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how to develop the perfect snare drum grip.
12 years ago, you would have found me in the top row of the balcony at the detroit symphony orchestra hall, armed with binoculars, zoomed into my teacher brian's hands while he played timpani.
i was obsessed with grip and how to hold the sticks.
i talked about grip to all my friends, my teachers, and my youth orchestra colleagues. i thought about it during my practice sessions, during lunch, during physics class, and even in my sleep.
are there rules about my grip?
there are "kind of" rules out there. there are these codified systems of playing. you hear about the german style versus the french style and everything in between. i'm not too sure how accurate those are or if they actually use those styles in germany or france (probably not, who knows), but that's just kind of how americans are taught in high school.
there are also these different schools of playing, like the cloyd duff school of timpani playing that is taught through his students and now at masterclasses. then there's the alan abel or the philadelphia orchestra way of playing snare drum, and i'm sure there's a ton of variation within those schools of thought as well. but one of the things i always remember when i went to the masterclass is that you use a lot of arm, especially for snare drum rolls. and that's something that's been really useful to me.
one thing specifically has stayed with me. i'm really not even sure where i learned it, but for the longest time there was this voice in my head saying "never put your pinky out when you're playing snare drum rolls!" i would look around from teacher to teacher and see these people who would have their pinkies out and i would think "wow, they're breaking the rules."
and wouldn't you know, after a decade and a half of playing snare drum and achieving an orchestra job, recording all the delécluse etudes, and teaching all over the place, i looked in the mirror the other day as i was practicing downstairs at the MET, and I realized: in my snare drum rolls, my pinkies stick out.
rules like that are important as a sort of guideline. things for you to think about and try out as you're learning your own perfect snare grip. after learning all these rules, what you find is that nobody can get in your head, understand *exactly* what it's like for you to hold the stick and what the stick actually feels like as you're playing. everybody's fingers and hands are shaped differently. your thumb sticks out differently than mine. your fingers my be bonier than mine. certain muscles in your hand are stronger than other ones in a unique way that only and specifically applies to you. so the best, perfect snare drum grip for you is your own. it's totally find for you to play in a different way than the codified, hard-and-fast rules that you learned.
what you really need to do to find the perfect snare grip is to think about developing your own school of playing that works best for you. how do you play soft rolls? how do you play loud rolls?
so here are 3 steps you can go through to develop your own school of playing.
learn. learn from your teacher, learn from other students in your youth orchestra, watch other professional orchestras and bring your binoculars. try to take in all the ideas that you can from people you admire and respect.
practice and ingrain. bring those ideas you learned back into the practice room and actually ingrain them into your playing. whatever your teacher says, use more arm when you're playing snare drum rolls. fine. when you're playing soft, make sure that your back fingers are still on the stick a little bit. learn these things as though they're gospel.
make decisions. start making decision for yourself about your school of playing based on feedback from yourself and from musicians you really trust. what's the best way that you can play a soft snare roll? is that the way you used to play it? is it the new way your teacher taught you? or is it some kind of frankenstein version that's halfway old and halfway new? you start to develop the best grip that you can use for soft snare drum, for loud snare drum rolls, loud singles -- all kinds of techniques.
i made this diagram of my 5 most commonly used snare drum grips that made up my school playing. i tried to get really detailed of what i actually do with each part of my hand, the exact way my fingers are positioned next to each other, how my knuckles sit in comparison with the sticks -- i was really honest with the hopes that you would be honest too! take some or all of my grips, try them out, keep what you like, change what you don't like. this is to help you find your own voice in your snare drum playing, and i think that's pretty cool.
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Is it possible that the story of Adam and Eve can explain this conflict, this battle for our mind?
Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, they lived in communion with God, they were one with Him.
In my past I’ve had a lot of failed relationships. I was never able to understand why these relationships failed until I took a closer look at myself. I realized that I was seeking approval and love from my partner, before I found it within myself. I was looking for something from someone else that only I could give myself. The more I realized the importance of finding validation within me, I begin to take steps to love myself more fully.
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Tips To Consider When Choosing Mechanical Tools Mechanical devices are otherwise called mechanical types of gear and these are gadgets that are generally hand held and are utilized to complete a certain or different capacities. There are distinctive sorts of mechanical apparatuses which change as per size and furthermore work however there are a few capacities to put into thought while picking mechanical instruments. One of the most important factors one should consider is the cost of the tools in that it should be affordable and should also be within the budget of the individual and this also often comprises of installation and also the cost of maintenance of the tools as one may find that the price of the tool is cheap but the maintenance price is twice or thrice the initial cost hence it is very important for an individual to put the cost factor into consideration. One should in like manner consider the limit and fittingness of the gadget in that is it prepared to do the limit that you require it to since this is basic as there is no point of buying gadgets just to comprehend that it won’t have the ability to play out the limit that you required it to finish. The other factor one should be able to put into consideration is the versatility of the tool, versatility of the tool is the ability of the tool to effectively perform more than one function as this often proves to be cheap to the user of the tool and also convenient in that one can be able to use one tool to carry out different functions and this helps in saving time as one does not have to worry about running to the store just so as to get another type of tool to use for a certain function. Another element that an individual ought to put into thought is the brand of the device and this involves the producer of the apparatus as there are distinctive assembling firms who deliver various types of devices subsequently it is prudent to purchase instruments that have a place with a trustworthy assembling firm as this guarantees the person that the devices are of good quality.
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Johann Helfrich von Müller was born in Cleve (a town in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany), on 16 January, 1746, in the family of Lorenz Friedrich Müller (1715-1796), a colonel of the artillery, who worked as an architect and chief engineer in Giessen, and Maria Magdalena Josepha Hambloch (1726-1800). Johann had a brother, Franz, who later became a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. The German writer and journalist Helfrich Peter Sturz was their cousin.
In 1753 the family moved to Darmstadt, where Johann received his initial education at small private schools, getting private lessons in languages and drawing. Later he was sent to study at the Darmstadt Grammar School. In the spring of 1762, he became a cadet in the Artillery Corps of the Hessian army at Giessen, where his family had moved, and began to attend lectures in mathematics and physics at the University of Giessen (Interestingly, at the same university some 20 years before lectured as a professor of mathematics one of the creators of early calculating machine—Christian Ludwig Gersten).
Johann's father, Lorenz, who was in the building trade (architect and engineer), and was a son of the architect and civil engineer Helfrich Müller (1686–1759), wanted his son to carry on the family tradition, but Johann appears to have found certain other careers equally tempting. While still at the grammar school, he wanted to become a painter; at the university he hoped to be a professor of mathematics and physics. Soon however he discovered that the profession of an engineer was the most interesting of all and he devoted much time to reading books on statistics, hydraulics and mechanics.
In 1769, the Artillery Corps was reduced in strength and Müller was forced to look for work elsewhere. Shortly afterwards, he was employed as an engineer by Prince Georg Wilhelm, the Governor in Giessen—a man with wide interests in both civil and military engineering and architecture. In 1769/1770 Müller made an extensive educational travel to Italy (Rome, Napoli and Venetia) and Austria (Wien). In April 1772, Prince Wilhelm took Müller with him on a five month trip to Paris, where they visited and studied many of the marvelous buildings and machines in the city and at St. Cloud, Versailles and Marly. On his return from the trip, Müller devoted most of his time to architectural and mechanical design and various financial calculations for his master.
In February 1774, Müller became building inspector in Darmstadt and three years later master builder with the responsibility for designing and maintaining buildings (Ingenieur Hauptman). He also was expected to act as an adviser in case of emergencies such as floods. In 1778 he returned to the military service as a Captain in Artillery Corps, to be raised as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1797, and a Colonel in 1800.
In 1770s Müller took part in the design of several public buildings in Darmstadt. The fountain in the Market Square in the front of the old Rathaus (Town hall) of Darmstadt, built by design by Johann Müller in 1780, is still preserved (see the lower image).
Johann Müller was a person of a very creative mind and started to make inventions from the beginning of 1770s. First he created, by an order from the Prince, a theatre, equipped with optical and mechanical effects for the children of the Prince. Later on he designed a large and powerful burning mirror, sun clock, air pump, air gun, barometer, range finder, and even a perpetuum mobile, but the most interesting for us invention was certainly his calculating device (see the calculating machine of Johann Müller) in 1780s.
In the period 1776-1790 Müller was the state architect of Giessen. From 1792 until his retirement in 1820 Müller served as a Hofmeister and Major in Darmstadt. For his efforts and contribution he was knighted by the Grand Duke of Hesse on 23 June, 1810 (i.e. he became von Müller).
On 19 August 1781, Müller married to Catherine Fabrice Johanetta von Westerfeld (1761-1830), a daughter of Esaias Fabrice von Westerfeld (1709–1779) and Elisabeth Katharine Schröder (1724–1765). The family had five children—two daughters and three sons, but unfortunately all died young, except for one of the daughters—Friederike (1784-1841).
Johann Helfrich von Müller died on 12 June, 1830, in Darmstadt.
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According to the BMJ article, the doctor involved had presided over ten such deaths in just one hospital neonatal unit.
The LCP for children has been developed in the North West, where the LCP itself was pioneered in the 1990s. It involves the discharge to home or to a hospice of children who are given a document detailing their ‘end of life’ care.
The LCP was devised by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool for care of dying adult patients more than a decade ago. It has since been developed, with paediatric staff at Alder Hey Hospital, to cover children. Parents have to agree to their child going on the death pathway, often being told by doctors it is in the child’s ‘best interests’ because their survival is ‘futile’.
