1926, her only loss was to Norwegian-born Molla Mallory at the 1921 United States championships.
Excerpts from Top Flite Tennis, by Mary K. Browne: QuickSports Tennis.
Suzanne can effectively carry on a campaign of wearing down her opponent, because she can not only keep the ball in play but has the accuracy to place the ball constantly to the proper portion of her opponent's court to force her to do the running.
Suzanne has been drilled in these sequences of plays, in a schedule of shots, and she has several combinations at her command.
Suzanne has told me that the backhand was very difficult for her to learn.
Suzanne, in point of fact, was not sick, but felt assaulted from all sides, her nerves a jangled shambles.
She realized that Suzanne was trying to save herself and repeating with regularity the same basic pattern: a baseline backhand drive followed by another backhand equally long and cutting cross court, and finished with a short cross-court forehand that was only possible due to her Continental grip.
Suzanne made a comeback from 1-3 to three all, but in the following games she could be seen to rub her fatigued eyes and press her hand against her side as if she was trying to hold in some sharp pain.
Because she was a frail child, her father decided that Lenglen should learn to play tennis to gain strength.
The French singles champion from 1920 through 1923 and in 1925 and 1926, Lenglen wasn't so fortunate on her first trip to the United States, in 1921, to play a series of exhibition matches against the U. champion, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, to raise money for French war relief.
In addition to her singles victories, Lenglen won the women's doubles at Wimbledon from 1919 through 1923 and in 1925; the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1920, 1922, and 1925; and the French women's doubles and mixed doubles in 1925 and 1926.
A young, athletic French woman, Suzanne Lenglen made a dream entry at Wimbledon that year and won a close final against Lambert Chambers, twice her age and seven times winner of the ladies' singles title.
Lenglen won six singles titles between 1919 and 1925, and also won all the doubles crowns during that period partnering Elizabeth Ryan, a Californian.
Lenglen had to leave Wimbledon in 1926 after a misunderstanding that kept Queen Mary waiting on court for the arrival of the champion.
Lenglen's absorption in the play was total, he wrote, her movement was "with the lightness of thistledown." Hers was "one of the most masterly exhibitions of court generalship that has been seen in this country," Danzig concluded.
Lenglen had unusual foot speed and a rare tennis mind, Browne explained, but what put her in a class by herself were her superior control and tactics.
Lenglen seldom hit with extreme power, though she assuredly could, and she seldom moved to net though her volleying ability was superior.
Suzanne Lenglen was one of the greatest women tennis players of all time.
Lenglen teamed with Max Decugis to win another gold medal in mixed doubles and with Elisabeth d'Ayen to win a bronze in women's doubles.
The first major tennis star to turn professional, Lenglen died of pernicious anaemia 4 July 1938 at the age 39.
Suzanne Lenglen nació el 24 de mayo de 1899 en Compiègne (en el departamento de Oise), a unos 70 km al norte de París.
Lenglen, a quien se le había dicho que su partido no comenzaría hasta bastante tiempo después, se desmayó una vez que se le informó del error, el cual fue visto por la aristocracia inglesa como un insulto a la monarquía.
Lenglen eligió retirarse del tenis competitivo y llevar adelante una escuela de tenis en París, la cual fue montada con la ayuda y dinero de su amante Jean Tillier.
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was the first female number one when rankings started in 1925 and 1926 she amazed crowds as she defeated all who stood in her way.
Lenglen rested all morning as she felt ill and throughout the match looked set to collapse from exhaustion.
As the first international superstar Lenglen won Wimbledon six times from 1919 to 1925, with the exception of 1924 when illness led to her withdrawal after the fourth round.
Excerpts from Lawn Tennis: The Game of Nations, by Suzanne Lenglen: QuickSports Tennis.
But it is Suzanne Lenglen's own words, and her writing is clear once you grow accustomed to the way French people use the English language.
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was born in Compiègne, France on May 24, 1899.
Suzanne Lenglen died of pernicious anemia in Paris on July 4, 1938, aged 39, 2 days after Helen Wills defeated Helen Jacobs to win her 8th and last Wimbledon singles title.
Suzanne Lenglen & Helen Wills Moody: QuickSports Tennis.
Suzanne lunged desperately for the ball and touched it with the wooden tip of her racket.
Suzanne Lenglen had withdrawn from the tourney pleading illness, after narrowly defeating her doubles partner Elizabeth Ryan in their quarterfinal.
Lenglen frequently withdrew from tourneys this way, leading to suspicions that she fell ill whenever she thought she might lose.
She defeated Suzanne Lenglen of France for the U.S. title in 1921, the only loss in Lenglen's amateur career.
Noted for dramatic, balletlike movements and daring outfits, Suzanne Lenglen was never beaten in singles play at Wimbledon, which she won six times (191923, 1925).
Suzanne Lenglen’s reputation as a new prodigy followed her to Wimbledon in 1919 where aged only 20 she became a sensation.
Suzanne Lenglen became known as “ the Divine” both with reference to her game, often described as light as air and graceful, and because of her inclination for society gatherings and her dresses closely described in all fashion magazines.
The Suzanne Lenglen Cup for women in the 35 age group was first presented by the Federation Francaise de Tennis in 2001. |
0.998628 | It is known that the synchronization phenomenon of generator groups such as at multiple thermal power plants is closely related to the stable supply of electric power. Specifically, if a generator is out of synchronization, that generator and its surrounding generators will not be able to operate stably, and in worst cases, serious accidents such as power outages can occur.
In addition, energy problems caused by global warming and the depletion of fossil fuels have become more serious on a global scale. Therefore, from the viewpoint of reducing carbon dioxide and systematic use of energy, high expectations have been placed on renewable energy such as that typified by photovoltaic (PV) generation. When large-scale PV generation equipment and power storage equipment are introduced, in addition to power generation such as conventionally used thermal power, hydraulic power and nuclear power, it is necessary to consider power charge and discharge by PV-generated output and storage batteries in order to maintain equilibrium between supply and demand. However, the amount of power from PV generation fluctuates since there is uncertainty related to changes in weather and changes in solar radiation volume according to the time zone. This makes it more difficult to maintain the synchronization of generator groups. The need to analyze synchronization is greater than ever.
The behavior of generators connected through a network in a power grid is represented by complex equations (differential algebraic equations) that combine differential equations and algebraic equations. The differential equations express "behavior of generators" derived from Newton's second law of motion, and the algebraic equations express "power balance at power grid connection points" derived from Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's law. Analysis of these differential algebraic equations was generally performed by transformation into a mathematically equivalent differential equation through a simplification method called the Kron reduction. However, since the algebraic equation representing the power grid is eliminated by deleting the redundant variable representing the connection point voltage, it was not suitable for analyzing the relationship between the network structure of the power grid and the behavior of the generator. |
0.959052 | Fig. 1. Édouard Manet, The Absinthe Drinker (1858–59/1867–72), oil on canvas 180.5 x 105.6 cm. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Why did Édouard Manet choose to send an almost life-size painting of an alcoholic vagrant to the prestigious Paris Salon in 1859 (Fig. 1)? It was his first attempt at the Salon, and it failed. At 27, having left the studio of Thomas Couture in 1856, his six years as an art student were behind him, he had set up in a studio of his own, and had spent two months in Italy, immersing himself above all in the art treasures available in Florence. |
0.999965 | WHAT HAPPENED: It was a tragic and bizarre month at Indianapolis. Five participants died in May, including drivers Mark Billman and Lester Spangler and mechanic G.L. Jordan, who were all killed in race day crashes. Then in a strange twist, a Colorado newspaper mistakenly proclaimed rookie Will Overhead had won the race. One problem: Overhead didn't exist. Instead, driver-owner Louis Meyer joined Tommy Milton as the only two-time winners of the race. Meyer took the lead on Lap 130 and pulled away from future three-time winner Wilbur Shaw by more than 6 minutes to finish with a record average speed of 104.162 mph.
NOTABLE: Despite having a 42-car field, the largest in race history, prize money took a major hit during the Depression. The total purse of $54,450 was Indy's lowest payout in 14 years. It never went that low again. |
0.999817 | I wanted an app that would help me memorize the periodic table.
I was hoping that it would be fast and simple, with the element name, atomic number, and atomic mass.
The app I chose is called K-12 periodic table. It has the options of showing classification, melting point, boiling point,outermost orbital, radius, ion radius, electronegativity, and ionization energy. There is also the option of the temperatures in the app being shown in Celsius, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin. This makes it user-friendly to both Canadian and US citizens.
I found that although the app has its uses, it often lags and is generally slow. It doesn’t have any particularly intuitive or creative features, and is more complicated than it needs to be. Many of the options in this app are unnecessary for the understanding level of a ninth grade student. So, for all the above reasons I wouldn’t recommend this app for learning about the periodic table.
Thanks for your review. Some thoughts are to make sure that you outline the solution fluency as you review the app. Also, add media to make sure your message comes across clearly. |
0.999443 | Fly to Milan vide Singapore Changi International Airport. Stay overnight on flight.
Arrival Miland Airport. Transfer to Cinque Terre.
Places of interest: Cinque Terre National Park.
Places of interest: Pisa - Pisa Walking Tour, The Leaning Tower, Pisa Cathedral Bastistery. Next depart to Rome.
Places of interest: Vatican - St. Peter Church (shorts or miniskirts not allowed), Rome City Walking Tour, Trevi Fountain, View of Colosseum. Next, depart to Florence.
Places of interest: Piazza Michelangelo, Florence City Walking Tour View of Duomo Santa Maria Del Fiore, Signoria Square, The Ponte Vecchio Old Bridge. Next head to Venice.
Take abot to Venice Island.
Places of interest: Venice Island Walking Tour, Piazza San Marco, View of Doge Palace, The Bridge of Sighs. Next, continue the journey to Milan.
Places of interest: Milan City Walking Tour, View of Milan Duomo, Galleria Victtorio Emanelle, View of La Scala Opera House and Shopping.
After breakfast, head to Lugano, Switzerland.
Places of interest: Lake Lugano. Serravalle - Serravalle Designer Outlet. Next, head to Milan.
Transfer to Milan Malpensi International Airport for flight back to singapore. Stay overnight on flight. |
0.986464 | In a recent article, a headline asked: "Can Penny Hardaway save Memphis basketball?” I ask, “Can Memphis be saved from basketball?” Concerning the whole basketball affair, I would not denigrate the term stupid in describing it. Rather I would apply the terms irresponsible and criminal, a tragic waste of community resources.
Some time ago, the city reduced the number of lanes available for motor vehicles from four to two on a section of Cleveland Street in Midtown. Doing that enabled the city to put in two bicycle lanes. I have never seen a bicyclist using either of those lanes. However, by making the ill-considered change, the city created a bottleneck for traffic going north and south in the heart of Midtown.
The city is now planning to create a bottleneck for traffic going east and west in the heart of Midtown by reducing the number of lanes available for motor vehicles on a long section of Peabody Avenue. Instead of doing that, the city needs to refrain from messing up Peabody. It also needs to restore Cleveland to its former configuration. |
0.876081 | Миналата седмица приготвих канелони с пилешко и броколи специално за Даниел и той ми върна жеста и ми сподели една рецепта, която често се приготвя във Велико Търново, където той живее. Написа ми я на лично съобщение във фейсбук и аз веднага прегърнах идеята да я приготвя, защото изглеждаше лесна и всички продукти ги имах у дома – брашно, яйца, сода, колбас, олио, сол, сирене, кимион. Но тъй като съм много чувствителна на тема „мерудия“ заради името на блога ми, веднага изтрелях „Какво разбираш под мерудия?“ и той отговори “ Вкъщи мерудия=магданоз“.
Та, в Търново на магданоза викат мерудия. Мерудия още се казва като обобщаващо на много зелени подправки – мерудии, както и на сминдуха. Като казах сминдух и се сетих за дъхавия хляб с борколи от миналата седмица, който сервирах със сминдух (или както някои биха казали – с мерудия).
Всички продукти се объркват в купа и сместа се излива в съда за печене.
Пече се на умерена фурна за около 20-30 минути. По желание може да се настърже кашкавал отгоре.
Най-вкусна великотърновската баница е топла! Поднесете с айран!
172 коментара на "Бърза баница по великотърновски с колбас и мерудия"
Мерси на теб за рецептата, Дани! Толкова бърза за приготвяне закуска рядко има 🙂 Оаквам следващите рецепти, популярни в Търново!
Правих я,но без подправките,стана страхотна.И най вече бързо се приготвя.
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0.942557 | HD 6870 or GTX 470?
I've narrowed it down to a GTX 470 or a HD 6870.
I have a 450W PSU in storage, currently using a 250W with a 9800GT.
I have a preference for Nvidia cards, but i've heard the GTX 470 has heat crashing problems.
GTX470 will not run on your 450watt! HD6870 is much more power efficient and will run on a quality 450watt!
The GTX 470 beats the HD 6870 i would go for it with eyes closed if it's in a good condition.
There's no GTX 470 new at stores. and if there's it won't be that $200.
if your PSU is not a quality branded one it will cause serious problems to your PC when you install it, so make sure to have a quality branded 500W PSU to cope with it.
1) The 6870 is a notch slower than a GTX470, and priced accordingly.
AMD suggests a 500w psu for it.
2) The GTX470 is an older technology, and needs a bit more power, like 38a on a 550w psu. If your psu has 38a and is a quality unit, you might try it, but be prepared to change out the psu.
3) The GTX560ti has similar performance to the GTX470 , and needs 500w with 30a on the 12v rails plus two 6-pin PCI-E power leads.
4) For nvidia cards, I like EVGA; they seem to have good support.
5) Your 450w psu might work, and is worth a try. Graphics card vendors tend to suggest stronger than necessary psu's to account for poor quality units and to forestall returns because of marginal power. But you should be prepared to spend an extra $50-$70 for a quality psu.
It's an antec earthwatts. I think it was 130-150 watts on the 12v rails max.
Antec earthwatts is a good unit, but it doesn't sound right. that is only 10-13amps.
Look on the data panel affixed to the psu. Post a pic.
here's a pic of it, i can't find my camera O_O.
mine's a little older, and it only has 80 plus, no bronze grade.
So would the best choice be the GTX 560 ti or the 6870?
GTX 560Ti beats the HD 6870 and comparable with HD 6950, so GTX 560Ti all the way.
just make sure your 450W PSU will handle it.
kk. i googled it and it seems it will most likely handle it.
You show a 500w unit with 38a. That is good for up to a GTX570. You are good to go. |
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I started thinking about how to extend the metaphor. I can't do all of the work needed to clear the snow to drive a car to work. I needed the right set of primary, secondary, and tertiary roads to also be cleared in order to drive to work. There was an even bigger pile of snow behind the cars after the plow came through my neighborhood. While I didn't enjoy shoveling the pile the plow left behind the cars, that work was certainly preferable to removing snow from the roads between my home and office myself. That seemed like a good metaphor for depending on another team. Developers can leverage a great deal of value by relying on the efforts of other teams, but taking advantage of those efforts are not always free. There can be work to learn, configure and adapt interfaces to other components.
Once I got on the road, I realized that my definition of done differed from other drivers on the road. I saw drivers with snow covering the roofs of their cars, windows, lights and license plates. Perhaps this is a risk that drivers should burn down before they drive. (Not literally, shoveling, or brushing will do) Maybe these definitions can be thought of as regulatory requirements to satisfy, since many jurisdictions have rules about clearing snow from vehicles and sidewalks.
I found myself gold-plating my shoveling. Shoveling snow is good exercise, and it can be very satisfying to be outside. I finished digging out my cars and and sidewalks. I did another pass to scrape off some residual slush and ice that had melted a bit after the top layer of snow had been removed. I shoveled a path for my neighbors. There is an inexhaustible supply of snow to be moved. Similarly, there are no end to the potential improvements to be made to a software product. There are always more features to add, or technical debt to pay. We need to understand that done means that we have accomplished what we set out to do, even if that means that there is still other work that we can envision doing. Fortunately, I decided to pursue a sustainable pace, and stopped before I ran out of snow to shovel.
The snow itself is a good illustration of the fragility of long-range detailed plans and for the need to regular, adaptive planning. Families had to change their plans to respond to closed schools and offices. Schools had to replan to make up for lost instruction time. I know as a kid, not only did snow mean the chance for a day off from school, but it also meant money dropping from the sky as I shoveled my neighbors' driveways. Sadly, no kids came to my door after this storm, so I didn't get a chance to outsource the work and hand them a user story to complete.
I didn't conduct a retrospective, but I did have a celebration ceremony. I went sledding with my kids.
I am not sure if Agile thinking will really improve how I shovel snow. Perhaps these metaphors are useful for understanding Agile concepts, or understanding how Agile approaches can be applied in non-software settings. However, I can certainly say they are interesting things to ponder while shoveling. |
0.93042 | Karl Spencer Lashley (June 7, 1890 – August 7, 1958) was an American psychologist and behaviorist, well remembered for his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. Based on years of research in which he failed to find the biological locus of memory (or "engram"), he was one of the first to claim that memories were not localized in one part of the brain, but were widely distributed throughout the cortex. Lashley's work has had wide-ranging implications for the study of learning, memory, and brain functions. However, his understanding of the human mind was limited to the structure of the physical brain. The complexity of human thought and behavior is based on internal aspects, namely the mind and spirit. Understanding the impact behavior in the physical world has on human beings only begins with understanding the way the brain stores memories. Its effects on human minds and spirits may prove to be much more far-reaching and even more indelible.
Karl Spencer Lashley was born on June 7, 1890 in Davis, West Virginia. As a child he showed great interest in animals, and his mother, Maggie Lashley, encouraged his intellectual pursuits.
He entered the University of West Virginia at the age of fifteen, and signed up for the zoology class under the famous neurologist, John Black Johnston. At that time, Lashley decided to pursue a career in zoology.
Lashley graduated in 1910, and obtained a teaching fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his master’s degree in bacteriology. He then went on to study genetics at Johns Hopkins University, under zoologist Herbert S. Jennings. At the same time, Lashley became associated with the psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, and psychologist John B. Watson, the association that significantly influenced Lashley’s life and made him turn toward studies of animal behavior. During three years of postdoctoral work on vertebrate behavior (1914–1917), he began formulating the research program that was to occupy the remainder of his life.
In 1920, he became an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where his prolific research on brain function gained him a professorship in 1924. Over the next several years Lashley collaborated with Shepherd Franz, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC, examining effects of lesions of the frontal cortex on learning abilities in rats. This work was the foundation for Lashley’s major work, Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence (1929).
Lashley was appointed professor at the University of Chicago in 1929, where he taught until 1935. In 1929, he served as president of the American Psychological Association. He moved to Harvard University in 1935, and stayed there until his retirement in 1955. He also served as director of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology in Orange Park, Florida, from 1942 to 1955.
Lashley married Edith Ann Baker in 1918. After Edith died in 1948, Lashley remarried in 1957 to Claire Imredy Schiller, widow of the Hungarian psychologist Paul Harkai Schiller. Lashley died suddenly, on August 7, 1958, while vacationing in Poitiers, France.
Lashley was both an experimental researcher and a theoretician. His early works included a study of sexual behavior of the hydra and detailed study of the behavior of seabirds. In both of those areas he followed the behaviorist theory of John B. Watson, to whose approach he remained loyal throughout his career.
Lashley’s later work included research on brain mechanisms related to sense receptors, and on the cortical basis of motor activities. He studied many animals, including primates, but his major work was done on the measurement of behavior before and after specific, carefully quantified brain damage in rats. He trained rats to perform specific tasks, then lesioned specific areas of the rat cortex, either before or after the animals received the training. The cortical lesions had specific effects on acquisition and retention of knowledge—memory. This work led Lashley to another area of study, the one that he focused on during the rest of his career, and the area he became the most famous for: cerebral localization.
The study of cerebral localization was an area in psychology that generated numerous controversies in the first half of the twentieth century. Many scientists including Franz Joseph Gall, Paul Broca, and others believed that particular local areas in the brain were responsible for particular brain functions, therefore advocating for exact cerebral localization. On the other side, researchers like Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens held that brain functions are dispersed around the brain.
In 1929, Lashley published his masterpiece Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence: A Quantitative Study of Injuries to the Brain, where he summarized years of his research on cerebral localization. In it he renounced the existence of a precise local area in the brain that is responsible for holding memories. The study had a profound impact on the young field of physiological psychology, and on future research on the brain.
The principle of "mass action" stated that the cerebral cortex acts as one—as a whole—in many types of learning. Different areas of the brain participate in learning, and the memory traces are dispersed over the entire cortex.
The principle of "equipotentiality" stated that if certain parts of the brain are damaged, other parts of the brain may take on the role of the damaged portion. Locus is thus not important.
This series of experiments has yielded a good bit of information about what and where the memory trace is not. It has discovered nothing directly of the real nature of the memory trace. I sometimes feel, in reviewing the evidence of the localization of the memory trace, that the necessary conclusion is that learning is just not possible. It is difficult to conceive of a mechanism that can satisfy the conditions set for it. Nevertheless, in spite of such evidence against it, learning sometimes does occur.
Based on his work with animals, and the application of that knowledge to universal principles of behavior, Lashley is regarded as a pioneer in ethology and comparative psychology.
One of the fields in psychology that owes the most to Karl Lashley is the field of physiological psychology. Lashley’s work on localization of learning and memory shaped future research in brain studies, showing that the brain was more complex than was thought. Research on “engrams” continued after Lashley’s death, with the work of Donald O. Hebb, a student of Lashley.
However, other lines of research also developed, based on Lashley's failure to find localized memory traces, implying instead that learning affects a wide area of the cortex. Lashley’s insights were in line with modern theories used by connectionists: theories of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of mind.
Lashley, Karl S. 1923. The behavioristic interpretation of consciousness. Psychological Bulletin 30: 237–272, 329–353.
Lashley, Karl S. 1929. Brain mechanisms and intelligence. University of Chicago Press.
Lashley, Karl S. 1930. Basic neural mechanisms in behavior. Psychological Review 37: 1–24.
Lashley, Karl S., ed. 1932. Studies in the dynamics of behavior. University of Chicago Press.
Lashley, Karl S. 1935. The mechanism of vision, Part 12: Nervous structures concerned in the acquisition and retention of habits based on reactions to light. Comparative Psychology Monographs 11: 43–79.
Lashley, Karl S. 1950. In search of the engram. Society of Experimental Biology Symposium 4: 454–482.
"The behavioristic interpretation of consciousness" (1923) in Classics in the History of Psychology, by Karl S. Lashley.
"Basic neural mechanisms in behavior" (1930) in Classics in the History of Psychology, by Karl S. Lashley.
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0.999949 | How do you win back his heart after a breakup? You have a choice to win him back or you choose to let him go.
Although this may sound crazy but each time you face the mirror, tell yourself that you are beautiful. This is like a positive thinking mantra that once you internalize, it will become true. You should also look at making yourself beautiful from the inside out. If you have gained some weight, troop to the gym. Exercising is a great way for you to forget about depression and help you get back in shape. If you get depressed and you suddenly found yourself a couch potato, resist the urge and muster enough courage and motivation for you to look after your beauty and your situation. |
0.982198 | Reviewed by Dustin Putman, March 22, 2005.
2000's hit action-comedy "Miss Congeniality" was the epitome of a safe, good movie. A prime star vehicle for Sandra Bullock (2002's "Two Weeks Notice"), the film's only aspiration was to entertain a wide audience. The results were as fluffy as a shortcake, but also undeniably charming, with sloppy, plain field agent Gracie Hart forced into an extreme makeover in order to go undercover at a Miss United States beauty pageant. That innate likability has trouble carrying over to "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous," a wholly unnecessary sequel that is inconsequentially plotted and predictably tired. Surely Bullock, who has lately seemed to only appear in a film every couple years, could have found something more advantageous and worthwhile to work on than this threadbare project.
Although almost four and a half years have passed since the release of "Miss Congeniality," in movie years it has been less than twelve months. Having returned to her crime-fighting job in New York City, Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) has found it increasingly difficult to work incognito when she has become something of a role model and celebrity. However, Gracie has no choice but to do just that when current Miss United States Cheryl (Heather Burns) and pageant coordinator Stan Fields (William Shatner) are ruthlessly kidnapped and held for ransom. Traveling to Las Vegas to investigate the crime, Gracie is paired up with tough, stalwartly independent bodyguard/agent Sam Fuller (Regina King), a no-nonsense type that she must learn to get along with if there is any hope of saving her friends.
At no time during "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" does director John Pasquin (2001's "Joe Somebody") and screenwriter Marc Lawrence (1999's "The Out-of-Towners") make a convincing case for this follow-up's reason for existing. Following the same basic formula as the original, but with Gracie Hart taking various guises rather than just one, the film's pacing this time around is sluggish rather than fast and frisky, and its paper-thin plot just a contrived, decidedly shameful excuse to bring back the protagonist of "Miss Congeniality" in hopes of making a few brisk dollars at the box-office.
