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0.966799 | What Is Closed Virtual Currency?
Closed virtual currency is an unregulated digital currency that is used as payment only within certain virtual communities. It has no connection to the real economy and cannot be converted to legal tender.
Closed virtual currency is also called non-convertible virtual currency, closed loop currency, closed-flow virtual currency and in-world money.
Technology advancements all over the globe are driving disrupting changes in the traditional way of doing things including the way goods and services are acquired and paid for. The rise of e-commerce and virtual community platforms has led to a demand for alternative means of conducting transactions.
One rapidly evolving payment technology that is making waves in the digital world is virtual currency. Virtual currency is a type of digital money that is used to purchase real-world goods or services online but has no legal tender status in some countries.
Closed virtual currency is an unregulated digital currency that is used as payment only within certain virtual communities.
From an economic and legal standpoint, virtual currency is not recognized as a full form of money.
Because open currencies have a determinable value in real money and can be exchanged for real money, they are treated as properties or capital assets for tax purposes in the US.
Virtual currency can be either open or close in regards to its reach. An open virtual currency is one that can be substituted for real money using online exchange systems or ATMs that are designed for virtual to real currency exchanges.
An example of an open virtual currency is Bitcoin, the most popular decentralized cryptocurrency online. Because open currencies have a determinable value in real money and can be exchanged for real money, they are treated as properties or capital assets for tax purposes in the U.S.
Closed virtual currencies were created to operate in closed-loop environments and are limited to transactions in virtual goods within the closed environment. A closed platform allows for real currency to be exchanged for its virtual currency. In contrast, open virtual currencies can be redeemed for real goods and real currency.
Closed virtual currencies are centralized by design, compared with decentralized peer-to-peer currencies like Bitcoin that are ungoverned by any central authority. With a closed virtual currency, there is a central system that issues the currency, establishes rules for its use, records transactions made by its users, and reserves the right to withdraw the currency from circulation.
There are some prevalent setbacks with closed currencies. The currency is usually illiquid and digitally scarce with no way to create more of it, unlike Bitcoin mining, which creates more Bitcoins for its users. A user can lose all of his earned coins in a matter of seconds through cyber thefts, software bugs, or account termination initiated by the virtual administrator or the user himself.
For example, think of closed virtual currency as closed-loop payment cards like the Nordstrom store credit card that can only be used in Nordstrom.
Further, the currencies used in many online games are closed. Virtual assets acquired in-game can be traded for other in-game tools or currency and therefore, do not produce any taxable income.
Other forms of closed virtual currencies include frequent flyer miles, loyalty points and video arcade tokens.
Convertible virtual currency is an unregulated digital currency that can be used as a substitute for real and legally recognized currency. |
0.990241 | What does the 'per Polarization' of the label 'Bandwidth per Polarization' in the sensitivity calculator mean?
ALMA is capable of receiving two orthogonal polarizations (X and Y) simultaneously, each of which detects half of the radiation from an unpolarized source; the frequencies detected by each polarization are identical. Therefore, if both X and Y are detected (as is the case for dual or full polarisation observations), the sensitivity is increased compared to the single polarization case as the "effective bandwidth" is doubled compared to the "bandwidth per polarisation" (for Single_X observations the effective bandwidth and the bandwidth per polarisation are the same). To calculate the effective bandwidth, the ALMA Sensitivity Calculator requires that you enter both the number of polarizations and the "bandwidth per polarization" i.e. the summed frequency range of interest that would be detected by either of the polarizations individually. |
0.999989 | Over decades, rail transport has been playing a key role in building nations by carrying thousands of goods and people across a particular nation on trips of business, discovery and pleasure, as well as opening up the vast open spaces, thereby creating development and market opportunities. To this end, the following are the most notable rail distances in the world: 1. A rail trip between Moscow in Russia and Pyongyang in North Korea is the longest distance rail trip in the world with a space of 10,267 km. The usual time always planned for the trip is 206 hours. This means it takes a train not less than 8 days to complete the journey. 2. A rail trip from Moscow in Russia to Vladivostok in Russia is the 2nd longest rail trip in the world with a space of 9, 289 km, the normal hours for the trip is 144 hours. In order words, it takes a train 6 days to complete the journey. 3. Moscow in Russia to Beijing in China through Harbin railroad is the 3rd longest rail trip in the world with a space of 8,984 rail km; the journey will take 6 days or 145 hours. 4. Moscow in Russian to Beijing in China through Ulaanbaatar railroad is a distance of 7,826 km and it will take 127 hours or 5 days and few hours to complete the journey. 5. The rail distance between Moscow and Tommot in Russia is 7,318 km and a train is expected to use 140 hours or 5 days and few hours to complete the journey. 6. From Kashgar to Yingtan in China is a rail distance of 5,166 km, and itwill take 72 hours 39 minutes or 3 days and few hours for a train to complete the journey. 7. A trip between Guangzhou to Lhasa in China is about 4,980 km; such a trip will take 53 hours or 2 days and some hours for a train to complete the journey. 8. Shanghai to Yining in China is 4,742 km and its normal travel time for a train to complete the journey on the route is 55 hours 43 minutes or 2days and few hours. 9. Guangzhou to Urumqi in China is a 2 days journey of 4,684 km distance; a train is expected to spend 49 hours, 34 minutes. 10. From Toronto to Vancouver in Canada is 4,466 km railroad; such a trip will take a train 86 hours or better still 3 days and few hours. |
0.904634 | Do you have difficulty hearing in noisy areas? Is it harder to hear men’s voices than women's voices? Or, do voices sound mumbled or slurred to you?
These are just a few of the common symptoms associated with hearing loss, which is much more common than you may think.
According to the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, approximately one in three people in the U.S. between the ages of 65 and 74 has hearing loss, and nearly half of those older than 75 have difficulty hearing.
Hearing loss can be very frustrating, and isolating, when you feel like you can’t participate fully in life and are unable to hear what's going on. Adding to the stress is the fact that Medicare does not cover hearing aids, and health insurance typically does not either. Under Medicare, hearing tests are generally covered with a physician's referral. And in some states, Medicaid provides coverage for hearing aids.
In lieu of the overall lack of hearing benefits available, the cost of a hearing aid can be a lot for many older Americans to take on. According to research from The Hearing Review, obtaining hearing aids from a licensed hearing aid dispenser can cost upwards of $1,000 for two basic devices (in a bundled-service model) with costs rising in excess of $6,000 for the inclusion of more advanced features.
Meanwhile, the potential hearing-impaired population in America is growing larger every year. By 2029, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that more than 20 percent of the total population will be 65 years of age or over.
If you need one but you're putting it off because of the costs, there are several ways to save money on hearing aids. Here are some tips to help you be a smart and sound hearing aid buyer.
First, do your research: Hearing aids are a big investment and their lifespans are not infinite. So, start by doing your homework and looking for a reputable and certified audiologist—credentialed medical professionals that are trained in evaluating hearing and fitting hearing aids. You can search for one in your area through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Also, make sure you understand all the terms and conditions of any contracts and what is and is not included, such as extra visits or a money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied with your hearing aid device.
Benefits for veterans: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides a hearing aid benefit for veterans if the hearing loss was connected to military service or linked to a medical condition treated at a VA hospital. Also, if your hearing loss is severe enough to interfere with daily activities, you can get a hearing aid.
To learn more about this benefit for veterans, go here or call 1-877-222-8387.
Try a discount health plan: Some non-insurance discount health plans can help you save money on hearing aids and evaluations, in addition to supplementary services like dental care and vision. If you're not familiar with discount health plans, these membership programs work like being a member at Costco or Sam’s Club. You get a discount when you visit in-network providers or a discount on select name-brand hearing aids (depending on what your plan includes).
You can find various discount health plan options through a variety of associations, organizations and companies, such as Careington, :DentalPlans, Coverdell and New Benefits.
For Medicaid recipients: As previously mentioned in this article, Medicaid does provide some coverage for hearing services in certain states. For example, Florida's Medicaid program covers the following: hearing aids; hearing evaluations to determine hearing aid candidacy; hearing aid fitting and dispensing; and hearing aid repairs and accessories.
To see if and what your state covers, visit the Hearing Loss Association of America online.
Your tax deductions: As always, health care costs that exceed 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income can be deducted from your federal income taxes if you itemize. To reach this percentage, consider purchasing a hearing aid and opting for any elective surgery procedures or other health and wellness appointments in the same year. On your medical expenses, you can include the cost of a hearing aid and batteries, repairs, and maintenance needed to operate it.
To find out what other medical and dental expenses can be itemized on your taxes, view the IRS Publication 502.
Do you have any tips that can help people save money on hearing aids? Please share those tips with us in the comments below. |
0.938352 | Colins was commissioned lieutenant on 2 November 1761.
During September 1769 he took the recommissioned schooner Magdalen out to Virginia from Portsmouth where she remained for the next six years. In June 1775 the Magdalen was threatened by the inhabitants of Williamsburg and a militia led by the prominent rebel Patrick Henry after the beleaguered governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, had ordered the removal of gunpowder from the local magazine. Colins was later obliged to evacuate the governor and Lady Dunmore down river to Yorktown.
By the autumn of 1776 he had succeeded the indisposed Captain George Montagu in command of the Fowey 24, and reaching Staten Island he took part in the landings on Manhattan during the New York campaign of July – October. Returning to England in December, the Fowey underwent a long refit before returning to New York in November 1777, during which period Colins had been promoted commander with effect from 23 August. The six-week passage took its toll however, with Colins being obliged to transfer over a third of his crew to hospital on her arrival, whilst on 21 November Captain John Henry was appointed to the command of the Fowey.
Later commanding the Zebra 14 from the spring of 1778, Colins was despatched by Vice-Admiral Lord Howe to watch for the arrival of the French Toulon fleet on the American coast, and after bringing in news of their approach he commanded her at the defence of New York in July. At the end of September he took the Zebra out of New York with fifteen other small vessels in what became known as the Egg Harbour Expedition and proceeded to Chestnut Neck where he ordered the destruction of the town and ten vessels on 6 October. Following the arrival of rebel artillery he decided to abandon any further advancement, but with the ships being unable to re-cross the bar the Zebra was abandoned in Little Egg Harbour on the 21st, being fired and blown up the next day.
Colins was posted captain on 20 March 1779 and he commanded the Victory 100 as the flagship of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy in the Channel from 28 March, taking part in the retreat of August 1779. Removing from the Victory on 12 May 1780, he was appointed to the Aurora 28 later in the year in which he captured the privateer Espérance 10 off Lands End on 23 April 1781 and the Comte de Guichen 18 on 4 May, prior to leaving his command in the same month. He next joined the Aeolus 32 in February 1782, capturing the privateer Aglaé 20 off Cornwall on 18th April whilst sailing for Newfoundland. She was eventually paid off in April 1783.
Colins commanded the Culloden 74 from 1789-91, being attached to the Grand Fleet during the Spanish Armament on 1790, and going out to the Leeward Islands with Rear-Admiral Samuel Pitchford Cornish at the end of the year before coming home to be paid off in March 1791. |
0.999905 | OK, I have been asked what would the world be like it we lead a dog's life, so I cobbled together a list..
* Always run to greet loved ones when they come home.
* Never pass the opportunity to go for a joy ride.
* Recognize the ecstasy of fresh air and wind in your face.
* Take naps and stretch before rising.
* Run, romp and play daily.
* On warm days, lie on your back in the grass. On hot days, drink lots of water and find the shade.
* When you're happy, dance around and wag your entire body.
* Never pretend to be something you're not.
* If what you want is buried, dig deep until you find it.
* And, when someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.
Seems pretty complete to me! How much better would your life be if you could follow this? |
0.941669 | British explorers have recently discovered a new cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in central Quang Binh province, which they classified as the world's most beautiful, magnificent cave, park officials said on July 18.
The cave, found in the core zone of the park, which was recognised as a world heritage site by UNESCO in July 2003, has a width of nearly 200m and a ceiling height of around 100m, with some places measuring even higher. The cave's total length has not yet been determined.
Home to uncountable stalactites bearing mysterious and magnificent beauty, the cave was named "Paradise" by the British explorers and the park.
Howt Bert, a member of the British explorers group of the Royal Court and also a renowned speleologist, said no cave in the world could compare with "Paradise" in terms of its beauty.
The Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is located to the north of the Truong Son mountain range. Home to abundant limestone formations, it is considered an ideal site for researchers and explorers of grottoes and caves.
The park covers 85,000 hectares, including the oldest limestone mountain range in Asia. It has a system of nearly 300 caves, including Phong Nha cave, and dozens of unexplored mountain peaks of more than 1,000 metres, such as Co Rilata (1,128m) and Co Preu (1,213m).
Vietnamese and British scientists have so far surveyed more than 20 grottoes and caves, of which 17 are in Phong Nha with the remaining three in Ke Bang.
The Phong Nha cave that lends its name to the entire system is probably the most beautiful with many fascinating rock formations carrying evocative names such as The Lion, the Fairy Caves, the Royal Court and Buddha.
Phong Nha also boasts long underground rivers, large caverns and passageways, wide pristine sand banks and astonishing rock formations.
The park's tropical forest is home to 36 of the more than 750 rare plant species and 89 animal species listed by the Viet Nam Red Book as endangered or protected.
The area is also home to archaeological relics, such as the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Cham, and historical sites such as King Ham Nghi's base built for the war against French colonialists, and the Xuan Son ferry station, the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Road 20 used during the American war. |
0.999944 | I wish to have discourse on the quality of love called happiness.
Happiness is the experience of joy, contentment, and positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, successful, and worthwhile.
The feeling of happiness is achieved by following one’s heart and doing what they love. When one does this, the individual feels connected with the happiness that is within them.
They have a sense that everything they have been looking for in their life is already within them and can be accessed at any time. By connecting with their true nature through regular periods of stillness and silence, their outer circumstances and experiences reflect to them their inner state of being and this brings them more abundance, love and fulfillment in their lives.
There are many ways one can train their mind to achieve happiness. They can choose loving thoughts, words, and actions in every situation they encounter throughout their day. The more they cultivate their inner knowing through love, compassion, joy, and observation, the more they become a vibrant source of happiness for themselves and this happiness radiates outwardly to others.
It is in one’s innermost essence of divine connection that joy and happiness naturally arises. One does not have to do anything in particular to create it. One finds lasting happiness in the realization that true happiness and peace of mind cannot be found in anything external; it can only be found within them.
By actively engaging in positive thoughts, words, and deeds, it brings them closer to their true divine nature. When they are in touch with their true nature, these positive qualities within them spontaneously manifest.
Experiencing happiness is about looking deeply within to see which action brings them true happiness and which ones to eliminate because they bring suffering. Happiness requires discipline and effort; but when one is nourished by happiness, exercising discipline becomes a joyful action which brings them to more calmness, clarity, contentment, and insight and they treasure every moment of life that they have.
One’s mental state has a tremendous influence on how they experience their daily life. The greater their peace of mind, the greater is their ability to enjoy a happy and joy filled life.
This state can transform their entire outlook on life, and their approach to living it in a way that adds to the daily happiness in their lives, even if nothing in their external situation changes.
When they are able to recognize and appreciate their blessings, it takes them to a state of happiness. They endeavour to constantly nourish their minds with philosophies of inspired and uplifting words that remind them about true happiness.
True happiness comes not from expecting to live a comfortable life without problems and hardship, but rather from a life in which one pursues their dreams despite the challenges and obstacles which beset them. This focus gives them the gifts of inner strength, insight, and wisdom.
What matters most for one’s soul journey in the world at this time, is to find the avenues of experience and expression that are conducive to finding their soul’s calling, beneath all the layers of outer experiences and outer expectations that have been piled upon them throughout their lifetime is true freedom.
They rely on and trust that the challenges and temptations that come their way are helping them to learn and grow. This gives them the opportunity to strengthen their commitment to following their soul’s inner promptings.
They are aware that individually and collectively, they are part of a vast and magnificent universe. They can interact with it on a beautiful, personal, and intimate level.
They know that they are part of something powerful which responds to them through the emotions they feel and the thoughts that they think and will bring them happiness as their hearts desires come to fruition.
When one appreciates that good things come by looking forward to a positive outcome in the future, it has a powerful impact on one’s happiness levels in the present moment.
By making a conscious effort to be more optimistic, one can feel happier and more relaxed in their everyday lives. Focusing on the positive aspects of one’s life restores inner balance and encourages mindfulness of oneself and the world around them.
One feels more in tune with what is happening within and around them. One finds that they can cope more easily with situations that might upset their inner tranquility and happiness.
It gives them the power to make good decisions for self and those around them. The more they feel in control of their lives and the choices they make, the deeper their feeling of inner happiness and peace.
Deeply happy and truly powerful people cultivate this deep and authentic spiritual connection, which affects their inner core and produces happy results. Their happiness comes as a result of their choice to be true to self and by being kind, caring, compassionate, and gentle with others. |
0.562766 | (CNN) - Andrea Constand, the key witness in Bill Cosby's retrial on indecent assault charges, testified during cross-examination why she agreed to a $3.38 million civil settlement in which Cosby did not admit to wrongdoing.
"Do you agree that on many subjects you have been inconsistent with what you have told police?" Mesereau asked her.
Following Constand's testimony Monday, her mother, Gianna Constand, took the witness stand.
Gianna Constand said she called Cosby on the phone and recorded their conversation after her daughter told her of the alleged assault.
"I wanted to know what medication he had given Andrea, and what he had done to her," Gianna Constand testified. "He proceeded to tell me what he did to her sexually."
Gianna Constand testified that Cosby said during the phone call that he was a "sick man."
The mother began crying on the stand when asked how she knew what Cosby allegedly did to her daughter. "Because he told me," she responded, through tears.
Gianna Constand had some testy exchanges with Cosby attorney Kathleen Bliss during cross-examination. She accused Bliss of bullying her and asking off-topic questions, saying at one point, "Don't talk to me like that."
When asked about the $3 million settlement between her daughter and Cosby, Gianna Constand said she did not know how much money was involved until she read about it in a newspaper.
"This isn't about money, Ms. Bliss," the mother said.
Andrea Constand testified Friday that she drank wine and took three blue pills at Cosby's urging in January 2004, then lost consciousness and, sometime later, was "jolted awake" to find the entertainer sexually assaulting her.
Mesereau also pointed out that Constand made phone calls to Cosby after the alleged assault, including on Valentine's Day. Constand said the call came as part of her professional duties with the Temple University women's basketball team.
"I called many people on Valentine's Day, sir," she said.
Heidi Thomas, Chelan Lasha, Janice Baker-Kinney and Lise-Lotte Lublin each testified last week that Cosby incapacitated them with drugs or wine and then assaulted them in separate incidents decades ago. |
0.999999 | Yes, San Francisco is known for its cool temps and fog. But don't necessarily let that guide how you dress and prepare for your hike. The weather conditions you'll encounter will all depend upon the trail you're on and the season in which you're hiking. In addition, Bay Area weather varies dramatically from mile to mile, as the region is full of microclimates, or small pockets of weather [source: Grant's San Francisco Travel Guide]. In one area, it might be 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius) with little wind, while a few minutes away, it's 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14 degrees Celsius) and damp.
Nevertheless, there are some things to keep in mind regarding Mother Nature. The rainy season is from November to March; there's little or no rain the rest of the year. And despite the wild weather variations mentioned above, overall the average year-round temps range from about 40 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit (4 to 21 degrees Celsius), so the weather is never extreme [source: Grant's San Francisco Travel Guide]. What does all of this mean for hiking?
Because the weather can change fairly dramatically from region to region, no matter which trail you select, it's best to carry a few basics with you when hiking, such as a hat, water-resistant jacket, light rain or wind pants, gloves, an extra pair of socks, and an emergency space blanket. And layers are always a good idea, especially for longer hikes [source: Hiking Guide]. You may start out in chilly, foggy weather, then end up with sunny, warm temps that will leave you sweating profusely if all you have are a long-sleeved shirt, pants and a thick coat. |
0.999996 | Lists some examples of correct and incorrect ways of forming FORTRAN expressions.
Fortran provides for the use of certain common mathematical functions.
The most important is computing a new value of a variable, which is done with an arithmetic assignment statement. Its general form is a = b, in which "a" is a variable name, written without a sign, and "b" is any expression. |
0.953224 | How do I end a Rescue Session?
You can end a Rescue Session by selecting the session you want to end, and then clicking the red "X" End Session button near the top of the console. You can also right-click the session and select End. |
0.984554 | Does a Project processed with Pix4Dmapper Discovery need to be reprocessed with Pix4Dmapper Pro?
If project is processed using Pix4Dmapper Discovery, it can be opened with Pix4Dmapper Pro.
The default Discovery settings and the settings defined by the user will be loaded when opening the project with Pix4Dmapper Pro. Therefore, when switching from Discovery to Pro license, some processing options need to be adjusted.
None of the outputs require to process step 1 again in order to be generated / exported.
2. Select the processing step 1. Initial Processing.
3. Select Advanced (at the bottom left corner).
4. Select the tab Calibration.
5. In the Output section, select Camera Internals and Externals, AAT, BBA: Menu Process > Processing Options... > 1. Initial Processing > Calibration.
6. On the Menu bar, click Process > Generate Quality Report: Menu Process > Generate Quality Report.
On the Menu bar, click Process > Save undistorted images: Menu Process > Save Undistorted Images.
None of the outputs require to process step 2 again in order to be generated / exported.
It is generated during step 2. Point Cloud and Mesh, but cannot be exported using the Discovery version.
To export the point cloud from the rayCloud with the Pro version: How to export the Point Cloud.
To generate the 3D Textured Mesh: Menu Process > Generate 3D Textured Mesh.
None of the outputs can be generated using Pix4Dmapper Discovery. Run step 3 to generate the outputs of step 3. DSM, Orthomosaic and Index.
Check the processing options before running step 3. For more information: Menu Process > Processing Options... > 3. DSM, Orthomosaic and Index > DSM and Orthomosaic. |
0.999421 | How long should an artist wait between full-length releases? Should prolificacy be an unconditionally celebrated trait, or should some consideration be paid to audience fatigue? I don't have any hard statistics on this, but I'd guess that the average wait between any two full-length releases is about a year and a half. It's a long enough period of time to allow one album's hype to grow and fade out, and give the fans a bit of a breather before having something new foisted on them. It's also probably beneficial to the artist, since it gives them some time to fully develop ideas and visions for the next album. I mention this because Bring on the Snakes has come along only thirteen months after the release of Crooked Fingers' eponymous debut, which has yet to leave my stereo's heavy rotation. And regardless of a desire to be fair toward it, the album still feels like afterbirth of its predecessor, a shrugged-shouldered sophomore slump.
Eric Bachmann, the main creative force behind Crooked Fingers, has a proven track record of continuing musical experimentation; as part of the Archers of Loaf and Barry Black, he attempted to develop a different facet of his sound on each album. He certainly wasn't always successful, but there's something to be said for the effort. The first Crooked Fingers album, an outgrowth of Barry Black's expanded arrangements, combined with further refinements of Bachmann's curmudgeonly lyrical outlook, was just varied enough to avoid criticism of being repetitive. But Bachmann was clearly treading on thin ice, and with Bring on the Snakes, he falls right through.
The saving grace of Crooked Fingers was the small group of friends Bachmann assembled for recording, who provided much-needed instrumental variation between songs. On Bring on the Snakes, however, Bachmann goes it alone, sticking with a steady stream of fingerpicked guitar, droning tones, and sparse percussion. Less interesting arrangements combined with less focused lyrics turn the album into one long, generic Crooked Fingers track, laying bare the slightness of Bachmann's songwriting formula.
To be fair, there are some minor differences between the two Crooked Fingers albums, but they're far outweighed by the similarities. "The Rotting Strip" clatters along with Magnetic Fields-like toy-synth noise, and near-optimistic lyrics, a first for Bachmann: "[We] crossed our hearts half-hoping/ That we could both quit smoking/ And kick the booze and blow/ And one day go make something of ourselves." His characters-- usually broken-down, self-destructive drunks haunted by devils and lost in crowds of strangers-- have started to think that there may be a way out of their hopeless lives after all; but it's really only a minor development that gets folded into the larger lyrical picture, which is still rife with decay and decimation to the point of tedium.
So while Bachmann's lyrical ideas and melodies creep forward ever so slightly, the only thing to take solace in is the occasional odd atmospheric noise or unintentional musical reference. The fingerpicking on "Devil's Train" strongly recalls Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing; "Doctors of Deliverance" is propelled by an oddly clean electronic pulse; and the title track features the subtle ticking of a clock, or perhaps the clip-clop of a horse's hooves, to keep time. When it comes down to it, though, Bring on the Snakes remains Eric Bachmann's first album that doesn't exhibit a significant musical development. Had more time been allotted to experiment with other techniques, or even to just develop the songs, it's conceivable that something better might have come out of it. I guess we'll never know. |
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Watch video · Exchange-traded funds have soared in popularity, but advisors caution clients to weigh the pluses and minuses before abandoning mutual funds for ETFs. The pros and cons of Exchange-Traded Funds. By Dave Meyer & Greg Heberlein • Apr 10, Tweet Share Google+ Email. aercept.info Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are a . |
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0.964151 | Take a hard-boiled egg and crack its shell. Does the egg remind you of anything? The Earth, perhaps? The egg could be seen as a tiny model of the Earth. '); document.writeln(' The thin shell represents the Earth\'s crust, divided into plates; within the shell is the firm but slippery mantle. '); document.writeln(' Move the pieces of shell around. Notice how the shell buckles in some places '); document.writeln(' and exposes "mantle" in other places. The same thing happens on Earth, but on Earth, this activity results in the formation of mountains, earthquakes, and new ocean floor. |
0.958809 | We exhibit a pseudorandom generator with nearly quadratic stretch for randomized Turing machines, which have a one-way random tape and a two-way work tape. This is the first generator for this model. Its stretch is essentially the best possible given current lower bounds. We use the generator to prove a polynomial lower bound for the stronger Turing machine model where we also have a two-way read-only input tape. This is the first lower bound for this model. |
0.966635 | Thornton Wilson, born in 1792, and his wife Mariah Kendrick, born in 1805, moved from Bourbon County, Kentucky and settled in the Union area of Boone County, where they raised eleven children. Their children were: Cumberland (1819-1902); Mary “Polly” (1821-1901); James 1823-1867); Maria (1827-1900); George (1829-1861); Nancy (1832-); Martha (1833-1904); Thomas (1836-1925); Joseph (1838-1901); Rachel (1840-1919); and William (1846-1919). Their children and grandchildren married into prominent local families including: Allen; Beil; Rouse; Scroggins; Smith; and Walton, among others. Living descendants have been be found in Oklahoma and Texas. Thornton, Mariah and over 25 of their related family members are buried in the family cemetery located on what was the Wilson Farm along Long Branch Road. Due to development, the Wilson Cemetery is scheduled to be relocated in the summer of 2016 to nearby Union Rice Cemetery, where other Wilson descendants are interred. |
0.975127 | Bob Rafkin has come into his own as a premier singer, songwriter and guitar finger stylist. He has won awards for his work, writing timeless music, instrumentally and lyrically, as evidenced on his seven Lake Ridge Records recordings.
"Down This Road", released in 1994, was lauded by DIRTY LINEN, "He's an exceptional guitarist, has a smooth, pleasing voice, and his years spent in the studio show in the simple, yet effective arrangements." Since then, Rafkin has released seven other CDs, "Out Of Jericho", "The Circus Is In Town", “One Man Band”, Songs Of Bob Rafkin and three guitar instrumental CD’s, “Velvet Hand”, “Six String Christmas” and his latest “Eclectic Treehouse”. Two of Bob’s instrumental albums have been featured on The Weather Channel.
Bob's career in music has had many twists and turns which have brought him full circle.
Born in New York City, Bob grew up in Washington D.C., Cleveland and Philadelphia. Rafkin's musical journey actually began when he headed for Greenwich Village in the mid-sixties where he joined forces with David Blue to form the campy folk-rock group, The American Patrol.
In the Village, Bob met folksingers Phil Ochs and Eric Andersen, and Eric Jacobsen, producer for the Lovin' Spoonful, Tim Hardin and Sopwith Camel. He played guitar on and contributed musical arrangements to Eric Andersen's 1966 album, "More Hits From Tin Can Alley," on Vanguard Records.
In 1967, Eric Jacobsen moved to San Francisco to start Sweet Reliable Productions. Bob also relocated there to work as a producer, musical arranger and session guitarist. Old friends David Blue and Phil Ochs moved to Los Angeles, where Bob eventually settled after breaking with Jacobsen in 1968. He played on and produced David Blue's 1972 Asylum LP, "Stories," and played on two LP's by Phil Ochs, including the legendary live album, "Gunfight At Carnegie Hall." Jobs were plentiful as Bob worked along side producers Henry Lewy, Larry Marks and Lenny Waronker.
He played on sessions for Gene Vincent, The Everly Brothers, Randy Newman and Arlo Guthrie, and was hired to rework Joni Mitchell's1972 song, "Blonde In The Bleachers," for a single release.
Bob's songwriting career took flight in the early seventies with his song "Lazy Waters," covered by the Byrd's on their LP, "Farther Along." He wrote the score for a PBS documentary, furnished the off-camera recording for actor Greg Evigan (B.J. McKay on the NBC TV program "B.J. and the Bear") and his song, "Ain't Gonna Rain No More" was featured on the soundtrack to the feature film "Spree".
Bob's first-rate guitar playing was in demand for Tim Buckley's "Sefronia" album and Augie Meyer's 1973 Polydor LP "Western Head Music Company." He collaborated on a country song with rock and roll legend, Johnny Tillotson.
After the untimely passing of David Blue, Phil Ochs and Tim Buckley in the mid-seventies, Rafkin took time off from the studio scene to redirect his life and establish his own woodworking business, allowing his creative desires an outlet without the immense pressures of the recording industry.
In 1991, Bob relocated to central Florida where he currently lives with his wife and daughter. So began the current phase in his rich musical life. All seven of his CD’s were composed and recorded since his 1991 move. In 1994, Bob was a winner in the Florida Guitar Finger Picking Championship and the South Florida Festival Songwriters Competition. Besides his private guitar teaching and clinics, Bob has performed all over Florida, in Nashville at the Bluebird Cafe and at the Bethlehem Musikfest in Pennsylvania. He opened for Willie Nelson in 1997 and 1999. In 2002 and 2003, Bob toured the United Kingdom with country music artist, Annie Sims. Since then, Bob has returned to the U K each year, performing solo.
I liked this CD very much. It is traditional yet unique and interesting. The guitar work is great, of course. I have listened to it three times already, and I've only had it a few days.
Really enjoy the easy listening guitar music. I may have to listen to this CD year around. I put Rafkin's playing up there with Doyle Dykes and Tommy Emmanuel.
Warm, spiritual, and a treat for the soul at this soul-full time of year.
This is a great CD for the car or general listening. The traditional favorites each reflect the artist's special interpretation - making them new again. A much enjoyed addition to the season!
A great Christmas offering...up there with John Fahey's "Christmas Guitar" |
0.878785 | Is your website harming your brand?
Your web design is not user-friendly - If your website is out-of-date and disorganized, visitors are going to have trouble finding what they're looking for or simply exploring your site. Some of the ways that you can make your web design more user-friendly is by providing clear calls-to-action, making it easy to contact you, setting up an easy-to-find FAQ page and making sure your web design is mobile-friendly.
Your web design isn't visually appealing - First impressions matter, which means that if your website has a clunky or unimpressive visual design, it will reflect poorly on your brand. People will always judge a book by its cover, after all. You need to put effort into the layout of your website, the color scheme, the fonts you use and the types of images you use to create an overall aesthetic that's instantly appealing - all while remaining consistent to your brand.
You're not targeting a specific audience - A common mistake businesses make is to try and please as large of an audience as possible. Trying to target everyone is only going to result in diminished results. Your website should be built with your target audience in mind. By targeting a specific audience, you're more likely to engage with and connect with higher quality leads. This means that you should make sure you know who your target audience is by developing a buyer persona before you begin building your website.
Related Post: What your website tells customers.
Your website's content is bland - It doesn't matter how much helpful information you pack into your content, if it's bland, your readers won't connect with your brand. Read through your content. If it reads too formal, if there's too much industry jargon and if there's no personality to it, then there's a good chance your readers will be unable to connect with it. You want your copy to have some personality - directly address your audience so that they can engage with your brand. Just make sure it's appropriate to your brand identity.
You don't showcase your brand's benefits - If a visitor spends some time on your website and is unable to gather what the unique value proposition of your brand is, then you have a problem. You need to show visitors how your products or services can be a solution to their problems and needs. This can be done through product and service pages, about pages, FAQ pages, your blog and a customer testimonial page.
Your website isn't regularly updated - If your website remains unchanged for a long period of time, it's going to hurt your search rankings, which will, in turn, make it more difficult for potential leads to find you. Not to mention that readers of your blog will stop visiting your site if you never post new content. Update your blog frequently and engage socially so that you remain relevant to visitors and search engines.
These are some of the web design mistakes that could potentially hurt your branding efforts. For more professional advice on implementing a successful web design, be sure to contact us at EnvisionIT Solutions today. |
0.975873 | The most fascinating thing about Antarctica travel is the sometimes superlative facts about conditions on this continent. This short article has basic information about geography, weather, and history.
Geography: 98% of Antarcticas surface consists of ice and most of this ice sheet is 1 mile (1.6 km) thick. On the coast, 95% consists of ice, including ice shelves, ice walls, and ice streams or glaciers; the remaining 5% consists of rock. Scientists have been able to determine what the continent looks like beneath the ice via the use of technology such as satellite imagery, radar, and remote sensing, and have found subglacial lakes and mountains. Global warming and melting or collapsing of ice shelves has become a concern in recent years.
Antarctica is divided into east and west by the Transantarctic Mountain Range, and the divisions corresponds roughly to the eastern and western hemispheres. Vinson Massif is the highest mountain in Antarctica, rising to 16,050 feet (4,892 meters) above sea level. Ross Island also contains Mount Erebus, the worlds southernmost active volcano.
One important characteristic is the elevation; much of the continent rises to 2 miles (3,000 m) above sea level. 90% of the worlds ice is in Antarctica, representing 70% of the worlds fresh water. Despite the ice, Antarctica is a desert. Along the coast, only 8 inches of rain fall annually, and further inland, this is much less. It is estimated that the South Pole receives approximately 4 inches of precipitation annually.
Weather: The coldest temperature ever recorded on the planet was in 1983 at Vostok Station: 128.6 F (-89.2 C). In summer, on the coast, temperatures average between 41 F (5 C) and 59 F (15). Higher elevations in East Antarctica result in generally colder temperature.
Human settlement: From the first sightings of the Antarctic continent in the 1820s and 30s, sporadic expeditions have reached the waters off the land mass and until recently only a few people actually set foot. The largest semi-permanent populations were comprised of whalers and sealers from Norway, Britain, and the U.S.
Today, the harsh environment and difficult terrain have been major deterrents for permanent human settlement. However, research stations host a small population of scientists, numbering approximately 1,000 in the winter and 5,000 in the summer. |
0.953126 | The Speaker is elected by the House of Representatives in a secret ballot, with an election held whenever the Office of the Speaker is vacant, as set out in Chapter 3 of the House of Representatives Standing and Sessional Orders. The Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives conducts the election. In accordance with longstanding tradition, the MPs who move and second the nomination of the successful candidate "drag" him or her to the chair after his election.
Unlike the Speaker of the House of Commons in Britain, the Speaker generally remains an active member of their party. If a party member, the Speaker will continue to attend party meetings, and at general elections will stand as a party candidate. There were two exceptions to this: the first Speaker, Frederick Holder (1901) and Peter Slipper (2011), who resigned from their respective parties upon election as Speaker, and sat as independents.
A Speaker ceases to hold that office if, for any reason, he or she ceases to be a member of the House. There is no convention in Australia that the Speaker should not be opposed in his or her seat, and three Speakers have been defeated at general elections: Littleton Groom (1929), Walter Nairn (1943) and William Aston (1972). Because the Speaker is always the nominee of the governing party, there is no expectation that a Speaker will continue in office following a change of government. While the Opposition usually nominates one of its own members for Speaker after a general election, this is understood to be a symbolic act, and party discipline is always followed in any ballot.
By reason of section 40 of the Constitution, while in the Chair, a Speaker does not have a deliberative vote, but if there is a tie in votes, the Speaker has a tiebreaker vote.