Alder Hey confirmed that children and babies are discharged for LCP end of life care ‘after all possible reversible causes for the patient’s condition are considered’.
‘There is a care pathway to enable a dying child to be supported by the local medical and nursing teams in the community, in line with the wishes of the child patients, where appropriate, and always their parents or carers.’ Alder Hey said children were not put on the LCP within the hospital itself.
A Department of Health spokesman said: ‘End of life care for children must meet the highest professional and clinical standards, and the specific needs of children at the end of their life.
Here is an abridged version of one doctor's anonymous testimony, published in the BMJ under the heading: 'How it feels to withdraw feeding from newborn babies'.
from withdrawal of hydration to death was ten days.
regardless of their certainty about their decision.
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Client and Server server written in Linux socket client in winsocket Using TCP. I need good documentation along with step by step easy approach sloutions. n this project, you will develop two applications: a connectionoriented (TCP) IM (Instant message) server and a client. The implementation logic is similar to the first two programs but with some difference: 1) Use TCP as transport layer protocol. 2) Since this project will use TCP rather than UDP, there is no need for an application level message number (means no need the random 5digits number from the two projects), so that has been dropped from the message format. That means that everything following the first semi-colon should be encrypted. 3) Client servers as a client as well as a server. Server: Your server will need to respond to sign-on messages (message type 1) from clients. Your server should be able to support up to 5 clients at one time. It must also be able to send updates to those clients as other members join and leave the system. It must be running in a Linux machine. Client: You will register with your server, but once you have signed on, you will get the names and addresses (IP and port) of all active users. Then all message passing will be directly between clients (P2P applications). When you are done, you send a sign-off message to the server and then close all of your open connections. As with the first project, all of the information following the message type and semi-colon should be encrypted. By default, you should use the same cipher_sp14.h header used in project 1, however, there are some differences. Since this project will use TCP rather than UDP, there is no need for an application level message number, so that has been dropped from the message format. That means that everything following the first semi-colon should be encrypted. It can be running either in a Windows or Linux machine. A). Connection-oriented Sign-on Server In this One, you are going to build the sign-on server that works with your TCP client. This application protocol has 3 message types: Message 1: Sign onto system message format: (from client to server) 1;clientName;msgPort# (Send to server a single line of text. The first element is a message type of 1, followed by a semi-colon, then followed by your username, semicolon, followed by the port that your client program listens on for incoming messages.) Every message sent from the central server to a client will be terminated with a # character. It is expected that messages sent to the server will also be terminated with #. You may use any method you wish to handle message control between clients. But you have to specify in your report. After server receives sign-on message from client, it will send out that client a message of type 4: Message 4: Send a list of active users. General format will be: 4;countOfUsers User1Name;ipAddress1;port1 User2Name;ipAddress2;port2 etc.# When a user logs onto the server, your server should respond with a list of the other users already logged onto system (if any). If no others logged on, your server will respond with: 4;0# As new users join the group, your server will send additional type 4 messages to all active users to announce the new arrival. 4;new User1Name;ipAddress;port # As users leave the group, your server will send additional type 4 messages to all active users to announce the new departure. The count of users will be negative (-1 to indicate that 1 user has left), followed by the same user identification given above. 4;-1 User1Name;ipAddress# Message 3: Online status check. The sign-on server should regularly send a quick message (of the format shown below) to every user that the server thinks is still active. By checking the return value of the send() function, the server knows if the user is still logged on or not. If not, the user is dropped from the server, and a type 2 message indicating the drop is sent to all existing users. Format: 3;StatusCheck# No response is needed by the client program. Error Messages: There are a number of possible errors that the central server should detect. You need to implement all of them. They are: Error;Buddy List is full. Please try back later. # The server can support 5 simultaneous users at the same time. If you get more users than that, this message will be generated. Error;User number invalid. Try again # The username can not exceed 24 characters Error:User exits. # The username has been used Error;Invalid connection request: ..logon message received # Something was invalid in the logon message received. The message received is returned to the user. This could be the lack of a sentinel character, or something wrong in the message format. Error;Message port number is invalid. Please try again # The port number that is specified in the logon message is not a valid number. It should be 5 characters and between 1025 and 65535. Error;Invalid request for a new connection # Server received a new connection request, but message type was not 1._ Your sign-on server should periodically (at least once a minute) send a StatusCheck message to all users. There are a number of ways that you might implement this, but note that you will need to maintain a connection with all clients who you believe to still be active. One way to do this is to use the select function to monitor the connections to the sign-on server and the port that is listening for incoming connection requests. However, to be able to send messages, you will need to make this select a nonblocking function. You do that by specifying a time limit on how long the select function waits for an incoming message. The select function uses a “timeval” data type that includes a seconds component (tv_sec) and a microseconds component (tv_usec). It can be used as follows:_ timeval myTime;_ myTime.tv_sec = 60;_ myTime.tv_usec = 0;_ This will declare an instance of the timeval data type and set it equal to 60 seconds. _If the timer times out before any of the sockets get work (return value from select = 0), then your server program should check all connections to verify that they are still active._Note that there may be many other ways to implement this application, and any approach that uses TCP and uses some sort of concurrency will be fine. If in doubt, we can discuss this._ 1). I want you also to implement a server side logging system which logs all communication in a nice format. ___ B). Connection-oriented Client/Server In this one, You are to build a P2P IM client/server that will connect to your server that maintains a list of active users. Once you have obtained a list of active users (and their name, IP address and port number), all messages go directly between users. The application protocol has 4 message types: Message 1: Sign onto system message format: 1;myName;msgPort# Send to server a single line of text. Message type is 1, followed by semi-colon, then followed by your username, followed by the port that your program listens on for incoming messages, terminated by #. !!! Your username can be an arbitrary length (24 characters or less) but the port number should always be 5 digits (leading 0s if needed). Everything starting with myName should be encrypted. Note that this server will test for unique user names. Please be sure to terminate all messages with a #. This might not be a true sentinel character, but it will be fairly reliable and it will ensure that all users (and the server) can properly interpret the messages. Message 2: Send a message to another user: 2;myName buddyName message# (First line includes message type (2), semi-colon, sender’s name.) (Second line includes only the receiver’s name) (Third line contains the message, terminated by #.) As with the first assignment, this 3 line message should be sent as a single packet. That means that you will need to add carriage returns (‘ ’) after myName. and buddyName. After the message, you should add an #. Everything starting with myName should be encrypted. The message will look like: 2;myName buddyName message# Messsage 3: Ongoing status check. The sign-on server will regularly (every 10 seconds or so) send a quick message (of the format shown below) to every user that the server thinks is still active. From that query, the server knows if the user is still logged on or not. If not, the user is dropped from the server. Format: 3;StatusCheck# The -StatusCheck#- portion of the message will be encrypted. No response is needed by the client program. The client can just ignore the message, or provide any processing that it wishes. Message 4: Receive a list of active users. Format: When you log onto the system, the server will respond with a list of the other users already logged onto system (if any). 4;countOfUsers User1Name;ipAddress1;port1 User2Name;ipAddress2;port2 Etc.# Everything following the first semi-colon will be encrypted. If no others are logged on, Server will respond with: 4;0# As new users join the group, the server will send additional type 4 messages to all active users to announce the new arrival(s). 4;new User1Name;ipAddress1;port1 # If a user logs off from the system, the server will respond with 4;-1 User1Name;ipAddress1;port1# Error messages: Your client can response to Error message from server (see server’s Error code). The format for those error messages will be: Error;some message ... # You client also need to check the Errors by itself: such as 1). Your target client is not online anymore. 2).Your message is wrong. Program Implementation Considerations Server Side: 1. All text following the first semicolon will be encrypted. 2. Client Side: 1. All text following the first semicolon will be encrypted. 2. Client can immediately update its user list based on the server’s message 3. Every message between clients will represent a separate connection. That is, you will need to accept the connection, then display the message, and then close the connection to that user. There are a number of ways that you might implement this, but note that you will need to maintain a connection with the sign-on server, you will need to be able to accept an incoming connection request, AND you will need to be able to send a message. One way to do this is to use the select function to monitor the connection to the sign-on server and the port that is listening for incoming connection requests. However, to be able to send messages, you will need to make this select a non-blocking function. You might do that by specifying a time limit on how long the select function waits for an incoming message. The select function uses a “timeval” data type that includes a seconds component (tv_sec) and a microseconds component (tv_usec). It can be used as follows: timeval myTime; myTime.tv_sec = 2; myTime.tv_usec = 0; This will declare an instance of the timeval data type and set it equal to 2 seconds. If the timer times out before any of the sockets get work (return value from select = 0), then your client program should ask the user if they wish to send a message. Another approach might be to use multiple threads to manage each of the functions. There may be many other ways to implement this application, and any approach that uses TCP and uses some sort of concurrency will be fine. If in doubt, discuss it with me. I also want you to implement a group messaging command (message 5). This message will send a message to everyone who is currently logged in. This means that your client will establish a separate connection to each existing client, send the message, and then close that connection.
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Under what pressure is chloroform at a mercury reading of #940*"Torr"#?
This is a very poor question, and has been asked by someone who has never used a mercury manometer.
It is a fact that #1# #atm# pressure will support a column of mercury #760# #mm# high. Have you seen a mercury manometer? Mercury has all but disappeared from modern laboratories, on the basis that it is a 100% pain in the posterior to clean up the mercury spills that inevitably occur in the laboratory.
