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Interesting fact No. 1: Suzdal is the birthplace of Peter the Great’s first wife and last Russian tsaritsa, Eudoxia Lopukhina, and the prominent Bolshevik revolutionary Alexei Gastev.
Interesting fact No. 2: Suzdal has almost 300 landmarks and at one point boasted a ratio of one church to every 10 families.
Sister cities: Klec, Czech Republic; Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany; Évora, Portugal; Windham, New Hampshire, U.S.
SUZDAL, Vladimir Region — Dating back more than 1,000 years, Suzdal is one of Russia's oldest settlements and a place almost completely untouched by the pace of change that has transformed the architecture of the country's major cities into one of aesthetic extremes.
The system of mostly unpaved country lanes around which the local infrastructure is organized fulfills the commuting needs of the locals as well as their livestock, which graze freely in the shadow of ancient churches. The tranquil atmosphere and picturesque views serve as inspiration for amateur artists, who can be seen, bent over easels in wooded clearings, all year round. On summer evenings, the central square becomes a hub of activity, where the town's younger inhabitants gather, beer in hand, to update all present on what little can be said of the latest developments.
Suzdal Mead Plant (13 Promyshlennaya Ulitsa; +7 49231-2-15-72; medovuha.ru) is one of the biggest producers of honey-based alcoholic beverages in Russia, with factories in Moscow and Suzdal. Production is based on traditional centuries-old Russian recipes and 17 types of medovukha are made, ranging from 5 to 8.5 percent in strength. The company employs more than 100 workers in the town and exports to over 400 outlets in Moscow, including major supermarket chains such as Dixy and Perekryostok, and across Russia.
Political and religious life in Suzdal — historically the capital of the Rostov-Suzdal principality (which also encompassed Moscow and Smolensk) and later one of the most important religious centers in Russia — has traditionally revolved around its kremlin, which is now included on UNESCO's World Heritage List, along with several monasteries in the area.
But in the 1960s the Soviet government decided to replace Suzdal's political and religious roles and, recognizing its tourist potential, turn it into a "museum town."
Q: How has Suzdal, known for its history and traditions, changed in recent years?
A: Modern, urban change in Suzdal, like any evolutionary process, has altered how the city looks in positive and negative ways. The city’s alienation from major transportation arteries has saved it from the arrival of large, industrial investors in the past, but this is not the case today.
Q: How does the city administration help investors?
A: Investment is a good and an evil for a historic city. Small investors try to profit by any means, ruthlessly exploiting and often destroying the natural and historical heritage of the city. For large investors, the number of tourists seems too small and the city too remote from the epicenters of intense urban growth — Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Tver. But investments are vital to Suzdal’s development. The Suzdal administration has formed a number of investment areas that are laid out in the city’s master plan. The administration signed an agreement with the Skolkovo innovation center in June 2012 for mutual cooperation in the development and installation of new information and energy-saving technologies in the existing city infrastructure.
Q: Which sectors of the city’s economy have the most investment potential?
A: Traditional sectors, the processing of agricultural products and arts and crafts, have the most potential for investment today. The niche for tourism services is still unfilled. Despite an abundance of hotels and food facilities, it is difficult to eat well in Suzdal. There is no gourmet cuisine, nor are there any culinary schools. There is little event-oriented tourism or ecotourism. The creation of a system of parking lots for tourist transportation is both a municipal problem and a potential area for investment.
Today, the local economy is centered on the tourist industry, which is beginning to revitalize itself after coming to a near standstill with the Soviet collapse, and laws restricting the construction of buildings above two stories date back to the Khrushchev era.
The many hotels recently springing up in the outskirts provide perhaps the first evidence of a changing landscape, while many locals have seized the opportunity for some extra income by turning their homes into bed and breakfast inns.
Although hospitality, catering and small-time souvenir production are the predominant driving forces for the economy, Suzdal is also one of the only places in Russia where medovukha, a mildly alcoholic honey drink similar to mead, is still made. The practice seems to be imprinted into the very fabric of Suzdalian life: Not only is there a local factory that exports across Russia, but many inhabitants run stalls in the market square where they sell their own homemade version to tourists. A bottle here can be bought for as little as 100 rubles, and most stalls let you taste the drink first, but you may have to chase a swarm of bees away before you get to it.
Suzdal is the setting for a number of annual festivals. Among them is the Open Russian Festival of Animated Film held in early spring and the equally prestigious (well, almost) Day of the Cucumber, a yearly celebration of all things cucumber-related and the highlight of the year for fans of the green vegetable across Russia, to which the town plays host on the second Saturday in July. Not to be outdone by rival events (of which, presumably, there are few), the festival includes a unique children's performance titled "Tales of Prince Cucumber and Princess Liana," which takes place in Suzdal's Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life and is thoroughly recommended by locals.
The museum itself is worth a separate visit; it comprises some of the most beautiful wooden churches built in Russia since the 16th century and a number of typical peasant cottages from the 18th, all moved to Suzdal during the Soviet campaign to promote the town as a tourist resort. The most visually impressive of the buildings is Preobrazhenskaya Church, a three-tier village church with a central structure composed of three octagons crowned by a spectacular onion dome.
The best way to get a true sense of the Suzdalian atmosphere, regardless of the amount of time you have available, is to take a walk through the town and visit its churches and monasteries. The priority for a short tour should be a trip to the kremlin (+7 49231-2-16-24; museum.vladimir.ru), which can be reached within minutes from the trading arcades via Kremlyovskaya Ulitsa. Specially preserved parts of the structure date back to the 10th century, and the Cathedral of the Nativity is one of the eight White Monuments of Suzdal and Vladimir, as well as a World Heritage site.
Q: When did you first try mead?
A: It was in 1999. We came to Suzdal from Moscow and tried mead made by a private entrepreneur. Mead seemed to me to be a most unusual drink, and I thought it should be available in every store, if not in every house.
Q: Why is the plant located in Suzdal?
A: Traditionally, in the old times, the production of honey was concentrated in monasteries. Suzdal has a lot of them! Interest in national drinks peaked again in the 19th century, and a mead plant was built in Suzdal in 1851. That is where our roots are.
Q: What kind of help would you like to see from the city administration?
A: We would like the city to help us market our products — just like our products help to market the city. We also hope that Russian officials in general will be supportive of us and will reverse a decision to equate mead with alcoholic beverages, which requires retailers to get licenses to sell the drink.
Q: How will the the plant develop in the future?
A: We are expanding the assortment of drinks that we offer. The plant now supplies mead mostly to central Russia, but we are hoping to eventually reach even the farthest points of the country. There is interest in North America and Europe for exports of our products, so we are considering selling our products there as well.
When you leave the kremlin, cross the small bridge over the Kamenka River. At this point you should be facing the walls that form part of the outer perimeter of the Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life, above which the onion domes of its two beautiful churches, Voskresenskaya and Preobrazhenskaya, are visible.
Head to the right and follow the course of the river. On your way, visit the Convent of the Intercession, a female monastery with a beautiful 16th-century cathedral within its walls and a restaurant where you can take a well-deserved break before you continue your tour.
Once you have refueled, continue along the riverbank until you see the huge red walls of the St. Euthymius Monastery, standing beside which you get a marvelous aerial view of the town. Cross the connecting bridge and follow the fortress perimeter to the right until you are on the main Ulitsa Lenina, from where you can take in the churches and cottages that line the roadside on your way back to the trading arcades in the center of town.
A two-day trip to Suzdal can serve as a welcome escape from reality. Aside from the opportunity for long therapeutic walks in the surrounding countryside, it also provides a chance to explore in more depth the town's beautiful architecture and become acquainted with its cultural heritage.
A trip to the Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life (Pushkarskaya Ulitsa; +7 49231-2-07-84; suzdal.org.ru/en/museums) can certainly help fulfill the aspiration for beautiful architecture. It's open daily between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., except Wednesdays.
Experiencing the local cultural heritage can be accomplished by visiting the kremlin museum, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Tuesdays. Of particular interest is the Cross Chamber, a 300-square-meter hall with a vaulted ceiling without, amazingly, a single pillar to support it. It was here that the tsar read out his decrees and high priests were ordained.
Allocate a separate day for a trip to the St. Euthymius Monastery (Ulitsa Lenina; +7 49231-2-07-46; museum.vladimir.ru), open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Mondays.
Within its mighty six-meter-thick walls is housed an 18th-century prison whose most famous inmate was Friedrich Paulus, the field marshal of Nazi Germany's Sixth Army, who was sent to serve his sentence in Suzdal after the failed siege of Stalingrad. During the Stalinist period, political prisoners were kept here, many of whom were later sent to their deaths in Siberian death camps. Today the prison has been turned into a museum of Suzdal's military history, although it also has on display a number of letters sent by prisoners and other memorabilia. The monastery complex contains several museums and churches, and money can be saved by buying one ticket for all the exhibitions, which costs 400 rubles.
Q: Why does a Dymov Ceramics craft make a good souvenir?
A: Because it is handmade in Russia, in Suzdal.
Q: How does your company pass the art of craftmaking to a new generation of masters?
A: We often invite amateur potters, artists and sculptors to work with us. Now, for example, we have working for us two students from the Obramtsevsky Ceramics School. They will work here for a whole month during their summer vacation. They live right by the factory. This is a great way to learn the basics of the ceramic business. We also employ people trained as woodcraft masters, and today, with our training, they are making plaster models.
Q: Which corporate clients have ordered your products?
A: We get quite a lot of orders. We can’t help it. Danone, Kaspersky Lab and others send us orders, particularly during the new year’s holidays. We make tree ornaments in the form of milk cartons, televisions and other items.
If you want to eat in style, stop in the Trapezhnaya restaurant located in the Bishop's Chambers of the Suzdal kremlin (20 Kremlyovskaya Ulitsa; +7 49231-2-17-63; trapeznaya.ru), whose visitors have included Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and retired cosmonaut Georgy Grechko. The menu offers traditional Russian food with a wide range of fruit desserts. It is also a great place to try quality locally produced medovukha. Expect to pay 700-800 rubles for a two-course meal without alcohol. The restaurant is open from noon to midnight.
For a cheap and cheerful meal in a great local atmosphere, try Servand (63 Lenina), a centrally located restaurant just opposite the Kazansky Church in the old trading arcades of the market square. The place is very popular with Suzdal's inhabitants and tourists alike, and a perfectly decent soup and main course will set you back only 300 rubles.
Hotels in Suzdal are being built at a remarkable pace, leaving visitors spoiled for choice. A popular option among Russian and foreign tourists is the four-star Pushkinskaya Sloboda (53 Ulitsa Lenina; +7 49231-2-33-03; pushkarka.ru), owing to its central location within walking distance from the town center and the beautiful grounds that surround it, complete with a children's playground and conference hall rented by Moscow companies for weekend management outings. Prices range from 3,200 rubles for a standard double to 10,900 for a luxury two-room apartment.
Another highly rated and affordable option is Sokol Hotel (2A Torgovaya Ploshchad; +7 49231-2-09-87; hotel-sokol.ru), located just opposite the trading arcades in the very center of town. Rooms start at 2,500 rubles for both single and double.
An increasing trend among Suzdal's citizens is to rent rooms in their cottages out to tourists. Look out for signs on your way into town reading "гостевой дом" (guest house) and expect to pay around 1,000 rubles per night for a double room.
Since 2009, a complex of 114 vacation cottages along the Kamenka River (main office: 11 Devicheskaya Ulitsa, Vladimir; +7 49223-7-38-30; domavsuzdale.ru) has been under construction on the outskirts of town. Although the project is not expected to be completed until at least 2015, homes are already available for sale and short-term rent.
Perhaps life in Suzdal would have been closer to entering the 21st century if the town were easier to reach. With no train station or airport in the town, the quickest way to make the journey and the only viable option for Muscovites considering a quick day-trip to Suzdal is by car, on the M7 Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod route via Vladimir. It takes about three hours to cover the 210-kilometer distance.
Another popular option is to catch a train from Moscow's Kursky Station to Vladimir, where you can spend a few hours sight-seeing before jumping on a bus to Suzdal, which leaves Vladimir's train station every half hour.
A commuter train costs 340 rubles and runs twice daily at 8:12 a.m. and 2:23 p.m., reaching Vladimir in just over three hours. Alternatively, the standard train company operates a regular service until late in the evening — prices start from around 900 rubles for economy class and the journey takes an average of two and a half hours. If you're in a real hurry, you can get the express Sapsan service, but be warned: Tickets can easily be in excess of 3,000 rubles, and you'll only be cutting your traveling time by one hour.
A daily bus also runs from Moscow's Shchyolkovsky bus station. The set fare for a bus ticket, which cannot be bought in advance, is around 200 rubles; the bus leaves when the driver deems it to be sufficiently full, but usually the wait is no longer than 10 minutes. The journey time to Vladimir is around three and a half hours.
The bus station is located 2 kilometers outside Suzdal. For an extra 10 rubles, the driver will take you all the way, but if you have any energy left after the ride, take the 30-minute walk to the center and admire the traditional dachas on either side of the quiet street that leads to it.
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How do I stop a vendor from selling my work?
Find out how to stop a gallery or shop selling your work.
If you feel that your artwork does not fit with a particular gallery or art store you can stop them from selling it by either blocking a particular image or blocking the store from selling any of your images.
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The classical analysis of variance (ANOVA) technique based on least squares assumes that the underlying experimental errors are normally distributed. However, data often contain outliers due to recording or other errors. In other cases, extreme responses occur when control variables in the experiments are set to extremes. It is important to distinguish these extreme points and determine whether they are outliers or important extreme cases. You can use the ROBUSTREG procedure for robust analysis of variance based on M estimation. Typically, there are no high leverage points in a well-designed experiment, so M estimation is appropriate.
The following example shows how to use the ROBUSTREG procedure for robust ANOVA.
An experiment was carried out to study the effects of two successive treatments (T1, T2) on the recovery time of mice with certain diseases. Sixteen mice were randomly assigned into four groups for the four different combinations of the treatments. The recovery times (time) were recorded (in hours) as shown in the following data set recover.
Output 80.2.1 indicates that the overall model effect is not significant at the 10% level, and Output 80.2.2 indicates that neither treatment is significant at the 10% level.
Output 80.2.3 shows some basic information about the model and the response variable time.
The “Parameter Estimates” table in Output 80.2.4 indicates that the main effects of both treatments are significant at the 5% level.
The reason for the difference between the traditional ANOVA and the robust ANOVA is explained by Output 80.2.5, which shows that the fourth observation is an outlier. Further investigation shows that the original value of 24.4 for the fourth observation was recorded incorrectly.
Output 80.2.6 displays the robust test results. The interaction between the two treatments is not significant. Output 80.2.7 displays the robust residuals and standardized robust residuals.
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How much do movers in Burleson charge? The moving cost depends on the size of your home and how far you're moving.
For example, moving a 2 bedroom home to Houston costs $1090 - $1330, to San Antonio costs $1090 - $1330, to Dallas costs $740 - $910, to Austin costs $950 - $1160, to Fort Worth costs $710 - $870, etc.
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Botanical raw ingredients, such as essential oils and resins from flowers, bark; seeds; leaves; twigs; grass; roots and rind.
Ethically sourced and harvested animal ingredients such as Ambergris and hyrax stone.
Tinctures, which are derived from macerating a botanical raw material, such as Vanilla, in ethanol (naturally derived alcohol) or an Infusion, where botanical material is infused in oil such as jojoba or coconut.
The majority of mainstream and commercial fragrances though inspired by nature, are predominantly composed from artificial or 'synthetic' compounds that are produced through chemical manufacture, these are called aromachemicals. In some instances, they can provide an ethical or humane alternative especially in replacing the prized animal derived materials such as Civet, Castoreum and Musk. Civetone, skatole and Musk Ketone/Galaxolide/Cashmeran are respective examples of aromachemical replacements, so beloved of perfumers to give longevity, depth, warmth to a base note structure and provide a desirous animalic note.
There are some natural 'musk' alternatives too, such as Ambrette Seed (Abelmoschus moschatus) and others such as Angelica Seed (Angelica archangelica) which have musky elements that can be isolated - however, that is a whole other separate issue about 'Isolates' - which I shall save for another time!
I am in no way against the use of synthetics in Perfumery per se, in fact I own many beautiful, soul inspiring fragrances, but I am just much more selective now in what I choose to wear. I now find I am over-sensitive to some aroma-chemicals in perfumes (and other fragranced products), perhaps due to a clumsy composition or heavy handed use of materials - who knows? So I mainly choose unscented/naturally fragranced products and perfumes I know I can tolerate (which surprisingly turns out to be be in the higher price bracket - darn!).
My preference for working with naturals, is predominantly due my original aromatherapy training, which has continually served to pique and nurture my interest but also because natural materials are multi-faceted, dynamic, soulful and ephemeral. They are an education to work with, ambiguously possessing complexity, subtlety and richness. Once you delve into the long history of discovery and use of many raw ingredients and plants, their botanical stories; countries of origin and terrain; smell and properties, a sense of the metaphysical and metaphorical reveals itself as stories of love, drama and adventure unravel! Where would poetry, literature, music, film and art be without nature's fragrant offerings and their symbolic links to romance, seduction, murder, legend, myth and folklore, ritual, magic and religion?
The Helen Keller quote is a favourite of mine, a brief inhalation takes you on a journey and pulls you back in time, some oils, such Rose Otto, Orange Blossom or Jasmine are perfumes in themselves revealing different facets of their personality and history with each inhale.
Of course they have their own limitations, there are safety issues (as with everything in life!) and ecological concerns for certain species; but for me this enhances their attraction, it provides a delightful chinese puzzle-box of a challenge to sensitively create nuanced and complex perfumes and aromatics using natural ingredients and working in harmony with what Nature offers us.
Alas, I do not have scratch and sniff technology embedded in this picture!
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Peter Pan, his fellow characters, and the setting of Neverland have appeared in many works since the original books and play by J. M. Barrie. The earliest were the stage productions of the play, and an adaptation to silent film, done with Barrie's involvement and personal approval. Later works were authorised by Great Ormond Street Hospital, to which Barrie gave the rights to the Peter Pan works; these include adaptations of the main story in both animated and live-action films, musical stage productions, and a sequel novel. In addition, there have been numerous uses of Barrie's characters, settings, and storylines which challenged or took advantage of the changing copyright status of these elements, including reinterpretations, sequels, prequels, and spin-offs in a variety of media, including film, television series, and books.
Adaptations of Peter Pan for public performance have a unique status in UK copyright law: Great Ormond Street Hospital has the right to receive royalties in perpetuity under specific provisions in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
When dramatized, the character of Peter has usually—but not always—been played by an adult woman. For boys' roles to be played by women is a convention of the pantomime tradition that was popular when the play was first produced, and was necessitated by laws restricting the use of child actors for evening performances. Later adaptations have often followed this example, for reasons that include tradition, the performance demands of the role, and the marketing advantages of "star" actresses. The roles of Captain Hook and George Darling happened to be played by the same actor in the original production, a tradition which has sometimes been continued in later dramatic adaptations.
1908 – When Wendy Grew Up – An Afterthought, a short sequel play first staged in 1908, but only published in book form in 1957.
1911 – Peter and Wendy (novel), later published as Peter Pan and Wendy, adapted as a novel from the play, it also incorporates events from When Wendy Grew Up – An Afterthought.
The Peter Pan Picture Book (sometimes entitled The Story of Peter Pan), retold by Daniel O'Connor, illustrated by Alice B. Woodward (1907), based on the original stage production of 1904. The text was also published as Peter Pan Keepsake but illustrated with photographs from the first productions. This story differs from Barrie's own 1911 novelisation because he had made several changes to his play and story since it was first staged in 1904.
Peter Pan and the Only Children by Gilbert Adair (1987), an unauthorised sequel/prequel novel. This book is written and presented in a format similar to Peter and Wendy, with bound-in color illustrations by Jenny Thorne. It has Peter living with a different gang of Lost Boys under the ocean, recruiting "only children" who jump from passing ships as new members, including the newest: 10-year-old Marissa Porter. They have adventures under the sea, including a duel with Captain Hook which ends indecisively. The narrator suggests at the end that perhaps this is a prequel to the adventure with Wendy Darling, or they take place without sequence. Adair's previous novel was Alice through the Needle's Eye, a sequel to the Alice in Wonderland stories.
Neverland by Toby Forward (1989), where Peter Pan, Captain Hook etc. are brought back to life through a computer game. Published by Simon & Schuster when Peter Pan first entered the public domain in the UK, before the copyright was revived in 1995.
Hook by Terry Brooks (1991), a novelization of the Spielberg film.
After the Rain: A New Adventure for Peter Pan by J. E. Somma (1999), an unauthorised sequel novel. Set in modern times, telling of Peter's reaction to a world that has grown to neglect him, and his rescue by three children who teach him that it's OK to grow up. It was published without incident in Canada, where the copyright to Peter Pan was generally agreed to have expired, but Somma and GOSH were in legal dispute when it was published in the U.S. in 2002, where GOSH claimed their copyrights were still valid. They eventually settled out of court.
Wendy by Karen Wallace (December 2003), an unauthorised prequel novel for young adults. An attempt to explain the Darling children's willingness to fly away with Peter on the grounds that their home life, up until shortly before Peter appeared, had been filled with abuse and tragedy: a cruel nanny, a criminally irresponsible father, and a suggestion of insanity in the family.
The Lost Girls: A Novel by Laurie Fox (January 2004), an unauthorised sequel novel. Follows the interaction of Peter Pan with each generation of Wendy Darling's female descendants, up to a distinctly 21st-century great-great-granddaughter. Published by Simon & Schuster.
The "Starcatchers" books by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, a series of unauthorised prequel novels, published by Hyperion Books (a subsidiary of Disney) in the US and by Walker Books in the UK.
Peter and the Starcatchers (August 2004). Set on a ship called Never Land featuring Peter and an earlier group of Lost Boys. In 2005, the publisher announced plans by Disney to adapt the book as a digitally animated movie. "Peter and the Starcatchers" was adapted to a play similarly titled "Peter and the Starcatcher" winning several Tony awards.
Peter and the Shadow Thieves (June 2006).
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (October 2007).
Peter and the Sword of Mercy (October 2009).
The "Never Land Books" by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Greg Call (ill.), a series of unauthorised spin-off chapter books. Based on the continuity established by the "Starcatchers" novels, for a younger audience.
Escape from the Carnivale (August 2006).
Cave of the Dark Wind (July 2007).
Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by James V. Hart (co-writer of the movie Hook), Brett Helquist (ill.) (2005), an authorised (non-canon) prequel illustrated novel, published by HarperCollins in the US. Details the history of 15-year-old James Matthew, young Oppidan Scholar and future Captain Hook. The book portrays the villainous youth in a sympathetic light.
The Disney Fairies books by Gail Carson Levine, David Christiana (ill.), a series of spin-off illustrated novels for children. Part of the Disney Fairies franchise, published by Disney Press in the US and HarperCollins in the UK. Introduces a new cast of "Never Fairies", in addition to Tinker Bell. Peter Pan and Captain Hook are mentioned but play very minor roles. Additional chapter books in the series are intended for younger readers, and were written by various authors, focusing on the different characters invented by Levine.
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (2005).
Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand (July 2007).
Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean (October 2006), the official sequel novel. Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital following a competition launched in 2004. It has been sold in 40 different editions in 37 languages. The book is published by Oxford University Press in the UK and Margaret K McElderry (Simon & Schuster) in the US.
Tigerheart by Peter David (2008), a novel retelling the Peter Pan stories from another character's perspective, referring to him as "the boy" throughout the novel, and referencing both Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy, with changes to many of the original characters.
The Child Thief by artist Gerald Brom (2009), an illustrated novel reinterpreting Peter Pan based on the darker themes in the story as a ruthless figure recruiting children to serve toward his own ends.
Another Pan by Daniel Nayeri and Dina Nayeri (2010), a darker version featuring an 18-year-old Peter Pan searching for the magic bone dust so he will never grow old. Characters also include Wendy, John and their father George Darling.
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson (2012), a reinterpretation focusing on Tiger Lily, narrated by Tinker Bell.
Hook's Revenge by Heidi Schulz (2014), a humorous adventure series about the 12-year-old daughter of Captain Hook on a quest to avenge her father's death.
Peter Darling by Austin Chant (2017), a queer, trans reimagining where a grown-up Peter returns to Neverland. It is the winner of the 2017 Rainbow Awards for Best Cover, Best Debut Transgender Book, and Best Transgender Sci-fi/Fantasy.
Fifty Years of Peter Pan by Roger Lancelyn Green is an account of the first 50 years in Peter Pan's stage history.
J.M. Barrie and The Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin is an account of the meeting and relationship between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies family, and how Peter Pan came to be created, based on his docudrama The Lost Boys broadcast in 1978.
Dr. Dan Kiley popularised the Peter Pan syndrome in his 1983 book, The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up, about individuals (usually male) with underdeveloped maturity; his next book, The Wendy Dilemma (1984), advises women romantically involved with "Peter Pans" how to improve their relationships.
Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904–2010 by Bruce Hanson covers the genesis of Peter Pan and its productions in the UK and US. Originally published in 1993 under the title The Peter Pan Chronicles.
Disney produced picture book and comic book adaptations of the story, based on their 1953 animated version, published by Dell Comics and Gold Key.
Peter Pank by Spanish cartoonist "Max" (Francesc Capdevila) (1985–1990), an unauthorised comic reinterpretation for "adults only". Peter is a violent, spiked-hair anarchist living in Punkland with a gang of punk Lost Boys. The pirates are a gang of rockers, the Indians are hippies, and the female characters all spend a lot of time bare-breasted, with numerous sexual scenes. It was published in three European-format albums: Peter Pank, El Licantropunk, and Pankdinista.
Peter Pan by French cartoonist Régis Loisel (1990–2004), an unauthorised prequel bandes dessinées. A bawdy, violent series of six albums (two of which won the Angoulême Audience Award), giving Peter Pan's back story a distinctly Dickensian flavor. The original story was in the public domain in France when the first volume was released.
Peter Pan: Return to Never-Never Land by Ron Fortier and Gary Kato (1991), an unauthorised sequel. Peter brings two modern African-American boys to Never-Never Land, published by Malibu Comics under the Adventure Comics imprint, two issues later reprinted in a single volume.
The Lost by Marc Andreyko, Galen Showman, and Jay Geldhof (1997), an unauthorised sequel comic book. This urban horror-themed mini-series published by Caliber Comics and Chaos! Comics continues the story in present-day New York City, with Peter revealed as a vampire boy hustler who leads a small group of vampire boys including Michael, and lures another girl named Wendy to join them.
Lost Boys (ロストボーイズ) by Kaname Itsuki (2004), an unauthorized manga reinterpretation, in which a character based on Peter Pan brings a young man to Neverland to be his father, with romantic themes.
Japanese manga artist, Mayu Sakai, appropriated the English version of the term, puer aeternus, for her series, Peter Pan Syndrome.
Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (July 2006), an unauthorised reinterpretation graphic novel. A controversial use of Wendy Darling alongside Dorothy Gale from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1913, telling each other stories about their sexual experiences. In it, Peter is a boy that Wendy and her brothers meet in Kensington Gardens, who gives them their first sexual experiences.
Marvel Fairy Tales by C. B. Cebulski features various Marvel Comics characters as characters from fairy tales and fables. In issue #1 of the third miniseries of the line, Peter Pan is played by Captain America, with Scarlet Witch as Wendy, The Wasp as Tinker Bell, and Klaw as Captain Hook.
Peter Pan – The Graphic Novel by Stephen White (2015), a retelling of the original work in graphic novel form.
Peter Pan, book, music, and lyrics by Philip Glassborow (1995), an authorised musical radio adaptation. Directed by Dirk Maggs for the BBC, this production was nominated for a Writer's Guild of Great Britain award.
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904). Although Barrie did not intend the play as a pantomime, it has many features in common with this traditional genre of British children's theatre: a boy – played by a woman – as the lead role (known as the "principal boy"), actors in animal costumes, a flamboyant villain, and fantasy themes. (However, it does not feature the panto staple of a "Dame": a man dressed as a usually grotesque female character.) Its original presentation during the 1904 Christmas/New Year season also fit with the "panto" genre, and beginning the very next season, panto productions based on the play – often featuring popular entertainers (in later years, often TV stars) – have been a regular feature of British theatre, particularly at Christmas. In keeping with the genre, they are staged as full professional productions, but may feature largely original storylines, music, slapstick, improvisation, and audience participation, all intended to amuse children and their parents.
Peter Pan (1924), music by Jerome Kern, an authorised Broadway adaptation. Included two songs.
Peter Pan (1950), music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, an authorised Broadway adaptation. Intended as a musical, it was eventually staged as a "straight" dramatic version with only five songs. This version starred Jean Arthur as Peter Pan, and Boris Karloff in the dual roles of Mr. Darling and Captain Hook. The full score has recently been staged.
Peter Pan (1954), directed by Jerome Robbins, an authorised musical stage adaptation with music by Mark "Moose" Charlap and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. Taking the opposite path of the 1950 adaptation, it was originally to have only a few incidental songs, but evolved into a full Broadway musical with some new songs from composer Jule Styne and lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This version became widely known as a vehicle for Mary Martin, who appeared in three television productions of this version and won a Best Musical Actress Tony Award for her performance as well as an Emmy when it was aired on television. Cyril Ritchard won a Tony as Captain Hook in the Broadway production opposite Martin and reprised the role in the first television production opposite her, and it is the role for which he has remained best known. Revivals featured television actress Sandy Duncan and gymnast Cathy Rigby as Peter. A 2014 TV version was broadcast by NBC as Peter Pan Live!
Neverland (1975), book, music, and lyrics by Jim Steinman, a futuristic musical stage adaptation. Although it only existed as a brief workshop at the Kennedy Center in 1977, three of the songs would be reworked for the album Bat Out of Hell, one of the best-selling recordings in history.
Peter Pan (1982), a new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn, first staged on 10 December 1982 at the Barbican Theatre, London.
Peter Pan: The British Musical (1985), book, music and lyrics by Piers Chater Robinson, an authorised musical stage adaptation.
Peter Pan (1996), book, music, and lyrics by Philip Glassborow, an authorised musical stage adaptation based on Glassborow's radio musical. The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire commissioned a new musical adaptation, following Glassborow's successful BBC radio dramatization.
Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure (1996), lyrics by Anthony Drewe and music by George Stiles, an authorised musical stage adaptation, first staged in Copenhagen. Performed and recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, and broadcast on New Year's Eve 2001 by the BBC.
Peter and Wendy (1997) adaptation and lyrics by Liza Lorwin and music by Scottish fiddler, Johnny Cunningham (of Silly Wizard fame). This is a stage production using Bunraku-style puppets performed by avant-garde theatre troupe, Mabou Mines, and actress Karen Kandel, who won an OBIE for her performance. There is a cast recording of the Celtic style music. Mabou Mimes recently revived the original production at the Edinburgh Festival (2009) and in New York at the New Victory Theater (2011).
The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan (2002) by Phillip C. Klapperich, an ensemble member of The House Theatre of Chicago. This production brings to the fore the darker subtexts of the story, such as the dysfunction of Peter's relationships with Wendy, Tinker Bell, and Tiger Lily, his fear of growing up, and his self-absorption, as he fails to notice those around him being hurt or killed.
'Peter Pan' (2004) by the Chickenshed Theatre Company was a musical stage version of Peter Pan, and was performed to mark the 100th Anniversary of the play. This is also the only performance to date with sign language fully integrated.
Peter Pan (2009), originally titled "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" a large scale production for which a specially built theatre pavilion with 360 degree surround video was created, script by Tanya Ronder, music by Benjamin Wallfisch, first staged at Kensington Gardens in Summer 2009 within view of the Peter Pan statue. The production opened in the US in May 2010 and has since toured in San Francisco, Orange County, Atlanta, Chicago and Boston.
Peter Pan (A Play) (2009), adapted by Amanda Dehnert, first staged at Northwestern University, later mounted professionally at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company in 2010.
Peter Pan (2009), music by Dan Chambers and lyrics by Dan Chambers and Polly Gibson, book by Polly Gibson, an authorised musical stage adaptation, first staged by the Sinodun Players at the Corn Exchange, Wallingford in July 2009.
Peter Pan (2010), stage adaptation by David Greig, first staged by the National Theatre of Scotland at the King's Theatre, Glasgow in April 2010. The action is transposed from Edwardian London to Victorian Edinburgh, and set against a background of construction of the Forth Rail Bridge.
Peter Pan, the Boy who Hated Mothers (2010), adapted by Andrew Birkin from J.M. Barrie's original various drafts of the play, novel and screenplay, first staged at the Theatre du Gymnase in Marseille in February 2010 (translated into French by Céline-Albin Faivre), broadcast on Arte TV Channel Christmas 2010.
Peter Pan (2012), stage adaptation directed by Sally Cookson and devised by the companies, originally produced by Bristol Old Vic for Christmas 2012 before being produced by the National Theatre, London (in a co-production with Bristol Old Vic) for Christmas 2016.
Wendy and Peter Pan (2013), a new adaptation by Ella Hickson at the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, placing Wendy as the protagonist.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2013), is a comedy by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of the Mischief Theatre Company in which the characters and members of the fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society attempt to present their production of Peter Pan.
Fly (2013), a darker take on Peter Pan with a focus on leaving childhood behind and the importance of growing up, by Jeffrey Seller debuted through the Dallas Theater Center. The book is by Rajiv Joseph, who worked on the lyrics with Kirsten Childs, and the music is by Bill Sherman.
Peter Pan Opera (2014), by composer Richard Ayres and librettist Lavinia Greenlaw, first staged in Stuttgart in 2014 and performed in the UK in 2015 by the Welsh National Opera.
Peter Pan (2015), was presented at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Co-directed by Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel, the production was set in World War I and went on to earn an Olivier Award nomination. The production returned to the Open Air Theatre for its 2018 Season.
Peter Pan by Paramount Pictures (1924), an authorised silent movie adaptation. Starred Betty Bronson as Peter and Ernest Torrence as Hook. Barrie was involved in this production and wrote a screenplay for it, but Paramount instead used the original stage script, taking dialog from it for the intertitles.
Walt Disney's Peter Pan (released on 5 February 1953), an authorised animated adaptation. Disney licensed the film rights to the story in 1939 from Great Ormond St Hospital for Children. It featured music by Sammy Cahn, Frank Churchill, Sammy Fain, and Ted Sears. 15-year-old film actor Bobby Driscoll supplied the voice of Peter. This version contained little of the original dialogue from the play or its novelization.
Peter Pan (Питер Пэн) (1987), an unauthorised live-action musical adaptation by Belarusfilm for Soviet television.
Peter Pan (1988), an unauthorised Australian direct-to-video animated adaptation.
Hook by Steven Spielberg (1991), an authorised live-action sequel. A family action/adventure film starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins and Maggie Smith. The film has a grown-up "Peter Banning" who has forgotten his childhood, lured back to Neverland by Captain Hook, who has kidnapped Peter's two young children in an attempt to once again find meaning in his life. Despite mixed reviews by critics, the film was popular with audiences and grossed nearly $120 million in the U.S., making it the 4th highest-grossing movie of 1991.
Return to Never Land from Disney (February 2002), an authorised animated sequel to the 1953 Disney film. Wendy's daughter Jane becomes involved with Peter Pan. The movie takes place during World War II, set amidst the Blitz (1940), and deals with the issue of children being forced to grow up too fast.
Peter Pan directed by P. J. Hogan (2003), an authorised live-action movie adaptation. This version is notable for its directness in addressing the romantic elements between Peter (Jeremy Sumpter) and Wendy. Wendy was played by Rachel Hurd-Wood and Hook by Jason Isaacs, who also plays the role of Mr Darling. The $100 million film boasted state-of-the-art special effects by ILM and took nearly a year to produce in Australia, but was not a financial success for Universal Studios (USA/France/English countries) and Columbia Pictures.
Neverland by writer/director Damion Dietz (2003), an unauthorised film reinterpretation. Set in early 21st-century Los Angeles and heavily "updated" for this setting, Dietz's independently produced film—featuring Wil Wheaton as John Darling—maintains much of the characterization, plot and themes of Barrie's original story.
A series of digitally animated direct-to-DVD films starring Tinker Bell was begun by Disney in 2008. These works are part of the company's Disney Fairies franchise, and feature a cast of fairy characters and settings original to Disney.
Pan, a 2015 origin story directed by Joe Wright starring Levi Miller as Pan, Garrett Hedlund as Hook, Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, Adeel Akhtar as Smee and Amanda Seyfried as Mary.
With the lapsing copyrights on Peter Pan in various jurisdictions, a number of short unauthorised, low-budget, animated adaptations of the film have been produced.
Producers' Showcase: Peter Pan (7 March 1955). The 1954 stage version was re-staged for television by NBC as part of its monthly high-quality anthology series Producers' Showcase and broadcast as a historic, live color television event. The production was so well received that Producers' Showcase produced a second live presentation on 9 January 1956, with the same cast. Mary Martin played TV's Peter Pan for the third time on 8 December 1960 with many of the same cast members, and this version of the 1954 musical was recorded on color videotape, and repeated in 1963, 1966, and 1973. It was presented by NBC as a stand-alone special program rather than as part of Producer's Showcase. After 1973, it was presumed lost and not broadcast again until March 1989, after which it eventually appeared a few times on the Disney Channel. It was also released on videocassette and briefly on DVD. In 2000, the Cathy Rigby stage production, featuring almost all of the songs used in the 1954 version, was telecast by the A&E Network and issued on DVD.
