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Ironman finishers are the 'best' triathletes?
Reading some triathlon magazines, a sprint or standard distance triathlete might be forgiven for thinking they are part of some sort of triathlon 'under-class'. Every month, I seem to find some article which suggests that "anyone can do a triathlon" and that the only real test of physical and mental strength is to go the full hog and finish an Ironman.
Now, I am full of respect of for anyone who completes an Ironman race, whether they do it in nine hours or 16:59. But I have to admit I take issue with the viewpoint that triathletes that concentrate on shorter distances are somehow 'inferior' to Ironman finishers in the grand pecking order of life. Although completing an Ironman (and being as competitive as I can be) is definitely on my to-do list before I reach the end of my triathlon journey, right now I see a far greater challenge in becoming a true 'competor' at shorter distance triathlons than becoming an Ironman 'completor'.
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The soft tap of the rain against my window leaves me staring at the sky. Sweet and melancholy feelings come over me as I hear the rain. I close my eyes and dig deep into my memories, picking the most significant. It was the day similar to this. I was holding your hand in the rain. You took me to see the mountains hiding behind the clouds. The only warmth I felt that day was with your hug, holding me, and gazing into your eyes. I remember your bright smile and gentle touch. My heart beating slow yet steady. The scene of this as if time just stopped for a couple minutes. You leaned your head to to touch my forehead. With our eyes closed, I felt something I have never felt before. It was your love surrounding me, listening to my heart, bold enough to take the next leap. I wanted stay in the moment even if I would give me a temporary illness. It was beautiful in its own way. It was the time I heard your heart only calling my name, only calling me, only loving me.
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What on Earth can my two books, The Popish Midwife, and my latest book, A-Z Monsters (not) For Bed have in common? Looking at the two covers and the content, I would quite understandably expect your reaction to be, 'Absolutely nothing!' and, presented with these two books, I'd probably give exactly the same reaction. In fact, two more different-seeming books there could not possibly be!
Just look at them. One, a historical novel, closely based on a true story, researched, written and researched some more over a matter of years. The other, what appears from the cover to be some kind of light-hearted children's book.
During my time researching The Popish Midwife, one of the things I most enjoyed was the seventeenth century coffee house and broadsheet satire, which made comment on anything and everything at the time. Nothing was sacred. Coffee houses and Taverns were the hotbeds of community news everyone slept in on a regular basis. There, amongst the smoke rising from clay pipes and burning rushlights or candles on the wall, could be read leaflets, broadsheets and newspapers about current affairs; and imbibers of dishes of coffee or cups of ale could catch up with gossip along with all the other regulars.
The broadsheets were designed to be accessible to anyone who could read, with many a wood-cut image, annotated by little details, including labels of who a figure was, or some words they might have said. The writing was often in the form of columns and verses. They more often than not mercilessly mocked politicians, murderers, social figures and religious figures alike, anyone of interest from high to low. And they were often written in rhyming couplets. I presume this rhyming style made the news easier to read, being given in small bite-sized pieces, but I suspect there was also a second reason they were so popular, that rhymes are notoriously more memorable than straight sentences. A man reading the latest in the coffee house or tavern could go out into the street or home and remember all his favourite bits to recite to anyone he wanted, often verbatim.
I found out so much about Elizabeth Cellier through broadsheets and leaflets of satire and jolly rhymes, which I fondly imagine the writer having a riot of a time creating, laughing and guffawing over as he came up with each new idea and line, making the reading of long passages so much more fun and entertaining because, of course, news was openly considered entertainment back then. The wittier the better. Even life-and-death stuff, which is obviously very serious, was given a dash of hilarity to it. It helped to deal with the much harsher life events in a way that the living could feel comfortable with.
Yet never were days so blest as Queen Maries.
How rich is that! The voice of someone who lived through that time, their opinion on Cellier right there, right then. Through this verse, she was immortalised.
'Presto begone!' 'Tis now a deity.
And five small words pronounced, make up their Christ.
His Maker make, create he infinite.
To clear old debts, and tick with Heaven for more.
Has more, and fouler scenes of lust surveyed.
For fear I should the Inquisition feel.
So much commentary, so many oft-spoken opinions; one can't ask for a more thorough summary and condensed view of the emotion and reaction of the the society. This richness made it so much easier to understand the different aspects of the seventeenth century society.
We politically- and socially-correct people of today might have great trouble laughing at other folks' misfortunes in this way (and would probably get sued if we did!). Even to elude to something being funny, for instance, that certain politicians in the highest places might be double-dealing or siding with the enemy to the risk of the country, might elicit a strong reaction. Laughing about it would be seen as expressing that it's of no consequence, belittles it in many a person's eyes. It could be considered a tad too frivolous. Such serious subjects should be discussed and and thought about with gravity and solemnity... unless, of course, you're a stand-up comedian. And even then, there are those who would take offence at your making merry over a serious matter.
Going back centuries before, to the Ancient Greeks and probably earlier, famous poetry, like the Iliad and Odyssey, were also written in verse, the tempo of which is kept moving by the short lines, and the names and events made memorable by repetition of description (twenty five-twenty six thousand of them! If I were to write a similarly long verse about Elizabeth Cellier, for instance, I might always call her 'the bold and brassy midwife', and that exact expression would be used each and every time mentioning her.). There was a reason for this. Back in the days when not everything was written down, and long stories were told by oration, there had to be easier ways for the storyteller to remember it all. Yes, some details changed each time of the telling, but most of it was remembered in chunks of ideas. When Alexander Pope translated The Iliad in the early eighteenth century, he used heroic couplets. Why? Not only because they were all the rage during the Restoration, but also they are very pleasing to the ear, and memorable.
In the way songs are. In fact, back then, many stories were sung to music by travelling story tellers.
So, this is where I come back to A-Z Monsters for Bed, which I wrote in a concentrated poetry-writing period almost two decades ago. I was going through some difficult life-stuff at the time, much like now, and I found that writing humorous story rhymes were not only good at focusing the mind, but they also entertained me while I wrote them. Twenty six rhymes reflecting upon, and animating through story, various traits and characteristics that might be considered bad/monstrous (many of the monsters have such names as Scurulous, Cantankerous, Xenophobia). Only one - Quantum Querulous - was not a full story but a short limerick/riddle. I found the high concentration of rich language was wonderful to play with, and a story that might have taken a thousand words could be reduced to a fraction of that, to maybe one or two sides of A4.
But, most of all, I found one could conjure sharp images with a well-chosen line, a twist of word order, an evocation of a whole idea encompassed in a phrase, and the rhyme-ends helped to keep together ideas. Re-reading those rhymes, I understood how pleasing they are to write, how enjoyable and animated they are to read. For instance, a few years later, my young niece enjoyed one of the story-rhymes so much, she learned it by heart to recite at school (apparently it went down well). When I was working in my son's school, I read some of the rhymes to the ten-year-olds, and they loved them. I mean, really loved them. They were engrossed and smiling, and remembered particular bits of them afterwards. To me, this is an indication of how much easier and more fun it is to learn in such a way, and I can't help thinking what a shame it is that rhymes as a form of poetry, and rhyming stories in particular, have gone so out of fashion.I believe that kids these days might find them refreshing.
Finally, I'll leave you with a rhyme for the coronation of King William III (William of Orange) and Queen Mary when King James II escaped to France in 1689. I hope you can read it.
This writer would be having a good amount of followers and fans who like her books and in this blog she has make them aware of the recent two books which she's releasing anywhere soon.
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This map shows the average size of agricultural land per household, expressed as hectare per household. The average size of agricultural land per household is the size of the total parcels of land used for agriculture by the total number of owners. According to the results of the Population and Housing Census of 2005 the average size of agricultural land throughout the country is 2.11 hectares.
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Is possible to overconstrain the model in Revit Architecture?
Yes it is possible to over constrain the model in Revit Architecture. Some users are tempted to lock every lock symbol as soon as it appears on screen. Once the host elements have been constrained (walls, roofs and floors) it is advisable to apply common sense when constraining other elements and components.
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Tell us a bit about your book Tie-Fast Country.
Tie-Fast Country is about a woman, Clarista, who was raised by her father to be the son he never had. She inherits his ranch and a loyal cowboy who has tied as hard and fast to the land as she has but who may be an undocumented worker. She hires a younger cowboy who has loved her since grade school. Rista, the name she requires others to call her, loves a newspaper man who is tied to nothing but glamor and sensation and dreams of a life somewhere else. A third man gives up his chance to be sheriff to marry her but he also dallies in romance off the ranch and away from its hard and demanding life. Her daughter also dallies where she shouldn't and flees the ranch with her son. Years later, Chance, who manages a small TV station receives a call that his grandmother is dying and he needs to return to the ranch and take care of her. He imagines that he can slide her from the ranch into a nursing home, sell the ranch and return to his career. But he knows that she has killed two men, one of whom may have been his father.
Have you always had such a strong interest in ranching?
I've been interested in the changes that occur in one's lifetime and whether one rides one wave after another or ties fast to something and refuses to let go regardless of the consequences to themselves or others. Ranching, like farming, has changed dramatically in my lifetime but a few men and women are tied fast to their roots and continue to live in a world that for most no longer exists.
The book covers the years 1910 to 1990, what makes this particular period so special?
To understand Rista, it's necessary to understand her father. The book begins when he has a roping accident because the rope was tied-fast to the saddlehorn and he couldn't let go of a wild bull on the other end. His horse is killed. He realizes he needs an heir. He looks for a wife the same way Rista will later look for a husband and chooses Rista's mother to provide him with young cowboys.
I met a woman many years ago who had killed two men. I didn't want to know anything else about her because I wanted to invent a woman character who would kill two men and to discover who they were, why she did it, and what happened to her because of it. Anything I knew about the woman I met would limit that. I didn't even want to know her name. I knew when someone told me about her that I would write that story.
Television and the media in general required interviews and libraries. Much of the ranching part came from my experience and memories of my father and his friends. Like many young men in rural Texas I worked as a cowboy but I've never been a cowboy. That's a lifestyle and a skill. Cowboys are skilled at roping, fencing, plumbing, machine and windmill repair. They have to recognize the quality and quantity of grass, weakness or illness in livestock and what to do about it. I worked a few days or a few weeks at a time doing non-skilled jobs. I have a friend who is a cowboy and rancher. I've helped him with roundup, branding, marking, pregnancy-testing, shearing, marketing. He was the encyclopedia I used and I dedicated the book to him.
I wanted to contrast not just the lifestyles but the language, the imagery, of those who live a ranch life with those invested in the media and those who don't work in the media but whose lives are formed and informed by the media. Shelley wrote that you become what you behold. Studying grass, cows, horses every day is different from seeing the world through words and images.
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Hier gibt es Klamotten für die gesamte Familie und das kostet alles 10 Euro pro Artikel. Alles 10 Euro – Wie ist das möglich? Die Frage ist mehr als . Es hat wirklich gar keine Qualität, also für 10€ kann ich mir da schon an Qualität besseres kaufen. Röcke · Hosen · Schuhe · Sportmode · Damenpflege · Neuheiten Damen.
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The degree and pattern of dominance varies among loci. This type of interaction was first formally described by Gregor Mendel. However, many traits defy this simple categorization and the phenotypes are modeled by co-dominance and polygenic inheritance.
The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in "wild" populations of organisms, such as fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster.
Such a "wild type" allele was historically regarded as leading to a dominant overpowering - always expressed , common, and normal phenotype, in contrast to " mutant " alleles that lead to recessive, rare, and frequently deleterious phenotypes.
It was formerly thought that most individuals were homozygous for the "wild type" allele at most gene loci, and that any alternative "mutant" allele was found in homozygous form in a small minority of "affected" individuals, often as genetic diseases , and more frequently in heterozygous form in " carriers " for the mutant allele.
It is now appreciated that most or all gene loci are highly polymorphic, with multiple alleles, whose frequencies vary from population to population, and that a great deal of genetic variation is hidden in the form of alleles that do not produce obvious phenotypic differences.
A population or species of organisms typically includes multiple alleles at each locus among various individuals.
Allelic variation at a locus is measurable as the number of alleles polymorphism present, or the proportion of heterozygotes in the population.
For example, at the gene locus for the ABO blood type carbohydrate antigens in humans, classical genetics recognizes three alleles, I A , I B , and i, which determine compatibility of blood transfusions.
It is now known that each of the A, B, and O alleles is actually a class of multiple alleles with different DNA sequences that produce proteins with identical properties: The frequency of alleles in a diploid population can be used to predict the frequencies of the corresponding genotypes see Hardy-Weinberg principle.
For a simple model, with two alleles;. Then, p 2 is the fraction of the population homozygous for the first allele, 2 pq is the fraction of heterozygotes, and q 2 is the fraction homozygous for the alternative allele.
In the case of multiple alleles at a diploid locus, the number of possible genotypes G with a number of alleles a is given by the expression:.
A number of genetic disorders are caused when an individual inherits two recessive alleles for a single-gene trait. Recessive genetic disorders include albinism , cystic fibrosis , galactosemia , phenylketonuria PKU , and Tay—Sachs disease.
Other disorders are also due to recessive alleles, but because the gene locus is located on the X chromosome, so that males have only one copy that is, they are hemizygous , they are more frequent in males than in females.
Examples include red-green color blindness and fragile X syndrome. Other disorders, such as Huntington disease , occur when an individual inherits only one dominant allele.
While heritable traits are typically studied in terms of genetic alleles, epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation can be inherited at specific genomic regions in certain species, a process termed transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
The term epiallele is used to distinguish these heritable marks from traditional alleles, which are defined by nucleotide sequence.
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RAD140 is an investigational selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) for the treatment of conditions such as muscle wasting , currently under development by Radius Health , Inc . (RDUS).
RAD140 demonstrates excellent affinity for the androgen receptor (Ki = 7 nM) as well as good selectivity over other steroid hormone nuclear receptors , with the closest off target receptor being the progesterone receptor (IC50 = 750 nM) . RAD140 is a novel SARM with high affinity and specificity for AR , is orally available, and exhibits potent anabolic effects in rodents and nonhuman primates.
The stability of RAD140 is high (t1/2 > 2 h) in incubations with rat , monkey , and human microsomes , and it also had good bioavailability in rats and monkeys. RAD140 is also neuroprotective using the rat kainate lesion model . RAD140 is shown to exhibit peripheral tissue-specific androgen action that largely spared prostate , neural efficacy by activation of androgenic gene regulation effects , and neuroprotection of hippocampal neurons against cell death caused by systemic administration of the excitotoxin kainate.
According to the Cambridge-based pharmaceuticals company Radius , the potent , orally bioavailable and nonsteroidal RAD 140 SARM is designed to make the hormonal receptors in the tissues of the body act the same way as if they're getting a good dose of testosterone , setting off the same effects as if you're cycling with prohormones and anabolic steroids minus unwanted side effects.
Moreover , clinical studies also show that RAD 140 SARM also has a few other benefits , which we will discuss more thoroughly in a moment.
Enhanced speed , stamina and endurance during high-intensity workoutsFaster buildup of muscular tissues that helps you achieve more gains in a shorter period of timeBased on medical tests , RAD 140 SARM also displayed a greater anabolic effect than testosterone when used . Researchers pointed out that besides having a more "reinforced" effect than testosterone , RAD 140 SARM was also seen to help reduce the androgenic side effects that can be potentially caused by the same on the prostate.
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Democrat-run cities and states have promised public employee unions generous pensions for years, and now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. The unfunded liabilities in places from New Jersey and New York to Illinois and the three west coast states, the pension hole is approximately $5 trillion - about the size of the economy of Japan.
This is not a recoverable situation, and it's hard to see how so many people could have failed to see this day coming.
(CNN) Officials with the Los Padres National Forest announced this week the largest wildfire in California's modern history is officially out, more than six months after it started.
The fire, fueled by strong Santa Ana winds and dry conditions, devastated portions of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
It also set the stage for the Montecito mudslides that ended up killing 17 people.
And Xavier is really mad at Oklahoma, so California's attorney general has added the Okies to his travel ban list: “California taxpayers are taking a stand against bigotry and in support of those who would be harmed by this prejudiced policy."
Um, no. California taxpayers aren't; California politicians are. In fact, it's clear that they don't even know what the Oklahoma law, SB1140, actually does: in states like Massachusetts, religious organizations like Catholic Charities have been excluded from the adoption field; Oklahoma wants to ensure that sort of thing doesn't happen in their state.
The only bigot I see is Xavier Becerra himself.
Oklahoma's pretty sanguine about Xavier's blacklist, noting that they're not going to miss a few Californians.
I know he spells it Weiner, but he'll always be a wiener to me.
A district court judge ordered the release of the Weiner laptop. This is the same laptop the James Comey FBI buried under mountains of sealed “protection” to keep secret. The laptop that had the entire Obama intelligence apparatus (and the Clinton Machine) in a panic shortly before the 2016 Election.
Things just got a lot more interesting.
Gas prices surged to $1.609 a liter Sunday morning — almost $8 a gallon in USD.
In the real world, that's $1.61 per liter. 1 L = 0.264172052 gal US. And actually, the cost is closer to $6 USD per gallon, though it'll hit $8 soon enough. Still, if you have a ten-gallon tank in your vehicle, a fill-up will run you about $60 now.
Former Liberal Member of Parliament Dan McTeague, who now heads the petroleum industry watchdog GasBuddy.com, told CBC News that Vancouver has the dubious honor of having the highest gas prices anywhere in North America, from Alaska to Mexico. Vancouver was one of the first cities in Canada to proudly unveil a carbon tax that has continued to escalate year after year.
But as noted here yesterday, Gov. Moonbeam is doing his best to play catch-up by increasing vehicle registration fees and increasing fuel taxes, and vows to fight any attempts to reject the increases through the initiative process.
Carbon taxes! They have no effect upon the environment, much less the climate - but plenty of impact on your wallet.
The Indian encampments at Lone Pine fishing site, near The Dalles, Oregon.
The Trump administration is neglecting the U.S. government's obligation to build new homes for Indians whose original abodes were submerged by dams along the Columbia River, members of Congressional delegations from Oregon and Washington state said.
We're supposed to build new homes for them, presumably so that they can trash them as well.
On the one hand, we do have an obligation to keep the promises made by the government when they built the dams. On the other, seeing places like this, I get pretty tired of the portrayal of Indians as stewards of natural resources, living in harmony with Nature, and all that.
The latest Oregon scandal involves the Oregon Health Authority, its implementation of Obamacare, its efforts to influence the state legislature, and its work to undermine a local health Co-Op by planting negative stories about them in the media. State agencies aren't supposed to try to manipulate the legislature; their role is to provide legislators with objective information.
But, this is Oregon, so it comes as no surprise. They tried to refuse a Freedom of Information Act request, too, but lost on appeal.
At least in Illinois they occasionally send someone to jail for stuff like this.
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How to embedded PHP code in HTML code?
In order to embedded PHP code, the tags <?php and ?> are used. The <?php is the opening command, whereas ?> is the closing command. The code is embedded directly into HTML code. This is possible because PHP has been designed to directly interact with HTML.
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TL;DR: Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO) and Singularity are driving the ongoing convergence between HPC and AI; the video of J. J. Falkanger’s SUG talk is available here.
Managing the environment needed to run both machine learning and deep learning applications can be a major challenge. Especially when the user attempts to do this in a multi-tenant environment, simply getting a job to run in the correctly configured environment proves problematic. To solve this problem LiCO leverages Singularity. The user can download any of a number of popular Singularity containers from Singularity Hub or using a single pull command can import Docker containers into Singularity from Docker Hub. This is a powerful tool that allows data scientists and AI engineers to update AI frameworks, add new frameworks quickly, and effectively manage a multi-tenant environment.
Of course, the Sylabs Cloud Container Library offers another option for acquiring images in the native Singularity Image Format (SIF); additionally, this portal from Sylabs provides services for signing and verifying container images, as well as building those images in the cloud.
Scientific researchers and commercial enterprises have been increasingly applying high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for driving insights and business value, often in the same computing environment. This convergence demands flexible tools to effectively utilize the resources and workflows. Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO) provides an intuitive web-based interface for managing and deploying both AI and HPC workloads on the same cluster. Built upon an OpenHPC management stack, LiCO enables even inexperienced users to utilize cluster resources, thanks to Singularity container management and job template integration. This session covers the capabilities of LiCO, and the many benefits for users Singularity provides as part of the architecture.
As you’ll learn from J. J. Falkanger’s SUG talk, LiCO makes use of OpenHPC. Literally the day after SUG, OpenHPC v1.3.7 was announced. Because this release of OpenHPC includes version 3.1 of Singularity, it is anticipated that those making use of LiCO can expect this update to be propagated downstream in due course.
J. J. Falkanger’s talk from SUG can be found below and here. Enjoy!
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There are many factors that affect your career within an organization. Communication skills are important for all jobs; technical skills are critical for tech jobs; a positive attitude may boost your success, and so on. Not only do personal skills and attitudes influence your career, but social relationships also matter. You can easily imagine that a healthy relationship with your manager is crucial for your day-to-day life as well as your growth within the organization. In addition to the first-order relationship with the direct manager, there has been extensive research about the important role social networking plays in your professional life. Your social network within your organization can affect your individual performance [1,2], personal regards , and employee turnover .
While personal skills, attitudes and social networks are always important, the first impression when you join a new organization is regarded as particularly important. There are many articles about the importance of making a great first impression. To summarize those articles, the other employees tend to be biased to the first impression they receive about a new employee because they do not have any prior experience with him or her.
Your personal skills are observed through your first task. Your attitudes and behaviors on the first few days provide the most lasting impression of your characteristics to the other employees. While good first impressions do not necessarily determine the success of your career in the new organization, they are helpful. For example, when you perform well on your first task, you verify your ability to your new boss and team members, reach the next level of work, and so on. However, if you have some trouble with your first task, your boss does not have pre-existing data verifying that you are better than that. You may need more time to prove your ability to reach the next level of work.
The importance of making a good initial impression is emphasized for the reasons mentioned above, but we are still missing something here. What about the first impression of your social networks — one of the key factors for your successful career in the organization? As “the first impression of networks” sounds awkward, let’s rephrase the question: How important is your initial social network for your future within an organization?
We (Atef Chaudhury, Myunghwan Kim and Mitul Tiwari) recently published a paper studying the relationship between a new employee’s initial social networks and their future status, such as their internal network size. We analyzed the top 500 companies (by average degree) and their new employees in 2013 from LinkedIn data, which include more than one million members and one hundred thousand new employees. We relied on information provided by users themselves (companies, titles, connections, etc.), but believe that the top 500 companies reflect the most engaged members and industries so their information is reliable. Moreover, for more reliable analysis, we selected the new employees who ended up with at least 20 connections after 1.5 years since they joined the new organizations. We then regarded the first 10 connections as their initial social networks in the new organizations, and measured the status after 1.5 years of their service time. There has been a lot of research about social networks in the organizations, but to our best knowledge, this work studied the largest number of companies, and new employees.
First, we observed that the initial social networks of new employees are related to their future social networks in terms of size and diversity. Here the size of a network is defined as the number of LinkedIn connections. The diversity of network indicates the diversity in functional roles your connections have, such as HR, engineering, sales, and so forth.
To describe each detail, the left plot depicts the relationship between the network size of a new employee’s first 10 connections (x-axis) and the network size of the new employee after 1.5 years of service time (y-axis). As the size and networking behavior is different in each organization, both x-axis and y-axis metrics are normalized, and then aggregated over all the companies. This plot shows that you tend to end up with a large social network when you are initially connected with employees who already have large social networks inside the organization. This plot is understandable because employees with large social networks can introduce you to more people through social events or random social interactions in communal spaces like the kitchen area. Similarly, in the right plot, the diversity of the initial 10 connections’ networks (x-axis) seems correlated with the network diversity of a new employee after 1.5 years. The same argument can hold here: your initial connections can help you with diversely expanding your network through social events and interactions.
We also found some evidence about the phenomena depicted in these plots. In short, people are more likely to grow their social networks like a snowball rather than form burst connections through random social events. In this process, people who play an agent role can boost your social network size and diversity within the organization. We omitted the technical details here, so please refer to our paper for the details.
While our above findings are with respect to network status between your initial connections and your future status, we also discovered the relationships between your initial connections and retention rate, which apparently seem irrelevant with respect to the network. In this research, we used the probability that new employees leave their organizations in 1.5 years. This metric is also normalized per company and compared with the network size and the seniority of your initial 10 connections.
From the left plot, as your initial connections have larger social networks within the organization, you are less likely to leave the company within 1.5 years. From the right plot, as you are initially connected with more senior employees than you, you are also less likely to leave the company. What does this imply? We believe that if you are connected with individuals who are already well established in the organization then they might help you with getting engaged in the organization faster or better, thereby leading to high retention.
Our findings do not claim the causality that your initial connections necessarily affect your future status and retention. However, most comments we received at our poster presentation in WWW’16 conference are “it make sense” and “this is intuitive,” because our findings are aligned with typical advice like: “Meet and Network with Key People in Organization & Profession” . Our main contribution is to verify such intuitive but subjective belief through big data.
3. W. C. Carter and S. L. Feld. Principles relating social regard to size and density of personal networks, with applications to stigma. Social Networks, 26(4):323-329, 2004.
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Keio founder Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a young man at the time of the Meiji Restoration, which saw the end of nearly 300 years of national isolation and the start of a period of rapid political and cultural modernization for Japan. Keen to learn more about Western civilization, Fukuzawa made three trips to Europe and America, during which time he realized that Japan would require a new education system based on the European and American systems in order to remain independent in a quickly modernizing and volatile world. The school he founded was the origin of Keio. By actively embracing the scientific pursuit of knowledge against a background of tumultuous political and social change, Yukichi Fukuzawa played a major role in Japan as it roared through its late 19th-century period of modernization. His writings are widely and fondly read by both children and adults alike and his image now adorns the ten-thousand yen note, the largest denomination of Japanese currency.
These words are from Yukichi Fukuzawa's first essay to the general public in 1872, and signaled the start of a new system of beliefs for the Japan of the time. Key among these tenets was the belief that all members of society are equal, and are entitled to equal opportunities in education so that the best and brightest, no matter what station in life they were born into, can assume positions of power and influence for the betterment of society as a whole.
These beliefs represented the beginning of an end to the privilege and plutocracy of Japan at the time, giving hope to an entire country of citizens yearning for a new society where people would be judged entirely upon their merits rather than their caste or wealth. It was the beginning of modern Japan as we know it today. Yukichi Fukuzawa, who is most visible as the man portrayed on Japan's 10,000-yen note, is best known as one of modern Japan's first statesmen, a man responsible for introducing Western education, institutions, and social thought to Japan. He was born in Osaka in 1835, the second son of a minor treasury official representing his home domain of Nakatsu, a northern province of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. Fukuzawa's father died suddenly when Yukichi was just a boy, and his family was reduced to poverty. He spent most of his youth doing odd jobs until money for his education became available when he was 14, ten years after the usual starting age.
At school, Fukuzawa was a fast learner who excelled in virtually all subjects. The arrival of the United States fleet in the summer of 1853, when Yukichi was just 18 years old, had a profound effect on the direction of his life. He moved to Nagasaki, home to the Dutch trading enclave, and began to find ways to improve his understanding of things Western. It proved to be a futile effort, so he set off or Edo (now Tokyo) penniless, with only a dream of furthering his education.
Japan finally opened three ports to Western traders in 1859. By this time, Fukuzawa was well-versed in Dutch, and was beginning to learn English, the language of the port city of Yokohama. He volunteered his services to the first government envoys dispatched to the United States, and in the spring of 1860, the 25-year-old Fukuzawa joined an entourage departing for San Francisco, where he spent a month before returning to Japan.
Two years later, he departed for Europe, spending 44 days in England, 42 days in France, 20 days in Germany, 35 days in Holland, 20 days in Portugal, and finally 46 days in Russia. A year later, when he was just 30, Fukuzawa returned to Japan with an immense wealth of observations, knowledge, and books.
It would be another four years before Fukuzawa would again travel abroad, this time returning to the United States in 1867, visiting Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York. Although sent as an envoy to negotiate on behalf of the Japanese government, his personal aim was to acquire textbooks to take back with him to Japan.
Through his travels, Fukuzawa came to realize that technical progress had made Western countries more prosperous, and he started to believe that revolutionary changes in people's knowledge and thinking were essential for similar results in Japan. After his return from the United States, he set about creating his own school to teach others according to his beliefs and experiences. This was the birth of Keio Gijuku, the forerunner of Keio University.
By 1867, some 100 students were enrolled in Keio Gijuku, with Fukuzawa lecturing primarily on political economy. Meanwhile, he was also authoring many significant books, with An Encouragement of Learning (Gakumon no Susume) the most celebrated. It was not long before he brought in professors from overseas, who provided students with an entirely new educational experience.
Over the next two decades, Keio University assumed the posture that it maintains today. It was gradually opened to more and more private students who were the children of common folk, introducing mathematics, economics, medicine, and other subjects representing fields that made direct contributions to the progress Japan was making in catching up with the West. New concepts were being introduced by Keio University all the time, with Fukuzawa and his fellow colleagues coining new Japanese words to describe them in ways that could be understood by the average person.
One significant example is the Japanese word enzetsu, which they created to describe the English word "speech." The art of debate and speech-making were alien to Japanese society at the time, but without them, Fukuzawa believed that the ultimate goal of democracy would be impossible.
Another significant contribution Fukuzawa made during this time was the founding of the newspaper Jiji Shimpo (literally, "The Times") in 1883. Fukuzawa was a prolific writer and statesman during this period. His introduction of new ideas was far ahead of the times, and among his works are several writings advocating equality for women and the eradication of the last vestiges of polygamy.
In 1896, just five years before his death, Fukuzawa spoke to a meeting of alumni and colleagues, giving what was to become known as his "Last Testament." He was already 61, quite an advanced age for Japanese of the time, and many of his colleagues and compatriots had already passed away. Reminiscing upon his life's work, the speech contained this powerful passage, which spells out the values that have symbolized Keio University in the past, and will continue to serve as a guide for the institution well into the future.
"I shall never be satisfied to leave Keio Gijuku as a mere institution of learning; I aspire to make it the springhead of noble character and a model of intellect and virtue for the whole nation. In practice, this spirit shall be the foundation of each member's household, as well as of society and the nation. I do not wish this to end up as a subject of mere talk. It should inspire everyone in his daily behavior and make our school a model and leader of society. I am taking the opportunity of this gathering to express my thoughts. They are much like a last testament, and I entrust them to you."
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After Mohammed's death Mohammedanism aspired to become a world power and a universal religion. The weakness of the Byzantine Empire, the unfortunate rivalry between the Greek and Latin Churches, the schisms of Nestorius and Eutyches, the failing power of the Sassanian dynasty of Persia, the lax moral code of the new religion, the power of the sword and of fanaticism, the hope of plunder and the love of conquest - all these factors combined with the genius of the caliphs, the successors of Mohammed, to effect the conquest, in considerably less than a century, of Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, North Africa, and the South of Spain. The Moslems even crossed the Pyrenees, threatening to stable their horses in St. Peter's at Rome, but were at last defeated by Charles Martel at Tours, in 732, just one hundred years from the death of Mohammed. This defeat arrested their western conquests and saved Europe. In the eighth and ninth centuries they conquered Persia, Afghanistan, and a large part of India, and in the twelfth century they had already become the absolute masters of all Western Asia, Spain and North Africa, Sicily, etc. They were finally conquered by the Mongols and Turks, in the thirteenth century, but the new conquerors adopted Mohammed's religion and, in the fifteenth century, overthrew the tottering Byzantine Empire (1453). From that stronghold (Constantinople) they even threatened the German Empire, but were successfully defeated at the gates of Vienna, and driven back across the Danube, in 1683.
About 7,000,000 (i.e., four-fifths) of the Persian Mohammedans and about 5,000,000 of the Indian Mohammedans are Shiahs; the rest of the Mohammedan world - about 221,000,000 - are almost all Sunnites.
The principal tents of Mohammedanism are laid down in the Koran. As aids in interpreting the religious system of the Koran we have: first, the so-called "Traditions", which are supposed to contain supplementary teachings and doctrine of Mohammed, a very considerable part of which, however, is decidedly spurious; second, the consensus of the doctors of Islam represented by the most celebrated imâms, the founders of the various Islamic sects, the Koranic commentators and the masters of Mohammedans jurisprudence; third, the analogy, or deduction form recognized principles admitted in the Koran and in the Traditions. Mohammed's religion, known among its adherents as Islam, contains practically nothing original; it is a confused combination of native Arabian heathenism, Judaism, Christianity, Sabiism (Mandoeanism), Hanifism, and Zoroastrianism.
The system may be divided into two parts: dogma, or theory; and morals, or practice. The whole fabric is built on five fundamental points, one belonging to faith, or theory, and the other four to morals, or practice. All Mohammedan dogma is supposed to be expressed in the one formula: "there is no God but the true God; and Mohammed is His prophet." But this one confession implies for Mohammedans six distinct articles: (a) belief in the unity of God; (b) in His angels; (c) in His Scripture; (d) in His prophets; (e) in the Resurrection and Day of Judgment; and (f) in God's absolute and irrevocable decree and predetermination both of good and of evil. The four points relating to morals, or practice, are: (a) prayer, ablutions, and purifications; (b) alms: (c) fasting; and (d) pilgrimage to Mecca.
The doctrines of Islam concerning God - His unity and Divine attributes - are essentially those of the Bible; but to the doctrines of the Trinity and of the Divine Sonship of Christ Mohammed had the strongest antipathy. As Noldeke remarks, Mohammed's acquaintance with those two dogmas was superficial; even the clauses of the Creed that referred to them were not properly known to him, and thus he felt that it was quite impossible to bring them into harmony with the simple Semitic Monotheism; probably, too, it was this consideration alone that hindered him from embracing Christianity (Sketches from Eastern History, 62).
The number of prophets sent by God is said to have been about 124,000, and of apostles, 315. Of the former, 22 are mentioned by name in the Koran - such as Adam, Noe, Abraham, Moses, Jesus.
God rewards good and punishes evil deeds. He is merciful and is easily propitiated by repentance. The punishment of the impenitent wicked will be fearful, and the reward of the faithful great. All men will have to rise from the dead and submit to the universal judgment. The Day of Resurrection and of Judgment will be preceded and accompanied by seventeen fearful, or greater, signs in heaven and on earth, and eight lesser ones, some of which are identical with those mentioned in the New Testament. The Resurrection will be general and will extend to all creatures - angels, jinns, men, and brutes. The torments of hell and the pleasures of Paradise, but especially the latter, are proverbially crass and sensual. Hell is divided into seven regions: Jahannam, reserved for faithless Mohammedans; Laza, for the Jews; Al-Hutama, for the Christians; Al-Sair, for the Sabians; Al-Saqar, for the Magians; Al-Jahim, for idolaters; Al-Hawiyat, for hypocrites. As to the torments of hell, it is believed that the damned will dwell amid pestilential winds and in scalding water, and in the shadow of a black smoke. Draughts of boiling water will be forced down their throats. They will be dragged by the scalp, flung into the fire, wrapped in garments of flame, and beaten with iron maces. When their skins are well burned, other skins will be given them for their greater torture. While the damnation of all infidels will be hopeless and eternal, the Moslems, who, though holding the true religion, have been guilty of heinous sins, will be delivered from hell after expiating their crimes.
The joys and glories of Paradise are as fantastic and sensual as the lascivious Arabian mind could possibly imagine. "As plenty of water is one of the greatest additions to the delights of the Bedouin Arab, the Koran often speaks of the rivers of Paradise as a principal ornament thereof; some of these streams flow with water, some with wine and others with honey, besides many other lesser springs and fountains, whose pebbles are rubies and emeralds, while their earth consists of camphor, their beds of musk, and their sides of saffron. But all these glories will be eclipsed by the resplendent and ravishing girls, or houris, of Paradise, the enjoyment of whose company will be the principal felicity ofthe faithful. These maidens are created not of clay, as in the case of mortal women, but of pure musk, and free from all natural impurities, defects, and inconveniences. They will be beautiful and modest and secluded from public view in pavilions of hollow pearls. The pleasures of Paradise will be so overwhelming that God will give to everyone the potentialities of a hundred individuals. To each individuals a large mansion will be assigned, and the very meanest will have at his disposal at least 80,000 servants and seventy-two wives of the girls of Paradise. While eating they will be waited on by 300 attendants, the food being served in dishes of gold, whereof 300 shall be set before him at once, containing each a different kind of food, and an inexhaustible supply of wine and liquors. The magnificence of the garments and gems is conformable to the delicacy of their diet. For they will be clothed in the richest silks and brocades, and adorned with bracelets of gold and silver, and crowns set with pearls, and will make use of silken carpets, couches, pillows, etc., and in order that they may enjoy all these pleasures, God will grant them perpetual youth, beauty, and vigour. Music and singing will also be ravishing and everlasting" (Wollaston, "Muhammed, His Life and Doctrines").
The five pillars of the practical and of the ritualistic side of Islam are the recital of the Creed and prayers, fasting, almsgiving, and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The formula of the Creed has been given above, and its recital is necessary for salvation. The daily prayers are five in number: before sunrise, at midday, at four in the afternoon, at sunset, and shortly before midnight. The forms of prayer and the postures are prescribed in a very limited Koranic liturgy. All prayers must be made looking towards Mecca, and must be preceded by washing, neglect of which renders the prayers of no effect. Public prayer is made on Friday in the mosque, and is led by an imâm. Only men attend the public prayers, as women seldom pray even at home. Prayers for the dead are meritorious and commended. Fasting is commended at all seasons, but prescribed only in the month of Ramadan. It begins at sunrise and ends at sunset, and is very rigorous, especially when the fasting season falls in summer. At the end of Ramadan comes the great feast-day, generally called Bairam, or Fitr, i.e., "Breaking of the Fast". The other great festival is that of Azha, borrowed with modifications from the Jewish Day of Atonement. Almsgiving is highly commended: on the feast-day after Ramadan it is obligatory, and is to be directed to the "faithful" (Mohammedans) only. Pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime is a duty incumbent on every free Moslem of sufficient means and bodily strength; the merit of it cannot be obtained by deputy, and the ceremonies are strictly similar to those performed by the Prophet himself (see MECCA). Pilgrimages to the tombs of saints are very common nowadays, especially in Persia and India, although they were absolutely forbidden by Mohammed.