For low pressures, a measurement in #mm# of mercury is appropriate. For pressures higher than 1 atmosphere it is completely inappropriate.
If you convert the mercury measurement to atmospheres, i.e #"940 Torr"# #=# #940/760*atm#, you have your pressure measurement. Now you have to make another assumption: that all the chloroform is present as a gas. Chloroform has a normal boiling point of #61# #""^@C#. It is unreasonable to propose that it could be present as a gas (by the way, when I say normal boiling point, I mean that its vapour pressure is equal to #1# #atm# at this temperature).
So, as you probably have already realized, the question is a real dog's breakfast. Students can offer bad answers, and examiners can equally propose bad questions, and whoever set this deserves a kick up the backside. I presume this is a first year undergraduate/2nd year phys chem problem?
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How does sustainability effect the nation's top companies?
Of the top Fortune 500 firms in America, 49 firms have published sustainability reports, 109 firms have published corporate social responsibility reports, and 299 of the firms maintain webpages devoted to sustainability, corporate social responsibility, or the environment. 89 companies were found on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and 22 of the firms were members of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
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The Fiesta de Moros y Christianos, Alcoy, Spain (Battle of the Moors and the Christians) is an important social event in the region. Every year, the Moorish occupation and Spanish re-conquest of the Iberian peninsula is celebrated throughout Southern Spain. Nowhere is the re-enactment as spectacular as in Alcoy, 28 km from Abdet. In late April each year, a papier-mache castle is erected in the town's main plaza and the townsfolk re-enact the confrontation between the Moorish (Muslim) and Christian leaders.
On the first day of the festival, the townsfolk flock to take part in the colourful parades which weave their way through the streets of Alcoy. They spend a great deal of time making their costumes together, and curiously everyone is vying to be a Moor, as their tribal costumes are the most colourful and exotic.
The second day of the festival is St. Georges Day. On this day, the religious aspects of the festival are remembered, when the relics of the Saint are removed from the Church of Santa Maria and returned with high drama to the temple. That evening there's a spectacular firework display and Valencien fallas or effigies are burned on huge bonfires in the town.
On the final day of the fiesta, a furious battle takes place on the streets of Alcoy. When the Christian leaders tear up the Moors' demands, a horse messenger spreads the word of impending war, and the battle begins. For hours the two armies flood through the streets letting off blunderbusses that are so loud they can be heard for miles around. Before noon the Moors succeed in seizing the castle. However in the afternoon, after a child dressed as Alcoy's Holy Patron, St. George makes an timely appearance on the battlements, the Christians re-gain control of the castle and the battle is won.
What's the history of the Festival?
This festival commemorates a famous battle held in this city in 1276 between the Christian ruler and the Moorish captain Al Athrak. The story goes that on the point of losing the city to the Moors, St. George appeared on a white charger and turned the Christians' fate around.
The proceedings have changed little for 700 years, closely following the sequence of events recorded immediately after the battle: the Moors seize the castle in the morning and the Christians win it back again in the afternoon.
One year, about 10 years ago, the Moorish team decided they were not prepared to give up the castle so easily and locked themselves in to celebrate their victory with plenty of food and drink. The outraged Christians were forced to call the police and the Guardia Civil so that the course of history wouldn't be altered forever.
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Hedge Funds: Why Choose Hedge Funds?
Funds of hedge funds are an alternative to investing directly into individual funds. There are advantages and disadvantages to funds of funds, and the benefits to an investor are completely dependent on the investor. Funds of funds are well diversified investment vehicles made up of a variety of other funds. They typically have lower minimums and are a good way to invest in hedge funds with broad diversification. Some funds of funds invest in hedge funds with a variety of different strategies and a much higher level of diversification, while others, called single-strategy funds, will invest in a variety of funds having the same or similar strategies.
One of the benefits of fund of funds is that they enable an investor to obtain instant diversification in a portfolio of hedge funds, which is particularly attractive for an investor with a portfolio that is large enough to invest in hedge funds, but too small to achieve proper diversification going directly into hedge funds. For example, with hedge fund minimums often starting at $1 million, it would be difficult for an investor with a $2 million account to diversify their portfolio of hedge funds. The maximum number of hedge funds they could invest in is two, and that would not be a very prudent diversification strategy. A fund of funds, however, that is invested in 15-20 hedge funds and has a minimum investment of $500,000 enables the investor to gain exposure to the alternative asset class without compromising the overall structure of the portfolio.
As mentioned, some funds of funds are single-strategy funds, while others make investments in funds using a variety of different strategies. The multi-strategy funds provide broader diversification and uncorrelated returns within underlying funds. The investor in this case relies on the skill of the fund manager to allocate the portfolio to appropriate strategies and to monitor and tactically adjust the portfolio as needed. An investment in a quality multi-strategy fund of funds is also appropriate for investors who do not have the skill or resources to determine which strategies are attractive in the current environment.
The single-strategy fund of funds, on the other hand, would require an investor decision to add exposure to a particular type of strategy. I would hope that this type of investor has the resources to evaluate such a decision and make an allocation to this fund after careful evaluation of the overall portfolio.
Find out how average investors are breaking into what was once reserved for the ultra rich.
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Hedge funds can draw returns well above the market average even in a weak economy. Learn about the risks.
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Before investing in hedge funds, be sure to consider all the facts.
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Life without emotions is like an empty crowd. Our lives must be some color once in a while, and it will not be dull and boring life completely. Emotions are very important in everyday life. For this reason, human emotions were the object of research and study for thousands of years.
All humans have basic emotional needs. Can be expressed these needs, such as the need to feel important, accepted, and respect. While all humans share these needs, each differ in need power, just as some of us need more water, more food, or sleep more. One person may need more freedom and independence, and another may need more security and social contacts.
One may be the biggest curiosity and a greater need for understanding, while another content to accept whatever he was told. Unlike physical health, and neglected a lot of people, including doctors as the importance of emotional stability.
Emotional stability of a person is vital to the achievement of public health. Emotional stability contributes to the individual's sense of well-being.
Without it, one could be subject to internal chaos, depression, despair and isolation. In fact, the emotional health effects on other aspects of health such as physical and mental health and social services. Stress leads to the release of certain chemicals prepare us for action.
When this is not required, this excessive chemical level can cause damage to the body with the passage of time. Emotional issues may manifest themselves such as illness. Is a form of one of the forms are very difficult to deal of stress management and emotional stress.
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(CNN)Drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ridehailing companies will soon get a minimum wage in New York City.
On Tuesday, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission voted on a minimum pay formula to protect ridehailing drivers from being underpaid by companies. Under the new policy, drivers will earn a minimum take-home wage of $17.22 per hour. That’s the ridehailing equivalent of a $15 minimum wage, accounting for the fact that those drivers have to pay payroll taxes and do not receive paid time off, the TLC said.
The minimum pay floor is a first for the US ridehail industry and could mean rides in New York will get pricier.
The formula takes into consideration time spent working beyond driving passengers, such as waiting for a dispatch or traveling to pick up a rider. It also provides some protection for ridehailing drivers, who are classified as contractors ineligible for many benefits and rights that protect employees.
New York City drivers will also earn a “shared ride” bonus set by the TLC for picking up and dropping off carpool riders. Other changes include a new “out of town rate” to pay drivers for time spent returning to New York City from a trip that took them outside its borders.
New York City is on the forefront of regulatory changes that could provide a model for other cities in the future.
package of bills related to the issue, including the ability for TLC to set a minimum pay for ridehail drivers.
Critics of the proposal — including ridehailing’s biggest companies — say the pay mandate will make it harder and more expensive for passengers to get around.
Lyft also pushed back on the pay rules.
“Unfortunately, the TLC’s proposed pay rules will undermine competition by allowing certain companies to pay drivers lower wages, and disincentives drivers from giving rides to and from areas outside Manhattan. These rules would be a step backward for New Yorkers, and we urge the TLC to reconsider them,” Lyft said in a statement.
ommissioned by the Taxi and Limousine Commission and conducted by The New School’s Center for New York City Affairs. That number is up from 12,600 in 2015. New York City has about 14,000 taxi drivers.
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For the first five decades of European settlement in Australia, medical care for convicts and free settlers was provided by the Colonial Medical Service. After about 1850, as population and wealth grew markedly, there was significant professional development based on private practice.
Except in Victoria, medical societies and journals did not become solidly established until late in the 19th century. The advent of local British Medical Association branches was an important factor in this consolidation.
Australian practitioners quickly took up advances in practice from overseas, such as antisepsis and diphtheria antitoxin. They shared in the international growth in the status of medicine, which was conferred by the achievements of bacteriology in particular.
From 1813, students were apprenticed in Sydney and Hobart and then travelled to Britain to obtain corporate qualifications. Medical schools were ultimately opened in the new universities in Melbourne (in 1862), Sydney (1883) and Adelaide (1885). The first female student was admitted to medicine in Sydney in 1885.
Medical politics were intense. The outlawing of practice by unorthodox practitioners proved to be an unattainable goal. In the latter half of the 19th century, doctors saw chemists as unfair competitors for patients.
The main medicopolitical struggle was with the mutual-aid friendly societies, which funded basic medical care for a significant proportion of the population until well into the 20th century. The organised profession set out to overcome the power of the lay-controlled societies in imposing an unacceptable contract system on doctors, even if, historically, the guaranteed income was a sine qua non of practice in poorer areas.