Hallmark Hall of Fame: Peter Pan (12 December 1976). A new TV musical production was broadcast on NBC. It starred Mia Farrow as Peter and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook. It had a new score, with music and lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, but did not achieve the success or the popularity that the Mary Martin version had. The screenplay was by Andrew Birkin, who went on to write and direct The Lost Boys, a docudrama for the BBC about Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys.
Peter Pan no Bōken ("Adventures of Peter Pan", also romanized as "Pîtâ Pan no Bôken") by Nippon Animation (1989), an unauthorized anime television series. Produced as part of Nippon's World Masterpiece Theater series, the first 23 episodes are a loose adaptation of Barrie's story, while the latter half introduces a completely original arc with new supporting characters.
Peter Pan and the Pirates on Fox Kids (1990), an animated TV series based on Barrie's novel, presenting the Darling children's other adventures in the Neverland during their stay. The series also focuses on significant development of the pirates as less one-dimensional characters. Voice talents in the cast included Jason Marsden as Peter and Tim Curry as "Captain James T. Hook"; Curry won an Emmy for it.
Jake and the Never Land Pirates (February 2011), an Annie Award-winning musical interactive animated Disney Junior show based on the successful Disney franchise, Peter Pan. The series focuses on a band of young pirates consisting of Jake, Izzy, Cubby, and their parrot Skully, who continuously spend their days competing against Captain Hook and Mr. Smee for treasure.
Neverland on Syfy Channel and Sky Movies (December 2011), a two-part miniseries that re-imagines the origins of Peter Pan prior to his adventures with Wendy. Here, he (and his friends who would become the Lost Boys) is depicted as being an orphaned pickpocket who was taken in by expert thief and former arms dealer James "Jimmy" Hook as an infant. Directed by Nick Willing, the cast includes Charlie Rowe as Peter Pan, Rhys Ifans as James Hook, Anna Friel as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Bob Hoskins as Smee, and Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell.
The New Adventures of Peter Pan (2012–present) is a series of CGI animation French-Indian produced by the DQ Entertainment and Method Animation.
Peter Pan Live! is a new production of the 1954 version broadcast live on NBC on 4 December 2014 starring Allison Williams as Peter, Christopher Walken as Captain Hook, Kelli O'Hara as Mrs. Darling, Christian Borle as Mr. Darling/Mr. Smee and Minnie Driver as the adult Wendy. Critical reaction was mixed, with many critics expressing relief that the broadcast was not a disaster.
Peter and Wendy (2015), a two-hour drama based on J M Barrie's novel first aired on ITV on 26 December 2015, produced by Headline Pictures, with Stanley Tucci as Captain Hook, Paloma Faith as Tinker Bell, Laura Fraser as Mrs Darling, Hazel Doupe as Wendy and Zac Sutcliffe as Peter.
'Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016), a one-hour television adaptation of Mischief Theatre's play of the same name in which the fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society attempt to stage a production of Peter Pan, starring the original cast and guest appearance from David Suchet as the narrator.
The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy (2013 – present), webseries that features Wendy as the main character through a series of vlogs and other media.
Like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan is particularly well suited to adaptation into video games. In their article "Playing in Neverland: Peter Pan Video Game Revisions," literary critics Cathlena Martin and Laurie Taylor note that the fluid and playful nature of the story’s original oral format is very similar to the structure of narratives in video games, leading to an ease of translation across media. They also argue that "having [Wendy’s tales] as the driving desire for Peter makes the story easily translated to video games, which often reward players for successful game-play with additional narrative segments."
Peter Pan and the Pirates, a 1991 side-scrolling game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, based on the TV series.
Hook, a set of four 1992 games based on the film. One was an arcade fight game, two were side-scrolling games for Nintendo and Sega consoles, and the fourth was an adventure game for home computers.
Peter Pan: Return to Neverland, two 2002 games based on Disney's film, one for the Game Boy Advance, the other for PlayStation.
Kingdom Hearts, a franchise between Square-Enix and Disney on various game systems that features Neverland as a playable world inhabited with various characters from the Peter Pan books and films including Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Hook and Smee.
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes, Tinker Bell is a playable character in the game's Toy Box mode. She has been given powers to fly, and use her fairy dust to defeat enemies.
The Lost Boys, a 1978 docudrama produced by the BBC, written by Andrew Birkin, starring Ian Holm, tells about the relationship between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys and the development of Peter Pan.
Finding Neverland, a 2004 film starring Johnny Depp as Barrie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies is a fictionalised account of their relationship and how it led to the creation of Peter Pan. It was based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee. In 2015, it was adapted into a musical on Broadway, playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
In 1980, Petula Clark starred in Never, Never Land as a woman whose niece, captivated by Barrie's tale, runs away and takes refuge with a group of "lost boys" squatting in a deserted London townhouse.
In the 1986 Spanish film El río de oro (The Golden River) by Jaime Chávarri, the central character is a man named Peter whose wife Dubarry played the role of Tinker Bell in a theater play some years ago. They had a son, but Peter killed the baby when he was only 3 months old because he thought the boy was growing up too fast.
The plot of the 1990 novel An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (made into a film in 1995) revolves around a production of the play.
The 2002 novel The League of Heroes by Xavier Mauméjean is set in an alternate universe in which Neverland has materialized in Kensington Gardens. The fairy folk are commonplace in London, as are pirates and Indians. Peter Pan is considered one of several enemies of the repressive government and is pursued by the League whose members include Lord Admiral Hook (Captain Hook), Sherlock Holmes, and Lord Greystoke (Tarzan).
In a Season 2 episode of the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place called "Fairy Tale", Justin Russo directs a school play of Peter Pan, with Zeke Beakerman cast as Peter Pan and Harper Finkle cast as Tinker Bell (she's later replaced by Alex Russo after falling off the stage).
Singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker has released three songs called The Wendy Trilogy, chronicling how Wendy joined Captain Hook's crew, dueled him for command, gained great fame in Neverland and beyond, and eventually returned home, passing her legacy on.
The song "Fly" by Blind Guardian is about Peter Pan.
In the seventh episode on season 10 of Grey's Anatomy, Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) dresses as Tinker Bell for Halloween and shows up at her boyfriend Alex Karev's (Justin Chambers) house, after a fight they had resulting from his estranged father appearance, showing her loyalty to the boy who didn't grow up.
The song Lost Boy by Ruth B is about Neverland.
Characters and locations from the Peter Pan story are featured in Once Upon a Time (2011–present). It is revealed that Pan (Robbie Kay) is the father of Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) who became young again after giving up a then-young Rumpelstiltskin.
The cartoon series World of Winx features Peter Pan and Neverland characters Smee, Jim (Captain Hook), Crocodile Man (Crocodile), Queen (Tinker Bell), Wendy Darling. Peter Pan has a son named Matt Barrie.
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Hayley Atwell possessed an air of natural elegance and grace that made her a favorite to portray strong-willed yet emotionally vulnerable women. After only a short time in the limelight in her native England, Atwell landed a starring role in Woody Allen's morality tale "Cassandra's Dream" (2007) as Ewan McGregor's calculating actress girlfriend. Propelled by such a high-profile role, Atwell's career gained even more momentum with starring roles in the historical films "Brideshead Revisited" (2008) and "The Duchess" (2008). But it was her breakout role as an arrogant aristocrat toppled by wartime power struggles in the epic miniseries "The Pillars of the Earth" (Starz Entertainment, 2010) that made Hollywood sit up and take notice of Atwell's talents, all of which paved the way for bigger and more exciting parts to follow. These included her entry into Marvel's Avengers universe as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Peggy Carter in "Captain America: The First Avenger" and its sequels, as well as her own TV series, "Agent Carter" (ABC 2015-16).
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell was born on April 5, 1982 in London, England to a Native-American father, who worked as a massage therapist, and an English mother who was a motivational speaker. Atwell's unusual childhood, which was filled with memories of tarot readings and sweat lodges, helped her get in touch with her feelings, particularly when she started training to be an actor at The Guildhall School of Drama and Music. After graduating in 2005, Atwell landed a regular role in the miniseries "The Line of Beauty" (BBC, 2006), playing the manic-depressive daughter of a disgraced politician. A few more supporting roles in television movies followed, before Atwell nabbed a major part in the Woody Allen crime drama "Cassandra's Dream," appearing as a stage actress and the scheming love interest of Ewan McGregor's character. In 2008, Atwell earned critical praise for her engaging performances in two high-profile period pieces. She first starred in "Brideshead Revisited," the big screen adaptation of the 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel about a repressed upper-class family whose beliefs are challenged after they welcome into their home a social climber (Matthew Goode) who becomes the object of affection of both Atwell's oppressed Catholic girl, as well as her brother. Atwell also played a major role in "The Duchess," which chronicled the extravagant life of the 18th century aristocrat, Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley). In the visually stunning biopic, Atwell's character was involved in a steamy love triangle between the Duchess and the Duke (Ralph Fiennes).
In 2009, Atwell starred in the remake of the 1960s cult sci-fi series "The Prisoner" (AMC, 2009) as one of the prisoners of a mysterious village and the woman who helped the character 6 (James Caviezel) discover the reason why he was sent to the remote island. By 2010, Atwell's talents finally gained attention stateside. She starred as the lead character's (Matthew Macfadyen) soul mate on the series "Any Human Heart" (Channel 4, 2010), based on William Boyd's 2002 novel about the life of Logan Mountstuart, a writer who encountered many of the 20th century's most significant figures. Atwell also had a lead part in the highly anticipated action-adventure film "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2011) as the superhero's girlfriend who secretly worked for the French Resistance. But her biggest coup was landing a lead role in the epic miniseries "The Pillars of the Earth," based on Ken Follett's 1989 bestseller of the same name. Set in 12th century England, the story followed the construction of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge during the turbulent period in English history known as The Anarchy. Atwell delivered a star-making performance as a haughty and willful aristocrat defeated by religious and political strife during a civil war, a role that earned her a 2011 Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television. Atwell reprised the role of Peggy Carter for "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014). She then appeared in writer/director John Ridley's Jimi Hendrix biopic "Jimi: All Is By My Side" (2014) before appearing in Kenneth Branagh's "Cinderella" (2015). Along with cameos in "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015) and "Ant-Man" (2015), Atwell took her best-known character to television in the Marvel series "Agent Carter" (ABC 2015-16).
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Cite this article as: Torii K. Occlusal Position Correcting Therapy for Temporomandibular Disorders. J Dent Oral Biol. 2018; 3(1): 1121.
Although the effect of occlusal adjustment for Temporomandibular Disorders (TMDs) remains controversial, we reported that the occlusal adjustment using bite plate-induced occlusal position as a reference position was very effective for TMDs . We call this occlusal adjustment as the occlusal position correcting therapy. The Bite Plate-Induced Occlusal Position (BPOP) is the Muscular Contact Position (MCP). Brill et al. postulated that the coincidence of the muscular and the tooth position (intercuspal position) constitutes a physiological condition: where these two positions do not coincide pathological or potentially pathological, condition results. We reported that these two positions did not coincide in subjects with the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) clicking . We also reported improved various symptoms including TMJ pain, myofascial pain, headache, tinnitus, otalgia, coxalgia and vertigo, with the coincidence of the MCP and the tooth position [4-8]. Occlusal equilibration in the MCP is very difficult to obtain in the mouth, because the MCP is very unstable. This is because the mandible to avoid premature contact tends to shift from the MCP to the more stable Intercuspal Position (ICP). Therefore, occlusal analysis and equilibration in the MCP should be performed on dental models mounted on an articulator with BPOP wax record. The occlusal adjustment then is performed with referring to ground spots on the models . We would like to show you the procedure of the occlusal adjustment by a video.
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A Russian émigré, Zadkine arrived in Paris in 1909 and became associated with Cubism. In the 1920s, he became interested in arts outside the academic canon, favouring the elongated forms of Romanesque statuary. He made large-scale wooden sculptures drawing on techniques of Russian folk decoration, and exemplifying the immediacy of ‘direct carving’. Venus embodies the impact of these varied sources, so that the classical ideal of beauty is invigorated by raw simplification.
The artist wrote on 2 October 1954 that 'Venus' was carved in an acacia tree in about 1920-1. Richard Wyndham who used to visit him in his workshop at Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne), where he roughed out his wood carvings, saw it and expressed a wish to buy it. However, as it was still unfinished, Zadkine told him to wait until he saw it in its completed form in an exhibition. It was later shown in his first exhibition in Paris at the Galerie Barbazanges in, he thought, 1922-3, and Wyndham took it from the exhibition to England. He added: 'The "Venus" is most probably of 1922-23. It was one of the first works in which I reacted against cubism'.
Not only does he suggest two different dates in his letter (1920-1 and 1922-3), but the sculpture has been exhibited and reproduced with the dates 1920, 1923 and 1925. The exhibition referred to was most probably his one-man exhibition at the Galerie Hodebert (or Hodebert-Barbazanges) in February-March 1925.
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The New Mexico state seal identifies government buildings and officials. The symbolism, history and emblems of the seal are described in this article with fast facts.
Fact 3: In 1882, Territorial Secretary W.G. Ritch embellished the earlier design with the phrase "Crescit Eundo."
The Mexican eagle with the cactus and snake portrays an ancient Aztec myth.
The New Mexico seal is kept and used as required by the Constitution and laws of the state.
The Mexican eagle with the cactus and snake portrays an ancient Aztec myth. The main god of the Aztecs promised the people that that they would have a city but had to find a magically special place to build it. To find this special place, they were to look for an eagle, perched on a cactus, holding a snake. For the next 200 years, the Aztecs wandered in the Valley of Mexico until eventually an Aztec priest, standing on the shore of Lake Texcoco saw an eagle, perched on a cactus, with a snake in its mouth. The Aztecs founded their civilization on the island where the eagle was perched. They named the island Tenochtitlan, "the Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus".
This early seal of the state highlights the date in Latin numerals of MDCCCL meaning 1850. New Mexico's First Constitution was drafted in May 1850 and claimed the entire Texas Panhandle, plus parts of Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona, and Colorado. This resulted in the Congressional Compromise of 1850 that halted the 1850 bid for New Mexico statehood.
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I've been under extreme stress for a month. I have history of stomach ulcer during stress time. I ate two chili onion hotdogs for 3:00 lunch and had a cup of coffee at 7pm. I had a sharp stabbing pain on right side rib cage for over an hour. I think it was my ulcer causing acute indigestion. Possible?
Despite the popular belief that peptic ulcers are caused by spicy foods or stress, the reality is that most of the time, peptic ulcers are caused by infection with a bacterium called H pylori which also cause indigestion. Avoiding spicy foods may help you feel better since some people find certain foods irritating.
The most common symptom of a peptic ulcer is burning pain in the abdomen between the breastbone and navel. Duodenal ulcers typically cause symptoms 2 to 5 hours after meals, when the stomach is empty, and can be relieved by eating. Gastric ulcers, on the other hand, are classically made worse by eating. You may experience pain soon after meals, and food won't improve symptoms. For each, the duration of pain can be from a few minutes to a few hours.
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The Port of Ghent is located where the Lys and Scheldt Rivers meet in northwestern Belgium about 58 kilometers from the North Sea via the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. It is about 43 kilometers west-northwest of Antwerp and almost 50 kilometers northwest of Brussels. The Port of Ghent is the third busiest port in Belgium. In 2007, over 235 people lived in the Port of Ghent.
In addition to housing one of Belgium's major ports, the Port of Ghent is a center for gardening and horticulture and, every five years, the site for the huge Gentse Floralien flower show. Other important economic sectors include banking, oil refining, and manufacturing of chemical, paper, and light machinery products. Tourism is a growing and important part of the local economy as well.
Archaeologists believe that humans have lived in the region of the Port of Ghent as long ago as the Stone Age and the Iron Age. Certainly, people lived in the area during the Roman period. At the beginning of the first millennium AD, the peoples of the Port of Ghent spoke Celtic and Latin tongues. The German Franks invaded formerly Roman lands at the end of the 4th Century, bringing with them a new language, Dutch.
In the middle of the 7th Century, Saint Amand established two abbeys that, together with a trading village, became the center of the commercial center that would be called the Port of Ghent. In the middle 9th Century, Vikings plundered the Port of Ghent two times. The town soon recovered, and it thrived from the 1200s to the present. Before the 13th Century, the Port of Ghent was the second biggest city in Europe, second only to Paris, and as many as 65 thousand people lived within its walls.
The Port of Ghent was located in a low-lying area that tends to flood, creating rich grasslands that supported sheep herding and wool gathering. In the Middle Ages, the Port of Ghent became an important textile and cloth-making center. The wool industry grew tremendously, and the Port of Ghent became the first real industrial zone in Europe during the Middle Ages.
In 1251, the Port of Ghent attempted to create a water access to the North Sea by building the Lieve Canal from Ghent to Damme in the northwest. Unfortunately, the canal became clogged with sand and was not navigable by the end of the 15th Century.
Because wool had to be imported from England to keep the industry busy, the two countries developed a strong and productive relationship. England's Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt, was born in the Port of Ghent. During the Hundred Years' War from the mid-1300s to the mid-1400s, the city suffered significant declines in its English trade.
Under the Dukes of Burgundy, Flanders and nearby provinces were united, and the Port of Ghent began to recover from long era of low trade. However, the Dukes' high taxes resulted in a local rebellion and the defeat of the Port of Ghent by Philip the Good. At the same time, power and commerce began to shift from the Port of Ghent to Antwerp and Brussels in the Low Countries.
Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, was born in the Port of Ghent in 1500. Despite his ties to the town, Charles punished local nobles for the 1539 Revolt of Ghent by forcing them to parade before the emperor with bare feet and nooses around their necks. The early Saint Bavo Abbey was all but destroyed and replace by a Spanish fortress.
In 1547, a second try at creating access to the North Sea was made when the Sasse Canal (Sassevaart) was constructed. The Sassevaart became a busy route for trade; however, the 16th Century Wars of Religion (Protestant Reformation) brought an end to navigation on the canal and the western River Scheldt. While the Port of Ghent was a Calvinist republic for a time, Spanish troops soon restored Catholicism. The wars effectively ended the Port of Ghent's position as an international center.
During the 17th Century, the Ghent-Bruges-Ostend canal was dug with the hopes of restoring seaborne trade. Unfortunately, the Port of Ghent's trade privileges had been cancelled, so the canal remained largely unused.
By the 18th Century, the Port of Ghent's textile industry once again flourished. The first mechanical weaving machine in continental Europe was introduced by Lieven Bauwens, who smuggled plans for the machine from England in 1800. In 1812, the Port of Ghent was the site for the formal Treaty of Ghent between Britain and the United States that ended the War of 1812.
After Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Port of Ghent was part of the short-lived United Kingdom of the Netherlands. During this time, the city earned a university and its present connection to the North Sea when the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal was dug from the Port of Ghent to the mouth of the River Scheldt.
Authorized by William I, King of The Netherlands, in 1822, work started on the canal in 1827. Over the following century, the canal was extended several times. The Belgian Revolution of the early 19th Century cut off sea access for the Port of Ghent for over a decade, devastating the local economy and stimulating the birth of the first trade union in Belgium.
During the 20th Century, the Port of Ghent grew despite the interruptions brought by World Wars I and II. However, by mid-century, modern post-war ocean-going vessels had grown too large to use the lock and canal leading to the Port of Ghent. In 1960, Belgium and The Netherlands agreed to build new sealock and to adapt the canal to accommodate vessels of up to 80 thousand DWT.
In the 1960s, the Sifferdock was extended, and the Petroleumdock was constructed. The new sealock was opened in 1968. The Rodenhuizedok was dug during the 1970s. Beginning in 1996, construction began on the new Kluizendok which began operations in 2005. The opening of the Kluizendok began a new era for the Port of Ghent by providing an additional 1.2 thousand meters of quay wall and waterfront area.
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Summary: Hasti Fakhrai-Bayrooti will spend four years behind bars for driving under the influence of prescription drugs and killing a cyclist.
According to the Daily Mail, a California attorney will serve four years in jail for hitting and killing a cyclist while driving under the influence of prescription drugs.
In March, Hasti Fakhrai-Bayrooti, 41, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
In January, rapper Suge Knight was arrested for involvement in a fatal hit-and-run case.
Fakhrai-Bayrooti admitted she had taken several Xanax and Suboxone when she crossed into a bike lane on March 15, 2013 on Los Alisos Boulevard, striking Eric Billings, 54, a father of four.
The impact sent Billings over the hood of the car and into the windshield. Billings was killed instantly.
John Stamos was arrested for DUI earlier this month.
Friends of Billings said that he owned a contracting company, and that he enjoyed mentoring young adults and teenagers at a local college.
Is four years enough time to serve?
In December, a Florida judge was convicted of DUI.
Fakhrai-Bayrooti added that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, manic depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She is prescribed medication for these illnesses, and was scared that the antidepressants in her blood would result in a conviction.
The four-year sentence is the maximum sentence.
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Puppies and dogs are curious creatures—they learn about their world by smelling, touching, manipulating, and sometimes chewing on novel items. Chewing bones and toys is also a naturally enjoyable (and necessary) activity for dogs. Therefore, chewing is considered to be a natural behavior, and with training, can be directed to appropriate items before it becomes a behavior problem. Here are a few guidelines for teaching good chewing habits to your dog.
Select Appropriate Toys: Provide a variety of interesting chew toys for your puppy or dog, and offer these to her frequently. Appropriate chew toys are those that are attractive to dogs, are hard enough to not be destroyed or torn apart quickly, and are composed of a material that is known to be safe if swallowed. Food-delivery toys that can conceal biscuits or soft treats are also good tools for teaching dogs appropriate chewing behaviors.
Redirect: If your dog picks up something that is not his, simply remove it from his mouth, and redirect him to one of his own toys. Remember to praise your dog calmly and quietly whenever he voluntarily selects one of his own toys or bones for chewing.
Rotate Toys: Puppies and adult dogs enjoy novelty in their toys. Therefore, select a variety of chew toys for your dog and rotate them frequently. If your puppy or dog has not seen a particular toy for a few weeks, she will be more excited to play with it when it is reintroduced.
Teach Fetch and Find It Games: Another way to keep your dog focused on his own toys is to teach him enjoyable games such as fetch and find it. Introduce retrieving with his favorite ball or hide a toy and then praise with a food treat when your dog finds it. These games are a great approach for teaching new behaviors and manners, and are also enjoyable activities for both of you!
Manage the Environment: Manage your home environment to prevent undesirable chewing and to keep your dog safe from consuming dangerous objects. Keep all items that may attract your pup secured and out of sight. These include, but are not limited to, the following: socks and other items of clothing, children’s toys, slippers and shoes, household knickknacks, tissues, and open garbage cans.
Supervise: Puppies and new dogs must be supervised during all free time in the home, both to prevent inappropriate chewing and to monitor house training. Until you can trust your new dog, she must be under constant supervision or confined to a safe area. Consider using a leash to keep her within eyesight. A crate or dog-safe room also can be used to keep your dog safe when you are not at home or available to watch her.
Teach “Leave It” and “Give: In addition to managing the environment and providing plenty of varied and interesting chew toys, an owner can teach his or her dog the two invaluable commands of “leave it” and “give.” The command “leave it” is used when a dog is intending to pick up something that is either dangerous or off limits, and the command “give” can be used to retrieve an item from the dog once he has picked it up. When trained properly, these commands are enjoyable for your dog to learn and are helpful when teaching him which toys are his and which items are not. Many community puppy or obedience classes provide instructions for teaching these commands.
Avoid Punishment: Do not chase your dog or use harsh reprimands or physical punishment if he is chewing on something that is not his. This will quickly teach him to chew out of your sight or to run away from you. Unfortunately, owners may incorrectly interpret these behaviors as signifying that the dog “knows he is wrong.” However, avoidance behaviors simply show that the dog has learned through experience with punishment to avoid chewing in the presence of his owner or to run away when in possession of a novel object. For these reasons, you will be most successful using home management, redirection, and reward-based training to teach your dog proper chewing habits.
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No water change aquariums I have read several articles on the internet which talk about "no water change" aquariums. They use plants, chemicals, some form of media or a combination to remove the nitrates from an aquarium.... As all the muck sinks to the bottom of the tank you will need a gravel syphon to remove it from the gravel; using a jug to scoop out the water will only result in taking out the clean water from the top of the tank.
If your fish are comfortable with the pH of normal tap water, you need to change the water of your aquarium often to raise the pH back up to the tap water level. If you see a fluctuating or deviating pH, instead of consistently dropping, you can do a 30-40% partial water change of your aquarium instead of the full change.... Final thoughts. Doing a water change each week in your fish tank is probably the most boring part of fish keeping, but if you’re going to keep fish in your home then you should act in a responsible manner and look after them the best you can.
Here are 10 easy steps to efficiently clean your freshwater tank and perform a water change while reducing the stress on your fish. Unplug the heater. Remove any artificial plants and decorations, and clean all sides of the aquarium with an algae sponge.
On the other hand, if your tank's pH is (for example) 6.3, while your replacement water has a pH of 7.5, replacing 50% of the water all at once will change the pH of your tank significantly (possibly more than 50% depending on buffering factors), which will stress your fish, possibly enough to kill them.
Hosepipe. This is the same principal as the syphon however recommended for larger tanks. First of all attach the hose pipe to your tap. Then put the other end under water inside the fish tank aquarium.
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Barbara Walters revealed the rest of her interview with Sarah Palin for her "most fascinating people of the year"
When asked if she would run for president, she replied that she would, given that she was sure she would win. She also stated that she believed she could beat Barack Obama. Being that Obama is the current Democratic president and there does not seem to be any competition coming from his own party, and she believes she can beat him, Palin's comments seem to imply that she will decide to run. She also skirts around the issue of primaries which may indicate a third-party candidacy.
When asked about her thoughts on the opinion that she is uninformed, Palin swallows hard and does what comes naturally to her - blame the media. She claims that the media created her "polarizing" image. It couldn't possibly be her fault, right? How about her most recent jabs at liberals and conservative rhetoric on her so-called "non-political" TLC nature show?
In response to being uninformed, Palin again claims the media for misleading the public. Palin then lists what she was currently reading - a great book by Dean Karnazes (she completely mispronounces his name and fails to mention the title of one of his two books), C.S. Lewis for "divine inspiration" (I don't think Aslan can save her from this interview), Newsmax, the Wall Street Journal, and local Alaskan newspapers. I also thought it was interesting that her other two named readings included WSJ, which is owned by the parent company of her employer Fox News, News Corp., and Newsmax, which admittedly publishes a "conservative perspective" on the news, meaning it is a biased source for information.
By this point in the interview, Palin is visibly agitated, and when Walters mentions criticism that Palin's endorsements cost Republicans the Senate, Palin plays the victim card, attacking anonymous "boys" attacking the "hockey mom from Wasilla" - a brand Palin has painstakingly tried to cultivate over the past couple years. She called her critics "impotent," "limp," and "weak" for attacking her anonymously, "hiding behind somebody's skirts."
Palin claimed the Republicans were never close to winning the upper chamber. In regards to the GOP's chances in the Senate, Palin cost them Delaware, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska (although Murkowski stated she would caucus with the Republicans), and California, and if you consider the impact her primary endorsements made on the general election, Palin cost the GOP more then enough to win the Senate - Republicans gained six seats and needed another four to gain a majority.
Palin then goes on to talk about Todd and the rumors surrounding her family, including the one that Track went to Iraq to avoid jail and Trig is not her baby, but of course Palin just brushes these rumors off.
Basically, Palin gives an incoherent ramble to every Walters' question, attacking those who disagree with her and claiming to be the victim of some cruel game controlled by the media.
I wanted to point out that Dean Karnazes' nickname is "Karno."
Was Palin trying to sound like a true "Karno" fan by using his nickname, you know, like when people call Robert Deniro "Bobby" or Paul McCartney "Macca?"
If you ask me, she isn't reading Karno's books. Everything she said about the book is in the title: "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner."
A sexist remark and double standard. If it was a man who said something about a woman's shortcoming, he would have lost his ground. Obama mentioned about lipstick on a pig and he was chastised for it.
Sarah Palin is a crude castrating b-i-t-c h; my opinion based on her belittling adjectives used in this interview.
I hope Barbara Walters gets over her Palin worship after seeing Palin's crazy-eyes and hearing what ugliness came out of her mouth.
Kevin, she's just projecting what she knows about Toad onto others. Much like she accuses others of doing when she's the one doing it. She's got the art of projection down perfectly.
Yeah, of course she was trying to sound like an insider elite runner by calling him by his nickname. But she got the nickname wrong. Even stupider.
But what's really telling is that Karnazes' books are terrible. Not any better than her own.
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Text: Like many other people in Britain and other countries, I went to a cinema to watch the first live transmission of a performance of a play by William Shakespeare by the Royal Shakespeare Company at their theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The play was Richard II. I have no intention of reviewing it. This article is about the method which was used to show it to me.
Beforehand, I had reservations about this mode of seeing a play; after all, much of the point of theatre, as opposed to cinema or television, is the immediacy of being in the presence of real, live actors in the shared experience which is what theatre is all about.
Conversely, much of the point of cinema is that, by using a variety of locations, sets, camera angles, and through cinematographic artistry and skilful editing, it can produce realism, escapism, and all sorts of magic in ways theatre cannot.
My anxieties were that this hybrid – live actors on stage in front of a theatre audience being projected through the ether on to a distant screen – would prove to be neither fish nor fowl; that stage acting might look false ‘through the glass’; or that, on the contrary, the actors might feel forced to adapt their style to the presence of the cameras and thereby produce something unsuitable for the stage.
I need not have worried. Although the frisson was inevitably somewhat diminished by not being in the actual physical proximity of the likes of David Tennant, Michael Pennington and Jane Lapotaire, this was compensated by the ability of the transmission’s director to do things such as going into close-up when appropriate, tracking slowly and dramatically in towards a key area of the stage, and following a character as he or she paced up and down.
True, that took away the choice of where to look that one enjoys when in the theatre. I recall once in the National Theatre that while Oedipus was making his long, agonising speech bringing himself ever closer to the appalling truth that none of us wants him to learn, I chose to watch Jocasta’s reaction for most of the time because it was much more interesting.
For a scene or two at the beginning of the experience, it concerned me that I might not be allowed that option; then I forgot about it, which suggests that a sensitive balance was being struck between showing speaker and listener when it mattered; a more difficult task in a live transmission than in a movie, where all sorts of edits may be tried before the final cut is settled upon. Besides, the ability to use close-ups was used sparingly, and for much of the time we saw much of the stage.
I would still prefer to be there in person. Who wouldn’t? But we can’t always be where we want to be; and many people simply cannot afford the cost of admission and travel to such performances; so if live transmissions like this can pack ’em it at one remove, it is surely a good thing in various ways.
For one thing, the economics of running theatres and theatre companies in this country are now so distorted that tickets cost too much for any but the comfortably off to attend with any frequency; however, these transmissions are cheaper to get into (although still more expensive than a film), so they may generate new audiences away from London, Stratford, and other major urban centres.
For another, the experience of attending a transmission at a cinema may encourage new audiences to move on to ‘the real thing’.
There is what I would consider a missed opportunity, at least so far, in this phenomenon. The age profile of the audience in the Stevenage Cineworld was, quite simply, pretty old.
Surely it would make sense to lure the young towards live theatre in general, and Shakespeare in particular, by offering them very cheap, or even free, admission? The future of the theatre in Britain lies not with audiences of old age pensioners such as myself, but with new generations fired by the excitement of live performance.
If tens of thousands of them had seen ‘Dr Who’ demonstrating his true acting ability – what consequences might that have had for future audience profiles at the RSC, the National, and in our struggling provincial theatres?
Comments: Albert Clack is a British actor and writer. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard II was streamed live to cinemas on 13 November 2013. It included David Tennant as Richard II, Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke. It was the first production in the RSC Live series of live streamed plays. My thanks to Albert Clack for permission to reproduce his article here.
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Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, actress, television host and entrepreneur. Let’s have a look at her childhood, family, personal life, career, achievements and some interesting facts.
Founder/Co-Founder: Elle Macpherson Intimates, Elle Macpherson Inc.
Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, actress, television host and entrepreneur who earned the nickname "The Body" for her stunning height and athletic figure. She has over years succeeded as a supermodel and is best recognised for a record five cover features in the ‘Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’ issue starting from 1986. She graced the covers of several famous magazines like British and Australian ‘Vogue’, ‘New York’, ‘Cosmopolitan’, ‘Elle’ and ‘Harper's Bazaar’. She walked the ramp for big names like Perry Ellis, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Louis Vuitton and featured in commercials for Revlon, Christian Dior and Omega among others. She has established a number of business ventures and remained creative director and primary model of these including a skin care line ‘Elle Macpherson – The Body’ and world famous lingerie line ‘Elle Macpherson Intimates’. She remained executive producer and host of ‘Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model’ and is presently an executive producer of the American reality TV series ‘Fashion Star’. Her acting endeavour includes featuring in starring roles in films ‘South Kensington’ and ‘The Edge’ apart from other supporting roles in films like ‘Batman and Robin’ and ‘The Mirror Has Two Faces’.
The ensuing years saw her working on many other films with big names of the industry. These included ‘If Lucy Fell’ (1996) with Sarah Jessica Parker, ‘The Mirror Has Two Face’ (1996) with Barbra Streisand; and ‘Batman & Robin’ (1997) with George Clooney. She also played main roles in ‘The Edge’ (1997) with Anthony Hopkins; and ‘South Kensington’ (2001) with Rupert Everett and Sienna Miller.
Her television pursuits include performing in the film ‘A Girl Thing’ (2001); featuring in shows ‘Saturday Night Live’ (1996) and ‘America's Next Top Model’ (2008, 2016); in TV series ‘Friends’ (1999-2000) and ‘The Beautiful Life: TBL’ (2009); and hosting the shows ‘Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model’ (2010–2013) and ‘Fashion Star’ (2012–2013). She is also an executive producer of the latter.
Over the years she has featured on several ads including that of ‘Victoria's Secret’, ‘H&M’, ‘Omega’, ‘Christian Dior’, ‘Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group’, ‘Garuda Airlines’, ‘KFC’, ‘Chrysler’ and ‘Diet Coke’ among others.
In the early 1980s she was romantically associated with Billy Joel. In 1984, she came across French fashion photographer and Creative Director of Elle magazine, Gilles Bensimon. The two married in May 1986, but the marriage culminated into divorce after three years.
She was in a relationship with Arpad Busson, a London-based French financier, from 1996 to July 2005. They together have two sons, February 1998 born Arpad Flynn Busson, and February 2003 born Aurelius Cy Andrea Busson.
In early 2009, she started dating Jeffrey Soffer, a hotel heir and billionaire from Miami, Florida. After a short break-up they got engaged in March 2013 and tied the knot in July that year. In 2017, the couple announced that they are going for a divorce.
She is an ambassador for ‘UNICEF’, for ‘Smile Foundation’ in Australia and European Ambassador for ‘RED’ apart from being a patron for ‘National Association for the Children of Alcoholics’.
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Following a distinguished, if controversial, military career, General Ariel Sharon (born 1928) entered Israeli politics in 1973. He then became a prominent public figure, serving as defense minister during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, one of Israel's most controversial military and political figures, was born in 1928 at Kfar Mallah, an early Jewish farming settlement in the central Sharon valley of what was then British-mandated Palestine. His parents were Shmuel and Dvora Scheinerman, ardent Zionists who had emigrated from Russia following World War I. Growing up at a time when the Arab-Jewish struggle over Palestine intensified, young Sharon combined a high school education with membership in the underground Jewish military organization, the Haganah.
In 1945 Sharon began a military career which continued until 1973 and which saw him participate in each of the major campaigns waged by the Israel Defense Force (IDF). Prior to Israel's establishment as a nation in 1948 he completed an officer's training course and served as an instructor for Jewish police units. During the War of Independence he fought as a platoon commander in the battle of Latrun, where he was seriously wounded. Afterwards Sharon became a military intelligence officer, and in 1952 he obtained a leave of absence to study Middle Eastern affairs at the Hebrew University.
The following year Sharon was chosen to form and lead a small elite commando force trained for special operations behind enemy lines. Both Sharon and Unit 101" were to become famous for their carrying out of a series of daring raids across Israel's vulnerable borders, thus enforcing a defense doctrine of retaliation for Arab violations of the 1949 armistice agreements and attacks against Israeli civilian targets.
In the 1956 Sinai campaign against Egypt, Sharon commanded a paratroop brigade, which came under heavy fire and suffered many casualties in the Mitla pass. By then he already had the reputation of a tough, unconventional fighter whose undisciplined, independent action in battle bordered in the view of his superiors on insubordination. Still, Sharon continued to rise through the ranks of the IDF. After a year's interlude at the Staff College in Camberley, England, where he studied military science, Sharon, promoted in 1958 to colonel, spent the next three years as senior administrative officer in the training division of the General Staff, heading the Infantry School. Successive assignments were: brigade commander of the armored corps, 1962; chief of staff at Northern Command headquarters, 1964; and head of training division of the General Staff, 1966. During that period he received a law degree, and he was promoted to major-general in early 1967.
The next Arab-Israeli conflict, the Six Day War in June 1967, saw Sharon commanding a brigade on the southern front, where he again distinguished himself in battling against Egyptian forces in the Sinai desert. After two years as brigadier-general at the Southern Command during the 1968-70 war of attrition" along the Suez Canal, Sharon in 1970 was entrusted with the difficult task of suppressing Palestinian terrorist activity in the Gaza Strip. He succeeded in restoring internal security there despite charges of ruthlessness. He generated additional controversy inside the IDF by challenging the prevailing notion of a static defense line at the Suez Canal. Nevertheless, he was appointed head of the Southern Command in 1970.
