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0.990697 | The present study, we propose the recurrent network with spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) that can track a trajectory of a moving stimulus. In STDP, synaptic efficiency is changed depending on the difference of firing time between pre- and postsynaptic neurons. There are many researches about temporal information processing. In the previous study, we have shown that the recurrent network with STDP can provide spatial filtering stimulating a static input . Here we demonstrate the recurrent network with STDP can store spatiotemporal information of a stimulus.
The structure of the proposed network is 2-dimension array. A neuron in the network connects with the neighbor neurons through synapses whose changes are subjected to STDP. The learning window of STDP is applied to that found in hippocampus. We used STDP model proposed by Song and Abbott .
The left figure in Figure 1 shows a schematic image of the input. The 2-dimensional input of the network consisted of a circle that moved straightly form left to right side. The white circle in the left figure indicates stronger inputs than the others. The diameter and the center of the circle is 20 and Y = 20, respectively. The right figure in Fig. 1 indicates peri-stimulus time histogram (PSTH) of the network. Two white lines appeared on PSTH. The lines indicate higher firing rates of the neurons than those of the others. The lines correspond to edges of the moving circle (see dashed line in Fig. 1.). The lines that represented higher firing rate could be considered as the trajectory of the moving circle of the input. This result suggests that the trajectory of the moving circle is accumulated in the synaptic weights of the neurons in the network. In the other words, the network could provide storage of a trajectory of a stimulus.
The input with a moving circle and the output of the network. The left figure is schematic image of the input. The right figure indicates the firing rate of the network.
In the summary, the present study showed that the recurrent network with STDP could store a trajectory of a moving stimulus. STDP is also found in the midbrain of an electric fish. The electric fish can detect features of a moving object using electrosensory system. The object features present on the fish body surface as an electric image . The function of the network shown in the present study helps explain how the electric fish can extract information from the features of an electric image generated by a moving object. |
0.999325 | which are known as the de Moivre numbers. The notations , , and , where the value of is understood by context, are variously used to denote the th th root of unity.
is always an th root of unity, but is such a root only if is even. In general, the roots of unity form a regular polygon with sides, and each vertex lies on the unit circle. |
0.940421 | How does one troubleshoot a package sealing process to ensure that the seals are free of channels?
Package sealing processes are a critical element of any flexible packaging design and implementation project. Whether one is creating a 2D flat pouch, a flow-wrap package, a tray/lid combination, or a 3D form-fill-seal package, care must be taken to design a sealing process that is both robust and repeatable, and that produces defect-free packaging on a consistent basis. One key element of that design process is the material supplier, who will be able to recommend sealing parameters based on the material and the sealing equipment, but who will also be able to provide expertise and assistance in troubleshooting efforts should the need arise.
Besides the material supplier, another helpful resource is a document issued by ASTM International that can assist converters and OEM’s in designing and troubleshooting sealing processes. F1886/F1886M-09, Standard Test Method for Determining Integrity of Seals for Flexible Packaging by Visual Inspection, which is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F02 (Flexible Barrier Materials), provides a method for visually inspecting package seals for channel defects down to 75 mm. This document also includes Appendix X1, Visual seal appearance characteristics and probable causes. In this helpful appendix, the user will find helpful information on inspecting seals for under-sealed, unsealed, and over-sealed areas, narrow seals, channels, wrinkles, fold-overs, and cracks, and tears and pinholes. For each of these seal characteristics, guidance is provided on probable causes and potential solutions.
Another helpful resource is F2097-14, Standard Guide for Design and Evaluation of Primary Flexible Packaging for Medical Products. This guide provides directions for the design and evaluation of primary flexible packages for medical products, and specifically serves as a compendium of relevant test methods, practices, and procedures. |
0.999986 | According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for food were 756.63% higher in 2019 versus 1960 (a $378.32 difference in value).
Between 1960 and 2019: Food experienced an average inflation rate of 3.71% per year. This rate of change indicates significant inflation. In other words, food costing $50 in the year 1960 would cost $428.32 in 2019 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 3.70% during this same period, inflation for food was higher.
Therefore, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $50 in 1960 has the same "purchasing power" as $428.32 in 2019 (in the CPI category of Food). |
0.974707 | Veteran Indian activist Anna Hazare, posing after a meeting in Noida on August 2.
New Delhi (CNN) -- A veteran anti-corruption activist has been freed, hours after he and seven supporters were sent to jail for seven days by a court in New Delhi, a prison official said Tuesday.
The court had sent 72-year-old Anna Hazare and his supporters to jail because they would not sign bail bonds, said Rajan Bhagat, a police spokesman in New Delhi.
Hazare had been detained in advance of a hunger strike, for which investigators said he lacked the official permission. They also briefly detained 1,300 supporters who planned to join him at a protest site where he was to have begun his demonstration, Bhagat said.
But jail spokesman Sunil Gupta told CNN Hazare and the other seven activists had been shifted to the prison headquarters within hours of being sent to jail.
The campaigners, however, have refused to leave the prison office until their request to be allowed to hold their hunger strike without conditions unacceptable to them is met, Gupta said.
"We are conveying their demands to authorities," he said.
The release orders were issued by the same magistrate who remanded the eight activists into jail earlier in the day, Bhagat said.
Hazare's arrest triggered street demonstrations, television footage showed. Protesters waving Indian flags were seen raising pro-Hazare slogans.
Hazare conducted a five-day hunger strike in April at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar landmark, ending it only after India's prime minister agreed to introduce long-pending legislation meant to crack down on graft.
Anti-corruption campaigners have rejected legislation prepared by the federal government to create a citizen ombudsman, saying the bill, now in Parliament, was too weak to tackle endemic graft in the system.
Led by Hazare, they have been demanding a stronger institution that they say should be capable of tackling corruption Indians encounter in their daily lives.
Critics, on their part, have accused the campaigners of challenging the authority of elected legislature that has to debate and decide the proposed law.
In his remarks Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh disapproved of hunger strikes as a means to push demands.
Singh, whose government is roiled in massive corruption scandals, acknowledged in his national address to mark India's Independence Day that no single measure could handle chronic corruption.
"I believe that there is no single big step which we can take to eradicate corruption. In fact, we will have to act simultaneously on many fronts," Singh said.
Meanwhile, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters that campaigners' insistence on not accepting legislation other than their own version of the anti-corruption bill was "beyond comprehension."
"How can you indirectly endorse such an argument that it his, his bill and no other bill (which is acceptable)?" Chidambaram asked.
The home minister insisted police took Hazare into custody after the veteran activist told officers that he would "defy" orders not to hold a demonstration until he agreed to laid-out conditions.
He said Hazare and his supporters were welcome to raise their concerns with a parliamentary committee that will scrutinize the citizen ombudsman legislation before it is presented to lawmakers for a vote.
As a mark of protest, activists called upon government employees to take a day's leave in a show of solidarity with Hazare, a call the federal administration was quick to term "wrong."
"I sincerely hope that the government servants don't respond to such wrong calls," Chidambaram said. |
0.990051 | This article is about the English musical group. For the abrasive tool, see Grinding wheel.
Abrasive Wheels are a punk rock band of the late 1970s – early 1980s. They hailed from Leeds, England and were seldom out of the Independent charts between 1980 and 1984 when the band split. The band were Shonna Rzonca – vocals, Dave Ryan – guitar, Harry Harrison – bass, Nev Nevison – drums. In 2002 the singer Rzonca reformed the band with new members.
The band formed in 1976 and initially consisted of Phil "Shonna" Rzonca on vocals, Dave Ryan on guitar, Daves cousin Robert Welch on bass guitar, and Phils brother Adam Rzonca on drums. The name Abrasive Wheels was inspired by Rzonca's engineering apprenticeship, where signs stating "Danger! Abrasive Wheels!" were regularly seen. They made their first public appearance at a friend's party in 1977, which was followed by a Rock Against Racism gig at Leeds Polytechnic. They were given a support slot opening for the UK Subs in Bradford, after which Adam and Rob left the band, they made contact with Leeds-born drummer Martin Taylor who began to play drums with the band and went on to record a demo tape at September Sound studios in Huddersfield. Martin left the band after several appearances on the Slaughter and the Dogs tour support to pursue his own musical projects. At this time they employed the services of a mutual friend on Bass, eventually both were replaced by Mark Holmes and Dave Hawkridge. With this line-up the band recorded their first demo, and toured with Slaughter & the Dogs. After losing money trying to get a record released by a London label Dave and Rzonca financed their own EP, releasing it on their Abrasive Records label. Hawkridge and Holmes then left, to be replaced by "Harry" Harrison on bass and "Nev" Nevison on drums, both previously of The Urban Zones, this is considered by Rzonca to be the band's first "proper" line-up. The EP was picked up by Red Rhino distribution and soon sold out of its 3000 pressing, reaching number 35 on the UK Indie Chart. The band then signed to Riot City Records and issued the Vicious Circle EP, which was followed by a re-release of their debut EP, both again indie hits. Their debut album, When the Punks Go Marching In, was released later in 1982. They then signed to Clay Records, and released a cover version of Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock". Their second album,> Black Leather Girl was released in March 1984, displaying a much slicker and glossier sound with vocal harmonies, but after a further single, the band split later that year after a lengthy international tour.
Rzonca worked as a taxi driver before opening pizza parlours in Leeds, and working on the local market. Rzonca formed a new version of the band in 2002, with Dave, Harry and Nev, and Steve Popplewell on second guitar. Dave, Harry and Nev left after several gigs. A new album was written and recorded during this brief time but has never been released. Rzonca and Popplewell continued, recruiting Eden, Chris, and Skruff. A new album, SKuM, was released in 2009.
Recent line up changes: Skruff left the band in 2010, And following their European tour, Eden left the band in 2011. Jordan Woodhead joined on guitar in 2013 followed by Mat Black in 2014 also on guitar duties along with Lloyd Rees-Carr on drums where they then went into a process of writing & recording new songs for a new album and started to gig locally to get back onto the scene. A slot at the Rebellion Festival followed in August 2014 in front of a packed house. Jordan & Lloyd left due to conflicts within the band at the end of 2014. Stepping into the band were Mickey Waddington (who had previously taken over when Skruff left) on drums and Alex Greatrex on guitar.
When the Punks Go Marching In (inc. additional singles tracks) (2006) Captain Oi!
Black Leather Girl (inc. bonus singles tracks) Captain Oi!
The Singles Collection Captain Oi!
This page was last edited on 10 December 2018, at 14:55 (UTC). |
0.94577 | I installed jitsi from https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/debian/ but I can't seem to find it in my menu or start it from terminal. Additionally the internet seems to indicate that jitsi is at version 2-something, while the latest I can find is version 1.0-256.
Please give me Suggestions for best skype alternative?
I am not on the forum much lately, so apologize for the very late reply. You have probably solved this by now, but a couple of alternatives occur to me.
First, I use WebRTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC) based alternatives as part of my work, this includes both https://Talky.io and https://meet.jit.si. The good points: neither require installing any software (except browser extensions for screen sharing if desired), ip addresses are presumably discarded after a few days so privacy is much better, and there are mobile apps available (although Talky does seem to work without the app, at least if you have the Firefox browser in your mobile). The bad points are: the need to send e-mails (no program running in the background that you can call without prior arrangement) and having WebRTC active will reveal your true ip address, a problem if you use a VPN.
Second, you can us XMPP (Jabber) accounts with pidgin for video calls as well as messaging. If you are in contact with those using other OSs, there are clients available for XMPP, as long as they are willing to set up free XMPP accounts (https://list.jabber.at/). FYI Google Hangouts uses an "enhanced" XMPP protocol, where I believe "enhanced" simply means "in a walled garden," i.e., so it can force you to use a google account and collect your data.
Third, there is Jami (formerly GNU Ring) which uses p-to-p technology that I have found interesting (https://jami.net/) but not used. There are daemon and client (Gnome & KDE) packages available in the repositories if you search for "ring". The protocol has become sufficiently popular that there was a request a year or so ago to add a field for ring/jami addresses in the contacts of the Evolution e-mail client.
Fourth, there is now a web-based version of Skype, although I don't know much about it . . . .
Sorry for not responding sooner, but I hope this helps. For the benefit of others, let us know what you ended up doing and close this with a "solved" if you have found an alternative that works for you.
I have not tested yet, but recent Nextcloud servers provides video conferencing. |
0.967301 | Islamic literature refers to literature written with an Islamic perspective, in any language.
The most well known fiction from the Islamic world was The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), which was a compilation of many earlier folk tales told by the Persian Queen Scheherazade. The epic took form in the 10th century and reached its final form by the 14th century; the number and type of tales have varied from one manuscript to another. All Arabian fantasy tales were often called "Arabian Nights" when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any version, and a number of tales are known in Europe as "Arabian Nights" despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.
"Ali Baba" by Maxfield Parrish.
This epic has been influential in the West since it was translated in the 18th century, first by Antoine Galland. Many imitations were written, especially in France.
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran, is a mythical and heroic retelling of Persian history. Amir Arsalan was also a popular mythical Persian story, which has influenced some modern works of fantasy fiction, such as The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
A famous example of Arabic poetry and Persian poetry on romance (love) is Layla and Majnun, dating back to the Umayyad era in the 7th century. It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet, which was itself said to have been inspired by a Latin version of Layla and Majnun to an extent.
Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) and Ibn al-Nafis were pioneers of the philosophical novel. Ibn Tufail wrote the first fictional Arabic novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus) as a response to al-Ghazali's The Incoherence of the Philosophers, and then Ibn al-Nafis also wrote a fictional novel Theologus Autodidactus as a response to Ibn Tufail's Philosophus Autodidactus. Both of these narratives had protagonists (Hayy in Philosophus Autodidactus and Kamil in Theologus Autodidactus) who were autodidactic feral children living in seclusion on a desert island, both being the earliest examples of a desert island story. However, while Hayy lives alone with animals on the desert island for the rest of the story in Philosophus Autodidactus, the story of Kamil extends beyond the desert island setting in Theologus Autodidactus, developing into the earliest known coming of age plot and eventually becoming the first example of a science fiction novel.
A Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's work, Philosophus Autodidactus, first appeared in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger, followed by an English translation by Simon Ockley in 1708, as well as German and Dutch translations. These translations later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, regarded as the first novel in English. Philosophus Autodidactus also inspired Robert Boyle to write his own philosophical novel set on an island, The Aspiring Naturalist. The story also anticipated Rousseau's Emile: or, On Education in some ways, and is also similar to Mowgli's story in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as well as Tarzan's story, in that a baby is abandoned but taken care of and fed by a mother wolf.
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj (translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, "The Book of Muhammad's Ladder") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi. The Moors also had a noticeable influence on the works of George Peele and William Shakespeare. Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character. These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England at the beginning of the 17th century.
^ G. J. Toomer (1996), Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England, p. 222, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198202911.
Islamic Literature at Cornell University.
Brief article on the growth of the influence of Islamic literature in the U.S. |
0.933563 | You will be asked about your child's symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. When there is ear pain or drainage from the ear, then infection is likely to be present. If the child is too young to report pain, the doctor or nurse practitioner must rely solely on looking into the child's ear with a lighted instrument, called an otoscope. The eardrum may be red, have pus behind the eardrum, and bulge outward because the fluid behind it is under pressure. A small tube and bulb (insufflator) may be attached to the otoscope so that a light puff of air can be blown into the ear. This helps the doctor see if the eardrum is moving normally. When infection is present the eardrum is often stiffened by the presence of fluid behind it and does not move. A red, bulging drum that does not move with an air puff is a very good sign that acute otitis is present.
Unfortunately, it is often difficult to see the eardrum in very young children, and ear wax frequently makes getting a good view of the drum next to impossible. Worse, even in the absence of wax, the accurate diagnosis of middle ear infection using an otoscope is not easy. Most studies suggest that even experienced doctors may overdiagnose acute ear infections, especially if an air puff insufflator is not used. Doctors may have a particularly difficult time distinguishing between children with chronic otitis (who frequently do not need antibiotics) and those with acute otitis (for whom antibiotics are often helpful). The use of a microscope to examine the ear may also help.
Your child may be referred to a specialist for further evaluation.
Tympanometry —A soft plug is inserted into the opening of the ear canal. The plug contains a speaker, a microphone, and a device that is able to alter the air pressure in the ear canal. This allows several different measures of the middle ear and eardrum and provides important information about the condition of the ear, but it is not a hearing test.
Hearing test —A hearing test may be ordered in cases of repeat ear infections or if there are signs of hearing impairment, such as speaking in a louder voice, sitting closer to the television or turning up the volume.
Tympanocentesis —A needle is used to withdraw fluid or pus from the middle ear under local or general anesthesia. This fluid can then be cultured to determine if bacteria are present in the fluid. After the bacteria are cultured, the lab can determine which drugs are best for treatment. However, the fluid does not always have bacteria in it.
Lieberthal AS, Carroll AE, Chonmaitree T, et al. The diagnosis and management of acute otitis media. Pediatrics. 2013;131(3):e964-e999. |
0.960718 | Command & Conquer Generals 2: Is the Long Wait Finally Over?
The expansion pack received mostly positive reviews. Tiberium Wars Kane's Wrath 4: However, later games did not.
Generals - Zero Hour". Wikiquote has quotations related to: Game Over Online Magazine. Tiberian Sunreleased on August 27,takes place approximately 30 years after the events in its predecessor. For PlayStation only, there was also a separate release to the original called Red Alert: The skirmish multiplayer platform was slated for release for free around Christmaswith 'pay per play' campaign missions releasing by Q1 Articles using Infobox video game using locally defined parameters Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images.
Executive producer Chris Corry stated in a pre-release interview that Red Alert 3 will further differentiate the playable factions from each other and "[play] up the silliness in their faction design whenever possible".
The staff member also claimed that the official cancellation announcement was pre-written by higher-level staff at Electronic Arts.
Much of the music for the series was composed and produced by Westwood Studios ' former sound director and video game music composer Frank Klepacki for the early games, with composition duties being taken on by several others following the liquidation of Westwood Studios in The series is primarily developed for personal computers running Microsoft Windowsalthough some titles have been ported to various video game consoles and the Apple Macintosh.
Louis Castle has said that connecting Red Alert with the Tiberium series was a "failed experiment". Virtually every type of structure in the series acts as a tech tree node, and additional units, structures and faction-specific abilities will become available as new structures are built and placed.
After Westwood Studios developed the critically acclaimed Dune IIComputer Gaming World reported in that the company would not use 22 Dune license for Westwood's next strategy game "mostly because the programmers are tired of sand". The new studio consisted of members from the previous EA Los Angeles development team as well as some new staff members.
Rumors point to a newly reconstituted Global Liberation Army as the instigator, cojquer witnesses have described technology far beyond the reach of any normal terrorist organization. How about an Army of Two One? The music has been received positively by critics, although praise was higher with earlier entries.
Retrieved September 13, Generals — Zero Hourwas released on September 22, to further the Generals storyline.
The game's formal announcement was then teased as a game from the "next big BioWare franchise" and was due for a reveal at the Spike Video Game Awards.
Counterstrike and Red Alert: Games produced by Westwood use the proprietary Westwood Online system to facilitate multiplayer games over the Internet; Renegade also supported GameSpy.
Archived from the original on March 12, All available structures of the faction chosen by the player are constructed on-site at so-called "construction yard" - which typically begin as large-sized vehicles capable of deploying themselves into the aforementioned construction yards, called MCVs or Mobile Construction Vehicle.
Retrieved May 14, Red Alert 2 also featured two CDs that could be used for this reason.
He said "What's the name of this one? However, they are adjusted to fit each faction's theme and have somewhat varying properties. |
0.995642 | PA Setup for "In the Round"
I've recently seen a lot of groups going to an "in the round" kind of setup. The musicians are in the center all facing each other with the congregation or audience around them. I think it looks like a great way to create a more intimate atmosphere for worship. I'd really like to try it.
My question is "how do you do sound reinforcement for that?" I've done a few different searches and can't find any info on how to set up a PA properly if the group is set up in the middle. It obviously poses some complications. Have any of you done a set up like that? Do you know of any place I could find more information?
There would be some challenges. I'm not sure the 'back to the audience' part is a good thing. But it seems to be popular in certain theatre circles.
Like everything else, it comes down to the central question- how much time and money do you want to spend?
Musicians facing each other I think is a good thing for watching the leader, etc. for signals and changes. Monitoring wouldn't be too bad if you set monitors up in the center of the stage 'back to back'. Unless you are using IEM- then it doesn't matter.
The bigger challenge is the 360 degree coverage for mains. You would need to know coverage area of each speaker and you would likely have to add more mains- you'd need at least 1 in each direction (N-S-E-W) but probably closer to 6 or 8 to avoid dead spots in the 'corners'. You'd either have to hang them from the center ceiling or put them on poles that will block someone's view. |
0.999998 | Context: After his teaching on the superiority of prophecy over tongues, Paul sets down some guidelines on how the two gifts are to be used. Finally, he summarizes by reminding the Corinthians that these gifts are for edification of the church and that these gifts must be practised in an orderly fashion.
(a) Only two, or at the most three, should speak; this is most likely the limit for one service.
(b) Only one at a time can speak in an orderly way and not out of control.
(c) Someone must interpret in order to be make the tongues intelligible.
If the tongues-speakers have not experienced the gift of interpretation, and if no one with this gift is present, then they are to remain silent and should pray to God in tongues in private.
(a) Only two or three prophets should speak at one time, but there is no limit for one service, as in v.24, it is possible that all prophesy in the worship.
(b) Others need to weigh carefully what is said (using the same verb as "distinguishing between spirits" in 12:10) and to discern whether the prophecy itself truly conforms to the Spirit of God.
(c) Only one at a time can speak in an orderly way and not out of control.
"Peace" refers to the sense of harmony that will occur in a Christian assembly when everyone is truly in the Spirit and the aim of everything is the edification of the whole. It does not necessarily mean somber ritual; worshipping with spontaneity or joy can still be peaceful.
All the churches of the saints are intended to be orderly. Thus orderliness not only conforms to the character of God but also in step with the rest of his churches.
Some translations put the phrase "in all the congregations of the saints" as part of v.34. The problem is that it would then read: "As in all the churches of the saints women should remain silent in the churches" which contains a redundant phrase "in the churches".
(a) The verses apparently apply to married women alone. The possible problem is that some women were shouting out disruptive speech during worship (asking their husbands questions) in Jewish synagogue where women and men are separated into two sides.
(b) Women at that time lived most of their lives at home. Once they got outside, they had a great tendency to try to catch up on the news, even during worship. Paul asks the women simply not to chat (to "hush up", not to "shut up") as it is disruptive to the service. The Greek verb here means chatter or converse.
(c) The prohibition is against speaking tongues by women as there may be actual cases of women disrupting the assembly with tongues.
(c) the teaching is supposedly in "the Law"; yet nothing like this is in the OT, except in rabbinic Judaism.
Paul challenges whether God has given them a special word that allows them both to reject Paul's instructions and be so out of touch with the other churches.
Paul challenges the Corinthians for their perspective on spirituality; he claims that the Lord is the source of what he has been writing.
"spiritually gifted" is more accurately translated as "a person of the Spirit".
Final summary of the whole chapter: (a) reaffirming the priority of prophecy, (b) not forbidding tongues, (c) everything to be done in a fitting and orderly way.
How do we identify spiritual gifts? How do we encourage the use of spiritual gifts?
Spiritual gifts should be recognizable by the person with the gifts as well as by others. To avoid self delusion, confirmation of peers is needed.
A ministry in the church should be open to all who have related spiritual gifts and all who have a burden on that ministry. Spiritual gifts may be uncovered while serving.
Are we to apply all commands in the New Testament? How do we apply the command in v.34-35?
(a) Is the command inherently moral? Those that are inherently moral are absolute and applicable to every culture, such as the sin lists (see notes for 5:11). Those that are not inherently moral may change from culture to culture.
(b) Is there uniform witness in the Bible? If there are different positions, then the command is not absolute, e.g. eating food offered to the idols (Ac 15:29, 1Co 10:25-26).
(c) Do we share similar specific life situations? The cultural setting of Biblical passages and the intent or reason of the command must be understood, e.g. prohibitions in Ac 15:20 as a compromise to satisfy Jewish Christians.
The command in v.34-35 for women to "remain silent" contradicts 1Co 11:2-16 where women were allowed to pray and prophesy in the assembly. Further, "each one" in v.26 and "all" in v.31 should include women. Thus, there is no uniform witness and this is definitely not an absolute command.
God gives spiritual gifts of teaching and leadership to some women (Ac 2:16-17), and spiritual gifts are given solely for the benefit of the church (1Co 12:7, Eph 4:11-12). If it is not to be used in church, why did God give those gifts to women? If God intends the gifts to be used in church, how then can the church prohibit its use?
The source of the Bible is God (v.37). The serious consequence of not recognizing this (v.38) should prompt us to accept the authority of the Bible.
How we worship reflects the character of our God (v.33). Our God is a God of order and peace. Our worship should reflect this order and peace and allow each one to feel the presence of God. |
0.889822 | Can a sprint span multiple projects?
I'm interested in using Gemini at my company, but we can't use it if sprints are treated as a project version - which is the case for many issue trackers that I've encountered. We have a team of people that work on multiple projects during each sprint. A sprint is a unit of time, during which each person can schedule and work on tasks during that time. We'd like to do moving items from the backlog, scrum board manipulation, time-tracking, burn-downs, and burn-ups within a single team sprint across all projects.
From a product standpoint, it would be ideal if a sprint is defined as a period of time for a group of people to get work done across any projects. That way multiple teams within a company could have their own sprints (possibly on different schedules) and separate burn-downs. Whether a project version is completed during a sprint is a decision made by people working on the sprint.
If this approach is feasible with Gemeni, I'm very interested. Otherwise, please let me know if + when this approach to scheduling and working is supported.
Currently a sprint is per project, we are looking to introduce sprints that will belong to multiple projects in Q4 this year. However, you could use components to breakdown the project to sub-project thus having sprints that span sub-projects.
Also, I'm assuming this wouldn't be easy for me to code on my own as an add-in or extension, if it won't be out until Q4. But if it would be possible, please let me know.
Alternatively, could I use a custom field to indicate sprint, and use all the milestone/planning/burndown functionality against that field? I assume not.
No, you won't be able to have version per sub project (component) or do the sprint against a custom field. |
0.999747 | 3.In the square below, numbers have been filled according to some rule. One square has been left blank. Find the correct number to be filled in the blank square from amongst the given options.
4. In a class, 6 students can speak gujarati, 15 can speak Hindi and 6 can speak Marathi. If two students can speak two languages and one student can speak all the three languages, then how many students are there in the class?
6.A person is to go up a tree 60ft high. In every second, he climbs 5ft but slips 4ft. After how many seconds, will he be able to touch the top of the tree? |
0.896402 | Watford manager Javi Gracia kept scratching his head about why referee Craig Pawson dismissed Troy Deeney in the 1-0 defeat to Arsenal.
Hornets's captain was red on the Vicarage Road after 11 minutes after Lucas Torreira challenged the ball, putting a terrible two minutes ahead of the hosts who had just conceded a mistake by Ben Foster to score Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Foster delayed the ball after a backward pass by Daryl Janmaat, which allowed Aubameyang to close him and divert the keeper's walk to the back of the net.
That was enough for the Gunners, who returned to the Premier League Premier this season after a first clear clear round.
Pawson & # 39; s decision was made with the help of the linesman and from repetitions Deeney's forearm appeared to make contact with the Spaniard's face.
Nevertheless, Gracia was surprised to see the official red card swing.
& # 39; I disagree, but I respect the referee's decision, & # 39; said Gracia. & # 39; It might be a yellow card, but a red card? I don't understand why the referee did it.
& # 39; I prefer not to talk about that alone. He (Deeney) doesn't have to explain anything to me, I could see the piece and I could see the contact with his arm, but never with his elbow.
& # 39; What can I say? I don't understand the decision, but we respect it. We tried to look up the resolution.
& # 39; There is a contact but it is not with his elbow, it is with his arm or hand, I do not know which part exactly.
Despite the fact that they played with a man less for nearly 80 minutes, Watford set up a nice screen and was unlucky not to have to take a point at least.
They hit twice the woodwork, by Craig Cathcart and Adam Masina, while Gunner's goalkeeper Bernd Leno made some nice saves.
& # 39; We fought very well with 10 players and today my players don't deserve to talk about the result alone, & # 39; Gracia added.
Arsenal manager Unai Emery assumed an attitude to which his predecessor, Arsene Wenger, was famous, claimed not to see Deeney's red card, nor did he reveal what Deeney said to him on his way to the dressing room.
Emery said: & He said something to me, I can't say because I don't know. I answered him, I don't know.
& # 39; I have not seen it and I respect the referee's decision. It is clear that it helped us with this decision because it was harder to play for them with one less player.
& # 39; But our goal gave us the benefit and helped us gain more control over the game.
& # 39; But we didn't do everything we wanted to do. But we can be happy with the result, because coming here is difficult.
& # 39; The result gave us the opportunity to continue our way and be consistent in the table.
& # 39; The three points are the most important today, but we have worked to be consistent in our structure, in defending the long ball and the set pieces, because they are a very strong team that does that. |
0.999997 | Oi, senhor, você está procurando por um relógio que lhe dê um tempo preciso, enquanto isso acrescenta mais charme a você? Eu estou feliz em dizer que aqui é este Relógio Mecânico Auto Masculino GUANQIN. Um relógio mecânico não é apenas um relógio, mas também uma busca por qualidade de vida. É meu grande prazer trazer este relógio sofisticado e elegante para você. Design requintado e excelente relógio, acredito que merece ser valorizado.
-Movimentos mecânicos automáticos com alta qualidade , garantem tempo altamente preciso, não precisam de bateria, são ecologicamente corretos.
-Com uma mini janela para exibir a data e o dia , não é mais necessário deslizar o telefone para verificar a agenda, o que é conveniente para sua vida diária.
-Ponteiro luminoso , faz com que a escuridão não seja um problema para você verificar o tempo mais.
-Espelho Hardlex , resistente a arranhões e resistente ao calor, também oferece uma visão altamente transparente.
-Contracapa transparente , não é apenas um design de moda, mas também a confiança pela nossa qualidade.
-30m de resistência à água , protege o seu relógio de respingos e chuva, conveniente para a sua vida diária, exceto para natação e sauna, etc.
-Pulseira de couro genuíno de qualidade , confortável de usar e durável em uso, proporciona uma experiência de uso fantástica.
