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What is the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy?
The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, previously simply called the Lady Byng Trophy, is a hockey trophy awarded to the “player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability”. It was first awarded to Frank Nighbor of the Ottawa Senators for the 1924/25 season.
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how do i know when i ovulate if i have my period for 7 days but i dont have my period every mouth?
the best advise i can give is to buy ovulation test sticks off amazon (cheap and work great). wait until your next period ends and then start to test once a day, or even twice a day until you get a positive test strip. you should also start taking prego vitmins if you havent started, drink pregnancy tea too. get your body/unterus ready for the egg/baby.
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Can you imagine how your life would change if batteries did not exist? If it were not for this handy storage of electrical energy, the radio in a car would not function, nor would the lights. A pacemaker or hearing device would need to be plugged into a wall outlet in order to function, and do not forget all portable electronic devices like phones, digital music players, or tablets, which are all powered by batteries.
With all the frustration you might have endured coping with dead batteries, it might surprise you how easy it is to make one out of household materials. Try out this activity, and it might just charge up your imagination.
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The Ladies’ Memorial Association was an important organization after the Civil War and into the twentieth century. The organization oversaw burial of the dead, monument construction, and advocacy for the creation of Confederate Memorial Day. It also purportedly helped Jefferson Davis and his family after the war, conducted Confederate Memorial Day every year since 1866, and helped build and preserve the Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill in Montgomery.
Southern benevolent associations in general were formed by the wives, widows, sisters, and mothers of Confederate soldiers. Assuming "men's work" while those men were away, the women volunteered in aid societies, hospital associations, sewing groups, and other forms of benevolent aid. The Ladies’ Memorial Association in Alabama had its beginnings after the war, when Montgomery women gathered to assist the Historical and Monumental Association of Alabama, chaired by Governor Thomas Hill Watts. That men's group was founded on November 23, 1865, to build a monument on Capitol Hill. The members, however, were diverted from their task by the public outcry surrounding horrific conditions at cemeteries, where rains washed out shallow graves that vandals then plundered. The men, stymied by the enormity of their task, sought the assistance of Judge John Dennis Phelan, a prominent judge and driving spirit in the organization's founding, who in turn asked his wife, Mary Anne Harris Phelan, for help. Inspired by women's aid groups in Jackson, Selma and Columbus, Mary Phelan had been trying to organize Alabama's first Memorial Day in Montgomery, and turned her attention to the cemeteries.
To assist with reburials, Phelan arranged a meeting in Montgomery at the Court Street Methodist Church (current site of the Federal Court House) to raise money. The meeting was presided over by Sophie Gilmer Bibb, wife of prominent judge Benajah S. Bibb and much admired for her work in hospitals during the war. The April 16, 1866, gathering founded the Ladies’ Society for the Burial of Deceased Alabama Soldiers, which shortly changed its name to the Ladies’ Memorial Association.
The association conducted its first memorial ceremony at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery County, decorating the graves of both southern and northern soldiers on April 26, 1866, the first anniversary of Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston's surrender at Durham Station, North Carolina. On May 1, 1866, the association raised $1,000, which provided for 200 burials. Similar commemorations took place in other southern states and preceded by two years a national tribute to northern soldiers. Union major general John A. Logan, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared May 30, 1868, Decoration Day, the anniversary of the discharge of the last Union Army volunteer soldier. Most southern states however, refused to acknowledge the holiday. In the twentieth century however, Decoration Day became Memorial Day, a day to honor all American war dead.
In the years following the Civil War, ladies’ memorial associations proliferated throughout the South. Generally, members took to the gruesome task of disinterring bodies, many buried hastily in mass graves after battle, and giving each set of remains a proper burial. The associations then raised money to erect monuments to honor the dead. In Alabama, the association built monuments in Camden, Gainesville, and Florence. The Ladies’ Memorial Association again assisted the men's Historical and Monumental Association, helping to fund the Monument to Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Alabama on Capitol Hill in Montgomery. The men's association had largely lain dormant for 20 years, but in 1886 brought 78-year-old President Jefferson Davis to Montgomery to lay the cornerstone of the Confederate Monument in elaborate ceremonies on April 28 and 29. It was the only cornerstone laid by Davis. The men's association, however, had difficulty raising the $46,000 to finish the monument and once more turned to the Ladies’ Memorial Association for help, again led by Sophie Bibb.
Overall, the Ladies’ Memorial Association raised $10,000 for the monument, whereas the men's organization raised $6,755, politicians $5,000, and two grants from the legislature added $20,000. It would be another 12 years of tedious work between the Ladies’ Memorial Association and Alexander Doyle, the designer, before the monument was completed. Doyle, an Ohio sculptor, was known for his work in New York, Maryland, and New Orleans, whereas Fred Barnicoat of Quincy, Massachusetts, carved the granite figures that were installed by a local company, and F. L. Fossick in Russellville, Franklin County, quarried the limestone for the base and steps. Limestone for the column was brought from Indiana by Doyle, and the Henry Bonnard foundry in New York cast the bronze figure atop the shaft and the band at its base. The elegant monument was dedicated on December 7, 1898.
The Ladies’ Memorial Association, along with other Confederate heritage organizations, conducted a centennial re-enactment of the laying of the cornerstone in 1986, at which Bertram Hayes-Davis of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis, laid a wreath at the cornerstone. The four flags around the monument were dedicated on April 25, 1994. A centennial re-enactment of the dedication was performed in 1998, again led by the Ladies’ Memorial Association and other heritage organizations. The association later solicited contributions for the monument's restoration during the 1998 centennial re-enactment of the dedication and deposited the funds with the Alabama Historical Commission, which oversaw the restoration. From preliminary assessments in 1999 to completion in 2004, the meticulous restoration took five years at a cost of $231,600. To celebrate the restoration, the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Department of Tourism and Travel led ceremonies in the Capitol Auditorium. Once again Bertram Hayes-Davis traveled to Alabama, joining Alabama governor Bob Riley in laying a wreath at the base of the monument on Confederate Memorial Day April 26, 2004.
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Question: When importing Excel files, I get the error message "[Affected cell] is invalid or not formatted as date". What can I do?
Answer: You get this error message if one or more cells are not formatted correctly, e.g., when a date (such as a project's start date) is formatted as text. Usually this is caused by overwriting the cell format when pasting data from other sources to Excel.
Step 1: Open the Excel file.
Step 2: Correct the formatting of the affected cells. If you're unsure how a certain cell should be formatted, simply create a fresh Excel export of your Meisterplan data and compare the formatting.
Step 3a (Best option if only a few cells are affected): Apply the correct formatting to the affected cell values. To do this, choose the affected cells, switch to editing mode (by pressing F2 or by clicking into the editing field below the toolbar), and confirm by pressing Enter.
Step 3b (Best option if many cells are affected): Paste the data (that you want to paste into Excel) from other sources into a format-free text file (e.g., .txt) first, and then copy it from there into Excel. When pasting in Excel, choose the "Values" option.
Step 4: Import the Excel file into Meisterplan again.
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A moderator declined my migration flag—what are the policies for flagging questions for migration?
A lot of questions get asked on Meta about declined moderator flags. I don't really want to be one of "those people" who asks about every little possible mistake, but I am a little curious about this particular instance.
To me, this perfectly fits the bill for migration to Code Review.
This is a good, well-described, well-written question.
I flagged for a request for migration, but (a number of days later) the flag was declined. There are a few explanations I could come up with for this.
The question could have been misinterpreted as the OP asking to finish broken code. That wasn't the case, but it isn't perfectly clear.
Though the question was originally flagged when it had no answers, a short time after I flagged it, an answer was posted and subsequently accepted.
Perhaps the most compelling reason—while this question would fit very nicely on Code Review, it isn't necessarily off-topic on Stack Overflow.
In the event that the flag was declined due to one of the first two reasons, that would seem like a simple mistake. It happens.
On the other hand, it seems more likely to me that the third possibility is correct. This raises the question: should I ever request migration to a site that might be a "better fit" if the question is on-topic on SO? I don't think it could hurt, but I'd understand if that were the policy.
This was not a good candidate for migration. It is on-topic at Stack Overflow, and migration is intended for off-topic questions.
This is a perfectly reasonable Stack Overflow question. OP was not asking us to look through a page of code for problems. OP was pointing out a specific issue and asking for advice. That is exactly what Stack Overflow is for. I got 11 upvotes asking a similar question (which, ironically enough, was itself migrated from Programmers.SE).
Questions can be on-topic on multiple sites at once. In that case, it's up to the asker to choose a site. When you migrate a question, you are closing the original and creating a duplicate on a different site. If there's no valid reason to close the original, you shouldn't do that.
That sort of stuff is off-topic for Code Review.
Questions containing broken code or asking for advice about code not yet written are off-topic, as the code is not ready for review. After the question has been edited to contain working code, we will consider reopening it.
"how would you create a recursive append function"
"Here's what I have so far"
The title doesn't reflect what the code does. The question is not about improving the existing implementation, it's about expanding the existing implementation.
Perhaps it is finished code and should be reviewed. That's okay. But in that case, the question should be edited to be less "uncertain" - Here's my problem, here's my solution, here's my tested implementation.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged discussion support flags declined-flags migration .
For how long are the flagging rights disabled for a user?
Why was my flag asking a moderator to migrate my own question declined?
Why was my custom moderator flag declined?
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What is the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower about?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a romantic comedy starring Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller. It is a movie based on a novel written by Stephen Chbosky and tells a tale of a shy introverted teenager without friends named Charlie. He has just joined high school and misses his best friend who had committed suicide and he writes letters to an imaginary friend to cope with his feelings. Soon Charlie befriends Patrick who is gay and his stepsister Sam. Charlie also has problems with a mental illness and he wants to become a writer. Eventually Charlie falls in love with Sam but he doesn't have the self confidence to date her. Charlie starts dating their common friend Mary Elizabeth but when they end their relationship Patrick asks Charlie to stay away from them for a while which triggers his mental illness again. He goes to the hospital where a doctor finally finds the origin of his problem. Story is simple, yet complicated at the same time, it is very interesting to watch how it unfolds. It can be beautiful and sad and even funny at some moments. The movie takes on some of the serious social issues and it handles it very well without ever being pretentious. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is definitely a movie worth checking out, the actors did a good job and it is nice to see Emma Watson playing a role other than Hermione.
Unfortunately, you will not find any The Perks of Being a Wallflower HD wallpapers here; these are just the screenshots of the movie. They catch some moments of the movie, so you can get a better idea about the movie before watching it. Click on the image for a larger view.
A beautifully sad yet brilliant masterpiece.
I might have preferred a little more depth to my characters rather than simply scratching the surface. But wonderfully powerful with a great young cast. Emma Watson excelled in this role!
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1-I not only opposed him, I hated him.
2-I not only opposed him, I also hated him.
3-I not only opposed him, but I also hated him.
4-I didn't only oppose him, I also hated him.
5-I didn't only oppose him but I also hated him.
6-Not only did I oppose him, I also hated him.
I not only opposed him, but I also hated him.
--Use a semicolon or a period instead of a comma.
Not only did I oppose him, I also hated him.
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How often should I practice yoga to start seeing results?
The American Council on Exercise study had people practice three times per week for eight weeks to achieve improvements in fitness markers. Practising more will likely give you faster results, but also puts you at risk of losing your enthusiasm quickly.
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DOES BALANCE TRAINING HAVE AN EFFECT ON AGILITY IN TENNIS?
Context: Balance and agility are important fitness components in tennis, but there is little research into whether balance training can improve agility. Investigating whether balance training can help to improve agility could help to reduce injury rates, as agility is one of the inherent demands of tennis that causes micro-trauma injuries. Objective: To determine any performance enhancement in agility after participation in a six week balance training programme in university male tennis players. Setting: All pre and post testing took place in Cardiff Metropolitan Tennis Centre and balance sessions took place in the National Indoor Athletic centre (NIAC) at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Participants: 16 male Cardiff Metropolitan tennis players aged 18-25 were assigned to an experimental (n = 8) or control (n = 8) group. Players were excluded if they had sustained a lower limb injury in the preceding 12 months. Intervention: The experimental group took part in a six week training programme that included various balance exercises and progressions. Baseline Measure: Data was collected using the agility t-test before and after the six week intervention period for both experimental and control groups. Results: The current study found no significant improvements in agility performance within the experimental group from pre to post tests when compared to the control group (P > 0.05). However there was a trend towards improvements in agility after the six weeks of balance training, in both groups, but a larger improvement in the experimental group. Conclusion: This study suggests that balance programmes may be an effective means of improving agility, which in turn may be helpful in preventing injuries. More research is needed in this area to confirm these findings.
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My husband loves to tend to his squash garden. Whenever it is harvest time, there are always more squash than what I could ask for. I tried exploring new squash recipes, but there are always some leftover squash. I do not like throwing out the unused squash because I do not like hurting my husband’s feelings. Will freezing it help extend its shelf life?
Squash comes in many kinds. Whether it is a summer or winter squash, freezing it is always doable. Just like other fruits and vegetables, freezing squashes can help extend their shelf life.
Most squashes need to be blanched first before washing to stop the harmful activities done by their natural enzymes and bacteria. Blanching also keeps it fresh and ready for use. When frozen properly, it can last for months in the freezer, allowing you to store it until the next harvesting period.
Squash comes in two classifications: winter squash and summer squash. Winter squash are those with relatively harder and thicker skins that are not edible. Summer squash have thin, soft and edible skins.
Generally, summer squashes have short storage period, ranging from three to five days. Winter squashes can last for two months. When prepared properly, both types can last up to twelve months in the freezer.
Blanching the squash before freezing is important. Especially for summer squashes, blanching maintains its original texture. For some winter squashes, you can skip this step.
Freezing the squash without blanching can cause it to lower its quality. The tightness of the plastic bag also contributes to its tastiness. If stored with air, the squash can become poor in flavor.
There are other ways to preserve squash, such as pureeing and drying. Nevertheless, freezing is still the easiest thing to do to leftover squash.
It is not required to thaw the squash before using. Sometimes, when it is thawed, the squash becomes too soft and mushy, especially to summer squash, so be careful if you decide to thaw it.
There are several ways to freeze squash depending on its type. Make sure to know what kind of squash you are using before freezing it.
Place the squash in a colander or strainer and wash it thoroughly.
Cut off the ends of the squash and dispose them.
Slice the squash into rounds with uniform thickness and prepare for blanching.
To blanch: Boil a large pot of water. Drop the squash into the boiling water and leave for about two to three minutes or until the squash changes color. Do not overcook.
Remove the squash and place them in a large bowl with ice water to stop it from cooking. Leave for a few minutes.
Drain the squash and remove excess water.
Place the squash in an airtight plastic bag and seal it well. Remember to label the bags with dates for easy information.
Rinse the squash thoroughly with running water.
Cut the squash into cubes of the same thickness.
Lay them out on a baking sheet or tray, preferably with wax paper. Make sure to separate each piece.
Once frozen, transfer the squash into an airtight bag to save freezer space.
Cut the squash into cubes or slices, depending on the size of the squash.
Cook the squash by roasting, steaming, or boiling.
Mash the squash and let it cool.
Freeze the squash in containers or pour them into ice cube trays. Remember to thaw this first before using.
Treat your kids with new treats using this Butternut Squash Cookies. They are not only tasty, but they are also easy to make.
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Adobe Fireworks is your go to software if you need to create highly optimized graphics used in web development. The expressive graphics created using Adobe Fireworks can also be used on almost any device like smartphones. It features design tools that are easy to use for creating and editing bitmap and vector images. Once you are done, the Adobe Fireworks optimizes the final output for the given display resolution.
A bitmap image is comprised of pixels that are likened to small tiles connected together to make the image. Images made up of pixels are usually photographs, scanned images and other images created using one of the many paint programs in the market. To work with these, you need to switch to the bitmap mode in Adobe Fireworks. With an array of bitmap tools, you can easily edit your chosen bitmap image.
Here are the steps in switching to bitmap mode in Adobe Fireworks.
Load the software and image. Begin your session with Adobe Fireworks. Once you are on the main Adobe Fireworks screen, open an existing document with your bitmap image. Or, you can import a bitmap image to an existing document or create a new Adobe Fireworks document. To do this, click on the File menu while on the document then choose Import. This should open a dialog box. Choose the bitmap image file via the Look in drop-down list. Select the file then click Open. Once you see the half square cursor move it to where you want the bitmap image to appear then click on this location.
Open the bitmap mode toolbox. Select the bitmap image you want to work on by clicking on it twice. This will bring you to the bitmap mode. You will see the different tools available on the Adobe Fireworks toolbox. Take note that if the document you opened contains only a bitmap image, there is no need to click on the image twice. Adobe Fireworks switches to bitmap mode automatically.
Work on your image. Using the different tools in the toolbox, begin editing your image. Some of the tools available for use on your bitmap image are: Marquee and oval tools, Lasso tool, Magic wand, Pencil and paint brush, Rubber stamp, Drawing tools, Replace Color tool and Retouching tools. Once you are done with creating or editing the image, make sure to save before leaving the bitmap mode. You can find a red exit button on the status bar at the bottom of the document. When you click on this button, Adobe Fireworks will exit bitmap mode.
Note on making selections: You can make more than one selection while working on a bitmap image. Either use the Magic Wand tool or the Lasso tool in adding other selections to the current one. Press on the SHIFT key without releasing it to add selections. If you need to remove a selection, use the ALT key. Hold it down as you remove selections.
If you want to work with an image that is highly detailed in Adobe Fireworks, you need to switch to the bitmap mode. This is where you can use various bitmap tools in order to manipulate and edit your image. The newest version of Adobe Fireworks is CS5. If you have been using earlier versions, you can easily upgrade to the latest one.
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What makes the perfect cannabis growing environment? What does it take to get the healthiest growth and best yields from your indoor cannabis plants?
Consider a grow tent if you want a pre-made perfect growing environment for your marijuana plants!
When growing cannabis, you want to give light that is bright but not too bright. The amount of light you provide is one of the major factors that will determine your yields, and with smaller grow lights your yields will be limited no matter what you do.
Light also changes how your plant grows. For example, the color spectrum of light can cause your plants to grow tall and lanky or more bushy and squat. Some grow lights like LED grow lights take advantage of a custom color spectrum to help your plants grow as optimally as possible.
However, it’s also possible to give your cannabis plants too much light, especially with big grow lights, so it’s important to keep grow lights the right distance away.
The long and the short of it is: If it’s comfortable for you, it’s comfortable for your plants.
Cannabis plants like temperatures in the 70-85°F (20-30°C) range and can start to run into problems when the plants are experiencing temperatures outside that range.
Making sure your plants always have a gentle breeze and plenty of fresh air will not only get your plants to grow faster, but getting this right also prevents problems with mold and common cannabis pests like fungus gnats and spider mites.
Basically, you want a nice, gentle breeze moving over and under your plants if possible. If all the leaves are being gently rustled it’s perfect. You don’t want to point a fan directly at your plants, but you also don’t want any leaves sitting in stagnant or hot air. A small oscillating fan or two in the grow space can work wonders.
In addition to making sure there’s air moving around in the grow space, it’s also important to vent out heat from your grow lights, especially if it’s getting too hot in your grow space while they’re on. While many growers know ventilation is crucial to those using HPS lights, it’s important to note that ventilation is just as crucial for LEDs, LECs and even CFLs and t5s. As they get higher in wattage, LEDs and CFLs can and will produce heat that needs to be vented out of the grow area.
You will get the most from your indoor grow lights by reflecting light at your plants. Instead of letting the walls of the grow space absorb extra light from your grow light, you can use a reflective material to bounce it back towards your plants. This allows you to squeeze more yields out of the same grow light without having to change anything else about your environment.
Flat white latex paint is a surprisingly cheap and easy wall material that has 85-95% light reflectivity. Yes, it’s true, simply painting your walls can actually increase your yields! There are also many other materials with great reflectivity, and some of the professional options work better than paint.
Unless it’s very high or low, humidity usually won’t cause any major problems with your cannabis grow. However, there are a few tricks with humidity to get faster growth and more resin production on your buds.
It’s important to realize that there is no one “perfect” growing environment. Just like people, each plant is a little bit different and may respond better to some environments than others. For example, some plants can better handle the heat or cold, and some plants aren’t as picky about good air circulation. But by taking care of the 5 factors of a great cannabis growing environment, you will ensure that your plant will be comfortable no matter what the strain!
And of course, if you run into any problems, diagnose your sick cannabis plant right away!
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create expressions, how to convert characters to expressions, and how to convert expressions to characters.
The expression function creates an R object of the expression class.
The parse function converts an R object of the character class to an R object of the expression class.
The deparse function converts an R object of the expression class to an R object of the character class.
In the following article, I will show you five examples for expression, parse, and deparse in R. Let’s dive right in!
class(x1) # Check class of example data # "expression"
However, the eval function is not the scope of this tutorial. If you want to learn more about eval in R, check out this tutorial.
It happens quite often that we have an expression, which is stored as character class in R. If we want to evaluate such an expression, we need to convert our data object from character class to expression class.
x2 <- "2^2" # Create character string x2 # Print output to RStudio console # "2^2"
class(x2) # Check class of example data # "character"
class(x2) # Check class of example data # "expression"
The data object x2 is an expression now and can be evaluated with the eval function (as shown in Example 1).
We can also do the conversion of Example 2 in the opposite way (i.e. converting from expression to character class). For this example, I’m going to use the data object x2, that we have converted to an expression in Example 2.
# "structure(expression(2^2), srcfile = <environment>, wholeSrcref = structure(c(1L, " "0L, 2L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 2L), srcfile = <environment>, class = \"srcref\"))"
x3 <- deparse(x2) # Convert expression to character x3 # Print output to RStudio console # "structure(expression(2^2), srcfile = <environment>, wholeSrcref = structure(c(1L, " "0L, 2L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 2L), srcfile = <environment>, class = \"srcref\"))"
class(x3) # Check class of example data # "character"
x3 is a character string – looks good.
If the expression, parse, and deparse functions are not applied correctly, they might lead to errors. In the following two examples, I’m going to show you two typical errors that occur after applying the parse function.
Figure 1: Parsing Error in R: Unexpected End of Input.
This error usually occurs when the expression does not end with a number or a letter. In this specific case our fake expression ends with a minus sign (i.e. -) and therefore the parse function returns an error to the RStudio console.
Figure 2: Parsing Error in R: Unexpected Symbol.
This error occurs when several symbols are connected in an invalid way. In this specific case we tried to convert 2a to an expression without specifying if we want to do with these two values. Do we want to multiply, do we want to subtract…? We have to replace 2a with something like 2*a or 2-a in order to make the parse function work.
In this tutorial I explained a lot about expressions in R. If you want to learn more about expressions in general, I can recommend the following video of Roger Peng’s YouTube channel. In the video, he explains how to use regular expressions in R.
Enjoy the video and let me know in the comments, in case you have any questions on the handling of character strings and expressions in R.
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Generate issues Responsible Investment Policy and becomes a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
We have formalised how we take into consideration environmental, social and governance issues in our investment making decision process. We have also committed to being a Signatory to the UNPRI. See our full policy here.
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Clay has got it all: Terrence Howard complimenting him, Jessica Alba bathing clothed with him, a mom who for some reason hates the idea of him marrying Jessica Alba. But, wouldn't you know it, he needs some sort of undefined chest surgery that might kill him.
Such is the plight of Hayden Christensen in Awake. And as if that's not bad enough, he ends up being one of these freaks who stays awake during the anesthesia, allowing him to hear Terrence Howard and Fisher Stevens plot to kill him during surgery and steal his fortune.
Aside from the obvious issue, that it's a plot salvaged from a rejected Days of Our Lives storyline, you might be wondering how they can build a movie around a motionless protagonist. The answer to that (I think) is by sending out a ghost/surgeon version of himself to get Jessica Alba to help him.
Yeah, I don't know either. The trailer is under the cut.
NOTE: That is Fisher Stevens, right? For some reason, the IMDB doesn't list him as part of the film. And you know that if Fisher Stevens is separating himself from a project, it must be worse than the Super Mario Bros. movie, Short Circuit 2 and every episode of Early Edition.
\n\nClay has got it all: Terrence Howard complimenting him, Jessica Alba bathing clothed with him, a mom who for some reason hates the idea of him marrying Jessica Alba. But, wouldn't you know it, he needs some sort of undefined chest surgery that might kill him.\n\nSuch is the plight of Hayden Christensen in Awake. And as if that's not bad enough, he ends up being one of these freaks who stays awake during the anesthesia, allowing him to hear Terrence Howard and Fisher Stevens plot to kill him during surgery and steal his fortune.\n\nAside from the obvious issue, that it's a plot salvaged from a rejected Days of Our Lives storyline, you might be wondering how they can build a movie around a motionless protagonist. The answer to that (I think) is by sending out a ghost/surgeon version of himself to get Jessica Alba to help him.\n\nYeah, I don't know either. The trailer is under the cut.\n\nNOTE: That is Fisher Stevens, right? For some reason, the IMDB doesn't list him as part of the film. And you know that if Fisher Stevens is separating himself from a project, it must be worse than the Super Mario Bros. movie, Short Circuit 2 and every episode of Early Edition.
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The "51st state", in post-1959 American political discourse, is a phrase that refers to areas or locales that are – seriously or facetiously – considered candidates for U.S. statehood, joining the 50 states that presently compose the United States of America. The phrase has been applied to external territories as well as parts of existing states which would be admitted as separate states in their own right.
The phrase "51st state" can be used in a positive sense, meaning that a region or territory is so aligned, supportive, and conducive with the United States, that it is like a U.S. state. It can also be used in a pejorative sense, meaning an area or region is perceived to be under excessive American cultural or military influence or control. In various countries around the world, people who believe their local or national culture has become too Americanized sometimes use the term "51st state" in reference to their own countries.
Under Article IV, Section Three of the United States Constitution, which outlines the relationship among the states, Congress has the power to admit new states to the union. The states are required to give "full faith and credit" to the acts of each other's legislatures and courts, which is generally held to include the recognition of legal contracts, marriages, and criminal judgments. The states are guaranteed military and civil defense by the federal government, which is also obliged by Article IV, Section Four, to "guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government".
Congress is a highly politicized body, and discussions about the admission of new states, which typically take years before approval, are invariably informed by the political concerns of Congress at the time the proposal is presented. These concerns include or included maintaining a balance between free and slave states, and which faction in Congress (Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals, rural or urban blocks) would benefit, and which lose, if the proposed state were admitted.
Puerto Rico has been discussed as a potential 51st state of the United States. In a 2012 status referendum a majority of voters, 54%, expressed dissatisfaction with the current political relationship. In a separate question, 61% of voters supported statehood (excluding the 26% of voters who left this question blank). On December 11, 2012, Puerto Rico's legislature resolved to request that the President and the U.S. Congress act on the results, end the current form of territorial status and begin the process of admitting Puerto Rico to the Union as a state.
Since 1898, Puerto Rico has had limited representation in the Congress in the form of a Resident Commissioner, a nonvoting delegate. The 110th Congress returned the Commissioner's power to vote in the Committee of the Whole, but not on matters where the vote would represent a decisive participation. Puerto Rico has elections on the United States presidential primary or caucus of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to select delegates to the respective parties' national conventions although presidential electors are not granted on the Electoral College. As American citizens, Puerto Ricans can vote in U.S. presidential elections, provided they reside in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia and not in Puerto Rico itself.
Residents of Puerto Rico pay U.S. federal taxes: import/export taxes, federal commodity taxes, social security taxes, therefore contributing to the American Government. Most Puerto Rico residents do not pay federal income tax but do pay federal payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare). However, federal employees, those who do business with the federal government, Puerto Rico–based corporations that intend to send funds to the U.S. and others do pay federal income taxes. Puerto Ricans may enlist in the U.S. military. Puerto Ricans have participated in all American wars since 1898; 52 Puerto Ricans had been killed in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan by November 2012.
Puerto Rico has been under U.S. sovereignty for over a century when it was ceded to the U.S. by Spain following the end of the bill of rights.
Puerto Rico is designated in its constitution as the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico". The Constitution of Puerto Rico which became effective in 1952 adopted the name of Estado Libre Asociado (literally translated as "Free Associated State"), officially translated into English as Commonwealth, for its body politic. The island is under the jurisdiction of the Territorial Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which has led to doubts about the finality of the Commonwealth status for Puerto Rico. In addition, all people born in Puerto Rico become citizens of the U.S. at birth (under provisions of the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917), but citizens residing in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president nor for full members of either house of Congress. Statehood would grant island residents full voting rights at the Federal level. The Puerto Rico Democracy Act (H.R. 2499) was approved on April 29, 2010, by the United States House of Representatives 223–169, but was not approved by the Senate before the end of the 111th Congress. It would have provided for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico. This act would provide for referendums to be held in Puerto Rico to determine the island's ultimate political status. It had also been introduced in 2007.
The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Boston Herald have published opinion pieces expressing support for the statehood of Puerto Rico. On November 8, 2012, Washington, D.C. newspaper The Hill published an article saying that Congress will likely ignore the results of the referendum due to the circumstances behind the votes. and U.S. Congressman Luis Gutiérrez U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, both of Puerto Rican ancestry, agreed with the The Hill 's statements. Shortly after the results were published Puerto Rico-born U.S. Congressman José Enrique Serrano commented "I was particularly impressed with the outcome of the 'status' referendum in Puerto Rico. A majority of those voting signaled the desire to change the current territorial status. In a second question an even larger majority asked to become a state. This is an earthquake in Puerto Rican politics. It will demand the attention of Congress, and a definitive answer to the Puerto Rican request for change. This is a history-making moment where voters asked to move forward."
Several days after the referendum, the Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, Governor Luis Fortuño, and Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla wrote separate letters to the President of the United States Barack Obama addressing the results of the voting. Pierluisi urged Obama to begin legislation in favor of the statehood of Puerto Rico, in light of its win in the referendum. Fortuño urged him to move the process forward. García Padilla asked him to reject the results because of their ambiguity. The White House stance related to the November 2012 plebiscite was that the results were clear, the people of Puerto Rico want the issue of status resolved, and a majority chose statehood in the second question. Former White House director of Hispanic media stated, "Now it is time for Congress to act and the administration will work with them on that effort, so that the people of Puerto Rico can determine their own future."
On May 15, 2013, Resident Commissioner Pierluisi introduced H.R. 2000 to Congress to "set forth the process for Puerto Rico to be admitted as a state of the Union," asking for Congress to vote on ratifying Puerto Rico as the 51st state. On February 12, 2014, Senator Martin Heinrich introduced a bill in the US Senate. The bill would require a binding referendum to be held in Puerto Rico asking whether the territory wants to be admitted as a state. In the event of a yes vote, the president would be asked to submit legislation to Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state.
On January 15, 2014, the United States House of Representatives approved $2.5 million in funding to hold a referendum. This referendum can be held at any time as there is no deadline by which the funds have to be used. The United States Senate then passed the bill which was signed into law on January 17, 2014 by Barack Obama, the President of the United States.
Washington, D.C. is often mentioned as a candidate for statehood. In Federalist No. 43 of The Federalist Papers, James Madison considered the implications of the definition of the "seat of government" found in the United States Constitution. Although he noted potential conflicts of interest, and the need for a "municipal legislature for local purposes," Madison did not address the district's role in national voting. Legal scholars disagree on whether a simple act of Congress can admit the District as a state, due to its status as the seat of government of the United States, which Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution requires to be under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; depending on the interpretation of this text, admission of the full District as a state may require a Constitutional amendment, which is much more difficult to enact. However, the Constitution does not set a minimum size for the District. Its size has already changed once before, when Virginia reclaimed the portion of the District south of the Potomac. So the constitutional requirement for a federal district can be satisfied by reducing its size to the small central core of government buildings and monuments, giving the rest of the territory to the new state.
Washington, D.C. residents who support the statehood movement sometimes use a shortened version of the Revolutionary War protest motto "
Will Puerto Rico Finally Become Our 51st State?
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^ OPCIONES NO TERRITORIALES. (English: Non-Territorial Options). Government of Puerto Rico. State Electoral Commission. November 16, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
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The song "Heartland" on the 1986 album Infected, by the British band The The, ends with the refrain "This is the 51st state of the U.S.A."
In 1889, Jules Verne and his son Michel Verne published the short story In the Year 2889, predicting that by the year mentioned the United States will have absorbed the entire American continent, as well as annexing the British Islands. The United States flag of that time is mentioned as having a hundred stars.
In Americathon (1979), set in a fictional 1998, Britain (renamed as Limeyland) has become the 57th state, and the logo of the Safeway grocery chain hangs on the Palace of Westminster.
In the novel 51st State (1998) by Peter Preston, Britain leaves the European Union and becomes the 51st state of the United States.
In The Light of Other Days (2000), a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, Britain joins the United States, with the Prime Minister serving as governor and the Royal Family exiled to Australia.
In 2012, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich stated that "when we have 13,000 Americans living on the Moon, they can petition to become a state," as a way of supporting American colonization of Earth's satellite.
There are four categories of terra nullius, land that is unclaimed by any state: the small unclaimed territory of Bir Tawil between Egypt and Sudan, Antarctica, the oceans, and celestial bodies such as the Moon or Mars. In the last three of these, international treaties (the Antarctic Treaty, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the Outer Space Treaty respectively) prevent colonization and potential statehood of any of these uninhabited (and, given current technology, not permanently inhabitable) territories. Nevertheless, there have been hypothetical proposals for such a development, should future technological advances and political changes allow for it.
In a December 29, 2011, column in The Times, David Aaronovitch said in jest that the UK should consider joining the United States, as the British population cannot accept union with Europe and the UK would inevitably decline on its own. He also made an alternative case that England, Scotland, Wales should be three separate states, with Northern Ireland joining the Republic of Ireland and becoming an all-Ireland state.
The United Kingdom has sometimes been called the 51st state due to the "special relationship" between the two countries, particularly since the close cooperation between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during World War II, and more recently continued during the premierships of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
During World War II, when Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany, the United States briefly controlled Greenland for battlefields and protection. In 1946, the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100 million ($1.2 billion today) but Denmark refused to sell it. Several politicians and others have in recent years argued that Greenland could hypothetically be in a better financial situation as a part of the United States; for instance mentioned by professor Gudmundur Alfredsson at University of Akureyri in 2014. One of the actual reasons behind US interest in Greenland could be the vast natural resources of the island. According to Wikileaks, the U.S. appears to be highly interested in investing in the resource base of the island and in tapping the vast expected hydrocarbons off the Greenlandic coast.
Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor and leader of the opposition Socialists, said: "Albania is for sure the most pro-American country in Europe, maybe even in the world ... Nowhere else can you find such respect and hospitality for the President of the United States. Even in Michigan, he wouldn't be as welcome." At the time of ex-Secretary of State James Baker's visit in 1992, there was even a move to hold a referendum declaring the country as the 51st American state. In addition to Albania, Kosovo which is predominately Albanian is seen as a 51st state due to the heavily presence and influence of the United States. The US has had troops and the largest base outside US territory, Camp Bondsteel in the country since 1999.
In 2010 there was an attempt to register a 51st State Party with the New Zealand Electoral Commission. The party advocates New Zealand becoming the 51st state of the United States of America. The party's secretary is Paulus Telfer, a former Christchurch mayoral candidate. On February 5, 2010, the party applied to register a logo with the Electoral Commission. The logo – a US flag with 51 stars – was rejected by the Electoral Commission on the grounds that it was likely to cause confusion or mislead electors. As of 2014, the party remains unregistered and cannot appear on a ballot.
However, in Article 3 of the Treaty of San Francisco between the Allied Powers and Japan, which came into force in April 1952, the U.S. put the outlying islands of the Ryukyus, including the island of Okinawa—home to over 1 million Okinawans related to the Japanese—and the Bonin Islands, the Volcano Islands, and Iwo Jima into U.S. trusteeship. All these trusteeships were slowly returned to Japanese rule. Okinawa was returned on May 15, 1972, but the U.S. stations troops in the island's bases as a defense for Japan.
Despite the United Nations guarantee of the protection and preservation of Japanese sovereignty, some American congressmen insisted they should annex a war-defeated Japan. The U.S. armed forces rejected such a plan during the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri.
Several websites assert that Israel is the 51st state due to the annual funding and defense support it receives from the United States. An example of this concept can be found in 2003 when Martine Rothblatt published a book called Two Stars for Peace that argued for the addition of Israel and the Palestinian territories surrounding it as the 51st state in the Union. The American State of Canaan, is a book published by Prof. Alfred de Grazia, political science and sociologist, in March 2009, proposing the creation of a 51st from Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Time Magazine columnist Mark Thompson suggested that Haiti had effectively become the 51st state after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, with the widespread destruction prompting a quick and extensive response from the United States, even so far as the stationing of the U.S. military in Haitian air and sea ports to facilitate foreign aid.
Cuba, like many Spanish territories, wanted to break free from Spain. A pro-independence movement in Cuba was supported by the U.S., and Cuban guerrilla leaders wanted annexation to the United States, but Cuban revolutionary leader José Martí called for Cuban nationhood. When the U.S. battleship Maine sank in Havana Harbor, the U.S. blamed Spain and the Spanish–American War broke out in 1898. After the U.S. won, Spain relinquished claim of sovereignty over territories, including Cuba. The U.S. administered Cuba as a protectorate until 1902. Several decades later in 1959, the corrupt Cuban government of U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro. Castro installed a Marxist–Leninist government allied with the Soviet Union, which has been in power ever since.
Due to geographical proximity of the Central American countries to the U.S. which has powerful military, economic, and political influences, there were several movements and proposals by the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries to annex some or all of the Central American republics (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras with the formerly British-ruled Bay Islands, Nicaragua, Panama which had the U.S.-ruled Canal Zone territory from 1903 to 1979, and formerly British Honduras or Belize since 1981). However, the U.S. never acted on these proposals from some U.S. politicians; some of which were never delivered or considered seriously. In 2001, El Salvador adopted the U.S. dollar as its currency, while Panama has used it for decades due to its ties to the Canal Zone.
In 1847-48, with the United States occupying Mexico at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War, there was talk in Congress of annexing the entirety of Mexico; see All of Mexico Movement. The result was the Mexican Cession, also called Guadalupe Hidalgo for the town in which the treaty was signed, in which the U.S. annexed over 40% of Mexico. Talk of annexing all of Mexico disappeared.
A few groups in Canada have actively campaigned in favor of joining the United States. These annexationist movements have not attracted large mainstream attention, although surveys have found that a small minority of Canadians expressed support for the concept in surveys done by Léger Marketing in 2001 and in 2004.
In 1948, during the last days of the Dominion of Newfoundland (at the time a dominion-dependency in the Commonwealth and independent of Canada), there was mainstream support, although not majority, for Newfoundland to form an economic union with the United States, thanks to the efforts of the Economic Union Party and significant U.S. investment in Newfoundland stemming from the U.S.-British alliance in World War II.
The implication has historical basis and dates to the breakup of British America during the American Revolution. The colonies that had confederated to form the United States invaded Canada (at the time a term referring specifically to the modern-day provinces of Quebec and Ontario, which had only been in British hands since 1763) at least twice, neither time succeeding in taking control of the territory. The first invasion was during the Revolution, under the assumption that French-speaking Canadians' presumed hostility towards British colonial rule combined with the Franco-American alliance would make them natural allies to the American cause; the Continental Army successfully recruited two Canadian regiments for the invasion. That invasion's failure forced the members of those regiments into exile, and they settled mostly in upstate New York. The Articles of Confederation, written after the Revolution, included a provision for Canada to join the United States, should they ever decide to do so, without needing to seek U.S. permission as other states would. The United States again invaded Canada during the War of 1812, but this effort was made more difficult due to the large number of Loyalist Americans that had fled to what is now Ontario and still resisted joining the republic. The Hunter Patriots in the 1830s and the Fenian raids after the American Civil War were private attacks on Canada from the U.S. Several U.S. politicians in the 19th century also spoke in favour of annexing Canada.
In Canada, "the 51st state" is a phrase generally used in such a way as to imply that if a certain political course is taken, Canada's destiny will be to be annexed into the United States as "the 51st state". Examples include the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the debate over the creation of a common defense perimeter, and as a potential consequence of not adopting proposals intended to resolve the issue of Quebec sovereignty, the Charlottetown Accord in 1992 and the Clarity Act in 1999.
If Canada and Mexico were to join the United States, the number of states will rise to 95. This flag proposal, however, has 96 stars.
Arizona: The secession of Pima County in Arizona with the hopes of Cochise, Yuma, and Santa Cruz joining to form a state.
Jefferson, from Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Various proposals of partition and secession in California, usually involving splitting the south half from the north or the urban coastline from the rest of the state.
California's Secretary of State allowed Tim Draper to start collecting signatures for his petition to split California into six different states. The initiative drive did not gain sufficient valid signatures to be put on the ballot.
Colorado: On June 6, 2013, commissioners in Weld County, Colorado announced a proposal to leave Colorado along with neighboring counties and form the state of North Colorado. The counties in contention voted to begin plans for secession on November 5, 2013, with mixed results.
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia: Delmarva, from the eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia combining with the state of Delaware, or more often, only Kent County and Sussex County, Delaware.
Florida: The secession of South Florida and the Greater Miami area to form the state of "South Florida." South Florida has a population of over 7 million, comprising 41% of Florida's population.
Illinois: The secession of Cook County, which contains Chicago, from Illinois to form a state. Chicago sits in the northeast corner of the state, with the remainder of the Illinois sometimes referred to as Downstate Illinois. Such proposals have invariably come from the more Republican downstate Illinois, as a way to end the dominance in statewide politics of the overwhelmingly Democratic Chicago area. Stronger moves have been made to form Southern Illinois "The Great Rivers State". With the separation being south of Springfield, the capitol would be in Mt. Vernon.
Michigan and Superior: The northern part of Michigan known formally as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and informally as Yooper Land, the Yooper Peninsula, or Superiorland. Note that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is actually north of the region of the Lower Peninsula normally known in lower Michigan as "Northern Michigan", which tends to cause some confusion.
Texas: Under the joint resolution of Congress by which the Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union, it had the right to divide itself into as many as five different states. It is not clear whether this provides any power beyond that already provided by the Constitution. What is clear is that the Texas Legislature would have to approve any proposal to divide the state using this prerogative. There were a significant number of Texans who supported dividing the state in its early decades. They were generally called divisionists. The Texas Constitution and the Texas Annexation Act both provide for the possibility of Texas voting to divide into up to five sovereign States of the Union. Current Texas politics and self-image make any tampering with Texas' status as the largest state by land area in the contiguous United States unlikely.