It is hardly necessary here to emphasize the fact that the ethics of Islam are far inferior to those of Judaism and even more inferior to those of the New Testament. Furthermore, we cannot agree with Noldeke when he maintains that, although in many respects the ethics of Islam are not to be compared even with such Christianity as prevailed, and still prevails, in the East, nevertheless, in other points, the new faith - simple, robust, in the vigour of its youth - far surpassed the religion of the Syrian and Egyptian Christians, which was in a stagnating condition, and steadily sinking lower and lower into the depths of barbarism (op. cit., Wollaston, 71, 72). The history and the development, as well as the past and present religious, social, and ethical condition of all the Christian nations and countries, no matter of what sect or school they may be, as compared with these of the various Mohammedan countries, in all ages, is a sufficient refutation of Noldeke's assertion. That in the ethics of Islam there is a great deal to admire and to approve, is beyond dispute; but of originality or superiority, there is non. What is really good in Mohammedan ethics is either commonplace or borrowed from some other religions, whereas what is characteristic is nearly always imperfect or wicked.
In conclusion, reference must be made here to the sacred months, and to the weekly holy day. The Arabs had a year of twelve lunar months, and this, as often as seemed necessary, they brought roughly into accordance with the solar year by the intercalation of a thirteenth month. The Mohammedan year, however, has a mean duration of 354 days, and is ten or eleven days shorter than the solar year, and Mohammedan festivals, accordingly, move in succession through all the seasons. The Mohammedan Era begins with the Hegira, which is assumed to have taken place on the 16th day of July, A.D. 622. To find what year of the Christian Era (A.D.) is represented by a given year of the Mohammedan Era (A.H.), the rule is: Subtract from the Mohammedan date the product of three times the last completed number of centuries, and add 621 to the remainder. (This rule, however, gives an exact result only for the first day of a Mohammedan century. Thus, e.g., the first day of the fourteenth century came in the course of the year of Our Lord 1883.) The first, seven, eleventh and twelfth months ofthe Mohammedan year are sacred; during these months it is not lawful to wage war. The twelfth month is consecrated to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, and, in order to protect pilgrims, the preceding (eleventh) month and the following (first of the new year) are also inviolable. The seventh month is reserved for the fast which Mohammed substituted for a month (the ninth) devoted by the Arabs in pre-Islamic times to excessive eating and drinking. Mohammed selected Friday as the sacred day of the week, and several fanciful reason are adduced by the Prophet himself and by his followers for the selection; the most probable motive was the desire to have a holy day different from that of the Jews and that of the Christians. It is certain, however, that Friday was a day of solemn gatherings and public festivities among the pre-Islamic Arabs. Abstinence from work is not enjoined on Friday, but it is commanded that public prayers and worship must be performed on that day. Another custom dating from antiquity and still universally observed by all Mohammedans, although not explicitly enjoined in the Koran, is circumcision. It is looked upon as a semi-religious practice, and its performance is preceded and accompanied by great festivities.
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Банальная коллективная истерия- пусть посмотрят германскую хронику прошлого века.
А по поводу экскурсий к мощам в мацкву? Так и мацква нагнала расейские военные мощи))))- у этих дебилойдов же нет разницы и эта единственная породия на нацию в мире (ну разве чо после ISIS) у которых предметом гордости всегда являлся не уровень жизни , а количество орудий убийства "на душу населения в стране"- ракет, танков, боевых самолетов.
Идея хорошая,но при Советской власти, а не когда правят олигархи. Сегодня пионер - завтра " комсомолец , на самолёт !"," кто же, если не я ?!".
Советские идеологические идеи по определению лживы.
Если кому-то в нынешних условиях удастся убедить в этом немалую часть населения Украины - высшая госнаграда обеспечена. Плюс денежная премия и должность.
Тест на прием в детский сад?
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim.
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims.
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim.
The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim.
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims.
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims.
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims.
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims.
The Moscow Theater Attackers were Muslims.
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims.
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims.
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims.
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims.
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims.
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims.
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims.
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims.
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims.
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims.
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims.
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims.
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims.
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims.
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims.
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims.
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem.
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem.
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem.
Christians living with Shintos = No Problem.
Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem.
Confucians living with Bahai = No Problem.
Bahai living with Jews = No Problem.
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem.
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem.
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem.
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem.
Hindus living with Bahai = No Problem.
Bahai living with Christians = No Problem.
Christians living with Jews = No Problem.
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem.
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem.
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem.
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem.
Confucians living with Hindus = No Problem.
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem.
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem.
Muslims living with Christians = Problem.
Muslims living with Jews = Problem.
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem.
Muslims living with Bahai = Problem.
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem.
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem.
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM!
They're not happy in Nigeria.
They're not happy in Kenya.
They're not happy in Sudan.
They're happy in the USA & Canada.
AND, WHO DO THEY NOT BLAME?
Not themselves, or their unfounded HATRED.
They blame the countries that they are happy in!
They want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the countries they came from where they were unhappy!
And, the extremists among them want the world under SHARIA LAW; the most OPPRESSIVE, INTOLERANT, UNFORGIVING, set of rules in the history of the world, AND, we bury our heads in the sand and pretend that THEY ARE NOT AT WAR WITH US?
Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION.
But again, we just can’t figure out who's causing the problem?
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You can easily check the ink supply level to determine how soon you might need to replace a print cartridge. The ink level supply shows an approximation of the amount of ink remaining in the print cartridges. Checking the ink levels can only be done from the HP Director with the HP Officejet turned on and connected. When you first installed the HP Officejet software on your computer during setup, the HP Director was automatically installed on your computer.
– From the HP Director, choose Settings, choose Print Settings, and then choose Printer Toolbox.
Ink level warnings and indicators provide estimates for planning purposes only. When you receive a low-ink warning message, consider having a replacement ink cartridge available to avoid possible printing delays. You do not have to replace the ink cartridges until the print quality is unacceptable. Don’t leave a cartridge slot empty. You must install both print cartridges in order for your HP Officejet to work.
Which ink cartridges do I need for my HP OfficeJet 4215 All-in-One Series Printer&asin=B0001M3W7A] Printer?
For your US, European and UK HP OfficeJet 4215 All-in-One Series Printer you need HP 56 Black&asin=B000069LI9] AND HP 57 Tri-color&asin=B0001NI3IW] cartridges.
There are also 2-Packs available, like the HP 56 / 57 Black and Tri-Color Original Value Pack Combo &asin=B00510IK0Q].
Note: You can also use the cheaper HP 27 Black&asin=B000069LIB] AND HP 28 Tri-color&asin=B00006HYLW] cartridges for your HP Deskjet 5650, but you’ll have to replace them about twice as fast.
Quality color photos: For more vibrant colors when printing color photographs or other special documents, remove the black print cartridge and install a HP 58 Photo Ink Cartridge&asin=B000069LIA].
2. Load unused plain Letter or A4 white paper in the input tray.
3. Open the print-carriage access door. Wait until the print carriage moves into view and is idle and silent before you continue.
10. Close the printer cover. “Press OK to print Align page” appears on the display. Press OK.
– Remove the alignment page and load the top of the page face down in the document feeder tray between the paper width guides, and press OK.
– When “Alignment Complete” appears on the front panel display, the alignment is complete.
The HP Officejet prompts you to align print cartridges every time you install or replace a print cartridge. You can also align the print cartridges at any time from the front panel or the HP Director. Aligning the print cartridges ensures highquality output. If you remove and reinstall the same print cartridge, the HP Officejet will not prompt you to align the print cartridges.
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What you do in the process of preparing your boat for storage is just as important as storing your boat in the first place. Like with an RV, your boat is an investment and not just of your money but also of your time in making priceless memories. Like with all investments, regardless of the monetary value, we all want to protect those items. Your boat is no different. Taking the time to carefully prep your expensive toy will ensure nothing goes wrong during its stint in boat storage. Below are 4 important tips to consider for storing your boat.
Tip 1: Proper Support: This is highly important in regards to the structural integrity of your boat’s hull and frame. Just placing your boat, whatever its size, anywhere on dryland without proper support will only lead to distortion and warping of the hull. This will leave you with an unusable boat. There are several different ways to support your boat which include but are not limited to: Blocks, a custom boat cradle, or jack stands. There are a few areas to keep in mind when placing these supports such as the engines and keel.
Tip 2: Water Drainage: When your boat is not in storage, it’s most often in water as such, when it’s time to prep it for storage and you pull it out of the water, pull your bilge plugs. If you do this first and get it set up on your supports you can angle the bow upwards to allow as much water to drain out as possible. In doing this first, you’ll save yourself a lot of time. While the water is draining, you can then clean it out as well as perform any maintenance that needs to be handled.
Tip 3: Thoroughly Clean and Dry: Now that your boat is set up to drain water, you should make the most of your time by giving your boat a thorough scrub down as well as clearing out any and all food. Open every drawer, cabinet and compartment then take out every food item. Doing this will ensure your boat is free from any infestations while it is in storage. Also, scrub down every surface to clear it of bacteria and allow it to completely dry. Letting everything you have cleaned dry out will make sure that mildew and mold will not grow during the time your boat is in storage.
Tip 4: Maintenance: Take the time to go over every surface both inside and outside of your boat, check in every nook and cranny for any maintenance you can perform. Taking care of torn sails, surface cracks or tarnish will give you more time to enjoy your boat when you’re ready to pull it out of storage. Also, fixing those cracks will make sure they don’t expand while in storage.
The above tips are only a few of many that are out there in regards to boat storage. These four will help ensure your boat is ready to go into storage as well as make sure you can be out sailing when other’s are fixing up their own boats after you’ve pulled yours out of storage. If you would like more information or you have any questions in regards to boat storage, please, feel free to contact us.
Storing your boat can be an inexpensive way to get your boat stored somewhere when it is not in use, along with providing you with the peace of mind that it is going to remain in good condition for the length of storage. While towing to the boat storage facility and dropping it off seems easy enough, you can avoid any complications later on by taking the time to prepare your boat for storage.
Similarly to a car, you want to make sure that your boat’s fuel compartment is always left full when it will not be turned on for a long period. Condensation can end up forming in the fuel tank if it is left empty, leading to major problems when it is taken out on the water again.
Any electrical parts need to be protected with the application of anti-corrosion spray that can be used directly on any of the electronics, helping to prevent deterioration that can be expensive to repair later. With the corrosion spray used for every electrical connection, you can store the boat without concerns over anything corroding.
Lastly, you need to disconnect the boat’s battery to make sure that it does not drain unnecessarily. By removing the battery and storing it elsewhere or in the same storage facility, you can preserve it so that it can be used again once you are back on the water.
If you need to store your boat for a few months or longer due to being out of use temporarily, do not hesitate to contact us about our storage options.
The holidays of 2015 are long over and the first month of 2016 is at an end. Storage units are now full to bursting with things new and old. You’re done traveling for the holidays. You’ve packed away all of those holiday decorations. The new gifts you received that are best used in the summer months have also been packed away. There is just one final item to prep and store. You’re RV. Prepping and storing your RV might be old hat to you and for others it may be an entirely new process. Below are a few Do’s and Don’ts for RV storage.
Do make sure to winterize your water system: This is especially important in colder climates where snow and rain are a fairly common occurrence. Pouring some non-toxic antifreeze through your water system will prevent freezing and cracking within your water lines.
Don’t park your RV just anywhere: Just like Storage Units there are places you can rent to “store” your RV. Some of these places offer enclosed storage and some offer open storage spaces. Many places such as RV Dealerships and Campgrounds offer storage for your RV. That being said it is wholly possible to store your RV on your own premises. If this is the option you prefer then make sure to find a flat piece of ground to avoid unauthorized movement. Also, avoid trees and places where plant life, such as weeds, will overgrow it.
Do shut down or turn off any and all appliances within the RV: Making sure you unplug your lamps, that travel coffee maker, the fridge and any other items that need electricity to operate will help ensure your RV’s batteries are not drained when you pull it out of storage. Also, be sure to shut off the main breaker of your RV. Electricity is her own entity and can get up to mischief if not treated with due respect.
Don’t forget to give your RV a good thorough cleaning: The last thing anyone wants to have to deal with when they pull their RV out of storage is an infestation of rodents, insects or both. What you’ll want to do is clean out your fridge and defrost it. Clean and dry it thoroughly. Doing this will prevent mold from growing in your fridge. Next, open every drawer, every cabinet and every compartment then clear out any and all food. Even those types of food that come canned or bottled need to exit the RV. Clean and dry every surface from the floor to the ceiling. Like with the fridge, this will keep mold and mildew from building up and becoming prime real estate for bacteria.
The above Do’s and Don’ts are but a few tips for helping you prepare your RV for storage be it long-term or short-term. While there are many other tips and tricks out there, these will certainly put you on track. If you have any questions or you would like more information on RV Storage, please feel free to contact us.
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Cajun cuisine originates from the French-speaking Acadian or "Cajun" immigrants in Louisiana, USA. It is what could be called a "peasant" cuisine--locally grown ingredients predominate, and preparation is simple. An authentic Cajun meal is usually a two-pot affair, with one pot dedicated to the main dish and the other pot or pan dedicated to steamed rice, skillet cornbread, or some other grain dish.
The aromatic vegetables bell-pepper, onion, and celery, called by some chefs the "holy trinity" of Cajun cuisine, are ubiquitous. Characteristic seasonings include thyme, parsley, garlic, bay leaf, and cayenne pepper (either dried and powdered or in the form of one of the locally made pepper sauces such as Tabasco, but never fresh!) The overall feel of the cuisine is more Mediterranean than North American.
Cajun cuisine developed out of necessity. The Acadian refugees, mainly poor farmers rendered even poorer by the British expulsion, had to learn to live off the land and adapted their French peasant cuisine to local ingredients such as rice, crawfish, and sugar cane. In addition to the obvious Canadian and French peasant influences, Cajun cuisine was influenced by African and Native American food cultures. For example, 'gumbo', the name of a family of stews prepared in south Louisiana is a word brought to the region from western Africa. In parts of Africa as well as in standard French and in Caribbean creole languages "gumbo" means okra, which is a principal ingredient in some of the stews calld "gumbo". A fil� gumbo, on the other hand, is made with sassafras leaves, a practice borrowed from the Choctaw Indians.
There is a common misconception outside of south Louisiana that Cajun food is hot and spicy. An authentic Cajun dish will usually have a bit of a "kick" but will not be eye-watering hot. Cajun dishes prepared outside of Louisiana, especially by chefs who are not ethnically Cajun or have never visited Acadiana or New Orleans (where Cajun dishes are popular) are hotter than their Louisiana counterparts, often very much so. Even andouille sausage, mild and smoky in Louisiana, gets the pepper treatment elsewhere. This is a result of the "Cajun" foods craze of the 1980s, when Cajun-style seasoning was popularized by chef Paul Prudhomme's creation of the very spicy dish called Blackened Redfish.
Outside of southern Louisiana, foods prepared using Cajun-style seasoning are called Cajun, inculding some decidedly non-Cajun dishes such as red beans and rice, and blackened redfish. Sometimes the label is applied to any abomination involving inferior meat coated with stale cayenne pepper or merely as a slogan, as in McDonalds's "Spicy Cajun McChicken". Cajun cuisine is sometimes confused with Creole cuisine, and many outside of Louisiana don't make the distinction. This matter is complicated by the sharing of several dishes between the cuisines, including gumbo, gumbo z'herbes, seafood � l'etouf�e, and jambalaya, although New Orleans jambalaya is perpared differently than its Cajun counterpart. Further complicating this is that the term Creole is used to designate several somewhat distinct New Orleans food cultures. So-called 'haute-creole' cuisine was influenced in the past few decades by Cajun food as Creole restaurants such as Commander's Palace, Jacques Imo's, and K-Paul's created a distinct "Cajun-Creole fusion" cusine combining Cajun flavors with Creole ingredients and preparation. Dishes endemic strictly to the New Orleans metropolitan area such as smothered cabbage, po'-boys, barbecued shrimp, beignets, or red beans and rice are in general Creole, not Cajun, as are pasta dishes like pasta jambalaya, and anything involving a cream sauce or the French mother sauces.
This is by no means a comprehensive listing of all ingredients used in Cajun cuisine, rather, it is a list of some of the staple ingredients of the Acadian food culture.
Acadian folkways include many ways of preserving meat, some of which are waning due to the availability of refrigeration and mass-produced meat at the grocer. Smoking of meats remains a fairly common practice, but once-common preparations such as turkey or duck confit (preserved in poultry fat, with spices) are now seen even by Acadians as quaint rarities. The traditional pig-slaughtering party, or 'boucherie', where people would gather to socialize, play music, dance, and preserve meat does still occur in some rural communities, but the exploitation of every last bit of meat, including organs and variety cuts in sausages such as 'boudin' and the inacessible bits in the head as head cheese is no longer a necessity. Game (and hunting) are still uniformly popular in Acadiana. The recent increase of catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta has brought about an increase in its usage in Cajun cuisine in the place of the more traditional wild-caught trout and redfish.
"Cajun spice" blends such as Tony Chachere's are sometimes used in Acadian kitchens, but they tend to be avoided because they are inferior, too salty, and because Cajun-style seasoning is simply achieved from scratch, even by taste. Seafood boils such as Zatarain's Shrimp and Crab Boil are, on the other hand, in common use.
Dark roux: The Acadians inherited the roux from the French. However, unlike the French, it is made with oil or bacon fat, and not butter, and it is used a flavoring, especially in gumbo and etouf�e. Preparation of a dark roux is probably the most involved or complicated procedure in Cajun cuisine, involving heating fat and flour very carefully, constantly stirring for about 15-45 minutes (depending on the color of the desred product), until the mixture has darkened in color and developed a nutty flavor. A burnt roux renders a dish unpalatable.
Stocks: Acadian stocks are more heavily seasoned than Continental counterparts, and the shellfish stock sometimes made with shrimp and crawfish heads is unike to Cajun cuisine.
Some of these are traditional, and some are recent innovations. Deep-frying of turkey or turducken is included because it has become an Acadian folkway. Blackening of fish or chicken and barbecuing of shrimp in the shell is excluded because it is not, in general, prepared in Acadian homes or Acadian restaurants.
Boiling, as in boiling of crawfish, shrimp, or other crustacean, in seasoned liquid.
Etouf�e (cooking a vegetable or meat in its own juices, similar to braising or what in New Orleans is called "smothering"
'Louisiana Real and Rustic' (ISBN 0688127215) by Emeril Lagasse with Marcelle Bienvenu. Despite Emeril's association with the Cajun/Creole fusion movement, this collaboration with Times-Picayune food writer Bienvenu is a bona fide and authentic look at the food folkways of Louisiana, with much focus on rural Acadiana.
'Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen' (ISBN 0688028470), from the main populizer of Cajun flavors, probably a little less traditional and a little healthier than Emeril's book.
'Cajun Cuisine: Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana's Bayou Country' (ISBN 0935619003) by W. Thomas Angers.
The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page, written by a native New Orleanean, includes some Cajun recipes and a few pages explaining the difference between Cajun and Creole cuisine and between Cajun cuisine and what unscrupulous restauranteurs try pass off as Cajun.
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Can you use the Tor Browser without Tor connection?
Tor Browser is a web browser specifically designed for privacy and anonymity. The web browser is a modified version of Firefox ESR that includes privacy tweaks and even some extensions to improve privacy and security on the Internet.
What makes it special is that all connections go through several severs of the Tor network before they connect to the destination.
Connections to Tor improve privacy when you are online but could you, in theory, run Tor Browser without Tor?
Tor Browser without Tor would still provide better out-of-the-box privacy than Firefox ESR or Firefox Stable — and other browsers. It is arguably the browser with the best default privacy configuration which might make it attractive to some users.
Dropping Tor reduces privacy while online but that can be compensated, e.g. by connecting to a VPN or even chaining VPN services and it would speed things up significantly. Tor is the better choice when it comes to critical tasks, e.g. leaking documents or communication.
You need to start Tor Browser to make the following modifications to it.
Attention: I suggest you use a portable copy of the browser to make these modifications and keep an original copy on the computer as well; you may then use either one of the solutions depending on what you want to do on the Internet.
Load about:config?filter=network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the browser’s address bar.
Double-click on the preference to set it to false.
Use the search on the page to display extensions.torlauncher.start_tor.
Load about:addons in the Tor Browser address bar.
Locate Tor Launcher and click on the disable button next to it to disable the extension.
Load about:preferences#general in the browser’s address bar.
Scroll down to the Network section and activate the Settings button.
Switch from Manual Proxy Configuration to No Proxy.
Tor Browser loads as quickly as any other web browser once you have made the modifications. It works similarly to a heavily modified version of Firefox in that regard, e.g. after applying changes from the Ghacks user.js file for Firefox and installing the add-ons that Tor browser comes with by default (HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript).
It is certainly possible to modify Tor Browser further, or modify Firefox to improve privacy of the browser instead.
Tor Browser comes with many privacy and security modifications as outlined in the design document.
Whether it is a good idea to run Tor Browser without Tor, or use a different browser to improve online privacy is up for debate.
Now You: What is your take on this?
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Mr. Bean is a British comedy television series of 14 half-hour episodes written by and starring Rowan Atkinson as the title character. Different episodes were written by Robin Driscoll, Richard Curtis and one by Ben Elton. The pilot episode was broadcast on ITV on 1 January 1990, with the last television episode, "Goodnight Mr. Bean" broadcast on 31 October 1995. The final episode, "Hair by Mr. Bean of London", was a video exclusive released on 15 November 1995, but not broadcast in the UK until 2006.
Based on a character originally developed by Atkinson at university, the series follows the exploits of Mr. Bean, described by Atkinson as "a child in a grown man's body", in solving various problems presented by everyday tasks and often causing disruption in the process. Bean rarely speaks, and the largely physical humour of the series is derived from Bean's interactions with other people and his unusual solutions to situations. The series was influenced by physical performers such as Jacques Tati and comic actors from silent films.
The character of Mr. Bean was developed while Atkinson was studying for his MSc at Oxford University. A sketch featuring the character was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s. A similar character called Robert Box, played by Atkinson, appeared in the one-off 1979 ITV sitcom Canned Laughter, which also featured routines used in the 1997 film Bean. In 1987, one of Mr. Bean's earliest appearances occurred at the "Just For Laughs" comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. When programme co-ordinators were scheduling Atkinson into the festival program, Atkinson insisted that he perform on the French-speaking bill rather than the English-speaking program. Having no French dialogue in his act at all, program co-ordinators could not understand why Atkinson wanted to perform on the French bill. As it turned out, Atkinson's act at the festival was a test platform for the Mr. Bean character and Atkinson wanted to see how the silent character's physical comedy would fare on an international stage with a non-English speaking audience.
The name of the character was not decided until after the first programme had been produced, with a number of other vegetable-influenced names, such as "Mr. Cauliflower", being explored. Atkinson cited the earlier comedy character Monsieur Hulot, created by French comedian and director Jacques Tati, as an influence on the character. Stylistically, Mr. Bean is also very similar to early silent films, relying purely upon physical comedy, with Mr. Bean speaking very little dialogue (although like other live-action TV series of the time, it features a laugh track). This has allowed the series to be sold worldwide without any significant changes to dialogue.
The title character, played by Rowan Atkinson, is a childish and selfish buffoon who brings various unusual schemes and contrivances to everyday tasks. He lives alone in his small flat in Highbury, North London, and is almost always seen in his trademark tweed jacket and a skinny red tie. He also usually wears a digital calculator watch (which he does not like to lose). Mr. Bean rarely speaks, and when he does, it is generally only a few mumbled words which are in a comically low-pitched voice. His first name (he names himself "Bean" to others) and profession, if any, are never mentioned. In the first film adaptation, "Mr." appears on his passport in the "first name" field, and he is shown employed as a guard at London's National Gallery. In Mr. Bean's Holiday, however, his name is listed on his passport as "Rowan".
Mr. Bean often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works, and the programme usually features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, using a television set, redecorating or going to church. The humour largely comes from his original (and often absurd) solutions to problems and his total disregard for others when solving them, his pettiness, and occasional malevolence.
At the beginning of episode two onwards, Mr. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba ("Behold the man who is a bean"). These opening sequences were initially in black and white in episodes 2 and 3, and were intended by the producers to show his status as an "ordinary man cast into the spotlight". However, later episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted London street, against the backdrop of St. Paul's Cathedral suggesting Bean is an alien. At the end of episodes 3 and 6 he is also shown being sucked right back up into the sky in the respective background scenes (black scene in episode 3 and street scene in episode 6). Atkinson himself has acknowledged that Bean "has a slightly alien aspect to him"; in the animated series, he was actually shown to be an extraterrestrial.
Bean and TeddyTeddy is Mr. Bean's teddy bear, perhaps Mr. Bean's best friend. The bear is a dark brown, knitted oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped limbs, invariably ending up broken in half or in various other states of destruction and disfiguration. Although Teddy is inanimate, Mr. Bean often pretends it is alive. For example, when Mr. Bean hypnotises Teddy, he snaps his fingers and the bear's head falls backwards as if it has fallen asleep instantly (Bean used his finger to prop Teddy's head up). Mr. Bean behaves as if the bear is real, buying it a Christmas present or trying not to wake it in the mornings. The bear is often privy to Mr. Bean's various schemes and doubles as a dish cloth or paint brush in an emergency; it has been decapitated ("Mr. Bean in Room 426") and shrunk in the wash ("Tee Off, Mr. Bean"). Teddy is also Mr. Bean's "pet" in "Hair by Mr. Bean of London" and is used to win a pet show. The Teddy that was used in filming sits in the windshield of the replica of Mr. Bean's mini that is on display at the National Motor Museum.
Rowan Atkinson demonstrating a famous scene from the Mr. Bean episode Do-It-Yourself Mr Bean on a Mini at Goodwood Circuit in 2009Mr. Bean's car, a British Leyland Mini 1000, developed a character of sorts over the series and was central to several antics, such as Mr. Bean getting dressed in it, driving while sitting in an armchair strapped to the roof or attempting to avoid a parking garage toll by driving out through the entrance.
At first, an orange 1969 BMC Mini MK II (registration RNT 996H) was Mr. Bean's vehicle, but this was destroyed in an off-screen crash at the end of the first episode. From then on, the car was a 1976 model (registration SLW 287R), yellow with a matt black bonnet. It made its first appearance in "The Curse of Mr. Bean".
The Mini also had a number of innovative security measures, for example Bean uses a bolt-latch and padlock, rather than the lock fitted to the car, and removes the steering wheel instead of the key. These formed a running joke in several episodes, at one point deterring a car thief. The car, confused with another demonstration car of exactly the same model and colours (but no padlock) (registration ACW 497V), was crushed by a tank in "Back to School, Mr. Bean", but returned in later episodes, perhaps having actually been the identical demonstration car from that point on.
Mr. Bean has a long-running feud with the unseen driver of a light blue Reliant Regal Supervan III (registration GRA 26K), which will usually get turned over, crashed out of its parking space and so forth. This conflict originated in the first episode, when the Reliant's driver held the Mini up on the way to a mathematics exam, and subsequently became a running joke throughout the series.
Both the Mini and the Reliant re-appeared as characters in the animated Mr. Bean cartoons, and in the film Mr. Bean's Holiday, yet another Mini appears – a lighter yellow/green (Apple Jack green) than the original with a black sunroof, registration YGL 572T. Also seen is a left hand drive version of his Mini, owned by the character Sabine which has a French registration. A sequence involving the Mini driving through Harrod's was shot for the 1997 film, but ultimately was not included in the final cut. In the animated series, his Mini's registration plate number is STE 952R.
After filming ended, the present Mini used in filming was sold to Kariker Kars to be hired for various events. It was then temporarily displayed as a major attraction at the Rover groups museum. In 1997, it was purchased by the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum. The car is on display today at the National Motor Musuem, Beaulieu.
Mr. Bean's "girlfriend", Irma Gobb, played by Matilda Ziegler, appeared in a number of episodes. She is treated relatively inconsiderately by Bean, who appears to regard her more as a friend and companion than a love interest. However, he does become jealous when she dances with another man at a disco in "Mr. Bean Goes to Town", and she certainly expects him to propose to her on Christmas Day in "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", with his failure to do so resulting in her leaving him for good (she does not appear in any subsequent episodes). The character later appeared in the animated series. The spin-off book Mr. Bean's Diary (1993) states that Mr. Bean met Irma Gobb at a local library.
Although Mr. Bean is the only significant human character in the programme, others appear, usually as foils for his various antics. Other than his girlfriend, Mr. Bean's only friends appear to be Hubert and Rupert, who appear as Bean's New Year's party guests in the episode "Do-It-Yourself, Mr. Bean" (although they altered his living room clock and fled to the party in the flat opposite, gaining real friends in the process) and Robin Driscoll appears in many episodes as various characters. However, several notable British actors and comedians appear alongside Atkinson in sketches as various one-off supporting characters, including Richard Briers, Angus Deayton, Nick Hancock, Paul Bown, Caroline Quentin, Danny La Rue, Roger Lloyd Pack, David Schneider and Richard Wilson.
The programme was produced by Tiger Television, later renamed Tiger Aspect, for Thames Television from 1990 to 1992 and then for Central from 1993 to 1995. Rather than being shown as a series, each episode of Mr. Bean was produced individually, and broadcast at intermittent intervals on the ITV network in the United Kingdom across six years, often around New Year. The episode "Hair by Mr. Bean of London" has not been broadcast on ITV, but was instead reserved for video release. After its original run it has been shown repeatedly on PBS and satellite channels such as Telemundo in the US, the CBC in Canada, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central X and ITV3 in the UK, Disney Channel in Asia, and internationally. Digital channel ITV3 began rebroadcasting the series on 5 January 2010, and again on 24 May 2010.
The record-selling UK videos were withdrawn shortly before the release of Bean, and DVDs were released on an annual basis as of 2004.
Mr.Bean the animated series Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community.
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An ancient sunken ship was discovered at a construction site in Heze in east China's Shandong Province in September 2010, which was later covered by domestic media.
The ship was made in the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and is the oldest sunken ship ever found in Shandong, according to information from a press conference jointly held by the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Heze Municipal Government and the Heze Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology on Nov. 23.
Archaeologists salvaged some 110 cultural relics, including a nearly intact blue-and-white vase with dragon designs worth well over 100 million yuan, from the ship.
An archaeologist, who declined to give his name, said that the cultural relics unearthed from the ship are priceless even if measured in money alone, especially three Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelains found in the rear cabins. The 42-centimeter-high blue-and-white vase with dragon designs is worth well over 100 million yuan, which is rare in China.
"I once said jokingly that if the vase is priced at 200 million yuan, or the 110 cultural relics are priced at a combined 1 billion yuan, I will immediately apply for a loan to buy them," the archaeologist added.
Why are the Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelains so valuable?
An expert explained that the techniques applied in blue-and-white porcelains did not mature until the Yuan dynasty, which created the extremely high artistic and ornamental value of the Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelains, and they are rare enough, so their prices have been rising steadily over the past hundreds of years.
"According to available statistics, there are only 200 to 300 Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelains in existence in China, with only fewer than 20 in Shandong. Therefore, this nearly intact blue-and-white vase is undoubtedly the gem of the cultural relics in the sunken ship," the expert said.
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What does Mosaic mean in dream?
1- Any intricate pattern appearing in dreams usually signifies the pattern of our lives. We probably need to consider life as a whole, but also to understand and respect the many separate parts of it.
2- Within a mosaic, made up of many small parts, there is a deliberate act of creation. When such a symbol appears in dreams we are being alerted to our abilities as creator.
The colours and shapes used will be important (see Colours and Shapes).
Vision: Looking at a mosaic: you are in the midst of a very difficult situation. Creating a mosaic: your actions are making a complicated affair even more difficult.
Psychological / emotional perspective: Within a mosaic, made up of many small parts, there is a deliberate act of creation. When we are working with a mosaic in dreams we are being alerted to our abilities as a creator.
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What strength training program do you recommend for your self defense clients? Is it the same basic program and principles that you would give to most people or is there something different?
You've pretty much guessed it, my friend! I urge all students of close combat and self-defense to follow an all round, basic weight training program. Working exercises in good form, and using weights that are heavy, but never too heavy to be properly manageable during exercise performance.
• A general body warmup — for example, one set of about eight floor-to-overhead pullups, or cleans and presses, or dumbell swings between the feet, etc. — using light weight.
NOTE "A": I have indicated a program that anyone can do using the most basic weight training equipment. CHINNING, DIPPING, and the proper use of a LAT MACHINE and/or a LEG PRESS MACHINE, if such equipment is available, can be helpful — utilizing exercises with those items of equipment to add variety and interest to the program without sacrificing good, basic work for the major muscle groups.
If time, energy, and interest allow, there is nothing wrong with including lateral raises, shrugs, calf work, specific neck exercises, etc. ALL IN MODERATION AND ONLY WHEN/IF DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY, AND TIME ALLOWS. Otherwise, stick with core basics.
NOTE "B": Incorporating the excellent Nautilus Machines into programs so that free weights and the machines are employed together (if and when such machines are being taught and used correctly) is excellent.
NOTE "C": As for proper set/rep schemes I urge individuals to experiment a bit over time and find out what suits them best, individually. A good rule of thumb, in my experience, is: TWO or THREE sets, max, for general, all round development. Using 2 x 10 or 12, 2 x 8, 3x 6, 3 x 8, or using sets varying from light to heavy (ie 1 x 10, 1 x 8, and 1 x 6, etc.) might prove most efficient.
"How many workouts a week?" I recommend three on alternate days, and for many who train very hard three or more times weekly in martial arts, two workouts a week are plenty.
Be aware that physical training for all round development and improvement of skills performance will not replace PRACTICE OF THE SKILL. So never confuse the need to practice and to workout hard on TECHNIQUES with being interchangeable with the need to workout hard on DEVELOPMENTAL EXERCISES. I.e. A "hard practice session" does NOT eliminate the desirability of doing a "hard weight training workout". The two go hand in hand and have a reciprocally beneficial effect on each other; but they each serve a different purpose and must BOTH be followed assiduously as complimentary activities, for optimum results.
I hope that my reply has been of some help to you, and I wish you tremendous success in your personal training endeavors.
Best of luck to you, Scott!
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Do different degrees of human activity affect the diet of Brazilian silversideAtherinella brasiliensis?
This research shows that the diet of silverside, Atherinella brasiliensis, becomes poorer and dominated by few dietary items after the impoverishment of prey items in an heavily disturbed system with a nutrient enrichement associated with higher human activity.
The present findings suggest that the diet of A. brasiliensis could be a useful indicator of changes in the ecological quality in tropical estuaries.
The specimens collected in the most impacted estuary also had a greater frequency of microplastics and parasites in their stomachs, and this needs be best understood as soon as possible.
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Around 8 p.m., on the evening of August 24, 1814, British troops under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cockburn and Major General Robert Ross marched into Washington, D.C., after a victory over American forces at Bladensburg, Maryland, earlier in the day. The nation was in the midst of war. Word of the approaching forces sent most of the population fleeing, leaving the capital vulnerable. Meeting little to no resistance, British troops set fire to much of the city, in retaliation for the Americans' burning of the Canadian capital at York on April 27, 1813. Those who remained on the evening of August 24, 1814, were witness to a horrifying spectacle. The British torched major rooms in the Capitol, which then housed the Library of Congress, as well as the House, Senate and Supreme Court. The White House, the navy yard and several American warships were also burned; however, most private property was spared.
At the time, the U.S. Capitol was still being constructed and consisted of only the north and south wings connected by a wooden walkway spanning the area intended for the center building. Damage to parts of the wings was severe, but the building was not completely destroyed. Fortunately, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe had used fire-proof building materials, such as sheet iron, marble, sandstone, zinc and copper. His extensive use of masonry vaulting also proved to be practical as well as aesthetic. As a result, the exterior structure survived and many of the interior spaces remained intact.
British Burn the Capitol, 1814, Allyn Cox, 1974, Corridor, House wing, First Floor.
The British focused their destructive work on the principal rooms, foregoing the lobbies, halls and staircases, thus securing their escape route. In the south wing, soldiers ignited a giant bonfire of furniture slathered with gunpowder paste in the Hall of the House of Representatives (now National Statuary Hall). The heat from the fire grew so intense that it melted the glass skylights and destroyed much of the carved stone in the room, including Guiseppe Franzoni's life-size marble statue of Liberty seated on a pedestal, located above the Speaker's rostrum. Downstairs, the Clerk's office was transformed into an inferno of burning documents and furniture; this fire produced a heat so great it forced the British to retreat from the south wing, leaving half of the rooms on the first floor unscathed.
In the Supreme Court Chamber, on the first floor of the north wing, troops piled furniture from nearby rooms to create another great bonfire, severely damaging the Doric stone columns. Upstairs, a large room that then housed the Library of Congress' collection of over 3,000 books served as a ready stockpile of fuel. The space burned so fiercely that it endangered a portion of the exterior stone wall. From the library, winds spread the flames to the Senate Chamber, where the damage to the art and architecture was also severe. Upon seeing the flames of the Capitol from his temporary residence at the Octagon House, French minister Louis Sérurier remarked, "I have never beheld a spectacle more terrible and at the same time more magnificent."
Today, to see the sandstone areas of the building that survived the fire, make your way to the Small House Rotunda on the second floor of the Capitol and look at Latrobe’s variation on the Corinthian columns adorned with water leaves, installed in 1807. Then, head across the Rotunda and down the stairs to the east vestibule on the first floor of the north wing, where the architect's "corn cob" columns still stand. It was through the original door of this domed vestibule that the British fled the burning building into the night. After members of Congress returned to the city and saw the damage, a number called for the movement of the federal government to Philadelphia or another more established, more metropolitan city. While the option to rebuild proved more popular, one wonders, if the destruction of the Capitol and other buildings had been complete, would those who advocated relocation have prevailed?
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Person A: Is Penny there?
Person B: No. I’m sorry. I think you have the wrong number.