The Medical Witnesses Qualifications Act left it to the public to choose between registered regulars (orthodox practitioners) and unregistered irregulars (unorthodox practitioners and others who had not completed their orthodox training). However, the unity of the regulars as expressed in the Act was not matched in practice, so colonial doctors were eager to establish external symbols of solidarity, as well as to defend themselves against the considerable competition from irregulars. In 1844, William Bland and colleagues formed the Medico-Chirurgical Association of Australia, the objectives of which included maintaining the dignity and privileges of the medical and surgical professions, and procuring legislation to outlaw unlicensed practice.8 Despite repeated attempts, the latter proved impossible to achieve in NSW, as in the other colonies (except, partially, in Tasmania, where unlicensed practice of surgery was banned11), because too many people including politicians saw regulars as no more effective than irregulars, and the hegemonic liberal ideology abhorred monopolies of any sort.
The Medical Society of Victoria, founded in 1855, was the only long-lived colonial association until the BMA created its first Australian branch (and third overseas branch) in Victoria in 1879. Branches in the other colonies soon followed. The BMA saw itself as having imperial responsibilities, and the creation of colonial branches augmented its status and influence in Britain.6,10 The BMA in Australia militantly pursued growth in membership and the destruction of the contract system of funding medical care that had been built by the lay, mutual-aid friendly societies, because it saw these societies as holding doctors in thrall.
The focus on morbid anatomy had encouraged surgical interventions, but wound infection and pain remained great problems. Joseph Lister's use of antiseptic carbolic acid spray during operations in the 1860s, and the introduction of asepsis procedures a decade later, much reduced infection rates. William Gilbee, a Melbourne Hospital surgeon, successfully applied Listerism in wound dressing soon after reading about it in The Lancet in 1867, although he probably did not understand the role played by microorganisms. By 1880, Melbourne Hospital surgeons were strongly inculcating Listerian principles in students and, by 1900, so safe had surgery become, the hospital reported a waiting list for operations for the first time.14 In the 1840s, American dentists Horace Wells and William Thomas Green Morton had experimented respectively with nitrous oxide and sulfuric ether for the control of pain. Ether was first used in Australia by a Sydney dentist and a Launceston surgeon at about the same time in 1847.17 After James Young Simpson used chloroform in Edinburgh in 1847, it became so commonly used it almost displaced ether at times as the main anaesthetic.18 By the 1880s, surgeons were operating on hitherto “untouchable” parts of the body — the joints, abdomen, head and vertebral column.
Medicine's claim to be scientific was nowhere more strongly based than in the achievements of the new science of bacteriology, established in the 1850s when Louis Pasteur showed fermentation resulted from the activity of microorganisms. Many common diseases arose, then, not from “miasmas” or chemical agents, but from pathogenic microorganisms. It was left to the great German bacteriologist Robert Koch to draw up a famous set of postulates by which to establish the pathogen responsible for an episode of infectious illness. In the decade from the late 1870s, bacteriologists identified the pathogens involved in many significant communicable diseases: gonorrhoea, typhoid, leprosy, malaria, tuberculosis, erysipelas, cholera, diphtheria, tetanus, pneumonia, epidemic meningitis, Malta fever (brucellosis) and soft chancre.14 But scientific understanding of communicable diseases was one thing; having the capacity to cure them, except through vis medicatrix naturae (the healing power of nature) was another. A notable achievement in this regard was the development of diphtheria antitoxin in the 1890s. However, with the antibiotic age a good way off, prevention was still the royal road to reducing the burden of disease and death.
At the University of Sydney, the faculty of medicine could award degrees from 1856, but did not provide instruction. There was a long delay in opening the Sydney medical school, partly due to lack of funds. Opposition from senior Sydney practitioners and John Smith MD (Aberdeen), the foundation professor of chemistry and experimental physics and reluctant dean of the faculty of medicine, was also a factor, along with a policy decision to give primacy to non-professional education.19 However, the university benefited from the delay in introducing teaching. First, it meant, from the outset, a very close relationship with its new teaching hospital, Prince Alfred (opened in 1882), that would not have been possible with the older Sydney Hospital and its established professional interests. Importantly, it permitted efficient arrangement of conjoint control of hospital staff appointments. The appointment of an Edinburgh graduate, Thomas Anderson Stuart, as foundation professor of anatomy and physiology not only ensured the Scottish (as opposed to English) tradition of wedding teaching and examining was in place from the start, but ensured a Sydney education was at the progressive edge, at least in the English-speaking world. Indeed, on arrival, Anderson Stuart reduced the antiquated emphasis on lectures and much increased practical instruction.25 During the next 7 or so years, his teaching was necessarily supplemented by that of local doctors (Box 2).
The University of Adelaide, founded in 1874, enrolled its first six medical students in 1885; the delay being due to lack of funds, as in Sydney.21 The foundation teachers of the 5-year Adelaide course are shown in Box 3. The bitter medicopolitical conflict between the local profession and the government of radical liberal C C Kingston began in 1896 over a senior nursing appointment at Adelaide Hospital. It rapidly became a struggle over whether the hospital board (supported by the honoraries) or the government (which, as the primary funder, believed it could intervene) should determine policy. When the hospital board effectively denied the medical school access to clinical teaching, arrangements were made with Sydney (from 1897) and Melbourne (from 1898) for senior Adelaide students to complete their studies at one or the other.6,21 Many students did not return to Adelaide, including Charles Bickerton Blackburn, who had a distinguished academic career at the University of Sydney, ultimately serving as Chancellor. The fall of the Kingston government facilitated negotiations between the university and the profession, and clinical teaching began again in 1901.6,21 This conflict with the government about who ultimately controlled public hospitals is only one of several fronts across the colonies on which the organised profession fought (especially after the coming of BMA branches late in the 19th century offered unprecedented unity and strength) for what William Bland and colleagues had termed, in the 1840s, the dignity and privileges of the profession. Other important battles included those with the chemists over their intrusion into medical care and with the friendly societies about doctors' remuneration and working conditions.
A much more robust struggle took place with the friendly societies and lodges, especially after the BMA became established across the colonies. The combative NSW branch led the charge against the contract practice system imposed by the “friendlies”, which was denounced as requiring too much work for too little remuneration, and turning the doctor into a common tradesman. Yet, the societies' capitation fees represented a guaranteed income, particularly for young doctors and those practising in poorer areas where fee-for-service income was inadequate.
Unlike in Britain, where the existence of a traditional professional hierarchy delayed the unification of the profession, the small populations and penal colony status of NSW and Tasmania meant that, in registration terms, a unified profession was inescapable from the outset. Only in the second half of the 19th century, when economic, social and demographic development had progressed enough, did private practice, the force behind professionalisation in Australia and comparable countries, become significant. Moreover, in the face of major scientific advances in medicine and the community's growing appreciation of the positive role of science in their lives, public scepticism about the regulars' claims to reliable knowledge and therapeutic effectiveness began to disappear. This external boost to status went along with the internal boost in corporate strength after the arrival of the militant BMA.
The medical schools were producing a small but growing number of graduates who, despite increasing specialisation, were intended to fit the locally appropriate role of the omnicompetent general practitioner. Despite the “tyranny of distance”, doctors quickly applied the latest European knowledge and techniques, as with antisepsis and anaesthesia. Further, a few local researchers were also producing knowledge of international significance: Joseph Bancroft on the mature parasite in filariasis (1876); John Davies Thomas on hydatid disease (1884); and John Ashburton Thompson on the rat flea as a vector in plague (1900).7 In education, and in this small way in research, a basis was laid in the latter half of the 19th century for Australia's subsequent participation as a consumer, and increasingly also as a producer, of knowledge and procedures in the international culture of medicine.
Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
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360 Research Report Provide a report, titled Global Secondary Alkane Sulfonates Market 2018 by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2023.
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Does your projector look somewhat similar to this? With a big lens on the front and the words "BOXLIGHT"? Well, then you're in luck! You have an interactive projector, which works similarly to a SMART Board.
In order for your projector to be interactive, you need a specific cord to be plugged into your computer. This cord is called a Super Booster, and on one side it has a USB plug and on the other, it has a place for an ethernet cord to go. It looks like this, though it could be many different shapes and colors. In addition, you should have your VGA cord with your computer adapter and your audio plugged in!
Finally, you should have a black bag of supplies that go with your projector. This includes the remote to turn it off and on, a wand, and a LightPen. (Imagine the pictured white LightPen is black and that's what yours looks like.
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Mr Frederick Vernon Hilton Reeves (F. Smith) was born at 21 Park Place in Brighton, Sussex, England1 on 2 July 1891.
He was the son of Frederick William Reeves (b. 1858) and Alice Maud Bull (b. 1867). His father was a carpenter and joiner and hailed from Bath whilst his mother was born in Southampton, the daughter of George Samuel Bull (b. 1844), a cab driver from Beaulieu, Hampshire, and Elizabeth Saunders (b. circa 1842), a native of Fordingbridge.
Frederick had one known sibling, his younger brother John (b. circa 1897).
Frederick's parents appeared on the 1891 census living at 21 Park Place, Brighton; although described as husband and wife they were not married until later that year.
He first appears on the 1901 census living at 27 Fanshawe Street, Southampton; his mother was by then a widow but what became of his father is not certain and the household was taking in lodgers to make ends meet. His mother appears to have remarried to a man named Smith but details about this are lacking2). From that union, however, Frederick gained two half-siblings: Ronald Bertie (b. 1903) and Winifred "Winnie" Laura Clara (b. 7 July 1905, later Mrs Norman William Vine).