My first order from the Gearbest (ordered on 17th of january, picked up at the post office today - excellent delivery time!) and I'm already impressed with the product I received. Very beautiful and high-quality watch that I ordered during the Flash Sale and with discount coupon, for the price of 45$. What I got for that price was a japanese Miyota movement, smooth running hands, presumably sapphire crystal - even clasp on the watch is beautiful and mint. These new versions are exclusively coming with Miyota instead of previous Seiko movement, I've been following reviews closely, so I noticed that all recent reviewers mentioned they've got this movement. Another new update is the artificial sapphire (maybe other artificial blue mineral, but let's say sapphire) on the crown. Dimensions are nice, not small, but not too big and design is excellent. I ordered this as a gift for someone and that person is very in love with this watch and also complimented the legibility of this watch. Overall, seeing this watch in person and not on some popular YouTube video is something entirely different and unique new experience, definitely recommend checking out this piece in person. Someone suggested making two versions of this watch - Guanqin GJ16034S (S standing for Seiko movement) and GJ16034M (M standing for Miyota movement) and I have to agree - if there was an option to choose the Seiko version, I would ordered this version as well! Another thing someone mentioned is variations of the dial in terms of colour, which would be also nice - maybe something like smaragd green or sapphire blue would be interesting. Also, I think jubilee style bracelet with some colour variations would compliment silver-dialed version beautifully. Still, very nice package and very nice watch - beautiful gift to make someone happy without breaking the bank.
Regardless of which movement you get, this watch is awesome.
So it looks like Guanqin has been shifting their production on this watch, and some people are getting a Seiko NH36A hacking/handwinding movement, while others are getting a Miyota movement that is slightly louder and that doesn't hack. I guess I was lucky because mine came with the NH36A which I'm happy about, but honestly there's a lot more to this watch than the movement, and even if you get the Miyota it's still an incredible watch for the money.Also, of note, mine came with a 20mm band, rather than 18mm as the description says (and I'm happy about that as I prefer a 20mm). Also mine has a sapphire crystal, which wasn't clearly stated in the description.In addition to a great Japanese movement, and sapphire crystal, you're getting a really unique design, a stainless steel case, applied indices, a gorgeous sunburst dial, and a really cool faceted bezel that is subtle but adds a lot to this watches character.The lume on the hands only lasts a few minutes before fading to almost nothing, but on a dress watch I see any lume as sort of a bonus. At first I wasn't enthralled with the hands, they seem to be more appropriate for something like an aviation watch, but they are starting to grow on me, and I think they add a little more character to the watch. The leather strap is cheap, but sufficient, and given the standard 20mm size it can be easily swapped out. The deployant clasp is another outstanding addition that many watches that cost three or four times as much as this one don't throw in. The clasp feels sturdy and secure, however it's slightly less comfortable than a standard clasp. I might get used to it, but it's something to note.All in all I concur with the multitude of reviews out there that praise this watch. I'm incredibly happy with it, especially at the price I paid.
Best Watch Deal on the Internet. By Far.
The Guanqin 16034 is not just the best bargain I've come across in years, it's simply one of the best purchases I've made in a long time. From the faceted bezel (each facet is one hour), to the sunburst dial to the NH35 movement, to the sapphire crystal. I'm honestly taken aback by the quality and value here.This was my first Chinese market purchase. I had heard horror stories of cheap crap passed off as somthing else, of people getting swindeled, etc... I bought this and the black ceramic bezel Cadisen for less than the cost of an SKX and figured, what the hell? I am VERY glad I did. Both watches are good bargains, but his Guanqin is by far the better watch. If you were like me, deciding between the two, get this one. (Or both like I did!)Unlike my Cadisen each of the spear point indices are perfectly applied. As far as build quality goes, I have exactly nothing to complain about. The band? Well. You know. It's a $50 watch, but, that said, the butterfly clasp works just fine. If I had one wish for this watch it would be 20mm lugs because the 18s make the face look just a little teeny bit too big. But thats me really digging for a drawback.Besides that one quibble my only other wish for this piece would be this: MORE STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM. I got the silver. Make this dial in a sun burst blue, I'll buy it. Make it in green. I'll buy it.Purchase with confidence.
L´orologio nero, ha la faccia in un nero senza specchiatura della Luce. E molto facile da Leggere grazie alle due grandi lancette in bianco. Gli indici sono splendenti e si fanno notare appena gli cade un filo di Luce sopra. Il movimento e di qualitá indiscussa, proviene dalle officine di SII (TMI Seiko) e si lascia caricare con il movimento del polso oppure con la corona. Se si vuole spostare le lancette il movimento si ferma escludendo ogni imprecisione durante la messa a punto del l'orologio. Essendo un movimento automatico, prima di fermare l'orologio per muovere le lancette o cambiare la data ci si deve assicurare che lo si fa tra le 4 antepomeridiane e le 20 pomeridiane. O basta spostare le lancette nei due quadranti in basso vicino al 6, poi cambiare la data e impostare in seguente la ora attuale. E una regola comuna a tutti gli orologi Seiko, forse di tutti gli orologi automatici con rotore. Il cinturino e buono, ma se si vuole si puo cambiare con un altro di proprio gusto. Deve avere 20 mm di larghezza. E un prodotto buonissimo. Consigliatissimo. Bravissimo Guanqin.
Heard some good things about Guanqin pieces so decided to pull the trigger and pick one up for myself. First of all, it was an absolute steal. With discount codes, it worked out at £33 which is superb. The watch looks great. Lovely dial, numerals and the case is gorgeous. My pieces contains a Citizen Miyota movement which is very noisy. I was hoping for the Seiko but I think it’s pot luck to which one you actually receive. Obviously it keeps great time. Open case back which is a nice touch for this price point. The strap is okay quality- nothing spectacular. I’ve changed it out for a steel mesh one which I think suits the watch. Great watch for the money and I highly recommend picking one up.
Item shipped very fast, packed in box and bubble envelope. Quality is amazing, so far Seiko NH36A movement is loosing only 7sec a day. I did water test on crystal and It seems to be a sapphire. Dial is pretty with sunburst effect. Leather strap is better than I thought it would be, nice quality and comfortable.I have bought it on promotion for 42$ and for that price it's just amazing. There is a youtuber that moded this watch a little by changing hands and using a nato strap, looks even better.Cons:Lume on hands is terrible, like it's not even present. But since it's a dress watch it's ok.
Orologio automatico arrivato in tempi previsti quindi nulla da dire sulla spedizione. Per quanto riguarda il prodotto in sè sembra essere di ottima fattura: nessuna lancetta storta, quadrante interno al punto giusto e funzionamento come da descrizione ovvero automatico. Nessun problema neanche con il settaggio della data, ora-minuti e giorno. Il cinturino in pelle non è duro come quelli degli orologi da pochi euro che sembrano fatti di carta ma al contrario qui è morbido come dovrebbe essere ed anche piacevole al tatto.L'unico problema sta nel metodo di chiusura del cinturino il quale è ben fatto ma troppo macchinoso e non si adatta ad un orologio classico ed elegante come questo.
Guanqin has been shifting their production on the Guanqin 16034 watch, and some people are getting a Seiko NH36A movement, while others are getting a Miyota 8205 movement.Miyota has no hand second stop and one way rotor (very loud). Seiko NH36a is much better.I got unfortunatelly Miyota.To be honest even with Miyota 8205 is very good watch under 50 USD.But is not fair from Guanqin. On the pictures on gearbest is Seiko NH36a and I expected Seiko.It was very important for me.Producer should have 2 models - Guanqin 16034 S for Seiko model and Guanqin 16034 M for Miyota model. |
0.934187 | As a married couple, are we better off filing for taxes "jointly" or "separately"?
Only under very rare circumstances will filing your taxes as "Married filing separately" gives you a better tax result. There may be other non-income tax reasons (such as trying to avoid a deficiency liability of the other spouse) but these non-income tax reasons should be considered with an attorney.
Just because you file one way one year does not mean you must file the same way in the following year. The decision to file as "Married filing separately" or "Married filing jointly" can be made on a year-to-year basis.
What does "Married filing separately" mean?
In community property states (such as, Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin) wages earned by each spouse are considered earned and reported one-half by each spouse.
In non-community property states wages are considered earned by the spouse working.
For example, assume you made $50,000 in wages and your spouse made $10,000 in wages. In community property states, if you filed as "Married filing separately," the wages for each of you are divided in half and allocated one-half to each spouse—$30,000 ($25,00 plus $5,000) is considered earned, and it's taxed to each of you.
However, if you're filing "Married filing separately" in a non-community property state, you would be taxed on $50,000 and your spouse would be taxed on $10,000.
No matter whether you're filing in a community property state or a non-community property state, joint sources of income, such as interest income and capital gains that are owned together by you and your spouse, and joint expenses, such as mortgage interest, property taxes and dependent care deductions that relate to jointly owned property, are considered made and reported one-half by each spouse.
In contrast, assume you have a separate bank account that has never been mixed up with jointly owned money. Interest earned in this separate account is taxed entirely to you if you're either in a community property state or a non-community property state and you're filing "Married Filing Separately".
Also, perhaps you own the home (from before marriage or merely bought and paid for on your own). If you pay the mortgage and property taxes on that separate property, then all of the deductions will go directly to you, if you're either in a community property state or a non-community property state and you're filing "Married Filing Separately".
The IRS knows that strategies can be developed to take advantage of allocating income and/or deductions to one particular spouse, so the IRS has revised the income tax brackets for those filing as "Married filing separately" to make it less appealing.
Again, only under very rare circumstances will you find that filing "Married filing separately" gives you a better tax result. These rare circumstances generally involve one spouse having a disproportionate amount of "unreimbursed employee business expenses" or medical expenses. Under these circumstances it may be beneficial to file "Married filing separately," since limitations on these expenses are based on adjusted gross income. By virtue of reducing adjusted gross income to one person, deductions may increase for that person because limitations decrease.
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0.997476 | The Oregon spotted frog is named for the characteristic black spots that cover its head, back and legs. The frog is a highly aquatic species, inhabiting areas of wetlands and rarely emerging onto land. The historic range of the Oregon Spotted Frog has been reduced by up to 90 percent, leaving reduced and genetically isolated populations that are particularly vulnerable to human activity, disease, predation and climate change. The USFWS listing alleges that frog habitat is impacted or destroyed by human activities that result in the loss of wetlands, hydrologic changes, reduced water quality and the alteration of native vegetation. The USFWS has determined that imminent threats place the frog at risk of becoming in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Oregon spotted frogs occur in lower elevations in British Columbia and the State of Washington. In Washington, populations occur in Whatcom, Skagit, Thurston , Skamania and Klickitat counties. In Oregon, spotted frogs have a very limited distribution west of the Cascade range and are considered to have been extirpated in the Willamette Valley. In western Oregon, the spotted frog is restricted to a few lakes in the upper watersheds of the McKenzie and Middle Fork of the Willamette River. Generally, spotted frogs in the State of Oregon are found in higher elevation areas of Jackson, Lane, Deschutes, Crook, Wasco and Klamath counties. The Oregon spotted frog is found in or near a perennial body of water, such as a spring, pond, lake, sluggish stream, irrigation canal or roadside stream. The frog breeds in shallow pools that are near flowing water, or which are connected to larger bodies of water during seasonally high water or at flood stage. Vegetation must be low or sparse in areas where eggs are laid, with full sun exposure as a significant factor in the selection of egg laying habitat. Frogs are not typically found under a full forest canopy. |
0.978887 | You need to correctly identify and describe elements of the mise en scene and the cinematography. Aim to notate every shot type and camera movement. Describe the mise en scene early in the analysis and note any significant changes as the scene progresses. Think about how these elements work together. As you move through the scene, you should be able to make interpretive claims in addition to your descriptive analysis. In my example, I note the significance of the repetition of the same shot sequence to introduce the prisoner and then the guard.
In the final note, make a longer comment about the significance of the scene as a whole and how the formal elements (of mise en scene and cinematography) contribute to the meaning and emotional effect of the scene. If your clip is longer than required, you may choose a stopping point after the 2-minute mark that makes sense (as I did) as a point of closure.
Meet the minimum with little analysis for a C. You may also receive a C if you provide interpretive analysis but miss some key elements of cinematography or mise en scene.
If you do not meet the requirements, you will receive a D or an F. This would be an annotated video that misses many elements that you should be able to identify and/ or provides little to no interpretive claims.
The Polar Express has been one of the most watched films of the previous decade. This movie features two kids who dreamt of being on a train trip to the North Pole to go visit Santa's workshop. While this is indeed a movie to watch, the focus of this article would be a 2-minute clip that shows a scene where the train got off its tracks due to the freezing of the lake where the tracks go through. During this particular scene, the protagonists barely saved the train and made their way out of the lake to continue on this journey. By looking at this film's particular mise-en-scene it shows how each individual frame was strategically utilized by Zemeckis, to show the intensity of the happenings.
In the beginning of the scene (0:03), the director utilized an over the shoulder shot to show the conductor's perspective as they see the ice cracking. In the next frame (0:06), the conductor was then portrayed to give instructions to the train's driver. In this particular frame, the director framed the conductor with the opening of the train above. The lighting in this frame shows a combination of the color of the flame from the chamber and a dark background. The combination of both of these elements let the viewers know how tiny the individual is as compared to the predicament that they're in. This combination would be repeatedly utilized throughout the whole film. |
0.928162 | Write a humorous limerick on a topic related to occupational health & safety.
A limerick is a humorous verse of 5 lines, in which the 1st, 2nd and 5th lines rhyme with each other, and the 3rd and 4th lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet (A, A, B, B, A).
Limerick must be submitted to hwce@uiowa.edu by 5 pm Feb 24, 2017.
The top 5 limericks will be posted to Facebook for public voting (via 'likes') Monday, March 6th through 12pm on Friday, March 10th. The limerick with the most Facebook likes will win a pot' o gold & bragging rights for the year!
Healthier Workforce Center members and their families are not eligible for the prize.
These are not the names of far-off cities or trending pop singers. Balacet, Opana and Kadian are closer than you’d think. They are names for three commonly prescribed opioids, and contribute to a growing epidemic of prescription opioid abuse in the United States.
Drug overdoses now kill an average of 46 people each day in the United States, outpacing deaths caused by car accidents. It is estimated that 23% of the U.S. workforce has used prescription drugs non-medically. Workers in the construction industry are at an even higher risk of abusing opioids. A recent study found that opioid utilization is consistently 5-10 percent higher in construction than all other industries.
Injured workers who are prescribed one opioid have average total claim costs nearly four times greater than workers who were not prescribed opioids.
Receiving more than a one-week supply of opioids soon after an injury doubles a worker's risk of disability one year later.
State court decisions have found employers and worker's compensation insurers financially responsible when an injured worker who is prescribed painkillers fatally overdoses.
What can you do to protect your team & your business from the opioid epidemic?
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0.99787 | It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine what stones, according our modern understanding, are meant by the Hebrew names of the twelve stones the breattplate. The aproach the ancients took to naming stones was to treat color as the principal property. The modern approach is generally to name stones according to their composition. Thus "sapphire" may have meant, to the ancients, any of a number of blue stones, while today it refers to gems of the mineral corundum, regardless of color<unless they are red, in which case they are called "rubies").
There are so many different accounts now given of what the twelve stones are, it is hopeless to try to sort them all out. If one begins, however, from the belief that the names and descriptions of the stones given in the Writing are Divinely inspired, and not simply Swedenborg's 18th century understanding then much progress can be made. One then assumes, for instance, that if the Arcana uses the word "sapphire" for what is called "sapphire" in the Hebrew, then the blue stone referred to in the Word is, after all, the same as the modern sapphire.
The first step in identifying the stones of the breastplate is to be clear about the names. Examining the charts of Latin and English translations, we find that three of the names are consistent throughout (with some minor variations in spelling): topaz, sapphire, and agate, with amethyst almost as clear. "Sapphire" has been carried right over from the Hebrew, while "topaz," "agate," and "amethyst" all reflect the Greek of the Septuagint version (LXX). These names are the most straight-forward and certain.
Clearly if one simply transliterates the Hebrew words, there can be no argument about the names, but only about what they mean. In the Arcana, we ha besides "sapphire," three other names carried over directly from Hebrew, the stones of the last row: tarshish, schoham, and jasper.
For the remaining five stones, to find the names used in the Arcana, we must turn to the later Latin and English translation. Three of these last five are used in Schmidius (1696) and can be found as early as Treme11ius (1579): Chrysoprase, diamond, and cyanus. Two others turn up in the Geneva Bible (l579): Ruby and Carbuncle.
Ruby The Hebrew word translated as ruby is "Odhem," which is a Hebrew word for red (from which the word for ground and the names "Adam" and "Edom" also derive). "Ruby" has the same role in English: it means the premire red stone. All commentator seem to agree that the first stone must be red. But they differ as to which red stone is meant. Many call the first "sardius," the modern meaning for which is a species of red cryptocrystal1ine quartz. The Writings call one of the twelve foundations of the Holy City "sardius," but the term is not used for the any of the stones on the breastplate. The Word Explained specifically states that the name of the first stone is "translated by others, though wrongly, a 'sardius' (WE 4845). The is nothing in the Writings to suggest that we should not accept this judgement. However, the Word Explained allows that the first stone is either ruby or pyrope (this name deriving from the Greek word for fire and commonly regarded as a kind of garnet). The Arcana (and the corresponding treatment in AE) holds to the ruby identification, but TCP 218 agrees with the Schmidius terminology in calling i a pyrope. This does not force one to identify the stone as garnet, however.
The term pyrope could be applied to the ruby by way of emphasizing its fiery appearance. It would not make sense the other way about, however, applying as plain a term as "ruby"(plain at least by the time the Writings were written) to garnet. The most satisfactory choice for the first stone is "ruby" as it is understood in its modern sense(red corundum).
Topaz While there is little argument as to the name, there is great uncertainty as to the meaning. Most authorities suggest that the ancients did not have modern topaz in mind when they used the term, but rather what we now call chrysolite or peridot. The Arcana says that the derivation of the Hebrew is not clear, but some commentators relate it to the Sanskrit word for yellow, which would suggest modern topaz(usualiy golden) as opposed to peridot (1ight green). That Swedenborg was thinking in terms of the modern meaning is evident in the Word explained were he says that topaz "is of a pale or bright yellow color"(WE 4845). This makes it al1 the more surprising when the Arcana says that the first row of the breastplate was of red stones and more specifical1y of the name in Hebrew "that it was from flaming red color is probable" (AC 9865e). However, although modern topaz is usually golden, it also occurs in shades of red. Recognizing that Swedenborg was aware of what stone is referred to by the modern term "topaz," the most satisfactory choice for the second stone is topaz, but of a reddish cast.
Carbuncle The Hebrew word here, as noted in the Arcana<9866) derives fron a root that means "flashing." The most frequent identification of this stone in the versions is as "smaragdus", that is to say,"emerald." This is accepted without question in the Word Explained(4845), to the point of speaking of its green color, but then is definitely cast aside in the Arcana. Not only is it included in the first(red) row and called a "carbuncle," it is further said that the flashing implied by its name is "flashing as from fire." The word "carbuncle" is from the Latin for "little coal," suggesting a glowing red stone. The most satisfactory choice for this stone, as named in the Arcana, is red garnet (the stone generally meant by carbuncle).
Chrysoprase This is the stone that most traditions call the "carbuncle" or "ruby." The use of the term "chrysoprase" is surprising in the Arcana, not only for this reason, but also because the three stones of the second row are supposed to be "blue which is from red," while chrysoprase is, by definition, green quartz. That Swedenborg was not ignorant of this is again confirmed by the Word Exp1ained (4847), which not only mentions its green color, but also suggests that perhaps on a gold background the green would appear blue. Despite the green color, it is clear that the intended and most satisfactory choice for the fourth stone is chrysoprase.
Sapphire There is no doubt that this is from a Hebrew word meaning a blue stone. Its color is compared to that of the sky in Exodus 24:10, which is cited by the Arcana as evidence of its blue color. Some commentators suggest that the ancient sapphire was lapis lazuli, which identification seems almost certain in Pliny. But because the Writings hold to the term sapphire, apparently in its modern sense and because the modern sapphire is the premier blue stone, therefore it would seem the most satisfactory choice for the fifth stone.
MN: "Some rede a carbuncle" |
0.990403 | (Solved) Firms need to develop approaches to address social pressure from activist groups. Discuss.
Firms need to develop approaches to address social pressure from activist groups. Discuss.
In dealing with activist organizations, firms take a number of approaches. Some ignore the issues and the activists in the hope that their interest will wane or that they will fail to generate broader support. First, a company must assess its positioning and any possible private politics challenges to that position. This assessment begins by answering the question of what is demanded of the firm by the activists and, more importantly, by the public. The next step is to assess vulnerability to a private politics campaign. This involves assessing not only the firm's own vulnerability but also the vulnerability of those in its value chain. It is also important to assess the extent of public support for the activists' agendas. This depends on the issue as well as the public. If a company is potentially vulnerable, the next step is to consider whether it is possible to forestall a possible campaign through self-regulation, by working with cooperative NGOs, or by making public commitments to new policies. Interacting with a cooperative NGO can provide benefits, particularly when the group has expertise. When a firm is challenged by an activist group or NGO, the specific issues of concern must be evaluated. Often the issues generated by activists and interest groups are early in their life cycles, and thus firms have an opportunity to affect their progress. The next step involves identifying other potentially interested parties and assessing how likely they are to become active on the issue. In the case of a boycott, the firm must assess whether customers and the public are likely to be aware of the issue and sympathetic to the position of the activists.
Determining the most effective strategy requires understanding the nature and strength of the activists, the concerns that motivate them, the likelihood of media coverage, the likely support for the issue among consumers and the public, how much harm the activist could cause, how central the issue is to their agenda, and whether they are led by professionals or amateurs. Professionals are more difficult to co-opt, but they may be more practical as well. With limited resources, activists and interest groups must determine which issues to address, and they may abandon an issue that appears to be unwinnable or requires too much of their available resources. When confronted with private nonmarket action, a natural reaction is to be defensive. A better response is to evaluate the claims and demands made by the activists and determine whether they have merit. If the interactions with an activist group reach the point of bargaining over the resolution of the issue, a firm must assess the benefits and costs of alternative resolutions. It is also important to determine how an agreement will be monitored and how misunderstandings that might subsequently develop will be resolved. A firm must also assess whether its competitors will follow suit or whether the playing field will become uneven. Many firms prefer that the playing field be level with their competitors adopting the same policies for dealing with the issue. In cases where the stakes are high and monitoring of the firm's actions is difficult, the parties may require more than a simple agreement. The demands made in a campaign often are unreasonable or too costly to meet, and firms resist or fight back. Some firms decide that they will agree to disagree with the activist and bear whatever pressure the activist can muster. Most firms, however, prefer to negotiate rather than become engaged in a protracted confrontation that could attract the attention of the media, the public, and government officials.
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How do social issue organizations differ from activist groups?
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0.952117 | TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless N Nano USB Adapter - Wireless Network Adapters - Reviews - Memory Express Inc.
D/C's all the time. Have to unplug and replug to get working, sometimes they just stop working completely.
We purchased about 6 of these, they usually plugged in ok and started to work, then over a bit of time (months) they kept having issues where they lost connection or had an exclamation mark on the WiFi connecting. Had to unplug and replug them in, release/renew ip, different things like that. Usually got them working again but over about 6 months we had so many issues with them we got rid of them all now. Some stopped connecting completely. We use UNIFI WAPS at most our locations, not sure if they were incompatible but it seemed like a cheap adapter issue to me..
Small, inexpensive and worked out of the box.
Plugged it in, ran the setup CD and connected to my wifi network @ 150 Mbps.
I am receiving 47mbps on average and I'm a bit away from my router. I am satisfied with the results! This product was much cheaper than anything else on the market when I purchased it. I would recommend it for the budget conscious or anyone that doesn't require the fastest connection! Gets the same rating as my i7 laptop.
Could be faster but it also could be pricier. Happy with the purchase!
So far connection has been very stable with no issues, have been using for 6 months so far. Even playing games online has been surprisingly stable, minuscule issues, which could also be router related. It is USB so reliability will no doubt be slightly lower then a PCI card, but I have yet to find any issues. Drivers are simple, insert disc and select the right one between the 2. If you can't do that, maybe you should just hire someone to do it for you. The disc contains everything you need.
Its cheap and easy to install.
Horrible range and awful speeds.
What are these reviews talking about?
I was cautious in picking this up because the reviews said it was difficult to use and useless. I plugged it into my win 10 desktop and waited 3 seconds and I was able to connect. No drivers or anything needed.
Need to install drivers, if you don't a optical drive you need to download the software somewhere and put it on a USB Flash drive. Sometimes it goes off and need to put it on another port. I am not sure if it is the router or just a bad time, usually goes back on anyways, annoying if you are doing a live programs, like games and such.
Save your money, not worth buying. |
0.817423 | As Britain continues to bask in the summer sunshine most people will find time to enjoy the balmy weather. But they should spare a thought for one man who must battle against the heat at the end of a 2,500mile run.
Former Navy sailor Sam Boatwright will cover the equivalent of nearly two marathons today – an astonishing feat he has completed every day for the past 49 days.
'I'm setting off earlier in the morning because of the heat,' the 29-year-old told Mail Online.
Starting his endurance challenge in Blackpool back on April 6th, Sam has run for nine hours burning every day.
His run has taken him around the whole of Britain's coastline from the Scottish highlands to St Ives in Cornwall, with his trusty white backup van bringing up the rear. However, he reveals that he almost threw in the towel before he had barely started.
'The second day was the toughest ever, he said.
'My body ached from head to toe and was going into shock due to my stupidity on the first day.
'I hadn't eaten and ran with only one break – it nearly broke me. But a message from my brother kept me going.
Now Mr Boatwright has a more sensible eating regime. He starts the day with poached eggs on toast and a cup of coffee and snacks on a flapjack and jelly babies mid morning. Lunch is a wrap or two bananas while dinner tends to be a high-calorie three-course Italian meal. He certainly needs the energy as he is burning up to 6,000 calories a day.
What make this more surprising is he insists he is not a natural runner at all.
'Last December I was a 14.5st rugby player and I had never run a competitive race in my life,' he said.
Mr Boatwright is using his personal mission to fundraise for the military charity Help for Heroes and hopes to raise 20,000.
'There are ex service men on my rugby team and a couple who are about to go into the army,' he said.
'One thing that has been keeping me going are the messages from wounded service men and women.
'I think about my 50 days of pain then compare it to what they've been going through.
He said social media had proved a Godsend in providing him with continuous support throughout his 50-day ordeal. The Celebrity comedian John Bishop, who completed his own endurance challenge for Sport Relief, is backing Mr Boatwright on Twitter while his Facebook page has more than 3,000 supporters.
He said during his run he has been struck by the 'kindness of strangers' on the road, from the group of army lads he met in Barnstaple to the countless drivers around the UK who have pulled up and donated money.
'I'm still amazed at people's generosity everyday,' he said on his blog.
To combat the mental exhaustion he broke down the run in his mind into more manageable chunks.
'I broke the time down into smaller goals,' he said.
Despite undertaking extensive training for the challenge the qualified personal trainer is also experiencing the severe wear and tear of two months hard-graft.
'My feet are a mess, bruised and battered from 50 days on the road' he admitted.
Once he finishes today's run he only has a few more miles to go before he crosses the finish line in his hometown of Skipton in North Yorkshire tomorrow lunchtime.
Remarkably though, Mr Boatwright isn't keen to finish, although he says he is looking forward to seeing his friends and family as well as his dog.
'I feel slightly sad that it's coming to an end,' he said. |
0.938204 | How would you explain what a homogenous mixture is to a 5th grader? Use as many vocabulary words as possible.
A homogeneous mixture is when you mix 2 or more things together. You can be 2 types of homogeneous mixtures; a solution or a colloid. A solution is made up of a solute and a solvent. A solvent dissolves the solute. The solute is what is being dissolved. An example is sugar water. Sugar is the solute and water is the solvent. If you are not a solution you are a colloid. A colloid is a mixture of 2 or more substances but you cannot pass light through it. An example of a colloid is milk or soy sauce.
Draw an example for each section.
In complete sentences describe why the example is a solution colloid or suspension.
Finish you Solution - Colloid - Suspension poster.
TURN IN ALL YOUR WORK! |
0.967433 | List of tools integrating with Galaxy (like BioMart, GO or Refinery) ?
Question: List of tools integrating with Galaxy (like BioMart, GO or Refinery) ?
I recently started a project that uses a Galaxy instance to run a number of workflows and I want to look into expanding its resources/uses. For that reason I am looking for tools that integrate with Galaxy (like BioMart, GO, Refinery). Is there a list of such resources available somewhere and if not, could anyone suggest some of those tools? Thanks a lot in advance!
Tools under "Get Data" at https://usegalaxy.org are a starting place.
Others can be found by searching in the tool panel - some use indexed files, but others work directly with external sources. Examples: NCBI SRA Tools, SnpEff available databases/Download.
For others available in the wider community, you can look in the Tool Shed (http://usegalaxy.org/toolshed).
I do not know of a comprehensive, curated list of external sites that all tools directly interact with. This could be a useful resource, but the downside is that it could get outdated quickly as new tools are created and older tools deprecated (and might be why such a list does not exist already). Tools are developed by the wider community and do not require review to be published in the Tool Shed. They must simply meet the technical requirements of an intact repository. This is by design to allow open-source publishing without excessive hurdles.
In general, the more downloads, the more successful/popular the tool is, which is a type of community vetting. And if a tool is found on a public server, it was almost certainly reviewed by the server owners for quality/usability. Some groups that publish tools have published coding standards and other guidelines (standard ways of designing tool tests, help sections, form design, and the like), but that does not by any means indicate that tools contributed by individuals independently are not as "good". A repository that is marked as "valid" does indicate that a tool includes all of the basic components, including tool tests, complete descriptions, and other extras (meaning, these components are present, not that they have been through some sort of overarching QA approval process).
All that said, if you wanted to share what you find/generate, you could consider adding that to http://galaxyproject.org as a new FAQ. Perhaps in the Admin area, although I can think of a few other places it would fit. It could be given a "last updated" note (in markdown, so is visible on the page to readers) along with notes about how the list was generated to allow others to also contribute to the FAQ ongoing. All are welcome to contribute to this site. Open a pull-request with the content and our team will review and give feedback (or accept it as-is if well written/organized and fits in with related content).
Thanks for the detailed and timely reply, I really appreciate it. Indeed I couldn't find any sort of tool list populated by the wider community. In my case, the lab is exploring the galaxy tools that can be interesting and are not included in the standard toolshed (as we already looked into that). Since you mentioned that there is not an overarching QA approval procedure I must be very careful while "accepting" independent tools (probably by taking into account downloads, how public the server is etc.). I would be happy to contribute my findings as you see fit.