Person A: Oh, I’m sorry. I think I dialed the wrong number.
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You are currently searching within the Hatch, Wyden Applaud Senate Passage of Bill to Assist American Manufacturers section.
American manufacturers across the country often depend on specialized imported products to complete the development of American-made goods. In the past, when the imported product was subject to a tariff, companies often could apply for a temporary suspension or reduction of that tariff to minimize production costs and stay competitive in the global market.
Past practice required an American firms to ask a member of Congress to sponsor its request for a temporary tariff reduction or suspension. After a thorough vetting process, the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees would draft legislation known as a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) and put into law the agreed-upon tariff reductions or suspensions. The program, in this form, lapsed in 2012.
The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 advances the process by allowing American companies to apply directly to the nonpartisan International Trade Commission (ITC) for tariff relief in conformity with MTB rules – including that there is no domestic production. The ITC will examine each individual request and submit its recommendations to the Congress. The Congress then will develop MTB legislation to be enacted into law. By eliminating Member initiation of individual duty suspension or reduction requests, the legislation is consistent with Senate and House Rules.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the measure by a vote of 415-2. The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 cleared the Senate this evening by unanimous consent and will now be sent to the President to be signed into law.
A copy of the bill text can be found here.
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What is your wonder-work balance? Success in life is a dance between dreaming and doing. Your dreams tap into the creative power of the Universe and serve as the beacon for your journey. They are your roadmap to prosperity in its fullest sense. However, a dream without intentional action can easily just live in your head. It becomes a fantasy and a potential source of regret and unused talent. Unless you take the dream seriously and believe in its power, you can float aimlessly. Similarly, if you constantly do, do, do without dreaming you may wake up one day unfulfilled. So, do the dance of life. Balance the fantastical with the practical. Be receptive to inspiration and spend time honing your overarching vision. Seek clarity in quiet time and then roll up your sleeves for the work. Listen to the music of your soul and take simple steps every day to make it come alive.
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The 22-year-old model-and-actress has revealed her first romantic encounter wasn't exactly what she had hoped and resulted in both her and her potential love interest spitting on the floor.Don't Miss the CES 2018 Highlights She said: "I think my worst kiss was the first kiss I ever had.Carne de neon (Neon Meat) directed by Paco Cabezas later that year on 3 December 2010, Tres metros sobre el cielo (Three Steps Above Heaven) opposite María Valverde.Since 2011, Casas has starred the Antena 3 series El barco (The Boat), he also starred in Tengo ganas de ti (I Want You), premiered in 2012.Sitemap 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 847 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 900 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 908 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 936 937 938 939 940 941 942 943 944 945 946 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 970 971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 991 992 993 994 995 996 997 9 Easily see how many people visited your website, which pages they visited, what search terms they used to find your site, and which websites referred traffic to your site directly .Check your site stats from any device via internet statics."I admire and respect Melanie first and foremost as a great actress. But Spider-man actor, Tom Holland, and Thor actor, Chris Hemsworth, were both put to the test in a series of bizarre games during an appearance on Spanish TV show, El Hormiguero, which was aired on Thursday.
Mario Casas began his acting career with episode appearances in television series Obsesión (English: Obsession), Motivos personales (Personal Motives) and Mujeres (Women).
It was eventually the highest-grossing Spanish film of the year.
A sequel Tengo ganas de ti (I Want You) , which starts Casas, Valverde and Clara Lago, premiered in 2012.
During a recent appearance on Spanish TV show El Hormiguero while promoting his new sci-fi flick Autómata, which also happens to co-star Griffith, the actor couldn't help but gush about his former wife.
"It's been an intense year…Life goes on," he said, marking the first time that he's spoken out about Griffith since they announced their split last June. And she's also the person that I loved, that I love, and will always love." The show's host then said,...Both managed to lead the box office over the weekend of its release.
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What is the difference between public sector banks and private sector banks?
Public sector banks are those banks which are owned and managed by the government.
Private sector banks are those banks which are owned by the private individuals.
It includes the State Bank of India and its subsidiaries and 19 nationalised banks such as the Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, etc.
It includes foreign banks, old private sector banks and new private sector banks. Currently, it comprises of 38 foreign banks with 321 branches all over the world such as Citibank, HSBC, etc.
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Coming up with an effective title can end up being the most difficult part of your essay. A catchy title can make your paper stand out from the pile and give your reader a sense of the content, slant, and perspective of your essay. To craft a strong title, you need to focus on the three elements of a standard title: the hook, the key terms, and the source or location. This structure applies specifically to academic essays, but you can also apply this structure to narrative essays.
Craft a hook. Most titles have the same basic structure, especially if the title is for an academic essay. The hook is the creative element that draws the reader in. It’s a catchy phrase that lets the reader know what the essay is going to focus on.
The hook can be collection of keywords, an image, a play on words, or a quote from your essay.
Choose one or two key terms. These are crucial words or phrases that apply to your topic and give your reader a sense of the content and angle of your paper. These key terms should act like a brief one to two word summary of the essay.
Keep in mind good titles never state the obvious or contain generic terms or phrases. Titles like “Paper on 1950s China” or “Report on Shakespeare” are too general and do not give the reader a sense of the content of your paper. Avoid general and non specific terms like “society” “culture” “the world” or “mankind” in your title.
Cite the source or location. This is the final part of the title that tells the reader where the content is located or what the setting of the essay will be. Depending on your topic, your source material may be another piece of writing, the name of a text, a geographic place or a person.
For example, a paper about Mao’s Great Leap Forward in Communist China in the late 1950s may have a title that has a hook (catchy phrase), one or two key terms, and the source or location (1950s Communist China). A possible title could be: “The Failure of One, the Fall of Many: Mao’s Great Leap Forward in 1950’s Communist China”.
Consider the tone of your essay. Is your essay a straightforward, academic essay? Or is it a more free form, narrative essay? If your essay is about the Great Leap Forward in Communist China in the late 1950s, your title may not be a playful or humorous one. It may be more informative and to the point. But if your essay is about the development of Shakespearean comedy in Elizabethan times, you may have a less serious tone for your title. Match the tone of your title to the tone of your essay.
For example, the title of an essay about the Great Leap Forward might be something simple, professional, and clear, such as: "The Failure of the Great Leap Forward: China in the late 1950s". An essay about Shakespearean comedy may be more playful, such as: "Love's Labour Lost and Other Comedies."
Sum up your paper in three words or less. You can also sum up the thesis for your essay in three words or less. Take out a piece of paper and write down the three words. Then, see if you can place commas or colons between them to create a title.
For example, an essay about the Great Leap Forward in 1950s China may focus on the failed use of industries like steel and farming by Mao’s government and the resulting mass famine in China. Three words that sum up the paper may be: steel, land, famine. A possible title of the essay could be: “Steel, Land, and Famine: The Failure of the Great Leap Forward”.
Choose two to three keywords from your introduction or conclusion. In a traditional, five paragraph essay, your introduction should include your thesis and the general ideas in your essay. Your conclusion should also restate your thesis and sum up your analysis. Both sections may be good places to find keywords that could lead to a strong title for your essay.
Look for two to three keywords that are short, descriptive, and clear. Consider if the words fit together in some way, or how they are very different. For example, your introduction on 1950s China may have keywords like “industrialization” “collectivization” and “collapse”. A possible title for the essay could then be: “The Collapse of Collectivization in 1950s China”.
Use a strange or unique image. Using the description of an image will give your reader a visual that will then frame the rest of the essay. Think of a bold or striking image that can be summed up in one to three words.
For example, a paper about a volcano could have the title: “The Day the Earth Bled: The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius”.
Look for a key quote or phrase in your essay. A strong essay will use quotations and phrases from source material throughout. Read through the quotes used in your essay for ones that seem particularly strong or powerful. Look for quotes or phrases that sum up your essay as a whole or highlight a central theme or idea in your essay.
A possible title for the essay may then be: “With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling: The Conventions of Shakespearean Comedy”.
Alternatively, you can look up a key quote or phrase that is not in your essay but reinforces central ideas or themes in your essay. Type keywords from your essay into a search engine, along with the word “quote” and see what comes up. You can then take a fragment of the quote and use it in your title.
For example, for an essay on Mao’s Great Leap Forward, you may use quotes from propaganda posters for the Great Leap Forward made by the Mao government, which are available online. A propaganda quote like “Brave the wind and the waves, everything has remarkable abilities” could be shortened to a title like: “Brave the wind and the waves: False Promises by Mao’s The Great Leap Forward”.
Reword a cliche. Think of a common phrase or sentence, also known as a cliche, and reword it so it is specific to your essay for a catchy title. Use short cliches or familiar phrases that are one to three words long.
An essay on Shakespearean comedy could use the cliche “laughter is the best medicine” and change it into “laughter is thy best medicine.” A possible title could be: “Laughter is Thy Best Medicine: The Conventions of Shakespearean Comedy”.
Go for a play on words, or a double entendre. Clever word play can give your title some punch and show that you are willing to be creative. Use an existing phrase and play around with replacing words in the phrase or adding a new spin to the phrase.
For example, an essay about missionaries in West Africa during the colonial period could have a title that plays on two key words, such as: “Prophets or profits: The European Colonial Invasion of West Africa”.
Does anybody have a good idea for a title for a book about depression, murder, and Hollywood?
What is a good title for an essay on staying drug-free?
"MarijuaNO." Or if puns aren't your thing, "Fight Back the Crack." Or perhaps "No Excuse for Substance Abuse"?
What could I title an essay talking about challenges that immigrants face?
You could use something deep, like "The Path We Face" or "The Pathway To Hope". These titles show a glimpse of what immigrants might experience, emotionally speaking.
What would be a good title for an essay about a book (The Outsiders)?
How about, "An Inside look at The Outsiders"? It's kind of catchy, and it also tells the reader what your paper is about.
What is a good title for an essay about race and racism?
Something simple like "Skins" is quite nice. Or something like "Inner Struggle With the Outside", "Black & White Cities/Landscapes/Pictures" or "Colour Divides Us". Or, about color: "The Colors Between Us", "The Color Divide", etc.
What is a good title for an essay about what home is to you?
I would try something along the line of "Home is Where the Heart is." If you have a negative view on what home is, then you can add ". . .or is it?" to the end.
When is it appropriate to use a title instead of a headline for an essay?
It depends on what type of essay it is. If the essay is about a specific topic, then it is appropriate. If there is more than one option for a topic, then no.
What would be a good title for an essay about myself?
It depends on what your life is like but you could start with something like "How I Became (insert an important theme in your life)." You could also write something corny like, "My Life in (insert word number) Words."
What's a good title for a paper about hearing loss, dementia and a change in attitude towards hearing aids among the elderly?
Something along the lines of, "Can You Hear It? They're not Happy". Or at least something relating to hearing. You sort of have a title there already, "Hearing Loss, Dementia, and Changing Attitudes Towards Hearing Aids in Today's Elderly." It's long, but descriptive.
What would be a good title for an essay about Agent Orange and the Vietnam War?
How can I write a title about why we should move to Mars instead of the other planets?
How do I come up with a good title for my essay about financial planning?
What could I title a poem analysis paper about the poem concord hymn?
What is a good title for an essay on language and identity?
What is a good title for an essay on fighting for civil rights with nonviolence rather than violence?
There are also tools available online that can generate essay titles for you based on your topic. However, the effectiveness of these title generators vary and the quality of the titles may not be as high as if you take the time to create your own.
To find a catchy title for your paper or essay, start by thinking of 1 or 2 keywords or phrases to include in the title that applies to the topic of your essay and will hook your reader in. You can also try looking for a key quote or phrase and using part of it in your title. Alternatively, reword a cliche or familiar phrase so that it is specific to your essay. To give your title some punch, use a play on words or double entendre, like “Prophets or profits: The Colonial Invasion of West Africa,” which will show off your creativity. For more tips from our Writing reviewer, like where and how to find good keywords to use, keep reading!
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Looking for inspiration and recommendations for a child-friendly holiday? Consider Barcelona, a perfect combination of beach, city, and family fun.
Barcelona is a traveler's feast: sunshine, colors, architecture, cultures, history, and of course, tastes. Both adults and children will love the imaginative world of Gaudi, the vibrance of the Catalonian culture, and the relaxed seaside atmosphere. For kids of all ages, here is the best of what Barcelona has to offer.
Dig for sea glass on the beach: Barceloneta and the Olympic Village are popular with families and the easiest to reach by metro.
Watch the Magic Fountain in Montjuïc Park: An evening water and light show, choreographed to popular music, on the site of the 1929 World Fair. Free and well worth staying up past bedtime. Days and times vary by season.
Ride a cable car: The two (pricey) cable car options, one over the harbor, and one up to the Montjuïc Castle, offer the best views of the city.
Visit Gaudi's Park Güell: It's a trek to get to, and the city has recently implemented fees and time limits for visitors in the main square, but still worth the trip. Book tickets online.
Tour the Sagrada Familia: This is one church in Europe that even children love. Book tickets in advance online and consider going late in the day to avoid crowds. There is a nice audio guide for kids, but you might need to follow along with them, as it doesn't quite follow the same route as the adult audio guide.
It would be a crime to suggest skipping La Rambla, Barcelona's famous boulevard, but be warned: the crowds make it stressful with children. Visit in the early morning or in the late evening to avoid the masses. The market Boqueria is a favorite and a perfect place for a snack.
Watch a candy-making demonstration at the original Papabubble. They're not just candy makers, they're caramel artisans.
Row boats at Ciutadella Park, picnic, play, and perhaps go to the zoo.
Tour the Santa Eulalia Schooner in Port Vell for €1, or for free with a ticket to the Maritime Museum.
Visit the rest of Montjuïc Park: besides the cable car and magic fountain, this sprawling hillside park is topped by a castle (more impressive on the outside), and has much to offer families, including Poble Espanyol (a touristy open-air museum), Fundació Joan Miró (for the modern art fans), playgrounds, gardens, and paths to get lost on. Note: the distances might be long and hilly for little feet.
Get your thrills at Tibidabo. Set above the city on a hilltop, the trek to this amusement park is worth it.
Mini football fans might enjoy a tour of the FC Barcelona stadium, or perhaps even take in a match.
Let the experts bring the old center to life, and try the Runner Bean Family Tour: a guided walk through the Gothic Quarter, especially designed for kids.
Aquarium: unless you have a budding marine biologist, you might find the Barcelona aquarium overpriced and disappointing. Weigh your time constraints with your child's interests before you go.
Gaudi Houses: Definitely view from the outside however kids may be unimpressed by the interiors and long queues. Sagrada Familia and Park Guell are better Gaudi experiences for kids.
Museum Picasso: OK, a little bit of guilt here. The good news is, it's compact and has a wonderful collection of Picasso's early works. The bad news is, they do nothing to make it interesting for kids. My 11-year-old daughter enjoyed the museum, my younger boys found it slightly challenging.
Tapas: small servings of snacks and appetizers, combined to make a meal.
Horchata: a refreshing beverage made with tigernuts, water, and sugar.
Queso Manchego: sheep cheese from La Mancha.
Patatas Bravas: fried potatoes served with a spicy sauce.
Flan: also known as crème caramel and similar to its cousin crème brûlée.
Churros: do not leave Barcelona without trying fresh churros dipped in chocolate sauce.
Dragons and bats, symbols of Barcelona, are hidden throughout the city.
The Catalan Flag is a strong symbol of independence for the people of Barcelona.
Caganers, little pooping figurines of celebrities, politicians, and beloved characters, are used in Nativity scenes throughout Catalonia. I'm not making this up.
Use the inexpensive and extensive metro system. A car is just a liability in the city, and the airport is easily accessible via public transport.
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On the basis of archaeological finds, it has been postulated that hominid activity in Japan may date as early as 200,000 B.C., when the islands were connected to the Asian mainland. Although some scholars doubt this early date for habitation, most agree that by around 40,000 B.C. glaciation had reconnected the islands with the mainland. Based on archaeological evidence, they also agree that by between 35,000 and 30,000 B.C. Homo sapiens had migrated to the islands from eastern and southeastern Asia and had well-established patterns of hunting and gathering and stone toolmaking . Stone tools, inhabitation sites, and human fossils from this period have been found throughout all the islands of Japan.
More stable living patterns gave rise by around 10,000 B.C. to a Neolithic or, as some scholars argue, Mesolithic culture. Possibly distant ancestors of the Ainu aboriginal people of modern Japan, members of the heterogeneous Jomon culture (ca. 10,000-300 B.C.) left the clearest archaeological record. By 3,000 B.C., the Jomon people were making clay figures and vessels decorated with patterns made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks (jomon means "patterns of plaited cord") with a growing sophistication. These people also used chipped stone tools, traps, and bows and were hunters, gatherers, and skillful coastal and deep-water fishermen. They practiced a rudimentary form of agriculture and lived in caves and later in groups of either temporary shallow pit dwellings or above-ground houses, leaving rich kitchen middens for modern anthropological study.
By the late Jomon period, a dramatic shift had taken place according to archaeological studies. Incipient cultivation had evolved into sophisticated rice-paddy farming and government control. Many other elements of Japanese culture also may date from this period and reflect a mingled migration from the northern Asian continent and the southern Pacific areas. Among these elements are Shinto mythology, marriage customs, architectural styles, and technological developments, such as lacquerware, textiles, metalworking, and glass making.
The next cultural period, the Yayoi (named after the section of Tokyo where archaeological investigations uncovered its traces) flourished between about 300 B.C. and A.D. 250 from southern Kyushu to northern Honshu. The earliest of these people, who are thought to have migrated from Korea to northern Kyushu and intermixed with the Jomon, also used chipped stone tools. Although the pottery of the Yayoi was more technologically advanced--produced on a potter's wheel--it was more simply decorated than Jomon ware. The Yayoi made bronze ceremonial nonfunctional bells, mirrors, and weapons and, by the first century A.D., iron agricultural tools and weapons. As the population increased and society became more complex, they wove cloth, lived in permanent farming villages, constructed buildings of wood and stone, accumulated wealth through landownership and the storage of grain, and developed distinct social classes. Their irrigated, wet-rice culture was similar to that of central and south China, requiring heavy inputs of human labor, which led to the development and eventual growth of a highly sedentary, agrarian society. Unlike China, which had to undertake massive public works and water-control projects, leading to a highly centralized government, Japan had abundant water. In Japan, then, local political and social developments were relatively more important than the activities of the central authority and a stratified society.
The earliest written records about Japan are from Chinese sources from this period. Wa (the Japanese pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan) was first mentioned in A.D. 57. Early Chinese historians described Wa as a land of hundreds of scattered tribal communities, not the unified land with a 700-year tradition as laid out in the Nihongi, which puts the foundation of Japan at 660 B.C. Third-century Chinese sources reported that the Wa people lived on raw vegetables, rice, and fish served on bamboo and wooden trays, had vassal-master relations, collected taxes, had provincial granaries and markets, clapped their hands in worship (something still done in Shinto shrines), had violent succession struggles, built earthen grave mounds, and observed mourning. Himiko, a female ruler of an early political federation known as Yamatai, flourished during the third century. While Himiko reigned as spiritual leader, her younger brother carried out affairs of state, which included diplomatic relations with the court of the Chinese Wei Dynasty (A.D. 220-65).
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A 3x3x3 inches cube is painted with red color on all the outer surfaces. If the cube is cut into smaller cubes of 1*1*1 inches.
How many 1 inch cubes will have at least one surface painted ?
All the corners will have 3 faces painted, there are total of 8 corners.
Cubes at the edge(except corners) will have 2 faces painted, there will a one such cube per edge, there are a total of 12 edges, thus 12 cubes will have 2 faces painted.
You can imagine one cube formed by exact center of a face will have only one face painted, there are a total of 6 faces in a cube, thus 6 such cubes will exists.
Number of painted faces = 8*3 + 12*2 + 6 = 24 + 24 + 6 = 54 = 9*6(Each face of the original 3x3x3 cube is cut into 9 pieces.
How many children, ladies and gents are there?
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EOS R as second camera?
I'm a stills only guy, so video features don't matter (portrait / fashion... model boot camps and fashion shows). I also almost never use continuous shooting anymore. It may occasionally happen with a model walking towards me. Full frame is important to me. Getting a second camera with a button layout similar, or the same, as my 5D Mark III (still a great camera in my book) used to be a big deal in my mind, but maybe not so much anymore. As such, the new R has slowly made it's way up the ladder on my list as a new camera I might be interested in by next Christmas vs a 5D mark IV.
The reasons for this are an infatuation with the new RF 50 f/1.2, RF 28-70 f/2, price, and security (yes, security). I do most shooting (99%) with my 24-70, 70-200, and 135mm. I'd like to not have to change lenses during a shoot and quickly get a different perspective sometimes. Nobody carries my bag for me and I shoot these models in very public places with a lot of foot traffic (downtown areas like Mobile, Birmingham, Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, DFW, and next September... New York City). Sometimes I can be a few feet from my bag and I worry about theft while I'm not looking. I'm too big and old to chase anyone down. So my idea is to run with the 24-70 on one camera and 70-200 or 135 on the other.
For stills only, I am thinking the recently released R might be a good choice. It isn't something I have to have, but makes sense to me for my particular uses. I'm thinking there might be some good sales / rebates near the end of the year on the R and the 5D mark IV. Also, a second FF camera would be insurance against failure of the first during an event.
For you folks that shoot mostly stills, what do you think? Any other ideas? Using my Olympus as a second camera is out of the question. That's really for my tiny wife. I almost hate using it. Using another brand is also out. I really would value the ideas of those who already use the R. How's your AF hit rate adapting EF to the R? How is the focus peaking working for you on manual lenses? No, the 6D and 6D Mark II are not options I will consider.
in quality of focus, the R made the most out of it’s sharpness always. I sometimes use magnified view to MF or I use those arrows, both options are superb. I’ve tried peaking also, but being colorblind I find it hard to see, there’s always conflicting colors between peaking and subject for me. Plus it doesn’t seem as accurate as the two other options.
This hits the nail right on the head.
To me this is a nice and exiting time, as I do not plan any major changes to my setup.
I see the high potential in the R system, I really, really like what RF lenses can deliver, but I wouldn't care about buing the EOS R comming from my 5D3.
A friend of mine had it for 3 weeks and told me it's nice and the AF is fast and accurate. But he doesn't like the EVF and the handling of the body.
So to me the R only offers the small form factor and the "first adaptor" feeling as an advantage.
But layout and handling is very different, he said.
I would wait for some more pro body or - if there is no time for waiting - go for another 5D3 or 5D4.
Personally I just lean back, relax and wait what Canon has in the pipeline.
The R is a very good choice for you, I assume you do not use two memory cards? If you use two cards, you might not like the single one.
I have both the R and a 5D MK IV. Overall, the 5D MK IV is definitely better, but for specific uses. the R might win out. I have often used my 5D IV in live view mode, and its very similar to my R but no evf, which limits it. Thats why I bought the R, for the 80% of my shots that can use live view just fine.
The main issue is the freezing of the display for a short period after a shot, if you are tracking a erratically moving subject, it can be frustrating when its moved out of the viewfinder between shots, but models are not usually fast or erratically moving, and the eye AF works better than my 5D IV.
A secondary mention is that you need to turn off the image review, you can't shoot a sucessive shot immediately when its on. (thats also the same for live view on the 5D IV).
I find that my R is still getting the most use now and I bought it the first day it was available. I'm conflicted about selling my 5D MK IV and starting to buy "R" lenses.
Thank you. Same with my Olympus and the image review. Glad to read you are having a good experience. I do use 2 cards in the 5D III and it won't go away. That is a concern with the R for me.
My R is coming on Wed. and I'm wondering about some good programming of buttons choices for setting it up, in case anyone has some favourites.
I'll play with it for about a month and then my daughter has expressed an interest in buying it for a good deal. We'll share it and my lenses in Costa Rica which will be a good workout. I'm tickled to have the ND filter for the 11-24. Got that and the control ring adapter with the conviction that I'll buy another R or R variant in due course.
I had an EOS R, but sold it.
Not because I wasn't satisfied with it (in fact, I was), but my decision was caused by some exceptional new lenses "announced" by Canon.
So, I'm waiting for the EOS pro, provided it offers dual card slot, maybe a few MP more, but, as to video, I don't care at all!
No misunderstanding: I really enjoyed the EOS R and am more than ready to enjoy the EOS R pro!
I am biased (aren't we all) because I handled the R in one of the stores in NYC but now just got an RP. I know on paper, it does not have the capability of the R but, at least to my hands, seems to feel a lot like my 5Div in terms of the controls. It will never replace my DSLR and I am not sure of using it as a primary camera, but as a backup? I think so.
I would get the RP for backup and also for travel. Hope the "R2" do away the "touch-bar"
What would be the benefits of an EOS R or RP over a 5D mk 4 for example? At the moment I use a 5D mk4 as my main camera with a 5D mk3 as backup. This works very well and both cameras are very similar so I don't need time to adjust when switching between the camera bodies. The lenses I have are excellent and in most cases I am not looking for any improvements.
The only thing that is making me consider the EOS R system is the 50mm F1.2 which seems to be far better than the EOS equivalent. Is it worth going through the expense of maintaining two lens arsenals just for the sake of one or two lenses that are better in the EOS R system?
Better AF accuracy in one shot by far and wider AF coverage without degradation in AF performance away from the center. I used to have the 5D4 and the 5D3 (backup). Both the 50L and 24L II focused better on the R than on the 5D4. I have since swapped out the 5D3 for the R. So now, the cameras are 1A and 1B. The 5D4 is still better for sports/action, but the 5D3 is better for portraiture because of the better one shot AF. Once the 5D4 killer is released, I'll just have R bodies. Just having R bodies gives you the most flexibility with the least amount of kit because R bodies can use both EF and RF glass.
This is a period of transition. I think a lot more people will transition to the R ecosystem once something better than the 5D4 is released, but if you want to use RF glass now, you need a R body. For now, the 5D4 will also remain as my primary travel camera because of longer battery life and GPS, and I'll only bring EF lenses (16-35/24-70/100-400) on trips for that reason -- the R with be stored in the bag with the EF adaptor on it and serve as a backup.
Im pretty torn on the EOS R at this stage, have the camera with the RF 24-105mm f4L IS USM. I also own a Canon 5DS and a Canon 6D MKII (as well as still have the 6D).
The size & weight definitely sold me on the EOS R as well as the optics. However their are aspects I still cannot get used too. The multi-function bar is one, design over substance the joystick works so much better. The touch screen gets affected if your nose pushes up against it so I don't use it with the camera to the eye, its fine in live view. The back-focus AF-On button is too far over to the right-hand corner if you have large hands like me, I constantly move the camera away to find it. The eye tracking AF is limited and needs a software improvement.
On the plus side the the dials work really fine, Im loving the control ring on the lenses, the EF-RF adaptors work brilliantly with my EF lenses, the RF24-105mm f4L IS USM is way better than the EF versions, the FV setting is great, increased AF points are much better and for single spot etc the orientation placement is much better for portraits when shooting landscape or portrait mode. The build quality & grip are spot on and the touch screen is so responsive. the EVF is large and works well with someone like me who wears glasses. Image quality and colour are are really impressive.
Is it perfect? No. is it better than the 5D MKIV, No. Is it a step in the right direction, yes and Im sure the system will only get better. If the Pro version retains the joystick and places the AF-On button in a more suitable position I will definitely get it as my 5DS replacement as I see the EOS-R as the 6D MKII replacement (not the RP which is a rebel with FF sensor).
I used the 6D for a number of years. The joy stick equivalent I found to be quite functional except that it was too small for accurate quick placement unless you happen to have long fingernails. When I moved to joystick cameras I got used to that but have never viewed it as overly superior. I think what one is used to often dictates the likes/dislikes.
I find the 1DX2 joystick to be OK but certainly not very fast for AF point moves with my choice being singe spot. Sometimes it gets pressed down when I don't want that. I suspect that the new bar on the R doesn't stand a chance because it's new but I'll soon see if I hate it. At the very least there are some functions other than AF that I hear it's good for and as mentioned the adapter or lens control ring has to be a positive giving more versatility.
It stands to reason that there will be adjustments as the feedback rolls in. Still hoping to hear of some favourite programmable settings choices.
Thanks jack. It's nice to hear your perspective. I've never had a camera with a joystick to control focus, but with all the talk on this forum I assumed that I probably wanted one. I'm keen to try out the touchscreen with eye to the finder on an R or RP. The idea of having that huge spread of focus points is really attractive coming from the original 6D.
Will pick up my R tomorrow but I'm pretty busy so not sure how much play time I'll have. Two weeks to Costa Rica trip with it as a second.
It depends on your needs (requirements). For a main 1DX mk2 and a backup 7D mk2, a travel friendly option would be the RP.
It can fit native EF lenses with native adapter(s), it is lighter, cheaper, articulating screen(optional), more focus points coverage. However, for 5D mk4, the battery life is longer, better weather sealed, higher resolution, dual cards slots(optional), etc.
Currently, this is a transitional phase, I would hold any purchases at the wide end (10-35mm) of the EF mount as the RF mount would introduce better designs and maybe better quality at the wide end.
And the big draw for quite a few of us is the EF adapter with the drop in ND filter. I'm thrilled to have that for the 11-24.
I pre-ordered the ND adapter three months ago and still waiting for it. Hope to get it delivered soon.
They arrived in the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada area two days ago and in the east about 1 1/2 weeks ago but I don't have any idea about elsewhere.
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The publication Life Safety Code, known as NFPA 101, is a consensus standard widely adopted in the United States. It is administered, trademarked, copyrighted, and published by the National Fire Protection Association and, like many NFPA documents, is systematically revised on a three-year cycle.
Despite its title, the standard is not a legal code, is not published as an instrument of law, and has no statutory authority in its own right. However, it is deliberately crafted with language suitable for mandatory application to facilitate adoption into law by those empowered to do so.
The bulk of the standard addresses "those construction, protection, and occupancy features necessary to minimize danger to life from the effects of fire, including smoke, heat, and toxic gases created during a fire.". The standard does not address the "general fire prevention or building construction features that are normally a function of fire prevention codes and building codes".
The Life Safety Code was originated in 1913 by the Committee on Safety to Life (one of the NFPA's more than 200 committees). As noted in the 1991 Life Safety Code Handbook; "...the Committee devoted its attention to a study of notable fires involving loss of life and to analyzing the causes of that loss of life. This work led to the preparation of standards for the construction of stairways,fire escapes, and similar structures; for fire drills in various occupancies and for the construction and arrangement of exit facilities for factories, schools and other occupancies, which form the basis of the present Code." This study became the basis for two early NFPA publications, "Outside Stairs for Fire Exits" (1916) and "Safeguarding Factory Workers from Fire" (1918).
After a disastrous series of fires between 1942 and 1946, including the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub fire in Boston, which claimed the lives of 492 people and the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta which claimed 119 lives, the Building Exits Code began to be utilized as potential legal legislation. The verbiage of the code, however, was intended for building contractors and not legal statues, so the NFPA decided to re-edit the Code and some revisions appeared in the 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1952 publications. The editions published in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 refined the verbiage and presentation even further.
The Committee on Safety to Life was restructured in 1963 and the first publication in 1966 was a complete revision. The title was changed from Building Exits Code to Code for Safety to Life from Fire in Buildings and Structures. The final revision to all "code language" (legalese) was made and it was decided that the Code would be revised and republished on a three-year schedule. New editions were subsequently published in 1967, 1970, 1973 and 1976.
Codes produced by NFPA are continually updated to incorporate new technologies as well as lessons learned from actual fire experiences.
The fire at The Station nightclub, which claimed the lives of 100 and injured more than 200, resulted in swift attention to several amendments specific to nightclubs and large crowds.
The Life Safety Code is unusual among safety codes in that it applies to existing structures as well as new structures. When a Code revision is adopted into local law, existing structures may have a grace period before they must comply, but all structures must comply with code. In some cases, the authority having jurisdiction can simply permit previously approved features to be used under specified conditions. In other cases, the local law amends the Code to omit undesired sections prior to its adoption.
When some or all of the Code is adopted as regulations in a jurisdiction, it can be enforced by inspectors from local zoning boards, fire departments, building inspectors, fire marshals or other bodies and authorities having jurisdiction.
In particular, the Life Safety Code deals with hazards to human life in buildings, public and private conveyances and other human occupancies, but only when permanently fixed to a foundation, attached to a building, or permanently moored for human habitation. Regardless of official adoption as regulations, Life Safety Code provides a valuable source for determination of liability in accidents, and many codes and related standards are sponsored by insurance companies.
The Life Safety Code is coordinated with hundreds of other building codes and standards such as National Electrical Code NFPA 70, fuel-gas, mechanical, plumbing (for sprinklers and standpipes), energy and fire codes.
Normally, the Life Safety Code is used by architects and designers of vehicles and vessels used for human occupancy. Since the Life Safety Code is a valuable source for determining liability in accidents, it is also used by insurance companies to evaluate risks and set rates, not to mention assessment of compliance after an incident.
In the United States, the words Life Safety Code and NFPA 101 are registered trademarks of NFPA. All or part of the NFPA's Life Safety Code are adopted as local regulations throughout the country.
This listing of chapters from the 2009 edition shows the scope of the Code.
Beyond the policies, core definitions and topical requirements of chapters 1–11, chapters 12–42 address the specific requirements for each listed class of occupancy, making reference to Chapters 1–11, as well as other codes.
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As a director for enterprise platform evangelism at Microsoft, Patrick Chanezon played a key role in working with ecosystem partners on Docker integration until the container vendor's founder lured him away.
When Microsoft was looking for open source specialists, the company lured Patrick Chanezon -- whose community work goes back to the Java Portlets spec and, more recently, at Google Inc. where he worked on HTML5 and the Open Social effort -- from VMware Inc. Chanezon played a key role in helping bring technology partners together to support Microsoft's burgeoning effort to support Docker containers. Docker Inc. founder and CTO Solomon Hykes liked what he saw and made Chanezon an offer he couldn't refuse -- to work on the team that'll create the next generation of Docker containers. In a recent interview to discuss the new Cloud Native initiative, Chanezon discussed his stint at Microsoft and why he jumped ship to Docker. Here are some edited excerpts from that interview.
Q: The Open Container Initiative (OCI) seems to have come together pretty quickly. Explain how that happened?
Chanezon: After DockerCon (in late June), we had the Docker Maintainers summit, where all the maintainers of the Docker code base gathered to talk about the future of the project and in there the working group for the OCI spec was the larger working group with 10 to 15 people joining and we started working on the spec right away. After that, collaboration continued online, on the public GitHub repositories in GitHub.com/opencontainers. So we're using the classic open source process where people are sending pull requests and these pull requests are discussed and merged by maintainers. The runC reference implementation for the spec is tracking the spec very closely.
What is it that you've accomplished at this point?
We now we have a version of the spec that people can start commenting on and our goal is to have a first draft available [in August]. That's advancement on the specs. The last aspect is on governance, we've been working with the Linux Foundation to create a governance structure around that project. So the project is structured as a collaborative project under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, and as part of the governance, we will decide how the technical oversight committees is working, how the conflicts between maintainers can be brought to that committee. How that committee is elected, as well as a trademark board that is part of that. So we'll have three announcements about new membership. The spec is now open for comments and there is a draft coming up soon, and the governance has made lots of progress, as well. The draft charter has been available for review and for commenting.
It sounds like things are moving quickly.
I've worked for many different companies before, including Sun Microsystems, Google, VMware and Microsoft. In the past, I participated in lots of these standards projects across the industry like portal server at Sun and Open Social and HTML5 at Google and I've never seen an industry standard being delivered so fast. To me it's a testament for the need of a standard for containers-based computing … to accelerate innovation at the higher levels like orchestration.
How would you characterize Microsoft's involvement in the Open Container Initiative?
Microsoft really went all in with Docker and containers. I used to be at Microsoft before joining Docker, and my main role there was to bring all the Docker ecosystem partners on Azure. And Microsoft loved the Docker workflow so much that it decided to implement it for Windows. What Mark Russinovich said a year ago is happening right now. Basically, Microsoft built in Windows the same kind of aggregation primitive that exists in the Linux kernel, so that Windows developers can package their applications in Docker containers and run them on Windows Server, natively in Windows containers. Because of that, Microsoft was part of the founding members of the OCI, and it has some engineers working on the spec. We're trying to specify what's common in those containers and what's OS-specific. So there's a common section for things like CPU and RAM, and then there's an OS specific section for Linux that could be name spaces and C groups and the Windows engineers are specifying what will go into the Windows-specific section in there.
As much of this becomes standardized so quickly, how do you see Microsoft and others differentiating, as well as some of the other orchestration layer players?
I'd say the differentiation is in terms of the various strategies of the different players, each player has a different strategy. Amazon has its own orchestration layer that's working only on Amazon that's called the EC2 Container Servers, ECS; Google has the Google Container Engine and the open sourced Kubernetes orchestration engine that lets you run it behind the firewall and in other clouds. And on the Microsoft side it has an all-encompassing story where it works with everybody in the Docker ecosystem to make sure that all of the orchestration engines are working really well on Azure. In terms of other orchestration engines, you have Docker Swarm, which is very popular. There's been one study that was done by ClusterHQ, where it was the most popular among developers. It's very simple to set up, it uses the same API as Docker itself, and then there's Apache Mesos, which is pretty popular, as well. It was initiated at Twitter, it became an Apache Project, and it's used by Netflix and many other companies. And recently at DockerCon, we announced integration between Docker Swarm and Methos, so you start to see some interoperability work between these different orchestration players happening.
Microsoft is among those who said they will support Kubernetes. How do the two differentiate their use of that automation layer?
If you go into the Kubernetes repository, you will see there are two installation documentations for Kubernetes on Azure, one of them is from me and a guy from Weave. We worked together to make sure Kubernetes works well on Azure. The story on the Microsoft side is that Microsoft has a very strong hybrid cloud strategy with Azure in public cloud, and then Azure Stack that you [will be able to] install behind the firewall. They're really playing a very open game there where they say all the orchestration engines, whether it's Kubernetes versus Methos, or Docker Swarm, they will make sure they work well on Azure and they are really well integrated so they don't force the choice of Azure.