Most Speakers have been senior backbenchers of the party holding office at the start of a new Parliament, or at the time of the death or resignation of an incumbent Speaker. Five Speakers have been former government ministers: William Watt, Littleton Groom, Archie Cameron, Ian Sinclair and Bronwyn Bishop; one a former Parliamentary Secretary: Stephen Martin; and one both a former minister and a former Leader of the Opposition: Billy Snedden. Two were former state premiers: Holder and Watt. There is no convention in Australia that Speakers should resign from Parliament at the end of their term; two Speakers have become Cabinet ministers after having been Speaker: Norman Makin and Gordon Scholes.
Bronwyn Bishop was elected Speaker on 12 November 2013, as the Coalition's first female Speaker of the House and the third female Speaker, after Labor's Joan Child (1986–89) and Anna Burke (2012–13). The 43rd Parliament (2010–13) was the first Australian federal parliament to have had three Speakers: Harry Jenkins (elected September 2010), Peter Slipper (November 2011), and Anna Burke (October 2012).
All male Speakers have been addressed by members as "Mister Speaker" while in the Chair. Joan Child chose to be addressed as "Madam Speaker", as female Speakers are usually referred to in other parliaments. The former Speaker, Anna Burke, broke with this tradition and ruled that her official form of address is merely "Speaker."
The Speaker's principal duty is to preside over the House and maintain order in the House, uphold Standing Orders (rules of procedure), rule on points of order, and protect the rights of backbench members.
The Speaker is assisted by two deputies, both also elected by the House: the Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker, the latter of which must be elected from an opposition party. If the Speaker is absent, the Deputy Speaker would become the Acting Speaker and the Second Deputy Speaker the Acting Deputy Speaker. If both the Speaker and Deputy Speaker are absent the Second Deputy Speaker would become Acting Speaker. The Speaker also appoints members to serve on the Speaker's Panel, who often take the chair during noncontroversial debates, and also preside over deliberations in the Federation Chamber.
The Speaker, in conjunction with the President of the Senate, also administers Parliament House, Canberra, with the assistance of an administrative staff. The Speaker has accountability obligations to the Parliament for the Department of the House of Representatives.
A member of the House who wishes to resign would tender his or her resignation to the Speaker (but not to an Acting Speaker), or if there is no Speaker to the Governor-General. During the Joint Sitting of 1974 the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Jim Cope was the presiding officer.
While impartial, the Speaker does not usually quit the membership of his or her party – as is traditional Westminster convention. The only two speakers to have not been formally a member of a party were Sir Frederick Holder (who resigned from the Free Trade Party upon taking the role) and Peter Slipper (who resigned from the Liberal Party the day after his election to the chair).
On the other hand, the Speaker is not an active political figure like the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He or she does not take part in debates in the House, does not vote in the House except in the (rare) event of a tied vote, and does not speak in public on party-political issues (except at election time in his or her own constituency). He or she is expected to conduct the business of the House in an impartial manner, and generally does so.
In 1929 Speaker Littleton Groom declined to come into the House and cast a vote in committee when his vote would have saved the Bruce government from defeat. As a result, he was expelled from the Nationalist Party and defeated in his constituency at the subsequent election.
In 1975 the Whitlam government refused to support Speaker Jim Cope when he named government minister Clyde Cameron for disrespect to the Chair: normally this would have resulted in the minister's suspension from the House. The Speaker resigned on the spot. This is the only occasion on which a Government failed to support a Speaker after a Member had been named.
In 1982 Speaker Billy Snedden refused to insist that an opposition frontbencher, Bob Hawke, retract an allegation that the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, was a liar. Snedden stood his ground despite furious demands from government members that Hawke either be made to retract or be named.
In addition, a notable occurrence in 2011, a Speaker survived being countermanded by the House. After a contentious debate on carbon pricing in which Speaker Harry Jenkins declared a "general warning" for all members, Liberal MP Bob Baldwin interjected and was named by the Speaker. The Government accordingly moved that he be suspended, but Baldwin was supported by the Coalition, independent MP Rob Oakeshott and WA Nationals MP Tony Crook. The resulting vote on suspending Baldwin for 24 hours failed 71–72. Convention would normally have required the Speaker to resign, but the House of Representatives immediately thereafter approved a motion of confidence in the Speaker, and as a consequence, Speaker Jenkins continued in office.
Precedents for independent MP Speakers are former LNP member Peter Slipper who was the second speaker in the hung parliament resulting from the 2010 election; Frederick Holder who was initially elected for the Free Trade Party at the inaugural 1901 election, serving as an independent while speaker until his death in 1909; and in the Senate, Labor's Mal Colston became an independent and Deputy President of the Senate following the 1996 election.
In the previous hung parliament elected at the 1940 election, the United Australia Party's Walter Nairn was speaker during the Curtin Labor government that was formed in 1941. Opposition MP Carty Salmon initially served as speaker for the first federal Australian majority government, the Andrew Fisher Labor government, resulting from the 1910 election. At the 1913 election, Labor's Charles McDonald was offered retention of the Speakership by the incoming one-seat-majority Commonwealth Liberal Party, but declined – later however, after Labor's return to government at the 1914 election, McDonald regained the Speakership until the subsequent election despite the mid-term change to a Nationalist Party government.
A Member elected Speaker is entitled, while Speaker, to the title "The Honourable", which, with the approval of the Sovereign, may be retained for life. This privilege is usually only given to those who have served as Speaker for at least three years. Speaker Harry Jenkins (2008–11) was the first Speaker to ask that "The Honourable" title not be used in reference to him, while also making clear that he was not attempting to set a precedent for future Speakers; he was simply not personally comfortable with the title.
Following the Westminster tradition inherited from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the traditional dress of the Speaker includes components of Court dress such as a black silk lay-type gown (similar to a Queen's Counsel gown), a wing collar and a lace jabot or bands (another variation included a white bow tie with a lace jabot), bar jacket, and a full-bottomed wig. The wig available for use by the speaker was used by Herbert 'Doc' Evatt when he was a High Court Justice (1930–1940) and was donated to the Parliament by Evatt when he was elected to the House in 1951. The wig is currently on loan from the speaker's office to the Museum of Australian Democracy. Another addition used by earlier speakers, though only for the most formal occasions, included court shoes and hose.
The dress of Speakers has often varied according to the party in power, but is determined on the personal choice of the Speaker. Most non-Labor Speakers have worn some variation of the traditional dress. All Labor Speakers have eschewed the traditional dress in favour of ordinary business attire as appropriate for a member of parliament, following the example set by their first Speaker, Charles McDonald.
Billy Snedden (1976–1983) was the last Speaker to wear the full traditional attire of the Speaker, complete with the wig. On the election of the Howard Government in 1996, the new Speaker, Bob Halverson, chose to wear the traditional court dress of the Speaker upon his election in April 1996, but without the wig. Speaker Ian Sinclair opted to wear a gown, albeit of a simpler academic style, during his brief term in 1998, a practice mirrored by his successors, Neil Andrew and David Hawker. Speaker Harry Jenkins resumed Labor practice from 2007 until the election of Peter Slipper in late 2011. Slipper went a step toward restoring the traditional dress by wearing a gown and bar jacket underneath his business attire. Slipper also took to wearing a white long tie or bow tie, in a variation from the lace jabot or bands. For example, he wore a wing collar with white bow tie and bands on the occasion of his first formal procession into parliament. The first speaker of the Abbott Government from 2013, Bronwyn Bishop, the first non-Labor woman to hold the post, continued wearing business attire with no gown, a practice continued by her successor, Tony Smith.
The following is a list of Speakers of the House of Representatives.
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^ "Historical Information". Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia (22nd ed.). Parliament of Australia. 2011. p. 602. |
0.999988 | The second book I wrote, back in 2009, was After Jessica, a crime mystery novella published in October 2016. You can download this novella via http://mybook.to/AfterJessica (which links to the Amazon page in your country) or directly from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com etc.
Extract: He slammed both hands on the emergency brake and the train jolted, slowing nowhere near as quickly as he was pleading it to. He could hear shouting from the carriage behind him, but was too busy concentrating on what, or who, was in front of him to pay any attention. His first thought was another clueless animal, but as he got nearer, he realised it was a car and something inside it was moving.
You can download this novella via http://mybook.to/AfterJessica (which links to the Amazon page in your country) or directly from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com etc. |
0.934367 | What kind of ambience does your house exude? The formality of your furniture and surrounds will dictate the kinds of faux finishing techniques available to you. I do NOT add texture to walls; there is only an appearance of texture—whether the method is color washing, glazing, marbleizing, ragging, antiquing or crackle finish.There are reasons for this: I love paint, as it is as temporary or permanent a medium as you want it to be.
Should you ever decide to re-paint or re-decorate, all you will need to do, if anything at all, is prime the wall(s). It is also extremely physically labor-intensive. I also believe you can add dimension without adding texture. In addition to basic techniques, I can also paint, mimicking all kinds of stone, brick, wood, metal and fabrics, including leather, satin, suede and much more! |
0.997526 | While the question asks for a single source, the variety of problem solving processes out there are similar enough that they can be synthesized together relatively easily. The process below is a result of the works cited at the end, which range from 5 to 8 total steps.
The aim of this step is to take careful stock of the issues faced and the problem to be resolved, for only by knowing the problem can we begin to solve it. This involves understanding both how the problem is affecting us, and any desired outcome we may have. Usually, the affects of the problem and the desired outcome will be rather obvious, but it is always good to take some time to evaluate these items in a systematic manner to ensure that they are clearly understood and correct. Often, this step helps us also determine if a problem is "too big" or if it needs to be redefined (or refined) into a set of smaller issues in order to ensure that it is manageable.
The aim with this step is to understand why the problem occurred in the first place. There are many reasons that we may wish to know and understand these causes, including: A) knowing that the problem may recur, we would like to find a reliable way out of the issue; B) in order to prevent the problem from recurring, we are likely to need to address the root causes of the issue as a part of our solution, or as part of a longer term plan to mitigate those root factors; or C) to simply explain why we are in the current situation to a superior or to a committee.
This step usually begins with a brainstorming session, in which many ideas are presented and placed upon the table all at once. Each idea is then evaluated based on its merits and how easily and efficiently it brings the problem to resolution. Additionally, all solutions should be noted and recorded, without prejudice, to ensure that the best solutions remain on the table and eventually are used to resolve the issue. Before ending this section of the process, ensure that all who have presented ideas have fully explained their thoughts on the solution, to ensure that their solution can be adequately weighed against the others.
It is during this step that discussion of the potential solutions are now weighted based on resources required, circumstances faced, time needed, and aspects of realistic implementation are brought to the fore. Here, solutions are eliminated based on the factors that matter most to the people implementing the solutions, usually starting with the most restrictive factor and moving to the least restrictive: for example, if funds are restricted but time is not, a project that takes a long time but is cheap is more likely to be chosen than one that takes a short amount of time but is more expensive.
Once a plan is chosen, it is then implemented: resources are allocated, people are given tasks, and reporting times are set up to ensure that milestones are met and tracked correctly. It is important that implementation be done according to the original plan as much as possible, to ensure that the planning phase was not time ill-spent. Generally, the best plans to implement are ones that involve the changing of systems or processes, not ones that involve someone "working harder" at a current process. A single person should usually be put in charge of a project and made responsible for its completion.
As mentioned above, reporting on milestones and tracking of completion is important. Additionally, however, the plan should be reviewed at specific stages to ensure that it is on track, and once it is determined that the plan is "completed," a full review should be done at that time as well. Doing this ensures that the plan addressed the issue it was supposed to address, that it addressed it correctly, and that the outcome achieved was the same one that was desired back at the beginning of the process. If the problem is not solved, then it is time to return to the top and re-examine the problem and seek a new solution, after determining why the initial solution did not work as planned.
Problem Solving Process. http://www.c-pal.net/course/module3/pdf/Week3_Lesson21.pdf. Accessed 11/28/09.
Basadur, Min. Simplex: A Powerful Problem Solving Process. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_10.htm. Accessed 11/28/09.
The Problem Solving Process. http://www.gdrc.org/decision/problem-solve.html. Accessed 11/28/09.
McNamara, Carter. Basic Guidelines to Problem Sovling and Decision Making. http://managementhelp.org/prsn_prd/prb_bsc.htm. Accessed 11/28/09.
UBUYACAR. Problem Solving Process. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/ubuystudent/process.html. Accessed 11/28/09. |
0.996082 | What are the advantages of Vite compared to other public chains?
There have yet to be many infrastructure chain projects that employ an asynchronous architecture because there are severall downsides, but the performace is like comparing an automobile to an airplane engine.
Vite splits transactions into pairs according to a “request-response” pattern. The writing and verification of transactions are asynchronously decoupled, which results in ultra-high throughput. Inter-contact communicatoins are based on an asynchronous messaging model.
Vite uses the DAG mechanism because its TPS (Transactions Per Second) is much higher than other infrastructure chains. At present, Vite uses the Snapshot Chain to resolve the security weaknesses in DAG.
Let’s go in detail with the innovation of Vite with the following points!
Firstly, Vite applies an asynchronous architecture to the message-driven of smart contract. Nano (a DAG project) divides the transfer into two actions: billing and recording. Meanwhile, Vite draws on Nano and extends it to the smart contract. Transactions are divided into accounts. A call transaction has two parts: a request and a respond transaction. In Block-lattice, there are a independent chain for each account, while DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) usually says a tangle structure which does not support the mentioned feature. Transactions in DAG could refer to multiple blocks while in Vite the transaction pair only happens between sender account chain and receiver account chain. In Vite, the transaction is written onto the ledger and is asynchronous.
Secondly, in Vite, users can write a lot of transactions to the ledger within limit TPS, but the throughput is confirmed asynchronously, which smooths the confirmation of transactions, maximizes the use of the system resources, and improve the throughput of the whole system. In the meantime, transactions are sent in one account, leaving those in other accounts unrecognized for a longer periods.
Last but not least, Vite is expected to use the asynchronous design for inter-contract calls. With an event-driven architecture, every smart contract is viewed as an independent service. Contracts communicate via messages without sharing state. Vite adopts message-driven architecture. There is no state sharing between contracts. Users only communicate by sending message to each other.
Transactions in Vite are grouped by accounts. That is, each transaction only changes the state of one single account. Sending transactions are separated from receiving transactions, which obviates waiting for a transaction to be completed before the initiation of another one. The hierarchical design of the consensus algorithm allows horizontally scale in consensus groups.
I believe with those criteria, Vite is a technical coin, and expected to be the most promising blockchains project of 2018.
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Vote for official SBPs and get rewarded!!
The rewards obtained by these five SBPs will be distributed in two ways: 70% will go to users that vote for the official SBPs, 30% will go to the full node operators.
These five SBPs are expected to generate 8000+ VITE as voting rewards. The earlier you vote, the more rewards you collect!
What’s a Supernode? What does SBP stand for? What does it all have to do with Vite? Let’s go back to basics and introduce our Supernode + Full Node Incentive Programs to any new fans we have out there.
1) What is a supernode?
2) Why are supernodes in Vite called Snapshot Block Producers?
Local Consensus: Happens at the level of user accounts and smart contract accounts. Vite’s Block Lattice DAG ledger means that each user and smart contract has its own chain. Delegated Consensus Groups are hand-picked sets of full nodes who determine the state of smart contracts.
Global Consensus: Global Consensus happens at the Snapshot Chain level, through the Snapshot Consensus Group. The Snapshot Chain is an overall ledger of all chains at the Local Consensus level; though it does not store the whole ledger, it stores key information such as account balances and roots of Merkle Trees of smart contract states.
The relationship between Local Consensus and Global Consensus is captured in the following analogy: a company records its financial transactions (Local Consensus) and an auditor confirms that they are correct (Global Consensus). Supernodes are members of the Snapshot Consensus Group, from which the top 100 are eligible to become SBP’s.
Snapshot Block Producers (SBP) are the top 25 voting supernodes within the Snapshot Consensus Group, who produce blocks for the Snapshot Chain. Vite invented the Snapshot Chain to mitigate security issues posed by DAG architecture, which are well known.
SwissVite is an outstanding example of an SBP. We previously highlighted them in this article. They are a team of five based in Geneva, Switzerland.
3) Why should I become a supernode and SBP?
You get rewards based on performance. Our team will help you grow your community and stand up your supernode!
$) We provide weekly rewards for growing your community and developing your local ecosystem as an extension of Vite. We accept proposals through the Vite Forum. If approved, we double your rewards for the week and we showcase you to our entire community.
$) We select the top two entries for monthly rewards and give these projects additional rewards equivalent to their block producing reward for that month.
A great submission would be something similar to the recent campaign by SnapSecure. They are another great example of an SBP. In this campaign, SnapSecure had fans guess full node rewards and encouraged their community to explore our Full Node Incentive Program. Vite is happy to co-sponsor community campaigns and competitions with our SBP’s.
4) How can I become a supernode/SBP or full node?
Set up a full node. This takes 10 minutes maximum. full nodes keep the complete Vite ledger, vote for SBP’s and earn rewards unique to full nodes.
Check out this amazing full node tutorial by SnapSecure!
2. Set up a supernode in order to become an SBP. Be ready to stake VITE through your wallet and start the process of getting votes!
Check out this amazing SBP tutorial by SnapSecure and apply officially through our website!
Who are the SBP’s and how many are there?
Take a look at our SBP list online. Many of the teams have interesting personal profiles and they’re based all over the world!
If you want to reward some one, not in annonymous mode, why not try this? Let's try and tell me if it works!
Để chuẩn bị cho ngày lễ Tình nhân sắp tới, chúng tôi đã tổ chức chương trình để các bạn có thể truyền tải tình yêu của mình với Vite! Thiết kế một hình đại diện có chủ đề Vite và đăng lên Twittẻ. Người thắng cuộc sẽ nhận được VCP để có thể mua được các sản phẩm của Vite trên Vite Store Quốc tế.
Tạo một bức hình có chủ đề Valentine và Vite - phải có logo của Vite và đăng lên TWITTER. Chương trình sẽ bắt đầu từ bây giờ tới 15/02/2019 07:00 GMT+7.
Các danh mục các bạn gửi tới sẽ được xem xét và đánh giá bởi các admin Vite cũng như cộng đồng. Chúng tôi đánh giá cao sự sáng tạo của các bạn!
Những người tham gia khẳng định rằng các bạn sở hữu hoặc có quyền sử dụng tất cả nội dung được sử dụng trong thiết kế của mình. Nếu các bạn sử dụng sản phẩm của người thứ 3, thì phải được sự cho phép từ chủ sở hữu trong việc sử dụng sản phẩm này. Nhiệm vụ xác định xem tài liệu có hoặc không được bảo vệ bởi bản quyền, nhãn hiệu, quyền riêng tư, công khai hoặc bất kỳ quyền sở hữu nào khác thuộc về người tham gia. Người giam gia chịu mọi trách nhiệm đối với bất kỳ thiệt hại nào xảy ra do bất kỳ hành vi xâm phạm bản quyền hoặc quyền sở hữu.
Ngoài ra, những người tham gia cấp cho Vite Labs quyền sử dụng hình ảnh miễn phí, vĩnh viễn, không thể hủy ngang, không độc quyền và cho phép giấy phép cho hình ảnh được đăng tải.
Vite reserves the right of interpretation for the campaign.
@孙权 what phone do you use? iOS or Android?
RE: Merry Christmas, guys! Here is the details of Vite's Christmas campaign!
@sandunfernando some of the community are banned of Bitcointalk, I believe this forum is the right place for you all!
Vite Labs is holding a conversion campaign, and if you migrate VITE ERC20 tokens to Vite TestNet, Vite Labs will airdrop 1% of your total converted tokens to your address.
"According to Vite Labs, over 80 million VITE ERC20 tokens have been migrated to Vite TestNet and vote for Snapshot Block Producer (SBP) until Jan. 8, 2018. Vite users can earn bonus by voting for official SBPs and the earning rate reaches over 20%. Presently Vite Labs is holding a conversion campaign, and if you migrate VITE ERC20 tokens to Vite TestNet, Vite Labs will airdrop 1% of your total converted tokens to your address. As the increase of converted tokens to Vite TestNet, VITE ERC20 tokens in the market is decreasing."
Remind: the campaign of airdrop 1% total converted tokens still open till 10 Jan - Airdrop will be sent to your wallet at the end of the campaign.
RE: What functions do you want in Vite Wallet? Come on and Vote!
Bài viết này tóm gọn tất cả những gì bạn nên biết về Vite, ViteX và VX!
Phát hành token bằng 1 click.
ViteX được phát triển trên chuỗi công khai Vite -Vite public chain, có thông lượng cao, xác nhận giao dịch nhanh, chi phí bằng không, hỗ trợ crosschain cổng chéo và nhiều hơn nữa!
Cộng đồng có quyền tự chủ 100% để mint token, xây dựng các cổng chéo và tạo các cặp giao dịch.
Order book của chúng tôi hoàn toàn là mã nguồn mở thông qua API, cho phép người khác khởi chạy các sàn giao dịch của riêng họ dựa trên thanh khoản trong ViteX.
VX không có private sale, presale hay crowdsale, ko có pre-mine và cũng ko có pre-sale.
Chỉ có thể sở hữu VX thông qua khai thác, có nghĩa là xác nhận giao dịch trên ViteX.
Những người nắm giữ VX được hưởng cổ tức từ phí giao dịch và thu nhập khác được tạo ra thông qua ViteX.
Nói tóm lại, khai thác là 1) giao dịch 2) stake 3) niêm yết -listing.
ViteX là một DEX được phát triển trên chuỗi công khai Vite và có tính phân cấp tuyệt đối, bảo mật cao hơn các tài sản kỹ thuật số và các mô hình kinh tế mạnh mẽ cho cả gửi / nhận giao dịch và xác nhận giao dịch.
VX là token liên quan đến ViteX. Người dùng nắm giữ VX được hưởng cổ tức của phí giao dịch và phí niêm yết. VX không có private sale, presale hay crowdsale, ko có pre-mine và cũng ko có pre-sale. Người dùng chỉ có thể nhận VX thông qua khai thác.
Q: Tại sao phát hành VX? Nó sẽ ảnh hưởng đến VITE? Mối quan hệ giữa VX và VITE là gì?
VX có thể được hiểu là một bằng chứng về quyền sở hữu trên nền tảng ViteX, là một ứng dụng độc lập chạy trên Vite, với mô hình khuyến khích riêng để khuyến khích nhiều người dùng giao dịch hơn trên ViteX.
Giá trị của VX có liên quan tích cực đến khối lượng người dùng và khối lượng giao dịch của trao đổi và sẽ không ảnh hưởng đến giá trị của VITE có liên quan đến chuỗi công khai Vite. Thay vào đó, giá trị của VITE và chuỗi Vite tăng lên nếu có nhiều dApps chạy trên Vite.
VITE và VX được kết nối theo một số cách. Ví dụ: nếu VITE được stake để có quota cho giao dịch, cũng thể stake để nhận VX. Điều này có nghĩa là tài nguyên trên Vite có thể được sử dụng cho các giao dịch trên ViteX.
Q: Sự khác biệt giữa một sàn giao dịch thực sự phi tập trung và các sàn giao dịch khác là gì?
Hiện nay, hầu hết các sàn giao dịch phi tập trung đều phụ thuộc vào hiệu suất của chuỗi của riêng private chain. Giao dịch được thực hiện ngoài chuỗi offchain và kết quả được hiển thị trên chuỗi.
ViteX là một trao đổi phi tập trung hoàn toàn; công cụ khớp giao dịch được thực hiện thông qua các hợp đồng thông minh.
Tất cả các kết hợp đơn hàng được hoàn thành trên chuỗi, vì vậy sổ đặt hàng cũng được lưu trữ trên chuỗi, do đó đạt được sự phân cấp thực sự. Việc quy đổi phí chuyển đổi được thực hiện trên chuỗi thông qua các hợp đồng thông minh, do đó đảm bảo rằng kết quả được công khai hoàn toàn và các quy tắc cổ tức không thể bị can thiệp.
Q: Chuỗi Vite có mô hình giao dịch miễn phí. Tại sao trao đổi Vite tính phí? Là phí được tính bởi VITE hoặc các mã thông báo khác?
Các giao dịch trên chuỗi Vite không tiêu thụ gas như trong Ethereum, nhưng chúng phải tiêu thụ một số tài nguyên nhất định, đó là quota. Nếu số tiền cao cho giao dịch tần số, chi phí của một quota vẫn được yêu cầu với mức tiêu thụ ít hơn so với các chuỗi khác. Tương tự, là một ứng dụng tần số cao, ViteX cần một lượng quota nhất định. Phí giao dịch sẽ được tính chủ yếu dưới dạng stable coin: VITE, ETH, BTC, CUSD, v.v.
Q: Có phải xem xét cơ chế tiền tệ trao đổi không, và Vite ngăn pumb dump như thế nào?
Công cụ kết hợp ViteX hoàn toàn mã nguồn mở. Nếu người dùng đang phát hành token trên Vite thay vì trên các chuỗi khác, trang web trao đổi cũng có thể sắp xếp, đánh dấu, lọc hoặc chặn phụ.
Nếu tài sản của người dùng trong các chuỗi khác, họ cần phải đi qua cổng của chúng tôi để chuyển trên Vite. ViteX sẽ có cổng cần thiết. Sẽ có các quy tắc và chi phí tương ứng liên quan đến cổng Vite.
Nếu người dùng không sử dụng cổng được đề xuất bởi ViteX, họ cũng có thể chạy cổng riêng của họ. Tiền tệ cần thiết để giao dịch có thể được kiểm soát bởi chính cổng.
Q: ViteX được phát triển bởi một bên thứ ba hoặc không cần outsource?
Sàn giao dịch phi tập trung ViteX được phát triển bởi nhóm Vite chính thức - chúng tối không bao giờ outsource.
Q: Các nguồn tài trợ cho phát triển và bảo trì trong tương lai của VX là gì?
Kinh phí để phát triển và bảo trì VX trong tương lai chủ yếu từ nền tảng của Vite Labs.
Q: Tại sao phải xây dựng một sàn giao dịch phi tập trung?
Hiện nhu cầu thị trường về một DEX rất cao. DEX sẽ là một xu hướng trong ngành công nghiệp blockchain.
ViteX có thể chứng minh hiệu quả hiệu suất của chuỗi công khai Vite, bao gồm hiệu suất của các hợp đồng thông minh. ViteX là một dApp trên chuỗi công khai Vite, đóng góp cho hệ sinh thái của Vite.
Q: Bạn có thể giải thích giao thức VX không?
Hợp đồng thông minh ViteX không phải là một giao thức. Hợp đồng thông minh dựa trên phương thức Take-Make, dựa trên thứ tự ưu tiên giá của các đơn đặt hàng đang chờ xử lý.
Q: Sự khác biệt giữa VX và các token sàn khác là gì?
VX không có bán presale, privatesale hay crowdsale. Mọi người đều có thể tham gia khai thác VX. Người dùng nắm giữ VX có thể nhận cổ tức của tất cả phí giao dịch và phí niêm yết token trên sàn; điều này rất khác biệt so với hầu hết các trao đổi tài sản kỹ thuật số khác.
Q: VX được phân phối như thế nào?
Tổng nguồn cung của VX là 100.000.000 không có lạm phát. Việc phát hành VX sẽ dần dần chậm lại theo thời gian khai thác trong hai năm.
Số lượng VX khai thác giảm 0,5% mỗi ngày trong năm đầu tiên. 477.210.00 VX sẽ được phát hành vào ngày ra mắt của ViteX. 76.968.13 VX sẽ được phát hành một năm sau khi ra mắt. Do đó, 80,13% tổng nguồn cung sẽ được phát hành trong năm đầu tiên. Số lượng VX được khai thác sẽ giảm 0,2% mỗi ngày trong năm thứ hai. 76.660.56 VX sẽ được phát hành vào ngày đầu tiên của năm thứ hai và 36.965,22 VX sẽ được phát hành vào ngày cuối cùng của năm thứ hai. Khối lượng phát hành hàng ngày của VX được mô tả dưới đây.
Q: Làm thế nào để tôi có được VX?
Bạn có thể nhận được VX theo ba cách. Cách đầu tiên là giao dịch trên ViteX (Giao dịch trực tuyến là Khai thác); cách thứ hai là stake VITE và giúp ViteX nhận được quota cho các hoạt động của nó (Stake là Khai thác); Cách thứ ba là list các cặp giao dịch (list chính là Khai thác).
Giao dịch là khai thác: 60% VX được phát hành hàng ngày sẽ được phân phối cho các nhà giao dịch theo tỷ lệ phí giao dịch của họ trên ViteX (nhà phát hành mã thông báo cũng có một phần trong nhóm phí giao dịch này, như được giải thích bên dưới); Hiện tại sẽ có bốn thị trường: thị trường BTC, thị trường ETH, thị trường VITE và thị trường stablecoin. Mỗi thị trường sẽ chia sẻ 15% phân phối hàng ngày.
Stakes is Mining: 30% VX được phát hành hàng ngày sẽ được phân phối cho người dùng tham gia đặt cược VITE vì lợi ích của ViteX. Nghĩa là, để nhận được VX, những người dùng này phải đặt cược VITE và đặt địa chỉ hợp đồng thông minh ViteXùi làm người thụ hưởng hạn ngạch. VX phân phối cho mỗi staker tỷ lệ thuận với số tiền đặt cược.
List là Khai thác: Một người dùng (nhà phát hành mã thông báo có tên là Cameron) liệt kê một cặp giao dịch mới sẽ nhận được VX. Như đã đề cập trước đó, nhà phát hành mã thông báo nhận VX bằng cách tham gia vào cùng nhóm với các nhà giao dịch, với cổ phần của anh ta được tính như thể anh ta thực hiện giao dịch liên quan đến phí giao dịch 1.000 VITE. Phí niêm yết là bắt buộc đối với DEX: Đối với mã thông báo được phát hành trên chuỗi Vite, phí niêm yết là 10.000 VITE. Mặt khác, một cổng chéo sẽ được tham gia vào danh sách và một khoản phí liên quan có thể được thêm vào.
Bằng cách nắm giữ hơn 10 VX, người ta có thể liên tục nhận được cổ tức của các hoạt động giao dịch và niêm yết hàng ngày. Mặc dù VX chỉ kiếm được thông qua khai thác, VX sẽ có thể giao dịch trên ViteX. VX đơn giản có thể được xem là chứng nhận cổ phiếu của ViteX.
Một lượng VX tối thiểu được yêu cầu để nhận cổ tức. Chủ sở hữu VX phải có ít nhất 10 VX trong tài khoản ViteX của mình.
Q: Phí giao dịch hoạt động như thế nào?
Các giao dịch trên chuỗi Vite không tiêu thụ gas ( như các giao dịch trên Ethereum), nhưng tiêu thụ một loại tài nguyên khác gọi là quota. Quota được cung cấp miễn phí cho các giao dịch ở tần suất thấp. Giao dịch ở một khối lượng cao hơn yêu cầu quota. ViteX yêu cầu một quota lớn để hoạt động, với bản chất là một dApp giao dịch tần số cao. Phí giao dịch có nghĩa là để bù đắp một phần tiêu thụ hạn ngạch. Phí giao dịch được tính bằng các loại tiền tệ cơ bản khác như VITE, ETH, BTC và stablecoin.
0,5% sẽ được thu thập từ người nhận và nhà sản xuất. Tuy nhiên, như đã đề cập, 90% phí giao dịch sẽ được phân phối lại giữa những người nắm giữ VX. Vite Labs sẽ chỉ thu 10% phí trong tổng 0,5% đó.
Q: Phí rút tiền hoạt động như thế nào?
Không có phí cho tiền gửi và rút tiền giữa ví Vite và ViteX; chỉ có quota sẽ được tiêu thụ trong những trường hợp này. Khi tài sản được rút vào ví không phải là Vite, cổng chuỗi chéo sẽ tính phí rút tiền. |
0.934152 | Expose them to the risks BEFORE they are exposed!
Herbicides and pesticides are designed to kill organisms, thus making them extremely dangerous to humans.
Therefore it is important to handle them correctly in order to reduce the risk exposure. |
0.999999 | Read this essay in Arabic.
This year, our nation marks one hundred years of the Balfour Declaration. Lord Arthur Balfour was a British foreign secretary who decided to change the identity and fate of Palestine, a land that he did not own, by promising it to the Zionist movement, and dramatically altering the history of the Palestinian people. On this somber anniversary, it is important to recall some key historic facts, which remain relevant for achieving a just, lasting, and peaceful resolution to a century of injustice.
To this day, the United Kingdom evades its historic responsibility by refusing to apologize to a nation still living in exile and under occupation as the result of their politicians’ unethical undertaking. In 1917, Palestine had a robust population of over 700,000 inhabitants living on almost 28,000 square kilometers. Palestine had a well-established society, proud of its history and cultural heritage, and the centuries-long tradition of coexistence and tolerance among its inhabitants. The city of Jerusalem—built by the Jebusites, a Canaanite tribe—the ancient ports of Jaffa and Haifa, the biblical cities of Gaza, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Hebron and Nablus, as well as one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, Jericho, alongside the Dead Sea and the fertile Jordan Valley, all stood witness to this rich civilization. Palestine had several educational and cultural institutions, newspapers, and an economy that included the export of citrus and a thriving service industry such as tourism. It was a country inhabited mainly by Arabs, mostly Muslims and Christians, but also with a small Jewish minority.
Balfour’s perfidy anticipated the international community’s disrespect for the rights of Palestinians after Israel’s founding. Thirty years later, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 181 (II) calling for the partition of Palestine into two states. Again, this decision disregarded the wishes, aspirations, and the very rights of the indigenous population of Palestine. The Palestinian leaders spared no effort in communicating the voice of the people, visiting London countless times, as well as several other world capitals, asking for the rights of the Arab-Palestinian people to be respected and calling for the fate of Palestine to be decided through democratic free elections that would reflect the will of the Palestinian people. This was totally ignored by the British government, guided by the Balfour agenda of denying our nation political rights.
The world voted for the partition of Palestine, but its people did not. The international community was willing to support the Zionist desire to build a state in Palestine, but did not have the determination to supervise the implementation of their resolutions, leading to the Nakba (catastrophe), which led to over two-thirds of the Palestinian people becoming refugees, including myself. My hometown of Safad was totally ethnically cleansed of its Arab Muslim and Christian populations. Just like Safad, at least 418 Palestinian villages were ethnically cleansed, forcibly depopulated, and destroyed.
The international community failed to fulfill the implementation of the UN Partition Resolution 181, a resolution that unquestionably did not allow or call for the forcible displacement of the Palestinian population. It also failed to implement Resolution 194 (III) to restore Palestinian refugees to their homes. In fact, the United Nations’ recognition of Israel was conditioned on Israel’s implementation of this resolution. Similarly, disappointingly, the international community has failed to implement the countless UN resolutions that call on Israel to end its military occupation that began in 1967, including its colonial-settlement project. This failure has entrenched Israeli impunity, prolonging the conflict and the suffering and injustice being borne by the Palestinian people.
The presence of illegal settlements all over the occupied territory of Palestine has threatened to make the two-state solution impossible to realize. This is clearly the goal of the current rightwing Israeli government that does not shy away from hiding such intentions. It has become widely acknowledged that Israel’s prolonged occupation and its colonial-settlement project has virtually destroyed the prospects of the internationally endorsed two-state solution on the 1967 borders, thereby solidifying the reality of one state, Israel, controlling all the land of historic Palestine, while imposing two different systems: one for Israeli-Jews and another for Palestinians.
As far back as 1993, the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist and agreed to participate in several rounds of negotiations in the Middle East peace process aimed at achieving a comprehensive peace agreement. After more than twenty years of negotiations, it is clear that the Israeli government is not interested in peace. For Palestine, the peace process is a means for the implementation of international law and realization of justice; the process is not an end in itself, but the Israeli government has constantly used it as such and exploited the “negotiations” as a smokescreen for further colonization of the Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem, aimed at entrenching its control of the entire territory.
The internationally endorsed two-state solution is not accepted by any of the political parties that compose today’s Israeli government coalitions. Their leaders continue to incite and spew hate speech against the Palestinian people and inflammatory rhetoric against Palestinian national rights and aspirations. This has included the dangerous use of religion to justify war crimes and human rights violations, which is something that we believe is of paramount gravity and consequence to regional and international peace and security, and have thus consistently warned against Israeli attempts to turn a solvable political, territorial conflict into a religious war.
Just as Likud, the party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirmed its political program that negates any possibility of the creation of a Palestinian state, on the ground Israeli settlers and occupation forces continue to act with hatred and aggression toward the Palestinian people, further diminishing the prospect of peaceful coexistence. Attacks continue against Palestinian civilians and properties, in Christian and Muslim holy sites, and homes continue to be demolished, forcibly displacing our people to pave the way for more colonial-settlement expansion.