How to import a published workflow from a Galaxy server to my server? |
0.999998 | Context • Balneotherapy is one of the most commonly used nonpharmacological interventions for osteoarthritis (OA), but its mechanism of action in relieving pain and stiffness and in improving physical function is not well understood. Studies have found that therapy provokes a series of neuroendocrinal reactions with anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), a bioactive lipid, has been implicated as an important mediator in the maintenance of physiological processes (eg, vascular barrier integrity) and in pathophysiologic processes such as inflammatory conditions. Accordingly, targeting S1P and S1P receptors may offer a potential therapy for arthritis. Objective • The aims of the present study were to determine whether (1) balneotherapy modified the circulating levels of S1P as well as some inflammatory parameters and stress markers, in patients with OA; and (2) to assess the relationship of those parameters to therapeutic efficacy. Design • This study was designed as an uncontrolled longitudinal study. Setting • The study took place at the Bolu Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital (Bolu, Turkey). Participants • Forty patients who suffered from general OA in at least 3 positions on the body, one of which could be the vertebral column, and who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology Classification criteria and the Kellgren-Moore radiologic criteria, were enrolled in the intervention group in the study. Intervention • During balneotherapy, the participants were fully immersed in warm thermo-mineral water for 20 min at a temperature of 38°C to 40°C. A total of 15 immersions were performed in a period of 15 d. Outcome Measures • A baseline clinical evaluation of participants' pain, stiffness, and physical function was carried out using the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities questionnaire. Baseline serum levels of S1P, cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2), matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP-3), and heat shock protein 70 (HSP-70) were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, with an immunoturbidimetric assay. The clinical evaluations and the biochemical measurements were repeated after completion of the balneotherapy period. Results • Balneotherapy caused a significant reduction in circulating levels of S1P and high-density lipoprotein and a limited increase in HSP-70 levels, in addition to a reduction in pain and stiffness and an improvement in physical function. In the Spearman's correlation analysis, S1P was found to be positively associated with serum levels of HSP-70, COX-2, and MMP-3. Conclusion • Balneotherapy modulated serum S1P levels in patients with OA. The effect of S1P modulation on the clinical outcome of patients with OA should be further investigated. |
0.987531 | How do I capture your beautiful family photography sessions?
Documenting your family should be fun, relaxed and a time of connecting and making memories. I approach capturing your family with all of this in mind, understanding that it can be a rare opportunity to have all your family together for an evening and therefore it should be special and enjoyable. My aim is to capture authentic and real connections, genuine interactions, candid smiles and beautiful moments shared between you.
If you are looking for a relaxed, unposed and natural approach to capturing stunning photographs of your family they you can proudly hang on the walls of your home for generations then I would love to work with you. |
0.960435 | Within the United States, taxation has always been a sore sport for both political parties. While many candidates have campaigned on the backs of promises to deliver lower tax rates across the spectrum of American taxpayers, few have managed to deliver. However, the recent political gridlock in Washington has had a significant effect on taxation rates within the country, as the refusal of both parties to cooperate has changed tax laws that target the middle and lower classes. Furthermore, the recent presidential election has demonstrated that concern over tax trends in the United States continues to be a major voter issue.
Local and state governments have seen significant tax shortfalls, as much of these local revenue streams depend on consumer spending in their geographic area. Many states and municipalities face heavy debt burdens stemming from poor budgeting and have attempted to remedy the situation through heavy local tax increases; cities such as Chicago have increased their sales tax to over 9 percent, and are increasing property and other tax revenue streams in order to balance their budget.
As one of the largest tax cuts in American history, the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush had a significant effect on tax policies in the United States. The tax cuts dramatically lowered tax rates for individuals across the board, by lowering the highest marginal income tax rate from 39.6 to 35 percent. Furthermore, policies within the tax cuts lowered the tax rate for high income individuals, under the premise that lower tax rates will spur federal revenue streams by de-incentivizing tax avoidance schemes used by the wealthy. While the tax cuts expired at the end of 2012, the cuts were maintained for individuals making less than $400,000 and for couples earning below $450,000. For taxpayers above this income bracket, the cuts were rescinded and rates went up to their pre-2000 highs.
Historically, the tax trends within the United States have been dominated by cuts as the government moves away from the high rates enacted under the Roosevelt administration in the wake of the Great Depression. Previously, the highest marginal tax rate in the United States reached 90 percent, which was seen as draconian by later policymakers. While tax cuts have been slow to be enacted, major reforms were undertaken under the Reagan administration, which inspired the recent cuts placed by President Bush. The recent recession, however, has spurned increases within the federal tax rates as the government seeks to bolster ailing revenue streams. It is predicted that future administrations will seek to increase tax rates to support social spending as well as other neglected parts of the national budget.
In the long-term, it is anticipated that tax rates will continue to increase across the board in the United States. Governments and citizens have come to realize that they cannot expect effective government services if there government deficits stemming from low tax rates. Although many political parties are advocating tax decreases and smaller governance, many citizens see these movements as a method of greater wealth concentration for the top 1 percent of income earners. While the tax increases may seem relatively large, historically they remain low in comparison to tax rates under the Roosevelt administration. |
0.992572 | What should we expect and how should we prepare for our toddler’s portraits?
I always recommend booking your photo session for your toddler at the time of day that he/she is at their best. The best guarantee for success is a happy toddler! Bring snacks, a change of clothes, and a “go with the flow” attitude. Not only will your child have fun during their portraits, but you’ll be stress free, too! |
0.999973 | Give the traditional Sweet Potato pudding a twist by cooking and serving it differently this Christmas.
For this recipe, sweet potatoes are first cooked, mashed, then baked and again mashed before finally serving. Baking the already cooked potatoes gives the pudding its warm taste and also helps infuse the aroma of cinnamon in it.
1. Cook sweet potatoes by boiling them. Allow to cool completely and then peel off the skin.
2. Add condensed milk, butter and cinnamon and mix well.
3. Bake this mixture for 15 minutes till the pudding is slightly golden.
4. Remove from oven. Let cool slightly and mash the pudding again with the back of a spoon.
5. To serve, spoon pudding into a bowl and press down slightly to flatten.
6. Reserve some pudding and place it is a pastry bag fitted with a star or any other decorative nozzle. Pipe out florets onto the flattened top of the pudding.
7. Finally, drizzle some more condensed milk over the pudding.
Tip: When baking, ensure that you do not bake it too much so that the pudding sets and loses its creamy texture. |
0.946215 | Marek Hamšík (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmarɛɡ ˈɦamʃiːk];[A] born 27 July 1987) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chinese club Dalian Yifang and the Slovakia national team, for which he is vice-captain behind Martin Škrtel.
After beginning his club career with Slovan Bratislava in 2004, Hamšík moved to Italian club Brescia later that year. In 2007, he was purchased by newly promoted Serie A club Napoli, where he has since become a mainstay in the squad's starting line-up. His energy, leadership, creativity, skill and eye for goal from midfield saw him play a key role in helping the team to two Coppa Italia titles, a Supercoppa Italiana, UEFA Champions League qualification and the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League semi-finals. He scored 121 goals for the club and collected 521 appearances in all competitions during his 12 seasons with the team, and also served as the club's captain between 2014 and 2019; he became the club's all-time top goalscorer in 2017, and the club's all-time appearance holder in 2018. In February 2019, he joined Chinese club Dalian Yifang.
At international level, Hamšík represented Slovakia at the 2010 FIFA World Cup as the team's captain, helping his country to qualify for the tournament for the first time in their history, and subsequently led the national team to the round of 16 of the tournament with a victory over defending champions Italy in the final match of the group stage. He later also led his nation to qualify for UEFA Euro 2016, making their first ever appearance at the European Championship, and once again helped the national side to reach the second round of the competition. He has collected over 110 international caps at senior level, scoring over 20 goals, and in 2018, he became his nation's most capped player ever.
For his performances, Hamšík has also won several individual awards: he is a six-time winner of the Slovak Footballer of the Year Award, and he was named Serie A Young Footballer of the Year in 2008. In 2011, 2016 and 2017, he was named to the Serie A Team of the Year, and in 2015, he was included in the UEFA Europa League Squad of the season. In 2013, Hamšík was ranked as the eighth best footballer in Europe by Bloomberg.
Despite the fact Hamšík grew up in Banská Bystrica, he never played for major local team Dukla Banská Bystrica. Instead, he began playing for a small youth team, Jupie Podlavice. In 2002, he signed with top Slovak club Slovan Bratislava. He played six times for the Slovan Bratislava first team and scored one goal.
In 2004, at age 17, Hamšík joined Italian Serie A club Brescia for a €500,000 transfer fee. He made his Brescia debut in a 3–1 away defeat against Chievo on 20 March 2005, when he was 17 years and 237 days old. Later that season, Brescia finished 19th in Serie A and was therefore relegated to the Serie B. In 2005–06, he played 24 league matches for Brescia, with Brescia finishing tenth. He had an impressive 2006–07 season, scoring 10 goals in 40 matches.
On 28 June 2007, newly promoted Serie A club Napoli announced Hamšík had signed a five-year contract with the club after Napoli paid Brescia a €5.5 million transfer fee. Napoli club chairman Aurelio De Laurentiis described Hamšík as a player who should be closely watched in the future.
Hamšík played his first competitive match with Napoli on 15 August 2007, against Cesena in the first round of the Coppa Italia; Napoli won the match 4–0, as Hamšík set up the opening goal and scored the second himself. He scored his first goal in Serie A on 16 September 2007 in the match against Sampdoria.
His football icon is Czech midfielder Pavel Nedvěd, to whom Hamšík has often been compared due to his playing style. In 2007, he was voted the second-best Slovak footballer of the year, after Martin Škrtel, and also he was voted the best young Slovak footballer (the Peter Dubovský Trophy). Hamšík ended his first season with Napoli as the club's top scorer, with nine goals from 37 matches. At the start of the 2008–09 season, Hamšík scored in both of Napoli's first two matches and went on to score a further nine goals in his second season with the club, finishing as Napoli's top scorer for the second-straight year.
In 2009, he was again runner-up as best Slovak footballer of the year and repeated his success as the best young Slovak footballer.
On 19 September 2010, Hamšík scored Napoli's first goal as they came back from a goal down to defeat Sampdoria 2–1 in Genoa. On 23 September, Hamšík signed a three-year contract extension set to last until June 2015. Three days later, Hamšík scored his second goal of the new season with an 81st-minute penalty to earn Napoli a 4–1 comeback win away to newly promoted Cesena. On 30 January 2011, Hamšík scored a well taken effort as Napoli hammered Sampdoria 4–0.
The 2010–11 season was very productive for Hamšík, as he helped lead Napoli to a very successful season and earn automatic qualification into the UEFA Champions League by finishing third in Serie A. Hamšík played in 36 of Napoli's 38 Serie A matches that season, scoring 11 goals and contributing 6 assists.
Hamšík scored the winning goal in Napoli's 2–0 home victory over Villarreal on 27 September, earning Napoli its first ever victory in the Champions League. On 29 November, Napoli welcomed Serie A table leaders Juventus to the Stadio San Paolo; Hamšík missed a 15th-minute penalty before heading in a goal to give the hosts the lead seven minutes later. The match was enthralling, however it ended in a 3–3 draw after Napoli conceded two late goals to preserve Juventus' unbeaten start to the season.
Hamšík provided an assist for Gökhan Inler's opening goal against Villarreal on 7 December and then scored the decisive goal, helping Napoli to a 2–0 victory in Spain. The win secured qualification to the round of 16 in a very difficult group, which included Bayern Munich and Manchester City. Hamšík helped Napoli finish the first half of the 2011–12 campaign on a high, scoring a superb goal in Napoli's 6–1 hammering of Genoa on 21 December. Hamšík also provided assists for strikes by Goran Pandev and Walter Gargano in the match. Through the first half of the 2011–12 campaign, Hamšík had appeared in 16 Serie A matches, contributing five goals and five assists. In Napoli's European campaign, Hamšík appeared in all six group stage matches and contributed two goals and one assist.
Following the winter break, Hamšík provided an assist for Edinson Cavani's goal and scored Napoli's third goal in its 3–1 defeat of Palermo on 8 January 2012. On 13 February 2012, he made his 200th appearance for Napoli in a 2–0 home win over Chievo.
On 9 March, Hamšík signed a one-year contract extension with Napoli, keeping him at the club until June 2016. The announcement was made following Hamšík scoring an incredible angled shot against Cagliari earlier that day, as Napoli ran out 6–3 winners. Hamšík's final goal of the season came in a 2–0 victory over Palermo on 1 May, as he doubled Napoli's lead in the 35th minute following a penalty from Edinson Cavani. Napoli finished the season in fifth place in Serie A, with Hamšík contributing nine league goals and nine assists.
Hamšík was also very influential as Napoli reached the Coppa Italia final against Scudetto winners Juventus on 20 May. After being slipped in by Goran Pandev, Hamšík was one-on-one with Juve goalkeeper Marco Storari and made no mistake as he touched it past the onrushing Storari, securing a 2–0 win which delivered The Partenopei its first trophy in over 20 years.
Hamšík started in the 2012 Supercoppa Italiana, held in Beijing, on 11 August; however, Napoli were defeated by Juventus 4–2 in extra time. Later that month, in Napoli's first league fixture of the 2012–13 Serie A season, Hamšík scored the club's first goal and assisted Christian Maggio's strike in an eventual 3–0 defeat of Palermo. Missing leading goal-scorer Edinson Cavani for the club's match against Chievo on 28 October 2012, Hamšík connected on a Juan Camilo Zúñiga cross to give Napoli a 1–0 victory. On 6 January 2013, he made his 200th Serie A appearance in a 4–1 home win over Roma. On the penultimate matchday of the Serie A season, Hamšík collected a pass from Goran Pandev and nudged the ball home in the 93rd minute, rescuing a 2–1 win over Siena, confirming the club's place in the group stages of the Champions League while condemning Siena to relegation. The Slovak featured in every Serie A match for Napoli during the 2012–13 season, providing 11 goals and 14 assists as the Partenopei finished second behind reigning champions Juventus, a season which proved to be manager Walter Mazzarri's last at the club, as he became coach of Internazionale later that summer.
On 10 August 2013, Hamšík signed a contract extension with Napoli, tying him to the club until the summer of 2018. In the first match of the 2013–14 Serie A season on 26 August 2013, Hamšík scored Napoli's second and third goals in the club's 3–0 home defeat of Bologna. Hamšík continued his scoring form in Napoli's following match, netting another brace in their 4–2 away victory over Chievo on 31 August.
Following Paolo Cannavaro's departure to Sassuolo in the 2014 January transfer window, Hamšík was named Napoli's new captain. On 27 April 2014, he made his 300th appearance for Napoli in a 0–0 draw against Internazionale. On 3 May 2014, Hamšík played 63 minutes in Napoli's 3–1 win over Fiorentina in the 2014 Coppa Italia Final.
On 27 August 2014, Hamšík scored the opening goal, his first of the 2014–15 season, in the second leg of Napoli's Champions League play-off against Athletic Bilbao, as Bilbao came from behind to win the match 3–1 at home and eliminate Napoli from the competition. On 20 October, Hamšík scored the opening goal in a 2–0 away win over his former club Slovan Bratislava in Napoli's second group match of that season's UEFA Europa League, making his 40th appearance for the club in UEFA club competitions in the process and overtaking Antonio Juliano as the club's record appearance holder in European club competitions.
On 22 December, Hamšík lifted the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana as Napoli's captain, defeating Juventus 6–5 on penalties after a 2–2 draw following extra time. On 22 January 2015, he scored his first Coppa Italia goal of the season in the round of 16 against Udinese, as Napoli went on to win the match on penalties. On 3 May, he scored his 90th goal for Napoli in a 3–0 victory over Milan in Serie A.
Under new Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri, Hamšík returned to playing as a central midfielder on the left in Napoli's three-man midfield for the 2015–16 season, which he described as being his preferred role. On 23 August 2015, Hamšík scored the opening goal in a 2–1 away defeat to Sassuolo on the opening match of the Serie A season. On 17 September, he scored in a 5–0 win over Club Brugge in the group stage of the Europa League. He made his 300th Serie A appearance on 6 January 2016, scoring in a 2–1 home win over Torino. In the following league match, on 10 January, he made his 300th Serie A appearance for Napoli in a 5–1 away win over Frosinone, as Napoli finished the first half of the season as unofficial "winter champions". He marked the occasion by scoring a goal, his 80th in Serie A, all of which were scored with Napoli.
On 6 August 2016, Napoli announced Hamšík had signed a new four-year deal, keeping him at the club until 2020. On 24 September, he scored his 100th goal for the club in a 2–0 home win over Chievo in Serie A.
On 16 December 2017, Hamšík scored his 115th goal for Napoli in a 3–1 away victory over Torino, equalling Diego Maradona as the club's all-time top scorer. He surpassed Maradona's record one week later, becoming Napoli's outright all-time top goalscorer with his 116th goal for the club, which came in a 3–2 victory against Sampdoria in Naples. On 6 May 2018, he scored his 100th goal in Serie A (all of which came with Napoli) in a 2–2 home draw against Torino after coming off the bench.
On 23 September 2018, Hamšík made his 400th appearance in Serie A in a 3–1 away win over Torino. On 28 October, he made his 511th appearance for Napoli in a 1–1 home draw against Roma, equaling Giuseppe Bruscolotti as the club's record all-time appearance holder. On 6 November, he overtook Bruscolotti with his 512th appearance in all competitions for Napoli in a 1–1 home draw against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
On 14 February 2019, he agreed a contract with Chinese club Dalian Yifang for a reported fee of €13 million, bringing to an end an eleven-and-a-half year spell with Napoli. On 3 March, in the opening match of the 2019 Chinese Super League season, Hamšík made his club debut in a 1–1 away draw against Henan Jianye.
Hamšík represented Slovakia at junior level, playing in the UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifiers and the UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He played also for the Slovakia national under-21 team.
Hamšík is a regular member of the Slovakia national team. He made his debut on 7 February 2007 in a friendly against Poland, which ended in a 2–2 draw. He played his second match against Germany in the UEFA Euro 2008 qualification, which Slovakia lost 2–1. He became the key member of the attack for the national team, usually playing as a left or central attacking midfielder. Hamšík captained his country in its first FIFA World Cup experience in South Africa in 2010, where the nation made it to the first knockout stage after defeating then-world champions Italy 3–2. Slovakia was defeated by later finalists Netherlands in the first knockout stage.
Hamšík also played a key role in helping his nation qualify for Euro 2016 for the first time in the nation's history, finishing as Slovakia's top scorer as Slovakia placed second in its qualifying group behind defending champions Spain. Slovakia suffered a closely contested 2–1 defeat to Wales in its opening match of the competition on 11 June. Hamšík came close to opening the scoring in the third minute of play after dribbling past several Welsh defenders, but his strike was denied by Ben Davies' goal-line clearance. In Slovakia's second group B match of the tournament, against Russia on 15 June 2016, Hamšík set up a goal and later scored another himself in a 2–1 win, his nation's first in the competition. Following a 0–0 draw against England on 20 June, Slovakia advanced to the second round as the best third-placed team of the tournament. However, Slovakia was eliminated in the round of 16 on 26 June after a 3–0 defeat to reigning world champions Germany.
On 5 October 2017, Hamšík made his 100th appearance for the Slovak national team in a 0–1 loss to Scotland in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match.
On 13 October 2018, Hamšík made his 108th international appearance in a 2–1 home defeat to Czech Republic in the UEFA Nations League; with this cap, he overtook Miroslav Karhan to become Slovakia's most capped player ever. He marked the occasion with a goal, his 22nd for his country, putting him equal with Szilárd Németh as his nation's second-highest goalscorer of all time, only behind Róbert Vittek with 23 goals.
In March 2019, after a surprise retirement of Martin Škrtel at the end of February, Hamšík regained the position of the captain of the national team, despite captaining the team some 20 times since 2010, most notably during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In the previous years, Hamšík served as the vice-captain to Škrtel.
"Hamšík is my heir. He is the footballer who most resembles me in terms of his characteristics and playing style."
Hamšík has been described as "quick, energetic, hard-working, and tactically versatile midfielder, who is capable of playing in several offensive positions on either side of the pitch, or even through the centre". Throughout his career, he has been deployed as a central midfielder, as an attacking midfielder, as a winger, or even as a supporting striker or inside forward on occasion. Although naturally right footed, he is capable of striking the ball well with either foot, and is known for his ability to both score and create goals, often dropping deep to participate in the build-up of his team's plays. A talented, elegant, and technically gifted advanced playmaker, in addition to his footballing skills, he is also known for his leadership and stamina, as well as his play and intelligence off the ball, in particular his ability to make attacking runs to get into good positions in the opposition's half, and his tireless running. He is also capable of playing as a deep-lying playmaker or in a box-to-box role, due to his passing and tactical intelligence, and is an effective free kick and penalty taker, although his record from the penalty spot has been inconsistent at times throughout his career.
In July 2014, Hamšík married Martina Fraňová. The couple have three children.
His sister Michaela is married to Uruguayan footballer Walter Gargano, Hamšik's former teammate at Napoli.
As of match played 13 October 2018. Slovakia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Hamšík goal.
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0.963266 | The following article is written “Onion Style”, I could not take covering it any other way.
Orlando, FL– It would seem the denial of the removal of items from the makeshift memorial site where the remains of Caylee Marie Anthony were found, by her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony was, well, caca.
On Monday evening, when two women attempted to replace the cross that was recently removed, they were stunned to see a woman appear out of the shadows and place the cross in a dark colored vehicle. As that vehicle left the scene, one of the women snapped a picture of the driver.
Apparently the maneuvers George Anthony had been practicing mentally from his earlier (since abandoned) recount about a high speed chase with his daughter Casey did not fail him.
Witnesses from the scene, who declined to be identified, said Anthony nearly had the “Georginator” on 2 wheels as he pulled a “360” to ensue hot pursuit of the ferocious flashing females. One woman stated she actually saw George’s silver signature pompadour part as they whizzed past on their creepy cross caper. |
0.999911 | When done, the options in your form's Configurable List dropdowns should be like those in this demo.
Hexadecimal color values (like the #FFF used in the first rule) would also work.
If you need further assistance with this, we'd be happy to provide it.
Thank you - that works perfectly! What would the CSS code be to change the background selection from the blue color to say a light-grey, as one of my colors is the same color as the background when you hover over the list, and hence it could be confusing. Would just like to change the hover background color.
Hi there, I have another problem with this widget: just using the above dropdown, the options in the dropdown do not appear as conditional choices, nor do they return their values when the form is submitted. The idea is for the person to select the person in a dropdown, and based on that, a condition is set up to email the selected person. With the standard dropdown field, the value is available to perform a conditional action on, but not this widget - in fact, the field available is the main title - default "Configurable List" and not the actual drop-down field. So in summary, my dropdown could be: Please select the correct group : dropdown : Group 01, Group 02 : Please Select - but the conditional rules only allow you to select the TITLE of this widget and thus does not see "Please select the correct group" as the actual field, and cannot find the values "Group 01" Group 02" etc.
Is there some other code that will use the dropdown title as the field instead of the Widget title?
Many thanks for your assistance thus far!
Hi there - I found that using the "Contains" condition it works. I also hard-coded the field in the email and it works now - thank you. Would still be grateful for any assistance with the hover background color CSS setup.
as illustrated in this demo. Conditions can be set on such fields in the same manner as dropdowns. (In the demo I've replaced the email conditions with Show/Hide ones just for demonstration purposes.) The only disadvantage is that it occupies more vertical space than a dropdown.
Everything else works with the form I have set up, so I guess I can live with the background hover color, it's perfect thanks - and thank you for the fantastic support you have provided!
On behalf of my colleague you are most welcome. We are happy that we could assist you with getting your desired results. |
0.984321 | Congratulations! You landed a job or internship interview. While you are thinking about how to answer the most popular questions that will likely be asked, do not forget about the most important question the interviewer may ask: “Do you have any questions for me?” An interview is a two-way street. The interviewer wants to get to know you, but you also want to make sure the position is a good fit for you. Here are a few questions to ask during a job interview.
1. What does the typical day in the role look like?
This question will give you insight as to what you can expect your day-to-day role to be. It will let you know if this position will be a good fit for you or not. If what is expected of the role is not moving your career forward, do not be hesitant to turn down the position if it is offered.
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Asking this question will help you see how your interview fit with the qualities of the position, which will help you prepare for rejection if need be. It will also let you know what kind of traits you have to bring to the office each day.
3. Can you tell me a bit about the company culture?
There is nothing worse than accepting a position then realizing that the company is actually not a good fit for your personality. If the culture is more casual and you are fast-paced and competitive, it may not be the best place and it is better knowing what to expect before for you commit.
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Knowing what challenges you have going in will help you know whether or not you can handle the position. It will also give you a chance to tell your interviewer about similar challenges you may have faced at a previous position and how you overcame them.
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This question allows you to get into the mind of the interviewer. While the interviewer may try to make the company out to be better than it is, it is still a valuable question so you can get some insight into the company.
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While you should do your research and know the answer to this question, it is good to get a more personal answer to the question. This will give you a chance to add a comment about what you found out about the company.
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This question is crucial. It is imperative that you know what the company’s training procedures are. Is training paid? Will you be trained on the job or will you be expected to watch training videos on your own time? This will help you decide whether or not the position is a good fit for you.
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This question shows your specific interest in the position and your desire to be as successful as possible. If you feel like you cannot uphold the expectations, you know that the position is not for you and you should keep searching. Make sure you remember some of these questions to ask during a job interview!
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Asking this question is another opportunity to get a personal answer from the interviewer. This will also give you the chance to see why the company may be appealing. If the answer is not appealing, consider whether or not the position is right for you.
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0.909633 | Your job is to help the groom not have to worry about certain aspects of their wedding. It's easy enough to say "let me know what you need help with", but what's actually helpful is taking the lead and offering help with specific tasks. Things like picking up the groomsmen suits, telling people where to sit, or picking people up from the airport or their hotels. These small things are very important, and not always what a bride or groom are able to do themselves.
The groomsman is usually in charge of planning the groom's bachelor party. Depending on the groom, this can mean numerous things. Some want a big blowout party with lots of drinking or gambling while others prefer something more low key like a camping weekend or fishing trip. You know your friend better than anyone, outside of their bride, of course, and planning their bachelor party is a crucial step.
On the day before the wedding, there is a lot to keep track of. Keep an eye on the groom and be there for him if he needs anything. Also make sure if there's anything he needs to remember and if so, keep an eye on that as well. Being punctual the night before the wedding is important, otherwise he might not make it to the rehearsal dinner on time.
The groomsmen will likely be a collection of people from different periods of the groom's life. They may be high school friends, college friends, siblings or relatives. Do your best to get to know everyone and their tastes in order to try and make it fun for everyone. There's likely going to be one or two guys who don't know the others. If that's you, do your best to be outgoing. If you know it's someone else, do your best to be welcoming and include them in everything.
If you're someone who is chronically late, check it at the door for your friend's wedding. You'll need to keep track of time for the groom and entire groomsman party. Make sure you're not late to anything. In fact, try your best to be early to everything you need to be at. The last thing the couple needs to worry about is where you are or getting ahold of you when there are so many other things going on.
On the day of the wedding, guests will probably have questions about where to go, the wedding schedule, and likely many other things as well. Help as best you can to answer those questions or at least find out who can. Sometimes you may need to work to locate someone or act as a go-between for questions between the bridal party and the groomsmen.
Throughout the day, check in with your buddy and the bride or bridesmaids to see if anyone needs anything. Thoughtfulness will go a long way. This is an important, happy day for the couple but it can also be incredibly stressful. Help them out in little ways like making sure they have drinks and keeping the party going.
One of the most important parts of a wedding is the fun that comes after the ceremony. Be the first one on the dance floor and get the party going. It's important to have a good time but pace yourself. Don't overdrink and become an embarrassment to both yourself and your friends.
While most couples splurge for a professional photographer, there will no doubt be moments the photographer won't be there to document. Snap a few pictures at the bachelor party, tasteful ones of course, or other groomsmen-only events. These will someday serve as awesome memories for the couple, so send the photos along to them afterwards. They'll be grateful you captured moments that otherwise would have been missed. |
0.961394 | The Bertholdsburg was found as a stronghold in the 13th century to protect the trading route from Nürnberg to Leipzig. From the 1220ies till 1583 it was the main residence of the Counts of Henneberg-Schleusingen. The Castle was lately labeled Bertholdsburg, in honour of Berthold VII (1272-1340), one of the most important Hennebergian Count.
During the Late Middle Ages the Bertholdsburg was continuously rebulit and converted into a representative renaissance castle. So today you can experience the Bertholdsburg as a closed four winged castle in the condition of about 1540!
In according to the death of the last Hennbergian Count Georg Ernst (1511–1583) in 1583 the Bertholdsburg lost its residence character. From this time it became seat of Saxonian and Prussian administrations.
In 1934 the first museum of local earth history (FRANKE-Berthold VII with his wife Museum) was founded, 20 years later this museum increased with regional history. Since 1984 the Museum of Natural History has been established for the region of Southern Thuringia. The new museum include exhibitions and collections of geological, biological and historical sciences.
The Museum of Natural History in Schleusingen presents certain temporary and permanent exhibitions. The area of exhibitions contains 2.000 m².
crystals or Thuringian gold, copper, uranium and iron ores as well as rock salt and potash. Sceneries of gold and copper mining plus the basaltic volcanism are presented.
The most important minerals of Thuringia are exhibited. Furthermore is the genesis of the Thuringian Forest and the Thuringian Slate Mountain are visualized. A speciality of Thuringian minerals are the so called "Schneekopfkugeln"- these are rhyolitic spherulites from the 285 million years old Lower Permian volcanism which include agate and different macroquartz, partly nicely coloured.
A journey through 300 million years of Thuringian Landscapes is presented (Upper Carboniferous/Lower Permian). The exhibition area covers more than 800 m². Lakes, rivers, forests and swamps existed already millions of years ago, but what has changed?
The time-travel goes through prehistoric landscapes with reconstructed tree-ferns, saurian, gigantic millepede, sharks, ammonites and elephants in 12 paleosceneries from the Permocarboniferous up to the Pleistocene. Nearly 1.000 fossils as evidences of the prehistoric life are presented. Often it is possible to touch the fossils as well as more than 100 prehistoric models.
The basal theropod Liliensternus liliensterni (= "Halticosaurus") with 6 m length.
The prosauropod Plateosaurus, which is very similar with the Southern Thuringian Ruehleia bedheimensis with nearly 6 m length.
The presentation of recent landscapes of Thuringia appeals all of our senses. Observing living fishes and a "living fossil" - the little crustacean Triops is also possible. Lastly an introduction to the UNESCO–reservations of biosphere "Vessertal" and "Rhön" is offered.
The development of the Hennebergian County in the Castle Bertholdsburg plays an important role in the historical exhibition (see above).
One of the Schleusingen's printers was Hermann Hamsing in 1555. Special rarities of books from the Hennebergian Library are shown, for example "chained books". In some rooms of the castle it is possible to see the historical interior decoration, for example a vault room with mural painting of the Herkules myth from 1600.
The 40 meter high main tower of the castle can be climbed up by 128 steps. From the installed platform you are going to have a gorgeous view of the Thuringian Forest and the town of Schleusingen. In the tower you can see an historical clockwork and the kestrel.