Hindering much of the proceedings is Gracie Hart herself. Her very amiability in the first picture was in the way she stayed true to herself, never losing sight of the happily dorky woman beneath her newly coifed exterior. In "Miss Congeniality 2," she again starts off this way, but once her newly beauteous transformation takes place, it turns her into someone bordering on self-involved and snotty. While Gracie ultimately experiences a catharsis by film's end, realizing that the beauty inside a person is what counts, the trip to this realization tests one patience. Until that happens, she simply isn't very likable. As for the disguises she must take on as her investigation presses forward, they are an unoriginal, distaff lot. A wheelchair-bound senior citizen? It was already done to greater comic effect when Jim Varney did it in the "Ernest" series. A singing male cross-dresser at a Las Vegas nightclub? 2004's "Connie and Carla" beat it to the punch. More often than not, though, Gracie Hart is just playing herself, albeit a more neat and well-dressed version, and the investigation that carries the movie through its paces is strictly forgettable and vaguely plotted, at best.
If the movie never really catches fire and its trajectory is obvious from the start, there are a couple of laughs and some nice character moments in the second half that manage to rise above the muck. A scene in which Gracie tackles Dolly Parton (in a game cameo) to the ground, mistakenly believing her to be an impersonator tied to the kidnapping, is so zany and over-the-top that it actually works. Another running gag in which Gracie must deal with her fake old-lady breasts while attempting to seriously do her job is also quite funny. And the effortless Eileen Brennan (2001's "Jeepers Creepers"), in a two-minute walk-on as Stan Fields' wily mother, has the pleasure of delivering the movie's wittiest line. Meanwhile, the love-hate relationship between Gracie and Sam, played with delicious sarcasm and underlying depth by Regina King (2004's "Ray"), is promising enough that it's a shame it couldn't have been put into a better screenplay worth caring about.
There is a lightning bolt of desperation running through the center of "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" that gives the film a shopworn, tacked-on feel. The bright on-location shooting in Las Vegas gives the production values a boost, and Sandra Bullock and Regina King bless the film with sporadic class, but that is where all signs of respectability end. The vast majority of the picture is stodgily substandard, with the supporting actors, including wasted fellow series returnees Heather Burns (1998's "You've Got Mail") and William Shatner (2002's "Showtime"), hopelessly searching for something to do in a lame duck of a story that does them no favors. Happy to recycle ideas from other movies but with nothing fresh or interesting to offer up on its own, "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" is one of the most listless and lazy non-horror sequels in quite some time, reminiscent of 1993's "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit." Gracie Hart may still be armedshe is a special agent, after allbut her sheer fabulousness has come to a rather abrupt and unfortunate end. |
0.999919 | Kirk Stansell appeals from the September 29, 2010 judgment and commitment order entered in the Perry County Circuit Court, revoking his probation and sentencing him to ten years' imprisonment. On appeal, Stansell makes due-process arguments and evidentiary objections, claiming that the 2010 judgment and commitment order should be reversed because it was based on violations of a 2009 judgment and commitment order that does not exist. We affirm the trial court's 2010 judgment and commitment order because Stansell's due-process and evidentiary challenges related to the nonexistent 2009 order are not preserved.
On October 6, 2008, Stansell pled guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to five years' probation. A judgment and commitment order was entered on November 5, 2008.
The State, on March 26, 2009, filed a petition for revocation of probation, alleging that Stansell violated the terms and conditions of his probation by failing to pay fines and costs as ordered by the court and failing to report to his probation officer as directed. On November 3, 2009, Stansell signed a Conditions of Release of Probation, indicating that he was pleading guilty to the revocation allegations and that his original five-year-probation sentence was reinstated with the added condition that he attend a drug-treatment program. However, no judgment and commitment order was entered reflecting Stansell's guilty plea to this revocation petition.
At the hearing, the trial court did not advise the parties upon which of the two conditions the revocation decision was based.
DEFENDANT ORIGINALLY SENTENCED TO PROBATION on 10/06/2008: PROBATION REVOKED 11/03/2009 and restored to original Probation Sentence: REVOKED again on 09/07/2010.
It is this order from which Stansell appeals.
This is not the first time this case has been presented to our court. In June 2011, Stansell's counsel filed a no-merit appeal pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). In Stansell v. State, 2011 Ark. App. 462, we denied counsel's motion to withdraw and ordered that the record be settled, and if necessary supplemented, based on the absence of a 2009 judgment and commitment order revoking Stansell's probation. In this second appeal, no 2009 judgment and commitment order is included in the record.
Stansell contends that the 2010 revocation order should be reversed because it was based on the terms and conditions of a nonexistent November 2009 judgment and commitment order. He argues that he suffered due-process violations and prejudice from references to more than one revocation when there was no prior revocation order entered. However, Stansell's arguments are not preserved because he failed to make them below. Despite conceding this point in his brief, Stansell requests reversal.
It is axiomatic that the appellate court will not address an argument, even a constitutional one, that is raised for the first time on appeal. Caldwell v. State, 2011 Ark. App. 358, at 7 (citing Rhodes v. State, 2011 Ark. 146, at 6 (declining to consider a due-process argument because the argument had not been articulated to the trial court)); Rogers v. State, 2011 Ark. App. 2, at 3 (holding that a constitutional due-process argument must be raised before the trial court to preserve the argument for appeal and thus declining to address the merits of appellant's due-process argument on appeal). Further, procedural and evidentiary objections must be made to the trial court in order to preserve the claims for appellate review. Nelson v. State, 84 Ark. App. 373, 379-80, 141 S.W.3d 900, 904-05 (2004). Because Stansell has failed to preserve his arguments for review, we do not address them. Accordingly, we affirm.
While affirming, we hold that a modification of the 2010 judgment and commitment order is required. Because there is no 2009 judgment and commitment order, the following language, "PROBATION REVOKED 11/03/2009 and restored to original Probation Sentence," which is included in two sections of the 2010 order, shall be struck.
With the language concerning a 2009 order removed from the 2010 judgment and commitment order, what remains is language referring to the November 5, 2008 judgment and commitment order. It and its accompanying terms and conditions of probation serve as the bases of the trial court's 2010 judgment and commitment order because (1) Stansell was within the 2008 probation period when the State filed its second petition to revoke in 2009 and (2) reporting to the probation officer, which the State's second petition to revoke alleged that Stansell failed to do, was one of the conditions of the 2008 probation.
GLADWIN and MARTIN, JJ., agree. |
0.999816 | Kentucky has a reputation as a park state, and it is very much so. Just as relaxing, and just as filled with beautiful sights. It is famous as the home place of none other than Abraham Lincoln. Kentucky is a popular visit, and with the huge assortment of attractions related to culture, numerous extensive parkland areas, excellent vistas all over, modern cities such as Newport and Louisville, Kentucky makes for an exceedingly rewarding location. There is no dearth of sights and attractions at all. There are a huge number of attractions that make for an extremely fun filled vacation.
Kentucky is a mixture of natural as well as man- made attractions. The destination is one of the most wonderful with regards to quality. There are a huge number of attractions as well as a great selection of activities and things to do, and this is inclusive of activities as varied as riding, boating, hiking, camping as well as talking a visit to some of the best historically significant locations in the state, such as the residence of Abraham Lincoln. If you are a fan of the great outdoors, there is no better place than Kentucky.
The best time I would suggest you come here is when it is spring. This is because the weather seems to be made entirely for Kentucky. The state feels in the prime in spring. Blue grass is seen everywhere. |
0.978037 | Will Brexit happen before June 30?
June 30th is the last day before the next European Parliament starts. On April 11th, the UK and the EU agreed to push the deadline for the UK to leave the EU to October 31, but that agreement included a review date sometime in June, when the EU would evaluate if the UK was meeting the demands needed to remain a member state by that time.
In the light of that, if at 00:00, July 1st, 2019, the United Kingdom is still a member state of the European Union, this question will be resolved as "No". |
0.996268 | What are the factors to consider before investing in any ultra short term debt fund and how does it differ from FD for tax and returns? This is from a perspective of 3-4 years of investment.
Credit Quality of underlying papers, Average Maturity, Modified Duration, and AUM.
Regarding taxation, both FDs and Debt Funds have same tax treatment if your holding period is less than 3 years. However, if it is more than 3 years, then regarding debt funds it is 20% with indexation benefit. Hence, they are more tax efficient compared to Bank FDs. Also, due to no TDS concept in MF, each year available for compounding will be more in MF than FDs as banks deduct TDS every year. |
0.938584 | MIAMI (AP) _ The producers of the Super Bowl halftime show promised a few surprises for Sunday. But Stevie Wonder tap dancing?
The multitalented singer and songwriter, blind since birth, nonetheless got up from his keyboard and tapped out a quick dozen or so beats to cap his performance of ``I Wish″ midway through the high-energy show.
Wonder joined Gloria Estefan and the hot swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy for the 11-minute extravaganza titled ``Soul, Salsa and Swing.″ Broadway hoofer Savion Glover, who co-starred in the 1989 movie ``Tap,″ joined the performance as a special guest.
The Super Bowl halftime annually is the most-watched live performance in music, with some 75,000 in attendance at Pro Player Stadium and another 800 million watching on televisions in 180 countries.
The performance also featured more than 1,000 other performers, including swing dancers on stilts, huge lighted balloon balls, lasers and enough pyrotechnics to keep the sky above Pro Player Stadium well-lighted.
Wonder entered the field in a vintage car, singing his hit ``You Can Feel it All Over″ as two women helped him up the stairs to the huge 5,000 square-foot stage.
Estefan, performing in front of her hometown fans, took over to sing segments of ``Oye″ and ``Turn the Beat Around″ as brightly colored dancers swung long lighted ropes.
Estefan became the second artist to perform in two Super Bowl halftime shows, joining jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain. She also performed in the 1992 show in Minneapolis.
The show opened with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, only two years removed from playing Hollywood’s underground club scene. They played their arrangement ``Go Daddy-O″ before serving as accompaniment to Wonder.
The Super Bowl pregame show featured the rock band KISS, which did its best to live up to its pregame promise to bring down all low-flying aircraft.
Huge flames shot more than 30 feet in the air as they launched into their hit ``Rock and Roll All Night,″ with fans sitting behind the west end zone feeling the heat all the way to the upper deck. Fireworks shot from ground level all the way to the top of the stadium.
Cher, dressed conservatively in jeans and a beaded lavender blouse, performed a soulful rendition of the national anthem. The Miami group Speaking Hands accompanied her in sign language, and the U.S. Air Force 53rd Fighter Squadron roared above in a ``missing-man″ formation, with one plane absent from the left side. |
0.997466 | A Pill to Make You Dumb is a remix bootleg by Marilyn Manson, released by Tradepoint Bootlegs. Among the tracks on this bootleg are official and unofficial Marilyn Manson songs and remixes, as well as a song that band was not involved with at all. The majority of the bootleg is comprised of remixes of songs from the band's Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals albums, remixed by Sqorpio. The release date remains unknown; apart from the track listing and cover design credits, no additional information whatsoever is provided. It features music released no later than 1998, but this fact does not account for what year the songs featured were remixed and ultimately released.
A Pill to Make You Dumb borrows its title from lyrics in the song "Coma White".
"Like a Virgin" is not a legitimate Marilyn Manson track. |
0.992102 | My name is Gladiator. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And in this life, or the next, I will have my vengeance.
In its day, the Roman Empire was the most powerful and influential political institution in all of European history, with Rome forming the social and economic hub of the Mediterranean world and its influence stretching out across the continent to include the territories now known as the Middle East, Britain, the Balkans, and Romania. Founded in 27 BC, when Gaius Octavius was proclaimed Augustus ('exalted one') following the dissolution of the Roman Republic after years of civil war and internal upheaval, the monarchy brought political stability back to the Roman state, and continued to flourish for almost half a millennium. In that time, the Roman Empire unwittingly laid the foundation for Western society, as it spread the Latin language across Europe, as well as its systems of law, commerce, and government. And given the rich cultural mosaic that formed its subjects, the age of the Roman Empire also saw the proliferation of Greek culture, Christian religion, Judaism, and science.
The first signs of trouble in the Empire occurred in 180 AD, when Commodus was crowned emperor, which signaled an end to the Empire's 'golden era'. The remaining three centuries of the Roman Empire were filled with civil war, political instability, and anarchy as Rome's influence gradually waned, as a succession of military-based leaders tried their hand at administering its 60 million subjects. Though Diocletian was able to restore some of the stability and prosperity to the Roman Empire in the Third Century, some of his reforms ultimately led to the partition of the Empire into western and eastern portions in the Fourth Century. The age of the Roman Empire ultimately came to an end in 476 AD, when the Western Empire succumbed to invading Germanic tribes. Though the Roman state continued to exist in a recognizable form in the Eastern Empire, which was based in Constantinople, its political influence over the rest of Europe had come to an end.
Despite its downfall, the infrastructure that the Empire had laid down continued to exist, albeit in an altered form. During the Middle Ages, the cultural influences of the Roman Empire continued to be passed down from one generation to the next. Christianity and the Roman paradigms of law and government prevailed, as did the Latin language, though it gradually evolved into regional tongues such as French and Spanish. The legacy of the Roman Empire was also seen during the Renaissance of the Fifteen Century, when Greco-Roman civilization was rediscovered and greatly influenced the art, architecture, law, language, and the literature of the day.
"Gladiator", the latest historical epic from director Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner"), takes place between the eras that saw the rise of the Roman Empire and its gradual decline. Though the story is largely fictional, "Gladiator" uses actual historical figures and tells its story in the context of the events of the day. Scholarly issues aside, this is the kind of film that defines the term 'blockbuster'-- filled with spectacle and action, and telling a story of epic scope and humanity, "Gladiator" is an enthralling and totally immersing production that will probably be viewed as a classic in years to come.
The year is 180 AD, and General Maximus (Russell Crowe of "The Insider") is a distinguished and decorated soldier, commanding the Roman Empire's brutal war machine against the barbarian hordes of Germania. However, his title, family, and his freedom are stripped away in an instant after Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix of "8mm") usurps the throne by murdering his ailing but just father, Caesar Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris of "Smilla's Sense of Snow"). Remaining steadfastly loyal to Marcus and unwilling to pledge his allegiance to his unlawful heir, Maximus is sentenced to death by Commodus. However, Maximus is able to escape his would-be executioners, and races home to his farm to protect his wife and son. Unfortunately, upon arrival, he is heartbroken to find that his family has been butchered and his farm razed to the ground.
They said that your boy squealed like a little girl when they nailed him to the cross... and that your wife moaned like a whore... as they ravaged her... again and again.
Not long after, he is captured by slave-traders and befriended by fellow prisoner Juba (Djimon Hounsou of "Amistad"). The two men are then sold to Proximo (Oliver Reed, who passed away not long after production wrapped up), a man who manages and trains gladiators. Back in Rome, the paranoid Commodus is gradually tightening his grip on the reins of power, which includes dissolving the Senate and killing his political rivals. However, a few in the echelons of power are still able to undermine Commodus' dictatorship, including Senator Gracchus (Derek Jacobi, seen recently in Kenneth Branaugh's "Hamlet") and Commodus' own sister, Lucilla (Connie Nielsen of "Mission to Mars").
The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Coliseum.
Today I saw a gladiator who became powerful than the emperor of Rome himself!
From its opening moments detailing the bloody carnage of a battle between the well-equipped Roman army and the Germanian hordes (no doubt inspired in look and feel by "Saving Private Ryan") to the sumptuous splendor of ancient Rome at the height of the Empire, the visuals of "Gladiator" are simply breathtaking. Blending an eye for detail in production design, along with top-notch computer-generated effects, Scott brings the long-dead civilization back to life like no other film has done before, including the preeminent representatives of the genre, such as "Ben Hur" and "Spartacus". It's not surprising where much of the budget went-- allegedly, $1 million was spent on building a giant replica of the Coliseum, alone.
But aside from the visceral thrills, "Gladiator" also delivers on the narrative front too. This is your classic story of a heroic figure vanquishing evil against impossible odds-- it worked for "Star Wars" and it works for "Gladiator". Though the film runs at a long 2&1/2 hours, the pacing remains brisk as the story easily traverses one emotional beat to the next, thanks to some well-written characters that are as awe-inspiring as the scenery. Though many will remember the film for its violent and edge-of-your-seat gladiator battles, there is a lot of humanity found within this picture, which builds up nicely to the film's emotionally satisfying climax.
The film also resonates with some contemporary sensibility, as the gladiatorial games are seen as a perverse reflection of our own sports hero-worshipping culture. The games are portrayed as the low-brown entertainment of the age, where the top gladiators become worshipped by the masses (as well as become sought after for sexual favors) and the coffers of their owners are lined with gold. The morality over life-and-death becomes moot in the face of decisions driving the business-- a situation not too different from the one presented in last year's football drama "Any Given Sunday".
If you would have been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.
As the film's titular gladiator, Crowe carries the story, both with his impassioned performance and commanding screen presence-- as he was able to embody the nervous mannerisms of whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in "The Insider", Crowe is able to project the self-assuredness, leadership, and burning rage that dominate his character. Phoenix is sufficiently malevolent and erratic as chief villain Commodus, though his prissy foaming at the mouth does go over-the-top on occasion. Nielsen redeems herself for "Mission to Mars" with her stunning portrayal of Lucilla, emanating both the poise and valor of her character, while supporting players Hounsou, Reed, and Jacobi acquit themselves nicely with their small but important roles.
"Gladiator" is as exhilarating and memorable as blockbusters come. Ridley Scott has just about created a perfect film-- nary a fault can be found in the writing, performances, or the lensing. For those moviegoers who have been waiting for an excuse to pay full admission into the local megaplex, "Gladiator" is the ticket. Let the games begin!
Images courtesy of Dreamworks SKG. All rights reserved. |
0.974384 | A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two story lines intersect in an attempt to recreate the past.
A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.
When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.
I strongly disagree with the previous comment. Firstly, the 3 songs are top notch - "Horoscope", "Hitting the Highspots Now", and the classic "Fanlight Fanny" - all fantastic George Formby tracks. The movie is quite entertaining with many funny moments. Gus McNaughton is almost a joint star with George in this film, as together they both try to uncover the counterfeiters after their racing winnings have been switched for "slush" money. It turns into quite a farce, and becomes quite compelling (the things that these guys go through uncover the criminals are brilliantly far fetched). I recommend this film to anyone who likes George Formby, you won't be disappointed. |
0.999998 | If you lack wisdom, pray to God as he will give generously and graciously to all. However when you pray, you must believe and not doubt. If you doubt or unable to make up your mind, your much like a wave that gets tossed back and forth and you should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
If I’m lacking in wisdom in any area, my first thing should be to pray for God, as he is generous and willing to give it to you. However I must not doubt, waver or be unsettled in what he reveals to me. If I do, then I’m much like a wave that is battered back and forth. If I’m like this then I should not expect anything from God.
What I’m learning is that doubt is the enemy of imagination.
Doubt and fear in my life will neutralize what God wants to do. It takes courage to imagine. Most stop imagining because they’re afraid of failure.
Courage is when I do the right thing while I’m are afraid. I find myself wondering, “Should I wait until all my doubts are gone?” But what I’m learning is that I have to move against my fears. I have to ignore all the insecurity I’m feeling and just go for it.
James 1:5-7 says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord” (NIV).
My imagination is either going to be governed by fear or it’s going to be governed by faith. It's my choice. If I let my imagination be governed by fear, I’m going to go around being freaked out, stressed out, and worried all the time. Allowing fear to control my imagination, will only lead to living a miserable life.
Instead I can decide that I’m not going to allow fear to dominate me. Rather I will practice letting my faith dominate. My trust in God. Then I can move forward in faith and allow my imagination to be filled with all kinds of possibilities, because all things are possible with God.
In summary, If I’m lacking in wisdom in any area, my first thing should be to pray for God, as he is generous and willing to give it to you. However I must not doubt, waver or be unsettled in what he reveals to me. If I do, then I’m much like a wave that is battered back and forth. If I’m like this then I should not expect anything from God.
As I reflect today, I think one thing that God wants me to do, but I’ve held back deals with sharing my faith/belief in him with others. I should begin to imagine / visualize myself sharing more on a routine basis with those in my life. |
0.999678 | Linda needed her paper journal to be an app. She had to convey a message of "you are not alone" and extend her forward thinking approach to emotional health in a relationship.
The Boyfriend Log is a unique journaling app designed to empower women to take better emotional care of themselves by tracking the health of their relationships. The app has a beautifully designed user interface that both collects and displays two layers of information. The top layer provides an intuitive colour based rating system that allows users to tell “at a glance” how their relationship is progressing over time. Users can use the colour system to understand patterns in their behaviour and relationships. The lower layer of the app is a text-based journal where users can write daily entries about their relationship. The app provides a calendar view where colours can be viewed, and a detailed view where users can enter and view daily entries along with calendar features such as password protection, search capability, and tutorials. We went the extra distance on this app to ensure the interface is stunning — and we hope you can experience this app for yourself! |
0.976108 | What's the easiest way to draw nice vector diagrams with Python? I was asked this question some time ago by a bioinformatician who was moving from Perl to Python, and previously used the gd library. gd was widely used back in the day, but looks a bit clunky now.
Here's the solution I came up with, to use SVG through PySVG. It's pure-Python and so doesn't require any extra libraries, which is always a pain when dealing with graphics.
Following on from earlier work, I decided to resurrect Open Babel's support for storing stereo in 0D Mol files. I always liked this idea, but at the time, I removed it before release because no-one else did. Well, now Craig James tells me he likes it too, so it's back in and will be available in OB 2.3.2.
With the current release, cis/trans stereo is only preserved if you generate 2D coordinates ("--gen2D") although tet stereo can be read from the chiral flags for 0D files if you specify "-as".
How does the extension work? Well, for tet stereo it just uses the chiral flags (in defiance of the spec which says to ignore chiral flags on reading - take that spec!!). For cis/trans stereo it uses Up/Down markings equivalent to those used by SMILES; all of the (at most) 4 stereobonds are given Up/Down markings; if two bonds at either end are both Up or both Down this implies cis.
A better way to do it would have been to use a double bond flag equivalent to the chiral flag - e.g. 1 means that the first two bonds that appear in the bond section are cis - this would be both easier to compute and to interpret; however it would push the spec a bit too far.
I know I shouldn't cast the first stone but sometimes only a saint could turn the other cheek.
In computer science, canonicalization (...also sometimes standardization or normalization) is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form.
Canonization (or canonisation) is the act by which a Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints.
A search of ACS publications shows seven references to canonizer in total, and 32 references to canonization. |
0.988813 | 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah — 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant , and I disregarded them, says the LORD. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
13 In that He says, "A new covenant ," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Notice three important things about this passage: (1) God disregarded Israel and the Old Covenant because of unbelief (2) "After those days" is a reference to the tribulation, that is, when the tribulation has ended (See Amos 9:10-15 - this is not the present nation of Israel in the Middle East); (3) the saved remnant of Israel must come into the New Covenant to be God's people; they are not presently the chosen people and will never again be a separate chosen nation of people over all others. The Israelites and Jews are chosen only as they come into the New Covenant - the One New Man and Church of the Lord Jesus. A bunch of Christians do not understand the New Covenant they read every day and certainly secular and religious Zionists do not even believe in the New Covenant.
God's word is eternal, efficacious, and is the basis of the covenants. The Old covenant was based upon the Law of God and animal sacrifices, but the New Covenant is based upon the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and the logos of the apostles and prophets - the revelation given to them in the gospels through the book of Revelation. Much of the New Covenant is based upon the Old Covenant (the logos), but the higher revelation as the Old is fulfilled in the New. Three things are included in the Word of God - His promise, His fact, and His covenant. Whatever God has said in His Word is fact whether it is believed or not. God's promises cannot be nullified for what He has promised will come to fruition. His promises are also fact - they stand as eternal truth throughout the ages of the ages. Everything God said on the day of creation still stands. Therefore, they are established by "fact" - the sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets are doing today what they did on the day of creation - why? Because God said, "Let there be and it was so" (fact). The atheist whose body is warmed by the radiance of the sun and observes the light of the moon and stars is a witness to the fact of creation and the eternal word of God that can never return unto Him void (Isaiah 55:11) even though they willing choose to disbelieve the obvious. They shall be held accountable for their disbelief (See Romans 1).
Those who understand God's covenant with man can truly praise the Lord for why would the eternal God want to come and dwell in humanity (John 3:16 is the answer)? 2 Corinthians 4:7 says, "God has put His treasure in earthen vessels that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from man." Who can fathom the God who made heaven and earth possessing man in the form of Jesus Christ; then choosing to live in our earthen vessels (man was made from the dust of the earth, but he is more than dirt and grime). In time past, God established the fact that He exist by giving us His Word. Based upon the fact God is and His Word inviolable, His promises are certain - they are yes and amen! What contains the these inviolable promises - His covenant!