Besides Azure what about the private cloud side?
The Microsoft story is Azure Stack, an evolution of Azure Pack and System Center. It's a version of Azure with a reduced set of services but things like Virtual Machine and Azure Web Sites, are running behind the firewall, using the same API that you're using to access Azure. So that means if you're using a Docker machine to provision machines in Azure, you can use the same Docker machine to provision them on Azure Stack and you just point your client to a different API endpoint, but it's the same API, the Azure Resource Manager API, introduced at Build this year.
What made you decide to leave Microsoft and join Docker?
I really had a lot of fun at Microsoft, my role there was to bring more of the open source culture and knowledge about Linux and Java developers to Microsoft and to interact with partners and customers who are using these technologies, but then I met Solomon Hykes and he offered me the opportunity to work with him directly on the future of the Docker platform, and I just couldn't refuse that. There was this side aspect, which is this guy is French, as well as I am.
Exactly! I really like his design taste. I think with Docker, he really nailed it in terms of developer workflow, into making developers more productive, which has been one of my goals throughout my career. I've always been working for platform companies, who make a developer's life easier. Because I think developers are the ones who are inventing the future world we're going to live in and Docker's mission statement is to build tools of mass innovation, which really resonated well with me.
Given the fast pace of movement on this standard, how quickly do you see things coming together?
I think we'll have a first draft of the spec with a reference implementation of runC running right away [in August]. Then after that there will be another round of comments and discussion on the specification with all the new members. I don't know how long that will take until we decide it's a final formalized standard. We will also need on the governance side to have a round of comments on the draft charter for all the members to agree and to sign a real formal letter. Up until now, they had to sign a non-binding letter of intent. So they will need to all sign the final papers and then we'll need to issue a final spec, but I think it will be a matter of months, not years.
Once the standard is out of the way, what else is on your agenda at Docker?
The OCP is one of the projects I am working on. We have a lot of other pretty interesting projects for the future of Docker but it's too early to talk about that. Maybe the next time we meet. Containers are a very exciting space and it's moving super-fast.
Perhaps you can share what you believe is necessary to take containers to the next step?
Again, Docker's mission statement, building tools of mass innovation, one of the things that Soloman talked about during the keynote at DockerCon is going through these layers, where Layer 1 is building a standard. So that's what we're building here. Layer 2 is plumbing and one of the things we announced at DockerCon is we're going to start taking pieces out of Docker and spinning them out as separate plumbing projects that can be used independently. So we started doing that with runC, which is the OCI reference implementation. Also announced was another tool in the area of security called Notary, and I would expect in the near future there will be other pieces of Docker that would be spun out and then Docker would be rebuilt in terms of these different tools. That's the main plumbing project, which we call Layer 2 of the stack. Then at Layer 3, we have tools that developers are using directly, as well as the orchestration tools. So here we're talking about the Docker command line itself, we have Kitematic, our UI on top of Docker, that is running on Macs and Windows today and we're planning for a Linux version. There's Docker Swarm, Compose and Machine for orchestration, and then on top of that we have value added online services that people are using for connecting all the workflows and how developers are collaborating together. This is where you have Docker Hub, which is a public hub for Docker images [and] the Docker Trusted Registry that we announced at DockerCon, which you can install behind the firewall to manage your images. We also announced a new project called Ocra, which is about the runtime for your containers.
What's the goal with Ocra?
Right now with Docker we have to build your images, with Docker Trusted Registry and Docker Hub we help you ship your images. And we were kind of missing on the run part and Ocra is going to be a project on many technologies including Compose, Machine, Swarm and another project that's called Interlock -- all built together in order to let you run your containers in the cloud and behind the firewall. This view in four layers is how we think of future product development. We have our work cut out for us. One of the reasons I put in front of my talks when I explain why I am working at Docker, or why I am working in software, is that quote from William Jepson -- he's the guy who invented the term "cyberspace." He has a quote at the beginning of New Romancer when he says, "The future is already here." To me that has exactly been my experience at Sun and Google and VMware and Microsoft and now Docker, in that the most advanced developers in the world already have all these tools to build distributed applications, now it's time to democratize all of that and for the rest of the industry to catch up on that and to gain all of these productivity gains for individual developers. That's very aligned with the mission statement of Docker, which is building tools of mass innovation.
At what point do you see Docker and other modern software container environments having an impact on client OSes such as Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android?
Right now people are mostly using Docker for server-side types of workloads, but already you can see the most advanced developers -- my colleague Jessie Frazelle gives this talk where she explains how to run desktop applications in containers. Right now this is in Linux containers. When containers are implemented on Windows you can imagine that your cloud will have the same kind of approaches for Windows. She has a lot of examples of running desktop applications in containers today.
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Detroit's bankruptcy judge said Monday that he lacked the authority to issue a restraining order to stop water shutoffs over delinquent bills, saying that there is no constitutional right to water and a moratorium would be a financial hit to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
"Chapter 9 strictly limits the courts' power in a bankruptcy case," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes said as he read a ruling from the bench Monday morning.
While Rhodes' ruling made it clear he understood the scope of the problem of water shutoffs in a city with deep poverty, he said the plaintiffs in the case _ advocates including Moratorium Now, the Peoples Water Board and the National Action Network _ did not make the case that a six-month moratorium was necessary or within his powers.
He also noted that Detroit and Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties are in the process of approving a new Great Lakes Water Authority under which Detroit would maintain ownership of the region's water and sewer system but lease the pipes that largely serve the suburbs, in exchange for $50 million a year for 40 years dedicated to fixing aging water and sewer lines.
Given that Detroit is in bankruptcy and under intense pressure to make every operation in the city as cost-effective and efficient as possible, "the last thing it needs is this hit to its revenues," Rhodes said.
Alice Jennings, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs who sought a moratorium on water shutoffs, said she is disappointed in Rhodes' ruling and will look to appeal his decision.
"No one ever said the water had to be free," Jennings said. "Our position is the water had to be affordable. We're still looking for affordable water."
Jennings said the most important part of Rhodes' ruling was his admission that cutting off water service causes irreparable harm. Jennings pointed out the city does not have specific data on how often water has been cut off at homes with children or disabled people.
Jennings said federal mediators and the state came up with a plan to save art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Why not a plan to save people without access to affordable water, she asked.
"We need to evaluate how many people are without water and the safety and health risks involved," she said. "Come up with the grand bargain to save the health and safety of the children and seniors."
The testimony came Monday morning in the hearings on Detroit's bid to get out of bankruptcy.
Rhodes also is likely to hear updates from city lawyers about the agreement reached last week to keep emergency manager Kevyn Orr on the job until the bankruptcy exit strategy is approved, yet restore power to run city government to Mayor Mike Duggan and the City Council.
During a meeting of the city's financial advisory board on Friday, Orr outlined the arrangement that will keep him in charge of shepherding Detroit through the final stages of its bankruptcy.
Orr will technically remain emergency manager until the plan of adjustment is confirmed, but he relinquished control of city government back to elected officials in a deal announced Thursday. Without the powers of emergency manager, he told the board, it wasn't clear he'd have the authority to conclude bond deals crucial to the city emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Orr said he expects testimony to last only a couple more weeks.
"Hopefully sometime between the end of the trial and Thanksgiving we'll have a final ruling," Orr told the board.
Advocacy groups who sought a moratorium on water shutoffs testified last week that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department's policies of mass shutoffs _ 19,000 in recent months _ are leaving low-income households with seniors and children without water service.
They asked Rhodes to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the shutoffs until the city can come up with a better way to address the unaffordability of water service in a city where more than half of households live at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Critique with explanation follows the story.
BOSTON (AP) — A former Alabama professor convicted of fatally shooting three colleagues won’t face a Massachusetts murder trial in the 1986 death of her brother after prosecutors withdrew their indictment.
The announcement Friday by the Norfolk district attorney follows Amy Bishop’s sentencing this week to life in prison without parole for the killings at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in February 2010.
In a statement, Michael Morrissey said the life sentence his office would have pursued in the killing of 18-year-old Seth Bishop was identical to the punishment she received after her guilty plea in Alabama, so there was no need to move forward.
The office withdrew the indictment ‘‘without prejudice,’’ meaning Morrissey could reinstate it if something went wrong in the Alabama sentence, though he said he considered that unlikely.
Amy Bishop, convicted of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, appears on the cover of the January 2009 cover of the Huntsville R&D Report.
The reader should understand: The cost of trying capital cases – cases in which the penalty is, or may be death – are EXCEEDINGLY more expensive than any other case, simply because of the numerous levels of mandatory appeals. Thus, by pleading guilty, and spending the rest her natural life behind bars – without the possibility of parole, and being given humane healthcare – the District Attorney, Amy Bishop and her defense attorneys have saved Madison County, Huntsville, and the State of Alabama many MILLIONS of tax dollars.
That is true, even given that she may live perhaps another 40 years – though that is highly unlikely, simply because incarceration exacts a physical toll upon a person’s life, shortening it by many years. Estimating a cost of $20,000/year (which includes the total cost of employees to guard & manage the system, cost of operations, etc.), and supposing she lives another 40 years (which is less likely, than not) the total flat-line cost would be $800,000.
A 2004 report entitled “State Prison Expenditures, 2001” by James B. Stephan, Statistician for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, of the Department of Justice, found that the cost of food and medical expenses, food service & utilities cost per prisoner in Alabama was $1776. Alabama’s Average Annual Operating Cost per prisoner was $8128 – THE lowest of 50 states. Other components of cost – employee cost, salaries, wages, benefits, supplies, maintenance, contractual services, and other aspects of facility operation, etc. – account for nearly 96% of all operating costs. According to the report, of all states, Alabama has the HIGHEST per-prisoner cost of utilities as a percentage of operating expenditure, at 5.7%. Perhaps it’s time to rethink solar, wind and other sources of renewable energy?
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An ex-professor pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, court officials said.
Amy Bishop, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder involving two or more people and three counts of attempted murder. She had earlier pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Amy Bishop pleads guilty to murder and attempted murder in Madison County.
Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against the Harvard-educated Bishop and it was not immediately clear if they would drop the penalty as part of the plea deal. Sentencing will be after arguments are heard at a hearing on Sept. 24.
Corruption in Alabama politics: Oh yeah… they’re Republican.
This is the same 57-year-old Jane Smith, Circuit Court Clerk for Madison County, Alabama who plead guilty to three federal misdemeanors in federal court recently for sharing her high-level password to the state’s judicial system computer records in 2009, avoided jail time, was fined $5000, and placed on one year probation.
She was first elected in 2000, and to her credit, is widely credited with modernizing the clerk’s office and making it among the most efficient in the state.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Madison County Circuit Clerk Jane Smith said Thursday she will soon stop collecting passport applications, which include a $25 processing fee she is personally allowed to keep.
Federal law sets the fee, and under Alabama law circuit clerks are allowed to keep passport handling fees. Smith said the law was in place before she was elected in 2001. The office began collecting the fees in 1977.
But Smith, who won a third term as clerk in the Republican primary March 13, said ongoing cuts to state court budgets and “continuing confusion over using these fees for official expenses” led her to decide to stop collecting the applications as of May 1.
Alabama State Budget Hardships is Justice Delayed for Amy Bishop. Could she go free?
The GOP dominated state government has no clue about how to run the state.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The high-profile murder case against accused UAH shooter Amy Bishop has been delayed.
Circuit Judge Alan Mann approved a defense request Friday to push back the start date for Bishop’s trial.
The case had been set to begin March 19 and no new date was immediately set.
Face it folks, Alabama MUST change its tax policy and law – something about which Alabamians have been warned for quite some time. It’s not as if we’ve never heard the idea or notion, for indeed, Alabama’s income tax assesses a heavier levy upon the poor than the wealthy, and many large corporate timberland-owners (Georgia Pacific, Weyerhauser, International Paper, Gulf States Paper, et al) pay little or nothing on their vast holdings by comparison to others.
As the issue of a potential shut-down of state services (the forensics lab in Huntsville) relates to criminal prosecution, I could imagine that a sharp attorney could move for dismissal of charges based upon delay of prosecution – which is a federal Constitutional issue – because the Sixth Amendment guarantees the accused the right to a speedy trial, among other aspects of prosecution.
And that issue – a violation of the Sixth Amendment – is one reason why I can imagine former UAH professor Amy Bishop – accused of murdering her colleagues – may have a federal case on her side, because the state of Alabama has virtually shut down all funding of public defense and defenders.
And for those readers whom, for one reason or another, are not up to speed on the wranglings of Alabama politics, India Lynch vs. State of Alabama – the federal case in which Alabama’s tax policies were on trial – ended in October 2011, with a 854-page ruling in the state’s favor by His Honor, Judge Lynwood Smith in which existing tax structures & organization were found not to be unconstitutional. That story may be found here.
The background: Alabama’s state income tax kicks in for families that earn as little a $4,600. Mississippi starts at over $19,000. Alabamians with incomes under $13,000 pay 10.9 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes, while those who make over $229,000 pay just 4.1 percent. Alabama relies heavily on state sales tax, which runs as high as 11 percent and applies even to groceries and infant formula.
A primary reason Alabama’s poor pay so much is that large timber companies and megafarms pay so little. The state allows big landowners to value their land using ”current use” rules, which significantly underestimate its value. Then individuals are allowed to fully deduct the federal income taxes they pay from their state taxes, something few states allow, which is a boon for those in the top income brackets.
We’re very fouled up here in the heart of Dixie.
And while the GOP controls the Governor’s Office, State House & Senate and most all high-level state offices, there are no signs of progress toward equity or justice.
The evidence spans 18,000 different cases. And maybe by 2013, Lonnie Ginsberg hopes, the state will process most everything on those 12 shelves.
This is the uncertain world Ginsberg oversees in cash-strapped Alabama. The director of the Huntsville lab on Arcadia Circle, Ginsberg manages a complex he describes as overworked and understaffed – which is why some drugs confiscated by law enforcement may sit on a shelf for a year before being analyzed.
Ever the unwavering voice of sanity, consummate historian and Auburn history professor emeritus Dr. Wayne Flynt addressed Rotarians in Huntsville, Alabama, Tuesday, 15 November 2011.
Having won over 20 awards as a university history professor of 40 years, and being a Sunday Schoolteacher will do things for a man, including give him a voice to which many attune.
His commentary included recitation from his most recently published work, entitled “Keeping the Faith,” in which he shared observations from two familiar and intimate perspectives – as an Auburn University history professor, and Sunday School teacher.
Big Spring Jam is Dead… again. Long Live Big Spring Jam!
In an entry entitled It’s official: No more Big Spring Jam in Huntsville and posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, I predicted the demise of Big Spring Jam.
I sure hated to write that entry, just as much as I hate to write this entry.
Big Spring Jam is OFFICIALLY DEAD.
This year’s event Sept. 23-24 was only a last, gasping, wheezing, leg-twitching sign that the life had already left BSJ.
Chances are, that more likely than not, you’ve come here because you’ve searched for the term “Trail of Tears Motorcycle Ride,” or similar terms.
What you’re about to read may either confuse, infuriate, or frustrate you. I sincerely doubt it will make you happy, or give you cause for rejoicing.
Simply type the words “Alabama tornado” into any search engine and there’ll be hundreds, if not thousands of entries returned. Add to those words “April 27, 2011” and not only will your search be further refined, but you may gain a whole new perspective on the destructive forces of nature.
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave in Tora Bora for the last several years, or were recently buried at sea, you’ve probably read or heard about the hundreds of tornadoes that struck throughout North and Central Alabama, bringing with them resultant death, and widespread destruction.
I have nothing good to say about Nazis, ex-Nazis, or dead Nazis.
It was because of the mercy of God, and good American people that he lived, while millions of others died in ovens, or in dark, cold, wet subterranean chambers making the V2 – Vergeltungswaffe 2, e.g. “Vengeance” weapon.
The V2 rocket was Hitler’s Nazi terror weapon of mass destruction.
HUNTSVILLE, AL – Dr. Walter Haeussermann, a key member of Dr. Wernher von Braun‘s German rocket team and pioneer of the American space program, died Wednesday in Huntsville.
Haeussermann, 96, died at Huntsville Hospital of complications from a fall. He is survived by his wife, Ruth.
Haeussermann’s death leaves five surviving members in Huntsville of the team that took man to the moon and put Huntsville on the international map. A sixth survives on the West Coast.
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Why do Scouts sing around a campfire? A campfire is a fire lit at a campsite, to serve the following functions: light, warmth, a beacon, an insect and/or apex predator deterrent, to cook, and for a psychological sense of security. In established campgrounds they are usually in a fire ring for safety. Campfires are a popular feature of camping, particularly among organized campers such as Scouts or Guides.
Bumble Bee is a Favorite SongScout Song. User your leader's name instead of 'my leader' if it fits.
I found at camp a baby bumble bee Won't my leader be so proud of me? I found at camp a baby bumble bee... Ouch! It stung me!
(squish hands together) I'm squashing up my baby bumble bee Won't my leader be so proud of me? I'm squashing up my baby bumble bee... Ew! What a mess!
I'm licking up my baby bumble bee Won't my leader be so proud of me? I'm licking up my baby bumble bee... Ugh! I feel sick!
(hold stomache and bend over) I'm barfing up my baby bumble bee Won't my leader be so proud of me? I'm barfing up my baby bumble bee... Oh! Another mess!
I got it before it got me!
Audience echoes each line and sets up clap/lap-slapping rhythm.
Goin’ on a lion hunt.
Make sloshing sounds and move hands as if slogging.
Make gestures climbing up and down.
Go in it and find lion.
Reverse all motions quicky to get home.
Ging gang, Gooli gooli gooli gooli, Watcha, Ging gang goo, Ging gang goo.
Hayla, hayla shayla, Hayla shayla hayla hoooooooo.
This song is sung as round, this means there can be up to several groups singing it. The first group starts, the second group chimes in when the first group reaches "Hayla, oh hayla," the next group follows in the same manner. Here's a sample of this song courtesy of YouTube.
See how they wriggle and squirm.
Nobody knows how much I thrive On worms three times a day.
Once there was a little Jeep, The sweetest little Jeep you ever did see, The Jeep was on the wheels, The wheels were on the GROUND, and the fire in the engine makes the wheels go round.
Once there was a little seat, The sweetest little seat you ever did see, The seat was on the Jeep, The Jeep was on the wheels, The wheel were on the GROUND, and the fire in the engine made the wheels go round.
Once there was a little monkey, The sweetest little monkey you ever did see, The monkey was on the seat, The seat was on the Jeep, The Jeep was on the wheels, The wheel were on the GROUND, and the fire in the engine made the wheels go round.
12 Days of Summer Camp - Tune: "The twelve days of Christmas"
On the first day of summer camp My mother sent to me... A box of oatmeal cookies.
On the second day of summer camp My mother sent to me... Two T-shirts, And a box of oatmeal cookies.
On the third day of summer camp My mother sent to me... Three pairs of socks, Two T-shirts, And a box of oatmeal cookies.
On the fourth day of summer camp My mother sent to me... Four woolen caps, Three pairs of socks, Two T-shirts, And a box of oatmeal cookies.
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Brave has announced that they are partnering with Coinbase and BitGo to provide Bitcoin wallets and purchasing tools for the Brave Ledger, a new Bitcoin-based micropayments system which automatically and anonymously pays user’s favorite websites.
Brave will also allow users and publishers to opt into a better, privacy-preserving ad model which shares revenue with users as well as publishers.
Brave Software has also announced that they have raised a $4.5 million seed round investment from a group of leading VC firms and angel investors.
Participating in the round are Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, and Digital Currency Group amongst others. This brings the total funding to date to $7 million, and it will be allocated towards further platform development and growth.
What’s so special about Brave browser?
Brave is a new open-source browser for desktop and mobiles which blocks invasive ads and online trackers to provide a faster and safer web experience. Unlike traditional browsers, Brave has a built-in ad-blocker (no extensions needed) which reduces page loading time, improves performance, and guards from ads infected with malware.
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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the literary text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the literary text leaves matters uncertain.
Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, and how the characters are introduced and developed).
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the informational text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the informational text leaves matters uncertain.
Determine two or more central ideas of an informational text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the informational text.
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a literary text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, and the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in an informational text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually or quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 11-12 text complexity range independently and proficiently.
By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend nonfiction and other informational texts at the high end of the grades 11-12 text complexity range independently and proficiently.
Introduce precise, knowledgeable claims(s); establish the significance of the claim(s); distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claim(s); and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values and possible biases.
Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aid comprehension.
Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution.
Apply Transition English Language Arts for Seniors Reading standards to literature.
Apply Transition English Language Arts for Seniors Reading standards to nonfiction and other informational texts.
Work with peers to promote civil, democratic discussions and decision-making; set clear goals and deadlines, and establish individual roles as needed.
Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning; address alternative or opposing perspectives, and determine if the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.
Apply the understanding that usage is a matter of convention, can change over time and is sometimes contested.
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, its etymology or its standard usage.
Acquire and accurately use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking and listening at the college- and career-readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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A draft of the BWC, submitted by the British was opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force 26 March 1975 when twenty-two governments had deposited their instruments of ratification. It commits the 182 states which are party to it as of September 2018 to prohibit the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. However, the absence of any formal verification regime to monitor compliance has limited the effectiveness of the Convention. An additional five states have signed the BWC but have yet to ratify the treaty.
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty. The Convention has three main goals including: the conservation of biological diversity ; the sustainable use of its components; and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine Ban Treaty, aims at eliminating anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines) around the world. To date, there are 164 state parties to the treaty. One state has signed but not ratified the treaty, while 32 UN states, including the United States, Russia, China and India are non-signatories, making a total of 33 United Nations states not party.
Many nations continue to research and/or stockpile chemical weapon agents despite numerous efforts to reduce or eliminate them. Most states have joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, which required the destruction of all chemical weapons by 2012. Twelve nations have declared chemical weapons production facilities and six nations have declared stockpiles of chemical weapons. All of the declared production facilities have been destroyed or converted to civilian use after the treaty went into force. According to the United States government, at least 17 nations currently have active chemical weapons programs.
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, a type of explosive weapon which scatters submunitions ("bomblets") over an area. The convention was adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin, and was opened for signature on 3 December 2008 in Oslo. It entered into force on 1 August 2010, six months after it was ratified by 30 states. As of September 2018, 108 states have signed the treaty and 105 have ratified it or acceded to it.
The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 was a piece of U.S. legislation that was passed into law in 1990. It provided for the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention as well as criminal penalties for violation of its provisions. The law was amended in 1996 and has been used to prosecute several individuals.
The 13 steps are identified in a paragraph of the Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, providing a set of 'practical steps for the systematic and progressive efforts to implement Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons'. Article VI is the part of the Treaty that provides for disarmament, including nuclear disarmament.
VEREX was an ad hoc committee assembled by the Third Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) to research verification measures to enforce the BWC. The committee of experts analyzed strengths and weaknesses of their recommendations, criterion by which activities can be labeled as prohibited or permitted, cost of creating verification measures, and the degree to which measures might impact permitted research and development. Participants met in a series of four sessions from 1992-1993.
The 2010 Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City from 3 to 28 May 2010. The President of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used the opening of the conference to note that "sixty five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow".
The Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition, Parts and Components that can be used for their Manufacture, Repair or Assembly, also known as the Kinshasa Convention, aims at regulating small arms and light weapons (SALW) and combating their illicit trade and trafficking in Central Africa.
↑ The text of the Convention, as well as the key documents from recent meetings can be found on the BWC Implementation Support Unit website.
↑ "History – World Wars: Silent Weapon: Smallpox and Biological Warfare". BBC. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
↑ Trakimavicius, Lukas (24 May 2018). "Is Russia Violating the Biological Weapons Convention?". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
↑ Coen, Bob (2009). Dead Silence: Fear and Terrorism on the Anthrax Trail. Berkeley, California: CounterPoint. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-58243-509-1.
↑ Danskin, Kathleen (2014-06-23). "Women as Agents of Positive Change in Biosecurity". Science & Diplomacy. 3 (2).
↑ BWC document BWC/CONF.V/17 (2001 and 2002), available via the BWC Implementation Support Unit website or the UN Official Documents System.
↑ "Final Document of the Seventh Review Conference" (PDF). BWC/CONF.VII/7. United Nations. 13 January 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
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Dakshineshwari Kali Temple, Kolkata About the temple: Dakshineswar Kali Temple is a Hindu temple located in Dakshineswar near Kolkata. It was found by Rani Rashmoni around the middle of the 19th century. Dakshineswar Kali Temple is situated on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, the presiding deity of the temple is Bhavatarini, an aspect of Kali, meaning, 'She who liberates Her devotees from the ocean of existence i.e. Samsara. The Dakshineswar temple is one of the most revered, sacred temples in Kolkata. According to traditional accounts, the night before the pilgrimage began, Rashmoni had a vision of the Divine Mother, in the form of the goddess Kali in a dream and reportedly said "There is no need to go to Banaras. Install my statue in a beautiful temple on the banks of the Ganges river and arrange for my worship there. Then I shall manifest myself in the image and accept worship at that place". Profoundly affected by the dream, Rani immediately looked for and purchased a 20-acred plot in the village of Dakshineswar. It took eight years to complete the construction of the temple, and finally the idol of Goddess Kali was installed on the Snana Yatra day on 31 May 1855.Within the year the priest died and his responsibilities passed to his younger brother, Ramakrishna, who over the next thirty years would bring great fame to the Dakshineswar temple. The temple complex also consists of twelve Lord Shiva shrines, a shrine dedicated to Rani Rashmoni, a temple dedicated to Radha-Krishna and the Navahat Khana, situated on the northeastern fringes of the temple complex, where Ramakrishna Paramhansa had spent most of his time in the temple.
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Martha Catherine Kearney (born 8 October 1957) is an Irish-born journalist and broadcaster. She is the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One.
Kearney was born in Edinburgh. From 1976–80 she read classics at St Anne's College, Oxford.
In her final year at Oxford, she worked as a volunteer in hospital radio. She began her journalistic career at the London commercial station, LBC.
In 1998 Kearney became a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. In 2000 she became political editor of BBC Two's Newsnight programme. She went on to present Newsnight and its weekly consumer survey of entertainment and culture, Newsnight Review, with increasing frequency. She has been an occasional presenter of the Today Programme on Radio 4, and was a candidate to succeed Andrew Marr as the BBC's political editor in 2005, but lost out to Nick Robinson.
Kearney featured in a spoof segment of the BBC comedy series Time Trumpet, titled Honey, I Shrunk Martha Kearney, in which Jeremy Paxman, in a fantasy version of Newsnight, interviewed her a third of her normal size. She also featured later in the episode in a spoof report from Notting Hill. In 2006 she presented with her father a Radio 4 series on the history of universities in Britain, The Idea of a University.
Kearney presented her final Woman's Hour on 19 March 2007 and her final Newsnight on 23 March 2007. She became the main presenter of Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One on 16 April 2007. She remains an occasional presenter of Newsnight Review, describing her current role as allowing her "to play to her strengths".
Kearney was nominated for a BAFTA award for her coverage of the Northern Ireland Peace Process in 1998. She was, with Jenni Murray, 2004 TRIC radio presenter of the year, and won a Sony bronze award for a programme on child poverty.
In 2013, Kearney featured in the Great Comic Relief Bake Off. In 2014, she presented The Wonder of Bees, a one-hour programme on BBC Four about the worldwide disappearance of bees. In 2015, she presented The Secret World of Lewis Carroll, a one-hour programme on BBC Two.
In 2002 Kearney was a judge for the Webb Essay Prize.
In 2005 she chaired the judges for the women-only Orange Prize for Fiction.
Kearney chaired the judges for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Kearney married Chris Shaw (born 19 June 1957), senior programme controller at Five television, in July 2001 at Depwade, Norfolk. The couple live in Suffolk, where Kearney is also a part-time beekeeper.
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Write for 35 minutes leading up to discovering a dead body.
I left my office around one in the afternoon to visit my client. I locked the front door shoving my hands into my trench coat pockets. The air was chilled from the upcoming winter season and there was a light breeze in the air causing the autumn leaves to fly past me. I stared at the ground mostly as I walked down the sidewalk, but every once in a while I looked up with my eyes squinting from the cold. I needed to make sure I wasn’t going to walk into a telephone pole or another person. However, I didn’t think I was going to be passing anyone by. The town seemed dead. I wondered why for a Saturday afternoon, but I assumed it must have been the cold. Looking up at the sky, the clouds did seem a bit more gray than usual. The sun wasn’t anywhere in sight, either.
Once I made it to the end of the sidewalk, I crossed the street coming on to the main road. It wasn’t as busy as I expected. I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to get a taxi over to my client’s house. As though my mind had been read, a cab showed up on the end of the road heading in my direction. I waved my hand and once its blinker turned back on I shoved my hand right back into my pocket. I should have brought my gloves. It was about a ten minute drive from where I stood all the way to my client’s house.
When I got there, I thanked the driver paying him with a nice tip before he drove away. My house was surrounded by a clichéd white picket fence. The grass was vividly green from the previous summer with a colorful garden to the left the house. In the middle of the lawn was a cobblestone pathway leading up to the front door. I opened the gate without it creaking and closed it with the click. The heels of my shoes clicked and clacked against the stones.
I made it up to the porch, holding onto the railing with one cold hand as I staggered up the steps. The house was lovely and my client clearly kept up with it. However, the porch was made of rotted wood. One step was wobbly, one had a hole at the edge of it, and the other looked as though it would crumble under my weight—I skipped that step just to be on the safe side. I stepped right in front of the door and as I raised my fist to knock, the wind blew a foul stench my way.
I sniffed, my face scrunching up in disgust. Was it a skunk? No, I didn’t think skunks smelled like that. They smelled bad, but not this bad. This scent was a mix between a skunk and garbage. It wasn’t pleasant.
I walked over to my right to the other end of the porch trying to see if I could find anything. I knew my client was the proud owner of five cats, so maybe they went out hunting and brought back a couple of mice and birds. When I made it to the end of the porch (I didn’t see anything) I noticed the porch wrapped around to the other side of the house. I turned to my left walking along the much sturdier wood keeping an eye out for any dead animal. Maybe the cats got out and a dog or coyote got to them. Whatever it was, it must have been there for a while. Nothing could smell that bad.
I made it to the end of the porch, but it didn’t wrap around the back of the house. I noticed a window was left wide open. I cocked my head to the side wondering why my client would have left her window open on such a cold day. I poked my head it, turning my head from left to right, but no one was in there. I took a deep breath, smelling the strange, disgusting scent once more. Except, with my head poking inside the house, the smell was worse.
I walked back around to the front door. I knocked hard willing my client to open up right away. However, after banging my fist against the door for the first time, it opened up with ease. I paused with my fist still raised in the air. No one was standing before me and no one was behind the door, so how did it open? It must have already been open a small crack and my knock pushed on it too hard. First the window was wide open and now the door was apparently left open and unlocked as well. I arched my back a little to check out the driveway to my left. Her car was in the driveway as it should have been since she told me to meet her at her house at this day and time. So, where was she?
I entered the house calling out her name, but there came no answer. I closed the door wanting to keep the cold out of the house, but that didn’t seem to do much. The house was freezing, but that was probably because the door was slightly open and a window was wide open as well. There may have been other windows left open, too. I stood in the mudroom trying to peek in the surrounding rooms with my eyes and craning neck. I didn’t see anyone in sight and when I called her name again, there was still no answer. I wiped my feet on the welcome mat and decided to make myself at home.
I walked to my left, entering the living room. The TV and the lights were off, but there was a mug sitting on the coffee table. It smelled of tea and looked as though it had been sitting there for a while. The couch was made nicely with a woolen blanket folded neatly across the top. The house looked as though it was well kept and in good condition, but there was no one to be found. I had been to my client’s house before and she had always greeted me at the door and her cats always came to say to me in the living room. Well, the cats weren’t around, but when I poked my head into the hallway, you wouldn’t believe what I saw.
This was actually my homework. 😉 My professor gave us the prompt and told us to write for 35 minutes. It just so happens I’m writing a novel in that genre anyway, lol.
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Historically, gold has been a store of value and the ultimate hedge against economic calamity. As the old Wall Street adage goes, “Put 10% of your assets in gold and hope it doesn’t work.” A recent study by Ibbotson Associates indicates that even in the absence of economic catastrophe, allocating a chunk of your portfolio into gold, silver, and platinum has worked, while simultaneously reducing your exposure to risk.
Everyone knows that diversification is an important element of investing. Most people consider “diversification” to be a good mix of stocks across multiple sectors, or perhaps a mix of stocks and bonds. But the truth of the matter is, in the thirty-plus years since the U.S. went off the gold standard, stocks and bonds have traded relatively in tandem, whereas gold, silver, and platinum have been counter-cyclical to stocks.
The Sharpe Ratio is a measure of an investment strategy’s risk-adjusted returns. In other words, it takes two things into account: 1) The profits or losses generated, and 2) The risk assumed by the strategy. The greater the return and the lower the risk, the higher the Sharpe Ratio. A recent study by Ibbotson Associates found that a “moderate” (as opposed to “conservative” or “aggressive”) portfolio without gold, silver, and platinum, had an expected return of 8.6% per year, with a Sharpe Ratio of 0.437. But by allocating 12.5% of assets into gold, silver, and platinum, the expected return was boosted to 9% and the Sharpe Ratio increased to 0.472. This data is based on historical performances, 1972 through 2004.
“expected return was boosted to 9%” isn’t that lower than the average return of the S&P 500? I think the S&P 500 gets an average return of 11%.
Yes, you are correct, but investing in the S&P is much riskier than investing in a diversified asset mix, including gold and silver. The Sharpe Ratio is a measure of return over risk, and it’s important because even though it may seem better to invest in the S&P with an 11% return, your time horizon has to be infinite (or at least, very long) to be confident in that return. For example, from 1971 to 2004, gold-silver-platinum was a better investment more years than the S&P was. If you invested in the early seventies with a horizon of ten years, the S&P would have been a very bad investment for you. A diversified asset mix of stocks, bonds, cash, and precious metals provides the best risk-adjusted return; at least, historically speaking.
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Имате въпрос към The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata?
Удобно проектиран като за бизнесмени така и за почиващи туристи, The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata е идеално разположен в Център на град Колката - една от най-посещаваните части на града. Хотелът се намира на 3.00 Km от центъра на града и осигурява достъп до важните места на града. С удобното си местоположение хотелът предлага лесен достъп до всички градски забележителности, които задължително трябва да се видят.
The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata предлага безупречно обслужване и необходимите удобства, за да удовлетвори гостите си. Хотелът предлага достъп до широк спектър от услуги като 24-часов рум-сервиз, 24-часова охрана, ежедневно почистване, пощенски услуги, индивидуално настаняване/напускане.
Като допълнение всяка хотелска стая предлага широка гама от удобства. Много от стаите са с телевизор с плосък екран, достъп до интернет (безжичен), стаи за непушачи, климатик, отопление, за да удовлетворят и най-изискания вкус. Хотелът предлага прекрасни развлекателни съоръжения, такива като фитнес зала, сауна, открит басейн, спа, парна баня, които ще направят престоя ви незабравим. Открийте интригуващата комбинация от професионално обслужване и широка гама удобства в The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata.
The Great Eastern was a Great Disappointment for the following reasons: 1. No warm or cologned towels after an hour and a half ride from the airport 2. No welcome drink 3. Fruits of the season on a platter complimentary brought to the room only after asking for it twice. 4. Only one pair of chappals for the couple 5. Water flooding into the room from the shower area 6. TV surfing made difficult without a Menu choice 7. One bucket seat in the room for two. 8. The a/c control does not work as the temp pre set to 20 C 9. The restaurant Al Fresco made me feel like a beggar with the staff being standoffish most times in my two nights’ stay Good things: The concierge Dipu and Tatha were extremely efficient and the driver Sameer Kar was politeness incarnate.
Really enjoyed our stay at the Lalit. The hotel is centrally located so great for getting to all the sights. Staff were friendly, very helpful and nothing was too much trouble for them. Facilities not too bad with a gym and wellness centre. Rooftop pool was good. Breakfast was great with a wide variety to select from. Definately recommended.
I stayed at this facility for the first time. Got very good service. Cleanliness was excellent. Only concern was breakfast menu. But it is only we are being Bangladeshi. I saw Indians and Europeans are Enjoying food a lot.
We only had a single night at the LaLit... wish we had at least a week there. Booked 2 rooms both really wonderful. Location perfect for all business and tourist attractions. Staff are really good... and cleanliness was to international standards... something that can’t really be said for many Indian hotels. Food was good too. All staff were very happy to serve and so friendly - always greeting you with a smile. We are all so happy with our stay there and would highly recommend this hotel to anyone looking for a nice hotel in Kolkata. Go on book it... it’s well worth it. Well done to all the staff and management of the hotel for delivering such a wonderful experience.
Wonderful central base for tourist attractions. Exceptionally spacious rooms , we booked the suite . Breakfast is a banquet supremo! Food in general great quality with excellent service and attention to detail. Great tea lounge with excellent high tea. Very attentive and caring staff . Cant fault anything.
Exceptionally attentive staff. Marvellous breakfast especially the dessert section. Spacious room with all the amenities. Good location, about 400 m to the metro and abundant of taxis and auto to take you anywhere (they also provide a car service too.) One minus is that there was a party (?) at a pub downstairs and the sound kept booming into our room until the party was over around 2 am. in the morning. Other than that it was a very pleasant stay.
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There are a few different types of vaccines. Modified live vaccines are vaccines comprised of (as the name suggests) bacteria or viruses that have been modified to make them less virulent. They can be highly effective vaccines, as they help the immune system learn to defend the body from the normal bacterium/virus (in the same way) without having to handle the disease itself. They’re safe for normal individuals, but in immunocompromised people, these types of vaccines are typically avoided because the body still needs to “fight” the much less dangerous but still live vaccine version of the pathogen.
But what about pet vaccines?
There’s concern that giving a pet a modified live vaccine might result in a person being exposed to the same modified bacterium or virus.
But, what is the real risk? We don’t know. However, when you think about what the issues really are, there are clearly some things to consider.
Is the “normal” bacterium/virus a problem in people?