The National Movement for the Establishment of a 49th State, founded by Oscar Brown, Sr. and Bradley Cyrus and active in Chicago in 1934–37, had the aim of forming an African American state in the South.
There exist several proposals to divide states with regions that are politically or culturally divergent into smaller, more homogeneous, administratively efficient entities. Splitting a state would need to receive the approval of its legislature and the Congress.
The Philippine statehood movement had a significant impact during the early American colonial period. It is no longer a mainstream movement, but is a small social movement that gains interest and talk in that nation. For the Philippine presidential election, 2016, one candidate, Arturo Pacheco, intends to push to make the Philippines the next US state should he get elected.
The Philippines has had small grassroots movements for U.S. statehood. Originally part of the platform of the Progressive Party, then known as the Federalista Party, the party dropped it in 1907, which coincided with the name change. As recently as 2004, the concept of the Philippines becoming a U.S. state has been part of a political platform in the Philippines. Supporters of this movement include Filipinos who believe that the quality of life in the Philippines would be higher and that there would be less poverty there if the Philippines were an American state or territory. Supporters also include Filipinos that had fought as members of the United States Armed Forces in various wars during the Commonwealth period.
A hypothetical merging of several former and current Pacific US territories into a single state.
In 2014, a "Decolonization Registry" was created to have a non-binding vote on the future status of Guam in relations to the United States; it failed to register the 70% of native inhabitants, therefore no vote will be held. The limiting of the registry to only native inhabitants had resulted in lawsuits challenging this restriction as discriminatory.
Other less likely contenders are Northern Mariana Islands would be admitted as one state, along with Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands (although these latter three entities are now separate sovereign nations, which have Compact of Free Association relationships with the United States). Such a state would have a population of 412,381 (slightly lower than Wyoming's population) and a land area of 911.82 square miles (2,361.6 km2) (slightly smaller than Rhode Island). American Samoa could possibly be part of such a state, increasing the population to 467,900 and the area to 988.65 square miles (2,560.6 km2). Radio Australia, in late May 2008, issued signs of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands becoming one again and becoming the 51st state.
Another proposed option would be to have Maryland, from which the current land was ceded, retake the District of Columbia, as Virginia has already done for its part, while leaving the National Mall, the United States Capitol, and the White House in a truncated District of Columbia. This would give residents of the city of Washington the benefit of statehood while precluding the creation of a 51st state.
This position was carried by the D.C. Statehood Party, a minor party; it has since merged with the local Green Party affiliate to form the D.C. Statehood Green Party. The nearest this movement ever came to success was in 1978, when Congress passed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment. Two years later in 1980, local citizens passed an initiative calling for a constitutional convention for a new state. In 1982, voters ratified the constitution of the state, which was to be called New Columbia. The drive for statehood stalled in 1985, however, when the Washington, D.C. Voting Rights Amendment failed because not enough states ratified the amendment within the seven-year span specified.
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This is an easy salad recipe which is a wonderful way to use up stale bread, and expresses the Tuscan mentality of simplicity with the use of fresh, ripe, ingredients. You must use coarse textured good quality bread, as most bread from the grocery store will become gummy. The Tuscan saltless bread is ideal for this recipe, and holds up really well. The dressing ingredients are really just an approximation as you really need to taste your salad to see if it needs more vinegar or oil. The bread acts like a sponge, soaking up the tomato juices and dressing and depending on the texture of bread you use, you may need a little more dressing than suggested.
Note: There are many variations to this salad, so experiment on your own. Anchovies are often added, as are red peppers. You could also add 1 can of drained oil packed tuna to make this recipe into a complete lunch.
This is an easy salad recipe which is a wonderful way to use up stale bread, and expresses the Tuscan mentality of simplicity with the use of fresh, ripe, ingredients.
Break the bread into pieces, and soak briefly in water until moistened.
Place the bread in a bowl and add the remaining ingredients, and mix well.
I have spent a lot of time in Tuscany and I never found panzella on any menu nor did my host serve it. Is this an American thing?
No, it is served all across Tuscany, and in fact is popular throughout central Italy. It is usually served during the summer months when tomatoes are at their peak. I am really surpeised if you spent a lot of time in Tuscany that you never saw it on menus.
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Tiers – The true profit on this bet is: 17 + 1 - 6 = 12 chips. So the payout is 12:6 or 2:1.
Neighbours – The true payout is 35 + 1 - 5 = 31 chips.
Finals – Your profit will be 35 + 1 - 5 chips = 31 chips.
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Diego Rivera was arguably one of the greatest Mexican painters of the 20th Century, and certainly the most well known. He is credited in modern times for reviving the art of painting frescos in Latin America and the United States, and was a leader in the Mexican mural movement.
Jose Diego Rivera Barrientos was born in Guanajuato on 8th December 1886. He had a twin brother, Jose Carlos, who died at eighteen months old, and a younger sister. When he was six, the family moved to Mexico City. Showing an early talent, Rivera received a scholarship to attend the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts but, after student riots, he was expelled. He was then granted a travel scholarship to study in Europe. He arrived in Spain in 1907, and then went to France. After arriving in France he met Angeline Beloff, who gave birth to his only son, Diego, in 1916.
He participated in exhibitions for the Societe des Artistes Independants between 1910 and 1912, and in 1914 held his only solo exhibition in France. In 1919 his daughter Marika was born to Marevna Vorobieva, although he was still with Angeline. In 1920 he travelled to Italy to study renaissance art, and specifically frescos. The next year he finished with Angeline and went home to Mexico.
One of his first frescos in Mexico was a work at the National Preparatory School in 1922, at which time Frida Kahlo was a student there. He went on to paint a series of frescos for the Ministry of Education, and one at the National Agriculture School. Also in 1922 he married for the first time, Guadalupe Marin, with whom he had two more daughters, Lupe and Ruth.
He became politically more active in 1923, joining the Mexican communist party and also forming the Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors. The reason Rivera painted frescos was because he wanted to take paintings out of galleries and to share it with the people. He felt that art was something everyone could enjoy. Most often his frescos were images of the Mexican revolution, or his Marxist beliefs. In later years frescos in Mexico and the USA would cause outrage by stating that 'God is dead', criticizing the Holy Family, and prominently showing Lenin in his paintings.
In 1925 a painting he entered into the Pan American exhibition won a prize. This lead to further exhibitions and ultimately to commissions to paint murals for the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Rockefeller Centre, among other places. Eventually he fell out of favour, because he could or would not separate his painting from his politics. The mural painted at the Rockefeller Centre was removed because it showed Lenin, and the centre was picketed. He later recreated the mural in Mexico.
In 1927 Rivera travelled to the Soviet Union to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. When he returned to Mexico he split up with his wife and later that same year met Frida Kahlo. He married her in 1929, the same year he was made director of the Academy of San Carlos, from which he was expelled over twenty years before.
His marriage to Frida Kahlo was tempestuous, both had affairs, and there were rumours of domestic violence. When Trotsky died after having an affair with Kahlo, both were investigated as suspects, although eventually cleared. They divorced but were unable to stay apart, remarrying and staying together until Frida's death in 1954. After her death he married his agent at the age of 69. Mexico celebrated his 70th birthday in 1956. Diego Rivera died in 1957 of heart failure.
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What are Java Applets used for?
Java Applets are usually used to add small, interactive components or enhancements to a webpage. These may consist of buttons, scrolling text, or stock tickers, but they can also be used to display larger programs like word processors or games. Java's incredible portability (the ability to run on many different operating systems and browsers) is what makes it ideal for use on the World Wide Web.
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Think of it as a sort of sunscreen for coral.
Chasing Coral, the stunning documentary capturing the devastating effects of climate change on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, makes one thing abundantly clear in its imagery: coral are among the most colorful things on this planet, but their vibrant hues are at risk of heating oceans bleaching them to death.
A combination of factors — water temperature, depth, sunlight, and genetics — join forces to make the reef the symbiotic community of vulnerable algae and coral it is.
Algae contains high amounts of chlorophyll, which allows it to absorb energy and derive nutrition from sunlight. Chlorophyll is what gives plants their green color, which is why coral reefs have a generally earthy color to them. But the greens are overshadowed by bright reds, oranges, and blues that originate elsewhere.
The algae, called zooxanthellae, uses its coloration to protect itself from the sun, using the bright colors to absorb and filter out potentially-harmful ultraviolet light, a sort of coral version of sunscreen. That coloration is generated by 21 molecules called chromoproteins, which absorb and filter out potentially-harmful ultraviolet light through bluish, purple, and sometimes orange hues.
And that’s why coloration gets even more intense when ocean temperatures rise before ultimately bleaching the coral to death.
Light is also filtered more and more the deeper you go underwater, so coral’s color changes based on how far down it grows. Blue light penetrates water deeper than red light does, so coral in shallow waters is rife with warm colors that grow cooler and duller the lower down it goes.
Coral found in deeper water is exposed to different wavelengths of light, giving it a cooler set of colors.
But even when two zooxanthellae from the same species are sitting right next to each other, they can have different colors from each other. Research published in the journal Molecular Ecology in 2015 discovered that there are a number of genes responsible for reef coloration, so even zooxanthellae of the same species in identical environments can display different colors depending on how many of those genes they have.
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Can any claim be made for solar panels installed on a residential property that is let? It seems not, as the feed-in tariff (FIT) would not be taxable but would like confirmation.
Firstly, I need to refer to you to 2 excellent articles on this subject by Lee Sharpe in the October 2011 and November 2011 editions of Property Tax Insider. Secondly, the answer to your question is that installing solar panels is a capital improvement. This means that you cannot claim the expense against rental income, but when you eventually sell the property, you can add the cost to the original cost of the property in order to reduce the capital gain. This answer is not dependent on whether the FIT is taxable or not.
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Detect multiple objects in scenes using the Darknet YOLO deep neural network.
Darknet is a popular neural network framework, and YOLO is a very interesting network that detects all objects in a scene in one pass. This module detects all instances of any of the objects it knows about (determined by the network structure, labels, dataset used for training, and weights obtained) in the image that is given to it.
This module runs a YOLO network and shows all detections obtained. The YOLO network is currently quite slow, hence it is only run once in a while. Point your camera towards some interesting scene, keep it stable, and wait for YOLO to tell you what it found. The framerate figures shown at the bottom left of the display reflect the speed at which each new video frame from the camera is processed, but in this module this just amounts to converting the image to RGB, sending it to the neural network for processing in a separate thread, and creating the demo display. Actual network inference speed (time taken to compute the predictions on one image) is shown at the bottom right. See below for how to trade-off speed and accuracy.
Note that by default this module runs tiny-YOLO V3 which can detect and recognize 80 different kinds of objects from the Microsoft COCO dataset. This module can also run tiny-YOLO V2 for COCO, or tiny-YOLO V2 for the Pascal-VOC dataset with 20 object categories. See the module's params.cfg file to switch network.
The 80 COCO object categories are: person, bicycle, car, motorbike, aeroplane, bus, train, truck, boat, traffic, fire, stop, parking, bench, bird, cat, dog, horse, sheep, cow, elephant, bear, zebra, giraffe, backpack, umbrella, handbag, tie, suitcase, frisbee, skis, snowboard, sports, kite, baseball, baseball, skateboard, surfboard, tennis, bottle, wine, cup, fork, knife, spoon, bowl, banana, apple, sandwich, orange, broccoli, carrot, hot, pizza, donut, cake, chair, sofa, pottedplant, bed, diningtable, toilet, tvmonitor, laptop, mouse, remote, keyboard, cell, microwave, oven, toaster, sink, refrigerator, book, clock, vase, scissors, teddy, hair, toothbrush.
The 20 Pascal-VOC object categories are: aeroplane, bicycle, bird, boat, bottle, bus, car, cat, chair, cow, diningtable, dog, horse, motorbike, person, pottedplant, sheep, sofa, train, tvmonitor.
Sometimes it will make mistakes! The performance of yolov3-tiny is about 33.1% correct (mean average precision) on the COCO test set.
The parameter netin allows you to rescale the neural network to the specified size. Beware that this will only work if the network used is fully convolutional (as is the case of the default tiny-yolo network). This not only allows you to adjust processing speed (and, conversely, accuracy), but also to better match the network to the input images (e.g., the default size for tiny-yolo is 416x416, and, thus, passing it a input image of size 640x480 will result in first scaling that input to 416x312, then letterboxing it by adding gray borders on top and bottom so that the final input to the network is 416x416). This letterboxing can be completely avoided by just resizing the network to 320x240.
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References jevois::rawimage::convertToCvRGB(), jevois::RawImage::height, itsNetInput, itsYolo, LINFO, jevois::rescaleCv(), and jevois::RawImage::width.
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References jevois::rawimage::convertToCvRGB(), jevois::rawimage::cvImage(), jevois::rawimage::drawFilledRect(), jevois::RawImage::fmt, jevois::RawImage::height, itsNetInput, itsPredictFut, itsRawInputCv, itsRawPrevOutputCv, itsYolo, jevois::rawimage::paste(), jevois::RawImage::require(), jevois::rescaleCv(), jevois::Timer::start(), jevois::Timer::stop(), success, to_string(), jevois::RawImage::width, and jevois::rawimage::writeText().
References jevois::rawimage::convertToCvRGB(), jevois::rawimage::cvImage(), jevois::rawimage::drawFilledRect(), jevois::RawImage::fmt, jevois::RawImage::height, itsNetInput, itsPredictFut, itsRawInputCv, itsRawPrevOutputCv, itsYolo, JEVOIS_REGISTER_MODULE(), jevois::rawimage::paste(), jevois::RawImage::require(), jevois::rescaleCv(), jevois::Timer::start(), jevois::Timer::stop(), success, to_string(), jevois::RawImage::width, and jevois::rawimage::writeText().
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Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plantsin the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape Verdeand the Canary Islands, Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia, is often referred to as lavender, and there is a color named for the shade of the flowers of this species.
L. stoechas, L. pedunculata and L. dentata were known in Roman times. From the Middle Ages onwards, the European species were considered two separate groups or genera, Stoechas (L. stoechas, L. pedunculata, L. dentata) and Lavandula (L. spica and L. latifolia), until Linnaeus combined them. He only recognised five species in Species Plantarum (1753), L. multifida and L. dentata(Spain) and L. stoechas and L. spica from Southern Europe. L. pedunculata was included within L. stoechas.
The most common form in cultivation is the common or English lavender Lavandula angustifolia (formerly named L. officinalis). A wide range of cultivars can be found. Other commonly grown ornamental species are L. stoechas, L. dentata, and L. multifida(Egyptian lavender).
Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens worldwide, they are occasionally found growing wild as garden escapes, well beyond their natural range. Commonly such adventitious establishment is apparently harmless at best, but in some cases Lavandulaspecies have become invasive. For example, in Australia, Lavandula stoechas has become a cause for concern; it occurs widely throughout the continent, and has been declared a noxious weed in Victoria since 1920. It also is regarded as a weed in parts of Spain.
Culinary lavender is usually English Lavender, the most commonly used species in cooking (L. angustifolia 'Munstead' ). As an aromatic, it has a sweet fragrance with a taste of lemon or citrus notes. It is used as a spice or condiment in pastas, salads and dressings, and desserts. Their buds and greens are used in teas, and their buds, processed by bees, are the essential ingredient of monofloral honey.
The potency of the lavender flowers increases with drying which makes their use more sparingly to avoid a heavy, soapy aftertaste. Chefs note to reduce by 2/3rds the dry amount in recipes which call for fresh lavender buds.
Lavender buds can amplify both sweet and savory flavors in dishes, and is sometimes paired with sheep's-milk and goat's-milk cheeses. Lavender flowers are occasionally blended with black, green, or herbal teas. Lavender flavours baked goods and desserts, pairing especially well with chocolate. In the United States, both lavender syrup and dried lavender buds are used to make lavender scones and marshmallows.
Lavender buds are put into sugar for two weeks to allow the essential oils and fragrance to transfer, then the sugar itself is used in baking. Lavender can be used in breads where recipes call for rosemary. They are used decoratively in dishes, or in spirits, or as a decorative and aromatic in a glass of champagne. Lavender is used in savory dishes. Giving stews and reduced sauces aromatic flair. They are also used to scent flans and custards, or sorbets.
The flowers yield abundant nectar, from which bees make a high-quality honey. Monofloral honey is produced primarily around the Mediterranean, and is marketed worldwide as a premium product. Flowers can be candied and are sometimes used as cake decorations. It is also used to make "lavender sugar."
In the 1970s, a blend of herbs called herbes de Provence was invented by spice wholesalers, where culinary lavender is added to the mixture in North American version of the spice blend.
Today lavender recipes are in use in most parts of the world.
A 2005 review on lavender essential oil stated that, "Lavender is traditionally regarded as a 'safe' oil and, although it was recently reported that lavender oil, and its major constituent linalyl acetate, are toxic to human skin cells in vitro, contact dermatitis to lavender oil appears to occur at only a very low frequency."
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As you begin to formulate a thesis for your essay, think about the following distinction between topic and thesis. A topic is a general area of inquiry; derived from the Greek topos (place), "topic" designates the general subject of your essay. For instance, "Carroll's nonsense in 'Jabberwocky' sounds sensible" would be a weak thesis but a good a topic for an essay. From a topic, many specific theses can be extracted and developed. A thesis is more specific and delimited; it exists "within" your topic. In your essay, you need to use an argumentative thesis.
"Jabberwocky" sounds sensible because, as Robert Frost points out, "the sound of sense existed before words." As a work that conveys meaning without making literal sense, Carroll's poem illustrates the paradoxical ideologies of nonsense: "Jabberwocky" both posits an arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and uses playfulness to encourage children to enjoy language. In this sense, it undermines language as a reliable system of meaning, but also teaches readers how to understand and use language in meaningful ways.
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My doctor thinks my arthritis and heart disease are connected to my psoriasis. Is this possible? I thought psoriasis was a skin condition.
Psoriasis (pronounced so-RYE-uh-sis) is named for an ancient Greek word meaning an itchy or scaly condition. It is classified as a skin disease, but psoriasis is the result of an immune system abnormality that can cause problems throughout the body.
With psoriasis, white blood cells of the immune system become overactive. They produce excess amounts of chemicals that trigger inflammation. The inflammation leads to abnormally rapid growth of cells in the skin’s outer layer. This causes plaques: raised, red patches covered with silvery scales on the elbows and knees — the classic sign of psoriasis.
But the effects of psoriasis are not always confined to the skin. The disease also can cause inflammation throughout the body. This probably is the reason that people with psoriasis have higher rates of various diseases that also are associated with a constant state of inflammation. These include diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and several types of cancer.
Nearly one-third of people with psoriasis develop psoriatic arthritis, which causes stiff, painful joints and other symptoms.
Several eye problems are more common with psoriasis, including conjunctivitis, blepharitis (inflammation of the eyelids) and damage to the cornea.
OINTMENTS, GELS OR LOTIONS. The most common are corticosteroids, which come in varying strengths. They quickly reduce inflammation and control itching. Long-term use of strong steroids can thin and damage skin.
PHOTOTHERAPY. This treatment uses carefully controlled exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light, which helps slow the growth of skin cells. UV light combined with medicines called psoralens often is more potent than just UV light (a treatment called PUVA).
SYSTEMIC THERAPY. If your psoriasis has caused more than skin problems, this can have implications for the kind of treatment your doctor may recommend. Treatments that fight inflammation in multiple parts of the body may be required. Medicines that do this include methotrexate, retinoids and cyclosporine.
Research in recent years has led to biologic agents that directly neutralize some of the body’s chemicals (called cytokines) that cause inflammation. They have proved very effective in severe psoriasis. Though they carry a risk of serious side effects, the benefits generally are greater than the risks.
Exercise and weight loss, which help fight inflammation, may help. Adopting other healthy lifestyle choices, such as avoiding tobacco and eating well, can help prevent health problems linked to psoriasis.
If it seems that I’m recommending a healthy lifestyle as the cure for every human ailment, that’s because it really is true: A healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of, and suffering from, many major illnesses.
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When is it safe to get intimate after a heart attack?
Question: I just found out I have high cholesterol. I want to try lowering it through diet, can you help?
Answer: Congratulations for taking an active role in your health! In improving your cholesterol levels, you're also reducing your risk of coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease leads to heart attacks and is the number one cause of death for both men and women.
These steps can help improve your cholesterol. Make these changes in moderation and as part of a balanced diet.
Reduce saturated fats and trans fats in your diet. Choose very soft or liquid margarine, olive and canola oils instead of butter, stick margarine and shortening.
Check labels of crackers, cakes, chips and cookies for partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated fats – if it's on the label, leave it on the shelf.
Eat fish two or three times a week. Fish, such as salmon, tuna and halibut, contains omega-3 fatty acids, which help improve cholesterol and lower blood pressure.
Eat 10 to 25 grams daily of soluble fiber such as oatmeal, ground flaxseed, avocados, broccoli, apples, peaches and dried prunes.
Use egg substitutes or egg whites instead of whole eggs. For protein, turn to lean meats and skinless poultry, and low-fat dairy products.
Incorporate whole grains (look for 100 percent whole grain on the label), fruits, vegetables and legumes into your daily diet.
Remember that 30 minutes of daily physical activity, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and quitting smoking are also very effective in reducing your cholesterol levels.
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What kinds of behavioral challenges might we face with our child?
What should we know about behavioral principles?
Basic behavioral principles can help explain how children with and without ASDs learn to respond to requests made of them. Things that happen in the environment as well as emotions cause children to exhibit behavioral responses. Most responses help a child interact with others and are adaptive. Other behavioral responses prevent a child from participating in learning activities or negatively affect social interaction.
Some problem behaviors result from frustration (that is, not being able to make their need understood).
Some of these neurobehavioral problems can be treated using medications. (Ask your child's doctor about the “Medications and Your Child” handout.) However, it is important to first understand if there is a reason for the problem behavior. Treatment is more effective if the reasons why the behavior is occurring are also addressed.
Some behaviors start out for one reason and then keep happening because they have been reinforced; they get attention or something else the child wants when the behavior occurs. For instance, a child who first bangs his head because of ear pain may continue to head bang with tantrums if he mistakenly thinks that is how to request attention.
Talk to your pediatrician, a school behavior specialist, or a psychologist if your child has challenging behaviors (ranging from interrupting to self-injury) that are problematic for you and your family. The reasons that behaviors occur can be different for each child.
What can we do to change behavior?
You can increase adaptive behaviors and decrease problem behavior by taking consistent action. That means trying to always have the same response when the behaviors occur.
1. Reward the child's adaptive behavior.
You can increase behaviors you want from your child with positive reinforcement or praise or reward when a desired behavior occurs. Teaching a child how to behave in a positive fashion is the most important part of any behavioral plan. Most children learn language by receiving a reward, such as praise, for saying a word or sentence. It might take a while for your child's behavior to change because you will need to teach her what behaviors are pleasing to you.
Rewards vary from child to child. Smiles, praise, and earning privileges are all examples of rewards. One way to use rewards is to have a star or sticker chart where a child gets a star or sticker for desired behavior. When the child earns enough stars or stickers, she can trade them in for a reward. It is not the same as bribing.
2. Have your child earn privileges for desired behaviors and withhold them for undesired behaviors.
Working for reinforcement helps teach new behaviors. One way to decrease behaviors you do not want from your child is to have your child earn privileges for favorite activities such as computer time with desired behaviors, and have him lose it when he engages in behaviors you do not want. Time-out is an example of removing a child from activities as a response to undesired behaviors. It will only work if “time-in” is positive. Teaching your child behaviors you want will help him know which behaviors you do not want him to engage in. Sometimes children act up because they find the class- or adult-directed behavior stressful—time-out may be a relief. If that seems to be the case, it is important to figure out what is stressful for the child about the adult-directed activity. For example, if a child is disruptive because he cannot learn the way he is being taught, it is important to change the teaching strategy.
Time-out for younger children needs to happen as soon as the problem behavior occurs. The amount of time a child is in time-out should depend on his understanding. A guide is 30 seconds to 1 minute per year of mental age.
If you put your child in time-out, make sure he is safe. Tell your child why he is in time-out, but do not talk to him and attend to him while he is in time-out. As soon as time-out is over, direct your child to an activity that he can be successful in and get reinforced. He needs to learn how you want him to behave.
3. Have consequences for undesired behaviors.
Sometimes consequences are necessary for challenging behaviors. What is considered punishment varies from child to child. Consequences can range from staying after class to cleaning up a mess made during a tantrum. Spanking your child and other physical punishment may teach your child to use violence with anger and is not endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
How can we better understand behavioral problems?
Think about your child's behavior using the ABC method.
Monday 8:00–8:15 Told to turn off TV “No” and tantrum I turned off TV and took him to school bus after he stopped.
Schools can also help you understand behaviors. You can ask your child's school about a functional behavioral analysis and behavioral intervention plan if your child is having behavioral problems in school. This analysis looks at your child's specific behaviors and when they occur. It should help you to find out what might influence problem behaviors and identify ways to change them. Many families benefit from input from a behavioral health professional to better understand their child's behavior and develop a plan to help. You can ask your child's doctor or school psychologist for a referral to a psychologist, social worker, Board Certified Behavioral Analyst, or another behavioral health professional to help you and your family learn how to teach your child more adaptive behaviors.
Managing behaviors is challenging and requires consistency but also flexibility over time. Your child's behaviors and your expectations will change as your child matures. The plan you use may change over time, but the basic principles remain the same.
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Mission Viejo, California. The city where John Bruce, founder of Cal-Med Pharmacy, decided to open his business many years ago. As a community pharmacist, John was committed to providing quality care to his patients. However, after three decades of service and retirement on the horizon, John was faced with an uncertain future for his independent pharmacy. What would happen to his business after he was no longer a part of it?
This question is one many community pharmacists are facing. Reasons for selling vary by pharmacy owner, including retirement and financial instability. However, the unifying factor is the desire to keep their independent pharmacies independent. The tireless work and effort put into building a business is difficult to forfeit. More importantly, in selling, pharmacists risk leaving behind the communities that have become dependent on them.
Independent pharmacies provide irreplaceable care that communities have grown to depend on.
This emerging group of pharmacists creates the potential for a lasting legacy of care. Instead of selling their assets or shutting their doors, community pharmacists looking to exit their business have the opportunity to transition to a new independent owner with shared goals. Since this is no easy task, expert assistance and knowledge can make all the difference.
“Going it alone is a challenge, because it is an emotional decision. Once the decision to sell is made, you want it to happen fast. Oftentimes, however, owners are not ready for that because they haven’t optimized the financials of their business to get the best price,” says Nightengale.
Through AmerisourceBergen Pharmacy Ownership Services, trusted acquisition advisors work with independent pharmacies to maximize value and connect them with matched buyers, providing assistance at every step of the complicated process. This helps to streamline the transition and set the pharmacy up for success for many years to come, while ensuring patients continue to receive the care they need.
Business coaches assist in determining pharmacy worth and provide advice to improve operations and increase value. Additionally, they can connect to buyers with similar goals at no cost, allowing pharmacists to transition their business confidentially, with zero doubts or loose ends.
Expert advisors equipped with data-driven insights provide the best knowledge on vetted, dependable businesses without broker fees. After acquisition, buyers are connected with a dedicated business coach for continued support to ensure the pharmacy's success.
"You need data. You need expertise. You need confidentiality. And, you need a trusted partner to do that."
This expertise provides comprehensive guidance and hands-on assistance to pharmacy owners, pharmacists and business professionals who need help selling their business or who have recently acquired a pharmacy.
Good Neighbor Pharmacy and AmerisourceBergen are dedicated to keeping independent pharmacies in the continuum of community care. In helping pharmacists pass down their business and mission to new owners, Pharmacy Ownership Services protects the long legacy of independent pharmacies, and sets the stage for an even healthier future.
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Long training times for high-accuracy deep neural networks (DNNs) impede research into new DNN architectures and slow the development of high-accuracy DNNs. In this paper we present FireCaffe, which successfully scales deep neural network training across a cluster of GPUs. We also present a number of best practices to aid in comparing advancements in methods for scaling and accelerating the training of deep neural networks. The speed and scalability of distributed algorithms is almost always limited by the overhead of communicating between servers; DNN training is not an exception to this rule. Therefore, the key consideration here is to reduce communication overhead wherever possible, while not degrading the accuracy of the DNN models that we train. Our approach has three key pillars. First, we select network hardware that achieves high bandwidth between GPU servers — Infiniband or Cray interconnects are ideal for this. Second, we consider a number of communication algorithms, and we find that reduction trees are more efficient and scalable than the traditional parameter server approach. Third, we optionally increase the batch size to reduce the total quantity of communication during DNN training, and we identify hyperparameters that allow us to reproduce the small-batch accuracy while training with large batch sizes. When training GoogLeNet and Network-in-Network on ImageNet, we achieve a 47x and 39x speedup, respectively, when training on a cluster of 128 GPUs.
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Article: Feldbau-Khon, S., Heyman, R., and O’Leary, K. (1998). Major depressive disorder and depressive symptomatology as predictors of husband to wife physical abuse. Violence and Victims, 13, 347-359.
The work of Feldbau-Khon, S., Heyman, R., and O’Leary, K. is described in the article, “Major Depressive Disorder and Depressive Symptomatology as Predictors of Husband to Wife Physical Aggression.” The authors tested the link between a husband’s depressive symptomatology and the frequency of physical aggression toward his wife. Also tested was the husband’s Major Depressive Disorder and the frequency of physical aggression towards his wife.
The authors had four hypotheses. 1: Clinically depressed men are more physically aggressive. 2: Depressive symptomatology is associated with frequency of physical aggression. 3: Depressive symptomatology effects on physical aggression are accounted for by other variables. 4: Depressive symptomatology effects on psychological aggression are accounted for by other variables.
The study assessed physically aggressive men who volunteered for treatment with their wives. Participants responded to newspaper announcements offering free therapy for relationship conflicts. All spouses completed three-hour assessments consisting of structured interviews and self-report measures. Almost one third had moderate levels of depressive symptomatology, but only 11% met the criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
Although a significant relationship between increased depressive symptomatology and frequency of physical aggression was found, the relationship was most likely accounted for by self- reported anger.
One weakness with this study is the makeup of the sample. The racial composition of the sample was 1.3% Black, 1.3% Asian, and 97% White. No Hispanics were included in the study although Hispanic men are also sometimes very violent to their wives. The sample should have had more diversity, not be made up almost entirely of Whites. Some races are more naturally violent than others are because its part of their culture. Using mostly whites in this study taints it because different depression could be a major factor affecting the physical violence of whites but perhaps not men of other races.
Another weakness of this study is that it is never mentioned whether or not any of the subjects were taking any sort of medication. Many types of medications, for example any type Serotonin inhibitor, can affect violent behavior.
The fact that the subjects were volunteers raises an issue. The participants responded to an advertisement for free therapy for relationship conflicts. These people wanted help. They were not ordered by the court to obtain therapy. This may suggest that they somehow have a different frame of mind than others who might not seek help, therefore, we cannot make accurate assumptions about the results of the study.
Another issue one must take into consideration is that the participants completed a three-hour assessment for which they were not being paid for. They could have become tired, annoyed, bored, or frustrated. This could have affected their answers to the questions asked in the interview to determine whether or not they had MDD. They could also have not been revealing their true selves in the self-report. The interviews were conducted by grad students and a research assistant, not by the actual researchers or by doctors. There is a possibility they could have overlooked things a professional with more experience would have caught.
One of the strengths of this article is that it stresses the possibility of outside factors affecting the physical violence. An example of this kind of variable is self-reported anger. A relationship where one person is depressed may in fact be a very chaotic relationship where anger and frustration can result in violence. In this case, the violence is may not be a direct result of the depression; instead it may result from the anger and frustration or marital discord that may accompany depression. The study recognizes that there are other factors of life that can affect the physical violence.
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The English language is notable for the abundance of synonyms for many words, which enriches prose by offering opportunities for elegant variation, the use of synonyms to avoid repetitive use of one word. Another benefit is that the writer can select a particular synonym to express connotation, the implication of a sense or value for a word.
The careful writer takes note not only of a word’s meaning but also its connotation, because failure to do so can obscure the writer’s intent.
Various synonyms for thin used to describe a person, for example, have a wide variety of connotations. A slender person is one with a pleasing economy of form, and svelte adds a sense of fashionable presentation. A skinny person, meanwhile, is excessively thin, and gaunt emphasizes an unhealthful state. Wiry, meanwhile, connotes a tough, lean build acquired through hard work, while lithe suggests a graceful quality.
By the same token, it’s one thing to say someone is confident, but cocksure is a negative appraisal. A stubborn person, meanwhile, could be described by a proponent as resolute and by a foe as obstinate.
Novice is (or is intended to be) a neutral term, but many synonyms for the word, such as greenhorn, newbie, rookie, and tenderfoot, are uncomplimentary or at least often used to poke fun. (Apprentice, neophyte, recruit, and tyro are gentler terms.) Synonyms can differ in formality, as in the difference between car and automobile, but the difference is often one of value instead (or in addition).
Use of precise terms in fiction and nonfiction alike is encouraged, but be sure the sense you intend is the one conveyed: Consult dictionaries and usage guides, and when you employ a thesaurus or a synonym finder to find a more interesting or more precise alternative to pedestrian prose, make sure you select the appropriate word based on your meaning.
Include me among those previously unaware of the distinction between “eager” and “anxious.” I thought “anxious” could have either a positive or negative connotation, depending on the context. I’ll try to remember that distinction from now on.
Let me revise my statement about that: The original connotation of anxious is a negative one, because the word is related to anxiety. However, it now also has a positive connotation.
Context clarifies connotation: The ambiguous statement “He anxiously awaited the beginning of the concert” must be accompanied by additional information for the reader to comprehend the connotation. If anxious were not what one Web wit calls an antagonym (a word that has antonymic connotations — another example is oversight), English would be a little less complicated.
All of this is a strong argument against the excessive use of slang as a replacement for these words, as slang has little connotation past the culture that invents the slang. If the word becomes overused outside of that cultural bias, it becomes a ‘non word’ in the emotional context of the piece.
For example, the growing use of the verb “impact” to replace both the words affect and effect in the English language. Whereas previously its use was signaled for events that were greatly effected, the overuse of the word has caused it to become bland and meaningless. Whereas before “affect” and “effect” had nuance, the replacement has none at all.
If someone sends me an e-mail stating “I’m anxious to meet you,” I have to wonder why this person is nervous. I’m a likeable guy.
Remember: Always crosscheck a word choice by looking up its definition. A thesaurus can be a minefield of opportunities to alter your intended meaning.
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Leif Tilden (b. 1964) is an actor, director and puppeteer who performed suit roles for various Creature Shop projects. After graduating from New York University with a BFA in film, Tilden performed on stage, in such minor productions as the one-act play Bikini Snow, before his first collaboration with the Jim Henson Company as Donatello in the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films. This was followed by Dinosaurs, where he performed Robbie Sinclair and, along with Bill Barretta, received credit for choreographing Robbie and Earl's "Most Unusual" dance sequence in "A New Leaf."
Non-Henson credits include gorilla portrayals in Born to Be Wild and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the titular alien in the direct-to-video feature The Invader, and the cyclops in MonkeyBone. He also played a minor role in the real-life drama of the O.J. Simpson trial, as an additional witness. In 2001, he tried his hand at directing, with the short film BigLove (starring friend and Ninja Turtles co-star Sam Rockwell), which he also wrote, and helming the indie film Reunion.
Later in his career, Tilden shifted from performing to working as location manager on such films as House of Sand and Fog and Ugly, as well as the series Law & Order: LA.
Dinosaurs: Robbie Sinclair, Muse, Mr. Myman (all body); also choreographer, with Bill Barretta, of "It's a Most Unusual Day" in "A New Leaf."
How tall is Leif Tilden?
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RhoGDIβ, a Rho GDP dissociation inhibitor, induced hypertrophic growth and cell migration in a cultured cardiomyoblast cell line, H9c2. We demonstrated that RhoGDIβ plays a previously undefined role in regulating Rac1 expression through transcription to induce hypertrophic growth and cell migration and that these functions are blocked by the expression of a dominant-negative form of Rac1. We also demonstrated that knockdown of RhoGDIβ expression by RNA interference blocked RhoGDIβ-induced Rac1 expression and cell migration. We demonstrated that the co-expression of ZAK and RhoGDIβ in cells resulted in an inhibition in the activity of ZAK to induce ANF expression. Knockdown of ZAK expression in ZAK-RhoGDIβ-expressing cells by ZAK-specific RNA interference restored the activities of RhoGDIβ.
The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway consists of the sequentially acting upstream kinases MAPK kinase kinase (MAP3K) and MAPK kinase (MAP2K), and the downstream MAPKs, p38MAPK, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2), and c-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK). The mixed lineage kinases are a family of serine/threonine kinases, all of which are classified as MAP3Ks. The seven mixed lineage kinases cloned over the past several years can be classified into three subfamilies based on domain organization and sequence similarity: the MLKs (MLK1–4), the dual leucine zipper-bearing kinases (DLK and LZK), and the zipper sterile-α-motif (SAM) kinases (ZAKα and ZAKβ) [1, 2]. ZAK can activate the JNK pathway and the nuclear factor κB (NFκB) pathway , and it induces JNK activation through a dual phosphorylation kinase, JNKK2/MKK7 . Overexpression of wild-type ZAK induced apoptosis in a hepatoma cell line , and a recent report indicated that ZAK expression in a rat cardiac cell line, H9c2, induced hypertrophic growth and re-expression of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) . ZAK also mediates TGF-β-induced cardiac hypertrophic growth via a novel TGF-β signaling pathway . In our previous study , we showed that the leucine zipper of ZAK mediates homodimerization and promotes autophosphorylation and JNK activation.
We identified RhoGDIβ(Rho GDP dissociation inhibitor beta) as a ZAK effector. RhoGDIβ, also known as Ly-GDI or D4-GDI, belongs to a family of Rho GDP dissociation inhibitors, and it is thought to regulate the activity and localization of Rho family proteins [7–10]. The RhoGTPase family includes Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, which differentially regulate the actin cytoskeleton [11–13] and function as molecular switches in cellular signal transduction by alternating between an inactive GDP-bound form that is maintained in cytosolic complexes with GDIs and a GTP-bound form that usually associates with the plasma membrane and interacts with downstream target proteins therein [14, 15]. RhoGTPases regulate the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton and the integrity of the integrin-associated adhesion complexes . Rho facilitates stress fiber and focal adhesion assembly, Rac regulates the formation of lamellipodia and membrane ruffles at the leading edge of migrating cells, and Cdc42 triggers filopodia at the cell periphery . RhoGDIs regulate RhoGTPase activity by inhibiting GDP dissociation to keep RhoGTPases in an inactive state.
A recent study indicated that stimulation of T lymphocytes and myelomonocytic cells with phorbol esters leads to RhoGDIβ phosphorylation on serine/threonine residues , raising the question of whether RhoGDIβ is involved in a signal transduction pathway in these cells. Thus, RhoGDIβ may play numerous roles in the regulation of biological activities; however, many details of the regulatory roles of RhoGDIβ remain to be elucidated.
Trizol reagents (Life Technologies) were used to isolate total RNA from H9c2 cells transiently transfected with the recombinant RhoGDIβ plasmids or from cells stably expressing RhoGDIβ. Total RNA (20 μg) was separated on a formaldehyde agarose gel, transferred to a nylon filter, and then hybridized with a probe corresponding to the full-length Rac1 cDNA labeled using the NEBlot random labeling kit (New England BioLabs) in the presence of [α-32P]dCTP. The blot was washed with SSC/SDS solutions (Sodium Chloride, Sodium Citrate/SDS) before autoradiography. Ethidium bromide staining was used to check the integrity of all samples.
H9c2 cells seeded on 10-cm plates were cultured to confluency. They were then scratched with a 200 μl pipette tip and further incubated in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS. Images were taken at 24, 48, and 72 h with a Zeiss Axiovert 200 microscope. The Image-Pro image analysis system was used to measure the lesion area. The data were expressed as the percentage of recovery (WC%) using the equation: WC% = [1 - (wounded area at Tt/wounded area at T0)] × 100%, where Tt is the number of hours post-injury and T0 is the time of injury.
H9c2 cells were cultured with 1 μg/ml doxycycline for 48 h and then treated with lysis buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 100 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 2 mM PMSF, 1× protease inhibitor) at 4°C for 30 min. The samples were centrifuged at 500 × g at 4°C for 10 min, and the pellets were dissolved in lysis buffer plus 0.1% (w/v) Triton X-100 for the membrane fractions. The supernatants were re-centrifuged at 15,000 rpm at 4°C for 20 min, and the supernatants were saved as cytosolic fractions.
The RhoGTPases act as molecular switches by cycling between the inactive GDP-bound form located in the cytoplasm and an active membrane-associated GTP-bound form. The activities of Rho family proteins are regulated by various proteins, such as guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs), GTPase activating proteins (GAPs), and GDIs. The functions and binding of RhoGDIα to RhoA, Rac1, and Cdc42 are well studied; however, the functions and targets for RhoGDIβ remain unclear, as it binds poorly to RhoA, Rac1, and Cdc42. We therefore sought to determine whether RhoGDIβ stimulates the expression or activities of these GTPases in cardiac cells by western blotting. The total RhoA and Cdc42 levels remained the same; however, cells overexpressing RhoGDIβ had increased levels of Rac1 (Figure 1A). Moreover, the expression of RhoGDIα in H9c2 cells was not affected by the overespression RhoGDIβ (Figure 1A). The expression levels of Rac1 may be causally linked to RhoGDIβ expression or merely an epiphenomenon of the selection of a stable clone. If the former is the case, then Rac1 might be a functionally important downstream target of RhoGDIβ. Northern blot analysis of total RNA indicated that cardiac cells either stably or transiently overexpressing RhoGDIβ had increased Rac1 mRNA levels (Figure 1B). We therefore concluded that RhoGDIβ plays a role in the transcriptional regulation of Rac1 and that the increased level of Rac1 mRNA was not a secondary effect of the selection of a stable RhoGDIβ-expressing clone. Rac1 association with membranes reflects its biological activity . To further address the question of whether induction of Rac1 may also influence Rac1 activity, a detergent-insoluble membrane fraction was prepared from RhoGDIβ-overexpressing cells, and the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 were determined by western blotting. Both the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 and cytosolic Rac1 increased in RhoGDIβ-overexpressing cells (Figure 1C). Furthermore, the membrane-associated and cytosolic forms of Cdc42 remained unchanged in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells when compared to parental cells. We further detect the amount of GTP-bound Rac1 in H9c2 RhoGDIβ-overexpressing cells. We found that RhoGDIβ increased GTP loading in Rac1 (Figure 1D). Therefore, overexpression of RhoGDIβ in H9c2 cells increases the level of membrane-associated Rac1 and GTP loading in RAC1 by upregulating Rac1 transcripts. However, the increase in membrane-associated Rac1 in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells may be a secondary effect of increased expression of Rac1, as we were not able to detect any physical interaction between RhoGDIβ and Rac1 by co-immunoprecipitation.