We seldom pay any attention how much our lives are governed by contracts (covenants), which are words or promises placed on paper documents. Both parties to the contract are obligated by law to perform their individual functions. The same is truth with God's New Covenant, which is founded upon the blood of Jesus Christ and the written (logos) promises of God. Man also has an obligation to keep his part of the covenant, which begins by believing it. Watchman Nee says, "God's covenant is even more glorious than His fact or promise" (The Finest of Wheat, Vol. I, Covenant). What does he mean by that since God's fact and promises are without parallel? When God decided to covenant with man (Abraham), He chose to be bound and restricted by an agreement with man - ponder that for a while and allow the Holy Spirit to give you the revelation of what God has done in His covenant with man - it is truly amazing! In covenant, God is willing to limit His liberty in order to allow us to possess Him (read that over again and understand what God has done in His covenant with Jesus Christ - you understand the New Covenant was first struck between God the Father and the Son before the Son established it upon his suffering, death, and resurrection and gave it to man). The great and awesome God stooped way down to make His covenant with man (See Isaiah 55:8-9). This grace is beyond our comprehension. Our position is to bow our head and knee and worship this wonderful God who was willing to be made like us and take our place in judgment. When you understand covenant there is no room for arrogance and pride - only humility. When I encounter prideful boastful Christians, I know one thing - they do not understand the New Covenant (sometimes that person has been me and I had to eat the cup of God's chastening for He will not allow a prideful Christian to go unpunished).
While there is much love in grace (God's unmerited favor with man), there is absolutely no room for selfishness, foolish pride and unforgiveness in God's covenant He offers us in Christ Jesus. Jesus is the epitome of the grace of God extended to mankind in His covenant based upon the shed blood of Christ. Covenant speaks of faithfulness and of legality, which we mentioned previously. It is not concerned with our pleasure and comfort, which many Christians mistakenly pursue as a guarantee from God, particularly the prosperity crowd. God's covenant is executed according to faithfulness, justice and law. If you ever understand covenant, you must come to grips with God's viewpoint in covenant, not how we perceive it as something we use for our benefit. Covenant is always first and foremost - Godward, then manward!
When we covenant with humankind in whatever way, whether a marriage contract, a mortgage, a job, etc. and do not keep the terms of the agreement, we are in essence breaking our word and are faithless! Such dishonors God and those whom we betray. The Church is full of covenant breaking Christians who divorce their spouses for non-biblical reasons, who lie and cheat on their income taxes, and who take short cuts on the job and fail to give their employer a full days work, etc. Such is dishonest and unrighteous. Involvement in such things lowers one's moral standards and will be judged by law as violators of covenant relationship. By this we can easily understand that when God makes covenant with man, He places Himself in a limited position. Watchman Nee further says, "That before covenant, God could treat us according to His own pleasure. He could deal with us in grace or without grace. He could either save us or not save us. Before he makes covenant, God has the sovereign right to do whatever He likes. But after He has made covenant, He MUST ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WRITTEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT FOR HE IS BOUND BY IT!"
Here is something you must understand, as far as covenant is concerned, it is a matter of faithfulness, not a matter of grace. "Viewing covenant from the standpoint of God's willingness to bind Himself in a covenant with man, is without doubt the highest expression of God's grace. God chose to condescend to man's level and thus place Himself in covenant with the same. Once God has made covenant with man, He is forever bound to keep that covenant and operate according to the restrictions He imposed upon Himself - whether He likes it or not." God cannot and never will violate His own covenant with man. This is why God's New Covenant in Jesus Christ is so awesome - God chose to forgive man all his terrible sin including his condition of being born a sinner and then coming to live in man. What man would do what God has done in forgiving man's sin by taking his place in suffering and judgment, then choose to live within the very people who are His sworn enemies? The answer is no one would and no one could.
Covenant is truly an awesome revelation and we must learn everything we can about it as well as distinguish the difference between the Old obsolete Covenant and the New Covenant based upon the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ lest we be confused on God's eternal purpose in the Church. God is not favoring an Old Covenant nor is He favoring an ethnic race of people known as Israelites or Jews. He has one chosen people today - the redeemed in Christ Jesus who is the New Covenant.
Some excerpts for the article were taken from The Finest of Wheat, Vol. I, Covenant by Watchman Nee. |
0.971204 | Friends, I have so much to tell you. So much, in fact, that it will require multiple posts. My recent travelling adventures took me to a lot of interesting places, many with bookish or historical links that I think you’ll appreciate. On top of that, I have some pictures from earlier in the summer I’ve been meaning to share, so I thought I’d do it all in one go.
First of all, I finally made it to the Library of Birmingham, one of the UK’s (and Europe’s) largest public libraries. It’s a beautiful, impressive building, but it’s impossible for me to dissociate my visit from all the recent news about enormous reductions in opening hours, hundreds of members of staff losing their jobs due to cuts in funding, and other austerity related woes. TL;DR: I loved visiting, but it made me sad, too. I want us to have nice things, and nice things can be state of the art facilities, sure — but also adequately funded, professionally staffed services that truly meet the needs of their communities.
I also felt a lot like I did when I visited the new Manchester library last year: impressed and inspired and with frequent spells of library envy, but also grateful for my own library’s more modest but also warmer and more human space. We have child-made displays and rhymetime posters and teen book reviews — lots of little things that hopefully allow people to take ownership of the library, and which communicate that what goes on there, what we make it into together, is every bit as important as the library building itself. Maybe it’s because I only visited them briefly, but both Manchester and Birmingham libraries felt more far removed from the people who use them than I’d have liked.
The gorgeous Shakespeare room, which has been housed in three different sites throughout its existence.
The children’s library, which I liked better than Manchester’s but still not as much as my own.
My travels also took me back to Manchester; I didn’t make it to the Central Library this time around, but I did get to revisit some of my favourite sites. This leg of my trip made me really miss Iris and Amy, who I took to all these places when I was living there.
I went back to the beautiful John Rylands library for an exhibition on the Gothic tradition. It wasn’t as detailed as the one the British Library did last autumn, but it’s still worth visiting if you’re in town.
I also went back to the People’s History Museum, one of my favourite museums in the UK. I wanted to go again both because I missed it and to see some of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners documents they hold. I really enjoyed my visit — as I said, the museum has always been one of my favourites, but I have continued to learn about the history of protest it represents in the years since I moved away from Manchester, so I was better able to contextualise some of what I saw now.
Also, I got a WSPU badge at the gift shop. I love it so much I’ve been wearing it on my jacket ever since.
Lastly, once I was back down south I went to see Meg Rosoff deliver the 2015 Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture at beautiful Homerton College.
The lecture will be made available online and I didn’t take very detailed notes, so I’ll give you the very short version: Rosoff was as funny and thoughtful as you’d expect. Her introduction made me borrow Pearce’s The Little Gentleman from the library the very next day; as for the lecture itself, I especially loved the part where she explained that the title she picked, “Don’t be afraid to be afraid”, comes from A Wrinkle in Time: the scene where Meg learns to embrace her flaws affected her in ways that last until this day. She spoked about writing your truth; explained that gender will always be her main subject because she finds it “deeply resonant”; and talked about all the complicated realities about how people experience gender identity and sexual orientation that are thankfully slowly being normalised through the wider range of stories we tell. Also, she signed my copy of the brilliant Picture Me Gone and we talked for a few minutes about our mutual love for Margo Lanagan (she’d called her one of her favourite writers during the lecture, along with Philip Pullman and David Almond). It was a great event, and it was lovely to be able to say hi to one of my absolute favourite writers afterwards.
The entrance to the Great Hall.
Next up: Edinburgh, which is still the absolute best. Expect many words, and also a million photos.
Good point about liveable libraries -- your photos remind me of those gorgeous homes in magazines that I admire but couldn't imagine living in. The bookstore on a barge, however, looks so cozy! What a lovely place to be. Thanks for these snapshots of your travels and I can't wait for the next installment.
It's not even that I think big shiny library buildings necessarily have to be that way, but... the past few years have been dismal for public libraries in the UK, and so it feels like the bones are shiny but the meat of the service is being stripped away. (Let us ignore how terrible that metaphor is :P). Glad you enjoyed the photos! I think you'll like the last instalment, which has lots of DWJ references.
Wonderful! I especially envy the fabulous-looking exhibitions. The UK is such a great place for bookish tourism.
It really is! And I still haven't visited the bookish holy grail site (Hay-on-Wye). Soon!
I appreciated your ambivalence about libraries that are fantastic public spaces but somehow not entirely welcoming. I have been struggling with those feelings about our own new central library: the building is pretty spectacular, but I don't much like being in it. Too bright, white, open, and (at least on weekends, when I can get there) far too noisy for actually reading. And yet ... it has to be a good thing overall to make libraries civic showpieces, right?
Yes, it's a difficult one. I do love the idea of libraries as destinations, as awe-inspiring spaces people will go out of their way to see, and yet it's even more important that the people they serve every day actually want to be there. In the UK, the situation is made all the more complicated by the fact that local authorities invested in big buildings while the services were being hollowed out by "invisible" cuts. What's the point of a spectacular building if the opening hours are cut almost in half the following year?
I'll be in London for two weeks towards end of October and will seek out the bookshops you mentioned! If you have time, I'd love to have your recommendations for some more bookish touristy things to do in London!
How could I not love this post? The wonderful photos. The lovely places you've been and seen and heard. And as always, your insightful perspective.
I hope I can take you to at least some of them one day!
All the recent cuts and layoffs :( I think the librarians in my small library have given up. There's tons of money being made by the technical university but everything 'unprofitable' such as the arts and culture...and it's so noticeable in the town, the rare events other than classical orchestra, the extremely understuffed and funded library and the activist scene is hanging on by a thread.
I love that you still have the energy to create a wonderful place in your library! And I prefer warm libraries, too, lots of wooden shelves, carpets and a full kids section.
Thank you for letting us live vicariously through your travels! I'm glad you're having such a good time, you deserve it!
Regarding libraries, I really don't know what to think myself. I love these new buildings - they are impressive and I love to visit them. As a tourist. I collect pictures of libraries (that's basically what my tumblr is for), but I don't know what to make of them as libraries. The central library of the city I used to live in was completely rebuilt a few months ago, and I've been to visit it this summer. It is impressive. But the first thing I noted about it was the lack of couches and reading chairs, although there are lots of chairs and study tables. I spend a good portion of my childhood and youth reading in that library. I don't think I could do it now - there's no place to sit and relax with a good novel. The children section is very much improved, though.
I'll try to send you an email with Spanish bookish (and some touristy) recommendations tomorrow at the very latest!
Bookstore barges? They sound like something out of a dream. If I ever go back to London, I will definitely investigate.
What gorgeous photos! I love the UK and hope to see more as some friends just moved to London. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! I hope you have lots of opportunities to visit and go to wonderful places.
Sounds like you've been having a fascinating time :-) I hope you enjoy Edinburgh!
A floating! Bookshop! That sounds MARVELOUS, and I am mad at myself that I didn't know such a thing existed the last time I was in London. The next time I go, I will be sure to visit. I love books! And I love boats! A floating bookshop sounds like the greatest thing ever!
What beautiful libraries! And, I love the idea of a floating bookshop. Just too cool. |
0.909886 | Globally, 3 million babies die in the first seven days of life (early neonatal period). It is estimated that more than 3.3 million babies are stillborn every year; one in three of these deaths occurs during delivery and could largely be prevented. In the less developed countries, which account for 98% of perinatal deaths, these deaths are not always registered . World Health Organization (WHO) defines perinatal mortality as deaths occurring during late pregnancy (>22 weeks of gestation), during birth and within seven days after delivery . The perinatal period is considered the most critical phase of life [3,4]. It reflects the general health and the various socio-biological features of mothers and babies. Perinatal mortality rate gives a good indication of the extent of pregnancy wastage and the quality and quantity of health care available to mother and the newborn .
It would be difficult to achieve Millennium Development goal of reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015 without reducing perinatal deaths . Perinatal mortality rates are highest in Africa where it is more than six times higher than in developed regions. Perinatal mortality rates of around 10 deaths per 1000 total births are recorded in developed regions compared to 50 per 1000 in developing regions and over 60 per 1000 in least developed countries . Perinatal deaths result from complications of preterm birth, asphyxia or trauma during birth, infections, severe malformations and other causes. Maternal health is important for neonatal health, and maternal infections contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes . The benefits of treating medical problems and complications of pregnancy are greatest when there is a continuum of care throughout pregnancy, child birth and immediate postpartum period. Although care during childbirth is most critical, antenatal care plays an important role, primarily because it provides an important means of addressing other health care needs, such as prevention and treatment of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and malaria . While international attention, statistics and interventions focus on infants born alive, stillborn infants have largely been overlooked . A conceptual framework developed by Mosley was used to guide the study. It consists of distant factors (socio-economic factors, and pre-pregnancy conditions), pregnancy specific factors (nutritional status, maternal morbidity, intrapartum conditions, and antenatal care), and fetal factors (fetal biological factors and accidents at delivery) interacting leading to a perinatal death .
In 2007, Marondera District recorded 190 perinatal deaths and 3 242 live births, translating to a perinatal mortality ratio of 58.6 per 1000 live births. In 2008, the district recorded 145 perinatal deaths and 2 243 live births, translating to a perinatal mortality ratio of 64.6 per 1000 live births. These figures were above the provincial perinatal mortality ratio of 32 per 1000 in 2007 and 36 per 1000 in 2008 and the national perinatal mortality ratio which was estimated to be 27 per 1000 in 2008. These ratios might however be underestimates of the real problem given the gross underreporting of perinatal deaths and the high proportion of non-institutional deliveries in the district.
We determined factors associated with perinatal mortality focusing on socio-demographic factors, intrapartum factors, obstetric factors and health service factors.
A 1:2 unmatched case control study was carried out in eleven health facilities in Marondera District in June and July 2009. A case was any mother who delivered a stillbirth or whose baby died within seven days of delivery in Marondera District from 01 August 2008 to 31 July 2009. A control was a mother whose baby survived the perinatal period in Marondera District during the same period. A minimum sample of 92 cases and 185 controls was calculated. We interviewed 103 cases and 206 controls.
Multistage stratified sampling was used to select health centers. The only district hospital and rural hospital were purposefully selected. One urban out of two urban clinics and eight out of 15 rural clinics were randomly selected using the lottery method. Maternity delivery registers were used to develop line lists of perinatal deaths which were used as sampling frames. Every second client on the perinatal death line lists was selected until the required number of cases was reached. Proportional sampling was used to determine the number of participants to be selected from each health center. Every second mother reporting for postnatal care was systematically selected as a control.
Interviewer administered questionnaires were used to collect data from study participants. Key informant interviews were done with provincial reproductive health managers, nurse managers and medical doctors. Discharged patients were followed up in their homes. A review of delivery registers, death notification forms and case notes was done. Epi-Info 3.3.2 was used to capture and analyze quantitative data. Stepwise logistic regression analysis was done to determine independent determinants of perinatal mortality. Qualitative data was analyzed for content.
One hundred and three cases and two hundred and six controls were interviewed. The median years for cases was 25 years (Q1=22, Q3=30) and controls was 24 (Q1=20, Q3=28). Table 1 shows the socio-demographic information of the cases and controls.
Forty five (43.7%) of deliveries were live births and the remainder were stillbirths. Twenty four (41.4%) of the stillbirths were macerated and 34 (58.6%) were fresh.
Among the early neonatal deaths, 24 (53.3%) died in the first 24 hours of delivery, 18 (40%) died between 24 and 72 hours and 3 (6.7%) died between 72 hours and seven days. Of the 45 early neonatal deaths recorded, 27 died of severe prematurity, 26 of respiratory distress syndrome, 16 of neonatal septicaemia, 16 of birth asphyxia and 2 of congenital malformations. Some cases had more than one cause of death (Figure 1).
Fifty nine (57.2%) of cases and 181 (87.8%) controls had booked for antenatal care (p=0.000). Six (10.1%) cases and 35 (19.3%) controls booked in the first sixteen weeks of pregnancy. Forty (67.7%) cases and 102 (56.3%) controls booked between 16 and 27 weeks of gestation. Thirteen (22.2%) cases and 45 (24.4%) controls booked after twenty seven weeks of gestation (p=0.000).
Thirty-eight (36.8%) cases and 84 (40.7%) controls had their labor monitored using partographs.
We carried out bivariate analysis to determine factors associated with perinatal mortality.
Socio-demographic factors associated with increased the risk of perinatal mortality were having maternal primary or no education (OR= 5.40, 95 % CI (3.14 – 9.33)), being in a polygamous marriage (OR=5.40, CI (1.62 – 11.26)), maternal parity greater than 4 (OR=4.80, CI (1.62 – 14.23)), living on a farm or in rural areas (OR=3.32, CI (1.93 – 5.74)), belonging to apostolic sect (OR=2.94, CI (1.70 – 5.08)) and maternal unemployment (OR=2.17, CI (1.24 – 3.75)). Living within 5 km of a health facility (OR=0.41, CI (0.22 – 0.77)) and having a gainfully employed husband (OR=0.36, CI (0.20 – 0.63)) reduced the risk of perinatal mortality.
Maternal determinants increasing the risk of perinatal mortality were having a history of early neonatal death (OR=7.22, CI (2.98 – 20.77)), having suffered from pregnancy complications (OR=7.04, CI (4.05 – 12.23)), having suffered from ante-partum haemorrhage (OR=5.60, CI (2.21 – 14.57)), maternal HIV infection (OR=5.30, (CI 2.68 – 10.56)), maternal history of pregnancy induced hypertension (OR=4.81, CI (2.59 – 8.99)), maternal history of stillbirth (OR=4.34, CI (2.26 – 8.37)), maternal history of abortion (OR=3.36, CI (1.90 – 5.96)) and having suffered from malaria during pregnancy (OR=4.32, CI (2.17 – 9.50)). Having booked for antenatal care (OR=0.19, CI (0.10 – 0.34)) reduced the risk of perinatal mortality.
Gestational age < 36 weeks (OR=15.1, CI (8.24 – 27.54)), home delivery (OR=7.38, CI (4.03 – 13.68)), birth weight <2500g (OR= 6.26 (3.55 – 11.03)), baby having congenital malformation(s) (OR=5.62, CI (2.10 – 15.57)), and having multiple pregnancy (OR=3.26, CI (1.36 – 7.88)) were fetal determinants that increased the risk of perinatal mortality.
Labor related determinants of perinatal mortality were experiencing labor complications (OR=7.56, CI (4.38 – 13.06)), delivery by breech extraction (OR=3.59, CI (1.89 – 6.84)) and use of anesthesia during labor (OR=5.70, CI (1.34 – 27.77)), aggressive resuscitation of baby (OR=1.91, (CI 0.90 – 4.81)) and delivery by caesarian section (OR=2.39, CI (0.76 – 7.59)) increased the risk of perinatal mortality although they were not statistically significant. Having a spontaneous labor (OR=0.16, CI (0.02 – 0.89)) reduced the risk of perinatal mortality.
The association between birth weight and perinatal mortality was modified by gestational age. Preterm babies whose birth was < 2500g were more likely to die (OR= 11.43, CI (3.02 – 43.26)) than term babies (OR= 1.45, CI (0.62 – 3.59)) of low birth weight. Delivering at home was a confounder in the association between birth weight and perinatal mortality. Home delivery was causing an overestimate of the strength of association. Parity was a confounder in the association between pregnancy complications and perinatal mortality resulting in an overestimate of the strength of association.
Factors that were independently associated with perinatal mortality were labor complications, belonging to apostolic sect, having a home delivery, maternal HIV infection, low birth weight and antenatal care booking (Table 2).
Key informants comprised of five nurse managers, three medical doctors, and one reproductive health coordinator. Their median years in service was 13 years (Q1=4, Q3=19). It was evident from the interviews that perinatal mortality meetings were not held according to schedule because of lack of funding. Key issues discussed during meetings included patient care, teaching of fellow health workers and perinatal mortality surveillance. Practical interventions for reducing avoidable deaths were discussed. Major causes of perinatal mortality highlighted include prematurity, HIV infection, birth asphyxia, pregnancy induced hypertension and home deliveries. Shortages of human and material resources were contributed to perinatal mortality.
The independent determinants of perinatal mortality were belonging to apostolic sect, antenatal care booking, home deliveries, experiencing labor complications, maternal HIV infection and low birth weight. Some apostolic sects do not use the formal health care system for obstetric care. Women from these apostolic sects deliver at home under the care of untrained midwives.
This invariably places the women and their babies at risk of complications and death. One of the pillars of the ‘Safe motherhood initiative’ is to have a clean delivery in a health institution under the care of trained health personnel . Women who had booked for antenatal care (ANC) were less likely to experience perinatal mortality than those who had not booked. Antenatal care affords pregnant women the opportunity to have their pregnancies monitored and potential complications addressed. Women who delivered at home were more likely to experience perinatal mortality than those who delivered in health institutions. Home deliveries were often conducted by untrained birth attendants and in unsanitary conditions. Asphyxiated babies would not be resuscitated because of absence of equipment. There is an increased risk of neonatal infections and hypothermia in home delivered babies especially preterm babies. These factors are known risk factors for perinatal mortality .
Women who experienced labor complications had higher risk of perinatal mortality. Several studies have shown that complications (cord prolapse, mal-presentation, APH and eclampsia) to be associated with perinatal mortality. Babies delivered by breech extraction were often traumatized and asphyxiated during delivery. Babies delivered by caesarian section could die from the underlying complications that prompted emergency caesarian section rather than the procedure itself. Ferresu et al in 1998 however found that stillbirths were less likely to be delivered by caesarian section in a study to determine the incidence of perinatal deaths and their associated factors . The risk of obstetric complications tends to increase with increasing parity thereby increasing the risk of perinatal mortality. Maternal parity greater than four was a risk factor for perinatal mortality. Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (PIH) and ante-partum hemorrhage (APH) increase the risk of perinatal mortality. APH is usually caused by placenta abruption and this result in fresh stillbirths. PIH reduces nutrient supply to the fetus due to restricted blood flow resulting in intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). Such fetuses are too small and have high risk of dying in the perinatal period [14-15]. Similar findings were obtained in a study to determine the causes of perinatal mortality in WHO collaborating centers in Argentina, Egypt, Peru, India, South Africa and Vietnam in 2004 .
Low birth weight babies were more likely to die during perinatal period. Prematurity was the major cause of low birth weight. Preterm babies often died of hypothermia and respiratory distress syndrome. Premature low birth weight babies were however more likely to die during the perinatal period than low birth-weight term babies. Term babies would have better immunity and mature respiratory systems with adequate surfactant production and are able to regulate their body temperature . Maternal infections increase the risk of perinatal mortality. Malaria causes placental insufficiency which leads to IUGR and sometimes intra-uterine death. Although Marondera District is considered a non-malaria area, several pregnant women referred from neighboring malaria infested districts would present with malaria at Marondera Hospital. Several studies have demonstrated that malaria is a risk factor for perinatal mortality .
Maternal HIV infection destroys the mother’s immune system and the infant depends on maternal antibodies to fight infection. The chances of survival are very low because of the compromised immunity passed on from the mother. Studies have shown that HIV infection increases perinatal mortality . These observations can be related to social determinants of health. Women experiencing perinatal deaths are most likely to come from poor background. They may have to travel long distance on poor roads either on foot or rarely by vehicles for antenatal booking and care at a health care facility . Where health facilities exist and are accessible, the quality of health care offered may be poor, due to understaffing or de-motivated health personnel.
Distance naturally prevents them from doing so even if they are knowledgeable of the benefits of ANC but deprives them the opportunity for early identification and management of pregnancy related problems and may further influence their choice of where to deliver. Because of poverty, women are less likely to afford a nutritious diet to take care of their needs and those of the growing foetus which in turn leads to low birth weight (LBW). Malnutrition increases risk of infection which leads to LBW babies with greater probability for mortality . Residents living in regions with more poverty, more unemployment, and more income inequality are more likely to report poor health [13,22,23]. This is true of most rural areas in developing countries.
In India, the Government started a National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS) program under which Rs. 500/-was given towards better food to every pregnant mother during the antenatal check-up as a measure to prevent malnutrition and another scheme that provided money for travel depending on distance from health facility. This increased interest in ANC, financial capability for ANC and timely transfer to referral facilities resulting in a decrease in perinatal mortality . Maternal education is a factor that is considered valid for international comparisons. Studies from different European countries reported maternal education to be the most important social predictor of an adverse pregnancy outcome [25,26].