Sharon, denied his ambition to become the next chief of staff, resigned from the army and entered politics in July 1973. Identifying with the right-of-center Gahal alignment, he helped to negotiate the formation of a Likud (unity) front headed by opposition leader Menachem Begin in September. In October, however, the Yom Kippur war intervened and Sharon once more saw battle when urgently summoned to lead a reserve army division in containing the Egyptian advance. It was then that Sharon registered his greatest military success. Smashing through the enemy lines, he personally led the Israeli forces in establishing a bridgehead at Ismailia and in crossing to the western side of the canal, thereby regaining the initiative.
Returning to politics after the war, Sharon was elected to the Knesset (Israel's parliament) on the Likud ticket in December 1973. However, he resigned a year later; shortly thereafter, in 1975, Premier Yitzhak Rabin appointed him to the post of special advisor on security affairs, which he relinquished in 1976 in order to form the independent Shlomtzion (peace of Zion) Party pledged to retaining the territories occupied in the 1967 war. When he only succeeded in gaining two seats in the May 1977 elections, Sharon opted to merge with the victorious Likud block. Appointed to the cabinet post of minister of agriculture by Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Sharon actively promoted Jewish settlement in the territories, especially in Judea and Samaria on the West Bank of the Jordan River.
During the second Begin government Sharon served as minister of defense from 1981 to 1983. In this capacity he advocated a forceful approach to the increased military presence and activity of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut and in southern Lebanon. He is widely regarded as having been the principal architect of operation peace for Galilee launched into Lebanon in June 1982, from which Israel did not disengage until June 1985. Sharply criticized for the conduct of the war and the siege of Beirut, Sharon remained in the public eye, successfully defending himself in a libel suit against Time magazine in 1984. He even resumed his political career as minister of industry and trade in the National Unity Government, formed in September 1984 under Premier Shimon Peres.
"Ariel Sharon." Encyclopedia of World Biography. . Encyclopedia.com. 7 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Born on February 27, 1928, in the British Mandate of Palestine, Israeli leader Ariel Sharon’s long and controversial military and political career embodies the tension between pragmatism and idealism inherent in modern nationalist movements. Oscillating between extremist Jewish ethno-nationalism and pragmatic secular Zionism, Sharon’s leadership has triggered strong and contradictory responses. It provokes hate and revulsion among the many who see him as a dogmatic and reckless bully and a war criminal. Others view Sharon with great appreciation as a brilliant strategist and pragmatic statesman who took courageous steps toward making peace with Egypt and ending the Israeli occupation in Gaza.
Sharon joined the Israeli Haganah, an underground paramilitary organization, at age fourteen. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he served as a platoon commander and was severely wounded in the Battle of Latrun against the Jordanian Legion. In 1953 Sharon commanded a special commando unit (“101”), which carried out retaliatory military raids against Palestinian infiltrators from refugee camps who harassed the new border settlements, trying to reappropriate property or kill Israelis. Because of the political impact of Unit 101’s controversial operations, which targeted both civilians and Arab soldiers, Sharon obtained direct access to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) and to Army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan (1915-1981).
Throughout his career, Sharon exploited his privileged position to undertake military operations, often despite the objections of his direct superiors. In the 1956 Suez War, Sharon led a controversial operation to conquer the Mitla Pass against orders. In the 1967 Six-Day War, Sharon distinguished himself as a strategist commanding the most powerful armored division on the Sinai front.
Sharon resigned from the army in June 1972 and was instrumental in creating the right-wing Likud Party. In October 1973 he was recalled to service following the Yom Kippur War. Commanding a reserve armored division, Sharon located a breach between the Egyptian forces, which he then used to capture a bridgehead and lead a crossing of the Suez Canal. Sharon again violated his orders by exploiting this success to cut off and encircle the Egyptian Third Army. Because of this move, which was regarded as the turning point of the war, Sharon is considered by many in Israel as a war hero who saved Israel from defeat.
After Likud won the 1977 elections, Sharon became the minister of agriculture. In all his subsequent ministerial posts—defense (1981-1983), industry and commerce (1984-1990), construction and housing (1990-1992), infrastructure (1996-1998), and foreign affairs (1998–1999)—Sharon found ways to support and encourage the settlement activities in the occupied territories to prevent the possibility of returning them. Yet, during the peace negotiations with Egypt, he persuaded the Likud government to remove the settlements in Sinai.
As minister of defense, Sharon was the architect of the 1982 Lebanon War, bringing about the destruction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) infrastructure in Lebanon. What started as a limited operation developed under Sharon’s command into a full-scale war with controversial military operations and far-reaching political goals, many of which were never approved by the Israeli cabinet. Sharon was forced to resign as defense minister after a government commission found him indirectly responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres, in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians in refugee camps were killed by Lebanese Christian-Maronite militias.
In 2000, shortly after the breakdown of the Camp David peace negotiations, Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. His visit was followed by a bloody Palestinian uprising (the Al-Aqsa Intifada), marking the end to the Oslo peace process and the fall of Ehud Barak’s left-wing government.
In February 2001 Sharon was elected prime minister of Israel. With Palestinian violence escalating, Sharon ordered in 2002 the reoccupation of West Bank towns and the building of a controversial security fence between Israel and the occupied territories. Sharon later accepted, however, the internationally supported “road map” to peace in 2003, and in 2005 he withdrew the Israeli Army and settlers from the Gaza Strip, citing security issues. This move was opposed by many in Likud and forced Sharon into a coalition with the Labor Party. He eventually formed a new centrist party, Kadima, and declared a new election. In January 2006, just two months before the election, Sharon suffered a stroke that left him hospitalized in a coma. Kadima was temporarily leaderless until Ehud Olmert took over the party and won narrowly in the ensuing elections.
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Miller, Anita, Jordan Miller, and Sigalit Zetouni. 2002. Sharon: Israel’s Warrior-Politician. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers and Olive Publishing.
"Sharon, Ariel." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. . Encyclopedia.com. 7 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Ariel Sharon (är´ēĕl shärōn´), 1928–2014, Israeli general and politician, b. Kfar Malal as Ariel Scheinerman. As a teenager he joined the Haganah, the underground Zionist military brigade, and took his Hebrew name from the Sharon Plain, where he worked in 1947. A superb military leader in the 1948 and 1956 Arab-Israeli Wars, he was made a major general months before the 1967 war. In the 1973 conflict Israeli forces under his command captured Egypt's 3d Army. That year, Sharon resigned from the army, helped establish the right-wing Likud party, and won a seat in parliament. He served as security adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1975–77) and as minister of agriculture (1977–81). He became (1981) defense minister in the second Begin government, and engineered the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Sharon was the chief architect of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and was widely criticized for allowing Lebanese Christian forces into Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut and held at least indirectly responsible for their subsequent massacre of civilians in the Sabra and Shatila camps. Ousted (1983) from the defense ministry, he subsequently was minister of trade and industry (1984–90) and minister of construction and housing (1990–92); in the latter post he worked to increase Jewish settlement in the occupied territories. In 1996 Sharon became minister of national infrastructure in Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, and in 1998 he was also appointed foreign minister. After Netanyahu lost the prime ministership to One Israel (Labor) party leader Ehud Barak in 1999, Sharon succeeded Netanyahu as Likud leader.
In 2000, Sharon, accompanied by hundreds of soldiers and police, visited to the Al Aksa Mosque (Temple Mount), a site holy to both Muslims and Jews, located in Palestinian East Jerusalem, ostensibly to show that Israel had sovereignty over it and other holy sites. The visit sparked Arab demonstrations in Jerusalem and in many Arab enclaves, leading to a bloody Palestinian insurrection and, less directly, a prime-ministerial election in which Sharon, pledging to try to reach a workable Arab-Israeli peace while promoting domestic security, defeated Barak (2001). Sharon formed a government of national unity, but pursued a hard line with the Palestinians. Violence escalated in both the occupied territories and Israel, and in 2002 Sharon ordered the reoccupation of West Bank towns in an attempt to prevent attacks against Israelis. The national unity government broke up in Oct., 2002, and new elections in early 2003 resulted in a Likud victory.
In 2003 his government accepted the internationally supported "road map for peace," and resumed talks with the Palestinians until violence again broke out that August. In 2005, however, he withdrew Israeli settlers and forces from the Gaza Strip because of security issues; the move was opposed by many in Likud, and forced him into a coalition (2005) with Labor. Following the withdrawal, Netanyahu unsuccessfully challenged Sharon for the Likud party leadership, and Sharon subsequently formed the centrist Kadima [Forward] party. A stroke in 2006 left Sharon hospitalized in a coma until his death; Ehud Olmert succeeded him as prime minister.
See his autobiography, Warrior (1989); biographies by U. Benziman (1985), A. Miller et al. (2002), and D. Landau (2014).
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Sharon, Ariel (1928– ) Israeli statesman and general, prime minister (2001– ). A commander in the first of the Arab-Israeli Wars (1948) and the Six-Day War (1967), he was a founder of the right-wing Likud Party. As minister of defence (1981–83) under Menachem Begin, Sharon was the main architect of Israel's invasion of Lebanon. He served as minister of foreign affairs (1999) under Binyamin Netanyahu, supporting further Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories. In 2000, Sharon succeeded Netanyahu as leader of Likud and led the party to a landslide victory over Ehud Barak.
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army, the Israel Defense Force (IDF). In 1949 he commanded an intelligence unit of the Golani brigade, and in 1953 he headed a special anti-terror unit responsible for halting Palestinian incursions into Israeli territory. During the night of 14–15 October 1953, in reprisal for the murder of a woman and her daughters, the unit penetrated the village of Qibya, in West Jordan, where he ordered the dynamiting of forty-five houses, causing the death of sixty-nine persons. This action provoked widespread outrage, and Israel was condemned by the UN Security Council.
After his unit was disbanded, Ariel Sharon was transferred to a paratroop brigade, where between 1954 and 1955 he headed a battalion. In 1956, during the Suez-Sinai War, he ignored orders from army headquarters and occupied the Mitla Pass, which commanded the access to the Suez Canal. In the course of a confrontation with Egyptian troops, thirty-six of his men were killed. At the end of the conflict, accused of insubordination, he was tried and judged responsible for the death of these men; but he continued to advance in the IDF, for he had earned a reputation as a brilliant military strategist. Promoted to general in February of 1967, he commanded an armored division during the Six-Day War. Between 1969 and 1973, as chief of the southern command, he applied radical methods, demolishing thousands of homes in Gaza refugee camps to create roads for antiterror patrols.
In July of 1972, having vainly sought the position of Army chief of staff, he decided to quit the military for politics, registering as a member of the Liberal Party. With Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, he participated in the creation of the right-wing parliamentary group Likud. Mobilized in October 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, he commanded an armored division on the southern front. Once again ignoring orders, he crossed the Suez Canal, cutting the Egyptian Third Army off from its rear. This maneuver enabled the IDF to force the Egyptian army to surrender, and in the eyes of Israeli soldiers he became "Arik, King of Israel."
Elected a Likud representative in 1973, in 1975 Sharon became the security adviser for the Labor Party prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin. After arguing with the latter he decided to found his own party, Shlomzion, which in the May elections of 1977 won two seats in the Knesset. Shortly thereafter he rejoined Likud and was appointed minister of agriculture in the government of Menachem Begin. While in this office, his support for the development of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories impeded the Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations. In June of 1981 he became defense minister, and a year later was the principal architect of the invasion of Lebanon (Operation "Peace in Galilee"), during which several hundred Palestinians were murdered by the Lebanese Christian militia at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila while the IDF observed, voicing no objection. On 11 February 1983, Sharon was judged culpable by a commission of inquiry headed by Israeli Supreme Court chief justice Yitzhak Kahan for not preventing the slaughter. He was forced to resign his post of defense minister, but remained minister without portfolio.
During the next decade Sharon served in several cabinet posts. Then in 1996 he was appointed national infrastructure minister by Benjamin Netanyahu; two years later he became foreign minister. After the election of Labor's Ehud Barak as prime minister in May 1999, Sharon succeeded Netanyahu as Likud leader. His visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in September 2000 sparked Muslim riots and unleashed the anger of the Palestinians, prompting a revival of the Intifada known as al-Aqsa Intifada.
On 6 February 2001 Sharon was elected prime minister, with 62.5 percent of the votes, against his adversary from the Labor Party, incumbent prime minister Ehud Barak, whose peace policy had failed. A month later Sharon presented his cabinet, composed of 26 ministers belonging to eight different political parties, which allowed him to have a majority of 73 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. In his inauguration speech Ariel Sharon indicated that his cabinet would conduct negotiations with the Palestinians "so as to obtain political agreements, but not under the pressure of terrorism and violence." When the Intifada intensified in the Palestinian territories, he decided to reply to the violence with military operations of unprecedented brutality. This policy of "targeted responses," in other words the assassination of Palestinian leaders and militants, was vigorously criticized not only by Palestinians but also by the Israeli opposition and a part of the international community.
On 4 December 2001, when the terrorist actions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were multiplying, Ariel Sharon decided to increase the operations of the IDF against the symbols of the Palestinian Authority of Yasir Arafat, whom he accused of supporting terrorism. Following a suicide bombing at a Netanya resort hotel in March 2002, Sharon ordered the invasion and reoccupation of West Bank cities under Operation "Defensive Shield." Israeli forces destroyed buildings and captured hundreds of Palestinians. In the 2003 elections, in an apparent endorsement of his policies, voters gave Likud 29.4 percent of the vote (thirty-eight seats in the Knesset), confirming Sharon's premiership.
Sharon continued his aggressive policies, making Palestinian leader Arafat a virtual prisoner in the ruins of his Ramallah headquarters. Under intense pressure from the United States, Sharon's cabinet voted in May 2003 to approve the internationally backed "Road Map" for peace. Sharon surprised many observers by apparently seeking a balance between the right-wing commitment to disputed territories and a more pragmatic approach to an eventual resolution of the conflict. In 2004 he presented a plan to disengage from settlements in Gaza and parts of the West Bank, in the face of strong opposition by a majority of his own Likud Party and the defection or firing of several members of his cabinet.
The Knesset voted to back Sharon's plan in October 2004. Likud called for a referendum, which Sharon rejected, causing a split in the ruling Likud.
SEE ALSO Aqsa Inlifada, al-; Haganah; Intifada (1987–1993); Likud; Road Map (2002); Shlomzion.
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"Despite the change in Palestinian leadership [in 2005], we see that its leaders have not even begun to take any action against terror... ."
Israeli politician Ariel Sharon is known as the uncompromising leader of a country renowned for its willingness to fight for its right to exist. His predecessor as Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak (1942– served 1999–2001), once said that Sharon "embodied the unbending spirit of the State of Israel," as quoted in the book Sharon: Israel's Warrior Politician. Sharon first established his name as a formidable soldier, rising through the ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces to become a well-known leader. His military attitude for achieving goals in any way possible carried over into his political career, which started in the 1970s, and he was known to overstep the bounds of his authority at times. Sharon monitored Israeli security, speaking out against military plans he considered too weak. He also worked to establish Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories (areas taken from Arab Palestinians during the Six-Day War in 1967) of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to ensure that these areas would remain part of Israel and not be returned to the Palestinians. During much of his political career, Sharon, who had fought the Arab Palestinians in both the War of Independence in 1948 to defend the newly created state of Israel and in 1967 during the Six-Day War when Israel fought with Jordan, Egypt, and Syria, focused on preventing the Arab Palestinians from reestablishing their own country and from again becoming a threat to Israel. When he became prime minister he remained a ferocious protector of Israel's interests, frequently ordering military strikes against terrorists.
By the 2000s, after enduring decades of fighting, Sharon became more willing to consider peaceful negotiations with Palestinians. In 2004, to the surprise of many people in Israel and throughout the world, he agreed to a plan to withdraw Jewish settlements from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in order to help establish a Palestinian state. In early 2005 Sharon tried to remain open to peace negotiations while at the same time keeping his military at the ready.
Ariel Sharon was born Ariel Scheinerman on February 27, 1928, to Samuil and Dvora Scheinerman. The Scheinermans were Zionists, which means they supported the right of Jews to establish a homeland in Palestine. Fleeing persecution in 1922 from mobs of people in Russia who blamed the Jewish people for a weak economy and other problems, the Scheinermans moved to Palestine. They established a farm in Kfar Malal, a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the Sharon Valley, about ten miles from Tel Aviv. Kfar Malal was a moshav, where settlers owned parcels of land independently but were expected to agree on the crops to be planted and to work the land collectively. The Scheinermans wanted nothing to do with collective farming. Unwilling to cooperate, Samuil Scheinerman planted the crops he wanted and fenced his property to keep out trespassers. These actions alienated, or separated, the Scheinermans from the other moshav residents. Sharon later praised their "strength, determination, and stubbornness," according to Sharon, and would himself become known as a man unafraid to make his thoughts known, no matter what the consequences.
Sharon joined Haganah, the underground Jewish army, when he was fourteen. At the time, Palestine was controlled by the British government which at first seemed sympathetic to the desires of Zionist Jews to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. However, during World War II (1939–45; war in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and their allies defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan), the British began limiting the number of Jews who were allowed to immigrate to Palestine, due to pressure put on them by native Arab Palestinians. The British sent thousands of Jews back to Europe, even though the British were aware that German Nazis, a political party in Germany, were sending Jewish people to camps to do slave labor and to eventually be put to death. This British policy prompted many Jews living in Palestine to start working against the British, attacking British administration buildings and smuggling Jewish immigrants into Palestine illegally. Sharon supported these efforts and eagerly pursued his military training, learning how to handle weapons and to make his way through fields and streams in the dark.
By 1947 Britain could no longer maintain peace within Palestine and planned to give up its control over the area, and the United Nations (international organization founded in 1945 and made up of most of the countries of the world) approved a plan to divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. While the Jews accepted this proposal, the Arab Palestinians refused to give up any of their land and battles began between the Jews and Arab Palestinians. During these conflicts, Sharon proved himself to be a skillful fighter, and soon took the responsibility of a platoon of men in attacks against Arab positions.
Israel declared its independence in 1948 which began the War of Independence between the newly created state of Israel and the Arab nations of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. The Haganah became a part of the newly formed Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). As a member of the IDF, Sharon remained committed to Israel's defense and led men into battle during the War of Independence until 1949. After the War of Independence he changed his name from Scheinerman to the Hebrew name Sharon, the name of his valley home, as did many of the Jewish leaders as a show of support for the Hebrew language that was to be the official language of Israel.
Although he was a skillful soldier, Sharon was also stubborn and did not follow orders if he felt things could be done in a better way. Regardless of this, Sharon was promoted to intelligence officer in 1950. The highlight of this part of his career came when he planned and executed the successful capture of some Jordanian soldiers who were needed to make a prisoner exchange. Sharon achieved some notoriety for his military skill, but he saw real limits to his ability to advance in the military, because he found the structure of military rank and leadership to be an obstacle to the development of his own ideas.
Sharon eventually left the army in early 1953. He married Margalit Zimmerman, a woman he had known since her teenage years, and enrolled in Hebrew University to study Middle Eastern history. Before Sharon could begin his civilian career, however, Arab attacks on Israeli civilians grew increasingly frequent, and Sharon returned to the IDF to protect his country.
By the summer of 1953 Sharon was back on the battlefield, leading a group of men into an Arab village under cover of night in search of a Jordanian terrorist. The mission did not go well due to his troops' lack of preparation and training. Sharon made his concerns known about this to the highest military officials. He wrote a report outlining the skills and training such Israeli commando units needed. His report impressed IDF officials, and Sharon was put in charge of training a group he named Commando Unit 101. He devised a vigorous program to perfect his men's physical condition, stealth, hand-to-hand fighting, and way-finding skills. By 1956 Sharon had led his commandos on more than seventy raids against Arab targets.
Sharon suffered more than his share of personal tragedy. His wife, Margalit, died in 1962, after her car was struck by another vehicle. Unable to care for his young son alone, he came to rely on his wife's sister, Lily. The two developed a close relationship and were married in 1963. The couple had two children together.
This happiness was not to last. In 1967, Gur, Sharon's ten-year-old son from his first marriage, was fatally shot in the head while playing with a rifle. Sharon was devastated, but his wife and remaining two sons stood by him, and Lily provided Sharon with unwavering support in his career until her death of cancer in 2000.
During one raid in 1956 Sharon disobeyed his superiors' orders and led his troops into a ambush, or surprise attack, that ended in many deaths. He had been ordered to march his troops across the Sinai Desert avoiding the Mitla Pass. Against orders, Sharon marched a large number of troops into the pass, since it was quickest route to the destination, and was surprised by gunshots from Egyptians who had taken positions in the surrounding cliffs. His men eventually won the battle but suffered heavy casualties as a result, and Sharon's disobedience and frequent mistakes angered his superiors.
As a result, Sharon was sent to England for training, and on his return in 1958 he was demoted to a position as head of an infantry training school, a non-combat post. For the next four years, Sharon resigned himself to administering the school and also took the opportunity to earn a law degree. The time away from the battlefield helped restore Sharon's reputation, and he enjoyed several promotions in the army in the early 1960s, becoming chief of staff of the Northern Command (the portion of the Israeli army defending Israel's border with Syria) in 1963 and major general in 1965.
As tensions grew between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Sharon became an outspoken supporter of an Israeli strike against Egypt, the leading opponent in the ongoing conflicts. When Israel finally did attack Egypt and other Arab countries starting the Six-Day War in 1967, Sharon himself led one of the strikes against Egyptian positions in the Sinai Peninsula. When the Six-Day War ended, Israel had more than tripled the size of the territory under its control, taking over the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula. Sharon won a great deal of popularity for his wartime service and was promoted to lead all IDF military training.
In 1969 Egypt waged what was known as the War of Attrition to regain the territory it lost during the Six-Day war. That year Sharon had taken charge of the Southern Command (Israel's border with Egypt and Jordan and the Gaza Strip). Sharon disagreed with the IDF chief of staff's plan to set up a line of Israeli defenses along the Suez Canal. He spoke out publicly against the plan and again angered many in the army. However, many still supported Sharon due to several strikes that he led, which drove the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) out of Jordan and destroyed PLO hideouts in the Gaza Strip in the early 1970s.
Feeling that his attitude towards authority would keep him from reaching the top position in the army, Sharon looked for other career opportunities. In 1973 he again retired from the IDF and became a farmer in the Negev desert. He soon gained political contacts and developed a plan to build a new political party. Along with Menachem Begin (1913–1992; see entry), the former head of Irgun Zvai Leumi, the militant underground group that worked in the 1940s to secure Israeli independence by staging violent attacks on British and Arab targets, Sharon created the Likud Party. Sharon hoped the Likud Party, a conservative party whose aims were to keep the military strong, would win enough seats in the Knesset, the representative branch of the Israeli government, to disrupt the power of the Labor Party, the political party whose more liberal views had dominated Israel since its independence in 1948.
In 1973, Sharon was called back to duty as a member of the army reserves, due to threats of an attack from the Egypt. When Egyptian forces struck on October 6, 1973, the holy day of Yom Kippur, the defensive line Israel had built along the Suez Canal was broken by the massive attack. Sharon fought difficult battles against the advancing Egyptian army. By the end of October, Sharon's troops had captured land in Egypt across the Suez Canal, while other Israeli troops pushed back the Syrian armies advancing from the north in alliance with Egypt.
Due perhaps to his victories in the Yom Kippur War, Sharon won a seat in the Knesset as part of the Likud Party during the elections of 1973. A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1974 forced Israeli troops to pull back to a position that put the Suez Canal back under Egypt's control. Sharon spoke out against this agreement and criticized the IDF commanders' decisions during the war. When Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995; see entry) was elected as Israel's prime minister in 1974 in the wake of investigations into the Israeli government's failures during the Yom Kippur War, he requested that his friend Sharon return to the army. Sharon had served under Rabin in the army during the 1960s, and the two had developed a mutual respect for each other's abilities. Sharon agreed to Rabin's request, giving up his seat in the Knesset. He became a special advisor on defense issues to Rabin in 1975. According to Sharon, Although the two men were members of rival political parties, "Sharon hoped that if he worked with Rabin, he might one day realize his ambition of being named chief of staff."
Within a year, Sharon had not received his desired promotion, and he left the military, but not politics. He remained active in the Likud Party. When Menachem Begin became prime minister in 1977, he named Sharon minister of agriculture. In this position, Sharon oversaw the development of Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories, which he considered essential to Israel's defense because they established a claim on the land. Sharon concentrated on building settlements in the West Bank and around Jerusalem.
In 1981 Begin appointed Sharon as defense minister, and in 1982 Sharon led an attack against the PLO, which was stationed in Lebanon. With the help of the Lebanese army, the operation successfully removed the PLO from Lebanon, but resulted in the deaths of approximately two thousand innocent Palestinians in refugee camps at the hands of Lebanese troops. Sharon resigned his post as defense minister after an investigative commission found him "indirectly responsible" for the murder of the Palestinians, according to Richard Worth, author of Ariel Sharon. Sharon would continually be questioned about how he ran the operation in Lebanon for the rest of his career. In 2001 he told a reporter that Lebanon "was a war of survival," and that he was "proud" of his achievements, according to Sharon.
In the mid 1980s, the Likud Party and the Labor Party formed a joint government to rule Israel and each party assigned people to high-ranking positions. Sharon, as a representative of the Likud Party, served as minister of trade and industry from 1984 to 1989 and as minister of housing from 1990 to 1992. These years were difficult for Sharon because the Labor Party members he worked with had very different opinions about leading Israel. One issue that divided the two parties was the building of Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories. Sharon felt strongly that Israel should hold onto the territory it had won in battle and continue to build settlements to strengthen Israel's claim to the land. When the Palestinian population started an uprising called the First Intifada in 1987, Sharon also opposed any talk of removing Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip, where most of the rioting was occurring. Sharon felt that giving into Palestinian violence to remove Jewish settlements would lead to more violent uprisings from Palestinians and might also draw other Arab countries into the conflict as they saw Israel weakening.
In 1992 the Labor Party, headed by Yitzhak Rabin, again fully controlled the Israel government. In 1993, Yitzhak Rabin and other members of the Labor Party attended secret peace negotiations between Israel and the PLO called the Oslo Accords. These peace talks resulted in the PLO agreeing to recognize Israel as a true independent nation and Israel agreeing to withdraw its settlements and armies from parts of the Occupied Territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sharon publicly criticized the Israeli government for signing the Oslo Accords and giving up land that he felt was vital to the protection of Israel. However, since the Likud Party was not in control of the government, there was little that Sharon could do to influence policy in the Occupied Territories.
This changed when Benjamin Netanyahu (1949–) took control of the Israeli government in 1996, and appointed Sharon as his minister of national infrastructure, a position that again put Sharon in charge of Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories. Ignoring the Oslo Accords, which called for an eventual end to Israel's control in the Occupied Territories, Sharon oversaw the creation of new Jewish settlements in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. But when Palestinians started new violent uprisings in 1997, the United States pressured Israel to make peace with the Palestinians, and over the next few years Israel agreed to hand over more land to the Palestinians. Sharon opposed several of these agreements and spoke out against them. Although he left his position as minister of national infrastructure when new Labor Party prime minister Ehud Barak took office, Sharon took over as the leader of the Likud Party in 1999, remaining a strong voice in politics.
Israel and the PLO were unable to negotiate peace by 2000, despite the agreements made in the Oslo Peace Accords. Instead, tensions rose. In late 2000, a new Palestinian uprising, called the Second Intifada, or al-Aqsa Intifada, erupted. Within three months, this uprising had killed more than two hundred people and wounded many more, and the violence between the IDF and the Palestinians continued. Barak had lost control over the country and Israelis voted him out of office. In the election the Likud Party was given control of the Knesset and Sharon became prime minister in February of 2001.
Sharon was known for his beliefs in keeping Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories and not giving in to Palestinian attacks. But as prime minister he announced his willingness to negotiate to end the violence. Arabs doubted Sharon's sincerity and the intentions of the Israelis who elected him. One Arab newspaper announced, according to Worth, that "By electing Sharon and sacrificing Barak, Israelis have voted against peace." A study done by Tel Aviv University, however, claimed that the results of the Israeli elections signified Israel's desire for peace and that the population felt Sharon could best "advance the peace process ... while protecting the State of Israel's vital interests," according to Sharon.
Violence continued, however, and Sharon ordered increased Israeli defensive measures. The IDF dug deep trenches around Palestinian towns where violence originated to isolate them; conducted targeted missile attacks on the buildings owned by the Palestinian Authority, an organization formed in the 1990s that functioned as a government for the Palestinian people; and invaded the Gaza Strip in search of Palestinians who were considered terrorists by the Israelis. Even when the United States pressured Sharon to stop building Jewish settlements in 2001 and honor the Oslo Accords, Sharon refused. Over the next three years, both Palestinians and Israelis would continue to fight over the Occupied Territories.
Although Sharon became known as the man who had refused to give up even "an inch" of land won in the Six-Day War of 1967, by the new millennium, after decades of battling with Palestinians, he came to believe that it would be better to divide the area between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and for Israel to "hold those areas which are strategically important for its defense," as he told Newsweek. In 2004 he proposed an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. His plan surprised many because he had devised it without participation or prompting from the Palestinians. He told Newsweek that he "felt it was my responsibility to bring an answer to the problem."
The Gaza Strip was home to nearly two hundred Palestinians to every one Israeli in 2004, and as such it was "no place to rule for a country that calls itself Jewish and democratic," Sharon claimed to critics, according to U.S. News and World Report. Although his plan to pull out of the Occupied Territories angered many Jewish settlers, some of whom threatened his life, Sharon appeared ready to stand by his decision. As a man used to being hated by Arabs, Sharon confessed to Newsweek that having Jews threaten him is a "strange situation." But he added, "I am fully committed to the plan," and added, "I don't think that anybody will be able to do it except me."
By 2002 Sharon had made progress against Palestinian aggression and "enjoyed the highest popularity ratings of any prime minister in Israeli history," according to Sharon. In 2003 the Likud Party won a another victory in the government elections and voted to grant Sharon another term as prime minister. As the Second Intifada continued, Sharon began to seek solutions to end the violence. In 2004 Sharon created a plan to withdraw soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip. In early 2005, the Palestinian Authority elected Mahmoud Abbas (1935–; see entry) as its president after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (1929–2004; see entry) in late 2004 and this change in leadership made many hopeful that a long-standing peace might be reached between Israel and the Palestinians. However, even though Sharon and Abbas agreed on plans for Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories and new defined borders to create an independent Palestinian nation, violence between Arabs and Israelis resumed shortly after Abbas took office. Sharon, along with the Palestinian Authority, continued to work in 2005 to stop the violence between the two nations, but it is unclear whether Sharon will reach this goal before his term as prime minister ends.
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In order to run an a priori sample size calculation for an independent samples t-test, researchers will need to seek out evidence that provides the means and standard deviations of the outcome in the treatment group and the control group. The absolute difference between the two mean values and their respective variances dictates the evidence-based measure of effect. Seek out articles that are similar in terms of research question and methods and use the reported values in the articles as an evidence-based measure of effect when calculating sample size for an independent samples t-test.
A good rule of thumb is to overestimate the variance of the effect size when calculating the sample size for an independent samples t-test. Researchers do this because it forces them to have to collect more observations of the outcome, which in turn leads to more precise and accurate measures of effect.
For example, let's say that researchers find quality evidence that people in the treatment group sleep an average of 7.5 hours a night with a standard deviation of 1.5 and people in the control group sleep an average of 6.7 hours a night with a standard deviation of 2.1. There is an evidenced-based measure of effect of 0.8 hours (7.5 - 6.7 = 0.8). Researchers could enter these values into G*Power and know exactly how many observations of the outcome they would need to collect in order to detect that 0.8 hour treatment effect.
3. Under the Statistical test drop-down menu, select Means: Difference between two independent means (two groups).
5.If there is a directional hypothesis, under the Tail(s) drop-down menu, select One.
7. Click the Determine button.
8. Enter the mean for the treatment group into the Mean group 1 box. Example: "7.5"
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11. Enter the standard deviation associated with the mean of the control group into the SD insert group2 box. Example: "2.1"
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Based on the values from the example and the steps above, a two-tailed test with 0.8 hour effect and alpha of .05 and power of .80 with equally sized groups yields a sample size of 166 with 83 participants in each group to detect the effect.
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I would like to marry a Cuban girl, buy a house and operate as a casa particular?
First this I am no lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice. Having said this, there is almost no protection. When you are wealthy and have more assets in Canada it's wise to marry first in Canada with a contract or an agreement that protects your assets in Canada, and then to get married in Cuba. Take some precautions, the house will be registered under the Cuban citizens name.
The best you can do is limit your financial exposure, buy something cheap, you can always upgrade later. In general in a Cuban divorce the assets are divided fifty-fifty between both partners. Note, that your Cuban partner can not buy a house (there are exceptions) but only can swap her present house against a new one. In a lot of these operations is payment under the table (black money) involved, so the risks are considerable that you lose money. Set a financial limit, money that you can afford to lose and consider the money as a possible loss.
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Author: Semeion Research Center of Sciences of Communication Source: [UCI](http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/semeion+handwritten+digit) Please cite: Semeion Research Center of Sciences of Communication, via Sersale 117, 00128 Rome, Italy Tattile Via Gaetano Donizetti, 1-3-5,25030 Mairano (Brescia), Italy. ### Dataset Description Semeion Handwritten Digit Data Set, where 1593 handwritten digits from around 80 persons were scanned and documented. The each of the 256 variables V1 - V256 describe one of the pixels and their corresponding values. ### Sources The dataset was created by Tactile Srl, Brescia, Italy (http://www.tattile.it) and donated in 1994 to Semeion Research Center of Sciences of Communication, Rome, Italy (http://www.semeion.it), for machine learning research. For any questions, e-mail Massimo Buscema (m.buscema '@' semeion.it) or Stefano Terzi (s.terzi '@' semeion.it) ### DataSet Information A total of 1593 handwritten digits from around 80 persons were scanned, stretched in a rectangular box 16x16 in a gray scale of 256 values. Then each pixel of each image was scaled into a boolean (1/0) value using a fixed threshold. Each person wrote in a paper all the digits from 0 to 9, twice. The commitment was to write the digit the first time in the normal way (trying to write each digit accurately) and the second time in a fast way (with no accuracy). The best validation protocol for this dataset seems to be a 5x2CV, 50% Tune (Train +Test) and completely blind 50% Validation ### Attribute Information This dataset consists of 1593 records (rows) and 256 attributes (columns). Each record represents a handwritten digit, originally scanned with a resolution of 256 grays scale (28). Each pixel of the each original scanned image was first stretched, and after scaled between 0 and 1 (setting to 0 every pixel whose value was under the value 127 of the grey scale (127 included) and setting to 1 each pixel whose original value in the grey scale was over 127). Finally, each binary image was scaled again into a 16x16 square box (the final 256 binary attributes). ### Relevant Papers M Buscema, MetaNet: The Theory of Independent Judges, in Substance Use & Misuse 33(2)1998, pp 439-461.
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What exactly is involved in the brewing process that turns a beer 'sour'? Is it the addition of certain lactic acids or yeasts? I've been told before that, technically, a sour beer is a the result of the brewing process gone wrong (obviously this is controlled when that outcome is intentional). How true is this?
The opinion part of my question: what are some excellent sour beers that you guys recommend? I have a few favorites, but am always looking for great suggestions.
Sourness may have been, in a higher or lower level, a common characteristic of beers centuries ago, specially after some time of storage, once the common vessel to keep it was wooden barrels, and wood often harbor a lot of microorganisms, including bacteria and wild yeast, the former being responsible for souring the beer. After the Industrial Revolution, with more hygiene and sterile tools, that characteristic became more and more uncommon, and at some point, undesirable. So, meanwhile, yeast was "discovered", isolated, and fermentation controlled so that we had a clean taste profile, free from acids at all, which is what you know as beer nowadays.
Don't be fooled: what really sours a beer are bacteria, not Brettanomyces. The later, also known as 'wild yeast', are usually found in sour beers as well, but are responsible for other aromas and flavors (barnyard and horse saddle being the most recognizable). (Brett actually produces a tiny amount of acid, no more than that).
Some Belgians have been intentionally making sour beers for centuries, through spontaneous fermentation process (in the case of lambics) and wood-aging (in large oak vats) after "clean" fermentation (in the case of flanders reds). Germans did it too, but their two traditional sour styles (gose and berliner weisse) are almost dead there, and differ from the belgians ones on the absence of brett character.
Nonetheless, nowadays people comprehend a lot better how those processes occur, and are doing sours again on purpose and manipulating those organisms in many ways. Basically, souring bacteria used are pediococcus and lactobacillus (not very different from lambics, actually). Most of the time, barrels are still used in the process, because of the micro-aeration those microorganisms need. And, off course, for keeping the microflora inside it, etc, etc, not to mention the flavor complexity that comes from wood compounds itself.
A contaminated beer may end up being a sour. Well, so what distinguish a spoiled beer from a sour? Nothing actually, except that when people intentionally want to produce a sour, they do that with some more control in order to get the outcome they want and not some weird aleatory taste at the end. But, at some level, producing a sour beer, specially when using barrels, is always unpredictable too.
As you can see, it's a rich and complex topic, probably the most exciting one about brewing.
As suggestions, I definitely encourage you to taste the classic ones, belgian lambics (any Gueuze you find) and flanders reds (have you ever heard about Rodenbach and Duchesse de Bourgogne? they're amazing). I love Petrus Aged Pale too.