The one-state reality imposed by the Israeli government could not be possible without the impunity it has received from the international community. The Israeli colonial-settlement enterprise in Occupied Palestine could not succeed without international markets being opened to illegal Israeli settlement products, without free trade agreements welcoming these products, without international companies and the Israeli economy mutually profiting from this systematic denial of Palestinian rights, and without the commitments of several governments that no matter the violations and crimes, Israel will continue to enjoy full impunity.
Make no mistake: Palestinians have learned the lessons from Balfour’s colonialism. We recently witnessed the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Occupied East Jerusalem in rejection of Israeli attempts to change the historic status quo of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound. This beautiful demonstration of popular nonviolent resistance echoed in every corner of the world. Just as our youth and elders, women and men, Christians and Muslims, and members of all political factions came together to defend Jerusalem, we cannot but remember those who opposed British policies in the remarkable national strike of 1936, or the Israeli occupation in the First Intifada in 1987. Palestinians have showed the world and many Israelis that the colonial “fantasy” of talking about peace and coexistence while systematically denying the rights of a people under an oppressive military occupation can never succeed and that the right of a people to self-determination and freedom can neither be crushed, nor dismissed, nor negated.
The steadfastness and resilience of our people should serve as a message to the entire world, and particularly to Israel, that there will be no peace in our region without the fulfillment of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Our vision of peace is one of great compromise and is based simply on what we are entitled to under international law and UN resolutions: a sovereign and independent state that fully ends the Israeli occupation that began in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, while ensuring at the same time that Jerusalem could be an open city between its eastern and western parts. We envision our sovereign control over our natural resources, airspace and maritime borders. We envision and will continue to demand the freedom of all our political prisoners, victims of the Israeli occupation and the systematic negation of our national rights. With almost one million prisoners since 1967, the case of our political prisoners painfully reflects the overall situation of our whole nation.We also reiterate that in order to end claims with Israel, there must be a just solution for the seven million Palestinian refugees based on the choice of every refugee. Our nation, the largest refugee group in the world and the most protracted refugee plight in contemporary history, has the right to the respect and fulfillment of its rights, including through the implementation of UNGA Resolution 194 and the Arab Peace Initiative.
A just and lasting peace is possible. It requires the full implementation of the long overdue inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. We envision a new reality where our families are no longer divided by racist laws, such as the Israeli citizenship law; where our young talents will not be forced to leave their country because of a suffocated economy and lack of opportunities. We envision a state that can welcome the innovation and talents developed by our successful diaspora. Wherever they have migrated to, whether the United States, Latin America, Europe, Australia, or the Arab World, Palestinians have proven to be successful in various fields and positive contributors to their respective communities. We envision a reality of peace where those millions of people, successful doctors, engineers, bankers, sportsmen, artists, clergymen, teachers, students, workers, politicians, and social activists will finally be able to make Palestine their home.
That the Balfour Declaration ever happened is a reminder that Palestinians must have their voices heard and respected within the international community. An important step undertaken for redress in that regard has been the pursuit of international recognition of the State of Palestine, including our new status of “non-member state” at the United Nations, achieved on November 29, 2012. This status has enabled us to accede to numerous international treaties and conventions and to join several international organizations. These stand at fifty-five as of now, ranging from the Geneva Conventions to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
After decades of Israeli control over our lives, it is important not to fall into desperation and to keep hope alive. We will continue to build on our achievements of state-recognition and accede to international treaties, including our right to seek justice for the Palestinian people at the ICC in the face of this ongoing criminal occupation. This too is a confirmation of our respect for international law and readiness to uphold our obligations and responsibilities in that regard. Concurrently, we will continue our endeavors to achieve a just and lasting peace with Israel on the 1967 border. It is our right to use all diplomatic, political, and legal avenues to protect our nation, achieve justice, and fulfill our long overdue inalienable rights.
This process must go hand-in-hand with efforts to secure more bilateral recognitions for the State of Palestine. There is no justification not to recognize the State of Palestine. How would recognizing Palestine harm the chances of peace? How would it harm negotiations? Our right to self-determination has never been up for negotiation; the International Court of Justice, in its landmark Advisory Opinion in 2004, explicitly affirmed this to be a right erga omnes, meaning “valid for all.” It is therefore an international responsibility to stand tall for the fulfillment of our right, not a call to dismiss or shy away from. Thus we will continue calling upon those who allegedly support the two-state solution to recognize two states, not only one.
At the same time, we shall keep the doors open for the possibility of a resumption of negotiations seeking to end the Israeli occupation and fulfill our rights. Just as we supported the French efforts of the Paris Peace Conference, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping and many other world leaders for this objective, we welcome the efforts of the U.S. administration in what President Trump has referred to as the “ultimate deal.” We don’t see any contradiction between negotiations and continuing to seek justice through the legitimate tools and instruments available under international law. It is our right to undertake all peaceful means to end the torment of our people and to fulfill their inalienable rights and legitimate national aspirations.
As I said last month during the UN General Assembly Debate, we know that freedom is coming and that the occupation will eventually end: if not by achieving the two-state solution on the 1967 border, with Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security, it will inevitably come through the fulfillment of equal rights for the inhabitants of historic Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, Christians, Muslims, and Jews. No people on earth could ever accept to live as slaves or under an apartheid regime. History has so vividly and painfully taught us that. As we mark one hundred years since the Balfour Declaration, the British government has reiterated how proud they are of this infamous document that translated into the Palestinian catastrophe, with all of its regional and global repercussions. They are even going to celebrate it. Instead of organizing a celebration for one of the darkest episodes of British colonialism, the United Kingdom has the historical and moral responsibility to apologize to the people of Palestine. At the same time, we call upon the British Government to assume without delay reparative actions, by recognizing the State of Palestine on the 1967 border with East Jerusalem as its capital and taking concrete steps to contribute to the realization of the political rights of the Palestinian people, the very rights that were denied by Balfour a century ago.
Mahmoud Abbas is the president of the State of Palestine, and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He served previously as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority in 2003, and before that was head of the PLO’s Negotiating Affairs Department. Devoted to restarting peace negotiations with Israel, President Abbas was instrumental in the negotiation and conclusion of the Oslo Accords in 1993 and 1995. In 2011, he submitted Palestine’s bid for membership in the United Nations, which led to UN recognition of Palestine as an Observer State in the UN General Assembly and as a full member in several UN Agencies and international treaties, and to the international recognition of the State of Palestine by up to 138 countries. He is the author of Through Secret Channels, The Road to Oslo. |
0.999835 | New Zealand Tours: New Zealand adventure tours are one type from many!
Essentially, there are two main types of tours available within New Zealand.
1. Scheduled Tours: Escorted tours departing at specific dates, inclusive of accommodation for duration's usually greater than 7 days.
2. Independent Tours: Unescorted daily tours, for travellers who like the security of pre-booked arrangements but prefer independence.
2-3 day tours: Usually include visits to 1-2 different locations and return to your place of departure.
12-18 day tours: This would generally be a full New Zealand tour including both the North and the South Island's attractions and destinations. |
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0.948316 | How to complete the exercise on a telephone conversation between a lady and a sports store?
Nancy: Thank you for calling Sports Centre. May I help you?
Lisa: I bought an exercise bike from your store last year, and I am having problems with it. I need to have it repaired.
Nancy: Let me connect you to the Service department. One moment please.
Karen: Service department, this is Karen. How can I help you?
Lisa: I bought an exercise bike from Sports Centre last year and it needs to be repaired.
Karen: What seems to be the problem?
Lisa: I am not very sure, but I think there is a problem with the bike's computer console because the LCD screen does not display the different features.
Karen: Nothing was on when you pushed the Start button?
Karen: What is your bike model?
Lisa: It is a 126 Upright Ford Bike.
Karen: I can send a technician out to take a look at your bike. It will cost $75.00 for labour. Also, if we have to replace any parts, that will be extra.
Lisa: That is expensive. Isn't the repair cost covered by warranty?
Karen: When exactly did you purchase your bike?
Lisa: About fifteen months ago.
Karen: I am sorry. The standard warranty only covers a year. Did you buy extra warranty coverage at the time of purchase?
Lisa: No, I did not. Are there any other options besides paying $75.00 for repair labour?
Karen: No, I am afraid not.
Lisa: I guess I just have to pay for the repair. When can you send a technician?
Karen: I have next Thursday November the twenty third at 2:00PM available. Otherwise, the next date has to be December the eighth at 10:00AM.
Lisa: I take this coming Thursday. Will you send out a reminder?
Karen: Somebody will give you a call the evening before to confirm the appointment.
Lisa: Will the technician accept credit card payment?
Karen: Yes, he will. By the way, you can buy the extra warranty coverage now if you want to.
Lisa: How much does it cost?
Karen: Fifty dollars for one-year warranty, seventy-five dollars for two-years, and a hundred dollars for three-years.
Lisa: Does it cover both labour and materials?
Karen: It covers everything. Do you want to sign up for it?
Lisa: Oh, I do not know.
Karen: It will be good for you. We will send a technician any times the bike needs services. It does not matter how many times you call us in a year. Also, if we cannot fix the problem, we will provide you with a new exercise bike.
Lisa: OK, I want to sign up for the two-year warranty program.
Karen: I think it is a good investment. Are you going to pay by credit card now or do you want me to send you a bill?
Lisa: Send me a bill, please.
Karen: One last thing before I let you go, I need your address please.
Lisa: 995 Silver Lake Street in Long Beach.
Karen: OK, it is all set. Is there anything else I can help you with today?
Lisa: No. Thank you for your help.
Karen: You are welcome. Have a nice day!
1) Why is Lisa calling Sports Centre?
2) Is Nancy able to help Lisa?
3) What kind of problem does Lisa have with her exercise bike?
4) What happened when Lisa pushed the Start button?
5) What is the model of Lisa's bike?
6) How much does it cost to have the bike repaired?
7) What will happen if the technician has to replace any parts?
8) Why is the bike no longer covered by the warranty policy?
9) When can Sports Center send a technician to Lisa's house?
10) What does Sports Center do to remind people of their appointment?
11) What types of payments does Sports Center accept?
12) What types of costs does the extra warranty policy cover?
13) How often can Lisa call for services under the extra warranty policy? |
0.892316 | Robert Fitzgerald was born on October 12, 1910, in Geneva, New York, but grew up in Springfield, Illinois. His early life was marked by significant loss—his mother died when he was three years old, his only sibling five years later, and his father died when Fitzgerald was seventeen. Despite this hardship, he excelled academically, graduating from Springfield High School in 1928 and then attending The Choate School in Connecticut for a year. In 1929 he entered Harvard University in Boston, where he studied English and Greek.
In 1931, his early poems were published in Poetry magazine. After receiving his BA from Harvard in 1933, he moved to New York City and became a journalist working for the New York Herald Tribune as a reporter until 1935 and then at Time magazine from 1936 to 1949. He published his debut poetry collection, Poems (Arrow Editions), in 1935, followed by A Wreath for the Sea (New Directions) in 1943. During World War II, Fitzgerald served in the United States Navy in Guam and Pearl Harbor.
After the war ended, Fitzgerald returned to New York City where he began teaching English at Sarah Lawrence College. He later taught at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Washington, Mount Holyoke College, and Princeton University. He also served as poetry editor of the New Republic.
Along with being known as a lyric poet, Fitzgerald is highly regarded for his translations, including his verse translations of Homer's The Iliad (Doubleday, 1974), which received the first Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets in 1976, and The Odyssey (Doubleday, 1961), which received the first Bollingen Award for Translation. His other translations include Virgil’s The Aeneid (Random House, 1983), as well as Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex (Harcourt, 1949) and Euripides’s The Alcestis (Harcourt, 1936), both co-translated by Dudley Fitts.
From 1965 and 1981, Fitzgerald served as Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, succeeding former Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish. During his tenure, his teaching, especially of English metrics, influenced many young poets, some of whom went on to become known as the New Formalists. Fitzgerald served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1968 to 1985. From 1984 to 1985 Fitzgerald was consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. His other honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Fitzgerald died on January 16, 1985, in Hamden, Connecticut.
I made my phrase to out-enchant the night. |
0.959828 | Mata Hari was the stage-name for Dutch-born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, an exotic dancer and high class prostitute in Paris. Through her line of work, Mata Hari mixed with the upper class and became a courtesan to many high-ranking military men and politicians, putting her in a very good position to gather information and pass it to the Germans during the First World War.
The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the UK who passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and at least into the early 1950s. It has been suggested they may also have passed Soviet disinformation to the Nazis. Four members of the ring have been conclusively identified: Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean (cryptonym: Homer), Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks) and Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson); together they are known as the Cambridge Four. Several people have been suspected of being the "fifth man", but John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt) was identified by Oleg Gordievsky.
Several others beyond these five have also been accused of being members. Their name refers to the fact that all members became committed Communists while attending Cambridge University in the 1930s.
Ames is a former CIA Counter-intelligence Officer who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in 1994. On his first assignment as a case officer, he was stationed in Ankara, Turkey, where his job was to target Soviet intelligence officers for recruitment. Due to financial problems, Ames began spying for the Soviet Union in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet Embassy in Washington to offer secrets for money. The information he supplied to the Soviets lead to the compromise of at least 100 CIA agents and to the execution of at least 10. Ames used the money to live well beyond his means as a CIA agent.
In early 1985, the CIA began to notice that they were losing their "assets" at a very rapid rate. For unknown reasons they were not willing, in the early stages, to believe that they had been infiltrated by the KGB, instead presuming the leak to be via bugging devices. When the FBI were finally brought in to investigate, Ames became the primary suspect. Fearing he would defect on a CIA trip to Russia, The FBI arrested him at the airport with his wife. He was given a life sentence and is incarcerated in the US Penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
Isabella Marie Boyd, known as Cleopatra of the Secession, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated from her father's hotel in Virginia and provided valuable information to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in 1862.
Her espionage career began by chance when a band of Union army soldiers saw the Confederate flag hung outside her home. They tore it down and hung a Union flag in its place. Belle retaliated, shooting one of the men. As punishment, sentries were posted around her house and officers kept close track of her activities. She profited from this enforced familiarity, charming at least one of the officers, Captain Daniel Keily, into revealing military secrets. Belle conveyed those secrets to Confederate officers via her slave, Eliza Hopewell, who carried the messages in a hollowed-out watch case. At one point, she eavesdropped when Union General James Shields and his staff who were gathered in the parlour of the local hotel. She learned that Shields had been ordered east from Front Royal, Virginia, a move that would reduce the Union Army's strength at Front Royal. That night, Belle rode through Union lines, using false papers to bluff her way past the sentries, and reported the news to Col. Turner Ashby, who was scouting for the Confederates. For her contributions, she was awarded the Southern Cross of Honor. Jackson also gave her captain and honorary aide-de-camp positions. But she was betrayed by her lover, and arrested in 1862. She was later freed and moved to England.
After the war, Belle Boyd became an actress in England before returning to the United States in 1869. She died of a heart attack at the age of 56. |
0.969867 | (CNN) - A Kittitas County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed and another officer was injured after a driver they were pursuing got out of the car and began shooting, the sheriff's office said.
The deputy and Kittitas police officer attempted to stop a vehicle they had received a complaint about Tuesday night, the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The vehicle failed to stop, which resulted in a pursuit, authorities said.
When the vehicle stopped, the suspect got out of the car and exchanged gunfire with the deputy and police officer. The deputy was fatally wounded and was later pronounced dead at Kittitas Valley Hospital, the sheriff's office said.
The police officer also suffered a gunshot wound and has been transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office has not released the names of the officers.
The suspect was also shot and is being treated at Kittitas Valley Hospital, according to the sheriff's office. |
0.991597 | Find out about the types of jobs you could pursue in education research. Read on to learn more about career options along with salary and licensure information. Schools offering Education Assessment & Evaluation degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
What Does an Education Research Career Involve?
Careers in education research include postsecondary teachers and instructional coordinators. Postsecondary teachers conduct research in a particular area of expertise, such as science or humanities. In addition, they teach classes for undergraduates and serve as research mentors for graduate students. Instructional coordinators investigate the effectiveness of current school programs. Based on their findings, they create curricula and instructional materials, and they work with teachers and principals to implement improvement strategies.
The following table provides information about educational requirements, salary, and job growth in these fields.
You could work for a postsecondary institution, research firm, education board or government agency. As a professor of education, you might teach classes, conduct research and publish your findings in books or peer-reviewed journals. Research areas might include curriculum improvement, teacher education or teaching English as a second language. Education professors may collaborate with other instructors from university departments of psychology, sociology or political science.
You could work as a director or assistant director of research at a university or research firm. As a director of research, you might oversee a team of researchers and develop research directives. You may also be responsible for implementing research strategies, publishing articles in scholarly journals and attending or speaking at industry conferences. Additional job titles in this field might include research specialist, instructional coordinator or director of student assessment.
Most research positions require a doctorate; in some cases, a master's degree may be sufficient. Additionally, many employers in education research prefer job candidates with teaching experience or a significant body of professional research. You could pursue a Master of Arts in Education, a Doctor of Philosophy in Education or a Doctor of Education. Many programs will allow you to select a specialization, such as higher education administration, language and literacy or education leadership. You could also specialize in educational change, curriculum development or educational psychology.
Potential topics of study might include quantitative and qualitative research, educational policy, applied statistics and theories of learning. Master's programs usually culminate in a thesis and take 2-3 years to complete. Doctoral degrees can be finished in 4-6 years and often require completion of a dissertation.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), postsecondary teachers earned a median annual salary of $61,560 in 2015 (www.bls.gov). During the same year, instructional coordinators made a median annual wage of $62,270.
Another high-level job in the field of education is a school principal. These professionals oversee the operations of a school, including staff supervision, budget management and curriculum implementation. For this job, you need to have a master's degree and a license to work in a public school. Another option if you are interested in both education and academic research is a career as a curator or museum director. They design museum exhibits, hold educational events for the public and oversee the institution's research projects. You need to have a master's degree to get this job. |
0.999998 | During the1970s, a prolonged insurgency took place in the province of Baluchistan between Bauch insurgency and the Pakistani government. Over fifty five thousand tribesmen fought against seventy thousand Pakistani Army troops (Grare 6). This was led after the Pakistani Political Party (PPP) implemented a new constitution that would increase provincial autonomy. However, tensions between the Baluchistan provincial government and the Pakistani central government increased, over limitations of autonomy. By 1973, the PPP government dismissed the Baluchistan province governors, under the allegations that there was a plot emerging to overthrow the government (Akhtar 74). However, Baluchistan provincial government was not initially involved with the guerrilla preparations. It wasn’t after the dismissal, in particular Baloch sardar (chief) Bakhsh Marri, who responded to the dismissal of the Pakistani government by announcing his and Baloch support for the guerrillas, which later formed into the Baluch Peoples Liberation Front (BPLF) . At first this movement did not seek independence, but Baluch nationalist, especially the younger generation later maintained that “nothing less than independence for Baluchistan was acceptable” (Akhtar 75).
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It wasn’t after the dismissal, in particular Baloch sardar (chief) Bakhsh Marri, who responded to the dismissal of the Pakistani government by announcing his and Baloch support for the guerrillas, which later formed into the Baluch Peoples Liberation Front (BPLF) .
It wasn't after the dismissal that Baloch tribal chief, Bakhsh Marri anounced his support for the guerrillas.
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ALACRITY,ALCHEMY,ECCENTRIC,EFFICACY, INSURGENCY,INTEGRITY,PENITENT,PENTECOSTAL, RESOLUTE,RESONATE. i need analogies for these words. any help?? |
0.981804 | The standard Hebrew term for a blind person is (Heb. עִוֵּר) (ʿivver; Ex. 4:11; et al.), a noun in the form used for bodily defects. The abstract form is עִוָּרוֹן (ʿivvaron, "blindness"; Deut. 28:28; Zech. 12:4). The word סַנְוֵרִים (sanverim; Gen. 19:11; II Kings 6:18), sometimes incorrectly translated "blindness," means a blinding light causing (possibly temporary) loss of vision (E.A. Speiser). Eyes which cannot see are described by the verbs כהה ("be dim"; Gen. 27:1; et al.), קוּם ("be fixed," "still"; I Sam. 4:15; I Kings 14:4), חשך ("be darkened"; Lam. 5:17; et al.), כבד ("be heavy"; Gen. 48:10), and שעע and טחח ("be smeared over;" Isa. 6:10, 32:3; 44:18; et al.). Genesis 29:17 describes Leah's eyes as rakkot, but whether this means "tender" or "weak" is moot.
Blindness was widespread in the ancient Near East. Preventive techniques included the application of hygienic ointments, especially kohl, and surgical operations (cf. The Code of Hammurapi, 215–20 in Pritchard, Texts, 175). (There is no evidence that the biblical injunction against eating pork was intended or understood to prevent trichinosis or other diseases which cause blindness.) Biblical cases include Isaac (Gen. 27:1), Jacob (Gen. 48:10), Eli (I Sam. 3:2; 4:15), and Ahijah the Shilonite (I Kings 14:4), all of whose eyesight failed in old age. (Deut. 34:7 makes a point of reporting that Moses' eyesight had not failed in old age.) Both Isaac and Jacob in their blindness reversed the status of a younger and an older descendant in blessing them (Gen. 27 (cf. 29:23–6); 48:8–19).
Aside from old age, natural causes of blindness are not mentioned in the Bible. In a few passages blindness is mentioned as a punishment inflicted by God: it is threatened for Israel's violation of the covenant (Deut. 28:28–29; M. Weinfeld takes this passage metaphorically; see below) and for the "negligent shepherd" of Zechariah 11:15–17; Proverbs (30:17) warns that the eye which is disrespectful to parents will be plucked out by birds of prey (cf. The Code of Hammurapi, 193, in Pritchard, Texts, 175). Theologically speaking, all cases of blindness are attributed to God (Ex. 4:11), just as the restoration of sight is credited to Him (Ps. 146:8). However, outside of the specific cases mentioned, blindness in general is nowhere stated to be a punishment for sin. In a few passages God strikes His servants' assailants with blinding flashes (Gen. 19:11; II Kings 6:18–20) or permanent blindness (Zech. 12:4; Ps. 69:24) in order to protect His servants.
As a punishment inflicted by human agency one finds the penalty of "an eye for an eye" in the talion formula (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21), although it is debated whether this was ever carried out literally in Israel (cf. The Code of Hammurapi, 196–9, where the relation of the law to actual practice is similarly uncertain). Samson and King Zedekiah were blinded, respectively, by the Philistines and Nebuchadnezzar (Judg. 16:21; II Kings 25:7; Jer. 39:7; 52:11). Nahash the Ammonite demanded the putting out of the right eye of all the people of Jabesh-Gilead as a condition for sparing the city (I Sam. 11:2). Several passages speak of the eyes being "spent" or "pining away" from tears and grief. The verb used is usually כלה ("Be spent"); the context makes it clear that soreness rather than blindness is meant (e.g., Lev. 26:16; Deut. 28:65; Jer. 14:6; Lam. 2:11; 4:17; cf. also עשש, Ps. 6:8, "be spent," "waste away").
Blind persons are naturally helpless in many ways (cf. II Sam. 5:6; Isa. 35:5–6; Jer. 31:7, which invoke the blind, the lame, and the mute as representative examples of helplessness) and subject to exploitation (Deut. 28:29). Biblical ethics warned against exploiting them (Lev. 19:14; Deut. 27:18; Job 29:15).
As a physical defect blindness disqualified priests from sacrificing or approaching the altar (Lev. 21:17–23) and rendered sacrificial animals unacceptable (Lev. 22:21–22; Deut. 15:21; Mal. 1:8). Some have taken the enigmatic saying "the blind and the lame shall not come into the house" (II Sam. 5:8) to indicate that at one time these were forbidden entranceto temples.
The Hebrew Braille system adopted universally in the 1950s.
helplessness and exploitability of the blind made blindness a natural metaphor for oppression and injustice in Deuteronomy 28:28–29 and Isaiah 59:9–10 (cf. Lam. 4:14; M. Weinfeld has noted that the association of blindness and darkness with oppression in these passages also reflects the Mesopotamian association of the sun-god with justice (cf. a related association in II Sam. 23:3–4; Hos. 6:5b; Zeph. 3:5)). A related metaphor is the use of blindness to describe those who dwell in the darkness of prison or captivity (Isa. 42:7, 16–19; 43:8; 49:9; 61:1; cf. Ps. 146:7–8; this use has roots in Mesopotamian royal inscriptions).
The unusually large number of talmudic sages who were blind probably reflects the wide prevalence of this disability in ancient times. In addition to Bava b. Buta, who was blinded by Herod (BB 4a), mention may be made of Nahum of Gimzo (Ta'an. 21a), Dosa b. Harkinas (Yev. 16a), and R. Joseph and R. Sheshet in Babylon (BK 87a), as well as a number of anonymous blind scholars (cf. Ḥag. 5b; tj Pe'ah, end). Matya b. Heresh is said to have deliberately blinded himself to avoid temptation, but his sight was subsequently restored by the angel Raphael (Tanḥ. B., ed. Buber, addition to Ḥxukkat). The talmudic name for a blind man is suma (Ḥag. 1:1; Meg. 4:6), but the euphemism sagi nahor ("with excess of light") is often used (Ber. 58a.; TJ Pe'ah end; and especially Lev. R. 34:13 "the suma whom we call sagi nahor").
Unlike the deaf-mute, who is regarded in Jewish law as subnormal, the blind person is regarded as fully normal, and most of the legal and religious restrictions placed upon him are due to the limitations caused by his physical disability. The statement (Ned. 64b) based on Lamentations 3:6 – "He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been long dead" – that "the blind man is regarded as dead," is of purely homiletic interest and has no practical application. In the second century R. Judah expressed the opinion that a blind man was exempt from all religious obligations, and as late as the time of the blind Babylonian amora Joseph (fourth century) the halakhah had not yet been determined (see his moving statement in bk 87a), but it was subsequently decided against his view. Even the statement of R. Judah that a person blind from birth cannot recite the Shema, since the first of the two introductory blessings is for the daily renewal of light (Meg. 4:6; TB Meg. 24a), was later amended since he enjoys the benefit of light (Rosh, resp. 4:21); the law that a blind man could not be called up to the reading of the Torah, since the passage must be read from the scroll (OḤ 53:14), was abolished with the institution of the ba'al kore, who reads the passage for those called up (Taz. to OḤ 141:1). The ruling of Jair Ḥayyim Bacharach (Ḥavvot Ya'ir 176) that if there were a person more suitable, a blind person should not conduct the service is an individual opinion and Yehudai Gaon, who himself was blind, gives a contrary opinion (J. Mueller, Mafte'aḥ li-Teshuvot ha-Ge'onim (1891), 67).
Similarly, although it was laid down that a totally blind person may not act as a judge, it is stated that when R. Johananheard of a blind man acting as judge he did not forbid it (Sanh. 34b, cf. ḤM 7:2; for instances in the Middle Ages see Pahad Yiẓḥak S.V. Suma). Even as late as the time of Joseph Caro in the 16th century, it was laid down that a blind person is forbidden to act as a shoḥet only "in the first instance"; the total prohibition was enacted later (YD 1:9 and commentaries). A special case was the exemption of a blind person from the duty of going up to Jerusalem on the Pilgrim Festivals. The special nature of this law, which is derived from the homiletical interpretation of a word, is seen in the fact that it applied even to a person blind in only one eye (Ḥag. 1:1, and TB Ḥag. 2a).
During the Middle Ages, blinding was imposed by some battei din as a form of extrajudicial punishment and was condoned by contemporary rabbis (Assaf in bibl. nos. 97, 98, 135). Blindness was said to be caused by bloodletting at unfavorable times and by the machinations of demons (see Zimmels in bibl., pp. 88 and 153).
The question has been raised in recent times as to the permissibility of removing the cornea of a deceased person and grafting it on a blind person to restore his sight. Halakhic opinion is almost unanimously in favor, and in a responsum I.J. Unterman added the consideration that the danger to the life of a blind person through accidents is such that it can be regarded as a special case of pikku'aḥ nefesh (see *Autopsy ).
The Jewish blind have been traditionally assisted by regular communal and voluntary agencies and associations, as well as special institutions. In the United States the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, founded around 1908, had a home for aged blind, has offered integrated services to the visually handicapped, and has initiated a nonsegregated living plan for the blind. In the United Kingdom the central agency was the Jewish Blind (now Jewish Blind and Disabled) Society in London, founded in 1819. By 1970 it was caring for the needs of over 1,500 Jewish blind. It maintained a number of residential and holiday facilities, day centers in provincial cities, and the Burr Center for Personal Development which offered various courses for the blind and disabled.
The special conditions in Israel as a country of immigration created the problem that the proportion of blind persons of working age in the state was three times higher than in Anglo-Saxon countries (1956). Much has been done to alleviate this position, while the blind person is as far as possible not treated as a social case. He is, however, exempted from paying income tax. Special placement officers facilitate his employment. In 1956 the proportion of blind to ordinary residents was estimated at approximately 2.5 per 1,000; 87% of them had immigrated after 1948. Over 85% were born in countries of Asia and Africa where in many cases the blind were not cared for or enabled to work. There was a comparatively high proportion of married women or widows due to marriage of blind girls to elderly men. The Jewish Institute for the Blind in Jerusalem, founded in 1902, cared for the majority of blind children in the country. It included a kindergarten, elementary school where subjects were taught in braille, and boarding facilities for 60–90 pupils attending regular secondary school. It also had a vocational school, industrial training shop, a braille printing press, and two houses for mentally or physically handicapped blind adults.
Other agencies and associations for help of the blind in Israel included Migdal Or, the American Israeli Lighthouse Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Haifa (Kiryat Ḥayyim), which gave casework reorientation, special training and courses, and has developed home industries for blind who are physically incapacitated. The Women's League for Israel of New York assisted joint projects with the Ministry of Social Welfare for rehabilitation of blind girls and women, and maintained a sheltered workshop, Orah, and a bookbindery, Malben, which in 1951 took over Kefar Uriel, a village for the blind established in 1950 by the Jewish Agency for blind immigrants; in 1962 it had 63 families (about 350 persons). Heads of families were employed in four workshops. The Israel Foundation for Guide Dogs for the Blind in Haifa was established around 1950. A Central Library for the Blind, established in 1952 in Netanya, had over 5,000 volumes in braille and a talking book library.
The Association for the Blind and Prevention of Blindness, founded in 1953, had branches in nine centers. The National Council for the Blind, established in 1958 for coordinating, research, and planning, was represented on the World Council for the Blind. Voluntary agencies giving assistance from abroad include Hilfe fuer Blinde in Switzerland and Aide aux Aveugles Israéliens in France. Training for non-Jewish blind has also been given by the Saint Vincent Roman Catholic hostel in Jerusalem, and at handicraft centers established in Nazareth and Shefaram. Isolated Arab villages have been visited by home teachers.
There is no statutory registration of blindness anywhere in the world. All comparative statistics on the incidence and causes of blindness are therefore largely speculative, and this applies in particular to statistics on blindness in Jews, for whom data are usually lacking in whatever national statistics are available. Comparative studies are thus impossible, and little more than some generalizations can be advanced.
The incidence and causes of blindness in most parts of the world are determined essentially by environmental factors. Jews, as a widely dispersed community, therefore suffer from the locally prevailing environmental causes of blindness. In this respect, if the incidence of blindness in a particular Jewish community is different from that in the general population, it will merely reflect the differences found in the various social groupings of the population at large. Thus it occurs in all countries where trachoma is endemic. The disease is more prevalent in rural areas, ill provided with sanitation and health services, than in the more developed urban centers with their populations relatively well housed and well served medically. The high incidence of trachoma in Oriental Jews who immigrated to Israel reflects country of origin and social level, rather than their Jewishness.
In the more highly developed countries, infections and other environmental causes of blindness are steadily declining, and most cases of blindness are now due to affections seen in the elderly (such as "senile" cataract and "senile" macular degeneration) or in the middle-aged (such as glaucoma and, to a lesser extent, myopic atrophy, uveitis, and diabetic retinopathy). These are all "constitutional" diseases, and clinical experience in Western Europe and the United States has brought out a greater incidence of three of these affections in Jews: myopia, diabetic retinopathy, and Tay-Sachs disease, a rare lethal disorder. Although adequate statistics are lacking, this clinical experience is probably well-founded and would be readily explained by the fact that these three affections are all genetically determined, generally by recessive or by polygenic inheritance. Although there is no such thing as a Jewish gene pool, it is true that inbred groups – Quakers no less than Jews and royal families no less than village communities – have many features and genes in common. These are readily perpetuated under the prevailing conditions: a recessive mutant gene is much more likely to spread in a closed community than elsewhere. (The gene for Tay-Sachs disease probably originated as such a mutant in a Jewish family in White Russia during the last century, and by emigration, carriers have spread it into the Jewish communities of Great Britain and the United States.) Contrary to early beliefs, the affection is not exclusively Jewish, for it is seen in other ethnic groups as well. These occasional cases do not add substantially to the instances of hereditary blindness in Jews, and it is a moot point whether the greater incidence of blindness from high myopia and diabetic retinopathy in Western Jews adds to that load. The numbers involved would be relatively slight, and compensating deficiencies in other hereditary causes are theoretically possible; actual data are lacking, however.
See section on Braille in *Alphabet, Hebrew .
Gordon, in: Archives of Ophthalmology, 9 (1933), 751ff.; E.A. Speiser, Genesis (1964), 139 (on Gen. 19:11); idem, in: JCS, 6 (1952), 81ff. (esp., 89 n. 52); Harrison, in: IDB, 1 (1962), 448–9; M.Z. Segal, Sifrei Shemu'el (1964), 260, 262 (on II Sam. 5:6, 8); Weinfeld, in: Biblica, 46 (1965), 420–1; Paul, in: JAOS, 88 (1968), 182; H.J. Zimmels, Magicians, Theologians and Doctors (1952), 461 notes; S. Assaf, Ha-Onshin Aḥarei Ḥatimat ha-Talmud (1922), 97 98, 135. |
0.999913 | List the short stories that deal with the theme of racism. Which story has impacted you the most and why?
Berry, Blackout and Shabine. They all portray the teme of racism and prejudice of black people in the past. They also show how society was very wayward in their thinking, believing that black people were unimportant, uneducated individuals who were unappreciated and looked down upon just because their skin colour (race) was different.
I don't quite agree with black people being hardworking.... yea there are some no doubt about it that work really hard. I believe that all blacks has the ability to achieve, but has become complacent in doing so.
We are God's choosen people perhaps that is the reason they enslaved us as they knew we are the choosen, in contrary they claimed we were a beast and a degrade race and could be reach as such (here they accept the fact that we are human.... but didn't saw us worthy enough to bestow the title upon us). They were inferior because they knew there were no limits to our understand and power. Thats why they deprived of education in fear that we would rise up and conque them. But it was due to our greed we sold our own people into discrimination and shame. So it all came down to this we being shipped here....... gain indepence after long and terrifing days of slavery... started wanting to acommplish all that we were refuse to do we still face a level of discomfort due to the number of whites that made us feel unworthy thus here came out in Berry whereby he was paid less to part take in every body's job (which was not his job to do). While in shabine the woman was being looked down on because she was if mixed race... but was still admired by a white man. However the main objective that i'm trying to bring across is we blacks are not that hard working due to the history and the beliefs most of us had (one of beliveing that your what people tell you you are). As the famous Bob Marely song "emancipate yourself from mental slavery"..... and whenever this is accomplished your gona see us the black folk what we are made of.
The story that has impacted me the most is Shabine. The reason behind this is because even today in our society men and women are treated differently; men will be congratulated and respected by their peers if he has a lot of girlfriends or female acquaintances. However if it was a female who was in the similar situation, people would look down on her calling her a "whore" or promiscuous. It is the same circumstance in Shabine. This goes to show how society has not really changed in their mode of operation. It also reinforces the theme of Women in Society.
I love the boy who loved ice cream it seems as if every one is like him just a little in some way.As we are about something a we like how it sounds we go ahead a try to get at it and it when don't get it a first and we keep on hear more thing about it , it is then we want it more than ever.
old story tim is one of the best literature books there is.
Both "emma" and "Shabine" end with the main character experiencing a sense of wonder or uncertainity.
how the childness/innocence cuse this state of uncertainity and wonder?
I have to say I enjoyed reading BERRY..... it is a very goody piece of Literature that conveys racism highly.....I was left with a very sad mood.... but beside the obvious sadness, I also managed to grasp a sense of strength out of Berry's resilience.
what are some of the challenges the character in mom luby and the social worker faces?