Similarly a review of studies from the Nordic countries showed educational level of the mother was the most important social factor associated with pregnancy outcomes though in our study it was not independently associated. Perinatal mortality can be related to the paternal and maternal characteristics which may be related to gender power structures in families. But in programming very little focus is put on men’s role as partners in most aspects of reproductive health. Men play a critical role in contraception, abortion, control of sexually transmitted diseases, antenatal and delivery clinic attendance, and child mortality and should therefore be actively engaged to impact on women’s access to healthcare . Most perinatal deaths were stillbirths and more than 58% of the stillbirths were fresh. A majority of these babies could have died during labor. Use of partographs for monitoring of labor was low and this could be attributed to shortage of midwives. More than 50% of early neonatal deaths occurred within 24 hours of delivery. Marondera Hospital had one incubator and sometimes up to three neonates would be nursed in one incubator. Simple interventions such as kangaroo care have the potential to reduce early neonatal deaths. The major causes of early neonatal deaths were prematurity, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal septicemia and birth asphyxia.
Some records of labor were not complete and we could not get information concerning labor from the actual health workers who conducted the deliveries because of the retrospective nature of our study.
The independent determinants of perinatal mortality in Marondera District include belonging to apostolic sect, experiencing labor complications, maternal HIV infection, home delivery, low birth weight and antenatal care booking. A majority of perinatal deaths were fresh stillbirths. Most early neonatal deaths occurred during the first 24 hours after delivery. Complications of prematurity and respiratory distress syndrome were the major causes of perinatal mortality in the district. Shortage of midwives and neonatal resuscitation equipment in most health facilities was contributing to poor outcomes in resuscitated babies. Transport and communication network in the district was poor. Perinatal mortality meetings were not being held according to schedule at all levels of health care. However in order to impact on perinatal mortality, it is important to look at the determinants in the context of health system and social circumstances that surround pregnancy and delivery.
We recommended that nurses should intensify health education to women on the importance of antenatal care booking and delivering in hospital. Hospital managers should ensure adequate provision of equipment and drugs for use in emergency obstetric and neonatal care. The District Nursing Officer should ensure that non-midwives in rural health centers are attached to the busy maternity unit at Marondera Hospital. The District Medical Officer (DMO) should urgently repair non-functional telephones and radios in peripheral health centers. Nurses should advocate for Kangaroo care method for preterm babies. Health workers should comprehensively manage neonates in the first 24 hours of delivery. Hospital and clinic managers should ensure that perinatal mortality meetings are held according to recommended schedule.
The Provincial Nursing Officer should consider re-opening of Marondera Hospital School of Midwifery so as to train more midwives. The reproductive health coordinator should ensure health worker training in Emergency Management of Obstetric and Neonatal Complications. The District Medical Officer (DMO) should increase the fleet of ambulances to efficiently service all health centers. The DMO should ensure adequate supply of neonatal resuscitation equipment and drugs in all health centers. The District Health Executive should consider construction of waiting mothers’ shelters because the district had none.
We would like to acknowledge the study participants for their valuable contributions that made this study a success.
Emmanuel Tachiwenyika: He was responsible for the conception of the problem, design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the final article. Notion T. Gombe: He was responsible for the conception of the problem, design, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the final article. Gerald Shambira: He was responsible for the conception of the problem, design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the final article.
Mufuta Tshimanga: Had oversight of all the stages of the research and critically reviewed the final draft for academic content. Addmore Chadambuka: Participated in the design, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the final article and critical review of the final draft. Simukai T Zizhou: He was responsible for the design, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the final article. |
0.919542 | In modern chemistry, we have a sound understanding of acids and bases (also called alkalis). Acids and bases pervade our lives, from the laboratory to the kitchen, and these crucial substances are used as laboratory reagents, industrial catalysts, food additives, and in cleaning products. However, over the course of the history of chemistry, it took centuries to understand these substances fully.
During the time of the Ancient Greeks, the properties of acids and bases were only vaguely understood. During their attempts to categorize substances and try to bring balance, harmony, and perfection to the universe, they used a variety of tests to distinguish compounds. One of these was taste, and they divided substances according to whether they were sour, bitter, salty or sweet. As the Greek influence waned and their knowledge passed on to the Romans, they began to refer to sour substances, such as vinegar or lemon juice, as acids. The words 'acid' and 'acetic,' are both derived from the Latin word for 'sour-tasting,' acere. Bases, by contrast, were not as well studied, although they were recognized as substances that would neutralize acids, something that fitted well with the desire of the ancients to find balance and harmony in everything. The easiest way for the ancients to create bases was to take ashes from a fire, a process well known to the Greeks, who mixed ashes with animal fat to make soap. Many Greeks still use a similar process, using ashes and olive oil to make fine homemade soap. Bases are also referred to as alkalis, a word derived from the Arabic word for 'roasting', although why they later became called bases is unclear. Both words are perfectly acceptable and are often interchanged.
In about 1300, a Spanish scholar, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, began to use litmus for studying acids and bases. This compound, extracted from a lichen, had been used as a dye since at least the time of the Vikings, but he was the first known scholar to use it as a test of acidity. This idea was expanded by Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 - 31 December 1691), who found that certain plant derived substances changed color in the presence of acids or bases. One example was syrup of violets, which is blue in a pH neutral environment but turns green when exposed to bases, and red when mixed with acid. These testing compounds opened up a realm of possibility, and chemists could work out which proportion of acids and bases would neutralize each other, allowing them to compare crudely the relative strengths of these substances. During most of the 18th century, when the thermodynamic Theory of Phlogiston held sway, the idea that heat was a separate element contained within combustible materials. Georg Ernst Stahl (October 22, 1659 - May 24, 1734) proposed that acids were all derived from sulphur and that the strength was dictated by the amount of phlogiston; this view would be shattered by the end of the century.
It was not until the time of Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 - 8 May 1794), a brilliant French chemist who attempted to classify elements and understand the nature of heat, that a more systematic study of acids and bases took place. At this time, chemists began to define bases as substances that could neutralize acids to form water and a salt. In 1776, influenced by studies into the properties of gases, Lavoisier tried to isolate the compound in acids responsible for their unique properties. Incorrectly, he proposed that a substance called oxygen was responsible, but his observations led to further studies. The British scientist, Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), better known for his studies into gases, tested the theories of Lavoisier and discovered that oxygen was not the element responsible for the properties of acids. Many acids did not contain oxygen, so he proposed that something else must be responsible. During the Age of Enlightenment, scholars from many different countries contributed to the explosion in scientific endeavor, and the study of acids was no different. In Germany, Justus Frieherr von Liebig (1803-1873), another innovative chemist, instead isolated hydrogen as the element responsible, reasoning that it was the only element common to all acids. The Swedish chemist, Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), was the next chemist to study acids and bases, proposing that acids and bases gained their properties because of the action of ions in the solution. Despite being shunted aside by his peers as a crank, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903, in a perfect example of how fringe scientists can play a huge role in paradigm shifts. One of the buildings at Stockholm University is named after this great chemist, a fitting tribute. Arrhenius stated that acids are simply substances that add hydrogen cations, H+ to water. For example, Hydrochloric acid, HCl, adds H+ and Cl- ions to water. Conversely, alkalis add hydroxyl ions, OH-. For example, sodium hydroxide, adds Na+ and OH- to the water. The reason that acids and bases cancel each other out is because the H+ and OH- ions react to form water, leaving salts behind: HCl + NaOH NaCl (Table Salt) + H20 This definition was fairly sound and research into these substances continued. |
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EmploymentIn these countries, so-called academic essays also called papers, are usually more formal than literary ones. They may still allow the presentation of the writer's own views, but this is done in a logical and factual manner, with the use of the first person often discouraged. Longer academic essays (often with a word limit of between 2,000 and 5,000 words) are often more discursive. They sometimes begin with a short summary analysis of what has previously been written on a topic, which is often called a literature review.A reflective essay is an analytical piece of writing in which the writer describes a real or imaginary scene, event, interaction, passing thought, memory, or form — adding a personal reflection on the meaning of the topic in the author's life. Thus, the focus is not merely descriptive. The writer doesn’t just describe the situation, but revisits the scene with more detail and emotion to examine what went well, or reveal a need for additional learning — and may relate what transpired to the rest of the author's life.MusicEssays often appear in magazines, especially magazines with an intellectual bent, such as The Atlantic and Harpers. Magazine and newspaper essays use many of the essay types described in the section on forms and styles (e.g., descriptive essays, narrative essays, etc.). Some newspapers also print essays in the op-ed section.ReflectiveMain article: Free responseA history essay sometimes referred to as a thesis essay describes an argument or claim about one or more historical events and supports that claim with evidence, arguments, and references. The text makes it clear to the reader why the argument or claim is as such.Main article: Long-form journalismProcessAn Executive Core Qualification, or ECQ, is a narrative statement that is required when applying to Senior Executive Service positions within the US Federal government. Like the KSAs, ECQs are used along with resumes to determine who the best applicants are when several candidates qualify for a job. The Office of Personnel Management has established five executive core qualifications that all applicants seeking to enter the Senior Executive Service must demonstrate.
Malthus' Essay on the Principle of PopulationDescriptive"After School Play Interrupted by the Catch and Release of a Stingray" is a simple time-sequence photo essay.PhotographyEmploymentThis section describes the different forms and styles of essay writing. These forms and styles are used by an array of authors, including university students and professional essayists.ExpositoryIn these countries, so-called academic essays also called papers, are usually more formal than literary ones. They may still allow the presentation of the writer's own views, but this is done in a logical and factual manner, with the use of the first person often discouraged. Longer academic essays (often with a word limit of between 2,000 and 5,000 words) are often more discursive. They sometimes begin with a short summary analysis of what has previously been written on a topic, which is often called a literature review.The personal and the autobiographical: The essayists that feel most comfortable in this pole "write fragments of reflective autobiography and look at the world through the keyhole of anecdote and description".ReflectiveEmployment essays detailing experience in a certain occupational field are required when applying for some jobs, especially government jobs in the United States. Essays known as Knowledge Skills and Executive Core Qualifications are required when applying to certain US federal government positions. |
0.999168 | Danny Masterson was last seen in the independent film Smiley Face, which debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival before going on to the Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals. Masterson is best known for his starring role on the hit television series That 70's Show, which ran for seven years.
Born and raised in New York, he began his career as a child model, and appeared in more than 100 TV commercials by the age of 16. His family then moved to Los Angeles and, shortly thereafter, he secured his first motion picture role in Beethoven's 2nd.
Masterson's other film credits include Puff, Puff, Pass from first-time director Mekhi Phifer; Sam Weisman's Bye Bye Love; Comic Book Villains; John Woo's Face/Off, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage; Robert Rodriguez's thriller The Faculty; the Wes Craven horror film Dracula 2000; and Too Pure, an independent film written and directed by Sunmin Park, which premiered at Robert De Niro's first Annual Tribeca Film Festival.
Masterson's extensive work on the small screen includes his roles as a regular on the series Cybill, Extreme and Joe's Life, as well as recurring roles on Party of Five, Roseanne and NYPD Blue. He also guest starred on Sliders, American Gothic, Empty Nest, Jake and the Fat Man, and The Tracy Ullman Show.
In addition to his film and television work, Masterson recently embarked on a nationwide tour as a DJ, under the name DJ Momjeans, and is recording an album. He is also an investor in the Los Angeles restaurants Dolce, Geisha House and the newly opened Shin, as well as the high-fashion boutique clothing store Confederacy. He currently splits his time between L.A. and New York.
Height 5' 10" (1m78) How tall is Danny Masterson compared to you? |
0.999999 | How is the support for quantization in MXNet?
How is the support for quantization in MXNet? I am trying to find a better framework than TensorLite because its support is abysmal.
Are the quantization methods available here (https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/example/quantization) only for research and experimentation purpose? Or will it lead to actual speed increase when deployed in mobile? There is no time comparison made so I presume it is just for research and experimentation?
For faster performance, you can also look at pruning, we released some pruned resnet in the gluon-cv model zoo in the latest release: https://gluon-cv.mxnet.io/model_zoo/classification.html#pruned-resnet you can see up to 8x speedup with some accuracy lost.
Pruning will lead to performance improvement on PC and mobile, quantization support for mobile performance improvement (non intel CPU or nvidia GPU) is not available at the moment as far as I know. However I would recommend looking at deep learning compiler like TVM https://tvm.ai/about for compiling your model to your specific platform (arm CPU for example).
@ThomasDelteil Thanks. I am actually only concerned with the performance on mobile. There is no point in optimizing performance for PC because compute is easily available. |
0.932 | The New York, New Haven & Hartford fielded an incredible fleet of passenger trains, a number that once totaled several hundred daily. Its more prominent services evoked names synonymous with New England such as the Quaker, Bostonian, William Penn, Roger Williams, Pilgrim, and others. There was also the Yankee Clipper, a train established during the Depression era providing upscale services, comparable to the flagship Merchants Limited, between New York and Boston running the very busy Shore Line. As speeds increased the Clipper eventually boasted a schedule of just four hours. Once section of the train was later canceled in the early 1960s while the other survived until the Penn Central merger and continued on until Amtrak.
The New Haven system was formed through the merger or takeover of numerous predecessor roads that Mike Schafer notes in his book, "More Classic American Railroads," totaled more than 200! The most notable of these would include the Hartford & New Haven, New York & New Haven, Central New England, and New York & New England. The classic New York, New Haven & Hartford was formed in 1872 by the merger of the former two systems, which then spent the next several decades gobbling up others such as the latter two roads. Perhaps the original promoters of the New Haven did not intend for the Boston to New York corridor to become its most important route but that's exactly what happened, particularly after J.P. Morgan became involved.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford, "The Friendly New Haven Railroad"
The 229-mile Shore Line was further strengthened by the addition of electrified operations west of New Haven, Connecticut and a direct rail connection into Manhattan after 1917, via the Hell Gate Bridge, which provided access to both Pennsylvania Station (Pennsylvania Railroad) and Grand Central Terminal (New York Central). The Yankee Clipper joined the NYNH&H timetable on March 18, 1930, oddly during the height of the Great Depression. According to Peter Lynch's book, "New Haven Passenger Trains," its ran with 17 cars capable of carrying 170 passengers with all-Pullman accommodations including a buffet-parlor-lounge, two parlors (with drawing rooms), a 36-seat diner, two standard parlors, and an observation lounge (with parlor seats and a drawing room).
One simple but elegant promotional piece from the train's debut mentioned the following: "The Yankee Clipper, Aristocrat Of Trains, 4 3/4 hours Boston-New York, The New Haven Railroad." Adorned at the top of the advertisement was a clipper ship. Early in the train's career it was led by a Class I-4 Pacific but later more powerful Class I-5 Hudsons took over such assignments. Launching the Clipper during the depression did have its setbacks, as Mr. Lynch notes; in 1932 lack of demand resulted in the consist fielding only five cars and within a year it appeared the train might even be canceled. However, it was able to weather these setbacks, in part due to a change in the schedule; for many years it left each city at 3:30 PM in the afternoon but switched to an early departure of 1:00 PM, which was made permanent.
During the mid-1930s New Haven began experimenting with newfangled streamliner technology. It helped develop, in conjunction with engineer Walter Teague and Pullman-Standard, the lightweight, smooth-sided "American Flyer" car of 1934. The road went on to roster more than 200 of these cars. A year later in 1935 the new Comet streamlined trainset entered service between Providence and Boston. After World War II the railroad continued its purchase of lightweight equipment, acquiring 207 new cars from Pullman by 1954 sporting fluted stainless-steel and costing a staggering $20 million. Mike Schafer and Joe Welsh note in their book, "Streamliners: History Of A Railroad Icon," the new cars offered passengers lots of room to stretch out with a modern interior and large windows for maximum viewing.
The New Haven also began acquiring large batches of new diesels after the war; first Alco PAs and then later Fairbanks Morse CPA24-5s along with dual-service, Electro-Motive FL9s in the late 1950s. Unfortunately, the decade was hard on the New Haven. It derived nearly half its revenue from passenger service and ridership declined significantly at this time. Additionally, new management, first under Frederic Dumaine in 1948, and then later Patrick McGinnis, witnessed schedules slow and services generally degrade as vast cost-cutting measures were implemented. Dumaine would pass away and McGinnis was later ousted but the railroad never again posted a profit after 1956. The westbound Yankee Clipper was discontinued during October of 1962 while its eastbound counterpart survived through the Penn Central merger and made its final run on April 30, 1971. |
0.987405 | Act i scene i. alexandria. a room in cleopatra's palace.
Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust.
Look, where they come: Take but good note, and you shall see in him. The triple pillar of the world transform'd Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.
I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
Perchance! nay, and most like: You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both? Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen, Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Excellent falsehood! Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony Will be himself.
But stirr'd by Cleopatra. Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours, Let's not confound the time with conference harsh: There's not a minute of our lives should stretch Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?
Fie, wrangling queen! Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, To weep; whose every passion fully strives To make itself, in thee, fair and admired! No messenger, but thine; and all alone To-night we'll wander through the streets and note The qualities of people. Come, my queen; Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.
Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony, He comes too short of that great property Which still should go with Antony.
I am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!
1. Act i scene i. alexandria. a room in cleopatra's palace.
1 Act i scene i. alexandria. a room in cleopatra's palace.
2 Scene ii. the same. another room.
3 Scene iii. the same. another room.
4 Scene iv. rome. octavius caesar's house.
5 Scene v. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
6 Act ii scene i. messina. pompey's house.
7 Scene ii. rome. the house of lepidus.
8 Scene iii. the same. octavius caesar's house.
9 Scene iv. the same. a street.
10 Scene v. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
11 Scene vi. near misenum.
12 Scene vii. on board pompey's galley, off misenum.
13 Act iii scene i. a plain in syria.
14 Scene ii. rome. an ante-chamber in octavius caesar's house.
15 Scene iii. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
16 Scene iv. athens. a room in mark antony's house.
17 Scene v. the same. another room.
18 Scene vi. rome. octavius caesar's house.
19 Scene vii. near actium. mark antony's camp.
20 Scene viii. a plain near actium.
21 Scene ix. another part of the plain.
22 Scene x. another part of the plain.
23 Scene xi. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
24 Scene xii. egypt. octavius caesar's camp.
25 Scene xiii. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
26 Act iv scene i. before alexandria. octavius caesar's camp.
27 Scene ii. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
28 Scene iii. the same. before the palace.
29 Scene iv. the same. a room in the palace.
30 Scene v. alexandria. mark antony's camp.
31 Scene vi. alexandria. octavius caesar's camp.
32 Scene vii. field of battle between the camps.
33 Scene viii. under the walls of alexandria.
34 Scene ix. octavius caesar's camp.
35 Scene x. between the two camps.
36 Scene xi. another part of the same.
37 Scene xii. another part of the same.
38 Scene xiii. alexandria. cleopatra's palace.
39 Scene xiv. the same. another room.
40 Scene xv. the same. a monument.
41 Act v scene i. alexandria. octavius caesar's camp.
42 Scene ii. alexandria. a room in the monument. |
0.999999 | Fly fishing is the act of hunting for fish using an artificial fly as bait to catch the fish. It dates back about 10,000 years, and has many different traditions and techniques, but, like most sports, has changed to keep up with modern technological advancements. Today it has become an ever-increasingly popular sport.
With modern technological advancements, there have been more types of fly fishing flies for people to use. What exactly is being fished for and under what conditions determines the type of fly that is used. Although there are many different patterns that are used in fly fishing they can be broken down into five main categories: dry fly, wet fly, streamer fly, nymph and terrestrial.
Dry Fly - The best known type is called dry fly fishing. This technique uses an artificial fly that is cast into the water, to float on top. While fishing with a dry fly it is usually necessary to dry the fly several times. It is meant to look like an insect that stays on top of the water, and as it floats it will hopefully pass by a fish and entice it to come to the top of the water and try to grab it. Once the fish is caught on the hook it will try and wiggle itself off and in the process become tired enough to land the fish with a net.
Wet Fly - As the name implies, wet flies are types of fishing flies that resemble insects that are under the water. This includes dead insects and insects that come up and emerge from the water. This type of fly can also be made to look like bigger water creatures such as leeches or crawfish to lure bigger fish.
Streamer Fly - A streamer is a type of wet fly that is meant to look like an injured baitfish. Streamers are larger than the other types of fly fishing flies and are primarily used to catch larger fish that are predatory.
Nymphs - Nymphs are what come out of the eggs that flies lay in the lake or river. They make their way to the surface and there they become a fly. These type of fly fishing flies uses different forms of nymphs that are weighted down to remain beneath the surface. You can usually land a few lazy fish this way if they aren't rising to the surface to feed.
Terrestrial � These fly fishing flies can be used as wet or dry flies. They are made to look like larger insects that mistakenly jump into the water and drown. They can also be made to look like an insect trying desperately to free itself from the water or as an insect that has already died and is simply sinking into the water without movement.
Because fly fishing has gained popularity, it has opened the door for more types of flies to be created and used to catch a variety of fish. Hopefully you find the best one for you. |
0.952268 | New York congresswoman says ‘uncalled for’ rhetoric puts her and colleagues in dangerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez said comments like those in the email routinely led to a ‘spike in death threats’. Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersA fundraising email sent by a college Republican group branding the US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a “domestic terrorist” drew a sharp rebuke from the congresswoman, who warned that similar rhetorical attacks had in the past resulted in a spike in death threats against her.An email sent on Tuesday by Tom Ferrall, chairman of the Ohio Federation of College Republicans, bore the subject line “AOC is a domestic terrorist” and asked recipients to donate to his group. Dave Levinthal, an editor at the Center for Public Integrity, on Wednesday afternoon shared a screenshot of the email on Twitter.“My fellow students often tell me that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a ‘role model’ and that America should be more like socialist Europe,” the email, which appeared not to use the word “terrorist” elsewhere, read in part. It told recipients: “We need your help to stop the brainwashing!”The email fit the template for fundraising emails by similar groups.“This puts me in danger every time,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman whose outspoken progressive views, youth, nimble social media presence and all-around star power yet perhaps do not explain the extent to which she has become a bugbear for the right.“Almost every time this uncalled for rhetoric gets blasted by conserv. grps,” she tweeted, “we get a spike in death threats to refer to Capitol Police.”> This puts me in danger every time. > > Almost every time this uncalled for rhetoric gets blasted by conserv. grps, we get a spike in death threats to refer to Capitol Police. > > Multiple ppl have been arrested trying to harm me, Ilhan, & others.@GOP, what’s it going to take to stop? t.co/vpous77RbT> > — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 10, 2019After Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about it, the Ohio Federation of College Republicans distanced itself from the email, calling it “unauthorized” without explaining what that meant. “We apologize to Congresswoman Ocascio-Cortez [sic] for the use of unacceptable language in this email, and we do not approve of the message conveyed,” the group said.Ferrall, whose name was on the email’s signature line, told the Guardian in an email that his group would have no comment beyond the statement. Capitol Police told the Guardian in a statement it could not discuss how it carries out is protective responsibilities for Congress.Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional district in Queens, New York, is 400 miles from the Ohio border. The bellwether state voted for Donald Trump by eight points over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
The action by Trump, who has taken a hard line toward Iran by withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing broad economic sanctions, marks the first time the United States has formally labeled another nation’s military a terrorist group. The U.S. step, which takes effect on April 15, prompted an immediate response from Iran, whose Supreme National Security Council in turn designated U.S. military forces as a “terrorist organization,” Iranian state-run TV reported. “The U.S. military bases and their military forces in the region will be considered terrorist bases and terrorist forces that will be dealt with and confronted accordingly,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Iranian state TV, calling the U.S. decision “a major strategic mistake.” “The IRGC is the Iranian government’s primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist campaign,” Trump said in a statement.
The United States on Monday designated Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, ramping up already far-reaching efforts to undermine the clerical government in Tehran — which swiftly retaliated by calling US troops terrorists. It is the first time that Washington has branded part of a foreign government a terrorist group, meaning that anyone who deals with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could face prison in the United States. “This action will significantly expand the scope and scale of our maximum pressure on the Iranian regime,” Trump said in a statement.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Monday designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization, an unprecedented declaration against a foreign government that may prompt retaliation and make it harder for American diplomats and military officers to work with allies in the region.
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday U.S. officials aiming to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist group want to “drag the U.S. into a quagmire” on behalf of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “#NetanyahuFirsters who have long agitated for FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organisaton) of the IRGC fully understand its consequences for US forces in the region.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon says Israel is ready to protect their people.
British Prime Minister Theresa May emphasized the importance of Pakistan taking action against all terrorist groups in a call with Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday, May’s office said. India and Pakistan came to the brink of war this week as tensions escalated following a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir. India accusing Pakistan of harboring the Jaish-e Mohammad group behind the attack, which Islamabad denied.
Pakistan denies the air strikes did any damage. A dozen Mirage 2000 Indian fighter jets dropped 1000 kilogram bombs on terror camps across the Line of Control, the de-facto border between the two countries in disputed Kashmir, ANI news agency said Tuesday, quoting unnamed sources in the the Indian Air Force.