And, if you are from US, then you are bloody blessed, because american craft brewers are doing sour/wild beers like there were no tomorrow. =P Look for Allagash, Russian River, Lost Abbey, The Bruery, Avery, Boulevard, Almanac, Deschutes. The list is infinite. The thing is getting so serious that in the last years, all-sour breweries are popping up, like Rare Barrel from Berkeley.
Effectively, yes. A sour beer is what we'd consider to be a spoiled beer.
As a quick primer, "wort" is turned into "beer" when microbes convert the sugars in the liquid into alcohol, CO2, and ...other stuff. Generally speaking, we use brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae for ale or Sacc. Pastorianus for lager) because the other stuff tastes pretty nice, or at least doesn't taste bad. Various strains of the same organism produce different byproducts, an example would be an English ale yeast which is well known for compounds that are kindof sweet or fruity vs Belgian ale yeasts which are well known for being peppery, clovy, or banana-y. Those flavors all come from the yeast used for fermentation, but it's only ever a single strain of yeast, which was isolated in a lab.
Sour beers are basically defined by not using a single isolated, clean-tasting strain of Saccharomyces. The most common sour yeast used is in a genus called Brettanomyces, which depending on the specific species can produce flavors like...horse saddle, bandaid, cheese, cloves, and vinegar. But most sour beers are not strictly brewed with yeasts like Sacc. or Brett. but also have bacteria in them. Most commonly lactobacillus and pediococcus which are known for producing large amounts of lactic acid, which is where the sour really comes from.
That's not to say sour beer brewers are being sloppy, because their "infections" aren't accidents. They're deliberately trying to use less predictable and slow-acting organisms to create consistent beer. That's tough.
As to a suggestion? I like Tart of Darkness by The Bruery. Petrus is good stuff and Duchesse de Bourgogne is nice. Occasionally it's nice to find a really tart Berlinerweisse and mix it with a fruit syrup and Gose can be incredible paired with cheese.
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What is considered clean eating? The definitions may vary but in the most basic sense it is foods that are free of artificial sweeteners & dyes, no hydrogenated oils, and anything else that is unnatural or unnecessary. See, the last part of the definition is where it could vary from person to person. I believe that if you've found the most basic foundation for your wellness, you can add or subtract from what you'll consider eating and this will change over the years (and hopefully improvements are made).
I've made chicken parmigiana on my blog before. The recipe is similar to the last recipe but I changed the crushed crackers to a different brand in my pantry (free of hydrogenated oils and no HFCS). I made the chicken two ways. One with the breading and a side of roasted veggies: asparagus, white and sweet potatoes. The other is with traditional tomato sauce over the chicken and pasta served with the veggies. Every meal should have a serving (minimum) of fruit or vegetables.
The image on the bottom right should read: Don't supersize me. Children should not eat the same portion of food that the parents are consuming. Their balled up fist is the same size as their stomach as your fist is to your stomach. Fruits and vegetables don't require a 'portion size' - they are nutrient dense foods and should be consumed frequently through the day. Seven servings of produce is required for children daily whereas 9-13 servings are required for adults. As an adult, you'll eat the higher end of the recommendation if you're active!
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Many ancient African ideologies, traditions and beliefs have been assimilated into European and Western culture. A most notable example of this inheritance is the globally celebrated 'festive season' culminating on Christmas Day.
Today, the entire festive season is a time when many people, both in Africa and across the world, enjoy the festivities without fully understanding the meaning and origin of the holiday they are celebrating.
Karaism, which is based on the ancient spiritual beliefs that originated in Africa, reveals that Christmas and the festive period surrounding it has its roots deeply entrenched in ancient African philosophy.
It teaches that the 25th of December, which is the original date of the summer solstice according to the Roman Julian calendar instituted in 46 BC, marked the birth of our primal African ancestors and of all sacred kings of pre-Christian times. It was believed to be the birthday of Osiris (or Usara) and his two sisters Isis and Nephtys. It was the birthday of Thoth Hermes or Horus, ‘The One’ or first God, later known as Ra Harakhte or Xpakhte (pronounced ‘Christos’ in Greek), and also known as Karast or Jah.
This belief is also reflected in the philosophy of Karaism which teaches that the first god to arise from the cosmos at the time of the summer solstice was the sacred King Faro, the Lion God, also known as Mwanamutapa or Momptah. His birth was marked by the early morning appearance of the three stars of the Orion or Urhana belt. Later these three stars came to symbolise the three wise men from the East who visited the Virgin Mother Mari (or Saba).
So why was the summer solstice regarded as a time of spiritual birth?
The summer solstice is the day when the sun reaches the Tropic of Capricorn, its furthest point in the southern hemisphere, marking the longest day in the southern hemisphere and the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. In ancient times people believed that this was when the sun would turn around and travel back to its furthest point in the northern hemisphere – this process of “coming back” to the northern world was therefore seen as a time of the sun’s rebirth and new beginnings. At the adoption of the Roman Julian Calendar in 46 B.C. the shortest day of the year was December the 24th, and the following day, December the 25th, was the first day of the year in which daylight increased, and was therefore believed to be the day of the sun's rebirth.
Today, thanks to modern calculations, we know that the solstice actually occurs on 21-22 December. But this does not change the fact that since time immemorial the birth of the spiritual sun was celebrated in Africa on 25 December. Eventually this date was adopted by the Roman Imperial Church as the birth date of Jesus the Christ from Nazareth. Thus December the 25th came to be known as Christmas day. In an African context, this name means the birth (mas) of the light (chr) and life (ist) of the sun god.
The sacred King Faro born on 25 December was perceived as the first fruit, thus in ancient Africa Christmas was celebrated as the first fruit festival – a tradition that is still observed in many African communities to this day. The new moon experienced in December announces that preparations for the first fruit festival must start. This festival, also known as Kwanzaa, Incwala, Inxwala or Tevhula, is the sacrificial ceremony of giving the first fruits in a harvest to the gods. Its central feature is the biting of the pumpkin (hu luma lerotse/hu luma tswitswa); the first people to bite the pumpkin are the nobility and children. Other traditions included, and still include, the slaughtering of a heifer in sacrificial gratitude to the gods for the abundance of food.
The origin of Christmas day being rooted in sun worship has been documented across the globe. For example, Hindus, whilst they do not celebrate Christmas, have an equivalent of the Inxwala festival in their midwinter known as Makar Sankranti, which serves as their major harvest festival. They bathe in rivers such as the Ganges and offer water to the sun god in celebration of the transition of the sun and the ascendancy of the sun god into the Northern Hemisphere. In ancient Britain and Scandinavia midwinter sun festivals were celebrated; these would include lighting candles and winter fires to encourage the rebirth of the sun.
It is important to know that the celebrations of the festive season are for the expression of gratitude for the abundance given to us in this life. In the Christian context, it is also important to know that while Christmas does not celebrate the exact day that Jesus Christ was born, it certainly celebrates the fact that He was born.
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Fenugreek Extract: Fenugreek is a unique herb indigenous to countries on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Rich in phyto-estrogens, fenugreek aids in hormonal production, and facilitates the development of the mammary glands which 'feed' on estrogens.Trigonelline, a chemical found in Fenugreek, has been in testing as a potential treatment for cancer as well.
Saw Palmetto: Saw Palmetto is a small palm tree with large leaves and large deep red-black berries found on the North American Atlantic Coast. Saw Palmetto berries contain an oil with a variety of physosterols. Studies have shown Saw Palmetto to successfully reverse atrophy of the mammary gland.
Fennel Seed: Found in the coastal and sub-mountainous regions of southern Italy, Fennel has long been praised for its abundance of flavonoids. These compounds exert mild estrogenic effects and are completely harmless and non-toxic.
Mexican Wild Yam: Commonly used as a treatment for osteoperosis, Mexican Wild Yam is a excellent source of Beta-Carotene and diosgenin, which are powerful Phytochemicals aiding in optimal breast development.
Damiana: Damiana is a small shrub found in the West Indies. It is high in phytochemicals such as alpha-pinene, beta-carotene, beta-pinene and beta-sisterol. Damiana is primarily used for treating female hormone imbalances.
Dong Quai: For centuries, this Asian root has been used to treat menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and cramps. Dong Quai has been shown to assist the body in efficiently using hormones. Mother's Wort: Mother's Wort is native to many parts of Europe on river banks and under hedges. Mother's Wort contains, Leonurine which is a uterine stimulant.
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American society operates on an underlying faith that everyone is "free to perform at the level of his or her ability, motivation, and qualities of character and be rewarded accordingly" (Gardner, p. 22). In other words, individuals should have the opportunity to go where their talents take them. At the same time, Americans hold dear the belief that all people should have an equal opportunity to succeed. Therefore, various education programs (e.g., through Head Start, Title 1), have been established to foster equality, regardless of socioeconomic background. To develop excellence, educational opportunities are provided that are enriching and accelerating so that talented individuals are matched with an environment that draws out their potential. While some truly believe that talented students will make it on their own, research has shown that what is taught, and how it is taught, is important for all students, even the most gifted. High expectations, continuous challenges, and learning something new each day are important for academic success.
Most states and many school districts have developed specialized summer programs that bring together academically talented students and offer an educational experience geared to their high abilities. Such specialized summer enrichment programs have proliferated across the country because research has demonstrated that high-ability students develop higher expectations, feel better about themselves, and engage in higher-level processing or discourse when working with other students of similar abilities. Moreover, summer programs foster independence and good work habits in an intellectually challenging environment that also develops critical thinking skills and creativity.
Summer programs designed to meet the needs of these high-ability learners include governors' schools, various options developed by local school districts as part of their gifted and talented programming, and precollegiate programs sponsored by colleges and universities on their campuses or at satellite sites. In the past, when funding was available, the National Science Foundation also sponsored such programs through grants to various institutions. Programs can be residential or distanced in nature, and they span the arts, humanities, and sciences. While most are offered in a course format, several programs are devoted to providing re-search experiences or specialized internships. Most of the residential programs, however, are limited to the secondary grades.
These programs are intended to provide enrichment (and acceleration in some cases) and build motivation in students who are not fully served or are underrepresented by conventional programs. Admission to most summer enrichment programs is highly competitive and selective. While a variety of criteria are often utilized in selecting students (e.g., grades, recommendations, nominations), high demonstrated ability as measured by achievement or aptitude tests is a critical component of any selection system.
One of the first summer programs for secondary students was started in 1972 by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University. It became the model for many university-based programs. The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins and other universities across the country (e.g., Duke, Iowa, Iowa State, Northwestern, Vanderbilt) continue this work, adopting and adapting this model for their settings. In such programs, seventh-grade students who have taken the SAT or ACT and whose scores exceed the mean of college-bound seniors are invited to enroll. They are often called Talent Search programs because most students are identified through a talent search. In these summer programs, students can assimilate a full high school course (e.g., chemistry, Latin, math) within three weeks or take a similarly fast-paced course on a topic not offered by their local school. The program's instruction is aimed at the very characteristics that make students so gifted: their ability to make connections among seemingly disparate ideas, to assimilate new information rapidly, and to be challenged by the subject matter. Thus, rather than feeling rushed, these students thrive in such learning environments, which are deeply enriching, and they tend to crave more. Many (as many as 40% in some cases) return the following year for additional learning opportunities developmentally tailored to their level and rate of growth.
While both gifted boys and girls evaluate these programs positively (even twenty years later), a reliable gender difference is characteristically found. Girls tend to report more positive effects. It appears that peer pressure on gifted girls in most schools is harsher than that for gifted boys. When talented girls are placed in an environment without any pressure not to achieve, they not only enjoy the learning experience more fully, but they are especially relieved by the absence of negative peer pressure. Indeed, they often report finally being able to "be themselves." Of course, boys report the same phenomena. It is not known whether participants are more deeply affected academically or socially by these programs. Many highly gifted students feel alienated in a traditional classroom, but not at these programs, where they feel they finally find individuals who understand them.
The identification of intellectually able students and the long-term impact of various educational options upon their development are being studied by SMPY, which is a fifty-year longitudinal study that began in 1971 at Johns Hopkins and in the early twenty-first century is run by the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. This work involves studying, throughout their lives, more than 5,000 mathematically and verbally precocious students. This longitudinal study provides data to not only evaluate but also to refine programs. It also provides information about the development, needs, and characteristics of precocious youth.
The data collected during SMPY's first three decades has shown that, while most SMPY students do achieve their potential for high academic success in high school, college, and even graduate school, intellectually talented students will not necessarily achieve to their full potential unless provided with appropriate educational opportunities, and some of the most satisfying experiences are the summer enrichment programs.
But what does it mean to say that these individuals are doing well, especially if the educational system has intervened in their lives? In the most able cohort of SMPY's longitudinal study, which included individuals who were in the top 1 in 10,000 in ability and who experienced an intensive intervention, individuals have earned doctorates at 50 times the base rate and at twice the rate of individuals in the top 1 percent in ability who received less intervention. One of these individuals became a full professor at a major research university before age twenty-five.
Summer enrichment programs have focused on providing developmentally appropriate learning experiences for talented students, identifying those students who have such needs, which often go undetected, and then providing supplemental educational opportunities that ensure that such students are challenged and that their passions and love for learning are kept alive, rather than extinguished by curricula that are too slow paced and not at the right level. While doing so, they provide an appropriate social experience that is often experienced as healing. It could be said that summer enrichment programs for gifted and talented students are about developing rare human capital.
See also: GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATION.
GARDNER, JOHN WILLIAM. 1961. Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? New York: Harper.
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Jessica Ann Johnson (née Simpson; born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress and fashion designer. Simpson signed a recording contract with Columbia Records when she was sixteen, and released her debut studio album in 1999. The album sold over four million copies worldwide, and spawned the top three hit "I Wanna Love You Forever" (1999). Hoping to achieve further success with her second album, Simpson adopted a more mature image for the release of Irresistible (2001). The album's title track, which served as the lead single, became her second top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Simpson married singer Nick Lachey on October 26, 2002 after four years of dating. The couple starred in the reality television series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica (2003–05) on MTV, chronicling their marriage and careers. The show became a pop culture phenomenon, and made Simpson and her husband household names.
Her third studio album, In This Skin (2003), became her most successful album to date; it sold over seven million copies worldwide. The album was aided in part due to the success of the single "With You" (2003), which topped the Mainstream Top 40 chart. She later released a Christmas themed album, ReJoyce: The Christmas Album (2004), which earned a gold certification from the RIAA. She made her film debut as Daisy Duke in the film adaption of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005); it was commercially successful, though received a negative critical reaction. She also recorded the song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (2005) for the film, which went on to become her fourth top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100. In November 2005, Simpson and Lachey confirmed they were separating; Simpson filed for divorce the following month. It was later announced that Simpson had parted ways with Columbia, and signed a new recording contract with Epic Records to distribute her fifth studio album.
Aside from her musical pursuits, she launched The Jessica Simpson Collection in 2005, a fashion line of clothing and other items. The brand has gone on to earn over $1 billion in revenue, and is regarded as one of the most successful celebrity founded brands ever. Her fifth studio album, A Public Affair (2006), saw a decline in sales for Simpson. She later starred in the romantic comedy Employee of the Month (2006), another critical failure. With the release of her sixth studio album, Simpson attempted to shift into the country music genre. The project was met harshly by critics, and failed to achieve commercial success. Simpson went on to star in the reality television series The Price of Beauty (2010), and was a judge on two seasons of Fashion Star (2012–13). She is married to Eric Johnson and the couple have two children. Simpson has since announced work on her eighth studio album, slated for release in late 2018.
Jessica Ann Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas. She is the first child of Tina Ann (née Drew), a homemaker, and Joseph "Joe" Simpson, a psychologist and Baptist youth minister. Simpson's parents married in 1978; they divorced in 2013. Simpson has stated that she grew up in Dallas, but her parents now live in McGregor, Texas. Simpson is the first child of the couple; she has a younger sister, Ashlee Simpson. She briefly attended J. J. Pearce High School in her teenage years, though had to drop out as her career began to take off; she later earned her GED. Being the daughter of a minister, Simpson was raised with a strong Christian faith. She was given a purity ring by her father when she was twelve years old. Jessica and her family moved frequently due to her father's job, though they remained in Texas. Her father would often take in unwed mothers for periods of time to provide them shelter.
Simpson performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Indy 500 in 2005. Simpson launched The Jessica Simpson Collection in 2005, initially partnering with Tarrant Apparel Group to release the Princy and JS by Jessica Simpson clothing lines. The company has continued to grow throughout the years, and in 2014 was reported to earn $1 billion in annual sales. Simpson made her film debut as Daisy Duke in the film adaption of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). The film was met with generally negative reviews from film critics, though went on to gross over $111 million worldwide. Simpson recorded the song "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (2005) to promote the film; it both samples and shares the title of a Nancy Sinatra song. The song entered the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one Simpson's most successful singles to date. The music video, which featured Simpson in character as Daisy Duke, was controversial for featuring Simpson in "revealing" outfits and washing the General Lee car in her bikini. The controversy resulted in the music video being banned in some countries. In November 2005, Simpson and Lachey announced they were separating. Simpson filed for divorce in December 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences." Their divorce was publicized worldwide and was finalized on June 30, 2006.
Simpson began working on her fifth studio album in 2005. It was confirmed in March 2006 that she had parted ways with Columbia Records, whom she had been with since the launch of her career, and had signed a new recording contract with Epic Records. Simpson and stylist Ken Pavés launched a line of hair and beauty products on the Home Shopping Network in 2006. Simpson released her new single, "A Public Affair" (2006) on June 29. The song entered the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, and earned a gold certification from the RIAA for sales exceeding 500,000 copies in the United States. The single, an upbeat breakup song, was released the day before her divorce from Lachey was finalized. The song most notably entered the top ten of the iTunes Store at the same time as her sister's single "Invisible" (2006), marking the first time that two siblings had appeared simultaneously in the store's top ten.
Simpson appeared alongside Nicole Richie as a mentor on the NBC reality television series Fashion Star. The series revolved around a group of designers who competed each week to create clothing; each week, one contestant was eliminated. The series aired the second season in 2013, though was canceled afterward. Following months of speculation, Simpson confirmed on Halloween of 2011 that she was pregnant with her first child. Simpson signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Weight Watchers in 2012, vowing to use their diet plan to shed the weight gained during her pregnancy. Simpson filmed television commercials for the company, with the first airing in September 2012. Simpson gave birth to a daughter, Maxwell Drew Johnson, on May 1, 2012. Simpson launched a maternity clothing line in 2012. She later released a perfume, Vintage Bloom, which was inspired by motherhood. Simpson confirmed in December 2012 that she was expecting a second child with Johnson. Following the announcement, Weight Watchers announced that she would discontinue following the company's diet plan during her pregnancy. Simpson gave birth to her son, Ace Knute Johnson, on June 30, 2013. she launched a bedroom decor line including bedding and draperies offered in a romantic bohemian style, with floral patterns. In August 2014, a signature fragrance was added. Simpson and Johnson married on July 5, 2014 in Montecito, California.
Simpson's weight became a major talking point for the media in later years, beginning in 2007 and worsening over the following years. Though the criticism carried into 2008 throughout her transition into country music, it reached a peak in 2009. Specifically, one particular outfit that consisted of jeans, a belt, and a sleeveless top was criticized by the media and deemed "unflattering" to Simpson's figure. Simpson defended her weight gain, as did her sister, and claimed that she still felt "confident" in her skin. The weight criticism continued following the birth of her two children, though Simpson has shed much weight since giving birth. Simpson is also a registered Republican. She endorsed George W. Bush during his presidential campaign in 2004, though cancelled an appearance at a 2006 Republican fundraiser as she felt it was not "appropriate". Though a Republican, Simpson has praised former First Lady Michelle Obama during her time in office, stating, "She's such an incredible woman, and she's with such a powerful man...Everything she does she exudes confidence."
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Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.
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In this tutorial, we will learn about python string split method.
This method divide ( split ) the string in to multiple parts, using separator ( sep ) passed as an argument and return all of these parts as a list.
# Case 1 : sep = '@' sep_1 = '@' s_1 = 'abc@def@ghi@jkl' l_1 = s_1.split(sep_1) print('case 1: ') print(l_1) # Case 2 : sep = ' ' maxSplit = 2 sep_2 = ' ' maxSplit_2 = 2 s_2 = 'abc def ghi jkl' l_2 = s_2.split(sep_2,maxSplit_2) print('case 2: ') print(l_2) # In this case, split method will divide the string (s2) 2 times as maxSplit is 2, So list will have 3 elements. # Case 3 : sep = '@' maxSplit = 5 sep_3 = '@' maxSplit_3 = 5 s_3 = 'abc@def@ghi@jkl@mno' l_3 = s_3.split(sep_3,maxSplit_3) print('case 3: ') print(l_3) # In this case, split method will divide the string (s3) 4 times, as separator string ('@') is present only 4 times, So list will have 3 elements. # Case 4 : sep = None or sep not passed sep_4 = None s_4 = 'abc def ghi jkl' l_4 = s_4.split(sep_4) # l_4 = s_4.split() can also be used. print('case 4: ') print(l_4) # In this case, split method will divide the string s4 by using space as a separator.
That’s all for Python String split method. If you liked it, please share your thoughts in comments section and share it with others too.
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What is the difference between a data logger and a scope?
Firstly, I love picoscopes I have been using them for four years and have tried three different models in my Lab.
Now we have started a company and about to buy a scope or a data logger. Could I ask for the differences between a data logger and a scope? Is it all about the "real-time"?
As we have really limited money, we need your advices.
1012/1216 Loggers can be used as scopes.
The scopes are generally faster, have less channels, variable input ranges but less vertical resolution.
The loggers are slower, have more channels, have a fixed input range but have greater vertical resolution.
Logging software is generally geared towards storage and post analysis, and scope software is geared more towards real time use.
It really depends upon what you want to do, as to what device is best suited for the purpose.
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Why another technical analysis indicator library?
Can I use floats instead of doubles?
Can I use TI from Excel?
Are TI bindings available for Java, Python, Ruby, etc?
Tulip Indicators (TI) is a programming library that does the math behind technical analysis for stocks and commodities.
It's named after Tulip Charts. The "Tulip" in Tulip Charts is a reference to Tulip Mania, during which tulip bulb prices reached extraordinary highs in 1637 before quickly collapsing. It's widely considered to be the first major speculation bubble, although newer evidence suggests that it may not have happened as many think.
I was working on a number of finance projects, and the existing indicator libraries weren't good enough. In almost every case, other indicator libraries lacked good documentation, they used slow algorithms, and in some cases they had correctness bugs. Many of the alternatives aren't actively developed anymore, so they will likely never improve. Another primary motivation for a clean start was the chance to implement a decent library interface. The alternative libraries do a poor job of this, in my opinion.
ANSI C was chosen to make the library small, fast, and portable. Also, C is very easy to bind to, making bindings for other languages easy as well. In the programming world, C is the least common denominator.
Yes. Tulip Indicators is absolutely ready for real world use, it is used in several high-profile systems, and it is relied on by thousands of traders everyday.
TI is tested in many ways before each new release.
TI includes a large unit test suite. Test data in this suite is taken from books, other sites, and calculated by hand. The test data is aquired from primary sources when possible. This data is compared to TI on every build to check for errors.
TI includes a regression test suite as well. This suite checks that indicator output remains consistent with library updates.
TI includes a fuzzer. This tool checks TI with unusual inputs to make sure that it returns the proper error codes instead of crashing or accessing invalid memory locations.
TI is also thoroughly tested against TA-Lib for the functions that they share in common. This testing is done by a small utility program called "benchmark" included with TI. This program benchmarks TI's performance against TA-Lib, and it also checks that both libraries generate the same outputs.
Do keep in mind that some functions names or formulas may change slightly before version 1.0 is released, however I won't break your code without good reason. Theses changes will be well documented if they happen.
Oh yes. TI is the fastest indicator library I know of. TI achieves its speed not by micro-optimizations, but by using good algorithms. Wherever possible, TI won't make two passes through the data if one will suffice.
No, but TI is fully thread-safe. TI retains no mutable global state. I've found it's best to utilize multiple-cores at the highest level of abstraction, so the threading should generally be done a couple layers of abstraction above TI for the maximum speed gain.
For example, a common use-case it to run an indicator on a thousand stocks. That is the obvious place to parallelize, with one stock running on each core.
Most TI functions do no runtime memory allocation. A couple functions allocate temporary buffers using malloc. These buffers are freed before the function returns.
Importantly, all outputs from TI functions go into buffers allocated and managed by the caller.
Fair warning: make sure to thoroughly test it for your application. Floats don't have a lot of precision, and you may find errors depending on your inputs. This is especially true for indicators with long periods. TI hasn't been tested with floats.
Yes! Tulip Cell is a high quality Excel add-in based on Tulip Indicators. Needless to say, it's also free. In fact, it's the only Excel technical analysis add-in I know of that's free and open-source.
Are TI bindings available for C#, Node.js, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, etc?
You can see the available bindings here.
I have played with making some bindings for other languages, but I haven't cleaned things up enough to publish. If you really need a binding, let me know and I'll see what I can do. If you're doing a commercial project, I'm available for consulting.
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Mixed materials create a detailed Craftsman exterior for this open concept house plan. The great room is open to the island kitchen, and the dining room leads to a cozy screened porch with a fireplace in this house plan. Each bedroom has a walk-in closet, and the master has two. The three car garage enters across from the walk-in pantry into a mud room. The nearby utility room has outdoor access under a covered porch with this house plan.
1st Floor: 2494 Sq. Ft.
Bonus Room: 640 Sq. Ft.
Porch - Front: 248 Sq. Ft.
Porch - Screened: 229 Sq. Ft.
Porch - Rear: 289 Sq. Ft.
House Dimensions: 76' 4" x 87' 7"
Great Room: 19' 0" x 18' 10"
Foyer (Tray): 7' 0" x 7' 0" x 10' 0"
Dining Room (Tray): 13' 0" x 12' 10" x 10' 6"
Great Room (Cathedral): 19' 0" x 18' 10" x 21' 8"
Kitchen (Flat): 13' 0" x 11' 8" x 9' 0"
Utility Room (Flat): 9' 4" x 8' 8" x 9' 0"
Bonus Room (Clipped): 15' 0" x 22' 4" x 9' 0"
Garage (Flat): 24' 0" x 22' 4" x 0' 0"
Bedroom / Study (Coffered): 12' 0" x 13' 4" x 10' 0"
Bedroom #3 (Flat): 12' 4" x 12' 0" x 9' 0"
Bedroom #4 (Flat): 12' 0" x 12' 4" x 9' 0"
Porch - Front (Flat): 12' 10" x 14' 0" x 10' 0"
Porch - Rear (Flat): 31' 0" x 9' 4" x 9' 0"
Porch - Right (Flat): 6' 0" x 8' 8" x 9' 0"
Porch - Screen (Flat): 14' 6" x 13' 6" x 9' 0"
Patio - Rear (None): 29' 4" x 17' 8" x 0' 0"
Garage Storage Bay (Flat): 9' 4" x 2' 0" x 0' 0"
Mud Room (Flat): 8' 4" x 5' 4" x 9' 0"
Pocket Office (Flat): 4' 8" x 3' 0" x 9' 0"
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(CNN) – In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.
And according to the study by Floatingsheep.org, Americans tweet more about church than beer, and there is a distinct regional divide between the tweets.
Church tweets were most common in the Southeast United States, while tweets about beer were most prevalent in the Northeast.
Zook and his group selected the words because they believed religion and drinking have rich differences.
“We have been doing this for a while, and we have a set of favorite words that really capture regional differences,” Zook said.
According to the report, which was first reported by Britain's Guardian newspaper, San Francisco was the most beer-focused city in the country, while Dallas was the most focused on church.
The social networking site Twitter allows users to note or highlight their locations with a service called geotagging, which utilizes the GPS feature on mobile phones or computers to precisely determine the location. Though the report cautions that geotagged tweets are rare on Twitter – they account for only 1% to 3% of tweets – that small percentage yields a large number of tweets to use, the analysts say.
The results of the "church or beer "study validate past studies by Floatingsheep.org, the analysts say.
In 2010, the group found that there is a larger than normal concentration of bars in the Northeast United States.
And in 2009, a study titled “The Virtual ‘Bible Belt’” found a larger than normal concentration of churches in the American South and Midwest, especially compared with the Northeast United States.
I tweet about both church and beer. . . but only at the same time. . .
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs:!
Atheism is particularly not healthy for birds, dogs, pine trees, the Ebola virus and camels (other living things)...it is much healthier for them to be at least agnostic.
what about tweets regarding malt beverages, wine, liquor, cigarettes, weed,.... good to know church is now doing better than a sub category of alcohol. and no i do not go to church, i just think this whole article is funny.
Thanks for posting these upatdes—I really wish my schedule had allowed me to attend this year. This presentation is of particular interest, since as you know I do work on how TV news creates its online presence. Did she mention CNN's TV Everywhere strategy at all? That, to me, is one of in what's coming next for these folks. I'll be on the lookout for the video of this presentation.
You can see where they twit more about church too. The land of the perpetually ignorant. Chuch controlled school systems keep them on the dumb side so they are easier to fleece.
have you ever been to the south? Church-controlled school system? You're dumb.
In my culture we get to drink our beer twice, a great saving.
even on a long road trip, insert your pe*nis into the spout of a beer bottle in an attempt to ur*inate on the fly, only bad things can happen.
What the tweet says: "God is great, praise an honor him he who is the most high."
What the tweet REALLY says: "Hey everyone look at me .. I'm saying things about God ... God gives me brownie points for this ... look at meeee!"
Everytime I see the name Michelle Obama, I want to go to the fridge and get a Michelob beer.
@BG – Didn"t you drive truck for a beer distributor in Florida?
Yeah. Something like that. I held a GS grade in an advisory capacity to a defense contractor. We worked on, as @ Reality likes to say, "little wingy thingies, " only these weren't very angelic.
We 'delivered' Heineken on weekends – mostly to my house.
Easily explained. The truly brainwashed Christians tweeted "church" while your normal hypocrites tweeted "beer" on saturday night then tweeted "church" on Sunday.
Easily refuted. The Christian who had beer Saturday never told anyone else to do otherwise, thus would not be a hypocrite, in that regard. A more likely hypocritical scenario is that someone preaching about brainwashed religion actually has no knowledge of what he's criticizing, resulting in the regurgitation of brainwashed cliches.
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I recently wrote an essay reflecting on the reality that nearly anyone with a life online is today subject to being hacked and having anything private become public.
If the media is understandably going to publish newsworthy stuff, regardless of its provenance, and people are going to continue to use email and other communications that leave a record, what should be done?
There are some tactical short term ways to mitigate risk.
First, citizens can up their security game a little. For example, they can turn on “two factor authentication” which is available through all major email providers. That means that logins to an account from unfamiliar machines will require something more than an easily-compromised password. For example, a text message might have to be sent to a preregistered mobile phone, showing that the user not only knows the right password but also is physically holding his or her phone. And password managers can be used to generate unique passwords for each site—a common weak spot, as a password compromised in one place is frequently used elsewhere.
These sorts of steps will mitigate the risk of casual hacks, but they can’t readily stop someone with the determination and resources to break in. For example, someone can go to a mobile phone store and pretend to be the victim, switching phone service to a new unit—and then have the means for two-factor authentication or outright password recovery. Or the victim can be enticed to visit a site that looks like Gmail—complete with a prompt for a mobile phone’s confirmation text after a password is entered—while the site is, in real time, serving as a “man-in-the-middle” relaying the user’s answers to the real email site just in time to then take over the user’s session and view and download all the email.
These shortcomings suggest that it is unrealistic to expect the standard tools for the paranoid to be that effective in reducing the risk of being hacked. Therefore, a further short-term effort is needed to guard against a problem beyond the leak of real private email: the problem of fake email interspersed by the adversary within the real.
Extensions in mail services can enable digital signing of every email that goes out. These are derived from the technologies that enable the solemnization of contracts at a distance, where both parties can be confident that the person on the other side of the screen is really who she says she is. By having each email signed at the time of sending—effectively guaranteeing that it is real by the use of an additional password—it becomes harder for a malicious actor to salt a real trove with false stuff. The drawback, if drawback it is, is that people then can’t readily repudiate later what they’ve written and signed—after all, they went to great trouble to credibly fingerprint it as their own. For most people this would be a good thing rather than a bad one, but it does eliminate plausible deniability as a defense to leaked private information.
Digital signatures don’t solve the problem of having all one’s email compromised by a determined hacker, though. For that, longer term strategic solutions are vitally needed.
One promising avenue is what I call “going cold.” Services like Amazon Web Services offer commodity hosting for someone else’s Web server or bulk data. Prices are staggered depending on how quickly the data needs to be called up. In 2012, Amazon unveiled “glacier” storage, where your data can be stored in the cloud more cheaply than usual—so long as you are content to live with a three to five hour delay in retrieving it.
Now imagine that delay as a feature rather than a nuisance for email services like Gmail that enable and encourage users to store everything indefinitely. It wouldn’t be used most of the time. Searches and requests to view or download one email or another—the usual behavior in emailing as you graze in your inbox and look up old correspondence—would be handled normally. But requests to download everything, or say a year’s worth of correspondence, would require a cooling-off period, with notices of the requests sent the user’s various devices. This would allow time for someone who has been hacked to realize what was going on—such as a transfer of phone service off of the usual cell phone—and remedy it before a wholesale leak of data. Going cold is a way that the average user can “air gap” our records, in a way that minimally interferes with our day-to-day rhythms, while treating special, sweeping requests as the sensitive events that they are.
Air-gapped data can not only be encrypted, but encrypted in a way that requires more than one party to unlock.
An initial case is for, say, a law school library, where a Supreme Court Justice might want to donate his or her papers, not to be released until a certain amount of time or other conditions have passed. The state of the art today is for a library to simply promise to keep the material under lock and key until the designated release—an obligation that libraries take very seriously.
But a determined institutional commitment to lock information away is, perhaps increasingly, insufficient protection, as the contents of “papers” become much larger than before—a whole hard drive or email archive rather than a manila folder—and as the boundaries of litigation, investigation, and hacking creep outward. The Belfast Project is one notable example. There, Boston College researcher Ed Moloney conducted confidential interviews of people who had been involved in the Troubles in Northern Ireland, to be released as each interviewee died over a period of years. When participant Brendan Hughes died, Moloney, abiding by his promise, was able to publish a book based on the interviews, in which for the first time Hughes acknowledged membership in the IRA. The British government, investigating open cases of assassinations from that era, then sought to retrieve the rest of the tapes through its mutual legal assistance treaty with the United States. Years of litigation followed, with Boston College on the losing side. The library’s commitment was trumped.
Imagine if instead of simply storing digital documents in a manner which was readily recoverable, sensitive data at rest were encrypted with a key that is then broken into fragments, with each “horcrux” held by a fiduciary in a different jurisdiction. Rules would spell out under what circumstances—including an unforeseen emergency or some legal process—the fiduciaries are to part with their respective fragments. Early access, whether by the data’s original owner or by third parties acting under legal process, would not be made impossible. But the cost of accessing documents earlier than intended would become appropriately higher than that of a single subpoena to a single entity, as happened with the Belfast Project.
With this shard encryption system of “strong dark archives,” humans ultimately decide—but the human decision makers are positioned within institutions, perhaps across multiple jurisdictions, that by design have some loyalty to the person or entity entrusting the data to a repository to begin with.
Such a system, proved and honed for institutional cases of storage of sensitive documents, could then become routine for the storage of corporate and individual data. People could choose what trust or trusts would hold key fragments for their historical data, and like visiting a safe deposit box, they’d work with those trusts to regain access when needed. Or they could designate family or friends to hold key fragments. No one trustee—nor the donor—could jump the gun and get to the data—but the right group of them can. This would also, in some cases, help mitigate the duress that a particular person could be put under to turn over a key, since only part of a key is held.
The challenges posed by how hackable we all are profound. Before resigning ourselves to a new reality in which either no privacy can be expected or where any sensitive communications must be limited or conducted by analog means to avoid compromise, we should look for ways to employ technology—and networks of trusted friends and institutions—to facilitate protections for ourselves and those with whom we communicate.
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
Professor Zittrain is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. He has served as a Trustee of the Internet Society, as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Federal Communications Commission, where he previously chaired the Open Internet Advisory Committee. He is also a panel member of the National Security Agency Advisory Board.
His writing here and elsewhere represents his individual, independent views.
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How to make Color Mask in Photoshop? Go to the layers palette select Create new fill or adjustment layer, select Hue and Saturation (now Improvise, reduce eg only S-saturation) and tint check H-shade lower to 180. Take eraser select a larger brush and begin in this layer to remove unwanted areas, viola, in places where the rubber go returns the original image.
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We previously described a system for evaluating interactive segmentation by means of user experiments (McGuinness and O’Connor, 2010). This method, while effective, is time-consuming and labor-intensive. This paper aims to make evaluation more practicable by investigating if it is feasible to automate user interactions. To this end, we propose a general algorithm for driving the segmentation that uses the ground truth and current segmentation error to automatically simulate user interactions. We investigate four strategies for selecting which pixels will form the next interaction. The first of these is a simple, deterministic strategy; the remaining three strategies are probabilistic, and focus on more realistically approximating a real user. We evaluate four interactive segmentation algorithms using these strategies, and compare the results with our previous user experiment-based evaluation. The results show that automated evaluation is both feasible and useful.