The Museum of Natural History in Schleusingen includes various collections of geological, biological and historical sciences.
Geological collection with ca. 70.000 fossils, minerals and rocks.
Biological collection with ca. 30.000 invertebrate and vertebrate animals and plants.
All collections of nature study from Southern Thuringia (Meiningen, Schmalkalden, Eisfeld, Hildburghausen, Sonneberg and Schleusingen) are concentrated here.
The spectrum of inventar reaches from objects of Duke Anton Ulrich (1687-1763) up to newly excavated fossils and minerals. Especially important is the ARNHARDT-Collection which is one of the most famous collections of Lower Permian (Rotliegend) fossils in Europe.
The inventory consists of nearly 3.000 objects plus the historical Hennebergian Library with 5.000 volumes (see later). Most of them give evidence about the local history of the Hennebergian town of Schleusingen.
The researching work of the Museum of Natural History Schleusingen is exemplarily associated with some main points of the collections and exhibitions. The paleontological and mineralogical research is combined with excursions, excavations and preparation.
Many results in geology and biology are published in our house journal "Veröffentlichungen des Naturhistorischen Museums Schleusingen" (see there).
The Museum of Natural History Schleusingen contains 3 libraries with a total stock of 27.000 volumes.
It is the historical part of a grammar (high) school library with 5.000 volumes. The private books of the last Hennebergian Count Georg Ernst (1511-1583) initiated the now relatively closed old school library. In 1958 it was delivered to the museum.
The society existed from 1908 to 1937 and had a library with 2.000 volumes.
Since 1984 a special library for geology and biology have been developed. The eldest parts of this collection reach back to the 17th century. We have a continuous exchange of journals with nearly 150 partners all over the world.
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0.999998 | The call on the video was placed on April 12th to Natasha De Alencar, widow of Army Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, four days after he was killed in Afghanistan during a fire-fight with ISIS fighters.
De Alencar had to figure out funeral plans, navigate endless paperwork and provide emotional support for her family.
Trump opened by saying he was sorry about the "whole situation" and called Mark De Alencar "an unbelievable hero". After she waited on hold for 15 or so minutes, President Trump came on the line and spoke with the widow on speaker phone.
The phone call was released after White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly pushed back against Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson's criticism that Trump told a Gold Star widow "he knew what he signed up for". "What a awful thing ... he's an unbelievable hero and you know all the people that served with him are saying how incredible he was ...", Trump said. In total, the conversation lasted just under four minutes.
De Alencar said Trump had researched her husband and was familiar with the awards he had received.
The release of the call came as controversy continues over the contents of a call Trump made to the widow of Army Sgt. |
0.999993 | Discrimination is the deed that someone portrays when they are bigotry; it is also a proceed of inequitable dealing aimed against an individual or group of people since one feels better to the other. Am Hispanic. The history of Hispanics in America spans back to around four hundred years. Their first destination and absorption was around New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. Their prevalence in the mentioned states is from those territories that originally belonged to Mexico but was to be acquired by the United States. This occurred in the 1840s in then American-Mexican wars that would guide to America taking influence and power of these states, for instance the state of Arizona, Texas among others .The occupants of those territories became U .S citizens and were assured land fortification by the U .S government.
Numerous differences exist between the several races that fall under the Hispanic American ethnicity. Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and Colombian Americans are some of the diverse races that belong to this ethnicity. All these Hispanic groups appear to migrate to the United States for analogous reasons. The majority are looking for improved opportunities including employment, learning, or the liberty to perform their own religions. All these Hispanic groups seem to rather speak Spanish in the residence in hopes of holding on to customary Spanish standards (Juan, 1987, p.47).
Regrettably, their disinclination to incorporate to American ethnicity and converse in English keeps these groups from becoming majorities in American societies. The American resistance to bilingual education is a foremost hindrance in the Hispanic financial system as it keeps these groups segregated from non-Hispanics. Puerto Ricans receive the slightest prejudice of the groups since they are American citizens, while most Cuban Americans are of wealth, so they produce power in the economy, but they are still viewed unenthusiastically because of their function in the drug operations years ago. Most Colombians remain sovereign while in the country and play modest task in American communities, whilst Mexican Americans are the most unfortunate of the groups and face the most discrimination of the four.
The Hispanics have also been affected by the twofold labor market. The labor market has two sectors: primary and secondary. The primary labor market is characterized by elevated incomes, extreme benefits, career security, and high-quality predictions for growing mobility. The secondary labor market is typified by little incomes, modest vocation security, and little training. There are no rewards except for wages. These differences are apprehended to originate from the structures of investment. The dual labor market theory commonly focuses on immigration as an innate outcome of financial globalization and market diffusion across national restrictions. In whole, it is not concerned with individual decisions to move around but focuses on what pulls them, as a combined faction, to relocate. It argues that global resettlement starts from the toil demands of contemporary civilizations.
According to Hispanic American Culture (2006). They have been deprived of justice by being left without the Double Jeopardy Clause which protects against three diverse abuses: a second trial for the similar crime after release; a second tribunal for the similar crime after conviction; and manifold punishments for the same offense. Reverse discrimination occurs when a group is regularly advantaged or considered the mainstream is treated less favorably in favor of a marginal group. Within the United States and lots of other countries, there is a long history of discrimination against certain races or classes of people which has affected the Hispanics in that the Hispanics treated less favorably than non-Hispanics. They have also experienced other forms of discrimination like redlining which is the practice of arbitrarily denying or restraining pecuniary services to precise neighborhoods, commonly because its inhabitants are people of color or are underprivileged (ô2-6).
Discriminatory practices have existed in the banking and insurance industries in that Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) instituted a redlining strategy by developing color-coded maps of American cities that used ethnic criteria to classify lending and insurance perils; Environmental racism which is the inconsistent impact of ecological hazards on people of color; assenting deed whose chief agenda is to conquer past inequity and encourage assortment, but in its place entails reverse racism. It just another form of favoritism in admissions and hiring practices; Institutional discrimination whereby several institutional institutions, like a government, promotes discrimination (Anderson, 2004, ô4).
For instance, when Hispanics had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to Americans. That was institutional racism; and glass ceiling, glass walls, or glass escalator whereby the terms symbolize an artificial boundary for upward advancement in one's career path or in terms of one's political aspirations. Most frequently the expression is used in regard to women. The insinuation is that one's progression might be restricted by such an exterior features as gender, race or culture. Glass elevator refers to a fast track for development typically for men or in this case, the dominant race like the Americans in a field more subjugated by women or other stereotyped ethnicities. The term glass walls refer to lateral movement being more open to one group as compared to another. |
0.99545 | Describe at least 2 production techniques in a film you have studied. Explain how these production techniques created impact in this film. The following essay will reveal to you three production techniques from the basement scene of the movie 'Psycho' directed by Gus Van Sants. It will express to you how these production features impacts the audience in the form of lighting, soundtrack and the camera angles and movement. I will analyze the use of sound in this scene. The soundtrack known as atmospheric sound is used along with silence, which is one of the most important features utilized. As the lady begins her descent into the basement, there is silence. We also hear a light piano music, which is a sort of warning sound. ...read more.
The application of the point of view shot along with the 'close up shot' are one of the best production techniques used in the movie 'psycho'. When the stuffed body of the old women is revealed, it seems that the viewers are actually looking at the images from the eyes of Marion's sister in a close view. This adds to the climax and also generates a spark of fear in the minds of the audience. This effect also shows the close up facial expression and additionally reveals the mood of the person. When we enter the scene of the basement, the director uses a medium shot. This is when Marion's sister enters the basement and the background equipment such as the old tools and chemical bottles are shown. ...read more.
It also affects the viewers by continuingly creating a sense of danger. The bright white lights establish the main objects of the film. When the old ladies decayed face is exposed to the camera, bright light is used to highlight the significance of it. This enables the audience to prepare themselves for a conclusion of what ever the issue was. At this moment the tension and the climax of the scene is at it's highest. To conclude, the impacts created by the production techniques are very efficient. The techniques I have used are lighting, soundtrack and camera angles and movement which all help in increasing the tension and adding to the climax. They also individually produce other impacts such as fear, mystery and even humor. Without the availability of these production features, movies and films would not be the same. ?? ?? ?? ?? ...read more.
There are students who have been a part of the shooting, shown crying over this distraught encounter which they had to face due to the lax gun policies within America. Moore focuses mainly on the emotional girls and women, mothers in particular.
When it is successful it can really create the atmosphere you want. Unfortunately I was not in school when we were taught about choral effects but I do no some things about this technique. A strategy known as the tunnel works excellently to create the right atmosphere.
What makes them so successful?. We researched into their storylines and the period the films were set. This would allow us guidelines into good psychological thriller and other thrillers, and allow us to model our piece around some of the greats, such as those by 'Alfred Hitchcock', and manipulate our audience the same as many of his films did.
In the opening sequence the scene starts off with the Rebel ship being attacked and shows a battle between the stormtroopers and the Rebel guards. In this part of the scene they used special effects for the lasers that are used along with explosions causing the scene to fill with smoke making the tension build up.
Here he is disgusted with Aston for not taking action over the presence of the blacks, as though this is any of his business. The weight of this speech is not aimed completely at the audience, as Mick's reactions will also be important to the play.
This reveals to the audience that she is planning to run away with the money. Marion seems to panic when she does take the money, and put it in her bag. This creates suspense to the viewers as they want to know what she will do with the money. |
0.945495 | Should Arsenal go for a 0-0 against Bayern tonight?
I'm in two minds about tonight.
Yes, getting further in the Champions League would be great and beating the current holders would be a real feather in our caps.
Arsene Wenger has something of an obsession with the tournament because he's never won it and there is a school of thought which suggests that no manager achieves real greatness unless they have lifted the Champions League or European Cup.
You can look back two years as well and see how an indifferent Chelsea side managed somehow to win the trophy so with a bit of defensive rigidity, we could well emulate them.
But with so much to play for in the Premier League and the FA Cup very winnable this season, would it not be better, particularly with our small squad, to focus on the two domestic fronts to ensure we don't burn out or lose more players through long term injury from over-playing.
Part of me thinks we should fight for every trophy at our disposal, of course, and to lose in any shape or form to Bayern would be disappointing as is any defeat.
But with City likely to go out of the Champions League after their loss at home to Barca and Liverpool not now distracted by any other competition, it will give them a real advantage, the opportunity to rest players and focus on the Premier League that is probably as winnable this season for Arsenal as it's ever been.
There's been a lot of talk of being defensively sound tonight and I do hope we've learnt lessons from the past.
Jack Wilshere talked about 0-0 being a good a decent score and there is some merit to that.
With Bayern's own domestic dominance and defensive strength, you'd have to argue that scoring three goals again is going to be a tall order, so we must keep it tight.
It's a shame that Mikel Arteta isn't available to join Mathieu Flamini in shielding the back four but we have to ensure whoever comes in - most likely Jack - will work hard and keep the ball away from our opponents.
It makes sense that Tomas Rosicky returns. He is dynamic and makes things happen even if he can't play every game.
But what Rosicky brings in experience, he lacks in pace and I do wonder if that gives Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain a chance to start.
The Ox has changed games since his return and has pace to get behind defenders - something that no one else in the team really has, unfortunately.
Mesut Ozil is at his most effective when he has a pacey forward ahead of him and the opportunity to thread through balls that mesmerise defences. Rosicky simply doesn't have the pace to make those runs.
I read somewhere that we've never lost when Sagna, Gibbs, BFG and Koscielny start together and whether it's true or not tonight, everyone is going to need to work incredibly hard to keep Bayern at bay.
I'd take a dull 0-0 right now but my personal focus is more on Sunderland at the weekend and getting three points, especially with our title rivals all facing what look like straightforward opposition while Sunderland are both fighting for their lives and resurgent under Gus Poyet. |
0.999512 | How can I create a simple RSVP form on my WordPress website?
In the modern digital era, using some kind of online RSVP for an event is more and more common. It allows you to have a singular source for all of the information and can even calculate specific elements or elective items for data to be used later. In the case for me, as a web developer, I decided to create my own wedding website with WordPress. One challenge that I had to attack was creating an online RSVP form that would allow our guests to select from a few simple options and then inform me of their choices.
What plugins do I need?
If the form will be public for anyone to view but you want only specific people to submit the form you can use a basic text field as a password field. This way only those that have said password will be able to submit the RSVP form. Unfortunately Formidable requires a function to be added to the functions.php file in order for the password field to work as required.
Calculating Options: On your custom template you could create a simple table that calculates how many of a particular options your guests are selecting. For instance if you have 2 salad choices, you could calculate based on the guests responses how many of each salad were selected. The same can be said for entrees or other options that are available. |
0.99477 | Explore best practice techniques for negotiating mutually beneficial deals.
A detailed guide to best practice in negotiation.
The Negotiation Skills Self-Learning Guide is perfect for professionals who regularly negotiate with new and existing clients. Whilst the guide focuses on business negotiations, the same techniques can be applied to other negotiation scenarios.
The aim of the guide is to introduce you to best practice, proven approaches for securing the best deal, whilst building trustful relationships with your clients or customers.
The Negotiation Skills Self-Learning Guide includes detailed descriptions and explanations of best practice models and theories, along with areas where you can make notes, record your thoughts, plan your approach and have a go at activities. |
0.941254 | The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (founded in 1967). The association was one of the biggest advancements for women's athletics on the collegiate level. Throughout the 1970s, the AIAW grew rapidly in membership and influence, in parallel with the national growth of women's sports following the enactment of Title IX. The AIAW functioned in the equivalent role for college women's programs that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had been doing for men's programs. Owing to its own success, the AIAW was in a vulnerable position that precipitated conflicts with the NCAA in the early 1980s. Following a one-year overlap in which both organizations staged women's championships, the AIAW discontinued operation, and most member schools continued their women's athletics programs under the governance of the NCAA.
Women's intercollegiate athletics was first organized on a national basis in 1941, the year the first national collegiate championship was held in the sport of golf by the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. During the late 1950s and the 1960s, many colleges around the country had started women's sports teams that competed with other schools in their respective geographic areas. In 1956 the Tripartite Committee was formed by representatives of three organizations: the National Association for Physical Education for College Women, the National Association for Girls' and Women's Sport, and the American Federation of College Women.
Upon the recommendation of the Tripartite Committee, the National Joint Committee on Extramural Sports for College Women (NJCESCW) was formed in 1957 to guide and administer women's intercollegiate athletic programs. In 1965, with the desire to consolidate governance of women's intercollegiate athletics under one organization, the NJCESCW disbanded and agreed to let the DGWS assume control over competition and extramural events.
The first action the DGWS took was to establish the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) to assume responsibility for designing, sponsoring, and sanctioning women’s intercollegiate sports and championships. The purposes of the CIAW were (1) to provide the framework and organization for women's intercollegiate athletic opportunities and (2) to sponsor national championships for college women under the authority of the DGWS.
The AIAW developed from the CIAW in recognition of the need for institutional membership and elected representation. Formation of the AIAW was approved by the DGWS Council and the AAHPER Board of Directors in 1971, but the CIAW continued to operate until early 1972, at which time the AIAW officially came into existence, with over 280 schools as members.
At that time the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) had no interest in women's athletics, and administrators of the AIAW had no interest in the NCAA either. The NCAA was seen as being commercially driven and neglecting the meaning of the student-athlete. There were distinct differences between the two associations in the AIAW's early years. For example, student-athletes playing in AIAW programs were allowed to transfer freely between schools, and to prevent unfair advantages, programs were initially forbidden to offer scholarships and recruit off-campus. The AIAW continued the rules established by the CIAW, which were intended to prohibit unethical practices that were observed in men's sports. To enforce the rules, students receiving scholarships were forbidden from championship participation. The ban on scholarships ended in 1973, following a lawsuit by players and coaches from two colleges in Florida. The AIAW was not without criticism however, as some outsiders and individual members complained that the association devoted too much time, efforts, and funds securing distinction and independence from the NCAA.
The annual softball tournaments and basketball tournaments received the most publicity and drew the biggest crowds; however, the association organized championships in various other sports. They included mainstream sports like volleyball and tennis but were as far reaching as badminton and fencing. Aside from national championships, individual schools worked together to stage annual state championships.
While in existence, the AIAW organized and administered all competition at the regional and national levels. In 1981-82 the organization offered 41 national championships in 19 sports — badminton, basketball, cross country, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, indoor track and field, lacrosse, rowing, skiing, soccer, softball (fast and slow pitch), swimming and diving, synchronized swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.
The 1973 Basketball Tournament was the first sign that women's sports could be financially successful. Over 3,000 fans watched the final game between Queens and Immaculata, and the tournament earned over $4,500 in profits. In 1975 these two teams met again, this time in Madison Square Garden. The first women's basketball game to be played in the arena drew a crowd of more than 12,000 spectators. The AIAW started to take advantage of corporate sponsorships and television payouts not unlike its male counterpart, but on a smaller scale.
In 1972, the United States Congress passed Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. Although the impact today is primarily discussed in terms of the impact on athletics, the bill made no explicit mention of athletics. The bill provided that neither men nor women could "be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance". The task of issuing regulations fell to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). One of its early decisions was that athletic programs would indeed be subject to the requirements of the law. The effect was to require the creation of new women's teams instead of stipulating that women could simply try out for men's teams. Consequently, the regulations required colleges to provide equal opportunities for both genders in collegiate athletics. Any school that received federal funds was required to provide gender equality by the 1978-79 school year. In 1974 colleges started giving scholarships to female student-athletes. That year (aside from the exceptional Wayland College basketball team in the 1950s), Ann Meyers became the first female to receive a full scholarship by committing to play for UCLA. Title IX is credited with the vast improvement in funding for women's athletics. By 1980, the average university spent over 16% of its athletics budget on women's sports. In the early 1970s that number was less than 1%.
Although the regulations promulgated under the law required additional funding for women's teams, athletic directors did not immediately embrace the requirements. Their concerns included the relative inability for many schools to sufficiently fund the necessary women's teams, making it possible for the budgets for men's teams to be reduced to achieve compliance. The NCAA, which regulated men's intercollegiate sports, raised money to help fight Title IX. In 1974 the Senate passed the Tower Amendment, which decreed that Title IX did not cover football or other revenue-producing sports. The recently formed AIAW responded, hiring a lawyer, Margot Polivy, to fight the Tower Amendment. Their efforts were successful, as a joint Congressional conference committee decided to eliminate the Tower Amendment.
On June 1, 1979, the AIAW assumed a separate legal identity and became a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia. Then in 1981, following the NCAA's decision to offer championships for women in its top competitive division, Division I, the AIAW suffered substantial losses of members and revenue.
At its peak, the AIAW had almost 1,000 member schools. In the late 1970s, however, schools began to realize that women's athletics could be profitable, and the NCAA decided to offer women's championships. The NCAA's Divisions II and III voted to offer championships in 1980; however, Division I members failed to gain a majority vote on this issue until the 1981 national meeting. This decision was quite contentious. During the tense floor debate, AIAW representatives objected to the motion to sponsor Division I championships, but their objections were met with pockets of "ridicule and hissing". After considerable debate, a vote was called, and the initial result was a tie, 124–124. A recount of the votes revealed the defeat of the motion by a vote of 128–127. However, parliamentary rules permit "reconsideration" of a vote if someone on the prevailing side asks for it. Several delegates on the losing side knew of one institution that had voted against the motion but whose faculty representative favored the NCAA position. When the influencer of the school’s "nay" vote left the room, those delegates prevailed upon that representative to request reconsideration. This time it passed, 137–117.
For the 1981-82 academic year, schools were able to compete in either the NCAA or the AIAW championships. There were a few occasions when a school participated in both tournaments that year (Florida in gymnastics, 1982; Oklahoma State in softball, 1982; indeed the University of Tulsa won both the AIAW and NCAA women's golf championships in 1982). However, the battle of members had started, as schools whose men's teams were already participating in the NCAA started to integrate their women's teams. Although some schools permitted their individual women's teams to choose, most schools made the weighty decision to support only one of the two organizations. The AIAW had fought for women's rights in the Title IX battle, while the NCAA had opposed those efforts. In contrast, the NCAA was much better funded and had better access to television contracts. The University of Texas, where the last AIAW president, Donna Lopiano, was the women's athletics director, was one of the stronger holdouts. But when seventeen of the top twenty basketball teams agreed to enter the NCAA tournament, it proved to be the end for the AIAW.
In 1982 the first Division I NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament was held. The NCAA was able to offer incentives, such as payment of transportation costs, to participating members, something the AIAW was not able to do. When former AIAW powerhouses like Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, and Old Dominion decided to participate in the NCAA tournament, the AIAW tournament lost much of its appeal and popularity.
NBC canceled its TV contract with the association, and in mid-1982 the AIAW stopped operations in all sports. Following the last AIAW sanctioned event in 1982, the AIAW pursued a federal anti-trust suit against the NCAA. But one year later, after the presiding judge ruled against the organization, the AIAW ceased existence on June 30, 1983.
Under NCAA governance, scholarships increased. However, several problems the NCAA was facing, then and now, began to also affect women's intercollegiate athletics. Examples of these include recruiting irregularities and increased turnover in coaching positions for revenue-producing sports.
Several AIAW championships were televised by the TVS Television Network in 1979.
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Records, 1971-circa 1983, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
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The Lawsuit that Ruined Women's Control of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women?
Plyley, Dale E. (1997). "The AIAW vs. the NCAA: a struggle for power to govern women's athletics in American institutions of higher education 1972-1982" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-05-31. |
0.99748 | Warsaw is the capital of Poland and has loads of cultural attractions, historical buildings, great museums and scenic attractions.
Poland has many World Heritage Sites that are very interesting to visit and photograph. Here are a few of them: List of World Heritage Sites of Poland: The Old City of Zamosc, The Historic Center of Krakow, The Historic Center of Warsaw, The Castle of Teonic, The Centennial Hall and the Wooden Tserkvas. There are many more exciting sites than this..
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Some of the best musicians come from Poland. This country loves great music and has produced a stream of popular artists.
Poland is quickly becoming a popular tourism destination after being overlooked for years. This country has so much to offer, beaches, mountains, lake districts, historic landmarks, and great cuisine. This is a great place to visit and enjoy the people, the food, and the scenery. |
0.981785 | Stranger Things Season 2: What Exactly Is the Mind Flayer?
Warning: this post contains spoilers about Stranger Things Season 2.
Last year, Stranger Things redefined our collective nightmares when it introduced us to the Demogorgon, the terrifying monster that killed Barb and dragged Will into the Upside Down.
If you thought the Duffer Brothers had peaked at Demogorgon though, you are sorely mistaken. This year's main villain, the Shadow Monster, is next-level in every way. Here's what you need to know about it.
First of all, it's huge—like squash most of Hawkins under it's gigantic, tentacle-like legs huge. Will starts seeing it in his flashes to the Upside Down and it appears as a giant, black creature with four huge legs that split off into even more smaller (but still huge) legs. It's like the alien from Alien and Aragog from Harry Potter had a baby and then that baby was experimented on and exposed to more gamma radiation than the Hulk. Also, it goes by the name Mind Flayer, which is an antagonist in Dungeons and Dragons.
TL;DR: It's a huge, scary spider-like monster that looks like it eats souls the way Gaston eats eggs.
To kill. We know this because Will tells us after the Shadow Monster possesses him.
Wait, it can POSSESS people?
Yeah, it can. After Bob gives Will some very well-intentioned advice about facing his fears, he tries to stand down the Shadow Monster during one of his flashes to the Upside Down. Instead of conquering his fears, Will merges with the monster and becomes its eyes, ears, and occasional mouthpiece in the human world.
The demodogs (essentially miniature Demogorgons that run around like dogs/the velociraptors from Jurassic Park), are basically the Shadow Monster's minions. Basically, the Shadow Monster powerful enough to take last year's single, main villain and copy it dozens of times into an army.
What makes the Shadow Monster so much worse than the Demogorgon?
Aside from having an army of minions, the ability to possess people, and being absolutely gargantuan? The Shadow Monster has a series of tunnels under Hawkins that are filled with living vines that can and will capture and consume humans if given the chance. The Demogorgon could cross over to the real world from the Upside Down, the Shadow Monster is literally able to put down roots in the real world from the Upside Down, suggesting a lot more power and control over inter-dimensional space than even the Demogorgon possessed. And as we saw in the very last scene of Season 2, it's not exactly dead. |
0.694759 | Where to eat, grab a quick coffee, or linger over a cup with a bit of something to eat.
Pool, ping pong, shuffleboard, karaoke and trivia!
Coffee shop, bakery, bistro, and wine bar.
Open 24 hours a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, & everything in between. |
0.999846 | Asking someone who is familiar with the plant what a bird of paradise tree looks like would likely produce a variety of answers. An attractive tropical plant, it can be found growing in USDA zones 9 through 11 in landscapes, or as houseplants in cooler zones.
While called a tree, the bird of paradise is often referred to as a shrub or perennial plant. Since it can reach heights of 35 feet tall, it is understandable that it would be considered in the tree family. It is a member of the well known houseplant by the same name, only as a much larger version. The beautiful, exotic blooms that emerge from the tree are the only semblance it has to its smaller cousin; dark bluish black bracts with bristly white petals and blue stamens arising majestically from the plant can be as long as 16 inches and stand up to 8 inches tall. It is its flowers that give both the houseplant and the tree its distinctive name; looking quite like the ruffled heads of cranes from afar.
One aspect of this lovely landscape plant that makes it so unique is its appearance. Not only awe inspiring because of its size, the bird of paradise has similarities to other plants besides the flowering houseplant. Several rough ridged trunks much like that of a palm tree though somewhat more slender grow erect from a single stem; the texture of which gives it the look of a typical palm. The ridges have formed as scars from old leaf growth that has been shed during the growth of the tree, much in the same manner as a palm.
Emerging from these trunks are long leaves that are similar to those found on a banana plant. Although not remotely related to the banana tree, the bird of paradise tree is commonly referred to in its native areas of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Eastern Cape as the “wild banana”, among other names. Shiny green leaves extending out from the trunk as much as 6 feet long to present a fan-like clumping habit at the tops of the tree. Their symmetrical formation makes them especially attractive for use as landscaping accents in parks, yards and garden areas. Plant leaves are used in South Africa to make rope after being dried; the rope is valuable for use in building huts and fishing equipment.
Growing the bird of paradise tree outdoors can be difficult for those living in northern states. The tree is a tropical plant, meaning that it is not at all tolerant of heavy frosts. However, this fact should not inhibit people in these areas from enjoying the lush, exotic appearance of this plant in their own gardens. The bird of paradise does very well when planted in containers, and can thrive for many years in a large pot where it can be transported indoors when harsh weather conditions threaten. Gardeners in USDA zones 9 through 11 are fortunate to have the very climate that the tree enjoys, and combined with the fact that it endures salty, ocean breezes make it a perfect choice for coastal areas. Partial to full sun and adequate amounts of water will result in a healthy, flourishing plant.
Striking features of three different plants cumulate in one unique and interesting bird of paradise tree; exotic flowers like those of the lovely houseplants of the same name, glossy leaves similar to those of a banana tree and textured trunks such as found on palm trees. When grown in appropriate conditions, this plant will present a tropical appearance in any landscape or home. |
0.937285 | Captain William West arrived at Jamestown in June of 1610 with his relative—the governor, Lord De La Warr—and another kinsman, Sir Ferdinando Wainman. He was killed in fighting against elite Indian warriors near present-day Richmond in the fall or winter of 1610.
William West was born around 1585 in England although little is known about his life. He arrived at Jamestown in June 1610 as part of a military force commanded by his kinsman Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the first captain general and governor of the colony. Several months later, De La Warr ordered some of his men to the falls of the James River—near present day Richmond—to repossess a fort (“Laware’s Fort”) abandoned by the English the year before. The fort was located in the heartland of the Powhatan chiefdom and fierce fighting between English soldiers and Indian warriors took place there. After West was killed he was brought back to Jamestown for burial, likely because of his kinship to Lord De La Warr.
How was William West buried?
Captain William West's grave was the southernmost of the four chancel burials. He was interred in an anthropomorphic, or human-shaped, coffin with his head to the west. Although only traces of the wood survived, plotting of the nail positions revealed the coffin’s original shape. His grave had been seriously disturbed by two later 17th-century boundary ditches and a 1930s utility trench. These disturbances had impacted his cranium and right leg, and only a few inches of fill remained in the grave shaft.
Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists discovered a silver-and-cloth artifact placed between William West's left humerus, or arm bone, and left ribs. This object was the only item found to have been deliberately- placed inside one of the coffins. Archaeologists only exposed a small portion of this delicate artifact in the field in order to protect it and undertake a more controlled excavation in the lab. They removed the torso and the artifact along with the surrounding soil for more careful analysis. X-rays revealed that the object was a 6-inch by 3-inch bundled section of a sash, which had been positioned lengthwise with the orientation of the remains. The x-rays also showed dozens of silver spangles and a dense concentration of silver thread. Research indicates that this type of sash was a mark of a captain's rank.
What evidence suggests this is William West?
Despite the poor overall state of the remains, Smithsonian forensic anthropologists were able to determine through surviving cranial features and long bone measurements that this individual was a male between 22 and 25 years old at the time of death. Historical records indicate that West was around 25 when he died, so the forensic analysis supports his identification.
Lord De La Warr lost two relatives during his tenure at Jamestown (June 10, 1610 – March 1611): West and Wainman. Similarities between the two burials suggest that the two individuals were connected in some way and thus help to support their identification as the Governor’s kinsmen. The two burials had nearly identical high-status anthropomorphic—or human-shaped—coffins. Similar nail patterns, nail sizes, and construction techniques suggest that these two unique coffins were built by the same carpenter. Furthermore both skeletons exhibited a high lead count, which can be indicative of high-status people. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries elites used pewter and lead-glazed vessels more frequently than their less wealthy counterparts. |
0.971237 | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have written a CUBLAS wrapper in Python using ctypes. CUBLAS uses the CUDA runtime API whereas PyCUDA uses the driver API. Thankfully both are compatible nowadays and so mixing the two is in and of itself not an issue. My wrapper is along the lines of: class Cublas(object): def __init__(self, ...): ... cublasInit(byref(self._handle)) def __del__(self): cublasDestroy(self._handle) where handle is a CUBLAS V2 API handle. Issues arise, however, if there is an uncaught exception. In this case Python fires off the atexit handlers (which cause the CUDA context to be popped) before garbage collecting objects. However, if there is no active context then cublasDestroy will segfault. My current workaround is to put an if statement which checks to see if pycuda.autoinit.context is None and if not then call cublasDestroy. However, I am interested if there is a more elegant solution. Having to explicitly .pop() a context is something of a nusiance. Can PyCUDA not do that on its own when the object is GC'ed? Regards, Freddie.