In mother luby mother luby is a mother trying to foster tow small children .a social welfare office to obtain monetary assistance. she is visited by a social worker who comes to investigate the living conditions she is not quit convinced but gives mother luby the information anyway .she is surprise of how long it takes to get clothing and shoes for the children . the social worker is surprise at how many things mother luby .gets so many things done .with that mom luby makes a comment that they should hirer her at the social welfare office but the worker say it is not possible because she is not qualified .so it shows that even thought mom luby is qualified because of her experience they only look at education and appearance.
she has to raise all these chidren on her own but it is hard for her too because she has to provide for them illegally by selling liquor. but no matter wat she protect and fight for them to live in this place called world.
what is a brief description about Mom Luby ?
Berry, Blackout and Shabine. they all portray the theme of Racism.
The story that has impacted me the most is Berry,because berry got fired because of the mere fact that he was black.
Can you tell me about Blood Brothers?
i think that shabine was sad because everyone in the village was criticizing her and telling her that she was a whore.It was her mother fault because she was inviting white sailors in her home to sleep with justene.Justene could had a better future if her mother did not let her to be a prostitute.
what is the difference between the two black people in black out and berry ?
I think that the two grandmothers show a lot of racism as the grandchild was not accepted by her"uptown" grandmother, Towser, because she wasn't light enough and her hair wasn't the right texture. Towser did not like her son-in-law's side of the family as she thought they were too "country" and stuck in their old ways. The other grandmother also showed signs of racism as everyone had liked the grandchild as she was lighter than most of the people in the country when she went over to visit and her hair was much longer and "nicer" than everyone else's. The other grandmother introduced her grandchild to all her friends because she wanted everyone to know that her grandchild had a "high colour". The effect of this was that she did not accept herself and was confused as to who or what she was.
I enjoyed readin the comments.
What social community is highlighted in the story ???
I love reading this book . |
0.938835 | What is a photomontage? A photomontage is an assemblage or collage made by joining together many photographs or parts of photographs. The technique can be used to approximate a seamless-looking, large photograph but is most often used more expressively to create works that play with shifting aspects of space, time, light & color.
Assignment: Using digital cameras and Photoshop software, create one photomontage.
Places or objects should be the focus of your images, not people.
Each montage will be composed of at least 4 rows and 4 columns of overlapping photographs.
You must use your camera in manual mode.
You chose interesting subjects or used the photomontage technique to impart interest to otherwise uninteresting subjects.
You combined your individual photos into fun, informational, or thought-provoking images.
trying to accurately recreate a single, seamless photograph or exploring the large range of creative possibilities of the photomontage technique or working somewhere in between).
You practiced “framing techniques” to insure that your photographs overlapped appropriately and often enough to create a continuous image.
You used a digital camera in manual mode to take photographs.
You used Adobe Photoshop to assemble individual photographs into a photomontage, creating layers to allow manipulation of individual photos.
You printed out your final photomontages on a color printer.
You thought about compositional guidelines such as simplicity, rule of thirds, balance, line, framing, mergers, etc.
Your photomontages are composed of at least 4 rows and 4 columns of overlapping photographs. |
0.982111 | I am getting an error when a user is trying to search on a site which used full-text search.
[DataConnection.ExecuteQuery]: Query: SELECT SUM(RANK) AS [Score], DocumentID, SiteName, NodeID, NodeAliasPath, DocumentCulture, NodeClassID, ClassName, NodeACLID, NodeSiteID, NodeLinkedNodeID FROM CMS_Attachment INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(CMS_Attachment, AttachmentBinary, '(test)' ) AS KEY_TBL ON CMS_Attachment.AttachmentID = KEY_TBL.[KEY] INNER JOIN View_CMS_Tree_Joined ON View_CMS_Tree_Joined.DocumentID = CMS_Attachment.AttachmentDocumentID WHERE (Published = 1) AND ((DocumentCulture = N'en-US') AND (NodeSiteID IN (1)) ) GROUP BY DocumentID, SiteName, NodeID, NodeAliasPath, DocumentCulture, NodeClassID, ClassName, NodeACLID, NodeSiteID, NodeLinkedNodeID ORDER BY Score DESC: caused exception: Full-Text Search is not installed, or a full-text component cannot be loaded.
Does it return 1 which would mean Full-Text Search is installed?
If not, you might need to go over the steps for enabling it again as it is described in MS documentation - Get Started with Full-Text Search. |
0.999341 | What are the main characteristics of a personal mentor?
1- What kind of education do you personally think he has to have to be your mentor?
2- Does the social status of the mentor make any difference to you?
3- Any religious preferences ?
4- What type of emotional intelligence traits and skills is a must to be in your mentor?
5- Do you know the difference between a mentor and a caoch?
6- How frequently do you think you need to meet your mentor ( if time and money was not a barrier) ?
7- Would you prefer an open discussion where you lead and suggest the topics to your mentor? Or would you prefer that has a mentoring plan that is tailored according to your needs and goals? |
0.998497 | Give some thought to where your manure pile is currently located, and if you may need to move it. Ideally, your manure pile should be located away from the barn because it will attract flies. By positioning your pile so that it isn’t close to your barn, you’re drawing flies away, instead of to, your stable.
When you choose a location for your manure pile, make sure that you can easily access it with a truck and tractor if you plan to have it hauled away. Alternatively, you might want to use a small trailer or dumpster, rather than creating a manure pile. These options make it easy to regularly haul the manure away.
If there’s one surefire way to deter flies from hanging out in your barn, it’s to make sure that the space is well-ventilated. Flies don’t like moving air, so find multiple ways to keep air circulating through your barn during the summer. As an added bonus, these methods will help to cool your stable and can even contribute to a healthier equine respiratory system.
Design your barn so that there are plenty of windows to open to create cross breezes. You can also use barn fans to move large amounts of air throughout the day.
Some owners opt to install smaller fans that blow directly into their horses’ stalls. If you use these smaller fans, make sure you only purchase fans that are made specifically for barn use and that have fully enclosed motors. House fans aren’t suitable for use in barns, because their motors are not fully enclosed. Dust and dirt can choke the motors, causing them to burn out. It’s possible for hot pieces of the motor to fall out onto shavings or hay, potentially causing a fire.
Flies are attracted to dirty feed and water buckets, so cleaning out these buckets needs to become a regular chore in the summer. Make a point of dumping and cleaning water buckets daily, and try to clean out feed buckets at least weekly.
If you have standing water on your property, such as a water trough, this also needs to be thoroughly cleaned and dumped regularly. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water, and it can take between 4 days and two weeks for the eggs to become larva, then pupa, and then to emerge as an adult mosquito.
If your horses are in their stalls during the day, then pick out the stalls regularly. Not only will this help to keep the stalls cleaner, but it will also mean that you’re removing the manure that attracts flies.
Depending on the size of your pastures and fields, you may want to remove manure so the area doesn’t become overrun. If your pastures are large enough, then you can leave manure in place – but you need to harrow it regularly. Harrowing your pastures will break up the manure, spreading it and drying it. Since flies lay their eggs in piles of manure, this process can help to kill off eggs and larvae before they can hatch – as long as you do it often enough. Regular harrowing will actually help to reduce the fly population on your farm.
While these methods won’t completely eliminate flies from your stable, they can help to cut down on the fly population so that you and your horses are happier. |
0.99936 | From a theoretical perspective, alternative investments should be used within every portfolio to increase diversification. The theory goes for institutional and for private investors. For small investors, however, some alternative assets are not accessible. The goal of this study is to evaluate how alternative investments have performed compared to common assets. Some of the available alternative investment possibilities are already in use for many private investors. It is positive that investors buy assets that are not listed on their brokerage account. However, to have efficient portfolios, the asset allocation can be further optimized with respect to Markowitz’s modern portfolio theory. The market for alternative investments is small and lacks liquidity. Therefore, the author evaluates their usefulness in terms of accessibility and availability. The findings of this study propose that alternative investments can help to increase portfolio diversification. A portfolio comprised only of alternative investments cannot outperform a traditional one. A combination of alternative assets and traditional assets, however, can outperform the broadly used combinations of equity and debt.
Textprobe: Chapter 4 The Market of Alternative Investments: 4.1 Market Characteristics and Accessibility: There clearly is a market for most of the assets previously mentioned. The crucial question for this essay however is: Are these markets accessible to private investors? And does it make sense for a private investor to get into these markets? While some of the markets are already highly liquid and accessible through exchange-traded products, others do not yet offer the possibilities for investing, especially to small investors. Preqin estimates the size of the alternative investment industry at .4 trillion in assets under management (The Alternative Asset Industry in 2015, 2016). In addition to that, McKinsey estimates the growth of alternative assets under management to be twice as much as the growth of traditional assets (Baghai, Erzan, & Kwek, 2015). Among the alternatives hedge funds build the largest share with total assets under management of .2 trillion (The Alternative Asset Industry in 2015, 2016). Yet, not all hedge funds are accessible for small investors, since many have high entry barriers. The PE market can be seen in a similar way. The size of the private equity market is estimated at 9 billion in the year 2015. (The Alternative Asset Industry in 2015, 2016). 4.1.1 Alternative Investment Benchmarks: For any type of investor, the performance of the assets is of the greatest importance. However, before getting into the assets, we should have a look at some benchmarks. This is due to the fact that, for a small investor, there is no point in doing excessive research for an asset when the asset class itself does not show a promising performance. The crucial figure to look at is not simply the return, but rather the risk-return profile of the asset classes. Since the purpose of using AIs is to reduce the risk and increase the diversification, it is of great importance to keep track of the variance of the returns. Chart 4 shows the average monthly return and the standard deviation of monthly returns of some alternative investment benchmarks in comparison to the risk-return profile of the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index. The chart proposes that, while some of the alternative investment benchmarks offer a worse risk-return profile than the S&P500, others are quite attractive to investors in terms of their performance. However, these risk-return figures are based on the benchmark performances, not investible assets. This implicates that for investible products of any AI class the risk-return tradeoff gets even worse due to order fees, management fees, and tracking errors. Still, for investors it is also good to know how the respective benchmarks perform to evaluate the performance of an asset. […]. 5 Performance Comparison to Common Assets: 5.1 Benchmarks of Common Assets: One of the main aims for this paper is to evaluate if alternatives can benefit a classical portfolio. To do so, I need benchmarks to compare the performances in the long run. Seen from a financial perspective, most alternative investments are commodity assets. This is because they do not have a constant cash flow like bonds and do not pay a dividend like equity. The benefit for the investor is simply the increase in value, just as it is for commodities. Most portfolios however, are not commodity portfolios but mostly equity and debt portfolios. Thus, the main benchmarks for those assets shall be used to evaluate the AIs. The main issue that arises here is that we will in fact have to compare price indices (for AIs) to performance indices (for debt and equity). For equity assets the two mostly used benchmarks are the MSCI World Index and the S&P500 Index. The MSCI World Index represents all stocks from 23 industrial countries. The S&P500 Index represents the 500 largest US Firms and is often considered as the major benchmark. Despite the fact that most alternative investments do not offer bond-like returns and are in many ways of entirely different nature I will still compare the performance to a bond-containing portfolio. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Broad Market Index is a good estimate for the performance of debt investments.
Torben Lauer wurde 1994 in Frankfurt am Main geboren. Nach Abschluss des Abiturs begann er 2013 sein Bachelor Studium an der EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht im Bereich General Management. Nach erfolgreichem Abschluss des Bachelors nahm er 2016 zur weiteren Vertiefung sein Master Studium im Bereich Finanzen an der Frankfurt School auf. Schon während des Studiums begann der Autor in der Finanzbranche zu arbeiten und sammelt fortlaufend Erfahrungen im Bereich der Finanzmärkte. Insbesondere fokussiert er sich seit Beginn seines Interesses am Kapitalmarktgeschehen auf die Umsetzung der modernen Portfolio-Theorie abseits der institutionellen Investoren. |
0.99998 | How will Blue Origin work?
The Goddard test vehicle successfully completed the test launch that sent it up 285 feet.
Although Bezos has remained somewhat secretive about Blue Origin, he has offered clues about his plans, and we can derive some information from U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents.
Blue Origin has constructed and test flown the Goddard, which was named for rocket pioneer Robert Goddard. Many compare the Goddard to the DC-X, a NASA test vehicle, because of its appearance and launching style. The Goddard, which has a cone-shaped nose with a blunt bottom, both launches and lands in a vertical position and sits on four legs. A video released by Blue Origin shows the Goddard completing a test flight where it reached an altitude of 285 feet (about 87 meters). This height may seem unimpressive, but it aligns with Blue Origin's step by step philosophy. It plans to start with low-altitude flights and progressively reach higher altitudes [source: FAA].
The Goddard, as a test vehicle, is the precursor to what will eventually send tourists to space, the New Shepard. Named after the first U.S. astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, the New Shepard will be a reusable launch vehicle (RLV) and take space tourists up to altitudes of 325,000 feet (99,060 meters) [source: FAA]. This amounts to more than 61 miles (98 kilometers), which qualifies as space altitude. The U.S. military considers anyone who exceeds a 50-mile (80 kilometers) vertical height a certifiable astronaut [source: Jenkins]. To accommodate it for commercial tourism, the vehicle will seat three or more people in the crew capsule.
In one scenario, the ship's engines will shut off after two minutes, allowing it to coast to suborbital heights. Then, upon descent, the engines will restart, allowing the vehicle to land safely and in one piece on a landing pad.
In another scenario, the crew capsule separates from the rocket propulsion module during flight. The crew capsule would then land safely by taking advantage of the slowing effect of atmospheric drag, perhaps with parachutes.
Bezos hasn't yet revealed how much the price of a ride on his New Shepard will be, but the fact that he's hoping to send three people up a week suggests a comparatively cheap ticket. He states on the Blue Origin Web site that one of its main goals is to make space travel cheaper and available for more people [source: Bezos].
For more information on space travel and to see a video of Goddard's successful test flight, investigate the links below.
The New Shepard will work autonomously, without any ground control. Instead, it has on board systems that allow the humans on the ship to control it. Blue Origin doesn't offer details on how this will work, but FAA documents reveal that a ground operator will be on hand and will help inform the passengers if an emergency is detected [source: FAA]. |
0.982252 | How do I download my Online Banking account information to my Money Management Software like QuickBooks?
To export transactions into your personal finance application, select the appropriate Transaction Export options located in the Transaction Menu and click the "Export" button. Your files will be saved to disk. Once you have logged on to your personal financial application, you can then import these files from their saved location. Account transactions may be downloaded to Quicken, QuickBooks, Microsoft Money, or as a CSV file.
Import an IIF file into your QuickBooks data file which enables you to import lists and transactions.
Log in to your data file as the Administrator.
Switch to single user (SU) mode.
Since you cannot undo an import, you must backup your company file before proceeding.
Go to File > Utilities > Import > IIF Files.
Navigate to the location of your IIF file and highlight the file.
QuickBooks pops a message confirming your data has been imported.
Note: Support for importing IIF files created with third party software is the responsibility of the third party software. |
0.97504 | The Greater East Asia War is a term used by Japan's Imperial General Headquarters when referring to their 1941/42 attacks against territory and military units of Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Sanctions The economic sanctions imposed by the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands were weakening the Japanese economy. The leaders of Japan were faced with a choice: End the war in China, so as to end the sanctions, or obtain additional resources by some other means.
The Japanese government decided to seize resources under the control of Great Britain and the Netherlands, notably in Malaya and the Netherlands Indies[?], with the Southern Expeditionary Army. As the United States was their ally, it was decided to attack the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet. Following this attack, the intended to seize the Philippines, as well as cut the US lines of communication by seizing Guam and Wake. At the same time they intended to attack Malaya and Hong Kong. This was to be followed by attacks against the Bismarck Archipelago[?], Java, and Sumatra. The Japanese then intended to go on the defensive and hold their newly acquired territory.
It is believed that the Imperial General Headquarters (Imperial GHQ) began planning the Greater East Asia War in April or May of 1941, by November their plans were essentially complete, modified only slightly over the next month. Japanese military planners argued that the British (and Russians should they decide to declare war) would be unable to effectively respond to a Japanese attack, given the threat posed by the Third Reich. |
0.989965 | What if that assumption is now completely wrong? I will try to approach the answer to this question by analyzing the biggest factors of it such as the influence of social institutions, psychological behaviour, media and many more to determine the push and pull factors of a gang. For example, Jews leaving Germany during the Nazi era were threatened with violent death if they remained in their home country. Furthermore, people move here to find work and accommodation. In fact, about 40 percent of recent immigrants from India to the U. Paradoxically, the end of large-scale Mexican migration has not brought calm and stability to the Southwest border or quieted the immigration debate. The family has lived there since, and each has become an American citizen. Push factors describe social or political factors that encourage Mexicans to move away from their country, while pull factors are the things that attract Mexicans to a given foreign country.
Language was a major barrier for these foreigners. This is almost double the number who returned from the There are other push-and-pull factors, but they do not appear to exert as much of an influence as demographic trends. Unfortunately, the majority of migrants come from rural areas, leaving a shortage of farmers and therefore the potential for food shortages in Mexico as the economically active people from rural areas leave. As a result of the deteriorating conditions in Syria, which include the alleged use of chemical weapons, torture, civilian massacres and so on, Syrian citizens have fled in mass numbers. In contrast, the early decades of the 19th century brought much economic prosperity to Newfoundland and Labrador. Although far fewer migrants attempt the trek, border crossing deaths still number between 200 and 300 per year.
Interest rates rise from 15% to 57%, making it hard for anyone to borrow money. There are many different push and pull factors that push migrants away from Mexico and pull them into the United States, especially California. When talking about it, it can have its ups and downs. Unemployment will fall and health services will no longer be over capacity as the population is reduced. Water resources due to diminishing forest trees were felled. Many Mexicans feel it is pointless to pursue an upright lifestyle in the country because their efforts will be frustrated by corrupt government officials.
Most Scots settled in the Codroy Valley, where land was of good quality and similar to that in Cape Breton. Several push and pull factors played a role. A large portion of the Mexican population are farmers, living in rural areas where extreme temperatures and poor quality land make it difficult to actually farm. Border stations were also established to formally admit workers from Mexico. As a result, the U.
These factors are correlated with the economic benefits of the American dream. To answer that questions historians need to look at what this situation was in North America at the time. Census Bureau data started to drop. For the past two years, however, her father has been working in Mexico City on the weekdays and going back to Miami to be with his family on weekends. Some were wealthy merchants wishing to take advantage of Newfoundland and Labrador's growing saltfish trade, while others were artisans, tradesmen, and labourers seeking employment in various merchant firms and commercial centres. Instead, many graduates from Indian universities migrate to the U. City is located on the southeastern coast of Australia, near the Pacific Ocean.
Mexican Migration History Fact 6: The Mexican-American War 1846-1848 erupted over unresolved border disputes. The United States is politically stable which draws suffering Mexicans to it. Border Patrol apprehensions of Mexican border crossers, a proxy for illegal immigration, are down almost 90 percent from their peak in 2000 Chart 1. After the fast-growing 1950s and 1960s were over, there was no way the Mexican labor market could absorb such large cohorts of young men and women. And the walls have contributed to a related rise in nationalist politics. From 2007-2008, he handled Mexican affairs at White House on the staff of the National Security Council.
Factories were built to produce the many new products that were invented at this time. Why should tourists visit Malta? In most countries, to go to the beach or to visit a park it would take you around 2 hours to get there. People are also enticed to move in order to be with their families. Another push factor is corruption in the government, which makes it difficult for qualified people to move up the ranks in a fair way. Adult literacy rates are 55% Economic Factor: Deplorable economic conditions and poverty in Mexico push Mexicans toward the United States Social Factor: Mexico has a high crime rate and drug trafficking features in the crimes Environmental Factor: The climate and the parched arid land is characterized by a severe lack of available water Social Factor: Poor medical facilities. They suggest death rates are up sharply.
As these cities became urbanized, there wasn? A wide range of factors prompted immigrants to leave their homes and settle in Newfoundland and Labrador. With America offering significantly better living standards and services, such as health care, people are enticed to move to America for a better life. Diminishing water industry due to bad behavior , to control sources of water makes the region there is no option anymore to just get cleaned up. A maquiladora was a factory along the Mexican border run by a U. In England, centralization and industrialization eliminated many regional jobs, particularly among the artisan class in the southwestern portion of the country.
As the chart indicates, immigration grew rapidly between 1870 and 1900. At less than 200,000 apprehensions in fiscal 2015, the Border Patrol today intercepts about as many migrants as it did in the early 1970s, before the era of mass Mexican immigration. Populations with statuses are the among the most affected by push factors in a country or region. Next there is an increase in the use of consciousness changing substances, mainly alcohol. That was certainly the case with the Immigration of people from the British Isles moving to North America in the early 17th century. Push Factor The push factors can be devised into two factors. Pull factor At firstly, Demand for cheap labor in Destination Countries is caused either by the labor shortages in. |
0.999928 | There are several strange rooms in Binary Casino and one of them is a locker room. You have to enter the locker room several times a day, two times being a minimum (before and after your shift). There is no key or access code needed to enter the locker room. There is a brand new security lock system instead.
The lock system presents you with a generated puzzle which you have to solve every time you want to enter the locker room. This system prevents possible intruders to enter the locker room, as the puzzle takes them a long time to solve. Only employees, after working in the casino for some time, manage to master the puzzle.
You are given a cyclic string of N lowercase english letters. You have to choose and mark substrings (continuous segments of characters) of a given length K until each character in the string is marked. Marking a substring does not change the original string and each character can be marked multiple times. The task is to print the lexicographically maximal substring among chosen substrings. In addition, the printed substring has to be lexicographically minimal possible.
For example, let “acdb” be the given string of length N = 4 and let K = 3. Then you can choose substrings “acd” and “bac” to mark the whole string. The puzzle solution is “bac”.
The first line of input contains two integers N and K (1 ≤ N ≤ 5 · 105, 1 ≤ K ≤ N), describing the length of the given string and the length of marked substrings. The second line contains N lowercase english letters – the given cyclic string.
Output the lexicographically maximal substring among chosen substrings under the condition the result is lexicographically minimal possible. |
0.633888 | Effective Ways of using E-Cigarettes The resulting effects of smoking can cost your dear life at other times. Addiction and other effects are as a result from smoking. A lot of money is spent in buying cigarettes. They later get addiction and pose their lives in great health dangers. The government spends a lot of funds to support the health sector in terms of treatment facilities and medication. Some of the smoking related illnesses include throat cancer, lung cancer, breathing problems, addiction among others. Due to the impacts of smoking, smokers are quitting the habit. Although the journey is a tough one, the results are superb. Methods of quitting smoking are so many. But the decision to stop lies within the efforts of an individual. First things first, does a person accepts that he/she is a smoker and is willing to change? Take for instance, in a family set up, a man lying to his wife that he is quitting smoking. Later on, they sneak and smoke in privacy. Whether you want to please your wife or not, your health matters a lot. The introduction of the e-cigarette has occurred in the recent time. So many questions about them are left unanswered, this is despite them having so many benefits. E-cigarette is also known as electronic cigarette. In addition, it is an electronic device. This cigarette uses liquid, this is different with an ordinary cigarette. This liquid is heated to turn into vapor and is later inhaled by the user. This liquid is called e-liquid. The liquid is composed of nicotine and other flavorings. Inhaling this liquid does not produce smoke or odor. The different flavors of this liquid satisfies the demands of different users.
There is a wide variety of e-cigarettes. Any starter should do a thorough research about these cigarettes to be able to identify the most appropriate one. The basic things you should put into consideration will be discussed below. Choose a high brand selling company. You will find so many companies interested in making money. Other than lying to you, they will make you broke. They do not only sell cheap but also poor quality e-cigarettes. To avoid experiencing headache, go for well-known brands. Apart from getting high quality kits, you will have excellent results in the future. You will also notice that their costs are higher.
The next thing is identifying the most appropriate e-cigarette for you. Today, there exists so many e-cigarette in the market. Some are small, medium and even large. Apart from choosing one that suits you, get one that you are comfortable with. E-cigarettes will either be light or heavy. How long is the battery of the e-cigarette you buy? Check whether you like the flavors a particular company offers. Go for e-cigarette that gladdens your heart. |
0.958947 | Create a prompt for a persons first and last names, and then print out a greeting (stored in a variable) followed by the name (last name, first name).
I typically see this issue when a student is trying to output information, either to the console or set a GUI element to have that text content. I also see it occasionally in other contexts, such as conditional statements.
What can I do to help students better avoid this mistake?
Don't imagine that this problem is rare or that it is caused because the students don't "get it." Often they get it all too well. It is common in learning a new thing to base your understanding on what you already know about other things. This is just the sort of error I made myself as a beginning programmer, basing Fortran stuff on what I already knew about math (a lot, as a new PhD in math). The students who make this kind of error may, in fact, be very adept at using analogy to put the new information into a coherent framework.
I think your solution is to first give them a good understanding of symbol. You can start with math symbols like + etc. A symbol "stands for" something, in this case addition. The symbol isn't itself addition, but "stands for" addition. Language punctuation symbols can be likewise shown as "standing for" something. For example semicolon usually stands for statement termination (or separation, depending on the language). In Python, spaces are actually symbols.
From that you can progress to word symbols, such as foo. It is just a symbol, but is spelled out using some alphabet. It "stands for" something; perhaps a function.
Now, you can introduce variable names as word symbols that "stand for" values.
However literals, such as 5 and "foo" aren't symbols in the sense that they "stand for" something else. They stand for only themselves. So foo is a word symbol but "foo" is a literal. The former could stand for lots of different things, but the latter only for itself.
Once they start to study languages in general, the concept of a word symbol will be important to them in any case, so this early introduction is good in a larger context.
Then they see that when they log something with " ", the output is literally what's inside the quotes.
However, if they have a variable (this is important to note that reply is defined with var), the output is the contents of the variable. Truth be told, the output is the string representation of the object, but I fear that's too advanced at this point.
Further explaining that when they use the word var (or const etc.), you create a something that holds information. On the other hand, using quotes "", you are simply representing that information.
But no matter how well you explain it, it's still far more effective to show examples like the one above, and to give the students exercises that will allow them to experience the point you try to teach.
and then explain that d holds info about the date and time that the line was executed.
Do you use any teaching assistant tool in your CS1 lab classes?
Do Python and Java lead students to construct different mental models of memory?
Intensive basic VBA course - which variables to teach?
How to teach beginning students how to find and fix syntax errors? |
0.958798 | The iPad may have been the most widely anticipated Apple device ever. Steve Jobs famously killed the Newton in 1998, as one of his first acts as interim CEO, and had killed several internal Apple tablet projects over the years. Rumors of a new Apple tablet device persisted much of the next decade. Speculation only increased with the 2007 release of the iPhone, which profoundly demonstrated the capabilities of a touch-screen only device.
The years of speculation ended in January 2010, when Apple announced the iPad. Based around a 9.7-inch LED-backlit multi-touch display, the iPad, finally, was more or less what the Rumor-mill had predicted: a giant iPhone. It used a new version of the same iPhone OS that the then-current iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (Late 2009) used, and could run nearly all existing third-party iPhone applications.
Apple positioned the iPad as the first device in an entirely new market segment, making the claim that it would be better at many tasks than either smartphones or traditional laptops. The iPad included specially redesigned versions of the standard suite of iPhone applications, rebuilt from scratch to take advantage of the increased processing power and screen real estate. Apple also ported several Mac-only iWork applications (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) to iPad. Third party developers could develop iPad-specific applications as well.
Most significant to the suite of included iPad applications was iBooks, an eBook reader application combined with a new iTunes-style digital storefront. In an aggressive bid for the eBook reader market, Apple negotiated deals with many of the major book publishers. This put the iPad in direct competition with Amazon's Kindle, which for several years had been the dominant player in the nascent eBook market. Apple was able to secure deals with the large publishing houses by giving them a viable alternative eBook platform, and offering them a lever with which to increase the asking price for eBooks: Apple deals used the same "agency" model adopted for the App store, in which the book sellers set their own price for the book (about $15 for new hardcovers) and Apple took a 30% cut. Amazon had been selling most hardcover books for $9.99, and taking a loss on each book in order to expand their dominance eBook market. In the weeks following the iPad release, Publishers one by one renegotiated their contracts with Amazon to use the agency model.
The iPad was based around an Apple-designed system-on-a-chip, called the A4. The A4 was based on an ARM Cortex-9 CPU, included an integrated GPU, and was extremely energy-efficient. The iPad had an aluminum-backed enclosure, and a nearly 1-inch bezel around the screen, to accommodate any orientation. The iPad was sold in three capacities: 16 GB for $499, 32 GB for $599, and 64 GB for $699. All three capacities were available with 3G wireless capability, for an additional $130. All models included 802.11n and bluetooth wireless connectivity. Apple-branded accessories included a keyboard dock (pictured right) and a neoprene case that doubled as a stand. |
0.999993 | About 7 years ago when I bought my very first domain, I had no clue how to host a website. I wondered, “how in the world do I get something online so that others can see it”? I was such a novice, that I didn't know what a nameserver or hosting account really was.
Now, if you fast forward to today, I've built hundreds of websites and tried out nearly a dozen different hosting companies. The process of buying a domain, pointing the nameservers to my hosting account, and getting a site up and running are now second nature.
For a long time, I have recommended Bluehost as the best company to go with; but after some recent research I'm throwing another recommendation into the mix. Let me be clear first: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BLUEHOST! I still use the company and they are excellent! I have nothing bad to say, and they are the best hosting company I've used as far as ease of use and features.
If they are so great, then why would I recommend anything different? Price.
When it comes down to it, hosting is almost a commodity nowadays. You can get essentially the same package with cPanel, WordPress 1-click install, 99.9%+ uptime, etc almost anywhere now. The 2 aspects that hosting companies can really differentiate themselves on now is price and customer service.
Bluehost is usually priced around $6.95/mth. And you can only get this price if you pay a year or 2 at a time. If you pay month to month, the price will be more than $6.95/mth. Sometimes you can get a discount on the price below this with a special offer, but $6.95 is normal.
So, if you pay 2 years up front – you are looking at $166.80. And this is often only the first cycle – so after the first couple of years, you will renew at the higher/normal rate.
On the other hand WebHostingPad, can be purchased for as little as $1.99/mth right now. The price will be more if you don't pay for 2 years up front, but it would never be $6.95/mth.
I recently signed up for a WebHostingPad account, and got in for a full year of hosting (after taxes, fees, etc) at a total charge of: $47.88.
In a nutshell, Bluehost is cheap, but WebHostingPad is much cheaper still. I like that.
Here's the deal: both Bluehost and WebHostingPad essentially offer the exact same features. They are both shared hosting accounts that offer unlimited Addon Domains, unlimited email accounts, unlimited ftp accounts, and more. They both offer 1-click install of WordPress as well (Bluehost uses Simple Scripts and WebHostingPad uses Softalicious).
Overall, I think both Bluehost and WebHostingPad are great options for shared hosting. I've been with Bluehost since 2005 and haven't ever had any major issues. Any issues I've had was resolved quickly by their excellent customer support staff.
On the other hand, I've been with WebHostingPad for a couple of months, but so far I'm impressed. I've had no issues, and for the much lower price, its a great option. I did email their customer support with a question and they got back to me very quickly; so they also appear to be backed with great support.
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I really think that either hosting company is a great option for most people. So, the choice is yours based on some of the things I've mentioned, pricing, features, and customer service.
Have anything you would like to add? Let me know below.
Interesting. I am happy with Bluehost but the price difference is pretty significant. I’ll most likely look into Web Hosting Pad sometime in the future.
I’ll check Web Hosting Pad out, thanks for the heads up. There are alot of good hosts out there, I’ve tested many of them because I use so many for my blog link network. If you go to the Web Hosting Talk forums, they have a section where hosting companies post special offers and coupons.
Yes, this is a pretty significant price difference indeed.
I got away from Blue host because of their more recent CPU Throttling, it really slowed my websites to a crawl.
Hello Spencer! In recently joining the content creation group I am using blogger as I am new and it’s pretty easy to navigate. However, after reading your post and realizing I can get web hosting fairly cheap, it is worth experimenting with. I just signed up with webhostingpad through your link (the information you provide is priceless and I am happy to click on your affiliate links). I am not sure what to do next but I’m sure I will figure it out. I will keep everyone posted on my experience with webhosting pad. I will say, I saved 15% by going through your link thanks!
P.S. I still plan to launch my blog in blogger while using webhostingpad with wordpress to launch a blog in the same niche and see what I like better, wordpress or blogger!
Thanks Jason! The investment really is so small nowadays to get your own domain and hosting, that its a pretty easy decision. If you have any further questions about getting set up, let me know.
Thanks for sharing this with us, Spencer! This post couldn’t have come at a better time! I am with HostGator and have been with them for over 3 years and still paying $9.95 a month. I have been wanting to switch for the longest time and just haven’t done it and then your post pops-up in my email! Haha! Funny!
I’m heading over to check out WebHostingPad now!
Hey Stacy – thank you…glad I could help!
Shiet I was looking for a good solution. I have a bunch of sites that are no longer making any money hosted on an SEO host that I need to move outta there. The SEO host is costing me $50 a month..which is the price of this WebHostingPad for a whole year. Will do more research and buy from your link if I end up buying.
I’ve heard that Bluehost does not give you the option to upgrade to a dedicated server should you ever need it. (I understand many of us will never need one, but still…) How does WebHosting Pad compare in this instance?
Travis – that’s correct that Bluehost does not have a dedicated server upgrade. WebHostingPad does have VPS options that you can upgrade; so definitely more options if you need to upgrade.
When judging reliable web hosting companies, it usually comes down to their customer service and technical support in the heat of the moment because it is then when company tends to reveal itself and so far I have learned on mistakes of others when it came to pricing as more often than not it proved to reflect reliability.
I am not claiming anything about WebHostingPad here Spencer because I haven’t used it. But BlueHost was my first web host I’ve used and been happy with for a couple of years back in 2007 and then left HostGator due to malicious code injection to my server. I doubt it was because of my negligence but technical support merely told me to figure it myself and report back when I fixed it so they will reinstate my account. This was the reason I’ve migrated to HostGator and still with them ever since. Although I might consider BlueHost soon again for diversification.
Thanks for sharing, I am always looking for good inexpensive hosts. I haven’t tried WebPad but based on your review they look like they are worth a shot.
I still use BlueHost but they are limited in how they can support my site while it grows. If I have a site on bluehost and look to increase the hosting power when I get say 20k visitors per month I have to move servers & companies. Where as with other hosting companies I can stay in the same company and they can help move to a dedicated server. This is a good problem to have, but its very frustrating when you are trying to grow a site and dealing with it being down due to server moves.
Thank you Spencer!. I’ll give it a try through your link. One question: When should one consider moving to a dedicated server? Does it depend on the monthly number of visits? or the bandwidth used?. Which is the criteria you use to move to a dedicated server.
Bandwidth is often the issue. I had to move NichePursuits to a VPS server about a year ago…now on Servint.net. I noticed that my site was not as responsive during peak times or right after I sent out emails…that made me switch.
I’ve come across WebHostingPad’s name multiple times on many webmaster forums, almost always in a negative context. The most common complaint is that WHP cancels accounts without warning for exceeding CPU usage, when the websites in question were low traffic and non-CPU intensive.
I haven’t used them myself, just wanted to share that.
I too have used BlueHost (and their sister company HostMonster) for many years without issue, and have also used WebHostingHUB more recently. WHH is my favorite at the moment, with very nice support. They’re also the first shared host I’ve found who will allow my to have multiple installs of WP multisite.
I also am satisfied with a VPS I have with hostamus.
Wasn’t my intention to rain down on your WHP promo, just felt the need to share that bit of info. Every webmaster should do a bit of research on their host and it’s treatment of clients. If you’re spending less that $5 a month, do even better research – “you get what you pay for” etc.
The number one issue people should look at when choosing a SHARED host is how trigger-happy the host is with their account termination button, and whether you’ll get a heads up before they take your website (and income stream) offline.
Spencer, sorry but I’ve have 2 bad experiences in 2 days. First with bluehost, they were dreadfully slow when administering the control panel and the support guys didn’t seem very clued up re a DNS issue I had.
I closed that and signed up with WHP. Unbelievably they’ve had 2 outages this morning. The second one meant that I lost my work as I couldn’t save it.
I think you need to do a lot more homework before recommending these guys. Hostgator for me, is streets ahead of the others.
I have yet to try webshostingpad. I used to like hostgator but they have shady business practices such as not paying their affiliates. Also, when I was with hostgator, one of my websites went down and it took them days to finally help me.
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0.961199 | Genetically modified crops are passing their transgenes to organic and non-GMO crops and causing farmers added costs and hardships. The risks and the effects of GMO contamination have unfairly burdened organic and non-GMO farmers with extra work, longer hours, and financial insecurity.... These numbers were far greater than the control group, which had been fed the equivalent non-genetically modified corn. The GMO-fed group also died at 2-3 times the rate, and had damaged livers, kidneys, and pituitary glands.