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My first PC, purchased in 1990 for about $3,000, had an amazing 14" CRT monitor that could display 640 x 480 pixels on the screen in 256 colors. It was really a great PC to start on, but it ran DOS, couldn't multitask and was difficult to use for most people. Today, my cellular phone has more computing power than that original computer, and on my desktop I run two 22" LCD monitors that can display 1680 x 1050 pixels in 16 million colors, along with a 32" LCD TV for presentations in my office. The question is, can having larger screens and multiple monitors increase productivity?
Basically, any user that has more than one program open at a time, and needs to reference between the programs can benefit greatly from the multiple monitors.
There are a few things to consider about offering multiple monitors. First, not all computers are capable of handling multiple screens. Most PCs can be upgraded with an additional video card installed. Second, because having multiple programs open at the same time, the PC may need additional memory. Third, you will need to consider desk space before making the purchase. Finally, you need to fit the size and number of monitors to the job. Find out how many programs the user has open at one time, and how much switching and referencing between the programs that the person does. The user may benefit from larger screens or more than 2 monitors.
The good news is that monitors are relatively cheap for even large 22" or 24" screens. Giving users two or more monitors may cost a few hundred dollars, but the payoff in productivity increase will be many multiples of that cost in a very short term.
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Community colleges are institutions that usually offer two year, degree and certificate programs in higher education. They also offer students the chance to either, transfer to state or private universities and colleges for undergraduate and post graduate study, or to take vocational training courses and enter the job market directly after graduation.
There are over 1,132 community colleges in the U.S, starting from the Joliet Junior College in Illinois, which was established in 1901 and was the first community college in the country. There are over 12.8 million students enrolled in community colleges in various programs, with 770,797 associate degrees and 436,037 certificates awarded in 2012 alone. Enrollment is also high in vocational training, bachelors and distance learning programs.
A majority of community colleges offer financial aid in the form of need-based scholarships, pay systems and even on-campus jobs. Similarly, numerous other sources of financial aid also exist, presented by the federal and state government as well as private and non-profit organizations. They provide financial aid in the form of grants, student loans, tax exemptions and need-based scholarships. The U.S. Department of Education awards about $150 billion worth of aid to more than 15 million students all across the country.
Financial aid, however, is only provided to people who fulfill certain criteria. The applicant must be a citizen of the U.S.A. and must have maintained an acceptable academic history and progress while people with any form of criminal background or history of un-lawful behavior are not eligible. Aid is also available for people with disabilities and to people who are themselves, or have parents, in the armed services. About 72% of all the students applying to community colleges apply for some type of aid and almost 58% of them succeed in getting it.
What are the benefits of a community college?
Community colleges account for almost 40% of all students enrolled in an undergrad program. The demand for these colleges is increasing steadily over the years and there are quite a few reasons behind this trend.
Community colleges usually have an open enrollment policy in which the college does not require any other documentation or work experience except for a high school diploma or a GED certificate. This is beneficial for students because other colleges have a list of criterion that needs to be fulfilled before admission is granted, like job experience, internships, extracurricular activities etc, and not all applicants have the privilege of fulfilling these conditions.
Community colleges are generally cheaper than other general four year degree colleges and universities. The average annual tuition and fees for community colleges is $3,260 for the years 2013-2014, compared to 4-year colleges which have an average annual tuition and fee of $8,890 for the years 2013-2014.
About 60% of all students enrolled in community colleges have part time jobs because one of the biggest advantages of community colleges is that they have relatively flexible class timings. They offer evening and distance learning classes along with the usual morning classes which is why these colleges can be helpful for people who have part time or full time jobs. Class timings can be changed at your convenience while the growing number of community colleges, in almost every state, makes them suitable for people who do not want to travel to far from their local communities.
Community colleges offer a great way for people to get jobs and start their careers in the smallest time possible. This is because these colleges offer vocational training courses and subjects with classes specifically designed for their practical and real world applications. Courses are designed to prepare students for their potential professions and rather than focusing on theory and textbook learning, many community colleges offer classes to maximize a students grasp of the practicalities of their chosen careers.
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The Komodo National Park is located within the Lesser Sunda Islands in the border region between the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara. The park includes the three larger islands Komodo, Padar and Rinca, and 26 smaller ones, with a total area of 1,733 km² (603 km² of it land). The national park was founded in 1980 in order to protect the Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard. Later it was dedicated to protect other species, including marine species. In 1991 the national park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Komodo National Park has recently been selected as one of the New7Wonders of Nature.
Though the park is protected, there are people live in the park. They have been living there for several decades already, make their living from the fishing and servicing tourists who come to see the Komodo dragon. The majority of the people in and around the Park are foriginally from Bima (Sumbawa), Manggarai, South Flores, and South Sulawesi. Those from South Sulawesi are from the Suku Bajo or Bugis ethnic groups. The Suku Bajo were originally nomadic and moved from location to location in the region of Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku, to make their livelihoods. Descendents of the original people of Komodo, the Ata Modo, still live in Komodo, but there are no pure blood people left and their culture and language is slowly being integrated with the recent migrants.
The hot and dry climate of the Park, characterized by savannah vegetation, makes it to a good habitat for the endemic Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis). Their populations are restricted to the islands of Komodo (1,700), Rinca (1,300), Gili Motang (100), Gili Dasami (100), and Flores (ca. 2,000) while extinct on Padar.
Cloud forests appear only in few areas above 500 metres but they provide habitat to several endemic flora. Coastal vegetaion includes mangrove forest, which generally appear in the sheltered bays of the three larger islands.
Fringing and patch coral reefs are extensive and best developed on the north-east coast of Komodo. The park is rich in marine life, including whale sharks, ocean sunfish, manta rays, eagle rays, pygmy seahorse, false pipefish, clown frogfish, nudibranchs, blue-ringed octopus, sponges, tunicates, and coral.
The most famous of Komodo National Park's reptiles is the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis). It is among the world's largest reptiles and can reach 3 meters or more in length and weigh over 70 kg.
One of the main bird species is the orange-footed scrub fowl (Megapodius reinwardti), a ground dwelling bird. In areas of savanna, 27 species were observed. Geopelia striata and Streptopelia chinensis were the most common species. In mixed deciduous habitat, 28 bird species were observed, and Philemon buceroides, Ducula aenea, and Zosterops chloris were the most common.
The three major coastal marine plants are algae, seagrasses and mangrove trees. Algae are primitive plants, which do not have true roots, leaves or stems. An important reef-building algae is the red coralline algae, which actually secretes a hard limestone skeleton that can encrust and cement dead coral together. Seagrasses are modern plants that produce flowers, fruits and seeds for reproduction. As their name suggests, they generally look like large blades of grass growing underwater in sand near the shore. Thallasia sp. and Zastera spp. are the common species found in the Park. Mangroves trees can live in salty soil or water, and are found throughout the Park. An assessment of mangrove resources identified at least 19 species of true mangroves and several more species of mangrove associates within the Park's borders.
Komodo National Park includes one of the world's richest marine environments. It consists of forams, cnidaria (includes over 260 species of reef building coral), sponges (70 species), ascidians, marine worms, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, cartilaginous and bony fishes (over 1,000 species), marine reptiles, and marine mammals (dolphins, whales, and dugongs). Some notable species with high commercial value include sea cucumbers (Holothuria), Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and groupers.
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How do I change my profile/cover photo?
1. Select My Profile from the main menu.
3. Choose between "Change Profile Photo" and "Change Cover Photo."
4. Either take a new picture or upload an existing picture from your phone's photo library.
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How best can one describe West Africa’s largest city? Small but mighty? Expensive but lucrative? Beautiful but over-populated? You name it!
This is Lagos, the city that never sleeps.
With a population of over 20million people domiciled on 3,474 square km expanse of land, this beautiful West African port city has over the years grown to become Nigeria’s industrial and commercial powerhouse.
Proudly tagged ‘CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE’, Lagos is home to Nigerians from every part of the country and foreigners alike, even though the state is essentially Yoruba speaking.
Amazing tourist attractions and relaxation spots that abound in the city include: the imposing National Arts Theatre, the nostalgic Remembrance Arcade; the striking Lekki Conservation Centre; the impressive Lagos Central Mosque; and the historical Badagry Slave Port.
Also check out the city’s exciting beaches, amusement parks, clubs, hotels, shopping malls, cinemas and restaurants. You’ll be glad you did!
Coming to Nigeria’s ‘Centre of Excellence’ is always an adventure to look forward to. From the therapeutic and picturesque views of the Lagos lagoon to the fresh breeze of the beach fronts, visitors are certain to enjoy the experience of a fast-paced mega city that never sleeps. Exciting attractions to explore in Lagos include the National Museum, the historic town of Badagry, the National Theatre, Kalakuta Museum, Terra Kulture, Lekki Conservation Centre, Whispering Palms, Epe Seafood Market, Eko Atlantic City, and the various beaches such as Ilashe beach, Elegushi beach, Takwa bay, and Bar Beach, among others. Lagos also parades an amazing range of cinemas, supermarkets, malls, markets, hotels as well as nightclubs and bars. Also remember to keep up with the latest events in the city such as the colourful Annual Lagos Carnival, the 31-Day Annual December Lagos Countdown, Lagos Fashion Week, Gidi Culture Festival and a host of concerts, shows and events that keep up the city tempo all year round.
Lagosians have a taste for good food. From local to intercontinental dishes, you surely won’t be disappointed if you take time to explore the city’s offerings. Check out these delicious combos: Bread and beans, Jollof-rice and chicken, Yam and Egg, Amala and Ewedu, Pounded yam and Egusi, Semovita and Edikaikong, Spaghetti and Plantain and lots more. Remember to also try out the local Boli and Epa (roasted plantain and groundnut) as well as Roasted/Boiled Maize and Coconut. Trust us, you’ll love them. And of course, you’ll definitely find Restaurants and Joints offering various recipes of Pizzas, Burgers, Shawarma, Hotdogs, Seafood and a wide collection of Beer, Vodka, Red and White wines, among others. Palm wine, Zobo and Kunu are also local drinks you should taste before leaving.
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Flexible or agile workplaces - with increased user mobility inside and outside of the workplace, alter the interactions and relationships between employees and teams. The subsequent reduction in visibility of employees and teams means that future ‘flexible leaders’ need to possess certain skills or competencies to effectively manage a flexible workforce. Thus, a prevalent question in workplace change management discussions is: What makes a successful leader in a flexible workplace? The answer: Successful leaders in flexible workplaces are similar to successful leaders in traditional workplaces. They are ‘transformational’ leaders that get the most out of their employees functionally, in addition to supporting their psycho-social needs.
Effective flexible leaders are those that balance relationship competencies with transactional task-focused competencies. That is, they are leaders that promote business effectiveness by planning for and adapting flexible working processes and procedures, in addition to emotionally supporting their people.
_ A focus on employee development and continuous improvement, through altered versions of mentorship and coaching. These values are imperative to employees from younger generations.
_ An inspirational vision by the leader that constantly evolves and communicates varying flexible work demands with clear expectations. They adjust their leadership styles to provide adequate and alternative versions of job control and support.
_ An ability to manage their people through change and provide opportunities for interactions and collaboration. They are leaders that balance relationships with tasks, which is fundamental to a ‘transformational leader’, who have proven to achieve higher levels of success along with greater employee satisfaction, increased motivation and improved effectiveness.
Effective flexible leaders never dismiss the softer human side to work and recognise the diversity in their employees’; understanding each person’s individual needs, abilities and aspirations. With trust, they foster a sense of belongingness in their people by promoting connectivity and positive relationships to create an engaged culture.
In summary, effective flexible leaders are ‘emotionally intelligent’, recognising the meaning of emotions and their relationships. Such leaders have the capability to perceive and even manage emotions; acting as change catalysts, managing conflict, in addition to promoting positive team work.
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What are the Different Types of Upper Back Stretches?
Yoga stretches may help strengthen the body's core muscles, providing relief from back pain.
Upper back pain can be caused by poor posture.
If a person has constant pain in his or her upper back, it could be caused by tight muscles. When upper back muscles are tighter than they should be, it can lead to pain and inflammation. There are many types of upper back stretches that can help increase the flexibility of the upper back and reduce the amount of pain. Generally, the goal of upper back stretches is to increase the range of motion of the back muscles safely over a period of time. Upper back exercises include the hands-up, the hands-out, and shoulder rolls.
The hands-up stretch is a good way to increase flexibility in the muscles surrounding the shoulder. A stretcher should start by sitting on a solid floor with legs either out straight or crossed. The fingers should be laced together before the arms are pushed above the head. A stretch should then be felt in the shoulder and above the armpits. The stretch typically should be held for at least 20 seconds and repeated several times.
Similar to the hands-up, the hands-out stretch focuses on slightly different muscles. The stretcher should begin by sitting in a chair with hands together but not clasped. Each hand should then be twisted out so that the palms face outward and then should be crossed over so that the palms are together. Next, the stretcher should arch the top of his or her back and push the arms forward while bringing the head down toward the floor. The stretch typically should be held for around 20 seconds and then repeated several times.
Shoulder rolls are not technically one of the many upper back stretches, but they are one of best upper back exercises that can increase range of motion and mobility. The stretcher should stand straight and then start to bring their shoulders round in a smooth roll. To begin with, he or she should make small circles and then expand to larger ones. Once the person suffering from back pain has completed about 20 repetitions, he or she should stop and then roll the shoulders in the opposite direction.
Upper back stretches should always be painless and a comfortable experience. If the stretches are not comfortable, then this is likely a sign that the person is overstretching. It could also mean that there is something wrong with the back that requires medical attention. In this case, the stretcher should contact his or her doctor or physiotherapist. Upper back stretching can help many conditions, but not all. If the stretcher does not see any improvements within a few weeks, seeking medical attention usually is recommended.
What are the Common Causes of Shoulder and Upper Back Pain?
How do I Choose the Best Exercises for Upper Back Pain?
What are the Most Common Causes of Upper Back Pain Between the Shoulder Blades?
How do I Choose the Best Upper Back Pain Remedies?
What are the Different Types of Upper Back Pain Treatments?
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What type of career could I build having these talents? I was thinking perhaps design backrounds for sets for plays for example. Perhaps setting up pages for advertising in magazines or to design pages for a company looking to advertise.
I kind of feel lost, that there perhaps are not many ways to apply my talents to a job that I could earn good money.
I would find a good career advisor at your local community college to test your personality and talk about the skills you mentioned. This could help you find more direction and get rid of that feeling of being lost.
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Lots of people tend to throw parties during the summer months for the simple fact that everyone can be outside and not crunched inside the house. You need to plan for a party though and can't just wing it. Here are some quick tips for planning a summer party.
Most of the summer parties are typically for the holidays: Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Labor Day, etc. If it falls within one of those categories you can use one of those themes. If it doesn’t fall within those categories then you can go ahead and pick a fun, different theme such as margaritas, beach, ice cream social, camping, or even fiesta. There are endless possibilities on a fun summer theme that you can be creative with!
Once you figure out that you want to throw a party and you have a theme picked out start to invite people! Make sure that you get an accurate head count and know that people might back out so don’t over count for people. If people ask to bring something, let them! You are throwing the party and it can get costly so having them bring something will only benefit you!
Make sure that you have a shopping list of all the things that are going to be needed for the party so you can stick to it and not over spend. Keep the decorations simple, you can do it yourself for a lot of decorations for half the cost. Also, you can shop smart at places like Dollar Tree, Walmart, etc. Remember to get all the paper goods: plates, silverware, napkins, paper towel, cups, etc. You will not want to do the dishes after this party!
Keep it simple!! You don’t need to have a full five-course meal for everyone. Based on what your theme is you could just do hot dogs, hamburgers, pulled pork, ribs, etc. These are all quick and easy to do and are great for the traditional summer party themes! Make sure to have a few sides maybe a pasta salad, potato salad, fruit salad, or salad. Make sure to also cover the dessert item! If your guests are anything like me they will want to have that sweet dessert after dinner.
Make sure to have plenty of options for everyone of all ages there. Some quick simple activities to do are sprinklers, corn hole, volleyball, and water slides. If you have little ones attending make sure to have some water ballons, water guns, bubbles, chalk, etc.
If you are able to shoot off fireworks, or firecrackers, have some fun with them! One of my favorite memories is fireworks and a good campfire. I love being able to make s'mores by the campfire!
You are putting on the party so you shouldn’t need to supply all the booze. Make sure to tell people to bring their own booze.
As a side note: Make sure that no one is allergic to anything that is on your menu! Are you ready to start planning your summer party?
Susie is the owner of Mommabeesaving.wordpress.com and currently lives in Cleveland Ohio with her husband and son. She enjoys photography, graphic design, and dance. Her top party tip is that you can throw a good party well within a cheap budget!
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What is topsoil and why is it so important? The top few inches of soil sitting on the ground is called the topsoil. This the soil in which all of your plants will grow. Unlike the subsoil and stone found in the layers below, topsoil is rich in the minerals your plants need in order to survive and thrive. This organic layer can become thinner over time due to wind, erosion and other factors. When that happens in might be appropriate to add some additional topsoil around your vegetation and trees to ensure they have all the vital minerals they need to grow.
Mulch is popular among gardening enthusiasts for several reasons. Mulch does an exceptional job of protecting the root systems of your plants and flowers from excessive heat or frost damage. It also helps soil hold on to moisture, which reduces the need for excess watering. In addition, mulch is very useful for combating the growth of weeds as it acts as a light barrier, preventing weeds from growing. Many people do not know that using mulch will also add valuable nutritional elements to the soil underneath.
Decorative wood chips are a type of mulch, but they are typically larger pieces and heavier. Decorative wood chips offer a slightly different look than mulch, so some homeowners select them simply as an cosmetic preference. However, there are some more practical benefits to choosing wood chips over lighter varieties of mulch. If you live in an area that is prone to windy weather, wood chips will be less susceptible to blowing away. The great thing about wood chips and all other mulch varieties is that they are simple to remove when if you decide you'd like to try something new in your landscape. Plus, they are completely compostable, making them an environmentally safe choice.
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Review question: What is the association between ethnicity and changes in weight, blood pressure, blood glucose and lipid levels after bariatric surgery?
Obesity designations are defined differently for some populations. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies a BMI of > 25 kg/m2 as obesity in Asians because they have a larger waist circumference and waist to hip ratio, known as central obesity, and are predisposed to a higher body fat percentage than other races.7 During a 2014 regional study, researchers within the Non-communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration found the mean BMI for Polynesian and Micronesian men to be 29.2 kg/m2 and to be 32.2 kg/m2 for women.4 Between 1978 and 2013, the prevalence of obesity in Samoa increased from 27.7% to 53.1% in men and from 44.4% to 76.7% in women.8 Rapidly rising obesity rates around the world will have an increasingly detrimental impact on health, healthcare costs, and the supply and demand of healthcare providers.
Given the varying results in outcomes in different ethnicities after bariatric surgery reported in the literature, further review and synthesis of evidence is warranted to determine if there is an association. This study has the potential to impact practice because providers will be able to provide realistic outcome expectations to people of different ethnic backgrounds undergoing bariatric surgery.16 If racial disparities are found among the results, providers will have the opportunity to implement initiatives like individualized diet and exercise regimens postoperatively in order to help improve outcomes for different ethnicities.27 An initial preliminary search conducted in July 2018 of PubMed, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, Scopus, PROSPERO, Campbell, and CINAHL did not identify any systematic reviews on this topic. While there is a meta-analysis by Admiraal et al. 25 that focuses on Caucasians and African Americans with diabetes, this review will be more extensive, including a broader population and more co-morbidities. The objective of this review is to determine the association between ethnicity and outcomes after bariatric surgery. The specific outcomes are weight, blood pressure, blood glucose and lipid levels.
The exposure evaluated in this review will be bariatric surgery, specifically laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and adjustable gastric band.
The outcomes evaluated in this review will be weight change and changes in blood pressure, blood glucose and lipid levels occurring from one month to five years followingbariatric surgery. Weight will be measured by a change in weight, as indicated by pounds, kilograms or BMI. Blood pressure will be measured by changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). Blood glucose will be measured by changes in HbA1c. Lipid levels will be measured by changes in total cholesterol, HDL, LDL and triglycerides.
The search strategy will aim to find both published and unpublished studies. An initial limited search of MEDLINE, via PubMed and CINAHL, has been undertaken to identify articles on this topic, followed by analysis of the text words contained in the titles and abstracts, and of the index terms used to describe these studies. This informed the development of a search strategy which will be tailored for each information source. A proposed search strategy for PubMed is detailed in Appendix I.
The databases to be searched include: CINAHL – EBSCOhost, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials – EBSCOhost, Embase, PubMed –NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information), andScopus.
Following the search, all identified citations will be collated and uploaded into EndNote (Clarivate Analytics, PA, USA) and duplicates removed. Titles and abstracts will then be screened by two independent reviewers for assessment against the inclusion criteria for the review. Studies that may meet the inclusion criteria will be retrieved in full and their details imported into Joanna Briggs Institute System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (JBI SUMARI) (Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide, Australia). The full text of selected studies will be retrieved and assessed in detail against the inclusion criteria. Full text studies that do not meet the inclusion criteria will be excluded and reasons for exclusion will be provided in an appendix in the final systematic review report. Included studies will undergo a process of critical appraisal. The results of the search will be reported in full in the final report and presented in a PRISMA flow diagram.30 Any disagreements that arise between the reviewers will be resolved through discussion or with a third reviewer.
All selected studies will be critically appraised independently by two reviewers at the study level for methodological quality in the review using standardized critical appraisal instruments from Joanna Briggs Institute for the following study types: analytical observational studies including retrospective, prospective, cross-sectional, longitudinal cohort studies or case-control studies; and descriptive observational study designs including case series, individual case reports and descriptive cross-sectional studies.29 Any disagreements that arise between the reviewers will be resolved through discussion or with a third reviewer. Studies of poor methodological quality will be excluded. The review will only include studies that have been appraised at a moderate or high quality. A study will be considered of moderate or high quality if the reviewers answer “yes” to six or more questions in the appraisal tool. If the reviewers answer “yes” to five questions or less, the study will be considered poor quality and will not be included.
Data will be extracted from papers included in the review using the standardized data extraction tools in JBI SUMARI by two independent reviewers.29 The data extracted will include specific details about the exposure of interest including different exposure categories if applicable, populations, study methods and outcomes or dependent variables of significance to the review question and specific objectives. Any disagreements that arise between the reviewers will be resolved through discussion or with a third reviewer. Authors of papers will be contacted to request missing or additional data where required.
Subgroup analyses will be conducted where there is sufficient data to investigate the lipid profile including HDL, LDL, cholesterol and triglycerides; HbA1c in relation to blood glucose; and weight changes including BMI. Sensitivity analysis will be conducted to test decisions made regarding the association of ethnicity with changes in weight, blood pressure, blood glucose and lipid levels within five years after bariatric surgery. Where statistical pooling is not possible, the findings will be presented in narrative form with tables and figures to aid in data presentation and interpretation where appropriate.
A funnel plot will be generated within JBI SUMARI to assess publication bias if there are 10 or more studies included in a meta-analysis. Statistical tests for funnel plot asymmetry (Egger test, Begg test, Harbord test) will be performed where appropriate.
A Summary of Findings will be created using GRADEPro GDT software (McMaster University, ON, Canada). The GRADE approach for grading the quality of evidence will be followed. The Summary of Findings will present the following information where appropriate: absolute risks for treatment and control, estimates of relative risk, and a ranking of the quality of the evidence based on study limitations (risk of bias), indirectness, inconsistency, imprecision and publication bias.
1. Fouse T, Schauer P. The socioeconomic impact of morbid obesity and factors affecting access to obesity surgery. Surg Clin North Am 2016; 96 4:669–679.
2. Cecchini M, Sassi F. Preventing obesity in the USA: Impact on health service utilization and costs. PharmacoEconomics 2015; 33 7:765–776.
3. Ng J, Seip R, Stone A, Ruano G, Tishler D, Papasavas P. Ethnic variation in weight loss, but not co-morbidity remission, after laparoscopic gastric banding and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Surg Obes Relat Dis 2015; 11 1:94–100.
4. NCD., Risk Factor Collaboration. Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants. The Lancet 2015; 387:1377–1396.
5. Hayes AJ, Lung T, Bauman A, Howard K. Modelling obesity trends in Australia: unravelling the past and predicting the future. Int J Obes 2016; 41 1:178–185.
6. Al-Sabah S, Al-Ghareeb F, Ali DA, Al-Adwani A. Efficacy of intragastric balloon for the management of obesity: experience from Kuwait. Surg Endosc 2016; 30 2:424–429.
7. Lakdawala M, Bhasker A. Report: Asian consensus meeting on metabolic surgery. Recommendations for the use of bariatric surgery for treatment of obesity and type II diabetes mellitus in the Asian population. Obes Surg 2010; 20 7:929–936.
8. Lin S, Naseri T, Linhart C, Morrell S, Taylor R, McGarvey ST, et al. Trends in diabetes and obesity in Samoa over 35 years, 1978–2013. Diab Med 2016; 34 5:654–661.
9. Kain J, Vio F, Albala. Obesity trends and determinant factors in Latin America. Cad Saude Publica 2003; 19 (suppl):77S–86S.
10. Heymsfield SB, Wadden TA. Mechanisms, pathophysiology, and management of obesity. N Engl J Med 2017; 376 3:254–266.
11. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Obesity Collaborators. Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years. N Engl J Med 2017; 377 1:13–27.
12. Sampalis JS, Liberman M, Auger S, Christou NV. The impact of weight reduction surgery on health-care costs in morbidly obese patients. Obes Surg 2004; 14 7:939–947.
13. Wang YC, Pamplin J, Long MW, Ward ZJ, Gortmaker SL, Andreyeva T. Severe obesity in adults cost state medicaid programs nearly $8 billion in 2013. Health Affairs 2015; 34 11:1923–1931.
14. Dee A, Callinan A, Doherty E, O’Neill C, McVeigh T, Sweeney MR, et al. Overweight and obesity on the island of Ireland: an estimation of costs. BMJ Open 2015; 5 3:e006189.
15. Dee A, Kearns K, O’Neill C, Sharp L, Staines A, O’Dwyer V, et al. The direct and indirect costs of both overweight and obesity: a systematic review. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:242.
16. Admiraal WM, Bouter K, Celik F, Gerdes VEA, Klaasen RA, van Dielen FMH, et al. Ethnicity influences weight loss 1 year after bariatric surgery: a study in Turkish, Moroccan, South Asian, African and ethnic Dutch patients. Obes Surg 2013; 23 9:1497–1500.
17. Neylan CJ, Kannan U, Dempsey DT, Williams NN, Dumon KR. The surgical management of obesity. Gastroenterol Clin N Am 2016; 45 4:689–703.
18. Raynor HA, Champagne CM. Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Interventions for the treatment of overweight and obesity in adults. J Acad Nutr Diet 2016; 116 1:129–147.
19. Khorgami Z, Aminian A, Shoar S, Andalib A, Saber AA, Schauer PR, et al. Cost of bariatric surgery and factors associated with increased cost: an analysis of national inpatient sample. Surg Obes Dis 2017; 13 8:1284–1289.
20. Doble B, Wordsworth S, Rogers CA, Welbourn R, Byrne J, Blazeby JM. What are the real procedural costs of bariatric surgery? A systematic literature review of published cost analyses. Obes Surg 2017; 27 8:2179–2192.
21. Stryjecki C, Alyass A, Meyre D. Ethnic and population differences in the genetic predisposition to human obesity. Obes Rev 2017; 19 1:62–80.
22. Ford C, Harawa NT. A new conceptualization of ethnicity for social epidemiologic and health equity research. Soc Sci Med 2010; 71 2:251–258.
23. Shah SS, Todkar JS, Shah PS, Cummings DE. Diabetes remission and reduced cardiovascular risk after gastric bypass in Asian Indians with body mass index <35 kg/m2. Surg Obes Relat Dis 2010; 6 4:332–338.
24. Khorgami Z, Arheart KL, Zhang C, Messiah SE, de la Cruz-Munoz N. Effect of ethnicity on weight loss after bariatric surgery. Obes Surg 2015; 25 5:769–776.
25. Admiraal WM, Celik F, Gerdes VE, Dallal RM, Hoekstra JB, Holleman F. Ethnic differences in weight loss and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery: A meta-analysis. Diabetes Care 1951-; 35 9:8.
26. Phoenix GK, Penney N, Cocker DM, Davies A, Smellie J, Bonanomi G, et al. Comparison of weight loss achieved after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding between Afro-Carribean, Caucasian and south Asian adult female patients in a London bariatric centre. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2013; 95 5:335–340.
27. Istfan N, Anderson WA, Apovian C, Ruth M, Carmine B, Hess D. Racial differences in weight loss, hemoglobin A1C, and blood lipid profiles after roux-en-y gastric bypass surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis 2016; 12 7:1329–1336.
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Thought extinct in the mid-1800's, Cornish language has undergone a remarkable reformation. It has recently pulled itself off the list of endangered languages as more and more people have shown interest in reviving the language. The Cornish language, even older than English, is spoken by the Cornish people in Cornwall, a ceremonial county in the southwest of the U.K. It was a language that dominated Cornwall before being pushed away by the use of English.Did you know? A thorn or a bramble in Cornish is known as 'Dumbledore', incorporated into modern English meaning bumblebee, inspiring the name of JK Rowling's famous professor in the Harry Potter series.
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Using Instagram API I need to get a list of users who have liked specific media.
However, I get only 120 users with no pagination parameters.
Is there any way to keep requesting the rest?
Unfortunately they only provide the latest 120 likes in newest-to-oldest order with no pagination. You can test this by requesting a photo then liking it and you'll see that your account is on top of the list.
The only work around is to set up a job to periodically cache likes beginning shortly after the photo is first posted. Since you're always getting the newest 120 you can get them all that way. You can create a subscription to a user using the realtime api and get a ping when your user posts a new photo, then start caching likes. A decaying rate would be advised - maybe cache a couple times the first hour after it's posted, then less and less frequently the longer it's been.
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I've got a 70s re-issue on the Warick label bought mail order from Funhouse Records back in the mid eighties. The album has been re-issued/bootlegged many times since on labels like Eva and Arf Arf. I recently read that Sundazed were gonna re-issue 'Distortions' on vinyl and no doubt if it ever gets a release I'll be first in line to buy another copy.
In the mid 60s members of two Twin Cities rock bands merged and became The Litter. From The Tabs came the guitars of Dan Rinaldi and Bill Strandlof. They were joined by two departing members of The Victors, keyboard/vocalist Denny Waite and bass player Jim Kane. While attending a local teen band contest at the Minnesota State Fair they met drummer Tom Murray and The Litter was born.
What set The Litter apart from the other local groups at the time was their focus on album cuts and obscure material by the 'British Invasion' groups (The Yardbirds, Small Faces, The Who).
While playing around the Twin Cities they came to the attention of producer/songwriter Warren Kendrick who took the group into his studio in late 1966 and recorded their first three songs. Two of them, 'Action Woman' and 'Soul Searchin', were originals written by Kendrick. The third, 'A Legal Matter' was a cover of a Who song. 'Action Woman'/'A Legal Matter' were chosen for the single and released in 1967 on the Scotty label. The 45 got excellent reaction in the Twin Cities.
Around this time St. Paul native Tom 'Zip' Caplan had returned from a year long stint in Los Angeles where he was doing studio work and cutting demos with songwriter Larry Loofbourrow. Caplan knew bassist Kane from earlier days when 'Zip' played guitar with local favourites The Escapades, Froggy & His Friends and The Accents.
Shortly after a gig at St. Paul's Prom Ballroom, Bill Strandlof left The Litter and 'Zip' Caplan was asked to join the band as lead guitarist, solidifying the line-up. By then the 'Action Woman' single had broken out of the Twin Cities and was getting airplay throughout the Midwest.
This led to bookings at a couple of clubs in Chicago's Old Town district. Their live performances were very well received and led to many more appearances and a large following in the Windy City.
Their next logical step was to cut an album. The group utilized both Dove Recording Studios and Warren Kendrick's Lake Street Studio as they began work on the songs and sounds that would eventually become 'Distortions'.
Three tunes 'Action Woman'. 'A Legal Matter' and 'Soul Searchin' were already in the can. 'Somebody Help Me' (Spencer Davis Group). 'Whatcha Gonna Do About It' (Small Faces) and 'Rack My Mind' (The Yardbirds) were songs that had gotten great reaction live, so studio version were recorded.
'Codine' was a Buffy St. Marie song the group had been playing for some time, so it was included as the album's one slow number. The group learned 'I'm So Glad' from Cream after sharing the bill with them at the New City Opera House in Minneapolis. A cover of The Who's 'Substitute' was paired as a medley with a 'Zip' Caplan original called 'The Mummy' (inspired by the Boris Karloff movie). They had been closing their gigs with a chaotic version of The Yardbirds 'I'm A Man'. That song was therefore chosen to close the album.
'Distortions' was released on the Warick label in 1967 to exceptional response. As momentum built, a second single 'Somebody To Love'/'I'm A Man' was also released on Warick. Touring escalated to a national level and included venues like The Peppermint Lounge in New York, The Cheetah in Los Angeles and everywhere in between.
Extremely solid LP, not a dud to be found, after umpteen million plays it's still one of my favorites too! Their version of "Somebody Help Me" blows the original out of the water.
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The Liverpool Plains were the homelands of the Kamilaroi people, a large tribe that supported many sub-groups (HO and DUAP 1996). When Charles Sturt encountered these people on the Macquarie River during his travels, he described them as 'clean-limbed and stout, with pleasing faces and intelligent countenances' (HO and DUAP 1996).
The explorer and then Surveyor General of NSW, John Oxley, first visited the bioregion in 1817 and again the following year when he reached the junction of the Macquarie and Talbragar Rivers near the current site of Dubbo. He noted the presence of the local Aboriginal people on the Macquarie River northwest of Dubbo and the suitability of the land for agriculture (NSW NPWS 2000b).
An Agricultural Convict Establishment, settled in the Wellington Valley in 1823 by Governor Brisbane, led to the first European community west of Bathurst and so began the era of pastoral occupation in the bioregion. The Establishment was shut down in 1828, by which time several stations had been set up in the vicinity. In the same year Charles Sturt arrived in the Wellington Valley on his way north. In subsequent years, pastoral occupation around Dubbo quickly escalated as it did throughout the colony (NSW NPWS 2000a).
The official settled area of the colony was divided into 19 counties and the region outside this designated area, including much of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, was considered to be 'beyond the boundaries' and was thus officially out of bounds for settlement. However, these rules were soon ignored and pastoralism continued to forge its way through the countryside (NSW NPWS 2000a).
Squatters moved into the bioregion around 1824 but it wasn't until 1836 that squatting licences were issued for grazing (NSW NPWS 2000a). By the early 1830s squatters were establishing runs, including 'Dubbo', a run set up by Robert Dulhunty on the Macquarie, along the Talbragar River Valley and on the Macquarie River near Goonoo. By the 1840s pastoralists occupied most of the Macquarie and Talbragar River frontages (NSW NPWS 2000a).
During the early days of European settlement the local Aboriginal people were subjected to violence, disease, sexual exploitation and, as a result of these and other factors such as diminished resources, population decline. One of the notable elements of the interaction between Europeans and Aborigines at this time was the fierce resistance shown by the Aboriginal people (Bickford 1980). Often portrayed as a passive people that let the Europeans simply take their land, the local Aboriginal people were described as 'becoming more audacious' in a record of 1842 (HO and DUAP 1996) and some records show a fear of the Aborigines among travelers.
Conflict was particularly severe on the Namoi and Gwydir, with conflicting reports suggesting the death of at least 25 Europeans along with much stock and the wounding of many Aborigines and settlers. In 1849 native police were sent to the area and much of the Aboriginal resistance was suppressed by the mid-1850s.
However, despite losing their lands or being forced to share them with the new settlers, the local Aboriginal people of the bioregion resisted covertly, holding onto their traditional practices, including knowledge of languages, stories and sacred sites (Bickford 1980). In some cases, retention of traditional practices was not so covert. Aborigines were known to perform corroborees for audiences of Europeans, performances involving Aboriginal participants from throughout the region. On some occasions, European settlers also observed other traditions such as funerals and burial ceremonies (NSW NPWS 2000b).
The last recorded corroboree was held in 1881, coinciding with the opening of the railway in Dubbo. If such ceremonies occurred after this, they were held in secrecy to avoid intrusion by Europeans or simply to ensure privacy. As settlement by Europeans increased and government control over Aboriginal people strengthened, the importance of continuing traditional practices grew and the need for secrecy became more crucial (NSW NPWS 2000b).
From the 1840s to the 1880s, working relationships between European and Aboriginal people were established in the bioregion, and European station owners allowed the local Aboriginal people to live on their lands in what they termed "station camps". These made workers readily available to landholders while Aboriginal people living on them were able to remain in their country, continuing the cultural and economic practices that had linked them with the land from the beginning.
The shortage of European labour during the gold rushes strengthened this system of 'dual occupation' and, as a result, the Aboriginal labour force was crucial to the functioning of the pastoral economy between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. This was particularly due to the willingness of the local Aboriginal people to remain on their homelands and retain the ability to practice spiritual and ceremonial traditions. In 1882 the total Aboriginal population of the area around Dubbo was recorded as being 741 people (NSW NPWS 2000b).
The Liverpool Plains southeast of Narrabri became a site for European settlement in the 1830s and was used mainly for sheep and cattle grazing until the 1880s (Hunt 1980). Wheat farming emerged around Dubbo in the south of the bioregion in the 1860s and by the 1880s cropping was beginning to occur extensively throughout the bioregion, especially on the lighter textured red soils at the footslopes of the Liverpool Ranges (NSW NPWS 2000a). Although there were also droughts at this time the intensification of cropping and demand for land for this purpose led to widescale clearing of forests and other native vegetation (NSW NPWS 2000a).