Frederick, listed as F. Smith, and his two half-siblings appear on the 1911 census living at 33 Ordnance Road, Southampton, the home address of his grandparents George and Elizabeth Bull, then boarding house keepers. The whereabouts of his mother is not certain but he was described as an unmarried ship's steward.
Reeves was on board the Titanic for her delivery trip from Belfast to Southampton. When he signed-on again in Southampton (as F. Smith) on 4 April 1912, he gave his address as 33 Ordnance Road. His previous ship had been the Olympic and as an assistant pantry steward he received monthly wages of £3, 15s.
Frederick Reeves died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.
Hard on the heels of his own death, Frederick's grandfather died on 5 October 1912. His half-sister Winifred died in Bournemouth in 1987.
The 1911 census gives his birthplace as Southampton.
On the 1901 census one of their lodgers was a Southampton-born photographic film engraver named John Smith (b. circa 1879); was he Frederick's eventual step-father?
Body #240 might be that of F. Smith (Correspondence with Alan Ruffman, Canada).
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WARRINGTON (CNN) -- Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that it has charged six people with criminal offenses over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which 96 supporters of Liverpool football club lost their lives.
A former senior police officer, David Duckenfield, will face manslaughter charges over 95 of the 96 deaths.
The decision, which comes 28 years after the tragedy, follows last year's inquests which found that those who died were unlawfully killed.
The disaster took place at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on April 15 1989 during Liverpool's FA Cup semifinal game with Nottingham Forest.
In an attempt to relieve the bottleneck of Liverpool supporters attempting to enter the stadium before kickoff, police opened an exit gate and people rushed to get inside.
More than 3,000 fans were funneled into an area already packed with people with a safe capacity of just 1,600. Panic ensued and many fans were crushed to death.
The fatal crush, which led to the game abandoned after just six minutes, led to all-seater stadiums being introduced across England.
The defendants, except for Duckenfield, will appear at Warrington Magistrates' Court on August 9. A date for Duckenfield's court appearance will be set later.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said the day would be one of "mixed emotions" for the families of the victims who were informed of the decision this morning.
Barry Devonside, whose son Christopher, 18, was killed in the disaster, told reporters of the scene inside Parr Hall, Warrington, when families were informed of the decision to launch criminal proceedings against Duckenfield.
"Everybody applauded when it was announced that the most senior police officer on that particular day will have charges presented to him," Devonside told reporters.
David Duckenfield: The match commander for South Yorkshire Police on the day of the disaster has been charged with manslaughter over 95 of the 96 deaths.
"We will allege that David Duckenfield's failures to discharge his personal responsibility were extraordinarily bad and contributed substantially to the deaths of each of those 96 people who so tragically and unnecessarily lost their lives, Sue Hemming, the CPS Head of Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said in a statement.
"The offense clearly sets out the basis of those allegations. We are unable to charge the manslaughter of Anthony Bland, the 96th casualty, as he died almost four years later.
"The law as it applied then provided that no person could be guilty of homicide where the death occurred more than a year and a day later than the date when the injuries were caused."
Prosecutors explained that they are unable to charge Duckenfield over the death of Tony Bland, the 96th victim, who died four years after the disaster because of legal reasons. The law as it applied then provided that no person could be guilty of homicide where the death occurred more than a year and a day later than the date when the injuries were sustained.
Norman Bettison -- A former officer with South Yorkshire Police and subsequently Chief Constable of Merseyside and West Yorkshire Police, Bettison has been charged with four offenses of misconduct in public office relating to telling alleged lies about his involvement in the aftermath of Hillsborough and the culpability of fans.
Graham Henry Mackrell - Mackrell was Sheffield Wednesday Football Club's company secretary and safety officer at the time of the disaster and has been charged over health and safety offenses.
He has been charged with two offenses of contravening a term of condition of a safety certificate contrary to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and one offense of failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of other persons who may have been affected by his acts or omissions at work under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Peter Metcalf - Metcalf acted as solicitor for the South Yorkshire Police during the Taylor Inquiry and the first inquests.
He has been charged with doing acts with intent to pervert the course of public justice relating to material changes made to witness statements.
Former South Yorkshire police officers Donald Denton and Alan Foster, have both been charged for their role in perverting the course of justice along with Metcalf.
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Learn why Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is a growing trend in software testing, and how it an be used to accelerate complete test automation.
With VIP, high-performance bots perform the repetitive tasks that slow testers down, allowing them to focus on testing new and important functionality. Meanwhile, the testing they perform is optimised for speed and quality, using a Model-Based approach to generate test cases, data, and automated tests. The result is rigorous testing that fits within the confines of a short iteration, and gets better the more you do it.
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Stage 1:You get a bug in your drink and you pick it out.
Stage 2:You get a bug in your drink and carefully avoid drinking it.
Stage 3:You get a bug in your drink and you just drink through your teeth and hopefully stop the bug.
Stage 4:You don't get a bug in your drink and you are very disappointed.
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In the last decade, we have seen the gaming industry being rapidly transformed by the introduction of new technologies which allow for immersive experiences, such as AI, VR, and AR. However, one of the latest of these emerging technologies – blockchain – is set to redefine the future of gaming by turning what has been seen as a leisure activity into a potentially economic endeavour.
In this respect, blockchain looks set to disrupt the gaming industry, and enable a new way for players and developers to interact with gaming platforms. With nearly 70% of the American population playing video games, and with the gaming market forecasted to be worth more than $138 billion by the end of the year, how is blockchain set to transform the gaming industry?
Due to the risk of assets being duplicated, gaming companies often store in-game assets on centralised servers. However, this means that gamers don’t actually own their purchased virtual assets, and don’t have the capacity to buy, sell, or trade assets outside of the game. Currently, if a gamer wants to trade or sell virtual assets, they would have to do it through non-traditional means.
Blockchain allows full transparency and decentralised control of virtual assets, meaning players will have ownership of their virtual assets. They will be able to exchange these assets with other players, and for assets on other games, instantly. Gamers will also be able to use their virtual assets across different games, providing players with a more personalised video gaming experience.
Through the tokenisation of platforms, players will be able to earn tokens for playing, reviewing, or sharing games on social media. Players will also be incentivised to provide reviews and feedback to developers, leading to the improvement of games available. Blockchain will allow players’ activities to be tracked, and for them to be rewarded accurately and instantly.
As the blockchain is an immutable ledger which records all transactions and allows players to use their account across multiple games services, gamers’ interactions, player history, and trading of in-game items are always tracked and documented. With these records made publicly available, a player’s reputation is tied to the blockchain, therefore encouraging good behavior within the community. This builds and fosters a safer gaming environment, giving value to those with credible reputations, and encourages transparency within the gaming ecosystem.
In the past, virtual goods ownership and trading was never fully possible. For example, the rare or expensive item players worked hard or paid for was often copied by fraudsters and resold, making their item neither unique nor as valuable.
Blockchain prevents the trading of illegal virtual assets on the black market, as well as the hacking and stealing of keys, by creating an immutable ledger of that item and who it belongs to, making duplicating impossible. Afterall, the original purpose of blockchain was to irrefutably prove ownership of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain technology will allow players to purchase items or games faster, while ensuring their payments are secure. Developers are increasingly having a hard time selling their software outside of app stores, which result in large commission fees and loss of control over their own customers. Blockchain makes it possible to process nano-payments and for developers to get paid instantly, enabling developers to quickly reinvest money in their game launch marketing.
Meanwhile, gamers will have access to a range of new revenue opportunities, with proof-of-activity potentially earning gamers free swag.
Article by Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra, a blockchain-based, game publishing platform designed to put an end to the current PC game market status quo.
Ultra is building a first-class PC game publishing platform and marketplace that puts an end to the current distribution monopoly. Founded in 2017 by Nicolas Gilot and David Hanson, Ultra’s vision is to provide developers with the flexibility of a custom-built platform while bringing exciting innovations and financial incentives to players, making the development of a new breakthrough game distribution platform possible.
Nicolas Gilot is the Co-CEO of Ultra, a blockchain-based, game publishing platform designed to put an end to the current PC game market status quo. A serial entrepreneur and strategist, Nicolas led Xiaobawang as CSO, a game console project undertaken in partnership with AMD with a budget of over US$100m. He is responsible for the success of numerous businesses including game studio PixelBeam which was later acquired by Kingsoft (Xiaomi), and multiple game/app projects including Plants VS Zombies, Highnoon and The Economist. As founder and director of consulting agency Gamika, Nicolas has extensive knowledge in monetization strategy, product design, data analysis and project management.
Author: Nicolas GilotNicolas Gilot is the Co-CEO of Ultra, a blockchain-based, game publishing platform designed to put an end to the current PC game market status quo. A serial entrepreneur and strategist, Nicolas led Xiaobawang as CSO, a game console project undertaken in partnership with AMD with a budget of over US$100m. He is responsible for the success of numerous businesses including game studio PixelBeam which was later acquired by Kingsoft (Xiaomi), and multiple game/app projects including Plants VS Zombies, Highnoon and The Economist. As founder and director of consulting agency Gamika, Nicolas has extensive knowledge in monetization strategy, product design, data analysis and project management.
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Is there someone who can search for passengers leaving the U.K. through London or Liverpool ? I am trying to find my kinsman, William Staines. He was born in 1820 and left England by 1840. His first stop was New York. He was in Galveston Texas by Dec. 1840. Any help appreciated.