If not, then the modified version won’t be a problem either. Most of the diseases we vaccinate pets against using a modified live vaccine are not caused by bacteria or viruses that can infect people, even at “full strength”. So, those vaccines are no concern at all.
If yes, it’s a tougher call. The main vaccine that causes concern is intranasal or oral administration of modified live Bordetella bronchiseptica, a bacterium that is one of the component causes of “kennel cough” (or more appropriately canine infectious disease respiratory complex (CIRDC)). This bacterium causes occasional infections in people. There are also a couple of reports of infections in people with the intranasal vaccine strain, but these cases either aren’t particularly strong or involve abnormal situations (such as accidentally being squirted in the eye with the vaccine).
If there is a potential risk, what’s the potential benefit? Does preventing disease in the animal reduce the risk to the person, because of the potential for exposure to the normal strain from the pet if it gets infected, or from the potential of being exposed to an antibiotic resistant bacterium if the animal gets sick and needs antibiotics? That’s a tough one to figure out, but certainly warrants consideration.
Is an animal vaccinated with a modified live bacterium a higher risk animal than any other animal?
This often doesn’t get considered. If you show me a dog vaccinated with a modified live vaccine and ask me to list the top things with which the dog is likely to infect a person, the modified live bug won’t even crack the top 10 (or 20). So, I can’t see how a dog that has been vaccinated really increases the infectious disease risk posed by a pet.
Keep the high risk person out of the room when the animal is being vaccinated, to prevent high level exposure directly to the vaccine.
Wipe the face of the animal after vaccination to reduce the burden of the vaccine bacterium on the outside of the animal.
Avoid close contact with the animal’s face for a short period of time. Realistically, if someone is immunocompromised enough that they are concerned about vaccination of their dog, close contact with the dog’s face should be avoided at the best of times.
Encourage hand hygiene after contact with the dog. As above, that’s a good general precaution at any time, but can be emphasized during the day or two after vaccination.
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"...he recalled a conversation he once had with Frank Lloyd Wright, the renowned architect who developed his linear Prairie Style of architecture in the first decade of the 20th century: "He said, 'Son, architecture began when I began building houses out there on the prairie.' What a confidence man, what a crook!""
The next sentences read: "Scully admired some of the buildings by Wright and other towering giants of modern architecture, including Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, but he began to see an emptiness at the core of their designs. What they lacked, Scully concluded, was the human touch.
"He began to teach that architecture was about more than pure design. Its purpose was not to burnish the ego of the architect but to provide humane and beautiful places for community life to flourish.
"Practically alone among architectural scholars of the time, Scully began to emphasize the importance of the past. In his lectures, he stalked the stage, using a long wooden pointer to direct attention to images of Greek temples, the Sistine Chapel, French formal gardens, American Indian dwellings, New England town squares and Italian villages."
I did not hear Scully speak. I know him from two books, the Wright primer that many of us must have seen or owned in our early years, published in 1960 by G Braziller in the short series "Masters of World Architecture" (Nervi by Huxtable, Mies by Drexler, etc), and, much more recently, "Architecture, the Natural and the Manmade" (St Martin's, 1991) which, being a sort of world history of the art in its relation to site, affords Wright a mere seven pages and nine images, with which he treats Taliesin West as an object laid out within an array of sightlines, the most important of which are mountains in the landscape (or "horns," a term Scully uses repeatedly throughout). Scully clearly has warmed to Wright over the decades.
I suggest that we wait for further response, from critics and professionals presumably more experienced in architecture than the obit writer for the Post, which critique will appear in due course in the architectural press ?
I met Scully about a decade ago. I talked to him for a long time at a party at Yale. He is very entertaining even in small talk. I also sat in on one of his history lectures which was in the auditorium adjacent to Kahn's Yale Art Gallery. He was mesmerizing talking about classical Roman architecture. I recall he explained to his students that the Romans were basically a bunch of skinheads.
American skyscrapers of the 1920s. It is also an enormous monster; its tondi are eyes; its high arch screams. It is the open mouth of death . . .
emptiness, meaninglessness, insatiable war and death. There is no victory for the dead. All that courage wasted. It is not to be borne."
Scully must've highly admired Wright's talent since he hired him to design his own house in 1948.
Unfortuntately, he couldn't afford it once the construction bids came in so it was never built.
Hope James won't be offended if I up the ante, with color images of (presumably) the same drawings, from Taschen.
Now we can read the floor plan.
He was born in 1920, so he was only 28 years old in 1948. The "Dormitory" would've been for 3 young children (from his first of three marriages). After the war he'd returned to Yale in 1946 and finished his PhD thesis in 1949 (later published as his book on the Shingle Style). So, I imagine he could've really used a private study or library in this house, but we only see a small desk in the corner of his bedroom. I would imagine he'd have plenty of books, which were presumably accommodated on shelves near the south triangular corner, where at the tip of the triangle we see a built-in nook for the "radio & record player". With the family of five, that single bathroom would've seen plenty of use. With three fireplaces it would've been cozy in the winter.
He was a bold young man to hire Frank Lloyd Wright at that age & stage. I wish it had worked out.
But Scully had a different and much simpler, flat-roofed house built in the Connecticut woods. I'm trying to find it; I thought maybe we had discussed it here a couple of years ago.
'The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods' is another good book of his.
Scully spoke at a FLWBC conference in Chicago at the Auditorium Building. The subject was primarily how FLW used his apprentices as free labor, drawing parallels with slavery ... which I thought a bit over the top.
That is a bit much . . .
It's been awhile since I saw the thing, but I remember that Scully was one of the talking heads on Ken Burns's FLW documentary. I don't remember if his comments were, on balance, positive or negative.
I have. But it seems that Mr Scully has been, as you say, an admirer, and from an early date, to judge by his premature commission of a house design.
has found things to question in Wright's career, but their occasional burps should not be mistaken for disrespect, it seems to me.
a force to be contended with -- at least ?
I went and looked at the first half of the Ken Burns thing, and Scully appeared twice. He spoke beautifully & poetically at the 27:25 mark. And, then again at the 41:00 mark.
At 41:45 in the YouTube is an image of the ends of the pews of Unity Temple, a detail mentioned in an earlier thread. The curve in the drawings of this almost relentlessly (but for the light globes) rectilinear space look somewhat jarring, but they work to soften the hardness all around.
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Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won 52 US National Championships and set 67 world records. Weissmuller understood the potential role that athletic competition could play in the world. He said, "I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars."
After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a role he played in 12 motion pictures. Other actors also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller was the actor most identified with the role.
Before Johnny was well known, he and his brother Peter saved 11 lives when a Lake Michigan tour boat capsized in a sudden storm. As an Olympic swimmer, Weissmuller was a hero to many for his accomplishments. Weissmuller also inspired people through his portrayal of Tarzan, who always protected his family and animal friends from the deeds of evil doers.
Johnny Weissmuller was registered as János Weissmüller at birth in Freidorf near Temeschburg, Banat. At the time, Freidorf was part of Austria-Hungary. Today, it is a suburb of Timişoara in Romania). Weissmuller was born to German-speaking parents of Jewish and Roman Catholic descent, Petrus Weißmüller and Elisabeth Kersch, according to his Hungarian birth and (Roman Catholic) baptismal records. In fact, he was named Johann by his parents, but all legal records at the time used the Hungarian forms of personal names.
When Johnny was seven months old, the family emigrated to the United States aboard the S.S. Rotterdam. They left the Dutch port of Rotterdam on January 14, 1905, and arrived in New York City 12 days later. Upon entering the United States, the family names were recorded in English as Peter, Elizabeth and Johann Weissmuller. Peter had been born December 31, 1876.
After a brief stay in Chicago, Illinois, to visit relatives, the Weissmullers moved to the coal mining town of Windber, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Peter Weissmuller worked as a miner. His youngest son, Peter Weissmuller, Jr., was born in Windber on September 3, 1905.
After several years in Western Pennsylvania, the family moved to Chicago. Johnny's father owned a tavern for a time. His mother became head cook at a popular restaurant. Later, Peter Sr. worked as a brewer for the United States brewery in Chicago.
Johnny's parents eventually divorced, as is shown by the divorce document filed in Chicago by Elizabeth Weissmuller. Many sources incorrectly state that Weissmuller's father died of tuberculosis contracted from working in coal mines and left her a widow. Elizabeth Weissmuller even appears with her sons on the Cook County census listed as a widow. It is possible that because divorce had a stigma at the time, that Elizabeth referred to herself as a widow to avoid this stigma for her and her sons.
Peter actually fathered another family following his divorce, and lived to an old age. By 1930, he had married his second wife, Anna, with whom he had a son named Edward and a daughter Ruth.
Johnny and his brother Peter learned to swim at a young age in order to become stronger and healthier. Johnny in particular was weak and sickly as a pre-adolescent. Both boys quickly became known as aggressive swimmers. The beaches of Lake Michigan became their favorite place for summer recreation. Johnny also joined the Stanton Park pool, where he began swimming competitively. He won every junior swim meet. At the age of 12 Johnny earned a spot on the YMCA swim team.
When Weissmuller left high school, he worked as a bellhop and elevator operator at the Plaza Hotel in Chicago. At the same time he began training for the Olympic Games with swim coach William Bachrach at the Illinois Athletic Club. This is when Johnny developed his revolutionary high riding front crawl stroke. He made his amateur debut on August 6, 1921, winning his first AAU race in the 50-yard freestyle (crawl stroke).
Though he was foreign-born, Weissmuller gave his birthplace as Windber, Pennsylvania, and his birth date as that of his younger brother, Peter Weissmuller. This was to ensure his eligibility to compete as part of the United States Olympic team. U.S. birth was also critical issue in obtaining an American passport.
On July 9, 1922, Weissmuller broke Duke Kahanamoku's world record for the 100 meter freestyle, swimming it in just 58.6 seconds becoming the first person to swim event in less than one minute. He won the Gold Medal for the 100 meter freestyle at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games, beating both Duke and Samuel Kahanamoku, who were silver and bronze medalists respectively. He also took gold medals in the 400 meter freestyle and the 4 x 200 meters relay. As a member of the American water polo team, he also won a bronze medal. Four years later, at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he won another two Olympic titles.
In all, he won five Olympic gold medals, one bronze medal, 52 U.S. National Championships and set 67 world records. Johnny Weissmuller retired from his amateur swimming career undefeated.
Not only was he an Olympic champion, but Weissmuller was a lifelong advocate for all children learning to swim at an early age. This was likely a result of his awareness of the horrible tragedy of the sinking of the "Eastland" in Lake Michigan near the beaches he frequented throughout his summers there. More than 800 people perished in this accident including 22 entire families. Many people drowned simply because they were unable to swim. Twelve years later when Johnny and his brother Peter were training in the lake, they witnessed the much smaller "Favorite" tour boat capsized when a bad storm blew in. The brothers rushed to the scene and pulled nearly two dozen people from the boat. Eleven of those people survived. Twenty–seven died of drowning in this tragic accident. Witnessing these tragedies left a lasting impression on Weissmuller, convincing him that everyone should learn to swim in their childhood.
In 1929, Weissmuller signed a contract with the clothing company BVD to be a model and representative. He traveled throughout the country doing swim shows, handing out leaflets promoting the BVD brand of swimwear, giving his autograph and appearing on television talk shows. Also in 1929, Johnny made his first motion picture appearance as an Adonis wearing only a figleaf, in a movie titled "Glorifying the American Girl." He appeared in the first of several "Crystal Champions," movie shorts filmed in Silver Springs, Florida featuring Weissmuller and other Olympic champions.
His career began in earnest when he signed a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and played the role of Tarzan in "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932). The movie was a huge success. The 6' 3" Weissmuller became an overnight international sensation. Even the author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, who created the character of Tarzan in his books, was pleased with Weissmuller's portrayal of Tarzan.
Weissmuller starred in six Tarzan movies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) with actress Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane. The last three also included Johnny Sheffield as Boy. Weissmuller said about the series, "Tarzan films are decent films, designed for family viewing. It's an idealistic, down-to-earth story about a man's love for animals and the care of his family."
Production of Tarzan movies at MGM ended with the onset of World War II. Johnny Weissmuller's contribution to the war effort was to teach navy recruits to swim to safety out from under waters covered with burning petroleum.
In 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO Studios and starred in six more Tarzan movies. Sheffield appeared as Boy in the first five features for that studio. Another costar was blonde actress Brenda Joyce, who played Jane in Weissmuller's last four Tarzan movies. In a total of 12 Tarzan movies, Weissmuller earned an estimated $2,000,000 and established himself as the best known of all the actors who have ever portrayed Tarzan.
Although not the first Tarzan in movies (that honor went to Elmo Lincoln), Weissmuller was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling Tarzan yell. During an appearance on television's Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s, Weissmuller explained how the famous yell was created. Recordings of three vocalists were spliced together to get the effect—a soprano, an alto, and a hog caller. This famous yell is still used in films.
When he finally departed from the role of playing Tarzan, Johnny immediately traded his loincloth costume for jungle fatigues, appearing fully clothed in the role of "Jungle Jim" (1948) for Columbia Pictures. He made 13 Jungle Jim movies between 1948 and 1954. In the next year, he appeared as himself in three more jungle movies.
Also in 1955, Weissmuller began production of the Jungle Jim television adventure series for Screen Gems, a film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. The show ran for 26 episodes. Reruns of the show played on network and syndicated TV for many years.
Johnny Weissmuller enjoyed close friendships with a number of other Hollywood leading men such as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Raoul Walsh, Forrest Tucker, and John Wayne. The men enjoyed golfing together and racing speed boats. Some have referred to this group as the first "Rat Pack."
Weissmuller was less lucky in love. He married five times. His first wife was band and club singer Bobbe Arnst (married 1931 - divorced 1933). Johnny married hert after a brief two week courtship. This was a time when his obligations to MGM were demanding, which may have been a destructive factor to the marriage.
The firey and temperamental actress Lupe Vélez was his second wife (married 1933 - divorced 1939). This marriage turned out to be a stormy one. Lupe didn't share Johnny's love for the water and watersports. Also, Lupe suffered from extreme mood swings and eventually, following their divorce, committed suicide while in a deep depression.
With his third wife, Beryl Scott (married 1939 - divorced 1948), he had three children, Johnny Scott Weissmuller (or Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., also an actor) (born September 23, 1940, died July 27, 2006), Wendy Anne Weissmuller (born June 1, 1942) and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller (July 31, 1944 – November 19, 1962). This marriage lasted longer than his first two but there were still the heavy pressures from the studios with which he had contracts. Beryl developed her own social circle surrounding her backgammon and bridge playing. In addition, the expense of keeping up the opulent lifestyle brought about financial problems. A combination of these factors brought an end to this marriage. Beryl assumed responsibility for the children's upbringing and was awarded a substantial child support settlement.
Johnny met and married Allene Gates (married 1948-divorced 1962) after his divorce from Beryl was finalized. Johnny Jr. lived with the couple for a time. He enjoyed close family time with the couple in a way he never experienced when his mother and dad were married. Unfortunately, when Johnny Sr. had no more regular work in the movie industry, the loss of regular work brought financial problems again. Johnny and Allene began struggling in their relationship and after repeated separations, eventually divorced.
Maria Bauman (married 1963 - his death 1984) came into Weissmuller's life just before the devastating loss of his youngest daughter, Heidi in a car accident. Johnny Jr. described the marriage as Weissmuller's worst. He did not trust the woman his father had married and in later years, didn't agree with the way she managed his care or affairs. None the less, Johnny Sr. and Maria were married until the time of his death. Of all Weissmuller's marriages, this one endured the longest.
In the late 1950s, Weissmuller moved back to Chicago and started a swimming pool company. He also lent his name to other ventures, but did not have success in business. He retired in 1965 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was Founding Chairman of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
In 1970, he attended the British Commonwealth Games in Jamaica where he was presented to Queen Elizabeth. He also made a cameo appearance with former co-star Maureen O'Sullivan in "The Phynx" (1970).
Weissmuller lived in Florida until the end of 1973, then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. He worked as a greeter at the MGM Grand Hotel for a time. In 1974, he broke a hip and leg. While hospitalized for these injuries, he learned that in spite of his strength and lifelong daily regimen of swimming and exercise, he had a serious heart condition.
In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney. The movie was "Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood." He also made his final public appearance that year, when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.
Weissmuller suffered a series of strokes in 1977. For a time in 1979, he was a patient in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Later he and his last wife, Maria, moved to Acapulco, Mexico.
Johnny Weissmuller died on January 20, 1984 of pulmonary edema at a retirement home in Acapulco. He is buried in the Valley of The Light Cemetery there.
His former co-star and movie son, Johnny Sheffield, said of him, "I can only say that working with Big John was one of the highlights of my life. He was a Star with a capital "S" and he gave off a special light and some of that light got into me. Knowing and being with Johnny Weissmuller during my formative years had a lasting influence on my life."
Johnny Weissmuller has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
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Drug dependence, daytime sleepiness, amnesia, an increased https://canadianpharmtabs.com/ risk of car accidents, poor coordination leading to falls and fractures of the hip, impaired ability to learn, confused speech and even death are side effects of these drugs. This is especially likely when taking these medicines with alcohol or other drugs that depress the central nervous system. This can happen to anyone at any age.
The body of the elderly can not remove such drugs as quickly as in younger people. Older people are also more sensitive to the side effects of drugs.
Despite the evidence of this fact, older people, firstly, tranquilizers and hypnotics are more often prescribed, secondly, they usually receive a standard rather than reduced dose, which could reduce the risk of side effects, and thirdly, they are prescribed these drugs for longer periods of time than younger people. Therefore, it is not a surprise that older people are more at risk of adverse effects, and if such effects occur, they are usually more pronounced. One of the biggest obstacles to the detection and elimination of such problems is that the problems that arise are associated with the aging process, and not with taking medications.
The deterioration of thinking processes, amnesia, impairment of learning or loss of coordination in younger people when taking the drug is perceived as an alarm. If the same symptoms appear in older people, especially if they develop slowly enough, then the doctor's reaction often boils down to the remark: "Well, he (she) is already old, what did you expect?" This approach leads to the aggravation of negative effects, as the doctor continues the previously started drug therapy.
A study of older people with a hip fracture showed that 14% of such injuries are associated with the use of psychotropic drugs, including hypnotics, tranquilizers, antipsychotics and antidepressants, especially such drugs as sibazone, hlozepid and flurazepam.
Another serious negative effect of benzodiazepines is respiratory depression. Older people often experience sleep apnea in sleep when breathing stops after falling asleep. Dr. William Dement (William Dement), an expert in sleep research, found that in older people who use sleep drugs, breathing can stop for dangerously long periods of time, as a result of suppressing the sleep center with sleep drugs. He also speaks of the national importance of this problem: people over 65 should not use flurazepam because of the increased risk of apnea. The second problem in this category is lung disease. People with serious lung diseases should not use benzodiazepines, due to the fact that they depress the respiratory center, which can be life-threatening. Patients suffering from asthma should also avoid sleeping drugs and tranquilizers.
The best way to reduce the risk of negative effects is to avoid taking these drugs except in cases of extreme necessity.
As the British psychiatrist Dr. Malcolm Lader (Malcolm Lader) noted, “until recently, most patients with symptoms of chronic anxiety in the UK were given tranquilizers, usually benzodiazepines. However, the increasing reports of drug dependence, led to a reversal of treatment strategies for chronic concerns in favor of non-drug therapies. "
Two doctors from the UK have used non-drug therapies to treat mild or moderate forms of chronic anxiety syndrome and similar diseases. They argue that "probably the best method of treatment is to consult a general practitioner or any other medical professional. Such consultation should not be excessively intensive and it does not require any special training. Such consultation should always include a thorough determination of the causes of the disease. When this is done, then insomnia can often be reduced to acceptable levels using standard psychotherapeutic methods of exposure. "
What else can be done? A conversation with people who are not related to medicine — a friend, spouse, relative, clergy representative can help identify causes of anxiety and find a solution. Getting courage and talking about difficulties is a better solution than taking pills. In some cases, insomnia can be treated with psychotherapy. Regular exercise can also improve the process of falling asleep.
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Sport management is a field of education concerning the business aspects of sports and recreation. Some examples of sport managers include the front office system in professional sports, college sports managers, recreational sport managers, sports marketing, event management, facility management, sports economics, sport finance, and sports information. Many colleges and universities offer bachelors and masters degrees in sport management.
Sports management has been around for years and years. Its a very important process and without it, there would be no order or rhythm in the sports world.
To become a sports manger,. one must obtain the proper degree and training to secure a job within the sports field. To get a good start onto this job, achieving a bachelors degree to form a base is crucial. When achieving that a number of doors can open to further yourself into more training. Once getting to that stage the focus can then start to narrow your options to specific options. If the particular school or classes don't offer an exact sports management class there is a number of other classes that can be took that will fill out the same requirements. Other typical degree programs will be useful; management, marketing, business administration, and accounting.
Sports management is a career where numbers of jobs can found. Between all the professional, amateur, minor, and other categories, jobs are very much needed at all corners. Professional or not.
This could include managing after-school teams like elementary jobs all the way up to college jobs. Managing sports teams of all kinds, wether is be football or a bowling team. This also doesn't have to be just sports, but academically there can be job opportunities with working in academic service offices in college campus settings as well. This could be working with kids that need help but also managing student-athletes across the campus.
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The Binary System of numeration is the simplest of all positional number systems. The base - or the radix - of the binary system is 2, which means that only two digits - 0 and 1 - may appear in a binary representation of any number. The binary system is of great help in the Nim-like games: Plainim, Nimble, Turning Turtles, Scoring, Northcott's game, etc. More importantly, the binary system underlies modern technology of electronic digital computers. Computer memory comprises small elements that may only be in two states - off/on - that are associated with digits 0 and 1. Such an element is said to represent one bit - binary digit.
The first electronic computer - ENIAC which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator - was built in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, but the invention of the binary system dates almost 3 centuries back. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), the co-inventor of Calculus, published his invention in 1701 in the paper Essay d'une nouvelle science des nombres that was submitted to the Paris Academy to mark his election to the Academy. However the actual discovery occurred more than 20 years earlier.
According to the Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary (see Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics), an entry BINARY ARITHMETIC first appeared in English in 1796 in A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary.
To represent numbers, the decimal system uses the powers of 10, whereas the binary system uses in a similar manner the powers of 2.
There are several problems with using more than one number system at the same time. Should we read (1101)2 as 1 thousand 1 hundred 1 in binary? Or, after some mental calculations, just 13 without mentioning the base? The latter possibility is overtaxing and unreasonable: why to use a system other than the decimal in writing while depending on the decimal in speech? The former is inappropriate altogether for etymological reasons. We might say thousand to indicate a 1 in the fourth position from the right regardless of the base of the system in use, but this would conflict with the etymology of the word thousand, and the same is true of the word hundred. Both are related to the base 10 and no other.
hundred (numeral): a native English compound. The first element, hund, actually means "ten." It comes from dekt-tom, an extension of the more basic Indo-European root dekm "ten." The second element is from the Old English rad "number", so that hundred means literally the "tens-number" in the sense that it is ten times ten.
thousand (numeral): actually an English compound, thus-hund. The first component is related to English thumb and thigh, and means "swollen, large." The Indo-European root is teu- "to swell." Related borrowings from Latin are tumor and tumulus. The second component is the root found in hundred (q.v.), which is based on the Indo-European root dekm- "ten." The literal meaning of thousand is "a swollen or big hundred" because it is ten times a hundred.
So how does one read (1101)2? In practice, the not-so-glamorous "one one zero one" does a reasonably good job. One adds the word "binary" if the meaning is not clear from the context. This is probably close to the Ancients' usage. Just think of how the Romans pronounced, say MCMLXXXII?
Now let me ask a couple of deceptively simple questions. Is it true that every number has a binary representation? And if so, is the binary representation of a number unique?
There is a problem though. The algorithm assumes that the given number has been already somehow represented, so that it receives one representation of the number and outputs another. If the original number was decimal, the algorithm performs conversion between its decimal and binary representations. It appears that the answer we gave in the preceding paragraph is conditional: if a number has a decimal representation, it also has a binary representation. If the former is unique, so is the latter.
counting number a number used in counting objects; i.e. one of the set of positive integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, an so on.
Use decimal symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 (in a cyclic order).
Decimal representations of numbers during their counting change with the right-most digit changing the fastest.
Whenever a digit becomes 0, its neighbor to the left is replaced with its successor in the sequence of decimal symbols. If necessary, this step applies recursively.
If need be, i.e. whenever the left-most digit becomes 0, 1 is prepended to the previous representation.
The question of what a (counting) number is is quite delicate. Numbers can be defined axiomatically, which guarantees their existence independent of any naming convention. Numbers may also be thought of as collections of drum beats we produce while counting: one drum beat per count. Naming them was a great human invention. Naming them according to a positional system of numeration was probably a single most important mathematical achievement over the space of some 1000 years.
Use binary symbols 1, 0 (in a cyclic order).
Binary representations of numbers during their counting change with the right-most digit changing the fastest.
Whenever a digit becomes 0, its neighbor to the left is replaced with its successor in the sequence of binary symbols. If necessary, this step applies recursively.
The foregoing discussion presents a longwinded argument to the effect that there is not that much difference between the decimal and the binary systems. Decimal representations are shorter than their binary counterparts, but, as far as the counting process is concerned, the name assignment follows essentially the same rules.
(13)10 = (1101)2 = 23 + 22 + 20.
The fact that every number has a unique binary representation tells us that every number can be represented in a unique way as a sum of powers of 2. I wish to give an independent proof due to L. Euler (1707-1783) [Dunham, p 166] of the latter result.
Euler was a master of infinite series and products. Their theory have been developed in the 19th century, but Euler used them with great skill a century earlier to obtain many remarkable results. So, here's one example.
But what is the meaning of coefficients α, β, γ δ, ε, ...? Each tells us in how many ways the corresponding term (a power of x) can be obtained as the product of powers of x with exponents 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... Since, xaxb = xa + b and all the coefficients were found to equal 1, this is the same as saying that every (counting) number - exponents on the right - have a unique representation as a sum of powers of 2.
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I make 54k per year and I have a 679 credit score and I'm about to apply for a home loan. The house is 240k can I do it?
Yes. Contact a LOCAL lender and they will help you the best.
Probably but it will depend on what other monthly debt you have, how much you have for a downpayment, whether there will be a HOA or regime fee for the property you are buying, how much the taxes and insurance will be, etc. Before you shop for a mortgage you should select a mortgage lender you want to work with and be pre-approved based on those factors and the maximum YOU are comfortable with paying each month for the mortgage, taxes, insurance, etc. My guess is that your payment will be at least $1500/mo and probably more like $1600 or higher, plus any regime or HOA payment.
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Article Summary: This article will help anyone looking for information pertaining to a commercial real estate and commercial lending in the State of Tennessee.
The state of Tennessee has a population of 6,038,803 spread out across over 41,217 square miles. The population has been rising steadily over the past two decades. Between 1990 and 2000 the population rose 6.2%, and since 2000 that rate has held steady. The per capita income of the residents of Tennessee is $30,645.
What does this mean for those who are interested in commercial real estate in Tennessee?
The largest city in Tennessee is Memphis. This city is conveniently located by the Mississippi River and nine major highways which makes it ideal for transportation and shipping commerce. Not surprisingly, the industrial market in Memphis is picking up momentum. What may be surprising is that the primary movement in this market is among small and mid-sized industrial tenants. It is mom and pop shops and light industrial manufacturers who are causing absorption rates to drop. In Nashville, the industrial market is tight, and some tenants are actually leaving for lack of industrial space. Nashville industrial space seems to be burdened with high taxes and operating costs and unfriendly zoning. Instead, the industrial market is booming in outlying areas such as Rutherford, Sumner, Maury and Wilson. These counties are bagging manufacturing jobs and expanding their industrial complexes.
The retail market in Memphis is strong due to redevelopment in the southern parts of the city. Like many aging cities, Memphis is trying to revitalize its urban core. There is active development of both small retail pads and shopping complexes for big box anchor tenants. The city has an active nightlife and in those areas, retail is strong, but the major activity is leasing rather than purchase or development.
Nashville is the state's capital, the country music capital of the United States, and the second largest city in Tennessee. Commercial real estate is used for the recording industry, music venues and businesses that cater to the 5 million tourists that visit the city each year. Besides retail, office or flex use properties are both hot in Nashville, which boasts a large medical sector.
Just outside of Nashville in Murfreesboro, housing is booming on account of steady population growth. New development is springing up all over the place, with a particular emphasis on what's called "new urban." New urban incorporates small neighborhood or village planning rather than large scale master-planned communities that typify suburban development. In "new urban" developments there is often close cooperation with retail developers, and small-scale retail usually gets developed alongside the housing rather than following it.
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Where is the best place to learn PHP online?
Try Codecourse or PHP Manual.
Well, you can start by getting hold of some scripts from a relatively small length to a bigger size just to see how they work and function. Also, if you want to find books on PHP, you should find another library or buy books if you can because for many people they do help but not always. Videos aren't too good because you need to keep pausing and code many times for a tutorial. Plus, it'll eventually become easy professional dissertation writers UK .
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How do I secure an interview with another company during the day, when I have no vacation time at my current job?
I've seen this slightly answered here but I the circumstances are different. I'm not a part time college student, but a full time employee of three years.
I don't have any vacation time left for the year, I have 10 sick/vacation days in total this year, and what I haven't used is earmarked for my honeymoon. I will already go my vacation days, and I will be taking unpaid time for the trip. (2 days off for house emergencies, the trip will be a total of 10 days, leaving 2 unpaid).
My boss has already told me that it looks bad that I'm taking unpaid time, and any additional unpaid time will go against my performance review. The rationale being, I was given X number of days, and if I can't manage to stay inside of that, then I'm unreliable.
The honeymoon is in a couple of months, but I'm currently looking at jobs now. If I have to take a day off, it could be paid, but it will add to the total number of unpaid days I end up taking.
My fear is I interview, and for some reason I'm not a fit for the new company, I'm digging myself into a hole at the job I currently have.
I also am opposed to lying to a current employer, so I don't want to fabricate reasons for taking time off.
edit: So this is all pretty legit advice, I'm hard pressed to pick a right answer, since they're all useful.
You are essentially in a Catch 22: You need to get a new job, but any time you take will ultimately result in having to take time unpaid.
In any situation, you are likely to make things a little worse at your current place of employment, so tread carefully. It does not sound like you want to get fired. Best case scenario: You start a new job before your honeymoon. It is not always ideal to have to take two weeks vacation right after starting a position, but most reasonable employers will understand that something like a honeymoon was clearly booked far in advance. Just make sure that the prospective employer is made aware of it before accepting any potential offer.
As a side note, any employer that tells you having to take time off looks bad is probably not someone anyone wants to work for.
You should never plan on just interviewing with one company. If you're serious about leaving (and I personally think you should be; 10 days of combined sick/holiday time after 3 years is ridiculous) then you need to get serious about leaving. You interview with as many as you need to, until you find one that is a good fit.
My boss has already told me that it looks bad that I'm taking unpaid time, and any additional unpaid time will go against my performance review.
If you're serious about leaving, then what does a note in a performance review matter? It doesn't. And I suspect your boss is probably concerned that you may already have been using those days of unpaid leave to seek other employment, which is why he's discouraging you from taking any more. Some might consider that to be unethical behavior on the part of your employer.
Anyways, in addition to the suggestions made by Chris and Dave with respect to interviewing remotely or by phone, early or late in the day, and trying to schedule as many interviews together as possible (which are very good ideas), there is a possible alternative. You could cancel your request for paid leave during your honeymoon. That would free up several paid leave days, which you could use for interviews. Stick with the suggestions to line up multiple interviews, and schedule them for the same day or block of days. Do your interviews, being sure to either note that you need leave to cover your honeymoon or to arrange a start-date that is after your honeymoon.
Then in the best-case scenario you don't upset your employer by exceeding your allocated number of paid leave days and you get paid leave to cover your honeymoon from your new employer (and probably some awkward questions about why you're cancelling the leave request). In the more likely scenario you don't upset your employer by exceeding your allocated number of paid leave days and you take your honeymoon as unpaid time. And in the worst-case scenario (if none of the interviews work out) you'd have to take your honeymoon as unpaid leave with your current employer, and deal with whatever fallout comes from that. Which might not be fun, but you could use it to point out that it's their substandard allocation of personal days that made the unpaid leave necessary.
How do you feel about telling the truth creatively? It's not terribly inaccurate to describe a job interview as "an important errand that I can't do at any other time". Or "a pressing obligation that just came up". Or "something that I need to do for my own health and well-being".
The rationale being, I was given X number of days, and if I can't manage to stay inside of that, then I'm unreliable.
That rationale is absurd. If they give you 10 days to cover both vacation and sick leave, then their reasoning implies that they either expect you to never get sick or to not take vacations, because that's essentially the only way to stay within such a paltry limit.
Well... your fear is completely justified.
Seems like you have a few hard decisions ahead of you. One path would be to try and schedule a few interviews for the same day; trying to get 2 or 3 in a row then take a sick day gambling that one of those jobs would hire you.
Of course, there is another problem here: most companies don't grant vacation time within the first 6 months of employment. So even if you do get a job offer how do you propose to handle that with your upcoming wedding?
In other words, you are in a pickle no matter what you do. If you look and don't get a job then you are further behind. If you look and get the job then you'll have to try and negotiate some up front vacation time that a lot of companies won't agree to.
What I'd do in this situation is wait until after my honeymoon then start the job search. It will be far easier to "fake" an emergency requiring me to not be at work after the fact than it will before hand. Never mind the fact that you are already going through a stressful time getting married. No need to pile on additional stress.
Usually companies where you apply for the job will not see negatively if you say you need an early or late interview. Taking the current duties seriously, even when looking for a new job, is a positive feature, a feature of employee they would like to have. Also, not all jobs allow just to take a vacation for a day, some require to take a weak at once at least, for instance. Pretending to be sick is probably the most unethical thing to do so also cannot be a requirement. And simply walking out of the office without telling anything may cost the current job immediately in some cases.
Plan carefully the journey from your work location to the place of interview, taking the earliest possible time to leave, and tell the new potential employer you can only arrive at this time. A company that absolutely requires candidates to come in the middle of the working day will never get best people. A serious boss can stay an hour late to interview the job candidates. Serious bosses tend to sit for a while in the evening anyway.
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What are the most commonly used Content Management System Features?
Drupal allows users to easily modify your website adding, editing or deleting pages. More specifically you are empowered to edit page content, including adding text and rich media such as images, video or downloadable documents.
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Fall has arrived, and with the changing of the season, why not bring some fall atmosphere into your own home? Here are five ideas for giving your home a fall feel.
1. Fun with foliage: One of the unmistakable signs of fall is the changing—and eventually, falling—leaves. Pick up some faux silk leaves from your local craft store and use them to accent a bookshelf or table centrepiece.
2. Add some orange: Orange is the unofficial color of fall, so adding a little orange to your home will definitely create some fall flavor—just don’t go overboard. Try adding some orange accents to white furniture.
3. Pumpkins and gourds: This is a sure way to give your home a touch of autumn, and even if orange isn’t your thing, you could try white pumpkins instead.
4. Natural elements: Fall feels rustic and outdoorsy. You can bring that feeling into your home with feathers, weathered wood, or some antlers. Those items are perfect for your mantel.
5. Hang a wreath: Wreaths aren’t just for the winter holidays. Find one with some fall foliage and other season-appropriate accents. It’s an easy way to bring the outdoors into your kitchen or living room.
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On April 20, 2015, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio signed a bill into law that requires the New York City Commission on Human Rights (the “Commission”) to investigate local employers for evidence of employment discrimination. Investigations will consist of “using matched pairs of testers who shall apply for, inquire about or express interest in the same job and who shall be assigned similar credentials but who shall differ in [a protected characteristic].” In other words, two undercover individuals selected by the Commission with similar credentials will apply for the same position, and the only meaningful difference between the two will be whether or not they have a particular protected characteristic. Protected characteristics include actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, gender, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, alienage or citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected pursuant to the New York City Administrative Code. The Commission will then evaluate how the two testers faired during the hiring process to evaluate whether the tester with the protected characteristic was subjected to employment discrimination.
These investigations can result in tangible consequences: the law requires that any incident of actual or perceived discrimination that occurs during an investigation be referred to the Commission’s law enforcement bureau.
The law took effect immediately on April 20, 2015, and the first investigation must occur no later than October 1, 2015. The Commission is required to conduct at least five investigations within the next year, though the size and scope of each investigation is not clear, nor how the targets of the investigations will be selected.
In light of the new law, and as a matter of best practices, employers should examine their hiring practices to ensure they can withstand the scrutiny of a Commission investigation. It would be helpful, in response to a complaint from either the Commission or a disappointed applicant, to be able to show that all candidates were evaluated according to the same objective and relevant criteria, as opposed to subjective criteria or general impressions. Attention to these considerations may warrant updating applications and materials used during the hiring process and training employees on proper note taking and record keeping of interviews, as well as coordinating the questions asked of each candidate. A written record setting forth objective, specific reasons for employment decisions is often an employer’s best defense against accusations of discriminatory hiring practices. However, the implementation of such safeguards should not discourage employers from considering a candidate’s intangible qualities; it is often intangible factors that distinguish an acceptable candidate from a great one or foreshadow how well a candidate will adjust to the employer’s particular work environment. Rather, employers must be prepared to identify and explain such intangible qualities in the context of hiring practices that simultaneously evaluate all candidates for a particular position based on the same objective criteria. Among other considerations, interviewers should make a practice of recording the observations they rely on when making these subjective judgments; commenting generically on “attitude,” for example, will be unhelpful. Notes instead that reflect the applicant’s actual behavior and presentation may be more helpful in explaining the reasons for the interviewer’s recommendation or decision.
If you have any questions about the new law or your hiring practices, please contact Amanda M. Baker at (212) 758-7724, or any other attorney at the Firm.
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What is the Tidworth Community Area ?
Tidworth Community Area (TCA) includes the parishes of Chute, Chute Forest, Collingbourne Ducis, Collingbourne Kingston, Everleigh, Tidcombe and Fosbury , Netheravon, Enford, Fittleton and the town's of Ludgershall and Tidworth (including Perham Down). The Area is the fifth smallest in Wiltshire by population (over 16,000 in 2004) and the eighth smallest by area (12,267 hectares). More than 85% of the population live in the two main settlements of Tidworth and Ludgershall.