A transition from pastoralism to agriculturalism based on wheat occurred in the Dubbo area from the 1880s to the 1920s. This was prompted by a major change in land tenure and management. There was a push to 'unlock the lands' to allow small selectors access to the vast lands formerly held under pastoral leases. These shifts were aided by legislation changing the nature of land holdings and while these helped unlock the land to small-time farmers, they effectively shut out Aboriginal people from their traditional lands. So began a period of struggle for the Aboriginal community of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (NSW NPWS 2000b).
In the 1890s, as agriculture around Dubbo increased, land enclosure continued to decrease property size. The conditions that had allowed dual occupation to occur in the past had now ceased. As a result, Aboriginal communities were driven from their homelands and onto reserves on the outskirts of towns. This served to alienate the Aboriginal community who could now no longer use the land as they had traditionally, due both to their limited access to the land and its changing ecology under agricultural production (NSW NPWS 2000b).
With the loss of their traditional lands, Aboriginal people were even more dependent on European landholders for use of the land than they had previously been on the squatters. They obtained work on the lands, engaged in timber cutting, feral animal shooting, shearing, domestic labour and worked as farm hands and stock hands. In this way they were involved in the local economy while remaining on their lands (NSW NPWS 2000b).
Those who were unable to remain on their traditional lands and who lived on reserves or in fringe camps came increasingly under the control of the government which established the Aborigines Protection Board in the 1880s. While the Board was initially responsible only for the distribution of blankets and rations on the reserves, it began to exert a tighter grip on the lives of the Aborigines, placing ever more restrictions on the rights of the communities.
Children in Aboriginal communities were increasingly the targets of the Board, which relied on the power vested in it by the Aborigines Protection Act 1909. By 1915, the strength of the Act had increased, giving the Board the power to remove Aboriginal children from their families where the wellbeing of the child was in question.
The reserve closest to Dubbo was the large Talbragar Reserve established in 1898 at the junction of the Macquarie and Talbragar Rivers, where John Oxley arrived in the region only 80 years before in 1818. Other local Aborigines lived in camps along the Macquarie River although the Talbragar Reserve was home to the core of the local community. Aboriginal families often chose to remain in or near reserves to allow their children to gain an education, but in the early to mid-1900s, they found themselves unofficially excluded from local public schools (NSW NPWS 2000b).
During these times, areas such as Goonoo Forest became more important to the Aboriginal community. The forest was dedicated as a formal public 'reserve' in 1917, during the period when agricultural production was intensifying in the area. The protection of the forest enabled the Aboriginal people to use it to gather food, both plants and animals, and for social and spiritual purposes without close observation by Europeans (NSW NPWS 2000b).
Areas like Pilliga and Goonoo that were not dedicated in public forests came increasingly under threat from clearing for agriculture and settlement. The passage of the railway line further north and west also contributed to clearing as thousands of trees were felled for use as timber sleepers, further razing the land that had been cleared of timber for housing and fencing since the start of European settlement (NSW NPWS 2000b).
Since European settlement, timber getting has been a regular activity around the Pilliga and Goonoo State Forest areas (NSW NPWS 2000b). Forest management began in the bioregion with forest reserves dedicated in the 1870s. The Forest Conservancy Branch of the Department of Mines placed the initial Forest Reserves over abandoned Pilliga Crown Land holdings in 1971 (NSW NPWS 2000b), marking the Government's first direct involvement with forest management. Such forest management was driven not by an understanding of ecological process and impacts but by the proposed use of the timber (NSW NPWS 2000b).
By the 1870s early landholders and explorers observed changes in the condition of the land and many people were aware of the impacts of agriculture on the landscape even before further damage was caused by drought and rabbits.
The 1950s saw the introduction of technology that allowed cultivation of the heavy-textured soils that had been used for grazing in the past. As a result, cropping on the footslopes of the Liverpool Ranges began to be replaced by grasslands which were used for grazing (NSW NPWS 2000b).
Commercial timber harvesting in the bioregion has concentrated mainly on white cypress (Callitris glaucophylla) and narrow-leaved ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra) in the last 100 years, although broad-leaved ironbark (Eucalyptus. fibrosa), bull oak (Allocasurina luehmannii), black cypress (Callitris endlicheri) and western box species (Eucalyptus melliodora, Eucalyptus pilligarensis, Eucalyptus microcarpa and Eucalyptus populnea) have all been harvested in the area in the last 80-100 years (Hartley et al. 2000).
Data collected in 1996-97 for the local government areas in the southern two-thirds of the bioregion reported that 34,970 people were employed and earning an average salary of $26,452 each, a figure lower than the NSW average at the time of $30,868 per person (Hartley et al. 2000). During this time imports to the region, one-third consisting of household consumables, exceeded exports.
Compared to NSW averages, the southern part of the bioregion is much more dependent on agriculture, forestry and fishing while its proportion of mining, utilities and building industries is comparable to the state figures. Although manufacturing and service industries were found to be less than the state figures, the primary industries contribute more than 70 per cent to the exports of the region (cited in Hartley et al. 2000).
The main industries, in terms of highest contribution to the economy of the region, are sheep, grains and beef, other agriculture, agricultural services, education, health, public administration, retail trade and wholesale trade.
The period between 1976 and 1991 was a period of high population growth in the region, fuelled by heightened agricultural development including increased irrigation areas. Between 1981 and 1996 the proportion of the employed population of the area was decreasing, apparently as a result of variable international commodity markets and poor seasonal conditions. Excluding Dubbo, the main town centre of the bioregion, the region appears now to be shedding jobs at the same rate as its population decreases, with population losses becoming more common in recent years (Hartley et al. 2000).
Early squatters in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion grazed their cattle in the open woodlands common in the region at the time. After settlers initiated fire control measures, the woodlands were overwhelmed by dense cypress forest growth rendering these areas unsuitable for grazing (Hartley et al. 2000) and grazing was shifted to alternative areas. Grazing still occurs in the bioregion, and more recently has been used under grazing permits on State forest estate in the region, to reduce ground fuel, particularly in cypress forests in the Goonoo area, so reducing fire risks.
The mineral industry in the bioregion is based mainly on coal, as the region lies mostly within the Gunnedah Basin, which is a major coal-bearing sedimentary basin. Current mining titles are held for coal and some industrial minerals while exploration titles are held for coal, petroleum, gold, base metals, zeolites and clay minerals (Hartley et al. 2000). The majority of coal produced in the region, although comprising a small yield, is for export to overseas markets (Hartley et al. 2000).
In terms of tourism in the southern part of the bioregion, the area around Dubbo has both the highest level of visitation and the highest visitor expenditure, making it the major tourist centre of the area (Hartley et al. 2000).
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Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride-hailing company’s new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and researchers looking into ways to improve urban mobility. The basic idea is that Uber has a lot of insight into how traffic works within a city, and it can anonymize this data so that it isn’t tied to specific individuals in most cases. So where that’s possible, Uber is going to begin sharing said data, first to specific organizations who apply for early access, and then eventually to the general public. Uber says it was looking at all the data it gathered and began to realize that it could be used for public benefit, and assembled a product team to make this happen. The result of this effort was Movement, which aims to address problems city officials and urban planners encounter when they’re forced to make key, transformational infrastructure decisions without access to all of, or the proper information about actual conditions and causes. Essentially, according to Uber, it’s hoping to make it easier for those with influence over a city’s transportation picture to make the right decision, and to be able to explain why, where and when the changes are happening with accurate data backing them up. It also wants to do this in a way that makes it easy for organizations to work with, so it’s releasing the data organized around traffic analysis zones within cities, which are agreed-upon geographic demarcations that help with existing urban planning and traffic management.
Uber releasing this kind of data publicly is going to raise some eyebrows from privacy advocates, but the company stresses that it’s ensuring user privacy by only offering up data where it can be successfully aggregated and anonymized. For parts of a city where it determines there isn’t enough data to properly protect driver and passenger identities, it simply won’t return results for queries, Uber says. Another question is why Uber would bother at all, given that its ability to accurately map traffic demand is part of the reason its able to do demand prediction well at all, which is a core competitive advantage for it in the ride-sharing business. Uber says it wants to do some good in the cities where it operates, for one, but it also stands to benefit from infrastructure improvements in cities. Maybe Uber would be open to taking Bad Intersections data as well?
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Evan S. Schaffer, Frank H. Durgin; Visual-vestibular dissociation: Differential sensitivity to acceleration and velocity. Journal of Vision 2005;5(8):332. doi: 10.1167/5.8.332.
Vision contributes to balance, and vision is thought to dominate vestibular (or inertial) information in the perception of linear self-motion (Lishman & Lee, 1973; Mittelstaedt & Mittelstaedt, 2001). Is the visual system more sensitive to linear whole-field accelerations than are inertial systems? This would be surprising because the visual system is regarded as being much less sensitive to local acceleration signals than to local velocity signals (e.g., Eagle, 1996). We measured discrimination thresholds (JNDs) for peak velocity and for peak acceleration using immersive whole-field visual signals for linear motion (in an HMD) as well as non-visual whole-body inertial experiences (on a motorized cart). In both modalities, motion stimuli were developed in which peak acceleration and peak velocity were decoupled. The initial acceleration profiles in each case were roughly Gaussian, while the resulting velocity profiles were S-shaped. Acceleration duration was varied between 1 and 1.5 seconds, so that peak velocity could not be used to substitute for peak acceleration, nor could acceleration substitute for velocity without precise temporal integration. In a 2 X 2 design, stimuli were either visual (virtual hallway presented in a 60 deg FOV HMD) or inertial (on a computer-controlled cart), and judgments were either of peak velocity or peak acceleration. Observers made comparisons to an internal standard, with feedback. Despite the feedback, observers in the inertial experiments confounded velocity with acceleration, and JNDs for peak velocity discrimination from inertial senses were about 10% of the standard, whereas JNDs for peak acceleration were about 5%. Conversely JNDs for peak visual velocity were about 5% of the standard, while those for acceleration were about 10%. Evidently, visual superiority is limited to the perception of velocity. Visual and vestibular sensitivities may be complementary in perceiving accelerative and non-accelerative phases of self-motion.
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You spent a day in a shopping mall armed with a clipboard and asked shoppers the question "Do you think inflation should be low?" most likely you'd get the unanimous answer "Yes." On the other hand, if you asked "How low should the inflation rate be?" responses would probably vary. Not only are there contrasting views among the general public regarding this question, economists also hold different views regarding ideal inflation rates.
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Along with the other qualifiers from our London office, I arrived in our luxurious Miami Beach hotel around 3pm local time excited for the weekend ahead. We were not wasting anytime and after dropping off our bags we headed straight to the pool to sip some ‘fancy’ cocktails with Miami Beach in the background.
Three rounds later, the rest of the qualifiers arrived from the New York office. They had some catching up to do! Then we headed to KYUmiami, one of the best restaurants I’ve been to in my life. There was a great atmosphere in the restaurant and unexpectedly, we were all obsessed with the tasty cauliflower dishes for the rest of the trip!
After dining on the finest food and an excessive amount of wine and cocktails we headed to a karaoke bar… there’s no better way to finish a night! I have to say there were some questionable performances, in particular Russell Smith!
After an actioned packed and hilarious first night, we all caught up on the gossip over a light breakfast by the pool; drinking bloody mary’s and mimosa’s. Then it was time to go to Edition Matador Room – this place was unbelievable! Inspired by 1950s glamour, it’s known for the imaginative menu by world-renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. It did not disappoint, the food was incredible; I went for the black truffle pizza and it was mouth-wateringly good. After Lunch, we walked along the glorious Miami Beach to our hotel where we relaxed by the pool in anticipation for the big event in the evening…LIV nightclub – one of the most famous nightclubs in Miami.
Ludacris was headlining that night and the atmosphere was amazing, there was such a buzz in the crowd. I remember walking through the doors at LIV and being completely overwhelmed, the place was huge. We arrived to a private table full of beverages. But, our table wasn’t just anywhere - it looked over where Ludacris was performing, we had the best view in the house. It is by far the best club I’ve ever been to in my life.
After an incredible night at LIV we had a leisurely breakfast by the pool and then headed out on a ‘private tour’ with our own personal tour guide ‘Kev’. This is one of my personal highlights, it was so interesting to find out more around the history and culture of Miami, the artwork we saw was just incredible and gave me a lot of material for my tweets: @meet_ben. ‘Kev’ our tour guide, took us to various stops on the way including ‘Little Havana’. A great place to get a feel of the culture, listen to some music and in Banksy’s case enjoyed the dancing. After the guided tour of Miami we had our last night at Pau, another astounding venue, the golden unicorn shaped cocktail glasses will give you an idea of how outrageous it was!
How better to end an incredible holiday with a jet boat tour of Miami?! We all eagerly anticipated our ride (apart from Hannah Young who was expecting a leisurely boat trip around Miami). Soaked, windswept and giddy from flying around corners on the jet boat we then headed straight for our final brunch at Yardbird. The chicken here is unreal. Credit to Ali Shaw for ordering everything for us in advance he made some excellent choices.
This trip really was a holiday of a life time, I have so many funny stories and memories – a blog post isn’t enough to describe everything we experienced in Miami, but I hope this gives you a flavour of what #meetlife18 is all about. Roll on Rio.
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What kind of Christianity supports Zionism?
I'm writing an essay about Christian Zionism, and I'm a bit unclear on the end-times beliefs of pre-millennialism and post-millennialism. I understand the basic timelines of both, but where does Jewish emigration to Israel fit in? At what point (and in which belief system) are Jews either supposed to convert to Christianity or be ruled by a tyrant?
The Zionist movement, begun in the late 1890s, found fulfillment in 1948 when Israel was officially recognized as a state and granted sovereignty as a nation by the United Nations. This is when, technically, the political Zionist movement ended and the ideology of Zionism began, and as such, has become a much-debated topic.
Christian Zionism is simply Gentile support of Jewish Zionism as based on the promises to Israel found in the Bible, passages such as Jeremiah 32 and Ezekiel 34. Christian Zionists are primarily evangelical and give support in any way possible to the Jewish state of Israel. The return of the Jews to the Promised Land is the fulfillment of prophecy and is seen, especially by dispensationalists, as a sign that the world has entered the end times.
I realise this is only one Protestant pretribulation view, but it might help you to understand the timeline of events as they affect Israel with regard to the Tribulation that comes before the return of Christ to destroy the Antichrist and the enemies of Israel. It’s a contentious subject and hotly debated. One thing is clear, though, and it is that God has not finished with Israel.
Ellis Skolfield, a historicist (which is closer to Preterist than to Pre-Mil Dispensationalism) builds his entire framework for understanding Daniel and Revelation upon a timeline that has two of Daniel's prophesies pointing to the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 and the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967, respectively.
Skolfield's interpretation of the "two witnesses" of Revelation is that one witness is the Christian church and the second witness is the faithful among Israel.
Thus to Skolfield, himself a Christian of Jewish ancestry, the modern nation of Israel is a direct fulfillment of prophecy and true inheritor of the promises that God made to ancient Israel.
Skolfield believes that the millenium and the tribulation occur at the same time. He argues that chillioi is an indefinite plural, so the prophecies about the Millenial kingdom should apply to a period of time that is millenia (plural), not millenium (singular). Thus as soon as Jesus ascended into Heaven, his millenial kingdom began. Likewise, as soon as the Apostle's prophesied the first persecution, the Tribulation began, and continues until today. That also means that the unbinding of Satan has already occurred.
Given that Israel was reborn, Skolfield believes that all prophesies about the end times have been fulfilled, except Christ's return, which can therefore be at any time. He said that many scriptures refer to the "Last Trumpet". He believes that they all refer to the same event, so that the final end of the tribulation and Christ's return and the rapture and the Seventh Trumpet of Revelation all describe the same event. There will not be two big battles, one at the beginning of the millenium and one at the end. There will only be one. The misinterpretation that he claims to correct is that Revelation presents a repetitive, telescoping timeline, which keeps backing up and going over the same time period repeatedly, giving different details. The structure of Revelation has confused people into thinking that there are two battles and a longer period of time than his interpretation requires for the time of the end.
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How to change Tax Number To GST Number For Front End.
Getting the error message when: https://app.akaunting.com/banking/transactions Also when attempting to delete a REVENUE. Please advise.
Is there any options to add deductions ? Discount and Deductions are different. Eg: 1000 - 10% (XYZ deduction) Will be really good to have if this option is not available.
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The Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), was first created in 1952 in Geneva, as an alternative to the Berne convention.
Why was the convention needed?
Some countries disagreed with certain articles in the Berne Convention, and were not prepared to sign up to the terms of the Berne Convention. Most notably the United States who at the time only provided protection on a fixed term registration basis via the Library Of Congress, and required that copyright works must always show the © symbol. This meant that the US needed to make several changes to its laws before it could comply with the Berne Convention. The US finally signed up to the Berne Convention on the 1st of March 1989, and now only requires registration for work first published in the US by US citizens.
The UCC ensured that international protection was available to authors even in countries that would not become parties to the Berne Convention. Berne convention countries also became signatories of the UCC to ensure that the work of citizens in Berne Convention countries would be protected in non-Berne Convention countries.
How important is the Convention?
The Universal Copyright Convention is of limited importance today, as most countries are now part of the Union of the Berne Convention.
To ensure that the existence of the UCC did not lead to a conflict with the Berne Convention, Article 17 of the UCC states that the the convention does not affect any provision of the Berne convention, and the appendix declaration to the article goes on to state that any country that withdraws from the Berne Convention after 1st January 1951 will not be protected by the UCC in countries of the Berne Convention Union.
This effectively gave the Berne Convention precedence and penalises any country that withdraws from the Berne Convention to adopt the UCC.
Contracting states provide the same cover to foreign published works as they do to their own citizens.
States that require formal registration should treat works from foreign states that are signatories of the convention as though they had been registered in the state, provided that they carry a notice which includes the © symbol and states the name of the owner.
It sets a minimum duration for copyright protection as 25 years from the date of publication, and typically not less that 25 years from the authors death. With a notable exception of photographic and applied arts work which has a minimum protection of 10 years.
It recognises the authors right to make translations of the work.
It also specifies particular exceptions which may be applied to developing countries.
As with the Berne Convention, the UCC provides flexibility on how nation states implement details of the convention, and in order to understand specific aspects, it should be read in conjunction with national copyright laws.
The UNESCO web site provides a full text of the Universal Copyright Convention.
Our Berne Convention fact sheet deals with the principal international convention regarding copyright.
Our UK Copyright Law fact sheet deals with specific details of UK legislation.
Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) fact sheet from Copyright Witness.
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Now you can play Tic Tac Toe Math on your Android phones and tablets for free.
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Giordano Bruno (Italian: [dʒorˈdano ˈbruno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; 1548 – 17 February 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer. He is remembered for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center".
In addition to cosmology, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that Bruno was deeply influenced by Arab astrology (particularly the philosophy of Averroes), Neoplatonism, Renaissance Hermeticism, and legends surrounding the Egyptian god Thoth. Other studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.
The records of Bruno's imprisonment by the Venetian inquisition in May 1592 describe him as a man "of average height, with a hazel-coloured beard and the appearance of being about forty years of age". Alternately, a passage in a work by George Abbot indicates that Bruno was of diminutive stature: "When that Italian Didapper, who intituled himselfe Philotheus Iordanus Brunus Nolanus, magis elaborata Theologia Doctor, &c with a name longer than his body...". The word "didapper" used by Abbot is the derisive term which at the time meant "a small diving waterfowl".
Theophilus - [...] air through which the clouds and winds move are parts of the Earth, [...] to mean under the name of Earth the whole machinery and the entire animated part, which consists of dissimilar parts; so that the rivers, the rocks, the seas, the whole vaporous and turbulent air, which is enclosed within the highest mountains, should belong to the Earth as its members, just as the air [does] in the lungs and in other cavities of animals by which they breathe, widen their arteries, and other similar effects necessary for life are performed. The clouds, too, move through accidents in the body of the earth and are in its bowels as are the waters. [...] With the Earth move [...] all things that are on the Earth. If, therefore, from a point outside the Earth something were thrown upon the Earth, it would lose, because of the latter's motion, its straightness as would be seen on the ship [...] moving along a river, if someone on point C of the riverbank were to throw a stone along a straight line, and would see the stone miss its target by the amount of the velocity of the ship's motion. But if someone were placed high on the mast of that ship, move as it may however fast, he would not miss his target at all, so that the stone or some other heavy thing thrown downward would not come along a straight line from the point E which is at the top of the mast, or cage, to the point D which is at the bottom of the mast, or at some point in the bowels and body of the ship. Thus, if from the point D to the point E someone who is inside the ship would throw a stone straight up, it would return to the bottom along the same line however far the ship moved, provided it was not subject to any pitch and roll."
The Vatican has published few official statements about Bruno's trial and execution. In 1942, Cardinal Giovanni Mercati, who discovered a number of lost documents relating to Bruno's trial, stated that the Church was perfectly justified in condemning him. On the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death, in 2000, Cardinal Angelo Sodano declared Bruno's death to be a "sad episode" but, despite his regret, he defended Bruno's prosecutors, maintaining that the Inquisitors "had the desire to serve freedom and promote the common good and did everything possible to save his life." In the same year, Pope John Paul II made a general apology for "the use of violence that some have committed in the service of truth".
Bruno Giordano features as the hero in a series of historical crime novels by S.J. Parris (a pseudonym of Stephanie Merritt). In order these are Heresy, Prophecy, Sacrilege, Treachery and Conspiracy.
Bertold Brecht wrote one of his "Calendar Stories" (Kalendergeschichten) on Bruno Giordano. In The heretic's coat (Der Mantel des Ketzers), Brecht extols Bruno's unwavering honesty and selfless concern for justice.
Bruno plays a small but significant role in Martin Seay's 2016 novel The Mirror Thief.
The Giordano Bruno Foundation (German: Giordano Bruno Stiftung) is a non-profit foundation based in Germany that pursues the "Support of Evolutionary Humanism". It was founded by entrepreneur Herbert Steffen in 2004. The Giordano Bruno Foundation is considered critical of religion, which it characterizes as detrimental to cultural evolution.
Broadcasting station 2GB in Sydney, Australia is named for Bruno. The two letters "GB" in the call sign were chosen to honour Bruno who was much admired by Theosophists.
↑ Bruno was a mathematician and philosopher, but is not considered an astronomer by the modern astronomical community, as there is no record of him carrying out physical observations, as was the case with Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo. Pogge, Richard W. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Essays/Bruno.html 1999.
↑ Shackelford, Joel (2009). "Myth 7 That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science". In Numbers, Ronald L. Galileo goes to jail and other myths about science and religion. Cambridge, Mass: Havard University Press. p. 66. "Yet the fact remains that cosmological matters, notably the plurality of worlds, were an identifiable concern all along and appear in the summary document: Bruno was repeatedly questioned on these matters, and he apparently refused to recant them at the end.14 So, Bruno probably was burned alive for resolutely maintaining a series of heresies, among which his teaching of the plurality of worlds was prominent but by no means singular."
↑ Gatti, Hilary (2002). Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science: Broken Lives and Organizational Power. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 21 March 2014. For Bruno was claiming for the philosopher a principle of free thought and inquiry which implied an entirely new concept of authority: that of the individual intellect in its serious and continuing pursuit of an autonomous inquiry… It is impossible to understand the issue involved and to evaluate justly the stand made by Bruno with his life without appreciating the question of free thought and liberty of expression. His insistence on placing this issue at the center of both his work and of his defense is why Bruno remains so much a figure of the modern world. If there is, as many have argued, an intrinsic link between science and liberty of inquiry, then Bruno was among those who guaranteed the future of the newly emerging sciences, as well as claiming in wider terms a general principle of free thought and expression.
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↑ "Giordano Bruno". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 May 2014. At the time such a move did not seem to be too much of a risk: Venice was by far the most liberal of the Italian states; the European tension had been temporarily eased after the death of the intransigent pope Sixtus V in 1590; the Protestant Henry of Bourbon was now on the throne of France, and a religious pacification seemed to be imminent.
↑ Blackwell, Richard (1991). Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. p. 25. ISBN 0268010242.
↑ Giordano Bruno, Teofilo, in La Cena de le Ceneri, "Third Dialogue," (1584), ed. and trans. by S.L. Jaki (1975).
1 2 Bruno, Giordano. "Third Dialogue". On the infinite universe and worlds.
↑ Soter, Steven (March 13, 2014). "The cosmos of Giordano Bruno". Discover. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
↑ "Giordano Bruno: On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi) Introductory Epistle: Argument of the Third Dialogue". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ Hetherington, Norriss S., ed. (April 2014) . Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals): Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology. Routledge. p. 419. ISBN 9781317677666. Retrieved 29 March 2015. Bruno (from the mouth of his character Philotheo) in his De l'infinito universo et mondi (1584) claims that "innumerable celestial bodies, stars, globes, suns and earths may be sensibly perceived therein by us and an infinite number of them may be inferred by our own reason."
↑ Seife, Charles (1 March 2000). "Vatican Regrets Burning Cosmologist". Science Now. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
1 2 White, Michael. The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition, p. 7. Perennial, New York, 2002.
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↑ "Summary of the trial against Giordano Bruno: Rome, 1597". Vatican Secret Archives. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
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Despite flying first class on a commercial airline, you would need to be at the airport a certain number of hours before your flight. In other words, you would be beholden to the airline's schedule. Moreover, if no commercial airline flies directly to your final destination, you would have to take a connecting flight, which can be a hassle and increases the risk of losing your luggage. Бәхет, with a private jet charter flight, you would not have to worry about these problems. Specifically, be able to adjust your travel schedule as you desire, fly directly to your final destination and your luggage would be safe.
Биреү, first class commercial airline seating offers some great features, including large comfortable chairs, high-speed Internet access and a wide range of entertainment options. Әммә, these features are even better in private jet charter flight. Мәҫәлән, the seating area on a private jet usually resembles a high-end living room. What's more, on a private jet, you would have the freedom to change your seating area as you wish. The food and beverages offered on private jet charter flights are also of a higher quality and offer greater variety.
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Here is a new, original puzzle that I have made! You have to find the word that I describe.
My anagram is past tense of what you are doing now.
The homophone of my anagram is used with it in a common word riddle.
Letters often start with the greeting "Dear <name>"
READ is the past tense of reading, which I was doing while reading the riddle.
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Outdoor cooking can involve elaborate Dutch-oven meals or simple tinfoil dinners, but cooking and eating outdoors takes some knowledge and preparation. With that in mind, here are a few tips and ideas that can help you have a positive outdoor cooking experience.
1- Decide what cooking method or equipment you will use to prepare your outdoor meal. Will it be a gas powered camping stove, an open fire, charcoal briquettes, or some other method? Before you decide how to heat your meal, be sure to check any local restrictions in your camping area. Are open pit fires allowed? If not, you may need to bring a camping stove or some other alternative cooking method.
If open pit fires are allowed and you plan on using one, be sure to only build fires in designated fire pits. If there are no designated fire pits, find an open area away from low hanging branches, miscellaneous groundcover, and dry vegetation. Clear a ten-foot circle around the area where you will build a fire and then create a fire bed or fire pit. Fire beds can be made of rocks, silt, clay, sand, or any other non-flammable materials available. A small pit, approximately 4 to 10 inches deep can serve quite well as a fire bed. Surrounding your pit with small rocks can provide an extra layer of protection.
2- Set up a cooking fly. An old tarp or heavy fire-resistant blanket strung between two trees, poles, or walking sticks can provide protection from the elements for your cooking area. Always face the fly away from the wind. This will provide maximum protection from unexpected wind, rain, sleet, or snow. Be sure to dig your fire pit about ten feet in front of the fly, far enough from the fire that sparks won't harm the fabric, but close enough that you can step beneath when weather is bad.
When using a camp stove, be sure to plan ahead. You will need to pack more fuel than your stove will carry, unless your trip is very short. Be sure to pack flammable fuels in high quality metal containers and always mark them to keep them separate from drinking water and other liquids. Also, be sure that fuel containers are airtight so that there is no leakage of fuel or fumes, and store extra fuel away from your cooking area.
You may want to bring a small table or some wooden blocks to put your stove on. Many stoves have their own stands, but others will need to be kept off the ground and away from potentially flammable materials.
When lighting your stove, be sure to follow the manufacturer's recommendations. Never use a stove in or near a tent. Never open fuel containers on or near a hot stove, and never try to refuel a stove that is hot or still burning.
3- Whether you are cooking with a stove or an open fire, it might not be a bad idea to locate your cooking area 30 or 40 yards downwind from any tents or shelters in which you will sleep. Curious animals might be attracted by the smells of your food and you don't want them sniffing around your tent at night.
4- Remember to properly cook your food. To ensure yourself a successful foil dinner, follow these steps. First, make sure you use two layers of heavy foil and use tight folds to trap the moisture inside. Make sure that you cook on charcoal or the hot coals of a wood fire, never on flames. Occasionally turn over the foil packet to cook evenly and prevent burnt food. Remember, every foil dinner needs a source of moisture like onion slices, soup or salad dressings, seasoning sauces, butter, vegetable stock, or a spoonful of water. Cooking depends on the amount of heat in the coals, but a good average is fifteen to twenty minutes for hamburger, at least twenty minutes for chicken, and longer for solid meats like steak. Use caution because cooking too long can burn or char the food, but undercooking can become a health hazard. Check one meal before pulling out the other meals if you are cooking more than one. Hard veggies like carrots and potatoes will take longer to cook.
5- Be sure to leave the camp area in better condition than you found it. Before pulling away from camp, thoroughly douse your fire, mix it around with a stick or shovel, and then douse it again. Refill your fire pit or scatter your fire bed. When you are all packed up, scan the area to make sure that nothing is left behind.
We hope this article has helped you learn how to cook safely outdoors. It is always a good idea to learn alternative cooking methods and ways to prepare food while camping or even in an emergency.
Brent L. Top, excerpted from "Watch and Be Ready: Preparing Spiritually for the Second Coming of Christ"
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Of the 10 venues, seven will stage at least three group stage games. The format is such that each team will take on each other in a round-robin stage before the knockouts, with the top four teams qualifying for the semi-finals. Recently appointed full member Ireland will also miss the World Cup for the first time since 2007 and for the first time ever no Associate nation will be participating in the World Cup. The breakdown of venues and games can be seen in the table below. All these three matches will have reserve days. The final round match between England and France could decide the pool winner, or it could be a game where the loser goes bust and is eliminated. South Africa May 30, Thu London 02.
There would be only a single central group of all the teams where each team will play with the remaining teams. The quarter-finals stage has been removed because of the extended group stage and as such the 4 teams winning in the group stage would be directly playing in the semi-finals with the remaining 6 teams being knocked off. South Africa 18:00 Germany vs. The Aussies have won the cricket world cup more than any other country amounting to 5 wins in their 9 finals appearances. China 21:00 1 Like by : 7:13pm On Dec 08, 2018. South Africa are in Pool B alongside New Zealand, Italy, Namibia and the Repechage winner - either Canada, Germany, Hong Kong or Kenya.
But the Aussies seem to have this stranglehold over the Welsh, both in World Cup and general Test play, and with inspirational Wales skipper Sam Warburton having recently retired, the task to end that dominance has just got tougher. The potential upset Argentina against England on October 5 could be a real upset. And the winner of the final match would be declared the world champion. Your personal details will not be shared with those companies - we send the emails and you can unsubscribe at any time. The hosts, England, and the top seven other teams in the as of 30 September 2017 earned automatic qualification, with the remaining two spots being decided by the. However, when the Springboks decide to switch on, they can beat any team in the world, including the normally ruthlessly efficient All Blacks. The potential upset Wales vs.
Main article: The 2019 World Cup will feature 10 teams, a decrease from previous World Cups in 2011 and 2015 which featured 14 teams. Regardless, it is clearly the big-ticket game from Pool D with the winner likely securing a spot in what looks the easier side of the knockout draw. England and France had topsy-turvy 2018s with England regressing and now need a new defence coach, while France showed some signs of improvement under Jacques Brunel, having fired Guy Noves last Christmas. As hosts, France's national team have automatically qualified for the competition. The only way that can happen is if they both reach the final, and that's not implausible.
The 46-day tournament will be played across 11 world-class venues with the top four qualifying for the semi-finals that will be played in Manchester and Birmingham. Namibia secured the Africa 1 qualifying spot and a place in Pool B by winning the Africa Gold Cup, which also involved Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Let's take a look at the entire schedule:. World Cup 2019 schedule time table sees the two semi-finals and final have a reserve day. Those teams are , who won back-to-back titles and are looking to secure a hat-trick in 2019, , , , , , , , , , and. Our ambition is to grow the game and deliver the greatest ever cricket celebration and with that in mind we have very carefully developed our ticket prices.
The latter was a 57-0 drubbing in Albany. Both teams qualified for the World Cup, while Zimbabwe despite hosting the qualifying tournament failed to reach the final and will miss the World Cup for the first time since 1983. Canada won the tournament and secured their place in the World Cup. The opening match of the 2019 Rugby World Cup kicks off on Friday, September 20 as nations from all across the globe compete for the William Webb Ellis Trophy in Japan. City Ground County Team Capacity 25,000 17,500 15,643 20,000 18,350 Matches 5 including semi-final 3 4 3 4 28,000 25,500 26,000 17,500 25,000 12,500 5 including Final 5 6 including semi-final 5 5 3 Group stage Main article: The group stage format is a round-robin, where all ten teams play each other once, in a single group. The Indian cricket team begin their campaign against South Africa on June 5 in Southampton. Pool A Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Samoa, Russia How are the teams shaping up right now? The opening match of the tournament will be held on 30th May between South Africa and England.
The venue is the home of Ligue 1 side Lyon and also hosted the 2018 Europa League final, which was won by Atletico Madrid. The odds for Michael Cheika guiding them to that result may be getting longer by the day, though, with his position as Wallabies coach set to play out over the coming weeks. The time is finally here. The eleven venues that will host the tournament are Lord's, the Oval, Edgbaston, Trent Bridge, Headingley, Old Trafford, Taunton, Bristol, Chester-le-Street, Southampton and Cardiff. They end their group stage with a game against Sri Lanka at Leeds on July 6. The main argument presented by affiliate nations like Ireland, Argentina, Austria the World Cups provide great experience and learning opportunity which they do not get otherwise and these new rules would set the cricket in their country many years backward.
Those places have been fulfilled by Afghanistan and West Indies at a qualifier which was held back in Bangladesh. They will be looking to bounce back after crashing out of the 2017 Euros in the quarter-finals, despite struggling in the 2018 SheBelieves Cup after losing to France and the U. The top four sides in the 10-team competition will advance to the semi-finals July 9 at Old Trafford and July 11 at Edgbaston with the final staged at Lord's on Sunday, July 14 - all matches in the knockout stage will feature reserve days in case of bad weather. Pakistan Jul 04, Thu Leeds 43. Ireland are now again No.
There might be three African teams in this group after Namibia qualified for their fifth successive World Cup by winning the Africa qualifiers, while runners-up Kenya will play in the repechage tournament and could make their World Cup debut in Japan. What we'll be talking about after the pool stage Ireland should progress as pool winners, but even if they qualify as runners-up we'll still be discussing their hopes of progression beyond the quarterfinals for the first time. Australia may also win this tournament but it remains to be seen whether the home team England would be able to bag their maiden champions title this world cup. The first match will be played at while the final will be played at. The tournament will be held in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14, and one day reserved for the semi-finals and finals. Total 11 venues listed for the World Cup where ten countries will play each other for one trophy. This is a pool which will develop as the competition progresses, and is by far the most fascinating in the World Cup.
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Passages to the Past: Virtual Book Tour for THE SISTER QUEENS by Sophie Perinot begins today!
Virtual Book Tour for THE SISTER QUEENS by Sophie Perinot begins today!
Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours invites you to join author Sophie Perinot as she tours the blogosophere for her novel, THE SISTER QUEENS, from February 27th through April 4th!
We have some fabulous blogs on the tour and they will bring you reviews, guest posts by Sophie, interviews and giveaways...all for your reading pleasure!
Stop by here tomorrow for an interview with the author and a giveaway for TWO copies of THE SISTER QUEENS!
Active among the literary twitterati as @Lit_gal (a moniker she also uses at Agent Query Connect www.agentqueryconnect.com), Sophie is a regular contributor to the group writers' blog "From the Write Angle" http://www.fromthewriteangle.com/. Find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/sophie.perinot.author.
For more information, please visit Sophie Perinot's WEBSITE.
Yay - and I'll be doing a giveaway Amy since I received that extra copy!
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How about a roundup of a few tricks to scrapbooking winter memories that will make your layouts as awesome as those glorious summer, bright spring and rich Autumn pages?
I used to try and protect my camera from the cold when I went outside to take winter photos. I guess it’s the mother instinct in me? But I’ve learned that bringing the camera from the warmth of my inside pocket to out where the action is can lead to fogging up of the lens. Which isn’t fun. So best advice- just keep your camera in your hands when you go out to catch the action.
However, when you get inside, be sure to give your camera time to get back to room temp before opening it up.
Also- keep in mind-if you are taking photos with your phone- you do need to keep that protected from the cold. Severe temperatures can not only drain the batteries very quickly- it can damage the phone. It’s best to keep it tucked in an inside pocket. Spare camera batteries tend drain faster in the cold- so keep those in a toasty inside pocket too.
Also- quick tip! I’ve learned that those pocket disposable hand warmers used with gloves that let the fingers pop out are awesome for when I’m outside taking photos!