Scientists are altering and augmenting the genetic make up of our food crops to increase crop yields by making the plants pest resistant, herbicide tolerant, disease resistant, cold, drought, salinity tolerant, etc and to improve the nutrition of the crop and/or to provide pharmaceutical properties via �... In March, McDonald�s UK revealed it had ended its ban on burger meat sourced from cattle fattened with GM crops. It lifted similar bans on eggs and chickens a few years ago.
The difficulty of debating the subject of genetically modified (GM) foods is they are so new that we don�t really know how they affect the human body�they just haven�t existed long � persona 5 how to change announcer Genetically modified foods, often called GM foods, are those foods that have been altered at the genetic level in order to produce a form that has some new function or trait that food producers find desirable.
Avoid foods that contain ingredients that are commonly sourced from genetically modified crops. The most frequently genetically modified crops in the United States include corn, cotton, canola and soy. Note that the inclusion of cotton indicates that many of the clothes and linens used in the average household are made from genetically modified materials. how to paraphrase to avoid plagiarism Avoid foods that contain ingredients that are commonly sourced from genetically modified crops. The most frequently genetically modified crops in the United States include corn, cotton, canola and soy. Note that the inclusion of cotton indicates that many of the clothes and linens used in the average household are made from genetically modified materials.
Genetically modified bacteria and fungi are used in the production of enzymes, vitamins, food additives, flavorings and processing agents in thousands of foods on the grocery shelves as well as health supplements. Aspartame, the diet sweetener, is a product of genetic engineering.
The debate over GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) rages on with ballot initiatives this election year addressing the issue of proper labeling on food products containing GMOs, and a new batch of superweeds that are resistant to the herbicides used on GMO crops plaguing farmers across the country.
Genetically modified food consists of a number with 5 digits that begins with an 8. Organic food is indicated by a 5-digit number that begins with a 9. � Stay away from aspartame � NutraSweet� and Equal� are examples of artificial sweeteners that use aspartame, which is made from genetically modified microorganisms. |
0.993368 | I went to Lyon on a short-visit only due to boredom. From Lyon Part Dieu train station, I stroll around the Lyon City Center by around 6 hours only. Lyon is the third largest city in France, centre of the second largest metropolitan area and the capital of the Rhone-Alpes region.
Founded by the Romans, with many preserved historical areas, Lyon is the archetype of the heritage city, as recognised by UNESCO. Lyon is a vibrant metropolis which makes the most out of its unique architectural, cultural and gastronomic heritage, its dynamic demographics and economy and its strategic location between Northern and Southern Europe. It is more and more open to the world, with an increasing number of students and international events. |
0.943334 | The first on July 26, 1139 when Afonso Henriques was acclaimed King of the Portuguese internally.
The second was on October 5 of 1143, when the Kingdom of Leon and the Kingdom of Castile recognized Afonso Henriques as king through the Treaty of Zamora.
The third, on 1179, was the Papal Bull Manifestis Probatum, where Portugal's independence is recognized by the Pope.
With the turn of the twentieth century, republicanism would grow in numbers and support in Lisbon among progressive politians and the influential press. However a minority with regard to the rest of the country, this height of republicanism would benefit politically from the Lisbon Regicide on February 1, 1908. When returning from the Ducal Palace at Vila Viçosa, King Carlos I and the Prince Royal Luis Filipe were killed in the Terreiro do Paço, in Lisbon. With the death of the king and his heir, Carlos I's second son would become king as King Manuel II of Portugal. Manuel's reign, however, would be shortlived, ending by force with the 5 October 1910 revolution, sending Manuel into exile in England and giving way to the Portuguese First Republic.
The Monarchs of Portugal ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1128, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy with the 5 October 1910 revolution. Through the nearly 800 years which Portugal was a monarchy, the kings have held various other titles and pretensions. Two Kings of Portugal, Ferdinand I and Afonso V, were also Kings of Galicia. When the Portuguese House of Habsburg came into power, the Kings of Portugal also became the Kings of Spain, Kings of Naples, and various dukes around Europe. The House of Braganza brought numerous titles to the Portuguese Crown, including King of Brazil and then Emperor of Brazil.
The House of Aviz, known as the Joanine Dynasty, succeded the Portuguese House of Burgundy as the reiging house of the Kingdom of Portugal. The house was founded by John I of Portugal, who was the Grand Master of the Order of Aviz.
The House of Aviz-Beja, also known as the House of Beja, was the dynasty that ruled Portugal from 1495 to 1580. It was founded when King John II of Portugal died without an heir and the throne of Portugal passed to his cousin, Manuel, Duke of Beja.
The Portuguese House of Habsburg, known as the Philippine Dynasty, is the house that ruled Portugal from 1580 to 1640. The dynasty began with the acclamation of Philip II of Spain as Philip I of Portugal in 1580, officially recognized in 1581 by the Portuguese Cortes of Tomar. Philip I swore to rule Portugal as a kingdom separate from his Spanish domains, under the personal union known as the Iberian Union.
The House of Braganza, known as the Brigantine Dynasty, came to power, in 1640, when John II of Braganza became the reigning house of Portugal and depose the Portuguese House of Habsburg in the Portuguese Restoration War.
The House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is the designation given to the house of the last four Kings of Portugal. The house's existance as is debated, as Portuguese historians and the monarchs themselves styled themselves as members of the House of Braganza and not members of a Saxe-Coburg branch.
The present members of this family bear the title Infant or Infanta of Portugal together with the formal appellation of His or Her Royal Highness. |
0.999324 | 2. There are five different houses, A to E, in a row. A is to the right of B and E is to the left of C and right of A. B is to the right of D. Which of the house is in the middle?
3. If the letters in PRABA are coded as 27595 and THILAK are coded 36851, How can BHARATHI be coded?
4) If C= 3, CEP = 24, then what will be the value of HUX?
5. Mohan travels from a point to east 10 km and turned right and travelled 8 km and turned right travelled 6 km and turned right travelled 5 km. How far is he from the starting point?
Directions (Q 6-10): Below is given a question followed by four statements numbered I, II, III and IV. The question may (or may not) be answered using any or more of the given statements. You have to decide which of these statements are sufficient to answer the given question. Pick out the appropriate choices.
6. How is P related to Q?
STATEMENTS: I. Q is the father of P.
II. P is a bright student of the class.
III. P is a devoted husband.
IV. P is the brother of Y.
1. Only I suffices 2. I and III suffice.
3. I and either III or IV suffice 4. III and IV suffice.
7. On which day of the week did Atul reach Bombay?
STATEMENTS: I. Atul reached Bombay on 16th July.
II. Atul reached Bombay day before Sudha.
III. Sudha reached Bombay on a Friday.
iv. 25TH July is a Saturday.
1. I and IV suffice. 2. II and III suffice.
3. I, II and III suffice.
4. Either I and IV, or II and III suffice.
8. Among X, Y and Z who is the most intelligent?
STATEMENTS: I. X is more intelligent than Y.
II. Z is more intelligent than M.
III. M is more intelligent than N.
IV. X is more intelligent than N.
1. Only I suffices. 2. I and IV suffice.
3. I, II and IV suffice. 4. Still more data needed.
9. What is the age of Poornima?
STATEMENTS: I. Poornima is half as old as her mother.
III. Poornima is 16 years younger than her mother.
1. I and II suffice. 2. I and either II or III suffice.
3. Either I or II and either III or IV suffice. 4. Any two out of I, II, III,IV suffice.
10. Are some gardens wardens?
STATEMENTS: I. Some gardens are birds.
II. Some wardens are gardens.
III. All birds are wardens.
IV. No bird is a match box.
1. I and III suffice. 2. I and IV suffice. 3. II and IV suffice.
4. 4. Either II or I and III suffice.
i) Eight doctors P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W visit a charitable dispensary run by Ram Mandir Trust every day except on a holiday i.e. Monday.
ii) Each doctor’s visit is of 1 hour from Tuesday to Sunday except Saturday. The timings are 9 AM to 1 PM and 2 PM to 6 PM. ! PM to 2 PM is lunch break.
iii) On Saturdays it is open only in the morning, i.e. 9 AM to 1 PM and on this day each doctor’s visit is of half an hour only.
iv) No other doctor visits the dispensary before Q and after U.
v) Doctor W comes immediately after lunch break and is followed by R.
vi) S comes in the same order as P in the afternoon session.
11. At what time is the visit of Doctor R over on Sunday?
12. If lunch break and subsequent visit hours are reduced by 15 minutes, at what time is Doctor U expected to attend the dispensary?
13. At what time would the visit of T be over on Saturday?
14. Doctor P visits in between which of the following pairs of doctors?
16. If it is possible to make a meaningful word using the second, fourth, fifth and seventh letters of the word CAPITALIST, write down the third letter of this word. If no meaningful word is possible, mark X as your answer. If more than one such word is possible, mark M as your answer.
18. Kamal’s son is the son-in-law of Achyut’s father. Rani is Achyut’s only sister. Kamal has only one grandson Pramod. How is Pramod related to Rani?
1. Father 2. Uncle 3. Son 4. Brother .
19. Arun is fatter than Ram who is thinner than Babu. Mani is thinner than Arun but fatter than Babu. Two other men are fatter than Arun. Who is the thinnest?
1. racquet 2. Shuttlecock 3. net 4. court .
21. which letter or number if 18th to the right of the 26th letter or number from the right?
22. If the second half of the series above was reversed what would be the answer to Q.11 above?
23. What would be the answer to Q 11 if all the number of the sequence were dropped?
24. What will come in place of the (?) question mark in the sequence below?
25. If only the letters from E to Q were written in the reverse order and other letters were left unaltered, which letter would be 10th to the right of the 32nd letter from the right?
I. A factory holds a competition to decide “Best Performance” and “Most Popular” awards. Each worker gives marks out of 100 for ‘performance’ as well as ‘popularity’ for nominated six workers.
II. A,B, C, D, E and F are six workers who are given ranks separately for ‘performance’ and ‘popularity’ on the basis of marks obtained by them.
III. The ranking for ‘performance’ given in descending order on the basis of marks obtained by the six workers was such that ‘A’ was fifth and ‘F’ was first. ‘B’s marks on performance were slightly lower than’F’ but slightly better than ‘E’. ‘D’s rank in one case was sixth and in other it was fourth. D’s marks on performance were slightly better than A.
IV. When the ranks for ‘popularity’ were given in ascending order of their marks, with rank one for least popular and rank six for most popular. E’s rank remains unchanged but C’s rank was replaced by D and A replaced B’s rank.
Q.26. Who was most popular?
Q.27. Who among the following is likely to have lower marks in performance as well as popularity?
Q.28. Who got lowest marks in performance?
Q.29. What rank ‘F” received on popularity?
30. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
Directions (Q 31-35): In each question below, there are two or three statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follow(s) from the given statements.
31. STATEMENTS: All birds are books.
CONCLUSIONS: I. All birds are quarters.
II. Some quarters are birds.
III. Some quarters are books.
IV. Some books are birds.
1. I, II and III follow. 2. II, III and IV follow.
3. I, III and IV follow. 4.. All follow.
32. STATEMENTS: Some books are novels.
CONCLUSIONS: I. Some books are dishes.
II. Some books are not dishes.
III. Some dishes are novels.
IV. Some dishes are not novels.
1. Either I or II follows 2. Either III or IV follows.
3. Either I or II, and III or IV follow.
4. I and III follow.
33. STATEMENTS: Some desks are pens.
No pen is a paper.
CONCLUSIONS; I. Some desks are papers.
II. Some desks are not papers.
III. No desk is paper.
IV. No paper is a pen.
1. Only II and IV follow. 2. Either I or II follows.
3. Either I or III follows. 4. Only II and III follow.
34. STATEMENTS: All boys are girls.
CONCLUSIONS: I. Some books are girls.
II. Some books are not girls.
III. Some girls are books.
IV. Some girls are not books.
1. Either I or II follows. 2. Either III or IV follows.
3. Only II and IV follow. 4. Either I or II and IV follow.
35. STATEMENTS: All books are pens.
CONCLUSIONS: I. Some pens are books.
II. Some pens are tigers.
III. Some tigers are pens.
IV. Some pens are not tigers.
1. Only I and III follow. 2. Only II and III follow.
3. Only I follows. 4. I, II and III follow.
36. How many pairs of letters are there in the word CIGARETTE which have as many letter between them as in the alphabet?
37. What will be the last letter of the word made of the first, sixth, ninth and tenth letters of the word SUPPLEMENT? If no such word can be made, give M as your answer. If more than one such word can be made, give P as your answer.
1. S 2. N 3. T 4. P.
38. If COLOUR is called MUSIC, MUSIC is called ENGINE, ENGINE is called CAR, CAR is called CARAVAN, CARAVAN is called TENT, and TENT is called IGLOO, then what do soldiers on battlefield live in?
40. If ANACONDA is written as ANADNADN in a certain code, how will MOVEMENT be written in the same code? |
0.995509 | Leaving a loved one in the hands of someone else is often a very difficult decision to make. Most people spend months researching the best nursing homes in their area and for the best place that can provide top-notch care for their elderly family members.
Unfortunately, even the best facilities are sometimes guilty of nursing home negligence, and the signs of it should never be disregarded.
Let’s take a closer look at the typical cases of neglect, and what you should do to handle the situation.
Emotional neglect, otherwise known as elder psychological abuse, is one of the most difficult types of neglect to discern. Members of the nursing staff might be ridiculing a patient, humiliating them, intimidating, or even ignoring completely.
Signs of emotional abuse usually include very low self-esteem, sudden changes in mood, lack of eye contact, refusing to speak or eat. In case you notice any of these symptoms, talking with a resident psychologist can help you determine if it’s a case of neglect.
There are two most common types of medical neglect in nursing homes. Usually, the patient is either overmedicated or undermedicated. Medical neglect can also include failure to recognize and take steps to deal with the signs of malnutrition or dehydration, as well as failure to send your loved one to a hospital if necessary.
Most typical signs of medical neglect include growing bedsores and unexplained falls. If the patient is over or under-medicated, signs depend on the medicine itself, but most commonly you’ll notice a major health deterioration.
The overall hygiene in a nursing facility can have a serious effect on the elderly’s health and can even be fatal. The elderly’s immune system is weakening due to their advanced age, which is why it’s essential to keep a close eye on the cleanliness of the facility where you’re sending your loved one to.
Neglect of personal hygiene includes leaving a resident in soiled clothing, failing to change and wash them, falls under more serious forms of neglect. It’s important to deal with it sooner rather than later.
Nursing home negligence is often seen in a failure to provide for the residents’ basic needs. Typically, those include food, water, and sanitation.
Sudden or unexplained weight loss is the most typical sign of malnutrition and dehydration, but the patient might also show signs of depression, sleep deprivation, mood swings, unexplained worsening of medical and mental conditions, and more.
If you notice any suspicious signs that your loved one is being neglected, it’s important to act immediately. One of the first things you should do is verify your suspicions by talking with your loved one and other residents of the facility. Removing them from the nursing home is essential in the worse cases of neglect.
Contacting an attorney is a must. Vasilatos Injury Law attorneys have years of experience with cases like these, and we’ll let you know when to file a lawsuit and how we can help with the process.
Nursing home negligence can have dire consequences and can often be fatal. Catch the signs of neglect early and protect your loved one by contacting us today! |
0.947716 | Why do 64-bit DLLs go to System32 and 32-bit DLLs to SysWoW64 on 64-bit Windows?
C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Windows\SysWOW64, on a 64-bits windows system.
I had two DLL's, one for 32-bit, one for 64-bit.
Logically, I thought I'd place the 32-bit DLL under C:\Windows\System32, and the 64-bit DLL under C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
To my surprise, it's the other way around! The 32-bit one goes into C:\Windows\SysWOW64, and the 64-bit DLL goes into C:\Windows\System32.
Very confusing stuff. What's the reason behind this?
I believe the intent was to rename System32, but so many applications hard-coded for that path, that it wasn't feasible to remove it.
SysWoW64 wasn't intended for the dlls of 64-bit systems, it's actually something like "Windows on Windows64", meaning the bits you need to run 32bit apps on a 64bit windows.
"Windows x64 has a directory System32 that contains 64-bit DLLs (sic!). Thus native processes with a bitness of 64 find “their” DLLs where they expect them: in the System32 folder. A second directory, SysWOW64, contains the 32-bit DLLs. The file system redirector does the magic of hiding the real System32 directory for 32-bit processes and showing SysWOW64 under the name of System32."
Edit: If you're talking about an installer, you really should not hard-code the path to the system folder. Instead, let Windows take care of it for you based on whether or not your installer is running on the emulation layer.
The code that uses your dlls reads the registry, then dynamically links to the dlls in that location.
The above is the smart way to go.
Ran into the same issue and researched this for a few minutes.
I was taught to use Windows 3.1 and DOS, remember those days? Shortly after I worked with Macintosh computers strictly for some time, then began to sway back to Windows after buying a x64-bit machine.
There are actual reasons behind these changes (some would say historical significance), that are necessary for programmers to continue their work.
In the beginning the 16/86bit files were written on, '86' Intel processors.
When developers first started working with Windows7, there were several compatibility issues where other applications where stored.
Essentially, in plain english, it means 'Windows on Windows within a 64-bit machine'. Each folder is indicating where the DLLs are located for applications it they wish to use them.
System32 is where Windows historically placed all 32bit DLLs, and System was for the 16bit DLLs. When microsoft created the 64 bit OS, everyone I know of expected the files to reside under System64, but Microsoft decided it made more sense to put 64bit files under System32. The only reasoning I have been able to find, is that they wanted everything that was 32bit to work in a 64bit Windows w/o having to change anything in the programs -- just recompile, and it's done. The way they solved this, so that 32bit applications could still run, was to create a 32bit windows subsystem called Windows32 On Windows64. As such, the acronym SysWOW64 was created for the System directory of the 32bit subsystem. The Sys is short for System, and WOW64 is short for Windows32OnWindows64.
Since windows 16 is already segregated from Windows 32, there was no need for a Windows 16 On Windows 64 equivalence. Within the 32bit subsystem, when a program goes to use files from the system32 directory, they actually get the files from the SysWOW64 directory. But the process is flawed.
It's a horrible design. And in my experience, I had to do a lot more changes for writing 64bit applications, that simply changing the System32 directory to read System64 would have been a very small change, and one that pre-compiler directives are intended to handle.
We all make stupid short-sighted mistakes in life. When Microsoft named their (at the time) Win32 DLL directory "System32", it made sense at the time ... they just didn't take into consideration what would happen if/when a 64-bit (or 128-bit) version of their OS got developed later - and the massive backward compatibility issue such a directory name would cause. Hindsight is always 20-20, so I can't really blame them (too much) for such a mistake. ...HOWEVER... When Microsoft did later develop their 64-bit operating system, even with the benefit of hindsight, why oh why would they make not only the exact same short-sighted mistake AGAIN but make it even worse by PURPOSEFULLY giving it such a misleading name?!? Shame on them!!! Why not AT LEAST actually name the directory "SysWin32OnWin64" to avoid confusion?!? And what happens when they eventually produce a 128-bit OS ... then where are they going to put their 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit DLLs?!?
All of this logic still seems completely flawed to me. On 32-bit versions of Windows, System32 contains 32-bit DLLs; on 64-bit versions of Windows, System32 contains 64-bit DLLs ... so that developers wouldn't have to make code changes, correct? The problem with this logic is that those developers are either now making 64-bit apps needing 64-bit DLLs or they're making 32-bit apps needing 32-bit DLLs ... either way, aren't they still screwed? I mean, if they're still making a 32-bit app, for it to now run on a 64-bit Windows, they'll now need to make a code change to find/reference the same ol' 32-bit DLL they used before (now located in SysWOW64). Or, if they're working on a 64-bit app, they're going to need to re-write their old app for the new OS anyway ... so a recompile/rebuild was going to be needed anyway!!!
Microsoft just hurts me sometimes.
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0.97904 | The History of Roman and Byzantine domes traces the architecture of domes throughout the ancient Roman Empire and its medieval continuation, today called the Byzantine Empire. Domes were important architectural elements in both periods and had widespread influence on contemporary and later styles, from Russian and Ottoman architecture to the Italian Renaissance and modern revivals. The domes were customarily hemispherical, although octagonal and segmented shapes are also known, and they developed in form, use, and structure over the centuries. Early examples rested directly on the rotunda walls of round rooms and featured a central oculus for ventilation and light. Pendentives became common in the Byzantine period, provided support for domes over square spaces.
Early wooden domes are known only from a literary source, but the use of wooden formwork, concrete, and unskilled labor enabled domes of monumental size in the late Republic and early Imperial period, such as the so-called "Temple of Mercury" bath hall at Baiae. Nero introduced the dome into Roman palace architecture in the 1st century and such rooms served as state banqueting halls, audience rooms, or throne rooms. The Pantheon's dome, the largest and most famous example, was built of concrete in the 2nd century and may have served as an audience hall for Hadrian. Imperial mausolea, such as the Mausoleum of Diocletian, were domed beginning in the 3rd century. Some smaller domes were built with a technique of using ceramic tubes in place of a wooden centering for concrete, or as a permanent structure embedded in the concrete, but light brick became the preferred building material over the course of the 4th and 5th centuries. Brick ribs allowed for a thinner structure and facilitated the use of windows in the supporting walls, replacing the need for an oculus as a light source.
Christian baptisteries and shrines were domed in the 4th century, such as the Lateran Baptistery and the likely wooden dome over the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Constantine's octagonal palace church in Antioch may have been the precedent for similar buildings for centuries afterward. The first domed basilica may have been built in the 5th century, with a church in southern Turkey being the earliest proposed example, but the 6th century architecture of Justinian made domed church architecture standard throughout the Roman east. His Hagia Sophia and Church of the Holy Apostles inspired copies in later centuries.
Cruciform churches with domes at their crossings, such as the churches of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki and St. Nicholas at Myra, were typical of 7th and 8th century architecture and bracing a dome with barrel vaults on four sides became the standard structural system. Domes over windowed drums of cylindrical or polygonal shape were standard after the 9th century. In the empire's later period, smaller churches were built with smaller domes, normally less than 6 meters (20 ft) after the 10th century. Exceptions include the 11th century domed-octagons of Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni, and the 12th century Chora Church, among others. The cross-in-square plan, with a single dome at the crossing or five domes in a quincunx pattern, as at the Church of St. Panteleimon, was the most popular type from the 10th century until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Rounded arches, vaults, and domes distinguish Roman architecture from that of Ancient Greece and were facilitated by the use of concrete and brick. By varying the weight of the aggregate material in the concrete, the weight of the concrete could be altered, allowing lighter layers to be laid at the top of concrete domes. But concrete domes also required expensive wooden formwork, also called shuttering, to be built and kept in place during the curing process, which would usually have to be destroyed to be removed. Formwork for brick domes need not be kept in place as long and could be more easily reused.
Roman domes were used in baths, villas, palaces, and tombs. Oculi were common features. They were customarily hemispherical in shape and partially or totally concealed on the exterior. In order to buttress the horizontal thrusts of a large hemispherical masonry dome, the supporting walls were built up beyond the base to at least the haunches of the dome and the dome was then also sometimes covered with a conical or polygonal roof. A variety of other shapes, including shallow saucer domes, segmental domes, and ribbed domes were also sometimes used. The audience halls of many imperial palaces were domed. Domes were also very common over polygonal garden pavilions. Construction and development of domes declined in the west with the decline and fall of the western portion of the empire.
The term "Byzantine", invented in 1557 by historian Hieronymus Wolf, became popular in the 19th century and is used to refer to the medieval eastern Roman Empire with its capital at Constantinople, the former town of Byzantion. In the Byzantine period, a supporting structure of four arches with pendentives between them allowed the spaces below domes to be opened up. Pendentives allowed for weight loads to be concentrated at just four points on a more practical square plan, rather than a circle. Domes were important elements of baptisteries, churches, and tombs. They were normally hemispherical and had, with occasional exceptions, windowed drums. Roofing for domes ranged from simple ceramic tile to more expensive, more durable, and more form-fitting lead sheeting.
The domes and drums typically incorporated wooden tension rings at several levels to resist deformation in the mortar and allow for faster construction. Metal clamps between stone cornice blocks, metal tie rods, and metal chains were also used to stabilize domed buildings. Timber belts at the bases of domes helped to stabilize the walls below them during earthquakes, but the domes themselves remained vulnerable to collapse. The surviving ribbed or pumpkin dome examples in Constantinople are structurally equivalent and those techniques were used interchangeably, with the number of divisions corresponding to the number of windows. Aided by the small scale of churches after the 6th century, such ribbed domes could be built with formwork only for the ribs. Pumpkin domes could have been built in self-supporting rings and small domical vaults were effectively corbelled, dispensing with formwork altogether.
Roman baths played a leading role in the development of domed construction in general, and monumental domes in particular. Modest domes in baths dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC are seen in Pompeii, in the cold rooms of the Terme Stabiane and the Terme del Foro. These domes are very conical in shape, similar to those on an Assyrian bas-relief found in Nineveh. At a Roman era tepidarium in Cabrera de Mar, Spain, a dome has been identified from the middle of the 2nd century BC that used a refined version of the parallel arch construction found in an earlier Hellenistic bath dome in Sicily. According to Vitruvius, the temperature and humidity of domed warm rooms could be regulated by raising or lowering bronze discs located under an oculus. Domes were particularly well suited to the hot rooms of baths circular in plan to facilitate even heating from the walls. However, the extensive use of domes did not occur before the 1st century AD.
Varro's book on agriculture describes an aviary with a wooden dome decorated with the eight winds that is compared by analogy to the eight winds depicted on the Tower of the Winds, which was built in Athens at about the same time. This aviary with its wooden dome may represent a fully developed type. Wooden domes in general would have allowed for very wide spans. Their earlier use may have inspired the development and introduction of large stone domes of previously unprecedented size. Complex wooden forms were necessary for dome centering and support during construction, and they seem to have eventually become more efficient and standardized over time.
The mortar and aggregate of Roman concrete was built up in horizontal layers laid by hand against wooden form-work with the thickness of the layers determined by the length of the workday, rather than being poured into a mold as concrete is today. Roman concrete domes were thus built similarly to the earlier corbel domes of the Mediterranean region, although they have different structural characteristics. The aggregate used by the Romans was often rubble, but lightweight aggregate in the upper levels served to reduce stresses. Empty "vases and jugs" could be hidden inside to reduce weight. The dry concrete mixtures used by the Romans were compacted with rams to eliminate voids, and added animal blood acted as a water reducer. Because Roman concrete was weak in tension, it did not provide any structural advantage over the use of brick or stone. But, because it could be constructed with unskilled slave labor, it provided a constructional advantage and facilitated the building of large-scale domes.
Domes reached monumental size in the Roman Imperial period. Although imprints of the formwork itself have not survived, deformations from the ideal of up to 22 centimeters (8.7 in) at the so-called "Temple of Mercury" in Baiae suggest a centering of eight radiating frames, with horizontal connectors supporting radial formwork for the shallow dome. The building, actually a concrete bath hall dating from the age of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD), has the first known large Roman dome. There are five openings in the dome: a circular oculus and four square skylights. The dome has a span of 21.5 meters (71 ft) and is the largest known dome built before that of the Pantheon. It is also the earliest preserved concrete dome.
While there are earlier examples in the Republican period and early Imperial period, the growth of domed construction increased under Emperor Nero and the Flavians in the 1st century AD, and during the 2nd century. Centrally planned halls become increasingly important parts of palace and palace villa layouts beginning in the 1st century, serving as state banqueting halls, audience rooms, or throne rooms. Formwork was arranged either horizontally or radially, but there is not enough surviving evidence from the 1st and 2nd centuries to say what was typical.
The opulent palace architecture of the Emperor Nero (54 – 68 AD) marks an important development. There is evidence of a dome in his Domus Transitoria at the intersection of two corridors, resting on four large piers, which may have had an oculus at the center. In Nero's Domus Aurea, or "Golden House", planned by Severus and Celer, the walls of a large octagonal room transition to an octagonal domical vault, which then transitions to a dome with an oculus. This is the earliest known example of a dome in the city of Rome itself.
The Domus Aurea was built after 64 AD and the dome was over 13 meters (43 ft) in diameter. This octagonal and semicircular dome is made of concrete and the oculus is made of brick. The radial walls of the surrounding rooms buttress the dome, allowing the octagonal walls directly beneath it to contain large openings under flat arches and for the room itself to be unusually well lit. Because there is no indication that mosaic or other facing material had ever been applied to the surface of the dome, it may have been hidden behind a tent-like fabric canopy like the pavilion tents of Hellenistic (and earlier Persian) rulers. The oculus is unusually large, more than two-fifths the span of the room, and it may have served to support a lightweight lantern structure or tholos, which would have covered the opening. Circular channels on the upper surface of the oculus also support the idea that this lantern, perhaps itself domed, was the rotating dome referred to in written accounts.
According to Suetonius, the Domus Aurea had a dome that perpetually rotated on its base in imitation of the sky. It was reported in 2009 that newly discovered foundations of a round room may be those of a rotating domed dining hall. Also reported in contemporary sources is a ceiling over a dining hall in the palace fitted with pipes so that perfume could rain from the ceiling, although it is not known whether this was a feature of the same dome. The expensive and lavish decoration of the palace caused such scandal that it was abandoned soon after Nero's death and public buildings such as the Baths of Titus and the Colosseum were built at the site.
The only intact dome from the reign of Emperor Domitian is a 16.1-meter (53 ft) wide example in what may have been a nymphaeum at his villa at Albano. It is now the church of Santa Maria della Rotunda. Domitian's 92 AD Domus Augustana established the apsidal semi-dome as an imperial motif. Square chambers in his palace on the Palatine Hill used pendentives to support domes. His palace contained three domes resting over walls with alternating apses and rectangular openings. An octagonal domed hall existed in the domestic wing. Unlike Nero's similar octagonal dome, its segments extended all the way to the oculus. The dining hall of this private palace, called the Coenatio Jovis, or Dining Hall of Jupiter, contained a rotating ceiling like the one Nero had built, but with stars set into the simulated sky.
During the reign of Emperor Trajan, domes and semi-domes over exedras were standard elements of Roman architecture, possibly due to the efforts of Trajan's architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, who was famed for his engineering ability. Two rotundas 20 meters (66 ft) in diameter were finished in 109 AD as part of the Baths of Trajan, built over the Domus Aurea, and exedras 13 and 18 meters (43 and 59 ft) wide were built as part of the markets north-east of his forum. The architecture of Trajan's successor, Hadrian, continued this style. Although considered an example of Hadrianic architecture, there is brickstamp evidence that the rebuilding of the Pantheon in its present form was begun under Trajan. Speculation that the architect of the Pantheon was Apollodorus has not been proven, although there are stylistic commonalities between his large coffered half-domes at Trajan's Baths and the dome of the Pantheon. Three 100-foot (30 m) wide exedras at Trajan's Baths have patterns of coffering that, as in the Pantheon, align with lower niches only on the axes and diagonals and, also as in the Pantheon, that alignment is sometimes with the ribs between the coffers, rather than with the coffers themselves.
The Pantheon, a temple in Rome completed by Emperor Hadrian as part of the Baths of Agrippa, is the most famous, best preserved, and largest Roman dome. Its diameter was more than twice as wide as any known earlier dome. Dating from the 2nd century, it is an unreinforced concrete dome 43.4 meters (142 ft) wide resting on a circular wall, or rotunda, 6 meters (20 ft) thick. This rotunda, made of brick-faced concrete, contains a large number of relieving arches and is not solid. Seven interior niches and the entrance way divide the wall structurally into eight virtually independent piers. These openings and additional voids account for a quarter of the rotunda wall's volume. The only opening in the dome is the brick-lined oculus at the top, 9 meters (30 ft) in diameter, that provides light and ventilation for the interior.
The shallow coffering in the dome accounts for a less than five percent reduction in the dome's mass, and is mostly decorative. The aggregate material hand-placed in the concrete is heaviest at the base of the dome and changes to lighter materials as the height increases, dramatically reducing the stresses in the finished structure. In fact, many commentators have cited the Pantheon as an example of the revolutionary possibilities for monolithic architecture provided by the use of Roman pozzolana concrete. However, vertical cracks seem to have developed very early, such that in practice the dome acts as an array of arches with a common keystone, rather than as a single unit. The exterior step-rings used to compress the "haunches" of the dome, which would not be necessary if the dome acted as a monolithic structure, may be an acknowledgement of this by the builders themselves. Such buttressing was common in Roman arch construction. The cracks in the dome can be seen from the upper internal chambers of the rotunda, but have been covered by re-rendering on the inner surface and by patching on the outside. The Pantheon's roof was originally covered with gilt bronze tiles, but these were removed in 663 by Emperor Constans II and replaced with lead roofing.
The function of the Pantheon remains an open question. Strangely for a temple, its inscription, which attributes this third building at the site to the builder of the first, Marcus Agrippa, does not mention any god or group of gods. Its name, Pantheon, comes from the Greek for "all gods" but is unofficial, and it was not included in the list of temples restored by Hadrian in the Historia Augusta. Circular temples were small and rare, and Roman temples traditionally allowed for only one divinity per room. The Pantheon more resembles structures found in imperial palaces and baths. Hadrian is believed to have held court in the rotunda using the main apse opposite the entrance as a tribune, which may explain its very large size. Later Roman buildings similar to the Pantheon include a temple to Asklepios Soter (c. 145) in the old Hellenistic city of Pergamon and the so-called "Round Temple" at Ostia (c. 230–240), which may have been related to the Imperial cult. The Pergamon dome was about 80 Roman feet wide, versus about 150 for the Pantheon, and made of brick over a cut stone rotunda. The Ostia dome was 60 Roman feet wide and made of brick-faced concrete. No later dome built in the Imperial era came close to the span of the Pantheon. It remained the largest dome in the world for more than a millennium and is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.
Segmented domes made of radially concave wedges, or of alternating concave and flat wedges, appear under Hadrian in the 2nd century and most preserved examples of the style date from this period. Hadrian's Villa has examples at the Piazza D'Oro and in the semidome of the Serapeum. Recorded details of the decoration of the segmented dome at the Piazza D'Oro suggests it was made to evoke a billowing tent, perhaps in imitation of the canopies used by Hellenistic kings. Other examples exist at the Hadrianic baths of Otricoli and the so-called "Temple of Venus" at Baiae. This style of dome required complex centering and radially oriented formwork to create its tight curves, and the earliest surviving direct evidence of radial formwork is found at the caldarium of the Large Baths at Hadrian's villa. Hadrian was an amateur architect and it was apparently domes of Hadrian's like these that Trajan's architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, derisively called "pumpkins" prior to Hadrian becoming emperor. According to Dio Cassius, the memory of this insult contributed to Hadrian as emperor having Apollodorus exiled and killed.
In the middle of the 2nd century, some of the largest domes were built near present-day Naples, as part of large bath complexes taking advantage of the volcanic hot springs in the area. At the bath complex at Baiae, there are remains of a collapsed dome spanning 26.3 meters (86 ft), called the "Temple of Venus", and a larger half-collapsed dome spanning 29.5 meters (97 ft) called the "Temple of Diana". The dome of the "Temple of Diana", which may have been a nymphaeum as part of the bath complex, can be seen to have had an ogival section made of horizontal layers of mortared brick and capped with light tufa. It dates to the second half of the 2nd century and is the third largest dome known from the Roman world. The second largest is the collapsed "Temple of Apollo" built nearby along the shore of Lake Avernus. The span cannot be precisely measured due to its ruined state, but it was more than 36 meters (118 ft) in diameter.
In the second half of the 2nd century in North Africa, a distinctive type of nozzle tube shape was developed in the tradition of the terracotta tube dome at the Hellenistic era baths of Morgantina, an idea that had been preserved in the use of interlocking terracotta pots for kiln roofs. This tube could be mass-produced on potter's wheels and interlocked to form a permanent centering for concrete domes, avoiding the use of wooden centering altogether. This spread mainly in the western Mediterranean.
Although rarely used, the pendentive dome was known in 2nd century Roman architecture, such as the funerary monuments of the Sedia dei Diavolo and the Torracio della Secchina on the Via Nomentana. It would be used much more widely in the Byzantine period.
In the 3rd century, imperial mausolea began to be built as domed rotundas rather than tumulus structures or other types, following similar monuments by private citizens. Pagan and Christian domed mausolea from this time can be differentiated in that the structures of the buildings also reflect their religious functions. The pagan buildings are typically two story, dimly lit, free-standing structures with a lower crypt area for the remains and an upper area for devotional sacrifice. Christian domed mausolea contain a single well-lit space and are usually attached to a church.