Jason Spindler was so affected by 9/11 that he quit banking to focus on trying to make a difference overseas. |
0.999999 | Is old age an ethical problem?
Western society has described the phenomenon of population ageing as a "problem" and a "burden" since the beginning of the twentieth century. There is evidence that industrialised, Western countries are inherently ageist. Studies have shown that older people are perceived as stereotypically rigid in thought and old fashioned in morality and values.
A doctor is obliged to promote the welfare of his patient-this is described by the concept of beneficence. Maintaining this ethical principle in practice usually entails decision making by considering and weighing up the risks and benefits of any given intervention leading to implementation of the considered treatment if it is considered to be of likely overall benefit to the patient.
The principle of autonomy has been discussed previously and is usually understood to occupy primacy over the other three principles of the ethical framework.6 Consequently, it can be argued that if we respect this ethical principle a person who decides to die should have their opinion respected.
We live in a society in which it is conceivable that pressure will be perceived by older people to proceed voluntarily with euthanasia to prevent being such a burden.
The population profile of many industrialised countries is ageing. In 1971, 12.4% of the population of the UK were aged 65 years and older; this number is expected to increase to 18% by 2030 along with a particular expansion in the numbers of the very elderly, with a consequent increase in the dependent population economically supported by those of working age.
The debate regarding how much should be spent on pensions and health and social care for older people is a major and contentious ethical issue within our society where resources to spend on welfare costs are not infinite and some prioritisation is necessary.
The phenomenon of population ageing may bring with it some cost reductions, such as the saving seen with the widespread provision of informal childcare by older family members. Older members of society often provide care for friends and family members. There is also evidence that the effect of a smaller child population has brought savings in education that has offset the effects of an ageing population on healthcare and social services spending. Furthermore, older people cannot be considered as economically inactive as they are significant consumers of goods and services.
However, older people are undeniably higher users of health services than younger members of the population. Health expenditure on those over 65 is four times higher than that spent on people under 65, and can be up to nine times higher for those aged 85 and over.22,23 In the UK, the allocation of resources according to need was a founding principle of the NHS, it is considered in tandem with a defined population's ability to benefit from treatment or funds. This is ethically based on the model of utilitarianism, which can be broadly described as providing the greatest good for the greatest number.
A cost-benefit analysis has been increasingly applied to various medical interventions, and the Department of Health has indicated that resources should increasingly be channelled towards those interventions which are known to be effective. This has led to a number of effective medications not being recommended by national guidance, high profile examples include treatments for wet macular degeneration and medication for Alzheimer's disease.
The cost-analysis has been estimated and expressed in Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYS). The elderly are disadvantaged in this system, as by definition they have fewer years to live than a younger person. As mentioned earlier in this paper, the treatment offered to older people may have a less robust evidence base for benefit in their age group as they are often excluded from clinical trials, and often benefit from multi -interventional management that is difficult to evaluate and for which there is little evidence base to draw an estimate of benefit from. This utilitarian mechanism of distributing resources throughout the population is unable to respond to individual patients who want to achieve the best possible combination of quantity and quality of life attainable for them.
It may be valid to use outcome measures when choosing between rival therapies, but it is arguably not ethical to use this system in distributing resources between groups of patients, especially where there is such a general paucity of research based evidence.
The decisions regarding rationing of resources are dependent on the value of an older person's life in society. If no value is placed on life once economic productivity ceases, then an argument to not waste resources on health services, and an ageist pattern of rationing will continue. If quality of life in older age is seen to have its own value, then there is strong motivation for allocating resources for this section of the population.
The flaws in this argument are as follows. The longevity that has brought about the phenomenon of the ageing population is largely the result of surviving the risks of infective illnesses and early childhood disease earlier in the life course, and not as a result of expensive medical intervention applied later in life. A large proportion of the costs of caring for an older population is ensuring proper nursing and social care.
Older people have contributed to society throughout their lives, and with the observed trend of compression of ill health and dependency toward the end of life will be denied support from society by a system that utilises the "fair innings" argument at the only time they require it. Additionally, the fair innings argument fails to consider a person's potential to benefit from treatment, only age attained.
Intergenerational tensions also exist around the issue of retirement and public pensions. Retirement is a relatively recent social phenomenon becoming ubiquitous during the post-war period in European countries. In the UK, the introduction of the old age pension in the post-war period came at a time where there was full employment, and were primarily introduced as a means of ensuring continuing rejuvenation of the workforce along with sharing out the costs of retirement. Retirement in now considered a normal part of the life course, and there has been trend towards ever earlier retirement over recent decades. Many people who retire early do not do so out of personal choice, but find themselves unable to gain new employment after being made redundant. Many people who are retiring at the present will expect to spend up to a third of their healthy adult life living in retirement. This is a well publicised cause for political concern. Possible partial solutions have already started to appear in Europe. Germany has responded by raising retirement limits and introducing reductions in the level of pensions in cases of early retirement. Ethically this approach is problematic as this would be expected to exacerbate social inequalities from earlier in the life course and compound them in old age to significant disadvantage (for example the person who suffers ill health, loses earnings, potential savings and receives a reduced pension). An alternate scheme has been set up in Austria where people are rewarded for staying in work longer with a small pension increase per extra year worked.
Some of the economic effects of a large potentially retired population could be offset if early retirement was avoided. This could be brought about if the demand for older workers in the workplace increased, this is related to how much investment a society puts in to retraining and educating its adult populace.
Intergenerational tensions can be viewed alternatively. Children in modern times face a longer transition to adulthood; parents across all social strata are providing more support to their children and for longer. It is conceivable that this may bring consequences later in life when parents will not have the financial resources in retirement that they may have accrued if they had not been financially committed to providing for their offspring.
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24. Baldock J, Manning N, & Vickerstaff S.(Eds),(2012) Social Policy (3rd Edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press. |
0.941264 | The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was the idea of future senior FIFA Officials Ernst Thommen, Ottorino Barassi and Stanley Rous as a way to promote International Trade Fairs throughout Europe. Starting in 1955, the competition was originally only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs. The position at which these teams finished in their national league had no relevance, and a "one city, one team" rule was also in operation.
The early tournaments took two or three years to complete with matches timed to coincide with trade fairs, with Barcelona winning the first two competitions by beating English teams in the two-legged finals. For the third competition in 1960 both its name and its duration were shortened, with sixteen clubs taking part in the 1960-61 tournament, after which it was staged on an annual basis. Hibs became the first Scottish club to participate, beating Barcelona 7-6 on aggregate in the Quarter Finals before losing to Roma in the Semi Finals. By 1962 the number of entrants had risen to 32 and qualification by League position was introduced, with Hibs, Hearts, Celtic, Dunfermline, Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock taking part over the next four seasons as the competition grew in popularity.
In 1966, Dundee United became the 7th Scottish club to enter the Fairs Cup when they finished in 5th place in Division One - the club's highest ever placing at the time - and entered a European competition for the first time in their history. It was a memorable debut, with United facing - and defeating - the holders of the trophy, Spanish giants Barcelona. United qualified for the competition three times between 1966 and 1970, and played in some fantastic ties against Juventus, Newcastle United, Grasshoppers and Sparta Prague before the tournament was taken over by UEFA in 1971 and relaunched as the UEFA Cup. |
0.988872 | Newer central air conditioning units often have two auto settings on their thermostats. Given that you are likely not going to be unsure whether you want it hotter or colder in your home -- and given the fact that the air conditioner or heater will turn on automatically when the thermostat detects a temperature change -- the idea of an auto setting may seem redundant. These two are not, however, and there are times when they are the best settings to use.
You may have gotten a choice in the home that you chose to buy, but you may find that in one area, there doesn't seem to be any choice at all: kitchen cabinets. If you, as is more than likely, live in a subdivision, chances are good that you'll have the same kitchen cabinets as most, if not all, of your neighbors. But what if you want your kitchen cabinets to be a little different from the ones two streets over?
Your fence can only be as strong as your posts, and most of the strength of fence posts comes from the way they are set in the ground. So how do you ensure that your fence posts are effectively set for a strong, secure fence? Start by following these guidelines. 1. Use Ready-Mix Concrete Setting a fence post is an involved-enough endeavor as it is. You don't want to also spend time carefully measuring and mixing different concrete components.
Are you getting ready to invest in a new central air conditioning system or air conditioning repair for your home? Here are a few things that a new air conditioner should be able to do for your household: Cool the Air One of the most basic things you should expect your new air conditioner to do is cool the air inside your home. And the system shouldn't have to work for too long in order to cool the air to temperatures you like, even after it's been off for a period of time and your home has had a chance to warm up.
Even though you probably use your mailbox every day, it's easy to forget about and neglect it. A mailbox is exposed to sun, rain, and temperature extremes throughout the year. Plus, unless it's mounted on your house, it's probably close to the road where it gets splashed with rain and covered with road dust. Eventually, it looks old and worn out. A new mailbox can brighten your property and keep your mail safer. |
0.999716 | A pendulum is swinging upward and is halfway toward its highest position, as shown above, when the string breaks. Which of the paths shown best represents the one that the ball would take after the string breaks?
As the pendulum swings in an arc, the velocity at any instant is tangent to the arc and therefore perpendicular to the string. The ball has this velocity at the instant the string breaks, so the initial part of the path must be perpendicular to the string. Afterwards, the ball behaves as a projectile under the influence of gravity alone, so it follows a parabolic path. |
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0.961612 | Creativity, illustrating, conceptualization, and collaboration can all help to answer the question, “What does a graphic designer do at work?” From designing logos to creating an entire website, graphic design professionals can match a career path with individual skills and knowledge.
Graphic designers are likely to find a position in a setting best suited to their individual interests and career goals. Some companies have in-house graphic design departments. Many graphic designers find work in consulting, while other graphic designers might choose to open their own firm. There are also increasing opportunities for graphic designers to work from home in the freelance market.
Typically, graphic designers work in an office with computers, and most will work closely with other designers, project managers, writers, clients, and other team members. Additional information on graphic design careers can be found at the American Institute of Graphic Design Organization website.
Many graphic designers will conceptualize and create printed materials, including marketing materials such as brochures, advertisements, and flyers. Larger printed works created by a graphic designer might also include magazines, books, newsletters, and newspapers. Designers are also likely to create individual pieces of technical and business reports, such as graphs and charts.
In addition, graphic designers work with clients and other team members to create logos and other branding materials. They use these elements for print publications, as well as marketing materials for internet publication. Software programs in layout and illustration are common tools utilized in these design processes.
The carry-over from print materials is only one possibility for graphic designers specializing or working with the online medium. Graphic designers create websites, social media pages, blog templates, and other online forums as well.
Graphic designers can also create graphics and illustrations for video games, films and television shows, and digital applications. Skills in animation and illustration are particularly useful in this area of graphic arts, and knowledge in web design, web development, and code editing are important.
Actually creating graphics and illustrations are a major part of the graphic designer’s job description. Beyond those tasks; however, there are a number of other responsibilities and tasks undertaken to complete the design process. Graphic designers must be able to multitask, effectively manage deadlines, and communicate with clients and other team members to develop plans and identify project goals.
Continued training is also a part of the graphic designer’s career. While formal education credits may not be required, training in recent technological advances and with the programs that are used in design are helpful.
A graphic design professional might work as an art director, which includes management of other artists. Brand identity designers work directly with marketing materials and advertising. Multimedia developers and web designers create materials mainly for online, and illustrators and print design specialists create mostly print.
Some of what a graphic designer does is defined by the specific position held within a company and what medium is being utilized. Skills and experience are also important for determining the answer to what does a graphic designer do at work. |
0.947562 | Can you tell me why people settled in NC because I need it for a state project.
There is a great deal of additional information included under many headings about why early people came to North Carolina. You may want to check out the individual links under each heading for additional information.
This link has some great information about the early colonial period in North Carolina. Good luck on your paper!
Hello, I am a 7th grade student and was wondering if we have evidence of the first Newspaper printed in the colonies in 1690, Publik Occurences by Benjamin Harris in MA, ever reaching the Caorolinas. I want to creat a newspaper for my journalism project and wondered what the first one circulated in the Carolina colony was. Can you please help me find this information. I was also hoping to see an example of a newspaper printed in the Carolina colony during this time period.
Thank you for visiting NCpedia and especially for taking time to share your project and questions. That sounds like a terrific project!!
So – North Carolina’s first newspaper published in the colony was the North-Carolina Gazette. It was first published on August 9, 1751. Before that, colonists in North Carolina would have had the Virginia Gazette, published in Williamsburg from 1736 to 1780, as their primary source of news printed in the colonies. Colonists undoubtedly received papers from other colonies and from England. It does also seem reasonable or at least possible that North Carolina colonists may have seen Publik Occurrences as the paper may have possibly made its way into the hands of some through travel or perhaps mail. But unfortunately, we don’t have a very easy way of finding this out as the paper had only one issue in 1690 before it was shut down and we don’t have an easy way to look into collections to see if it was mentioned as read by North Carolinians. Additionally, North Carolina’s earliest colonists lived in what was known as the Albemarle up in the far northeastern corner of what is now the state during the late 17th century. Today the colonies would be Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans and Chowan. Colonists came south from Virginia and the land was fairly inhospitable. News they received at the time would have been through Virginia.
But you are in luck with the North-Carolina Gazette. Issues of the paper that exist have been digitized and are available online at the NC Digital Collections. Here is a link to the collection for that paper: http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/search/collection/p15016coll1/searchterm/no... And here is a link to the newspaper collection in general: http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/search/collection/p15016coll1. I believe that the first edition of the paper is not available – it looks like the November 15, 1751 edition is the earliest.
• NCpedia search results for “newspapers”: https://www.ncpedia.org/gsearch?query=newspapers. You may want to scroll through these results. The first entry, “Newspapers part 1” is the first of a multi-part article on the history of the state’s newspapers and should be helpful: https://www.ncpedia.org/newspapers. Also look at the references and additional resources included with NCpedia articles. They’ll take you to additional helpful information.
• An article published in 1965 in the North Carolina Historical Review talks about the early papers in North Carolina: http://www.ncpublications.com/colonial/nchr/subjects/elliott.htm. There is a lot of useful information there too.
I hope this helps! Please let me know if you need additional help or have more questions and I would be glad to help you further.
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I am including here the link to the Genealogy page on the NC Government & Heritage Library website -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/resources/genealogy.html.
Please visit the page to learn more about researching your North Carolina ancestors. You'll find helpful tutorials and resources as well as contact information to contact the library with research questions.
I have been searching my family History sionce 1969 and half of it was from the Curr. Dare counties area. my grandmother was Mollie Shannon Gallop and she indicated we are of Lost Colony Descent. My entire research is now 125,000 names total with many more to enter. I have matched surnames BY WILLS NOT LEGENDS to the grandchildren of the colony. The names are exact or very close spellings from the Roster. Most went to Beachland but a small few families went to Lynhaven and tie into my descents from Adam Thorogood. I also descend from Walter Raleigh and Humphrey Gilbert. Raleigh is through the Blair/Archer families in Virginia. Ananias Dare was son of Leonard Dare and Katherine Bateman. Va. Dare had a brother Leonard Dare who married Rose Lightfoot in England but kin to the Lightfoot family in Virginia. Dr. David Beers Quin upheld my research from both a letter and conversation we had some time before he passed away. I also descend from Jamestown, Mayflower, Kent Island and the Winthrop Colony. I also descent from all 17 Magna Charta Barons who have living descendants. I am a member of the Jamestown Society and eligable for the NC Lighthouse Descendants Society as my gt. grandfather John Shannon kept the Boddie Island Light House. I have located the Shannon Family in Ireland at Lismore Castle and they are of extreme high Royal Descent. There are many other interesting lineages now over 500 lines not counting repeat lines. I hold a double MBA/Acc/Global Mgt. and working on a DBA (doctorate) Dissertation). I plan to go to Law School even though I will be 70 when I finish as I qualify for the CPA exam now. I have been asked to go to Cambridge in England for international lawonce I finish Law here and pass my bar exam here.
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0.991301 | What part should a computer system play in the life of a good bookstore?
I know this probably seems like a non-question in this digital age, especially for those of you who are net-surfers enough to be reading this. But you might be surprised how many good bookstores have answered "none." And I believe there are better and worse ways to utilize the electronic box in a store full of print.
I know of some bookstores that are so small, and run by such a stable and careful staff, that they consider a computerized inventory unnecessary. And to some degree, they're right. If your stock is small enough, and your staff is good enough, why do you need an electronic record of what you've bought and sold, how long it's been around and what kind of discount you got? If you have a relationship with most of the regulars who come in the door, why do you need an electronic record of names, addresses, buying preferences?
This kind of store probably has a good paper record-keeping system, and they probably have some level of computer functionality (if only to look up titles on Amazon so they can order them for customers). But all of the book decisions are made by human eyes and brains. If it seems like a book has been sitting around for too long, it will be plucked for a return. If a book seems to be selling well, it will be reordered. The collective mind of the staff is essentially the store's inventory system.
Obviously, there are downsides. It's harder, if not impossible, to check the sales of a particular book when in doubt. It's nearly impossible to know if a missing book has been stolen or sold or just not ordered. And there's the frustration of finding a book ten minutes after the customer who wanted it has left, shelved in a section you hadn't considered. Theoretically, a computerized record of the book could have led you to it in time to make the sale.
I also know of some bookstores that are almost entirely dependent on their computer system. Orders are placed electronically, often without the human presence of a sales rep. Reports are run to make decisions about reorders and returns. Sometimes the person making the decisions about the book may never have seen the book – only its electronic simulacrum.
This does have its advantages. It's easier to track where the stores' sales are increasing or declining, and make decisions about inventory accordingly. It's easier to keep track of customers and contact them en masse when a big book or event is coming. It's often easier to lead a customer directly to the book they're asking for, especially in a larger store where keeping all of the titles in one's head would be impossible.
But I think the downsides of depending on the computer are even greater than the downsides of rejecting it. Ultimately, it takes the power to make decisions about books out of the hands of the humans working with the books and customers on the sales floor, and gives it over to the merciless logic of the 1's and 0's of an "if, then" computer report. A computer can't make a decision about which book has truly finished its run, and which just needs a new display space (or that review that's just been published) to find its audience. This not only means that the store may lose sales in the short run, but it means that booksellers are given to understand that their experiences and expertise are less valuable than the computer's calculator. That means booksellers less invested in the life of the store, and ultimately less productive.
It's the old John Henry vs. the machine contest – an emotional (and easy to oversimplify) idea, but one that also has real consequences for the bottom line of the store. A big store needs a way to keep track of the books it carries, but every store needs a way to make truly informed decisions. Every chain bookstore has a sophisticated computer system, often connecting the inventory of dozens of other stores that can ship you the one book you want immediately. But a good independent has people who can not only find the book you're looking for, but place in your hands (or in a good display space) the book you didn't know you wanted that might change your life. This is our primary asset as independents, and we can't afford to let it go to waste.
I believe the best bookstores will use the computerized inventory system as a tool in the hands of skilled booksellers, not as a substitute for them. I think a balance between the organizational potential of the electronic, and the passion and insight of the experiential, is the kind of balance that we should seek – as booksellers, and as humans.
But, as the Reading Rainbow guy always said, you don't have to take my word for it. Feel free to comment on the electronic vs. the biological approaches if you feel so moved. I'd love to hear your thoughts! |
0.985063 | You would have read this very famous quote by famous American author Heller Keller- “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” To take your organization to greater heights and scale up your business, you need to have a solid team in place.
Team Building is the process of building a team of high performers for your organization- each having certain responsibilities and then taking up special processes & activities to make sure these people work jointly as a team to meet common goals set by the organization.
Team building is a very crucial process as you need to make sure that all the employees or team members work in harmony to maximize efficiency and produce greater results.
To understand the various objectives of team building, let us first understand the stages of team development process.
This is the most initial stage in the team development process. In this stage, the constituent members of the team come together for the first time. They get to know each other’s backgrounds, previous work experience, etc. and get themselves acquainted with one another. Since this stage brings together people of various personalities & backgrounds, people tend to judge one another.
The team leader should properly keep an eye on all the happenings in this stage and guide the members with respect to their individual and team responsibilities.
This is another crucial stage in the team development process. As the name suggests, this stage might appear to be a bit vigorous as the team members work together and there are bound to be some clashes amongst them.
This is due to the fact that the team members are working together for the first time and there are bound to be some personality & intellectual differences. The team lead or manager has a very important role to play in this stage as he has to manage individual differences and make sure the team works efficiently towards the set goals.
Failing to resolve the issues amicably may hamper inter-team functioning permanently.
This stage comes after storming. In this stage, normalcy begins to be restored with clashes & differences among teams or team members being resolved. People are well aware of the strong & weak points of their team members. The team works under the guidance of team leads or managers to achieve the individual goals and targets set.
In this stage, the team is stable, and conflicts are resolved to a bare minimum. Members of the team are well aware of the behavior of their team member, and the focus is on accomplishing the targets set for the team under the able guidance of team manager or leader by solving problems and overcoming obstacles.
In this stage, major goals and targets set for the team are already accomplished. The team has worked through the above stages to reach this point. Final processes and documentation are done in this stage.
The team may be disbanded or continued depending on the needs and goals of the organization.
Let us check out the various objectives of team building in an organization.
This is one of the major objectives of team building. In a team, there are people of various personalities, backgrounds, experience, etc. In such a diverse ecosystem, there are bound to be interpersonal problems within the group. This includes intellectual or ideological differences.
Such interpersonal problems within the group can be addressed effectively by taking up team building activities. For example, consider that a particular team in your organization has two members- one ha previous job experience in a large multinational company whereas the second guy has worked extensively at an early stage startup.
There is a situation in the team where a particular third person is absent who has to do an urgent, important task, the startup guy pitches in and get the work done. However, the guy with experience in a large multinational company thinks that it is not a part of his assigned responsibilities and denies doing the work of the third person.
It is important that all the members of a team work in conjunction to achieve the set goals and targets. However, every organization has various functions, and there are multiple teams to handle the same.
This calls for communication between multiple teams to be very smooth and flexible so that the teams do not just work individually for their goals but also the bigger organizational goals at large. Let us illustrate this with an example. An organization has an accounts team whose job is to handle all finance related matters in the organization.
Also, there is a sales team in the organization whose job is to get business for the company. There has to be proper coordination among these two teams so that the revenue reported by the sales team and the actual amount received by the organization is matching.
Incorrect reporting or lack of coordination between these teams will directly impact company revenues.
Employees need to work with enhanced productivity to achieve results faster & with lesser efforts. Team building can help you boost the productivity of your employees. There are quite a few team building techniques that help enhance the productivity of employees.
Some of them include implementing a peer to peer feedback structure, group discussions, etc. After continuous working, employees also need sufficient rest and recreational activities to freshen themselves up and then their tasks with new vigor and energy.
For this, team outings or parties can be planned occasionally as its employees get a much-needed break from their regular duties but also helps them bond with their other team members.
Constant motivation needs to be provided to your employees so as to make them work harder, push their boundaries and achieve the targets assigned to them. Motivated employees not just work hard themselves but also bring an aura of positivity in the whole organization.
Team building activities need to be planned out so as to make sure that employees are motivated at all times. External motivational speakers or internal staff members of the organization themselves can be brought in to motivate employees to work hard.
Rewards and recognition including awards, promotions, incentives & cash bonus to hard-working employees also play a big role in motivating employees and making sure they perform well.
This is a sort of secondary objective of team building. Every team requires an able team leader who has great leadership skills to guide the team members and lead the team towards success.
Team building activities help an organization find out future leaders within the team or the organization. This is very much important since if an existing team leader decides to quit or in unavailable to guide the team due to any particular reason, you have sufficient backup person within the team with strong leadership skills to fill that void and make sure that work is not affected.
Employees need to constantly think out of the box to make sure they spread their horizon and come up with creative ideas to get their work done faster with more efficiency and also help other team members in doing their tasks so that the whole team works in conjunction to achieve the specified goals.
Team building activities help you develop out of the box & creative thinking among team members. Organizing special contests, workshops or special events for the same can help you encourage employees to think out of the box & creatively.
We have covered all the major objectives of team building in this article. It is important to note that every organization needs effective team building processes in place to make sure that the teams and team members work towards the goals assigned, thus helping the organization reach greater heights.
What is the Importance of Team Building? |
0.951359 | Can the Cancer Society assist my aunt in getting a US visa?
Granting of visas to any country is the sole responsibility and is at the discretion of the agents of that country. In the case of the United States it is the US Embassy.
When seeking treatment in a country that requires you to gain a visa, it is paramount that you have clear documentation stating your diagnosis, that you have been in consultation with a treatment centre which is expecting you and that you have the financial requirements to fund your treatment.
It is evident that many persons have made unscrupulous applications in the past for visas to travel to the United States and thus have made it even more difficult for genuine applicants. Even persons who genuinely travel to seek treatment at times have overstayed their visa limits and thus have violated the agreement.