Effects of RhoGDIβ on Rac1 expression and subcellular localization of RhoGTPases. (A) RhoGDIβ, RhoGDIβ, Rho, CDC42, and Rac1 were detected by western blotting of cell lysates from H9c2 cells stably expressing RhoGDIβ. (B) Total RNA was isolated from H9c2 cells stably or transiently expressing RhoGDIβ. Rac1 transcripts were analyzed by northern blotting. The lower EtBr panels of (B) represent the 28S and 18S loading controls. (C) Membrane (Mem.) and cytosolic (Cyto.) fractions from H9c2 control (C) and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells were analyzed by immunoblotting for Rac1, Cdc42, and RhoGDIβ. (D) GTP loading in Rac1 was determined utilized PAK PBD binding assay in H9c2 cells stably expressing RhoGDIβ.
We next examined whether Rac1 mediates RhoGDIβ-induced hypertrophic growth. We found that H9c2 cells stably expressing a dominant-negative form of Rac1 (Rac1N17) and RhoGDIβ significantly reduced the twofold increase in cell size (Figure 2A) and actin organization induced by RhoGDIβ. Moreover, overexpression of wild-type or a constitutively active (V12) Rac1 in H9c2 cells was sufficient to induce hypertrophic growth (Figure 2A) and actin organization. These findings indicate that the RhoGDIβ-induced hypertrophic growth in H9c2 cells is mediated through increased expression of Rac1, and probably through increased levels of membrane-associated Rac1.
RhoGDIβ-induced hypertrophic growth and cell migration is Rac1-dependent, but suppression of cell cycle progression is not. (A) Control H9c2 and H9c2 RhoGDIβ-expressing cells stably transfected with Rac1, Rac1N17, or Rac1V12 were grown in 10% fetal bovine serum with doxycycline for three days, and the cell size was determined. (B) Wound-healing assay. The cell lines were seeded on plates, as previously described. After reaching confluency, the cell layer was wounded with a 200 μl pipette tip and incubated for 48 h with medium and doxycycline. (C) SiRNA knockdown of RhoGDIβ inhibited RhoGDIβ-induced Rac1 expression levels in H9c2 cells. U6-Ci is the scramble control siRNA, and both U6-353i and U6-568i are two specific RhoGDIβ siRNAs.
Rac1 is able to regulate cell migration . To test whether the effect of RhoGDIβ on cell migration is Rac1 dependent, confluent monolayers of cells stably expressing RhoGDIβ, RhoGDIβ and Rac1, or RhoGDIβ and Rac1N17 were scrape-wounded with a sterile plastic pipette, and the migration of cells into the wound was monitored. The RhoGDIβ-expressing cells closed the wound area faster than control cells (Figure 2B). RhoGDIβ-expressing cells that also expressed a dominant-negative form of Rac1N17 migrated slower than RhoGDIβ-expressing or RhoGDIβ- and Rac1-expressing cells (Figure 2B), suggesting that Rac1 plays a key role in mediating cell migration in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells.
To determine whether Rac1 might play a role in the RhoGDIβ-mediated cell cycle arrest, we examined the growth rate of cells expressing both RhoGDIβ and Rac1N17 and found that it was substantially slower than the growth rate of RhoGDIβ-expressing cells or control cells (Additional file 1). Therefore, the RhoGDIβ-regulated cell arrest was not mediated through increased levels of membrane-bound active Rac1.
Since the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p21Waf1/Cip1 and p27Kip1 were expressed in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells at higher levels than they were in control cells, we examined p21Waf1/Cip1 and p27Kip1 levels in RhoGDIβ- and Rac1N17-expressing cells to study the effects of this dominant-negative form of Rac1 on the expression of p21 and p27. RacN17 was unable to block the expression of p21Waf1/Cip1 and p27Kip1 induced by RhoGDIβ in H9c2 cardiac cells (Additional file 2), suggesting that the RhoGDIβ-induced cell cycle arrest was not mediated through Rac1.
To this point, our results indicated that RhoGDIβ stimulates cell migration through the induction of Rac1 expression due to a proportional increase in the activity of Rac1 in H9c2 cells. To confirm the role of RhoGDIβ in cell migration, two RhoGDIβ knockdown cell lines were used to assess whether RhoGDIβ directly stimulates Rac1 expression to induce cell migration. The specific knockdown of RhoGDIβ using siRNA in H9c2 cells was confirmed by immunoblotting (Fig. 2C). We found that targeted disruption of RhoGDIβ by siRNA effectively blocked expression of Rac1 (Fig. 2C); therefore, RhoGDIβ depletion is associated with Rac1 downregulation. We used migration assays to confirm the role of RhoGDIβ in cell migration. Cells were seeded in an upper chamber of a Transwell on a porous filter, and the migration through the filter pores of H9c2 cells expressing RhoGDIβ and cells expressing both RhoGDIβ and RhoGDIβ- specific siRNA was compared. RhoGDIβ-expressing cells showed increased migration compared to parental cells, whereas migration was inhibited in the siRNA RhoGDIβ knockdown cells relative to the RhoGDIβ-expressing cells (Additional file 3). These results suggest that RhoGDIβ may play a critical role in the regulation of Rac1 expression and H9c2 cell migration.
Our experiments demonstrated that RhoGDIβ increased the rate of wound closure. However, our data also suggested that the physical association of ZAK with RhoGDIβ and phosphorylation of RhoGDIβ by ZAK could abolish RhoGDIβ function. To identify the regulatory role of ZAK on cell migration responses in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells, a wound-healing assay was performed using cells expressing RhoGDIβ, ZAK and RhoGDIβ, or ZAKdn and RhoGDIβ. After wounding, control, ZAK-expressing, and ZAKdn-expressing cells closed the gap at a similar rate (Figure 3A). As demonstrated above, RhoGDIβ-expressing cells were highly migratory, but ZAK- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells were substantially slower to close the wound than ZAKdn- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells. At 36 h post-wounding, control, ZAK-expressing, ZAKdn-expressing, and ZAK- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells closed the gap by about 20%, 24%, 25%, and 22%, respectively (Figure 3B). RhoGDIβ-expressing cells and ZAKdn- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells closed 50% and 39% of the gap. These data suggested a negative regulatory role for ZAK in RhoGDIβ cell migratory function.
ZAK reverses the effects of RhoGDIβ on the induction of cell migration in H9c2 cells. (A) Wound healing assay. H9c2 cells and H9c2 cells ectopically expressing ZAK, dominant-negative ZAK (ZAKdn), RhoGDIβ, ZAK and RhoGDIβ, or ZAKdn and RhoGDIβ were seeded onto plates. After reaching confluency, the cell layer was wounded with a 200 μl pipette tip and incubated for 72 h with medium and doxycycline. (B) The cell migration capacity at 36 h was estimated by measuring the percentage wound closure (WC%). Values are means (SEM from three independent experiments).
To elucidate the role of RhoGDIβ in controlling the localization of Rac1, we performed confocal microscopy. The majority of Rac1 was present in the perinuclear region with some present at the plasma membrane of the control, ZAK-expressing, and ZAKdn-expressing cells (Additional file 4). More Rac1 was present at both the plasma membrane and the perinuclear region in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells. However, co-expression of ZAK, but not ZAKdn, with RhoGDIβ in H9c2 cardiac cells decreased the amount of Rac1 at the plasma membrane (Additional file 4). These data also suggested that ZAK might decrease the total amount of cellular Rac1, probably due to ZAK binding and phosphorylation of RhoGDIβ. To determine whether ZAK negatively regulates RhoGDIβ through expression of Rac1, especially membrane-associated Rac1, we performed western blotting. Consistent with the above experiment, membrane-associated Rac1 increased in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells, whereas, in ZAK- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells, the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 decreased. However, co-expression of ZAKdn and RhoGDIβ had no such effect (Figure 4A). In this regard, it was of interest whether RhoGDIβ increases the amount of Rac1 at the plasma membrane as a consequence of increasing the total cellular levels of Rac1 or whether RhoGDIβ facilitates the translocation of Rac1 to the plasma membrane. We attempted to co-immunoprecipitate RhoGDIβ and Rac1to investigate this possibility; however, the antibody used was insufficient for this purpose (data not shown). This suggests that it is unlikely that RhoGDIβ facilitates translocation of Rac1 to the plasma membrane.
ZAK specifically downregulates the activities of RhoGDIβ as a consequence of decreasing the amount of membrane-associated Rac1. (A) ZAK decreases the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 induced by RhoGDIβ. Control H9c2 and transfected H9c2 cells were collected and fractionated into membrane (Mem.) and cytosolic (Cyto.) fractions by centrifugation. (B) SiRNA knockdown of ZAK restores the effects of RhoGDIβ in ZAK- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells (GRi1 and GRi2) upon Rac1 membrane association. (C) RhoGDIβ inhibits ZAK functions upon the induction of ANF mRNA expression. (D) The effect of ZAK-RhoGDIβ and RhoGDIβ on total amount of Rac1expression.
To test the importance of ZAK in regulating RhoGDIβ-mediated membrane-associated Rac1 and hypertrophic growth, we reduced the levels of ZAK using siRNA. We were able to reduce the levels of ZAK by expressing two different human ZAK siRNAs: ZAKGRi1 (ZAK-RhoGDIβ U6-460i) and ZAKGRi2 (ZAK-RhoGDIβ U6-1712i) (data not shown). The reduced levels of ZAK in these two individual clones were able to restore the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 to levels similar to those of RhoGDIβ-expressing cells, whereas the introduction of a scrambled ZAK siRNA (GRCi) into ZAK- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells had no effect (Figure 4B). These results confirmed the importance of ZAK as a negative regulator of the effect of RhoGDIβ on the expression of Rac1 and membrane-associated Rac1. We found that ZAK was able to regulate ANF expression. We then studied the effects of RhoGDIβ on the regulation of ANF expression by ZAK by examining the levels of ANF mRNA in ZAK- and RhoGDIβ-expressing cells when compared with ZAK-expressing cells. The levels of ANF mRNA induced by ZAK were decreased in cells expressing both ZAK and RhoGDIβ (Fig. 4C). We also found that ZAK-RhoGDIβ cells has less total amount of Rac1 than RhoGDIβ cells. (Figure 4D). This result suggested that RhoGDIβ negatively regulates the functions of ZAK. Moreover, the data presented here (and consistent with our previous studies) indicate that both ZAK and RhoGDIβ may be hypertrophic growth inducers; however, ZAK physically interacts with RhoGDIβ and phosphorylates RhoGDIβ, thus inhibiting the ability of RhoGDIβ to induce Rac1 expression. The levels of Rac1 induced by RhoGDIβ are associated with the closure rate of wound healing (Figure 2B) and hypertrophic growth (Figure 2A), but they are not associated with cell cycle inhibition (Additional file 1). Thus, RhoGDIβ appears to play a role in signaling pathways regulating Rac1 expression that govern wound healing and hypertrophic growth in cardiac cells.
Upon introduction of RhoGDIβ into rat cardiac H9c2 cells, the cells exhibited hypertrophic growth, had a slower cell cycle, and migrated to a greater extent. We previously demonstrated that RhoGDIβ is phosphorylated by ZAK in vitro. It is striking that the co-expression of ZAK and RhoGDIβ in H9c2 cardiac cells results in the inhibition of the biological functions of RhoGDIβ, indicating that not only does RhoGDIβ possibly physically interact with ZAK, but it may also be negatively regulated by ZAK, and this regulation might occur via phosphorylation. These phenomena regulated by ZAK were correlated with Rac 1 expression and especially with the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 in H9c2 cells.
In H9c2 cells transiently and stably expressing RhoGDIβ, the levels of Rac1 transcripts increased compared with control cells. In this study, we described these surprising findings and, to our knowledge, the first demonstration that expression of RhoGDIβ induces Rac1 transcripts and increases the levels of membrane-associated Rac1. The results from western blotting and confocal microscopy experiments indicate that RhoGDIβ regulates Rac1 expression, which leads to increased levels of membrane-associated Rac1. We propose either that the increased levels of membrane-associated Rac1 in RhoGDIβ cells are merely a consequence of RhoGDIβ-induced expression of Rac1 or that RhoGDIβ regulates membrane translocation of Rac1. We were unable to detect an association between RhoGDIβ and Rac1 using co-immunoprecipitation; therefore, it is unlikely that RhoGDIβ andRac1 directly interact. However, we still have not ruled out the possibility that RhoGDIβ regulates Rac1 translocation. However, the signaling pathway between RhoGDIβ and Rac1 has not yet been elucidated, and there is currently no evidence that RhoGDIβ can directly bind to any gene promoter. RhoGDIβ can be translocated into the nucleus upon certain stimuli , leaving the possibility that RhoGDIβ can regulate gene expression directly. It is also possible that RhoGDIβ regulates Rac1 expression via signaling pathway effector proteins. Studies have also demonstrated that RhoGDIβ is cleaved at its N-terminus during apoptosis in a caspase-dependent manner and that the cleaved RhoGDIβ is retained in the nuclear compartment . This suggests that RhoGDIβ could function in the nucleus.
We previously found that RhoGDIβ was able to associate with a mixed lineage kinase, ZAK, resulting in the phosphorylation of RhoGDIβ. To further study the role of ZAK in regulating the activities of RhoGDIβ, we used a bi-directional tet-on inducible system to express both ZAK and RhoGDIβ in H9c2 cardiac cells. Our results demonstrate that the levels of membrane-associated Rac1 and the hypertrophic growth phenotype were inhibited by co-expression of ZAK and RhoGDIβ; however, we did not observe the inhibitory effect with a dominant-negative form of ZAK. Clearly, the kinase activities of ZAK are necessary for the negative regulation of RhoGDIβ functions, including cell cycle arrest, hypertrophic growth, alterations in the amount of membrane-associated Rac1, and cell migration. Among all the biological functions that are regulated by RhoGDIβ, the phenomena of hypertrophic growth and cell migration are Rac1-dependent, whereas the regulation of the cell cycle arrest is Rac1-independent, as shown by the results of expression of a dominant-negative Rac1 (Rac1N17) in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells. It should be pointed out that the cell migration phenotype induced in RhoGDIβ-expressing cells seems to result primarily from the rate of migration rather than cell division. Therefore, RhoGDIβ may stimulate cell migration in a manner dissociated from its effects on cell cycle progression.
Chih-Yang Huang, Li-Chiu Yang, Kuan-Yu Liu contributed equally to this work.
This work was supported by grants to J. J. Y. from the National Science Council (NSC) (NSC96-2311-B-040-003-) and M. Y. C. from the National Science Council (NSC) (NSC97-2314-B-040-024-MY2), Taiwan.
CYH was responsible for the pull-down assay. LCY was responsible for the SiRNA knockdown. KYL was responsible for the cell migration assay. ICC, JIY, MYC and WWL were responsible for Western blot analysis. PHL was responsible for cell staining. JJY wrote the manuscript.
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The Monitor would like to clarify some points in the March 28 article ''Nicaragua: the rebels who turned against their own revolution.'' 1. The article stated that the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) had learned of ''evidence'' linking former Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington Francisco Fiallos Navarro to funds missing from a Nicaraguan bank account. The article should have used the phrase ''allegations by the Nicaraguan government'' instead of ''evidence.'' The Monitor regrets this mistake.
The story also stated that when ARDE learned of the allegations, it decided to ''hear from him (Fiallos) again'' before tapping the former ambassador as an ARDE adviser or ambassador-at-large. The source for that report, ARDE leader Alfonso Robelo Callejas, says these remarks to the Monitor could have been mistakenly construed to mean that ARDE had reservations about giving Mr. Fiallos a prominent role in the counterrevolutionary group.
Mr. Robelo says that ARDE now is satisfied with Mr. Fiallos's explanation of the charges against him, and that Mr. Fiallos had to leave his work at ARDE because he ''couldn't help (ARDE) in the way he had wanted until he cleared up'' the allegations. Robelo says ARDE has ''every reason to believe'' that Mr. Fiallos will successfully defend himself against these accusations.
2. Arturo Cruz, former Nicaraguan ambassador to Washington and presently an official at the Inter-American Development Bank, is volunteering his free time to assist ARDE in Washington. He is not on the ARDE payroll.
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Célunk, hogy a lehető legszélesebb skálán mozgassuk meg a barcsi lakosokat: kicsiktől az egészen idősekig, így minden korosztály számára igyekszünk élvezetes elfoglaltságot találni.
Az emberek aktivizálásával szeretnénk elérni, hogy ne csak egy adott napon élvezzék ki a Dráva adta lehetőségeket, hanem kedvet kapjanak ahhoz, hogy gyakrabban tervezzenek a Dráva mentén kirándulós, mozgással töltött napokat. Valamint, hogy a rendezvény évenként megrendezett barcsi hagyománnyá váljon.
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b. Do you sleep with your contact lenses in?
These questions may be self-administered (as in the source protocol) or administered by an interviewer with a pencil and paper or computer-assisted interview.
The interviewer must be trained to conduct personal interviews with individuals from the general population. The interviewer must be trained and found to be competent (i.e. tested by an expert) at the completion of personal interviews.* The interviewer should be trained to prompt respondents further if a "don't know" response is provided.
This protocol was selected due to its reliability in observed studies, and its concise question format.
Herpetic Eye Disease Study Group. (2000). Psychological stress and other potential triggers for recurrences of herpes simplex virus eye infections. Herpetic Eye Disease Study Group. Arch Ophthalmol, 118(12):1617-25.
Questions to assess current and past use of eyeglasses and/or contact lenses.
Determine the use and need for corrective lenses. Use of glasses or contact lenses, and their timing of use in a pediatric population provide insight regarding effects on visual function, influence refractive error development and progression, and task performance. It is important to determine the history of use of contact lenses because it has been shown to be associated with corneal conditions, such as infections and dry eye syndrome.
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ATLANTA (CNN) – The new fast and easy speed you love is to hit one because of new research from France: We have a higher risk of 14 percent to die early with every increase of 10 per First in the quantity of foods that are tested considerably.
"Post-powered foods are manufactured industrially from multiple ingredients that include additives used for technological and / or cosmetic purposes generally," written by the authors of the study, published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal. "Pre-processed foods are consumed in the form of snacks, desserts, or meals ready for meals or meals, and their consumption has increased" in recent years. "
percent of a total adult diet comes from post-favored foods in Canada, it is 62 percent, and in the United Kingdom, that is the same Percentage and 63 percent have recently studied. But research also shows that obesity, high blood pressure and cancer can lead to eating pre-processed foods, says the study authors.
To understand the relationship both post-processed foods and the risk of the death of previous deaths, the researchers listed the help of 44,551 French and 45-year-olds for a period of two years. Their average age was 57, with almost 73 per cent One of the female participants. Each made 24 hour nutrition records every six months as well as completing questionnaires due to their health (including a body mass index and a lucky back), physical activities and sociodemography.
The researchers carried out the all-processed whole-processed food intake and food consumption.
Transformed foods equivalent more than 14 percent of the total food weight consumed and about 29 percent of the total calories they received. Pre-processed food consumption was involved in younger age, lower income, lower education level, living alone, higher BMI and lower physical activity level.
During the study period, 602 participants died. After adjusting to factors such as smoking, the risk researchers calculate 14% higher death rate in the case of an increase of 10 percent on the offense of pre-processed foods consumed.
Further studies are needed to consolidate these results, say. However, they are considered that the additives, packings (chemicals that left the food during storage) and the processing itself, including high temperature processing, can be the factors that have an adverse effect on health .
The results "mean, we know so far about the adverse effects of food additives on brain function and health, but the effects observed are very small," writes Molly Bray, chairman Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, by email. He was not involved in the research.
Nurgul Fitzgerald, associate professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at Rutgers, New Jersey State University, offered "kudos for the authors" for "strong" studies in terms of design.
However, "ultraprocessed" is a huge category of foods, and combining many things together, researchers lost sensitivity to their results and can not reflect exactly what the effect was to be done in the study , said Fitzgerald, who was not involved in the research.
"Some factors may be more harmful or less harmful than others. It's too complicated," she said, adding that we can not "run it".
Do people eat more of these processed foods?
"We are living in a fast world, and people are looking for suitable solutions. We are constantly extending for a while," said Fitzgerald. "People are looking for quick solutions, a meal that is made fast."
When choosing food, the flavor is the factor No. 1 for most consumers, she said, but prices and convenience are also important, and with processed foods, that convenience The factor is probably "top of the list: grab and go, ready to eat."
Fitzgerald recommends that people not only face the pack when they buy pre-made meals, but also behind. "See the list of ingredients. Do you understand all the ingredients that go into your foods?" she asked. Buy these products only "with the smallest ingredients and ingredients that you understand."
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Vermiculite is a brownish silicate mineral commonly used to help create air spaces in soil, which improves drainage and nutrient movement.
A layer of vermiculite is often placed over newly planted seeds, in pots. This helps retain moisture, which improves germination without encouraging fungal diseases, such as damping off disease.
Vermiculite is also a component of soilless growing medium. Combined with materials such as peat or composted bark, this mixture provides a very light medium, filled with water, air, and nutrients, making it easy for new roots to become established.
If you store root crops or bulbs over the winter, keeping them in a bed of vermiculite can stabilize moisture levels, preventing rot.
Because it is so light, vermiculite can be mixed with heavy clay to create more macropores and micropores. This improves soil structure, making it easier for roots to move through the soil.
With all of those good characteristics, you would expect more people to use vermiculite, right?
Unfortunately, until 1990, many sources of vermiculite contained asbestos. Pure vermiculite does not contain asbestos, but there is no way to be 100% sure that the vermiculite in the bag at the garden center hasn’t absorbed asbestos or some other harmful chemical. Using it in small doses is probably fine. I prefer renewable resources, such as aged compost, which I know is healthy for everyone involved.
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H.R. 3162, "The Patriot Bill," or the antiterrorism bill, might make you a terrorist. Any persons among us who have accepted that certain civil liberties must be abridged in time of war, or forever, for the sake of security, are going to learn Ben Franklin's lesson the hard way: Those who would give up freedom for security deserve, and will get, neither.
First, the antiterrorism bill so loved by Congress and the White House has redefined terrorism. According to Sec. 802, (a)(5)(B)(ii), "the term 'domestic terrorism' means activities that appear to be intended to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion." Again: If the activity appears to be intended to influence the policy of a government - not just the United States government - by intimidation, it's domestic terrorism. Most important: Since all we require is intimidation, how would we define that?
"Intimidation" does not seem to be defined in H.R. 3162. We thus must turn to authoritative dictionaries, which say such things as "to make timid." Put it in the hands of a trial lawyer, and here's how it could play out: Have you ever felt intimidated by someone smarter, larger, older, wealthier, higher in rank, more attractive, more physically fit, more passionate, or more popular than yourself? That's all it takes to establish intimidation in court - being made timid. Get a jury or judge to buy your version of events, and you win.
So while intimidation is a weak criterion, far too easy to establish in a court of law, you don't even have to establish anyone's intent to intimidate, much less his success at intimidating someone. You, the prosecutor, have to establish only the appearance of the intention to intimidate any government, and you can try anyone for domestic terrorism.
So, those of us who disagree publicly with the government's responses to 9/11 - especially if our disagreements are reasoned, well-supported, and impassioned - are, by definition, terrorists. The only requirement is that someone, somewhere believes it appears we're trying to intimidate the government. This is an ominous glower over free speech.
How ominous? It depends in part on whether you're a foreigner. Suppose a Canadian citizen writes an anti-war column for an American website. Bush signed an executive order on Tuesday, November 13, which allows for any foreigner connected to the events of 9/11 to be tried by military tribunal. This means, among other things, that the trials can be held in secret, defendants do not get the usual protections (such as an extended appeals process), the death penalty is an option, and Bush decides who is tried. If the notion of "connected" is as vague and potentially encompassing as the definition of "domestic terrorism" mentioned above, all foreigners who speak out in disagreement with the US government might have reason to fear suspicion with regard to 9/11.
Remember that foreigners aren't alone - H.R. 3162 applies to everyone. Foreigners are singled out only in Bush's executive order. The only difference between foreigners and citizens is the option of the military tribunal.
We've all heard how new laws won't function in unintended ways: The Civil Rights Act wouldn't result in hiring quotas; the Americans with Disabilities Act wouldn't result in costly and ridiculous lawsuits (such as the Supreme Court deciding the rules of golf); and the Endangered Species act wouldn't threaten property rights.
With such unintended consequences being the rule rather than the exception, be careful not to complain about the amount of your Social Security check or tax liability. Don't complain about emissions regulations. Don't complain about anything the government says or does. According to the definitions in H.R. 3162, your speech (especially if it's cogent) need only criticize the government, and you could stand accused of domestic terrorism.
Brad Edmonds, MS in Industrial Psychology, Doctor of Musical Arts, is a banker in Alabama.
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The argument relied in the notion of an almost disjoint transversal. Assume that is regular and uncountable, and recall that if is a sequence of sets, then is an a.d.t. for Here, is an a.d.t. for iff and whenever then is bounded.
The proof of this result was inductive, taking advantage of the well-foundedness of the partial order defined on by iff is bounded in That is well-founded allows us to define a rank for each and we can argue by considering a counterexample of least possible rank to the statement from the previous paragraph.
There are a few additional remarks on the Schröder-Bernstein theorem worth mentioning. I will expand on some of them later, in the context of descriptive set theory.
* This follows from the axiom of choice. In fact, is equivalent to: Any surjective function admits a right inverse. So the dual S-B follows from choice and the S-B theorem.
* The proofs of S-B actually show that if one has injections and , then one has a bijection contained in . So the argument above gives the same strengthened version of the dual S-B. Actually, over , this strengthened version implies choice. This is in Bernhard Banaschewski, Gregory H. Moore, The dual Cantor-Bernstein theorem and the partition principle, Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 31 (3), (1990), 375-381.
* If is onto, then there is 1-1, so if there are surjections in both directions between and , then and have the same size. Of course, this is possible even if and do not.
Open question. ( ) Does the dual Schröder-Bernstein theorem imply the axiom of choice?
* The dual S-B is not a theorem of .
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Description: For almost a half a million years, the Neanderthals and their ancestors survived the harsh climates and low ecological productivity of Ice Age Europe. Survival in glacial Europe required diets that had a high percentage of meat, since much of the plant growth during cold periods was not humanly edible. This necessary dependency on meat and other animal tissues put the Neandertals into direct competition with a diverse cast of large-bodied carnivores, including cave lions, scimitar-toothed cats, leopards, cave hyenas, wolves, dholes, cave bears, and brown bears. Given what can be inferred about Neanderthal body size, social group size, and weapon technology, it is likely that Neandertals were competitively disadvantaged relative to the larger social carnivores of the Ice Age carnivore guild – namely cave lions, scimitar-toothed cats, and cave hyenas. Because competitive dynamics within the carnivore community – both exploitative competition over resources and interference competition involving hostile interactions between species – have a major impact on carnivore demography, competition may in part explain why Neandertals lived at very low population densities throughout their tenure in Europe, and their ultimate extinction.
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The 8th Infantry Division, ("Pathfinder") was an infantry division of the United States Army during the 20th century. The division served in World War I, World War II, and Operation Desert Storm. Initially activated in January 1918, the unit did not see combat during World War I and returned to the United States. Activated again on 1 July 1940 as part of the build-up of military forces prior to the United States' entry into World War II, the division saw extensive action in the European Theatre of Operations. Following World War II, the division was moved to West Germany, where it remained stationed at the Rose Barracks in Bad Kreuznach until it was inactivated on 17 January 1992.
The 8th Division was organized at Camp Fremont, California, from men of the regular army, 3 August 1918. The division consisted of the 8th Division Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Detachment; 15th and 16th Infantry Brigades; 8th, 12th, 13th and 62nd Infantry Regiments; 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Machine Gun Battalions; 8th Field Artillery Brigade; 2d, 81st and 83rd Regiments Field Artillery; 8th Trench Mortar Battery; 8th Ammunition Train; 319th Engineer Regiment (Pioneers) and Train; 320th Field Signal Battalion; 8th Train Headquarters and Military Police; 8th Supply Train; and the 8th Sanitary Train, consisting of the 11th, 31st, 32nd and 43rd Ambulance and Field Hospital Companies.
Major General Graves, with his staff, 5000 men, and 100 officers, transferred to Siberia in August 1918, and Major General Eli A. Helmick succeeded Graves in command of the division. The overseas movement of the division to Europe began 30 October 1918. The 8th Field Artillery Brigade, 8th Infantry Regiment, 16th Infantry Brigade headquarters, and the 319th Engineer Regiment were the only divisional units to go to France. The 13th and 62nd Infantry Regiments were at sea when recalled after the Armistice, and the 12th Infantry did not leave its pre-embarkation point at Camp Mills, New York, because it was quarantined for Spanish influenza.
The troops who did reach France became the garrison of Brest and assisted in building huge camps for troops about to embark for return to the United States. The 8th Infantry Regiment became part of the American occupation forces in Germany until August 1919 and the remainder returned to the United States in January 1919, after which the division disbanded.
The 8th Division officially demobilized at Camp Lee, Virginia, in September 1919. The division was reconstituted on 24 March 1923, allotted in inactive status to the Third Corps Area for mobilization purposes, and assigned to the III Corps. Camp George G. Meade, Maryland, was its designated mobilization station for reactivation. The 16th Infantry Brigade, 12th and 34th Infantry Regiments, 1st Battalion 16th Field Artillery Regiment, 15th Ordnance Company, and 8th Tank Company (Light) were assigned to the division in June 1923 as active units and formed the base force from which the remainder of the division would be reactivated in the event of war. The commanding general of the brigade was considered the division commander for planning purposes. The 16th Brigade was stationed at Fort Howard, Maryland, from 1922 to 1928; Fort Hunt, Virginia, from 1928 to 1931; in Washington, D.C., from 1931 to 1936; and at Fort Meade from 1936 to the activation of the division.
The division headquarters was organized in April 1926 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a Regular Army Inactive unit using personnel of the Organized Reserves. The active units of the division conducted annual training with the III and XIII Corps and the 79th, 80th, and 99th Divisions. Summer training camps were usually conducted at Camp Meade.
The 16th Brigade’s 12th and 34th Infantry Regiments, reinforced by the 3d Cavalry and the District of Columbia National Guard’s 260th Coast Artillery, were called out on 28 July 1932 to quell potential trouble from the Bonus Army in Washington, D.C. The 12th Infantry was ordered to clear the United States Capitol and the camps on the Anacostia Flats of the veterans that afternoon. The division was also provisionally organized in 1939 for the First Army Maneuvers at Manassas, Virginia, with the 16th Brigade reinforced by the 66th Infantry (Light Tanks). In preparation for becoming a "triangular" division, the 8th Infantry Division was reactivated on 1 July 1940 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, without its Reserve units and assigned to the I Corps .
Awards: Medal of Honor-3 ; Distinguished Service Cross (United States)-33 ; Distinguished Service Medal (United States)-2 ; Silver Star-768; LM-12 ; DFC-2 ; SM-24 ; BSM-2,874 ; PH-1 ; AM-107.
Maj. Gen. William M. Miley (November 1945 to inactivation).
Returned to U.S.: 10 July 1945.
Major General William C. McMahon was relieved shortly after the division arrived in Normandy. His replacement, Major General Donald A. Stroh was temporarily relieved during the Hurtgen fighting; the death of his son, a pilot in the U.S.A.A.F. who was shot down over Brittany, had made a deep psychological impact. After a rest, Stroh went on to command another overseas division.
During World War II, the 8th Infantry Division was sent to Europe to fight against the Axis. After training in Ireland the 8th Infantry Division landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, 4 July 1944, and entered combat on 7 July. Shortly after its arrival, the division captured the French cities of Rennes and Brest. Fighting through the hedgerows, it crossed the Ay River, 26 July, pushed through Rennes, 8 August, and attacked Brest in September. When U.S. Brigadier General Charles Canham who was at the time the deputy commander of the 8th Infantry Division arrived to accept the surrender of German troops in Brest, the commander of the Brest garrison, General Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke asked the lower-ranking man to show his credentials. Canham pointed to his nearby troops and said "These are my credentials". That phrase has since become the 8th Infantry Division's motto.
Following these actions, the 8th turned eastward toward the German border, taking part in the heavy fighting in the Hürtgen Forest in November 1944. The Crozon Peninsula was cleared on 19 September, and the division drove across France to Luxembourg, moved to the Hurtgen Forest, 20 November, cleared Hurtgen on the 28th and Brandenberg, 3 December, and pushed on to the Roer. That river was crossed on 23 February 1945, Duren taken on the 25th and the Erft Canal crossed on the 28th. The 8th reached the Rhine near Rodenkirchen, 7 March, and maintained positions along the river near Koln. In early March 1945, the 8th had advanced into the Rhineland. It fought its way into the Ruhr region the following month.
On 6 April the division attacked northwest to aid in the destruction of enemy forces in the Ruhr Pocket, and by the 17th had completed its mission. After security duty, the division, under operational control of the British Second Army, drove across the Elbe, 1 May, and penetrated to Schwerin when the war in Europe ended.
On 2 May 1945, as it advanced into northern Germany, the 8th Infantry Division encountered the Neuengamme concentration camp Wöbbelin subcamp, near the city of Ludwigslust. The SS had established Wöbbelin in early February 1945 to house concentration camp prisoners who had been evacuated from other Nazi camps to prevent their liberation by the Allies. Wöbbelin held some 5,000 inmates, many of whom suffered from starvation and disease. The sanitary conditions at the camp when the 8th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division arrived were deplorable. There was little food or water, and some prisoners had resorted to cannibalism. In the first week after liberation, more than 200 inmates died. In the aftermath, the United States Army ordered the townspeople in Ludwigslust to visit the camp and bury the dead.
The 8th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
30 November 1943: Attached to First Army.
24 December 1943: XV Corps.
1 July 1944: VIII Corps, attached to First Army.
5 September 1944: VIII Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.
22 October 1944: VIII Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group.
19 November 1944: V Corps.
22 December 1944: XIX Corps, Ninth Army (attached to British 21st Army Group), 12th Army Group.
3 February 1945: VII Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group.
2 April 1945: XVIII (Abn) Corps.
26 April 1945: XVIII (Abn) Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group, but attached for operations to the British Second Army in the British 21st Army Group.
Three soldiers of the 8th Division were awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II.
Private First Class Ernest Prussman, 13th Infantry Regiment. Prussman took over his squad on 8 September 1944 during the advance on Les Coates [wrong transliteration of Loscoat, near Brest] in Brittany, and disarmed several Germans, including a machine gun crew. Shot by a German rifleman, his dying act was to unleash a hand grenade that killed the man who shot him. His Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously.
Private First Class Walter C. Wetzel, 13th Infantry Regiment. As acting squad leader in the regimental Anti-Tank Company, PFC Wetzel defended his platoon's command post from an enemy attack on 3 April 1945. Wetzel threw himself on either 1 or 2 enemy grenades (sources vary) thrown into the C.P. His Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously.
Staff Sergeant John W. Minick, Company I, 121st Infantry Regiment. After his battalion was halted by enemy minefields during an advance on 21 November 1944 during the Hurtgen fighting, he led four men through the obstacle, then successfully destroyed an enemy machine gun post that had opened fire on the small party. Moving forward again, he single-handedly engaged an entire company of enemy soldiers, killing 20 men and capturing 20 more. Resuming the advance, he tried to scout through another minefield, but detonated a mine in the attempt. His Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously.
The 8th Infantry Division was reactivated in 1950 as a training division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and later became a regular infantry division. In 1957 it was rotated to West Germany, initially on a temporary basis in Operation Gyroscope, but remained in West Germany for decades. The Division's First Brigade (with subordinate units) was stationed in Mainz, the Second Brigade (with subordinate units) was stationed in Baumholder, and the Third Brigade (with subordinate units) was stationed in Mannheim (Sullivan and Coleman Barracks). The Division's Fourth Brigade (actually, an attached brigade from the 4th Infantry Division) was stationed in Wiesbaden and made the 8th Infantry Division unique - it was the Army's only four brigade division. From 14 December 1957, until it was inactivated on 17 January 1992, it was headquartered at Bad Kreuznach.
From the late 1950s until the early 1960s, the 8th Infantry Division was organized as a partially Airborne Pentomic division, with two of its five battle groups (the 1st Airborne Battle Group, 504th Infantry, and 1st Airborne Battle Group, 505th Infantry) on jump status. In 1963 the division was reorganized into a brigade structure with the 1st Brigade on jump status, and 1-504th was reorganized and reflagged as the 1st Battalion (Abn), 509th Infantry and 1-505th as the 2d Battalion (Abn), 509th Infantry. Supporting units throughout the division (for example, one field artillery battalion, one company of the engineer battalion, one platoon of the MP company, etc.) were also on jump status. The 8th Infantry Division operated its own jump school at Wiesbaden Air Base to support its 1st Brigade as well as other elements of the United States Army, Europe. In 1973 the 1st Brigade's jump status was terminated, the two Airborne infantry battalions were reflagged as the 2d Battalion, 28th Infantry and the 2d Battalion, 87th Infantry, and the colors of 1-509th were transferred to Vicenza, Italy, to establish a separate Airborne battalion combat team.
The 4th Battalion, 34th Armor, stationed at Lee Barracks in Mainz-Gonsenheim, and the 12th Engineer Battalion stationed at Anderson Barracks, were attached to the 3d Armored Division during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. In addition, elements of the 8th ID (M) were deployed to Southern Turkey in support of Operation Provide Comfort in the spring of 1991. Upon completion of that tour they were authorized to wear the 8th ID shoulder sleeve insignia as former wartime service patch on the right shoulder of their uniforms.
The 8th Infantry Division was known as the "Pathfinder" division during World War I, and both it and the "Golden Arrow" division during World War II. Both nicknames originated from the division's insignia, which includes a gold arrow to represent the 19th-century explorer of California, John Fremont. The division was formed at Camp Fremont, California in 1918. It was later known to many of its post World War II soldiers as Eight Up (Ate Up: a military term meaning out of order, screwed up) and "The Crazy Eight," after the card game.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History document "8th Infantry Division".
↑ Video: Allies Liberate Florence etc. Universal Newsreel. 1944. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
1 2 3 4 5 "The 8th Infantry Division". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
↑ "8th Infantry Division". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
↑ "Table of Organization and Equipment Operation Gyroscope". Fatherswar.com. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
↑ Stanton, Shelby, Vietnam Order of Battle: A Complete Illustrated Reference to the U.S. Army and Allied Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1961-1973, Stackpole Books 2006, p. 340-341 where a divisional order of battle in Korea can be found.
↑ Gebhardt, James F. Eyes Behind the Lines: US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units. Combat Studies Institute. p. 20. ISBN 9781428916333. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
↑ Little, Vince (15 November 2011). "Brigade dedicates headquarters, conference room". Ledger-Enquirer.
Boesch, Paul. Forest in Hell. Originally published as Road to Hurtgen: Forest in Hell). Memoir by officer of Company G, 121st Infantry Regiment.
Greisbach, Marc. Combat History of the 8th Infantry Division in World War II, softcover booklet originally published 1945. Reprints made by Battery Press in Nashville, TN.
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Describe the company and explain what makes it unique: Arnold Homes LLC’s flexible building process embraces homeowners’ special requests to deliver the home of their dreams. Highly focused on direct communication with our clients, Arnold Homes is a family oriented company providing premier craftsmanship, competitive pricing, a non-stressful building process and life-long friendships.
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Arnold Homes LLC builds in Williamson, Rutherford, Davidson and Wilson counties. Our current neighborhoods include Tuscany Hills (Brentwood), Ivan Creek (Franklin), Brienz Valley (Franklin), Kings’ Chapel (Arrington), Bridgemore Village (Thompson’s Station), Cherry Grove (Spring Hill), Autumn Ridge (Spring Hill), Arbors of Autumn Ridge (Spring Hill), and Mirabella (Murfreesboro). We also build on private lots as well.
What type of housing do the company’s developments include? Arnold Homes’ developments include single family detached homes and townhomes.
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What is the price range? We build a spectrum of homes from $350,000 and up, including neighborhoods and custom home projects that are $800,000 to $1 million-plus.
What features are most popular today? Our clients today love smart, functional, open floor plans. We also find two bedrooms on the first floor to be a popular choice with our multi-level homes.
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What is the hallmark of your homes? Arnold Homes excels in providing premier craftsmanship with natural and architecturally pleasing details inside and outside the home. We strike a balance between the newest trends in building while continuing to offer comfortable and functional floor plans.
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I like to keep our curtains closed when the sun is shining into our family room in order to protect our furniture and pictures along our walls. The window faces west, so the sun streams in until it nearly sets. However, my husband says he feels like a mole, and thinks opening the curtains and letting the sun in after 3pm would be fine. Is that a good compromise?
Ultraviolet rays can be damaging to your furniture, floors, and framed pictures, even after 3pm. A simple solution is to install a solar shade with a sheer weave that blocks out most of the sun's harmful rays, but lets you see out. These solar shades come in a variety of colors that can compliment and enhance your current window covering.