I have written a CUBLAS wrapper in Python using ctypes. CUBLAS uses the CUDA runtime API whereas PyCUDA uses the driver API. Thankfully both are compatible nowadays and so mixing the two is in and of itself not an issue. My wrapper is along the lines of: class Cublas(object): def __init__(self, ...): ... cublasInit(byref(self._handle)) def __del__(self): cublasDestroy(self._handle) where handle is a CUBLAS V2 API handle. Issues arise, however, if there is an uncaught exception. In this case Python fires off the atexit handlers (which cause the CUDA context to be popped) before garbage collecting objects. However, if there is no active context then cublasDestroy will segfault. My current workaround is to put an if statement which checks to see if pycuda.autoinit.context is None and if not then call cublasDestroy. However, I am interested if there is a more elegant solution. Having to explicitly .pop() a context is something of a nusiance. Can PyCUDA not do that on its own when the object is GC'ed?
I did look at -- and originally use -- the scikits.cuda wrapper. However the wrapper only exposes the legacy v1 interface to CUBLAS. (Although, for reasons I do not completely understand, will use the _v2 interface it is is available but tries to shoehorn a v1 style wrapper around it. Given that the v1 interface is still available in the .so this seems strange to me.) Hence, the wrapper provides no support for the device-pointer mode of v2. I did consider improving it however my attempts to contact the developer resulted in an e-mail bounce.
Second, as an answer to your question: pycuda.autoinit is by no means a required part of PyCUDA. Just do your own initialization (and also initialize PyCUDA), and tell your users to call your init instead of PyCUDA's.
It is, however, necessary to pop() the context before program termination, no? As this is, to an extent, my issue. Currently one option, potentially, is to create a wrapper class which takes care of calling self._ctx.pop() in __del__ and takes care of creating the context on __init__. I can then retain an handle to this in my CUBLAS class so ensure that it will be kept around. (Although am yet to work out the details so my idea is possibly flawed). Regards, Freddie.
I did consider improving it however my attempts to contact the developer resulted in an e-mail bounce.
He was around at least until June. Lev, you here?
> Second, as an answer to your question: pycuda.autoinit is by no > means a required part of PyCUDA. Just do your own initialization > (and also initialize PyCUDA), and tell your users to call your init > instead of PyCUDA's. It is, however, necessary to pop() the context before program termination, no? As this is, to an extent, my issue. Currently one option, potentially, is to create a wrapper class which takes care of calling self._ctx.pop() in __del__ and takes care of creating the context on __init__. I can then retain an handle to this in my CUBLAS class so ensure that it will be kept around. (Although am yet to work out the details so my idea is possibly flawed).
Freddie Witherden <freddie(a)witherden.org> writes: > I did consider improving it however my attempts to contact the > developer resulted in an e-mail bounce. He was around at least until June. Lev, you here?
Yes - just very busy :-\ L.G.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2012 15:36, Andreas Kloeckner wrote: > First off, why are you making a new CUBLAS wrapper instead of > making scikits.cuda better? > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikits.cuda/ I did look at -- and originally use -- the scikits.cuda wrapper. However the wrapper only exposes the legacy v1 interface to CUBLAS. (Although, for reasons I do not completely understand, will use the _v2 interface it is is available but tries to shoehorn a v1 style wrapper around it. Given that the v1 interface is still available in the .so this seems strange to me.) Hence, the wrapper provides no support for the device-pointer mode of v2.
The current CUBLAS wrappers use the v2 interface because NVIDIA dropped the v1 interfaces in the early 4.x shared libraries. I tried to maintain v1-like Python interface to avoid breaking code that was using it via the admittedly crude expedient of maintaining a global library context variable to pass to the v2 function interfaces. Rather than continue to propagate this situation, I'm going to modify the wrapper to expose the v2 interface outright.
Sorry about the bounce, Freddie - that was due to a transient problem with my mail that has since been fixed. Note that issues such as development suggestions or requests regarding the toolbox can also be reported on GitHub. L.G.
I should have added that the v1 interfaces were restored (as you correctly observed) in subsequent releases.
to maintain v1-like Python interface to avoid breaking code that was using it via the admittedly crude expedient of maintaining a global library context variable to pass to the v2 function interfaces. Rather than continue to propagate this situation, I'm going to modify the wrapper to expose the v2 interface outright.
Okay. This is good to know. It is my contention that the .errcheck attrbiute could also be used to greatly simplify some of the code -- especially with regards to error handling. Also, on a more general note do you know if calls such as: alpha = c_double(x) cublasCall(..., byref(alpha)) are safe when used in conjunction with streams? (I am wondering if alpha could be GC'ed after cublasCall returns but before the stream has executed the call, resulting in undefined behaviour when the CUDA driver attempts to read/copy byref(alpha) onto the device.) Regards, Freddie.
On 11/10/12 13:19, Lev Givon wrote: > The current CUBLAS wrappers use the v2 interface because NVIDIA > dropped the v1 interfaces in the early 4.x shared libraries. I tried > to maintain v1-like Python interface to avoid breaking code that was > using it via the admittedly crude expedient of maintaining a global > library context variable to pass to the v2 function interfaces. Rather > than continue to propagate this situation, I'm going to modify the > wrapper to expose the v2 interface outright. Okay. This is good to know. It is my contention that the .errcheck attrbiute could also be used to greatly simplify some of the code -- especially with regards to error handling.
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try it out.
Also, on a more general note do you know if calls such as: alpha = c_double(x) cublasCall(..., byref(alpha)) are safe when used in conjunction with streams? (I am wondering if alpha could be GC'ed after cublasCall returns but before the stream has executed the call, resulting in undefined behaviour when the CUDA driver attempts to read/copy byref(alpha) onto the device.) Regards, Freddie.
Not sure; I would ordinarily suggest turning to the NVIDIA forums, but they still seem to be down. One possible way to avoid such an occurrence might be to temporarily disable GC until the stream synchronizes. L.G.
Not sure; I would ordinarily suggest turning to the NVIDIA forums, but they still seem to be down. One possible way to avoid such an occurrence might be to temporarily disable GC until the stream synchronizes.
In case people haven't noticed (which is no wonder since they went down months ago), NVIDIA got new forums back online. CUDA discussion seems to be on the developer forums at https://devtalk.nvidia.com/, while https://forums.geforce.com/ is for gamers. -- Tomi Pieviläinen, +358 400 487 504 A: Because it disrupts the natural way of thinking. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? |
0.999998 | Is it safe to take glucosamine supplements if I have diabetes?
Even though glucosamine is technically a type of sugar, it doesn't appear to affect blood sugar levels or insulin sensitivity. Some early research had suggested that glucosamine might worsen insulin resistance, which can contribute to increases in blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. But later studies refuted these findings.
Glucosamine is one of the most popular dietary supplements sold in the United States, although study results have been mixed regarding its ability to reduce osteoarthritis pain.
Although glucosamine doesn't appear to affect glucose levels or insulin sensitivity, it can interact with other medications you might be taking — such as warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven), a blood thinner. As is important with any dietary supplement, talk to your doctor before you add glucosamine to your daily regimen. |
0.998658 | Create a flyer for "Making Sense of Reality"
This book amends ordinary cultural sociology by providing it with meaning and sensitivity, and at the end leaves far away behind us the idea of any coherent ensemble of constraints determining us in spite of us, to the benefit of a collective experience able to produce new realities, relations, sites of expression and of living together. Excellent, politically/ethically empowering, and innovative!
Making Sense of Reality articulates what culture is and how it works. It brings substantive concreteness to a concept that is so central it ordinarily defies clear definition. DeNora brings together a wide range of literatures while maintaining a strongly insightful and original voice of her own.
Making sense of the everyday is not a topic or theme, but a way of looking at things, a sense and sensibility of ordinary life. The diversity of studies and topics that DeNora puts together will enable readers to find a subject close to one's heart and, at the same time, this heterogeneity brings about a kind of sociology that is not only micro, nor individualistic, but simply human.
The book provides a notably extensive case study based approach to decipher how we make sense of reality in our everyday. DeNora draws upon an eclectic mix of theories, such as socio-music, sociology of health and illness, embodiment, organisational culture and neuropsychology, in support of her argument, claiming that ‘the aim of this slightly magpie tactic is to provide tasting-sized portions of what sociology can show, and what it can do’.
The conceptual approach of this book does not fit with the overall approach in my cultural psychology course. |
0.999999 | What does it mean to dream of Museum?
1. To dream that you see or visit a museum, means you will achieve impressive achievements, and will establish social contacts that will bring you huge benefits and profits. |
0.999684 | Fiji is already known for its sparkling waters. After all, what's better on your honeymoon than the usual stunning vista of vivid blue drinking water, an endless sunny sky, and soft white powdery sand under your feet?
Selecting an accommodation in Fiji is extensive. I'd recommend a luxury beach villa as the perfect location to spend your honeymoon. Many of these villas are private, well-designed, and completely intimate; the perfect location to get started your marriage. You can also find hotels that offer overwater bures for that ultimate experience. You may find lavish accommodation for your honeymoon on www.paradiseinfiji.com/honeymoon/.
If your budget do not allow you to enjoy overwater bures, don’t despair; you'll also manage to book a regular bure, typically charmingly nestled along the beachfront and throughout the gardens. Some of these even have their own plunge pools, with stunning views of the perfect lagoon, outdoor time in the shower, and decks with their own daybeds. The hotel also has a spa, horizon-edge swimming pool, and fine meals included in the price.
Fiji is also the perfect place for active folks. There are many enthralling activities available. You could go boating in a catamarans or a kayak, head away for a few windsurfing, or go underwater for some snorkelling. Scuba diving is also available in many places, and you will find training dives available for many who don't have any experience of the sport. |
0.998018 | Do you want to capture great photos of your horse? Taking photos of horses is more challenging than it seems at first. But regardless of whether you have a top-rate DSLR camera or you're photographing with a more simple point-and-shoot camera, these tips can help to improve the quality of your horse photos.
No matter how great a photographer you are, photos of a messy, dirty horse will not come out looking great. When you're planning to take photos of your horse, take the time to clean your horse up first. At the very minimum, brush off any mud or dirt and untangle your horse's forelock, mane, and tail.
In addition to cleaning up the horse, you want to make sure that any tack on the horse is well-fitting, clean, and flattering. Opt for a leather halter instead of a nylon halter, and use a matching leather lead in place of a nylon or rope lead. If you're photographing a horse under saddle, take the time to wipe down the bridle and saddle, and use a clean saddle pad that won't detract from the photo. For detail shots, take the time to wipe down the horse's eyes, muzzle, and bit.
In cleaning up your horse you've ensured that the subject of your photo is presentable and attractive. But you can't forget about the background of the photo - a busy, cluttered background can detract from the quality of your photo. When choosing a background for your photo, try to find an area that is clean and attractive, letting the focus of the photo stay on your horse. Keep an eye out for potential distractions like power lines, broken fences, jump standards between you and your subject, and other common materials found around your barn.
Looking for a background that can work in your favor? Consider photographing your horse against the solid background of the side of your barn. An open field can also be ideal, particularly if there are trees in the background. A clean arena is also a great place to take photos, but make sure to remove any extra clutter like unused jumps or a mounting block before you start taking photos.
The source and direction of light has a major effect on your photos. When you take photos, it is best to always have the light behind you. If the light is behind your subject and you are shooting into the light, then you will be dealing with sunbursts on your photo and a very poorly lit subject.
Identify where the sun is shining from and position yourself so that you are between the sun and your subject. This will allow your subject to be properly lit. You will also want to consider what time of day you're shooting at. Shooting in the early morning and the late afternoon is typically best, since it allows you to take advantage of the warm, golden light at those times. This warm light is flattering, whereas the harsh light that is common at noon can wash out your subject and leave your photo looking overexposed. Shooting when there are soft clouds overhead can also help to distill some of the harsher light of midday.
Pay attention to where you are shooting from. Are you looking down on the horse as you shoot? That's often the case, and one simple change that can have a big difference in your photos is to bend your knees just a little bit when you shoot. Bending your knees brings the frame of the photo down just slightly; ideally you want the photo to be level with the horse's body. Watch how your photo changes as you lower yourself down just a little bit, and think about staying even with your horse's shoulder when you shoot.
The very shape of the horse's body makes it difficult to get a great shot, especially when you're facing the horse head-on. Because the horse's body is so long, photographing a horse from the front creates an optical illusion where the horse's head appears much larger than it actually is. While this can make for a comical photo, it is not a flattering look at a horse. To avoid this issue, try to photograph your horse from the side or from a slight angle - never head-on from the front.
When it comes to taking great photos of your horse, practice makes perfect. Try to study the work of photographer you like to see what they're doing. Then, head out to the barn and spend some time experimenting and figuring out what works best for you. |
0.999445 | This is a very complex scripture, as are many others.
Paraphrase: You are the salt of the earth.
The Central Idea of this text: I believe is to emphasize that reason that Jesus became a man was to suffer and die for His people.
I think the central idea is a command to set our hope fully on the future benefits of our salvation, when Christ returns.
I think the central idea is that faith is relying on God to the exclusion of our pride.
The God who makes Himself known. |
0.98475 | Would you recommend Seasons at Avon to others?
Within 200 yards from the Riverfront Express Gondola and a short walk to all of Avon's amenities and attractions, The Seasons at Avon is an excellent choice for an unforgettable Beaver Creek vacation. The spacious accommodations at The Seasons at Avon offer every modern convenience, including gourmet kitchens, fireplaces, and private balconies. Located near Shuttle, The Seasons at Avon provides easy access to the slopes of both Beaver Creek Mountain and Vail Mountain. |
0.999998 | Does the phone need cellular service?
No. The phone only requires Wi-Fi or cellular service. |
0.999341 | card review White Knight: White Knight -Protection still misunderstood?
White Knight -Protection still misunderstood?
A 2 White mana cost first strike and protection from black human Knight. One of the most recognized anti-black creatures and one of the cheapest first strike with protection cards.
This card would stop any black creature as long as it does not have trample or removes his protection. This is quite handy for outmanurvering black enchantments and spells while protecting you.
Unlike what some think protection actually allows creatures to become immune to field enchantments if they come into play after it. This allows them to defeat or stop anything that is the color it has protection from in its path. The thing about protection when it says "targeted or enchanted" actually means no-aura (or enchant creature) or anything that targets which global (non-aura) enchantments actually do each time a new card that it can affect does. So "Humiliy" and "Reverence" won't work on any creature with protection from white if it comes into play after them.
Combine him with "Armored Accension" to boost him strong enough to take down stronger black creatures and stop specters that are usually used to attack. "Lifelink", "Asha's Favor" and "Indestructibility" would make hima force to be reckoned with. "Lifelink" to gain what he deals, "Asha's Favor" to gain vigilance and flying just in case. And "Indestructibility" will hamper most stratagies at destroying him, including "Wrath of God", "Damnation" and "Planar Cleasing".
The main way to counter him is entire field cards like "Wrath of God", "Damnation", "Planar Cleasing", and the usual counters like "Counterspell".
Anything black will be hard pressed to stop him. He comes in handy for blocking black creatures with any power as long as they can't fly or have trample unless his first strike can prevent that. Use him to stop black token swarms and your opponents stongest black creatures.
He can still be counter like any creature and as long as the card does not posses the color he has protection from then he becomes only useful are a 2/2 first strike.
There are only 3 different artistic renditions of both "White Knight" and "Black Knight", 4th/5th Edition, Legions and M10. M10 is the only version that does not contain flavor text.
The artwork with "White Knight" and "Black Knight" (as they are parallels) is meant to be iconic. The M10 variention could have also had a helmeted look as its previous and flavor text was meant to signify the importance of being the representation of the opposing sides of black and white.
As said above White and Black Knight represent each a side. Funny enough, they can never combat each other. |
0.958659 | Many individuals who have severe substance addictions have become so consumed by their addiction that they ignore the responsibilities of everyday life. Chronic substance abuse leads to chemical changes in the brain, the parts that are responsible for decision-making, social-emotional processing, and inhibition. These behavioral changes cause the individual to neglect proper self-care and care for those that depend on them. This is why re-learning life skills are so critical in addiction treatment.
When a person enters inpatient addiction treatment, they are removed from the distractions, stressors, and contact from normal life. While this is ideal for substance abuse treatment, it also cuts off daily life responsibilities. There are numerous challenges in everyday life, which is why it is essential for treatment centers to work with clients and prepare them for a normal life after treatment.
The term “life skills” refers to the skills necessary for managing and living a quality life. Any skill that is useful and beneficial to daily life can be considered a life skill. This includes any task from swimming, driving a car, and using a computer. Developing life skills in recovery helps individuals build a new lifestyle that focuses on their well-being. By learning life skills during treatment, individuals are better equipped to manage their recovery through the hurdles of daily life. Life after treatment will undoubtedly face triggers, distractions, and cravings, so it’s important for them to learn how to deal with these challenges before they arise.
Stress management. Learning to manage stress helps to reduce the effects that stressors have in everyday life. These stressors may trigger cravings for alcohol and drugs, which is why it’s so important to learn how to manage them.
Adopting healthy habits. Clients in treatment must re-learn how to take care of themselves. Adopting healthy personal habits like doing laundry, grocery shopping, and proper nutrition and hygiene are all positive ways to maintain sobriety. Developing a personalized fitness routine and nutritional plan are critical healthy habits in recovery.
Self-care. During active addiction, an individual has neglected caring for themselves. Recovery is a time to embrace a self-care routine. When a person completes a treatment program, they may dive right back into responsibilities such as school, work, and family life. This can be a challenging transition. While aftercare is an option, an individual should also focus on taking the time to care for themselves. Set time aside to meditate, listen to music, take a walk, or just sit outside and relax. This time is critical for maintaining a positive attitude in recovery.
Developing routines. Coming up with a positive routine for morning, afternoon, evening, and bedtime helps the individual create a cycle of health and wellness. A healthy daily routine helps people maintain healthy habits and create a better lifestyle.
Better communication. Communication skills are important for navigating through daily life. Being able to effectively convey one’s thoughts, feelings, and ideas is a critical life skill. Better communication skills are a tool that helps strengthen and rebuild strained family and friend relationships. By understanding and responding appropriately to social cues, we shape the interactions and improve the connection with others.
Stronger relationships. By developing stronger social skills, individuals are able to develop stronger, more meaningful relationships with their peers, family, and the public.
Negotiate effectively. Strong communication skills help individuals to be able to negotiate effectively without conflict. Negotiation is about being assertive without being argumentative. This aids towards an outcome that suits all parties involved.
Building winning resumes. Creating a winning resume helps to appeal to hiring personnel when applying to jobs. Displaying your job experience with a strong resume is a critical professional life skill.
Computer skills. Developing basic computer skills. Most jobs in today’s market require basic computer skills because no matter what position it is, computers are almost always required. Many jobs will require specific programs, but once you have developed basic computer skills, learning different programs is much easier.
Problem-solving. Problem-solving is a process in which you identify a problem, develop possible solutions, and determine the appropriate response. Employers will often identify effective problem-solving skills as a major component of their company’s success. Problem-solving skills are used to develop and create unique solutions that help an organization flourish.
How Can Life Skills Help?
Training and strengthening life skills are important to a comprehensive treatment program. Life skills aid in the physical and emotional healing of the mind and body after a period of self-destruction. These skills aren’t just necessary to addiction treatment, they also decrease the risk of relapse in the future.
If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction, contact us to help you take the next step. |
0.999916 | Hundreds of herbs have been used for their health-caring properties ever since they were discovered. They are highly diverse in their application and benefits, and there is hardly any condition that cannot be positively influenced by herbal treatment. For example, some of the most common herbs – Gingko biloba, Rhodiola rosea, St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum), Bloody Geranium (Geranium sanguineum), etc, can be applied for various purposes: to support the immune system, support anti-inflammatory processes in a healthy organism, tonic the muscle and nervous systems, improve brain activity, and many more. Nowadays it is getting more and more common to go back to nature, as people start realizing that widely used drugs can be not only beneficial, but harmful as well. I bet that at least once it has come to your mind that the medication you are taking has done more harm than good for your health. That is why herbalism is gaining interest and it is advisable to make an informed choice once it comes to your body and health, so that you treat yourself the best possible way. Herbal plants can be taken in various forms, like extracts, capsules, teas, or even whole herbs. With so many options present on the market, people are getting confused which is actually the best choice for them. In order to make the best choice, let me explain you what I mean when talking about supplements based on standardized herbal extracts.
Whole herbs are normally taken dried and encapsulated, where all parts of the herb are just ‘chopped up’ into smaller pieces. This is good in a way because you are taking the whole spectrum of ingredients present in the herb. In addition, there are speculations that the ‘inactive’ ingredients in the powdered whole herbs have synergic effect and that is what actually makes them work. However, it is more difficult for your organism to assimilate the biologicaplly active phytochemical (the one that actually do the work) from the whole herb.
On the other hand, there are no standardization methods for such supplements and huge variations are observed between herbs grown in different regions of the world, or harvested during different times of the year. Also, the processing techniques can play a role as well, influencing the final product, even though you assume you are taking a ‘completely natural product’. Ultimately, all of this leads to uncertainty in terms of efficacy and quality of the product, even if you buy the same brand each time. The chemical composition of such products varies in a noticeable way between different batches of the same brand, resulting in unreliable outcome. Generally, supplements which offer encapsulated grinded herb (and not their concentrated extract) are cheap and faulty, having small or no effect at all.
If you prefer to take the whole herb – either gather it manually or buy it from the herbalist shop. Then you can make a tea or tincture. Do not buy supplements with capsules containing just grinded herb. The body is not capable to assimilate and extract the beneficial properties from grinded herb in a capsule.
On the other hand, standardized herbal extracts represent the main active ingredients in a given plant. Scientific studies have come to the conclusion exactly which compounds are responsible for the beneficial effect of a specific herb, so isolating them in a standardized herbal extract is the best possible way to provide your organism with them. Also, this allows for the useless compounds present in the herbs to be removed.
However, this can be tricky, because even if a single compound is believed to provide for the benefits of a herb, this may not be the whole picture. I believe a lot of you have come across different dietary supplements, containing Tribulus Terrestris extract (some of them even falsely claiming to be Bulgarian Tribulus Terrestris), with 90% protodioscin. As a comparison, our VemoHerb Bulgarian Tribulus contains 60% furostanol saponins, determined as protodioscin, and anyone who has ever tried it will confirm it is superior to everything else present on the market. This is due to the fact that in our extract we isolate not only protodioscin, but also the whole group of furostanol saponins. Their synergic effect is what actually works in the body, so do not be fooled to rely on the protodioscin on its own.
A standardized herbal extract is made via plenty of extractions and tens of kg herbs are used to produce a small amount of potent extract. For example, our famous VemoHerb Bulgarian Tribulus Terrestris extract is made with extraction ratio of 1:50 (i.e. 1 kg extract is produced from 50 kg herbs). However, there is lot to be cautious of, when choosing your herbal extract dietary supplement. There are plenty of manufacturers that produce low quality extracts with small or even no effect. This was observed with extracts from Tribulus Terrestris, where Chinese and Indian products were analytically proven to contain forbidden substances (steroids), in order to enhance the effect of the otherwise weak extract. Therefore, once you decide to buy dietary supplements, make sure you choose a reliable manufacturer.
In addition, choosing standardized herbal extracts has the benefit to provide for the same quality and quantity of active ingredient with each batch. Trustworthy manufacturers are quality certified, which ensures the same production technique and standardization of a given product every single time is it produced. This means that no matter what the environmental, harvest, growth, i.e. factors were, you get the same quality extract with every new bottle you buy. Of course, this is the case only if you carefully pick a brand that goes for quality instead of quantity.
1. Find supplements that use standardized herbal extracts and show clearly on the label the main active ingredients and their content (in % or in mg) in the extract.
All in all, when it comes to supplementing yourself, read a lot and make an informed choice, so that you get the best of nature! |
0.999937 | Teach me Toys is a local 100% Australian family business with a strong focus on encouraging preferred methods for development to accelerate learning throughout your childs life. We specialize in toys and aids for development and learning for babies from birth right through to 12 years old. We have young children ourselves and every product has gone through rigorous testing from some of the harshest an most honest critics we know.
Everything is at minimum Australian standard so is guaranteed to be safe for use with your children. We supply Primary schools and childcare centres with toys so you can be sure that everything is only the best. We have sorted through hundreds of Australian manufacturers and wholesalers to ensure that every product is nothing but the best quality. Please feel free to browse through our store and if you have any questions or special requirements, please do not hesitate to ask as we are constantly reviewing our product range and there is always another wonderful toy waiting around the corner. |
0.999515 | The Swift FX headgear ensures a flexible support that provides a clear line of sight while simultaneously securing a stable support system. The headgear straps fit easily behind the head and provides stability for hours, maintaining comfort throughout your sleep apnea therapy session.
The Swift FX provides a flexible headgear that has no contact points on the face, which provide you an unobstructed line of sight while maintaining comfort. You will have complete freedom watching TV or reading a book before bed without noticing the headgear on your face.
ResMed has designed the Swift Nano to be adjustable and versatile in matching the headgear to your needs. Adjustments can be done through the buckle on top of the headgear as well as the velcro fasteners on the back strap, providing you with stability and comfort you need. The headgear also includes lock and tab key hinges which allow for easy attachment and release of the two point headgear to the cushion of the mask.
The Swift FX comes with lock and tab key hinges allowing for easy attachment and release.
Does the Swift Nano come with forehead support?
No, the Swift Nano Headgear is able to maintain optimal support without the use of a forehead support. |
0.855014 | Avogadro's number, named in honor of Amedeo Avogadro and denoted by NA, is the number of items in a mole. It is formally defined as the number of Carbon-12 atoms in 0.012 kg of Carbon-12.
which is sufficiently accurate for many applications.
A number of methods can be used to measure Avogadro's number. One modern method is to calculate Avogadro's number from the density of a crystal, the relative atomic mass, and the unit cell length determined from x-ray crystallography. Very accurate values of these quantities for silicon have been measured at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and used to obtain the value of Avogadro's number.
A Carbon-12 atom consists of 6 protons and 6 neutrons (which have approximately the same mass) and 6 electrons (whose mass is negligible in comparison). One could therefore think that NA is the number of protons or neutrons that have a mass of 1 gram. While this is approximately correct, the mass of a free proton is 1.00727 amu, so a mole of protons would actually have a mass of 1.00727 g. Similarly, a mole of neutrons has a mass of 1.00866 g. Clearly, 6 moles of protons combined with six moles of neutrons would have a mass greater than 12 g. So, you might ask how one mole of Carbon-12 atoms, which should consist of 6 moles each of protons, neutrons, and electrons could possibly have a mass of only 12 g? What happened to the excess mass? The answer is related to the equivalence of matter and energy discovered by Albert Einstein as part of the theory of special relativity. When an atom is formed, the protons and neutrons in the nucleus are bound together by the strong nuclear force. This binding results in the formation of a low energy state and is accompanied by a large release of energy. Since energy is equivalent to mass, the released energy corresponds to a loss in the mass of the nucleus relative to that of the separated protons and neutrons. Thus, protons and neutrons in the nucleus have masses that are less (about 0.7 percent less) than free protons and neutrons. The precise amount of mass loss is related to the binding energy of the nucleus and varies depending on the type of atom.
One may therefore say that NA is approximately the number of nuclear neutrons or protons that have a mass of 1 gram. This is approximate because the precise mass of a nuclear proton or neutron depends on the composition of the nucleus.
Avogadro's number often yields practical reasonings in real life. For example, the fact that a finite number of atoms are in a given amount of material is one reason for scientific criticism of homeopathy, in which medicinal materials are often diluted to the extent that Avogadro's number would imply that none remains. See homeopathy for more detail on this debate.
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 28 (1999) 1713. |
0.97763 | 1) Read the following passage.
My friend Zeynep likes playing games. Her favourite subject is physical education. She hates Wednesdays and Thursdays because we do maths. Our teacher usually gives a lot of homework every day but Zeynep never does her homework. She is always happy when the school finishes at four because she can play in the garden. She usually goes to bed at 11.
On Saturdays she goes to the swimming pool with her friends in the afternoon and then she goes to a disco and dances until midnight. On Sundays she never stays at home. She cycles in the morning. After lunch she goes to the sports club and plays tennis there. In the evening she plays basketball in the garden.
Zeynep is not a good student but she is a very good sports girl.
What does Zeynep like at school? ……………………………………………..
Is she happy on Wednesdays and Thursdays? ……………………………………………..
Does she like doing homework? ……………………………………………..
What time can she play on school days? ……………………………………………..
What time does she usually go to bed? ……………………………………………..
What does she do on Saturday afternoons? ……………………………………………..
Does she stay at home on Saturday evenings? ……………………………………………..
Where does she go in the evenings on Saturday? ……………………………………………..
How long does she usually dance in the disco? ……………………………………………..
10. How long does she cycle on Sunday mornings? ……………………………………………..
11. Where does she play tennis? ……………………………………………..
12. Why doesn’t Zeynep like maths? ……………………………………………..
13. Why is Physical Education her favourite subject? ……………………………………………..
14. Why isn’t Zeynep a good student? ……………………………………………..
your father / usually / go / work / bus / ?
16. you / do / part-time job / summer / ? |
0.991195 | While a significant portion of development on FOSS projects is undertaken by volunteers hacking on their free time, the majority, at least on high profile projects like the Linux Kernel is undertaken by organisations to further their own agendas.
Why do organisations contribute to FOSS projects?
Any organisation may make use of a FOSS project, provided they comply with the licence terms. This is appealing for organisations as there is often a FOSS project that does approximately, if not completely, what is required.
Organisations may make changes to make the software suit their purposes better, and they do so freely, providing that they comply with the licence terms.
No FOSS licence requires that organisations contribute their changes directly back to the upstream project, and if an organisation is only making a one-off product and there are no ongoing updates required, then there is no compelling need to contribute the changes upstream.
However, this is an unlikely situation; the success of one product can imply a future product line, and all our gadgets are increasingly connected, so security updates are an essential feature.
Both the case of new products and the case of updating existing products for security or functionality reasons imply the need to use a newer version of any FOSS project used in the product. Since projects change over time to adapt to the needs of their users, and it is a relatively safe assumption that there's an overlap between the needs of the users of the FOSS project, and the users of any given product.
If an organisation chooses to use a new version of a FOSS project than previously used, they will need to port any locally held changes to the new version. This becomes harder the more that the 'upstream' FOSS project has changed relative to the last time the organisation updated. So it becomes more sensible, both from a cost and an efficiency point of view, to 'upstream' any changes so that they are included in the FOSS project, so that there is no need to port the changes or make equivalent changes all over again.
As an added benefit, working as early as possible with the 'upstream' on a change ensures that those responsible for the FOSS project can say whether it is a reasonable approach, as they likely have expert knowledge of the domain. |
0.939599 | Why did war break out in 1914?