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Why and how has human endeavour been directed to maintaining sacred places?
To answer this question, I shall begin with a brief examination of what we mean by a Sacred Space, followed by an explanation of two of the ways in which the idea of maintaining a sacred site might be interpreted. Using the two examples of Stonehenge and Avebury, I shall illustrate why and how different groups have engaged in maintaining sacred spaces, and how different interpretations of sites can present challenges and conflicts.
Sacred spaces may take many forms from natural landscape features such as mountains and springs to human constructions including stone circles and burial mounds, temples, and cathedrals. A sacred place may be an altar or shrine within the home. Whilst some, such as churches may be almost universally acknowledged as sacred, others such as prehistoric structures or holy wells may only be acknowledged by a minority, or even a individual.
What actually makes something sacred is a contentious issue. For historian of religion, Mircea Eliade who offers a religious explanation, there is an absolute reality, which transcends the mundane world leading to some places being intrinsically sacred and “man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself.” [Harvey, 2008, pg. 39].
However, this explanation is dismissed as mystification by academics Chidester and Linenthal, who insist that “sacrality is always the product of human efforts.” [Harvey, 2008, pg. 40] So the natural world can be believed to be made by a deity and to reveal or manifest the spiritual, or it can be argued that the natural world becomes sacred only due to human effort. This distinction can cause sites to become controversial, because they may be regarded as sacred by some, but ordinary to others, with different groups holding competing claims on them as sacred or ordinary.
For the purpose of this discussion it is important to note what we mean by maintaining sacred places. For some this means the acknowledgement of a location or natural feature as a primarily sacred place. For such people, including many Druids and modern pagans, their understanding of the term requires that sacred sites continue to function as such. They may wish for tactile engagement with a site such as Stonehenge, “touching them, listening to them, singing to them” [Dr. Robert Wallis, speaking in Sacred Spaces and Landscape: Stonehenge and Avebury, 2008] However, for those whom such places are primarily objects of archaeological or historical interest maintenance may refer to keeping a site in good condition by regular checking and repair. This definition treats sites as cultural treasures which facilitate an understanding of the past. For those adopting this position, including archaeologists and heritage organisations, it is important to conserve sacred sites in their present state. Not to be used for spiritual purposes, but to be studied and observed from a distance. This latter definition can lead to conflicts between those who maintain in a mundane sense, and those for who maintain in a spiritual sense.
The first sacred place we shall examine is Stonehenge, which is a prehistoric monument in the county of Wiltshire, composed of earthworks surrounding a circular grouping of standing stones. It is the epicentre of a complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, including burial mounds, ceremonial approach ways and Woodhenge. The “entrance” and key stones appear to be aligned with the sunrise on the summer solstice, although this interpretation is the subject of debate. Beyond a physical description, the original purpose of Stonehenge is mere conjecture. Theories range from an astronomical calendar, to a place of healing, to prehistoric temple. Professor Mike Parker Pearson, of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, has suggested that Stonehenge, together with Durrington Walls, Woodhenge and other ancient monuments, formed a ritual landscape, [M. Parker Pearson, Bronze Age Britain, 2005. pp.63-67] an idea echoed by Dr. Robert Wells. [speaking in Sacred Spaces and Landscape: Stonehenge and Avebury, 2008] Certainly the place is separate from its surroundings and has an attraction which transcends the everyday, for those who visit and pay pilgrimage.
It is worth noting that although Stonehenge is a manmade structure, it is also dependent upon the natural world in terms of its setting within the landscape, the stones used in its construction and the alignment of significant features with the position of the sun on certain dates. Thus it is possible to argue that its sacredness is both natural or manifest, but also dependent on human effort – in terms of its original construction as well as the ongoing efforts of conservationists seeking to restore the sacred landscape to an approximation of that of neolithic times.
Unfortunately attempts to protect Stonehenge for future generations has sometimes led heritage bodies into conflict with those who interpret the site in terms of the sacred. This conflict reached its apogee in 1985 with the Battle of the Beanfield, when a Peace Convoy attempting to reach the 11th Stonehenge Festival was cornered in a field by police, resulting in serious violence and accusations of police brutality. [Sacred Spaces and Landscape: Stonehenge and Avebury, 2008] The consequence of these events was a severe curtailing of access for those wishing to engage with the stones.
Avebury is a neolithic henge monument, which encompasses the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, and includes the largest stone circle in Europe. It is a significant centre for tourism as well as an important place of religious observance and pilgrimage for those in the pagan movement, and together with Stonehenge forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Avebury has been latterly adopted and maintained as a sacred place, by practitioners of neo-pagan religions such as Druidry and Wicca who view the site as a “living temple”, which they associate with the ancestors and spirits of the land. [Blain and Wallis, 2007, pp. 41 and 48.] Avebury resident and witch, Gordon Rimes illustrates how he and other pagans regard the sacredness of the site when he says “I went to places, and I was just almost remembering things rather than learning things… whether it’s coming from my ancestors, I don’t know…, I feel a strong connection to the people that built this place.” [Gordon Rimes, speaking in Sacred Spaces and Landscape: Stonehenge and Avebury, 2008] Thus we see that for pagans such as Rimes, the sacred is inherent within the place, and manifests itself according to the manner set out by Eliade.
A number of Druid groups currently use Avebury for public ceremonies , which help to draw tourists to the site, particularly at pagan festivals such as the summer solstice. However, individual pagans also use the site as a place of spiritual or religious devotion. One of the consequences of such use is the potential for damage to be caused to the stones, for example cracking, caused by devotees leaving candles on the stones in cold weather.
In conclusion, we can say that there are a variety of reasons why and how human endeavour has been directed to maintaining sacred places. For some, such as the Pagans and Druids, this may be that such places have a spiritual or life-affirming importance which they feel drawn to, and compelled to keep alive through ritual and ceremony. For others such as archaeologists and heritage organisations, the motivation might be to study or conserve the sites, sometimes by the removal and preservation of artefacts or by restricting access to sites in order to limit potential damage. Others may be motivated by economic realities, with businesses dependent on the revenue generated by tourist visitors to sacred places. Some might cross boundaries, such as Dr. Robert Wallis, who explains “I’m drawn to this place archaeologically. But … as well, it is a place of ancestral wisdom, it’s a place that I can come to, meditate in, perform ritual.” [speaking in Sacred Spaces and Landscape: Stonehenge and Avebury, 2008]. Competing interests may produce conflict such as The Battle of the Beanfield, or it may result in co-operation such as the Avebury Guardian scheme.
Burl, A. (1979) Prehistoric Avebury, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
Blain, J. and Wallis, R. (2007) Sacred Sites Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments, Brighton and Portland, Sussex Academic Press.
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The Italian religious leader St. Francis of Assisi founded the religious order known as the Franciscans. He became renowned for his love, simplicity, and practice of poverty.
Francis was born Giovanni di Bernardore, but because his father called him Francis, so did everyone else. He was baptized shortly after his birth in the town of Assisi in central Italy in 1182. His father, Pietro di Bernardone, was a successful cloth merchant, and Francis grew up with a love of fine clothes and good times. He led the other young men of the town in enjoying good food and drink, singing, and dancing. He was educated in math, poetry, and music and learned to read and write while attending a school that was part of the Church of Saint Giorgio of Assisi. Francis was expected to become a cloth merchant like his father and did not plan to attend college.
Francis joined the forces from Assisi in their fight against Perugia, another town in Italy. When he was twenty, he was taken prisoner. A year later, sobered by jail and sickness, he underwent several religious experiences in quick succession. In one of these, while he was praying in the run-down chapel of Saint Damiano outside Assisi, he heard a voice from the crucifix telling him, "Francis, go repair my house, which is falling in ruins." Francis went quickly back to the city, sold his horse and some cloth from his father's shop, and came back to give the money to the priest at Saint Damiano.
Francis's father, furious that his son wasted his money on churches and beggars, took him before the bishop to bring him to his senses. When the hearing began, Francis calmly took off all of his clothes, gave them to his father (the astonished bishop quickly covered Francis with a cloak), and said that he was now recognizing only his Father in heaven, not his father on earth. He lived his life from this time on without money and without family ties.
The thirteenth century was a time of troubadours, or poet-musicians, and Francis had the best of their characteristics. He was happy, he sang, he loved nature; he spoke to the birds and the animals as though they were his friends. In his "Canticle of Creatures," also called "Canticle of the Sun" (a canticle is a religious song), he wrote about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Once he was heard to beg pardon of his own body for its sins. Francis referred to his way of life as his marriage to Lady Poverty.
The thirteenth century was also a time when the Christian religion was taken very much for granted, and Francis felt the need to return to the original spirit of Christ. This meant living without materialistic attachments, and it also meant loving other people. A number of the young men of Assisi, attracted by Francis's example, joined him in his new way of life. In 1209 Francis and his companions went to Rome, Italy, where they presented their ideas to Pope Innocent III (c. 1160–c. 1216; the pope is the head of the Catholic Church) and received his approval. They found themselves influencing more and more people, including a lady named Clare, whom Francis helped to enter a monastery of nuns and who later began the "second order" of Franciscans, the order for women.
In 1212 Francis left for the Holy Land, or Palestine (the land in the Middle East where Christ had lived). His ship ran into bad weather, and he had to return to Italy. Two years later his adventurous spirit and missionary zeal drove him to seek the Moors, who were Muslim, in Spain, but sickness prevented him from completing the trip. He tried once more, in 1219, going to Egypt with the Crusaders (religious warriors who attempted to take control of the Holy Land). At the siege of the city of Damietta in Egypt, Francis boldly walked through the battle lines into the enemy camp and met the king of Egypt, who, apparently impressed with Francis's ideas about brotherly love, gave him permission to continue on to the Holy Land.
When Francis heard that trouble had started in Italy among some of his followers, now numbering in the thousands, he returned home. The force of his own personality had held the group together, but now Francis saw the need for a more practical guide to his kind of Christian life. He insisted that the new rule stress the poverty he felt was so important: the order could not possess money; all its houses must be simply furnished; and each Franciscan could have only a tunic and cord (Francis himself wore an old sack tied at the waist), a pair of pants, and, if really necessary, a pair of shoes. Francis went to Rome in 1223 to present the new rule to Pope Honorius III, who approved it wholeheartedly. It was during this visit that, according to tradition, Francis met Dominic, who had founded his own religious order. The Franciscan and Dominican religious orders have always felt a close relationship that dates back to the friendship between their founders.
Francis returned to Assisi and began to spend more and more time alone in prayer, leaving the decisions about his organization to others. While he was praying on Mt. Alvernia in 1224, he had a vision of a figure that looked like an angel, and when the vision disappeared Francis felt the wounds of the crucified Christ in his hands, side, and feet. He was careful not to show them, but several close friends reported after his death that Francis had suffered in his body as Christ had suffered on the cross. His last two years were lived in almost constant pain and near-blindness. He died in 1226. Two years later he was made a saint.
Homan, Helen. Francis and Clare, Saints of Assisi. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.
House, Adrian. Francis of Assisi. New York: HiddenSpring, 2001.
Martin, Valerie. Salvation: Scenes From the Life of Saint Francis. New York: Knopf, 2001.
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Is Going AWOL Ever the Right Option?
Here is an example. This is a hypothetical situation and is in no way an actual case.
SGT John Brown's uncle passed away. He brought this to the attention of his command; however, they had just returned from block leave and he didn't have any remaining leave days. The commander wouldn't authorize emergency leave because he didn't want SGT Brown to go into the negative on his leave days. SGT Brown then decided to take matters into his own hands. He attended the funeral without authorized leave and was notified by his unit that he was Absent Without Leave, Violation of Article 84 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (AWOL). SGT Brown knew that if he returned he would be in some sort of trouble, but didn't want to face the consequences just yet because of the tragic event he just experienced by losing his uncle.
Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into a year. SGT Brown needed to renew his driver's license. As he was in the process of doing this, he was arrested and returned back to military authority. The life he was living was abruptly stopped and his "new" life was turned upside down. Once he returned he was notified that his new chain of command is going to court-martial him for being AWOL for the past year. At a Special Court-Martial SGT Brown received the following punishment: reduction to E1; forfeiture of two-thirds pay; confinement for one year; and a bad-conduct discharge.
I would like to clarify that the above example is just that, an example; however, based on our experience this is how many AWOL cases go.
First, if SGT Brown hadn't left his unit with out proper leave, he would not have received punishment for being AWOL. If SGT Brown would have returned as soon as the funeral was over, he could have potentially received a much less sever punishment. Going AWOL just creates new problems. The amount of time you are AWOL generally dictates the type of punishment you will receive.
If you are gone seven days or less, and this is a first offense for you, you can expect a company grade Article 15. With a company grade Article 15 you are subject to the following punishment: E1 to E4 reduction of one grade; seven days forfeiture of pay for one month; 14 days extra duty; 14 days restriction; and/or a verbal/oral reprimand.
If you are gone seven to twenty days you can generally expect a field grade Article 15. A field grade Article 15 can administer the following punishment: E1 to E4 reduction of more than one grade E5 to E6 reduction of one grade; ½ a month's pay for two months; 45 days extra duty; 45 days restriction; and/or a verbal/oral reprimand.
Twenty days or greater you can expect a court-martial. The level of court-martial is subject to your chain of command. By no means is this exclusive, this is solely based on our experience with the military justice system.
These estimates are not absolutes. In fact any range of punishments is authorized. In the first hypothetical it could be a summary courts martial or a special courts martial. It is really and truly at the discretion of the chain of command as to how they wish to dispose of this violation of the UCMJ.
So, is going AWOL the right option or even an option under the hypothetical listed or similar circumstances? The absolute answer that you will receive from us, or any attorney, will be no. Do not go AWOL. The best thing for you to do in any situation is to follow your chain of command's orders. There are other avenues of approach to achieve your goals. You can file an IG complaint or make and Article 138 claim against your chain of command regarding the hypothetical listed above. Look for more blogs on what an IG complaint or Article 138 claim is in the future.
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(83) Suetonius, Nero, cap. 10.
(84) De Clementia, Lib. I, cap. II.
(85) De Clementia, cap. I.
The philosopher expresses himself in raptures on that celebrated phrase of Nero, WOULD I HAD NEVER LEARNED TO WRITE! "An exclamation," he says, "not studied, not uttered for the purpose of courting popularity, but bursting insuppressibly from thy lips, and indicating the vehemence of the struggle between the kindness of thy disposition and the duties of thy office(86)."
(86) Ibid., Lib. II, cap. I.
It is by such means, that man, whom "God made upright," is led away into a thousand devious paths, and, long before the closing scene of his life, is rendered something the very reverse of what in the dawning of existence he promised to be. He is like Hazael in the Jewish history, who, when the prophet set before him the crying enormities he should hereafter perpetrate, exclaimed, "Is thy servant a dog," that he should degrade himself so vilely? He feels the purity of his purposes; but is goaded by one excitement and exasperation after another, till he becomes debased, worthless and criminal. This is strikingly illustrated in the story of Dr. Johnson and the celebrated Windham, who, when he was setting out as secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, expressed to his aged monitor, some doubts whether he could ever reconcile himself to certain indirect proceedings which he was afraid would be expected of him: to which the veteran replied, "Oh, sir, be under no alarm; in a short time, depend upon it, you will make a very pretty rascal(87)."
(87) The phrase here used by Johnson is marked with the licentiousness we sometimes indulge in familiar conversation. Translate it into a general maxim; and it contains much melancholy truth. It is true also, that there are few individuals, who, in the urgent realities of life, have not occasionally descended from the heights of theoretical excellence. It is but just however to observe in the case of Windham, that, though he was a man of many errors, he was not the less characterised by high honour and eminent virtue.
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McClellan formed and took command of the Army of the Potomac in August 1861 after the Union defeat at the First Battle of Manassas on July 21; he became general-in-chief of all Union armies in November, after the resignation of Winfield Scott. Although McClellan organized and trained the Union recruits, he proved reluctant to commit them to battle. On January 27, 1862, Lincoln issued Special Orders No. 1, which called for a coordinated land and naval attack on Confederate forces no later than by February 22; a supplemental order designated Johnston's Confederates at Manassas and Centreville as the target. McClellan immediately responded with a proposal to send Union troops down the Potomac River and then up the Rappahannock, a plan Lincoln distrusted. It placed McClellan between Johnston and Richmond, leaving Washington, D.C., exposed. The president also worried that McClellan was too intent on capturing the Confederate capital at the expense of the Confederate army.
Before their differences could be resolved, however, Johnston became suspicious of McClellan's plans and retreated, convinced his position was untenable. Rather than pursue Johnston, McClellan marched his army to inspect the abandoned entrenchments at Manassas. There he discovered so-called Quaker guns, or giant logs mounted in the fashion of artillery that had been used to convince the general that Johnston's forces were stronger than they actually were.
Pressure on McClellan to act increased, and soon he submitted a revised plan, which Lincoln approved only after stripping McClellan of his status as commander-in-chief. McClellan would transfer the Army of the Potomac by ship from Alexandria down the Chesapeake Bay to Fort Monroe, then march it up the peninsula between the York and James rivers. (The ironclad USS Monitor neutralized the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia on March 9, making the maneuver possible.) By moving quickly, the Union general hoped to steal a march on Johnston in a race toward Richmond, where he would force a decisive battle.
McClellan admirably met the huge logistical challenge of transporting his army—including 130,000 troops, 15,000 horses, 1,100 wagons, and 44 artillery batteries—down the Chesapeake to Fort Monroe, but once on land he stalled. The Confederate Army of the Peninsula under John B. Magruder met him at Yorktown. Although he outnumbered Magruder four to one, McClellan began a siege on April 5 rather than attack. His concerns included the rainy weather, Confederate fortifications, the swampy terrain, and his own unreliable maps. At the same time, Magruder, an amateur actor before the war and nicknamed "Prince John," exacerbated those worries by installing more Quaker guns and marching his small force in such ways as to make it seem larger.
Lincoln was nonplussed by McClellan's decision, writing to the general on April 9 that "it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this … The country will not fail to note—is now noting—that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated." McClellan was angry that Lincoln had held back a corps under Irvin McDowell out of concern for Washington's defense, and he wrote to his wife implying that the president was one of "these traitors who are willing to sacrifice the country and its army for personal spite and personal aims."
Johnston, meanwhile, moved his army to the Peninsula, and for a month the Union and Confederate men dug in, with only an engagement at Dam No. 1 on the Warwick River near Lee's Mill in mid-April breaking the routine. McClellan was preparing an assault for May 4, but Johnston, once again convinced his outnumbered men could not hold the lines, pulled back under the cover of darkness on the night of May 3. His retreat would not end until reaching the gates of Richmond.
McClellan sent a telegram to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton declaring, "The success is brilliant," and on May 5, he met the Confederate rear guard at Williamsburg. Neither side gained a definite advantage, and the Confederates resumed their retreat. McClellan followed, and by the middle of May half his army had crossed the Chickahominy River, the last major natural obstacle in front of Richmond. The Confederate government and the citizens of Richmond prepared to evacuate.
The Union advance was slowed by heavy rains that swelled the Chickahominy and made it difficult to cross. Muddy roads became nearly impassable, and local residents burned farms, ran off livestock, and filled wells with stones. Still, on May 20 McClellan crossed the Chickahominy River over Bottom's Bridge, approximately fifteen miles East of Richmond, and Confederate president Jefferson Davis was forced to place his wife and children on a train out of the capital. But instead of pursuing his advantage, McClellan, who outnumbered Johnston by 40,000, stopped and requested reinforcements.
The Confederate general saw that McClellan's men were divided by the Chickahominy, with three corps on the north side and two on the south. On May 31, Johnston attacked those corps on the south side of the river, near the village of Seven Pines. The Confederate plan was complex and its execution was poor, but part of the Union line was pushed back in disorder. Timely reinforcements, which crossed the Chickahominy on a bridge only precariously connected to dry land, stabilized the Union line, and further action the next day accomplished nothing. Johnston, however, was badly wounded in the fighting. Confederate general Gustavus W. Smith briefly took control of the Army of Northern Virginia before President Davis, on hand to observe the fighting, gave command to Robert E. Lee.
Fighting paused for several weeks as McClellan, hoping to lay siege to Richmond, attempted to move his big guns closer to the city. Lee, meanwhile, began to plan an offensive, convinced that any siege of the Confederate capital would be disastrous. He ordered Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's troops east from the Shenandoah Valley—where they had successfully prevented Union troops there from reinforcing McClellan—and sent cavalry under J. E. B. Stuart on a long ride around the Army of the Potomac to gather intelligence.
On June 25 McClellan advanced on Oak Grove south of the Chickahominy. However, the next day Lee attacked north of the Chickahominy near Mechanicsville. Union general Fitz-John Porter repulsed his assaults, and although Jackson's men arrived on the Union flank, it was too late in the day to affect the battle's outcome. Still, McClellan saw Jackson's presence as proof that his entire right flank was turned, and he ordered Porter back to a position near Gaines's Mill. Lee and Jackson finally forced Porter to retreat after a savage struggle there on June 27. That night McClellan abandoned his supply line and began to move south and east to the James.
Lee pursued. On June 29 Magruder forced a rearguard action at Savage's Station. On June 30 Lee had a chance to cut off half the Union army from its retreat route. For various reasons, including Jackson's failure to keep Union reinforcements away from the field, Lee's attack at Glendale failed to accomplish its objective despite a temporary breakthrough.
On July 1 McClellan's army reunited on Malvern Hill overlooking the James. Lee and James Longstreet saw that a successful artillery concentration might lead to a breakthrough. The artillery action failed, but through a combination of mistakes the Confederates attacked a nearly impregnable position and suffered a serious defeat. That night McClellan retreated to Harrison's Landing. Lee eventually withdrew his army to move north and confront John Pope's Army of Virginia. The Union high command brought McClellan's forces back to the Washington area to reinforce Pope in the middle of August, and the Peninsula Campaign came to a quiet end.
The Peninsula Campaign had two primary outcomes. The first was that Lee replaced Johnston as Army of Northern Virginia commander. Confederate fortunes in the East changed dramatically, with Lee winning several battles and even in defeat keeping his army intact for almost three years. It is impossible to know how Johnston would have fared, but it is likely he would not have followed Lee's aggressive path. The second, and more important, consequence was the failure of the Union army to capture Richmond. In the early part of the war, when politics were still in flux and before hard-war tactics had hardened the resolve of both sides, such a decisive victory might have meant an end to the war. And Union victory in 1862 would likely have been very different than Union victory was in 1865, restoring the Union to circumstances that were close to the status quo of 1860.
January 27, 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, which calls for a coordinated land and naval attack on Confederate forces no later than by February 22. A supplemental order designates Joseph E. Johnston's forces at Manassas as the target.
March 1862 - Union general George B. McClellan begins to move his Army of the Potomac by ship from Alexandria to Fort Monroe on the Virginia Peninsula.
April 4, 1862 - Union general George B. McClellan's army begins its advance toward Richmond but runs into resistance from Confederate general John B. Magruder's Army of the Peninsula based at Yorktown.
April 5, 1862 - Despite outnumbering the Confederates four to one, Union general George B. McClellan decides to besiege Yorktown's defenses instead of assaulting them.
April 16, 1862 - Union troops advance on Confederate defensive fortifications at Dam No. 1 to prevent them from strengthening their position. This is the most significant skirmish of the month-long Union siege of Yorktown.
May 3, 1862 - Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston withdraws his army from the Yorktown defensive fortifications under cover of night.
May 5, 1862 - Three Union divisions battle to a draw the Confederate rear guard at Williamsburg.
May 7, 1862 - Confederate general John B. Hood's brigade halts a flanking attempt by Union general William B. Franklin at Eltham's Landing on the York River.
May 15, 1862 - Confederate artillery stops a Union naval advance up the James River at Drewry's Bluff. Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston orders his army to cross the Chickahominy River and retreat to the Richmond defensive fortifications. Union general George B. McClellan follows with about half his army over the next week.
July 4, 1862 - Confederate general Robert E. Lee decides not to attack Evelington Heights after Union general George B. McClellan belatedly occupies the bluff overlooking his base.
July 9, 1862 - Confederate general Robert E. Lee withdraws part of his army in preparation for a move north to confront Union general John Pope's newly formed Army of Virginia.
August 1862 - Confederate general Robert E. Lee, hearing of plans to withdraw Union general George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula, moves the rest of his army northward.
August 1862 - Union general George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac begins the return march to Fort Monroe.
Gallagher, Gary W., ed., The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula & the Seven Days. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Miller, William J., ed., The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: Yorktown to the Seven Days (3 vol.). Campbell, California: Savas Publishing, 1993, 1995, 1997.
Sears, Stephen W. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. New York: Ticknor & Field, 1992.
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Contributed by Brian Burton, the dean and a professor of management at the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
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Are bank owned property the easiest to obtain, and how do one approach a bank about a property to sell?
I am a real estate agent in Ventura County, CA. Based on my experience, I would like to share my thoughts on this subject. In general bank-owned property can be a land mine. First of all, bank usually does not counter your offer, instead asking your best & highest. Secondly, bank often times attaches its own addendum to your offer, which ask you to waive your rights on lots of issues. READ CAREFULLY, since this addendum is written by bank's attorney for bank, NOT FOR YOU. When you find something wrong with the property, bank's attitude usually is : take it or leave it. Bank can prolong escrow without penalty. If buyer ask extension, bank will charge you per diem as high as $100 per day. It appears unfair to buyer. However you are getting a good deal, and you might think it worth it.
If you are considering to buy a bank-owned property (after foreclosure), I highly recommend you work with an experienced real estate agent.
bank owned properties in our market are represented by real estate brokers 90% of the time. The best way to buy bank owned property is to get a good real estate agent and make some offers.
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Create fun, engaging, and interactive learning through Captivate's wide variety of learning interactions.
Learning interactions enable you to provide interactivity to your Adobe Captivate projects without any effort in programming. In Adobe Captivate you can see a wide variety of statically designed interactions. There are several types of interactive experiences that a user come across in e-learning modules. By inserting these learning interactions in your Adobe Captivate projects and adding content around it, you can produce most of the commonly used e-learning interactive experiences to engage your user.
In runtime, learning interactions do not get reduced below a certain dimension (320 px X 350 px).
It is recommended that you only use one learning interaction per slide.
In responsive projects, these interactions autoscale themselves to align for all the views with a fixed ratio. Ensure you cover the whole slide when you use these interactions except for Checkbox and Radio Button. Set the top and left position properties of slide to 0 and 0, and height and width of object size to 100% and 100% respectively. Users can experience seamless alignment of interactions in each view. In Certificate and Word Search interactions, pinch & zoom features have been added. Mobile view of Glossary interaction has been enhanced.
From the toolbar, click Interactions > Learning Interactions to launch the panel to choose an interaction from.
Click the type of interaction you want click Insert.
As an example, you will add the Timeline interaction, add timeline events, and then preview the interaction.
The screenshot below shows the Timeline interaction and the properties using which you can customize the interaction.
1 List of themes to choose from.
2 Customize any particular theme.
3 Set a title and a description for your Timeline interaction.
4 Buttons to set timeline events.
5 Click to add an event on the timeline.
6 Share on social media.
Click the first button on the timeline. You can edit the text to appear on the timeline as well as assign an audio clip and an image to the event.
Double-click on a timeline button to modify its label.
Add more events on the timeline and click OK to load the interaction to your slide.
To edit the theme or the content in the widget after inserting, double-click the widget on stage. Adobe Captivate lets you to resize the learning interactions.
Your interaction is inserted in to the slide now. To edit the settings for the interaction, double click the interaction.
To add an Accordion interaction to your slide, click Interactions > Learning Interactions > Accordion.
To modify the button labels, double-click on the button. You can then edit the text and assign image or audio to the button when clicked.
You can also modify the interaction title and description.
To add a new button to the accordion, click +.
Note: In any accordion interaction, you can include at most five buttons. The + vanishes after the fifth item in the accordion.
Add the required text descriptions to the accordion and click OK to insert the widget in the slide.
To add a Radio-button interaction to your slide, click Interactions > Learning Interactions > Radio Button Widget.
1 Specify the number of radio buttons.
2 Modify the font properties of the radio button text.
3 Set the placement of the interaction, vertically or horizontally.
4 Add the radio button text options.
5 Set a variable for any radio button option.
6 Add or delete a radio button item.
To set the variable for any option, highlight the option, and enter the name of the variable in the Variable Name field.
In addition, create the same variable in the Project Variables list. For more information on creating a variable, see Creating user-defined variables.
The variable you have created determines if an option is correct or otherwise in a quizzing scenario.
Add the radio button options and set the variable to the correct option. If you have assigned the variable T_a to the right answer, create T_a in the Project Variables list as well.
On the slide, insert a button, and assign an advanced action so that if T_a is equal to the correct answer, a success caption appears, else a failure caption appears.
Preview or publish the project. Depending on the answer you click and clicking the button after, you can see the appropriate caption.
To add a Checkbox interaction to your slide, click Interactions > Learning Interactions > Checkbox Widget.
Similar to the Radio-button interaction, you can add check-boxes, and assign variables to the check-box items. You can also change the font properties of the items and limit the number of check-boxes as well.
Preview or publish the project. If you select Lyon, Nice, and Paris, and click Submit, you can see a Success message. If you choose the other option, the Failure message appears.
In this example, you will take a quiz. If your quiz score is 100%, you will see a button which when clicked will take you to your certificate with your name printed on it. If you score less than 100%, you will not see any certificate button.
Create a quiz slide and insert some questions.
In the results page, insert a button named View certificate and assign it to go to the next slide, when clicked.
Insert a slide and insert a Certificate widget by clicking Interactions > Learning Interactions > Certificate.
To print the certificate, click Print.
To add a Word Search interaction to your slide, click Interactions > Learning Interactions > Word Search.
To add the clues for the words, click Edit Words.
Set the questions and answers, number of attempts, conclusion title and text, and the difficulty level, and you are good to go.
To save the changes and trigger the set of clues you had set, click Generate.
This interaction is an interactive widget that gives you the option to add multiple bulletin points that can include images and audio and allows the users to view each bulletin point during runtime.
To add a Bulletin interaction to your slide, click Interactions > Learning Interactions > Bulletin.
1 Add text and modify the font properties. The text will appear when you click the icon on runtime.
2 Enter the slide number where you want the text to be displayed. Also, insert an image or audio for each text.
3 Click to update the preview of the bulletin text whenever you make any change.
4 Click to see all bullet text for the project.
5 Click to see all bullet text for the slide. You can see the text at runtime.
6 Choose an icon for the bulletin.
To save the changes, click OK. The image below is a representation of the changes to the interaction.
Choose the widget and other objects in the slide, select the Timing Inspector, and choose Rest of Project from the Display For drop-down list. This ensures that the interaction runs the length of the project and you can see the bullet text for the subsequent slides.
The Jigsaw interaction is an interactive game widget, which allows you to add an image while editing the interaction and in runtime, the interaction breaks into multiple jigsaw pieces that needs to be solved in a given time frame.
To add a Jigsaw interaction to your slide, click Interactions > Learning Interactions > Jigsaw Puzzle.
1 Set the title for the interaction.
2 List of images to choose for the puzzle.
3 Upload an image to use for the puzzle.
4 Set the size of the puzzle, 300x300 or 400x400 px.
5 Set the number of pieces the image needs to be broken into.
6 Set the timer for the puzzle.
7 The variable holds the final score and is available only if the game is a part fo a quiz.
8 Preview the loaded image.
Add the image and set the interaction properties, such as, the number of pieces, timer, and so on.
To save the changes, click OK. Enter the success, failure, and hint captions to the puzzle.
Publish or preview the project.
For some interactions variable provision is available. You can use these variables to store the results and use them in your course slides. Variable controlled interactions enable users to call variables and dynamically control interaction properties from slides.
Variable-controlled interactions are those interactions where you can assign variables to the interaction items and show or modify the values of the items at runtime.
Accordion Enables you to provide information in the form of clickable buttons, audio and images. No No You can use this interaction in content heavy slides in the form of collapsible and expandable content, using buttons.
Tabs Used to demonstrate content in multiple tabs No No Enables to spread the content across multiple tabs instead of cluttering in one slide.
Process Circle Enables you to define any business process or procedure for learners. No No Clicking elements on process circle shows a panel at which you can provide descriptions for each of those elements.
Pyramid Stack Similar to process circle except that you can put elements in hierarchy based on importance. No No Clicking elements on pyramid stack shows a panel at which you can provide descriptions for each of those elements.
Timeline Enables you to express data varied over a time sequence. No No Clicking button labels on time sequence arrow shows up the content in the panel. You can change appearance of all these buttons using Buttons>Color in configure interaction dialog.
Circle Matrix Similar to process circle except that it enables you to show data in a more complex form No No Clicking numbered elements in the circle shows up content in side tabs.
Pyramid Matrix Similar to Pyramid Stack except that it enables you to use a complex hierarchical structure No No Clicking label elements on pyramid matrix shows a side panel at which you can provide descriptions for each of those elements.
Glossary Enables learners to view unfamiliar terms from inside a course. No No Modify themes and color schemes. You can import an xml file with a set of pre-defined glossary terms. Refer to sample xml file.
Word Search Game based interaction No No Allows you to provide clues to users to search words. Users can choose first and last letters of the words based on clues within a stipulated number of attempts.
Catch AlphaNums Accelerometer based interaction. Objective of this game is to catch the missing alphabets or numbers with basket, to make words for questions, within the stipulated time and lifeline chances. Yes No Refer new interactions in Captivate 8 for detailed usage instructions.
Checkbox Similar to radio button interaction except that users can choose multiple answers. Yes Yes Multiple variables are available in this interaction for each checkbox item.
Timer Handy to use this timer interaction in your slides to jump to other slides based on time out feature. Yes No Follow the instructions in configure interaction dialog to design your interaction.
Option to count up or count down time.
Drop Down Enables you to provide quick options to your learners inside course slides so they can select the correct option from the drop down list of choices. Yes Yes Users selected choice is stored in the form of a variable which can be used to trigger actions in slides.
Hangman Activity based learning interaction for users. Yes No You can use timer in seconds. Store the result in variable so you can use it in your customized screens to display the result.
Variable value is 1 if timed out else it is 0.
Follow the detailed instructions in configure interaction dialog.
Image Zoom You can insert an image in your course slide to enable user to zoom and have a better view No No You can import only .png and .jpg image files.
Jeopardy Quiz form of gaming interaction enabling learners to choose answers based on user provided questions. Yes No Jpdy_FScore is a default variable, to store the result. You can modify it. Each question has an amount and a score associated. Answering correct adds up score, wrong answer negates it.
Jigsaw Puzzle Allows users to play while they learn. Yes No You can store the score in variable so you can use it in your slides. Allows you to add multiple images.
memGame_var is default variable name to store the result.
Refer new interactions in Captivate 8 for detailed usage instructions.
You can modify default variable names in all applicable interactions.
Mlnr_FScore is default variable name.
Follow the instructions in configure interaction dialog to design the game for your end user.
Notes You can add it in the slide so you can type notes at run time. No No User can change background color, modify content, save and print the contents at run time.
Option to choose the placement as vertical or horizontal.
Answer can be stored in the variable so you can use it in your courses.
Table Enables you to represent content of your slides in the form of tables. No No Option to import an existing table in the form of .csv file.
Scrolling Text Enables you to add content in the form of scrolling text area inside your slides. Text beyond the text area dimensions will be shown with the help of scroll bar. Yes Yes Option to make the content of scrolling text as read only.
Web Object Enables to insert live website url content in slides No No Useful in compliance and policy based courses.
Note: Clickjacking websites is not allowed.
YouTube Allows you to stream YouTube videos in your elearning courses. No No You can specify sections of videos. You can test the video before inserting. You can specify the time at which you want to start the video. For example, if a video is of 5 minutes, and you want to start showing the video from 1 min 20 secs, you just need to mention 1 min and 20 secs in configuration dialog.
Adobe Captivate update for subscription and Adobe Software Assurance customers provides dynamic updates to learning interactions by polling the Adobe interaction store at regular intervals. The collection of interactions installed on your machine is compared with the one in the interaction store to determine the new or updated interactions.
New: New interactions that are available for you to use. The label disappears when you click the interaction.
Updated: Interactions for which updates are available since you last viewed the Select Interaction dialog box. If you have the project open for a long period of time, you have to close and reopen the project to view the latest updates.
Updates to such interactions are dependent on the project data. So, irrespective of whether you have used the interaction in the project or not, you get to see the interactions that are tagged as Updated. If you have used the interaction in the project, you have to insert the upated one and reenter your data.
Update: Interactions that you can update retaining your data intact. You can quickly update the interaction by clicking the Update button under the interaction in the Select Interaction dialog box.
Sample glossary xml file which can be used to import existing glossary terms into glossary interaction.
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How to resolve Yahoo related issues?
I want to suggest you that you can try Yahoo Customer Service, to resolve your Yahoo mail problem. So if you want to take help, then dial Yahoo Support number: +1-800-201-6467.
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While humans had expanded across all of Eurasia and Africa by 40,000 years ago, it was not until around 18,000 years ago that they appeared in the Americas. Archaeological evidence suggests that people began to move across a land bridge that connected Siberia to present-day Alaska that exist at the end of the last ice age . This land bridge existed because sea levels were much lower as a result of a large amount of water being stored in the polar ice sheets. The bridge is thought to have existed for tens of thousands of years .
The earliest human groups to have reach North America likely followed clear corridors between the ice sheets that covered present-day Canada and the northern United States. There is evidence that they had made it as far as the South American continent by 14,600 years ago . These people would have encountered mammoths on both sides side of the land bridge, but also many new local species such as mastadons and giant sloths .
The earliest cultures of North America are little know, as there are very few and quite scattered archaeological sites. By 12,000 years ago, as populations began to increase, more evidence for human activity began to appear. It used to be thought that these early sites were part of a pan-American culture known as the Clovis culture given the uniformity of the artifacts across large distances, although more local varieties have been discovered in recent times [5-6]. These early Native American cultures were defined by large elongated spear points that were used for hunting large game.