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In GnuPG 2.1, secret keys are now stored independently – they're maintained by gpg-agent, which keeps them in ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/. So both gpg -k and gpg -K now have to read the OpenPGP information from the pubring, but the latter additionally asks gpg-agent about which certificates have associated secret keys. To use AES, both sides need to know the same secret key - there aren't separate public and private keys. I have been using crypto++'s RSA cryptographic methods for a project. The weakest link (that I can think of) will be the users device, which will store their own private rsa key. So to explain what i need to do in this programme, is to create an AES key and a private and public key using RSA algorithm. In theory that means that only the rightful user can decrypt the AES key to get access to the stored content. To make it more secure one should actually follow the extended procedure outlined in section 13.6 of. Stack Exchange network consists of 174 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. The RSA decryption primitive recovers the message representative from the ciphertext representative under the control of a private key Parameters. RSA decryption uses the private key. But, unfortunately, I'm not a cryptography expert. No one intercepting the message can decrypt it, and you don't have to pass your private key to anyone for then to send you an encrypted message. RPGLE RSA decrypt string with private key using bouncy castle Java Crypto APIs In this example we first created a Java program that takes care of all the heavy lifting of decrypting the String data and then we call the Java method by prototyping that in our RPGLE program. The public key in this pair can be known by anyone and can be distributed widely without issue to encrypt messages. Decryption using private key for "Staging_Signature_PrivateKey.p12", we working in c# platform. Input to Cipher.getInstance() can have two forms: "algorithm/mode/padding" or "algorithm" When you only specify Cipher.getInstance("RSA"); you get a default padding, and as you encryption did not include a padding, the decrypt fails when trying to remove an expected padding.
The key is just a string of random bytes. And in the end decrypt the message with the RSA private key. For performance purposes the files are protected by symmetric AES 128 encryption, with the keys stored on Mega. One then writes to the ciphertext file the RSA encrypted session key followed by the symmetric encrypted data. Then go back to the voting sites and change your old public key to …. Parag Rathod wrote:Thank You Sir.Problem got resolved i was because of Base 64 Decode. When the decryption is not in a context where an attacker could gain information from the timing of the operation, the blinder can be set to None. Which, as least, gives us a name for this format, but, like yourself, I cannot find, and would welcome, something that approaches a formal description of this format. I …. The RSA public key is signed with the Ed25519 key. I was trying to find a way to replicate the session-id decoding of mega.co.nz in Ruby using OpenSSL.
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The private keys are stored in the MEGA cloud, protected (encrypted) with the user's master key, which itself is stored with MEGA after being protected through encryption with a key derived from the user's password. Because MEGA only ever knows the public keys, all encryption is controlled by the user, and we recommend a very strong password. The "BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY" packaging is sometimes called: "SSLeay format" or "traditional format" for private key. The arguments to this function are, in order: the hash function to use, the mask generation function (MGF), the recipient's RSA public key, a random seed, a label to associate with the message, and the message to be encrypted. You are trying to encrypt and decrypt with AES, which is a symmetric algorithm, using your RSA keys (which are meant to work with RSA, which is an asymmetric algorithm). Parameters: key (RSA key object) – The key to use to encrypt or decrypt the message. This is a Crypto.PublicKey.RSA object. Decryption is only possible if key is a private RSA key. The problem is I don't understand/recognise. In such case, everybody shares a key (which will be the public one by the definition above, used for encryption), whereas the receiver has got the one which is not shared with anybody else (which must be the private key, used for decryption). Although there was a tool to decrypt files, it was useless without the private encryption keys. As a result, the only way to unlock a file encrypted with CryptoLocker was with the private key. The following are 50 code examples for showing how to use Crypto.PublicKey.RSA.generate(). They are extracted from open source Python projects. RSA encryption using public key from PEM certificate file and decryption using private key from PEM key file crashes at decryption #9. Public – Private Key Encryption Using OpenSSL. Using OpenSSL. Guardar. Public – Private Key Encryption Using OpenSSL. For RSA signing, you encrypt a hash with the private key. This is the norm for keypair (asymm) to protect file encryption key (symm) and then use file encryption key (symm) to encrypt the actual file (payload). I wear a lot of hats - Developer, Database Administrator, Help Desk, etc., so I know a lot of things but not a lot about one thing. Passing an int function to a while loop in java; I need to reduce the lines of my code because in my class they demand a total of lines; create jar file with xml file inside using maven [duplicate]. You can take an RSA encryption algorithm and feed it a private key, or an RSA decryption algorithm and feed it a public key. However, the results are not meaningful according to standard algorithms. However, the results are not meaningful according to standard algorithms. Article Content Article Number 000023138 Applies To RSA BSAFE SSL-C RSA BSAFE Crypto-C PKCS #8 encoded private key Issue How to use Crypto-C to convert keys stored in PKCS 8 format to a format readable by SSL-C Cau. If an attacker can send you "messages" of his choosing for you to decrypt, and he can work out the private key from your responses, then that is called a chosen ciphertext attack. Performs asymmetric encryption and decryption using the implementation of the RSA algorithm provided by the cryptographic service provider (CSP). And the private key corresponding to that public key can decrypt the encrypted message. If the device is compromised, then the storage location can be decrypted. And in this lecture and the previous one we've seen examples of public key encryption schemes based on the discrete logarithm and here are the RSA problems. Encryption, decryption, signing and verifying all worked well until about two days ago, when I. An online RSA public and private key generator - Travis Tidwell I was recently in a meeting where a person needed to generate a private and public key for RSA encryption, but they…travistidwell.com. Encryption is the process of converting a plain text message in to cipher text which can be decoded back in to the original message. An encryption algorithm along with a key is used in the encryption and decryption of data. Rajeshkumar are fixed this problem.If possible kindly advice to me. Sanjith, we are working in more than one month the same problem based.Please kindly advice to me. Discussion in 'Microsoft Dot NET Framework' started by Guest, Jan 28, 2005. The word asymmetric denotes the use of a pair of keys for encryption – a public key and a private key. It is related mathematically to the private key, but you cannot (easily) reverse engineer the private key from the public key. Use the public keyto encrypt data. Only someone with the private keycan decrypt. I then wanna encrypt a msg with the AES key and then encrypt that AES key with the RSA public key. The AES keys themselves are encrypted with 1024 bit RSA public/private keys generated and kept by the user. DESCRIPTION. The EVP_PKEY_decrypt_init() function initializes a public key algorithm context using key pkey for a decryption operation. The EVP_PKEY_decrypt() function performs a public key decryption operation using ctx. We have agreed to provide a flag for use at runtime to allow for the RSA encryption of data with the private key, as well as decryption of data with the public key. This flag can be set with the following property: -Dcom.ibm.crypto.provider.DoRSATypeChecking=false In Java 5, 6, 6.0_26, and 7, the default value will be "true" -- meaning that IBM's Java will have the old behavior. Then go back to the voting sites and change your old public key to the new one. A private key can only decrypt information that has been encrypted with its matching public key. RSA uses a public key/private key combination.
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Answer ten quick questions to find out which kind of bird you are. Each bird represents a personality type, with their own buying preferences. To create the best customer experience for each type, you can read more about them.
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Which of the following statements best describes you?
I like to decide things. Sometimes it’s important to be seen and heard, but it’s not important that everyone agrees with me.
I often act as a peacemaker, trying to unite people, and I feel uneasy when there is disagreement. At times, I can make illogical decisions just to create harmony in the group.
I want my decisions to be consistent and logical; that’s more important than everyone’s agreeing. I don’t necessarily need to be the one taking the decisions.
I usually come up with new and innovative ideas, but I often lack the focus to complete them. I quickly turn to something else and need someone to execute the ideas for me.
I like planning my work and spare time, and I need to feel in control.
I am usually spontaneous. Routine bores me. I love the unexpected.
I frequently adapt to my environment, and I often go along with plans that my family or friends make. My actions are about as spontaneous as they are planned.
I love challenges. It doesn’t matter whether they’re planned or spontaneous as long as I get to be adventurous.
I probably am involved in fewer conflicts than other people. I like to avoid conflicts, and when they arise, I like them to be resolved quickly.
I am involved in more conflicts than most people, and it doesn’t bother me. There is no development without conflict.
I am involved in about as many conflicts as everyone else, and they don’t bother me.
I don’t really think too much about whether there are conflicts. I am spontaneous and restless, so I quickly focus on something else.
I like to entertain and be the center of attention.
I don’t mind receiving praise, but it is important that it is based on performance.
I think it is OK to receive praise if it is based on subjective reasons. It doesn’t always have to be based on performance.
I like receiving praise for my ability to come up with new ideas and my ability to never get stuck in rules or routines.
I enjoy helping other people grow, professionally and personally.
I think rules should always be followed.
I enjoy bending, or breaking, some rules.
I try to network with as many people as possible when I meet a new group of people, because I want them to know who I am.
I try to network with as many people as possible when I meet a new group of people, because I get bored if I don’t.
I prefer to speak with a few people whom I really get along with personality-wise.
I prefer to speak with a few people whom can teach me something.
I often get bored if I focus on only one thing, and following procedures makes me frustrated.
I want to be acknowledged, admired, and praised by others.
It is important that everyone in my group gets along, and I find it troubling if everyone isn’t happy.
I have a need to focus, and I can quite easily ignore distractions from the outside environment when needed.
If someone asks you where you see yourself in five years, can you answer that question?
Of course. I like planning ahead.
Absolutely not. I don’t even really like planning tomorrow.
Maybe. I haven’t thought about it much.
My own success is, of course. I love doing my very best, and I love winning.
The success of friends and family is at least as important as my own success; sometimes it is even more important.
My success is equally important as the success of my friends and family.
I do what I want to, and I do it when I feel like it.
I do what’s expected of me, even during turbulent times.
I do what’s good for most of the people around me, even if it sometimes means sacrificing what’s in my own best interest.
I do what it takes to get a competitive advantage and achieve success.
One final question: Which of the following statements best describes you?
I am impatient. Routine, rules, and planning are a pain.
I am thorough. I want to know all the facts before making up my mind.
I am competitive. I love challenging myself.
I am compassionate. How others feel has a big impact on me.
The peacock is the prestigious buyer. Knowing that someone famous and successful uses a product means it must be good. It is important to the peacock to make the best possible purchase so that they can show off their beautiful feathers to others. The peacock feels a little embarrassed if someone else made a better purchase.
The penguin finds relationships important. They want to know that there are real people behind the company they are buying from, and they enjoy reading reviews and customer testimonials.
The swallow is the spontaneous buyer. They just want to get to the finish quickly. That’s more important than making the best purchase. Life is too short for the swallow to waste too much time on a purchase.
People can be divided into four different approaches to purchasing. We’ve decided to use birds to illustrate them! Every single one of us has a little more of one bird in us, but you could say we all have a primary bird type and a secondary one. Which type we act like also depends, to some degree, on which product or service is involved. It is more difficult to act like a peacock or owl when buying a book compared to when choosing an insurance company. When we work with conversion optimization and A/B testing, we use the different bird types to make sure that challengers speak to all four types.
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Garmin GPSmap 276C 63 Cent Floppy Antenna "Fix"
My aging GPS has recently been suffering from FAS (floppy antenna syndrome). That is, the BNC mounted external antenna needs a little Viagra to stand straight up and continue pointing to the sky like it should. Over time, the plastic that provides a little friction between the GPS case and the antenna itself tends to wear due to vibration, allowing things to get a little sloppy. You'll know if your GPS has this problem if the antenna falls over to the right and looks like the photo below.
I've seen this problem solved with a rubber band (you know who you are), but I had a better idea. I figured a properly sized O-ring placed over the business end of the BNC connector on the GPS itself would cause enough extra friction with antenna to keep things pointing north. The BNC connector on the GPS is shown below.
I slipped it over the BNC and tamped it down to the base as shown in this photo.
Thinking this would do the trick, I aligned the antenna and popped it back in place. My thinking wasn't right - never really is. The antenna was still as loose as when I started. OK, maybe two O-rings would do the trick if they're stacked on top of each other. After a convenient stop back at the hardware store later in the day (they love me), I procured yet another identical O-ring and immediate stacked it on the other. STILL no success. What?!?
It was then I realized that the antenna's connector slips inside the BNC on the GPS and not over it. It would take quite a few O-rings stacked to provide enough friction to get the job done. It was at this point that I fished the 2nd one back off the BNC and tried something different.
Take Two: I placed the O-ring loosely over the end of the antenna's connector and lined things back up to reattach the antenna to the GPS. As I pressed the antenna into place, the O-ring is forced up and onto the BNC in a manner that it doesn't align perfectly, but provides just enough resistance to make things a whole lot tighter. Success!!
No more floppy antenna! So, for 63 cents (just one O-ring if you try it), I managed a cheap, effective solution. Because I bought two, I ended up with a spare that I can fish off the BNC connector in case I ever wear this one out. Try it!
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How will you make your next bike trip? You should absolutely take into consideration trek bikes. The Trek Bicycle Corporation was launched in 1976, inside a rented barn positioned in Waterloo Wisconsin. The business started with five personnel and sold just a single product. Then in 1977, Penn Cycle (positioned in Minneapolis, Minnesota) became the initial Trek dealer. For more than 30 years, the business has remained one of several leaders in bicycles, supplying a wide selection of excellent two-wheelers for practically everyone.
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Will social media one day become brands' main way to distribute content?
Social-media platforms mean consumers could replace media-owners as the primary distribution model for brands' content.
All media has the potential to be social, and these channels, whether 100 years old or 100 days old, are needed to get brands' content into the hands of consumers in the first place. Most brands create a wide variety and type of content that needs an equally wide range of channels to reach consumers.
Advances in technology have made it easier than ever for great content to be shared by consumers, but, as we all look for that much sought-after viral impact, this makes it more difficult to achieve. Brands may look to consumers to directly share the right type of content, but I can't yet see a time when consumers will be the key distributor of as many pieces and types of brand communications as you might see in newspapers, magazines or on TV.
In high-interest categories, and those where there are significant differences between products, social influence is likely to be high. The film John Carter bombed so badly because people who had seen the film tended to speak, write, tweet and retweet about it, and those who hadn't were more influenced by these peer-to-peer reviews than the film's ads.
However, in low-interest and homogeneous categories, the reverse is more likely to be the case. There are, after all, not many blogs comparing the merits and de-merits of different crisps. And just because Lady Gaga has almost 38m Twitter followers hanging on her every word, does not mean you can pull off a similar trick for your bog roll. This is not to say you can't have an amazing idea, but it's inherently tougher. So, sometimes yes, sometimes no - a classic "maybe".
We've been in the social-media age for some time: 2.5bn people have access to the internet and Facebook alone has 1bn active users a month, yet consumers haven't replaced media-owners. Nor will they.
The democracy and openness of social media means it is necessarily unstructured and unfocused, not an ideal environment for brands seeking to build exposure and manage reputation. Brands need media-owners of scale to reach mass audiences, inclusive of targeted demographics.
Social media is a powerful tool and allows much differing engagement with brands - consumers are certainly more involved with them in social and are complaining, celebrating, sharing and distributing as a matter of course.
Sharing content with friends and engaging instantly with brands is one of the great pleasures of social media - but that hardly constitutes a new business model.
You really would need to have drunk a bucketful of social-media Kool-Aid to believe that this will happen. Paid-for-media isn't going away any time soon, and will always remain a key part of brands' marketing spend. Generally, though, earned and owned media are becoming more important as social media reshapes consumer behaviour, and sensible brands are reshaping their budgets to take advantage.
Altimeter's "converged media" model is perhaps the most useful guide to this new environment, with it becoming more difficult to separate media into neat categories of paid, earned and owned, with each taking on characteristics of the others and all needing to work in unison to drive maximum effect.
How fast traditional agencies are adapting to this is a different question, so it's more important than ever for brands to select the right partners to help them navigate these uncharted waters.
Social media is a brilliant way for brands to distribute content, but radio and TV will continue to contribute greatly. Social channels deliver a significant way to communicate and, when combined with other media outlets, make a more compelling offering and endorsement.
Media-owners kick-start distribution, closely followed up by loyal advocates. It is essential for them to recognise the importance of consumers sharing content and include social media in their marketing plans. Based on our experience at Absolute Radio, I believe the creators will remain the main starting point for communicating content, but only if they have excellent interaction with their audience.
Social should complement paid media, not replace it. Non-linear consumer journeys, which are the norm for today's considered consumer, mean that brands need to have content in lots of places to build stronger relationships with consumers.
Savvy brands are recognising the fact that their media strategies need to evolve to ensure their content gets in front of consumers. Social commerce, co-buying and review engines are examples of how social is central to the way people shop, and placing relevant and compelling content around this experience will influence the purchase decision.
Brands will begin to invest more in spaces where they haven't bought media, tapping into the rise of influence marketing and social media to amplify campaigns. New distribution and participation models that use consumers will form part of a good media strategy, but won't replace it.
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I was at a convenience keep other day getting a soda when the cashier created a comment to an alternative store employee that there was a recent "screwup" by way of a young employee. I started to talk using the cashier/manager, who expressed her frustration that today's young people "don't know anything." She was a mature woman who had experience doing her job, so her comment was mainly fond of the job concerning the store. I started to take into account her comment in more general terms. To put the stereotype within the bluntest of terms: Old people don't get young adults and vice versa.
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George Armistead (April 10, 1780 – April 25, 1818) was an American military officer who served as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
Armistead was born on the Newmarket Plantation in Caroline County, Virginia (now in Milford).
His military career began during the Quasi War with France when he was commissioned as an ensign in the 7th U.S. Infantry Regiment on January 14, 1799. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on March 3 of the same year and to 1st lieutenant on May 14, 1800. With the reduction in the Army after the Quasi War, he was discharged from the Army on June 15, 1800.
He re-entered the Army on February 16, 1801 when he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. He was promoted to captain on November 1, 1806.
He was one of five brothers who served in the War of 1812, either in the regular army or militia. He was promoted to major of the 3rd Artillery Regiment on March 3, 1813.
He distinguished himself at the capture of Fort George from the British, near the mouth of Niagara River in Canada on May 27, 1813 while serving as an artillery officer at Fort Niagara. He would later carry the captured British flags to President James Madison. Upon his arrival in Washington, Armistead was ordered to "take command of Fort McHenry."
When he arrived at Fort McHenry, located in the outer harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, Armistead ordered "a flag so large that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance". That flag, known as the Star Spangled Banner Flag, measured 42' x 30', and was made by Baltimore resident Mary Pickersgill, her daughter, and seven seamstresses, and would be later memorialized by Francis Scott Key in the poem "The Star Spangled Banner", which later became the American national anthem.
During the nearly 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry, commencing before dawn on September 13 until the morning of September 14, 1814, Armistead alone knew the fort’s magazine was not bombproof. When a shell crashed through the roof of the magazine but failed to explode, Armistead ordered the powder barrels cleared out and placed under the rear walls of the fort. Remarkably, only four men were killed, when two shells smashed into the fort's southwest bastion, despite a deadly rain of some 2,000 mortar shells that the British bombardment fleet fired at the fort. Because the Royal Navy proved unable to capture or reduce the fort in order to enter Baltimore harbor to bombard the main American defense line east of the city, British commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane wrote to British Army commander Colonel Arthur Brooke that it was up to him whether to decide to attack or withdraw. Brooke, who had taken over from Major-General Robert Ross, who was mortally wounded just before the Battle of North Point on September 12, decided to withdraw.
Following the battle, Armistead was soon breveted to lieutenant colonel. Much weakened by the arduous preparations for the battle, he died at age 38, only three years later.
Armistead's brother, Brevet Brigadier General Walker Keith Armistead, graduated from West Point in 1803. He was chief engineer of the Army from 1818 to 1821 and then served as colonel of the 3d Artillery Regiment until his death in 1845. He had a total of 42 years of service as a commissioned officer.
A nephew of Armistead's, Lewis Addison Armistead, the son of Walker Armistead, was a well known Confederate General in the American Civil War who died at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Discharged - June 15, 1800.
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My gums are swollen underneath my tooth on the right side and it looks like it's getting bigger. What can I do?
Most probably it may be due to gingivitis or periodontitis.
- Eat foods rich in vitamin C, such as grapefruit, oranges, kiwi fruit, mango, papaya, strawberry, red pepper, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cantaloupe. Vitamin C can also be taken in supplement form. Vitamin C is believed to help gum disease because it is an antioxidant and is needed to repair connective tissue and accelerate bone regeneration.
- Apply a drop of tea tree oil which has proven it's antibiotic properties.
- Use a soft toothbrush and replace it at least every three to four months.
- Brush your teeth twice a day, or better yet, after every meal or snack.
- Use an antiseptic mouthwash.
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Motion To: WHEREAS the Terms of Reference of the Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee state that the membership shall include one (1) Member of Council in a liaison capacity; and WHEREAS at its meeting of December 5, 2018, Council approved the “2018-2022 Council Governance Review report” (ACS2018-CCS-GEN-0028), which recommended that the Advisory Committee Council Liaison role of each committee be open to any interested member of the parent Standing Committee, to be appointed by the Standing Committee at its first meeting of 2019; and WHEREAS in response to the circulation undertaken by the City Clerk and Solicitor, Councillor Shawn Menard has expressed his interest in serving as the Councillor Liaison for the Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management appoint Councillor Shawn Menard to serve as its liaison Member for the 2018-2022 Term of Council.
Motion To: TAX That the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management recommends that Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management 2019 Tax-supported Draft Operating and Capital Budget, as follows: 1. Infrastructure Services as follows: a. User Fees (p. 9); b. Operating Resource Requirement (p. 8). 2. Resliliency and Natural Systems Policy Operating Resource Requirement (p. 10); 3. Solid Waste Services as follows: a. User Fees (pp. 12-13); b. Operating Resource Requirements (p. 11); 4. Forestry Services as follows: a. User Fees (p. 15); b. Operating Resource Requirement (p. 14). 5. Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management Capital Budget p. 16 (individual projects listed pp. 34-35, pp. 37-45).
Motion To: RATE That the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management recommends that Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management 2019 Rate-supported Draft Operating and Capital Budget, including amended pages 23-25B and 115-119B, as follows: 1. Drinking Water Services as follows: a. User Fees (pp. 9-13); b. Operating Resource Requirement (p. 8). 2. Wastewater Services as follows: a. User Fees (pp. 15-17) b. Operating Resource Requirement (p. 14); 3. Stormwater Services as follows: a. User Fees (pp. 19-22); b. Operating Resource Requirements (p. 18); 4. The Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management Rate-Supported Capital Budget (pp. 23-25B, as amended, individual projects listed on pp. 39-64, 66-69, 71-92 and 94-114).
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Robert Leroy Johnson (1911 gegužės 8 – 1938 rugpjūčio 16) Amerikos bliuzo muzikantas, vienas iš pačių žymiausių Delta bliuzo muzikantų. Jo 1936–1937 metų muzikos įrašai liudija nepaprastą dainavimo, gitaros meistriškumo, ir dainų kūrėjo talentų kombinaciją, kurie padarė didžiulę įtaką vėlesnėms muzikantų kartoms. Johnson'o mažai žinomas ir mažai aprašytas gyvenimas ir mirtis (mirė būdamas 27 metų) davė pagrindo daugybei legendų apie jį.
Laikomas vienu iš rokenrolo „senelių"("Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll"). Jo vokalo stilius, originalios dainos, ir gitaros stilius įkvėpė daugybę muzikantų iš kurių paminėįtini Muddy Waters, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck, ir Eric Clapton. Eric'as Clapton'as pavadino Johnson'ą „svarbiausiu visų laikų bliuzo daininku"("the most important blues singer that ever lived"). Roling Stones žurnalo visų laikų geriausių gitaristų šimtuke (Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time) jam skirta penktoji vieta.
Jis įrašytas į Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ir Blues Hall of Fame (1980).
Johnson's records were greatly admired by many jazz record collectors from the time of their first release, and efforts were made to discover his biography, with virtually no success. In 1941 Alan Lomax learned from a very shy Muddy Waters that Johnson had performed in the Clarksdale, Mississippi area. By 1959, Samuel Charters could only add that Will Shade of the Memphis Jug Band remembered Johnson had once briefly played with him in West Memphis, Arkansas. In 1961 the sleeve notes to the album King of the Delta Blues Singers included reminiscences of Don Law who had recorded Johnson in 1936. Law added to the mystique surrounding Johnson, representing him as very young and extraordinarily shy.
The success of the album led blues scholars and enthusiasts to question every veteran blues musician who might have known Johnson or seen him in performance. A relatively full account of Johnson's brief musical career emerged in the 1960s, largely from accounts by Son House, Johnny Shines, David Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Lockwood.
Still nothing was known of Johnson's early life. The noted blues researcher Mack McCormick began researching his family background, but he was never ready to publish. Eventually McCormick's research became as much a legend as Johnson himself. In 1982 McCormick permitted Peter Guralnick to publish a summary in Living Blues (1982), later reprinted in book form as Searching for Robert Johnson. Later research has sought to confirm this account or to add minor details. A revised summary acknowledging major informants was written by Stephen LaVere for the booklet accompanying the compilation album Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings (1990), and is maintained with updates at the Delta Haze website. The documentary film "The Search for Robert Johnson" contains accounts by Mack McCormick and Gayle Dean Wardlow of what informants have told them, long interviews of David Honeyboy Edwards and Johnny Shines, and short interviews of surviving friends and family. These published biographical sketches achieve coherent narratives, partly by ignoring reminiscences and hearsay accounts which contradict or conflict with other accounts.
The two confirmed images of Johnson were located in 1973, in the possession of the musician's half-sister Carrie Thompson, and were not widely published until the late 1980s. A third photo, purporting to show Johnson posing with fellow blues performer Johnny Shines, was published in the November 2008 edition of Vanity Fair magazine. The same article claims that other photographs of Johnson, so far unpublished, may exist.
The first two photographs and the royalties from the Complete Recordings were so remunerative as to make Johnson's biography a cause for litigation. Carrie Thompson's claim to be Robert's half-sister has been recognised under law, and Claud Johnson has been recognised as Robert's natural son and sole living heir.
Five significant dates from his career are documented: Monday, Thursday and Friday, November 23, 26, and 27, 1936 at a recording session in San Antonio, Texas. Seven months later, on Saturday and Sunday, June 19–20, 1937, he was in Dallas, Texas at another session. His death certificate was discovered in 1968, and lists the date and location of his death. Two marriage licenses for Johnson have also been located in county records offices. The ages given in these certificates point to different birth dates, as do the entries showing his attendance at the Indian Creek School, Tunica, Mississippi. However, most of these dates can be discounted since Robert was not listed among his mother's children in the 1910 census. Carrie Thompson claimed that her mother, who was also Robert's mother, remembered his birth date as May 8, 1911. The 1920 census suggests he was born in 1912.
Other facts about him are less well established. Director Martin Scorsese says in his foreword to Alan Greenberg's filmscript Love In Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson, "The thing about Robert Johnson was that he only existed on his records. He was pure legend."
Robert Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, probably on May 8, 1911 or 1912, to Julia Major Dodds (born October, 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December, 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February, 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker to whom she had borne 10 children. Dodds had been forced by a lynch mob to leave Hazlehurst following a dispute with white landowners. Julia herself left Hazlehurst with baby Robert, but after some two years sent him to live in Memphis with Dodds, who had changed his name to Charles Spencer.
Around 1919, Robert rejoined his mother in the area around Tunica and Robinsonville, Mississippi. Julia's new husband was known as Dusty Willis, who was 24 years younger than her, and Robert was remembered by some informants as "Little Robert Dusty". However, he was registered at the Indian Creek School in Tunica as Robert Spencer. He is listed as Robert Spencer in the 1920 census with Will and Julia Willis in Lucas, Arkansas, where they lived a short time. Robert was at school in 1924 and 1927 and the quality of his signature on his marriage certificate suggests that he studied continuously and was relatively well educated for a boy of his background. One school friend, Willie Coffee, has been discovered and filmed. He recalls that Robert was already noted for playing the harmonica and jaw harp.
After school, Robert adopted the surname of his natural father, signing himself as Robert Johnson on the certificate of his marriage to sixteen-year-old Virginia Travis in February 1929. She died shortly after in childbirth.
Around this time, the noted blues musician Son House moved to Robinsonville where his musical partner Willie Brown already lived. Late in life, House remembered Johnson as a boy who had followed him around and tried very unsuccessfully to copy him. He then left the Robbinsonville area, but later reappeared after a few months with a miraculous guitar technique. His boast seems to be credible; Johnson later recorded versions of "Preaching the Blues" and "Walking Blues" in House's vocal and guitar style. However, Son's chronology is questioned by Guralnick. When House moved to Robbinsville in 1930, Johnson was a young adult, already married and widowed. The following year, he was living near Hazelhurst, where he married for the second time. From this base Johnson began travelling up and down the Delta as an itinerant musician.
According to a legend known to modern Blues fans, Robert Johnson was a young black man living on a plantation in rural Mississippi. Branded with a burning desire to become a great blues musician, he was instructed to take his guitar to a crossroad near Dockery Plantation at midnight. There he was met by a large black man (the Devil) who took the guitar from Johnson and tuned it. After tuning the guitar, the devil played a few songs and then returned it to Johnson, giving him mastery of the guitar. This in effect sold Johnson's soul; and in exchange Robert Johnson became able to play, sing, and create the greatest blues anyone had ever heard.
This legend was developed over time, and has been chronicled by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward Komara and Elijah Wald. Folk tales of bargains with the Devil have long existed in African American and White traditions, and were adapted into literature by, amongst others, Washington Irving in "The Devil and Tom Walker" in 1824, and by Stephen Vincent Benet in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" in 1936. In the 1930s the folklorist Harry Middleton Hart recorded many tales of banjo players, fiddlers, card sharps and dice sharks selling their souls at the crossroads, along with guitarists and one accordionist. The folklorist Alan Lomax considered that every African American secular musician was "in the opinion of both himself and his peers, a child of the devil, a consequence of the black view of the European dance embrace as sinful in the extreme".
In recorded Blues, the theme first appeared in 1924 in the record by Clara Smith "Done Sold My Soul To The Devil (And My Heart's Done Turned To Stone)". An influential song, Smith's tune was covered during the following decade by blues artists Merline Johnson (the Yas Yas Girl), Casey Bill Weldon, and John D. Twitty. A cover was also recorded in 1937 by the white Western Swing band named after their business manager Dave Edwards.
Johnson seems to have claimed occasionally that he had sold his soul to the Devil, but it is not clear that he meant it seriously. However, these claims are strongly disputed in Tom Graves' biography of Johnson, Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson, published in 2008. Son House once told the story to Pete Welding as an explanation of Johnson's astonishingly rapid mastery of the guitar. Welding reported it as a serious belief in a widely read article in Down Beat in 1966. However, other interviewers failed to elicit any confirmation from House. Moreover, there were fully two years between House's observation of Robert as first a novice and then a master.
Further details were absorbed from the imaginative retellings by Greil Marcus and Robert Palmer. Most significantly, the detail was added that Johnson received his gift from a large black man at a crossroads. There is dispute as to how and when the crossroads detail was attached to the Robert Johnson story. All the published evidence, including a full chapter on the subject in the biography Crossroads by Tom Graves, suggests an origin in the story of Tommy Johnson. This story was collected from his musical associate Ishman Bracey and his elder brother Ledell in the 1960s. One version of Ledell Johnson's account was published in 1971 David Evans's biography of Tommy, and was repeated in print in 1982 alongside Son House's story in the widely read Searching for Robert Johnson.
In another version, Ledell placed the meeting not at a crossroads but in a graveyard. This resembles the story told to Steve LaVere that Ike Zinnerman of Hazelhurst, Mississippi learned to play the guitar at midnight while sitting on tombstones. Zinnerman is believed to have influenced the playing of the young Robert Johnson. Recent research by blues scholar Bruce Conforth uncovered Ike Zimmerman's daughter and the story becomes much clearer, including the fact that Johnson and Zimmerman did, in fact, practice in a graveyard at night (because it was quiet and no one would disturb them) but that it was not the Hazlehurst cemetery as had been believed. Johnson spent about a year living with, and learning from Zimmerman who ultimately accompanied Johnson back up to the Delta to look after him. Conforth's article in Living Blues magazine goes into much greater detail.
The crossroads detail was widely believed to come from Johnson himself, probably because it appeared to explain the discrepancy in "Cross Road Blues". Johnson's high emotion and religious fervour are hard to explain as resulting from the mundane situation described, unsuccessful hitchhiking as night falls. The crossroads myth offers a simple literal explanation for both the religion and the anguish.
An alternative explanation (as expressed by musician and blues historian Scott Ainslie) is that the experience of "unsuccessful hitchhiking as night falls"—far from being a "mundane situation"—was, in fact, likely to be an extremely dangerous predicament for a lone, young black man to find himself in the deep American south in the 1920s and 1930s. This is especially true if the individual in question was a stranger in the area and suspected of working at a nearby "juke joint". Rather than "religious fervour", the "high emotion" that Johnson exhibits while singing the song is more likely to recall the justifiable anxiety (or, indeed, terror) that he probably regularly experienced during his career as an itinerant musician, trying to reach the relative safety of a welcoming safe-house before evening fell.
The myth was established in mass consciousness in 1986 by the film Crossroads. There are now tourist attractions claiming to be "The Crossroads" at Clarksdale and in Memphis. The film O Brother Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers incorporates the crossroads legend and a young African American blues guitarist named "Tommy Johnson", with no other biographical similarity to the real Tommy Johnson or to Robert Johnson. In the CW TV series Supernatural, the season two episode "Crossroad Blues" was based on the legend, and later episodes have used the demon from the legend.
When Johnson arrived in a new town, he would play for tips on street corners or in front of the local barbershop or a restaurant. He played what his audience asked for — not necessarily his own compositions, and not necessarily blues. With an ability to pick up tunes at first hearing, Johnson had no trouble giving his audiences what they wanted, and certain of his contemporaries, most notably Johnny Shines, later remarked on Johnson's interest in jazz and country. (Many giants of the blues, including Muddy Waters, were not averse to playing the hit songs of the day.) Johnson also had an uncanny ability to establish a rapport with his audience — in every town in which he stopped, Johnson would establish ties to the local community that would serve him well when he passed through again a month or a year later.
"Robert was a very friendly person, even though he was sulky at times, you know. And I hung around Robert for quite a while. One evening he disappeared. He was kind of peculiar fellow. Robert'd be standing up playing some place, playing like nobody's business. At about that time it was a hustle with him as well as a pleasure. And money'd be coming from all directions. But Robert'd just pick up and walk off and leave you standing there playing. And you wouldn't see Robert no more maybe in two or three weeks.... So Robert and I, we began journeying off. I was just, matter of fact, tagging along."
Around 1936, Johnson sought out H. C. Speir in Jackson, Mississippi, who ran a general store and doubled as a talent scout. Speir, who helped the careers of many blues players, put Johnson in touch with Ernie Oertle, who offered to record the young musician in San Antonio, Texas. At the recording session, held on November 23, 1936 in rooms at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio which Brunswick Records had set up as a temporary studio, Johnson reportedly performed facing the wall. This has been cited as evidence he was a shy man and reserved performer, a conclusion played up in the inaccurate liner notes of the 1961 album King of the Delta Blues Singers. Johnson probably was nervous and intimidated at his first time in a makeshift recording studio (a new and alien environment for the musician), but in truth he was probably focusing on the demands of his emotive performances. In addition, playing into the corner of a wall was a sound-enhancing technique that simulated the acoustical booths of better-equipped studios. In the ensuing three-day session, Johnson played 16 selections, and recorded alternate takes for most of these.
Among the songs Johnson recorded in San Antonio were "Come On In My Kitchen," "Kind Hearted Woman Blues," "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," and "Cross Road Blues." "Come on in My Kitchen" included the lines: "The woman I love took from my best friend/Some joker got lucky, stole her back again/You better come on in my kitchen, it's going to be rainin' outdoors." In "Crossroad Blues," another of his songs, he sang: "I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees/I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees/I asked the Lord above, have mercy, save poor Bob if you please/Uumb, standing at the crossroads I tried to flag a ride/Standing at the crossroads I tried to flag a ride/Ain't nobody seem to know me, everybody pass me by."
When his records began appearing, Johnson made the rounds to his relatives and the various children he had fathered to bring them the records himself. The first songs to appear were "Terraplane Blues" and "Last Fair Deal Gone Down," probably the only recordings of his that he would live to hear. "Terraplane Blues" became a moderate regional hit, selling 5,000 copies.
In 1937, Johnson traveled to Dallas, Texas, for another recording session in a makeshift studio at the Brunswick Record Building, 508 Park Avenue. Eleven records from this session would be released within the following year. "Stones In My Passway" and "Me And The Devil" are both about betrayal, a recurrent theme in country blues. "Hell Hound On My Trail" utilises another common theme: fear of the Devil. Other themes in Johnson's music include impotence ("Dead Shrimp Blues" and "Phonograph Blues") and infidelity ("Terraplane Blues," "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" and "Love in Vain").
Six of Johnson's blues songs mention the devil or some form of the supernatural. In "Me And The Devil" he began, "Early this morning when you knocked upon my door/Early this morning, umb, when you knocked upon my door/And I said, 'Hello, Satan, I believe it's time to go,'" before leading into "You may bury my body down by the highway side/You may bury my body, uumh, down by the highway side/So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride."
It has been suggested that the Devil in these songs does not solely refer to the Christian model of Satan, but equally to the African trickster god (himself associated with crossroads), Legba, although author Tom Graves claims the connection to African deities is tenuous at best. Graves' contention, however, probably stems from a lack of familiarity with the pervasive retention of African religious roots among Southern Blacks early in the 20th century. As folklorist Harry M Hyatt discovered during his research in the South from 1935–1939 when African-Americans born in the 19th or early 20th century told interviewers that they or anyone they knew had "sold their soul to the devil at the crossroads," they did not intend to convey thereby that the person in question was an evil, hell-bound anti-Christian. The confusion arises in the eyes of white interpreters who don't understand that the crossroads deity is a survival from polytheistic African religions and that he has been assigned the only name he can be given in a monotheistic religion. There is ample evidence supporting the African religious retentions surrounding Legba and the making of a "deal" (not selling the soul in the same sense as in the Faustian tradition cited by Graves) with this so-called "devil" at the crossroads.
There are a number of accounts and theories regarding the events preceding Johnson's death. One of these is that one evening Johnson began flirting with a woman at a dance. One version of this rumor says she was the wife of the juke joint owner who unknowingly provided Johnson with a bottle of poisoned whiskey from her husband, while another suggests she was a married woman he had been secretly seeing. Researcher Mack McCormick claims to have interviewed Johnson's alleged poisoner in the 1970s, and obtained a tacit admission of guilt from the man. When Johnson was offered an open bottle of whiskey, his friend and fellow blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson knocked the bottle out of his hand, informing him that he should never drink from an offered bottle that has already been opened. Johnson allegedly said, "don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand." Soon after, he was offered another open bottle of whiskey and accepted it, and it was that bottle that was laced with strychnine. Honey Boy Edwards, another blues musician was present, and essentially confirms this account. Johnson is reported to have started to feel ill into the evening after drinking from the bottle and had to be helped back to his room in the early morning hours. Over the next three days, his condition steadily worsened and witnesses reported that he died in a convulsive state of severe pain—symptoms which are consistent with strychnine poisoning. Strychnine was readily available at the time as it was a common pesticide and, although it is very bitter-tasting and extremely toxic, a small quantity dissolved in a harsh-tasting solution such as whiskey could possibly have gone unnoticed but still produced the symptoms (over a period of days due to the reduced dosage) and eventual death that Johnson experienced. Tom Graves in his biography Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson convincingly deconstructs the possibility of death by strychnine and using expert testimony from toxicologists disputes the notion. He claims that strychnine has such a distinctive odor and taste that it can not be disguised even in strong liquor. He also claims that a significant amount of strychnine would have to be consumed in one sitting to be fatal and that death from the poison would occur within hours, not days.
In 1938, Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who owned some of Johnson's records, sought him out to book him for the first "From Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. On learning of Johnson's death, Hammond replaced him with Big Bill Broonzy, but still played two of Johnson's records from the stage. In 1992 Hammond's son, blues musician John P. Hammond, narrated a documentary called The Search for Robert Johnson.
Robert Johnson has a son, Claud Johnson, and grandchildren who currently reside in a town near Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
Eleven Johnson 78s were released on the Vocalion label during his lifetime, with a twelfth issued posthumously. All songs are copyrighted to Robert Johnson, and his estate.
On September 17, 1994 the U.S. Post Office issues a Robert Johnson 29-cent commemorative postage stamp.
Blues musician and historian Elijah Wald feels that Johnson's major influence is on rock. He has made the controversial appraisal that "As far as the evolution of black music goes, Robert Johnson was an extremely minor figure, and very little that happened in the decades following his death would have been affected if he had never played a note." Assessments such as Eric Clapton's of Johnson as "the most important blues musician who ever lived", says Wald, are perfectly appropriate, but relate to Johnson's reputation and influence after the appearance of the first LP of his work in 1961. Wald argues that Johnson, although well traveled and always admired in his performances, was little heard by the standards of his time and place, and his records even less so. ("Terraplane Blues", sometimes described as Johnson's only hit record, outsold his others but was still a minor success.) If one had asked black blues fans about Robert Johnson in the first twenty years after his death, writes Wald, "the response in the vast majority of cases would have been a puzzled 'Robert who?'" Musical associates such as Johnny Shines also stated that in live performances, Johnson often did not focus on his dark and complex original compositions, but instead pleased audiences by performing more well-known pop standards of the day.
Although little known to the African American mass market, Johnson was known and admired by small but influential group of white record collectors and writers involved with the New Orleans Jazz Revival. This group included John Hammond, who attempted to book Johnson for his first Spirituals to Swing concert. Hammond loaned his Robert Johnson records to Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress, who included them in a published list of records of interest to folklore scholars. Johnson was quoted by jazz critic Rudi Blesh in 1946, and in 1959 the jazz writer Samuel Charters included a chapter on Johnson in his pioneering book The Country Blues, otherwise devoted to singers who had enjoyed more commercial success. Published with the "English Edition" (sic) of the book in 1960 was an album also titled The Country Blues (RBF 1), which included Johnson's "Preachin' Blues".