Watch your colors! Snow can often read blue in photos. Other than using a grey card to adjust your white balance- you may want to slightly over expose your settings outside to be sure to capture the whites. If it’s too bright, you can always tone it down when you edit your photos. It’s also a good idea to increase your blacks in your photo editing- because these can get washed out in snow photos.
If all else fails- and you still don’t love the cast of your winter photos? Edit them to black and white and pump up the contrast. Bonus! This cool black and white contrast can play really nicely with your scrapbooking supplies! Check out how awesome the bumped up contrast looks in this layout!
One you get your photos- it’s time to play!
Let’s face it- lots of winter photos are just someone standing outside win a coat LOL! Tell a more complete story and add a feeling of drama by layering things up! Varying the height of your embellishments- by using various shadows in Digi or glue dots and tape in paper- add terrific dimension that adds a real warmth and drama to your layouts!
Play off the cold in your photos with textured supplies. This contrast will add a terrific dynamic to your layouts! Each of the layout below are amped up with the use of cozy textures!
The point is- there is joy to be told in every season- the most important tip is to just be sure to get those stories down! And if you have any tracks you use for winter scrapbooking, or a layout you’d like to share let me know in the comments below!
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Great tips Renne! Thank you!!
Well living up here in Michigan we sure get the snow and I love to take photos. Some great tips here on how to protect your cameras and phones. I just did a winter layout of my great grandson making a snow angel using Cozy Up. It’s in the gallery. LOVE that kit!!!
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Caring about someone with borderline personality disorder BPD tosses you on a roller coaster ride from being loved and lauded to abandoned and bashed. Having BPD is no picnic, either.
You live in unbearable psychic pain most of the time, and in severe cases, on the border between reality and psychosis.
Your illness distorts your perceptions, causing antagonistic behavior and making the world a perilous place. The pain and terror of abandonment and feeling unwanted can be so great that suicide feels like a better choice. If you like drama, excitement, and intensity, enjoy the ride, because things will never be calm.
Following a passionate beginning, expect a stormy relationship that includes accusations and anger, jealousy, bullying, control, and breakups due to the insecurity of the person with BPD. Nothing is gray or gradual.
For people with BPD, things are black and white. They have the quintessential Jekyll and Hyde personality. They fluctuate dramatically between idealizing and devaluing you and may suddenly and sporadically shift throughout the day. You never know what or whom to expect. They can be vindictive and punish you with words, silence, or other manipulations, which can be very destructive to your self-esteem.
What you see is their norm. Their emotions, behavior, and unstable relationships, including work history, reflect a fragile, shame-based self-image. This is often marked by sudden shifts, sometimes to the extent that they feel nonexistent.
For them, trust is always an issue, often leading to distortions of reality and paranoia. They may try to bait you into anger, then falsely accuse you of rejecting them, make you doubt reality and your sanity, or even brainwash you as emotional manipulation.
It is not unusual for them to cut off friends and relatives who they feel have betrayed them. They react to their profound fears of abandonment with needy and clingy behavior or anger and fury that reflect their own skewed reality and Advice for dating someone with borderline personality disorder. In a close relationship, they must walk a tightrope to balance the fear of being alone or of being too close. To do so, they try to control with commands or manipulation, including flattery and seduction.
Whereas narcissists enjoy being understood, too much understanding frightens the borderline. Generally, borderlines are codependent, and find another codependent to merge with and to help them. They seek someone to provide stability and balance their changeable emotions.
A codependent or narcissist who acts self-sufficient and controls his or her feelings can provide a perfect match.
The person with BPD may appear to be the underdog in the relationship, while his or her partner is the steady, needless and caretaking top dog. They each exercise control in different ways. The non-BPD may do it through caretaking. Passion and intense emotions are enlivening to the person without BPD, who finds being alone depressing or experiences healthy people as boring.
Codependents already have low self-esteem and poor boundaries, so they placate, accommodate, and apologize when attacked in order to maintain the emotional connection in the relationship. Setting a boundary can sometimes snap them out of their delusional thinking. Calling their bluff also is helpful. Both strategies require that you build his or her self-esteem, learn to be assertive, and derive outside emotional support.
Giving in to them and giving them control does not make them feel more safe, but the opposite. See also my blog on manipulation. BPD affects women more than men and about two percent of the U. Advice for dating someone with borderline personality disorder usually is diagnosed in young adulthood when there has been a pattern of impulsivity and instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions.
They may use alcohol, food, or drugs or other addiction to try to self-medicate their pain, but it only exacerbates it.
Like all personality disorders, BPD exists on a continuum, from mild to severe. To diagnose BPD, at least five of the following symptoms must be enduring and present in a variety of areas:.
The cause of BPD is not clearly known, but often there has been neglect, abandonment, or abuse in childhood and possibly genetic factors. Research has shown brain changes in the ability to regulate emotions.
For more, read here and here. Unlike narcissists, who often avoid therapyborderlines usually welcome it; however, before recent treatment innovations, its effectiveness had been questioned. Today, BPD is no longer a life sentence. Studies have shown that some people recover on their own, some improve with weekly therapy, and some require hospitalization. Long-term treatment is required for maximum results, with symptom relief increasingly improving.
A year study showed substantial remission after 10 years. Most individuals with BPD have another co-occurring diagnosis, such as addiction or depression. Acute symptoms diminish more readily than temperamental ones, such as anger, loneliness, and emptiness and abandonment or dependency issues. Darlene Lancer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and expert on relationships and codependency.
Lancer has counseled individuals and couples for 28 years and coaches internationally. Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder. Retrieved on November 8,from https: Find help or get online counseling now.
To diagnose BPD, at least five of the following symptoms must be enduring and present in a variety of areas: Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Unstable and intense personal relationships, marked by alternating idealization and devaluation. Persistently unstable sense of self. Risky, potentially self-damaging impulsivity in at least two areas e. Around eight to 10 percent actually commit suicide. Chronic feelings of emptiness. Frequent, intense, inappropriate temper or anger.
Transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms. Hot Topics Today 1.
When You're Not Narcissistic Enough: Dealing with borderline personality disorder requires skills for but there are several key symptoms you can observe that might indicate a person has BPD. To date there are no drugs approved by the FDA that have been. Vertical Health & PsyCom do not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Caring about someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD) tosses you on a Thus, they're dependent on others and may frequently seek advice from.
One of the main criteria of diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is difficulty maintaining relationships. If you're not familiar with.
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From this last sentence of the first paragraph, you do know that the rhinoceros' faith is not deemed yet.
Ironically, however, the lack of human disturbance allows mature forests to replace the shrubby vegetation the animals prefer. Thus, human benevolence may prove little better for these rhinos than past human maltreatment.
The correct answer to this question will be a claim that must follow from text contained in the passage. This question does not provide any clues as to where the justifying text will be found.
(A) The first paragraph mentions that the the Javan rhino is the most endangered species of large mammal. However, it does not have to be true that it is one of the most endangered animals, a category that is far broader than mammals.
(B) CORRECT. The first paragraph states that very little is known about the life of the Javan rhino. The passage does indicate, however, that scientists have been able to extract information on the species’ DNA from gathered dung. The paragraph also suggests that very little information about female Javan rhinos has been gained, given that scientists only recently discovered whether or not females of the species even have horns. Thus, one can infer that more is known about the genetics of the Javan rhino than its mating patterns.
(C) The second paragraph indicates that hunters slaughtered many rhinos, but it does not mention where. Furthermore, it does not have to be true that more rhinos were killed in Vietnam simply because fewer rhinos remain there.
(D) The passage only discusses the Javan rhino; therefore, a generalization about the extinction of "most animals" is not supported by the passage.
(E) The passage does not mention other survival factors for a species or rank them; therefore, this inference is not supported by the passage.
In the second paragraph, after citing human actions as the cause of the Javan rhino’s plight, the author goes on to mention that the population in Vietnam is probably not viable and that human efforts in Indonesia, such as the protection of the rhino on the Ujung Kulun peninsula, have had mixed results. The passage ends with the thought that human benevolence is not helping the rhinos much more than past maltreatment. Thus, the correct answer will note the problems with current human efforts.
(A) The author is certainly not optimistic, as the passage mentions that in Vietnam the outlook is doubtful and in Indonesia, problems plague the effort. It is possible, although not certain, that the author considers the effort worthwhile.
(B) The author gives no indication that he or she believes the effort is pointless. Furthermore, especially in Indonesia, the passage does not indicate a certainty that it will fail.
(C) The passage does not at all discuss the profitability of the effort. It is possible, although not certain, that the author considers the effort idealistic.
(E) The passage indicates that the efforts have been much less than entirely successful but does not indicate any confusion related to the current efforts. It is possible for efforts to be less than fully successful without being confused. Furthermore, it does not at all address the idea that any particular heroism is involved.
The author mentions the number of horns in the first paragraph in the course of describing the Javan rhino. The correct answer must follow from this text.
(A) Although the Javan rhino is described as rare, the discussion of extinction is in the second paragraph,. Furthermore, the vitality of the African rhino is not mentioned.
(B) The passage contrasts the number of horns of the Javan rhino to that of the African and Sumatran rhinos. However, the author makes a parallel comparison to the Indian rhino because both species have one horn.
(C) The passage only discusses the Javan rhino’s evolution into a separate subspecies in the second paragraph in a completely different context,; no direct link is drawn between this evolution and the Javan rhino’s single horn.
(D) CORRECT. The author mentions the Javan rhino’s single horn in conjunction with a general description of the Javan rhino. The passage then goes on to discuss its habitat and the scientific knowledge to date. Thus, the author included this detail to add depth to his or her description.
(E) The passage only states that until recently scientists were unsure if females had horns, and no definitive answer is given. Furthermore, this point is mentioned in a different context, after the passage has finished describing the Javan rhino.
The first paragraph describes the Javan rhino and indicates how little is known about it. This should be reflected in the answer. It is the second paragraph that relates the effects of human activity on the rhinos and their chances for survival.
(A) This choice is too broad, as the paragraph focuses on the Javan rhino and only mentions its differences from some other rhinos to distinguish the species from others.
(B) This answer choice describes the topic of the second paragraph, not the first.
(C) CORRECT. The first paragraph provides the known facts about the Javan rhino and indicates that much remains unknown.
(D) The steps taken to save the Javan rhino are only mentioned in the second paragraph; they do not appear in the first paragraph.
(E) The first paragraph only indicates the respective number of rhinos in Indonesia and Vietnam in passing, and does not mention the differences between the two groups. The fact that the two have evolved into separate sub-species is mentioned only in the second paragraph.
The passage mentions the Ujung Kulon peninsula in the second paragraph. Immediately before that, the passage states that Indonesian Javan rhinos cannot supplement those in because they have evolved into separate sub-species. The correct answer choice will rely upon this fact.
(A) CORRECT. This choice rephrases the information in the second paragraph which states that the Indonesian Javan rhinos have evolved into a separate sub- species.
(B) The passage does not mention the aquatic abilities of the Javan rhino nor can it be assumed that they would have to get there without human assistance.
(C) The passage does not discuss the funds available in either country; therefore this choice is incorrect.
(D) The passage does not mention the difficulty involved in capturing a rhino; therefore this choice is incorrect.
(E) The passage does not mention terrorist activity at all; therefore, this choice is incorrect.
In the second paragraph, the passage states that the “near extinction of the Javan rhino is the direct result of human actions.” The correct answer must be justified by that statement.
(A) Rhino deaths at the hands of farmers are mentioned as a detail and as just one of the human actions responsible. It does not single farmers out as the primary cause of the Javan rhino’s near extinction.
(B) The passage mentions the separation of from the mainland to explain why the Javan rhino population in Vietnam cannot be supplemented by rhinos from Ujung Kulon. It is not discussed as a reason for the near extinction of the Javan rhino.
(C) Rhino deaths at the hands of hunters are mentioned as a detail and as just one of the human actions responsible. It does not single hunters out as the primary cause of the Javan rhino’s near extinction.
(D) The passage does not say that current human efforts are at all responsible for the near extinction of the Javan rhino. Instead, it indicates that current benevolent human efforts may not prove sufficient to save them.
(E) CORRECT. The beginning of the second paragraph clearly states that human actions, taken as a whole, have directly caused the near extinction of the Javan rhino.
1. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Javan rhinos are one of the most endangered animals on the planet.
B. More is known about the genetics of the Javan rhino than is known about its mating patterns.
C. Hunters killed more Javan rhinos in Vietnam than in Indonesia.
D. Most animal extinctions are the result of human actions.
E. Genetic diversity is the most important factor for the survival of a species.
How can we say that the DNA gathered from dung of female rhino does not give same level of details?
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In recent years, more and more people are choosing to read e-books rather than paper books. Do the advantages outweigh disadvantages?
Lately, there has been an increase in the number of people who prefer to read e-books instead of paper books. In my opinion, this trend has more advantages than disadvantages.
Despite some problems stated below, e-books bring a lot of benefits for both readers and the environment. Firstly, one of the evident benefits associated with e-books is that they make the purchasing process easier and quicker for readers. Instead of going to book stores to purchase books, readers can easily purchase the e-books over the internet whenever required. Secondly, e-books assure ease of accessibility to readers. In other words, reading devices such as Kindle can be loaded with hundreds of books at the same time and the readers can access the same whenever required. Finally, e-books are an eco-friendly alternative to paper books. This is extremely beneficial for the environment as trees are not required to be cut to produce papers.
Admittedly, there are also some minor problems associated with e-books. One of the common concerns is that continuous reading of ebooks may strain the eyes of the reader. Also they expose the reader to radiation and cause health problems in them. This can be easily avoided by taking short intervals while reading. Another possible issue related to e-books is that they can be lost if the reading device storing them gets corrupted. For example, a reading device can get corrupted due to virus. Again, readers can overcome this by installing anti-virus software on reading devices.
In conclusion, the benefits which e-books offer such as convenience and eco-friendliness clearly outweigh any disadvantages associated with them.
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Guillermo Zuloaga has faced numerous investigations by the Venezuelan government.
Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- The president of a Venezuelan TV station that has been critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday on charges that he abused his right to free speech, then released after a two-hour hearing before a judge.
An arrest warrant was issued this week for Guillermo Zuloaga after a complaint by National Assembly Deputy Manuel Villalba, who said the Globovision owner and president had broken the law by disseminating false information that caused panic and dissent among Venezuelans.
Globovision is the last remaining nationwide private TV broadcaster critical of Chavez.
Zuloaga was released Thursday evening but prohibited under court order from leaving the country.
In brief comments to reporters outside the justice building in Caracas, the executive -- who was detained at the airport in the city of Punto Fijo -- said that he was shocked by the days events.
"In no way was I trying to flee the country," Zuloaga said. His plan had been to fly his own plane on a day trip to and from Bonaire, he said.
He also denied that he said anything defamatory against President Chavez, as prosecutors claim.
Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said an investigation was started after comments Zuloaga made at a recent Inter American Press Association meeting in Aruba.
"The president of the republic, Hugo Chavez Frias -- it's true that he won some elections in 1998 and has legitimacy from that," Zuloaga said at the gathering. "But after that, instead of being president of all Venezuelans, he has dedicated himself to be president of a group of Venezuelans and try to divide Venezuela for a reason, that is 21st-century socialism."
Zuloaga added, "You can't talk about true freedom of expression when you have a government that uses force to repress the media ... [and] a president of the republic utilizing the force that he has and the authority that he has to manipulate public opinion and to try to impose a way of thinking."
Zuloaga's family and supporters said after the arrest that freedom of expression is being trampled in Venezuela.
"In Venezuela, it's a crime to offer an opinion," said Alejandro Aguirre, president of the Inter American Press Association.
Zuloaga's son, Carlos Alberto, offered the same observation to CNN en Español. "Here in Venezuela, to offer an opinion is becoming a crime," he said.
Villalba, the congressman who brought the complaint against Zuloaga, disputed that allegation. Venezuelans, he said in an interview with CNN en Español, have freedom of speech but cannot abuse it by making comments that cause division or hatred among citizens.
An Organization of American States commission criticized Zuloaga's arrest late Thursday, saying the panel sent a letter to the Venezuelan government asking for more information.
It was the second criticism of Venezuela issued Thursday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Earlier, the commission expressed its "deep concern" about human rights conditions in Venezuela. That statement focused on the arrest this week of former Zulia state governor and 1993 presidential candidate Oswaldo Alvarez Paz.
The opposition politician said two weeks ago on Globovision that "Venezuela has become an operation center that facilitates narcotrafficking dealings." He also accused Venezuela of having ties to Marxist rebels in Colombia and Spain.
Venezuelan prosecutors charged him with conspiracy against the government, public instigation to commit a crime and spreading false information.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had issued two complaints about Venezuela in the past seven months.
The commission issued a 319-page report last month that said Venezuela routinely violates human rights, often intimidating or punishing citizens based on their political beliefs.
The rights commission also issued a statement in August that said it "is deeply concerned about the deterioration of the situation of freedom of expression in Venezuela."
On Thursday, the OAS panel said the Chavez government has used "the punitive power of the state to criminalize human rights defenders, judicialize peaceful social protests, and persecute through the criminal system persons the authorities consider political opponents in Venezuela."
The commission said, "The space for public debate about Venezuelan government authorities is being increasingly reduced through the use of instruments such as the criminal justice system to silence critical or dissident expressions."
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza also joined the criticism Thursday evening, saying in a news release, "I worry about the national and international political repercussions of this situation, and that is why I request the Venezuelan authorities to promptly free Mr. Zuloaga and, should he be tried, that it be done with respect for the presumption of innocence and with all the guarantees offered to him by the law."
The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington did not have an immediate comment. Spokeswoman Marielba Alvarez said officials there had not seen the commission's statement. The embassy issued a release Wednesday, however, addressing what Venezuela called "distortions and inaccuracies in the U.S. media coverage" of Alvarez Paz's arrest Monday.
"This case is a legal one, not a political one," the embassy release said, adding that "Alvarez Paz's rights and guarantees are being fully respected."
Although Zuloaga and Globovision face more than 40 legal and administrative complaints, the station owner said in November that he would not be deterred. "Globovision will not cease to inform the truth," he said.
Prosecutors accused Globovision in June of not paying about $2.3 million (5 million bolivares fuertes) in taxes for certain advertisements the station broadcast in 2002 and 2003.
That week, national guard troops and authorities from Venezuela's environmental agency staged a late-night raid on Zuloaga's Caracas home to see whether the avid hunter had killed any protected prey. It was the second raid on Zuloaga's home in two weeks.
Zuloaga, who owns two Toyota dealerships, also was accused last year of overcharging on 24 cars he had sold and was storing on his property. Those vehicles were seized in a May 21 raid on the house.
On Wednesday, Insulza said in an interview with CNN en Español that he is powerless to have the 34-nation organization look into human rights in Venezuela.
"I am not the president of the OAS. I am not the president of the Americas," Insulza said. "I am the secretary general, who fulfills the resolutions of the Permanent Council, which consists of representatives from the 34 member nations, and nobody is going to change that. And that is the entity that should make decisions with respect to member nations."
Asked whether trade and economic considerations are keeping some Latin American countries from speaking out against conditions in Venezuela, Insulza answered, "And what are we going to do about it?"
Insulza, who was elected to another five-year term as OAS secretary general Wednesday, said that only former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked him to investigate Venezuela. He is bound by OAS regulations to ask permission of the host nation to bring a delegation into the country; Venezuela rejected the request.
Insulza said the only OAS entity allowed to address human rights issues is the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which has done so.
CNN's Arthur Brice and journalist Carlos Guillen contributed to this report.
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In our latest question and answer, the pharmacist discusses the use of phentermine with Adderall.
Can you find PubMed articles or guidelines supporting that phentermine and Adderall should not be prescribed together? I've tried but can't seem to find anything. Looking for documentation to send to the prescribers in my area that expect me to dispense both at the same time.
It's unlikely that you will find any scientific articles evaluating the combined use of Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts) and phentermine since they are essentially the same type of drug (sympathomimetics).
Phentermine is a sympathomimetic amine with pharmacologic activity similar to the prototype drugs of this class used in obesity, amphetamine (d- and dll-amphetamine).
There are no medical guidelines that recommend the combined use of phentermine and Adderall (amphetamine salts). Additionally, there is no drug product approved by the FDA that combines the two.
There was an investigational drug undergoing clinical trials in the 1960s, Bionamin, that combined phentermine and amphetamine salts but it was never approved due to the lack of efficacy and concern over side effects.
In terms of anti-obesity drugs structurally similar to phentermine, they are all associated with serious side effects. These side effects include primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and cardiac valvulopathy.
Phentermine appears to be the safest amphetamine-like drug indicated to treat obesity and whether or not there is a risk of the serious side effects listed above (when used at recommended doses) is disputed.
Going back to potentially combining phentermine and Adderall, their use together isn't recommended due to their potentially additive effects since they work the same way (by causing the release of several neurotransmitters, including norepinephrine, dopamine and to a lesser extent, serotonin).
Guidelines for ADHD and for the treatment of obesity don't recommend combined use of stimulants (i.e. sympathomimetics).
If combined pharmacologic therapy is needed, it generally is only with a stimulant and a non-stimulant.
For example, for ADHD, a combination of methylphenidate and guanfacine has been studied. For obesity, phentermine and topiramate together has been studied).
Certainly, if phentermine and amphetamine are used together, routine monitoring of blood pressure and emotional state should be done at the very least.
Based on your question, you seem to be a pharmacist and are being asked to dispense phentermine and Adderall at the same time, which is certainly a cause for concern.
Be sure to use your professional judgment on a case-by-case basis and speak with the prescriber to make sure they fully consider the risks and benefits of this therapy. Always document your conversations! Additionally, be sure the patient knows the risks.
Combined use of phentermine and Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts) is generally not recommended due to their similar mechanism of action and risk of additive side effects.
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HAMDEN, Connecticut (CRN) – The ten latest marijuana legalization polls, including today’s from Quinnipiac University, show majority support for ending marijuana prohibition.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,561 registered voters nationwide in the last week of May, using both landlines and cell phones. The survey found that 54 percent of voters believe that “marijuana should be made legal in the United States,” with only 41 percent opposed.
Nine other national marijuana legalization polls have found majority support. Support has ranged as high 61 percent in polls from Associated Press and Benenson Strategy Group. Other majority polls in the past two years come from Gallup, Pew Research Center, General Social Survey, and CBS and FOX News.
The last poll not to clear 50 percent support for marijuana legalization came from CBS News in May, 2014. However, that poll found a 48-to-47 plurality support for legalization. A January, 2014, poll from ABC News / Washington post found a similar 49-to-48 plurality support for legalization.
The last poll to register nationwide plurality opposition to marijuana legalization was from February, 2013, when FOX News found 49-to-46 percent of Americans against it.
The last nationwide poll with a majority opposed to marijuana legalization was taken by Gallup in December, 2012, where they found 50 percent of Americans against it.
In other words, it has been three-and-a-half years since any poll found a majority against marijuana legalization and for the past two years, ten straight polls have shown majority support for legalization.
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Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, this glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and complex dust sculptures dominate this detailed skyscape taken in infrared light by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. The atomic emission by the cluster's gas is powered by energetic radiation from the hot stars, whose powerful winds and light also sculpt and erode the denser pillar shapes. Stars could still be forming inside the pillars by gravitational collapse, but as the pillars are eroded away, any forming stars will ultimately be cut off from their reservoir of star stuff. This field spans around 40 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 7822.
Innermost planet Mercury would probably not be a good location for an interplanetary winter olympics. But new results based on data from the Mercury orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft indicate that it does have substantial water ice in permanently shadowed regions within craters near its north pole. The possibility of ice on Mercury has been entertained for years, inspired by the discovery of radar bright, hence highly reflective, regions near the north pole. Highlighted in yellow in this map based on projected MESSENGER images, radar bright regions are seen to correspond with floors and walls of north polar impact craters. Farther from the pole the regions are concentrated on the north facing crater walls. MESSENGER's neutron spectroscopy and thermal models for the craters indicate material in these regions has a hydrogen content consistent with nearly pure water ice and is trapped in an area with temperatures that remain below 100 kelvins (-280 deg.F, -173 deg.C). In circumstances similar to permanent shadows in craters of the Moon, debris from comet impacts is thought to be the source of ice on Mercury.
Now appearing as planet Earth's evening star, brilliant Venus shines in western skies at twilight. Standing above a rugged horizon and warm sunset colors, the twilight's celestial beacon was joined last Saturday by a Moon 35 hours young in this gorgeous skyscape. The close pairing of Venus and Moon is known as a conjunction. Not visible in the frame, fleeting planet Mercury has fallen from evening skies, sinking deeper into the sunset glow below the young crescent Moon. The scene was captured while trekking in northern Portugal's Peneda-Geres National Park.
Why is Phobos so dark? Phobos, the largest and innermost of two Martian moons, is the darkest moon in the entire Solar System. Its unusual orbit and color indicate that it may be a captured asteroid composed of a mixture of ice and dark rock. The above picture of Phobos near the limb of Mars was captured last month by the robot spacecraft Mars Express currently orbiting Mars. Phobos is a heavily cratered and barren moon, with its largest crater located on the far side. From images like this, Phobos has been determined to be covered by perhaps a meter of loose dust. Phobos orbits so close to Mars that from some places it would appear to rise and set twice a day, but from other places it would not be visible at all. Phobos' orbit around Mars is continually decaying -- it will likely break up with pieces crashing to the Martian surface in about 50 million years.
How massive can stars be? Big, hefty stars live short violent lives that can profoundly affect their environments. Isolating a massive star can be problematic, however, since what seems to be a single bright star might actually turn out to be several stars close together. Such was the case for two of the brightest objects visible in the open star cluster Trumpler 16, located in the southern Carina Nebula. Upon close inspection by the Hubble Space Telescope, WR 25, the brightest object in the above image, was confirmed to consist of at least two separate stars. Additionally, Tr16 -244, just to the upper right of WR 25, was resolved for the first time to be at least three individual stars. Even so, the brightest star in WR 25 appears to be about 50 times the mass of our Sun, making it one of the more massive stars known. Winds from these stars are likely significant contributers to the large bubble that the star cluster sits in. The Carina Nebula, home to unusually shaped dust clouds and the famous variable star Eta Carina, lies about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Ship's Keel (Carina).
Launched ten years ago this week, SOHO (the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory) still enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Sun. Twelve sungazing instruments on board the spacecraft have explored the Sun's internal structure, the extensive solar atmosphere and solar wind, and discovered over 1,000 comets from a remarkable orbit around a point about 1.5 million kilometers directly sunward of planet Earth itself. At that location, known as a Lagrange point, the gravitational influence of the Earth and Sun are equal. With scientific instrument teams distributed around the world, the SOHO operations center is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mission operations are planned through March of 2007 to allow the study of a complete 11-year solar cycle. Contributions from SOHO's instruments are represented in the colorful montage image. Happy tenth anniversary SOHO!
What causes the bright streaks on Dione? Recent and likely future images of this unusual moon by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn might help us find out. The above image was taken at the end of October from a distance of about one million kilometers. The bright streaks run across some of Dione's many craters, indicating that the process that created them occurred later than the impacts that created those craters. Dione is made of mostly water ice but its relatively high density indicates that it contains much rock inside. Giovanni Cassini discovered Dione in 1684. The Cassini spacecraft is scheduled to photograph Dione at higher resolution in mid-December. Currently, the highest resolution images of Dione remain those taken by the passing Voyager spacecraft in 1980.
Can a cloud do that? Actually, pictured above are several clouds all stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud. Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically. Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes. The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture. The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance. The above picture was taken last week near Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
It is the most famous star cluster on the sky. The Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Quite evident in the above photograph are the blue reflection nebulae that surround the bright cluster stars. Low mass, faint, brown dwarfs have recently been found in the Pleiades.
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by distant Neptune in August of 1989, astronomers were shocked. Since Neptune receives only 3 percent the sunlight Jupiter does, they expected to find a dormant, dark, frigid planet. Instead, the Voyager images revealed evidence of a dynamic and turbulent world. One of the most spectacular discoveries was of the Great Dark Spot, shown here in close-up. Surprisingly, it was comparable in size and at the same relative southern latitude as Jupiter's Great Red Spot, appearing to be a similar rotating storm system. Winds near the spot were measured up to 1500 miles per hour, the strongest recorded on any planet. The Voyager data also revealed that the Great Dark Spot varied significantly in size during the brief flyby. When the Hubble Space Telescope viewed the planet in 1994, the spot had vanished -- only to be replaced by another dark spot in the planet's northern hemisphere!
In the martian southern hemisphere, autumn has arrived. As on planet Earth, the cooler temperatures bring a seasonal frost to the landscape. Of course on Mars, the surface temperatures can be really cool, reaching below minus 100 degrees C. This detailed Mars Global Surveyor synthesized color image of Lowell crater at 52 degrees south martian latitude was recorded on October 17. Whitish frost has begun to accumulate on floor of the 201 kilometer wide crater. The crater's weathered walls suggest Lowell is relatively old. In striking contrast, two smaller, sharp-rimmed young craters are clearly superimposed on the older features near Lowell's outer rim.
The latest invader from Earth, the Mars Polar Lander (MPL) spacecraft, is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet's surface on Friday, December 3rd. If all goes well the robotic explorer will open a parachute, deploy landing legs, fire thrusters, and come to rest amidst rolling plains of intriguing layered terrain near the Martian South Pole. In this orbital image, a grid overlays the landing region with the targeted site indicated by a purple oval about 200 kilometers long by 20 kilometers wide. A secondary landing site is shown as a white oval while at the upper left an inset shows the area in relation to the pole. This polar landing region's layered terrain will hopefully allow MPL's instruments to view a record of climate changes in Martian history, like reading tree rings or layers in an ice core. Before landing, MPL will drop off two microprobes intended to penetrate the soil and look for water ice. Mars Polar Lander will also carry a small Mars Microphone.
Credit: R. Walterbos et al. (NMSU), Apache Point Obs.
Some galaxies are hard to find. Besides being hidden behind the dust and bright foreground stars of our Milky Way Galaxy, recently discovered Cepheus 1 was missed previously because it is so uniformly dim. In fact, the first indication that any galaxy was there at all came in the radio band from the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands. Close inspections of optical photographs like the one above then revealed Cepheus 1 as the low-surface brightness galaxy in the center. Cepheus 1 turns out to be only about 20 million light years distant, and so is one of the few spiral galaxies that live close by. Low-surface brightness (LSB) galaxies like Cepheus 1 are still being studied, but are known to have relatively large separations between bright stars, and to be more commonly found away from other galaxies.
Orion is big. Some of the stars that form the constellation of Orion are part of a giant gas cloud complex that stretches over 100 light years and appears more than 50 times the diameter of the Moon. Components of this cloud include the Horsehead Nebula, the Orion Nebula, the Trapezium open cluster, and small disks containing stellar systems which are just forming. At 1500 light years, Orion is the closest star forming region to Earth. Close inspection of the photo's center should reveal the three stars which form the belt of Orion.
As the Earth spins on its axis, the sky seems to rotate around us. This motion produces the beautiful concentric arcs traced out by the stars in this time exposure of the night sky. In the middle of the picture is the North Celestial Pole (NCP), easily identified as the point in the sky at the center of all the star trail arcs. The very short bright trail near the NCP was made by the star Polaris, commonly known as the North Star.
Are we alone in the universe? Do other stars have planets too? Humanity took one step closer to answering these questions in October 1995 when it was announced that the star 51 Pegasi harbors at least one planet. In the above picture of 51 Peg the planet is not visible - it can only be detected by noticing small changes in the star's motion. Claims of planets orbiting other stars are rare, with perhaps the most credible pertaining to a neutron star - a star much different than the Sun. But new ground was broken when the planetary detection claimed around the normal Sun-like star 51 Peg was confirmed. The planet, discovered by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, is thought to be like Jupiter - except orbiting so close to the parent star that it's year lasts only about 4 days! In the above picture the lines centered on 51 Peg are caused by the telescope itself and are not related to the star or planet.
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How did we choose the Best Colleges for Sports Lovers?
For each of those colleges, we zeroed in on 15 different factors that illustrated the school's overall sports culture—and we removed any schools that were missing four or more of those data points. That left a universe of 606 colleges. We then ranked the remaining colleges based on their scores in three areas: the overall Best Colleges rank (20%), student athlete opportunities (40%), and fan experience (40%).
Two pieces of data—recent national and conference championships—factored into both the student athlete and fan experience, since both athletes and fans want to be associated with winning teams.
Championships: National championships and conference championships were collected by hand from the NCAA website and individual conference championships. We only counted conference championships for Division I colleges because the level of competition among Division I conferences was more even than that among many smaller conferences in divisions II and III.
Federal graduation rate for student athletes: Division I and Division II colleges are required to follow federal guidelines in reporting the 6-year graduation rate for student athletes. We used the graduation rate for teams from the cohort of students that started college in 2005-2008, based on data from the NCAA. Division III colleges are excluded from this requirement, so we substituted the overall student body graduation rate from the same time period, based on data from the U.S. Department of Education. The NCAA also collects a separate graduation success rate and academic success rate for Division I and Division II, respectively. We ultimately chose not to include those, as critics say those rates inflate the number of athletes who actually go on to earn a college degree.
Average athletic scholarships: Division III colleges are not allowed to award scholarship money based on athletic ability, per NCAA regulations. As a result, Division III colleges were excluded from this data point. We used a formula that allowed us to skip this data point for Division III colleges and reapportion the 15% given to athletic aid evenly across all other data points in the student athlete opportunity bucket.
Average attendance: The NCAA only publishes attendance figures for certain sports, and publishes more for Division I teams than for Division II or Division III. To get as complete a picture as possible, we looked at three sports—football and men's and women's basketball. We took the average of two or three if multiple attendance figures were reported. Otherwise we used one sport. There were still 186 colleges without attendance figures. For those, we used a formula that allowed us to skip this data point and reapportion the 25% given to attendance across all other data points in the fan experience bucket.
Donations: We counted donations in two ways. To measure how donors and universities' fundraising staffs prioritize athletics, we looked at sports-related donations as a share of the total amount of money raised by a school. We also scored colleges based on the total dollar amount they raised, in order to reward colleges that have the most cash to reinvest in their athletics program.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of our top-ranking colleges. We discussed removing it from the ranking, as we were hesitant to endorse a college still reeling from one of the most far-reaching academic scandals involving athletes. Other colleges near the top of the list also have had major athletic scandals in recent years. Ultimately, we decided that since we were already penalizing colleges for NCAA infractions (and in this case, the NCAA hasn't punished UNC yet), we would not single out individual colleges to remove.
Source list: National Collegiate Athletic Association data on academics, championships, infractions, and attendance; U.S. Olympic Committee; Petersons; Equity in Athletics Data Analysis from the U.S. Department of Education; Niche.com; Council for Aid to Education.
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Writing sample of essay on a given topic "Teacher And Student Relationship"
2018-06-25 · What Are the Causes of a Poor Relationship Between a Student & Teacher? By Kristine Tucker ; and other student-teacher relationships take time to develop.
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YükleOturum açAra Yükleniyor... NOTE: these are not real and I used MS paint not photoshop. You can locate the locate the Error Source and the ID in the list of events there. annoyingfamily 2.549.170 görüntüleme 5:59 Super Windows - Süre: 6:13.
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Britec09 315.670 görüntüleme 8:06 How to clean and speed up your computer for free. - Süre: 7:47. This feature enables the collection of the actions performed by a user while encountering a crash so that testers and developers can reproduce the situation for analysis and debugging. System design Sometimes the code is returned by a function deep in the stack and far removed from your code that is handling the error. Learn more You're viewing YouTube in Turkish.
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Turkmenistan is a country covered by a great desert, but also is home to some very fertile lands, meaning where foods can be grown is limited. Additionally, due to the weather patterns and the short summers in many areas, the foods and animals present in the country are fairly limited. Due to the climate and geography, the historic diet in Turkmenistan is limited in the number of fruits, vegetables, and animals present.
Among the fruits and vegetables found in Turkmenistan, are berries, mushrooms, wheat, melons, and some root crops like onions and carrots. The animal life is also limited in scope in Turkmenistan, but numerous animals are present and have been used for food for thousands of years. These animals include goats, sheep, and horses, all of which were and still are used for their milk as well as meat. Fish and other seafood is severely lacking in the local diet, but relative to neighboring countries is quite substantial; along the shores of the Caspian Sea fish was historically and continues to be a major food source, however elsewhere seafood is not a common food.
Turkmenistan has had relatively few culinary changes in its history. The earliest people lived primarily as nomads, whose diet consisted almost wholly of meat and dairy products along with whatever small produce could be found in the region. However, early in the country's history the people settled and this altered the diet as sustainable farming and more advanced cooking techniques became readily available.
These settlers were both the earlier nomadic people as well as the arriving Turkic people. With the arrival of these people, the local lifestyle changed as did the diet. Pasta, plov, kebabs, and pastries all rose in popularity among the people due to this settling effect and even today these foods are popular among the people.
During and after this time the Silk Road rose to prominence and Turkmenistan fell on the periphery of the major trading route as it crossed into the region in many areas. The influence from this trade changed the cuisine as new foods, spices, and cooking styles were introduced as people from every direction arrived in great numbers on a temporary basis to trade. Often these traders brought foods from their home to the region and with them raised the popularity of rice from the east and spices from the south, especially saffron and pepper, which are commonly found in numerous Turkmen dishes today.
The next influence, which again had a substantial impact, was the arrival of the Soviets in the early 1900s. With the Soviets came Russians and numerous Russian foods remain popular in Turkmenistan today. Foods like pelmani (meat dumplings), peroshki (rice, meat, or vegetables cooked in dough), borsch (beet soup), and more became popular dishes, which can still be found today.