The earliest evidence of human occupation in coastal areas of present-day Southern California dates to 9,000 years ago, around the time of the last mammoths [7-8]. The earliest people living on the islands of the Santa Barbara Straight consumed large amounts of shellfish, although on the mainland there was more use of plants and other animals due to a wetter climate . By 1,600 years ago more fish were being eaten and fishhooks, nets, and harpoons have been found at archaeological sites, as well as evidence of the Chumash plank canoe called the tomol. There is evidence that the Chumash may have also burned the landscape to make the plants these people ate more abundant .
By 1,000 years ago, there were two Native American groups that had inhabited the region, the Chumash and the Gabrielino. The Chumash lived in the northern Santa Barbara Channel Islands while the Gabrielino lived further south, having migrated from the Great Basin region . The two groups spoke a different language and remained independent for most of known history. The Chumash were eventually brought within the Spanish Empire, who first sent missions into California . Their lands later became territory within the American state of California.
The Chumash have fascinated archaeologists and anthropologists for decades. By the time of first contact with Europeans, the Chumash were organised into chiefdoms and had a large exchange network with the mainland, including a booming trade in shell beads . The complexity of this society has played into debates about the evolution of societal structures in ancient Native American groups [9,14].
Recent genetic analysis has shown that there was a major split between North American Paleoindian groups early in the peopling of North America around the time of the Clovis hunters . It is thought that this occurred after they had reached south of the ice sheets in the western half of the present-day United States. There is a clear coastal route for one of these splits and spreading out across the continents of North and South America for the second split. All modern Native North Americans have some component from each split in them today. The Chumash fall within this western coastal route and have a high proportion of coastal genes.
Only two mitochondrial haplogroups were found among the Chumash, A1 and D1, both of which appeared in Asia during the Paleolithic. Haplogroup A is closely related to haplogroup N, which spread into Europe during the Neolithic from West Asia. Haplogroup A is most common among native North Americans but is also found in East Asia. Haplogroup D1 is common among Northeast Asians and is also common in native North Americans . All males belonged to a single Y chromosome haplogroup, Q1a, which is most common among native North Americans but is also found among Central Asians in the Altai Mountains, and among some southeast Asians including people from Thailand [17-18].
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Waters MR, et al. 2011. Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington. Science 334: 351–353.
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The arrest of the psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic raises a profound question: was Karadzic merely a doctor who ran a genocide, or did his profession as a doctor play a significant part in his genocidal role?
The evidence points incontrovertibly to the latter: Karadzic practised as a psychiatrist at Kosovo Hospital until he became the president of the Republika Srpska in 1992, taking some of his nurses and doctors with him; he used his training to plan terror tactics for ethnic cleansing; he never renounced his profession.
What do we know about this man who so brutally perverted his medical oath to save lives? Karadzic, comimg from peasant origins in Montenegro, lived in multi-ethnic Sarajevo from the age of 15, mixing with Muslims, Croats and Bosniaks. He received his medical degree in 1971 and qualified for psychiatry.
Karadzic saw himself as something of an artist, a view shared by few others, performing as a troubadour, writing children's stories and folk songs. He published poetry rife with prophetic, if not apocalyptic, visions; among the charmless titles were The Morning Hand Grenade and Let's Go Down To The Town And Kill Some Scum. He was jailed for fraud but used his contacts to get his job back.
As the shadows of war loomed over the fragmenting Yugoslav Republic, Karadzic surprised everyone when he emerged as Slobodan Milosovic's proxy, using extreme nationalist rhetoric of a kind not heard in Europe since the Nazis. A new term entered the lexicon: "ethnic cleansing". Karadzic, a central figure in the destruction, conducted the siege of Sarajevo, shelling the hospital where he had worked, killing colleagues and patients.
In 1995, Karadzic was indicted by an international war crimes tribunal, making him the first doctor so indicted since the Nuremberg doctors trial in 1946. In 1993, the American Psychiatric Association passed a motion condemning Karadzic for "brutal and inhumane actions … because, by membership and training, Dr Karadzic claims membership in our profession".
What was Karadzic the psychiatrist like? His colleagues said he provoked psychotic patients and his work was ordinary. When a psychopathic patient with a knife rampaged through the ward, Karadzic retreated to his room, leaving a nurse to disarm the patient. He constantly regaled colleagues with grandiose plans; for example, he would write the definitive textbook on depression.
Karadzic's capacity for gross denial was pervasive. Following the killing of 68 civilians by a mortar shell at Markale marketplace on February 5, 1994, Karadzic said the corpses had been blown up by Muslim forces to gain sympathy.
From his career as a psychiatrist to his apocalyptic reign as genocidal leader, he displayed an extraordinary degree of reckless opportunism in which the instincts of an extreme gambler were unchallenged by restraint or fear of the consequences. Warren Zimmerman, the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia, described Karadzic as obsessed with violence, regarding him as mad.
As a genocidal murderer, Karadzic is an extreme but not uncommon example of clinicide, the phenomenon of doctors who kill. Clinicide includes serial killing, treatment killing and political killing. Doctors murder more than any other professional group; they kill their partners, relatives, patients or victims in service of the state or an ideology. It is likely that the power over life or death attracts them to the profession in the first place. Dr Jean-Paul Marat, the bloodthirsty political serial killer behind the French Revolution, was a dermatological and ophthalmic specialist. He was followed by Turkish doctors who organised the Armenian genocide, Nazi doctors who ran death camps and Japanese doctors who carried out biological warfare.
Since 1945, the role of doctors in terrorism, torture, genocide and abuse of prisoners is a growth industry. From communist Eastern Europe to rightist regimes in South America, the list is extensive; each new phase of insurrection, state repression or clash with opposing forces invariably produces doctors engaged in serious human rights abuses. Examples include Papa Doc Duvalier of Haiti, Dr Hastings Banda of Malawi, Dr Wouter Basson of South Africa and, cult-status notwithstanding, Dr Che Guevara.
Karadzic's trajectory shows uncanny resonances with that of Hitler. Both came from a rural background to spend their early youth in multi-ethnic cosmopolitan surroundings, Hitler in Vienna, Karadzic in Sarajevo. Like Hitler, Karadzic suffered from psychosomatic illness. During his early years in Vienna, Hitler mixed with people of all backgrounds, including Jews, his murderous racism coming to the fore only in 1919. Hitler regarded himself as an artist. While able to qualify as a psychiatrist, Karadzic had a similar grandiose and romantic vision of himself, despite evidence that he was never more than an indifferent poet.
If nothing else, Karadzic shows that clinicide, from the killing fields of Srebrenica to the growing epidemic of geriatric murder in nursing homes, can no longer be ignored.
Robert Kaplan is a forensic psychiatrist at the Graduate School of Medicine, Wollongong University. His book Medical Murder: An Analysis Of The Disturbing Phenomenon Of Doctors Who Kill is due for publication in February.
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The front can be personalized with the name of your choice.
The back can be personalized the same as the front or with contact information..
The front can be personalized with the initial and name of your choice.
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In his recent RSIS Commentary No.88/2014, Sam Bateman opined on the dispute between Vietnam and China over Beijing’s decision to locate its oil rig in an area close to Vietnam. He states that "the rig is about 14 nautical miles from a small island in the Paracels claimed by China and 80 nautical miles from Woody Island, a large feature with an area of about 500 hectares occupied by China". This sentence contains several errors and omission, all of them biased in favour of China.
The nearest feature to the rig is Triton Island, which is 17 nautical miles from the rig. While the difference between 14 and 17 nautical miles may seem small, the former implies that the rig is just two nautical miles outside Triton's territorial waters while the distance is actually five nautical miles. Woody Island is 103 nautical miles away, not 80, and its area is generally reported as being only around 200 hectares, consistent with Google Maps. The omission is the failure to mention that the Paracels are also claimed by Vietnam.
Bateman states that "a negotiated maritime boundary in this area would likely place the rig within China’s EEZ even if reduced weight was given to China’s claimed insular features". A careful analysis suggests just the opposite. Firstly, both Vietnam and China claim the Paracels, so it would be incorrect to assume that negotiations or arbitration would be on the basis that these islands and any EEZ allocated to them automatically belong to China.
Even in the improbable event of Vietnam relinquishing its claim on the Paracels, an arbitration court would probably award the area around the rig's location to Vietnam since its distance to the Vietnamese mainland (120 nautical miles) is only marginally greater than that to Woody Island (103 nautical miles). In past negotiations and arbitrations of maritime boundaries worldwide islands far larger than the Paracels have been given a third or less weight than mainland coasts.
In the 2000 Gulf of Tonkin boundary agreement, Vietnam’s Bach Long Vy island was given 1/4 effect. In the 2012 ICJ judgement in the Nicaragua-Colombia dispute, Colombia’s islands were given a quarter of the distance to Nicaragua.
The islands involved in those cases are from about the same size as Woody Island to thirteen times in area. Triton Island is nearer to the drilling site but unlikely to qualify for an EEZ based on UNCLOS Article 121, so it does not have an effect.
Bateman states that "Vietnam claims that because the rig is closer to its mainland coast than to China’s and well inside 200 nautical miles of its coast, it lies within its EEZ and on its continental shelf…but geographical proximity alone is not an unequivocal basis for claiming sovereignty or sovereign rights". This is a confused and misleading description of the basis of Vietnam's claim. The confusion arises because Bateman mixes up the concepts of sovereignty and sovereign rights.
There is indeed a sovereignty dispute involved but it is over the Paracels Island, not about the drilling area. Vietnam's sovereignty claims over the islands were never based on proximity, therefore Bateman's argument about of countries having sovereignty over features inside the EEZ of another is completely irrelevant. As to Bateman's examples of EEZ boundaries being established significantly closer to one country than to another, this is in fact an argument in favour of Vietnam, not China. This is because even if the Paracels belonged to China, past negotiated or arbitrated EEZ boundaries have tended to favour the mainland (Vietnam in this case), as argued earlier.
Bateman is dismissive of Vietnam's claim to the Paracels, but his arguments are weak. It is true that North Vietnam kept quiet on the sovereignty matter, but in international law this is not recognition. In his 1958 diplomatic note, which Bateman presumably referred to, North Vietnam's PM Pham Van Dong refrained from mentioning the Paracel or Spratly Islands. In addition, South Vietnam always asserted and defended its claim.
Bateman states that the United States has explicitly or implicitly recognised Chinese sovereignty over some or all of the islands but fails to give any convincing evidence of this. In fact the US did not even recognise the People's Republic's sovereignty over the Chinese mainland until 1979. The only "evidence" supplied was that American actions during the war might have been different had North Vietnam occupied Woody Island, but Bateman fails to explain how or why that should be the case, and he is confusing occupation with sovereignty.
Although peripheral to the central argument, Bateman's statement that China claims traditional rights for its fishermen over most of the South China Sea again lets off Beijing lightly. It fails to mention the more controversial fact that China uses the traditional fishing rights argument to claim oil rights, even though they have been ruled to be unrelated by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Lybia-Tunisia case.
In conclusion, there are too many errors, omissions, unsupported arguments and unbalanced opinions in Bateman's article to support his controversial contention that China may be within its rights deploying the oil rig in its present position, or that Vietnam should unilaterally give up its claims on the Paracels.
The Haiyang 981 confrontation is a case of overlapping EEZ claims. Article 74 of UNCLOS stipulates how the disputing parties should handle these cases, and this Article has been interpreted and applied in the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s 2007 judgement on the Guyana-Suriname dispute.
Dr Bateman could make a more positive contribution to peace and cooperation by encouraging China to submit itself to the dispute settlement procedure specified in UNCLOS.
Dr Huy Duong, a UK-based IT consultant, and Dr Tuan Pham, Assistant Professor at the University of New South Wales, are commentators on maritime affairs. This article was originally published on RSIS Commentaries.
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You are currently watching a video about the best swing tip for every golfer. I have thought hard recently about what tip I would give every golfer and this is it. This is the best piece of advice I can give you to improve your golf.
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What happens to my solar PV system supply when there is no sunshine?
On an overcast but light day your panels can produce energy up to around 25% of their full capacity. A period of no sunlight, however, will mean that you will need to use grid power to supplement your solar power. The length of time a solar system can work without sunlight depends very much on the nature of the system. If you are not connected to the grid you will need to supplement your solar power system in times of no sunlight by electricity from batteries (this could be excess you have not used but have chosen to store rather than sell), wind turbines or other energy producing sources.
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Did the AD 30 Jerusalem church fall for a “Jesus' body is missing” lie?
In c. AD 30, the body of believers in Jerusalem were proclaiming that Jesus's body was missing; it was gone. Is this simply because the Jerusalem church heard and also believed some liar (or liars) who falsly testified to seeing/knowing that Jesus's body was missing?
• They would see/have-seen with their own eyes that it was not gone.
Note: It is even more obvious that no plausible non-Christian candidate existed, insofar as the proliferation of such a lie would be even more useless to a non-Christian, and the Jerusalem church would be more wary of the liar.
The Jerusalem church's belief was actually grounded in Mary's testimony.1 This is relevant because Mary's autobiographical report that she discovered Jesus's tomb empty was not a lie.
We know it was grounded in Mary's testimony, because • The Mk 16:1-8 report that “Mary saw Jesus's tomb empty” already was originated/formed from within the Jerusalem church[Forthcoming], and it was formed by c. AD 30[Forthcoming]. This is relevant because Mary was a member of the Jerusalem church and no one could have formed it independently of her. • Mk 16 cites her as its accessible eyewitness source.
• Likely no one other than Mary could convince the Jerusalem church.
• And in virtue of the above fact, it is even unlikely that anyone would even try.
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Statements: All the phones are scales. All the scales are calculators.
All the calculators are scales.
All the scales are phones.
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Discover all the information you’ll ever need to start eating healthy and live a long, strong, fruitful and fulfilling life.
There are several key elements involved when it comes to eating healthy, which includes moderation, variety and balance. The basic rule of thumb is that a person should try to balance different nutrients and food, such as protein, vegetables, dairy products and grains while minimizing alcohol, processed food and saturated fats.
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How do you get to know the children and families in your child care program?
There are several ways that you can get to know a students family. The biggest one is having an open communication line, whether by journal, text/email, verbal, or conference, small conversations at pick up/drop off with parents. Having conversations with students too about what they did during the weekend or future plans for the coming weekend. You can also do open-house, where parent's can come to the classroom during the day or evening so parents can get to know their child's learning environment, either by experiencing their child's normal day with student and if the parents have questions about anything, they are able to ask the teacher straight away.
I have open house before school year begins and try to make home visits.
Simply by trying to have a nice conversation with families during pickup and drop off time , also go on field trip with the families and their kids is a great opportunity to get to know the families and start to build that relationship to make them feel comfortable around us .
I am one of two closers where I work so being able to communicate with parents about their home life or how their child's day was is the main way I can communicate with parents.
There are so many ways communicate with parents. Open house before school start, and after school start when the parent drop their children greet them well, tell them how their child doing in class. Do the teacher parent conference as well.
I agree with everything you are saying and doing. I love talking to the students in our school about what they did over the weekend or any future plans, it is always fun to hear about it from them.
I get to know the families of my students by creating a family tree and asking the child to name a few special or defining things about the people on this tree. I also make sure to keep open communication with the families and be sure to converse with the families as they are picking up/ dropping off at school. If I have difficulties with the child, I ask the parents for suggestions and what works at home to make sure we all stay on the same page.
I agree that it is important to keep open communication and a family tree can be great as well. However, I believe the best way to get to know a child is to have them gain your trust by showing them acceptance and provide a safe and warm environment for them to come into each and everyday. From there, the families will see that and feel comfortable to open themselves up to you and start that relationship with you. Daily updates to parents about how great their child did in art or a story of them playing with a friend is a great start as well.
The best way is through communication with both the families and the children.
open communication with children and there family is the key element to getting to know a child and family. spending individual time with the child and getting to know there interests and were there at developmental including active play and a nurturing relationship is a great start to getting to know the child personally. asking parents questions and updating them on there child development well making sure they are comfortable asking you questions and voicing there concerns will open up oppurtunity to several conversation topics. keeping parents involved in the child education by creating several volunteer opportunities will allow you to get to know the child and there family.
I completely agree with you that open communication is key. I find that parents really do appreciate feedback.
I get to know the children everyday by making sure I check in with each child throughout the school day. At the beginning of the day I will check in with parents and see how there morning is going and also during conferences.
It is important to engage children in conversations about their lives as well as developing a relationship with the parents so you can have a better sense of their home life.
I agree. It is very important to have good communication with the parents and that can be done during drop off/pick up time. Also as important is being able to have conversations with the child to understand what goes on at their home and how their family does things.
I get to know the children and families by asking questions and having conversations about what they are doing, what they did over the weekend, and any other topic that is relevant.
I get to know the families of my students by asking them as well as their parents questions, open ended questions give them a chance to really dig deep and give a lot family history that i can use to help reach and teach their child or children.
Hi William, I agree that asking open-ended questions is really beneficial. It creates a flow in the conversation and allows the parent to open up to us about themselves.
I get to know my children and parents by greeting and striking up a small conversation during pick up and drop off is a great why to get to know them as well.
I connect with parents in the morning when they drop -off their kids or at the end of the day when they pick up their children's. I always encourage communication with the parents to work together and do whats best for the kid, i ask questions about child behavior, interaction at home and i always try to be clear when i respond to parents questions .
I agree- I always try in the mornings and droff offs that im talking to the parents. even by asking simple questions. like what they did that weekend or what the are going to do, ask them what the like to do.
i will welcom the partent and the child and i will see what the child likes to do they i will go on from they and i will talk with the partent about the childs day.
I get to know my families by making a point to talk to each family at the end of the day. They are always happy to talk about their child.
I think a really great way to get to know families is by asking them to provide a picture collage of the family, pets, favorite activities etc... that can be hung in the classroom. Not only do the kiddos love to see pictures of themselves with their families during the day, but it also gives teachers an idea of who they are. Also, of course school functions and teacher conferences are another way to really get to talk to the parents and get to know them, as well as them getting to know who you are.
Gretchen I LOVE the picture idea! It sounds like a really good way to engage the kids when they say “that’s me!” Or “that’s my mommy!”. At the school I work at, we love to have them draw their family to give them a way to express their family how they see it. We also chat with the parents and have them all download the app that we use for check in. It gives a great way to have both us and them update the app on the kids!
A good way to get to know children and their families is to welcome the family at drop-off and pick-up, even just by having those short conversations every day it opens lines of communication between us, the teachers, and the families of the children in our care. As well, there are other opportunities to get to know families, be it through open house or conferences, or through a class unit on family or "about me" where families and children can share about their families and their life outside of the classroom.
We like to do home visits. It bridges the gap between the classroom and their homes which can help a kid feel much more comfortable at school. It's always nice to see how their lives are at home and how their parents run things. It can give us a window into their lives that can provide us with a new perspective.
Talk to whoever drops off and pickups either it be aunty or uncle, grandparents. ask them how the child night went how did they sleep has there been any changes. Also talk to the child ask them how there day went what did they do the following night.
It is important to know the child and their families by having a little chat during their drop off or pickup times.
I will organize story reading time, open house, pot luck for parents, games for families so that everyone can familiarize and mingle. It is huge responsibility to care for children and parents will feel better if they know how and with whom their children spend the day at day care.
Morning greetings with the parents and pickup times are helpful chances to get to know the parents on a personal level. Listening to comments the children make during the course of the day may give you another window into their world as well. Observing the child’s response and behavior in the classroom is telling to their type of personality. Discovering this information can be helpful in knowing how to engage and teach them more effectively.
I get to know the families in our program by making my self available and engaging in conversation at the start or end of each day. Asking questions and listening. I also interact with parent guardians through email and by phone. I enjoy hearing about there day, weekend and experiences.
I agree with this completely. Interacting with the children is so important.
I think talking to parents, openly, and asking questions is the best way to get an understanding of their life. I like to have conversations with parents that go like "has something changed at home?" "do you know where this particular behavior stems from?" etc. I think it allows me to gain a better understanding of where the children are coming from.
Open communication with the parents is the key to get to know them better. Let them know that it will be helpful,if anything , we should know about the family, that can help with the child’s development . Celebrating Mother’s Day ,Father’s Day ,Grandparents Day in the childcare center is also helpful to get to know the families. Doing family related projects like family tree, show and tell, etc will help the teachers and children to know different families .
The way to get to know the children and families is by an open communication. Spending time with the child to know their interests. Asking the child questions about how they are feeling. I listen to the child when he/she is asking me.and I would answer them with honest and an appropriate answer, so they can understand. The best way to know the child's parents is by greeting them daily. Telling about what do their child did that day, like activities, what they ate, ask then how did their child slept last night, ask them has there been any changes.
To get to know a family and make them feel comfortable I always make sure to greet them with a friendly face. I want to make them feel important and them to know how much I care. I do this by asking positive questions and always being able to relate to them no matter what their situation is.
I get to know the children and families by communicating. I will start simple conversations so the parents, the child and I can discuss something at once. I ask about out of town family, what's for dinner or get any new animals lately which always get everyone talking.
I can get to know the children and families in my center by having an open communication line by text or email, having small conversations at pick up and drop off times and we use a communication app Remini to send photos, assessments and updates throughout the school day. Also by asking the children questions about their home life and family or what they did over the weekend or vacation plans. The center I work in offers many optional enrichment classes for the parents and children to take together and parent teacher conferences and open discussions.
Not only is it important to greet the children and families with a smile when they arrive at child care, it's good to ask how everyone is doing or ask how their weekend was. This provides an opening for the families to present details about their lives that can help a child care provider know more about the family. It shows that the child care provider cares and isn't too busy to listen to them.
I like to really talk with the child with the child leading the direction of conversation. I also like to observe the child in play and interacting with other children. I make it a point to speak to the family at pick up and try to let them know a tidbit from their child's day as so they feel included. I hope my attention and dedication in their child incites their trust.
I make sure to establish some sort of positive relationship with my parents. I always greet them in the morning, ask about their night with their child. I ask if there was anything new and exciting going on. At pick up I make sure to give a high five to my children when they leave and talk with their parents and let them know how their day was and what we worked on for the day. Communication is key when trying to get to know anyone.
I get to know the families and their children by making it a goal to talk to the familes everyday and also i have the childdren do an all about me weeks that their parents help them fill out.
Communication with both parents and the child daily or at the very least regularly, and being open to feedback as well. Checking in with parents regularly and keeping them updated on their child's day. Being aware and mindful of the child during active play, interactions with other children in your care and with you as there care provider. Taking an interest is key to all of it.
It is important to ask the children and the parents about their lives at home. You can learn a lot by observing the child during play time and from having even just a simple conversation with the parents at pick-up.
The best way is to ask questions. When you create an open line of communication through families and their home lives. Asking them for ways of communicating in the home. Food the family eats. Language they use at home. Giving the family the recognition that you are willing to learn and grow with them inside and outside to better meet the needs they are looking for.
I want to make them feel important and them to know how much I care.This provides an opening for the families to present details about their lives that can help a child care provider know more about the family. Also talk to the child ask them how there day went what did they do the following night.
The most important thing to do is talk to the children. Learn about their everyday lives, and have a professional but friendly and open relationship with parents about their children as well. The best way to develop a connection is to just spend time with and learn with the child as they grow.
In my opinion the child care providers should build a relationship with the family of each child in care. To strengthen the relationship get the family to be involved n the program. By sharing information and asking information about families is the best way to know the parents.
Open communication while working with children is an essential key to creating positive relationships. This communication could happen in many many ways such as emails, texts, face to face meetings, or journal logs to keep the parent updated. Interacting with the child could be something as simple as creating a family tree for the kids to explain who lives in their house and let them see how the tree represents their family.
To get to know the children and families in my child care program, I always greet the families as they come in and ask them how their day is going. I always talk to the children and ask them about their days and ask them about what kinds of activities they enjoy, what they did in school that they liked and what they did not like. I try to converse with the parents or guardians as they pick up and let them know if we have any concerns and the parents will do the same. Open communication is important to get to know both the children and their families, which will lead to a better understanding of the children.
I get to know the children and the families here by communication. I ask the children about their home life. And I also talk to the parents when they pick up their children at the end of the day.
I think the best way to get to know a family is just talking with them. When they drop off and pick up you can ask how their weekend was or any upcoming plans the have. Asking the child throughout the day things that they love doing with their family or and specific meals they like. I think getting to know the families helps you to better serve the child. If you understand their dynamic then you are in a better place to get them to thrive in your care.
The way that I get to know my students and their families is through communication. I have found that has been the best way to get to know them and to build a trusting and strong relationship. With my students I am constantly asking them questions and interacting with them. I ask them what their favorites are, what they're plans are for the weekend, etc. With parents I talk with them about their children telling them funny and good stories about their child and normally that branches off into other topics of conversation which allows me to get to know more about them as people and about their family.
Human behavior is the key towards almost any information. A lot tells about the families during their pick up and drop offs. How they greet the teacher, how they ask questions if they have any query and also how when they register complaints or is critical of any situation that needs to be looked at. Having a conversation with the families especially during the pick ups regarding a daily report or just a friendly talk is a great way of understanding the families. As for the children, engaging them in activities, observing their responses while playing alone or having to share something, talking with them in turns during circle time or in an art class about their favorite toys, books, hobbies, weekend activities tells a lot about families.
To get to knoow the children in my school, and their families, i observe the way the children acts, i frequently ask the children and their families questions interact as much as i can.
I like to get to know the children in my classroom by asking them questions, and providing different activities that may hep me learn more about them. I also find it to be very important to ask the families about their lives and what life looks like at home.
It is important to keep an open communication with both the kids and their parents. Asking kids about their interests and hobbies is always a good way to connect with them. Keeping parents updated on how their kids are doing in the daycare and simply having conversations with them is a good way to stay connected with the family.
Personally, I go out of my way to ask the parents during drop off and pick up how their day was etc. I make sure to tell the child nd parents their progress in preschool or daycare and how they interact with the other kids.
As many above have stated, communication is key to establishing any sort of relationship. I've found keeping a friendly and open demeanor has helped when communicating with both children and parents alike. There are so many ways to communicate now including talking at pickup/drop off, at school events, or via email/text- all of which help to create the best learning experience for the individual child.
The key to getting to know the children and families is to have open communication.
Opening a conversation at parent drop-off and pick-up is really important when getting to know the family. A short positive statement regarding an accomplishment or a positive reflection of a shared moment can lead to a meaningful conversation between the child care provider, parent and child.
I get to know my students by spending time with them. Out on the playground and in the classroom, in between works we converse and make light talk. For the parents, I try to talk to them at drop off or when they pick the child up. I gain a positive rapport from the start.
Interacting with the child and parents before and at the end of the day asking question and concerns. Having a trusting and open relationship will help with great communication and understanding.
When a new child starts at our child care program I do my best to engage the child in conversation to get to know him or her better. I enjoy getting to know the child and by doing this I start a trusting relationship with him or her that will help me be a better teacher. It is very important to me to introduce myself to the parents, allowing them to get to know me. I believe it is very important for the parents to know us to ensure that there will be a mutual trust between us. Once we have that trust, we can be honest with the families about the positive characteristics their children have, as well as the ones they might need to work on at home.
Every year, I make it a point to learn every single child's name at school. 300+ students. And I ask questions! I ask them anything i can think of that will help me know something about them. Sometimes it's "What are you plans for the weekend?" Or, "What's your favorite dessert?" Or, "Tell me how you did on your spelling test?" Or, "Be sure to let me know when that wiggley tooth falls out!" I try to make a personal connection with all of them. It helps to build trust and communication. And when i have the chance to meet their parents, I always have a little storyI can share with them too. So the parents feel like their child is in a loving and caring environment.
Communication between myself and the parents. Along with the child. Also observing the parent dropping of or how the child plays. All will prove information on how to further our relationship.
Conversations with the child and with the parents is key to getting to know the family. At the beginning of the year they we ask them to bring in a family photo to be displayed on our family photo wall. These photos help start conversations with the child about family members and different interests the families have.
I'm close to alot of families. It's good to be all connected. We use the motto "it takes a villiage" because it sure does. I communicate everyday with families and get to know them on a personal level because in the end of the day we are all a big family.
I have gotten to know the families in our program by asking questions and showing that I care. I try to interact with the parents and sibilings on a daily basis. I express openness and understanding when parents speak with me.
open correspondence with kids and there family is the key component to becoming acquainted with a youngster and family. investing singular energy with the youngster and becoming more acquainted with there premiums and were there at formative including dynamic play and a sustaining relationship is an incredible begin to becoming acquainted with the kid by and by. asking guardians questions and refreshing them on there kid improvement well ensuring they are happy with making inquiries and voicing there concerns will open up oppurtunity to a few discussion subjects. keeping guardians engaged with the youngster training by making a few volunteer open doors will enable you to become more acquainted with the tyke and there family.
I engage by asking family questions and sharing personal interests to create a bond.
I get to know the childs family by being open with the parents. I ask them how their day was and if I have a concern about the child, I ask if they do that at home or what are some ways that the deal with a certain thing that the child might be doing. I also tell them about their childs day and the postitive things about it and thats when parents usually open up and talk about what they did in the weekend relating to the childs good behavior. We also have a family wall with the childrens families so thats also a great way to know who the parents are. I believe learning parents name's can also mean a lot to them.
communicating with them when drop off and pick up.. also when they come pick up their child we can communicate with them by letting them know how their childs day was.
Yes, I talk with parents everyday. Just a small talk everyday gives me a idea , what’s going on in kids life.
I believe open communication is definitely key. Fill out print out on likes, dislikes, strengths, who's in family. Doing this on first day. Also a family tree, a about me section. Also doing a lot of family activities through out the year together .
Best way to know about children and families by having continues conversation with parents by sharing child strengths,interests and general conversation on what we can do to help the kids to achieve their goal and ensure parents, we are working as team.
The way you can get to know children and their families is keeping frequent and open contact with their parents and the people involved in their development. Allowing them to get to know more about yourself, and spending time with their children, all helps for you to create a positive bond.
The best way to get to know children and families is by talking and connecting with them. Drop-off and pick-up are great times to have short chats with each family to check in, share stories, and ask questions. Creating an open dialogue where communication feels safe and comfortable to explore is extremely important, especially for the children--they should know that you want to know them and hear about their thoughts and feelings.
Ways to get to know the chlidren and families are communication and building strong, positive relationships. Bonding with the child by listening and asking lots of questions about their experiences, thoughts and feelings. Asking them to share ideas, getting to know each of them as individuals, also supporting them and be understanding. With parents, be positively open with them, involve them in their childs development and needs, daily activities and experiences. Build bonds and strong relationships. Ask questions and answer questions, keep them updated regularly.
By getting to know the families asking questions about the families.
Our school has an open house at the beginning of the school year with ample time for the parents to speak to the teachers one-on-one. We also like to send home a project where the families can share with us some of their traditions, likes/dislikes, etc. I try to have personal conversations with each student throughout the day and that helps to develop a deeper relationship with the child. I find that during drop off and pickup are some the times that we have an opportunity to find out more about family dynamics and get to know the parents more.
Throughout the day at school, whenever a child makes a comment about a family member or their home, it's a great opportunity to listen and learn about that child's perspective and experience. Asking open-ended questions is a great way not only to learn about each child but also to prompt a fully engaged response by the child. In getting to know parents, it is great to start conversations with positives about what's going on for their child and school and letting them know the observations made at school that show that teachers are fully engaged in spending time with and appreciating their child. Then, asking open ended questions of parents can also follow in kind.
Reading the child's profile beforehand and meeting with parents.
In my personal opinion, the best way to get to know anyone is to openly and honestly, communicate with them..
I get to know the children and families in my childcare program in several ways. Throughout the day I engage with the children and actively listen when they talk about their families. We often have activities where the children will tell the whole group about their plans for weekends or holidays. I engage parents in conversations during pickup time. We also have regular potlucks where families come to eat, spend time, and form community with each other and with the staff.
I talk to the parents everyday in the morning for drop of and for pick up and sometimes between if they stop by. It is best to have a good understanding with each family and a good relationship with the parents.
It is a good idea hand out to the parents a questionnaire that asks a little bit about their families and about the child/children that will be your student(s), things they like to do, about their culture.. Talking a bit every day while drop off or pick up time may help to get to know families better.
Getting to know the childeren and families that are in your care I beieve difer from family to family. When parents drop their kids of engaging them in a way that makes them feel comfortable and welcome, asking questions about their child and their interest is a great way to get the parents talking about their child and themseleves. This showes that you are interested in them beyound just a paycheck.
I get to know my children and their families by being there to greet and say goodbye to the families in the morning and afternoons. I also spend time with the kids asking them what activities they do at home, who helps with what household chores, and giving them chances to make art projects for people in their families. These opportunities give the kids the ability to discuss their families on their own terms and how their family interacts together.
I have an open door policy. Parent's can call, email and talk to me anytime. They get to ask questions, I answer. I ask question, they answer. I also ask lots of questions to my student: About their weekend, families, holidays, etc. I believe that the better communication and the more information you have about the child, their family, believes and cultures, the better we get to know these children and their families.
We talk with families daily either at drop off or pick up.
To get to know the families and children in our care we must have communication and individual conversations with each family/child. Make it a point to spend quality time with each individual, asking questions to get a better understanding of their backgrounds and what they personally enjoy because no two people are the same even though they can have similarities.
Also communicate to families at drop off and pick up times. If we have concerns about the children then have a private meeting with the parents and try and come up with a lesson plane to help the child in the long run.
I initiate conversations with them during snack time, intentionally asking questions that will them to share more about themselves with me and the other children in the class. We take turns having children ask each other questions and then provide follow up questions like, "and why is that important to you". We all end up knowing each other better and it increases classroom comradery.
I talk too the parents when they drop off their child and when they pick up their kid and talk to them about their child's day and if it was good or bad.
As an assistant I don't get as many opportunities to talk to the families as our lead teacher, but I am always around for pick up time. My favorite way to connect with families is to share something silly or helpful or new I noticed their child doing that day. Once a rapport is established I will ask casual questions and check in with parents to see how they're doing.
As for the children, I work with preschoolers so they chat with me non-stop. Adapting my communication style for a new child takes time, but I can engage most children that age through imaginary play and just by being silly with them. Playing is my favorite way to get to know kids, and the more time you spend with them the better you'll get to know them.
I get to know the families of my students I also make sure to keep open communication with the families and be sure to converse with the families as they are picking up. If I have difficulties with the child, I ask the parents for suggestions. It is important to engage children in conversations about their lives as well as developing a relationship with the parents .
In order to get to know my parents I make sure to ask questions about culture if I notice differences, I also have handouts at the beginning of the class as an introduction giving background on myself and also a questionnaire for the parents to let me know of religious beliefs, practices, boundaries they may have so I am aware and can work it into my curriculum. For example I currently have a student that does not celebrate any holiday and since I am aware I will keep her from engaging in holiday traditions other families to partake in.
I also keep good communication with my parents email phone call as well as parent teacher conferences.
As far as getting to know the children I am with them everyday learning behaviors and milestones and helping them along the way to progress.
By asking questions, talking, observing the family and children. When we have a new child come in we ask questions and have a getting to know you period. I always like to take a moment if can when parents come to pick up or drop off to talk.
By meeting them and paying close attention to each child. Ask questions about their family members and communicate with parents often to find more about them.
Every morning when the child is dropped or the evenings when the child is picked I briefly discuss the child's environment s/he is coming from. I like to make sure of any family issues the child might be confused about that affects his/her daily lives. We discuss the culture and family structure at home, living habits that could be reflected in the center to help the child feel more comfortable.
In the center, we also keep books that include different family structures that we read together.
You can get to know children and families in your classroom by asking them questions, and being sure to listen when they tell you things about themselves. This is important in getting to know the big picture with your students.
At our school preschool teachers like myself do a home visit to connect with the children and the parents in their home space during the summertime before school starts. It gives me a better picture of what happens in the lives of the children, if they have pets siblings, what kind of toys they enjoy etc. It also gives me a chance to connect with the parents have a cup of tea and be open to questions. I always feel like i can relate better with the children and the parents when i have had a chance to connect with them on their home turf.
I get to know my parents and their child through Meet and Greet on our first day of school. I also introduce myself to them personally and thru email. We do have curriculum night with the parents and have two parent-teacher conferences every school year to talk about their kids. I also have weekly reports to the parents.
Being open with families, asking open questions. Asking about parts of their lives without being too abrasive I believe is the best way to get to know someone. Ask about their children, and their weekend and be kind and open to answering any questions that they might have for you.
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I try to talk to the parents during pick-up if they have the time and especially during school events. I do try to make myself always available to the parents if they would like to talk.
If I don't already know what the child's family life is like then I will politely ask the family and the child questions that aren't super personal but yet let me know more of the child's home and family life than i did before.
We have conferences and several family events each year. Also just talking to the families as they drop off the children on a daily basis. Just asking how they are or how their weekend was.
Getting to know families and children is one of the most important things to do as a teacher. Communication between both parties goes a long way. Whether is a short conversation with a parent when a child is being dropped off/picked up, parent teacher conferences, family nights, or summary's of a child's development that go home to parents. Checking in with a child everyday and asking them how they are doing, what plans they have for the week etc. can really give you a pretty good look of what their lives are like.
I ask a lot of questions : about sleep, personality, new skills: like words, steps, accomplishments etc. I offer parents complete support especially new parents. i ask about little things so i can build a picture of the whole family. I always try to laugh with parents because kids can be so fun!
Through open house and also periodic home visits. I think this is very effective to be able to see how the children live and what their family dynamics are and life at home. In a lot of ways it is an eye opener for us as teachers to see what goes on in the children's homes. So many of the children in our care come from broken homes and being taken care of by other family members as their own parents are not able to take care of them.
We have open house at the beginning of the year and also do periodically home visits which I think are really effective as we can see how the child lives and how the parents interact with their child at home. A lot of times a child is acting a certain way because of the way he/she is cared for or not cared for at home and this time allows us to be able to assess the situations and environments the children are exposed to in their own environment.
I check in with kids while doing crafts, it's a really great time to get to know their personalities and understand them better. I check in with the parents in the morning and make sure they feel welcome.