Thus there was already considerable interest in Johnson among white jazz and blues enthusiasts when Columbia Records issued the album King of the Delta Blues Singers compiled from Johnson's recordings. The album (and subsequent bootleg recordings) introduced his work to a much wider audience and kick-started a renewal of his influence, this time to a body of largely white fans in the US and in Britain. This new fan base included future rock stars such as Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton. When Keith Richards was first introduced to Johnson's music by his band mate Brian Jones, he replied, "Who is the other guy playing with him?", not realizing it was all Johnson playing on one guitar. Clapton described Johnson's music as "the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice." The song "Crossroads" by British psychedelic blues rock band Cream is a cover version of Johnson's "Cross Road Blues", about the legend of Johnson selling his soul to the Devil at the crossroads, although Johnson's original lyrics ("Standin' at the crossroads, tried to flag a ride") suggest he was merely hitchhiking rather than signing away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for being a great blues musician.
Eric Clapton, a frequent proclaimant of the immeasurable significance of Robert Johnson to all music stemming from his generation, admits he "did not take to Robert Johnson immediately... He frightened me."
"Robert Johnson, to whom we all owed our existence, in some way."—Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, on NPR's Fresh Air, recorded in 2004.
An important aspect of Johnson's singing, and indeed of all Delta Blues singing styles, and also of Chicago blues guitar playing, is the use of microtonality—his subtle inflections of pitch are part of the reason why his singing conveys such powerful emotion.
John P. Hammond (the son of the aforementioned John Hammond) produced a documentary in the early 1990s about Johnson's life in the Delta area.
In the summer of 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Johnson at number five in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Crossroads (1986) which is loosely based on the theme of a blues artist selling his soul to the devil and, more specifically, about a young white blues guitarist's search for Johnson's "missing" thirtieth song (there are only 29 individual songs in Johnson's recorded repertoire). Johnson is played by Tim Russ, while Joe Seneca plays Willie Brown (a contemporary of Johnson's mentioned in the song "Cross Road Blues"). Some scenes in the movie are meant to portray moments in Johnson's career as flashbacks, e.g. a recording session at the very start of the movie, and a portrayal of the "selling his soul to the devil"—events which are part of the legend about him. Johnson's music for the film was played & orchestrated by Ry Cooder and Steve Vai, and in some cases Johnson's actual recordings are heard in the film. While the film is almost entirely a fictitious creation based on the crossroads myth associated with Robert Johnson, those associated with it especially director Walter Hill have remarked that it was made with complete respect and admiration for the legend of the real performer.
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This article is about the baseball pitcher. For the golf fitness trainer, see Randy Myers (golf trainer). For the animation director, see Randy Myers (animator).
Randall Kirk Myers (born September 19, 1962) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays between 1985 and 1998. He batted and threw left-handed.
Randy Myers grew up in Vancouver, Washington. His father was an auto mechanic and a machinist. He is a graduate of Evergreen High School and Clark College. He also attended Eastern Illinois University. Myers was drafted in the first round (ninth overall) of the 1982 amateur draft.
Myers began his Major League career with the New York Mets in 1985 under the management of Davey Johnson, and was a member of the Mets 1986 World Series-winning team (although he did not appear on the Mets' postseason roster then, he was given a belated World Series ring nine years later in 1995). Myers became a closer in 1988 as he platooned with Roger McDowell after Jesse Orosco left for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Myers was traded to the Reds in 1990 for closer John Franco, and became one of the league's elite closers and the most successful member of the Nasty Boys trio, which also included Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton, while being selected as an All-Star in 1990. In 1990 Myers won his second World Series ring as the Reds swept the Oakland Athletics. In 1991, the Reds experimented with Myers as a starter, a move that proved highly unsuccessful as he posted a record of 6 wins and 13 losses.
In 1992, Myers became the closer for the Padres. After only one season in San Diego, Myers was a Cub in 1993 where he posted his best statistical season with a then National League record 53 saves. In a September 28, 1995 game vs. the Astros, Myers was attacked by a fan at Wrigley Field after giving up a home run. In 1994 and 1995, Myers earned his second and third All-Star selections. After the 1995 season, Myers became a member of the Orioles where he had two more solid seasons, highlighted by an All-Star selection in 1997, when he saved 45 games. Myers had 28 saves for the Blue Jays in his final season, 1998, before being traded back to the Padres after being claimed on waivers. Though he was under contract for both 1999 and 2000, he did not pitch in the Major Leagues after 1998.
In a 14-year Major League career, Myers compiled a 3.19 ERA, 347 saves, 44 wins, 63 losses and struck out 884 batters in 884.2 innings. As of the end of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, Myers ranks 12th all-time in saves.
In 2000, Myers earned a salary of US$6,916,667.00 while unable to pitch due to a damaged shoulder. Most of his 1999 and 2000 seasons were spent receiving treatment after undergoing rotator cuff surgery in 1999; his injury resulted in a legal dispute between the Padres and their insurance carrier after the carrier denied an $8 million claim due to Myers' inability to play.
The Padres' 1998 waiver claim of Myers is considered one of the biggest blunders in the history of the waiver wire. The Padres did not want Myers, mostly because of the $12 million and two additional years remaining on his contract as well as the fact that they already had an established closer in Trevor Hoffman, but placed a waiver claim in order to prevent him from going to the rival Atlanta Braves. They expected the Blue Jays to rescind their waiver claim, but the Blue Jays instead allowed the waiver claim to go through, leaving them responsible for the rest of his contract.
In October 1990, Myers was featured on the 18-ounce box of Wheaties breakfast cereal along with fellow Cincinnati Reds 1990 World Series champions Eric Davis, José Rijo, Barry Larkin, Chris Sabo, and Hal Morris.
For many years during his pro baseball career he assisted in coaching the women's basketball team at his alma mater, Clark Community College. He is widely involved in charities in Vancouver through his Randy Myers Foundation. He also has a lifelong involvement in martial arts.
Clark College did not field a baseball team after the 1992 season, but by 2011, thanks in large part of Myers' efforts fundraising and spearheading the program's revival, Clark again started playing baseball in 2011.
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A mobile computing device is provided that includes a processor configured to determine a recommended route for a user of the mobile computing device to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment. The processor is further configured to detect position information for the user of the mobile computing device, detect an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determine a new route to the second location.
Navigating public transit in unfamiliar areas can be difficult for users. Previous solutions include receiving a destination from a user, and presenting the user with a route from the user's current location to the destination. In these solutions, the user may be presented with a public transportation route that includes that route's nearby stops and a schedule for the selected public transportation route. However, even with these technologies, users may make mistakes and fail to follow the route precisely. This can lead to a user riding public transportation too far to an unfamiliar area, or exiting public transportation too soon in an unfamiliar area, for example. Such mistakes can cost valuable time, and cause users to become disoriented and frustrated. Gathering one's bearings after such mistakes are made can be a challenging task.
To address the issues discussed above, a mobile computing device is provided. The mobile computing device may include a processor configured to determine a recommended route for a user of the mobile computing device to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment, detect position information for the user of the mobile computing device, detect an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determine a new route to the second location.
FIG. 1 show an example computing system for detecting deviation from a planned public transportation route according to an embodiment of the present description.
FIG. 2 shows an example mapping application graphical user interface of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows another example mapping application graphical user interface of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 shows another example mapping application graphical user interface of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 shows another example mapping application graphical user interface of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 shows another example mapping application graphical user interface including an example off-route notification of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 7 shows another example mapping application graphical user interface including an example new route of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 8 shows yet another example mapping application graphical user interface including another example new route of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 9 shows yet another example mapping application graphical user interface of the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 10 shows an example method for detecting deviation from a planned public transportation route using the computing system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 11 shows an example computing system according to an embodiment of the present description.
FIG. 1 illustrates a computing system 10 according to one embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown, the computing system 10 includes a mobile computing device 12 in communication with public transit servers 14. The mobile computing device 12 may, for example, take the form of a smart phone device, a tablet computing device, a wrist-mounted computing device, a head-mounted computing device, a location aware laptop computing device, etc.
The mobile computing device 12 includes a processor 16, a volatile storage 18, a non-volatile storage 20, a display 22, sensors 24, and an input device 26. The processor 16 is configured to execute instructions for a mapping application 28 stored by non-volatile storage 20 including a route module 30 and an off-route condition module 32. The route module 30 executed by the processor 16 is configured to determine a recommended route 34 for a user of the mobile computing device 12 to travel from a first location 36 to a second location 38, the recommended route 34 including at least a public transportation segment 40. The first location and the second location are typically received as inputs from the user, via a graphical user interface displayed on a display of the mobile computing device. In one embodiment, the mapping application 28 executed by the processor 16 is configured to receive these inputs and display the determined recommended route 34 to the user via a mapping application graphical user interface (GUI) 42 presented to the user on the display 22 of the mobile computing device 12.
Turing briefly to FIG. 2, an example mapping application GUI 42A is illustrated. As shown, an example recommended route 34A is presented to the user via the example mapping application GUI 42A. In the illustrated embodiment, the user's current location 36A is detected by sensors 24 of the mobile computing device 12 and input to the route module 30 as the first location 36, and a user entered destination 38A is input to the route module 30 as the second location 38. Thus, the mapping application 28 executed by the processor 16 is configured to determine the recommended route 34A to travel from the user's current location 36A to the user entered destination 38A. As shown, the example recommended route 34A comprises several steps including one public transportation section 40A, which, for example, may be a particular bus route that has bus stops near the user's current location 36A and the user entered destination 38A. It will be appreciated that the first location 36 is not limited to the user's current location 36A, but may also, for example, include a user entered location such as a street address.
Turning back to FIG. 1, the user's current location 36A is detected by the sensors 24, which, for example, may include global positioning system (GPS) sensors 44 and accelerometer sensors 46. However, it will be appreciated that the user's current location 36A may be determined using another other suitable sensors and methods, such as determining the user's current location via detected nearby local area networks, triangulation by cellphone towers, etc. The user entered destination 38A may be input by the user via the input device 26, which, for example, may take the form of a microphone, a keyboard, a capacitive matrix built into the display 22 in a capacitive touch screen configuration, etc.
In addition to the user's current location 36A, the mobile computing device 12 is configured to detect other types of positional information of the user via the sensors 24. In the illustrated embodiment, the processor 16 is configured to detect position information 48 for a user of the mobile computing device 12. For example, the position information 48 includes geographical location, heading, and speed of the user of the mobile computing device 12 that is detected via sensors 24 including GPS sensors 44 and the accelerometer 46. The detected position information 48 is sent to the off-route condition module 32 in a stream of position information 48.
The off-route condition module 32 executed by the processor 16 is configured to detect an off-route condition 50 during the public transportation segment 40 based on the position information 48, the off-route condition 50 indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route 34 during the public transportation segment 40 by a predetermined threshold 52. For example, the predetermined threshold 52 may be a threshold period of time that the user has not followed the recommended route 34, such as, for example, 20 seconds, 30 seconds, 40 seconds, or another suitable period of time. As another example, a threshold distance that the user's geographical location has deviated from the recommended route 34, such as, for example, fifty feet, one hundred feet, two hundred feet, or another distance suitable for an accuracy of the GPS sensors and location detection software of the mobile computing device. As another example, a threshold amount of speed over or under an expected speed of a public transit vehicle that the user is traveling at, such as, for example, 60% over or under the expected speed of a public transit vehicle on that route. As another example, a threshold difference in heading for the user compared to the recommended route, such as, for example, sixty degrees, ninety degrees, or another threshold difference in heading that it suitable for heading detection software of the mobile computing device. It will be appreciated that the examples of predetermined thresholds 52 discussed above are merely illustrative, and other types of predetermined thresholds 52 not specifically discussed above may also be utilized to detect the off-route condition 50.
In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, to detect an off-route condition 50 during the public transportation segment 40, the processor 16 is further configured to retrieve route data 54 for a public transit vehicle corresponding to the public transportation segment 40, the route data including a route of the public transit vehicle 56. As shown, the route data 54 may be received by the route module 30 and the off-route condition module 32 to determine whether the user has deviated from the public transportation segment 40 of the recommended route 34 by the predetermined threshold 52. The route data 54 may include other data, such as, for example, position data of the public transit vehicle 58 corresponding to the public transportation segment 40, a time schedule for the public transit vehicle, expected detours for the public transit vehicle, or another other suitable type of route data.
Using the route data 54, the off-route condition module 32 executed by the processor 16 is configured to compare position information 48 for the user of the mobile computing device 12 to the retrieved route data 54. For example, the off-route condition module 32 may compare position information 48 for the user of the mobile computing device 12 to the route of the public transit vehicle 56 to determine whether the user's geographical location has deviated from the route of the public transit vehicle 56 by a predetermined threshold 52, which may be a predetermined distance threshold in this example. In another example, the off-route condition module 32 may compare a speed of the user of the mobile computing device 12 to an expected speed of the public transit vehicle along the route of the public transit vehicle 56, and determine that the user is off-route if the user's speed is below the expected speed of the public transit vehicle by the predetermined threshold 52. For example, if the user's detected speed is less than 60% of the expected speed of the public transit vehicle, then the off-route condition module 32 may determine that the user is off route. In this example, the expected speed of the public transit vehicle may be determined based on an average speed of the public transit vehicle for that route which may be stored in the route data 54, a recent speed of the public transit vehicle on that route which may also be stored in a periodically updated route data 54, traffic conditions, weather conditions, time of day, known construction zones, known detours, etc. It will be appreciated that the examples discussed above are merely illustrative, and other methods of detecting the off-route condition 50 may be used by the off-route condition module 32, including methods discussed below.
As shown in FIG. 1, the off-route condition 50 may comprise multiple different types of off-route conditions, including a missed public transportation condition 60, a missed stop condition 62, and a premature exit condition 64. It will be appreciated that the public transportation segment 40 of the recommended route 34 includes a recommended public transit entrance stop 66 for the user to enter the public transit vehicle. If the user fails to board the public transportation at the recommended public transit entrance stop, the off-route condition 50 will include a missed public transportation condition (i.e., may set a missed public transportation condition variable to a TRUE value) 60 indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop 66.
Briefly turning to FIG. 2, the example recommended route 34A includes an example recommended public transit entrance stop 66A, which, in this example, is a stop nearest to the current position of the user 36A along the route of the public transit vehicle 56 included in the retrieved route data 54. However, it will be appreciated that the recommended public transit entrance stop 66 may be selected via other methods, such as a stop that is easiest to walk to from the user's current location, or a stop that is safest to walk to from the user's current location via dedicated pedestrian walkways, etc.
Now turning to FIG. 3, to detect the missed public transportation condition 60, the processor 16 is configured to determine that the public transit vehicle has arrived at the recommended public transit entrance stop 66 based on the route data 54. In the illustrated example, the public transit vehicle 70 corresponding to the example public transportation route 40A of the recommended route 34A has already arrived at and passed the example recommended public transit entrance stop 66. Thus, to detect the missed public transportation condition 60, the processor 16 is configured to determine that the position information 48 for the user indicates that the user has not followed the route of the public transit vehicle 56 for a predetermined threshold 52 time period. In the illustrated example of FIG. 3, the user's geographical position and heading 48A from the position information 48 indicates that the user is still located at the example recommended public transit entrance stop 66A after the public transit vehicle 70 has already arrived and left. After a predetermined threshold 52 time period has passed without the user's geographical position and heading 48A following the route of the public transit vehicle, then the processor 16 determines that the missed public transportation condition 60 has been fulfilled and the user is off-route. It will be appreciated that the predetermined threshold 52 time period may be a suitable time period, such as 30 seconds, 1 minutes, 5 minutes, etc.
Further in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the public transportation segment 40 of the recommended route 34 includes a recommended public transit exit stop 68 for the user to exit the public transit vehicle. Thus, in the event the user misses a stop, the off-route condition 50 may include a missed stop condition 62 (i.e., may set a missed stop condition variable to a TRUE value), indicating that the user did not exit the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit exit stop 68. Briefly turning back to FIG. 2, the example recommended route 34A includes an example recommended public transit exit stop 68A, which, in this example, is a stop nearest to the user entered destination 38A along the route of the public transit vehicle 56 included in the retrieved route data 54. However, it will be appreciated that the recommended public transit exit stop 66 may be selected via other methods, such as a stop that is easiest to walk to the second location 38, or a stop that is safest to walk to second location 38 using dedicated walkways, etc.
Now turning to FIG. 4, to detect the missed stop condition 62, the processor 16 is configured to determine a post exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle 56 beyond the recommended public transit exit stop 68. In the illustrated example, the public transit vehicle 70 corresponding to the route of the public transit vehicle 56 of the example recommended route 34A has already passed the example recommended public transit exit stop 68A. Additionally, the processor 16 has determined the example post exit portion 40B beyond the example recommended public transit exit stop 68A. Thus, to detect the missed stop condition 62, the processor 16 is configured to determine that the position information 48 for the user indicates that the user has followed the post exit portion of the route for a predetermined threshold 52 time period. In the illustrated example of FIG. 4, the user's geographical position and heading 48A from the position information 48 for the user indicates that the user is moving along the example post exit portion 40B of the route. After a predetermined threshold 52 time period has passed with the user's geographical position and heading 48A continuing to follow example post exit portion 40B of the route, then the processor 16 determines that the missed stop condition 62 has been fulfilled and the user is off-route.
Further in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the off-route condition 50 may include a premature exit condition 64 indicating that the user exited the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit exit stop 68. In this embodiment, to detect the premature exit condition 64, the processor 16 is configured to determine a pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit stop 68, which is utilized as described below.
Turning to FIG. 5, in the illustrated example, the public transit vehicle 70 corresponding to the route of the public transit vehicle 56 of the example recommended route 34A has not yet passed the example recommended public transit exit stop 68A. Additionally, the processor 16 has determined the example pre exit portion 40C of the route for the example public transportation segment 40A before the example recommended public transit exit stop 68A. Thus, to detect the premature exit condition 64, the processor 16 is configured to determine that the position information 48 for the user indicates that the user has not followed the pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold 52 time period. In the illustrated example of FIG. 5, the user's geographical position and heading 48A from the position information 48 for the user indicates that the user has a geographical location and heading that has deviated from the example pre exit portion 40C of the route for the example public transportation segment 40A. After a predetermined threshold 52 time period has passed with the user's geographical position and heading 48A continuing to deviate from the example pre exit portion 40C of the route, then the processor 16 determines that the premature exit condition 64 has been fulfilled and the user is off-route.
Now turning back to FIG. 1, based on at least detecting the off-route condition 50 during the public transportation segment 40, the processor 16 is configured to programmatically determine a new route 72 to the second location 38. Typically, this programmatic determination is performed without any required prompting or user input from the user. In other embodiments, a prompt (e.g., “IT APPEARS YOU'RE NO LONGER ON THE RECOMMENDED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ROUTE, DISPLAY NEW ROUTE FROM CURRENT LOCATION?” or “PUBLIC TRANSIT ROUTE DEVIATED. GET A NEW ROUTE?”) may be programmatically displayed, which the user may select to cause the new route to be displayed. The new route 72 may be determined via the same methods as the recommended route 34 discussed above. It will be appreciated that the new route 72 may include a new public transportation segment 40, or may contain no public transportation segment 40. For example, if the user has deviated from the recommended route 34, but is still near the second location 38, the new route 72 may direct the user to walk to the second location 38.
In one embodiment, based on at least detecting the off-route condition 50 during the public transportation segment 40, rather than immediately rerouting the user, the processor 16 may be configured to present the user with an off-route notification 74 indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route 34. For example, the off-route notification 74 may include a visual notification presented to the user via the display 22. Alternatively or additionally to the visual notification, an audio notification, or a haptic notification such as a vibration may also be presented to the user.
FIG. 6 illustrates an example off-route notification 74A. As shown, the example off-route notification 74A includes a visual notification that is displayed to the user via the example mapping application GUI 42A on the display 22 of the mobile computing device 12. In the illustrated example, the user's geographical position and heading 48A from the position information 48 indicates that the user is still located at the example recommended public transit entrance stop 66A after the public transit vehicle 70 has already arrived and left. Thus, as discussed above, the processor 16 determines that the missed public transportation condition 60 has been fulfilled and the user is off-route. Based on at least detecting the missed public transportation condition, the processor 16 displays the example off-route notification 74A including the visual notification of “PUBLIC TRANSIT ROUTE DEVIATED. IT APPEARS THAT YOU MISSED YOUR BUS.” It will be appreciated that the content of the visual notification may alternatively or additionally be output through speakers of the mobile computing device 12.
Further in this embodiment, the off-route notification 74 includes a reroute input, and the processor 16 is further configured to receive the reroute input from the user of the mobile computing device 12, and programmatically determine a new route 72 to the second location 38. In the example illustrated in FIG. 6, the example off-route notification 74A is a visual notification that includes a virtual button 76A that the user may press to initiate the rerouting. As shown, the virtual button 76A may itself include visual content such as “GET NEW ROUTE TO DESTINATION?” to prompt the user to interact with the virtual button 76A. In another example, the user may input a voice command to the input device 26 to initiate the rerouting. However, it will be appreciated that any suitable input method may be used to receive the reroute input.
Now turning to FIG. 7, based on at least detecting the off-route condition 50 during the public transportation segment 40 or receiving the reroute input from the user of the mobile computing device 12, the processor 16 is configured to determine a new route 72 to the second location 38. FIG. 7 illustrates an example new route 72A from the user's geographical position and heading 48A to the user entered destination 38A. It will be appreciated that the user's current geographical position may be different from the first location 36 of the initial recommended route. Thus, the processor 16 may determine the new route 72 to travel from the user's current geographical location as the new first location to the original second location, which is the user entered destination 38A in the example illustrated in FIG. 7.
As shown in FIG. 7, the example new route 72A includes a new public transportation segment 40D, which may be determined according to the same methods discussed above. Similarly, the processor 16 may be configured to detect the off-route condition 50 during the new public transportation segment 40D of the example new route 72A, and determine a second new route accordingly. However, it will be appreciated that the new route 72 may, in some examples, not have a new public transportation segment.
FIG. 8 illustrates an example new route 72B that does not include a new public transportation segment. As shown in FIG. 8, the new route 72B consists of directions for the user of the mobile computing device 12 to walk from the user's current location to the user entered destination 38A. As the user is walking, it will be appreciated that the new route 72 may include directions to that are possible for pedestrians but not vehicles, such as walking across the park along walking paths rather than only following streets.
In one example, based on the route data 54 retrieved from the public transit servers 14, the mapping application 28 executed by the processor 16 may determine that there are currently no public transit vehicles scheduled that have routes that include stops near the user's current location and/or the user entered destination 38A. In another example, the user may have missed the last public transit vehicle with a suitable route for that day. In yet another example, the next scheduled public transit vehicle with a suitable route may take longer than it would take for the user to walk to the destination (i.e. next bus is in 1 hour and it would take 10 mins to walk). Thus in these examples, the mapping application 28 may be configured to determine a new route 72, such as new route 72B, that does not include a new public transportation segment. It will be appreciated that the examples discussed above are merely illustrative, and other scenarios for determining new routes 72 that do not include public transportations segments not specifically discussed above may also be utilized by mapping application 28.
As another example, while determining the new route 72B, the processor 16 may be configured to calculate a distance between the user's current location and the user entered destination 38A. If the distance is less than a predetermined distance threshold, 500 feet for example, the processor 16 may be configured to determine the new route 72 without a new public transportation segment.
Now turning to FIG. 9, the recommended route 34 may be determined based on a plurality of factors. For example, the mapping application 28 may be configured to select a particular public transit route for the public transit segment 40 of the recommended route 34 by, for example, ranking public transportation routes by the total distance between the first and second locations 36 and 38 from each route's nearest stops. Thus, the mapping application 28 may then select the public transit route that minimizes this distance, and would thus require the least amount of walking for the user. However, it will be appreciated that the public transit routes may be ranked according to other methods, such as ease and safety (e.g., does not require user to walk across busy road), or required time for whole route (e.g., bus is scheduled to arrive earlier, bus travels on a more direct route, or bus has less stops along the route, etc.).
In the example illustrated in FIG. 9, a route of a public transit vehicle for the public transportation segment 40 is selected based on user difficulty metric data 78 for that route of the public transit vehicle. The difficulty metric data 78 may be stored by the route module 30 of the mapping application 28. In one example, the mobile computing device 12 may be configured to communicate with a mapping application server 80 associated with the mapping application 28. In this example, the mapping application server 80 may be configured to receive user difficulty metric data 78 from a plurality of mobile computing devices 12 of a plurality of users. Thus, the mapping application server 80 may be configured to aggregate the user difficulty metric data 78 from a plurality of users to generate an aggregated user difficulty metric data 82. In this example, the mapping application 28 of the user's mobile computing device 12 may be configured to periodically request updates from the user difficulty metric data 78 from the mapping application server 80. In response to the request, or based on a periodic schedule, the mapping application server 80 may be configured to send the aggregated user difficulty metric data 82 to the user's mobile computing device 12 to update the user difficulty metric data 78 of mapping application 28 executed on the user's mobile computing device 12. As discussed above, a route of a public transit vehicle for the public transportation segment 40 of the recommended route 34 may be selected based on the user difficulty metric data 78. In one example, the user difficulty metric data 78 includes a metric for each public transportation route indicating how often users have been off-route during that public transportation route. In the illustrated example of FIG. 9, the user difficulty metric data 78 indicates that there have been 34 instances of off-route users for the route of public transportation segment 40E, and that there have been 3 instances of off-route users for the route of public transportation segment 40F. It will be appreciated that the users may have become off-route for different reasons. For example, a particular stop of the public transportation route may be difficult to reach, and thus the missed public transportation condition 60 has been frequently detected for that particular stop. Accordingly, the user difficulty metric data 78 may indicate that the particular stop of the public transportation route has frequently caused missed stops, and based on the user difficulty metric data 78, the route module 30 may be configured to not recommend that public transportation route or recommend that the user enter the public transit vehicle at a different stop along the route. Thus, the route module 30 is configured to determine the recommended route, including selecting the route of the public transit vehicle for the public transportation segment 40 based on the user difficulty metric data 78.
In the specific example illustrated in FIG. 9, the public transportation segment 40E of the potential recommended route 34B includes a nearest entrance stop 66E that has corresponding user difficulty metric data 78 indicating that users have missed that the public transit vehicle at that particular entrance stop 66E 34 times. For example, walking across the bridge to reach the nearest entrance stop 66E from the user's current geographical position 48A may be difficult (bridge does not have pedestrian walkways), or that bus stop is difficult to find, etc. Thus, the route module 30 may be configured to select an alternative public transportation route. In the illustrated example, the route module 30 may determine an alternative recommended route 34C that includes the public transportation segment 40F, which has corresponding user difficulty metric data 78 indicating that the route of the public transit vehicle for public transportation segment 40F has had less instances of user's becoming off-route compared to the public transportation segment 40E. Thus, even though the alternative recommended route 34C requires a longer distance of walking and may take longer than the potential recommended route 34B, the route module 30 may select the alternative recommended route 34C as the recommended route 34 based on the user difficulty metric data 78. It will be appreciated that the user difficulty metric data 78 is not limited to the missed public transportation condition 60, but may also be updated based on missed stop conditions 62, premature exit conditions 64, and other suitable off-route conditions 50.
Further in this example, based on at least detecting the off-route condition 50 during the public transportation segment 40, the processor 16 is further configured to modify user difficulty metric data 78 for the route of the public transportation segment 40 based on the detected off-route condition 50, such that the route of the public transit vehicle is less likely to be selected. Thus, each time an off-route condition 50 has been detected for the user, the mobile computing device 12 modifies the stored user difficulty metric data 78 to indicate that the route of the public transportation segment 40 has caused an instance of the user becoming off-route. It will be appreciated that the mapping application 28 may modify the user difficulty metric data 78 based on the type of off-route condition (missed public transportation condition 60, missed stop condition 62, premature exit condition 64, etc.). For example, if the off-route condition 50 is the missed public transportation condition 60, the mapping application 28 may modify the user difficulty metric data 78 to indicate that the particular entrance stop 66 of the public transportation segment 40 caused the missed public transportation condition 60.
As another example, if the off-route condition 50 is the missed stop condition 62, the mapping application 28 may modify the user difficulty metric data 78 to indicate that the particular exit stop 68 of the public transportation segment 40 caused the missed stop condition 62, such as, for example, because that particular exit stop is currently blocked off due to construction or is difficult to see for users. Thus, when selecting a public transportation segment 40, the route module 30 may be configured to select the route for the public transportation segment 40 based on user difficulty metric data 78 for individual stops along that route. It will be appreciated that the examples of user difficulty metric data 78 discussed above are merely illustrative, and other types modifications to the user difficulty metric data 78 not specifically discussed above may also be utilized for selecting public transportation segments 40.
FIG. 10 shows an example method 600 according to an embodiment of the present description. Method 600 may be implemented on the computer system 10 described above or on other suitable computer hardware. At step 602, the method 600 may include determining a recommended route for a user to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment. As described above, public transportation follow known schedules and routes, and include buses and trains on scheduled routes, for example. Route data may be retrieved by the mobile computing device 12 by querying servers for location public transportation and requesting route schedules, locations of stops for each route, etc. This may be accomplished at least in part by storing, on mobile computing device 12, a database of electronic address for servers corresponding to the public transportation services of each city and state. Thus, the processor may be configured to determine the user's current geographical location, including the user's city and state, according to GPS data of the mobile computing device 12, querying the database to retrieve the corresponding electronic address for the public transportation server for that city and state, and requesting the route data discussed above. The mapping application 28 may then select a particular public transit route by, for example, ranking public transportation routes by the total distance between the first and second locations 36 and 38 from each route's nearest stops. Thus, the mapping application 28 may then select the public transit route that minimizes this distance, and would thus require the least amount of walking for the user. However, it will be appreciated that the public transit routes may be ranked according to other methods, such as ease and safety (does not require user to walk across busy road), or required time for whole route (bus is scheduled to arrive earlier).
Advancing from step 602 to step 604, the method 600 may include detecting position information for the user. In method 600, the position information for the user may be selected from the group consisting of geographical location, heading, and speed. This may be accomplished in part by GPS sensors 44, accelerometers 46, and other sensors 24 of the mobile computing device 12. For example, the mapping application 28 executed by the processor 16 may be configured to determine a course location (i.e. within 10 meters of user's actual location) for the user based on GPS data or by querying a database that matches known WIFI connections to general locations, and refine the user's course location based on accelerometer data (i.e. user has moved 1 meter).
Proceeding from step 604 to step 606, the method 600 may include detecting an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold. This may be accomplished at least in part by updating the user's geographical location data based on a stream of GPS data and accelerometer data received via sensors 24, and comparing the user's geographical location data to the route data retrieved from the public transit server for the city corresponding to the user's geographical location. For example, the mapping application 28 may be configured to calculate a deviation error, which may be a distance the user's location has deviated from the route, a time period that the user's location has deviated from the route, etc. When the calculated deviation error has exceeded the predetermined threshold, the mapping application 28 may set an off-route condition flag to TRUE, and perform the proceeding functions.
In method 600, step 606 may include substeps 608 and 610. Advancing to substep 606, the method 600 may include retrieving route data for a public transit vehicle corresponding to the public transportation segment, the route data including a route of the public transit vehicle. Proceeding from substep 608 to substep 610, the method 600 may include comparing position information for the user to the retrieved route data. In some examples, the public transit servers for a particular city may include updated position information and schedules for each public transit vehicle for that city. If the public transit server stores static public transit schedule and route data, the mapping application 28 may be configured to request the static route data a single time. However, if the public transit server stores updated data including location data and updated route schedules for each public transit vehicle, then the mapping application 28 may be configured to periodically (i.e. every minute) request updated route data from the public transit server. Thus, the mapping application 28 may be configured to compare the user's position information to real time location data for the public transit vehicle corresponding to the public transportation segment.
In one example, the public transportation segment of the recommended route includes a recommended public transit entrance stop for the user to enter the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition includes a missed public transportation condition indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop. After the public transportation segment has been selected according to the methods discussed above, the mapping application 28 may select a stop from the corresponding route data that is nearest to the first location 28 as the recommended public transit entrance stop. The recommended public transit entrance stop may be displayed to the user on the display 22, and may include a scheduled time that the corresponding public transit vehicle is scheduled to arrive. In cases where updated position data for the public transit vehicle may be retrieved from the public transit server, the scheduled time displayed for the user may also be updated accordingly. In this example, step 606 further includes steps 612 and 614. Advancing to step 612, the method 600 may include determining that the public transit vehicle has arrived at the recommended public transit entrance stop. This may be accomplished in part by periodically retrieving updated position data for the corresponding public transit vehicle to determine when the public transit vehicle has arrived at a particular stop. Proceeding from step 612 to step 614, the method 600 may include determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period. This may be accomplished at least in part by comparing the user's current geographical location to the public transit vehicle's route, which may include, for example, predetermined GPS locations spaced periodically along the route, or position information for each stop along the route. If the user's position information indicates that the user has not followed the route for a predetermined threshold time period after the public transit vehicle arrived at the stop, then the mapping application 28 may be configured to set an off-route condition flag to TRUE.
In another example, the public transportation segment of the recommended route includes a recommended public transit exit stop for the user to exit the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition includes a missed stop condition indicating that the user did not exit the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit exit stop. This may be accomplished at least in part by calculating which stop along the route of the public transportation segment is nearest to the second location, and selecting that stop as the recommended public transit exit stop. In this example, step 606 further includes steps 616 and 618. Advancing to step 616, the method 600 may include determining a post exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle beyond the recommended public transit exit stop. This may be accomplished at least in part by flagging each stop along the route after the recommended public transit exit stop as being included in the post exit portion of the route. Proceeding from step 616 to step 618, the method 600 may include determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has followed the post exit portion of the route for a predetermined threshold time period. For example, if the user's position information indicates that the user is near the geographical position of a stop that was flagged as a post exit portion stop, then the mapping application 28 may determine that the user is following the post exit portion of the route, and may be configured to set an off-route condition flag as TRUE.
In another example, the off-route condition includes a premature exit condition indicating that the user exited the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit exit stop. This may be accomplished at least in part by comparing the user's geographical position to the route of the public transit vehicle. If the user's current geographical position deviated from the route by a predetermined threshold, then the off-route condition flag may be set to TRUE. In this example, step 606 further includes steps 620 and 622. Advancing to step 620, the method 600 may include determining a pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit stop. This may be accomplished at least in part by flagging each stop along the route before and the recommended public transit exit stop as being included in the pre exit portion of the route. Proceeding from step 620 to step 622, the method 600 may include determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period. This may be accomplished at least in part by comparing the user's geographical location to the position information for each stop along the route flagged as being included in the pre exit portion of the route and the schedule for the public transit vehicle. For example, if the public transit vehicle is scheduled to arrive at a particular pre exit stop at 11:00 A.M, and at 11:01 A.M. (i.e. predetermined threshold time period is one minute), the user's position information indicates that the user has not arrived at and/or passed that pre exit stop, then the off-route condition flag may be set to TRUE.
FIG. 11 schematically shows a non-limiting embodiment of a computing system 900 that can enact one or more of the methods and processes described above. Computing system 900 is shown in simplified form. Computing system 900 may embody the mobile computing device 12. Computing system 900 may take the form of one or more personal computers, server computers, tablet computers, home-entertainment computers, network computing devices, gaming devices, mobile computing devices, mobile communication devices (e.g., smart phone), and/or other computing devices, and wearable computing devices such as smart wristwatches and head mounted augmented reality devices.
Computing system 900 includes a logic processor 902 volatile memory 903, and a non-volatile storage device 904. Computing system 900 may optionally include a display subsystem 906, input subsystem 908, communication subsystem 1000, and/or other components not shown in FIG. 11.
The following paragraphs provide additional support for the claims of the subject application. One aspect provides a mobile computing device comprising a processor configured to determine a recommended route for a user of the mobile computing device to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment, detect position information for the user of the mobile computing device, detect an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determine a new route to the second location. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, to detect an off-route condition during the public transportation segment, the processor may be further configured to retrieve route data for a public transit vehicle corresponding to the public transportation segment, the route data including a route of the public transit vehicle, and compare position information for the user of the mobile computing device to the retrieved route data. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the public transportation segment of the recommended route may include a recommended public transit entrance stop for the user to enter the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition may include a missed public transportation condition indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, to detect the missed public transportation condition, the processor may be configured to determine that the public transit vehicle has arrived at the recommended public transit entrance stop based on the route data, and determine that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the public transportation segment of the recommended route may include a recommended public transit exit stop for the user to exit the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition may include a missed stop condition indicating that the user did not exit the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit exit stop. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, to detect the missed stop condition, the processor may be configured to determine a post exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle beyond the recommended public transit exit stop, and determine that the position information for the user indicates that the user has followed the post exit portion of the route for a predetermined threshold time period. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the off-route condition may include a premature exit condition indicating that the user exited the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit exit stop. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, to detect the premature exit condition, the processor may be configured to determine a pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit stop, and determine that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, a route of a public transit vehicle for the public transportation segment may be selected based on user difficulty metric data for that route of the public transit vehicle, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, the processor may be further configured to modify user difficulty metric data for the route of the public transportation segment based on the detected off-route condition, such that the route of the public transit vehicle is less likely to be selected.
Another aspect provides a method comprising determining a recommended route for a user to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment, detecting position information for the user, detecting an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determining a new route to the second location. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, detecting an off-route condition during the public transportation segment may further comprise retrieving route data for a public transit vehicle corresponding to the public transportation segment, the route data including a route of the public transit vehicle, and comparing position information for the user to the retrieved route data. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the public transportation segment of the recommended route may include a recommended public transit entrance stop for the user to enter the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition may include a missed public transportation condition indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, detecting the missed public transportation condition may further comprises determining that the public transit vehicle has arrived at the recommended public transit entrance stop, and determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the public transportation segment of the recommended route may include a recommended public transit exit stop for the user to exit the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition may include a missed stop condition indicating that the user did not exit the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit exit stop. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, detecting the missed stop condition may further comprise determining a post exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle beyond the recommended public transit exit stop, and determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has followed the post exit portion of the route for a predetermined threshold time period. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the off-route condition may include a premature exit condition indicating that the user exited the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit exit stop. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, detecting the premature exit condition may further comprise determining a pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit stop, and determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, a route of a public transit vehicle for the public transportation segment is selected based on user difficulty metric data for that route of the public transit vehicle, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, the method may further include modifying user difficulty metric data for the route of the public transportation segment based on the detected off-route condition, such that the route of the public transit vehicle is less likely to be selected.
Another aspect provides a mobile computing device comprising a processor configured to determine a recommended route for a user of the mobile computing device to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment, detect position information for the user of the mobile computing device, detect an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, present the user with an off-route notification indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route. In this aspect, additionally or alternatively, the off-route notification may include a reroute input, and the processor may be further configured to receive the reroute input from the user of the mobile computing device, and programmatically determine a new route to the second location.
based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determine a new route to the second location, wherein the public transportation segment of the recommended route includes a recommended public transit entrance stop for the user to enter the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition includes a missed public transportation condition indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop.
determine that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period.
3. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the public transportation segment of the recommended route further includes a recommended public transit exit stop for the user to exit the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition further includes a missed stop condition indicating that the user did not exit the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit exit stop.
determine that the position information for the user indicates that the user has followed the post exit portion of the route for a predetermined threshold time period.
5. The mobile computing device of claim 3, wherein the off-route condition further includes a premature exit condition indicating that the user exited the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit exit stop.
determine that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period.
based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, the processor is further configured to modify the user difficulty metric data for the route of the public transportation segment based on the detected off-route condition, such that the route of the public transit vehicle is less likely to be selected.
based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determining a new route to the second location via the processor of the mobile computing device, wherein the public transportation segment of the recommended route includes a recommended public transit entrance stop for the user to enter the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition includes a missed public transportation condition indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop.
determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period.
10. The method of claim 8, wherein the public transportation segment of the recommended route further includes a recommended public transit exit stop for the user to exit the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition further includes a missed stop condition indicating that the user did not exit the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit exit stop.
determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has followed the post exit portion of the route for a predetermined threshold time period.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the off-route condition further includes a premature exit condition indicating that the user exited the public transit vehicle before the recommended public transit exit stop.
determining that the position information for the user indicates that the user has not followed the pre exit portion of the route of the public transit vehicle for a predetermined threshold time period.
based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, the method further includes modifying the user difficulty metric data for the route of the public transportation segment based on the detected off-route condition, such that the route of the public transit vehicle is less likely to be selected.
based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, present the user with an off-route notification indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route, wherein the public transportation segment of the recommended route includes a recommended public transit entrance stop for the user to enter the public transit vehicle, and the off-route condition includes a missed public transportation condition indicating that the user did not enter the public transit vehicle at the recommended public transit entrance stop.
programmatically determine a new route to the second location.
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There is a class of medication commonly referred to as blood thinners. What specifically are they?
Sometimes using the term blood-thinner to define their function may be somewhat misleading. The modus operandi is not truly a thinning of your blood. Rather, these medicines reduce clot formations in your arteries and veins. Officially these medications are called anticoagulants and are prescribed to those at risk for blood clots. Additionally, these medications can stop existing blood clots from getting larger thus allowing better blood flow in the arteries, veins, and heart. Blood clots occuring in vessels and organs can lead to strokes, heart attacks, or blockages affecting blood supply and causing tissue damage to the organs. If a patient is at higher risk for conditions such as stroke, atrial fibrillation, congenital heart defects, blood vessel diseases, or has undergone heart valve replacements, they might be recommended to take blood thinners. Additionally, they may be prescribed after surgeries during the recovery period to limit the risk of clots while the patient is inactive.
Here is a list of essential tips that may help to guide you when prescribed blood thinners. Be sure to take only the dosage prescribed by your doctor. Taking the wrong amount of these medications can bring about serious consequences.
Missed doses: If you have missed your dose consult with your physician. Do not double up on your next dose as doing so can be dangerous and increase the risk of a serious bleeding incident.
Bleeding gums: Use soft bristles toothbrushes instead of medium or firm to decrease excess bleeding. Firmer bristles are most likely to aggravate irritated tissues.
Extreme exercise: Avoid extreme or high impact exercise that may increase the risk of lacerations, breaks, or contusions. You must understand that such injuries will bleed more than they would if you were not on anticoagulants. Severe contusions may bleed excessively underneath the skin.
Sharp objects, work, and cleaning: Avoid using sharp objects. When you must use them, please wear safety gloves whenever possible. Bladed devices should ideally be electronically controlled and guarded to help reduce risks of cuts. If you must mow the lawn, garden, do construction work, or anything similarly physical you should wear thick shoes or boots and other safety gear.