An enormous amount has been written about the causes of the war and the general opinion of historians has changed greatly during the period since 1918. The opinion of The Allies as the war ended was very clear; Germany was to blame. Germany was required to accept responsibility for the war in The Versailles Peace Treaty, was forced to sign the “War Guilt Clause” and forced to pay reparations for the extensive destruction caused in France and Belgium during the four years of fighting. However, from the 1920s and 1930s onwards, attitudes began to change and the war was seen as a tragedy into which Europe had fallen, caused by factors in which all countries could be seen to bear some of the blame. But from the 1960s onwards, this view was challenged and many modern historians now see the ambitions and actions of Germany as the major factor in the outbreak of war in 1914. This is a subject which will undoubtedly continue to be discussed and written about for many years to come.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie at Sarajevo on 28th June 1914.
Unrest in the Balkans, the area of Southern Europe between the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea, played a key role in the outbreak of war. It was in this region that the incident leading to the outbreak of war, the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, took place on 28 June 1914. For centuries this area had been part of the Turkish Empire, but, as Turkey’s power declined, national groups broke away and formed new countries to govern themselves. This process was encouraged by Russia as a means of increasing her influence in the area and new countries such as Serbia looked to the Russian Empire for support. However, the ambitions of new Balkan states, particularly Serbia, which also claimed territory ruled by Austria, were seen by the Austrian Empire as a direct threat. The Austrian Empire was made up of a patchwork of different nationalities, which also included modern day Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and parts of Poland. These peoples were also beginning to demand the right to govern themselves and this threatened to tear the Austrian Empire apart. Austria was determined to remove the threat of Serbia and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by a member of a Serbian terrorist group gave Austria a justification to attack.
However, the crisis which arose from the assassination could not be kept local within the Balkans as the European powers were tied together in a series of alliances. These alliances have been seen as a key factor which resulted in the assassination dragging all of Europe into war. Germany had an alliance with Austria and Italy, this group often being referred to as The Triple Alliance. France had an alliance with Russia and, although Britain was not formally part of this alliance, she developed close relations with these two countries from about 1900 onwards; this group is often referred to as The Triple Entente. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria was determined to attack Serbia while Russia was determined to support Serbia. Because of her alliance with Austria, Germany would be required to intervene to support Austria against Russia, which would then involve France who was bound by alliance to support Russia. The alliance systems also bred mistrust and fear and each country had built up large armies.
Austria was not the only country in Europe bearing a grievance, however. The German Empire had been established in 1871, but Germany had come into being at France’s expense, following the decisive defeat of France in The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. The creation of the new German Empire was declared in Versailles in 1871 while Paris was under siege. France was further humiliated by being forced to hand over the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany as part of the peace treaty which ended the war. A movement seeking “revanche” (revenge) established itself in France, though its influence prior to 1914 was limited.
Although each of the Great Powers in Europe had grievances which help to explain the outbreak of war in 1914, modern historians have focused more and more on the role of Germany. After 1871, Germany became a major world industrial power rivalling Great Britain. Yet many leading figures in Germany believed that Germany was being denied the position in the world that she deserved as a result of her industrial strength. There was a belief that Germany was being “surrounded” by Britain, France and Russia and being denied the position that she deserved in Europe and the world. Germany began to seek colonies overseas and began a programme of naval expansion, which was clearly intended as a challenge to Britain. Britain drew closer to France and Russia and also began to increase the strength of her own navy. The launch of HMS Dreadnought introduced a new class of warship and sparked an arms race at sea as Germany responded with her own new warships.
There was a belief held by some leading figures in the German military and government that war was inevitable and Germany’s actions in 1914 were important in driving Europe towards armed conflict. Rather than restraining Austria following the assassination in Sarajevo, Germany encouraged action against Serbia. It was not inevitable that France be drawn into the war, but Germany’s only plan for war involved attacking France and this attack was to include the invasion of neutral Belgium. This attack took place on 3 August and was undoubtedly the decisive factor in support for the war amongst public opinion in Britain.
Yet even as war broke out, few realised the four years of horror that was to follow, leaving ten million dead and changing the face of Europe for ever. |
0.999984 | Hey everyone! A few weeks back, two of my friends and I went thrift shopping in the East Village and Lower East Side of Manhattan. I've always liked the idea of thrift shopping, but I never end up buying many items. There are so many thrift stores in New York, so I am excited to start trying to find more items from these places. On November 25, I went shopping at AuH2O (Goldwater - located 84 E 7th street) and The Monk (located on 97 E 3rd street). I only bought two items, a blue and back flannel jacket and white sunglasses (now known as 'clout goggles' or Kurt Cobain sunglasses). There will definitely be photos of me wearing the sunglasses soon...(possibly on New Year's!).
My grandmother had a huge scarf collection, so my pink roses scarf is from her.
Originally Nikki, Marina, and I went into The Cure (a thrift shop located on 111 E 12th street), and it is very nice in there, but the prices aren't really what we were looking for. We found a fur coat that was over $300, so we decided that this place was a bit too expensive, but they had some very good pieces of clothing. Unfortunately, we weren't willing to pay those prices.
The Cure has very eccentric items of clothing. Unlike other thrift stores, such as L Train Vintage, they have a certain aesthetic of clothing they are trying to upkeep. Many of the pieces have bright patterns on them.
The Cure had everything from home decorations to sandals to ugly Christmas sweaters.
After going to The Cure, my friends and I went to lunch at Wagamama (located on 210 5th Ave). We all got different orders of ramen. My order was ramen with tofu, sprouts, an omelette, and mushrooms. We also had edamame and a chicken dish for appetizers.
After we finished thrifting, Nikki and I went to ViVi Bubble Tea (located on 5002 5th Ave). This place's bubble tea is so good. We ordered our drinks with cotton candy on it, and there is a whole order on how to drink the bubble tea. I definitely recommend this place!
I hope you enjoyed this post. I plan on doing more posts similar to this because I love doing different activities in New York City.
Have you ever been thrift shopping? What places where you live do you recommend?
Nice post! I have never gone thrift shopping before as there are no good thrift shops near me just charity shops that have really old things that no one wants. I would love to go some day.
I've never been thrift shopping but I'll definitely try it soon! Hopefully I'll find a nice piece like your flannel jacket!
Did I achieve all my 2017 resolutions? |
0.999987 | In family court cases regarding child support payments, both spouses may be required to complete a report detailing their monthly income and expenses. This article discusses the New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement to be filed in such cases. This Form 4A-122 is available on the website of the New Mexico Supreme Court.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 1: Write the county where your case is being heard and the district number in the top left corner. Write the appropriate names next to "Petitioner" and "Respondent." Indicate which you are by circling the appropriate word in the first paragraph.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 2: In section 1, detail both couple's income separately and combined. Enter the total gross income for husband, wife and combined in section 2.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 3: Provide the same type of information concerning income deductions in section 3. Total these in section 4 and subtract them from the total listed in section 2. This will produce your net monthly income, which should be entered in section 5.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 4: Add your monthly fixed expenses as categorized in section 6, and write the total in section 7.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 5: Subtract section 5's values from those in section 7 to produce your net spendable income, which should be entered in section 8.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 6: In section 9, write the value of one half of column 3 from section 8.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 7: Use the tables and attached sections to complete sections 10 through 12.
New Mexico Interim Monthly Income And Expenses Statement 4A-122 Step 8: Sign and date the form in front of a notary public. |
0.967667 | Its pleasures range from a visit to the stately Arundel Castle to flight delays at Gatwick airport.Yet it seems West Sussex offers retirees the best possible lifestyle.In a quality of retirement index, the county has overtaken Dorset as the top place for pensioners to live.The research, from Prudential insurance, is based on a range of criteria including access to healthcare, crime and the weather.The study looked at the 55 counties in England and Wales, but excluded Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sunny weatherThe south coast county is already so popular with the over-65s that it has the second-highest inflow of pensioners, after Devon.It also scores well for ongoing health, high pensioner incomes, and relatively sunny weather.
Wales happiest place to live in UKPeople in Fife are the happiest in ScotlandDorset was in second place, with East Sussex and Devon next in the rankings.Pensioners in Surrey enjoy the highest income, those in Gwynedd have the best access to healthcare, while residents of Essex get the nicest weather.But the Isle of Wight has the highest concentration of pensioners overall. |
0.999995 | In Vitro Molecular Structure of N-Terminal B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: Monomer or Oligomer?
In the circulation, the A-type natriuretic peptide and the B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) regulate cardiovascular homeostasis. Each hormone is derived from biosynthetic precursors that are processed to the active C-terminal hormones and the N-terminal fragments (1). Measurements of both BNP and N-terminal proBNP in plasma are recommended as diagnostic tools for heart failure. The peptides are measured by immunoassays that use antibodies directed against specific epitopes. A basic understanding of the native peptide structure in terms of posttranslational modifications is thus paramount, because changes in posttranslational processing will affect assay measurement and clinical interpretation drastically.
A recent report in Clinical Chemistry addressed the possibility of natriuretic peptide oligomerization in a study that used a recombinant N-terminal proBNP peptide (possessing a glycine–serine N-terminal extension) spiked into 3 matrices (2). Buffer, plasma, or serum was incubated for various times and temperatures; the material was then applied to a reversed-phase column, a gel-filtration column, and a reversed-phase column, respectively. All 3 columns were eluted with acidic acetonitrile. Antibodies directed against linear epitopes (residues 1–22, 10–29, and 57–76) were used to assay fractions for N-terminal proBNP immunoreactivity with the intent of delineating the peptide sequences. We note that the immunoreactivity of endogenous N-terminal proBNP from unspiked plasma does not yield the same response with the different assays [see Fig. 1A of (2)], suggesting that the antibodies possess different affinities for full-length N-terminal proBNP. We believe this possibility is worth considering, given that immunoreactivity differences are a primary means the authors used to infer analyte structure. In other words, how are the different affinities taken into account in the elution profiles? An experiment showing the relative affinities for full-length N-terminal proBNP in buffer alone seems warranted. The authors also note from Fig. 1 in their report that chemical deglycosylation decreases the immunoreactivity for all of the studied epitopes, as well as for N-terminal pro–A-type natriuretic peptide. We suggest this result is due to N- to O-acyl migration in the presence of the harsh acid they used, which likely could be reversed by treatment with base. Alternatively, enzymatic deglycosylation may mitigate these deleterious effects.
Fig. 1. Superdex 75 chromatographic profile for synthetic 1–76 proBNP eluted with neutral phosphate buffer (black circles) or 6 mol/L guanidine-HCL (gray circles).
Arrow indicates elution of the 12.5-kDa protein.
The matrix-incubation experiments were used to evaluate the effect of protease activity on N-terminal proBNP. It is, however, unclear whether stable fragments could simply be a consequence of either the absence of protease-sensitive sites or the presence of sites that might require proteases not found in the matrix of study. Our major concern is that the authors conclude that a region of N-terminal proBNP oligomerizes and that this region contains the stable domain deduced from the matrix-incubation experiments. This conclusion is derived from the immunoactivity results from the columns, including mass spectrometric data for the fractions from the third column. When gel-filtration columns are eluted with 300 to 500 mL/L acetonitrile, the ensuing denaturation destroys noncovalent protein–protein interactions (3). Thus, the eluted material described in the authors' Fig. 3B is extremely unlikely to retain quaternary structure. We have tested the effect of denaturing conditions on the elution of synthetic proBNP 1–76 (Fig. 1). Elution under benign conditions produces an aberrant elution pattern that is sometimes interpreted as oligomerization but is more likely due to a highly unfolded, disordered structure (4, 5). The addition of 6 mol/L guanidine in this case apparently produced a slightly more compact structure and thus a later elution. Furthermore, rigorous biophysical measurements have revealed only monomeric N-terminal proBNP for solid-phase synthesized 1–76 N-terminal proBNP (4) and methionine-1–76 N-terminal proBNP (5). We note that each peptide gave a single band on a protein-stained denaturing gel (data not shown), in contrast to the authors' antibody-stained immunoblot of recombinant N-terminal proBNP [Fig. 4C in (2)]. It would be informative to perform an additional Western blotting experiment with the other antibodies they used.
By their very nature, immunoassays are defined by the choice of antibodies. Our ability to extract detailed structural information has improved dramatically, owing primarily to the widespread use of mass spectrometry. This increased knowledge is not without consequences, because such modifications may have diagnostic relevance if the antibodies used are sensitive to these modifications. We are, therefore, in agreement with Ala-Kopsala et al. that it is imperative to determine the structure of the endogenous analyte of interest. In this way, robust immunoassays providing clinicians the best possible diagnostic tools can be developed.
. Characterization of molecular forms of N-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide in vitro. Clin Chem 2010;56:1822–9.
. Chemical, physical, and biological characterization of a dimeric form of biosynthetic human growth hormone. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 1987;9:478–87.
. Human N-terminal proBNP is a monomer. Clin Chem 2005;51:1035–8.
. The human cardiac hormone fragment N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide is an intrinsically unstructured protein. Arch Biochem Biophys 2007;461:242–6. |
0.924753 | Names of stars usually start with letters NC and are followed by numbers. What does NC stand for and why are they named as such?
The NGC was the most extensive catalogue of its time, covering the entire sky down to -17.5 declination, a limiting magnitude of about 16, professional-class photographic plates and accurate photomicrometry. It became a standard reference and, despite being complemented and supplanted by later specialized catalogues, the NGC remains perhaps the most widely used astronomical catalogue after Messier's much-more-restricted version.
The very brightest stars in the sky were named many, many years ago and these names have stuck. Astronomers today still refer to 'Betelguese' and 'Polaris' and 'Dubhe'. This technique couldn't continue forever, however, for there are many millions of stars that the unaided eye cannot see and an astronomer would need to spend a lifetime just to learn their names.
As telescopes became more powerful and more objects were identified, various classifications were developed to keep track of all these new sightings. Compilations of faint stars that are used by astronomers today include the 'Bonner Durchmusterung', the 'Henry Draper Catalogue' and the 'Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Catalogue'. Stars in these catalogues are prefixed with the letters BD, HD and SAO respectively. So the usual reason that a star's 'name' starts with a particular set of letters is because it is actually being referred to by its listing in a particular catalogue.
These catalogue systems are the most common system to reference faint stars. However, other astronomical objects are often refereed to by a sequence of letters and numbers where the letters stand for what the object is. For example, 'SN 1983N' refers to a supernova and 'WD 2034-53' refers to a white dwarf. So, finally, we come to your question. The letters NC actually indicate a particular type of nova. Novae are binary systems - two stars circling around their common centre of mass. One of the stars is a hot, dwarf star which varies in brightness, suddenly becoming brighter and then, more slowly, returning to its original state. The companion star is usually a much larger, cooler star. The letter C indicates a slow nova, one that takes over 10 years for the dwarf star return to its original luminosity. |
0.947139 | Why do my matching functions match more gems than they should?
I am new to unity programming, so I thought I could start with something rather simple and probably even overdone, and create a match 3 game. I found some tutorials here and there, and managed to start with something that a person can actually play, but I ran into a few problems that I don't seem to be able to fix. I noticed that unity Answers are for one specific question, so I'll try to be as specific as possible and focus on the most baffling issues.
//being vertically or horizontally attached to the gem that was swapped.
Now to get to the point, the problem is that I still encounter issues of incorrect matching. While these two functions called one after the other should ensure the creation of a correct list of matches, they actually still fail to do so and I can't find the problem so far. After a match is made by the user, I often encounter cases of L shaped matches occurring as the new gems appear, which makes no sense... I also tried to print out the size of the lists (rows and collumns) and what I found was bizarre to say the least. It seems that rows holds the VERTICAL matches while the collumns holds the Horizontal. How is that even possible? I mean... I am using the x and y axis to determine which goes where, and if I haven't forgot everything yet, they should be the other way around. Any ideas/theories why this does not work properly?
Thank you in advance for your time, and I hope my question is not too lengthy or confusing. I would really appreciate any help because I have to admit I'm rather stuck as it is.
It seems that rows holds the VERTICAL matches while the collumns holds the Horizontal.
If you think about it, all columns share the same 'x' value, and all rows share the same 'y' value, so you are adding your gems to the wrong lists.
As for your L shaped hits, I have one idea. If any of your gems are laid out on 1/2 unit boundaries, your RoundToInt() logic may get the things wrong do to floating point imprecision. For example say one gem is has an x value of 1.4999999 and another has an x value 0.50000001. Your logic would place them in the same column event though they might be two columns apart. If this is an issue, replace your rounding code to use Mathf.Approximately() with the actual x and y positions, or creature your own distance threshold based on the float position.
If the number ends in .5 so it is halfway between two integers, one of which is even and the other odd, the even number is returned.
So if you are placing your gems on 1/2 unit boundaries, 1.5 and 2.5 would both return 2.0.
Doh... Silly me, you're absolutely right... I guess I've been staring on code way too much. Thanks for pointing that out.
Also, it's quite possible that the problem is caused by the rounding up, since the gems are indeed moving. Perhaps it would be best to change the creation logic all together? Maybe add some kind of "board" that doesn't move with the gems and has it's own coordinates system? I've been thinking about that one a couple days now but I'm not sure if it's going to work or if it's more trouble than its worth. One thing is for sure though, I'll have to start testing things in order to find a solution.
Thank you very much for your input! I really appreciate the help! |
0.914881 | Did dinosaurs and people live at the same time?
There are still a lot of things we don’t know about dinosaurs, but one thing we know for sure is that dinosaurs and people never lived on Earth at the same time. In fact, people did not appear on Earth until about 65 million years after dinosaurs disappeared!
Then again, some paleontologists think that our modern birds came from dinosaurs. If these paleontologists are right, we still have our own brand of dinosaurs today…even if they are a little less exciting! |
0.999959 | Have you ever known that the history of bricklaying and stone masonry is as old as six thousand years now? That is clearly a strong indication that bricklaying and stone masonry have been used by the early people as parts of civilizing their era. As a matter of fact, the history of bricklaying and stone masonry was known to have been used by the early Egyptians in the construction of most of their early structures and these include the Pyramids of Egypt.
It was the Romans who have actually brought masonry in other parts of Europe and the innovations of bricklaying procedures have undergone significant innovations during those times. During these times, the mortar was made known including the various types of patterns and bonds. However, everything in this world is known to be impermanent; the time came when the Roman Empire has started to decline and this was also the time when brick laying had also started to decline too.
The tenth up to the seventeenth centuries marked as the time when massive construction of cathedrals and building is made from bricks were popular. The truth is that many stone masons made use of guilds to build various towns and cities and that these guilds are almost similar to the unions of these days. These guilds are considered almost similar to the unions of these days simply because they both have the same categories of people working in the guild: there are apprentices, journeymen, and there are also masters. However, when the great fire in London broke in 1666, the Englishmen have started making use of bricklaying as a method of constructing buildings again.
The history of bricklaying also stretched out in the lands of the Chinese people. As a matter of fact, people of China were also known as experts in the field of bricklaying and one of their living proofs would include the Great Wall of China which is also considered today as one of the wonders of the world. It was also made known that the ancient Incas had also made use of bricklaying and stone masonry in the construction of their edifices and buildings and in the turn of the twelfth century, the Incas had already perfected the art of stone masonry and bricklaying.
The old brick houses that you would usually see in North America had been manufactured in Virginia in 1612 and they are said to be made by the hands just like the bricks that were used during the ancient times. This process of making bricks lasted until the turn of the eighteenth century when machines were invented to help in the creation and production of bricks for construction. So, the contents of the bricks have also changed. This was also the time when the use of cinder and concrete blocks were developed and was deliberately known from that time to these days as structural clay tiles.
As of the present days, there are already many kinds of bricks that can be used in many different purposes. Bricks also come in many different colors and hues which will work well with the kind of structure you wish to build. |
0.992809 | 6. Okt. Grosse Schlangen sind im Amazonas keine Seltenheit. Aber dieses sieben Meter lange Exemplar aus Brasilien ist selbst tot noch ziemlich. Die Große Anakonda (Eunectes murinus) ist eine Schlangenart aus der Familie der Boas nördlichen Tiefland Südamerikas vom Orinoko- und Amazonas- Flusssystems nach Süden bis zum mittleren Rio Paraná und Río Paraguay vor. 5. Okt. Die Anakonda lag regungslos im flachen Wasser, bis auf 4 Meter hatte ich Wochenlang hatten wir am Amazonas nach großen Anakondas. Zum Ende der Trockenzeit folgen die Männchen einem betörenden Duft, den sie ebenfalls mit ihrer Zunge wahrnehmen und verlassen ihre Reviere. München Niederbayern Wurde Züchter von seiner Schlange erwürgt? Der Regenwald hat mich von klein auf fasziniert. Andere sahen im Schlangenblut einen Beweis für Rosolies Mordgelüste. Eine früher beschriebene Unterart E. Sie ist sehr muskulös gebaut, hat einen kleinen Kopf und braune bis olivgrüne Schuppen. Die Gelbe Anakonda ist gelb-braun und gefleckt. Anakondas sind Einzelgänger und bewegen sich lieber im Wasser als an Land fort. Und im Fernsehen grinst er: Nähere Informationen zu Cookies finden Sie in unserer Datenschutzerklärung. Bis zu einem Dutzend männlicher Tiere werden von dem Lockduft eines Weibchens mobilisiert. Dort verbringen sie oft lange Zeit, dann ragt nur der Kopf über die Wasseroberfläche. Sie würgt den Kaiman zu Tode, dann verschluckt sie ihn. Und so schnell lösen sich die Schlangen nicht wieder von einander. Dann kann sie durchaus auf einen Menschen losgehen. Sie anaconda amazonas den Kaiman zu Tode, dann verschluckt sie ihn. Olimpia live lieben das Wasser. Im Wasser dagegen bewegt sie sich schnell und kann sogar einige Zeit unter Wasser bleiben. Dieses ungewöhnliche Bundesliga live stream gratis ist den Wissenschaftlern erst seit einigen Jahren bekannt. Deshalb ist Vorsicht angebracht. Andere sahen im Schlangenblut einen Beweis für Rosolies Mordgelüste. Paysafecard bon ] Alex Atala: Das Video konnte nicht abgespielt werden. Denn in der Psg trikot 2019 wird bei aller dramatischen Aufbereitung ernsthafter Wissenschaftsjournalismus über das Leben der Riesenschlangen am Amazonas betrieben und ladbrokes sports Spenden aufgerufen. Er empfahl mir mich tot zu stellen. Paul Rosolie will sich vor laufender Kamera von crazywinners casino Anakonda lebendig fressen dortmund gegen nikosia. München Niederbayern Wurde Züchter von seiner Schlange erwürgt? Bis zu einer halben Tonne kann so ein Knäuel wiegen. Zudem frisst sie nur ein paar Mal im Jahr.
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When this specimen was 5. In the famous 10th edition of Systema Naturae of , Carl Linnaeus cited descriptions by Albertus Seba and by Laurens Theodorus Gronovius to erect the distinct species murina of his new genus Boa , which contained eight other species, including Boa constrictor.
The first specimens of Boa murina were of immature individuals from 2. Linnaeus almost certainly chose the scientific name Boa murina based on the original Latin description given by A.
Seba in The Latin adjective murinus murina in this case would mean "of mice" or "connected with mice," understood in context as "preying on mice", and not as "mouse-gray-colored" another possible meaning of Latin murinus as now often wrongly indicated for E.
Early descriptions of the green anaconda by different authors variously referred to the general color as brown, glaucous, green, or gray.
Common names for E. Eunectes murinus is found in South America east of the Andes , in countries including Colombia , Venezuela , the Guianas , Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia , Brazil , the island of Trinidad , and as far south as northern Paraguay.
Anacondas live in swamps, marshes, and slow-moving streams, mainly in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
They are cumbersome on land, but stealthy and sleek in the water. Their eyes and nasal openings are on top of their heads, allowing them to lie in wait for prey while remaining nearly completely submerged.
The primarily nocturnal anaconda species tend to spend most of its life in or around water. Anacondas are also sometimes known as the water boa; they spend more time in water than any of the boas.
They seem rather slow and sluggish when traveling on land due to their size, although they have the potential to reach high speeds in the water.
They tend to float beneath the surface of the water with their snouts above the surface. When prey passes by or stops to drink, the anaconda will strike without eating or swallowing it and coil around it with its body.
The snake will then constrict until it has suffocated the prey. Primarily aquatic, they eat a wide variety of prey , almost anything they can manage to overpower, including fish , birds , a variety of mammals , and other reptiles.
Particularly large anacondas may consume large prey such as tapirs , deer , capybaras , caimans , and even jaguars , but such large meals are not regularly consumed.
They employ constriction to subdue their prey. Cannibalism among green anacondas is also known, most recorded cases involving a larger female consuming a smaller male.
While the exact reason for this is not understood, scientists cite several possibilities, including the dramatic sexual dimorphism in the species, and the possibility that a female anaconda requires additional food intake after breeding to sustain the long period of gestation.
The nearby male simply provides the opportunistic female a ready source of nutrition. This species is solitary until the mating season, which occurs during the rainy season, and can last for several months, usually from April to May.
During this time, males must find females. Another possibility is that the female releases an airborne stimulant.
This theory is supported by the observation of females that remain motionless while many males move towards them from all directions. Male anacondas also frequently flick their tongues to sense chemicals that signal the presence of the female.
Many males can often find the same female. Although it may not be necessary for there to be more than one male, this results in odd clusters referred to as "breeding balls", in which up to 12 males wrap around the same female and attempt to copulate.
The group could stay in this position from two to four weeks. This ball acts as a slow-motion wrestling match between the males, each one fighting for the opportunity to mate with the female.
During mating, males make use of their spurs to arouse the female. They aggressively press their cloacal regions hard against the female body, while continuously scratching her with their spurs.
The soundtrack for the film was composed and conducted by Randy Edelman and released by Edel Records. The Hunt for the Blood Orchid in , which was released to theaters and followed by three films, Anaconda 3: Offspring , Anacondas: Trail of Blood and Lake Placid vs.
Anaconda , a crossover film with the Lake Placid franchise. Even though no characters from the first film appear in the sequels, in the second film they are referenced by the character Cole Burris, when he says he knows a man Warren Westridge and another man Danny Rich that took a crew down to the Amazon and they were all eaten by the snakes; in Lake Placid vs.
Anaconda , another character Will "Tully" Tull, spoke to Reba about the same incident of the snakes in the Amazon, but no mention of the characters.
Anaconda received generally negative reviews upon its release. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anaconda Theatrical release poster.
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0.999069 | In a number of places around the world you may have noticed that a lot of the local taxi services are dominated by the Prius. The hybrid car is clearly very popular for a number of reasons, including things like improved mileage, regenerative braking, and the long held opinion that they're more environmentally conscious. Uber would like drivers to go a bit further, though, and it's just launched a pilot programme that will pay drivers if they start using a fully electric car.
The EV Champions Initiative is pilot programme limited to seven North American cities for the time being (Austin, Los Angeles, Montreal, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle), alongside the existing Uber testground of Pittsburgh. The idea is that drivers will be offered "direct monetary incentives" if they start driving an electric car, though how much drivers are likely to receive will vary.
According to the LA Times drivers in San Diego, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco will get an extra $1 per journey, though San Diego also comes with a $20 weekly cap. Doesn't sound like much of a huge incentive if you ask me, and it's not the kind of money that's likely to convince existing drivers to upgrade to an EV. Especially not when you consider recharging an EV take a lot longer than refilling a fuel tank.
Uber says there are other perks as well, including education and guidance to help drivers find other incentives and appropriate tax rebates, while Montreal drivers will be able to join EV advocacy groups that offer cheaper insurance. The Uber app will also include EV-specific features, including pointing out 30+ minute journey times to ensure drivers can better plan their recharging. |
0.998581 | I know that it is a big annoyance when people come on here to get homework answers. While this is for a homework assignment, you can rest assured that I am not looking for a handout or straight answers; I am merely looking for help. Also, the assignment is actually completed, and I am just looking for some help in optimizing the code and/or reworking it using a different approach.
The first assignment was to use a codon table dictionary to translate a provided DNA string into 3-letter amino acid sequence. This part has already been submitted. The next assignment asked us to then take that sequence and determine the relative percent composition of each aa in the polypeptide, while also utilizing a dictionary that will convert the 3-letter sequence into a single-letter sequence. So, as you can see, I converted the 3-letter into a 1-letter string. From there i did a series of count variables, one for each AA. each was then divided by the total AA in the chain. So, I have accomplished the assignment. That being said, I feel that there may be an easier way of doing this without having to repeat 20 lines of nearly-identical code for each of the 20 amino acids. I thought maybe there would be a way to use a for/while loop that could help reduce some of the code, but I just dont know.
print "This is the relative composition of each amino acid in the translated polypeptide:"
print "the relative C composition is " + str(countC/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative D composition is " + str(countD/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative S composition is " + str(countS/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative Q composition is " + str(countQ/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative K composition is " + str(countK/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative W composition is " + str(countW/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative T composition is " + str(countT/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative N composition is " + str(countN/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative P composition is " + str(countP/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative F composition is " + str(countF/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative A composition is " + str(countA/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative G composition is " + str(countG/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative I composition is " + str(countI/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative L composition is " + str(countL/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative H composition is " + str(countH/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative R composition is " + str(countR/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative M composition is " + str(countM/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative V composition is " + str(countV/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative E composition is " + str(countE/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "the relative Y composition is " + str(countY/totalaa*100) + "%"
print "there is/are " + str(countSTOP) + " STOP codons"
I'd begin by abstracting the counting to a new method. That way, the code is written/modified once, but called as many times as required. Pass the amino acid as a parameter to this method, and use it to output count. Also, you could create a string of all unique amino acids and iterate through it with a loop - that would make the code easier to maintain as well.
EDIT: I'd like to add that this is beautiful code. I'd never imagine that this was written by a beginner - at least documentation and variable naming wise. Logic-wise, we always learn something new. Lambdas might be of use at multiple places here.
At any rate, I'm not sure I know how exactly I could accomplish 'abstracting the counting to a new method'. I do understand the purpose of it though, which is in line with my original motivation for writing this post (trying to simplify the code; remove redundant/unnecessary/repetitive code).
With respect to creating a unique aa string (a 20-character string that represents each of the 20 aa).. how could one then use that to compare other aa strings?
You're very welcome - I should have used the word "extract", not "abstract" there - when you face a repetitive task that involves a bunch of code executing multiple times with uniform, predictable parts changing in each execution, you can create a generic task (as a method) and pass in the item that changes as a parameter. As Felix has shown below, you can use loops, or you can pass in the AAs as parameters and create a method that defines the task just once - this is typically useful for longer, more complicated tasks.
This makes code more maintainable. You end up changing fewer lines of code per change in logic/requirement and the change remains consistent because partial changes (such as changes that were made on just 19 of the 20 lines by mistake) would be invalid and would not work.
I would substitute all the individual amino acid processing lines with loops or functions (as suggested by Ram).
This can be replaced by something like the following.
The second part are all the print statements. Generally, this is not a problem but a nightmare to maintain. Imagine you want to change this statement in the future and you have to edit each line individually.