The Cancer Society does not issue letters of recommendation to aid visa applications and it is only proper that the experts directly involved in the diagnosis and treatment give the necessary information, as would be required by the embassy officials. The last thing we would like is for the Cancer Society to be seen as an agent of unscrupulous transactions. |
0.849451 | Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts, was one of the most successful and menacing pirates in the Golden Age of piracy. He had a brief career (less than four years), yet he captured a mind staggering total of more than 400 ships. Born John Roberts he became Bartholomew Roberts in June of 1719 when the ship he was third mate on was captured off Ghana by Howell Davis, another great pirate of the era. Roberts had been engaged in purchasing slaves for the Royal Africa Company. Upon his capture, he was forced to join Davis' crew. About a month later Davis was ambushed and killed by the governor of Principe Island.
In his short time on the pirate ship Roberts proved his competency and superiority, so the crew elected him Howell's successor. Roberts stated, "It is better to be a commander than a common man, since I have dipped my hands in muddy water and must be a pirate." Henceforth he became known as "Black Bart" and sailed the seas looting wherever he went. Roberts sailed for Brazil during which time he captured a Dutch ship and burned an English slave ship. In September he encountered a convoy of 42 Portuguese traders escorted by two 70 gun warships. Roberts attacked and captured a larger, more powerful ship which had £30,000 in gold coins. While Roberts was in a captured sloop, Walter Kennedy, who had been left in command, stole both the prize and the ship the "Rover." Roberts renamed the 10 gun sloop he had taken the "Fortune." He plundered 4 small ships and evaded a British ship sent in pursuit.
In June 1720, Roberts wreaked havoc along the Newfoundland coast capturing 26 sloops and 150 fishing boats, as well as destroying sheds and machinery along the shore. Roberts seized an 18 gun galley and traded her for a 28 gun French ship, renaming her the "Royal Fortune." Roberts sailed south and plundered at least a dozen English merchantmen. Roberts is reputed to have tortured and killed French prisoners. In September 1720, Roberts reached the West Indies where he attacked the harbor at Saint Kitts. He seized one ship and burned two others. Roberts sailed out of the harbor only to return the next day, whereby he was driven away by cannon fire. Roberts repaired his ships at Saint Bartholomew, then, in October he returned to Saint Kitts to attack. Roberts plundered 15 French and English ships there.
By January 1721, Roberts had added a 32 gun Dutch slaver which he used to trick the inhabitants of Martinique. Roberts sailed the ship past the harbors of Martinique signaling the Frenchmen to visit Saint Lucia, telling them of a profit to be made buying slaves there. Roberts waited for his prey at Saint Lucia and seized and destroyed 14 French ships. The French prisoners were severely tortured and some were killed. The "Fortune" was replaced by an 18 gun brigantine renamed the "Good Fortune." Roberts next captured a French man-of-war which had as one of her passengers the governor of Martinique . The governor was hanged and the ship which sported 52 guns was renamed the "Royal Fortune." Roberts had at this time 3 ships in his fleet, the "Fortune", "Good Fortune", and the "Royal Fortune." Roberts had nearly single-handedly halted shipping to and from the Spanish Main, having lasted over a year in the Navy infested waters of the Caribbean . At this time he returned across the Atlantic to sell his stolen wares, and to plunder the African coast.
By April 1721, Roberts had become more tyrannical over his crew. On the way to Africa the "Good Fortune" was stolen by Thomas Anstis who had been given command of her. In June, Roberts arrived at Africa where he captured 4 ships keeping one and renaming her, the "Ranger". Roberts then sailed to Liberia where he captured the Royal Africa Company's ship the "Onslow". The ship had cargo worth £9,000 and it replaced his ship the "Royal Fortune". His next stop was the Ivory Coast where he took at least 6 prizes. January 11th, 1722 , Roberts reached Whydah and captured 11 slave ships which were ransomed for 8 pounds of gold dust each. When one of the captains refused to pay, his ship was burned along with it's cargo of 80 slaves. By now he had added another ship, a 32 gun French warship renamed the "Great Ranger".
Roberts had become a serious threat to the British trading companies and as such, many pirate hunters were pursuing him. On February 5th, a British man-of-war, the "Swallow" captained by Challoner Ogle caught up with Roberts near Cape Lopez in Gabon . Some say Roberts mistook the "Swallow" as a Portuguese trader and closed to fight her. Others say Ogle found the "Royal Fortune" at anchor with most of Roberts' crew drunk or hung over after celebrating the taking of a prize the previous night. And Roberts took the "Royal Fortune" toward the "Swallow" hoping to escape with the help of the wind. In either case once in range Ogle sent a bombardment of cannon fire to the pirates and immediately Roberts' men responded in kind.
When the smoke cleared, the crew saw that Bartholomew Roberts was slumped over a cannon and had been killed in the first and only barrage. The crew showing loyalty towards Roberts, threw his body overboard rather than letting it fall into the hands of the British. With a devastated morale, the pirates attempted to flee, but they were overtaken easily. Because their mizzen topmast had been damaged, they sailed ineffectively. Roberts' crew soon surrendered. The crew were taken prisoner and tried at Cape Coast in Ghana . Of these 74 were acquitted, 70 black pirates were returned to slavery, 54 pirates were hanged, and 37 received lesser sentences. Shortly after this incident, piracy almost completely died out. The names of men like Roberts reached immortality even if their lives were short, and although piracy would flare up every now and then it never again reached the intensity of this Golden Age of Piracy. |
0.981213 | Why is reputation so important for your business to have a good reputation? It's because people don't trust those with bad reputations. Companies with a good reputation acquire more customers and are more profitable. This article has several ideas to help you to achieve a great reputation.
This is the case if your business is larger size. They really want to feel as though they mean something other than a number. Try using a system that's automated and can follow up with a customer. You can also ask them to provide feedback on any recent services or purchases.
Do what you can to make an unhappy customers and this will keep your reputation solid. Turning a bad experience into a good one will show customers that you care about them. This is even better if you are able to do it online.
Be sure to keep a close watch on social media. Most of people's knowledge come from social media websites. You can stand above those businesses that do not handle the situations in a timely fashion.
Be sure that your social medial presence is carefully managed. They say a lot about your branding and must be handled with care.
If you're searching for your company on the Internet and find false information, petition the owner of the site to remove it. If you can show actual proof that it's libelous, you can work it out.
Keep updated on the social networks online. People like to talk about businesses on these platforms. You can fix the negative situations more quickly if you frequently monitor these pages. This is an effective means of keeping your business's reputation get protected from additional damage.
There are reputable companies out there that are trusted and can help you with reputation management. You are probably very busy with other aspects of your business, but trained individuals or companies can do things you haven't thought of.
You set the expectations of potential customer who may use your business. This means being honest with customers and handling any errors properly. Being transparent in business transactions fosters a long way towards success.
Never try to cover up mistakes your business world. Your customers are too smart for things like that.Most times, if you are upfront and honest the customer will look past it, provided you also give them an added incentive to do so.
This is a fantastic way to boost the company you have and its reputation. A positive impression such as this is very helpful in your firm successful.
Be very careful with any information that you choose to share online. You don't know how others will use it later, so be sure you're watching out. Even if your social media accounts can only be used by a few, you still need to be careful.
A good reputation is the backbone of a business. If you have a poor reputation, customers will see this as a bad sign and seek what they need elsewhere. So, if you wish to have a great business, you need to use some reputation management tips like the things you went over here. As your reputation increases, so will your business. |
0.999998 | What are some tax saving options for startups?
For several business tycoons and conglomerates leaders, there had always been a rough start coupled with a lot of perseverance and practice to bring themselves onto the position that they currently enjoy.
A startup is a company which is in its initial stage of operations. An entrepreneurial venture, in its early operational stages, often aims at resolving real-life issues by projecting an innovative product or service. Typically new and small in nature, startups are mostly funded by either the entrepreneur himself or a group of investors who believe in the concept of the business or its owner.
In India, the government has announced 100% tax deduction under Section 80 of the Income Tax Act 1961, only to the established startups, formed on or after 1st April 2016 and before 1st April 2021, for any three consecutive years.
• The startup should be incorporated as a company or a Limited Liability Partnership.
• It has to be incorporated on or after 1st April 2016 and before 1st April 2021.
• The turnover of the startup should not exceed Rs. 25 crores.
• It should be certified by Inter-Ministerial Board of certification in respect of eligible business - a business that includes innovation, development, deployment of products, technology-driven services or intellectual property.
• It shouldn't be a result of reconstruction or splitting up of an already existing business.
A startup owner is subject to several tax concessions and deductions under the purview of the Income Tax Act 1961.
1. A home loan can be very beneficial in a way wherein a startup can aim on interest as a deduction from house property and can also claim principal as a deduction as under Section 80C of the Act with other deductions amounting to not more than Rs. 1.5 lacs.
2. In businesses where the unorganized labor is generally paid in cash, at least 40% of the manufacturing expenses include indirect wages. There expenses if recorded incorrectly result in higher profits and thus, higher taxes. Such situations can be well avoided by making proper records of cash payments.
3. Cash payments above Rs. 20 thousand in a day to a single person should be avoided. The expenses if paid to a person in a day exceeding 20 thousand is not covered under tax deduction other than by way of cheque/ draft.
4. Incomes, if distributed and taxed under other heads, can result in a lot of saving by way of lesser tax payments.
5. Section 80 TTA of Income Tax Act 1961 also permits deduction of interest on savings upto Rs. 10 thousand per year. If such advent is taxed as any other income, deduction under section 80TTA cannot be prevailed.
6. Indexation, if claimed can be beneficial in saving a considerable amount of tax. Any asset having a particular current value is expected to escalate over years.
• Exemptions on capital gains are provided under Section- 53-71 of the IT Act. Capital Gains asrising of the sale of residential property where the proceeds are reinvested in purchase of another residential property is exempted under Section 53. If proceeds are invested in government bonds, the gains are exempted under section 54EC of the Act.
• Income tax return, if filed on time, can attract many benefits. A business loan can thus be carried forward for a period of 8 consecutive years but can be availed only when Income Tax return is filed on or before the due date. Therefore, prompt filing of returns is key to save on taxes.
• TDS is an important tool to reduce tax burden on startups. Tax if deducted at source, for various transactions results in such expense allowed while calculating taxable profits.
• Life Insurance premium and Medical Insurance Premium is also another way in which one can save on taxes. Premium paid on Life Insurance of self, spouse and independent children, married or not can be claimed under Section 80C along with other deductions to a maximum cap of Rs.1.5 lacs. Similarly, premium paid on medical insurance of self, spouse, dependent children and parents can be claimed under Section-80D with a maximum cap of Rs.25000.
• Tax benefits can be availed by hiring tax experts to handle the matters of startups and paying advance taxes to the Central Government’s credit.
• Every penny saved can be a big asset eventually. For any startup company, every small transaction should be properly recorded so that tax implications can be easily calculated and unnecessary tax levy be avoided.
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0.999957 | Why usage of assignment operator or loops discouraged in functional programming?
If my function meets below two requirements, I believe function Sum to return the summation of items in a list where item evaluates to true for given condition qualifies to be referred as pure function, isn't it ?
Reason I am asking this question is because I see almost every where people advising to avoid assignment operator and loops because it is imperative programming style. So what can go wrong with above example which makes use of loops and assignment operator in context of function programming ?
What is it in functional programming that makes a difference?
Functional programming is by principle declarative. You say what your result is instead of how to compute it.
Is it clear what the result is? Quite so, it is sum of the numbers meeting the predicate. How is it computed? I don't care, ask the compiler.
You could possibly say that using sum and filter is a trick and it doesn't count. Let implement it without these helpers then (though the best way would be to implement them first).
It is still pretty clear what is the result in terms of single function call. It is either 0, or recursive call + h or 0, depending on pred h. Still pretty straighforward, even if the end result is not immediately obvious (though with a little bit of practice this really reads just like a for loop).
What is the result? Oh, I see: single return statement, no surprises here: return result.
But what is result? int result = 0? Doesn't seem right. You do something later with that 0. Ok, you add items to it. And so on.
Of course, for most programmers this is pretty obvious what happens in a simple funciton like this, but add some extra return statement or so and it suddenly gets harder to track. All the code is about how, and what is left for the reader to figure out - this is clearly a very imperative style.
So, are variables and loops wrong?
There are many things that are much easier explained by them, and many algorithms that require mutable state to be fast. But variables are inherently imperative, explaining how instead of what, and giving little prediction of what their value may be a few lines later or after a few loop iterations. Loops generally require state to make sense, and so they are inherently imperative as well.
Variables and loops are simply not functional programming.
Contemporarily funcitonal programming is a bit more of style and a useful way of thinking than a paradigm. Strong preference for the pure functions is in this mindset, but it's just a small part actually.
These functional expressions fit nicely for that kind problems and simply makes code shorter (and shorter is good). You shouldn't thoughtlessly replace imperative code with them, but when they fit, they are almost always a better choice.
The use of mutable state is generally discouraged in functional programming. Loops are discouraged as a consequence, because loops are only useful in combination with mutable state.
The function as a whole is pure, which is great, but the paradigm of functional programming does not only apply at the level of whole functions. You also want to avoid mutable state also at the local level, inside functions. And the reasoning is basically the same: Avoiding mutable state makes the code easier to understand and prevents certain bugs.
In your case, you could write numbers.Where(predicate).Sum() which is clearly much simpler. And simpler means less bugs.
While you are correct that from an external observer's point of view, your Sum function is pure, the internal implementation is clearly not pure - you have state stored in result which you repeatedly mutate. One of the reasons to avoid mutable state is because it produces a greater cognitive load on the programmer, which in turn leads to more bugs.
While in a simple example like this, the amount of mutable state being stored is probably small enough that it's not going to cause any serious issues, the general principle still applies. A toy example like Sum probably isn't the best way to illustrate the advantage of functional programming over imperative - try doing something with a lot of mutable state and the advantages may become clearer.
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0.984463 | How do you determine which element oxidized in a reaction?
The species whose #"oxidation number"# increased during reaction is said to have been #"oxidized"#.
Oxidation number is an imaginary charge possessed by atoms within molecules, that help us to conceive of electron transfer. The element whose #"formal oxidation number"# increases during a reaction is said to have been #"oxidized"#. The element whose #"formal oxidation number"# decreases during a reaction is said to have been #"reduced"#.
The oxidation number of (reactants) #C=-IV#, #H=+I#, and #O=0# (because oxygen is an element that has neither donated nor accepted electrons). The carbon is oxidized up to #C(+IV)# in carbon dioxide gas, and the oxygen is reduced to #O(-II)# in water.
These types of combustion reactions are fairly easy to balance. However, suppose we oxidized #Cr^(III+)# to #Cr^(VI+)#?
Here, first off, I accounted for electron transfer: the difference in oxidation number between the chromium species, i.e. #3#, were represented by electrons as actual particles. And then I balanced the oxygens and then the hydrogens. When we invoke these electrons in the equation, we have to have somewhere for them to go (i.e. for every oxidation, there must be a reduction).
Confused yet? Keep trying; remember that this may be pitched at a higher level than which you are at currently. |
0.990546 | While in college in the late eighties Jenn could be found on the streets of Philadelphia en route to class dressed in her "flea market" finest lugging around a portfolio case nearly twice her size, with trappings of her last painting under her nails, on her clothes or in her hair. Which consistently lead to the question "are you an artist?" and landed her quite a few freelance jobs.
Burdened with a love of fine art and (at the time) an overwhelming contempt for commercial art Jenn found it hard to pick a career path in the art world, making it increasingly hard to justify her substantial tuition, work study and student loans. She had a variety of artistic interests, but none that would provide a consistent means of financial support. She eventually opted to leave college and get a "real" job to pay the rent.
In the early 90's although not employed full-time as an artist, Jenn's art background was utilized on a consistent basis. In one instance she was commissioned to create a poster size illustration of E.T. the Extraterrestrial "phoning home" for a sales campaign and contest where the grand prize was an expensive cell phone. The whimsical finished piece was so well received, that it was framed, displayed during the length of the contest and included in grand prize. At the award presentation ceremony held at a Philadelphia airport hotel, the piece was stolen.
"I couldn't believe my art had been stolen. I was in heaven. I figured I'd have to be 100 or have kicked the bucket in some extravagant fashion before my work worth stealing."
In the early nineties, Jenn landed a job at Universal One Stop in Philadelphia. Initially she worked in sales as the assistant sales manager, designing sales campaigns and increasing consumer awareness. Her artistic talents were put to use for sales promotions and weekly sales advertisements. She pitched innovative promotional and marketing plans to help increase the sales department's productivity and began to work closely with record labels on sales driven materials.
As time passed, the adverting department began to filter projects through the sales department to Jenn, giving her the opportunity to grow artistically. When head of the advertising decided to make a bold move and start his own design company, he offered Jenn a position. She passed on the offer and 2 months later was named the new Advertising Director.
Still working closely with the sales department. Jenn's design skills and innovative new ideas, improved the overall look of the companies marketing and advertising material and gave the sales force an abundance of new tools.
She also took over organizing the company's annual customer appreciation convention. It was an event designed to get record storeowners, labels, distributions companies, and musicians networking in a casual party style atmosphere. Each year there was a grand buffet luncheon, a vendor area representing major and independent manufacturers, and a 5-hour artist showcase.
Though for many years the job was incredibly rewarding, Jenn eventually yearned for more control professionally. In 1996 after a five year stint as Advertising Director, she started her own graphic design company named Images Everything.
Since that time, her clients have included Philadelphia Eagle: Bobby Taylor, Sony Music, recording artist: Music Soulchild, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, University of Pennsylvania Museum, and McDonalds.
Jenn also published and wrote for the music magazine Rhythm & Beats from January 1999 - February 2003.
Putting all of her experience to good use, in 2002 Jenn founded Kemistre, an artist network that provides information and advice to independent artists.
While her day-to-day dealings fall mostly in the commercial art field, her heart lies in the world fine art. Jenn's cozy, art studio is her favorite place on the planet next to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"...I really need to make the Met a three day event. I go there with every intention of seeing more than 3 or 4 galleries in a day and then all of a sudden its closing time and I realize I've spent 2 hours staring at Michael Angelo's Studies for the Libyan Sibyl."
In addition to graphic art, painting (oil, watercolor and acrylics), photography, and jewelry making, Jenn is also an accomplished henna tattoo artist. She is also a founding member of the Philadelphia based indie film production company Citizen Wumpus and in 2005, started writing and directing on her own independent film projects.
Jenn also serves on the board of Directors of Bread Upon The Waters Scholarship fund. It is the only scholarship of its kind - specifically designed to benefit women over the age of 30 who wish to complete an undergraduate degree through part-time study attending evening classes at The University of Pennsylvania. |
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0.99334 | Please help improve it by adding dated informations, images and videos about Sony.
Nam June Paik - In 1965, Sony introduced the Portapak.
Franco De Vita - Seeking wider international exposure, De Vita moved to the Sony label for the 1988 album "Al Norte Del Sur"
John Bardeen - Also in honor of Bardeen, Sony Corporation endowed a $53 million John Bardeen professorial chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois-Champaign, beginning in 1990.
John Schumann - In 1992 he recorded a single for Sony entitled "Eyes on Fire", this was followed by an album for Columbia Records in 1993, "True Believers"
Cristian de la Fuente - In 1998, de la Fuente was contracted by Sony and Telemundo for a drama series remake of Starsky and Hutch called "Reyes y Rey"
Lauryn Hill - In June 2007, Sony records said though Hill has "consistently recorded over the past decade" and has what amounts to "a library of unreleased material in the vault", she had recently re-entered the studio "with the goal of making a new LP." Later that same year, a new album entitled Ms. Hill, which featured cuts from The Miseducation, various soundtracks contributions and other "unreleased" songs, was released.
Najwa Karam - Then in 2011, a new era in music media was marked when Najwa Karam, in collaboration with Sony Entertainment and Rotana, produced the Middle East's very first 3D music video, for her song, "MaFi Noum"
Doris Day - In September 2011, a new album called "My Heart" was released by Sony in the U.K.; the American release came out in December 2011 distributed through City Hall Records.
David Fincher - In January 2012, it was announced that Sony Pictures was "moving forward" with the adaptation of The Girl Who Played with Fire, with Zaillian in the early stage of scripting it for a planned release in late 2013. |
0.939314 | What is the Ocaso Let Homes insurance?
As the owner of a property destined for rental, you must take on certain risks. That is why Ocaso has designed Ocaso Let Homes, an insurance policy cover exclusively designed for landlords, which insures their property and provides peace of mind.
This insurance has been designed for property owners who want to obtain the coverage that best suits their property and avoid the problems caused by vandalism carried out by tenants or the non-payment of rent when leasing their property.
It includes main guarantees that cover, among others, material damage caused by fire, burglary, water, breakage, acts of vandalism, expenses arising from forced eviction, loss of rental income or replacement of locks due to theft or mugging of the property keys.
This policy also offers coverage for civil liability for the owner and legal assistance for resolving all problems related to the leased property, including eviction procedures and claims for unpaid rent.
Specific coverages to protect the lease contract.
Ocaso Let Homes insurance offers guarantees which adapt to the most frequent problems that can arise when renting a property.
This insurance represents a more effective solution than bank guarantees for long-term rentals, given that it guarantees unpaid rental as well as covering damage caused by vandalism to the property and in all cases, includes legal assistance for the landlord when claiming unpaid rent and evicting the tenant from the leased property. |
0.900155 | How to grow a Great Project Manager?
People Managing Skills: Job Management can be explained as a collection of activities performed in most phases which include initiation, thinking about, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing to ensure the project is done on period and under funds. Many of the activities defined in Job Managing are performed by people. Manager’s most important, and most challenging work is normally handling people. They need to hire, teach, lead, inspire, and inspire these people. Project achievement is about persons accomplishment. Projects don’t are unsuccessful. People do. Consequently, the primary prerequisite should be to have got a solid understanding of people management in cases where managers desire to successfully manage task management.
Communication Abilities: Managers need to request details; discuss problems; give guidance; interact with stakeholders equally internal and external customers to total their particular task. As well, they will have to connect about all levels to be able to advise about the task status the moment controlling a project. Hence connection skill is very important for a task director. Furthermore, simply because the work place become more global, it is crucial designed for them to experience good appearance expertise happen to be part of connection skills.
Project Management Skills: Generally, job managers commonly involve right from inception to everyone the method to concluding phase. Therefore, basic job management expertise needed meant for these to obtain elements performed quickly. Likewise it would probably help all of them to make the most efficient consumption of resources and make all of them considerably more structured and information.
Problem solver & Decision making abilities: Both abilities are meticulously connected. Operators produce various decisions to make the project good. Many times, they accumulate considerably more information regarding problems & issues; analyze; list out possible method; pick up the best option; put into action and validate the solution to manage projects. Therefore I could think about this skill the essential skill with respect to them to successfully take care of task management.
Being attentive skills: This is some other area a manager has to concentrate. This skill can help him to understand the teams‘ problems which can be very essential to manage people. If managers boost their listening skills, they may tremendously improve their persons management skills.
Self-confidence: This skill inspires confidence in others. In order to work at finest probable, professionals want to contain a mind-set they are effective enough and have the capacity to take care of also annoying problem. Being in rut; fearing failures and to prevent to the extra mile to achieve better tasks would make provide their level of confidence down.
Team member: In an group (or in a team), everybody is a part of puzzle that need to be connected to get the entire photo. That was tested that two minds vs. one. Hence this skill also can help a manager becoming a best administrator in their career.
Professionalism: Corporate and business scandals & unethical sparks are increasing in today businesses. Also PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE seems to have current PMBOK most recent version for making ethics as one of the important aspect in PMP and CAPM exams. Professionals ought to abide by the code of ethics created by their institution, avoid unprofessional activities including stealing company secrets, splendour, harassment, bribery etc, and guide their very own team to perform the same to further improve all their corporate entity’s standing.
To summarize, project managers are one of a kind and multiple skilled, as they will need to be capable of function in almost any environment. A lot of executives are incredibly effective in their job, and other folks believe that they will are unable to manage stuff well. Sometimes, even a manager exactly who has a MBA right from a environment category Collage fails to manage task management. The skills highlighted here can help you to become a best manager in your job. Having these skills can be learnable through training, education, encounter and practice. Hence prepare a plan today. If you put out a two 12 months strategy today to improve the expertise, you will come to be proclaimed as a finest manager from your employer in 2012. For additional information read here www.englabor.com.br . |
0.99868 | Here are the Top 10 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of January 13, 2018.
2. Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug – Havana. No. 3 last week.