Sporting activities: Do not engage in sporting activities deemed dangerous by your doctor. These activities may include horseback riding, surfing, weightlifting, rock climbing, martial arts, and many more. Always check with your doctor.
Emergencies: If you are often alone or need to be alone for an extended period of time, a medical alert bracelet is highly recommended. If you have an accident that renders you unable to speak, wearing a medical alert bracelet will inform first responders that you are at risk of excess bleeding and they will act accordingly. Make sure to have a list of your current medications readily available on your phone or in your wallet.
Falls/injuries: When you have fallen or had an accidental injury, you should call your doctor as soon as possible and have a checkup. Do this to ensure that there are no dangerous hidden bleeds underneath your skin. These bleeds can be especially dangerous and can happen even when there is no obvious laceration or noticeable bruising.
Drug history: Be certain that all of your physicians are aware that you are taking anticoagulants and know your complete drug history to prevent dangerous medication interactions. Over-the-counter medications: Do not purchase or take any over-the-counter medications such as vitamins/supplements without speaking to your doctor about them first and have been told they are safe for you. Some drugs, herbs, and over the counter remedies can cause serious problems when taken by someone who is on anticoagulants ranging from increasing bleed risks to making the medicine ineffective or worse. Alcohol use: Speak with your doctor before partaking of alcohol to determine risk. Alcohol use may increase your risk of accidental injury or interact with your medication.
Worrisome symptoms: If you find yourself in situations where you are not able to eat for several days or have excess vomiting or diarrhea which lasts for more than a day or have blood in your stool, please consult your doctor immediately and have an examination to determine the cause. In some cases, intestinal and stomach bleeds may occur after trauma or strain.
Antidote use; It is essential for you to understand the availability of antidotes for different blood thinners; Some like Xarelto do not have any reliable antidotes.
The antidote for Warfarin is an injection of vitamin K. Other anticoagulants may have different antidotes in case of a serious bleed. Be sure to talk to your doctor about which medication you are on and the availability of such antidotes. When there is a need to get that from your blood, you will have to take the same amount. Certain foods may affect your clotting if you are on certain medications. When taking Warfarin dietary restrictions may be difficult and must be closely monitored. You may wish to speak with a nutritionist and your doctor together to create a safe and effective dietary plan, and avoid foods high in natural vitamin K. Common foods rich in Vitamin K if eaten in large quantities will decrease the effectiveness of the medication’s clotting properties. Some of these foods include Kale, Spinach, Brussels Sprouts, Collard Greens, Mustard greens, Chard, Broccoli, Asparagus and more. Green Tea should also be avoided. Alcohol consumption and excess intake of cranberry juice may compound upon the anticoagulant properties and make you more susceptible to bleeds.
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Which three guests would you invite to a dinner party?
"Chris Pratt, Bob Dylan & David Attenborough!"
"Pizza, hands down! Serial toast lover too!"
"Bistro Este in Ballyhackamore is divine!"
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For centuries, Jews in Europe have specialized in financial services. At the same time, they have been the victims of historical antisemitism on the part of the Christian majority. We find that present-day financial development is lower in German counties where historical antisemitism was higher, compared to otherwise similar counties. Households in counties with high historical antisemitism have similar savings rates but invest less in stocks, hold lower bank deposits, and are less likely to get a mortgage–but not to own a house–after controlling for wealth and a rich set of current and historical covariates. Present-day antisemitism and supply-side forces do not appear to fully explain the results. Present-day households in counties where historical antisemitism was higher express lower trust in finance, but have levels of generalized trust similar to other households.
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SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy TV show made by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg that started on May 1, 1999 on Nickelodeon.
SpongeBob SquarePants is one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows, made into two movies, a Broadway musical that was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, and many pieces of merchandise.
The show gets its name from its main character, SpongeBob SquarePants, who lives in a pineapple under the sea (as can be heard in the theme song that begins every episode). SpongeBob (whose voice is provided by Tom Kenny) is a sea sponge, but he looks more like a kitchen sponge used for cleaning dishes. His best friend is a starfish named Patrick Star. His grumpy neighbor is an octopus named Squidward Tentacles.
SpongeBob and Squidward work as employees at a restaurant called the Krusty Krab in the underwater town of Bikini Bottom. The Krusty Krab, which is run by a greedy crab named Mr. Krabs, is famous for its Krabby Patty burgers. The recipe for Krabby Patties is top-secret. Plankton and Karen, who are the owners of a different restaurant called the Chum Bucket, often try to steal the recipe.
SpongeBob SquarePants is the main character and a sea sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea. He is a fry cook in the Krusty Krab. He is very jolly and sometimes annoys his selfish neighbor, Squidward. His favorite pastimes are jellyfishing and blowing bubbles.
Patrick Star is a starfish and SpongeBob's best friend who lives under a rock. Patrick is goofy and stupid, but is a fun-loving character and eats a lot. He is unemployed, but has worked at several places before.
1 1 May 1, 1998 101 "Help Wanted"
2 2 July 17, 1998 102 "Bubblestand"
3 3 July 31, 1998 103 "Jellyfishing"
4 4 August 7, 1998 104 "Naughty Nautical Neighbors"
5 5 August 14, 1998 105 "Pizza Delivery"
6 6 August 21, 1998 106 "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy"
7 7 August 28, 1998 107 "Hall Monitor"
8 8 September 4, 1998 108 "Sandy's Rocket"
9 9 September 11, 1998 109 "Nature Pants"
10 10 September 18, 1998 110 "Culture Shock"
11 11 September 25, 1998 111 "MuscleBob BuffPants"
12 12 October 2, 1998 112 "The Chaperone"
13 13 October 28, 1998 113 "Scaredy Pants"
14 14 December 31, 1998 114 "SB-129"
15 15 January 17, 1999 115 "Sleepy Time"
16 16 February 14, 1999 116 "Valentine's Day"
17 17 March 15, 1999 117 "Arrgh!"
18 18 March 22, 1999 118 "Texas"
19 19 April 1, 1999 119 "Fools in April"
20 20 April 8, 1999 120 "Hooky"
"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II"
21 1 November 2, 2000 201 "Your Shoe's Untied"
22 2 October 26, 2000 202 "Something Smells"
23 3 November 16, 2000 203 "Big Pink Loser"
24 4 December 28, 2000 204 "Dying for Pie"
25 5 February 17, 2001 205 "Wormy"
26 6 March 6, 2001 206 "Grandma's Kisses"
27 7 May 5, 2001 207 "Prehibernation Week"
28 8 December 6, 2000 208 "Christmas Who?"
29 9 March 5, 2001 209 "Survival of the Idiots"
30 10 March 7, 2001 210 "No Free Rides"
31 11 November 27, 2000 211 "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy"
32 12 March 8, 2001 212 "Pressure"
("Gary Takes a Bath") 213 "Shanghaied"
34 14 January 21, 2002 214 "Welcome to the Chum Bucket"
35 15 September 7, 2001 215 "The Secret Box"
36 16 September 6, 2002 216 "Graveyard Shift"
37 17 November 30, 2001 217 "Procrastination"
38 18 September 21, 2001 218 "Sailor Mouth"
39 19 September 28, 2001 219 "Jellyfish Hunter"
40 20 October 12, 2001 220 "Squid On Strike"
"Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm"
41 1 March 22, 2002 301 "The Algae's Always Greener"
42 2 July 12, 2002 302 "Club SpongeBob"
43 3 October 5, 2001 303 "Just One Bite"
44 4 March 1, 2002 304 "Nasty Patty"
45 5 January 21, 2002 305 "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV"
46 6 February 22, 2002 306 "Snowball Effect"
47 7 March 8, 2002 307 "As Seen on TV"
"Can You Spare a Dime?"
48 8 March 15, 2002 308 "No Weenies Allowed"
49 9 March 29, 2002 309 "Krab Borg"
50 10 May 10, 2002 310 "Wet Painters"
51 11 May 17, 2002 311 "Party Pooper Pants"
52 12 June 1, 2002 312 "Chocolate with Nuts"
"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V"
53 13 September 20, 2002 313 "New Student Starfish"
54 14 March 5, 2004 314 "Ugh"
55 15 January 23, 2003 315 "The Great Snail Race"
56 16 October 4, 2003 316 "Born Again Krabs"
57 17 April 3, 2004 317 "Krabby Land"
58 18 January 19, 2004 318 "Missing Identity"
59 19 March 21, 2003 319 "The Sponge Who Could Fly"
60 20 October 11, 2004 320 "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"
1 November 19, 2004 "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" When Plankton steals King Neptune's crown from him, SpongeBob and Patrick must take the long route to "Shell City" to find it.
2 February 6, 2015 "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" When a diabolical pirate above the sea steals the secret Krabby Patty formula, SpongeBob and his nemesis Plankton must team up in order to get it back.
The show takes place in a city called Bikini Bottom, which is in the Pacific Ocean.
SpongeBob's pineapple house is SpongeBob's home. It has many big rooms even though on the outside it looks just like a small pineapple. It even has a huge library with many books.
The Krusty Krab is a restaurant in the city of Bikini Bottom. It is run by a crab, Eugene H. Krabs. Two workers at the restaurant are SpongeBob SquarePants (fry cook), and Squidward Q. Tentacles (cashier). The fast food items that are sold include the popular Krabby Patty (which is similar to a hamburger), kelp fries, and drinks.
The Chum Bucket is a restaurant that is across the street from the Krusty Krab. It is owned by Sheldon J. Plankton and Karen Plankton, but is very unpopular since the food is really bad. Plankton and Karen are always trying to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, which only Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob know.
Mrs. Puff's Boating School is the driving school where SpongeBob often goes to try to get his driver's licence. SpongeBob is normally not good at driving and can never really get his license without help from a friend. Whenever he gets his licence, he soon after loses it.
Patrick's boulder is Patrick's home where Patrick lives and sleeps in. In some episodes, Patrick falls out of his boulder.
Squidward's house, an Easter Island head owned by Squidward. In his house, Squidward practices his clarinet and paints pictures.
Mr Krabs and Pearl's anchor house, a hollow anchor with lots of paintings on the walls. Mr. Krabs and Pearl live inside of it.
Goo Lagoon is a popular beach. Even though the beach is under water, the water in the beach is called "goo". In some episodes it is just a lake but in some it is an entire ocean.
In 2005, several groups, including the American Family Foundation, attacked SpongeBob for being a representative of homosexual people. The character had recently appeared on a music video with other kids characters to promote diversity and tolerance. However, the creator said in 2002 that SpongeBob is asexual.
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"SpongeBob vs. The Big One"
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The Appalachian State Mountaineers football team is the college football team at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. The Mountaineers have competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the Sun Belt Conference since 2014. Appalachian plays its home games in Kidd Brewer Stadium, named after former head coach Kidd Brewer, whose 1937 squad was unbeaten and unscored upon during the regular season.
The Mountaineers competed in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) from its founding in 1978 to 2013. They won three straight national championships from 2005 to 2007, the first FCS team to do so since the playoffs began in 1978. They were also the first Division I program to win three consecutive national championships since Army accomplished the feat from 1944 to 1946, and the first Division I school in the modern era to claim three straight undisputed national titles. Appalachian became the first FCS team to receive votes in the final Associated Press (AP) college football poll on January 8, 2008. The Mountaineers received five points in the poll.
Through its history, the App State football program has won over 550 games, claimed three national championships and appeared in the Division-I FCS playoffs 20 times. The Mountaineers have 19 conference championships and have one of the nation's best home field advantages. The program also has one Walter Payton Award winner, Armanti Edwards, who was the first player to win the award in back-to-back years (2008, 2009).
On October 21, 2018, the Mountaineers became ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, ranking at number 25. This was the team's first time being nationally ranked.
Appalachian State began playing organized football in 1928. The coach that first year was Graydon Eggers. The Mountaineers competed as an independent before joining the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) North State Conference as a charter member in 1931. Kidd Brewer was the head coach of the Mountaineers from 1935–38, leading the team to two postseason bowl games. Brewer's 1937 squad is best remembered for going unbeaten and unscored upon during the regular season, outscoring opponents 206–0 before losing a postseason game to the Golden Eagles, 7–0. Appalachian found continued success under coach E. C. Duggins (1947–50 and 1952–55). During Duggins' eight years as coach, the Mountaineers claimed three more North State Conference championships and played in seven bowl games. The Mountaineers again competed as an independent from 1968–71 before joining the Southern Conference.
Jim Duncan served as Appalachian State's head coach from 1960–1964, compiling a 31–15–2 record. Duncan was succeeded by Carl Messere, who compiled a 34–26–1 record from 1965–1970.
Wofford head coach Jim Brakefield was hired as Appalachian State's head football coach in 1971. He led the Mountaineers into the Southern Conference in his first season. Brakefield led the Mountaineers to three losing seasons in four years en route to a 47–48–4 record at Appalachian State, however, a 3–8 campaign in 1979 resulted in his dismissal. However, Brakefield's 1975 team won impressive victories over Wake Forest (19–17) and South Carolina (35–34) in 1979.
Mike Working served as the 16th head football coach in Appalachian State football history from 1980–1982. Under Working, the Mountaineers compiled a record of 13–18–2 and never were able to sustain consistency. Working was fired following back to back seven-loss seasons in 1981 and 1982.
Legendary coach Mack Brown was hired as Appalachian State's head coach in 1983. Brown, who had previously served as LSU's quarterbacks coach, led Appalachian State to a 6–5 record in what would be his only season.
In December 1983, he was seriously considered for the head coaching position at LSU which had been vacated after Jerry Stovall was fired, but the position instead went to Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger. However, Brown chose to leave Appalachian State to accept the position of offensive coordinator at Oklahoma under head coach Barry Switzer.
Following Brown's departure, Appalachian State promoted assistant coach Sparky Woods to head coach. Appalachian State won the first of nine Southern Conference championships in 1986 under Woods, who also led the Mountaineers into the playoffs for the first time that year. Another conference championship and playoff appearance followed in 1987. Woods won the Wallace Wade Coach of the Year Award three straight years in 1985, 1986, and 1987, becoming the only coach in conference history to do so. Woods, who compiled a 38–19–2 record at Appalachian State, left to accept the head coaching position at South Carolina after five seasons.
Arkansas assistant coach Jerry Moore was hired as the Mountaineer's 19th coach in 1989. Moore is the winningest coach in conference history, and under his leadership the Mountaineers have won seven conference championships. In addition, the Mountaineers have posted nineteen winning campaigns to go with one losing season during his tenure, allowing Moore to claim Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors a record six times. He was also the 2006 recipient of the Eddie Robinson Award, presented to the division's most outstanding coach. Under the stewardship of Moore, players such as two-time Buck Buchanan Award winner Dexter Coakley have gone on to play in the National Football League.
Appalachian State became the first team since the playoffs began in 1978 to win three straight national titles in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and the first team to accomplish the feat since Army in 1944, 1945, and 1946. They are also the first Division I school in modern times to claim three straight undisputed national titles.
On September 1, 2007, in what was hailed as one of the biggest upsets in United States sports history, the Mountaineers shocked the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines, 34–32. Most people predicted that Michigan was going to win by a large margin—in fact, the unofficial odds were that Michigan was going to win by 33 points. The win helped Applachian State become the first FCS team to ever receive votes in the final Associated Press (AP) college football poll on January 8, 2008. The Mountaineers received five points in the poll, tying South Florida for 34th. The conclusion of the 2008 season saw quarterback Armanti Edwards win Appalachian's first Walter Payton Award, presented annually to the most outstanding offensive player.
On December 2, 2012, after a first-round home playoff loss to Illinois State, athletics director Charlie Cobb announced that Moore would not return for the 2013 season. According to a press release issued by the ASU athletic department, Cobb stated that he and Moore agreed after the end of the 2011 season that the 2012 season would be Moore's last as head coach, but chose not to make an announcement until that time. However, several days later, Moore claimed that there had been a communication gap, and that he had wanted to coach for one more season (i.e., 2013).
On December 14, 2012, Scott Satterfield was named head coach of the Appalachian State football program. Satterfield had spent 15 seasons as an assistant in the Mountaineers program. As the offensive coordinator, he was responsible for much of the program's success.
In 2013, the Mountaineers began a two-year transition from the FCS to college football's premier FBS level. Because of this, the program was declared ineligible for FCS postseason play. Appalachian State's first year of FBS play would come in 2014 as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. However, per NCAA rules, the Mountaineers would not be eligible for the FBS post-season until 2015.
The first game of App State's inaugural FBS season was a rematch of the 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game. However, this time, the Michigan Wolverines won in a 52–14 blowout. The Mountaineers had their first home game of the season the following week in a win against Campbell. App State would lose its next four contests. After a 1–5 start, the Mountaineers rallied and won the final six games of their 2014 season. The team finished 7–5 overall (6–2 Sun) with a third place conference finish in their first season as a member of the Sun Belt Conference.
Appalachian State opened the 2015 season with a 49–0 pounding of Howard before losing to Clemson. After their 1–1 start, the Mountaineers won six straight but fell short to the eventual Sun Belt champion, Arkansas State, on November 5. The team rallied, finished the regular season 10–2 and received a bid to play in the Camellia Bowl against an 8–4 Ohio. The Mountaineers overcame their opposition 31–29 becoming the first team in Sun Belt history to win eleven games in one season. This win was also historic as it marked the first time a former FCS team won a bowl game in their first season of bowl eligibility.
On November 24, 2015 Miami confirmed rumors they have scheduled a home-and-home series with Appalachian State. The first game was played in Kidd Brewer Stadium on September 17, 2016, and marked the Mountaineers' first home game against a power five opponent in modern history. The second game will be played in Sun Life Stadium on September 11, 2021.
In 2016, the Mountaineers finished with a 10–3 record.
In 2018, Appalachian State was ranked in the FBS for the first time in its history after starting out 5–1 in the 2018 season; its only recorded loss was to Penn State in an overtime game. They would promptly lose their next game and their ranking. The Mountaineers would end the 2018 season as Sun Belt Conference Champions. Satterfield would be named Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year. It was the Mountaineers' 3rd Conference championship in a row and their first outright championship in the inaugural Sun Belt Championship game hosted in Boone on December 1st, 2018. On December 4th, 2018 Scott Satterfield was confirmed to be the next head coach at The University of Louisville Cardinal Football program in the ACC. Assistant Head Coach Mark Ivey would be named interim Head Coach and would go on to coach the Mountaineers for the 2018 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl win over Middle Tennessee State University Blue Raiders (43-13) December 15th, 2018. Ivey would not be retained as head coach of the Mountaineers The Mountaineers ended their season 11-2, 4-peat Bowl Game champs, and 3-peat conference champs.
Eliah Drinkwitz was hired by Appalachian State on December 13, 2018. He was previously the offensive coordinator for NC State.
Appalachian has won three national championships in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, at the time, the highest division in college football to hold a playoff tournament to determine its champion. The Mountaineers became the fifth program in FCS history to reach the national title game three straight years joining Eastern Kentucky (1979–82), Georgia Southern (1988–90 and 1998–2000), Marshall (1991–93) and Youngstown State (1991–94). Appalachian also had a thirteen-game postseason winning streak, a record for consecutive wins in contiguous years that ended with a loss to Richmond in 2008.
Appalachian State has won 21 conference titles, 15 outright and six shared. Before leaving the Southern Conference in 2014, the Mountaineers had won 10 conference titles, placing them second in the league's history. The Furman Paladins lead the SoCon with 12 championships.
NCAA records list the date of the first Pythian Bowl as "11-26-1949", which is inconsistent with contemporary newspaper reports.
Note: Appalachian did not field a team in 1943 or 1944.
Known as the Battle for the Old Mountain Jug, Appalachian State played Western Carolina in a regional rivalry game from 1932–2013. The only years in that period in which the game was not played were 1942 to 1945, during U.S. involvement in World War II. In 1976, a traveling trophy known as the Old Mountain Jug was created from an old moonshine jug. Appalachian's record in games played is 59–18–1, and 31–7 in the Jug era. The Mountaineers currently hold the trophy, having won each of the last nine games (2005–2013) and 26 of the last 28.[when?] No further games in the rivalry are scheduled following Appalachian's move to the Sun Belt Conference.
College Field was the home of Appalachian football from 1928 to 1961. Located at the future site of Rankin Hall and Edwin Duncan Hall, the stadium was replaced by Kidd Brewer Stadium in 1962.
Opened in 1962, Kidd Brewer Stadium was originally named Conrad Stadium after former university trustee and R.J. Reynolds executive William J. Conrad. The stadium was renamed in 1988 for Kidd Brewer who coached the Mountaineers from 1935–38. Nicknamed "The Rock", it sits at an elevation of 3,280 feet (1,000 m) but is measured at 3,333 feet (1,016 m) for NCAA qualifications. The stadium was the first venue in either North or South Carolina to install artificial turf. On October 3, 1970, the Mountaineers and Elon Fightin' Christians staged the first ever game played on turf in the Carolinas. After a 2002 First Round I-AA playoff loss to Maine, Appalachian compiled a 30-game unbeaten streak at Kidd Brewer Stadium that ended on October 20, 2007.
The Mountaineers led the FCS in average attendance throughout the 2007, 2008, and 2010 seasons. Kidd Brewer saw average crowds of 24,219, 25,161 and 25,715 respectively.
Completed in 2009, the stadium has seen extensive renovations as part of a $50 million facilities improvement campaign. An upper deck with additional seating for 4,400 was added to the east (visitor) stands prior to the 2008 season. Additional restrooms and concessions have been added. Most significantly, rising behind the west (home) stands and replacing the former pressbox facilities, the 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) KBS Complex was completed before the start of the 2009 season. The KBS Complex includes new stadium entrance plaza, strength and conditioning rooms, a hydrotherapy room, locker rooms, athletics offices, stadium suites and club seating.
On February 28, 2017, the Appalachian State athletics office announced a construction project to increase the size of the video display board in Kidd-Brewer Stadium. The proposed video board will be approximately 2,500 square feet (50' x 90'), with LED display, 13HD technology and a Daktronics custom audio system integrated into the video board. The cost of the project is estimated to be approximately $60 million and be completed prior to the 2017 season.
The Miracle on the Mountain took place at Kidd Brewer Stadium on October 12, 2002, and was selected as the "ABC Sports Radio Call of the Year." A low scoring affair, the Paladins elected to attempt a two-point conversion after scoring the go-ahead touchdown with 7 seconds left in the game. Leading 15–14, Furman quarterback Billy Napier's pass was intercepted by Josh Jeffries at the 4-yard line. He lateraled the ball to Derrick Black who returned it for a score giving the Mountaineers a 16–15 win.
On September 1, 2007, the Appalachian State football team traveled to Ann Arbor to play their season opener at the University of Michigan. A sellout crowd of over 109,000 fans packed Michigan Stadium, becoming the largest crowd to ever witness an ASU football game. Appalachian State beat Michigan 34–32 and became the first Division I-AA football team to defeat a Division I-A team ranked in the AP poll. This victory was seen by some analysts to be one of the greatest upsets in NCAA football history. Following the win, they were featured on the cover of the following week's issue of Sports Illustrated.
On August 30, 2008, Appalachian State opened its football season at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana against NCAA Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) defending national champion Louisiana State University. The game, which was broadcast on ESPN Classic, was the first ever between defending FBS and FCS National Championship teams. The game against the Mountaineers saw the Tigers claim an early lead and victory by a score of 41–13.
On December 1, 2018, Appalachian State played in the first inaugural Sun Belt Conference Championship Game at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina, against NCAA Division I FBS opponent University of Louisiana at Lafayette. This game, which was broadcast on ESPN, was the first ever time in Sun Belt Conference history that the conference held a championship game. The game against the Ragin' Cajuns saw the Mountaineers come out on top 30–19. This gave the Mountaineers a berth to the New Orleans Bowl on December 15, 2018.
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When SORN is declared on your car, do you HAVE to obtain theft insurance?
My car will be in a driveway, but a very secure one. It's hard to describe, but we live in a very anti-theft area (though I'm sure there is still theft) and the house itself is so well protected, including the hidden driveway (which is more like an open high-security car park), that I would rather not... show more My car will be in a driveway, but a very secure one. It's hard to describe, but we live in a very anti-theft area (though I'm sure there is still theft) and the house itself is so well protected, including the hidden driveway (which is more like an open high-security car park), that I would rather not obtain the insurance.
Also, my car insurance is costing £1456 (annually) and it has just been manufactured. I am under 25 and this is my first car. Is this a normal rate for insurance?
Update: Just to add: I am declaring SORN because I cannot drive the car yet. I do know it would be better to let the dealer have the car for the time being, but I rather have it myself.
Best Answer: No, once declared SORN, there's no legal obligation for you to have any insurance.
Your insurance premium is good for a young driver and reflects your low crime rate area.
It is a condition of the SORN declaration that your car is kept off road and on private land, so it does not legally need to be insured. However, you need to consider the financial implications to yourself if the car was the subject of fire or theft. If it was me, and the car was of any value, I would want the reassurance that it was protected against theft at the very least.
Not usually. You an get specific 'off road/laid up' cover for a car that's not being used on the road. Covers it against theft from the garage, fire damage etc, but NOT any road risks.
SORN is only legal if the car is off public roads. Ie,.on private land. If it is on private land no insurance or mot is required.
Legally there's no obligation to insure a SORN'd car, but if it's a new-ish car I think you'd be mad not to.
Incidentally it doesn't need to be insured for driving, you can get what's called "laid-up" cover, usually for classic cars but it would be worth asking a broker what they can offer.
Declare a car SORN, insurance?
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Declared car SORN but no drive way?
Cheap car insurance with low deposit in Leeds, UK. Any suggestions for an 18 year old? I have no drivers in the family to put on my policy.?
I forgot to put the postal order number on my dvla form for my provisional...is that fine?? because I sent the receipt with it?
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The company I worked for gave me my own personalized gas card with my name. I was never told to use it for company use. I got no receipt.?
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HOA previously marked owner responsibility as contained within the unit walls and has recently started a process that would transfer responsibility for unit patio maintenance back to the unit owners. Does this raise issues of insurance and past practices?
This does not raise an issue of past practices if the transfer of responsibility is properly made. I assume that the homeowners association constituent documents currently provide that the patios are a part of the common areas, and that the homeowners association is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the common areas. In order to "transfer responsibility for unit patio maintenance back to the unit owners," the homeowners association would have to cause for the constituent documents to be amended (i) to define a patio to which a unit owner has the exclusive right of use as a "limited common area," and (ii) to provide that the unit owner, who has the exclusive right to use and enjoy the limited common area, be responsible for the repair and maintenance of the limited common area. Typically, such an amendment to the homeowners association's constituent documents requires vote of 66 2/3rds of the unit owners at a meeting properly called for such purpose. If the amendment is duly adopted by the unit owners, past practices becomes irrelevant as the change has been made through an amendment to the constituent documents. It must be noted that the Board, acting alone, does not have the authority (through rule adoption or otherwise) to transfer the responsibility for "unit patio maintenance back to the unit owners." The only "process" which is legally sufficient to accomplish this is by amendment of the constituent documents.
This also does not raise an insurance issue. Typically, a liability insurance policy offered by an insurer to a unit owner in a homeowners association will cover claims for personal injuries or property damage sustained by reason of the unit owner's negligence not only within the unit, but also upon any limited common area appurtenant to such unit which, pursuant to the constituent documents, the unit owner has the obligation to repair and maintain.
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What is the definition of ESG? ESG means using Environmental, Social and Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on how far advanced there are with sustainability. Once enough data has been acquired on these three metrics, they can be integrated into the investment process when deciding what equities or bonds to buy.
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The game of chess originated in India, and its interest quickly spread to the Arabs and Persians during the Middle Ages. It is a game that is thought to imitate life and to involve a combination of both science and art. It is a game that involves 64 boxes for strategic moves and a checkmate at the end of the game.
There have been many exceptional chess players throughout history. The following list of the top ten best chess players have earned their spot based on a number of reasons, including how long they spent dominating the game, how well they beat their opponents, their awards and achievements, and the contributions and master skills they brought to the game of chess.
German chess player, Dr. Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 - January 11, 1941) was named World Chess Champion for 27 consecutive years from 1894 to 1921, making him one of the greatest chess players of all time. Lasker often confused his opponents with his psychological chess moves, where he successfully analyzed his opponents' qualities against his own board position. Some believe that he deliberately made bad moves to further confuse his opponents where others note his exceptional defensive skills in the game. Lasker also wrote a series of books and magazines on the game of chess.
Alexander Alekhine (October 31, 1892 - March 24, 1946) was a Russian chess player who became the fourth World Chess Champion in 1927 after winning numerous tournaments from the time he was in his twenties, with his first one being played when he was just 10 years old.
As one of the best chess players of all time, Alekhine was known for his fierce attacks during the game. He was the creator of the opening chess move known as Alekhine's Defence and practiced other opening and endgame strategies.
Dr. Mikhail Botvinnik (August 17, 1911 - May 5, 1995), the Soviet and Russian grandmaster chess player, was the first world renowned chess player from within the Soviet Union. He greatly assisted the country with becoming a leading contender during professional tournaments, and may have been the best chess player in the nation at the time.
Botvinnik became a major contributor to the World Chess Championship association after the Second World War, winning the title on three occasions. Botvinnik was also active in the development of computer chess.
Russian chess grandmaster, Dr. Anatoly Karpov, born May 23, 1951, held the title of world champion from 1975 to 1985 and again from 1993 to 1999.
Karpov began playing chess when he was 4 years old, becoming a Candidate Master at age 11. The following year, he entered Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school and became the Soviet's youngest national master when he was 15. Karpov is known to react relentlessly to errors made by his opponents while playing the game logically and strategically.
Garry Kasparov, born April 13, 1963, is a chess grandmaster from Russian who is often considered to be the best chess player in history. He actively played the game from 1986 until 2005 when he retired. During this time, he was ranked #1 in the world for 225/228 consecutive months. He has earned the title of World Chess Champion, holds tournament victory records, and has been awarded Chess Oscars.
In 1985, at the age of 22, Kasparov earned the title of the youngest ever to win the title of World Chess Champion after beating opponent, Anatoly Karpov.
Cuban chess player, Jose Raul Capablanca (November 19, 1988 - March 8, 1942) held the title of world chess champion from 1921-1927. He was called the Human Chess Machine because of his excellent speed and endgame skill and is one of the best chess players of all time.
Since WWI stopped people from playing international chess for several years, Capablanca entered and won several chess tournaments in New York during this time. After the Allied forces won the war, Capablanca entered and won the first international chess competition, becoming the winner of the Hastings Victory Tournament in 1919.
Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008) was a chess master from America who is believed by many to be the best chess player in history. When Fischer was 14, he began winning United States Championship competitions. The next year, he became the youngest person eligible to play in the World Championship games and was named a grandmaster chess player.
When Fischer was 20 years old, he became the only player in history to win the US Championship with a perfect score. He is the author of the popular book, My 60 Memorable Games, which was published in 1969.
Born in Austria, Wilhelm Steinitz (May 17, 1836 - August 12, 1900) first learned to play chess at the age of 12, and began playing in championship competitions in his 20's. He was named as the world champion chess player from 1886 to 1894, when he lost to opponent Emanuel Lasker.
Steinitz is known for his chess playing style where he worked at seeking positions of advantage on the board rather than attacking his opponent's chess pieces. This style became very popular among chess players.
Paul Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884) was a chess player from America who was known as The Pride and Sorrow of Chess because he retired from chess at a young age after being very skilled at it. Morphy is thought by some people including Bobby Fischer to be the best chess play from his time.
Morphy learned to play the game by watching his father and uncle playing, and was one of New Orleans' best chess players by the time he was nine years old. In 1857 he was named the best chess player in America.
Russian chess player, Tigran Petrosian (June 17, 1929 - August 13, 1984) was a grandmaster player and earned the title of World Chess Champion from 1963 until 1969. Known as 'Iron Tagran' because of his exceptional defense strategies, he was named as the hardest chess player to beat in a book that was published in 2004. He was known to play on his opponents' weaknesses and mistakes but avoided playing offensively himself.
Petrosian's master thesis in 1968 was entitled "Chess Logic, Some Problems of the Logic of Chess Thought".
With all respect but in my opinion Capablanca is the best of all time. He never recovered the top because Alekhine fled to him like a coward after winning in Buenos Aires. At that moment there was no FIDE that forced him to contest the crown. Instead he gave the opportunity to Max Euwe because he knew he was inferior, and even lost against Max. Years later Capablanca and Alekhine met in a tournament where Capablanca masterfully won with an impeccable sacrifice of quality. Capablanca had no master of chess as Kasparov had a world champion tutor, nor studied theory, nor had the advances in technology that helped Kasparov. Expert in finals like none. Capablanca was the best!!
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Apparently highly favorable conditions accompanied Cuba's emergence into independence. There were no major social or political problems similar to those that other Latin American nations had experienced after their break with Spain. There was no large unassimilated indigenous population, and although blacks represented a significant proportion of the total population, there was no major racial conflict. The two groups had learned to live together since colonial times. In addition, no strong regionalism or powerful church challenged the authority of the state. Furthermore, the liberal conservative feud that plagued countries like Mexico during the nineteenth century was nonexistent in Cuba.
crop economy and on one all-powerful market. Under the terms of the May 1903 Treaty of Relations (also known as the Permanent Reciprocity Treaty of 1903) and the Lease Agreement of July 1903, the United States also acquired rights in perpetuity to lease a naval coaling station at Guantanamo Bay, which has remained the United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay ever since.
Despite apparently favorable conditions, Marti's vision of a politically and economically independent nation failed to materialize in the post independence years. Whether he would have been able to prevent the events that followed the War for Independence can only be conjectured. A process of centralization extended the great sugar estates of the colonial period, restraining the growth of a rural middle class and creating an agrarian proletariat of poor whites and mulattoes. Cuba became more and more commercially dependent on the United States, and the inclusion of the Platt Amendment into the Cuban constitution of 1901 established United States supervision of political developments in Cuba.
Another problem was Cuba's preservation of the colonial Spanish attitude that public office was a source of personal profit. Electoral fraud became a standard practice. Politics became the means to social advancement, a contest between factions for the spoils of office. Personalismo was substituted for principle; allegiance to a man or a group was the only way to ensure survival in the political arena. The Spanish legacy of political and administrative malpractice increased in the new nation too suddenly to be checked by a people lacking experience in self-government. The United States' dissolution of Cuba's veteran army prevented a repetition of the typical nineteenth-century Spanish-American experience. Nevertheless, many veterans took an active part in politics, and their influence was felt in the years following the establishment of the republic in 1902.
As successor to Spain as the overseer of the island's affairs, the United States unwittingly perpetuated the Cubans' lack of political responsibility. Cubans enjoyed the assurance that the United States would intervene to protect them from foreign entanglement or to solve their domestic difficulties, but the situation only encouraged an indolent attitude toward their own affairs and was not conducive to responsible self-government. In the early decades of the republic, the Cubans developed a "Platt Amendment mentality," which led them to rely upon the United States for guidance in their political decisions.
This civic indolence was also not conducive to the growth of Cuban nationalism. Although the Cubans were enclosed in a geographic unit and shared a common language, religion, and background, they lacked national unity and purpose. The influence of the United States weakened the forces of nationalism in the early part of the century. As the century progressed, another force, espaliolismo, became an important factor in keeping the nation divided. When Cuba became independent, Spaniards were guaranteed their property rights and were allowed to keep commerce and retail trade largely in their own hands. Immigration from Spain, furthermore, increased considerably, and by 1934 there were an estimated 300,000 Spaniards on the island. This influx constantly strengthened Spanish traditions and customs. Many Spaniards themselves remained divided, retaining the ways of their own native provinces, hoping for an eventual return to Spain and thus failing to assimilate into the mainstream of Cuban society.
A dangerous tendency to solve differences through violence also permeated the political atmosphere. In 1906 President Estrada Palma called for United States intervention to offset the so-called Little August War. Organized by Jose Miguel Gomez and his liberal followers, who were outraged by Estrada Palma's fraudulent reelection, this revolt aimed at preventing Estrada Palma from serving a second term in office. United States Marines were sent to end the conflict, initiating a new intervention that lasted from 1906 until1909.
This second intervention differed significantly from the first. The United States was not eager to embark on a new period of rule in Cuba, and the provisional governor, Charles E. Magoon, turned to dispensing government sinecures, or botellas, to pacify the various quarreling factions. Magoon also embarked on an extensive program of public works, gave Havana a new sewerage system, and organized a modern army. These accomplishments, however, were partially overshadowed by extravagant spending that left Cuba with a debt where there once had been a surplus. Magoon also drew up an organic body of law for the executive and the judiciary, and for provincial and municipal government. He also provided an electoral law, as well as laws for a civil service and for municipal taxation. Evidently, the United States government considered enactment of fair legislation that would prevent civil wars to be one of the main purposes of the intervention. Having pacified the country and introduced this new legislative apparatus, the United States called for municipal and national elections. In 1908 the Liberals, members of the newly created Liberal Party (Partido Liberal), won a solid majority and elected their leader, Jose Miguel Gomez (president, 1909-13), to the presidency. The United States seemed willing to allow the democratic process to follow its course, and on January 28, 1909, the interventionist forces were withdrawn from the island.
The impact of this second intervention was far-reaching in other, less positive ways. It removed any pretense of Cuban independence, strengthened the Platt Amendment mentality, and increased doubts about the Cubans' ability for self-government. Disillusionment took hold among many leaders, intellectuals, and writers, and this feeling was transmitted to the mass of the population. Cynicism and irresponsibility increased and so did the resort to violence to solve political differences. Even hitherto peaceful racial relations were affected.
The 1908 electoral fiasco of a group of radical blacks, who had organized a political party called the Independent Colored Association (Agrupacion Independiente de Color-AIC), increased the frustration of blacks. When the Cuban Senate passed a law prohibiting parties along racial lines, the AIC staged an uprising in 1912. The uprising alarmed Washington, which landed United States Marines in several parts of the island, over the protests of President Jose Miguel Gomez. Trying to avert another full-fledged intervention, Gomez moved swiftly and harshly. Government forces captured and executed most of the leaders and crushed the rebellion. The AIC collapsed soon after. It was to be the last time that a revolt along strictly racial lines would develop in Cuba.
The tendency to resort to violence was displayed in two other instances at this time. In 1912 veterans of the War for Independence demanded the ouster of pro-Spanish elements from bureaucratic positions and threatened to take up arms against the government of President Gomez. When the United States expressed "grave concern" over these events, the veterans rapidly renounced their violent tactics. The second incident occurred again in 1917. This time the Liberal Party rebelled to protest the fraudulent reelection of Mario Garda Menocal (president, 1913-1921). Led by former President Gomez, the rebels took control of Oriente and Camaguey provinces. But Menocal, supported by a warning from the United States that it would not recognize a government that came to power by unconstitutional means, moved troops into the areas controlled by the rebels and captured Gomez. The rebellion soon died out, and, although its leaders were arrested, they were later pardoned.
As a result of the economic downturn of the 1920s, various groups protested Cuba's economic dependence on the United States. In 1920, after a sharp drop in the price of sugar created a severe economic crisis, Cuba was subjected to financial chaos and social misery. The crisis accelerated the desire for change and led to a questioning of the existing order of society among intellectuals and writers and also among other groups that were barred from becoming productive members of society. This economic crisis led in particular to a resurgence of economic nationalism. Several groups demanded protective legislation for Cuban interests and questioned the close economic ties between the United States and Cuba. The Platt Amendment as well as the repeated interventions of the United States government in Cuba's internal affairs came under attack. Anti-United States feeling, xenophobia, and retrieval of the national wealth became the main themes of this blossoming nationalism. As the decade progressed, however, its scope was widened to include a call for social justice and for an end to political corruption and economic dependence on a single crop.
Liberal Alfredo Zayas y Alonso (president, 1921-24), as corrupt as his administration was, managed to take advantage of this nationalism to reassert Cuba's sovereignty vis-a-vis the United States and its special envoy, Enoch Crowder. Although his administration was overshadowed by graft and mismanagement, Zayas retrieved Cuba's credit, averted intervention, and through later negotiations secured definite title to the Isla de Pinos (now Isla de la Juventud) off the southern coast of Cuba after a two-decade delay imposed by the Platt Amendment.
The inability of Cuban society to absorb all university graduates accentuated the feelings of frustration in a generation that found itself with little opportunity to apply its acquired knowledge. In 1922 university students in Havana created the Federation of University Students (Federacion Estudiantil Universitaria-FEU), occupied university buildings, and organized short-lived student strikes. The students obtained a series of academic and administrative reforms, larger government subsidies, and the establishment of a University Reform Commission composed of professors, students, and alumni.
The university reform movement, which had started as a crusade for academic reform, developed political overtones in 1928 when students began protesting the decision of President Gerardo Machado y Morales (president, 1925-29, 1929-33) to remain in power for another term. Claiming that his economic program could not be completed within his four-year term and that only he could carry it out, Machado announced his decision to reelect himself. In April 1928, a packed constitutional convention granted Machado a new six-year period of power without reelection and abolished the vice presidency. In November, through a fake election in which he was the only candidate, Machado was given a new term, to run from May 20, 1929, to May 20, 1935.
Whereas a similar attempt by Estrada Palma to remain in power had resulted in rebellion, Machado's decision at first brought about only a wave of national indignation against the invalidation of suffrage. The regime still enjoyed the support of the business and conservative sectors of society. Increased revenues had brought prosperity, and Machado's improved administration, especially in the field of public works, had gained him a strong following. The Cuban armed forces, organized two decades earlier during Gomez's administration, also strongly backed the regime. Machado had successfully won over the military through bribes and threats and had purged disloyal officers. He used the military in a variety of civilian posts both at the national and local levels, thus increasingly militarizing society. The few officers who were discontented with Machado's reelection seemed powerless and ineffective to oppose the regime. In the midst of growing domestic and international problems, the United States looked with indifference at events in Cuba and seemed unwilling to become involved in Cuban affairs as long as the Machado administration maintained order and stability and a friendly posture toward Washington. Machado, furthermore, prevented the growth of political opposition by winning control of the Conservative Party (Partido Conservador) and aligning it both with his own Liberal Party and with the small Popular Party (Partido Popular). Through bribes and threats, Machado was able to subordinate Congress and the judiciary to the executive's will.