Any other clues that may help to pin William Staines down? Any idea of county/town/area of birth? Did anyone else emigrate with him? Any other relatives? What was his occupation? Was he wealthy or poor? Any unusual family names that have been passed down through the generations?
Is there someone who can search for passengers leaving the U.K. through London or Liverpool ? I am trying to find my kinsman, William Staines. He was born in 1820 and left England by 1840. His first stop was New York. He was in Galveston Texas by Dec. 1840.If you know where he lived before he emigrated, there is just one possibility this early. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Parishes were permitted to take out loans to cover the costs of those wishing to emigrate. These records exist at The National Archives (TNA) at Kew in document class MH12. The records consist of various bits of paper, including a list of those wishing to emigrate, ages, and intended place of emigration. On one found recently there was the name of the ship to be used as well as the sailing date - this addiitional detail is not common within my experience but would enable someone to find the port of embarkation, if not already known.
To stand a chance of locating records, you do need to know where someone lived as records are arranged by Poor Law Union and Parish.
His Confederate service lists the year of his birth as 1820.
If they survive, have you been able to locate his full service record? Was he entitled to a pension as a result of war service? A side-branch of my family emigrated and one of them fought in the civil war - albeit for t'other side - amongst his pension papers was a certificate of baptism from his parish in England.
Do you know all of William Staines' family historyafter he went to the US? Were there any first or middle names that occur frequently down the generations? Liverpool & London were probably the 2 main ports for emigration at that time, with people coming from all over the country. Liverpool was the main port for those emigrating from Wales, Ireland, Midlands & Northern England. London for the South-east, South & East of England.
Even if we found a William Staines, born 1820 in England, at the moment there is nothing to say that he is your man. If you haven't already done it, I suggest that you try & go sideways with the family in the US - see if you can locate any other family members, follow their trees forward in time, hope someone descended from them has information that will lead you to the right person. You never know, you might strike lucky & find someone descended from William who has original family records.
Just had a thought. Have you found an obituary for William? Sonetimes they can give vital clues.
Staines was killed in Louisiana during the War Between the States. His death was "by accident" and happened on July 22, 1864. I've pretty well exhausted all my sources here in Texas. As far as other family, it looks like he was traveling alone. The name Staines doesn't appear to be too common here in the states. Family stories claim he came to New York first and went to Galveston "for his health". I wonder about that. Galveston had regular epidemics of yellow fever and small pox during the 1840's to 1870's.
I have his service records and they're pretty vague. It indicates birth in England in 1820 and that's it. As far as trades go, he seems to have been unskilled. He was listed as a "drayman" in 1850. He COULD read and write and I have several examples of his signature. Is it possible that he didn't KNOW exactly when he was born ? Maybe he was elusive about his place of birth because of a criminal past ?
I've been able to track Staines fairly well once he's here. Most of what I found came from tax rolls, census and deed records. I have someone looking for church records of his marriage. I just recently found two images of Staines wife, Anna Maria Smith and their son, Marion. Maybe Marion was named after Staines's father ?
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Dark Matter is undifferentiated material which has no atomic bonds, this would make it of no particular substance. In other words, it is Nothing. And if you are willing to accept it, it is primordial, and God's store house for creating the universe from "Nothing."
First, I need to see and touch some dark matter.
Perhaps, but it has no atomic structure to define it. How else would a person who lived many years ago describe it?
Dark Matter is undifferentiated material which has no atomic bonds, this would make it of no particular substance. In other words, it is Nothing. And if you are willing to accept it, it is primordial, and God's store house for creating the universe from "Nothing."Scientists don't know what 'dark matter' is. And neither do you.
Scientists don't know what 'dark matter' is. And neither do you.
Dark Matter is accepted by the mainstream scientific community. The existence and properties of dark matter are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, on radiation, and on the large-scale structure of the universe. The presence of dark matter in the universe, including gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet Cluster, the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies and, more recently, the pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. According to cosmologists, dark matter is composed primarily of a not yet characterized type of subatomic particle.
Give us an example of how a person living more than 2000 years ago would describe it?
We now know that the world is suspended by gravity. Did people living thousands of years ago know there was a force called gravity?
Dark Matter is accepted by the mainstream scientific community. The existence and properties of dark matter are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, on radiation, and on the large-scale structure of the universe. The presence of dark matter in the universe, including gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet Cluster, the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies and, more recently, the pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. According to cosmologists, dark matter is composed primarily of a not yet characterized type of subatomic particle.Right, so we have no idea what it actually is. And in fact have only recently become aware of it existing at all. So it would be quite foolish to use it as proof of some philosophical proposition.
Right, so we have no idea what it actually is. And in fact have only recently become aware of it existing at all. So it would be quite foolish to use it as proof of some philosophical proposition.
We are able to see it with special equipment.
Philosophy is for Bozo's, and a term destined for the garbage can. How wise was Philo for believing in gods made of wood and stone?
It isn't nothing. It interacts gravitationally with the rest of the Universe, ergo it has mass, ergo it can't be "nothing". And we also don't know that it doesn't have atomic bonds. It isn't thought to bond with the matter that we're more familiar with, but we just don't know a lot about what it actually is.
did any of you guys actually do science?
"What do you want the data to look like?"
"How many inflection points can I use?"
we're able to see effects that we attribute to the construct we call "dark matter"
That is a map, not a photo, of dark matter. You can't photograph dark matter. It's in the name.
Do you have any idea about Creation ex nihilo? Does it bring any relationship with quantum mechanics?
Do you any idea about Creation ex nihilo? Does it bring any relationship with quantum mechanics?
The relationship is most likely subatomic.
I said it could be seen with special equipment.
It cannot be seen at all.
It's presence can be deduced by analysing the statistical pattern of apparent shapes of distant galaxies and computer modelling the structure of the dark matter until it produces distortion patterns similar to what is observed.
We can not see wind or gravity either, but we can feel the effects. We can see the effects of wind, gravity, and dark matter with special equipment.
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Have I gone off the deep end in writing about social mood and some of what has been going on in the world? Does any of this have any connection to the rest of my writings about personal and spiritual growth?
Around 2000, one of the largest waves of positive social mood in recorded history peaked. Since then we have entered a time of increasingly negative social mood. This negative social mood will be (and already has been) interrupted by shorter periods of temporarily more positive mood just as the positive social mood that began around the time of the American Revolution was interrupted by intervals of negative social mood. The American Civil War and depression and war of the 1930s and 1940s were such times, as was the strife and chaos of the 1970s.
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Adam John Hollioake (born 5 September 1971) is a professional athlete who is the only international cricketer to compete professionally as a Mixed Martial Artist. He has also competed as a professional boxer. However he is most well known as a cricketing all-rounder who played for Surrey and England. He captained Surrey from 1997 until 2003, winning three County Championships, and led the England cricket team in One Day Internationals. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2003.
Since retiring from cricket in 2004, Hollioake has spent his time involved in charitable and media work as well as developing a property development business. He moved to Perth, Western Australia and later to Queensland. His property company, the Hollioake Group, collapsed in 2010.
Hollioake was born in Melbourne in 1971 and grew up in the mining town of Ballarat, where his family had lived for five generations. His father, an engineer, had played cricket for local sides, but Hollioake showed a preference for Australian Rules Football while attending St Patrick's College, Ballarat. The family moved to England in 1983 where Hollioake attended St George's College in Weybridge.
Although born in Australia, both Adam and brother Ben learned their cricket at the Hong Kong Cricket Club Junior Gappers during the time their father John was working in Hong Kong before moving to UK. Hollioake was offered a contract by Surrey in 1989 and made his first class debut for the county in August 1993. He was awarded his county cap in 1995, during a season in which he scored 1099 runs and took 21 wickets. He was described as an all-rounder with "aggressive batting and inventive medium-pace allsorts" and began to share captaincy duties for Surrey with Alec Stewart in 1996. He captained Surrey from 1997 until 2003, and led them to victory in the County Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2002. He went on to claim 9 trophies in his time as Surrey captain making him one of the most successful 1st class captains of all time.
Hollioake made his England debut in two One Day International matches against Pakistan in August 1996. He led the England A team on their tour of Australia in 1996–97 and was man of the series in the home One Day International series against Australia in May 1997, scoring the winning runs in all three games. He made his test debut, playing alongside his brother Ben, against Australia in August 1997, scoring 45 runs in the first innings and taking two wickets.
Although his test career lasted only four matches in 1997 and at the beginning of 1998, Hollioake achieved greater success in One Day Internationals, playing in 35 matches from 1996 to 1999. He captained the side to victory in the 1997 Sharjah Cup, England's first tournament success for ten years. Injuries and a loss of form saw him lose the captaincy after 14 matches.
After 173 first classes matches for Surrey, Hollioake retired from cricket at the end of the 2004 season. He made an appearance in the 2005 Asian tsunami appeal charity match, taking a hat-trick, and made a brief return to Twenty20 cricket in 2007, playing in eight matches for Essex.
Following the death of his brother and Surrey and England teammate, Ben, in a car accident in 2002, Hollioake and his family established the Ben Hollioake Fund to raise funds for CHASE hospice care for children. In 2003 he undertook 'The Journey', walking from Edinburgh, then sailing the English channel from Brighton to Dieppe, riding from Dieppe to Gibraltar and finally rowing from Gibraltar to Tangiers. The journey took over 2 months and raised several hundred thousand pounds for the Chase Charity.