In more recent times the foods in Turkmenistan have gained a more international flavor as many cities have adopted some "ethnic" restaurants. These restaurants are limited to major cities and little other than Chinese, Indian, and Turkish restaurants can be found.
The Turkmen consider it their responsibility to invite guests to their homes and turning away a person in need is considered neglect. For this reason it is not uncommon to be invited to a local's house. If you do get an invitation, be sure to bring a gift; local sweets or, if you know your host drinks alcohol, a bottle of vodka is a great gift. Once you arrive for dinner remove your shoes and leave them at the door. Let you host show you a seat, then be prepared as the people and their dining habits differ somewhat. You may begin the meal is a prayer, with soup, with tea, or with a glass of vodka accompanied by a toast. If there's a prayer, no matter your religion all that is expected of you is to be respectful. However, if they begin with vodka, it is your duty to drink, as turning down vodka can be interpreted as an insult.
Once you get past the initial drink or course, relax. The Turkmen are very forgiving of etiquette mistakes; if they correct you in your inappropriate habits they do so to educate you, not to condemn, so welcome their advice with a smile and change your behavior. Once the food is served, and there may be multiple courses so don't overeat on the first course, you will likely find that the host will serve everyone personally as certain cuts of meat are reserved for certain people. Unfortunately, this means you must eat what you're served and as a guest of honor that could be a sheep head. If dining at a restaurant with locals, remember to avoid ordering pork products as most Turkmen Muslims don't eat pork, although it is available and some Muslims do consume pork.
You may find that there are utensils (cutlery) present; if so use them in any manner you prefer, but ideally in the continental style (knife in the right hand, fork in the left), especially if in a formal setting. On other occasions you will be expected to eat with your hand; if this is the case be sure to only use your right hand to eat. You'll likely also be served bread with your meal, which must be eaten in its entirety and placed directly on the table when not eating it; again use your right hand to eat your bread. When the food is finished, you may be served tea or another beverage, which you are expected to accept.
If dining out at a restaurant, check your bill to see if a "service charge" has been added. If not be sure to leave the server a tip of about 10-15%.
When it comes to celebrations in Turkmenistan, the largest festival is most certainly nauryz, which is a New Year festival that is celebrated each year on the spring equinox. This event celebrates new life as the historically nomadic people have survived the long winter. During this event the people generally join together to celebrate by eating a number of traditional dishes including lamb or sheep, mare's milk, and other traditional foods.
The Turkmen drink quite a bit of tea and if you want to join the locals sit down for a glass of tea, which is available just about anywhere. For a more historic drink though try the gatyk, a yogurt drink, or the unofficial national drink, chal, which is fizzy camel's milk. This is fermented though so it is sometimes slightly alcoholic; be careful before you consume it. Juices, soft drinks, and coffee are also widely available in Turkmenistan, but none are nearly as popular as tea.
Alcohol is not widely consumed in Turkmenistan. The people are primarily Muslim, a religion that outlaws alcohol, however due to the people's long history under Soviet rule there is little taboo with drinking alcohol today. Even for locals who don't drink they rarely take offense when others drink. Also due to Soviet influence, beer and vodka are the most popular alcoholic drinks. For other alcoholic drinks, including wine and other hard liquors, you may have troubles finding what you want, but if you look hard enough they are available, although rarely in restaurants.
The tap water in Turkmenistan should not be consumed. Be sure to also avoid anything with ice as it may have been made from the tap water. Salads and fruits could have also been washed in the tap water so be careful with those foods as well.
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I am finishing a basement room and have a concrete ledge which is part of the foundation. It protrudes into the room about 2.5 inches and is about 6 inches high. This ledge is the result of a particular way of pouring the foundation which results (as I am told) in higher ceilings in the basement, but leaves this rather annoying ledge. (See photos).
Apparently there are multiple ways of working with this type of thing, which I learned from looking at similar homes in my neighborhood: Some people frame the walls inside the ledge completely, effectively shrinking the finished room by that amount; others have framed up to the window sill height and created a shelf in the room at that height.
I've chosen to maximize space in the room and finished the walls above the ledge intending to create an exaggerated baseboard around the concrete ledge. However, exactly how to do that is proving difficult.
First, the concrete thickness (protrusion into the room) is not consistent. It's 2.5 inches in the middle, but is nearly 2.75 at one end and 2.25 at the other. Whatever I cover it with will have to compensate. The height of 6 inches is fairly consistent.
Next the concrete is not smooth, there are many small protrusions which will have to be worked around or removed with a chisel or hammer.
Finally, I'd like to have a small measure of insulation so that the room is isolated from the cold concrete.
A. Use an adhesive to attach dense insulating foam, about 1/2 thick, to top and side of ledge. Attach MDF to these surfaces using adhesive, and router the corner to a rounded edge. Prime and paint.
B. Rip some 2x4's to a 1/2 to 3/4 inch thickness and attach to ledge face every 16 inches, using concrete anchors. The thickness of the 2x4 would vary so that the end result is square with the room and makes up for the irregular shape of the concrete. Attach MDF to these. Fill air gaps with expanding foam insulation. Finish MDF with with a routered corner, prime and paint.
I'm not sure if there is a better or common way of building around such concrete ledges. The heart of the question: Is there a recommended way to build around a concrete ledge like this?
The basement is at ground level.
The room is 11 ft. by 9.5 ft. (105 sq. ft.) The ledge is only on two exterior sides.
The flooring will be laminate.
The existing walls are insulated, framed, and already have finished drywall with texture and primer.
I decided to go with plan "A" and thought I would post an in-progress picture. Thanks for the suggestions and tips.
We had an almost identical situation in a former garage that we refinished to be an office. Our contractor suggested this and we liked the result: he installed a piece of wood about an inch out from the concrete, putting insulation between them and keeping the wood a consistent and level height - a little higher than the concrete. I can't remember if it was pink fluffy insulation or spray stuff. Then a shelf about 6 inches out from the wall - nice and level by being a bit up from the concrete and supported by the vertical wood, and there's insulation under the shelf too. The whole thing is a good looking clear pine and is well varnished.
The shelf runs around the entire room and is remarkably useful for something so low. It hides all the lumpy bumpy aspects of the concrete and while it's not something you see everywhere, no-one has ever mentioned it so it can't be that unusual.
Have you thought about maybe just building a bench around the room to encase the concrete ledge? I'm not sure what the intended use of the room is, but a bench might be neat for a play room or entertainment room.
Looks like you will want to be creative. I'd start with either a bench seat on part of the perimeter, essentially built-in storage, or a higher cabinet. In either case, use it as storage space.
Since this will be a home office, an option is to make the wall a cabinet all the way up, partly display case & shelves. Our last house had one wall that was entirely build-in shelves above a bank of cabinets. Lots of useful storage, and gives it a library feel.
Around the rest of the room, maybe you could do a wall in knotty pine tongue and groove as a paneling? Again, it gives a warm feeling on the walls. Our ceiling and one wall of the great room is that way in this house. Since the pine will be 3/4 inch thick on the wall, then you have just an extra bump out around the base, with a piece of molding on top of the cement "step" to hide it. But this way, it will look not that out of place to have the base built out with a pine bump.
Wherever you will build it out with a baseboard, I'd start with a 3/4 inch square nailing strip, nailed to the floor on the base. Have another nailing strip on top of the cement, this time nailed to the wall. Pine baseboard straight up from the floor, and a pine cap above that goes to the wall itself. I'd go with knotty pine for this because it is cheap and will take some knocks without looking too bad. Cedar is a bit soft for down there. Fill behind the baseboard with fiberglass insulation stuffed in. Run a decorative molding above the top edge to east the transition into the wall.
The nice thing about use of a nailer strip is you can vary the thickness easily enough with a bit of quick custom hand planing (power plane for the lazy) to make it fit, leaving a straight edge. And a nailer then makes it easy to attach the baseboard.
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Captain Hansen wants to navigate with his little barge from Hamburg downstream to Cuxhaven on the river Elbe. During this journey he must take the tide into account. When the tide is falling the water flows to the North Sea and speeds up the ship. When the tide is rising the drift of the tide reduces the real speed. The drift is not constant, but varies over the time. Captain Hansen now wants to know, when to start in order to minimize the time for the journey.
Of course, there are deadlines to meet and Hansen runs a "just in time" service, so the arrival should be as late as possible, but not after a given deadline.
1. Departing at t guarantees that Hansen will reach Cuxhaven before a given deadline (i.e., arrival time < deadline).
2. For departure time t, the time for the journey is minimal.
3. If multiple such departure times exist, Hansen picks the latest one that will bring him to Cuxhaven The distance between Hamburg and Cuxhaven is 100 km. The ship moves with a constant speed of 10 km/h through water (without drift!). The real speed (speed over ground) is calculated by adding or subtracting the drift speed. The drift has the same speed and direction on the whole river at any time. Speed and direction change not more than once per minute and remain constant until the next change.
For each scenario, you find the time d of latest possible arrival. For your convenience, this time is given in minutes starting from midnight (300 <= d <= 1440). Then the number d of data sets containing drift data is given (1 <= d <= 100). A drift data set has the form "m s" where m and s are integers. Value m specifies the minute from which the given speed and direction hold and s gives the new tide speed and direction (0 <= m <= 10000, -10 <= s <= 10). Positive values of s stand for drift from Hamburg to Cuxhaven, negative values specify drift in the opposite direction.
Time values are given in minutes only, speed in km/h, distances in km. You may assume that a solution exists and that the data set begins with an entry for time 0 specifying the initial drift speed at starting time.
For each scenario print a single line containing the optimal time time of departure.
You may assume that a solution exists on that particular day, i.e., the latest arrival time can be met when starting at midnight of that day.
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Design an original typeface for the International Olympic Committee.
Since the Olympic games focus to unite nations from around the world through high skilled competition, a wide variety of people need to understand the signage and digital media. Neos, Greek for “new” or “rebirth”, was created to energetically communicate for the IOC without sacrificing readability. Inspired by ancient Greek lettering and minimalist typography, Neos also maintains the importance of the games’ Greek roots and values. Optima influenced the unique, pointed curves at the tips of the san serif’s letterforms while the open stance and medium stroke weight were drawn from Univers.
I would greatly appreciate the support!
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The internet is the largest network that connects millions of computer around the world. It is also known as network of the networks. It provides data, information and other services to the client computers. A computer can be connected to the Internet using Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN), cable line, leased line or satellite. Advance Research Projects Agency Network was established in 1969 A.D. In 1980 A.D., NSF Net(National Science Foundation) established developed different type of network. These two networks along with other small networks merged together and developed internet in 1990 A.D.
The world wide web which is also known as web is one of the popular services on the Internet. The WWW provides the millions of information on various topics. There are millions of websites on the web which provide information. Each website is identified by the Internet Address or Uniform Resource Locator (URL). There are some web sites which search the information on the web on the basis of the keyword. Such sites are known as Search Engines. Google.com, Bing.com etc are some of the examples search engines.
Web servers are those computers that deliver web pages. Each web server has its own IP address. The web server can run different types of the web page and database.
A web site is a group of web pages that have information about various content having similar subject materials. For instance, the website would have a name (subject) such as GoodFords.com and have several pages related to good Ford vehicles. The website has a main web page commonly called the Homepage (index.html or default.html). The site's address will display the homepage and you can click on hyperlinks to go to other pages on the website.
How to search on Internet?
The search engine is a program in a database that is used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web. Some examples of search engines are www.google.com, www.yahoo.com etc.
Type URL name or name of search engine on the address bar of any web browser.
You can choose any web link or image link in the search engine.
The internet is the largest network that connects millions of computer around the world. It is also known as networks of networks.
The world wide web which is also known as web is one of the popular services of the Internet.
Web browser helps the user to interact with internet.
Website can be defined as the location connected to the internet which can maintain one or more web pages.
The internet is the largest network that connects millions of computer around the world. It is also known as network of the networks.
Web servers are those computers that deliver web pages. Each web server has its own IP address. The web server can run different types of theweb page and database.
Define Web Browser. Write its types.
Search engine is a program in a database that is used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web. Some examples of search engines are www.google.com, www.yahoo.com etc.
Write short note on World Wide Web.
The world wide web which is also known as web is one of the popular services on the Internet. The WWW provides the millions of information on various topics. There are millions of websites on the web which provide information. Each website is identified by the Internet Address or Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
What is the full form of URL?
___________ is one of the software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the world wide web.
________ is a group of web pages that have information in various content having similar subject materials.
Which of the following is a program in a database that is used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web?
Which of the following is not the type of Graphical Browser?
Any Questions on 'Terms Related to Network '?
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There are a variety of "Doctor Who" extra episodes, usually around holidays, anniversaries or DVD/Blu-Ray releases. However, the TARDIS and Time Lord traditionally appear in specials during two annual charity telethons: Children in Need and Red Nose Day (Comic Relief). Jessica and Phillip go through all the "mini-sodes" throughout the years, including Christmas special promos and extra scenes. They also talk "The Catharine Tate Show," "Call the Midwife," and "The Sarah Jane Adventures" specials.
In their look into the TARDIS library, the couple look at "Dimensions in Time," the 1993 Children in Need special featuring classic Doctors 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, as well as a variety of companions. Jessica and Phillip discuss whether this 30th Anniversary special was a random mashup of "EastEnders" or an enjoyable Doctor Who experience.
What's your favorite charity special?
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This recipe is for the apple "vlaai" that Frieda, my mother, used to make. "Vlaai" pies are traditionally made in the (far) southeast of The Netherlands, even though the name is probably derived from an old German word for a flat tart (food, not the other kind of tart). The crust of a "vlaai" is neither a pastry crust, nor a pie crust. A "vlaai" has a filling of apples, cherries, plums, apricots, or gooseberries. No whipped cream on top, or layer of baker's pudding inside.
Dutch and English apple pies date back at least 500 years. Apple seeds were introduced to (colonial) North America in the 17th century, as were apple pie recipes.
Which apple variety to use? The apples should have lots of flavor, not be too sweet, and not fall apart when baked. Examples: Cox Orange (classic!), Elstar (light sour note, flavorful), Jonagold (sweet-sour), Boskoop, Gravensteiner, Granny Smith. Also: Idared (sweet), and even Braebrun (firm).
Use amaretti with a high almond content; they should be dense and chewy. They typically have a diameter of 3-4 cm (1.5 inch). See photo below.
Do not use the small, hard, hollow, "bone-dry foam" Saronno-style cookies!
Alternatively: use 120 grams (4 oz.) almond paste (at least 50% almond content), crumbled.
Traditionally, a thin pie pan ("flan tin") is used that has a fluted side wall (like a quiche pan), that leans outward (i.e., is sloped, not vertical). See photo below. The bottom should be flat.
Non-stick is great, as is a removable bottom.
Optional: kitchen machine with a dough-hook.
Powdered sugar (F: sucre glace), for dusting the baked "vlaai"
Quarter and peel the apples, remove the core.
Note: the sugar will draw liquid from the apples.
The dough should not be sticky; if sticky, add flour, 1 tablespoon at a time and knead until well absorbed.
Form the 2/3 dough part into a ball; dust your work surface slightly with flour, and roll out the ball until big enough to cover the entire pie pan, and only slightly overhang the edge of the pan.
Transfer the apple slices to the pie pan and distribute evenly. Do not to transfer the liquid that has drained from the apples!
Bake in oven for 35-45 minutes, until dark golden.
After the vlaai has cooled off, dust with powdered sugar.
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An Animal Behaviorist is interested in exactly what you think they would be; the study of animal behavior. There are many different reasons to watch what animals do. Some of these include: helping people understand animal behavior in nature, watching and treating domestic animal behavior problems (pets, etc.), learning more about human thoughts and behavior, designing healthy homes for animals in zoos, or training animals to perform for people. The training to obtain a job in the field of animal behavior varies greatly but most jobs require a Master's or Doctorate degree.
There are many different routes to take when pursuing a degree. Some of these include a degree in physiology or biochemistry for health-related jobs. Animal educators may have a degree in biological or behavioral sciences.
The field of animal behaviorist is competitive. People interested in this field often need to have knowledge of several different areas such as psychology, biology, or zoology.
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Within the current dynamics of the societies that interact culturally, economically and politically in more than 180 countries that make up the international community, we have the conviction that it is necessary to place our planet in a continuous state of observation, as the conditions have been created so that environmental conflicts do not cease to be issues or problems of little importance, but are already present as constituent elements of the daily life of the human being.
It was believed that man was above natural conditions, with the idea and the purpose of taming that innate nature for his own benefits, not taking into consideration the very survival of the species, which forces us to adopt more “ecocentric” scientific perspectives and not as “anthropocentric” as those coming from classical theories, which have to do with this issue that occupies this essay.
In this sense, ecological science has been dealing with the subject and already has a connotation that originates the social context as a study of the environment that humans develop as a response to the denied quality of life of the human population.
Social ecology has a very specific framework within its study, because the environment is so linked to the social and cultural condition of man, and in that interrelation, is where this new science is born, which gathers everything related to the environment that we could say “natural” and at the same time all the scientific study carried out by the social sciences committed to the human being.
To ratify the importance of social ecology, as a frame of reference for the study of the interrelation between nature and human beings, we must cite a definition that emerges from the ideas of several authors where ecology is defined as the specialty that deals with of transactions between living systems – organisms, populations and ecosystems – and try to explain them in terms of a few general precepts; especially those that have to do with the conservation and dissipation of energy and the maintenance of balance, and with adaptation, leaving for granted a definition in which the biological is the main sustenance of ecological science.
By nourishing this science with different cultural theories to explain the phenomenon, we are forced to ask ourselves: how can ecology, dealing with what is common to all species, be useful for understanding culture and how can one understand the relationship between those sciences that contribute in the development of knowledge? and it is then, that to answer this question the “cultural ecology” is created, having as a main factor the culture, as the means by which the human populations are maintained in the ecological systems, giving humans a great ecological flexibility much more than to any other species, that is, while other species have very few ecosystems to develop, this marked and defined by the genetic inheritance, man has been able to live in all the ecosystems created in a natural way, in which his adaptation is subject to its cultural development.
The basis of the study of Social Ecology starts from the axiom that where man interacts there is a social process and there is an organization, therefore, its purpose is to generate a new methodology that questions the way in which current organizations are structured, through an analysis with a different conception that relates it to the new scheme, in order to see man and his development as a powerful element within ecosystems.
In this sense we consider some similarities and some differences between social ecology and ethnoscience. Social ecology is a constructivist science based on the cultural that deduces the relation man with the natural environment, studied systematically. While ethnoscience, could be defined as the study of contents and the organization of knowledge about nature in traditional societies.
In these fields, if we add a whole social knowledge to the ecological, we deduce that all ecology is social, as political analysis from the dialectical point of view, in addition to everything that affects the planet as it is the economic, cultural, military, even religious and that is where we can suggest the relationship of social ecology with ethnoscience, because all science has an impact in the environment, be it natural (in its true meaning) or artificial (product of culture), and not as we want to see about the neutrality of it. All science impacts according to the interests of those who hold power and make science their property.
Ethnoscience tries to explain the human phenomenon with its intrinsic characteristics the individual interacts as a social and biological being, emphasizing the organization of knowledge about nature in traditional societies, whether they are hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, pastoralists or peasants in modern societies.
Social ecology tries to explain the human phenomenon as an organization being part of the axiom where there is human interaction, society. Organizations are a dominant component of today’s societies; the great social changes in the historical process are based on organizations.
A 1987 report characterized sustainable development as “development that meets current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”, given as a fact, that the considerations that must be based on the present commit to the principle of a better quality of life, without the next generations feeling threatened.
There are three elements (society, environment and economy), which intervene in a perfect triangle to ensure a prosperous society that ensures food and resources, clean water and clean air to citizens. Ecological anthropology throughout its short history has been framed by an idea: that the environment is the fundamental factor that influences the features of human society and its culture, that is, the environmental elements determine the manifestations created by man.
Then the union of ecological anthropology, based on sustainable development, leads us to think about a structure based on a human-controlled environment, with the objective of satisfying human needs, establishing the boundary between what is possible and what not. From this perspective we have to define and theorize about the point that occupied us at the beginning, that environments mold cultures and a more refined affirmation, it indicates that specific environmental factors shape concrete cultural features.
Finally, let us take as an example, putting into practice an empirical observation, it suggests that in describing how a way of interrelating ecological anthropology with sustainable development could be realized, in such a way that it could be conducted as follows: First, the technology used should be defined in the adequate use of environmental resources, then, the behavior patterns in the use of these technologies should be analyzed and, finally, it should be well established to what extent these patterns of behavior affect other cultural features.
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Until 1873, the king of the personal union between Sweden and Norway governed Norway through two cabinets: one in Stockholm and another in Christiania (now Oslo). The newly created Stockholm cabinet consisted of a prime minister and two ministers, whose role was to convey the attitudes of the Christiania cabinet to the Swedish king.
The cabinet in Christiania was led by a steward (rigsstatholder). For brief periods, the incumbent crown prince was appointed Viceroy of Norway by the king, in which case the viceroy became the highest authority in Christiania.
Whenever the king was present in Christiania, however, he assumed the highest authority, thus putting the governor or viceroy temporarily out of charge. Likewise, when there was no governor, viceroy or king present in Christiania (which was not unusual), the cabinet was led by the first minister, who was the most prominent member of the cabinet.
In July 1873, the position of governor was abolished after being vacant since 1856. Simultaneously, the post of first minister in Christiania was upgraded to Prime Minister of Norway. Although the office of Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm still existed, the real power and influence over state affairs was moved to the prime minister in Christiania, while Prime Minister in Stockholm became the second highest cabinet position, responsible for conveying the government's views to the King.
When the union was dissolved in 1905, the position of prime minister in Stockholm was abolished.
The Steward of Norway, styled Rigsstatholder in Danish (riksstattholder in modern Norwegian spelling), meaning Lieutenant of the realm (see Steward (office)), was the appointed head of the Norwegian Government in the absence of the Monarch during the Dano-Norwegian union. As Norway was a separate kingdom, with its own laws and institutions, the position of steward of Norway was arguably the most influential position for a Danish-Norwegian nobleman or royal to hold, second to the King.
In 1873, the position of First Minister was upgraded to Prime Minister.
Prior to 1884, there were no organised political parties in Norway, and the Prime Ministers were considered senior civil servants (Embedsmenn). They were appointed by the King and were not subject to legislative confirmation. All Prime Ministers before 1884 opposed the constitutional reforms proposed by the parliamentary opposition, and were in their time viewed as conservatives. They were subordinate to the Steward, Viceroy and First Minister of Norway.
In 1873 the office of the First Minister of Norway was upgraded to Prime Minister, based in Christiania. The office of Prime Minister based in Stockholm continued, with responsibility for communicating the policies of the Prime Minister in Christiania to the King. In addition, a Prime Minister of Sweden was appointed from 1876 onwards.
In 1905, the union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved. Since then the office of the Prime Minister of Norway has been in Oslo, except for the years of Nazi-German occupation during World War II when the Norwegian government was in exile in London.
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Our company is doing some Scrum experimentation, and I have a quick question about what exactly a sprint should be composed of.
After the sprint planning meeting, we settled on three different stories. One story stands completely on its own, and can be finished and launched at the end of the sprint. The other two, however, are smaller pieces of a larger feature.
Is it common to split the conceptual theme of a sprint like this, or should all of the stories been focused on the large feature?
Ideally, a Sprint should provide a coherent increment of functionality. In practice, teams may pull in stories that aren't aligned with the singular Sprint Goal, but this requires advanced Scrum-fu. Even when pulling in additional stories, some strategies are more successful than others, and great care must be taken not to violate core Scrum principles while doing so.
The text takes a bit of parsing, but the core concept is that a Sprint Goal is the foundation of the iteration. A Sprint doesn't fail or succeed based on how many stories are done or not-done at the end of the Sprint; success only comes from meeting the objective defined by the Sprint Goal.
If your Sprint Goal is "do a bunch of stories," or "complete this, that, and some other thing" then you lose the very essence of agility. The team isn't able to work with the Product Owner and the stakeholders to find an optimal way to reach the stated goal; instead, the team is forced to find success only through 100% completion of prescriptive work breakdown packages.
Each Sprint should have a singular Sprint Goal, and the success of the Sprint is based on whether the Sprint Goal has been met by the end of the iteration. However, because a Sprint is a fixed-length time-box, sometimes the team will have extra capacity available after meeting the Sprint Goal. This leads to several options.
The first option is for the Product Owner to call for an early termination to the Sprint. If you have a month-long Sprint, but you meet your Sprint Goal in a week, this is certainly a sensible thing to do. However, early terminations carry process overhead, so if you run into this situation often you should reduce your Sprint lengths and save early terminations for truly abnormal circumstances.
can add value to project if bumped to the top of the Product Backlog.
The Fill Excess Capacity strategy is the one that experienced teams generally find most effective. It preserves the integrity of the Sprint Goal and keeps the iterative cadence stable, but also provides much-needed flexibility to the process. Remember, Sprints are all about maintaining a sustainable pace of development over time, and the primacy of the Sprint Goal is one of the most effective ways to set that pace properly.
Of course, some teams fall prey to the 100% utilization fallacy and assume that the goal is to keep the team working at full capacity every iteration, regardless of the need for process slack or flexible business objectives. Such teams will typically fill their Sprint to the brim based on historical velocity patterns or arbitrary management targets.
There are lots of problems with this approach, including a reduced focus on the product increment and a reduced ability to adapt to changing business objectives. It also makes it very hard for a team to determine whether or not a given Sprint was a success. At the end of a Sprint, even if you completed 100% of the stories and kept everyone busy 100% of the time, without a cohesive goal how do you know that you built the right thing?
In some domains, this framework rule can be broken successfully, but it certainly complicates the process tremendously. If your Scrum-fu is sufficiently advanced that you can break this rule by leveraging your inspect-and-adapt cycles, measuring success properly, and keeping a sustainable pace—well, go right ahead.
There are certainly cases where multiple goals or cross-goal Sprint Planning can work, but it's like juggling chainsaws. I don't recommend it—unless you're planning to use your death-defying juggling act to join the circus, of course.
The way I've seen it done (I'm currently working at a large firm doing scaled agile) is that the work put in a sprint is based on capacity and priority, not necessarily a theme. We frequently have features that decompose into multiple stories that won't necessarily all get done within a single sprint - particularly when we have dependencies on other teams (e.g. we need a service built/modified).
So I don't see any issue with the approach you are taking.
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The market wrongfully sees Twitter as a struggling company.
The company has enormous untapped potential that Project Lightning and other opportunities will unleash.
Twitter appears expensive at 50x forward earnings, but the growth rate is significantly higher making the stock cheap.
After writing "Why Twitter Is Borderline Cheap" approaching roughly 11 months ago, the stock is trading down from that level now. Sure Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has made a couple of runs significantly higher, but the stock has failed to break out. In both cases, it has traded down to roughly $35.
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Both live and deceased animals are used for commercial or scientific research or educational purposes in a range of capacities. usually, this is for medical, veterinary and environmental research.
'Vivisection' refers specifically to the cutting of, or operation on, a living animal.. This can cause pain or distress, although anaesthetic is used. It is frequently used by opponents as a pejorative synonym for the more general 'animal testing'.
The types of tests carried out on animals often involve trialling new medical innovations. Cosmetics testing has been illegal since 1998.
Testing on animals has a long medical history. The techniques have been viewed by many as invaluable in the development of modern science and the understanding of the human condition.
In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology.
British women in Florence are commonly thought to have led the first organised protest against vivisection in 1863. The Cruelty to Animals Act, allowing the use of anaesthetics during vivisection, was passed in England in 1876.
Animal testing peaked in the early 1970s, and has been in decline since, due to both increased public pressure to reduce the numbers of animals tested and the development of available alternatives.
In response to widespread protests at testing conditions and regulations, and the adoption of European Directive 86/609/EEC, the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 outlined a number of guidelines and regulations for scientific and commercial testing in the UK.
The Animal Procedures Committee, an advisory, non-departmental public body, was established and appointed under the terms of sections 19 and 20 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
In November 2008, the European Commission published a proposed revision of the 1986 Directive 86/609 with a view to strengthening animal protection across the EU. A year later in November 2009, the House of Lords European Union Committee called for a revised Directive to be agreed and "implemented consistently", in order to achieve "a levelling-up of standards of animal welfare across all Member States."
On 22 September 2010 the EU adopted Directive 2010/63/EU to update Directive 86/609. The EU stated that the aim of the new Directive was to strengthen legislation, improve the welfare of those animals still used, and to "firmly anchor" the principle of the Three Rs, to Reduce, Refine and Replace the use of animals, in EU legislation.
Member States were given 24 months to adopt and publish national legislation to transpose the provisions of the new Directive, which took effect from 1 January 2013.
Laboratory animals are used for many different purposes in research and testing, raising a variety of ethical, welfare and scientific issues.
Some people feel that painful or stressful experimentation on living animals for any purpose is morally abhorrent. Commercial testing of non-medical products is largely opposed, but fewer place the welfare of laboratory animals above the development of life-saving medical treatments. The use of great apes - man's closest genetic relations - is particularly controversial and has been illegal since 1986.
Public feelings about animal testing have led many manufacturers and retailers to advertise their 'cruelty-free' credentials - Anita Roddick's 'Body Shop' chain was at the forefront of this movement.
However, animal testing has also been a subject that has provoked extremism and terrorism, with frequent attacks on laboratories by animal rights activists from groups such as the Animal Liberation Front. In August 2000, animal liberation extremists placed petrol bombs in five cars belonging to staff from the Huntingdon Life Sciences laboratory causing extensive damage. This threat from extremists led to the bankers of Huntingdon Life Sciences withdrawing their credit in 2002, for fear of reprisals.
The Weatherall Report into 'The Use of Non-Human Primates in Research', published in December 2006, attracted widespread controversy. This working group report chaired by Sir David Weatherall and sponsored by the Royal Society, the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Academy of Medical Sciences, concluded that there was "a strong scientific case" for maintaining the "carefully regulated" use of non-human primates in certain aspects of medical and biological research.
The report also recommended that funding organisations, both governmental and charitable, "should continue to take every opportunity to encourage and fund research into developing alternatives to the use of non-human primates for both research and toxicology."
But several organisations were highly critical of the committee's conclusions. The Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research dismissed the report as "a pedestrian and persistently negative interpretation of the opportunities to replace primate use." The RSPCA said it had expected the committee to "facilitate the development of a strategy for the replacement of primates in all types of scientific experiment", but had "fallen far short" of achieving this.
The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) was equally disappointed by the report, saying it "presents a defence of primate research without serious attention being given to alternative approaches".
The 50th anniversary of the launch of the 3Rs concept, published in the book "The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique" by William Russell and Rex Burch, was marked in 2009 with several organisations expressing concern about the number of animals still being used in research.
In July 2010, figures published by the Home Office showed that experiments on animals in the UK had fallen by 1% to just over 3.6 million, with a 10% decrease in the number of toxicology tests carried out on animals. The Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research welcomed the news and expressed the hope that this marked the beginning of a new trend in the increased use of animal replacement techniques. However, there was later another rise in animal testing.
However, the Trust also noted that although the use of non-human primates had decreased, there had been a marked increase in the use of new world primates such as marmosets and tamarins. The charity said this was "particularly concerning" as most of these experiments studied human diseases which do not exist in non-human primates, such as Parkinson's Disease, and this they suggested "significantly challenges" the validity of the tests.
The optimism that followed the news of a 1% fall in experiments on animals was short-lived. New figures from the Home Office published in July 2011 showed there had been a 3% increase in the number of scientific procedures carried out on living animals, much to the dismay of the animal charities.
The RSPCA immediately challenged the Government to "prove it has a genuine commitment" to reducing the numbers of animals used in laboratories. RSPCA senior scientist Barney Reed said: “Despite consistently being told that experiments using animals are only ever undertaken where absolutely necessary, we've seen an astonishing 37 per cent increase in animal use over the last decade." The charity was particularly worried that the figure included a 10% increase in the numbers of procedures using primates such as marmosets.
The Dr Hadwen Trust was "appalled to learn that despite the growing consensus in the scientific community that challenges the validity of animal use for human health, animal use has reached its highest level for 24 years."
A new 'Review of Research Using Non-Human Primates", led by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, was published in July 2011, and raised further concerns. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection described the report as "a chilling insight into primate research". The BUAV noted that according to the review, one in ten experiments "did not have a medical benefit"; and that a number of key concerns were expressed by the review regarding animal welfare costs, the application and relevance to humans and the overstating of medical benefits by researchers.
The Government launched a consultation on the transposition of the new EU directive 2010/63/EU - protection of animals used for scientific purposes - to run until 5 September 2011. Animal charities urged their members to use the consultation to ensure that the UK law was not watered down to the EU minimum standard required under the Directive. The government argued that there was no intention to water down standards and individual countries could retain their standards where they were higher. They also used the consultation to ensure that the Government was held to its Coalition pledge to reduce the use of animals in research.
New figures published by the Home Office in July 2012 showed an increase in the number scientific procedures involving living animals - despite Coalition promises to reduce the number. Critics said the policy would simply result in the shifting of animal research work abroad, where research animal welfare is typically worse than in the UK.
The Dr Hadwen Trust described the 2% rise in animal procedures over the past 12 months as "hugely disappointing". The RSPCA demanded that more be done towards reducing both animal numbers and suffering – "starting with those animals who currently suffer the most".
Just over 3.79 million scientific procedures were started in Great Britain in 2011, increasing 2 per cent (+68,100). Breeding of genetically modified (GM) animals and harmful mutants (HM), mainly mice, remained stable, accounting for 1.62 million procedures.
Excluding the breeding of GM and HM animals, the total number of procedures increased in 2011 (an increase of +71,300 or +3%, from 2.10 million to 2.18 million).
There were increases in numbers of procedures for several species, for example cats (+26%), pigs (+37%), birds (+14%) and fish (+15%). There were falls for several species, for example rats (-11%), guinea pigs (-16%), dogs (-21%) and non-human primates (-47% with new world monkeys -68% and old world monkeys -41%). It should be noted that where few animals are used, small variations in the numbers of animals can lead to large percentile differences.
There was an increase (+2%) in the numbers of procedures for safety testing (toxicology) to 399,000, due to increased use of fish in regulatory toxicology, with a higher proportion carried out to meet more than one legislative/regulatory requirement (75% compared with 72% in 2010). Most toxicology procedures are carried out in the commercial sector where the number of procedures also rose (+1%). Research in the sector remains small compared to universities and medical schools, however.
The number of non-toxicology procedures increased 2 per cent to 3.39 million, reflecting the higher numbers of procedures carried out in universities (+7%), particularly fundamental research. The increase for non-toxicology included increases in physiology (+115,100), immunology (+62,000) and parasitology (+22,000) whilst ecology (-30,300), anatomy (-27,000), biochemistry (-11,900) and cancer research (-10,200) fell.
There were 1.08 million more procedures than in 2000 (+40%) mostly accounted for by breeding to produce GM and HM animals (+918,000, of which mice +795,000). Excluding such breeding, the total number of procedures was slightly higher than in 2000 (+8% or +159,900).
"We will end the testing of household products on animals and work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research."
"It is clear that much work needs to be done to replace the use of animals in experiments and to promote the development of proven alternatives that are better scientifically, economically and morally.
"With the Government unwilling to include a ban on the use of stray cats and dogs in the update of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, the worry is that the number of experiments using animals may increase further in future years."
"Each animal bred or used for research, whether a mouse, fish or monkey, is an individual capable of experiencing pain, suffering and distress.
"Any level of suffering is a concern for the RSPCA, but ending severe suffering is a top priority.
"We want the government to commit to ending severe animal suffering and for scientists to focus on changing these procedures so they cause as little pain and psychological suffering as possible."
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Who likes a jungle adventure game?
You are a famous man in the jungle and need to balance yourself to reach the monkey.
Be careful not to fell down!
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The deadline has been extended for XAT exam 2018 online application form submission till December 15, 2017.
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Are contractors willing to give estimates on houses that you do not own?
An add-on bedroom in my house has no heat, and I'm assuming no insulation, because it is so cold in the winter. I would like to use the room as a guest room, what should I do?
Lillian, if your older home has a room that was added onto the original structure, but does not have any heat or insulation, then the obvious project would be to install some insulation into the wall cavity and install some sort of heat. You have a few options when it comes to installing the insulation, but if you are not willing to remove the interior walls to access the space between the framing studs and roof rafters, then you will need to hire an insulation contractor who can blow-in loose cellulose or fiberglass insulation from the outside. Most likely this process will require boring some small holes in the exterior side of the wall, which are then used to access the wall cavity and blow in the insulation, and later patched.
If your home has a central heating system (furnace or boiler) then you can consult an HVAC contractor to see if it is possible to extend the heating ducts or hot water lines into the room in question. If this is not possible, then you have the option of hiring an electrician who can install a stand-alone baseboard heater or wall mounted Cadet type unit. These types of heaters are great for remodeling projects, because they don't require venting or duct work, but simply connect to a dedicated 110 or 220 volt circuit. Most of these units are equipped with a thermostat, or they can be hard wired to a wall mounted thermostat.
Keep in mind that if the room, which was added on to your home, does not have adequate insulation or any heat, then it may have been a sub-standard construction job that was completed by a homeowner long ago (before building codes). So it might be worth your money to have the room inspected by an experienced contractor who could determine if the room is lacking anything else, such as structurally sound framing members, properly installed windows, or code compliant electric outlets and lights. Good luck with your project and enjoy the new guest bedroom!
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