Machado's decision to extend his presidency met with stern student opposition, resulting in riots and demonstrations in several towns throughout the island. Machado took immediate measures to prevent further opposition from that quarter. He temporarily closed the university, dissolved the FEU, and abolished the University Reform Commission. He also tightened political control. Several Spanish and European labor leaders were expelled from the country as undesirable aliens. Antigovernment newspapers were closed down, and the military took an increasingly growing role in surveilling and policing the population. Machado warned sternly that he would keep order and peace at any cost.
These measures, however, failed to control the students completely. In mid-1927, a small but active group organized the University Students Directorate (Directorio Estudiantil Universitario-DEU; hereafter, Directorio) to oppose the regime. The Directorio issued a manifesto defending the right of university students to discuss politics and attacking Machado's reelection attempts. When students demonstrated in front of the university, Machado rapidly retaliated. Following his orders, the University Council, composed of faculty and administrative officials, formed disciplinary tribunals and expelled most of the Directorio leaders from the university.
A clash with police that left Rafael Trejo, a student leader, dead was the turning point in the struggle against the regime. From that time on, many Cubans viewed the courageous student generation that battled Machado's police with admiration and respect. For some, the "generation of 1930," as these students were later known in Cuban history, seemed irresponsible and undisciplined, but for others it became the best exponent of disinterested idealism. Embattled by the first shock waves of the world depression and oppressed by an increasingly ruthless dictator, many Cubans, especially those among the less privileged sectors of society, turned in hope toward these young people. They placed their faith in a generation that, although inexperienced and immature, seemed incorruptible and willing to bring morality to Cuba's public life.
While the principal leaders of the Directorio were in jail in 1931, a small group formed a splinter organization, the Student Left Wing (Ala Izquierda Estudiantil-AIE). The AlE, however, became merely a tool of the Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba-PCC). The party, founded in 1925 and led in the early 1930s by Ruben Martinez Villena, a popular poet and intellectual, directed the organization's activities and used it to influence the student movement. Throughout most of his regime, the communists opposed Machado and advocated, as the only correct strategy to overthrow his government, the mobilization of the proletariat, culminating in a general strike. The PCC opposition, however, was ineffectual.
The DEU and the AlE were not the only groups opposing Machado. The Nationalist Union (Union Nacionalista), headed by a War of Independence colonel, Carlos Mendieta, also condemned the regime in newspapers and in public demonstrations. In 1931 Mendieta and Menocal, the former president, organized a short-lived uprising in Pinar del Rio Province. That same year, a group led by engineer Carlos Hevia and journalist Sergio Carbo equipped an expedition in the United States and landed in Oriente Province, only to be crushed by Machado's army. In New York, representatives of several anti-Machado organizations united and formed a revolutionary junta.
Most prominent, perhaps, of these anti-Machado groups was the ABC, a clandestine extremist organization composed of intellectuals, students, and the middle sectors of society, established in 1930. Led by several Cuban intellectuals who were Harvard graduates, the ABC undermined Machado's position through sabotage and terrorist actions, and in December 1932 published a manifesto in Havana criticizing the underlying structure of Cuban society and outlining a detailed program of economic and political reforms. Although the means to achieve its political and economic program were not clear, the ABC called for the elimination of large landholdings, nationalization of public services, limitations on land acquisitions by United States companies, and producers' cooperatives, as well as political liberty and social justice.
Such was the existing condition on the island when the United States, attempting to find a peaceful solution to Cuba's political situation, sent Ambassador Benjamin Sumner Welles in 1933 to act as mediator between government and opposition. By then, United States interests in Cuba had grown significantly. Investment was concentrated in land and in the sugar industry, but also extended into transportation, natural resources, utilities, and the banking system. World War I had accelerated this trend, making Cuba more and more dependent on its neighbor to the North. As economic dependence increased, so did political dependence. A new crop of Cuban businessmen, technocrats, and, naturally, politicians had developed who identified with their counterparts in the United States and sought political guidance from Washington and Wall Street. This "Platt Amendment complex" permeated large sectors of Cuban society, with the exception, perhaps, of some writers, intellectuals, and students who saw a danger in the close relationship for the development of a Cuban nationality and identified the patria with the workers, the poor, and the blacks. Their ranks were small, however, and economic prosperity drowned their voices. The fear of, or the desire for, United States involvement in Cuban affairs was the dominating theme, and many Cubans were willing to use the threat of or even actual intervention by the United States to further their narrow political and economic objectives.
Most political factions and leaders supported Sumner Welles's mediation, with the exception of the radicals and the Conservative followers of former President Menocal, the Directorio, and a few Cuban leaders. The Directorio strongly opposed the United States' action. The leaders of the "generation of 1930" saw themselves as representatives of the national will and heirs to Marti's legacy (see Jose Marti and the War for Independence, 1895-1902, this. ch.); their mission was to carry on the revolution that "the United States had frustrated in 1898." Finding inspiration and guidance in Marti's teaching and his vision of a just society in a politically and economically independent nation, they opposed United States supervision of Cuban affairs and the humiliating Platt Amendment.
Sumner Welles's mediation efforts culminated in a general strike, in dissension within the armed forces, and in several small army revolts that forced Machado to resign and leave the country on August 12, 1933. This general strike deepened the schism between the PCC and the anti-Machado groups. Although the party had played an important role in promoting the strike, it reversed itself just prior to Machado's fall and issued a back-to-work order, fearing that the general strike might provoke United States intervention or the establishment of a pro-United States government. The failure to support the anti-Machado struggle discredited the PCC, especially among the students. From that time on, the party, alienated from progressive and revolutionary forces within the country, found it easier to reach agreements and work with traditional conservative political parties and governments, even with military presidents.
Sumner Welles and the army appointed Carlos Manuel de Cespedes to succeed Machado. The son of Cuba's first president during the rebellion against Spain in the 1860s and a prestigious although uninspiring figure, Cespedes soon received United States support and the backing of most anti-Machado groups. He annulled Machado's constitutional amendments of 1928, restored the 1901 constitution, and prepared to bring the country back to normalcy.
Returning Cuba to normalcy seemed an almost impossible task amid the worldwide chaos of the early 1930s. The deepening economic depression had worsened the people's misery, and Machado's overthrow had released a wave of uncontrolled anger and anxiety. Looting and disorder were widespread in Havana, where armed bands sought out and executed Machado's henchmen. In rural areas, discontented peasants took over sugar mills and threatened wealthy landowners. Although the appointment of Cespedes as president did not end the crisis, it reduced political tensions and the level of armed conflict.
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The payback for the first project, A, is easily calculated. The sum of the cash flows for the first two years is $70, leaving us with $100 - 70 = $30 to go. Because the cash flow in the third year is $50, the payback occurs sometime in that year. When we compare the $30 we need to the $50 that will be coming in, we get $30/50 = .6; so, payback will occur 60 percent of the way into the year. The payback period is thus 2.6 years.
Project B's payback is also easy to calculate: it never pays back because the cash flows never total up to the original investment. Project C has a payback of exactly four years because it supplies the $130 that B is missing in Year 4. Project D is a little strange. Because of the negative cash flow in Year 3, you can easily verify that it has two different payback periods, two years and four years. Which of these is correct? Both of them; the way the payback period is calculated doesn't guarantee a single answer. Finally, Project E is obviously unrealistic, but it does pay back in six months, thereby illustrating the point that a rapid payback does not guarantee a good investment.
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Melt butter on the stove if you want to end up with perfect, evenly melted butter, or if the recipe calls for browning. If you want to save time, use a microwave oven instead, but follow the instructions here to avoid heating it too quickly and unevenly. Finally, if you are only trying to soften butter that was kept in the fridge or freezer, many possible options are provided.
Cut the butter into pieces. Cut the butter into cubes or chunks so the heat doesn't have to melt its way slowly through the butter to reach the center. The more surface area you expose to the heat, the faster the butter will melt.
You don't need to aim for an exact size. Try cutting a stick of butter into four or five pieces.
Place the butter in a heavy pan or double boiler if possible. A pan with a heavy base should distribute heat more evenly than thin pans. This helps minimize the chance of burning the butter, by melting every part of it at a similar rate. A double boiler is even safer. Even a light pan, however, may produce more evenly melted butter than a microwave.
You can make your own double boiler by stacking two pans.
Heat on low. Butter melts between 82 and 97ºF (28–36ºC), which can be about room temperature on a hot day. Turn the heat on low to avoid heating the butter too far past this point, which can result in burning or smoking.
Watch until 3/4 of the butter has melted. The heat should remain low enough that the butter melts without browning. Use a spoon or spatula to spread the butter over the bottom of the pan as it melts.
Remove from heat and stir. Turn off the heat or move to another stove burner, and stir the mostly melted butter. The butter and pan surrounding the unmelted chunks are still hot, and should be enough to melt the remaining butter. This method has a much lower risk of burning compared to leaving the butter on the stove to melt the rest of the way.
Return to the heat for thirty seconds if there are still chunks after stirring.
If the recipe calls for browning, heat until specks appear. You do not need to brown your butter unless the recipe specifies browned butter. If it does, keep the heat low and stir the butter continually with a gentle motion. The butter will foam, then form brown specks. Once you see these specks, remove from heat and stir until the butter turns amber brown, then pour into a room temperature dish.
Cut the butter into chunks. The microwave will heat the butter from the outside in, so chop the butter into several pieces to increase the surface area that can be heated. This will reduce uneven heating, although you still shouldn't expect perfectly even heating in a microwave.
Cover the dish of butter with a paper towel. Place the butter into a microwave-safe dish, then cover with a paper towel. Butter may splatter during the rapid melting a microwave causes. The paper towel should protect the microwave’s interior from these splashes.
Heat the butter for ten seconds on low or defrost. Microwave ovens are much faster at melting butter than the stovetop, but also much more likely to cause burning, separation, or other problems. Start out cautiously by setting the microwave to "low" or "defrost" if possible, then microwave your butter for ten seconds.
Stir and check progress. The butter has most likely not melted by now, but because butter melts at a relatively low temperature, each ten second interval can have a dramatic effect. Stir to evenly distribute the heat and see if there are any chunks.
Note: remember to remove silverware from the bowl before returning it to the microwave.
Repeat the process until the butter is mostly melted. Replace the paper towel and zap the butter for another ten seconds, or five seconds if the butter is nearly done. Keep checking on progress until there are only tiny chunks remaining. Remove the dish carefully from the microwave, as it may be hot.
Stir to melt remaining pieces. The tiny pieces remaining can be melted with the residual heat. Stir the butter until the entire dish is golden and liquid.
Butter with greasy droplets or white residue on the surface has been microwaved too long. It can still be used for sautéing or adding flavor to savory dishes, but may negatively affect the texture of baked goods.
Know how to tell when butter is soft. Unless a recipe gives you a specific description of texture, butter is considered soft when it's about room temperature. It can easily be squished by a spoon, but still keeps its shape when left alone.
Cut butter into pieces before softening. There are several common methods of softening butter described below. For any of these methods, however, the butter will soften more quickly if cut into small cubes first.
Leave butter on the counter near the oven. If the butter isn't frozen and the room is warm, small pieces of butter may only take a few minutes to soften. This is especially easy if you have the oven on nearby, or if the oven's top tends to stay warm constantly due to a pilot light.
Do not place the butter directly on top of a warm oven, unless it is frozen. Keep an eye on butter in hot places to make sure it doesn't melt, as this can happen rapidly.
Soften butter more quickly by mashing or beating it. To speed up the softening process, use electric mixer, or use this tip to easily mash the butter by hand. Stick the butter in a sealed zip lock bag with most of the air squeezed out. Using a rolling pin, your hands, or any heavy object, roll or mash the butter repeatedly. After a few minutes, the butter should feel significantly softer, without any signs of melting.
Instead of a zip lock bag, you could put the butter between two sheets of parchment paper or wax paper.
Place a container of butter in a warm water bath. Fill a large bowl partway full of warm water, avoiding steaming hot water. Put the butter in a sealed zip lock bag or in a smaller bowl resting in the water bath. Keep a close eye on the butter and poke it occasionally to check the texture, as this method should only take a couple minutes to soften refrigerated butter.
Rapidly soften frozen butter by grating it. If you can't wait for frozen butter to thaw, grate it using a coarse, large-hole grater. The grated shreds of butter should thaw and soften within a few minutes in a warm room.
The recipe that I am using requires me to melt butter over water. How do I do this?
You can boil water in a pan on the stove while suspending the butter in a jug or heat resistant plate/bowl over the hot water. Just stir the butter a bit, and you're done.
Can I melt butter in a toaster oven instead of a microwave?
You could. It would just take longer. Also, make sure that the dish you use is toaster oven safe.
How do broil? And what does broil even mean?
If you frequently use butter to fry food at high temperatures, or you want to extend its shelf life, consider clarifying it by heating the melted butter until it foams. Clarified butter is more resistant to smoking or burning at high heat than regular butter, but does have a less rich flavor.
Choosing unsalted butter instead of salted butter will give you more control over how much sodium to add to your dishes, which is particularly important if you have high blood pressure or are on a low-sodium diet.
If you are a child, make sure to have an adult with you.
If you melt butter on the stovetop, then do not allow it to brown quickly or to burn. This will compromise the flavor of your finished product.
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To melt butter, start by cutting it up into small pieces. Then, put the pieces in a microwave-safe bowl and cover the bowl with a paper towel so the butter doesn't splatter when it's heating. Microwave the butter for 10-second intervals until it's fully melted, stirring after each interval. You can also melt butter on the stovetop by cutting it up into small pieces and heating it on low until it's nearly melted. Then, turn off the heat and stir the butter until it's fully melted.
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William Balmain, by Richard Earlom, 1803?
William Balmain (1762-1803), surgeon and landholder, was born on 2 February 1762 at Balhepburn, Rhynd, Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Alexander Balmain, a tenant in Meikle Kinnaird, and Jane Henderson. He entered the navy in 1780 as a surgeon's mate. In October 1786 he was commissioned assistant surgeon to New South Wales, sailed in the transport Alexander next May and reached Port Jackson in January 1788. He served there until October 1791, when he was sent as senior assistant surgeon to Norfolk Island; there he also acted as magistrate and raised stock.
In December 1794 the principal surgeon, John White, returned to England on leave, and in August 1795 Balmain moved to Sydney to act in his place; when White decided not to come back, Balmain was appointed principal surgeon in August 1796. He was critical of his predecessor and made persistent and necessary requests for more medical stores; he also demanded more assistants, who were needed for the colony's growing population, and after inquiries with Richard Atkins and Richard Johnson into the ill treatment of the convicts in the Britannia in 1797, he made valuable suggestions for better medical attention in convict ships. Unfortunately these were not adopted. His magisterial duties took up much of his time; he also served on the gaol and orphan committees, and in December 1800 on the inquiry into the attempted Irish conspiracy; at the same time he was placed in command of the Sydney company of the Loyal Association. John Hunter praised him as an 'active and spirited magistrate' and as one of the few to give him their utmost aid in tackling the many problems that confronted him.
With the military, by contrast, Balmain's experiences were much less happy. Early in 1796, in his capacity as magistrate, he proffered legal advice to John Baughan whose house had been destroyed by soldiers of Captain John Macarthur's company of the New South Wales Corps. The officers resented this interference, particularly after Balmain strongly criticized the conduct of Macarthur with whom he had earlier clashed over the treatment of a medical orderly. After a series of heated exchanges, culminating in a threatened duel when Balmain told Macarthur that he thought him 'a base rascal and an atrocious liar and villain', both sides agreed to 'conditions of mutual forgiveness', but Balmain's relations with Macarthur remained strained.
He furthered his economic interests by engaging in agriculture. He was first granted land at the Field of Mars in December 1794. By 1802 he owned 1480 acres (599 ha), of which 975 (394 ha) had been granted and the rest purchased, though his livestock was moderate for one of his class. He traded in liquor and other goods and in September 1800 he admitted that he had 1359 gallons (5144 litres) of spirit. In October Philip Gidley King appointed him Naval Officer, but ten months later he received the permission he had first sought in 1795 to return to Britain to settle his private affairs. He departed in the Albion on 26 August 1801, leaving his friend D'Arcy Wentworth to look after his local concerns. When he reached England he approached Lord Fitzwilliam on Wentworth's behalf and submitted proposals to Sir Joseph Banks for a reform of the civil and criminal courts. An anonymous paper envisaging the creation of a local board and urging the appointment of resident assistants to watch over the various districts of New South Wales and to aid the governor has also been attributed to Balmain. None of these proposals had any immediate effect, but they place Balmain among the earliest critics of the colony's institutions.
Balmain had intended to return to New South Wales, but late in 1802, claiming that his personal affairs were still unsolved, he sought permission to retire on a pension. He had come to look on King with disfavour and felt that the prospects of making money by engaging in trade at Port Jackson were bleak. In August 1803, the Gentleman's Magazine announced that he had been appointed surgeon to the forces, but on 17 November he died, leaving most of his property to Margaret Dawson, otherwise Henderson, of Ormskirk, Lancashire, his de facto convict wife, who was in England, and to the three children she bore him between 1797 and 1803. He was buried at the church of St Giles-in-the-Field, London. The inner western suburb of Sydney which bears his name was established on 550 acres of land granted to Balmain in 1800 by Governor John Hunter.
mansucript catalogue under William Balmain (State Library of New South Wales).
B. H. Fletcher, 'Balmain, William (1762–1803)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/balmain-william-1736/text1915, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 26 April 2019.
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BioShock 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin and Irrational Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles, and the Windows operating system. It is the sequel to the 2007 video game BioShock.
The game was released worldwide on February 9, 2010.
The game is set in fictional dystopian city Rapture, in a biopunk, steampunkalternate history 1968, eight years after the events of BioShock. The protagonist and player-controlled character is a Big Daddy, a being that has had its organs and skin grafted into an atmospheric diving suit. Among the first of its kind, the player-controlled Big Daddy reactivates with no recollection of the past decade's events, and scours the city in an attempt to relocate the Little Sister that he was paired with. When it becomes obvious that Rapture's leader Sofia Lamb will become responsible for the city's destruction, the Big Daddy attempts to overthrow Lamb and her army of Big Sisters.
BioShock 2 is presented as a first person shooter, with the player taking on the role of "Subject Delta", a prototype for the Big Daddies some ten years after the events of the first game. As with BioShock, the player explores Rapture and fights off Splicers, the remaining psychotic human population of the city, using a combination of the environment, weapons, Plasmids and Tonics. Plasmids and Tonics are special genetic-reencoding liquids that grant the user active or passive abilities, respectively, and include both those introduced in BioShock and new ones for this game. For example, Plasmids can give the player the ability to use telekinesis or evoke fire, while Tonics can improve the player's movement speed, attack damage, or damage resistance.
Most of the weapons in BioShock 2 are those that were previously seen carried by Big Daddies from the first game, including a powerful drill and a rivet gun. The player can use each weapon in a close-range melee attack. Unlike the first game, the player is able to equip both one weapon and one Plasmid at the same time, which they can use in quick succession to destroy foes; for example, by first freezing a foe, they can be shattered into pieces using a spear gun. If the player is killed, they are revived in the nearest "Vita-Chamber".
As the player explores Rapture, they will collect ammo, health and EVE (a liquid used to power Plasmid use) recovery items, and money.
Money can be used to purchase more items at vending machines across the city. The player will also encounter security systems which can be hacked through a mini-game. This requires the player to stop a quickly-moving needle one or more times in the correctly-colored marked area of a gauge. Stopping it within the blue area (this only needs to be done once per hack) may grant a bonus to the hacking attempt, landing in the white area shocks the player (dealing a small amount of damage) while landing in red-colored areas can lead to the start of a security alert. The player also gains access to a research video camera; in BioShock 2, once the player begins recording an enemy, the player has a short time to do as much damage to that enemy to score a number of points, which are then added towards the research of that enemy type.
At various levels of research, the player is then rewarded with new abilities in general or towards that specific type of foe. Certain areas of the game take place entirely underwater, limiting the actions the player can perform.
As a Big Daddy, the player can attempt to attack other Big Daddies escorting Little Sisters. Should the player succeed, they can then either choose to Harvest the Little Sister, gaining appreciable ADAM to be used for buying new Plasmids and Tonics, or the option to Adopt them. While adopted, the Little Sister will lead the player to corpses where she can extract more ADAM. While she does this, the player must defend her from Splicer attacks.
Once the Little Sister has collected enough ADAM, the player can then return her to an escape vent, again allowing the player to choose to Rescue the Little Sister, receiving a modest amount of ADAM but with the possibility of beneficial gifts later, or harvest her for a large ADAM boost. ADAM can then be spent at Gatherers Gardens machines throughout Rapture. Once the player has either Rescued or Harvested each of the Little Sisters on the level, the player will be attacked by a Big Sister. The Big Sister's agility and resourcefulness will task the players with a difficult fight before they can proceed with the game.
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We can expect smarter-than-human artificial intelligence (AI) to be better than humans at self-preservation and goal preservation. If we want our actions to have an influence on the very long-term future, we should consider focusing on outcomes with AI.
Some people hold more hopeful beliefs about the world than justified. These include the feeling that life for wild animals isn't so bad and the expectation that humanity's future will reduce more suffering than it creates. By feeding these dreams, optimistic visions of suffering reduction may in fact cause net harm. We should explore ways of increasing empathy that also expose the true extent of suffering in the world.
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I enjoy spending time with friends and family, especially my niece and nephew.
My free time is usually spent golfing, hunting, running or cross country skiing.
I have a particular interest in training for and participating in road races and ski marathons.
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Diverticulosis is a health issue that causes diverticuli, which are small pockets that can develop in the gastrointestinal (GI) lining. These sacks are most commonly found in the large intestine but can develop anywhere in the digestive tract. Diverticulosis is most commonly seen in older adults, usually over the age of 60, and rarely affects people who are under the age of 30.
Are there any complications of diverticulosis?
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Which stage of the competition of "stressing event" is each strategy best suited for?
Every athlete needs to have a plan for coping, that optimizes their resources and minimizes anxiety response. As there are as many reactions to stress as there are people, the plan should be personalized et. So, when preparing the plan, the individual characteristics must be accounted for, as well as the type of stressor that has a bigger influence in each occasion (the different types of stressors can be found in the previous entry); it is also necessary to know in what phase of the competition they are more likely to occur (Arruza, 1999). For example, Pensgaard et al. (1998) observed that olympic athletes used task-oriented coping during the competitive event, but they tended to resort to avoidance in the days preceding and following it.
There is a high confidence in one's capacity to solve the situation (Roth & Cohen, 1986).
Generally speaking, what is the most Effective strategy?
Task-oriented coping, more precisely, active coping, is linked to positive results and higher levels of self-confidence (Krane, 1992; Eubank, 2000; Ntoumanis, 2000, Voight, 2000 and Xianming, 1999).
By contrast, strategies that rely on emotions seem to be related to elevated anxiety, depression and lack of adequate strategies (Eubank et al., 2000; Ntomaunis et al., 1998 and 2000; Pensgaard et al., 2000; Xianming et al., 1999). For Giacobbi et al., (2000), athletes suffering from high anxiety before competitive stress situations opt for negation, wishful thinking, self-blame and excessive self-criticism.
The higher level ones had, in the moments before the competition, a higher perception of self-efficacy, and were more task-oriented than their lower level mates.
The athletes that showed the highest levels of anxiety were those who lacked effective coping strategies, resorted to magical thinking, ruminated more about past errors or failure, blamed external causes for their errors, and had a lower self-efficacy expectancy.
Those with lower anxiety were less likely to blame external factors and incur in magical thinking, looked more for support and, above all, developed coping strategies.
In sports or tasks requiring precision (Badminton, penalty kick in soccer), athletes get the best results through instructional self-talk.
When it is strength or endurance what matters (something likely to take place while redpointing), it is effective to use instructional along with motivational self-talk (Theodorakis et al., 2000).
In less deterministic activities where attention to external stimuli is important (like onsighting), several authors have shown that if time to make a decision is very short, avoidance is effective (Anshel & Anderson, 2002; Krohne & Hindel, 1988); this has also been proposed for confronting execution errors during competition (Roth & Cohen, 1986).
Where memory and automation of movement are crucial, like in gymnastics, synchronized swimming or sport climbing (when working a route), the effectiveness of visualization and relaxation has been verified (Feltz and Landers., 1983; Gray et al., 1984; Dubier et al., 1999).
promoting a high self-efficacy perception.
Regarding the best technique during each phase of a climb, or when facing a stressor, each one needs to find their own... once you have some ideas (often after much practice and trial and error) about which works best for you.
Coping technique proposal: First, analyze what the cause for that fall is (insufficient endurance or maximum strength, less than ideal method, lack of automation leading to sluggishness, getting distracted by your own negative thoughts...); then you have to look for a response: training your endurance or your ability to do hard moves under fatigue, optimizing the easier parts so that you will get less tired to the crux, devoting a full try just to finding an easier method for the crux, repeating it several times to build confidence...; you can also ask some friend to help you figure out the variables that have influence over that fall. Lastly, set goals.
Coping style used: active, problem-oriented (analysis, problem solving, memorization, automation, self-confidence development, systematic training, seek for instrumental social support), goal setting.
Coping technique proposal: Schedule that day's activities (when to wake up, have breakfast, trip to the crag...) so that you get there early, know what routes are you go to warm-up on beforehand and ask other climbers if they are going to try your project to make sure you can have your turn. Meanwhile, try to keep distracted, enjoy the time with your friends until your time comes.
Using active coping, building a plan for action and reinterpreting events in a positive way have a positive correlation with self-esteem, optimism and resilience, and are also effective against anxiety.
Have good luck and, above all, lots and lots of patience till you expose and master the strongest source of stress:: The "monster" within!
"Some of the worst things in my life never even happened."
Precompetitive Anxiety in Climbing: Interpreting your "Redpoint Anxiety"
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For the Italian commune, see Gonzaga, Lombardy.
The House of Gonzaga (Italian: [ɡonˈdzaːɡa]) was a princely family that ruled Mantua, in Northern Italy, from 1328 to 1708; they also ruled Monferrato in Piedmont and Nevers in France, and also many other lesser fiefs throughout Europe. Their family includes a saint, twelve cardinals and fourteen bishops. Two Gonzaga descendants became Empresses of the Holy Roman Empire (Eleonora Gonzaga and Eleonora Gonzaga-Nevers), and one became Queen of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Marie Louise Gonzaga).
The coat of arms of the Duchy of Mantua.
The first members of the family of historical importance are known to have collaborated with the Guelph faction alongside the monks of the Polirone Abbey. Starting from the 12th century they became a dominant family in Mantua, growing in wealth when their allies, the Bonacolsi, defeated the traditional familiar enemy, the Casalodi. In 1328, however, Ludovico I Gonzaga overthrew the Bonacolsi lordship over the city with the help of the Scaliger, and entered the Ghibelline party as capitano del popolo ("people's captain") of Mantua and imperial vicar of emperor Louis IV.
Ludovico was succeeded by Guido (1360–1369) and Ludovico II (1369–1382), while Feltrino, lord of Reggio until 1371, formed the cadet branch of the Gonzaga of Novellara, whose state existed until 1728. Francesco I (1382–1407) abandoned the traditional alliance with the Visconti of Milan, in order to align their rising power with the Republic of Venice.
In 1433, Gianfrancesco I assumed the title of Marquis of Mantua with the recognition of Emperor Sigismund, while obtaining recognition from the local nobility through the marriage of his daughter Margherita to Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara in 1435. In 1530 Federico II (1500–1540) received the title of Duke of Mantua. In 1531, the family acquired the Marquisate of Montferrat through marriage. Through maternal ancestors, the Gonzagas inherited also the Imperial Byzantine ancestry of the Paleologus, an earlier ruling family of Montferrat.
A cadet branch of the Mantua Gonzagas became Dukes of Nevers and Rethel in France when Luigi (Louis) Gonzaga, a younger son of Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Margherita Paleologa, married the heiress. The Gonzaga-Nevers later came to rule Mantua again when Louis's son Charles (Carlo) inherited Mantua and Montferrat, triggering the War of the Mantuan Succession.
Another cadet branch were first sovereign Counts, later Dukes of Guastalla. They descended from Ferrante, a younger son of Duke Francesco II of Mantua (1484–1519). Ferrante's grandson, Ferrante II, also played a role in the War of the Mantuan Succession. A further cadet branch was that of Sabbioneta, founded by Gianfrancesco, son of Ludovico III.
Marie Louise Gonzaga, daughter of Prince Charles Gonzaga-Nevers, was a Polish queen consort from 1645 to her death in 1667.
Two daughters of the house, both named Eleanor Gonzaga, became Holy Roman Empresses, by marrying Emperors Ferdinand II of Germany and Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, respectively. From the latter Empress Eleanor, the current heirs of the Gonzaga descend.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga was a member of a junior branch of this family.
Gonzaga rule continued in Mantua until 1708 and in Guastalla until 1746. Both ruling lines became extinct, and the headship of the House of Gonzaga passed to the Vescovato line, descended from Giovanni, a son of Federico I Gonzaga. That branch, shorn of sovereign domains, is extant. Its head is Don Corrado Alessandro Gonzaga, Principe del Sacro Romano Impero, Marchese Gonzaga, Conte di Villanova, Conte di Cassolnovo, Marchese del Vodice, Signore di Vescovato, Patrizio Veneto (b. 1941).
The branches of the Gonzaga family, showing Marquises and (subsequently) Dukes of Mantua in bold, Dukes of Nevers and Rethel in italics and the Guastalla line to the right.
↑ Francesca Cappelletti; Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich (1997). Der Antike Mythos und Europa. Gebrüder Mann Verlag. p. 250.
↑ "GONZAGA: LINEA PRINCIPESCA DI VESCOVATO". Libro d'Oro della Nobiltá Mediterranea (in Italian). Società Genealogica Italiana. 2004-03-15. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
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Positive daily affirmations can help change the attitude and energy of a couple’s relationship. When we are too focused on the negative aspects of our partner and our relationship is it any wonder why the relationship sours? How can you get your relationship out of a rut and bring some new energy and positivity into it? Couples could use these daily affirmations to help them feel grateful, instead of resentful towards their partner. It can help them let go of the past and start fresh. Now of course these will not fix the major problems in a relationship. It is a good way to get your attitudes in check so you can tackle those major issues in a more positive way and change your relationship for the better.
1. I am allowed to be myself, and so is my partner. I am allowed to feel and think as I do, and so is my partner.
2. I am an amazing person, and so is my partner. My partner is lucky to have me, and I am lucky to have them.
3. I forgive myself for my past mistakes, and will learn from them and not repeat them. I forgive my partner for their past mistakes, and I trust they will learn from theirs and not repeat them.
4. I can control my happiness, and I wish to bring happiness to my partner. I want my partner to be happy, and will acknowledge what they do that makes me happy.
5. I deserve to be loved and respected. I will show my partner love and respect.
6. I will stand up for what I believe in, and expect my partner to do the same.
7. I deserve to pursue my dreams, and so does my partner.
8. I am not always right and that is okay. My partner is not always right and that is okay.
9. I give myself permission to make my own choices, and my partner has the right to make theirs as well.
10. I believe in myself and my partner.
11. I deserve supportive people around me, and will be supportive of my partner.
12. I have a lot to be thankful for, and I am thankful for having my partner in my life.
13. I can get stronger every day, and so can my partner. Together we can make our relationship stronger.
14. I matter. My partner matters as well, and neither of us more than the other.
15. It is enough that I do my best and try my best. It is enough that my partner does their best and tries their best.
If any of you have ever used positive affirmations in your life, or your relationships, we would love to hear your experiences. If you have never use positive affirmations, we invite you to try them and see how they can improve your life and your relationship.
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I am writing you to express my concern about China’s ongoing actions to diplomatically isolate and aggressively threaten Taiwan and alter the status quo in the Indo-Pacific region.
China has launched a multi-domain campaign against Taiwan that includes many aggressive and provocative actions, such as the dispatching of warships, bombers, and fighter jets, to encircle the island as well as conducting live-fire military exercises near Taiwan’s waters. Furthermore, in the diplomatic space, China has worked assiduously to cut off Taiwan’s diplomatic partners and block Taiwan from participating in international organizations. Taiwan has a comparative advantage in areas such as global health, and it is a travesty that for no other reason than to assuage China, Taiwan is prohibited by the international community from participating in critical forums such as the World Health Assembly.
In December 2017, Li Kexin, a senior Chinese diplomat in Washington, D.C., promised that the Beijing government would use military force to “unify” Taiwan and Mainland China. Given China’s recent actions, the prospect of military escalation seems even more realistic.
China’s provocations are brazen and the U.S. must publicly protest China’s continued alteration of the status quo in the South China Sea and its multi-pronged effort to threaten and isolate Taiwan. Furthermore, the State Department should reaffirm the U.S.’s unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances, which are foundational to our relations with the Taiwanese people.
I applaud the Administration’s commitment to building a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Supporting Taiwan is crucial in realizing this goal, as Taiwan is a model of democracy, prosperity, rights protections, and the rule of law. The positions outlined above serve U.S. interests and will ensure a better future for the region.
As China’s threats to peace are becoming more frequent and dangerous to U.S. interests. I encourage you to continue working to maintain a peaceful and stable Indo-Pacific region.
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Gertrude Astor (born Gertrude Irene Eyster, November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat.
Astor was born in Lakewood, Ohio to a working class family. She is no relation to the Astor family. Of German descent, Astor joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, gold-diggers, and "heroine's best pal".
Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as (Aunt Susan's) Flora Finch's niece, and traveling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927).
Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit.
She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several gatherings of the Laurel and Hardy fan club, The Sons of the Desert, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent.
She died on her 90th birthday in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
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Richard Dix was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in the Best Picture-winning epic, Cimarron. Dix was born Ernst Carlton Brimmer on July 18,1893, in St. Paul, there he was educated, and, at the desire of his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays, at 6 and 180 pounds, Dix excelled in sports, especially football and baseball. These skills would serve him well in the film roles he would go on to play. After a year at the University of Minnesota, he took a position at a bank and his professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York City. The death of his father left him with a mother and sister to support and he went to Los Angeles and became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company.
His success there got him a contract with Paramount Pictures and he changed his name to Dix. After his move to Hollywood, he began a career in Western movies, one of the few actors to successfully bridge the transition from silent films to talkies, Dixs best-remembered early role was in Cecil B. Demilles silent version of The Ten Commandments and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1931 for his performance as Yancey Cravat in Cimarron, in which he was billed over Irene Dunne. Cimarron, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, took the Best Picture award. Dix starred in another RKO adventure, The Lost Squadron, a memorable role for Dix was in the 1935 British futuristic film The Tunnel. Dix starred in The Great Jasper and Blind Alibi in the late 1930s and his popular RKO Radio Pictures co-star in Blind Alibi was Ace the Wonder Dog. Dixs human co-stars were Whitney Bourne and Eduardo Ciannelli, the film was directed by Lew Landers, Dix starred as the homicidal Captain Stone in the Val Lewton production of The Ghost Ship, directed by Mark Robson.
Secrets is a 1924 silent film directed by Frank Borzage. The film is based upon a 1922 play of the same name, although the film was never released on video or DVD, copies still exist. 75-year-old Mary Carlton is depressed over her husband Johns illness and she feels her life has no use if he dies. She starts reading her diary, after which the film jumps to 1865 in the time she fell in love with John and she feels she has to hide her love for her strict mother, fearing she will disapprove because of their social class differences. Mary lives within the very wealthy Marlowe family and grows up to be a lady with manners, when her parents find out about the affair, they are outrageous. They forbid her from ever seeing John again, Mary tells them she only loves John and will never marry anybody if she cant see him anymore. Her father William locks her into her own room until she stops being a rebel, she receives a letter from John, who announces he has been fired over their love affair. Later that night, John sneaks into her room by the balcony, despite knowing her parents wont ever talk to her again, she decides to go with him.
The Astor family achieved prominence in business and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries. With ancestral roots in the Italian Alps, the Astors settled in Germany, first appearing in North America during the century with John Jacob Astor. John Jacob Astor was the youngest of four born to butcher Johann Jacob Astor. John and his eldest brother George, known as George & John Astor, were flute makers, while working in England, he learned to speak English and anglicized his name. In 1783, John Jacob left for Baltimore and was active first as a dealer in woodwind instruments, in New York as a merchant in furs, after moving to New York, John met and married Sarah Cox Todd. Sarah was the daughter of Scottish immigrants Adam Todd and Sarah Cox and she worked along side her husband as a consultant, and was accused of witchcraft after her success with the company in 1817. The accusations never led to legal action and he financed the overland Astor Expedition in 1810–1812 to reach the outpost, which was in the then-disputed Oregon Country.
Control of Fort Astoria played a key role in English and American territorial claims on the region and Georges brother Henry emigrated to America. He was a racing enthusiast, and purchased a thoroughbred named Messenger. The horse became the sire of all Standardbred horses in the United States today. The third brother Melchior remained in Germany, during the 19th century, the Astors became one of the wealthiest families in the United States. Toward the end of century, some of the family moved to England. During the 20th century, the number of American Astors began to decline, English descendants of the Astors hold two hereditary peerages and Baron. While many of Astor members had joined to the Episcopal Church, for many years, the members of the Astor family were known as the landlords of New York. Their New York City namesakes are the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an Astor Row, Astor Court, Astor Place, and Astor Avenue in the Bronx, the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, is named after the family as well.
Flora Finch was an English-born film actress who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company. Finch was born into a hall and travelling theatrical family in London and was taken to the United States as a young child. She kept up the tradition and worked in theatre and the vaudeville circuit right up until her 30s. She had her first film roles at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company starting in 1908, there she worked with Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin amongst others. Starting in 1910 at Vitagraph, she was paired with John Bunny for the first of 160 very popular shorts made between 1910 and 1915 and these shorts, known as Bunnygraphs and Bunnyfinchgraphs, established Finch and Bunny as the first popular comedy team in films. The duo became a trio, when Mabel Normand arrived at the studio. After Bunnys death in 1915 she continued to make comedy shorts and she started her own production company, Flora Finch Productions, but was never able to regain her popularity.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The black-and-white film was released by Paramount Pictures, the screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was adapted from a short story written by Dorothy M. Johnson. The supporting cast features Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond OBrien, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Woody Strode, Strother Martin, and Lee Van Cleef. In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a town in an unnamed western state. As they pay their respects, reporters ask Stoddard why a United States Senator would make the journey from Washington to attend the funeral of a local rancher. The story flashes back 25 years, Stoddard is a young and his stagecoach is robbed by Liberty Valance and his gang.
When Stoddard takes Valance to task, he is brutally whipped, in Shinbone and other townspeople tend to his injuries, and explain that Valance victimizes Shinbone residents with impunity. Marshal Link Appleyard lacks the courage and gunfighting skills to challenge him, Doniphon is the only man willing to stand up to him. Stoddard opens a law practice in Shinbone, inviting retribution from Valance, Doniphon explains, is the only thing Valance understands, but Stoddard advocates justice under the law, not brute force. He earns the towns respect by refusing to knuckle under to Valance, when Doniphon notices that Stoddard is trying to teach himself to use a revolver, he offers a lesson. During target practice he shoots a hole in a paint can, splattering paint on Stoddards suit, Stoddard punches him in the jaw and leaves. Shinbones residents meet to elect two delegates for a convention at the territorial capital. Doniphon nominates Stoddard, because he knows the law, and throws a mean punch, Stoddard explains that statehood will improve infrastructure and education.
Beyond the Rocks is a 1922 American silent romantic drama film directed by Sam Wood, starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. It is based on the 1906 novel of the name by Elinor Glyn. Beyond the Rocks was long considered lost but a print of the film was discovered in the Netherlands in 2003. The film was restored and released on DVD by Milestone Film & Video in 2006, captain Fitzgerald, a retired guardsman on a modest pension, has to support three daughters and her older half-sisters. Theodoras sisters pin their hopes on her marrying a wealthy man, one day, Theodora goes out on a rowboat off the coast of Dorset and falls into the water. She is rescued by Lord Hector Bracondale and he is young and wealthy, but not the marrying kind. Out of a sense of duty to her father, she reluctantly agrees to wed the middle-aged, stout Josiah Brown. By coincidence, Bracondale stops at the same inn, rich American widow Jane McBride persuades the young bride to accompany her on a climbing excursion. Theodora slips and dangles precariously by her safety line over a cliff, Bracondale appears and climbs down to her, but they are too heavy for the others to pull up.
Bracondale has them lower him and Theodora to a ledge below, while they wait for more help to arrive, Theodora tells Bracondale where they last met. They meet a third time in Paris, and finally acknowledge their love for each other, Theodora refuses to run away with Bracondale. Bracondale strives to do the right thing and he asks his sister, Lady Anningford, to befriend Theodora. Lady Anningford invites the Browns to her country estate and he tries once again to persuade Theodora to change her mind, without success. Meanwhile, Josiah is persuaded by another guest, renowned explorer Sir Lionel Grey, Bracondale leaves, and Josiah is called away on business. Theodora writes a letter to each, to Bracondale, she declares her love, morella Winmarleigh, who desires Bracondale for herself, secretly opens the letters and, after perusing them, switches them. After Bracondale reads the message meant for Josiah, he rushes to stop Josiah from reading his, Josiah accuses Bracondale of stealing his wife, but the nobleman denies that Theodora has been unfaithful.
The Strong Man is a 1926 American comedy silent film starring Harry Langdon and directed by Frank Capra in his feature-length directorial debut. Along with Tramp, Tramp, The Strong Man is Langdons best known film, Capra would direct Langdons next feature, Long Pants, which would be their final collaboration. Paul Bergot is a Belgian immigrant to the United States who has fallen in love with Mary Brown and they met as pen-pals when he was fighting in Europe during World War I. Mary even sent Paul a photo of her, Paul searches for Mary Brown by asking every woman he meets if she is Mary Brown. By accident he rescues her town from crooks and bootleggers, Harry Langdon as Paul Bergot Priscilla Bonner as Mary Brown Gertrude Astor as Lily of Broadway William V. Harry Langdon has a comic method distinct from other film fun makers. The quality of pathos enters into it more fully than the style of any other comedian with the exception of Chaplin. His gift of legitimate comedy here has a splendid vehicle, of the three features Kino has released, The Strong Man is the best.
A riverboat-"container ship" with the capacity for 500 intermodal containers of the TEU size.
Annabelle West (Laura La Plante) is stalked in the night.