In 2004 Hollioake's charity broke the world record for the number of participants in a continuous 100 metre relay. Other fundraising projects Hollioake has been involved in include Cricket Challenge, which raises money for the Queensland-based charity Paradise Kids, where members of the public compete against stars and cricketing legends, and the Battle of the Stars charity golf day.
Hollioake made several appearances on the BBC programme A Question of Sport and Sky Sports Cricket AM, as well as appearing on programmes such as the 2004 Test the Nation quiz. He worked for Sky again in their coverage of the Ashes in 2010. In 2005 Hollioake took part in a revived Superstars programme on BBC television, finishing fourth in the competition behind skier Alain Baxter, Olympic athlete Du'aine Ladejo and rower Steve Williams. In 2007 Hollioake and Ladejo formed Quiet Storm Productions, which owned the television show Australia's Greatest Athlete.
Hollioake and other members of his family owned an Australia-based property company, the Hollioake Group, which collapsed with debts of around A$20 million and was liquidated in September 2010. Following a long-running legal case, during which Hollioake and his father were sued by businessman Martin Ryman, Hollioake was declared bankrupt in 2011.
In April 2012, he revealed that he would be starting a new career as a mixed martial artist in Queensland, Australia in the light heavyweight division. Having already fought once as a boxer – knocking his opponent out in the fourth round – Hollioake made his Mixed Martial Arts debut in the Days of Glory promotion on 5 May 2012. The fight was resulted in a majority draw (with one judge favouring Hollioake), with Hollioake undecided about whether he would continue his MMA career in the future.
On 1 September 2012, Hollioake defeated Warren Tresidder in the modified style of MMA which will eliminate the use of knee strikes, elbows strikes and kicks but allows limited ground fighting.
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I bought the Amazon Fire TV and reviewed it back in April. The Fire TV has a lot going for it – powerful hardware, quality build, and an easy-to-navigate interface. Amazon takes all of the great features of their Fire TV and strips it all down in order to produce them as cheaply as possible. Unfortunately, the quality suffers as does the experience.
The Fire TV Stick must still be plugged into a wall outlet using the provided AC adapter and an included USB-to-microUSB cable to provide power. It also comes with an HDMI extension in case the stick won’t fit in the space allotted the HDMI slot on your television.
The Fire TV and Fire TV Stick make any TV into a Smart TV – allowing you to stream the Amazon Prime video, photos, and music library, Netflix, Hulu Plus, and other services. Where the Fire TV blew its competition besides full HTPCs out of the water when it came to the hardware components, the Stick slumps into mediocrity. The game playing capability is diminished to “casual games” even though it has more RAM and processing power compared to the Google Chromecast and the Roku Streaming Stick. The Wi-Fi on the device has also complained about the connection quality where nothing else has, leading to buffering during playback or even dumping you back to the menu to navigate to your show again.
The benefits of the Fire TV Stick can be summarized with two points: no HDMI cable needed and its price of $39. For all other reasons, you should get the Fire TV for $69 more. The Fire TV Stick is most noticeably cheaper in the build of the remote. While the Fire TV remote is solid and comfortably curved, the Fire TV Stick remote lacks the voice support and feels like cheap plastic as it flexes in your hand. If you prefer, you can buy a full Fire TV remote for $30 to gain voice support. Alternatively, you may use your smartphone with the Fire TV Remote app for a keyboard and voice searching.
If the Fire TV Stick could draw enough power from the HDMI port, I could see it winning some points for portability. Instead, it aimed solely to become as cheap as possible. The hardware is lesser, the remote is cheap and forgettable, it has no Ethernet option, nor optical audio output. The price difference between the Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick comes to $60 or 7.5 months of subscribing to Netflix, so I understand it could be worth treating the price as an anchor. It’s just very unfortunate that the responsiveness of the interface and the network quality suffers in the new form factor for Amazon’s entertainment device.
I managed to pick up the Fire TV Stick on the day it was announced and Amazon had a discounted price for Prime members at $19. It was a hard to resist price point. All said and done, I would have not bought the Fire TV Stick and instead would have picked up the Fire TV when it was $69 on Cyber Monday. Given Prime shipping and the delay to receiving the Fire TV Stick, I actually would have received the Fire TV only the day after the Stick arrived.
If you have Amazon Prime and are interested in the content available for Prime Instant Streaming, you should check out the Fire TV for $99. If you want to save the money, you can pick up the more limited Fire TV Stick for $39 typically. Like the Fire TV, the Fire TV stick is still for those in the Amazon ecosystem but if you can afford it, you would appreciate the greater capabilities of the Fire TV.
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The text of the bill below is as of Feb 27, 2019 (Introduced).
To extend the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to include the setting of reference prices for aluminum premiums, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Aluminum Pricing Examination Act or the APEX Act .
The Commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the setting of reference prices for aluminum premiums.
The Commission shall consult with the Attorney General on any relevant information, allegations of anticompetitive conduct, or marketplace analysis in the setting or reporting of such a reference price.
The Commission shall afford the Attorney General an opportunity to review any regulation or guideline proposed by the Commission in carrying out this subparagraph to ensure that the regulation or guideline is consistent with the goals and purposes of the antitrust laws.
The Attorney General may cooperate with, and share relevant information with, the Commission, with respect to the setting of such a reference price, and shall review any such proposed regulation or guideline to ensure that the regulation or guideline is in accordance with the goals and purposes of the antitrust laws.
The Attorney General shall transmit to the Commission the views of the Attorney General on any such proposed regulation or guideline.
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I'm up long hours studying for my classes at Full Sail. Are there any apartments nearby with coffee bars?
College students know better than anyone that sometimes you just need a cup of coffee. Whether it be long hours studying, working on papers, or completing assignments, a cup of coffee is a great way to keep you working towards the finish line on whatever task you come across at Full Sail. Thankfully, the three apartment complexes below have coffee bars for their residents to enjoy. So you no longer have to fret early morning classes or late night study sessions again, because these apartments will give you the caffeine you need.
Promenade Crossing is my first pick for a Full Sail apartment complex with a coffee bar. Promenade Crossing Apartments would be a great place for Full Sail students to find the extra energy they need just a quick walk from their front door. Besides a coffee bar, Promenade Crossing offers Full Sail students many other great community amenities. A few highlights are: a dog walk, business center, computer lab, picnic area and community BBQ grills. Active students should check out the 24-hour fitness center and resort-style pool.
The Park Baldwin Palms has a coffee bar that can wake up even the most sleep-deprived Full Sail students. The Park Baldwin Palms is located on the shores of beautiful Lake Baldwin off North Semoran Boulevard in Orlando. The coffee bar is located in the club house, which also boasts many other great features like a computer lab, game room and movie theatre. If your coffee buzz has got you itching for some R and R, check out the 24-hour fitness center, swimming pool, volleyball court, tennis court and sand volleyball court.
My final pick for coffee lovers in the Full Sail area is Amber Lakes Apartments in Winter Park. Amber Lakes is located smack dab between the pretty Perch Lake and Lake Nan on North Goldenrod Road, making it a great place for nature's lovers. After grabbing your cup of Joe, watch the sunrise at the fishing docks, or head over to nearby Goldenrod Park. Amber Lakes is perfect for Full Sail students due to its proximity to the Full Sail campus, and because of its flexible floor plans ranging from one to three bedroom layouts. The three bedroom layout has a whopping 1,189 square feet of space. Amber Lakes also is pet friendly and welcomes large dog breeds.
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Are you looking for a way to spruce up your home without depleting your savings or retirement fund? Are you interested in changing the look of your home to a more elegant, modern, or vogue fashion? One idea that will update your home, practically overnight, is to update the lighting.
Changing the light fixtures or lamps in your home can provide you with a fresh, new look and it can also change the ambiance of a room completely. In addition to switching some of the fixtures and lamps, you can also add some new light fixtures to your home. Perhaps light up a corner of a room that has been too dark previously, or maybe add some picture lights over a favorite piece of art, or some sconces around the doors or the fireplace.
There are some modern techniques for lighting that can really add to the functionality of a room. For example, in the kitchen many homeowners are adding recessed lights in the ceiling, for more of a spotlight look over the kitchen island, stove, sink, or refrigerator. Track lighting is also very popular in the kitchen because it provides a lot of focused light so you can see well as you are preparing your meals. Under cabinet lighting is also quite nice in the kitchen. This type of lighting provides bright lights at close range so the counters are easily visible, and it also provides a nice, nightlight effect when used alone.
Another idea is to create a cozy, functional reading corner with a bright floor lamp by your favorite armchair. This would provide for a wonderful area to sit and focus on a newspaper or an interesting book. Some people find that decorating with string lights can really brighten up a room. The string lights can be placed on an indoor plant, across a mantle, or over the tops of furniture or windows.
In addition to indoor lighting, outdoor lighting can also be updated and can be very attractive and functional. There are many options available for lighting the outdoor areas of your home. Landscape lighting is very popular and beautiful, with lights that focus around trees and bushes. Walkway lighting is also nice because it provides lighting throughout the evening and gives the sidewalk or driveway visibility. Floodlights are another nice addition to outdoor areas. They provide a lot of light on dark nights.
There is such a wide range of things you can do to update lighting in and around your home. The options are endless and the price range is very broad. A good place to gather some ideas is at home supply stores, furniture stores, design warehouses, or by searching online.
Whichever choices you make about updating your home, good lighting fixtures can add value, functionality, and aesthetic beauty to any room. Once you have chosen some new lighting elements for your home, be sure to contact an experienced electrical contractor to install them for you. Working with electricity can be dangerous, not only to yourself, but to your home, if you are not trained to do so.