3. Post Malone feat. 21 Savage – Rockstar. No. 2 last week.
4. Imagine Dragons – Thunder. No. 5 last week.
5. G-Eazy feat. A$AP Rocky & Cardi B – No Limit. No. 4 last week.
6. Halsey – Bad at Love. No. 9 last week.
7. Sam Smith – Too Good at Goodbyes. No. 8 last week.
8. Migos, Nicki Minaj & Cardi B – MotorSport. No. 7 last week.
9. Lil Pump – Gucci Gang. No. 6 last week.
10. Cardi B – Bodak Yellow (Money Moves). No. 10 last week. |
0.999951 | A summary judgment is a legal decision in a case made when one party to a lawsuit requests summary judgment by pre-trial motion. The idea behind summary judgment is that if a fact is undisputed then there is no need for a trial on that issue. If there are enough undisputed facts then the pleading of the party may be sufficient as a matter of law.
The moving party submits various documents with the motion; these may include depositions, admitted truth of facts by both parties, documents received during discovery, contracts, emails, letters, and certified government documents. The parties also usually present legal memoranda to the court to support or oppose the underlying law that allows the moving party to make the summary judgment motion and seek swift judicial determination of the dispute. The court may allow for oral argument if the judge wishes to question the parties on the issues before the court.
Summary judgment is awarded if the moving (or cross-moving) party can successfully argue that the undisputed facts and the law make it clear that it is not possible for the other party to prevail if the matter proceeds to a trial. If there is doubt at this stage, the court must assume that the party opposing the summary judgment will prevail on the doubtful points; this preserves the opposing party or parties' right to a trial and to have the judge or jury review all the evidence and decide the underlying factual basis of the lawsuit. In other words, if a trial could result in the jury (or judge in a bench trial) deciding in the favor of the opposing party, a summary judgment is inappropriate. Sometimes a court may award partial summary judgment when one of the causes of action is undisputed on the facts, or if there is not satisfactory opposing evidence that puts the allegations of the moving party in question.
Partly because of workload issues, it is not uncommon for the summary judgments of lower level US courts in complex cases to be overturned on appeal. It is also a common procedure used to attempt to gain a quick resolution to a legal issue when there are few or no disputed facts, and in this way it is similar to a declaratory judgment.
Proceedings for summary judgments in United States district courts are governed by Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. |
0.999993 | Are dried fruits healthy to eat while you are pregnant? If you’re pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant soon, you may have heard conflicting information about whether dried fruits are good or bad for you and your baby.
The truth is that dried fruits are full of healthy nutrients that are especially important during pregnancy. Here are some nutrition facts for you to consider about dried fruits during pregnancy.
• Dried fruits can help reduce some of the side effects of pregnancy, including heartburn, high blood pressure, and nausea.
• Apples, apricots, coconut, dates, and raisins are all high in soluble and insoluble dietary fiber. Dietary fiber of both types is essential during pregnancy, because they help protect against the common pregnancy side effects of hemorrhoids and constipation. In their dried form, fruits pack a lot of dietary fiber into a small snack.
• Dried coconut and dates are rich in protein, another essential dietary element during pregnancy. Protein has been called the “building block” of the human body, and therefore, it’s necessary for the developing baby to be formed.
• You need about 27 mg of iron daily while you’re pregnant, and some dried fruits are an excellent source of iron. Dried goji berries are among the best sources of iron. Other good choices include apples, coconuts, dates, and raisins.
• Copper is an essential mineral during pregnancy, required for the developing baby’s brain to form properly. Dried fruits can be an excellent source of copper, especially dried apricots, coconut, and dates.
• Dried fruits are packed with vitamins, which are needed during pregnancy for both parent and child. They contain vitamin E, which is necessary especially during the last month of pregnancy to keep blood pressure at a normal level and help prevent pre-eclampsia, a condition that can be dangerous.
• Fruit contains sugar, and sugar contains calories, so it’s best to stick to a moderate amount–about a handful–of dried fruits every day. Eating more than the recommended serving size won’t necessarily add up to extra benefits.
• Choose fruits that are “sun-dried” or dried naturally. Acrylamide, a chemical used in food processing plants, can have effects on the nervous system and fertility, and it’s best to avoid it during pregnancy.
• Sulfur dioxide, an ingredient used to make dried fruits look more appealing, is safe for most people but can have a negative effect on people who have certain allergies. If you want to avoid eating sulfur dioxide, look for organic dried fruits.
• You can eat your daily allowance of dried fruits by themselves or mix them into smoothies, salads, yogurt, cereals, trail mixes, and even dessert. |
0.886103 | What is an "organic molecule?" When scientists announce that they have found one, the impression that a layperson gets is that this molecule can, like magic, suddenly produce life! It is, after all, "organic" and organic things are living things, right?
A science magazine recently announced, "A speck of dust that drifted into the Earth's atmosphere from the edge of the solar system shows that complex molecules can form even in the chill near-emptiness of interstellar space." (New Scientists March 2004) The article makes a few assumptions based on its evolutionary worldview and then gets backs to real facts again: "Simple organic molecules have been detected in this dust before . . . dust particles could have seeded the young Earth with organic matter." Could they? Let us consider this leap of false logic.
A chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, John Bradley, said, "Its another hint that extraterrestrial carbon may be implicated in the origin of life." The dust particle, named Benavente, was very small - it was only one femtogram, which is one millionth of one billionth of a gram, yet from this a mass spectrometer was able to detect molecules of carbon, nitrogen and . . .
'The Day After Tomorrow' movie is a highly entertaining collection of disasters, and its visual effects are a roller coaster ride of ruin and mayhem. One reviewer thought the movie might have been designed by some kids writing their 'wish list' of destruction scenes they'd like to see. Another reviewer said, "This movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart surgery."
Tornadoes roam the streets of major cities around America, enormous cracks appear in the poles, tidal waves the size of mountains roll in from the sea and snap freezing entombs millions - though strangely enough the frost moves at just the right speed to enable the heroes to outrun it - just like good old fashioned monster movies.
But it has to be said that behind all the fun and frolic is a supposedly serious message about our environment. Many scientists seriously believe the world is heading for a new ice age, which will include several 'hypercanes', expected to blow up from the Arctic in all-engulfing freezing vengeance and all the usual disasters - as depicted in the movie. The prophets of environmental doom predict these things in the not too distant future, and the blame, they say, is mainly ours. Too much burning of fossil fuels, too many CFCs released into the atmosphere, too many forests removed, too much warm water from Nuclear power plants . . . yes, its all Man's fault.
A few years ago a book came out called 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' in which a statistician looked at . . .
Modern is better - or so some people think, yet the crafts, techniques and technologies of the past continue to surface as superior to our so-called 'modern' improvements on them. The Viking ship's sail is a good example of this.
As early as 1400 BC Norwegian farmers kept sheep and burnt the heather, Villsau, the breed of sheep they preferred, must eat a rich variety of grasses in the summer to gain the weight they need to survive winter; fire augments the suppression of heather and young pines, and keeps the land clear for new grass. Over the centuries the Vikings continued to raise their sheep and use the wool for many purposes, including of course, clothing.
But when it came to making sails for their ships they excelled. For example, it is believed that the Danish king Knut II had more than 1700 ships at his command when he laid plans to oust William 1st from England in 1085 AD. The sails for this fleet came from sheep, and the wool was worked by women, who laboured year after year using drop spindles and looms.
A Norse law dating from about 1000 AD says, "The man on whom responsibility falls and who lives near the . . .
Read more: Modern is Better?
What if it really happened? What if an intelligent signal was received from space, and verified as a genuine signal from another intelligent race of creatures? What if there was absolutely no mistake about it - this was the real thing, a coded message sent as a communication to Earth, to let us know that we were not the only sentient life in the universe?
For many people it would be a thrilling, wonderful discovery - their reaction might be to break open the champagne and celebrate for many days, but for others it would be as scary as hell! What if this extraterrestrial was aggressive and hunting for food? What if it was infectious, or poisonous? What would the military forces of Earth do?
Among the many revelers would be the evolutionists. They would say that because life was found elsewhere in the universe, this proved that life could evolve by accident from non-living materials, without the help of a Divine Being. The implications of this are that life is essentially meaningless, and that Man is not significant in any way. But this is not a logical line of thinking.
First, God could have created intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, just as easily as He created it here on Earth. The incoming intelligent signal would prove only that there was an incoming intelligent signal. It would not prove evolution at all. Second, science has never shown how life can evolve from non-living materials, so it is by no means certain that it can happen here, or anywhere else in . . .
Not long ago some scientific papers were published on the rates at which soils were being carried away by erosion. The final tally, after all the different measurements were taken, was that, at present rates of erosion, all land masses above sea level will be gone in about 10 million years.
This figure raised many eyebrows, because it brought into question many assumptions about evolution and the age of the Earth.
If, for example, evolution needed 400 millions years, then the land on which it happened would not be there at least 40 times - at present rates of erosion! There is also some strong evidence to show that rainfall was much greater globally in the past - i.e. great dried up lake beds in Australia and elsewhere. Perhaps the land is being pushed up out of the sea at about the same rate it is being washed away? There is no evidence to support this theory, so evolutionists are stuck with a problem.
Another statistic came in recently, based on average sediment movements in the Yellow river, China. Every year some one billion tonnes of sediment makes its way to the sea. Where does all this sediment end up? At the river mouth, and then further out as the river produces a 'fan' under the . . . |
0.932284 | Why do time series graphs on the summary page sometimes display inaccurate rate calculations?
Time series graphs on the summary page calculate most rate metrics against the number of targeted messages. Rolling your mouse cursor over a specific point in time on the graph will display the results exactly at that point in time. As an example, if you have previously sent out a mailing and have included click and open tracking options on those messages, clicks and opens/renders will continue to be registered after the mailing has completed, after there are no more messages being targeted.
This creates two scenarios in which rate calculations on the time series graph will not show correct data.
If targeted messages are zero at the given point in time on the graph, and a fair amount of opens/renders and clicks are being recorded, this will give an artificially inflated open and click through rate which will often exceed 100%, or much, much higher (as the attached screenshot shows).
If messages are still being shown as targeted on the time series graph, and there hasn’t been sufficient time for recipients to open/render or click on your messages, this will show an artificially lower open or click through rate than the actual correct value.
It is recommended that you do not rely on the time series graph for rate calculations for these reasons, and instead rely more on the rate calculations listed below the time series graph where the **metrics **calculations are displayed. |
0.9977 | tan (A + B + C) = tan A + tan B + tan C - tan A tan B tan C/1- tan A tan B - tan B tan C - tan C tan A.
Now we will learn how to use the above formulae for solving different types of trigonometric problems on compound angle.
1. Using the formula of cos (A - B) = cos A cos B + sin A sin B prove that cos (π/2 - x) = sin x, for all real numbers x.
Therefore cos (π/2 - x) = sin x.
2. Using the formula of cos (A + B) = cos A cos B - sin A sin B prove that cos (π/2 + x) = - sin x, for all real numbers x.
3. Using the formula of sin (A + B) = sin A cos B + cos A sin B prove that sin (π/2 + x) = cos x, for all real numbers x.
4. Using the formula of sin (A - B) = sin A cos B - cos A sin B prove that sin (π/2 - x) = cos x, for all real numbers x. |
0.961188 | Venezuela is currently in the midst of a horrible hyperinflationary crisis. Years of government mismanagement of the economy have resulted in a situation in which basic necessities and foodstuffs are almost impossible to find. Venezuela’s crisis offers a cautionary tale not just for governments who try to print their way to prosperity, but for everyday citizens who want to protect their assets from devaluation.
Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere. With its vast oil reserves and other natural resources, Venezuela became the envy of South America. Unfortunately, a series of governments sought to exploit those oil reserves for their own purposes, nationalizing the industry and attempting to use oil revenues to pay for increased social spending.
When oil revenues weren’t sufficient, the government resorted to printing money to pay its bills. This inflation occurred periodically, leading to a series of currency devaluations and eventually the introduction of new paper currencies.
The latest round of inflation has culminated in a hyperinflationary crisis, as the government has printed huge amounts of money, shipping it in by the planeload from foreign printers. The hyperinflation has driven down the value of the bolivar, price controls instituted by the government have driven goods from shelves, and now neither the people nor the government has enough good money to purchase basic staples. Monetary mismanagement has led to a humanitarian crisis.
Venezuela’s crisis has almost completely destroyed the value of the bolivar, the country’s paper currency. Just like in Weimar Germany’s hyperinflationary crisis, residents are forced to use huge bundles of money just to purchase everyday goods. That’s assuming they can even find those goods, as staples like toilet paper, basic medical supplies, and meat has largely disappeared from the marketplace. Government price controls have forced many goods onto black markets.
The Venezuelan government itself understood the importance of gold, as it repatriated its gold holdings from the New York Fed’s gold vault in 2011 and 2012 and brought them back to Venezuela. While this was touted initially as a move to secure its gold holdings, the government has subsequently sold significant amounts of gold to pay its debts. It may very well find itself with no gold left if it fails to keep its financial house in order.
Contrast that with ordinary Venezuela citizens, who understand the importance of gold. Venezuela has some of the largest estimated gold reserves in the world, with 10,000 tons of gold estimated to be held in its mines. Unfortunately, the Venezuelan government has mismanaged those gold reserves too, and official gold production figures have declined over 90% from their levels a decade ago.
It is estimated that today about 90% of gold production is illegal small-scale mining. Desperate citizens or criminal gangs will mine small amounts of gold wherever they can find it, then try to smuggle gold dust out of the country to sell it for cash or exchange it for food and medicine.
Venezuela’s current situation should be a lesson for Americans first of all about the dangers of government monetary manipulation. When governments have complete control over money, the temptation to print more money to pay their bills can sometimes be too great. When that results in hyperinflation, the result is an economy and country in shambles. The second lesson is that when everything else breaks down, gold steps up to fill the breach. It is the ultimate money and store of value. Don’t wait for things to go to pot before protecting your assets with gold. |
0.959966 | Does variation in sequencing coverage help explain apparent variation in recombination?
Preamble: The grad student and I have been looking at the Illumina sequencing coverage of the DNAs used for our DNA-uptake project, and considering how best to exclude from analysis the bits of the genome that consistently have very low coverage. We're probably just going to exclude all positions that have fewer than 10 reads in the control 'input' DNA sample. But thinking about this got me thinking about the extent to which position-specific differences in coverage could influence the estimates of recombination frequency in the sister project I'm doing with the former post-doc.
Here's a quick overview of the recombination project. We transformed the Rd strain with DNA from the divergent NP strain, pooled 10,000 novR colonies, and genome-sequenced the pooled DNA at 20,000-fold coverage to measure the frequency of NP alleles at the ~35,000 SNP positions where the two strains differ. This gave a genome-wide map of recombination frequency that showed surprisingly high variation. The graph below shows the reproducibility of this variation across independent samples (one with colonies selected for novR and the other for nalR).
We need to check that some of the apparent differences in recombination frequency at different positions aren't actually due to differences between the sequencing efficiencies of the Rd and NP SNP alleles at these positions. The former post-doc and I had a Skype conversation about this this morning. Here's our plan.
For each of the ~35,000 SNPs, the ratio of its NP allele and Rd allele coverages (call it the 'bias ratio') tells us how much sequencing biases could influence its apparent recombination rate.
Now all the former postdoc needs to do is calculate the correlation between the bias ratios and the estimated recombination rates across the genome. If he sees little or no correlation, then sequencing biases are not contributing to the measured frequencies of NP alleles in the recombinant-genome DNA pool and we can continue to search for the factors that do contribute. But if he sees a solid correlation then we need to investigate further.
Normalize control-genome sequencing coverages to their means.
Calculate bias ratios for each SNP.
How much of the recombination variation is explained by the bias ratios?
I'm working on the toxin-antitoxin manuscript, and trying to use the RNA-seq data to decide which genes have changed expression in which mutants. This information should help us understand how the toxin acts to prevent DNA uptake, and what else it might affect.
The comparisons should be straightforward because the former undergrad/summer student left me with a superb set of analyses and R scripts, including EdgeR and DESeq2 analyses comparing expression of different strains at the various time points. But I'm having a hard time making sense of the results, because some comparisons that I expect to give few significant differences give many, and others give very few.
In fact, all but two of the genes in this EdgeR comparison have FDR values greater than 0.5, and almost all have FDR values of 1.00.
I had a Skype conversation with the former post-doc this morning, and he suggested an analysis that might clear things up for me. But I'll need to ask the former student to do it for me, or to modify the R scripts so I can do it.
Step 1: Identify all the genes whose expression is significantly changed at each of the MIV timepoints (M1, M2 and M3), relative to their expression in log phase in sBHI (M0 timepoint).
Step 2: Using the same cutoff, examine the genes that differ significantly between different strains at a single time point. How many of these are also among the 'MIV-induced' set for this timepoint?
If we find that a particular genetic difference (wildtype vs a mutant, or two mutants vs each other) causes changes in the same genes that are changed by MIV in wildtype cells, we could conclude that the genetic difference affects the cellular response to MIV. If there's no more overlap than we'd expect by chance, then no. |
0.930669 | It's weekend and you and your friends have planned a super stylish house party! The decoration is already finished, now let's make sure that no one goes hungry and prepare some delicious food! Design cute cupcakes and make sure to match the given recipe. Roast meat and vegetable skewers and finally mix some tasty fruit drinks. Don't forgot to dress up in between and select your favorite outfit. Now you're all set to enjoy a wonderful evening with your BFFs!
You are now browsing BFFs House Party It is a category Girls Games, Princess Games It was posted by a website Games It is a free game that you can play for free online without any fees and without downloading to the computer. |
0.99302 | The question that you are asking me is of the past. It is from memory. Memory is only in the mind. Similarly, anything regarding future would be of imagination, which is also in the mind. Past and future cannot be real; they exist only in the mind. The present, this scene, here, now is simply real. So let us enjoy it!
It rang a bell. Both of them laughed, and I joined in the laughter. |
0.999832 | My googlefoo is failing me: Hasn't anyone written a program that helps you figure out the best strategy for playing the "rotate credit card balances from one card to the next to take advantage of low APR offers" game?
Doing this can seriously hurt your credit because the agencies see a lot of new credit requests in a short period of time as a high risk factor.
That said, Mint will aggregate all of your accounts and suggest other credit cards based on APR and other offers, and tell you how much you can save, but it won't juggle your 0% APR balance transfer logic for ya.
What some dub an "app-o-rama" is an alternative technique. Instead of opening one after the other for years and having a poor credit score forever, instead go on a crazy insane few-day binge getting as many cards as you can. You can end up with at least 40 grand in 0% APR credit if you were careful. Use any 0% BT offers you have to stick that "free" money in a high yield savings account until your 0% APR is up. You'll have access to very liquid cash you can loan yourself.
Also, you'll probably rack up a lot of bonus offers, cashback, points, etc. Read the FatWallet Finance forum for infinite discussion of this stuff.
Note, I didn't explain the real benefit of the binge: Since all these inquiries happened at one point in time, your credit should steadily improve in the aftermath as you get farther away from the event, and magically one day all 15 inquiries will disappear at once.
Here's a good starting place for cards to consider.
True, but new credit requests will leave your credit history after a year or so. And it's better to take a smallish hit for opening up lots of new credit lines than take a big hit for missing payments if you can't make the high %.
That said there isn't really a "program" for what you're trying to do AFAIK. And the App-O-Rama strategy doesn't really apply here because you're trying to spread your 0% out as long as possible. The idea with App-O-Rama is to get as much 0% RIGHT NOW and put it in an interest-bearing account.
I don't think it would be too hard to do this however. Just open one card, transfer all your balances to it, and pay it off month by month. DO NOT CHARGE ANYTHING TO THIS CARD. DO NOT MISS PAYMENTS. Then, when the introductory APR is up, get a new card. Rinse and repeat.
As floam linked, the Fatwallet Finance forums are a great place for more info on this. The term used there is "App-o-rama".
Another complicating factor is that as your credit profile (and the economic environment of the credit card companies) changes, you will have different balance transfer offers available. It's usually pretty obvious which card you should make a balance xfer to right now, but it can be hard to predict which of your cards will have the best offer 6 or 12 months down the line. Thus, it's hard to make a long-term plan, and you'll end up having to re-evaluate options for your balance's destination every time an offer runs its course.
Thirding the Fatwallet finance forum for tons of info about App-o-ramas, which are tangentially related to this. |
0.964106 | How does the notion of the “echo chamber” contradict earlier ideas about the availability of information on the internet?
The media “echo chamber” is the idea that we are increasingly able to cherry-pick our news sources and thus reinforce our worldview.
1. How does the notion of the “echo chamber” contradict earlier ideas about the availability of information on the internet?
2. What does this trend have to do with ideology and the culture wars?
3. Does this trend reflect your experience? How do you find news and views on the internet or how does it find you? What effect does it have on political discourse?
How does Facebook, as well as other sites, exacerbate this? |
0.999967 | 1) The poet Ruskin Bond does not call his grandmother ‘childish’. What else was she according to him? Why does he consider her to be so?
OR What is the uncommon quality of the grandmother? How does the term this uncommon quality?
Ans: The poet Ruskin Bond calls his grandma a ‘genius’ because she could climb trees very quickly. It may be a spreading tree or tall tree she could climb up quickly even at the age of sixty-two.
2) How do you say that grandma had been in the habit of climbing trees for a very long period? Justify this quoting the lines from the poem.
Ans: Yes, The grandma was in the habit of climbing trees for along time. She learnt climbing the from her loving brother when she was six. Having learned to climb from a loving brother when she was six.
3) What did the neighbors advise the Grandma? How did she respond them?
Ans: The neighbors advised that the grandma should stop climbing the trees as she was growing old. They suggested that old people should spend their old age gracefully. But the grandma did not listen to their advice. She would laugh say that “I’ll grow disgracefully. I can do it better”.
4) Others feared that granny would fall from a tree one day or the other. Did this happen? Or did something else happen?
Ans: Yes’ others feared that granny would fall from a tree one day or the other. It did not happen. One day something different happened. When the poet and his family were in the town, she climbed up a tree but could not come down. She was suffering from fever. The doctor checked her temperature and suggested her bed rest for a week.
5) What did the doctor recommend Grandma? What was the reaction of the kids to this advice?
Ans: The doctor checked granny’s temperature and recommended her bed rest for a week. The kids sighed with a relief that she would not climb up trees and risk her life.
6) Quote the lines from the poem which suggests how whole heartedly granny enjoyed climbing a tree.
Ans: The poem suggests that granny whole heartedly enjoyed climbing a tree.
These are the lines: 1.For being happier in a tree than in a lift; 2.While every breeze whispered of summer and dancing leaves.
3. She sits there in state and drinks sherry with me.
7)’ My dad knew his duties’. What did he think his duty was?
Ans:’My dad’ (the poets father /granny’s son) knew his duties. He thought his duty was to fulfill his mother’s wish. He built a house on the tree top for his mother with the help from the poet.
8) Both the poet and his father were considerate towards Grandma. Substantiate the statement with textual support.
Ans: The poet and his father were considerate towards grandma.They built a house on a tree-top with windows and a door.
With my expert assistance,he soon finished the chore; Made her a tree-house with windows and a door.
9) ‘For being happier in a tree than in a lift.’ What is suggested through this line?
Ans: ‘For being happier in a tree than in a lift.’This line suggests that grandma enjoyed climbing a tree more than any other comforts of city life.
A) Who does ‘she’refer to ? Ans: ‘She’ refers to Granny.
B)What was the gift she had? Ans: Climbing the tree was the gift she had.
C) Where was she happier? Ans: She was happier in a tree than in city life.
A) Who had fever? Ans: Granny had fever.
B) Why was she suggested rest for a week? Ans: Because Granny had high fever.
C) What was the response from others? Ans:The kids felt a sigh of relief that she would not climb up trees.
A) What was felt like a hell? Ans: A week in bed was felt like a hell by Granny.
B) Why did she feel like hell? Ans:Granny couldn’t climb trees during bed rest and felt it was like a hell to her.
C)What was heaven to her? Ans:She was happy in climbing trees.It was like a heaven to her.
A) Who said this? Ans: Granny said this.
B) Where was she? Ans: She was in bed rest.
C) Why couldn’t she lie there no longer? Ans: She wanted to climb up trees again. So she could not lie no longer.
A) Who does ‘my dad ’refer to? Ans: ‘my dad ’refers to the poet’s father.
B) What did he consider his duty was? Ans: He considered his duty was to build a tree-house for his mother.
A) Who assisted whom? Ans: The poet assisted his father.
B) What did he assist for? Ans: He assisted his father to build a house on tree top for Granny.
C) Whose responsibility was that ? Ans :It was poet’s father’s responsibility to finish the chore.
B) What was her state? Ans: She was in a happy state.
C) What was her right? Ans: Her right was to live in a tree house.
Comment on the poem Grandma climbs a Tree?