Examples from the 3rd century include the brick dome of the Mausoleum of Diocletian, and the mausoleum at Villa Gordiani. The Mausoleum of Diocletian uses small arched squinches of brick built up from a circular base in an overlapping scales pattern, called a "stepped squinches dome". The scales pattern was a popular Hellenistic motif adopted by the Parthians and Sasanians, and such domes are likely related to Persian "squinch vaults". Masonry domes were less common in the Roman provinces, although the 3rd century "Temple of Venus" at Baalbek was built with a stone dome 10 meters (33 ft) in diameter. The 24-meter (79 ft) dome of the Mausoleum of Galerius was built around 300 AD close to the imperial palace as either a mausoleum or a throne room. It was converted into a church in the 5th century. The large rotunda of the Baths of Agrippa, the oldest public baths in Rome, has been dated to the Severan period at the beginning of the 3rd century, but it is not known whether this is an addition or simply a reconstruction of an earlier domed rotunda.
The technique of building lightweight domes with interlocking hollow ceramic tubes further developed in North Africa and Italy in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. By the 4th century, the thin and lightweight tubed vaulting had become a vaulting technique in its own right, rather than simply serving as a permanent centering for concrete. It was used in early Christian buildings in Italy. Arranging these terracotta tubes in a continuous spiral created a dome that was not strong enough for very large spans, but required only minimal centering and formwork. The later dome of the Baptistry of Neon in Ravenna is an example.
In the 4th century, Roman domes proliferated due to changes in the way domes were constructed, including advances in centering techniques and the use of brick ribbing. The so-called "Temple of Minerva Medica", for example, used brick ribs along with step-rings and lightweight pumice aggregate concrete to form a decagonal dome. The material of choice in construction gradually transitioned during the 4th and 5th centuries from stone or concrete to lighter brick in thin shells. The use of ribs stiffened the structure, allowing domes to be thinner with less massive supporting walls. Windows were often used in these walls and replaced the oculus as a source of light, although buttressing was sometimes necessary to compensate for large openings. The Mausoleum of Santa Costanza has windows beneath the dome and nothing but paired columns beneath that, using a surrounding barrel vault to buttress the structure.
The octagonal "Domus Aurea", or "Golden Octagon", built by Emperor Constantine in 327 at the imperial palace of Antioch likewise had a domical roof, presumably of wood and covered with gilded lead. It was dedicated two years after the Council of Nicea to "Harmony, the divine power that unites Universe, Church, and Empire". It may have been both the cathedral of Antioch as well as the court church of Constantine, and the precedent for the later octagonal plan churches near palaces of Saints Sergius and Bacchus and Hagia Sophia by Justinian and Aachen Cathedral by Charlemagne. The dome was rebuilt by 537–8 with cypress wood from Daphne after being destroyed in a fire. Most domes on churches in the Syrian region were built of wood, like that of the later Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and the dome of the Domus Aurea survived a series of earthquakes in the 6th century that destroyed the rest of the building. There is no record of the church being rebuilt after the earthquake of 588, perhaps due to the general abandonment of many public buildings in what was no longer a capital of the Empire.
Centralized buildings of circular or octagonal plan also became used for baptistries and reliquaries due to the suitability of those shapes for assembly around a single object. Baptisteries began to be built in the manner of domed mausolea during the 4th century in Italy. The octagonal Lateran Baptistery or the baptistery of the Holy Sepulchre may have been the first, and the style spread during the 5th century. The Church of the Holy Apostles, or Apostoleion, probably planned by Constantine but built by his successor Constantius in the new capital city of Constantinople, combined the congregational basilica with the centralized shrine. With a similar plan to that of the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, four naves projected from a central rotunda containing Constantine's tomb and spaces for the tombs of the twelve Apostles. Above the center may have been a clerestory with a wooden dome roofed with bronze sheeting and gold accents.
Christian mausolea and shrines developed into the "centralized church" type, often with a dome over a raised central space. The oblong decagon of today's St. Gereon's Basilica in Cologne, Germany, was built upon an extraordinary and richly decorated 4th century Roman building with an apse, semi-domed niches, and dome. A church built in the city's northern cemetery, its original dedication is unknown. It may have been built by Julianus, the governor of Gaul from 355 to 360 who would later become emperor, as a mausoleum for his family. The oval space may have been patterned after imperial audience halls or buildings such as the Temple of Minerva Medica. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was likely built with a wooden dome over the shrine by the end of the 4th century. The rotunda, 33.7 meters (111 ft) in diameter and centered on the tomb of Christ, consisted of a domed center room surrounded by an ambulatory. The dome rose over a ground floor, gallery, and clerestory and may have had an oculus. The dome was about 21 meters (69 ft) wide. Razed to the ground in 1009 by the Fatimid Caliph, it was rebuilt in 1048 by Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, reportedly with a mosaic depicting Christ and the Twelve Apostles. The current dome is a 1977 renovation in thin reinforced concrete.
The largest centrally planned Early Christian church, Milan's domed San Lorenzo Maggiore, was built in the middle of the 4th century while that city served as the capital of the Western Empire. There are two theories about the shape of this dome: a Byzantine-style dome on spherical pendentives with a ring of windows similar to domes of the later Justinian era, or an octagonal cloister vault following Roman trends and like the vaulting over the site's contemporary chapel of Saint Aquiline, possibly built with vaulting tubes, pieces of which had been found in excavations. Although these tubes have been shown to date from a medieval reconstruction, there is evidence supporting the use of Roman concrete in the original dome. The original vaulting was concealed by a square drum externally rather than the octagon of today, which dates from the 16th century.
By the 5th century, structures with small-scale domed cross plans existed across the Christian world. Examples include the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the martyrium attached to the Basilica of San Simpliciano, and churches in Macedonia and on the coast of Asia Minor. Small brick domes are also found in towers of Constantinople's early 5th century land walls. Underground cisterns in Constantinople, such as the Cistern of Philoxenos and the Basilica Cistern, were composed of a grid of columns supporting small domes, rather than groin vaults. The square bay with an overhead sail vault or dome on pendentives became the basic unit of architecture in the early Byzantine centuries, found in a variety of combinations.
Early examples of Byzantine domes existed over the hexagonal hall of the Palace of Antiochos, the hexagon at Gülhane, the martyium of Sts. Karpos and Papylos, and the rotunda at the Myrelaion. The 5th century St. Mary's church in Ephesus had small rectangular side rooms with sail vaults made of arched brick courses. The brick dome of the baptistery at St. Mary's was composed of a series of tightly arched meridional sections. The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites likely had a wooden polygonal dome over its central 27-meter (89 ft) wide octagon.
With the end of the Western Roman Empire, domes became a signature feature of the church architecture of the surviving Eastern Roman Empire. A transition from timber-roofed basilicas to vaulted churches seems to have occurred between the late 5th century and the 7th century, with early examples in Constantinople, Asia Minor, and Cilicia. The first known domed basilica may have been a church at Meriamlik in southern Turkey, dated to between 471 and 494, although the ruins do not provide a definitive answer. It is possible earlier examples existed in Constantinople, where it has been suggested that the plan for the Meriamlik church itself was designed, but no domed basilica has been found there before the 6th century.
The 6th century marks a turning point for domed church architecture. Centrally planned domed churches had been built since the 4th century for very particular functions, such as palace churches or martyria, with a slight widening of use around 500 AD, but most church buildings were timber-roofed halls on the basilica plan. The Church of St. Polyeuctus in Constantinople (524–527) was apparently built as a large and lavish domed basilica similar to the Meriamlik church of fifty years before—and to the later Hagia Irene of Emperor Justinian—by Anicia Juliana, a descendent of the former imperial house. There is a story that she used the contribution to public funds that she had promised Justinian on his ascension to the throne to roof her church in gold. The church included an inscription praising Juliana for having "surpassed Solomon" with the building, and it may have been with this in mind that Justinian would later say of his Hagia Sophia, "Solomon, I have vanquished thee!".
In the second third of the 6th century, church building by the Emperor Justinian used the domed cross unit on a monumental scale, in keeping with Justinian's emphasis on bold architectural innovation. His church architecture emphasized the central dome and his architects made the domed brick-vaulted central plan standard throughout the Roman east. This divergence with the Roman west from the second third of the 6th century may be considered the beginning of a "Byzantine" architecture. Timber-roofed basilicas, which had previously been the standard church form, would continue to be so in the medieval west.
The earliest existing of Justinian's domed buildings is the central plan Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople, completed by 536. It is called the "Little Hagia Sophia" mosque today, but was actually begun five years earlier than that building. The dome rests on an octagonal base created by eight arches on piers and is divided into sixteen sections. Those sections above the flat sides of the octagon are flat and contain a window at their base, alternating with sections from the corners of the octagon that are scalloped, creating an unusual kind of pumpkin dome. The building was built within the precinct of the Palace of Hormistas, the residence of Justinian before his ascension to the throne in 527, and includes an inscription mentioning the "sceptered Justinian" and "God-crowned Theodora".
After the Nika Revolt destroyed much of the city of Constantinople in 532, including the churches of Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") and Hagia Irene ("Holy Peace"), Justinian had the opportunity to rebuild. Both had been basilica plan churches and both were rebuilt as domed basilicas, although the Hagia Sophia was rebuilt on a much grander scale. Built by Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus in Constantinople between 532 and 537, the Hagia Sophia has been called the greatest building in the world. It is an original and innovative design with no known precedents in the way it covers a basilica plan with dome and semi-domes. Periodic earthquakes in the region have caused three partial collapses of the dome and necessitated repairs. The precise shape of the original central dome completed in 537 was significantly different from the current one and, according to contemporary accounts, much bolder.
Procopius wrote that the original dome seemed "not to rest upon solid masonry, but to cover the space with its golden dome suspended from heaven." Byzantine chronicler John Malalas reported that this dome was 20 byzantine feet lower than its replacement. One theory is that the original dome continued the curve of the existing pendentives (which were partially reconstructed after its collapse), creating a massive sail vault pierced with a ring of windows. This vault would have been part of a theoretical sphere 46 meters (151 ft) in diameter (the distance from the base of one pendentive to the base of the one opposite), 7 percent greater than the span of the Pantheon's dome. Another theory raises the shallow cap of this dome (the portion above what are today the pendentives) on a relatively short recessed drum containing the windows. This first dome partially collapsed due to an earthquake in 558 and the design was then revised to the present profile. Earthquakes also caused partial collapses of the dome in 989 and 1346, so that the present dome consists of portions dating from the 6th century, on the north and south sides, and portions from the 10th and 14th centuries on the west and east sides, respectively. There are irregularities where these sectors meet.
The current central dome, above the pendentives, is about 750 millimeters (30 in) thick. It is about 32 meters (105 ft) wide and contains 40 radial ribs that spring from between the 40 windows at its base. Four of the windows were blocked as part of repairs in the 10th century. The ring of windows at the base of the central dome are in the portion where the greatest hoop tension would have been expected and so they may have been used to help alleviate cracking along the meridians. Iron cramps between the marble blocks of its cornice helped to reduce outward thrusts at the base and limit cracking, like the wooden tension rings used in other Byzantine brick domes. The dome and pendentives are supported by four large arches springing from four piers. Additionally, two huge semi-domes of similar proportion are placed on opposite sides of the central dome and themselves contain smaller semi-domes between an additional four piers. The Hagia Sophia, as both the cathedral of Constantinople and the church of the adjacent Great Palace of Constantinople, has a form of octagonal plan.
The city of Ravenna, Italy, had served as the capital of the Western Roman Empire after Milan from 402 and the capital of the subsequent kingdoms of Odoacer and of Theodoric until Justinian's reconquest in 540. The octagonal Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, begun under Theodoric in 525, was completed under the Byzantines in 547 and contains a terracotta dome. It may belong to a school of architecture from 4th and 5th century Milan. The building is similar to the Byzantine Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus and the later Chrysotriklinos, or throne hall and palace church of Constantinople, and it would be used as the model for Charlemagne's palace chapel at Aix-la-Chapelle. Hollow amphorae were fitted inside one another to provide a lightweight structure for the dome and avoid additional buttressing. It is 18 meters (59 ft) in diameter. The amphorae were arranged in a continuous spiral, which required minimal centering and formwork but was not strong enough for large spans. The dome was covered with a timber roof, which would be the favored practice for later medieval architects in Italy although it was unusual at the time.
In Constantinople, Justinian also tore down the aging Church of the Holy Apostles and rebuilt it on a grander scale between 536 and 550. The original building was a cruciform basilica with a central domed mausoleum. Justinian's replacement was apparently likewise cruciform but with a central dome and four flanking domes. The central dome over the crossing had pendentives and windows in its base, while the four domes over the arms of the cross had pendentives but no windows. The domes appear to have been radically altered between 944 and 985 by the addition of windowed drums beneath all five domes and by raising the central dome higher than the others. The second most important church in the city after the Hagia Sophia, it fell into disrepair after the Latin occupation of Constantinople between 1204 and 1261 and it was razed to the ground by Mehmed the Conqueror in 1461 to build his Fatih Mosque on the site. Justinian's Basilica of St. John at Ephesus and Venice's St Mark's Basilica are derivative of Holy Apostles. More loosely, the Cathedral of St. Front and the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua are also derived from this church.
Justinian and his successors modernized frontier fortifications throughout the century. The example at Qasr ibn Wardan (564) in the desert of eastern Syria is particularly impressive, containing a governor's palace, barracks, and a church built with techniques and to plans possibly imported from Constantinople. The church dome is unusual in that the pendentives sprang from an octagonal drum, rather than the four main arches, and in that it was made of brick, which was rare in Syria.
The Golden Triclinium, or Chrysotriklinos, of the Great Palace of Constantinople served as an audience hall for the Emperor as well as a palace chapel. Nothing of it has survived except descriptions, which indicate that it had a pumpkin dome containing sixteen windows in its webs and that the dome was supported by the arches of eight niches connecting to adjoining rooms in the building's likely circular plan. Alternatively, the building may have been octagonal in plan, rather than circular. The dome seems to have had webs that alternated straight and concave, like those of the dome of Justinian's Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, and may have been built about 40 years after that church. It was begun under Emperor Justin II, completed by his successor Tiberius II, and continued to be improved by subsequent rulers. It was connected to the imperial living quarters and was a space used for assembly before religious festivals, high promotions and consultations, as a banqueting hall, a chapel for the emperor, and a throne room. Never fully described in any of its frequent mentions in Byzantine texts, the room was restricted to members of the court and the "most highly rated foreigners". In the 10th century, the throne in the east niche chamber was directly below an icon of an enthroned Christ.
The period of Iconoclasm, roughly corresponding to the 7th to 9th centuries, is poorly documented but can be considered a transitional period. The cathedral of Sofia has an unsettled date of construction, ranging from the last years of Justinian to the middle of the 7th century, as the Balkans were lost to the Slavs and Bulgars. It combines a barrel-vaulted cruciform basilica plan with a crossing dome hidden externally by the drum. It resembles some Romanesque churches of later centuries, although the type would not be popular in later Byzantine architecture. Part of the 5th century basilica of St. Mary at Ephesus seems to have been rebuilt in the 8th century as a cross-domed church, a development typical of the 7th to 8th centuries and similar to the cross-domed examples of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, St. Nicholas at Myra, St. Clement's at Ankara, and the church of the Koimesis at Nicaea.
With the decline in the empire's resources following losses in population and territory, domes in Byzantine architecture were used as part of more modest new buildings. The large-scale churches of Byzantium were, however, kept in good repair. The upper portion of the Church of Hagia Irene was thoroughly rebuilt after an earthquake in 740. The nave was re-covered with an elliptical domical vault hidden externally by a low cylinder on the roof, in place of the earlier barrel vaulted ceiling, and the original central dome from the Justinian era was replaced with one raised upon a high windowed drum. The barrel vaults supporting these two new domes were also extended out over the side aisles, creating cross-domed units. By bracing the dome with broad arches on all four sides, the cross-domed unit provided a more secure structural system. These units, with most domes raised on drums, became a standard element on a smaller scale in later Byzantine church architecture, and all domes built after the transitional period were braced with bilateral symmetry.
A small, unisex monastic community in Bithynia, near Constantinople, may have developed the cross-in-square plan church during the Iconoclastic period, which would explain the plan's small scale and unified naos. The ruined church of St. John at Pelekete monastery is an early example. Monks had supported the use of icons, unlike the government-appointed secular clergy, and monasticism would become increasingly popular. A new type of privately funded urban monastery developed from the 9th century on, which may help to explain the small size of subsequent building.
Timber-roofed basilicas, which had been the standard form until the 6th century, would be displaced by domed churches from the 9th century on. In the Middle Byzantine period (c. 843 – 1204), domes were normally built to emphasize separate functional spaces, rather than as the modular ceiling units they had been earlier. Resting domes on circular or polygonal drums pierced with windows eventually became the standard style, with regional characteristics.
The cross-in-square plan, with a single dome at the crossing or five domes in a quincunx pattern, became widely popular in the Middle Byzantine period. Examples include an early 9th century church in Tirilye, now called the Fatih Mosque, and the palace chapel of the Myrelaion, built around 920. The Nea Ekklesia of Emperor Basil I was built in Constantinople around 880 as part of a substantial building renovation and construction program during his reign. It had five domes, which are known from literary sources, but different arrangements for them have been proposed under at least four different plans. One has the domes arranged in a cruciform pattern like those of the contemporaneous Church of St. Andrew at Peristerai or the much older Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. Others arrange them in a quincunx pattern, with four minor domes in the corners of a square and a larger fifth in the center, as part of a cross-domed or cross-in-square plan. It is often suggested that the five-domed design of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi, from 1164, is based on that of the Nea Ekklesia.
The cross-in-square is the most common church plan from the 10th century until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This type of plan, with four columns supporting the dome at the crossing, was best suited for domes less than 7 meters (23 ft) wide and, from the 10th to the 14th centuries, a typical Byzantine dome measured less than 6 meters (20 ft) in diameter. For domes beyond that width, variations in the plan were required such as using piers in place of the columns and incorporating further buttressing around the core of the building. The distinctive rippling eaves design for the roofs of domes begins in the 10th century. In mainland Greece, circular or octagonal drums became the most common while, in Constantinople, drums with twelve or fourteen sides were popular beginning in the 11th century. The 11th century rock-cut churches of Cappadocia, such as Karanlik Kilise and Elmali Kilise in Göreme, have shallow domes without drums due to the dim natural lighting of cave interiors.
The domed-octagon plan is a variant of the cross-in-square plan. The earliest extant example is the katholikon at the monastery of Hosios Loukas, with a 9-meter (30 ft) wide dome built in the first half of the 11th century. This hemispherical dome was built without a drum and supported by a remarkably open structural system, with the weight of the dome distributed on eight piers, rather than four, and corbelling used to avoid concentrating weight on their corners. The use of squinches to transition from those eight supports to the base of the dome has led to speculation of a design origin in Arab, Sasanian, or Caucasian architecture, although with a Byzantine interpretation. Similar openness in design was used in the earlier Myrelaion church, as originally built, but the katholikon of Hosios Loukas is perhaps the most sophisticated design since the Hagia Sophia. The smaller monastic church at Daphni, c. 1080, uses a simpler version of this plan.
The katholikon of Nea Moni, a monastery on the island of Chios, was built some time between 1042 and 1055 and featured a nine sided, ribbed dome rising 15.62 meters (51.2 ft) above the floor (this collapsed in 1881 and was replaced with the slightly taller present version). The transition from the square naos to the round base of the drum is accomplished by eight conches, with those above the flat sides of the naos being relatively shallow and those in the corners of the being relatively narrow. The novelty of this technique in Byzantine architecture has led to it being dubbed the "island octagon" type, in contrast to the "mainland octagon" type of Hosios Loukas. Speculation on design influences have ranged from Arab influence transmitted via the recently built domed octagon chapels at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or the Al-Hakim Mosque in Islamic Cairo, to Caucasian buildings such as the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Later copies of the Nea Moni, with alterations, include the churches of Agios Georgios Sykousis, Agioi Apostoli at Pyrghi, Panagia Krina, and the Church of the Metamorphosis in Chortiatis.
The larger scale of some Byzantine buildings of the 12th century required a more stable support structure for domes than the four slender columns of the cross-in-square type could provide. The domes of the churches now called Kalenderhane Mosque, Gül Mosque, and the Enez Fatih mosque all had domes greater than 7 meters (23 ft) in diameter and used piers as part of large cruciform plans, a practice that had been out of fashion for several centuries. A variant of the cross-in-square, the "so-called atrophied Greek cross plan", also provides greater support for a dome than the typical cross-in-square plan by using four piers projecting from the corners of an otherwise square naos, rather than four columns. This design was used in the Chora Church of Constantinople in the 12th century after the previous cross-in-square structure was destroyed by an earthquake.
The 12th century Pantokrator monastic complex (1118–36) was built with imperial sponsorship as three adjoining churches. The south church, a cross-in-square, has a ribbed dome over the naos, domical vaults in the corners, and a pumpkin dome over the narthex gallery. The north church is also a cross-in-square plan. The middle church, the third to be built, fills the long space between the two earlier churches with two oval domes of the pumpkin and ribbed types over what appear to be separate functional spaces. The western space was an imperial mausoleum, whereas the eastern dome covered a liturgical space.
There is a written account by Nicholas Mesarites of a Persian-style muqarnas dome built as part of a late 12th century imperial palace in Constantinople. Called the "Mouchroutas Hall", it may have been built as part of an easing in tensions between the court of Manuel I Komnenos and Kilij Arslan II of the Sultanate of Rum around 1161, evidence of the complex nature of the relations between the two states. The account, written by Nicholas Mesarites shortly before the Fourth Crusade, is part of a description of the coup attempt by John Komnenos in 1200, and may have been mentioned as a rhetorical device to disparage him.
The Late Byzantine Period, from 1204 to 1453, has an unsettled chronology of buildings, especially during the Latin Occupation. The fragmentation of the empire, beginning in 1204, is reflected in a fragmentation of church design and regional innovations. After 1261, new church architecture in Constantinople consisted mainly of additions to existing monastic churches, such as the Monastery of Lips and Pammakaristos Church, and as a result the building complexes are distinguished in part by an asymmetric array of domes on their roofs. This effect may have been in imitation of the earlier triple church Pantokrator monastic complex. A 15th century account of a Russian traveler to Constantinople mentions an abandoned hall, presumably domed, "in which the sun, the moon, and the stars succeeded each other as in heaven."
The church of Hagia Sophia in the Empire of Trebizond dates to between 1238 and 1263 and has a variation on the quincunx plan. Heavy with traditional detailing from Asia Minor, and possibly Armenian or Georgian influence, the brick pendentives and drum of the dome remain Byzantine.
In the Despotate of Epirus, the Church of the Parigoritissa (1282–9) is the most complex example, with a domed octagon core and domed ambulatory. Built in the capital of Arta, its external appearance resembles a cubic palace. The upper level narthex and galleries have five domes, with the middle dome of the narthex an open lantern. This Greek-cross octagon design, similar to the earlier example at Daphni, is one of several among the various Byzantine principalities. Another is found in the Hagia Theodoroi at Mistra (1290–6).
Mistra was ruled from Constantinople after 1262, then was the suzerain of the Despotate of the Morea from 1348 to 1460. In Mistra, there are several basilica plan churches with domed galleries that create a five-domed cross-in-square over a ground-level basilica plan. The Aphentiko at Brontochion Monastery was built c. 1310–22 and the later church of the Pantanassa Monastery (1428) is of the same type. The Aphentiko may have been originally planned as a cross-in-square church, but has a blend of longitudinal and central plan components, with an interior divided into nave and aisles like a basilica. The barrel-vaulted nave and cross arms have a dome at their crossing, and the corner bays of the galleries are also domed to form a quincunx pattern. A remodeling of the Metropolis church in Mistra created an additional example. The Pantanassa incorporates Western elements in that domes in its colonnaded porch are hidden externally, and its domes have ribs of rectangular section similar to those of Salerno, Ravello, and Palermo.
In Thessaloniki, a distinctive type of church dome developed in the first two decades of the 14th century. It is characterized by a polygonal drum with rounded colonnettes at the corners, all brick construction, and faces featuring three arches stepped back within one another around a narrow "single-light window". One of the hallmarks of Thessalonian churches was the plan of a domed naos with a peristoon wrapped around three sides. The churches of Hagios Panteleimon, Hagia Aikaterine, and Hagioi Apostoloi have domes on these ambulatory porticoes. The five domes of the Hagioi Apostoloi, or Church of the Holy Apostles, in Thessaloniki (c. 1329) makes it an example of a five-domed cross-in-square church in the Late Byzantine style, as is the Gračanica monastery, built around 1311 in Serbia. The architect and artisans of the Gračanica monastery church probably came from Thessaloniki and its style reflects Byzantine cultural influence. The church has been said to represent "the culmination of Late Byzantine architectural design."
Constantinople's cultural influence extended from Sicily to Russia. Armenia, as a border state between the Roman-Byzantine and Sasanian empires, was influenced by both. The exact relationship between Byzantine architecture and that of the Caucasus is unclear. Georgia and Armenia produced many central planned, domed buildings in the 7th century and, after a lull during the Arab invasions, the architecture flourished again in the Middle Byzantine Period. Armenian church domes were initially wooden structures. Etchmiadzin Cathedral (c. 483) originally had a wooden dome covered by a wooden pyramidal roof before this was replaced with stone construction in 618. Churches with stone domes became the standard type after the 7th century, perhaps benefiting from a possible exodus of stonecutters from Syria, but the long traditions of wooden construction carried over stylistically. Some examples in stone as late as the 12th century are detailed imitations of clearly wooden prototypes. Armenian church building was prolific in the late 6th and 7th centuries and, by the 7th century, the churches tend to be either central plans or combinations of central and longitudinal plans. Domes were supported by either squinches (which were used in the Sasanian Empire but rarely in the Byzantine) or pendentives like those of the Byzantine empire, and the combination of domed-cross plan with the hall-church plan could have been influenced by the architecture of Justinian. Domes and cross arms were added to the longitudinal cathedral of Dvin from 608 to 615 and a church in Tekor. Other domed examples include Ptghnavank in Ptghni (c. 600), a church in T'alinn (662-85), and the Cathedral of Mren (629-40).
In the Balkans, where Byzantine rule weakened in the 7th and 8th centuries, domed architecture may represent Byzantine influence or, in the case of the centrally planned churches of 9th-century Dalmatia, the revival of earlier Roman mausoleum types. An interest in Roman models may have been an expression of the religious maneuvering of the region between the Church of Constantinople and that of Rome. Examples include the Church of Sv. Luka in Kotor, the Church of Sv. Trojce near Split, and the early 9th century Church of Sv. Donat in Zadar. The Church of Sv. Donat, originally domed, may have been built next to a palace and resembles palace churches in the Byzantine tradition. The architectural chronology of the central and eastern Balkans is unsettled during the period of the First Bulgarian Empire, in part because of similarity between Justinian-era churches from the 6th century and what may have been a revival of that style in the late 9th and early 10th centuries under the Christianized Bulgar tsars. Remains of the Round Church in Preslav, a building traditionally associated with the rule Tsar Simeon (893–927), indicate that it was a domed palace chapel. Its construction features, however, resemble instead 3rd and 4th century Roman mausolea, perhaps due to the association of those structures with the imperial idea.
Byzantine architecture was introduced to the Rus' people in the 10th century, with churches after the conversion of Prince Vladimir of Kiev being modeled after those of Constantinople, but made of wood. The Russian onion dome was a later development. The earliest architecture of Kiev, the vast majority of which was made of wood, has been lost to fire, but by the 12th century masonry domes on low drums in Kiev and Vladimir-Suzdal were little different than Byzantine domes, although modified toward the "helmet" type with a slight point. The Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev (1018–37) was distinctive in having thirteen domes, for Jesus and the twelve Apostles, but they have since been remodeled in the Baroque style and combined with an additional eight domes. The pyramidal arrangement of the domes was a Byzantine characteristic, although, as the largest and perhaps most important 11th century building in the Byzantine tradition, many of the details of this building have disputed origins. Bulbous onion domes on tall drums were a development of northern Russia, perhaps due to the demands of heavy ice and snowfall along with the more rapid innovation permitted by the Novgorod region's emphasis on wooden architecture. The central dome of the Cathedral of St. Sophia (1045–62) in Novgorod dates from the 12th century and shows a transitional stage. Other churches built around this time are those of St. Nicholas (1113), the Nativity of the Virgin (1117), and St. George (1119–30).
In Romanesque Italy, Byzantine influence can most clearly be seen in Venice's St Mark's Basilica, from about 1063, but also in the domed churches of southern Italy, such as Canosa Cathedral (1071) and the old Cathedral of Molfetta (c. 1160). In Norman Sicily, architecture was a fusion of Byzantine, Islamic, and Romanesque forms, but the dome of the Palatine Chapel (1132–43) at Palermo was decorated with Byzantine mosaic, as was that of the church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (1140's). The unusual use of domes on pendentives in a series of seventy Romanesque churches in the Aquitaine region of France strongly suggests a Byzantine influence. St. Mark's Basilica was modeled on the now-lost Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, and Périgueux Cathedral in Aquitaine (c. 1120) likewise has five domes on pendentives in a Greek cross arrangement. Other examples include the a domed naves of Angoulême Cathedral (1105–28), Cahors Cathedral (c. 1100–1119), and the Abbey church of Sainte-Marie in Souillac (c. 1130).
Byzantium's neighboring Orthodox powers emerged as architectural centers in their own right during the Late Byzantine Period. The Bulgarian churches of Nesebar are similar to those in Constantinople at this time and, following the construction of Gračanica monastery, the architecture of Serbia used the "so-called Athonite plan", for example at Ravanica (1375–7). In Romania, Wallachia was influenced by Serbian architecture and Moldavia was more original, such as in the Voroneț Monastery with its small dome. Moscow emerged as the most important center of architecture following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Cathedral of the Assumption (1475–79), built in the Kremlin to house the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir, was designed in a traditional Russian style by an Italian architect.
Italian Renaissance architecture combined Roman and Romanesque practices with Byzantine structures and decorative elements, such as domes with pendentives over square bays. The Cassinese Congregation used windowed domes in the Byzantine style, and often also in a quincunx arrangement, in their churches built between 1490 and 1546, such as the Abbey of Santa Giustina. The technique of using wooden tension rings at several levels within domes and drums to resist deformation, frequently said to be a later invention of Filippo Brunelleschi, was common practice in Byzantine architecture. The technique of using double shells for domes, although revived in the Renaissance, originated in Byzantine practice. The dome of the Pantheon, as a symbol of Rome and its monumental past, was particularly celebrated and imitated, although copied only loosely. Studied in detail from the early Renaissance on, it was an explicit point of reference for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica and inspired the construction of domed rotundas with temple-front porches throughout western architecture into the modern era. Examples include Palladio's chapel at Maser (1579–80), Bernini's church of S. Maria dell'Assunzione (1662-4), the Library Rotunda of the University of Virginia (1817–26), and the church of St. Mary in Malta (1833–60).
Ottoman architecture adopted the Byzantine dome form and continued to develop it. One type of mosque was modeled after Justinian's Church of Sergius and Bacchus with a dome over an octagon or hexagon contained within a square, such as the Üç Şerefeli Mosque (1437–47). The dome and semi-domes of the Hagia Sophia, in particular, were replicated and refined. A "universal mosque design" based upon this development spread throughout the world. The first Ottoman mosque to use a dome and semi-dome nave vaulting scheme like that of Hagia Sophia was the mosque of Beyazit II. Only two others were modeled similarly: Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque and the Süleymaniye Mosque (1550–57). Other Ottoman mosques, although superficially similar to Hagia Sophia, have been described as structural criticism's of it. When Mimar Sinan set out to build a dome larger than that of Hagia Sophia with Selimiye Mosque (1569–74), he used a more stable octagonal supporting structure. The Selimiye Mosque is of the type originating with the Church of Sergius and Bacchus. Three other Imperial mosques in Istanbul built in this "Classical Style" of Hagia Sophia include four large semi-domes around the central dome, rather than two: Şehzade Camii, Sultan Ahmed I Camii (completed in 1616), and the last to be built: Yeni Cami (1597–1663).
A Byzantine revival style of architecture occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. An early example of the revival style in Russia was the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (1839–84), which was approved by the Tsar to be a model for other churches in the empire. The style's popularity spread through scholarly publications produced after the independence of Greece and the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire. It was used throughout Europe and North America, peaking in popularity between 1890 and 1914. The Greek Orthodox St Sophia's Cathedral (1877–79) and Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral (begun 1895), both in London, are examples. The throne room of Neuschwanstein Castle (1885–86) was built by King Ludwig II in Bavaria. In the late 19th century, the Hagia Sophia became a widespread model for Greek Orthodox churches. In southeastern Europe, monumental national cathedrals built in the capital cities of formerly Ottoman areas used Neo-Classical or Neo-Byzantine styles. Sofia's Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and Belgrade's Church of Saint Sava are examples, and used Hagia Sophia as a model due to their large sizes. Synagogues in the United States were built in a variety of styles, as they had been in Europe (and often with a mixture of elements from different styles), but the Byzantine Revival style was the most popular in the 1920s. Domed examples include The Temple of Cleveland (1924), the synagogue of KAM Isaiah Israel (1924) in Chicago, based upon San Vitale in Ravenna and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the synagogue of Congregation Emanu-El (1926) in San Francisco.
In the United States, Greek Orthodox churches beginning in the 1950s tended to use a large central dome with a ring of windows at its base evocative of the central dome of Hagia Sophia, rather than more recent or more historically common Byzantine types, such as the Greek-cross-octagon or five-domed quincunx plans. Examples include Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, completed in 1961 but designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Oakland (1960), and Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Atlanta (1967). The use of a large central dome in American Greek Orthodox churches continued in the 1960s and 1970s before moving toward smaller Middle Byzantine domes, or versions of Early Christian basilicas.
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0.996519 | DurusWorks is a web application framework that brings together the key tools developed at the MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange at Corporation for National Research Initiatives. At CNRI, the current maintainer of DurusWorks is Roger Masse.
There are many ways to install and use DurusWorks. Rather than try to describe all of the options, we will describe the way we choose to install and use DurusWorks on the OSX and Linux machines. We will refer to this arrangement as a "standard installation".
To initialize this directory, do this: cd /www/pythonlib sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/durus . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/qp . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/qpy . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/sancho .
To initialize this directory, do this: cd /www/bin sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/durus/durus . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/qp/bin/qp . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/qp/bin/qpcensus.py . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/qpy/qpcheck.py . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/qpy/qpyrun.py . sudo ln -s /www/trunk/DurusWorks/sancho/urun.py .
This directory, which must be writable by the owner of the running server process, keeps all durus database files, logs, and pid files. If the application stores any data outside the database, it is in some subdirectory of this directory. In the standard installation, all sites have var_directory='/www/var in the SitePublisher.configuration dictionary.
This directory contains symlinks to the site directories of all active sites.
This directory contains any cgi-scripts that your server may require. There may not be any.
This directory contains Apache web server configuration files. We either replace the standard /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file with a symlink to a complete Apache config here, or else we append an directive to the standard httpd.conf that includes the contents of a file in this directory.
In the standard installation, the applications are also defined in packages in the /www/trunk directory. To provide an example of how we organize the code for an application, we'll describe the parts of the demo site called proto.
This contains the files that define the proto site.
This contains the proto python package. In the standard installation, /www/pythonlib contains a symlink named proto that points to this directory. This directory typically contains python modules and subpackages that define the data structures and business logic of the site.
This contains part of the proto specifically related to defining the URL space and constructing web pages. All .qpy files for the site are in this directory or subpackages of it. As with all packages that contain .qpy files, the __init__.py file must contain the commands to run the compiler: from qpy.compile import compile_qpy_files compile_qpy_files(__path__) This directory contains a slash.qpy that defines SitePublisher and SiteDirectory classes. These classes define the site's configuration.
This directory contains the static content of the site. It is declared as the DocumentRoot of the site in the Apache configuration.
The static images of the site are placed in this directory.
Site-specific documentation is placed here. |
0.999215 | Samsung could cease producing flagship phones like the Galaxy S9 and Note9 in India, reduce local smartphone manufacturing and exports of smartphones, if the Indian government does not rethink its recent actions.
India's Phased Manufacturing Program (PMP) is the issue here. PMP aims to promote production of components in India and is expected to be effective in March 2020. imposed on 10% duty tax (that could end up being 11%) on any imported components.
In this case, Samsung is not yet able to make it and needs to import. The display accounts for 25% -30% of a phone's cost and would increase manufacturing costs significantly if taxed.
Samsung India has reportedly told the Indian government that it will need to stop manufacturing its flagship phones in the country and the manufacturing of mid-range and entry-level smartphones.