By starting up conversations whenever possible. Weather it be about their child and what they did that day, or the family in general...it sparks a relationship.
Ways to get to know the child and their families is to have one on ones with the child and ask them about what they like or what they have been doing. Also have conferences, one on ones during pick up and drop, if the child rides the bus, possibly call the parents from time to time. Having family nights and including and parents and siblings in things at school. Encourage parents to volunteer in the classroom.
Communication is key. Finding things to relate to your families and children is very important. It creates bonds and a welcoming environment.
I greet the parents when they drop off their child and bring up conversation.
I get to know them by talking to the parents at the end of the school day and during the parents-teacher conferences.
I agree, all those conversations are important to forming a meaningful and productive relationship with parents that benifits the learning of the child. This helps to figure out quirks, needs, behaviors, and background info that may be relevant to learning. I may discuss tactics or plan with the parents, directors, and coteachers, about to address behaviors in the classroom especially in cases where the child may have ADHD, autism, dietary restrictions, health needs, anger issues, etc. This helps me get to know the kid better when I know what is going on in their life, and this helps me get to know the parent when we are on the same page.
The big key is communication. I think the more communication you have with parents the more they will trust you and be more open with you. Don't be afraid to ask questions about the child or family. Make the family feel that you care about them. Have conferences often keep parents up to date on the child's progress report.
the communication is important key on the process for to know the families and theirs needs .plus the everyday attention from the first day of the interview we ask the mayor information about them.
I believe there are a few different ways that you can get to know a students family. Having an open conversation with the families, by text/email, verbal, or conference, small conversations at pick up/drop off with parents. Also having conversations with students about what they did over the weekend could also help.
I communicate with every family at pick up time. I let every childs guardian know how their day went and ask questions. I am open to all forms of communication and remind parents if they ever have questions and or concerns.
We host Open Houses, Festivals for families in the area to attend, send out newsletters communicating what is going on in the classroom, communication logs, having conversations with parents/families during drop-off/pick-up, calling, texting, emailing, etc. It is important to take note what each family's preference of communication is!
We sit down individually with each family to tell them about our program and let them share any unique needs their child might have and to ask questions. Parents participate in multiple evening events helping to coordinate and collaborate with other families so, while at first a little awkward, they eventually open up and feel connected to the other families In our program. That way it's not all about us but rather their connection with each other and feel more invested in the learning community as a whole.
I agree that the parents must be connected and have a line of communication as well. No one likes to be left behind closed doors and feel left out about their Childress daycare.
We simply have conversations with the parents during drop off and pick up times. We also allow the parents to text us whenever they feel necessary to check or ask questions about their children.
I think the best way to get to know the children and their families is through communication, parent involvement and forming partnerships with every family.
I feel like the best way to get to know families of kiddos is to strike up conversation at pick up/ dropoff. I've had parents stay to chat when their child is playing and that is when I've felt the most connected to a child or a family.
I believe this is best done by spending one on one time with the children in a class setting. Pulling each one aside every now and then and engaging them in a conversation, often times letting them lead the conversation and just listening and responding. Children often times get excited to tell you whats on their minds, and if they know that you are listening it will make them feel that more inclined to share more. Same with parents. By engaging them, asking questions, providing details and stories about their children they will share more stories. They will feel comfortable knowing that they are leaving their child in a safe environment and that the child is being looked after and taught well.
I get to know the students families at drop off or pick up each day by having small but meaningful conversations with each parent or guardian that picks up the child.
By having open communication with parents through face to face interactions, texting, emails, etc. By having the kids share and talk about themselves and their interests, etc. Also, having events where the parents visit with the staff and other parents. We encourage the parents and children to bring things to teach others about their country or culture, as we have many students from different cultures in our center.
We get to know the children and families by creating opportunities to socialize or meet with the parents and families. We display photos of the children's families on a board in the reading area that the children often reference. We host winter and spring potlucks with the families where the children sing songs and the teachers visit and eat with the families. We have fall and spring conferences with the parents to talk about the children's development and provide resources for the parents. In the beginning of the year we have an open house for new children and parents to come meet each other and the teachers before the school year starts. We open our playground after for parents and families. We are in constant communication of the daily activities of the preschool and pre-k classrooms.
There are many different ways to learn about the families of the children in your care centers. One on one meetings are a great way to learn about the child's family while familiarizing with the personality of the parent(s) or guardian(s). Email is a good one to documented facts about. I think amother great way to really further it and learn more is by having school community nights/programs where families can come in and discuss with childcare providers outside of the normal pickup/drop off times.
I get to know families by genuinely checking in with them att drop off or pick up and having a feew one-on -one talks over the year. Also, we do lots of parent taught classes or after school gatherings where families bring a skill or traditional meal to the school to share.
I have interviews setup to meet the families and their children, go over policies and procedures and to let them ask any questions they may have. This is also an opportunity for them to see my daycare and to feel welcome. They also get to meet my family and we get to interact on a personal level.
Listening is the best way to learn about the families. As simple as asking questions of what they had for dinner last night or the plans for the night personalizes and validates to the parent your commitment to care for their child. Being observant of the parents' and childrens' interactions may also assist in speaking to the child/parent in a way comfortable to them.
I make sure I spend time talking to the children and the parents about things happening in their lives. I love hearing about siblings, pets, other family members and events going on in their lives. It helps me connect on a more personal level with the kids, and they love it when you remember something that they have shared with you and you ask them about it.
Simply by having an open communication with parents and families when they drop off and pick up their kids from day care. Always welcome them and show good personality. If you plan a filed trip with the kids and the parents join you can have an open communication with them introduce yourself and talk about the kids and how they do in daycare.
Getting a chance to speak with the family either in the morning or afternoon and asking how they are doing. Telling them to have a good day/evening. Asking them if they have any questions then trying to answer them as best as I can helps them see that I care to know them. Introducing myself to new families and greeting them is important. Having the director send out an email to new families saying they are welcome to email any questions asking about teachers helps them feel comfortable.
I communicate with the parents as often as I can and keep them updated on the good and bad things. As for the children, I tend to focus a bit more on them when they're new and ask lots of questions from small things like their favorite color to me asking about pets and them saying their pet has passed away. Some times I know a child more than their own parent and other times I don't know the child at all because they're not very open or talkative.
I get to know the children and their families in my child care program by talking with them on a daily basis or whenever I happen to see them and converse with them on how their child is doing in the class and what they like to do at home and what hobbies they like to do with their kids.
I get to know children and their families by asking questions about the kids and the family to both the kids and parents. Getting to know them involves communicating with them as often as you can, bringing up how their child is behaving and how they are doing.
One of the biggest ways you can get to know the families in your center is by having an open communication rule. I generally try to talk with and communicate with the parents as much as I can, I get to know the siblings and hear about their weekends. Communication is key.
I like to watch children communicate. I also like to watch the child play and communicate with other children. I always try to communicate with my parents and tell how their children played and how their day went so that they feel involved. I draw attention to the fact that you need to talk to your family upon receipt and try to tell them about the updates of the day. I hope that my attention and dedication to the child inspires confidence.
Communication. Encourage parents to read your parent handbook. Offer regular conferences with the parents to discuss their child's progress. Keep information on your bulletin board, in your newsletter and on your website current. Prepare a brief “My Day” each day for parents that describes what their child experienced.
i communicate with the parent first of all and then observe the child by seeing the qualities they have what they like and don't like what makes them sad happy. having concern and asking questions when you see them having issues or a problem.
We communicate with parents most at drop off/ pick up and get to know the parents through sharing about their kids days and their lives. We also do parent/teacher conferences at the daycare I work at.
Getting to know the kids we try to ask them questions about their favorite things and things like that. I work directly with 1 year olds so it is mostly by observation that we learn things about them.
Ways that I use to get to know children and families is to ask questions about their culture. I also like to ask the parents what the children do or what they like playing with outside of school. Communication is a big factor when it comes to getting to know the kids and their families.
I completely agree that communication is the first step toward connecting with our families. Even getting the chance to ask how their day was as you pass by in the halls can really work to build that connection!
I’m my experience the easiest way to get to know someone is through casual and open communication. Taking opportunities to ask how things are going at home with both the children and their parents can make all the difference. We also offer family nights which provide the opportunity to engage in meals or activities with our families, to strengthen our relationships with each other.
Open the class up to asking questions about there weekend, pets, and thing you can think of to keep then talking.
By being Communicating with them, asking them about them!
by asking quesions,see what they like and dislike, welcoming the child and the parent by saying good morning how are you doing?
I have a very close relationship with all of my students and their families. I make sure I give them a full introduction of myself and my classroom when they first start. I ask questions and show interest in their lives and families a little at a time to show I care. we also have a private parenting message board where we all can speak to one another, ask questions, and share pictures. I try to run my classroom with a family dynamic.
When you know you are getting a new child in your room. You can ask your director about that child to get a little more information about the child and the family. Once you meet the family you can ask questions about the child, like if that child has any siblings and if they are from that area etc.
I get to know the children and families in our school/program by communicating with them and getting to know them better at drop off and pick up each day, at parent and teacher conferences, through emails, and many school functions that we both attend such as school programs, fundraisers, open house, and back to school nights. I also get to know them through their volunteer work in our classroom.
A big event teachers can do is to hold an open house in which the environment is especially crafted for the discussing the goals and needs of the children. However a daily conversation, should time allow it, is also a good way to build good rapport and communication with the children and parents. These small instances adds up since they are so consistent.
I get to know them by asking about the child to their parents and know what they like to offer them best support.
I get to know my children and families by first introducing myself, when i first started none of the parents knew me. Then i try and communicate with them at least once a day and try and give them as much feed back and ask as many questions as i can.
Simple open conversations during pick-up or drop off time with the parents is a good way of keeping in contact with families.
I have an open communications book with the parents ,and also we do open house where they can spend time with me. I have a page on the wall about information about myself so they can feel more open to share about themselves. I really openly communicate about their children too.
I usually ask the parents how they are doing and tell them what we did in class that day.
You can get to know the children and families in your care program by having open communications, asking them questions and have informative conversations.
I am an assistant so i dont go on home visits, but I make it a point to talk to each family at pick up and drop off atleast once a week and ask how they are. The children are much easier to bond with because we spend 6 hours 5 days a week with them.
Open and clear communication during drop off and pick up. Asking questions about home life in a respectful and non invasive manner. Sending home fun projects that highlight the child and their interests, family dynamics and culture. Relating games, stories, posters and toys to the children and their lives. Having lots of discussions and listening.
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Can you drink black tea on empty stomach?
We often get this question: can you drink tea on an empty stomach?
TL;DR: Yes, you can drink black tea on an empty stomach; however, it may cause acidity although this greatly depends on the type and quality of the tea.
Typically, it is better to consume tea after meals and snacks as this will help in digestion and activate your metabolism to break down the food.
Tea is generally good for your health consuming black tea can result in healthier living provided it replaces other sugary drinks in your diet. This will result in a reduction in the amount of sugar and calories in your daily intake which will result in a healthier body mass index in the long term (depending on your age, build, health condition, etc.).
Green tea has been shown to activate your metabolism and increase your metabolic rate which results in faster burning of fat/calories per day. See this article for more: Green Tea Boosts Metabolism, Protects Against Diseases [WebMD].
Black tea while also being very good for you has not been shown to have the same efficacy with regard to health as green tea and thus, I would recommend a cross between a green tea and black tea for the purpose of “health”.
Note: This recommendation is for green tea/black tea which is unsweetened and without the addition of any other materials. I highly recommend using only high-quality loose leaf tea (like our teas!) to brew the tea in order to get the nutritional/mineral benefits.
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Context. The findings of more than 350 extrasolar planets, most of them nontransiting Hot Jupiters, have revealed correlations between the metallicity of the main-sequence (MS) host stars and planetary incidence. This connection can be used to calculate the planet formation probability around other stars, not yet known to have planetary companions. Numerous wide-field surveys have recently been initiated, aiming at the transit detection of extrasolar planets in front of their host stars. Depending on instrumental properties and the planetary distribution probability, the promising transit locations on the celestial plane will differ among these surveys.
Aims. We want to locate the promising spots for transit surveys on the celestial plane and strive for absolute values of the expected number of transits in general. Our study will also clarify the impact of instrumental properties such as pixel size, field of view (FOV), and magnitude range on the detection probability.
Methods. We used data of the Tycho catalog for ≈1 million objects to locate all the stars with on the celestial plane. We took several empirical relations between the parameters listed in the Tycho catalog, such as distance to Earth, mV, and , and those parameters needed to account for the probability of a star to host an observable, transiting exoplanet. The empirical relations between stellar metallicity and planet occurrence combined with geometrical considerations were used to yield transit probabilities for the MS stars in the Tycho catalog. Magnitude variations in the FOV were simulated to test whether this fluctuations would be detected by BEST, XO, SuperWASP and HATNet.
Results. We present a sky map of the expected number of Hot Jupiter transit events on the basis of the Tycho catalog. Conditioned by the accumulation of stars towards the galactic plane, the zone of the highest number of transits follows the same trace, interrupted by spots of very low and high expectation values. The comparison between the considered transit surveys yields significantly differing maps of the expected transit detections. While BEST provides an unpromising map, those for XO, SuperWASP, and HATNet show FsOV with up to 10 and more expected detections. The sky-integrated magnitude distribution predicts 20 Hot Jupiter transits with orbital periods between 1.5 d and 50 d and , of which two are currently known. In total, we expect 3412 Hot Jupiter transits to occur in front of MS stars within the given magnitude range. The most promising observing site on Earth is at latitude .
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What is oral cancer (oral cavity)?
the throat or pharynx, composed of the nasopharynx, oropharynx and laryngopharynx (also known as hypopharynx).
More than 90% of oral cancers originate in the scaly (flat) cells that line the oral cavity. This type of cancer is identified as squamous cell carcinoma, an aggressive malignant tumour. Fortunately, this tumour is the most easily detectable with the naked eye, but also the fastest spreading.
Conversely, a cancer located on the tongue or oral floor often and quickly produces distant metastases, i.e. it spreads to other parts of the body. Among these areas that are particularly likely to be affected are the lymph nodes in the neck.
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Peking University (abbreviation PKU; colloquially known by the Chinese as Běidà 北大), is a major Chinese research university located in Beijing, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China, founded as the "Imperial University of Peking" in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian. By 1920, it had become a center for progressive thought. Today, Peking University is frequently listed by many domestic and international rankings as one of the top universities in China. In addition to academics, Peking University is especially renowned for its campus grounds, and the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture.
When it was established on July 3, 1898, the school was known as the Imperial University of Peking (simplified Chinese: 京师大学堂; traditional Chinese: 京師大學堂; pinyin: Jīngshī Dàxuétáng). It was established to replace Taixue or Guozijian, or Imperial Academy, as part of the Hundred Days' Reform. In 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution, the Imperial University was renamed "National Peking University" (simplified Chinese: 国立北京大学; traditional Chinese: 國立北京大學; pinyin: Guólì Běijīng Dàxué). The noted scholar Cai Yuanpei was appointed president on January 4, 1917, and helped transform the university into the country's largest institution of higher learning, with 14 departments and an enrollment of more than 2,000 students. Cai, inspired by the German model of academic freedom, recruited an intellectually diverse faculty that included Hu Shih, Chen Duxiu, and Lu Xun. In 1919, students of Peking University formed the bulk of the protesters of the May Fourth Movement. Efforts by the Beiyang government to end the protests by sealing off the Peking University campus led to Cai's resignation. In 1920, Peking University became the first Chinese university to accept female students.
In 2000, Beijing Medical University was merged into Peking University and became the Peking University Health Science Campus. Peking University now has eight affiliated hospitals and 12 teaching hospitals.
In 2001, Peking University set up a satellite campus in Shenzhen. The university's second business school was launched on this campus in 2004.
Peking University is a national key university. The university consists of 30 colleges and 12 departments, with 93 specialties for undergraduates, 2 specialties for the second Bachelor's degree, 199 specialties for Master's degree candidates and 173 specialties for doctoral candidates. A leader in basic sciences research and teaching, the university has successfully developed applied sciences research and teaching as well.
At present, Peking university has 216 research institutions and research centres, including 2 national engineering research centres, 81 key national disciplines, 12 national key laboratories. With 4.5 million holdings, the university library is the largest of its kind in Asia.
The university has made an effort to combine the research on fundamental scientific issues with the training of personnel with high level specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's modernization.
Peking University has been becoming a center for teaching and research, consisting of diverse branches of learning such as pure & applied sciences, social sciences & humanities, and sciences of management & education.
The campus of Peking University was originally located north of the Forbidden City in the center of Beijing, and was later moved to the former campus of Yenching University in 1952. The main campus is in northwest Beijing, in Haidian district, which is also home to other well-known colleges and universities.
The Peking University's campus site is near the Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace; the area is traditionally where many of Beijing's most renowned gardens and palaces were built.
The university campus is in the former site of the Qing Dynasty imperial gardens and it retains much traditional Chinese-style landscaping, including traditional houses, gardens, pagodas, as well as many notable historical buildings and structures. There are several gates that lead into campus — East, West and South gates, with the West Gate being the most well known for the painted murals on its ceiling. Peking University is known throughout China, with its neighbour, Tsinghua University, for their beautiful campuses. Weiming lake is in the north of the campus and is surrounded by walking paths and small gardens.
The Director of the National School of Development (formerly China Center for Economic Research), Professor of Economics of Peking University and Professor of the graduate school of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is Prof. Justin Lin. Dr. Lin had more than 100 academic papers published in both Chinese and English academic journals, more than 200 articles in newspapers and magazines and had also published several books.
Justin Lin, the founding director of the institute, is the World Bank's chief economist. His appointment marked the first time the post went to a candidate outside Europe or the United States.
Peking University has produced many notable people, especially prominent thinkers in modern China. These include figures such as Hu Shih, Li Dazhao and Lu Xun. Peking University also has two Nobel Prize winners, Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning. Since 1948, 586 Peking University alumni have been selected into the renowned Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Science (两院院士), overshadowing any other universities in China.
Another notable alumni includes Hao Ping current Vice President of the Ministry of Education.
Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"（the garden of Yan）, is situated at Haidian District in the western suburb of Beijing, with a total area of 2,743,532 square metres (or 274 hectares). It stands near to the Yuanmingyuan Garden and the Summer Palace.
Peking University is proud of its outstanding faculty, including 53 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and 14 members of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
The university has effectively combined research on important scientific subjects with the training of personnel with a high level of specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various disciplines.
Thus Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of a new type, embracing diverse branches of learning such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities in the future.
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A tooth fracture, how does it occur? Teeth are remarkably strong and are able to withstand a great deal of pressure.
However, it's not uncommon for teeth to fracture, crack, chip or break because of a traumatic blow to the face or the teeth themselves.
This type of injury often occurs because of a fall, a sports injury or an automobile accident.
A dental fracture, chip or crack can also be caused by biting down on hard substances (nuts, hard candy, ice cubes or pencils, etc.) or if a cavity has weakened the tooth.
No matter what causes a damaged tooth, however, it should always be evaluated and treated by a dental professional. Accident victims and others who sustain significant injuries to their head, neck or face should be treated in a hospital emergency room.
Oral surgeons are on staff at most hospitals, and they are capable of performing emergency tooth extractions and dental reconstructions.
Dental injuries can vary in severity. A tooth might remain in place but be fractured, chipped or cracked, it might be loosened and displaced from its normal position in the jaw, or it might be knocked completely out of the mouth.
If you experience one of these types of tooth damage, you might experience some pain along with swelling of the gums near the damaged tooth. To alleviate this pain and swelling until you are able to receive dental treatment, place ice cubes or cold packs in your mouth directly over the affected tooth. Depending on the location of your damaged tooth, you can also try applying ice cubes or cold packs to the outside of your cheeks or lips.
Like dental injuries in general, dental fractures can vary in severity. Minor fractures, involving chipping of a tooth's protective enamel (the very hard, white, outermost layer of the tooth), may not cause any initial pain or sensitivity to hot or cold liquids or foods.
These minor tooth fractures can even go unnoticed, at least for a while. The tooth is not loosened, displaced knocked out, and generally the gums do not bleed. Often, the only symptom of a minor tooth fracture is a rough or sharp edge which over time irritates the cheek and/or the tongue. In almost every case involving a minor tooth fracture, dental X-rays must be taken in order to confirm the fracture, locate it precisely and measure its size and severity.
A tooth's enamel and dentin (the yellowish layer just beneath the tooth's hard outer layer of enamel) provide important protection for the living tissue inside the tooth (the pulp).
Although the tooth's layer of protective enamel is chipped in a minor tooth fracture, there is little risk of injury to the soft internal pulp. Obtaining dental treatment for the fractured tooth is, therefore, important but not urgent.
You can prevent irritation of your tongue or cheek from occurring before you get to the dentist by applying a small piece orthodontic wax (if you don't have any, try a piece of sugarless gum) over the rough edges of the tooth.
Once you arrive at your dentist's office, he or she will probably repair your fractured tooth permanently by selecting one of several methods. Depending on the location and severity of the tooth and the damage, your dentist will probably fill the tooth with dental amalgam, give you a gold or porcelain crown, or cap the tooth. The selected treatment will protect the tooth's pulp and restore its smooth contours.
More severe tooth fractures, where the tooth's root is vertically, diagonally or horizontally fractured, can be much more painful because the damage can affect the nerve inside the tooth.
A severe dental fracture might cause part of the tooth to break off, exposing the tooth's dentin and pulp. Dental treatment of these types of tooth damage should be obtained as soon as possible. The pain resulting from a severe tooth fracture might be constant or intermittent, but it's frequently painful to chew because chewing applies pressure to the broken tooth.
The tooth might be loosened and your gums might bleed. Your dentist might be able to prevent a loose tooth from falling out by splinting and bonding it to the adjacent teeth.
This procedure can help stabilize your loose tooth until your gums and bone heal up.
Pulp death is a significant risk following a severe tooth fracture, so your dentist might need to perform a root canal procedure as soon as possible after the initial trauma.
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Learn 3 different ways you can use to blow fat smoke rings.
You'll learn the easiest way to get started... then how to blow thicker smoke rings that sail across the room... and then other smoke rings tricks you can use to bedazzle your friends and enemies.
MethodsThere are 4 primary methods to blowing smoke rings: 1. Coughing Method (Easy) 2. Clicking Method (Medium) 3. Cracking Method (Depends) 4. Finger Flicker (Easy)In addition, these methods can be combined to achieve additional effects. This will be covered inpart three of the guide.Let’s tackle the setup: Set up your hookah so it’s pulling dense smoke. On some setups you willwant two coals cooking on top. The tobacco should be hot and smoky, but not too much such thatyou can’t hold in the smoke. On most pipes, you should be able to look into your vase and notsee the stem through the smoke in the chamber.Next, take a pull and check the 5-second rule: Can you bring in and hold 5-seconds worth ofsmoke for 5-seconds? If so, you’re all good. If not, it may be too hot or your lungs too virgin.Keep working on it.Now, on to throwing some ringery:1.
4. 2) Relax your lungs so that smoke slowly flows out of your mouth (Do not blow out). 3) Form a small “O” with your mouth (should be the diameter of a US quarter). 4) Make a light cough (or pop) with the back of your throat (this should be inaudible).Check the end of this section for troubleshooting tips for additional assistance.2.
coordination.Practice makes perfect. Likewise, the Clicking Method will allow for larger O’s that can glidelonger distances.The basis for this method is to actually throw the smoke out of your mouth with your tongue.Execution: 1) Take a pull of smoke. 2) Relax your lungs to fill your mouth with smoke (Do not blow out). 3) Form an “O” with your mouth. Make it as big as you can, while maintaining a tight “O” form. 4) Bring your tongue back as if you’re trying o scratch the top part of your mouth and then swiftly click it forward. You can check if you’re doing it right by putting your hand on your Adam’s apple, you should feel it move up.With this method it will not help to click your mouth multiple times in quick succession. If youdon’t see an “O,” start from step 2 again and keep trying.3.
5. 3) Form an “O” with your mouth. Make it as big as you can, while maintaining a tight “O” form. 4) Move your jaw back and crack it forward.4.
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Old Time Radio, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died: December 4, 1973 , Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Michael O'Shea (March 17, 1906 - December 4, 1973) was an American character actor whose career spanned the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. O'Shea was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Unlike his five brothers who became policemen, he dropped out of school at 12 and began his acting career in vaudeville by touring with boxing idol Jack Johnson's show.
Much like his character from Lady of Burlesque (1943), Biff Brannigan, O'Shea was a comedian and emcee at speakeasies. He put together his own dance band, "Michael O'Shea and His Stationary Gypsies", and later broke into radio and the "legitimate" stage, where he was billed for a time as "Eddie O'Shea". His performance in the 1942 play The Eve of St. Mark led to a string of film roles in the 40s, which included a memorable performance as Barbara Stanwyck's boyfriend comic in Lady of Burlesque. He also received great reviews in 1944 when he reprised his stage role of Private Thomas Mulveray in the film version of The Eve of St. Mark.
After his career in film waned—he was largely out of films by 1952—he took many roles in television. He acted in TV programs such as Ethel Barrymore Theater, Damon Runyon Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, The Revlon Mirror Theater, and Daktari. He also starred in the NBCsitcom television series It's a Great Life from 1954-1956 as Denny Davis, a former GI trying to find a civilian job. Frances Bavier played his landlady.
He was married twice. His first wife was Grace Watts, by whom he had two children. That marriage ended in divorce in 1947.
His second wife was actress Virginia Mayo, whom he married in 1947, and stayed married to until his 1973 death of a heart attack. He met Mayo during the filming of Jack London in 1943. They subsequently appeared on the stock stage together in such productions as George Washington Slept Here, Tunnel of Love and Fiorello!. During their marriage, they had one child, Mary Catherine O'Shea, who was born in 1953.
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Score a great interview with a fantastic accounting resume.
When applying for an accounting position, submitting a generic resume might hurt your chances of getting an interview. Accounting positions require specialized skills and work experience that your resume should emphasize in order to catch the attention of a hiring manager. Your resume is the first impression of you and your skills that a potential employer has. There are several things that you can do to tailor your resume for an accounting position that help you to stand out from other candidates.
The layout that you create for your resume is extremely important. Your resume has one chance to make a good first impression on an employer so you have to make sure that it is well organized and easy to read. Try to keep your resume all on one page. If you have to have more than one page, include a header at the top of the second page with your name and contact information. To save space and improve the flow of your resume, place your name at the top and all of your contact information in a single line underneath. Your resume should all be single spaced with a one line break between sections. Consider using a bold or larger font to draw the eye to section headings.
The skills section of your resume should be just underneath your heading. This is a bullet point list of all of the applicable job skills you've gained, whether through work experience or schooling. Include computer skills, languages that you speak and any areas of expertise that you have. It is not necessary to include a description of the skills, the list should be self-explanatory. Examples of skills to list for an accounting position include Excel, Quickbooks, 10-key, accounts payable and receivable and forensic accounting. If necessary, divide your skills into two columns to make it easier to read and help your resume look more polished.
Your work experience should be listed in a chronological format, from your most current employer backwards, incorporating all of your work experience for the last ten years. It is important when listing the company that you previously worked for that you also list the month and year of employment start and end dates and whether the company operates in the public or private sector. Rather than focusing strictly on a dry list of position duties, include any quantifiable accomplishments, such as saving the company $100,000 through your account analysis or shortening end of month closing by two days. It is acceptable to list job duties and accomplishments in bullet points, paragraph format or a combination of the two as long as you maintain the same format throughout the section.
The education section of your resume should follow the work experience section. In this section list any degrees or certifications that you've earned along with the school and year of graduation. If you graduated with distinction you may also want to note that. If you choose, you can also add another section to your resume, such as professional affiliations or non-profit work. Stay away from adding unnecessary sections that may detract from your resume, such as hobbies or personal interests.
Swain, Kristin. "How to Create a Resume for Accounting." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/create-resume-accounting-25586.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.
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How Do I Choose the Best Acrylic Nail Polish?
Comparing prices and brands is an important part of choosing the best acrylic nail polish.
Skin tone may dictate the best acrylic nail polish.
Expensive polish brands are typically thicker, and less likely to chip.
Generally speaking, brighter nail polish colors blend well with lighter skin tones, while deeper colors blend well with darker skin tones.
When shopping for acrylic nail polish, it is best to keep personal features and practicality in mind. Skin tone and personal style should be considered when choosing a polish color. Another factor to consider is where the polish will be worn, and if necessary, how it will compliment a certain outfit. Then as with most products, it is helpful to compare costs and qualities of brands.
The easiest way to begin eliminating acrylic nail polish options is to decide on a color. As with any type of shaded beauty care product, the same color will look different on various skin tones. In general, brighter colors blend better with lighter skin tones and deeper colors blend better with darker skin tones. It is best to go to a nail salon or a store that offers a wide range of beauty products to see all the available colors.
After narrowing down samples of acrylic nail polish according to skin tones, personality comes into play. Some colors have added features, such as glitter or crackle, which gives the look of cracked ice. Many women shop for new polish to wear to a special event. It is important to think about how a certain color or texture will fit with the environment and selected clothing. For example, a formal wedding would call for more conservative colors and textures than an exotic vacation.
As with shopping for any product, it usually helps to compare prices and brands. Some more professional brands of acrylic nail polish may seem a little pricy. Even though they may cost more, popular polish brands have their advantages. These polishes are usually thicker, meaning they are not as likely to chip and fewer coats are needed to cover nails fully. Higher quality polishes tend to last longer and be healthier for nails as well.
When considering all of the options for acrylic nail polish and all the factors that go into choosing the best, it is really a personal preference. Some women look for special features in a polish, such as fast drying or easy to remove. Others just want to find a great color to wear, without investing a lot of money.
The purpose behind needing a new nail polish might make a difference in shopping at a general consumer store or either a specialty beauty store or salon. It may help to ask a professional nail designer for tips. Trial and error is another simple way for a woman to know the brand she likes the most.
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Why is a headache rack called a headache rack? While there are several uses for a headache rack, the main safety purpose and how they got their name, is the ability to keep loose tools and heavy cargo from sliding into the back window. In most cases the rack is protecting the rear window from chips and cracks, however, there is the possibility that something could smash though and hit the driver in the head, hence the name "headache".
A headache rack a must have for all truck drives because they help keep the cab of your truck cool by deflecting the sun, while adding a rough look and provide a great place to mount rear facing lights, in addition to the safety advantages.
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American comedian who played the role of Ray-Ray the Hustle Guy in the films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business. He also appeared in the films Semi-Pro and 21 Jump Street.
He has appeared in many television shows like HBO's Entourage and Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out.
He is the older brother of R&B singer Steph Jones. He has a daughter named Brooke.
He recorded several skits on Kanye West's albums The College Dropout and Late Registration.
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Is the difference between moderate and great success mostly luck, and not skill?
Kahneman's implication is that the difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. Most of us can live with the upside of this observation: we tend to claim credit for good luck anyway. But the downside - the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate - is almost unbearable. Fortunately, we can make decisions that help minimize the influence of bad luck on our lives.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that $1 million earned as a dentist is not the same as $1 million earned as a rockstar because success as an artist depends much more on chance. If you imagine a game of "career roulette," you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar. If you want to minimize the chance of bad luck, he says, be a dentist. There are no "starving dentists."
But our goal isn't simply to minimize the influence of luck; it's to minimize the chance that bad luck will lead to an unacceptable circumstances, be that starving, divorce, failing to achieve the autonomy you crave, etc. In other words, we want to minimize the risk associated with high uncertainty in our careers.
If minimizing the chance of an unacceptable outcome is our goal, what should we look for, when career decisions loom? Here are three answers.
The first question to answer is how much of the success in a given field, or for a given project, is due to chance. Domains with a lot of uncertainty - where cause and effect are not well understood, or the context is changing constantly, or factors over which you have no visibility or control play a large role in determining performance - have the highest likelihood of skilled people failing. Evidence of the role of chance often comes in the form of high variance of performance - a right-skewed distribution of project outcomes. We see high variance in investment performance, new product launches, startups, creative industries, and academia, all areas where luck plays an outsized role.
Extreme uncertainty is only a problem if the organization holds you responsible for failure that has more to do with chance than with your skill. Well-run organizations will deal with high-variance projects by relying on process metrics and by judging you on diversified outcomes. Process metrics are easiest when the causal mechanism linking behavior and performance is well understood: driving down cycle time in software experiments allows for more experiments, which produces better results. Diversification is either concurrent (making a portfolio of many investments that are held over the same time horizon) or serial (making a series of investments that average out to a portfolio).
The startup world offers an example of serial diversification: everyone recognizes that, even entrepreneurs who "do everything right," will fail more likely than not. But entrepreneurs can diversify over time by being involved in different ventures - dramatically increasing the chance that skill will pay off over time. While luck is the biggest factor in "home-run" successes, the ability to have investors say "call me when you're starting your next company" can be achieved mostly through skill.
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Can you recommend a daily planner system that I can print from my email calendar?
I want a system to place into a notebook style 8 x 12 paper that I can print from my email calendar with daily and two page format for monthly calendars. Any system already created?
I am not quite sure what you want. What email calendar are you talking about, Outlook, gMail, etc?
I know that you can print your daily, weekly, 10 day, monthly calendars and agendas from Google Calendar, very friendly interphase.
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Jacob's Well, also commonly known as Jacob's Fountain and Well of Sychar (Arabic: بئر يعقوب, (Bir Ya'qub or Bir Ya'kub); Greek: Φρέαρ του Ιακώβ) is a deep well hewn of solid rock that has been associated in religious tradition with Jacob for roughly two millennia. It is situated a short distance from the archaeological site of Tell Balata, which is thought to be the site of biblical Shechem. The well currently lies within the complex of the Greek Orthodox monastery of the same name, in the city of Nablus in the West Bank.
Jewish, Samaritan, Christian, and Muslim traditions all associate the well with Jacob. The well is not specifically mentioned in the Old Testament. The Book of Genesis (33:18f) states that when Jacob returned to Shechem from Paddan-aram, he camped "before" the city and bought the land on which he pitched his tent. Biblical scholars contend that plot of land is the same one upon which Jacob's Well was constructed.
Jacob's Well does appear by name in the New Testament's Gospel of John (4:5f), where it is recorded that Jesus "came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there." The Gospel of John goes on to describe a conversation between Jesus and a Samaritan woman that took place while Jesus was resting at the well.
The writings of pilgrims indicate that Jacob's Well has been situated within different churches built at the same site over time.
By the 330s CE, the site had been identified as the place where Jesus held his conversation with the Samaritan woman, and was probably being used for Christian baptisms. By AD 384, a cruciform church was built over the site, and is mentioned in the 4th century writings of Saint Jerome. This church was most likely destroyed during the Samaritan revolts of 484 or 529. Subsequently rebuilt by Justinian, this second Byzantine era church was still standing in the 720s, and possibly into the early 9th century.
The Byzantine church was definitely in ruins by the time the Crusaders occupied Nablus in August 1099. Early 12th century accounts by pilgrims to the site speak of the well without mentioning a church. There are later 12th century accounts of a newly built church at Jacob's Well. The first such definitive account comes from Theoderic, who writes: "The well ... is a half a mile distant from the city [Nablus]: it lies in front of the altar in the church built over it, in which nuns devote themselves to the service of God. This well is called the Fountain of Jacob." This Crusader era church was constructed in 1175, likely due to the support of Queen Melisande, who was exiled to Nablus in 1152 where she lived until her death in 1161. This church appears to have been destroyed following Saladin's victory over the Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin in 1187.
In March 1697, when Henry Maundrell visited Jacob's Well, the depth of the water in the well measured 15 feet (4.6 m). Edward Robinson visited the site in the mid-19th century, describing the "remains of the ancient church," lying just above the well to the southwest as a "shapeless mass of ruins, among which are seen fragments of gray, granite columns, still retaining their ancient polish." Local Christians continued to venerate the site even when it was without a church.
In 1860, the site was obtained by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and a new church was constructed shortly thereafter. An earthquake in 1927 in Palestine destroyed that building.
Since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Jacob's Well has been a site of contention between Christians and Jews. In November 1979, a week after a Zionist group came to the monastery claiming it as a Jewish holy place and demanding that all religious iconography be removed, the custodian of the well, Archimandrite Philoumenos, was found hatcheted to death inside the crypt housing the well. In 2009 the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem declared him a saint thirty years after his martyrdom.
Abuna (meaning "Father") Ioustinos, a well-respected Greek Orthodox priest in Nablus, later spearheaded a huge reconstruction project. Jacob's Well has since been restored and a new church, named after Saint Photini (the woman who conversed with Jesus at the well), modeled along the designs of the Crusader era church, houses the well inside it, in a crypt on a lower level.
Jacob's Well is located 76 meters (249 ft) from Tell Balata in the eastern part of the city of Nablus within the grounds of the Jacob's Well Monastery. The well is accessed by entering the church on the monastery grounds, and descending the stairs to a crypt where the well still stands, along with "a small winch, a bucket, ex-voto icons and lots of lit candles." Joseph's Tomb, a related site, is located just north of Jacob's Well in an Ottoman era building marked by a white dome.
"a narrow opening, just wide enough to allow the body of a man to pass through with arms uplifted, and this narrow neck, which is about 4 ft. long, opens into the well itself, which is cylindrically shaped, and opens about 7 ft. 6 in. in diameter. The well and upper part of the well are built of masonry, and the well appears to have been sunk through a mixture of alluvial soil and limestone fragments, till a compact bed of mountain limestone was reached, having horizontal strata which could be easily worked; and the interior of the well presents the appearance of having been lined throughout with rough masonry."
Based on a measurement made in 1935, the total depth of the well is 41 meters (135 ft).
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Globalization refers to the relationships among countries around the world and their mutual interconnections with respect to issues of economic, social, cultural, political, and technological concern. Critically evaluate the statement that "health is a critical resource that is linked to the economic, social, cultural, political, and technological concerns associated with globalization." In what ways does the prevalence of a variety of infectious disease in various regions of the world, including developing countries, represent an economic concern for globalization? In what ways does the globalization of the economy represent a health concern for populations across the globe?
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