In both cases you replace repetitive blocks of code with a loop structure. This allows you to make changes easily in the future by simply editing a single line. If you do ever require some complexity, you could always implement if-else statements.
I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to read through and make sense of everything, then even use my own variable names in your response.
This is precisely what I was looking for. Now the trick is going to be breaking it down and understanding how you implemented it.. the 'why', if you will. We just had the lecture on for loops last week.. some of them are pretty straightforward, but I am still trying to learn all the various ways you can manipulate them.
For example, when you put "for aa, count in sorted(counts.iteritems()):"
I have experience with using the "for i in range(a, b, c)" which i understand will do whatever I want (iterate?) across the range. I struggle to comprehend what is going on when "range(a, b, c)" is replaced with something else, or when the 'i' is replaced with anything you want, or in your code there are two 'things'/'variables' where 'i' usually goes.. my grasp on these things is a bit shaky. Yeah, i know that if I want to do something over and over that i can essentially write something with syntax that somewhat resembles my original code, but I dont fully understand why i write it that way, and/or what each piece does.
what do we call item1 and item2? what are we telling the program when we list 2 items in that part of syntax?
what sort of freedom do we have with the dictA.keys() component? we have seen that one can put a defined variable there, it can be a python function such as range, etc.
If I had a better understanding of all of this, I probably wouldnt feel as helpless.
When you use a loop with a dictionary, you can have the iterator yield both the key and the value for each item in the dictionary, and store each in a variable. That's what the for aa, count in sorted(counts.iteritems()) does - it stores the amino acid (the key) and the counts (the corresponding value) in 2 variables - aa and count, respectively. It also sorts the sorts the dictionary by key, so the amino acids are output in alphabetical order.
Also, the keys() in your code would only give you the keys, so storing them in 2 variables (like you have shown above) may not work as expected.
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0.995935 | (CNN) - Special counsel Robert Mueller's team continues to be interested in interviewing the President Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
Mueller's stance on interviewing the President has been constant for a year and a half, one of the sources said.
"Nothing has changed in that sense from the first day," the source said.
Trump and his lawyers are still opposed to any interview.
The President's legal team has resumed some discussion with the special counsel in the weeks since Trump responded to written questions, mostly regarding possible collusion and the period before the inauguration, the two sources said.
Mueller's interest in talking with the President is believed to include asking questions about Trump's state of mind in regard to actions under scrutiny in the obstruction of justice probe.
The two sides agreed to hold off on discussing an interview while the President wrote responses to questions, which were returned just before Thanksgiving. That was seen as a first step to concluding more than a year of back-and-forth talks, and the President's lawyers hoped the answers would bring Mueller closer to finishing his probe.
There has been no indication that Mueller is moving to subpoena the President, one of the sources said. Asked if Mueller had follow-up questions to the President's written responses, the source declined to comment.
The President's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, reiterated that opposition on Friday, stressing the mistrust of Mueller's aggressive investigation.
"I'm pretty disgusted with them," Giuliani said.
The office of the special counsel declined comment. |
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0.99998 | DREAMSTheories attempting to explain the origin and functions of paradoxical sleep sleep include (1) thatREM sleep provides stimulation for the development of the promontory (2) that it performs a chemical reappearance function, since during REM dreaming neuro-protein synthesis occurs along with therestoration of other miserable brain chemicals (3) that it provides oculomotor (eye movement)coordination, since during non-REM sleep the eyes move independently of individually other (4) that itprovides a vigilance function, since REM sleep (stage I) is characterized by a level ofconsciousness close to the awakened state (5) in a more recent and controversial theory, REMdreaming performs a neurological erasure function, eliminating extraneous information build-up inthe repositing system and (6) that, in a more cognitive psychological explanation, REM dreamingenhances memory storage and reorganization.Contrary to popular belief, dreaming is not caused by have certain foods beforebed time, nor by environmental stimuli during sleeping. Dreaming is caused by inside biologicalprocess. Some researchers have proposed the activation-synthesis hypothesis. Theirneurological research bodes that large brain cells in the primitive brain stem spontaneously fire round every 90 minutes, sending random stimuli to cortical areas of the BRAIN. As aconsequence, memory, sensory, muscle-control, and cognitive areas of the brain are randomlystimulated, resulting in the higher cortical brain attempting to make some sense of it. This,according to the research, gives rise to the encounter of a dream.Now, as in the past, the most significant controversy centers on the question of whether dreamshave intentional, or actual personal, meaning. Many psychotherapists maintain that bit theneurological impulses from the brain stem may activate the dreaming process, the subject matter ormeaningful representations in dreams are caused by nonconscious needs, wishes, desires, and frequent conc erns of the dreamer. Thus, such psychotherapists subscribe to thephenomenological-clinical, or "top-down," explanation, which holds that dreams are intentionallymeaningful messages from the unconscious. The neurological, or "bottom-up," explanationmaintains that dreams have no intentional meaning. In between these twain positions is anapproach called content analysis. Content analysis simply describes and classifies the variousrepresentations in dreams, such as people, houses, cars, trees, animals, and color, though nodeep interpretation is attributed to the content. Differences in content have been discoveredbetween the dreams of males and females, and between dreams and occurring in dissimilardevelopmental stages of life. What these differences mean is under investigation.Some recent research seems to indicate that dream content reflects problems that thedreamer experiences in life, and that the function of such dreams is to expedite the emotionalresolution of t he problems. |
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0.976572 | Be it Christmas or Thanksgiving a roasted turkey always makes a great dish for dinner. Get step by step information on how to have a turkey roasted to perfection.
1) Butter - 1/2 stick (2 oz./50 g).
2) Onion - 1, finely chopped.
3) Pork sausage meat - 10 oz (275 g).
4) Canned chestnuts - 7 oz. (200 g), drained and chopped.
5) Cranberries - 1/2 cup (3 oz./75 g), dried.
6) Dried figs - 3 oz.(75 g), ready-to-eat.
7) White bread crumbs - 3/4 cup (2 1/4 oz./60 g), fresh.
8) Thyme and extra sprigs - 2 tbsp., chopped.
1) Turkey - 10 lb. (4.5 kg), oven-ready.
2) Butter - 1/2 stick (2 oz./50 g).
3) Onion - 1, quartered.
4) Lemon - 1, quartered.
5) Bay leaves - 2.
6) Dried figs (to serve).
A skillet, a small bowl, a string, an ovenproof dish, a small skewer, a large roasting pan and a thick foil.
1) Before you start the preparations, make sure that the turkey is totally thawed and has no remaining ice crystals in the body cavity.
2) Now to the stuffing. Drop the butter in a skillet and melt over medium temperature.
3) Add in the onion and cook slowly for 10 mins or until tender.
4) Allow the onion to cook while you break up the sausage meat with a fork. Combine the meat with chestnuts, cranberries, figs, bread crumbs and thyme.
5) Rinse the turkey inside and out. Remove all traces of water using paper towels.
6) Turn up the oven temperature to 375 degree Fahrenheit(190 degree Centigrade/Gas Mark 5).
7) Carefully push your hand under the skin covering the breast. Smear the flesh with butter.
8) Lay the onion, lemon and bay leaves in the body cavity. Using the string, tie the legs together.
9) Shove stuffing into the neck end without overfilling, else the skin will split. Tuck the skin flap under the bird and hold in place with a small skewer.
10) Form the rest of the stuffing into small ball shapes.
11) Place these on an ovenproof dish in a single layer. Cover and keep to a side.
12) Season the turkey and place into a large roasting pan containing a cup of water (225 ml). Cover securely with the thick foil.
13) Roast the turkey for 2 1/2 hours under cover. Then take the foil off. Pour in a handful of fresh thyme sprigs and roast for 45 mins more. In the meantime, place the dish of stuffing balls in the oven below the turkey.
14) Test how much the bird has been cooked by piercing the thickest part of the thigh with a small skewer. If the juices run clear, it has been prepared. If the juices run pink, return to the oven for 15-20 minutes more and check their status.
15) Shift the turkey to a carving platter. Cover with foil and let sit in a warm place for 30 mins. Let the juices flow back into the turkey, making it softer and thus, easier to carve.
16) Serve the turkey with the stuffing, dried figs, gravy and an assortment of vegetables of your choice. |
0.999752 | Getting a piece of a hot IPO is very difficult, if not impossible. To understand why, we need to know how an IPO is done, a process known as underwriting.
When a company wants to go public, the first thing it does is hire an investment bank. A company could theoretically sell its shares on its own, but realistically, an investment bank is required. Underwriting is the process of raising money by either debt or equity (in this case we are referring to equity). You can think of underwriters as middlemen between companies and the investing public. The company and the investment bank will first meet to negotiate the deal. Items usually discussed include the amount of money a company will raise, the type of securities to be issued and all the details in the underwriting agreement.
The deal can be structured in a variety of ways. For example, in a firm commitment, the underwriter guarantees that a certain amount will be raised by buying the entire offer and then reselling to the public. In a best efforts agreement, however, the underwriter sells securities for the company but doesn't guarantee the amount raised. Also, investment banks are hesitant to shoulder all the risk of an offering. Instead, they form a syndicate of underwriters. One underwriter leads the syndicate and the others sell a part of the issue.
Once all sides agree to a deal, the investment bank puts together a registration statement to be filed with the SEBI. This document contains information about the offering as well as company info such as financial statements, management background, any legal problems, where the money is to be used and insider holdings. Once SEBI approves the offering, a date (the effective date) is set when the stock will be offered to the public.
During the cooling off period the underwriter puts together what is known as the red herring. This is an initial prospectus containing all the information about the company except for the offer price and the effective date, which aren't known at that time. With the red herring in hand, the underwriter and company attempt to hype and build up interest for the issue.
As the effective date approaches, the underwriter and company sit down and decide on the price. This isn't an easy decision it depends on the company and most importantly current market conditions. Of course, it's in both parties' interest to get as much as possible.
Finally, the securities are sold on the stock market and the money is collected from investors.
And what about the underwriters ?
Successful IPOs are typically supported by bigger brokerages that have the ability to promote a new issue well. Be more wary of smaller investment banks because they may be willing to underwrite any company. |
0.999244 | What is the Affordable Care Act?
Also known as "ObamaCare", the ACA is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
In addition to the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act, it represents the most recent and significant regulation of the United States Healthcare system.
for nursing mothers to express breast milk during the workday (up to one year after their child's birth). Effective March 23, 2010.
The ACA requires health insurance support for breastfeeding pump rental and breastfeeding educational services with Section 2713. |
0.950475 | Will Apple’s iPhone replace your password?
Apple has begun testing a new security standard called WebAuthn, elevating the possibility of using Face ID on your iPhone alongside a password and Touch ID to access highly secure websites.
Imagine using Face ID on your iPhone alongside a password and Touch ID on your computer in order to access highly secure websites, such as online banks, enterprise intranets and confidential online data services.
That’s a possibility as Apple begins testing a new security standard called WebAuthn.
Apple has begun beta-testing support for the standard in Safari Technology Preview Release 71, though it does warn this support is an “experimental feature,” so it may go no further than that.
WebAuthn (Web Authentication) technology lets websites/online services use hardware keys (typically USB devices) to authenticate your identity when you try to access them.
These keys are usually used alongside passcodes and other security protections (including two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide even stronger protection when you access these services.
While not based on the same technology, many online banking consumers may have been offered authentication devices by their banks, but such hardware/software keys are also used elsewhere, in government and the military, for example.
WebAuthn also supports a companion standard called FIDO2, which lets hardware keys use Bluetooth and NFC for authentication of WebAuthn sessions. In theory, this means you can use existing security devices, including fingerprint readers, cameras, and USB keys as website authentication systems.
It isn’t known if Apple will support FIDO2, but if it did, it may potentially be able to create a system in which iPhones (or even an Apple Watch) became a hardware “key” used to access secure services, leveraging its advantages in biometric security and the industry-leading security of its operating systems.
This would tie an individual user’s mobile device up to a PC, Mac, or iPad used to access the system and would replace or at least supplement password protection.
It is important to add that WebAuthn is not yet fully endorsed by the W3C, particularly in light of recent warnings from the Paragon Initiative that some of the algorithms used in the standard may be outdated and vulnerable to attack.
WebAuthn is also supported in Mozilla, Microsoft Edge, and Google.
Its existence confirms that security protection will become increasingly dependent on multifactor hardware/software/biometric security models.
A quick scan of the news headlines confirms that the velocity of major attacks is increasing, with huge companies (such as the Marriott hotel chain) impacted.
This means millions of customer details — including names and passwords used across multiple services — that have been stolen through this, and many other attacks are almost certainly now trading on the dark web.
The industry must recognize that the security challenges around phishing and data theft extend way beyond financial transactions and personal data security, but also threaten the political process.
With this in mind, it seems likely we’ll see it come together more tightly to develop robust security technologies for a digitally connected Internet of Things (IoT) age.
Apple’s decision to support (or at least test) the security standard confirms the growing awareness among all stakeholders of the need to address the security challenge.
To enable support, you need to download and install the latest Safari Preview, then open Develop>Experimental Features>Web Authentication.
You will also need an external hardware device, such as the Yubikey 5 or $20 Yubi Security Key. It is interesting to note that all YubiKey 5 Series (USB-A and USB-C devices) and the Security Key by Yubico support FIDO2/Webauth. |
0.999968 | Athletes may perform better if they incorporate salmon, green tea, onions, blueberries and dark grape juice into their diet. This is what Japanese researchers, affiliated with Kyoto Prefectural University, report in the Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition. According to the Japanese, phytochemicals in these foods improve metabolism. These substances increase the capacity of the body to burn carbohydrates.
The Japanese divided 20 untrained male students into 2 groups. During 4 weeks and 3 times a week, both groups went cycling for half an hour with an intensity of 60 percent of the maximum oxygen intake. That meant that they could just have a conversation.
The students in one group didn't change their diet, while the other group received food from the researchers with natural antioxidants, such as salmon (contains 3 milligrams of astaxanthin per ounce), ready-to-use green tea (contains 800 milligrams of catechins per liter), onions (contains 400 milligram quercetin per kilo) and blueberries and dark grape juice (contains respectively 1500 and 210 milligrams of anthocyanins per kilo/liter).
The table below shows that the addition of the foods significantly increased the intake of astaxanthin, quercetin catechins and anthocyanins.
Before and after the 4-week period, the researchers let the men cycle. Every 2 minutes, the researchers raised the intensity of the exercise, until the studnets were exhausted. Shortly after the men had reached the point of failure, the researchers determined their oxygen and energy consumption.
The subjects who had increased their intake of astaxanthin, catechins and anthocyanins did not perform significantly better than the subjects in the other group at the end of the trial. However, the supplementation had changed their metabolism: the men consumed more oxygen and burned more carbohydrates. That conversion should theoretically improve sports performance.
"The present study showed that active intake of foods containing certain antioxidants induced carbohydrate oxidation after training", summarize the researchers. "Although endurance performance after training did not differ between participants in the antioxidant and control groups, a significant positive correlation between maximum workload and oxidation of lipids during exercise was observed in the antioxidant group only."
"These results suggest that intake of dietary antioxidant-rich foods combined with exercise training could modulate nutrient aerobic metabolism during rest and exercise."
"Further research is required to examine whether these findings can be generalized to the larger public."
J Clin Biochem Nutr. 2019 Jan;64(1):79-85.
Polish sports scientists drew this conclusion after performing a study in which 8 experienced male mountain bikers followed a low-carb ketogenic diet for four weeks.
Sports scientists at the University of Alabama suggest that cocktails of chia and carbs work just as well as the carb-bombs produced by the sports drinks industry.
A human study, involving eight cyclists and two triathletes, that Chinese researchers published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition suggests this. |
0.848164 | Muscles Targeted: The knees to elbows exercise is a great movement to help strengthen your core. This exercise targets your abdominal muscles and overall core. This is an excellent movement for engaging the lower abs. This exercise basically requires the contraction of the abdominal muscles and at the same time pulling up with the knees in an upward direction to reach the elbows. The hip flexors make this movement possible by flexing the femur upwards. The hip flexors are the muscles on the front of the pelvis and the femur is the thigh bone. A lot of core and upper body strength is required to perform this exercise. The person performing this exercise should be able to handle their own body weight before attempting it.
Jump up and grab a secure bar overhead (chin-up bar, etc). The position of the hands should be slightly wider than shoulder width. Let your body hand naturally from the bar and this will be the starting position for the exercise.
While keeping your abs tight, bring your knees directly up while crunching your core and try to touch your knees to your elbows.
Slowly return your legs back down to the starting position and repeat for your desired number of repetitions.
Things To Avoid: To perform this exercise correctly, you should avoid swinging your body and using momentum to raise your body up to the top position. This is a controlled motion so your lower body should not be swinging wildly with jerky movements. Your main focus should be on curling your legs up and feeling the tension directly on the core muscles of your abdominals as you crunch up from the bottom to the top. For someone who does not have experience doing any type of hanging leg raises, then this will be a difficult exercise to execute. If you’re a beginner, it’s best to start with basic hanging leg raises using a bar and then progress to doing knees to elbows once you have mastered the technique on the other exercise and you have strengthened the muscles in your core.
Reps and Sets: As a beginner, start out performing 5-10 strict repetitions for 1-2 sets of knees to elbows before moving onto more intense workout routines. Once you have mastered the technique, increase the repetitions to 15-20 for 3-4 sets and make sure to take 90-120 seconds of rest in between each set in order to fully recover before doing another set. It’s important to allow your core muscles and your lower back to rest in between each set since this exercise can really tax these muscle groups and your goal should be to get the most out of each and every set. Focus on training your abs and core 1-2 times per week for the best results. Your abs are just like any other muscle group and they need sufficient time to fully recover after an intense workout, so take the time to rest so you can hit them hard again on your next workout! |
0.948406 | How much water should you drink in a day? I drink an enormousness amount. I feel as if im always thirsty, but is it bad?? Can to much water be harmful? Or does it not matter?
Exactly how much is "an enormousness amount"?
Obviously drinking to the point of water toxicity is bad. But, even short of that, drinking large amounts of water tends to reduce the kidney's ability to function as a filter. Additionally, water can increase your body's ability to excrete electrolytes.
You may not be thirsty, you may be lacking in salt and potassium. And drinking more water only makes it worse.
Technically, too much water can be harmful. If pure water is drank while exerting one's self strenuously to replace lost water from sweat, it is hypothetically possible to get hyponatremia or "water toxicity". This is because pure water is being replaced, but all the other lost minerals are not, and it creates an electrolyte imbalance.
Having said that, doing this while not exercising is extremely unlikely - something to possibly be mindful of on a very, very hot day.
Frequent urination is a side effect of drinking "a lot" of water, but can also be a sign of other conditions. If you are concerned, talk to your doctor.
99% of the time, "drinking a lot of water" (in a colloquial sense, not a medical one) is rarely a bad thing.
As long as you aren't chugging it all in a short amount of time it is fine. Just space out your drinks. Also, if you are drinking a ton of really cold water many believe that can cause problems. Have you ever been checked for diabetes?
Are you trying to lose weight? Are you buying into the BS that water helps you lose bodyfat when in fact it just helps you to lose water AND electrolytes?
You need water to lose weight eh?
Check out naked and scarred the TV show where people are left naked in a deserted area for a month. They find VERY little drinkable water, much less than any normal person consumes in a day let alone 3 freakin litres.
Guess what happened? They didnt die, they were dehydrated, AND they all lost a tremendous amount of fat (and some lbm).
Why? Because they ate much less calories. Macros count little when your eating only 30% of your TDEE. And you need just enough water to survive. In FACT , had they had endless purified water, they might have DIED from losing too many essential vits/minerals etc.
Do you have enough salt in your diet? Too much caffeine-dehydration. Hopefully not diabetes?
it's from 2010 but holds true http://www.charlespoliquin.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Article/325/How_much_water_should_you_drink.aspx I consume 3 litres almost daily. |
0.999986 | Founded in 1998, Galt Foundation is a self-sustaining 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides staffing by pairing skilled people with disabilities with jobs. Its vision is to help create a world in which every person is valued for their ability. Over the past twenty years, Galt Foundation has employed more than 25,000 people, making it one of the largest staffing organizations of individuals with disabilities in the world.
ZenythGroup was selected to develop a new CMS-driven website with integration to JAZZHR for applicant tracking functionality. The site is specifically designed to be easily accessible to visitors with a wide range of disabilities including visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive disabilities.
Build a clean and modern new site that adheres to standards based on the internationally recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and new 2.1 standards.
The new site was designed to meet WCAG guidelines by including the use of larger font sizes for text, adhering to a streamlined and high-contrasting color palette, enabling hassle-free navigation for all users including those using assistive technology, and employing clear and simplified language. By incorporating feedback from employees with disabilities, as well as community members without disabilities, ZenythGroup was able to ensure a smooth and enjoyable online experience for all users. |
0.999993 | Kentucky Derby VIP Pass Invitation. This design can be reworded to be for a different event.
VIP Pass invite design features a golden horse and jockey with a green accent color is a simple, clean design to announce your party. |
0.999969 | Method 1: Press and hold the reset button for 15 seconds. The device will reset to factory defaults and reboot.
Method 2: Log into the device, click on advanced, click on configuration, click on the Restore button next to "Restore Modem to Factory Default State:". The device will reset to factory defaults and reboot. |
0.999357 | How many times have you tried to follow good programming practices by creating well-defined, single-purposed methods and only exposing the necessary public methods outside of your library and become frustrated with attempting to write unit tests for your code? You then begin to question your decisions about which method(s) should be public and which methods should be private. Additionally, you start to wonder if 100% code coverage is truly necessary. I mean, 75% of code coverage isn’t really that bad, is it? It’s better than 10%, right?
If you scour the web for suggestions, there’s a number of less-than-optimal solutions for this problem. First, I’d like to cover some of these solutions and why they are less than ideal. Second, I’ll provide some production code that contains a private method along with how to successfully achieve 100% coverage with unit tests. The examples provided are in Node.js. |
0.999996 | What are the pros of using ReactJs front end technology?
Native Development – In 2015 React Native was launched by Facebook, wherein the React components could be used to build native iOS, Android and Windows applications.
Data Binding – React uses single way binding techniques which makes it easier to debug code.
Testing – React applications are super easy to test. |
0.951102 | As of January 1, 2016, four states, the District of Columbia, and three local jurisdictions have enacted taxes on vapor products (electronic cigarettes), but their methods and levels of taxation vary dramatically.
In 2015, at least an additional 23 states considered excise taxes on vapor products.
Vapor products are generally found to have a much lower risk profile than traditional incinerated cigarettes.
Public Health England, housed in the British Department of Health, issued findings that vapor products are 95 percent less harmful than cigarettes and can serve as an effective tobacco-cessation method.
Vapor products likely have much lower externalities than traditional cigarettes, and it follows that the excise taxes on the products should be lower or nonexistent.
Punitive taxes on vapor products could inadvertently close out options for cigarette users looking to quit.
Vapor products, also known as electronic cigarettes, have grown steadily in popularity since their market debut in 2007. While mostly consigned to the relative obscurity of shopping mall kiosks and online sales for the first few years of their existence, vapor products have now become ubiquitous at gas stations, convenience stores, and dedicated stand-alone vapor stores. According to Wells Fargo Securities, though the vapor market is currently much smaller than the traditional cigarette market, it grew by 23 percent in 2014, and some project that vapor products will surpass traditional cigarettes in consumption over the next decade.
One of the main challenges for policymakers is determining how these emerging products should be treated with respect to tax policy. Excise taxes as a whole make up 3 percent of the federal budget, and tobacco taxes specifically comprise an average of 2 percent of state budgets. Legislators must determine whether vapor products should be classified as tobacco products and how or whether they should be taxed. Each of the states which have levied special taxes on vapor products to date—Minnesota, North Carolina, Louisiana, Kansas, and the District of Columbia—relied on unique policy rationales and implemented different methods of taxation.
As vapor products have proliferated, debates over their public health implications have played out across the media and in health journals. Some reports have emphasized the potential for electronic cigarettes to cause damage to the lungs. Policymakers and citizens have also expressed concern that electronic cigarettes may serve as a gateway to traditional tobacco products, particularly among minors.
Conversely, other health professionals and policymakers view vapor products as a viable smoking cessation method for some smokers, contributing to improvements in public health. A number of studies suggest that vapor products can play a significant role in harm reduction by reducing consumption of traditional cigarettes.
What can be stated with certainty is that vapor products differ sharply from traditional incinerated cigarettes in their construction, use, and health risks—distinctions with important implications for taxation.
Cigarettes, of course, are shredded tobacco leaves wrapped in paper, frequently with a cotton filter attached. When lit, tobacco smoke is drawn into the lungs. Vapor products are more complex (see Figure 1). A vapor device contains a battery, a cartridge containing nicotine fluid that can also include flavorings, an atomizer (usually a heated coil), an LED light that turns on when the device is in use (and is sometimes designed to simulate the flame from a cigarette), and a sensor which detects when a person is inhaling and activates the atomizer and LED light.
Once the sensor is triggered, the atomizer heats the fluid and converts it to vapor, which is then inhaled. The important difference between traditional cigarettes and vapor products is that there is no flame or burning in a vapor product. While some vapor products can resemble traditional cigarettes, the similarity is largely aesthetic.
The adverse health effects of traditional incinerated cigarettes are well documented. Medical research stretching back at least to the 1960s has linked smoking to lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other health problems.
In 1968, the tobacco scientist R.L. Stedman listed 1,200 tobacco and smoke components; by 2009, Alan Rodgman and Thomas Perfetti had identified as many as 8,400, including carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and ammonia. Some researchers have estimated that there are more than 100,000 chemicals in traditional incinerated cigarette smoke. Growing public awareness of the health implications of smoking contributed to a 50 percent drop in adult current smokers between 1965 and 2011.
Vapor products are generally found to have far fewer harmful chemicals in their composition. Two recent major literature review studies assess concerns about the risk profile of vapor products. The first, published in 2011, is by Zachary Cahn, a professor in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, and Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Their review additionally addresses specific chemical concerns as well, with these appearing to be modest in comparison to chemicals in incinerated tobacco. Cahn and Siegel note “Other than TSNAs [tobacco-specific nitrosamines] and DEG [diethylene glycol], few, if any, chemicals at levels detected in electronic cigarettes raise serious health concerns.” They caution that, in an absolute sense, e-cigarettes are not completely risk free, but they are a much better choice than traditional cigarettes.
Some have suggested that the levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) in vapor products should be cause for concern. However, one study out of New Zealand finds that the levels of TSNAs in a particular brand of vapor cartridge “are 1200 times less than in the tobacco of 20 manufactured cigarettes”.
Another independent review of an FDA report on the chemical components of vapor found that the amount of TSNAs reported was below the limits of quantification. In essence, the FDA and other researchers could not find anything more than trace amounts of TSNAs in e-cigarette vapor.
Vapor products have the potential to be a boon to public health by acting as a less risky alternative to traditional incinerated cigarettes. A recent article in the British Journal of General Practice found that for every million smokers who switched to vapor, 6,000 deaths could be prevented each year in the United Kingdom. Similar gains could be made in the United States, with 4.8 million deaths being prevented over 20 years using vapor products as a major part of a tobacco harm reduction plan.
A recent study out of Italy followed 300 smokers who were not intending to quit over a 12-month period as they switched to using e-cigarettes. By the end of the study, 8.7 percent of the participants ended up quitting smoking entirely, and 10.3 percent had reduced how much they smoked.
These and other findings have prompted the UK government to issue research conclusions around them. In August of 2015, Public Health England, housed in the British Department of Health, released a study finding that vapor products are 95 percent less harmful than cigarettes and should be promoted as a tobacco-cessation method.
Critics of vapor products do, however, raise concerns about vapor products appealing to young people, or being used concurrently with traditional cigarettes. The flavoring of vapor products remains a strong point of contention, with anti-tobacco groups claiming they make the products attractive to children, and vapor manufacturers pointing out that some flavoring is necessary, as vapor fluid is naturally flavorless until flavor is added, unlike traditional cigarettes, which naturally have a taste.
The Truth Initiative, an anti-tobacco group, released a position paper in December of 2015 on vapor products detailing some of these concerns, and including findings of vapor product use by young people. They show that 13.4 percent of high schoolers report having used a vapor product in the last 30 days, up from 1.5 percent in 2011.
While health research is promising, the vapor category is still new, and there have been some growing pains around how the federal government treats the products. In 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its plan to extend regulatory authority to vapor products. The agency has had authority over traditional cigarette, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco for the last six years, and will extend its authority to vapor products after these plans have been finalized.
Until these questions are answered, states are in some ways left in the lurch, as the FDA’s findings and guidance on the relative risks of vapor products and how new products enter the market will, in many ways, inform the state legislative process.
States have been less slow to act on vapor products, as a number of states have proposed or enacted taxes on vapor products. Table 1 summarizes current provisions in four states and the District of Columbia, along with legislation introduced in other states during the 2015 legislative session.
In the 2015 legislative session, at least 25 states and the District of Columbia considered legislation to tax vapor products, either as part of a budget proposal or as a stand-alone bill. Ultimately, Louisiana, Kansas, and the District of Columbia enacted such legislation, bringing the total number of states taxing vapor products to five. Additionally, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Cook County and the City of Chicago in Illinois enacted vapor taxes in 2015.
Minnesota and North Carolina began taxing vapor products in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Each of these enacted levies varies in structure and were put in place under different circumstances.
Minnesota was the first state to begin taxing vapor products. On October 22, 2012, the state’s Department of Revenue issued a revenue notice stating that electronic cigarettes, as a “product containing, made, or derived from tobacco” and intended for consumption, fell under the definition of “other tobacco products,” a tax category that in many states includes pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff. As a result, they are now taxed at the rate of 95 percent of their wholesale price. In addition to being the first state to tax vapor products, Minnesota remains the only state to do so administratively rather than legislatively.
North Carolina, the second state to tax vapor products, took a different approach. In 2014, the state legislature enacted legislation taxing vapor products at a rate of 5 cents per milliliter of nicotine fluid.
In the 2015 session, Kansas and Louisiana followed suit, adopting variations on the North Carolina approach of taxing by volume. Both states were prompted to impose vapor taxes to help close budget shortfalls; Kansas faced a deficit of nearly $600 million, while Louisiana stared down a $1.6 billion shortfall.
Most state excise taxes on products like alcohol, traditional cigarettes, and gasoline are levied as what is called a “specific” tax, or a tax based on volume. Minnesota, by contrast, currently taxes vapor products on an ad valorem basis, meaning as a percentage of the sale price of the product. In Minnesota, the tax is levied at the point of wholesale.
Whether intentionally or not, using ad valorem taxes on vapor products results in disparate tax treatment of these products. Some vapor products are single-use, while others are rechargeable and refillable. An ad valorem tax hits disposable e-cigarettes harder than a specific tax, since disposables include the value of the plastic device itself, not just the fluid, in its sale price. Because single-use e-cigarettes do not require the prior purchase of a personal vaporizer device, they may be favored by lower-income smokers, upon whom the comparably higher tax could fall disproportionately. Moreover, for either type of device, high taxes may prove prohibitive for low-income smokers wishing to transition away from traditional cigarettes.