Samsung is currently setting up a local factory that would be produced by April 2020.
Samsung has ceased making TVs in India last quarter because of the new 5% duty on open cell Allegedly the Indian government is considering doing a turn and removing the tax. |
0.999148 | It so happened that the young man in the line next to them had also come to the window. He walked up, raised his voice on, and said to the staff, "I am here to be certified as a mutant evolver."
After that, the young man glanced at Han Sen provocatively, as if he were saying, I am a mutant evolver and what are you?
Han Sen did not even bother to say anything. He simply walked to the window, handed in his identification card and whispered to the staff, "Would you please handle my request to be certified as a sacred-blood evolver?"
Although Han Sen's voice was low, the young man quickly changed his expression. People around them also looked to Han Sen in surprise. The staff member who had been working long hours also raised his eyes and checked Han Sen out.
Seeing Han Sen was so young, the staff member repeated incredulously, "Are you applying to be certified as a sacred-blood evolver?"
A sacred-blood evolver was still quite rare at this point. On a small planet such as Rocca, 3 to 5 sacred-blood evolvers per year would be considered a significant number already.
In addition, Han Sen was way too young. He seemed to be around twenty or even younger, so it was hard for anyone to believe he was a sacred-blood evolver.
The staff member quickly retrieved Han Sen's identification card. After scanning it, the AI showed Han Sen's information. The staff member gasped and said, "Twenty years old. Graduate of Blackhawk military Academy, and a major?"
As he said that, the young man and others were in doubt looked at Han Sen in a much different way.
Blackhawk Military Academy was a top school in the eyes of ordinary people. A graduate of Blackhawk was undoubtedly the elite among the elite. And those who could graduate with the rank of major were so few that they could be called the dragon of a man.
People like this were beyond the level of ordinary people, with a wide gap in between.
The face of the young man turned purple. He wished he could hide in a hole somewhere. Everyone else looked at Han Sen with admiration, and girls and women even started to wink at Han Sen.
A sacred-blood aristocrat of such a young age, an elite who graduated from the top school, and on top of that, a good-looking guy with skin so smooth that all women coveted. Even the widows were swallowing.
"Major, this way. We need to do a procedural test." The staff member called Han Sen by his rank directly with a lot of respect.
Han Sen entered the testing device under everyone's watch. All the items were quite regular. As long as he could reach the minimum of a sacred-blood evolver, he could finish the certification.
That was of course not difficult for Han Sen at all. He even needed to control his power intentionally to keep his numbers under thirty, otherwise it would be too abnormal.
After Han Sen finished the test, everyone else was watching him as if he were a star. Many people were filled with admiration, while the young man had left secretly at some point.
"This is the true elite of the Alliance!"
"A sacred-blood aristocrat of twenty years old. So handsome!"
"I wonder if he has a girlfriend. I wish to marry him."
"I don't mind if I only have one night with him."
"I wonder how much it would cost to sleep with him for a night."
A few days later, in a spaceship, Han Sen was reading materials of ancient languages using his comlink. He should report to Daphne, but the location for reporting was in a remote galaxy called Dongyin. It was already the periphery of the Alliance. If people went beyond Dongyin, there was no Shura, but many undeveloped galaxies.
Han Sen did not know what Daphne's mission was to be located so far away. However, Han Sen had smelled trouble.
If the warships were serving in some special regions, the traffic would become an obstacle for him to return home. Many people serving special missions would not even return home once during the entire service.
Although Han Sen did not care where he served, he would feel terrible about not being able to see his mother and sister for several years.
However, there was nothing for him to do at this point. He had to report.
Because Galaxy Dongyin was located on the border of the Alliance which was very far away, it would take him a long time to arrive there. Han Sen was sore in his eyes after reading the ancient language for a long time and got up to the holographic hall of the spaceship, ready to move around on the Gladiator platform.
It had been a long time since he last logged in Gladiator. Han Sen first checked his friend list, wishing to see Queen there. He had improved significantly in fitness, so maybe he would last longer with her.
Unfortunately, Queen's name was grayed out. His only friend on line was QHZ.
Han Sen used to be very interested in fighting QHZ, but he started to feel bored at this point.
The fitness level of QHZ was around forty. Even if he had grown as well, it was hard for him to reach Han Sen's level. Beating QHZ would mean nothing to Han Sen, because they were not similar in strength anymore.
In front of the absolute strength, techniques could make very little difference.
It was like however good the sniper was, he could not resist an atomic bomb.
When Han Sen was ready to close the friend list and request a random match, QHZ sent him an invite.
Han Sen hesitated and clicked yes. Some time ago, QHZ did not refuse Han Sen because he was too weak and practiced with him for a long time, so Han Sen felt he should return the favor.
Qian Hezhen was talking to a middle-aged man at this point. The man was named Lu Bin, a prominent figure in Ares Martial Hall and even the entire martial hall industry.
Although Lu Bin was just an evolver, he had great talent in leg skills. Killer Kicks invented by him was masterful and had been designated as one of the routine skills in the Alliance military.
The reason the leg skills were impressive was that Lu Bin himself was a veteran who had been through a lot of combats against Shura and suffered numerous injuries. The Killer Kicks was a set of leg skills refined in blood and fire. It was not just great skills, but also experience gained from risking one's life.
Because Lu Bin did not have a good background, he only evolved with mutant geno points maxed out. Until he retired, he was only a colonel. However, his honor and glory and had earned him great reputation among many veterans who gave him both thumbs up not only for his leg skills, but also for his bravery. |
0.999972 | I think I need a calcium supplement. Which ones are best?
Calcium is an important part of a healthy meal plan. It has numerous functions such as building and maintaining bone and teeth health, aids in nerve transmission, and helps to regulate the heart’s rhythm. We need to make sure we are getting enough every day in order to reduce our risk of weak or brittle bones. Men and women require ~1,000-1,200 mg per day.
The two main forms of calcium supplements are calcium citrate and calcium carbonate. The calcium citrate contains approximately 21 percent of elemental calcium and the calcium carbonate contains around 40 percent of elemental calcium. This is important because the elemental calcium is the actual amount of calcium that is in the supplement (which our body absorbs to strengthen our bones). Because calcium carbonate contains the most elemental calcium (and is the cheapest) it is a popular consumer choice. However, the calcium carbonate can be very constipating so make sure you are drinking plenty of fluid along with this supplement. Calcium citrate does not contain as much elemental calcium as the carbonate, however, it is absorbed equally well when taken with or without food and is a form recommended for individuals with low stomach acid (more common in individuals 50 and older, or if taking stomach acid blockers), inflammatory bowel disease or absorption disorders.
Calcium can be found in a variety of places in the diet so no need to solely focus on taking supplements. For example, you can get approximately 415 mg of calcium in yogurt and ~380 mg in fortified orange juice. Various fortified cereals are also a good source of calcium along with cheddar cheese (305 mg), tofu (253 mg), and cottage cheese (138 mg). Your kids will likely not be excited about sardines, but they too are a good source of calcium (324 mg). Other sources that have calcium are salmon, instant breakfast drinks, pudding, kale, and turnip greens. |
0.953717 | Wellstone, center, flanked by Sen. Paul Sarbanes, left, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, during a news conference two weeks ago.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- The unexpected death of Sen. Paul Wellstone in a plane crash Friday has major implications on who will control the closely divided Senate, where his Democratic party clings to power by a single vote.
Minnesota law allows Democratic officials to replace Wellstone on November's election ballot. Late Friday, national and Minnesota Democratic sources said party and labor officials would reach out to Walter Mondale, the former vice president and senator from Minnesota, about replacing Wellstone on the ballot.
But the vacancy question may be complicated by the fact that Gov. Jesse Ventura is empowered to appoint a successor to fill the seat until the November election.
At a news conference Friday afternoon, Ventura, a political independent, declined to say whether he would appoint another senator or who it would be, other than to say he would not appoint himself.
"It's not the time or the place to be making that decision," he said.
Should Ventura appoint another senator, he or she would serve only briefly because, under state law, whoever is elected on November 5 would take office immediately.
That means if the Republican candidate, Norm Coleman, wins, Republicans could take control of the Senate during an expected "lame duck" session after the election, before the next Congress convenes.
The GOP could also gain "lame duck" control if Republican challenger Jim Talent defeats Missouri Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan on November 5. That race is actually a special election for the remaining four years of the term of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash days before the election two years ago, and under Missouri law the winner will assume the post immediately after the election.
If a candidate dies more than four days before an election, Minnesota law allows his party to change candidates on the ballot. At the time of his death, Wellstone was in a close race against Coleman, the former mayor of St. Paul and President Bush's choice to take on the two-term incumbent.
Wellstone was considered one of the Democrats' most endangered incumbents and had been one of the GOP's major targets in its quest to take back control of the Senate.
Currently, the Democrats hold 50 seats, and the Republicans 49, with one seat held by independent Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democrats after leaving the GOP last year.
The charismatic Wellstone, who had multiple sclerosis but was not incapacitated by it, was a champion of health-care coverage expansion, veterans affairs and environmental concerns, and was one of the Senate's most liberal members.
Wellstone served on the Senate's Foreign Relations, Veterans Affairs and Indian Affairs committees.
Green Party candidate Ray Tricomo and Independence Party candidate Jim Moore are also in the race for Wellstone's seat, but the Wellstone-Coleman match-up was the main event. Wellstone, who had trailed in the race early in the campaign, had recently taken a modest lead, according to polls. |
0.905019 | Is it a ball or is it a bear? Its both! You can zip up the bear and throw around a ball or take Sam out of the ball and cuddle up with your teddy bear. |
0.999878 | '''The New Shadow''' is an incomplete sequel (approximately 13 pages) to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' that [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] quickly abandoned. The manuscript was published as chapter sixteen of ''[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]''. It is set in the time of [[Eldarion]], [[Aragorn|Elessar]]'s son, approximately 125 years after the Fall of the [[Barad-dûr|Dark Tower]]. In it is mentioned the [[Dark Tree]], and two characters: [[Saelon]] and [[Borlas]].
The New Shadow is an incomplete sequel (approximately 13 pages) to The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien quickly abandoned. The manuscript was published as chapter sixteen of The Peoples of Middle-earth. It is set in the time of Eldarion, Elessar's son, approximately 125 years after the Fall of the Dark Tower. In it is mentioned the Dark Tree, and two characters: Saelon and Borlas. |
0.999995 | Bank tellers are a bank’s lead customer service personnel, working directly with customers to process deposits and withdrawals, provide account information, and answer questions about bank policies and banking products. This is a highly customer-focused role, requiring careful attention to detail and a friendly, outgoing personality.
Bank tellers also support banking activities through active security and cash management procedures, including balancing cash drawers and depositing cash into the bank’s vault. They may also assist customers with safe box deposits and access. Additionally, bank tellers drive customer engagement and support other departments by cross-selling bank products and services to customers.
As front-line customer service professionals, bank tellers are often the first or only bank employees that customers interact with. Because of this, one of the teller’s major duties is greeting customers when they enter the bank and directing them to the correct areas. For example, a teller may direct a business customer to a specific teller who handles business deposits and transactions.
One of the foremost responsibilities of a bank teller is processing customer transactions. This can include standard transactions, such as deposits and withdrawals, as well as special transactions like foreign currency exchanges, issuing cashier’s or traveler’s checks, or opening safe deposit boxes. Tellers may also issue savings bonds, make change for customers, and handle loan payments.
Customers also rely on bank tellers to provide account information like balances, due dates, or recent account activity. The bank teller verifies customer information and provides account updates either verbally or on paper, confirming the customer’s identity and account access to maintain a high level of information security and confidentiality.
Throughout the day, a bank teller manages their cash drawer and helps other tellers by checking drawer amounts. As part of this role, bank tellers also monitor their currency and remove damaged currency, submitting it to the head teller so that they can remove these bills and coins from circulation. Bank tellers frequently need to check cash on hand to ensure that customers can access their cash. They must also check their drawers against transaction records.
Bank tellers maintain detailed records of customer visits, transactions, and accounts. As part of this responsibility, a bank teller might assist a customer with opening or closing an account, enter or update customer account information, and maintain the branch’s financial records. A bank teller usually works with other banking personnel, such as clerks and loan officers, to maintain accurate and confidential information.
Lastly, bank tellers support cross-selling and new account activities by providing customers with information on banking products and services. They may provide customers with brochures outlining new accounts, credit cards, or enhanced services, frequently working with credit and loan departments to promote value-added services and products.
Typically, bank tellers have at least a high school diploma or GED. Additionally, most banks hire tellers who have some previous customer service experience, either in a banking or retail setting. Because bank policies and procedures can vary somewhat between institutions, there are many opportunities for on-the-job training to help bank tellers gain familiarity with regulations and best practices.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median yearly wage for bank tellers is $27,260. The highest-paid 10 percent of tellers earn over $37,760, while the lowest paid earn less than $20,810. Bank tellers who demonstrate excellent leadership and customer service can become head tellers, which can raise their earnings significantly.
The BLS expects employment for bank tellers to decline 8 percent by 2026, largely due to banks opening fewer branches as banking technology evolves. |
0.999423 | Today's consumer has a number of different choices when figuring out where they should do business. It's very easy to get bombarded by TV ads, Internet videos, and other forms of marketing that strive to earn your business. What's the best method for choosing which option you should choose when faced with a decision like this?
Your most important job is to do some research before jumping into any contract or purchase. Read online reviews or ask questions to previous clients of the businesses you are investigating. Next, locate numbers on prices offered by all of your choices. Contrast these numbers to the advertised services to trim down your options to the best value. Last of all, familiarize yourself with the employees who work for the company. Naturally, you want to do business with someone who you can feel comfortable with.
Staying close to these suggestions will likely lead you to the right option for chimney sweep services Fairfax, VA. |
0.999935 | What does it cost to participate? There are costs involved with forming a FIRST Robotics Competition team and they can vary from team to team and region to region depending on what level of participation the team chooses.
The annual fees for team registration, a robot kit of parts, and event participation are $5,000 - $6,000. Additional costs for travel, food, team shirts and other optional items will vary.
FIRST offers many fundraising opportunities and teams are encouraged to create their own. Grants are also available, as well as sponsorships provided locally, regionally and nationally by many corporations.
FIRST believes that no team that wants to participate should have to bow out due to lack of resources. We will do everything possible to make funds available to all teams who need extra help. |
0.999962 | I can't watch "Dateline" right before bedtime.
Aroma - Wheat bread, thin caramel and slightly fruity hops (melon) mix well with fruity yeast esters. The aroma is subtle but inviting.
Appearance - Pours a nearly clear light gold (some might say.....blonde) with a thin, white head made up of tiny sparkling bubbles. The head resides quickly leaving a thin film that provides subtle lacing.
Flavor - Biscuits and wheat bread come out with some pie crust flavors. To sum that last sentence up, the malt is completely reminiscent of lightly cooked breads. The hops are fruity with the perfect amount of bitterness for balance. The fruity esters from the yeast are present here too and also compliment the hops. Finishes medium-dry.
Mouthfeel - The medium carbonation and light-medium body give this one a palate cleansing effect.
Overall Impression - Is this where you officially stop believing I know what the hell I'm talking about because this beer rated a 3.9 out of 5? Trust me, I'm shocked too. The thing is, this beer is a great example of the blonde ale style. It's a little lighter in the body than I prefer but other than that, it's nearly a word for word description of what the 2015 BJCP Guidelines define as a blonde ale. There are no flaws and it's supremely drinkable. This could easily be a summer beer that I could (and probably will) crush.
Aroma - Very bready pale malts with a bit of slight caramel sweetness. Just a bit of citrus and fruity esters go well with the malt.
Appearance - Pale yellow, very clear. A thin white head lays on top.
Flavor - Bready goodness, lots of bread dough and biscuity flavors. These flavors pair up real well with the fruit flavors present from the yeast. The beer finishes with some slight bitterness from the hops.
Mouthfeel - Light bodied, but medium-high carbonation that gives this one a refreshing quality.
Overall Impression - We rate to style, which means common beers are going to get just as good of scores as some of the bigger beers we review. This is the way it should be. This is a great beer. Not everything needs to be a high ABV dry-hopped monster or a barrel aged beer that shares a lot of consistencies with chocolate flavored motor oil. This is a great beer if you want some decent flavor, but something that won't weigh you down if you plan on slamming a few back. |
0.999855 | How do you import additional data into Google Analytics?
Data import allows you to combine data from other sources with data from Google Analytics. But you need to manually import CSV files in a certain format or involve developers to use an API. |
0.999999 | Why learn to lucid dream?
There are so many reasons to learn to dream lucidly. Adventure, healing, creativity, and experiencing pure wonder are just some of those reasons.
Waking up in a dream often comes with a jolt of happiness and exploring the dreamscape can be an incredibly joyful experience which leaves us with a new zest for life. Experiencing bodiless lucid dreams can teach us how to become comfortable without a body, how to enter meditative states more easily when awake, and give us deeper insight into the nature of dreaming and reality. Practising techniques for getting and staying lucid helps us to become more lucid not only in our dreams but in our waking lives. |
0.999999 | Find your way out by finding all the hidden objects and solving the intriguing puzzles to continue to the next level. In this level, the door is locked with chains and padlock. You need to find the padlock key in order to open the door and escape. This complete walkthrough is for Level 2 of Can You Escape Horror. The goal of this game is to open and get out of the rooms.
1. Board: Notice three paint stains on the cork board: blue, green, red.
2. Battery: Get the flashlight battery from the desk shelf.
3. Sofa: Grab a green power cell under the pillow. Grab the plastic arm.
4. Lamp: Grab flashlight on the ceiling lamp.
5. Clock: Look at the clock. Notice the time is 2:30. Under the light are three buttons. Change them to: blue, green, red. Grab a second green power cell.
6. Safe: Insert two green power cells into the matching slot on the safe. Open the door. Get a ax.
7. Chair: Use the ax to remove the chair. Get the plastic leg.
8. Wall shelf: Locate a compartment on the wall shelf. Enter the time: 2:30. Open the compartment. Get a screwdriver.
9. Mannequin: Place plastic arm and leg on the mannequin. This will reveal a lock box under the mannequin. Use the screwdriver to remove the screws. Open the cover. Place battery inside the flashlight. Use the flashlight to view inside the box. Get a key.
10. Door: Use the key to unlock the padlock on the door. The door is unlocked. Open the door. You have escaped! |
0.941002 | What do the Lieutenant-Governors of the Canadian provinces use? Do they still use the defaced Union Jack or have they adopted flags on the Quebec model, or is it a mix and match?
The other provinces adopted recently Blue flags with the provincial arms centered (with no white disk, though). On top, Edward the Confessors' crown, and around the arms, a golden half-ring of ten golden maple leaves, representing the ten provinces.
I used to think that defaced Union Flags were boring, but it seems that once one starts going into the minutiae of all the details and variations, they can be quite interesting. Well to some, anyway.
Before 1949 Newfoundland had a Governor-General rather than a Lt. Gov., as it was self-governing and not a Canadian province.
Nova Scotia has the defaced Union Flag with the maple leaves.
Quebec has the blue flag, with a centered white disk on which there are the full coat of arms. the flag (should we say standard instead of flag here?) is used since 1952, or maybe 1950.
Blue, with the shield centered, surrounded by a 3/4 ring of 10 golden maple leaves for the 10 provinces, and with St Edwaard's crown over the Arms.
Are the flags of the lieutenant governors besides Nova Scotia and Quebec all of the same pattern, i.e. dark blue with the crowned arms of the province within by a garland of ten gold maple leaves? Also, what about the Northwest Territories and the Yukon? Are they now considered to be full-fledged provinces and if so, do their lieutenant governors use a flag of the above pattern?
Yes, since the 80s (different dates that I already posted).
Northern Territories and Yukon are still territories, administrated by a territorial council. No Lieutenant-Governor for them, so no flag. |
0.996675 | After years of anticipation, we'll finally be able to get our hands on "No Man's Sky," an unimaginably massive game about exploring a universe that was generated entirely by math. Boasting a reported 18 quintillion planets for players to explore, people are naturally incredibly excited about the seemingly endless possibilities in the game.
Still, the game has been plagued by many questions since it was announced. What do you actually do? Is it truly endless? Is this going to be the last game you ever need to buy?
To help clear things up, here's an explanation for the four main components of the game: Explore, Fight, Trade and Survive.
"No Man's Sky" is set in a massive universe that was generated through algorithms, meaning its quintillions of planets were created by math, not by human hands. That means, theoretically, the game's developers don't even know all of what is out there!
Basically, your goal as the player is to get to the center of the universe. In order to do that, you'll need to collect resources on each planet so you can upgrade your ship and character, making it possible to reach new, even more exotic destinations.
Exploration is, first and foremost, what you do in "No Man's Sky." The other three components of the game are important, too, but they all exist in service of helping you explore as much of the universe as you can.
With exploration comes risk. It's just a fact of life. That's where combat comes in.
Though it's certainly not the point of the game, there will almost surely be situations in "No Man's Sky" that can't be solved with diplomacy. There are entire alien civilizations trying to inhabit the same universe as you, and some of them probably aren't super happy about it.
If you so desire, you can upgrade your ship's weapons and character's guns to make combat your first choice in any situation. It's really up to you!
If you don't like to fight, don't fret. There are plenty of aliens out there who are totally cool with your existence, and are willing to do business with you.
You can dock at space stations and trade resources for space cash, but be warned: You can't talk to aliens until you learn their language. You'll learn alien languages slowly as you explore the universe by finding relics or talking to aliens, so you won't be able to talk to everyone right away.
If you become buddies with any of the alien races in the game, you might get cheaper prices on goods from them or other benefits. It pays to be friendly!
Since the planets you'll explore weren't hand-crafted by the developers, it's pretty likely that you'll find worlds that just aren't suitable for exploration under normal circumstances. That's where survival comes in.
Planets can be too hot or too cold for the suit you're wearing. You might also have to worry about radiation levels or toxic rain!
Of course, the local wildlife on any given planet could also be hostile towards you. "No Man's Sky" is a game about exploration, but keep in mind that not every place is meant to be explored. |
0.999981 | There are ___ Os and ___ Ts in this sentence.
One possible solution would be to put "two" in the first blank and "five" in the second blank. Note that "one" would not work in the first blank because the word "one" has one "O" in it; i.e., the words put in the blanks are part of the puzzle. Also note that grammar is not considered.
Note that the blanks above consist of three underscore characters ("_") in a row, and that the literal words "letters", "vowels", and "consonants" are always in lowercase. Any underscore characters appearing in the puzzles will be part of a blank.
For each data set output the number of possible correct solutions. All number words used in the puzzles will be from "zero" to "one hundred".
There are ___ Ts and ___ Es in this sentence. |
0.95054 | Does it ever pay for smaller animals to initiate fights even when they are likely to lose? Asymmetry in payoffs between opponents or a suboptimal strategy resulting from likely losers misperceiving themselves as likely winners have both been proposed as possible explanations for the aggressive behavior of smaller males. The model presented here suggests that in some cases, even without a payoff asymmetry and allowing for only a small error in perception, likely losers are expected to attack first. If the value of the resource exceeds the cost of losing a fight, the cost of displaying is sufficiently small, and assessment of resource holding power is reasonably accurate but not perfect, the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) prompts those contestants who perceive themselves as the likely losers to initiate fights, while it prompts those contestants who perceive themselves as the likely winners to wait for the adversary to attack or retreat. |
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It is a usually recognized truth that people needs an efficient relax after very long working 7 days. This is the most expected period through week.
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Have you ever heard of an informal division of Poland? I thinkam talking about about a distinction that is pretty common and well-known in Poland: Poland A and Poland B.
Increasing number of people currently who would like to take their business to another, higher level, tend to be interested in services such as inter alia underground mining equipment, which aim is to prepare the space available underground for the purpose of warehouses or other options that would help us substantially to become considerably more competitive in different spheres. |
0.869008 | What are the benefits of the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Heterogeneous Compute SDK?
Snapdragon Heterogeneous Compute SDK (HetCompute) is engineered to support a parallel programming model that allows programmers to express the concurrency in their applications. HetCompute’s powerful abstractions are designed to ease the burden of parallel programming through a design that builds on dynamic concurrency from the ground up. At the high level, HetCompute provides a set of parallel programming patterns that capture many of the existing parallel building blocks, and adds dataflow and work cancellation as first-class primitives that are optimized to improve programmer productivity.
It integrates heterogeneous execution into a concurrent task graph, and removes the burden of managing data transfers and explicit data copies between kernels executing on different devices. At the low level, HetCompute provides cutting-edge algorithms for work stealing and power optimizations that allow it to hide hardware idiosyncrasies allowing for the development of portable applications. In addition, HetCompute is designed to support dynamic mapping to heterogeneous execution units. Moreover, expert programmers can take charge of the execution through a carefully designed system of attributes and directives that provide the runtime system with additional semantic information about the patterns, tasks, and buffers that HetCompute uses as building blocks.
HetCompute embeds the programming model in C++ and provides a C++ library API. C++ is a familiar language for a large number of performance-oriented programmers, thus helping developers pick up the abstractions quickly. C++ embedding also allows incremental development of existing applications because HetCompute interoperates with existing libraries, such as pthreads and OpenGL.
How should I write a HetCompute application?
Integrating HetCompute into your application is quite easy, as long as you understand the principles of parallel programming and have a good idea of where the concurrency is in your application. The fundamental design goal of HetCompute is to easily express a parallel algorithm and incrementally build a parallel application.
Identify the algorithm to be parallelized and design a parallel version of the algorithm.
Encode the algorithm using HetCompute abstractions: If the algorithm matches one of the HetCompute patterns, use the pattern directly to leverage the speedups. More complex applications will require the use of multiple patterns or they may exhibit parallelism that does not match one of the existing patterns. In this case, use HetCompute’s task and group building blocks to partition the algorithm into tasks, setting dependencies between the tasks (building the execution task graph), and launching the tasks for execution. Also, partitioning the data should be considered for concurrent data access.
Patterns and tasks are interoperable, as the HetCompute library maps patterns to tasks. Thus, a HetCompute application consists of a forest of DAGs. The runtime system schedules the tasks once their dependencies are satisfied.
HetCompute task graphs execute across different devices when the programmer provides device kernels. To execute on the GPU, kernels in OpenCL are written. To run on the DSP, kernels in C99 are written. These kernels are integrated into the task graph just like other tasks that are designed for the CPU.
Which parallel algorithms exist in HetCompute?
pfor_each: Parallel iteration where the same function is applied to different pieces of data.
preduce: Parallel reduction processes a list of elements using a join function object and computes a return value.
ptransform: Parallel data transformation where a given function object outputs a range and stores the result in another range, or in-place.
pscan: HetCompute implements a Sklansky-style, in-place parallel prefix operation.
psort: Parallel sorting of data using a given input range.
pdivide_and_conquer: A parallel application of divide and conquer for use with algorithms such as quicksort and tree building/traversal.
What mechanism exists for tuning parallel execution?
The default pattern implementations should cover the majority of use cases. However, no single implementation is the best fit for all workload types. For that reason, HetCompute offers programmers a collection of commonly used algorithm parameters to serve as the performance tuning knobs (tuner).
set_max_doc: Maximum degree of concurrency.
set_static/set_dynamic: Simple static chunking or dynamic workstealing algorithm for parallelization.
set_serial: Serial execution, convenient for performance comparisons and calculation speedup.
How can I chain parallel algorithms together?
The HetCompute Pipeline pattern supports the pipeline parallel programming model, which is often used in streaming applications.
The HetCompute Pipeline API allows the programmer to describe a linear chain of processing stages such that the output of each stage is the input of the next. The programmer associates a C++ stage function with each stage, and can specify a basic C++ type or a user-defined data-type for handing over data between stages. Once launched, the Pipeline stage repeatedly executes the stage function over a data stream. A successor stage starts executing on one data unit after its predecessor stage finishes processing the same unit. While the stages in the pipeline executes one data unit sequentially (from the first stage to the last), they can execute different data units at the same time.
What if I want fine grained control of my parallel execution?
HetCompute programmers can partition their applications into independent units of work that can be executed asynchronously in the CPU, the GPU or the Hexagon DSP. These units of work are called tasks.
In HetCompute, tasks can have predecessors and successors, forming directed acyclic task graphs. The predecessors of a task t are the tasks that must complete before t can execute. Conversely, the successors of a task t are the set of tasks that will execute only after t has completed its execution. Programmers can specify a predecessor/successor relationship between two tasks by creating a dependency between them.
How can I decide where my task will run?
A HetCompute task contains work that can be executed on any device in a system: the CPU, the GPU, or the Hexagon DSP. HetCompute tasks use kernels to achieve this computational heterogeneity. A kernel contains the computation, that is, the actual device code, a task executes. This could be CPU code, GPU code, or Hexagon DSP code, resulting in three different types of kernels.
location: the CPUs where the program constructs should run.
pinning: whether HetCompute device threads should migrate freely among cores (also known as thread binding).
mode: override local affinity settings.
How do I share data between tasks?
Tasks on the CPU, GPU, and DSP can share data using a HetCompute buffer. A HetCompute buffer is a contiguous array of a user-defined data-type T. The buffer is ref-counted: the HetCompute runtime will deallocate the buffer when there are no more buffer pointers pointing to it.
What is the difference between the Qualcomm Symphony SDK and the Snapdragon Heterogeneous Compute SDK?
The Symphony SDK is being deprecated as a power management API and is being replaced with the Snapdragon Heterogeneous Compute SDK. Migrating from Symphony SDK 1.x Heterogeneous Compute SDK is a fairly straightforward task as the interface has largely remained the same.
Development OS: Windows 7 or later, Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later, or Ubuntu 14.04 or later.
Android: Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) and Android NDK r13b or later. |
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0.940305 | jet kits, whose got em?
so who has installed a jet kit in their 900? i was thinking about dropping a factory pro Ti pro kit in. maybe get the ign. advance too. thoughts on this setup?
just looking for opinions on this subject.
RE: jet kits, whose got em?
no one has ever done anything to their 9hundo?
900'S ARE VERY STRONG BIKES IF GEARED TO WHAT YOU WANT TO USE IT FOR. STUNTERS GET 14 IN THE FRONT AND 50 IN THE REAR. RACERS GET -1 IN FRONT MAYBE +2 IN THE REAR.. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SPEED OR TRICKS..
I rejetted my 96 900 after putting on a Vance&Hines exhaust.I bought a dyno jet kit. no problems with the install, just take your time. Be sure to synchronize the carbs after you are done. The Honda shop wanted way too much for the sync. so I bought some gauges and adapters from Ebay ($100)The Dyno Jet kit also included a tool for adjusting the pilots. Again very easy to do.
I also have an advancer on it. appx 5dgree.It seems to run stronger up top.
The best investment (performance) was the gauge set to properly dial in the carbs. I have used it on many of my friends' bikes.
so dyno jet would be a better purchaseover a factory pro?
is the ign advancer worth the money?
planning on getting a jet kit, manual cct, and possibly a ign advancer if its worth it.
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0.996793 | Take time and follow some of the below suggestions provided by Modesto Police Burglary Detectives to protect your property: Lock your cars doors even when leaving for a short period of time. If possible do not keep valuables in your car. Keep valuables (even small items) out of sight or locked in a trunk. Make sure there is no one watching you. Install an alarm system Park in areas that are well lit with high visibility. Use your garage, cars parked outside are a target. Remove your garage remote from your car and take it in if you park outside. Burglars take time to look into cars, and under car seats for concealed purses, laptops, or other valuable before breaking in to vehicles. Some of the more common targeted areas are parking lots along commercial businesses, strip malls, restaurants, schools, health clubs, residential streets, and apartment parking lot complexes. Shoppers and citizens are being asked to be aware of their surroundings before leaving their cars. Look for suspicious vehicles, people on foot, or subjects on bicycles cruising parking lots. Many criminals are looking into vehicles, wandering or looking around without apparent reason, wearing gloves, carrying backpacks, and using lookouts. Protecting Children Protect society's most valued asset, your children. Child abuse is often committed by someone known to the child. If you develop a positive relationship with your children, they will not feel afraid to discuss their problems with you. Know their interests and friends. Set good examples for them to follow. Help them to develop a strong value and a positive self-image. Help them to enjoy their youth while being aware of their environment and how they can protect themselves. Discuss these issues with them: Recognizing suspicious and inappropriate behavior among strangers and family members. How no one should touch the areas of their body that a bathing suit would cover. To remember vehicle license numbers and the description of the persons acting in a suspicious way. To let you know where they are at all times. To go straight to a cashier or an information booth if they become separated from you in a public area. If they are home alone they should not open the door or when answering the phone, should not say that they are alone in the house. To never enter a strange person's vehicle and never hitchhike. To tell you if they are ever threatened. What 9-1-1 is and when to use it. To stay safe on the Internet. |
0.998123 | In my attempt to understand why some people think and act the way that they do, I have been reading on Wikipedia and various other sites about the occurrence of cognitive dissonance over the past few years. I discovered that one way cognitive dissonance (mental discomfort/psychological stress) can occur is when one's beliefs, ideas, and values do not match up with presented facts and perceived evidence. This can happen to anyone! To relieve the feelings of dissonance, an average person will attempt to verify the facts/evidence as needed and then adjust their beliefs, ideas, and values accordingly. Even with a healthy amount of skepticism, they trust the "outside world" by being open to their own perceptions, to scientific evidence, to experts, and to other fact gatherers, like our free press. This is how we grow and evolve. This explains why we, or most of us anyway, do not believe that the earth is flat.
But sometimes, regardless of the validity of facts and supporting evidence the "outside world" is presenting, we want to hold on to our contradictory beliefs and ideas. In order to do this and, at the same time, relieve our stress and discomfort, we may deny the facts and evidence and/or attack the source(s) of the facts and evidence. The tendency to deny and attack increases when a person has spent greater time, effort, and personal sacrifice to develop their beliefs and ideas. This tendency also increases when these contradictory beliefs and ideas are developed within the closed systems and pressures of families and social groups. Religious and political extremism can be a result of this, and the attacks against contradictory sources becomes violent. That is one way terrorism evolves. Conversely, some may create other versions of reality or "alternative facts" to support their own beliefs and views or deny truth to manipulate others' beliefs, ideas, and values (aka propaganda). Sound familiar?
I bring this all up to make the point that, as the Mueller investigation hopefully continues and comes to a close, my wishes are that all are open to accepting the facts and evidence that have been painstakingly collected and support seeking justice for all involved, no matter where the chips may fall. |
0.945471 | Suggestion for fighting the Potential loss of our Second Amendment Rights.
I am not a lawyer, but I have done some common sense research into the Second Amendment, and the current restrictions on it, plus the ones pending, and I feel even the threat of a nationwide lawsuit of this scope would make the opposition pull back completely.
This makes a lot of sense,read it through. We could make a case that the Govt. is stripping us of our Civil Rights with Gun Control. Civil Rights must apply to all Americans Regardless of Race Creed or Color Equally.
Using those two Federal Statutes we should be able to initiate a lawsuit against all the Progressive gun grabbers in Congress that have proposed and/or supported bills to restrict gun ownership and the bearing of arms as provided by the Second Amendment. As the gun laws are currently interpreted by Scotus and before any new interpretations come out to deny this legal theory, Neither Congress nor SCOTUS is above the Federal Laws concerning Denial of Civil rights.
What we American citizens must do is twofold, First we must unite to fight this in a nationwide Class action Lawsuit based on existing laws and legal determinations by SCOTUS when the Suit is filed.
Second, we must educate the people on what is their Civil Rights according to the Second Amendment despite the spin and faulty interpretations of the left that are currently in vogue, and point out their fallacies and incorrect line of reasoning to our fellow citizens of all ages.
The Congressional ban on modern Machine Gun ownership after the 1988 ban reducing that to the same background checks,permit system,and tax stamps required for ownership of Machine Guns mfg. before the 1988 ban. That would not infringe on our right to own one.
Another Denial of Rights imposed on us by Congress is the Gun Free Zone Act. It needs to be repealed and/or declared unconstitutional because it denies us the Unalienable and Constitutionally Protected Right to Self Defense.
The Background Check System Denies us our Constitutionally Protected right to Privacy and being secure in our homes per the 4th amendment. The Fourth Amendment originally enforced the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government. It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance, as well as being central to many other criminal law topics and to privacy law.
The expanded background checks system is too far reaching in scope, and directed in ways that defeat it's stated purpose of keeping guns out of the hands of Criminals,Convicted Felons, and Mental cases prohibited from owning firearms. It should simply be a daily updated list of people forbidden to purchase firearms, and it must have a way for those who have been denied to see why, and give them a legal recourse to challenge the determination.