A theatrical poster emphasizing aspects of the film, particularly the "cat and the canary" and the mysterious, sinister hand.
l to r:John Miltern, Thomas Meighan and Gertrude Astor.
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The following essay examines implications of new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment regulations, especially those stemming from the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which the medical technology industry faces in the health care market. Providers determine the coverage of medical devices within the constraints of Medicare’s payment systems and therefore are affected by new payment regulations. MACRA aims to improve the quality of care, advance care information distribution, and reduce health care costs, which can only be achieved together through enhanced care coordination and collaboration between different stakeholders. For the medical technology industry, success means that the paradigm shift from volume to value needs to be accepted at all levels. Medical device creators must better recognize consumer needs and establish systems to measure, monitor, and improve patient-centered outcomes. Moreover, companies need to understand their contribution to the full cycle of care through expanded collaboration between different stakeholders and participation in risk-sharing. Collaboration is also needed regarding electronic health records to make patient documentation simple and standardized. The medical technology industry is not directly integrated in Medicare’s payment reforms. As a result, it is their responsibility to demonstrate their value to patients, providers, and payers. In the long run, these different stakeholder needs must be integrated in the research and development of novel technologies.
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When was the last time you heard one of your favorite songs come on the radio? How did you feel? For most of us, music can positively affect our mood. With that said, music can be used to boost our energy or calm our nerves.
Music can also be used to inspire the family to get chores done, or your child to clean his or her bedroom. Depending on the ages of your children, you can have them select some of their favorite upbeat music or take turns choosing.
Soft music can be used prior to nap time for a calming effect and to signal the transition to quiet time or nap time.
Jazz or classical music can be on in the background while playing a game, cooking or doing other activities, and for some students, while doing homework.
Music is also great to get the family moving! Younger kids may find it fun to march around the house or dance, while older kids can run in place, do jumping jacks, sit-ups and push-ups.
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Native Indonesians, also Pribumi (literally "first on the soil"), is a term used to distinguish Indonesians whose ancestral roots lie mainly in the archipelago from Indonesians of known (partial) foreign descent, like Arab Indonesians, Indian Indonesians, Chinese Indonesians and Indo-Europeans (Eurasians).
Islam (predominantly Sunnis, Shias and others), Christianity (Protestantism and Roman Catholicism), Hindu Dharma, Buddhism, Animism, Shamanism, Sunda Wiwitan, Kaharingan, Parmalim, Kejawen, Naurus, Aluk' To Dolo, etc.
a The figure in Malaysia merely asserts those who hold an Indonesian citizenship, the figure does not include Malaysians who have some Indonesian ancestry which potentially is double or triple of figure, due to constant migrations for millennia.
The term "pribumi" was coined after Indonesian independence as a respectful replacement for the Dutch colonial term "inlander" (normally translated as "native" and seen as derogatory). It derives from Sanskrit terms pri (before) and bhumi (earth).
Following independence, the term was normally used to distinguish indigenous Indonesians from citizens of foreign descent (especially Chinese Indonesians). Common usage distinguished between "pri" and "non-pri". Although the term is sometimes translated as "indigenous", it has a broader meaning than that associated with Indigenous peoples.
The term WNI keturunan asing (WNI = "Indonesian citizen", "keturunan asing" = foreign descent), sometimes just "WNI keturunan" or even "WNI", has also been used to designate "non-pri" Indonesians.
In practice, usage of the term is fluid. "Pri" is seldom used to refer to Indonesians of Melanesian descent, although it does not exclude them. Indonesians of Arab descent sometimes refer to themselves as "pri". Indonesians with some exogenous ancestry who show no obvious signs of identification with that ancestry (such as former President Abdurrahman Wahid who is said to have had Chinese ancestry) are seldom called "non-pri". The term bumiputra is sometimes used in Indonesia with the same meaning as pribumi, but is more commonly used in Malaysia, where it has a slightly different meaning.
The term putra daerah ("son of the region") refers to a person who is indigenous to a specific locality or region.
In 1998, the Indonesian government of President B.J. Habibie instructed that neither pri nor non-pri should be used, on the grounds that they promoted ethnic discrimination.
The Dutch East India Company, which dominated parts of the archipelago from the 17th century, classified its subjects mainly by religion, rather than ethnicity. The colonial administration which took power in 1815 at shifted to a system of ethnic classification. Initially they distinguished between Europeans (Europeanen) and those equated with them (including native Christians) and Inlanders and those equated with them (including non-Christian Asians).
Over time, native Christians were gradually shifted de facto into the Inlander category, while Chinese Indonesians, Arab Indonesians and others of non-Indonesian descent were gradually given separate status as Vreemde Oosterlingen ("Foreign Orientals"). The system was patriarchal, rather than formally racial. A child inherited his/her father's ethnicity if the parents were married; the mother's ethnicity if they were unmarried. The off-spring of a marriage between a European man and an Indonesian women were legally European.
The colonial system was similar to the casta system in Hispanic America, or the South African apartheid system, which prohibited inter-racial neighborhoods (wet van wijkenstelsel) and inter-racial interactions were limited by passenstelsel laws.
The outbreak of the World War II saw the fall of colonial state of Dutch East Indies. During Japanese occupation, the Dutch colonials were put into the lowest class of social strata. Native blood was the only thing that could free Indos (mixed Eurasian ancestry) from being put into concentration camps. The following Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) saw the rise of Indonesian Republic, subsequently the revolution has brought a drastic social changes. The Dutch colonials and the Indos are suspiciously considered by republicans as Dutch loyalist, thus they are not a desired element in the newly established republic. By 1950s, large numbers of Dutch colonials and Indos were being repatriated to the Netherlands.
After the revolution, the natives majority has gained the political, social and economic power previously reserved only for Dutch colonials. In post colonial Indonesia, the Chinese Indonesians are the most significant minority group that being categorized as non-pribumi (non native).
Today, Indonesian dictionary describes pribumi as penghuni asli which translated into "original, native or indigenous inhabitant".
Pribumi make up about 95% of the Indonesian population. Using Indonesia’s population estimate in 2006, this translates to about 230 million people. As an umbrella of similar cultural heritage among various ethnic groups in Indonesia, Pribumi culture plays a significant role in shaping the country’s socioeconomic circumstance.
There are over 300 ethnic groups in Indonesia. 200 of those are of Native Indonesian ancestry.
The largest ethnic group in Indonesia are the Javanese people who make up 41% of the total population. The Javanese are concentrated on the island of Java but millions have migrated to other islands throughout the archipelago. The Sundanese, Malay, and Madurese are the next largest groups in the country. Many ethnic groups, particularly in Kalimantan and the province of Papua, have only hundreds of members. Most of the local languages belong to the Austronesian language family, although a significant number, particularly in North Maluku and West Papua, speak Papuan languages.
The division and classification of ethnic groups in Indonesia is not rigid and in some cases are unclear as the result of migrations, along with cultural and linguistic influences; for example some[who?] may agree that the Bantenese and Cirebonese belong to different ethnic groups with their own distinct dialect, however others[who?] might consider them to be Javanese sub-ethnicities, as members of the larger Javanese people. The same considerations may apply to the Baduy people who share so many similarities with the Sundanese people that they can be considered as belonging to the same ethnic group. The clearest example of hybrid ethnicity are the Betawi people, the result of a mixture of different native ethnicities that have merged with people of Arab, Chinese and Indian origins since the era of colonial Batavia (Jakarta).
The skin color of native Indonesians ranges from fair skin with yellowish undertone to light brown to very dark brown or black skin color. Archaeologist Peter Bellwood claims that the "vast majority" of people in Indonesia and Malaysia, the region he calls the "clinal Mongoloid-Australoid zone", are "Southern Mongoloids" but have a "high degree" of Australoid admixture.
Sawo matang (lit. "ripe sapodilla") usually refers to the skin colour of the Pribumis in Indonesia which connotes "mid light to dark tone brown" especially for those who live in Java, Bali, Sumatra, etc. For other places like in Borneo, Sulawesi, and eastern parts of Indonesia, native people tend to have darker skin colour who actually come from the east of Indonesia[clarification needed] and for those who live in high altitude areas and highlands tend to have lighter skin colour like people from Sundanese, Manado, Tomohon, Dayak, etc. For islandic people,[clarification needed] they tend to have dark skin colour which all of the physical characteristics depend on the geographical areas they inhabit.
Most Native Indonesians are genetically close to Asians while the more eastern one goes the more people show Melanesian affinity. Geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza claims that there is a genetic division between East and Southeast Asians. In a similar manner, Zhou Jixu agrees that there is a physical difference between these two populations. Other geneticists have found evidence for four separate populations, carrying distinct sets of non-recombining Y chromosome lineages, within the traditional Mongoloid category: North Asians, Han Chinese, Japanese and Southeast Asians. The complexity of genetic data has led to doubt about the usefulness of the concept of a Mongoloid race itself, since distinctive East Asian features may represent separate lineages and arise from environmental adaptations or retention of common proto-Eurasian ancestral characteristics.
The regions of Indonesia have some of their indigenous ethnic groups. Due to migration within Indonesia (as part of government transmigration programs or otherwise), there are significant populations of ethnic groups who reside outside of their traditional regions.
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James Wiley Smith is Jimmy Snuka born and real name. Jimmy Snuka was Born on May 18, 1943 in Suva, Fiji. He Died on January 15, 2017. His age at death was 73 years. His place of death was Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States. James Wiley Smith (The Superfly) Cause of death was Terminal Neurological Illness. He was a Fijian professional wrestler and actor. In his Professional wrestling career he is known by his Ring names as Jimmy Snuka, Jimmy Kealoha, Lani Kealoha, Tami Snuka, The Superfly, Big Snuka, Great Snuka. James Wiley Smith (The Superfly) was Trained by Danny Hodge. Jimmy Snuka (The Superfly) made his debut on 1968. His wife / Spouse name is Sharon Snuka, Carole Snuka. He is married 3 times. Snuka was married three times. His 2nd marriage was with his wife Sharon Snuka. He has 4 children/ kids with his wife Sharon Snuka his children names are Sarona Moana-Marie Reiher Snuka-Polamalu (Tamina Snuka his daughter), James Wiley Smith Thomas Reiher Snuka (Deuce his son), Liana Snuka (daughter) and Ata Snuka (daughter), He has 3 daughters and 1 son. His 3rd marriage was with Carole Snuka on September 4, 2004. He was stepfather of his wife Carole Snuka 3 children: Bridget, Richard, and Dennis. On August 26, 2002 Jimmy Snuka (The Superfly) received a lifetime achievement award from WWE at Madison Square Garden on WWE Raw. Jimmy Snuka was indicted and arrested in September 2015 on third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino in 1983. Snuka pleaded being not guilty, but was ultimately found unfit to stand trial in June 2016 due to being diagnosed with dementia. His son is also known in the ring as Deuce and as Jimmy Snuka Jr. In 2016, deceased professional wrestler Jimmy Snuka filed a lawsuit against WWE alleging that wrestlers suffer lasting neurological injuries, which WWE either fails to care about or misrepresents and conceals.
What is Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Profession?
He was a Fijian professional wrestler and actor.
In his Professional wrestling career he is known by his Ring names as Jimmy Snuka, Jimmy Kealoha, Lani Kealoha, Tami Snuka, The Superfly, Big Snuka, Great Snuka.
On August 26, 2002 Jimmy Snuka (The Superfly) received a lifetime achievement award from WWE at Madison Square Garden on WWE Raw.
What is Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Educational Qualification?
Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Birth Place?
Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Religion /Caste?
He Died on January 15, 2017. His age at death was 73 years. His place of death was Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States. James Wiley Smith (The Superfly) Cause of death was Terminal Neurological Illness.
Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Girlfriend/Wife /dating /Affairs?
Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Height in feet?
What is Jimmy Snuka (WWE) weight?
Is Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Married?
Jimmy Snuka (WWE) Family Details/ parents/ family background?
Jimmy Snuka (The Superfly) made his debut on 1968.
His wife / Spouse name is Sharon Snuka, Carole Snuka. He is married 3 times. Snuka was married three times. His 2nd marriage was with his wife Sharon Snuka. He has 4 children/ kids with his wife Sharon Snuka his children names are Sarona Moana-Marie Reiher Snuka-Polamalu (Tamina Snuka his daughter), James Wiley Smith Thomas Reiher Snuka (Deuce his son), Liana Snuka (daughter) and Ata Snuka (daughter), He has 3 daughters and 1 son. His 3rd marriage was with Carole Snuka on September 4, 2004. He was stepfather of his wife Carole Snuka 3 children: Bridget, Richard, and Dennis.
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I have the best job in the world because I get to change people’s lives every day. It gives my life meaning to know I’ve made someone else’s life better, happier and more fulfilling.
One of the primary tools I use to do this is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) which is a form of Energy Psychology used extensively by doctors, psychiatrists, therapists and counselors worldwide.
By releasing emotions from people’s past that are still impacting on their life or holding them back in some way.
By clearing current emotions such as stress, anxiety, worry, depression or relationship pain.
By freeing people from their fears, phobias or addictions.
By helping people reach their full potential by removing the subconscious blocks or programming in the way. Even successful people often have blocks to being even more successful. I help people to be who they want to be and where they want to be in life.
By improving physical health. Many doctors and medical institutions are now saying that the main cause of most illnesses is unresolved emotional issues. EFT is highly effective in improving physical health by addressing the contributing emotional issues.
If you want emotional freedom, confidence and quality of life contact me now.
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How do I help my mom? She's really hurt inside by her past (abusive father, dependent mother) and it has made her form this wall over all things emotional. Growing up she always kept herself busy and kept a positive attitude, but never talked or supported me with any emotional stuff. I just grew up sensing that I should steer clear of those kinds of issues because it made both of us uncomfortable. Its gotten worse over time, I see her pain but don't know what to do about it. If I talk to her it could hurt her self esteem or cause her to go back into her happy facade any further.
Is there anything I can do about this? I know I'm not responsible for my mother's well-being, but it still affects me; I feel like I missed out on a lot of important lessons growing up.
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how do you structure 100% owner financing?
I have a building that I lease to a day care,My tenant pays on time and it's NNN.I'm not responsible for anything,She is been there for 7 months but she doesn't have the down payment to buy it .she spent a lot money on the building and I hate to sell it to some one else .I got an actual cap of 17.please if you familiar with away to sell it to her without a down payment,I appreciated.
Simply do a land contract where you act as the bank. Having said that, with a 17 cap, you may not want to sell.
If you are actually going to transfer title to her and let her make mortgage payments to you, I would strongly suggest that you have an attorney prepare a loan document that gets recorded so that she is not able to borrow other money against your property and jeapordize your collateral position. Another way to structure would be to prepare a lease-purchase agreement where you continue to hold title to the property and you base the rental amount on an amortization schedule for a loan equal to the purchase price of the property (typically I use an interest rate of 2% higher than the best available rate). At some point in the lease she should have the option to purchase the building from you by obtaining conventional financing, and you can credit a portion of her lease payments to the purchase price, based on the "balance" on the amortization schedule for whichever month she purchases the building. This way you have not transferred title to the property and if she decides not to buy or defaults, you still have your property. I would also suggest you consult your tax professional to make sure that your agreement does not create any negative tax consequence until you actually transfer title.
If you are actually getting a 17% cap what would you be charging on the note? If it is less than 17% (assuming you calculated the cap right) why would you take any less? Some states have usury laws you need to watch out for.
Another thing to keep in mind is that a 17% cap is sky high. If cap rates in your area for this type of NNN are at 8% it would mean that if you sell to your tenant at 17% you have grossly underpriced your property. Did you include debt in your cap calculation? If you did then you have calculated cap wrong. Cap does not include debt service. Also keep in mind that your cap and a buyers cap will be quite different especially if prices in your area have risen substantially since you acquired the property.
What you need to do is an IRR analysis for both you and a potential sale. I can do that for you if you like?
You'd be crazy to sell if you are actually getting a 17% cap rate. You'd loose money in the deal.
If you want to sell no matter what, I'd recommend you speak with a local escrow company that can set up a long term escrow account for the seller financing. There usually is some nominal charge, but they can handle the paperwork and the collections going forward.
Selling? With a 17 CAP? Why?
Regardless of the CAP rate, without a down-payment, banks, in their "infinite" wisdom will not touch a loan. Seller second does not mean anything, either.
Your only options are to "be the bank" or find someone who is interested in being the bank.
If you choose to service the loan yourself, a company like Virgin Money http://www.virginmoneyus.com/RealEstateLoans/tabid/55/Default.aspx can handle the paperwork for you.
If the property is indeed at 17 CAP, and your buyer has decent credit, then you may want to contact one of the private note purchasers, such as, http://www.thenotebuyer.com/ , http://www.bostonnote.com/, etc. They will help you structure the loan and cash you out at the closing.
Another option would be to contact your area real estate investment clubs http://www.nationalreia.com/clubportal/795files/directory.cfm?clubID=795&pubmenuoptID=11912 to see if any of the members would be able to structure the deal while benefit decently from the transaction.
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In geologic time , the Mesozoic Era, the second era in the Phanerozoic Eon , spans the time between roughly 250 million years ago (mya) and 65 mya.
The Mesozoic Era contains three geologic time periods including the Triassic Period (250 mya to approximately 206 mya), Jurassic Period (206 mya to approximately 144 mya), and the Cretaceous Period (144 mya to 65 mya).
The Mesozoic Era begins at the end of the Permian Period of the Paleozoic Era . The Mesozoic Era's Cretaceous Period ends with the K-T boundary or K-T event .
During the Mesozoic Era the Pangaean supercontinent spanned Earth's equatorial regions and separated the Panthalassic Ocean and the Tethys Ocean basins. At the start of the Mesozoic Era there was little differentiation or separation between the continental crust that would eventually form the North American, European, South American, and African Continents.
Driven by plate tectonics , by the middle of the Mesozoic Era (approximately 170 mya) the North American and European continents diverged and the earliest form of the Atlantic Ocean emerged between the continents. At mid-Mesozoic Era, although still united along a broad region, what would become the South American and African Plates became distinguishable in a form similar to the modern continents. North America and South America remained united by a dry strip of land similar to the isthmus connection that exists today.
Late in the Mesozoic Era, an increase in sea level allowed the confluence of the now distinguishable Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean to provide a wide water barrier between North and South America. Much of what are now the eastern and middle portions of the United States was flooded. By the end of the Mesozoic Era, water separated South America from Africa . The Australian and Antarctic continents were clearly articulated and the Antarctic continent began a southward migration to the south polar region.
The Mesozoic Era began with a mass extinction and ended with mass extinction. At the end of the Paleozoic Era, almost 80% of marine species became extinct. It would not be until well into the Mesozoic Era that marine life recovered and new reef-building corals evolved. Reptiles dominated the land. Accordingly, the Mesozoic Era is often termed "The Age of Reptiles."
Mesozoic essentially means "middle animals" and marked a fundamental high point in the number and types of species on Earth. Dinosaurs evolved to rule the Mesozoic Era but non-avian species of dinosaurs became extinct as part of the mass extinction that marked the end of the Mesozoic and start of the Cenozoic Era .
The landscape of the Mesozoic Era was also marked by substantial changes in vegetative patterns that altered erosional patterns involved in landscape evolution . During the Mesozoic Era, both gymnosperm (conifers, etc.) and subsequently angiosperm plants evolved in forms comparable to their modern form. Plant growth also allowed the subsequent development of extensive coal beds.
Like the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic Era closed with an episode of extinction. More than 70% of all existing life forms became extinct by the Mesozoic Era–Cenozoic Era boundary (also known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary), including virtually all of the dinosaurs.
During the Mesozoic Era large meteor impacts were frequent. The impact at the start of the Mesozoic Era has been estimated to be of such force as to be able to creating a 350 km impact crater , The K-T event crater (i.e., the Chicxulub crater) measures 170 km in diameter.
"Mesozoic Era." World of Earth Science. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic era (mĕz´əzō´Ĭk) [Gr.,=middle life], major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, table) from 65 to 225 million years ago. Great crustal disturbances that marked the close of the Paleozoic and the beginning of the Mesozoic eras brought about drastic changes in the topography of North America. The Appalachian geosyncline, or downward thrust of the earth's crust, was replaced by the Appalachian Mts., and the eastern part of the continent was elevated during most of the era. The Appalachians were subjected to erosion, the products of which were deposited along the Atlantic coast, which had become a lowland region, or in the ocean beyond. Aside from the Appalachians, the other dry (consistently) areas of the continent were the Canadian Shield, the Antilles areas, and a mountain range elevated in part of the Cordilleran geosyncline. The Mesozoic tectonic activity included numerous subduction zones, such as those along the Pacific margin of the supercontinent Pangaea. Later, Pangaea began to split into the supercontinents of Gondwanaland and Laurasia, and N Africa began to rift apart. By the late Mesozoic, tectonic activity increased dramatically: the new Indian Ocean began to open, the Atlantic Ocean began to open along an extensive rift zone separating the Americas from Europe and Africa (see seafloor spreading). The life of the Mesozoic was dominated by the reptiles that evolved into the large land-dwelling dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Flying reptiles and birds first appeared during the Mesozoic. Mammals probably evolved from some common ancestor of the reptiles early in the Triassic Period, but were subordinate to the reptiles until the end of the era, when the dominance of reptiles was ended by the extinction of the dinosaurs. Conifers dominated the plant life, with modern pines and sequoias first appearing. Flowering plants, deciduous trees, and grasses also appeared during this era.
"Mesozoic era." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic The geological era that extended from the end of the Palaeozoic era, about 248 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cenozoic era, about 65 million years ago. It comprises the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. The Mesozoic era is often known as the Age of Reptiles as these animals, which included the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and ichthyosaurs, became the dominant lifeform; most became extinct before the end of the era.
"Mesozoic." A Dictionary of Biology. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic The middle of three eras that constitute the Phanerozoic period of time. The Mesozoic (literally ‘middle life’) was preceded by the Palaeozoic Era and followed by the Cenozoic Era. It began with the Triassic approximately 245 Ma ago and ended around 65 Ma at the start of the Tertiary. The Mesozoic comprises the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods.
"Mesozoic." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic The middle of three eras that constitute the Phanerozoic period of time. The Mesozoic (literally ‘middle life’) was preceded by the Palaeozoic Era and followed by the Cenozoic Era. It began with the Triassic approximately 248 Ma ago and ended around 65 Ma at the start of the Tertiary. The Mesozoic comprises the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods.
"Mesozoic." A Dictionary of Ecology. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mes·o·zo·ic / ˈmezəˈzōik; ˌmē-/ • adj. Geol. of, relating to, or denoting the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic eras, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. ∎ [as n.] (the Mesozoic) the Mesozoic era or the system of rocks deposited during it.
"Mesozoic." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic Third era of geological time, extending from c.248 to c.65 million years ago. It divides into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. For most of the era, the continents are believed to have been joined into one huge landmass called Pangaea. The period was also characterized by the variety and size of its reptiles.
"Mesozoic." World Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic The middle of three eras that constitute the Phanerozoic period of time, about 251–65.5 Ma ago. The Mesozoic (literally ‘middle life’) was preceded by the Palaeozoic Era and followed by the Cenozoic Era. The Mesozoic comprises the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods.
"Mesozoic." A Dictionary of Zoology. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Mesozoic The middle of three eras that constitute the Phanerozoic period of time, about 248–65 Ma ago. The Mesozoic (literally ‘middle life’) was preceded by the Palaeozoic Era and followed by the Cenozoic Era. The Mesozoic comprises the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods.
"Mesozoic." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
"Mesozoic." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
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Acknowledge the survivor’s experience and the difficulty they faced in disclosing it. You should thank them for telling you and check that they are safe.
Remember that people may not be ready to discuss all the details of what has happened, and they do not need to do this in order to access appropriate support.
Phrases like, I’m here with you or Thank you for telling me, help show support for the survivor without pressuring them to speak further about the details of what happened.
acknowledging that this experience shouldn’t have happened.
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To make a three-layer magic custard cake, for people who have made it possible it is very easy to do, but for people who have never made it, to make 3-layer magic custard is a very difficult thing to do.
How do you make a special 3-layer magic custard cake?
An easy way to make custard magic 3 delicious layers, can it be learned?
How do you make this simple 3 layer magic custard?
Is it hard to learn about how to make a special 3 layer magic custard cake?
What are the ingredients needed to make a delicious 3 layer custard cake?
How long does it take to make a magic 3 layer special custard cake?
1. The first step, prepare the oven with a temperature of 160 degrees Celsius or 325 F, lubricate a round pan with a diameter of 20 centimeters using margarine, then sprinkle with a little flour.
2. Pan the butter until it melts, set aside, then heat the milk until warm and set aside.
3. The next step is to shake the lime juice with egg white until stiff, then set aside.
4. Then shake the sugar with my egg until it is a little pale, add water and melted butter, then shake again.
5. Then enter the flour, shake with low speed until evenly mixed, then add vanilla and liquid milk while stirring using whisk.
6. Add egg white in 3 stages, stir until evenly mixed (do not worry because the mixture will run out).
7. Then add the mixture to the baking sheet, and bake for 46 – 60 minutes, wait until my surface becomes slightly yellowish.
8. Let stand for a moment to cool, then put it in the refrigerator and let stand for 3 hours, then remove and cut into pieces according to your taste.
9. sprinkle dusting sugar on the surface of the cake, delicious magical custard is ready to be served.
So how to make delicious and special custard, with the recipe, hopefully you can learn to make magical custard that is delicious properly, if you are still confused about how to make this simple magic custard, you can also look for other references to learn more about how to make magical custard cake correctly, keep learning about how to make this delicious custard, so that you are more proficient, and if you are already adept at making this simple magic custard, then your artificial custard cake will be more delicious and liked by many person .
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All the 45s below are $1 each, unless preceded by a different dollar figure in ($?). I generally sell 45s at 1/10 of the Near Mint price listed in my price guide, with the minimum price being $1. If a line is in bold print, that means I've listened to it and have assigned a price at the start of the line and an audible grade after each song. See home page for shipping and handling charges. Most of these 45s appear to be in superior condition, but I will listen to any 45rpm, if requested, before selling it to verify it is in the condition that you want. A select few items may not be in mint condition, but will have a number in Parenthesis () at the end of the line indicating their quality based on a scale of 1=terrible to 10=mint.
a01/29/2016 (ff) ($1) Naomi & the Segos / When I make my last move / When I make my last move / Wind Chime WC 5035 (9) orange vinyl!
01/02/2016 (ff) ($5) Nite Moves with picture sleeve (VG+) / Every bar in town / Look into the eyes of one that loves you / Classic Records NR16079AB stereo RARE IOWA DISC (9) No other copies found on Internet!
09/15/2016 (ff) ($1) Nick Palmer / Green pastures / I don't know why / RCA Victor 47-9559 (5) yellow label shows "not for sale"
05/19/2017 (ff) ($1 [VG+ NM 3.05]) Hank Penny / Southern Fried Chicken / Rock of Gibraltar / Decca 9-29926 Sample copy - labels show "not for sale"
10/12/2017 (ff) ($3) Barbara Penrod / Come on over to my house / The key's under the doormat / Mixed and recorded at Rainbow Recording Studios, Dayton, OH 706067 (10 -- 3 of these) AUTOGRAPHED!
10/07/2017 (ff) ($3) Sioux City Pete (Pete Phillips) / Ten elements of rock and roll / Youth Camp Records #02 7" 33 1/3 RPM extended play PUNK (9) no other copies found for sale out on the Internet!
10/15/2017 (ff) ($10) Elvis Presley with picture sleeve (VG VG+) / Heartbreak hotel, I was the won / Money honey, I forgot to remember to forget / RCA Victor EPA-821 extended play without horizontal line on label (6) near mint book value is $100!
10/15/2017 (ff) ($7) Elvis Presley with picture sleeve (VG - water mark lower outer corner into center) / Follow that dream, angel / What a wonderful life, I'm not the marrying kind / RCA Victor EPA 4368 black label, no times on label (5) near mint book value is $70!
10/08/2017 (ff) ($3) Jeris Ross (1977) / I think I'll say goodbye / I think I'll say goodbye / Gazelle Records IRDA 431-A (9) white label DJ copy no other copies found for sale on Internet!
10/07/2017 (ff) ($3) Dianne Sherrill / Cincinnati sidewalks / My mind's on a number / Showcase WIG-SC-782 stereo D.J. copy! no other copies found for sale out on Internet!
10/10/2017 (ff) ($3) Bill Stevens (1978) / Nellie Brown / Buchanan County, VA / Honaker Records IRDA 503 (10) white label promo copy!
04/03/2017 (ff) ($1) Johnny Swendel / The river's low / The river's low / Country International Records 129 (9) labels show "not for sale"
10/12/2017 (ff) ($3) Leon Wesley Walls / Lease on your heart / Blue moon / Attica Records U-19650 (10 -- 4 of these) Autographed!
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The number of Nigerians taking out personal loans online has risen steadily over the years, with an 18% increase from 2015 to 2017, according to data from the National Bureaux of statistics. To get urgent loans in Nigeria, one of the best options is an online personal loan. Here are some key factors to determine the right one for your circumstances.
You first need to determine what your ideal lending situation is: Do you want a fixed or variable interest rate? How much can you afford for monthly payments? What length of loan do you want? How much can you afford in fees and other services? Your answers help you choose the right lender.
Word of mouth is such a powerful tool because it offers perspective from an unbiased party. Check with friends, family and colleagues for any recommendations, and you can also check with professional sources such as financial advisers like StartCredits. Anything from prior experience to knowledge about a unique lender in the marketplace can be useful when narrowing down the search. Assuming they aren’t getting a commission from the products they recommend, you should have a better understanding of your options once you ask for references.
After you’ve narrowed down your search by asking for references, you’ll want to go ahead and check the credentials of the remaining lenders. Once you have narrowed your list of potential lenders, you can check their credentials online. Banking departments have updated directories with information on lenders.
There are two main types of personal loans: secured and unsecured. Each type comes with its own list of pros and cons, but it’s important that you, the potential borrowers, understand what each type looks like to ensure that you choose the best personal loan for you.
Secured loans are essentially when you offer an asset (something such as your car) as collateral if you fail to pay. The easiest way to think about a secured loan is that it’s secure for the lender. Even if you can’t afford to pay the loan back, the asset you offered as collateral ensures that the lender can get something back for the money the company gave you.
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Dear Miss Manners: Unbeknown to me, someone new to our area, whom I had invited to accompany my husband and me on a day hike in a beautiful natural area, took video with his cell phone of some scenery, and then posted the video to YouTube.
It didn't have any footage of me, but it did have a caption, "In the Mountains with the Smiths."
I prefer not to have photos, videos or any other evidence of my private life to appear on other persons' Facebook pages, on YouTube, or anywhere else without my permission.
I accept that this might happen in a big group activity, such as a family wedding, but I don't want my every weekend trip or potluck with friends recorded for strangers to look at.
What is the most polite way to request that this not be done, and when should I ask? When I issue or accept invitations, or when I see the cell phone or other recording equipment come out?
What can I politely do if someone doesn't accede to my wishes for privacy?
Gentle Reader: Photographic harassment has become a serious etiquette problem, what with everyone photographing everyone else and posting it for the world to see.
But perhaps you will forgive Miss Manners for saying that the one you suffered must be the mildest case on record.
Your guests didn't photograph you. They didn't go against your wishes, because you hadn't stated your wishes, not having known they were taking pictures, which also means that they didn't disrupt the hike.
You will be surprised to hear that Miss Manners has enormous sympathy with your annoyance. Now that the cell phone means that almost everyone carries a camera all the time, and the Internet has become a giant scrapbook for everyone's pictures, visual privacy is becoming a lost concept.
The dangers aren't trivial, as more people are discovering when their superiors at work (not to mention their parents, children and other attachments) have a clear view of what they looked like while partying the night before.
But keeping that possibility in mind might be even worse. The strain of knowing that one is never just among friends but always before the vast public, subject to the harsh judgment of strangers, is enough to rob even the most blameless life of pleasure.
Nevertheless, the general opinion is that taking pictures is harmless and to be expected.
Miss Manners suggests that you -- indeed, all of us who value privacy -- will have to get into the habit of saying, "If you're planning to take pictures, please leave me out."
Dear Miss Manners: What's your beef with a cash bar at wedding receptions?
Weddings are incredibly expensive, and a couple starting out shouldn't have to go in the hole for thousands of dollars just to throw a reception where Miss Manners and a bunch of other deadbeats can have unlimited liquor. I thought you were a classy broad.
If we should encounter each other at a wedding reception, your first drink will be on me, and you can hustle the rest yourself.
I dare you to print this.
Gentle Reader: Suppose you go first and explain why anyone would want to stage a thousands-of-dollars event for people whom they think of as deadbeats, and why other people would want to attend the wedding of those who thought that of them.
This will give Miss Manners a moment to think of a tactful way of saying that she doesn't care to drink with you.
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Can the air travel consumer really get "free" airline flights?
The "free flights" mantra has been aggressively advertised by the low-cost budget airlines who are springing up all over the world and are well established in Europe. This has been a controversial issue in the past as the "free" base fares would include a hidden array of taxes, fees and charges - and these could vary quite significantly from airline to airline.
However recent changes brought in by an EU directive has forced airlines to be more transparent with their all-in pricing. You will now see they advertise one-way fares (rather than return) to make prices appear as low as possible.
Probably the only airline to regularly offer free flights is Ryanair. And these flights are actually now free with no extra taxes. If you don't check-in any luggage you will only pay a small credit card processing charge. The flights are available during special offer promotions and cover a wide variety of routes all over Europe.
Beware - if you do want to check-in at the airport - Ryanair will add charges equivalent to £24 or almost $50 per return flight for 1 checked-in bag. These fees are correct as of summer 2008.
So it is now really possible to fly for free with Ryanair. Get on their mailing list and they will keep you updated on their special offers.
Can you get 'free' flights using frequent flyer air miles? The first consideration is that you have to actually 'buy' the miles - this is achieved by purchasing flights, goods and services and using affiliated credit cards.
The best way to accumulate mileage is if you can earn miles on expenses you would have incurred anyway. And also finding exceptionally generous mileage deals which do come up on occasion.
Secondly, you would have to redeem your miles in the most efficient way possible. Many air travellers don't even redeem their miles or do so in very inefficient ways.
Another point to consider again is even if you have a significant collection of miles, you will still be hit by the ubiquitous taxes and charges when you do use them - these can be significantly high. So it seems that these flights are not 'free', but merely a discount for loyalty.
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Le Meridien Al Hada Hotel is a five stars hotel subordinate to Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts Hotel Chain, it is located in Al Hada Ring Road , Al Hada. It is only 15-minute drive to reach a variety of restaurants in the centre. Taif Regional Airport is a 30-minute drive away, while Mekkah can be reached within 45 minutes. With its unique location, the hotel owns a wonderful design and a comfortable furniture. Le Meridien Al Hada Hotel offers five dining options, including three restaurants and two coffee shops. Enjoy discovering Al Taif City by visiting the important landmarks such as: Al Hada Area, and Al Nouqba Al Hamraa Garden Park. Free WiFi is available in the hotel rooms, and free public parking is possible on site to enjoy a wonderful stay.
When would you like to stay at Le Meridien Al Hada?
The room includes one double bed, and this rooms also offers safety deposit box, mini bar, desk, and there is a private bathroom. It featuring a view, and it is with an area of 22 square meters to enjoy a pleasant stay.
The villa includes three bedrooms,one bedroom on the ground floor and 2 bedrooms with on suite bathrooms on the 1st floor, with one large double bed and three single beds, this villa also offers living room, seating area, sofa, safety deposit box, mini bar, desk, refrigerator, electric kettle, dining room and a fully equipped kitchen, and bathroom. It featuring a view and it is with an area of 100 square meters to enjoy a wonderful stay.
Le Meridien Al Hada Hotel is arranged over 7 floors and contains a convenient units with total number of 111 rooms, suites and villas, feature a modern décor, and fully equipped with all sort of services and amenities such as: wardrobe, air conditioning, telephone, flat-screen TV with satellite channels, safety deposit box, mini bar, desk, and there is a private bathroom also comes with a shower, hairdryer and free toiletries. Moreover, the units feature views of Taif and the countryside. The units have these types and sizes: Standard Twin Room, Standard King Room, Deluxe Room with Balcony, Standard Queen Room, Diplomatic Suite, Club Double Room, Three-Bedroom Villa, and Five-Bedroom Villa.
- Vienna Cafe – This buffet restaurant specialises in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Palms Restaurant – This restaurant specialises in regional / International cuisine.
- Al Ghadir Restaurant – On-site fine-dining restaurant, it serves Continental cuisine.
- Al Finjan – This coffee shop serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and light fare. Open 24 hours.
- Al Waha – This buffet restaurant is located by the pool.
Le Meridien Al Hada includes an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, as well as a gym and sauna to spend the best times ever.
- Afrah Hall is a full banquet room with luxurious chandeliers. The setting is ideal for formal banquets and offers a variety of setups such as a long top table with microphones.
- The Opec Room can have a U-shaped table or the delightful Oval table, - Ahlam Hall is designed for multi-purpose use.
- Jeddah Room is perfect for small meetings.
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What price should I sell my book for?
Every book is different and there is no magic price point that fits just right for every book.
Amazon: If you price your book between $2.99 and $9.99, Amazon will pay you 70% of your average retail price for that month's sales (minus a small delivery fee determined by the size of the file). This pricing applies for every book purchased by a customer with a billing address in: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Liechtenstien, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, United Kingdom (including Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man) as well as the United Stated of America. For customers whose billing address is outside those regions, you will receive 35% of your sales with no delivery charge.
If you price your book outside that range you keep 35% of all Amazon sales.
Apple iBookstore: You keep 70% of the retail price.
Barnes & Noble and Sony: You keep 50% of the list price regardless of what they list as the retail price.
Kobo: You keep 70% of the list price for sales in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK. Elsewhere you keep 45% of the list price for sales.
Here is an article to help you choose the right price for your book.
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What do I eat for a Vegan Lunch?
It may feel harder to plan or restrictive, if you are not aware of the multitude of choices you actually have! Below are two lunch ideas for you.
I know some of you probably don't like to eat Tofu, but every once in a while, I think it is okay.
For Vegan Lunch 1, we have a Miso glazed Tofu and Bok Choy Bowl over Brown Rice. For the glaze recipe, see below.
For Vegan Lunch 2, we have a Quinoa-Brown Lentil Mix with Peas. On top is roasted asparagus and sliced Almonds. This dish was served with a hot bowl of Cauliflower Soup.
Best used an a marinade for Tofu or vegetables for grilling.
Mix together all the ingredients below. After used as marinade, strain and boil it gently in a pot and can use as a sauce.
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Fresh v dry bay leaves: what's the difference?
Travel the back roads of the goldfields and sometimes you'll see a few old European trees standing by themselves in the middle of paddocks. Usually, there's a plum tree, a quince tree and a bay tree, gnarled and overgrown. These would have been part of the kitchen garden of the house, now long gone. Fresh bay was used extensively in the kitchen. Fresh leaves were left in the pantry to deter weevils and moths. Meat dishes, such as long-cooked stews of mutton necks or shanks, were flavoured with the leaves, which added a pronounced clove-like aroma. Fresh leaves, if overused, can be overpowering in a dish and might need to be removed early during cooking. Once dried, a lot of this vibrancy is lost. Dried bay leaves impart a more subtle flavour and are generally left in a dish as it cooks then retrieved before serving. There is no substitute for fresh dried bay leaves because they lose their aroma with time.
You can find meat syringes on the internet. Be careful when searching for ''meat syringe'' online because it might lead to unexpected websites. For recipes, try Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn's excellent book Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing, published by Norton Books. Boil 450 grams of salt, three cloves of minced garlic, 20 grams of pickling spice, 25 grams of sodium nitrite and 100 grams of sugar in four litres of water until the salt and sugar are dissolved. Chill the brining liquid, then soak a 2.25-kilogram piece of brisket in it for five days. Rinse the brisket, cover it with fresh water and 20 grams more pickling spice, then simmer it for three hours or until tender. You can inject the brine deep into the meat when you first soak it.
Although some of the best meat in the country is sold in vacuum-packed, heavy-duty plastic, such as the brilliant meat sold at farmers' markets, the difference is they pack the meat shortly before sale. Some butchers, sometimes wholesale butchers, wet-age meat in plastic bags. It makes meat very tender. But when meat is stored like this, the pressure of the vacuum draws liquid from the meat and this sits around the flesh and leaves the meat with an off-livery taste. While it is perfectly safe, the tragedy is that many people have grown up with this and think it's the norm. If you come across this type of meat, wash the meat well in running water.
Leave a question for Richard Cornish via the comments on this page, or contact him at brainfood@richardcornish.com.au or on Twitter @Foodcornish.
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Explain briefly what is Malthusian Theory of Population.
Thomas Malthus(1766-1834) developed the theory of population and published it in An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1978.
That in a community where self-restraint acts effectually, each class of the community will augment until it reaches the point at which it begins to exercise that restraint.
Malthus advocates that population tend to increase in a geometrical progression whereas the means of subsistence increase in only arithmetical progression.
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The US president tweeted he would make his "final decision" on the Paris accord after his return to Washington.
Mr Trump, who has called climate change "a hoax" on occasion, has reportedly indicated this is still his position to key members of his inner circle.
The Paris deal is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement, set out in 2015, with the aim of keeping the global average rise in temperatures below 2C.
Can 'first daughter' save climate accord?
Why doesn't Donald Trump like the agreement?
Mr Trump told voters on the campaign trail he wanted to scrap agreements "contrary to the national interest", while repeatedly promising to strengthen the coal industry.
He has also expressed doubt about the causes of climate change, saying it is a "hoax" made up by China.
This is despite US defence secretary James Mattis saying in an interview to air on Sunday that the president is now "wide open" on the issue.
Image caption Mr Trump's attitude to climate change made discussions at the G7 "very difficult"
It was noted his attitude to climate change was one of the major hurdles during the summit in Sicily - the first time he has met his fellow G7 leaders as a group.
His stance left him isolated, with Mr Trump's reluctance to reaffirm his commitment clearly annoying German chancellor Angela Merkel, who told reporters: "The entire discussion about climate was very difficult, if not to say very dissatisfying."
And what's more, some of Mr Trump's own country is likely to ignore his scepticism.
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