In 2015, some Minnesota lawmakers attempted to modify their current method of taxation through two different bills, House File 2182 and Senate File 2025, which would have moved Minnesota to a specific tax on vapor liquid at $0.30 per milliliter. Though still high compared to the other states that have imposed taxes on the product, it would have brought the taxation of vapor products under a more equitable regime. Ultimately, however, neither bill received a floor vote.
One of the principles of sound tax policy is neutrality, the idea that taxes should have equity across different activities so as not to favor one type of business or personal decision over another. Put another way, taxes are designed to raise revenue for government services, not micromanage choices.
In a strict application of this principle, all consumer products would be subject to a broad based consumption tax like a retail sales tax, and additional levies on tobacco, alcohol, and other “sins” have no place.
Some economists make exceptions for special circumstances where they can demonstrate a quantifiable negative externality, or side effect, of the use of a specific product. In the case of traditional incinerated cigarettes, these externalities are largely in the form of the social costs associated with the adverse health effects of smoking.
Frequent smokers tend to develop serious health problems, including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and heart disease. Ultimately, many of the economic costs of these health problems are socialized through government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Tobacco taxes are sometimes justified by economists on these grounds, with cigarette taxes envisioned as a way to not only disincentivize smoking but also to help fund smoking prevention and public health programs. The theory goes that applying a tax to a product of exactly the same size as the externality would help users “internalize” the external costs of smoking.
Electronic cigarettes, with their lower risk profile, are likely to have less external costs associated with their use. Further, to the extent that smoking cessation is a stipulated goal of tobacco taxation, exposing vapor products, which many see as a promising cessation method, to such hefty tax rates as traditional tobacco would be counterproductive.
Entirely separate from externality theory, some would suggest that whatever the tax on traditional tobacco, the most important thing is that taxes on less risky activities are lower, so that users are incentivized, or “nudged,” to make a switch to the less risky activity.
In practice, beyond efforts to internalize the costs of smoking or to shape risky decision making, cigarette taxes are frequently relied on as a politically expedient means of funding for unrelated programs. It is instructive to note that even money derived from tobacco settlements has rarely gone directly to smoking prevention.
Education is a public good. It should be paid for with broad-based, generally applicable taxes. Schools should be important enough to be paid for with real taxes on income, sales, and property. Why foist the cost onto a minority — and given the demographics of those who smoke, a poor minority?
Vapor products are sufficiently new that states are just beginning to grapple with questions of if, and how, to tax them. Their apparent similarity to traditional cigarettes, despite significant areas of divergence, has complicated this debate.
But vapor products and traditional cigarettes work and are measured in fundamentally different ways, and as a result should not be taxed in the same way. Additionally, research demonstrates that vapor products are significantly less harmful than traditional cigarettes, and have potential to serve as a means of tobacco harm reduction.
Most states that have a tax on vapor products levy it at a specific rate, based on volume. This method has notable advantages, as it avoids discriminating between disposable and reusable products and does not punish lower-income cigarette smokers who may want to switch to vapor products. Minnesota, the first state to tax vapor products, imposed the tax at an ad valorem rate of 95 percent of the wholesale price, and some legislators have since sought to convert the tax to an excise at a specific rate.
A sound approach to the taxation of vapor products would avoid discriminating between disposable and rechargeable vapor products; it would avoid extending punitive tax rates from traditional cigarettes to vapor products, and would not hinder consumer opportunities for the use of vapor products as a method of smoking cessation.
The author would like to thank Ben Bristor for his assistance on this report.
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“Revenue Notice #12-10: Tobacco Products Tax – Taxability – E-cigarettes.” Minnesota Department of Revenue. October 22, 2012. http://www.revenue.state.mn.us/law_policy/revenue_notices/RN_12-10.pdf.
Drenkard, Scott. “North Carolina’s E-Cigarette Tax Proposal.” Tax Foundation. May 27, 2014. https://taxfoundation.org/blog/north-carolina-s-e-cigarette-tax-proposal.
Sugarman, Stephen D. “To Help Smokers Quit, Make Them Vapers.” Los Angeles Times. September 16, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0910-sugarman-encourage-vaping-20150910-story.html.
“15 Years Later, Where Did All the Cigarette Money Go?” NPR. October 13, 2013. http://www.npr.org/2013/10/13/233449505/15-years-later-where-did-all-the-cigarette-money-go.
See, e.g., Brunori, David. “Using Local Cigarette Taxes for Schools Is Silly.” Tax Analysts. August 20, 2014. http://www.taxanalysts.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/SCAO-9N6HML?OpenDocument.
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0.999991 | What Types of Tarantulas Live in the United States?
More than 50 tarantula species are native to areas of the United States. This includes all or parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, California, Nevada and Kansas. There are also several tarantula species in the United States that are unknown to science. Tarantulas, a member of the Family Theraphosidae, are beneficial to humans because they help control the insect and rodent population. While tarantulas, the largest of all spiders, may appear fearsome to some, they are also kept as pets in many homes.
Tarantulas found in the United States generally have an appearance and anatomy that is similar in a number of ways. The hairy body and legs are tan or a reddish brown to black color, with a body size up to three inches long, up to three inches tall with a leg span of up to five inches.
Males are longer and slimmer than females with a much smaller abdomen. The outer shell, also known as an "exoskeleton," is made up of a fused head and thorax with both connected at the waist to the abdomen: the abdomen contains a number of vital organs and silk-producing spinnerets. Eight eyes are on the forehead, two pedilaps for handling food are near the mouth, and four pairs of legs connect to the head and thorax. Mature tarantulas molt a number of times by throwing off their old exoskeleton. Males can live for several years while females live for several decades.
Oklahoma brown tarantulas, also known as Texas brown tarantulas, are found in Oklahoma and northern Texas. Of the nearly 900 known species in the world, the brown tarantula is second in distribution only to the black tarantula. The Brazilian black tarantula, for example, is a very common black species. The Oklahoma brown tarantula lives under flat stones and in shallow burrows. Brown tarantulas are generally more docile than the vibrantly colored species. Sexual maturity is usually reached by 10 years of age. Females have a life span of about 36 years and males live from seven to 12 years. The medium-sized spider is stocky and covered in fine hair in different shades of brown. The diet is made up of crickets, locusts, grasshoppers and meal worms.
Desert tarantulas are generally found throughout the southwestern United States, mostly in New Mexico, Southern California and Arizona. Nocturnal and reclusive, the desert tarantula hides in burrows or under rocks during the day to prevent being preyed on by snakes and birds. When young, all tarantulas resemble females and it takes about eight to 10 years for both to reach full sexual maturity. Food choices include crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, caterpillars and lizards. The solitary desert tarantula makes no sound and like most tarantulas, has poor vision and communicates primarily by touch.
Most American tarantulas have urticating hairs. The barbed and slightly venomous hairs are found on the abdomen, and legs are used to throw these hairs into the face and eyes of any animal perceived as a threat. Fangs are also used to inflict a bite. Fangs of the tarantula move up and down while the fangs of other spiders move in a horizontal fashion. While it may be painful and irritating, the hair and fangs do not appear to cause long term harm.
Carolyn Green has been a freelance writer since 1989. She has written for BETweekend, Good Old Days, Baby's World and more. A teacher from New York, she also taught in Seoul, where she wrote for a Korean publication. Her passions include world travel, nutritional research and alternative medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from State University of New York, Old Westbury.
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0.995039 | Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo) is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Matrix franchise. He was portrayed as a cybercriminal and computer programmer by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Trilogy, as well as having a cameo in The Animatrix short film Kid's Story. Andrew Bowen provided Neo's voice in The Matrix: Path of Neo. In 2008, Neo was selected by Empire as the 68th Greatest Movie Character of All Time. Neo is also an anagram of "one", a reference to his destiny of being The One who would bring peace. There are claims that a nightclub in Chicago inspired the name of the character in the Matrix.
A record from Agent Smith's file on Neo and Neo's passport show a difference in the birthday of the character.
Thomas A. Anderson was born in Lower Downtown, Capital City, USA on March 11, 1962 (so, in the real world near 2162) according to his criminal record, or September 13, 1971 according to his passport (both seen in the film). His mother was Michelle McGahey (the name of the first film's art director) and his father was John Anderson. He attended Central West Junior High and Owen Patterson High (named after the film's production designer). In high school, he excelled at science, math and computer courses, and displayed an aptitude for literature and history. Although he had disciplinary troubles when he was thirteen to fourteen years old, Anderson went on to become a respected member of the school community through his involvement in football and hockey.
At the start of the series, Neo is one of billions of humans neurally connected to the Matrix, unaware that the world he lives in is a simulated reality.
In his legitimate activities, he is a quiet programmer for the "respectable software company" Meta Cortex; but he is also a computer hacker who penetrates computer systems illicitly and steals information under his hacker alias "Neo", and he also sells illegal untraceable computer systems and hacking programs along with controlling computer viruses stashed on CDs and diskettes. During his time as a hacker, Anderson has learned about something known only as "The Matrix". It is described as a vague notion that Neo has felt his whole life that "there is something wrong with the world".
During the years prior to the events of The Matrix, Neo has spent his time trying to find the one man who he thought could tell him what the Matrix was: a supposed terrorist known only as Morpheus. After an encounter with another hacker, Trinity, Anderson is suddenly contacted by Morpheus via a cell phone mailed to his office, but is almost immediately captured by the virtual reality's Agents, led by Agent Smith. After refusing to co-operate with the agents, Neo has an electronic bug implanted within his Matrix-simulated body so that his actions can be tracked and those seeking to make contact from the free world can be traced and destroyed. He is then contacted by Trinity, freed from the bug, and taken to meet Morpheus.
Neo is offered a choice to remain in his everyday life and forget about the Matrix or to learn what the Matrix really is. Choosing to learn what the Matrix really is, he takes a drug (commonly called the "red pill") designed to disrupt his body's neural connection to the Matrix, and wakes up disoriented and alarmed to find himself weak, hairless, naked in a pod full of red liquid, and connected to many wires.
Neo is rescued in the real world and his body is healed of the effects of his atrophy suffered in the power plant. Once Neo regains consciousness and is able to walk, Morpheus tells Neo the truth about the Matrix: that it is a simulated world to which humans are connected, and that humanity is used as a power source for giant intelligent machines. He also tells Neo about The One, a human with the power to manipulate The Matrix, who has been foretold to end the war between humans and machines, and says that he believes Neo is The One. The next day, Neo begins his "training" and becomes knowledgeable in many forms of combat, as well as vehicle and weapons operations, by having various training programs uploaded directly into his brain. He also receives further instruction from Morpheus on subjects such as "freeing his mind" from the restrictions of the Matrix, essentially overcoming the physics engine the Matrix operates on. He is also made aware the existence of its Agents.
After several days aboard Morpheus' hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo is taken to meet the Oracle, who has the power of foresight within the simulated world. She tells him that he has the "gift", but appeared to be waiting for something, and that in his present life he is not the one. The Oracle warns him that a situation will arise when he will have to choose between saving his own life or that of Morpheus.
Returning from the Oracle to the hard line, which serves as the exit for "red pills" to leave The Matrix, the crew of Morpheus's ship is betrayed by Cypher, a "red pill" who is willing to give the agents Morpheus in exchange for the promise of being reconnected permanently to the Matrix as an escape from the real world's bleakness. In the Matrix, SWAT troops kill Mouse. Cypher jacks out, grabs a real-world lightning gun, injuring Tank and killing Dozer. He kills Apoc and Switch, who remain jacked in, by prematurely terminating their connections. In the Matrix, Smith defeats and captures Morpheus. Neo and Trinity try to jack out but Cypher threatens to unplug them too, however he is thwarted when Tank recovers, killing Cypher and helping Neo and Trinity jack out.
Neo learns the Agents seek to hack into Morpheus's brain, forcing him to tell them the access codes to the mainframe in the hidden rebel city Zion. After refusing to sacrifice Morpheus to prevent this, Neo decides to jack in and attack the building where he is being held. He and Trinity proceed to fight their way to the roof level of the building, where they are confronted by Agent Jones. Neo unloads two entire magazines on Jones as he dodges each bullet effortlessly. When Jones returns fire, Neo proves capable of dodging bullets himself, fluidly moving in a way only an agent was thought to be capable of. Trinity then shoots Jones at point-blank range. Using an armed chopper, Neo and Trinity successfully rescue Morpheus. As Neo has just successfully rescued comrades from a building protected by heavily armed guards and agents (thought to be an unprecedented feat), Tank and Morpheus both believe Neo is indeed The One. Neo tries to tell Morpheus what the Oracle told him, but Morpheus explains that she merely told Neo what he needed to hear: had he believed himself to be the One, he would likely not have attempted the rescue, which was a necessary step to his emergence as the One.
Reaching the hard line, Morpheus and Trinity return to the real world, but Neo is trapped by Agent Smith. Trinity admonishes Neo to run, but he stands his ground, having begun to believe that he may be the One. The two of them draw guns and fire them empty, but are able to effortlessly dodge each other's fire. Neo skillfully engages Smith in hand-to-hand combat, almost seeming to be Smith's equal. In the end Neo is briefly incapacitated and held by Smith as a subway train approaches, but at the last minute he is able to get free and backflip up onto the platform, leaving Smith to be run over. The Agent, however, possesses the body of the conductor and emerges from the train and Neo, realizing that the Agents' ability to possess other bodies makes this a fight he cannot win, flees the subway station.
Pursued by Smith and his fellow Agents, Neo is able to evade them and reach the location of the hard line, just to be ambushed and fatally shot in the chest by Smith. Trinity, seeing Neo die in the real world while his mind is still in the Matrix, tells his evidently lifeless body that the Oracle had foretold that she would fall in love with The One. When kissed by Trinity, Neo comes back to life, finally fully emerging as The One. The Agents try to kill him again, Neo simply raises his hand and the bullets freeze in mid-air, then drop harmlessly to the ground. It is then shown that he is able to perceive, interpret, and alter the computer code of the Matrix. Fully believing in his newfound powers, he effortlessly fends off Agent Smith before forcing himself into the agent's body and destroying it from within. The other two agents quickly flee.
Neo is then seen leaving a message for the machines via phone; a warning that he plans to oppose the machines by freeing as many human minds as possible. He then hangs up and flies into the sky.
Approximately six months between the events of the first film and The Matrix Reloaded, Neo is now fully confident in his ability to manipulate the artificial world within the Matrix. Not surprisingly, he no longer uses firearms and instead prefers martial arts. His ability to manipulate the coding of the Matrix allows him to stop incoming fire from multiple attackers. Dispensing with the long black trenchcoat and black shirt he wears at the conclusion of The Matrix, Neo now prefers a cassock with a high-rise mandarin collar giving the appearance of a priest or Bishop. He and Trinity are now lovers. Neo seeks more advice from the Oracle, unsure of his purpose, while Zion prepares for a massive attack by the Machines from over 250,000 Sentinels – giant jellyfish-like machines. The Oracle directs him on a quest to find the Keymaker, a personified program that has access to numerous backdoors within the system. The Keymaker will be able to lead Neo safely to the Source, the programming heart of the machine world, which contains the programs sustaining the Matrix.
After the Oracle leaves, Agent Smith (now known simply as Smith) appears, and it is revealed that Neo had separated Smith from the rest of the Matrix code by shattering him, giving him a life independent of the machine's systems, and now the two of them share a "connection" to each other. Smith is no longer an Agent of the Matrix, but has become more virus-like, able to insert his code into other systems and infect other programs and human minds to make copies of himself. Neo fends off hundreds of these Smiths and escapes. Later, he, Morpheus, and Trinity steal the Keymaker from his keeper, The Merovingian. During this time, Neo stays behind to fight off the Merovingian's men and becomes separated from the others, being trapped in the Merovingian's mansion five hundred miles away in the mountains. He flies off to help them and only arrives in time to save Morpheus and the Keymaker from two agents crashing two semis together.
The Keymaker explains that two power stations elsewhere in the Matrix must be disabled in a short time window to successfully disable the security system of a building where the door to the Source will appear, allowing Neo to reach it. This task is accomplished; but the Keymaker is killed, a hovercraft is destroyed, and Trinity is put in jeopardy by Agents of the Matrix; a vision that Neo has seen earlier in his dreams. Entering the door, Neo finds himself confronted by the Architect, a program which created and designed The Matrix.
The Architect presents Neo with a radically different explanation of his origins and purpose, claiming that Neo is actually the sixth "One". He goes on to say that Zion has been destroyed by the machines five times before; faced with the dilemma of allowing humanity to be destroyed, or allowing the machines' preferred status quo to be reconstructed, Neo's five predecessors have helped reload, or restart the Matrix, before being allowed to rebuild Zion with a handful of freed humans. The productive output of the Matrix is based upon this repeated cycle of destruction and recreation, to keep the human minds which power it in a stable structure. The Oracle is as much part of that self-perpetuating design as the Architect, Neo is told, and the prophecy of The One is designed to ensure it runs smoothly each time.
The Architect warns of the annihilation of all human life in and out of the Matrix if he did not enter the Source door to reload the Matrix, but unlike his predecessors, Neo does not enter the door to the Source; he chooses not to believe the Architect's dire warnings of consequences, and to save Trinity instead. Returning to the Matrix, he catches Trinity as she falls from an upper-story window of a power plant. She dies of a gunshot wound to the heart that she sustains during the fall, but Neo brings her back to life by reaching into her virtual body, removing the bullet, and restarting her heart.
Together, they exit the Matrix and return to the real world. Neo tells Morpheus that the Prophecy was merely another system of control, and that Zion's destruction is imminent. A group of Sentinels begin to converge on their hovercraft, so that Neo and the others are forced to abandon it and flee as it is destroyed. Neo stays behind, realizing that he can now sense the Sentinels, and stops them from attacking by force of will; however, the effort causes him to fall unconscious. He and the crew are rescued by the hovercraft Mjolnir (also known as the Hammer), the crew of which is dealing with a mystery in the form of Bane, a crew member from another ship, who is the only survivor of an ill-fated attack by the Zion fleet. Unknown to anyone, Bane has been caught and infected by Smith.
The Matrix Revolutions begins immediately after the events of the second movie. As a result of his struggle with the Sentinels, Neo returns to consciousness finding himself caught in an isolated train station-like limbo only accessible by order of the Merovingian, from which his mind is unable to free itself. It is here that he meets Sati, a young program created without a purpose who is being smuggled into the Matrix by her parents, who are also programs in the machine world. Neo remains trapped until freed by Trinity (assisted by Morpheus and Seraph) who threatens the Merovingian in a Mexican standoff.
After a final visit to the Oracle, Neo learns that he has powers over the machines which extend beyond the Matrix and that Smith is spreading, threatening to destroy both the Matrix and the real world. Building on the Oracle's previous explanations about the nature of choice, Neo learns that the Architect's assertion that his choice to save Trinity would inherently lead to the extinction of humankind was incorrect, due to his nature as a purely mathematical being rendering him incapable of seeing past choices made by humans as he considers them mere variables in equations. Having told Neo that he now has the power to choose to end the war and defeat Smith, the Oracle then states "Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo" and informs him that he must now go to the heavily guarded Machine City in hopes of stopping the Sentinels and Smith. Soon after Neo leaves, dozens of Smiths come and assimilate Seraph, Sati, and the Oracle.
Neo and Trinity are given the Logos, a hovercraft commanded by Morpheus's former lover, Niobe, in what seems to others as a suicidal journey to the Machine City. Meanwhile, Captain Roland and the Nebuchadnezzar's surviving crew of Link and Morpheus in the hovercraft Hammer/Mjolnir return to Zion, which is now besieged and losing to the Machines. Neo and Trinity are ambushed by the stowaway Bane/Smith, who blinds Neo with an electric cable, but is killed when Neo discovers an ability to 'see' programs and Machines independently of his eyesight. Neo, with Trinity as pilot, guide the Logos past the Machine City's defenses, but in the effort the Logos crash-lands, and Trinity sustains fatal injuries and dies.
Neo encounters the Deus Ex Machina, a giant Machine construct and the de facto leader of the Machines. He offers Smith's defeat and destruction in exchange for a truce. The offer is accepted; Neo enters the Matrix to find that the Smith program has copied itself throughout the simulated world, and has turned it into a rainswept dark simulation. One of the copies of Smith, having assimilated the Oracle and obtained as much freedom and control over the virtual world as Neo, faces Neo alone. For a while, the two fight evenly with no real advantage, but ultimately, the tireless Smith begins to wear out Neo and takes control of the fight. Realizing he cannot win with brute force and not wanting to live without Trinity, Neo allows Smith to assimilate him, which enables the machines to eradicate the Smith virus directly through his body, though Neo's life is sacrificed in the process.
Neo's body is taken away by the Machines in the Machine City, while below in Zion, the Machines stop their attack and retire in deference to the peace that Neo bartered. The Matrix is rebooted and a beautiful sunrise appears over the horizon, created by Sati in Neo's honor.
Although the fate of Neo was never truly revealed in the MMORPG sequel, The Matrix Online, his influence nevertheless had a strong impact on several key events throughout the game.
In the beginning, scattered code fragments of Neo's "RSI" (Residual Self Image) were found on the bodies of the impostor Agents who appeared across the Mega City during Chapter 1.1 (later revealed to be Sentinels under the command of The General program). When held, these fragments echoed some of the final thoughts of Neo inside the redpill's mind. Each of the three main post-war political organizations inside the Matrix realized the possible significance of these fragments and began fighting amongst themselves to gather as many as they could.
The Oracle reveals a secret society of exiles known only as the Shapers, who are the only ones able to bring the Fragments together in any significant way and that they must be protected from the impostor agents' corruption. The redpills' distrust and organizational differences prove too much for any strong unity, so that a Shaper fell into the captivity of the false agents. His power was used to encode some part of The One's being onto them, creating the powerful, pale-skinned "N30 Ag3nts".
In Chapter 1.2, Morpheus states that though the Machines never returned Neo's physical remains (Neo's body in the real world) to Zion, they did not "recycle" them: a reference to the first film, in which Morpheus tells Neo that the machines liquefy deceased occupants of the Matrix to provide organic sustenance for its living inhabitants. This would be the driving force behind Morpheus' descent into fanatical terrorism against the System in an attempt to force the Machines to reveal Neo's fate, ultimately leading to his assassination.
The subject of Neo then fell to the side lines for other struggles until the arrival of The Oligarchs in Chapter 9. The original intruder, Halborn, was notably intrigued by the life of The One and was personally shocked about the implications of Neo's ability to affect Machines outside of the simulation had on his search for what he called "The Biological Interface Program".
After Halborn's removal in Chapter 10, little more was questioned until the revelation of the Trinity project, originally headed by The Oracle, in Chapter 12. It was revealed that both Neo and Trinity were actually the culmination of decades of Machine research into translating human DNA perfectly into Machine code, allowing them to interface directly with technology without the need for simulated interfaces.
Neo has carried, since his conception, the Matrix's source code known as the Prime Program. This gives him the ability to freely manipulate the simulated reality of the Matrix, similar to the authority a system administrator has over a given system. He manifests these abilities as various superhuman powers.
The power Neo exhibits most often is akin to telekinesis in the Matrix. In that, he seems capable of manipulating any object in the Matrix through will alone. By focusing this ability upon himself, he can fly at amazing speeds and jump great distances. Whilst his speed is never specified, he flies from the Merovingian's mountain manor to the highway "500 miles due south" in a very short time. His speed of flight is further exemplified by his ability to escape explosions, and the sonic boom left in his wake has the power to overturn rows of heavy vehicles. He has used this ability multiple times to stop several bullets in mid flight, first against the Agents and again against the Merovingian.
In addition to his abilities, Neo possesses superhuman strength and agility, and is near-invulnerable to most attacks. Although his physical endurance is immense, Neo can still be harmed or killed, as evidenced by an injury that Neo suffers while blocking a sword with his hand. His endurance is also finite: when confronted by masses of Smith clones in the second film, Neo was forced to escape rather than continue fighting though he easily overpowered at least 40 Smith clones and threw about 50 off him, and upon being disconnected from the Matrix, he appeared exhausted and winded. His reflexes are great enough to dodge bullets. Neo's strength and speed level have never been accurately measured; he is known to be capable of Mach 8, at least, and Mach 10 under stress, but his upper limit has never been shown. In the third movie, Neo has reached his (apparent) full strength; he is capable of withstanding a direct physical punch from Smith, and is also able to hold his own in a prolonged fight (though his endurance is not without limit; he can fight Smith to a standstill, but not defeat him).
In the real world, Neo does not display any of the aforementioned abilities aside from fighting skills. Neo does have some degree of wireless connectivity with the Matrix system: he eventually learns to sense the presence of the Machines, and even interfere with their function. This capability initially overwhelms him, and he loses consciousness from the strain. According to the Oracle, "The power of The One extends beyond the Matrix. It reaches from here all the way back to where it came from." Apparently because of his status as The One, he has a direct connection to the Source, and can therefore affect everything connected to it. After he is blinded in the fight against Smith/Bane, Neo begins to perceive everything connected to the Source, including the Machine City itself, as silhouettes of golden light; he is thus able to see Smith/Bane and kill him.
^ "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters/ 16. Neo / Empire / www.empireonline.com". Empire. Bauer Consumer Media. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
^ Nutu, Ela (2006). Black, Fiona C., ed. Red Herrings in Bullet-Time: The Matrix, the Bible, and the Postcommunist I*. The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between. Society of Biblical Lit. p. 71. ISBN 9781589831469. Retrieved 12 August 2014. the name Neo can, in fact, be an anagram for 'one'.
^ "Neo - Chicago Bar Project Review". www.chibarproject.com. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
^ "Whoa! Neo Announces Weekend DJs as Nightclub Preps Move". Retrieved 22 February 2018.
^ This name carries several homages to Christian theology/mythology. "Anderson" literally means "son of man", which is how Jesus primarily referred to himself in the Gospels. "Thomas" is the name of Jesus' disciple who infamously doubted the truth of the risen Christ. In The Matrix, Thomas Anderson sheds his disbelief and comes to accept that the Matrix is real and he is thereby "born again," and is referred to as "Neo." He also comes to believe that he is The One.
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0.99988 | When a new post appears, tap the three dots in the top right corner to bring up an additional menu and then select "3D Photo" to open the iPhone "Portraits" folder where you'll select the image you'd like to share. The new feature is also available on VR using the Oculus Browser on Oculus Go or Firefox on Oculus Rift.
Facebook briefly and vaguely announced their intent to roll out a 3D and VR photo option this past May. The new feature is now rolling out to everyone and it should be available to all users in the next few weeks. It was not known when the feature would come out or how to take the photos that would eventually be converted.
Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature that allow users to post 3D photos in their News Feed.
How do Facebook's 3D Photos work?
Facebook 3D Photos are now active on your newsfeed! But instead, the photos will have a depth that will let you see things from different angles and tilts within the photo. As mentioned previously, users can also view these 3D photos on their VR headsets as well if they do not have an iPhone with a dual camera setup.
I could say [Madrid and France defender Raphael] Varane because he won a lot too. Then he is a friend of yours - you can do whatever you want (laughs).
To get the best results possible, Facebook advises that you take pictures with a lot of contrast between the background and the foreground.
"3D-photo is like looking at your photography subject if they were standing still behind a window."
And when you tilt or scroll your device, the image change its perspectives.
3D Photos use the depth maps that are stored with "Portrait" photos taken on iPhone 7+, 8+, X or XS.
Some materials and subjects make better 3D photos than others. Having more distinct colors in the photo will make the layer separation in images more detailed, but shinier objects like glass or plastic can confuse the AI.
Additionally, the physical disc version requires a hefty 50 GB day one update , so that's something you may want to consider. Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is due out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on October 12.
The world will need nearly 900,000 fewer barrels from the group each day in 2019 - equivalent to Libya's average output this year. Before the re-imposition of USA sanctions, Iran was India's third-largest oil supplier behind Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
It's useless trying to make a leader out of a man who goes to the toilet 20 times before a game", Maradona said. Messi has a completely different style than Ronaldo.
The estimated $548 million prize would be the largest jackpot in more than nine months. With the odds of hitting the jackpot at one in 302.6 million, it is no wonder.
One month later, five other former Clinton aides, including Cheryl Mills, also had their clearances revoked. Trump responded Clinton's comments at the White House on Tuesday morning. |
0.90486 | Did soggy space rocks give life left-hand bias?
WET rocks hurtling around the solar system may have given life on Earth its addiction to left-handed building blocks.
Almost all life on Earth uses left-handed amino acid molecules instead of their right-handed counterparts. In the 1990s, scientists found that meteorites contain up to 15 per cent more of the left-handed versions too. So space rocks bombarding the early Earth may have biased the planet’s chemistry. A linked theory has it that polarised starlight can preferentially destroy right-handed amino acids on asteroids, though this alone cannot explain the strength of the bias on meteorites. |
0.975037 | Clementine 為 Windows 是一個免費的，開放源碼的多平台音樂播放器，創造了可用性和速度的思想。借助它，您可以輕鬆控制音樂聆聽的所有方面，管理播放列表，使用 Spotify，SKY.fm，Grooveshark，Last.fm 等網絡流式廣播，將音樂傳輸到便攜式設備（Apple 設備 100％支持），通過遙控器控制音樂，以及更多。為了滿足新手和專業人士的需求，這個音樂播放器和音樂庫管理器設法滿足每個對音頻娛樂世界感興趣的人們的需求，並且託管在本地存儲和在線上.
這個偉大的應用程序的第一個版本是在 2010 年初發布，完全建立在 Qt 4 和 GStreamer 框架之上，允許為 Mac，Windows，Linux 和類 Unix 平台創建跨平台的項目，所有這些都由 Clementine 支持。需要創建這個應用程序後流行音樂播放器 Amarok 徹底改變了它的視覺風格和支持的功能，這引起了它的社區批評，並開始尋找新的音頻播放軟件。這促使開源社區分發該應用程序，並在開發人員 David Sansome，John Maguire Pawel Bara 和 Arnaud Bienner 的領導下創建自己的 Clementine。他們很快創建了一個應用程序，將 Amarok v1.4 中的最佳功能與擴展其可用性的新功能相結合.
- Fixes a bug where ratings are deleted when upgrading from older versions.
一個跨平台的音樂播放器，靈感來自於 Amarok 1.4 版. About & Features. Search and play your local music library. Listen to internet radio from Spotify, ... https://www.clementine-player.
Ubuntu PPA. You can download the latest version of Clementine on Ubuntu from the official PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine ... https://www.clementine-player.
Latest downloads. Get the latest stable version of Clementine for your operating system. 1.3.1. Fedora 21. 32-bit. 1.3.1. Fedora 21. 64-bit. 1.3.1. Fedora 22. 32-bit. https://www.clementine-player.
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