Ans: The poem ’Grandma Climbs a Tree ’is written by Ruskin Bond.She was a genius and different from others.She could climb up trees very quickly even at the age of sixty two.She had such an unusual gift since childhood.She was very happy in a tree than in lift of cities. She disliked materialistic life but she liked the life amidst nature. When her neighbours advised her to stop climbing tree in old age and spend her life gracefully,she rejected their advice. She learned climbing trees at six from her loving brother.But others felt she might have a terrible fall some day.One day she climbed up a tree but could not come down.She had fever in that fear.the doctor recommended her a week bed rest.But she felt it like a hell.Soon she recovered and asked for a house on tree top.Her son fulfilled her wish.He and the poet built a house on tree top. The Granny eonjoyed her remaining part of life happily.Thus Granny enjoyed her unusual gift of life in nature. |
0.988892 | Is there any way to stabilize spalted wood enough so that it can be turned?
Michael Dresdner: You will find both a waterbased fortifier and an epoxy-based filler and stabilizer in home stores, and both work to a degree. The best bet, though, might be to check out Polycryl, a material made specifically for stabilizing spalted wood intended for woodworking. |
0.997465 | This article is about the year 1703.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1703.
1703 (MDCCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1703rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 703rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 3rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1700s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1703 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Thursday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
January 14 – An earthquake hits Norcia, Italy.
January 30 (December 14 of previous year in the Chinese calendar) – In Japan, the revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin occurs, assassinating Daimyo Kira Yoshinaka, the enemy of their former lord Asano Naganori, at his own mansion as a vengeance. 46 of the 47 samurai commit seppuku, a ritual suicide on March 20 (February 4 in the Chinese calendar).
February – Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, starting the tradition for Mobile, Alabama.
February 3 – An earthquake hits the town of L'Aquila, Italy, killing 3000 and damaging many buildings.
April 21 – The Company of Quenching of Fire (i.e., a fire brigade) is founded in Edinburgh, Scotland.
May 26 – Portugal joins the Grand Alliance.
May 27 (May 16 OS) – The city of Saint Petersburg is founded in Russia following Peter the Great's reconquest of Ingria from Sweden during the Great Northern War.
June 15 – Hungarians rebel under Prince Francis II Rákóczi.
June – The completed Icelandic census of 1703 is presented in the Althing, the first complete census of any country.
July 29–July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing his politically satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) (his release is granted in mid-November).
August 23 – Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
September 12 – War of the Spanish Succession – Habsburg Archduke Charles is proclaimed King of Spain but never exercises full rule.
October – A whirlwind blows down the tower of the Gan Takal in Gondar, capital of Ethiopia, killing 30.
November 19 – The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.
November 24–December 2 – The Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8,000, mostly at sea.
November 30 – Isaac Newton is elected president of the Royal Society in London, a position he will hold until his death in 1727.
December 27 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty, which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported into England.
December 28 – Ahmed III succeeds the deposed Mustafa II as Ottoman Emperor.
French-born imposter George Psalmanazar arrives in London.
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0.974559 | What is the difference between mental health counseling and coaching?
Mental health counseling is chosen over personal coaching when you, the client, are experiencing internal distress or difficulty managing external circumstances that are severely impacting emotional states and reactions, and disrupting stable lifestyles and relationships of all types. Diagnosis is based on the DSM-V, and usually the sessions are covered by insurance, but there are instances of clients paying privately. Each session is 50 minutes at my office, with the first session consisting of addressing policies and procedures and a comprehensive assessment, including initial goal setting. From this assessment, we create a treatment plan to guide us through the subsequent sessions until termination of therapy occurs.
Sometimes people seek out counseling out on their own, and sometimes it is recommended by another healthcare professional, family member or close friend. The benefits of counseling depend on several factor such as rapport with your therapist, and how the techniques and methods the therapist offers fit with the issues you desire to address. Therapy yields the greatest benefits when the client takes responsibility for their own healing, using the therapist as a collaborative assistant in this process.
NOTE: I am licensed to practice mental health counseling ONLY in the state of Rhode Island. If you need mental health counseling and reside in a state that is inaccessible to Rhode Island, please consult your local guides for an appropriate licensed therapist in your state.
Personal coaching is chosen when a client needs support achieving specific goals in the creation of a healthier, more authentic lifestyle, and to enhance their personal growth. It is shorter than psychotherapy in duration, and active, solution based; although delving into old belief patterns can extend the need for coaching, at the discretion of the coach and client. There is an initial assessment, but there is no mental health diagnosis. The sessions can be held via videocalls, phone, or in person in my office, depending on the location and preference of the client. Personal coaching is private pay only, and I offer several packages to suit the needs of the client. There are policies and procedures involved, similar to the ones for counseling. As with counseling, the client experiences the greatest benefit when taking responsibility for their choices and actions, using the coach as an assistant to their process. |
0.999999 | A grid-column that is an instance of this class allows the user to select and/or move grid-rows by clicking the cells where they cross the grid-column. The selectable property of a row must also be true before the row may be interactively selected, and the movable property of a row must also be true before the row may be interactively moved. In other words, a row may be interactively selected at a particular cell if the row is a selectable one and the column at that cell is an instance of row-selecting-column-mixin; and (likewise) a row may be interactively moved (among the rows in its grid-row-section) at a particular cell if the row is a movable one and the column at that cell is an instance of row-selecting-column-mixin.
This feature is typically used only in a grid-column that serves as a set of row headers, so that the special row-selecting and/or -moving behavior does not override other cell-click behavior in the body of the grid-widget. Nevertheless, it may sometimes be desirable to use this class for multiple columns of a grid.
The user uses this feature by moving the mouse cursor into a cell in a selectable or movable grid-row where it crosses a row-selecting-column-mixin column. The user may click and drag vertically in this cell to reposition the grid-row, or click and release without moving the mouse more than *start-drag-slack* pixels to toggle the selected property of the row. When the mouse button is released after a drag, the row is positioned among the rows in its grid-row-section so that it is just below all of the rows whose vertical centers are above the final vertical center of the drag box (this should be intuitive). A drag may be canceled either by pressing the Escape key before releasing the mouse button or by releasing the mouse button while the drag box is positioned where the row would snap back to where it was already.
An individual selectable grid-row may be added to the current set of selected rows in its grid-row-section by holding down the control key while clicking the row; if the row is already selected, then this deselects the row instead. If the shift key is held down while clicking a selectable row, then the range of rows that just encompasses all of the rows that were already selected plus the row that was clicked are then left in a selected state (regardless of their selected state beforehand).
For an example of row-selecting-column-mixin, see the Navigator dialog example (on the Examples tab) entitled "Grid-Widget: a basic replicated editable-text column". See also the class row-header-column, which combines this class with row-sizing-column-mixin and grid-column for use as a typical column of row headers. |
0.762262 | With a total fertility rate of 2.01 (in 2012), France is the most fertile country in the European Union, similar to the Republic of Ireland.
Population density in the French Republic at the 1999 census. All territories are shown at the same geographic scale.
The demography of France is monitored by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) and the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE). On the 1 October 2016, 66,821,000 people lived in the French Republic, including all the overseas departments. 64,695,000 of these lived in Metropolitan France, the part of France located in Europe.
France was historically Europe's most populous nation. During the Middle Ages, more than one quarter of Europe's total population was French; by the 17th century, this had decreased slightly to one fifth. By the beginning of the 20th century, other European nations, such as Germany and Russia, had caught up with and overtaken it. However, the country's population sharply increased with the baby boom following World War II.
According to INSEE, since 2004, 200,000 immigrants entered annually into the country. One out of two was born in Europe and one in three in Africa. Between 2009 and 2012, the number of Europeans entering France increased sharply (+ 12% per year on average).
The national birth rate, after dropping for a time, began to rebound in the 1990s and currently the country's fertility rate is close to the replacement level. According to an INSEE 2006 study, "The natural increase is close to 300,000 people, a level that has not been reached in more than thirty years."
Among the 802,000 newborns in metropolitan France in 2010, 80.1% had two French parents, 13.3% had one French parent, and 6.6% had two non French parents. For the same year, 27.3% of newborns in metropolitan France had at least one foreign-born parent and 23.9% had at least one parent born outside of Europe (parents born in overseas territories are considered as born in France). Between 2006 and 2008, about 40% of newborns in France had one foreign-born grandparent (11% born in another European country, 16% born in Maghreb and 12% born in another region of the world).
Racial and ethnic censuses have been banned by the French government since 1978, since the term "race" in France invokes associations with Nazi Germany.
France was historically the largest nation of Europe. During the Middle Ages more than one quarter of Europe's population was French; during the 17th century it was still one fifth. Starting around 1800, the historical evolution of the population in France has been extremely atypical in the Western World. Unlike the rest of Europe, there was no strong population growth in France in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The birth rate in France diminished much earlier than in the rest of Europe. Thus population growth was quite slow in the 19th century, and the nadir was reached in the first half of the 20th century when France, surrounded by the rapidly growing populations of Germany and the United Kingdom, had virtually zero growth. The slow growth of France's population in the 19th century was reflected in the country's very low emigration rate. While millions of people from all other parts of Europe migrated to the Americas, few French did so. Most people of French extraction in the United States are descended from immigrants from Quebec, whose population was rapidly growing at this time.
After 1945, France suddenly underwent a demographic recovery. In the 1930s the French government, alarmed by the decline of France's population, had passed laws to boost the birth rate, giving state benefits to families with children. Nonetheless, nobody can explain this sudden recovery, which was often portrayed inside France as a "miracle". It was also atypical of the Western world: although there was a baby boom in other Western countries after the war, the baby boom in France was much stronger, and lasted longer than in most other Western countries (the United States was one of the few exceptions). In the 1950s and 1960s France's population grew at 1% per year: the highest growth in the history of France, higher even than the best periods of the 18th or 19th centuries.
Since 1975, France's population growth rate has significantly diminished, but it still remains slightly faster than that of the rest of Europe, and much faster than at the end of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. In the first decade of the third millennium, population growth in France is the fastest of Europe, matched only by Ireland, which has also historically undergone stagnant growth and even decline relative to the rest of Europe until recently. However, it is slower than in the United States, largely because of the higher net migration rate to the USA.
The following compares the past, present, and future size of the French population with other entities in Europe and in the world. All statements refer to France as understood in its modern borders; this pertains also to other countries. Historians suggest that France has been the most populous state in Europe since at least the period of Charlemagne and the Frankish Empire, or even earlier. A definitive date is impossible to determine and we can only rely on historical estimates.
In the above list, Turkey is not considered a European country. Turkey was less populous than metropolitan France until 1992, and has been more populous since then.
to make comparisons easier, figures provided below are for the territory of metropolitan France within the borders of 2004. This was the real territory of France from 1860 to 1871, and again since 1919. Figures before 1860 have been adjusted to include Savoie and Nice, which only became part of France in 1860. Figures between 1795 and 1815 do not include the French départements in modern-day Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy, although they were an integral part of France during that period. Figures between 1871 and 1919 have been adjusted to include Alsace and part of Lorraine, which both were at the time part of the German Empire.
figures before 1801 are modern estimates; figures from 1801 (included) onwards are based on the official French censuses.
The population of France is predicted to hit the 70 million mark between the year 2025/2030 and to overtake Germany's between 2050/2060, with 75,6 million French for 71 million Germans in 2060. Although the UK is predicted to overtake France by 2030. By 2080, the population of France is estimated to reach 78,8 million (with overseas department, but without the overseas territories).
Evolution of Marriage (blue) and Civil Union (red) in France (INSEE).
The vital statistics below refer to France Métropolitaine and do not include the overseas departments.
The scope of foreign origin can be estimated by the National Screening Program for Sickle Cell Disease because the genetic disease very rarely affects European people. Newborn babies with at least one parent who originates from a risk region are screened. The screening suggests that in 2000, 19 percent of all newborn babies in mainland France had at least one parent originating from one of the risk regions. The figure for 2007 was 28.45 percent, for 2010 31.5 percent, for 2012 34.44 percent, and for 2013 35.7 percent.
The modern ethnic French are the descendants of Celts, Iberians, Ligurians, Italic peoples (including Romans) and Greeks in southern France, later mixed with large group of Germanic peoples arriving at the end of the Roman Empire such as the Franks the Burgundians, Alamanni and Goths, very small portions of Moors and Saracens in the south, and Scandinavians, Vikings who became, by mixing with the local population, the Normans and settled mostly in Normandy in the 9th century.
Of European ethnic groups not indigenous to France, the most numerous are people of Italian family origin and it is estimated that about 5 million citizens (8% of the population) are at least partly of Italian origin if their parentage is retraced over three generations. This is due to waves of Italian immigration, notably during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Other large European groups of non-native origin are Spaniards, Portuguese, Romanians, Polish, and Greeks. Also, due to more recent immigration, between five and six million people of Maghrebi origin and approximately 800,000 Turks inhabit France. An influx of North African Jews immigrated to France in the 1950s and after the Algerian War due to the decline of the French empire. Subsequent waves of immigration followed the Six-Day War, when some Moroccan and Tunisian Jews settled in France. Hence, by 1968, North African Jews were about 500,000 and the majority in France. As these new immigrants were already culturally French they needed little time to adjust to French society. Black people come from both the French overseas territories (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, and former colony Haiti) and Sub-Saharan Africa (especially Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal). France has the largest black population in Europe.
Solis, a marketing company, recently estimated the numbers for ethnic minorities (immigrants and 2nd generation) in France in 2009 as 3.26 million Maghrebis (5.23%), 1.83 million Black people (2.94%), 1.08 million Sub-Saharan Africans and 757,000 French from French West Indies) and 250,000 Turkish (0.71%) .
In the 20th century, France experienced a high rate of immigration from other countries. The immigration rate was particularly high during the 1920s and 1930s. France was the European country which suffered the most from World War I, with respect to the size of its population, losing 1.4 million young men out of a total population of 40 million. France was also at the time the European country with the lowest fertility rate, which meant that the country had a very hard time recovering from the heavy losses of the war. France had to open its doors to immigration, which was the only way to prevent population decline between the two world wars.
At the time, France was the only European country to permit mass immigration. The other major European powers, such as the UK or Germany, still had high fertility rates, so immigration was seen as unnecessary, and it was also undesirable to the vast majority of their populations. The majority of immigrants in the 1920s came from Italy and Poland, though some also came from 1930s came from elsewhere in southern and eastern Europe, and the first wave of colonial French subjects from Africa and Asia. This mass immigration was ended and partially reversed by the economic problems of the 1930s. By the end of the Spanish Civil War, some half-million Spanish Republican refugees had crossed the border into France. At this time, Judaism was the second most populous religion in France, as it had been for centuries. However, this would soon change.
After World War II, the French fertility rate rebounded considerably, as noted above, but economic growth in France was so high that new immigrants had to be brought into the country. Most immigrants were Portuguese as well as Arabs and Berbers from North Africa. The first wave arrived in the 1950s, but the major arrivals happened in the 1960s and 1970s. More than one million people from the Maghreb immigrated in the 1960s and early 1970s from North Africa, especially Algeria (following the end of French rule there) . One million European pieds noirs also migrated from Algeria in 1962 and the following years during the chaotic independence of Algeria. France has over three million French of Algerian descent, a small percentage of whom are third-or fourth-generation French.
In 2014, the National Institute of Statistics (INSEE is its acronym in French) published a study, according to which has doubled the number of Spanish, Portuguese and Italians in France between 2009 and 2012.
As at 1 January 2006, INSEE estimates that the number of foreigners living in metropolitan France amounted to 3.5 million people. Two out of five foreigners are from Portugal, Algeria or Morocco. Thus, EU nationals immigrating to France comprise 1.2 million people, and 1.1 million people are from the three Maghreb countries of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. It is interesting to note that immigrants are concentrated in Île-de-France, Rhone-Alpes, Provence and Côte d'Azur regions, accounting for 60% of the total immigrant population. Furthermore, there appears to be a lower rate of immigrants arriving from the EU since 1975 as opposed to an increase in African immigrants.
In the first decade of the 21st century, the net migration rate was estimated to be 0.66 migrants per 1,000 population a year. This is a very low rate of immigration compared to other European countries, the USA or Canada. Since the beginning of the 1990s, France has been attempting to curb immigration, first with the Pasqua laws, followed by both right-wing and socialist-issued laws. This trend is also demonstrated in anti-immigrant sentiments among the public. For example, the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. conducted a public opinion poll in February 2004 among French nationals. This poll measured the extent of support for restricting immigration among French nationals, by age cohort. 24% of individuals 18 to 29 were restricting immigration, with 33% of individuals 30 to 49 and 53% for both 50 to 64 and 65 and over. Nearly nine years later, a January 2013 poll conducted in France by Ipsos found that 70% of respondents said that there were "too many immigrants in France".
In the early 21st century there were an estimated 5 million Muslims in France, one million Protestants, 600,000 Buddhists, 491,000 Jews, and 150,000 Orthodox Christians. The US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2004 . estimated the French Hindu population at 181,312. These studies did not ask the respondents if they were practicing or how often they did practice if they were active in the laity.
The following is a list of the twenty largest aires urbaines (metropolitan areas) in France, based on their population at the 2011 census. Population at the 2006 census is indicated for comparison.
1 2 3 INSEE. "Fécondité totale, fécondité selon le groupe d'âges de la mère et âge moyen des mères à l'accouchement" (in French). Retrieved 2013-11-12.
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↑ Two foreign-born parents do not automatically grant French citizenship.
↑ Bleich, Erik. "Race Policy in France". Brookings Institution. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
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↑ INSEE, Government of France. "Bilan démographique 2008" (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2009.
↑ Falko Baumgartner: The Africanization of France...as of 2014 Council of European Canadians, 20 October 2014.
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↑ Many famous French people, including Edith Piaf, Zinedine Zidane, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Bashung, Claude Zidi, Arnaud Montebourg, Catherine Belkhodja, Jacques Villeret and Dany Boon, are partly of Algerian descent.
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0.935469 | "Saya minum susu, kamu minum air."
Translation:I drink milk, you drink water.
Why does this sentence mix the formal "I" and the informal "you"? Shouldn't it be the formal "Saya minum susu, Anda minum air" or the informal "Aku minum susu, kamu minum air"?
Hai! That just depends on the context, of course. In Indonesian, it is possible to mix these pronouns in many situations. And I always wanted to know why. But I think, first, it is easy to understand the informal use of both pronouns when the relation is intimate, between children, close friends or in a very close relationship. When the context is formal, even the same relationship (when other adults are present) would use formal addreses (Ibu, Bapak, Mbak, Mas, Kak, Saudara, Saudari, Adik, even the proper name or surname is combined or not with the term of address in the place of the pronoun), most of the time between adults, and perhaps one adult can decide to avoid the formal pronoun when addressing to a child, but always using Saya in the conversation. Still, I think I cannot explain it so well because I am not a native, but I know a simple example for the Duolingo sentence (using Saya / kamu) is when a teacher talks to a young student or teenager. Then, in the conversation, the teacher use the pronoun Saya, but would avoid using Anda to address the student, even more when the student is very young; perhaps to not be extremely formal or to not treat (ironically) children like adults, and also that use cannot mean to be disrespectful in any way. The student would use both Saya / Anda to not be disrespectful, and I think it would be better not to change Saya to Aku, or Anda to Kamu for any reason. Then, I think it is always the "authority" (or between authorities, directors, enterpreuners) that keep the formal address, and can mix the informal address, not for oneself, but for others.
I would also like to hear some native voices (I know the uses can change in different regions of Indonesia), and perhaps they can add more options for formal and informal conversations.
And please, it is better not just to keep the simple formula "Saya = formal, Aku = informal" (I agree), and "Anda = formal, Kamu = informal" (not always); in the second person, the formula could also be, "Anda = polite, very formal", and "Kamu = polite, familiar, informal", so this cannot be always so clear.
the robot sound weird, what i hear is "Saya minum susu, kamu minum mair" are you guys hear it too?
Nope. I hear “minum air”. It most likely is because “air” has an “ieeair” sound, so when beside a sound like “m” it flows into each other easily if you are not used to hearing spoken Indonesia at this level of pacing.
Its not kind of language which commonly used here, its sounds weird especially cause there is no "and" between the coma and the word "you" |
0.99994 | How do I replace the following Swift code for iOS using the DispatchQueue class? This is old Swift 3 code that the newest Xcode won't convert to Swift 5.
Other than using DispatchQueue, what other alternative do I have to fix this error?
Is there anything similar to MotionLayout for iOS? I have created basic animations while scrolling, implementing ScrollViewDidScroll method, and wanted to know, maybe there is already an option to adapt something similar to MotionLayout in UIKit.
My project worked perfectly, no mistake, all right. But now I do not know what happens the next day, Android Studio marks me the tag "@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" as non-existent, which previously did not throw me at all no error. Now when I try to test my application does not let me open it.
Now try to uninstall Android Studio and delete all your folders, try doing a new project, try to put the Google Material Buttons and when you open it again I got the same error. Could someone be kind to help me? I do not want to lose my whole project because of Android Studio.
The problem I get is the following. I also attach how my styles.xml file and my build.gradle file are structured, as well as an example of the structure that all the buttons have in general. I know that I can instantiate my main theme of MaterialComponents but my problem is that if I do, many of my dependencies, their styles stop working correctly.
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: This component requires that you specify a valid TextAppearance attribute. Update your app theme to inherit from Theme.MaterialComponents (or a descendant).
I have an application(koa 2) which currently serves nearly 200 connections sending data every 5 seconds from Postgres DB via web-socket and sends json data on front-end requests (20 - 50 connections). There are some functionalities in application for statistic reports and that's all for today. But i was told that this application will grow and there will be 1000 web-socket connections minimum, up to 5000 or more, there should be common api for connecting third party applications, which sends their data into db, analytical module for report calculations, connection module to special ERP system, and module working with geo coordinates. Maybe in future there will be more modules with other features.
The question is can nodejs handle all of this features or we should use other languages for this project, such as Java or C#?
I am a freshman in the computer science right now. Actually, I have been learning C and other kinds of programming since I was about first grade in high school.
I am learning about the Postfix and Prefix Expressions right now.
Let's say that we have a code in C99.
I skipped preprocessor part and main function part to save some space. Also, I do know that using those expressions to evaluate 'b' is not a good way.
In GCC, I think the calculation process is done like this.
So, it is done 10 + 11 = 21 in this case.
However, in Visual Studio, I think the calculation process is done like this.
So, it is done 10 + 10 = 20 in this case.
The first question is, Am I understanding this correctly?
I have learned from the textbook that, side-effect comes after the ;(semicolon). In that case, it matches the Visual Studio case. However, It does not seem to fit in the GCC case in my opinion since the side-effect came before the semicolon.
The second question is, So, does the timing when side-effect comes vary between compilers?
Since I live in Korea, where we do not use English as native language, so I might sound little strange. I hope your understanding. And also, I do not know how compiler works, so I might say something different and wrong.
Thanks for reading this long question. Have a Nice day!
What are the advantages and the limitations of using Formal Specifications?
I have researched through the internet on either the advantages and disadvantages that the use of formal specifications and specifically Code Contracts in C# might have. I have found various answers but I didn't manage to identify the key points on the pros and cons as I have mentioned before. Could I have some assistance on that topic and any relevant source that will help me?
I want to use Visual Studio and want to create a C++ Desktop Application with the Ribbon UI, but everywhere I look, I can't find a solution that would help me get started or I must have missed something. I learned about the Windows Ribbon Framework but Microsoft Docs doesn't exactly specify where it is or how to download it unless its part of some package I don't know about but frankly I'm at a loss; it's not obvious to me. Can anyone help me?
We want to build a URL shortening service.
I was analysing which type and specifically which database to use for the purpose.
Based on the mentioned points, persistent Key-value store should be the best option for the same.
Can someone please help me out, if I missed anything in the consideration or if I may be wrong here. It would be of help.
I think it has something to do with this object I make.
I am doing research for developing a software platform and I have created some class diagrams for the platform. My supervisor adviced me to use UML profiles as well to describe the platform in a more detailed way. However, after googling i still do not really get the difference between the Class diagrams and UML profiling. At the moment I do not think you can connect them. Can anybody help me with my question?
let image = UIImage(named: "demo")!
Is it possible to make refund with In-App Purchases in Swift?
If user make In-App Purchase in iOS application, could him make refund in application after this? Does Apple Pay allows it?
how to detect triple click on website on ios device?
How to add Shadow on surface plane?
With this the output looks like this Image 1.
which has nothing to do with status bar is effecting it.
I am getting some data using Intent from A activity to B activity. And I show the text in B activity. But When I go to C Activity and I want to come back to B activity, the text that I have show there, vanished. So I need to save the data at B Activity When I come back from C Activity to B Activity.
cannot open sign In configuration page with google gmail?
I want to play/stream audio from url one after other automatically.
but here first audio url gets played when i click on backtoback named button but failed to play second audio from url.
How to implement to GET Method from Retrofit for this api and how the modal class will be in Android using Java?
How to create a circular MKPolygon?
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