Lack of a Reciprocal Acceptance of each States Carry Permit System by other States, or lack of a complete Constitutional Carry Provision Nationwide, infringes on two areas of our Constitutional Civil Rights. The Unalienable right to self protection, and strangely enough a good case could be made for denial of pursuit of happiness by not feeling secure in our persons. Pursuit of happiness is a stretch I admit, but most precedent setting cases start out that way, and it is being infringed by the Federal Govt. and State Govt's.
This was the first infringement of the 2nd Amendment and the Supremacy Clause, as applied to the States making laws that conflicted with Federal Laws ( There was no Federal Precedent when this law was enacted). The powers of the Bill of Rights originally intended to apply to limit the powers of the Federal Government, were expanded to support the Fourteenth Amendment's wording that no state could withhold the rights outlined in the Bill of Rights. It also restricts the Federal Government from doing the same.
The knee jerk reaction of Congress on the latest tragedy they caused with the Gun Free Zone Act dictates, is a digression form their stated purpose to Represent their Constituents wishes instead of reacting to emotional issues while ignoring the Facts and the Constitution. The persistence in Wishful thinking about disarming the law abiding public making them safer from Criminal and mental elements which do not follow or obey the laws is Malfeasance on their part, and it contributes to the denial of our Constitutionally Protected Civil Rights.
they are not putting that our there nor will they WE NEED TO BE OUR OWN SPOKESMEN.
WE NEED TO DO AS THE LEFT IS IN OPPOSITE WAYS TELL OUR TRUTHS AND WHAT WE WANT. |
0.977378 | This article is about the year 1592.
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1592 ( MDXCII ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar , the 1592nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 592nd year of the 2nd millennium , the 92nd year of the 16th century , and the 3rd year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1592, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
A leap year starting on Wednesday is any year with 366 days that begins on Wednesday, 1 January, and ends on Thursday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are ED, such as the years 1908, 1936, 1964, 1992, 2020, 2048, 2076, and 2116 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2004 and 2032 in the obsolete Julian calendar. Any leap year that starts on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday has two Friday the 13ths. This leap year contains two Friday the 13ths in March and November. Common years starting on Thursday share this characteristic, but also have another in February.
January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.
February 7 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle in Scotland, and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.
March 3 – Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university, is founded.
March 14 – Ultimate Pi Day : the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
April 4 – The future Henry IV of France, King designate of Henry III of France, announces in a declaration, so-called "Expedient," his intention to take instruction in, and convert to, the Catholic religion.
April 13 – The Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) begin, with the Siege of Busanjin.
April 24 – Battle of Sangju: The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans (Joseon).
April 28 – Battle of Ch'ungju: Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.
May 7 – Battle of Okpo: The Korean navy is victorious over Japan.
May 29 – Battle of Sacheon: Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin destroys all 13 Japanese ships taking part, using his improved turtle ship for the first time in battle.
June 2 – Battle of Dangpo:The Korean navy is again victorious over Japan.
June 10 – 19 – Siege of Bihać in the Kingdom of Croatia, by Hasan Pasha Predojević of the Ottoman Empire. Bihać is captured and lost for Croatia forever.
January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of the year.
Pope Clement VIII, born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was Pope from 2 February 1592 to his death in 1605. Born in Fano, Italy to a prominent Florentine family, he initially came to prominence as a canon lawyer before being made a Cardinal-Priest in 1585. In 1592 he was elected Pope and took the name of Clement. During his papacy he effected the reconciliation of Henry IV of France to the Catholic faith and was instrumental in setting up an alliance of Christian nations to oppose the Ottoman Empire in the so-called Long War. He also successfully adjudicated in a bitter dispute between the Dominicans and the Jesuits on the issue of efficacious grace and free will. In 1600 he presided over a jubilee which saw a large number of pilgrimages to Rome. He had little pity for his opponents, presiding over the trial and execution of Giordano Bruno and implementing strict measures against Jewish residents of the Papal States. He may have been the first pope to drink coffee. Clement VIII died at the age of 69 in 1605 and his remains now rest in the Santa Maria Maggiore.
Pope Innocent IX, born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, was Pope from 29 October to 30 December 1591.
July 8 – Battle of Hansan Island: Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin destroys or captures around 60 Japanese ships without loss, in a battle in which around 190 ships take part.
July 20 – The Japanese capture the Korean capital Pyongyang, causing Seonjo to request the assistance of Ming Dynasty Chinese forces, who recapture the city a year later.
July 30 – Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops, to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire , probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
August 14 – Battle of Hansan Island: The Korean navy defeats the Japanese.
August 15 (or 19) – The great Portuguese carrack, Madre De Deus, captured in a fierce battle in the Azores, enters Dartmouth harbour on 7 September, and is then subjected to mass theft.
September 1 – Battle of Busan: The Korean fleet makes a surprise attack on the Japanese, but fails to break their supply lines to Busan.
October 5 – Siege of Jinju: The Korean navy is victorious over the Japanese.
November 3 – The city of San Luis Potosí is founded.
November 17 – John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund, as King of Sweden.
July 8 is the 189th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of the year.
The Battle of Hansan Island and following engagement at Angolpo took place from 14 to 15 August 1592. In two naval encounters, Korean Admiral I Sunsin's fleet managed to destroy roughly 100 Japanese ships and halted Japanese naval operations along the southern coast.
Admiral Yi Sun-Shin was a Korean naval commander famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty, who became an exemplar of conduct for both the Koreans and Japanese. Despite the fact that he had no prior naval training, Admiral Yi was never defeated at sea nor lost a single ship under his command to enemy action, and military historians have placed him on par with Admiral Horatio Nelson as one of the greatest naval commanders in history. His title of Samdo Sugun Tongjesa, literally meaning "Naval Commander of the Three Provinces", was the title used for the commander of the Korean navy until 1896.
The Collegium Melitense is founded by Bishop Garagallo.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.
Negotiations begin, for the dissolution of the childless marriage of Henry IV of France and Marguerite of Valois.
The Confucian shrine of Munmyo is destroyed by fire.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Albert Pollard says, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England."
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
Henry IV, also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He was assassinated in 1610 by François Ravaillac, a fanatical Catholic, and was succeeded by his son Louis XIII.
Philippe Alegambe was a Belgian Jesuit priest and bibliographer.
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.
January 5 is the fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year.
Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram, better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan, was the fifth Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1628 to 1658.
1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 666th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1666, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire. It is the only year to contain each Roman numeral once in descending order.
1582 (MDLXXXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1582nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 582nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1582, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which had previously been the universally accepted calendar in Christian nations. However, this year saw the beginning of the Gregorian Calendar switch, when the Papal bull known as Inter gravissimas introduced the Gregorian calendar, adopted by Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and most of present-day Italy from the start. In these countries, the year continued as normal until Thursday, October 4. However, the next day became Friday, October 15, in those countries. Other countries continued using the Julian calendar for decades or, in some cases, centuries. The complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was not entirely done until 1923. In the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, 1582 is a common year starting on Friday.
1595 (MDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1595th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 595th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1595, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1617 (MDCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1617th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 617th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1617, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1652 (MDCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1652nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 652nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1652, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1650th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 650th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1650, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1632 (MDCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1632nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 632nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1632, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1593 (MDXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1593rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 593rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 16th century, and the 4th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1593, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1602 (MDCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1602nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 602nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1602, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1609 (MDCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1609th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 609th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1609, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1639 (MDCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1639th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 639th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1639, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Year 1565 (MDLXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
1671 (MDCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1671st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 671st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1671, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1651 (MDCLI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1651st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 651st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1651, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1599 (MDXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1599th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 599th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 16th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1599, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1589 (MDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1589th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 589th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 16th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1589, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1586 (MDLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1586th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 586th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1586, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Year 1578 (MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
1672 (MDCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1672nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 672nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1672, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. |
0.998616 | In the late 1950s, Ruth Berman had published [[All Mimsy]] with Eleanor Arnason and Ron Whyte. In the early 1960s, Ruth Berman did the fanzines [[NeoLithic]], [[Dinky Bird]], [[No]], and [[Pantopon]], and in the late 1960s, the media science fiction fanzines [[Despatch]], [[Inside Star Trek]], [[T-Negative]], and [[The Star Trek Songbook]].
In the late 1950s, Ruth Berman had published All Mimsy with Eleanor Arnason and Ron Whyte. In the early 1960s, Ruth Berman did the fanzines NeoLithic, Dinky Bird, No, and Pantopon, and in the late 1960s, the media science fiction fanzines Despatch, Inside Star Trek, T-Negative, and The Star Trek Songbook. |
0.995958 | What is the target audience for Socratic? It appears that it's for High schoolers and Undergraduates. Would this be a good place to ask questions on more advanced areas (eg. developmental biology), or is that outside the intended scope of the website?
I answer questions in mathematics areas. It does appear that most questions that get answered are high school or early undergraduae level. I don't know if those in biology are involved in more advanced areas.
You should definitely post questions on more advanced ares on Socratic.
There are a lot of professors, active or retired, that contribute on this site, so there is a possibility that even advanced questions can get an answer.
For your example, I know that many contributors to the Biology page are currently active in different industry fields, so you can get to interact with professionals as well.
The bottom line is that you can try and post any questions you like, who knows, maybe someone can help you with an answer.
For very advanced topics, like research and stuff like that, you can always check out ResearchGate.
As far as I know, it's one of the biggest, if not the biggest, online community for researchers and scientists, so you're bound to get answers to very advanced questions there.
What kinds of questions can I ask?
Why are some questions in the wrong topic?
What should I do if I find a question that's a duplicate of another one?
How to see the number of you questions that have not yet been answered?
Why do Socratic users not just use WolframAlpha? |
0.999871 | Museums are places where you discover a lot of information concerning the history of many countries, their cultures and values. In addition, you can develop your knowledge through the resources displayed at museums.
You can learn about arts, animal and human lives, sciences, and many other things by visiting those wonderful places. Each museum has a specific purpose related to arts, history, lifestyle, sports achievements, past inventions, or even the simplest things like hairstyle evolution.
What are the top 10 museums in the world?
Make your plan, book your flight and discover the best museums in the world. You will explore these fascinating destinations.
1. American Museum of National History, Washington D.C., USA by the Smithsonian Institution. It features over 126 million specimens of animals, plants, fossils, minerals, rocks, and artifacts, and other.
2. Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy, by Roman Catholic Popes. This art museum contains renowned Roman sculptures and displays over 20,000 masterpieces from the Renaissance.
3. National Gallery, London, England. This art museum contains over 2,300 Eastern European paintings from the Renaissance period. Collections of arts from such reputable artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Picasso.
4. British Museum, London, UK. It is a really fascinating museum with a large collection of artifacts from many civilizations from all over the world, from the Prehistoric and Neolithic times to A.D. 1000.
5. National Museum of China, Tienanmen square, Beijing, China. It encompasses collections of ancient objects related to the Chinese art and history.
6. Louvre Museum or the « banana of death », Paris, France. It displays over 35,000 artifacts, sculptures, crowns, jewels, paintings from all over the world, from 500 B.C. to the 21st century.
7. The Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece. It encompasses sanctuaries of the Athenians, stone sculptures, antiquities and artifacts excavated from the Old Temple of Athena and other sources.
8. The Prado, Madrid, Spain. It contains sculptures from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Most of the finest paintings and masterpieces belonged to kings and queens.
9. State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. It is among the largest art museums in the world. This museum contains more than three million collections of arts, from the Stone Age to the 21st century.
10. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is the largest art museum in the Netherlands, with its collections of nearly 900,000 valuable works of arts, from renowned Dutch stadtholders. The art collections range from the Middle-Ages to the 21st century.
What should you do before visiting the museum?
For you to fully enjoy your visit, here are a few tips to help you.
Always check whether you need to get a permission from local authorities or the museum keeper before taking pictures.
If you plan to duplicate the photos for sales, it is essential to ask the local authorities.
Check the opening hours and the entrance fee before visiting because price changes may happen over time.
Always ask the guide to give you more information about the museum if you need it.
Many other things can be useful for you to know for a memorable visit and eDreams can help you . All you need to do is to log on the website. All the answers to your questions are a click away. Go to eDreams for practical advices about those interesting institutions and everything about your trip to the places. |
0.994374 | who at the age of 17, decided to work for the humanitarian aid organization, Invisible Children. What began as a five-month internship resulted in Natalie producing award-winning international human rights awareness campaigns that landed her a TED Talk on engaging youth in social justice and two TEDx Talks that have been viewed over a million times. Natalie has mobilized youth through innovative nationwide programs and campaigns and her work has been featured on CNN, NPR and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Natalie was asked to produce documentary pieces on women who had survived the Rwandan Genocide during which she lived in Rwanda. Upon returning back to the United States from Rwanda, Natalie began working for TaskForce, an independent agency that served as the creative force alongside Shepard Fairey to create the 2008 Obama HOPE Campaign. TaskForce works primarily at the intersection of Arts/Culture and Social Change to build capacity and community for the most influential non-profits, brands and people who are taking on some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation and world. Her time at TaskForce lead her to work as a multimedia producer and millennial ambassador for the MacArthur Foundation. She worked with a network of educators, experts, and youth-serving organizations that promotes access to participatory, interest-driven learning, and provided them with branding and engagement strategies for their youth audience.
To this day, Natalie has spoken to more than 75,000 people worldwide in 500 different engagements and delivered three TEDx talks about her journey from teenager to global activist. She has worked for prestigious universities, Fortune 500 businesses, non-profits, government organizations, and hundreds of educational institutions ranging from grammar school to high school. She has been sought out by clients including the Obama Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Forbes Women's Summit, U.S. Department of State, Stanford University, The Boys and Girls Club of America, Apple, SAP, Amnesty International and many more.
This work has lead Natalie to work as a Youth Engagement Expert, training leadership teams around the world on how to best engage, empower, and activate young people. She has served as a Youth Engagement Strategist for the Obama Foundation and the Bill, Melinda Gates Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation to name a few clients. Natalie created an Activism Training Program designed to activate and equip individuals of all ages and across all industries with the knowledge and tools needed to build momentum towards lasting change in their communities, society and the world. Her message on social justice, anti-racism, and the power of storytelling is influenced by her childhood where she grew up in the inner-city of Chicago surrounded by a family of activists who have dedicated their lives towards bringing positive social change to their community. Natalie is currently based in Los Angeles. |
0.840361 | In mathematics and physics, a vector is an element of a vector space.
For many specific vector spaces, the vectors have received specific names, which are listed below.
Historically, vectors were introduced in geometry and physics (typically in mechanics) before the formalization of the concept of vector space. Therefore, one talks often of vectors without specifying the vector space to which they belong. Specifically, in a Euclidean space, one consider spatial vectors, also called Euclidean vectors which are used to represent quantities that have both magnitude and direction, and may be added and scaled (that is multiplied by a real number) for forming a vector space.
A Euclidean vector, is thus a entity endowed with a magnitude (the length of the line segment (A, B)) and a direction (the direction from A to B). In physics, Euclidean vectors are used to represent physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction, but are not located at a specific place, in contrast to scalars, which have no direction. For example, velocity, forces and acceleration are represented by vectors.
In modern geometry, Euclidean spaces are often defined from linear algebra. More precisely, a Euclidean space E is defined as a set to which is associated a inner product space of finite dimension over the reals and a group action of the additive group of which is free and transitive (See Affine space for details of this construction). The elements of are called translations.
It has been proved that the two definitions of Euclidean spaces are equivalent, and that the equivalence classes under equipollence may be identified with translations.
Sometimes, Euclidean vectors are considered without reference to a Euclidean space. In this case, a Euclidean vector is an element of a normed vector space of finite dimension over the reals, or, typically, an element of equipped with the dot product. This makes sense, as the addition in such a vector space acts freely and transitively on the vector space itself. That is, is a Euclidean space, with itself as an associated vector space, and the dot product as a inner product.
The Eucidean space is often presented as the Euclidean space of dimension n. This is motivated by the fact that every Euclidean space of dimension n is isomorphic to the Euclidean space More precisely, given such an Euclidean space, one may choose any point O as an origin. By Gram–Schmidt process, one may also find an orthonormal basis of the associated vector space (a basis such that the inner product of two basis vectors is 0 if they are different and 1 if they are equal). This defines Cartesian coordinates of any point P of the space, as the coordinates on this basis of the vector These choices define an isomorphism of the given Euclidean space onto by mapping any point to the n-uple of its Cartesian coordinates, and every vector to its coordinate vector.
Null vector, the additive identity in a vector space. In a normed vector space, it is the unique vector of norm zero. In a Euclidean vector space, it is the unique vector of length zero.
Basis vector an element of a given basis of a vector space.
Unit vector, a vector in a normed vector space whose norm is 1, or a Euclidean vector of length one.
Column vector, a matrix with only one column. The column vectors with a fixed number of rows form a vector space.
Row vector, a matrix with only one row. The row vectors with a fixed number of rows form a vector space.
Coordinate vector, the n-uple of the coordinates of a vector on a basis of n elements. For a vector space over a field F, these n-uples form the vector space (where the operation are pointwise addition and scalar multiplication).
Displacement vector, a vector that specifies the change in position of a point relative to a previous position. Displacement vectors belong to the vector space of translations.
Position vector of a point, the displacement vector from a reference point (called the origin) to the point. A position vector represents the position of a point in a Euclidean space or an affine space.
Velocity vector, the derivative, with respect of the time, of the position vector. It does not depend of the choice of the origin, and, thus belongs to the vector space of translations.
Pseudovector, also called axial vector, an element of the dual of a vector space. In a inner product space, the inner product defines an isomorphism between the space and its dual, which may make difficult to distinguish a pseudo vector from a vector. The distinction becomes apparent when one changes coordinates: the matrix used for a change of coordinates of pseudovectors is the transpose of that of vectors.
Normal vector or simply normal, in a Euclidean space or, more generally, in an inner product space, a vector that is perpendicular to a tangent space at a point. Normals are pseudovectors that belong to the dual of the tangent space.
Gradient, the coordinates vector of the partial derivatives of a function of several real variables. In a Euclidean space the gradient gives the magnitude and direction of maximum increase of a scalar field. The gradient is a pseudo vector that is normal to a level curve.
The set of tuples of n real numbers has a natural structure of vector space defined by component-wise addition and scalar multiplication. When such tuples are used for representing some data, it is common to call them vectors even if the vector addition does not mean anything for these data, which may make the terminology confusing. Similarly, some physical phenomena involve a direction and a magnitude. They are often represented by vectors, even if operations of vector spaces do not apply to them.
Rotation vector, a Euclidean vector whose direction is that of the axis of a rotation and magnitude is the angle of the rotation.
Probability vector, in statistics, a vector with non-negative entries that sum to one.
Random vector or multivariate random variable, in statistics, a set of real-valued random variables that may be correlated. However, a random vector may also refer to a random variable that takes its values in a vector space.
Every algebra over a field is a vector space, but elements an algebra are generally not called vectors. However, in some cases, they are called vectors, mainly for historical reasons.
Multivector or p-vector, an element of the exterior algebra of a vector space.
Spinors, also called spin vectors have been introduced for extending the notion of rotation vector. In fact, rotation vectors represent well rotations locally, but not globally, because a closed loop in the space of rotation vectors may induce a curve in the space of rotations that is not a loop. Also, the manifold of rotation vectors is orientable, while the manifold of rotations is not. Spinors are elements of a vector subspace of some Clifford algebra.
Look up vector in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
↑ In some old texts, the pair (A, B) is called a bound vector, and its equivalence class is called a free vector. |
0.986376 | The question of why we sleep has been a longstanding subject of debate, with some theories suggesting that slumber provides respite for the brain, which allows it to filter out insignificant neural connections, build new ones, strengthen memories and even repair itself. However, new Oxford University research has used mathematical approaches to tackle the adaptive significance of sleep, and the findings suggest that sleep has another equally significant purpose—boosting our 'fitness' and future family line reproductive success.
The paper, published in PLOS ONE has used mathematical modelling to investigate the adaptive significance of sleep and assess if it impacts 'fitness' (defined as the number of future children, grandchildren, great grandchildren etc.) and mortality.
The work was led by Jared Field, a postgraduate student in the Oxford Mathematical Institute and Professor Mike Bonsall, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology. The mathematical formulas allowed the team to compare the 'fitness' success of sleeping and not sleeping under a range of different conditions, such as varying birth and mortality rates, and environments, including vulnerable and safe environments.
Jared Field explains: "Sleep as a behaviour, is in and of itself, valuable. While much research has been done to find vital functions that explain why organisms sleep, our study provides broader ecological reasons applicable to a range of environments and conditions. Our analyses suggests that sleep first evolved simply because activity-inactivity cycles are adaptive in a non-constant world."
"Regardless of the scenario, sleep and periods of inactivity were found to have a more positive impact on fitness than not sleeping."
Mike Bonsall adds: "The application of mathematics to understanding biological systems has far reaching consequences and being able to understand phenomena such as how sleep evolved through a mathematical lens is a fantastic advance."
The full paper citation is "The evolution of sleep is inevitable in a periodic world' written by Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall, published in PLOS One. |
0.999998 | Compare, distinguish and explain what is the difference between Electromagnet and Magnet. Comparison and Differences.
1. An electromagnet is a temporary magnet which can be turned on and off using electric current. A permanent magnet which retains magnetism until it is purposely demagnetized (spoilt).
2. Electromagnet can be made stronger or weaker. Magnet remains at the same strength. |
0.977769 | Erland & The Carnival are a British progressive folk rock band, formed in London, by Orcadian folk guitarist and singer Gawain Erland Cooper, multi-instrumentalist Simon Tong (formerly of The Verve, Blur and The Good, the Bad & the Queen), and drummer/engineer David Nock (The Orb, The Cult, The Fireman, David Gilmour, Paul McCartney). In 2010 they released their critically acclaimed eponymous debut album, and a year later released Nightingale to further widespread acclaim. Their third album Closing Time was released in autumn 2014 and featured collaborations with Paul Weller. The album was recorded in 7 days at Damon Albarn's Studio 13 and was mixed by Tim Bran.
Erland & The Carnival are well known for their contemporary arrangements of traditional Scottish and English folk songs, resulting in a "wild pastiche of digital trickery and oral tradition that channels the spirit of '70s progressive rock while staying true to pop-song brevity."
The band Erland & The Carnival was formed in London in 2009, by multi-instrumentalist Simon Tong (formerly of The Verve, Blur and The Good, the Bad & the Queen), Orcadian folk guitarist and singer Gawain Erland Cooper and drummer/engineer David Nock (The Orb, The Cult, The Fireman, David Gilmour, Paul McCartney).
Erland Cooper and Tong had first met at a London folk night put on by Tong in 2008, and discovered a shared love of folk music and musician Jackson C. Frank, and in particular Frank's song "My Name is Carnival," which became the basis for the band's name. According to Tong, "[Cooper and I] did an afternoon of playing and writing with engineer and drummer friend David Nock and pretty much decided there and then to form a band." Instead of rock and folk, Nock came from an electronic background, contributing to their unique sound.
After Erland and Nock recorded the track "Coming Home" for Tong and Youth's compilation What the Folk (Vol 2), the three began writing and playing together around London. Musicians Andrew Bruce and Danny Wheeler joined later as permanent members, with Bruce on synthesizers and Wheeler handling bass guitar.
Inspired by Daniel Johnston's Hello How Are You? (on which he re-recorded individual albums to meet demand because his tape machine was broken), Erland and the Carnival released a limited edition debut EP in September 2008, with each CD containing different recordings unique to each copy.
The band's debut album, Erland & the Carnival was recorded at Damon Albarn's Studio 13 and released on 25 January 2010. A number of traditional songs are used by the band, including "The Derby Ram" by Llewellyn Jewitt, with the band changing the lyrics to refer to a suicide which occurred in Derby in 2008.
The album was received favourably by publications such as The Times and The Guardian, and the album's lead single, "Erland & The Carnival," was named track of the day by Clash Magazine on 28 January 2010.
According to the BBC, the band has "taken various bits of existing poetry, lyrics, folk tales and songs, and melded them together with their own organs, guitars and lyrics. The result is a collection of engaging, swirling tracks and stories that sound like the soundtrack to a creepy, dreamy funfair." For Folks Sake praised the production quality, stating "the crystal clarity and spatial acumen in the recording of the instrumentation and vocals is a brilliant work of dissection."
Their Trouble in Mind EP was released on Yep Roc in the US and Full Time Hobby in the UK on 19 October 2010. Their promo single from the EP, "The Derby Ram," was released on Full Time Hobby during the week of 20 August 2010. According to a review of the album by Pop Matters, who gave the album 6/10 stars, "Weaving psychedelic choral interludes out of the Electric Prunes' Mass in F Minor with early Jefferson Airplane and occasional Tom Waits madness, the band's sound is very, very unusual...just don't expect strong melodies or pop hooks on this one; that's not their aim."
The band has toured frequently, both in England and internationally, and played venues such as SXSW in 2011. The band has toured with artists such as Hannah Peel.
Nightingale is their second studio album, released in 2011 on the Full Time Hobby label. The band spent over a year writing the songs for the album, and the recording process took around three months. The album was recorded on board HMS President, a ship moored on the River Thames.
Whereas their previous album was replete with allusions to old ballads, Nightingale consists primarily of original tracks. On its cover is a photo of Janet Hodgson flying across her bedroom, supposedly by a poltergeist. The band claims the art reflects the album's sound, as they were "trying to create a soundtrack to an imaginary horror film about the supernatural."
The album received positive reviews from Allmusic and The Times, and a positive review and 3/5 stars from The Guardian. A review by Pitchfork was largely positive. According to James Monger of Allmusic, "The group takes traditional folk music and then filters it through the swirling psych rock of Piper at the Gates of Dawn-era Pink Floyd, the electro-freak folk of Animal Collective, and the pastoral creep of bands Espers and Vetiver, resulting in a wild pastiche of digital trickery and oral tradition that channels the spirit of '70s progressive rock while staying true to pop-song brevity."
Erland and the Carnival became known for their contemporary arrangements of traditional Scottish and English folk songs, including "Tramps and Hawkers", "Was You Ever See" and "Love Is a Killing Thing", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Many of the songs are rooted in scholarship; before forming the band, Erland Cooper had previously spent years studying Bert Jansch and Davey Graham, sourcing old British songs from the Vaughan Williams museum near where he lives.
According to the band, their approach to the music is more casual than serious, and "we collect ideas from films, books, car boot sales and art. When we were recording the album in our boat studio...we would visit the Tate Britain art gallery each morning for ideas. Artists like Mike Nelson, Susan Hiller and of course Grayson Perry were a great inspiration."
The track "Everything Came Too Easy" was inspired by a speech by Charles Van Doren to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, a United States Congress subcommittee, investigating a rigging scandal on the quiz show Twenty One. The track "The Derby Ram" is a modernisation of a folk standard about a giant fictional sheep, reworked to comment on the suicide of Shaun Dykes.
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0.999657 | Engaging and fun way for all students to learn how to code.
I am not a teacher, but have used this program myself, and my 5th grade daughter has used it in order to get some beginner lessons on coding. We have used the program both at home and at school.
My overall opinion of Code.org is that it is a fun and engaging way for any student (minimum grade 2) or adult to get a basic overview of what coding is and how it works. What I liked is that the individual programs take approximately one hour to complete, and they are easy to break up into smaller lessons or sections (each program has about 20 individual mini-levels within it). Code.org uses fun cartoon characters that younger students are familiar with, and can often create a feeling of gamification while learning. The mini-levels increase in difficulty, but each level has hints and tips to help students along. Adults can find the program easy to follow as well, and would benefit from starting at Code.org for introductory lessons in coding before moving on to more advanced programs. What I didn't like is that several levels were much too advanced for grade 2 (as an adult, I struggled with a few mini-levels myself). The advanced mini-levels might be better for small group or whole class collaboration first, and then individual practice afterward. |
0.990733 | What happens at U.S. stock exchanges can have an impact on Japan's economy.
In a global economy, the financial fortunes of corporations and nations are tied together across international borders. This is certainly true for Japan and the United States. Changes in the U.S. stock market impact Japan in a number of ways, illustrating how global economics work and why the world economy functions as a single complex system, not a series of isolated economies.
Japanese investors, including individual investors and financial institutions such as banks, own shares of American companies. This is one of the most direct ways that changes in the U.S. stock markets impact Japan. As those American companies gain or lose value, Japanese investors see their investment values rise or fall. When U.S. stocks surge, Japanese investors may choose to sell for profits, bringing money back into the Japanese economy for spending or investing in Japan.
U.S. stock market behavior affects Japan by determining how much money Americans are willing to spend on Japanese goods. Since Americans invest in U.S. stock markets heavily, a strong stock market can mean more consumer spending in the United States. Japan has a large manufacturing sector, producing many of the cars, electronics and consumer goods that Americans buy when their investments are doing well. This results in higher earnings and profits for Japanese companies and an improved Japanese economy.
Changes in American stock markets can inversely impact Japan in some cases. This happens when U.S. and Japanese companies are in direct competition with each another. A rise in the share price of an American company listed on a U.S. stock exchange may signal a drop in the share price of a Japanese company that provides similar goods and services. This type of change may come as a result of earnings reports or product releases that show the American company gaining a competitive advantage. In this example, the result for Japan would be a drop in the value of a company listed on a Japanese stock market. The opposite scenario can also occur, with the Japanese company gaining value at the expense of a U.S.-based competitor.
Financial analysts use data from around the world when making economic forecasts. Their findings and predictions impact American and Japanese economies by influencing how investors think and affecting the decisions they make. Changes in the U.S. stock market may cause analysts to alter their forecasts for worldwide economic growth, providing new data for Japanese investors and financial firms to consider when making decisions about their investments and spending behavior.
BBC News: Q&A -- What Is Driving the Global Stock Market Rally? |
0.999822 | Discover what mindful eating is and five mindful eating habits in this article!
To eat mindfully, you have to examine your eating habits. It’s also important to control your eating-related thoughts and emotions. Following a smart diet will allow you to better enjoy your meals and break any kind of relationship they may have with anxiety and stress.
To do this, pay attention to hunger signals. Eat consciously and leave aside any negative thoughts that may invite you to raid your pantry even when you aren’t hungry.
Your emotions influence what and how you eat. Therefore, pay attention to the effects that food has on your body.
A study conducted by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that being distracted or not paying attention to the act of eating tends to make people eat more during meals.
This confirms that mindful eating can help you lose weight. So, if you’re worried about your weight, paying more attention to what you eat could help you control the number of calories you consume.
The following habits will help you eat mindfully. Keep in mind that mindful eating isn’t about following a strict diet. Instead, it’s a way to stay in control of the sensations that manifest when you eat.
We often listen to our minds first. But, as with many other mindfulness practices, we can discover the ideal time to eat if we listen to our bodies.
With that in mind, don’t rely on emotional signals to eat. These signals may be different for everyone and include stress, sadness, frustration, loneliness, or simply boredom. Instead, simply listen to your body before eating. Is your stomach growling? Do you have no energy? Do you feel lightheaded?
Mindful eating is linked to the hunger signals that the body sends. Mindfulness applied to food is helpful in recognizing behavioral patterns. It helps you pay attention to the bodily signals associated with hunger and fullness.
Preparing meals in advance can also help reduce mindless eating. Instead of preparing a meal at the last minute, you can plan a meal for yourself, your family, or your friends that includes all of the food groups.
Planning meals regularly helps establish a consistent eating schedule. The dishes you prepare don’t have to be elaborate. The key is to incorporate a variety of nutrients and textures. Remember to enjoy every bite!
This might seem like a simple suggestion that shouldn’t even have to be mentioned, but think about how many times you eat while you’re walking around the kitchen or focusing on another activity. It’s best to eat without distractions.
Trying to taste and identify all the different ingredients is another great way to focus on the present moment and eat mindfully.
Concentrate on all the flavors you can taste and how they interact with each other, in addition to the aromas and textures. This helps you to both appreciate your food and eat slowly. An additional advantage of this technique is that it can also help you be more creative in the kitchen.
Also, try to identify each ingredient when you have meals at restaurants. This can be a fun challenge since you didn’t prepare the dishes.
Finally, the last key for mindful eating is to eat slowly. Keep in mind that, among other benefits, eating slowly helps you to eat less during meals.
This is because the brain needs time to register that you’re eating and to communicate with your body when it’s full. In fact, it takes the brain about twenty minutes to know that it has eaten enough.
Eat slowly and listen to your body when you’re satisfied. A good idea is to try to make conversation if you’re eating with friends or family.
These mindful eating habits may help you control the amount of food you eat, lower your stress levels, and improve your digestion. |
0.998706 | Flemish Sinterklaas Influence in "Nieuw Nederland"?
Following the Dutch Calvinist Reformation the observance of saints days was outlawed in the Netherlands. This, of course, included St. Nicholas (Sinterklaas). The Calvinist "Alteration" of 1578 also outlawed public Catholic worship and confiscated the churches. It was declared illegal to observe St. Nicholas throughout the Netherlands. All of this happened before Henry Hudson set sail for the New World in 1609.
So, the Dutch entrepreneurs who came to New Netherland with the Dutch West India Company were Dutch Reformed Protestants and under Dutch law. What was outlawed in Amsterdam was outlawed in the Dutch colonies.
However, the Reformed Calvinist movement didn't touch the Flemish area that is now in Belgium. Some of the settlers in New Netherland were indeed from this Catholic area. Among these were the Loockermans. Two sisters, Annetje and Govert, along with several brothers, were from Turnhout, near Antwerp, in Belgium. Annetje married Olaf van Courtlandt and their children grew up to be prominent citizens in the colony. They included son Stephanus, the first native-born mayor of New York City, and daughter Maria, who married Jeremias van Rensselaer.
Maria and Jeremias van Rensselaer lived in Albany, where the earliest reference to Sinterklaas in colonial America is believed to be a 1675 baker's receipt from Wouter de Backer (Walter the Baker) to Maria Van Rensselaer, daughter of Annetje Lookrmans, whose background was likely Catholic, from Turnhout. Among other items, Maria purchased rusks, white bread, "koeken" (cookies) and 2 guilders, 10 stivers of "suntterclaesgoet" (Sinterklaas goods).
The receipt is from March 1675, a curious date if the items were, in fact, for celebrating Sinterklaas. Unanswered is the question whether Sinterklaas would have been widely observed in the Albany colony, or only in this family with its likely maternal Flemish Catholic influences. |
0.990657 | Retrieve the raw data used to display the information in the "Work Queue" section of ecomdash's dashboard.
An object with the raw data used to display the information in the "Work Queue" section of ecomdash's dashboard.
The "ecd-subscription-key" was found, but the company attached to it does not have a current ecomdash subscription.
The provided "ecd-subscription-key" is associated with an AppStore subscription, but the associated "application-id" header was either missing or not the same one associated with the " ecd-subscription-key".
curl -v -X GET "https://ecomdash.azure-api.net/api/Company/WorkQueue" |
0.999954 | This section will help you determine the purpose and structure of cause and effect in writing.
It is often considered human nature to ask, “why?” and “how?” We want to know how our child got sick so we can better prevent it from happening in the future, or why a colleague received a pay raise because we want one as well. We want to know how much money we will save over the long term if we buy a hybrid car, or how long we will live if we exercise daily. These examples identify only a few of the relationships we think about in our lives, but each shows the importance of understanding cause and effect.
Use the phrases of causation when trying to forge connections between various events or conditions. This will help organize your ideas and orient the reader. End your essay with a conclusion that summarizes your main points and reinforces your thesis.
Video game addition is a serious problem in many parts of the world today and deserves more attention. It is no secret that children and adults in many countries throughout the world, including Japan, China, and the United States, play video games every day. Most players are able to limit their usage in ways that do not interfere with their daily lives, but many others have developed an addiction to playing video games and suffer detrimental effects.
An addiction can be described in several ways, but generally speaking, addictions involve unhealthy attractions to substances or activities that ultimately disrupt the ability of a person to keep up with regular daily responsibilities. Video game addiction typically involves playing games uncontrollably for many hours at a time—some people will play only four hours at a time while others cannot stop for over twenty-four hours. Regardless of the severity of the addiction, many of the same effects will be experienced by all.
Another unfortunate product of the isolation that often accompanies video game addiction is the disruption of the user’s career. While many players manage to enjoy video games and still hold their jobs without problems, others experience challenges at their workplace. Some may only experience warnings or demerits as a result of poorer performance, or others may end up losing their jobs altogether. Playing video games for extended periods of time often involves sleep deprivation, and this tends to carry over to the workplace, reducing production and causing habitual tardiness.
Video game addiction may result in a decline in overall health and hygiene. Players who interact with video games for such significant amounts of time can go an entire day without eating and even longer without basic hygiene tasks, such as using the restroom or bathing. The effects of this behavior pose significant danger to their overall health. |
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