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It is no secret that Area 51 is perhaps the most secretive place in the world.
But revelations and pictures shared in the 2011 book 'Area 51: An Uncensored History' provides an inside look at one of the United States' greatest mysteries.
The book primarily focuses on the Roswell UFO incident of 1947 and disproving long held conspiracy theories that a flying disk crashed near Roswell, New Mexico.
Author Annie Jacobsen posits that the incident was actually linked to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in an attempt to cause disarray in the United States.
She specifically alleges that Sputnik lead inventor Sergei Korlev, Russia's atomic bomb lead developer Igor Kurchatov and mathmatician Mstislav Keldsh were tapped by Stalin to be a part of his secret UFO study team.
Jacobsen also suggests that children, up to the age of 12, were found inside the aircraft that eventually crashed.
Jacobsen spoke with more than 70 scientists, pilots and engineers who were able to provide insight into the peculiar test site.
Pictures also show the area before it became a government hot spot. The area now known as Area 51 is actually the dry lake remains of Groom Lake, Nevada.
Area 51 has long been lauded as one of the greatest American mysteries as enthusiast have worked tirelessly to find out more about extraterrestrials.
Bob Lazar, a government scientist and engineer, allegedly worked to reverse-engineer alien technology and claimed that he had seen many 'flying saucers' in the area in 1989.
He claimed the government was hiding Martian vehicles at the 'third dry lake bed from Area 51', which is believed to be close to the Papoose Lake range.
WHAT DOES BOB LAZAR CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN AT AREA S4?
Bob Lazar stepped forward on a local Las Vegas new program to tell the world about his experience at S4 and Area 51.
He was also highlighted in an article about a jet car he claimed to have worked with Nasa to build, which was made from a jet engine modified and placed on an existing car frame.
The article stated that Lazar was 'a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility'.
In November 1989, Lazar appeared in an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS to talk about his experience while employed at 'S4', which he claims atop-secret part of Area 51.
In his interview with Knapp, Lazar said he encountered several flying saucers.
He says he first thought the saucers were secret terrestrial aircraft whose test flights must have been responsible for many UFO reports.
On closer examination and from having been shown multiple briefing documents, Lazar came to the conclusion that the discs were of extraterrestrial origin.
During his filed testimony, Lazar explains how this impression first hit him after he boarded one craft being studied and examined its interior.
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TL;DR: Duolingo for programming: "Write" code via a drag-and-drop interface. The introductory course is free and the entire curriculum is $6.99. Available on the App Store 6/7/2015, just in time for WWDC.
TapCoding is an iOS application that teaches Swift programming.
The curriculum ranges in difficulty from total newbie up to intermediate. Including thousands of bite-sized tutorials, TapCoding easily matches the size of an entire programming book.
Users learn in a guided and intuitive way, yet still are allowed to create on their own. This method of learning resembles the actual process of coding much more closely than any other technique that has come before it.
TapCoding is a freemium app priced at $6.99 to unlock the full curriculum as released in version 1.0. It also includes a reward system that allows users to unlock the Introductory Course (first 9 lessons) for free, by maintaining a "learning streak" across multiple days.
My name is Adam Wolf. I'm an independent iOS developer living in San Francisco. My one-man software shop is responsible for another long-time educational app called TapTyping which teaches people how to wield their iOS touchscreen keyboards efficiently. Users routinely reach typing speeds over 60 words per minute.
As a long time Objective-C developer, I decided it was time to learn Swift. I surveyed the available Swift learning resources and worked my way through those that seemed the best. Among them were a few Swift tutorial apps, but none of them went deep enough or were engaging enough for my tastes. As a long time Duolingo user (for learning Spanish), I craved the interactivity and feedback that I knew was possible on the form factor of an iOS device.
So I did what any self-respecting (obsessive) educational app developer would do: as a means of learning to code in Swift, I created an application, written in Swift, that teaches you how to code in Swift. What could posibli go wrong?
Now all there is to do is spread the word.
TapCoding - coding trainer for Swift will be released Tuesday June 7th, 2016. Please contact me if you would like a TestFlight invite.
TapCoding's landing page is tapcoding.com.
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fresh shrimp at grocery store.
(CNN) — You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it and saute it, but one of America’s favorite seafoods — the humble shrimp — might not be what you think it is.
The study tested 143 shrimp products from 111 grocery stores and restaurants in cities around the Gulf of Mexico like New Orleans and Houston as well as Portland, Oregon; New York; and Washington.
Among the major findings, the most common species substitution was farmed whiteleg shrimp sold as “wild” or “Gulf” shrimp, and 40% of the shrimp samples were species not known to be sold in the United States (including one banded coral shrimp, which is typically an aquarium pet, in a bag of frozen salad shrimp).
Oceana also found a general lack of information on sourcing, with 30% of samples in grocery stores lacking labeling on a country of origin and 29% lacking labeling on whether the shrimp was farmed or wild.
Kimberly Warner, the report author and senior scientist at Oceana, said that not knowing where and how shrimp is caught or farmed makes it nearly impossible for consumers to make informed choices.
Last year, the same group found that one-third of fish sold at stores, markets and restaurants was not identified properly.
In June, President Obama created a task force to help promote sustainable seafood amid illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as well as to combat such seafood fraud.
“It is in the national interest of the United States to promote a framework that supports sustainable fishing practices and combats seafood fraud and the sale of IUU fishing products,” Obama wrote in the memorandum.
Warner says that although there isn’t a major health concern with the shrimp Oceana couldn’t identify, there are minor concerns that have to do with bad practices in aquaculture, particularly using chemicals banned in this country.
Warner says traceability and transparency are key.
Quick question…what types of drugs were found in the seafood?
I would rather be eating farm fresh then from the wild right now because with all the oil that leaked into the gulf and the nuclear reactor in Japan that was leaking radiation into the Pacific I don’t trust shrimp from the wild.
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How to get there The climb is sign-posted for Théus from both Remollon (676m) and La Plaine de Théus (644m), while Mont Colombis is mentioned also at the first turn-off from the D 900b. This is one of the steepest climbs in all of France with close to 10% on average for more than 11 km. At Théus the steepness starts (one could possible take a slightly steeper local road through the village also). Keep right at Le Poët and soon you will arrive at an area called Salle du Bal des Demoiselles Coiffées with earth pyramids (the only such place I can think of in France). Higher up you enter the woods and eventually you reach the antenna at the top of the mountain. The road continues 250m gently down from the highest point to a viewpoint area with great views over the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.
Other comments The climb is never terribly steep. It would gain full points on views if it had been still nicer along the climb as the top point is one of the best viewpoints you can find. Théus had no shop or bar, so bring enough water along. The gravel roads down north (like the one via La Croix de Prés and Gapian) are likely not that good, so I recommend going back down the same way.
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Saint Petersburg (or St. Petersburg) is in Pinellas County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 248,232, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Florida. The city is located on a peninsula in between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, connected to the mainland to the north. The city is connected with the city of Tampa, Florida to the east by causeways across Tampa Bay.
The city is a sea port, and a popular destination for tourism and retirement by people from parts of the United States with colder climate. With an average of some 360 days of sunshine each year, it is nicknamed "The Sunshine City".
Saint Petersburg has a branch of the state university, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, as well as St Petersburg College, Eckerd College, and Stetson University College of Law.
The city has a Museum of Fine Arts, a History Museum, and the Salvador Dali Museum, which houses has one of the two best collections of Dalí's work including a number of famous paintings.
The city was founded by John C. Williams, formerly of Detroit, Michigan, who purchased the land in 1876 and, with the help of Peter Demens, was instrumental in briging a railroad connection there in 1888. Saint Petersburg was incorporated on 29 February, 1892, when it had a population of only some 300 people.
It was named after the Saint Petersburg in Russia, the birthplace of Peter Demens.
Dredging of a deeper shipping channel from 1906-1908 opened St. Petersburgh to larger shipping. Further dredging improved the port facilities through the 1910s.
In 1914 airplane service across Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa and back was initiated, generally considered the first commercial airline.
Air service was discontinued with the opening of Gandy Bridge, the first across Tampa Bay, in 1924, allowing automobile traffic between the two cities.
In 1950 the city had a population of 96,738 people.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 344.7 km² (133.1 mi²). 154.4 km² (59.6 mi²) of it is land and 190.2 km² (73.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 55.19% water.
As of the census of 2000, there are 248,232 people, 109,663 households, and 61,630 families residing in the city. The population density is 1,607.3/km² (4,163.1/mi²). There are 124,618 housing units at an average density of 806.9 persons/km² (2,090.0 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 71.36% White, 22.36% African American, 0.31% Native American, 2.67% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.07% from other races, and 2.17% from two or more races. 4.23% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 109,663 households out of which 24.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.3% are married couples living together, 13.8% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 43.8% are non-families. 35.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.20 and the average family size is 2.88.
In the city the population is spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 91.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $34,597, and the median income for a family is $43,198. Males have a median income of $30,794 versus $25,860 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,107. 13.3% of the population and 9.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 19.1% are under the age of 18 and 10.8% are 65 or older.
St. Petersburg is home to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays major league baseball team.
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Since many of my friends and family know that I love traveling to Walt Disney World, I get a lot of questions from first time visitors. For first time guests, Walt Disney World vacation planning is overwhelming and I frequently get asked, "what do you recommend?" There are so many pieces of your magical vacation puzzle to put together, it's simply too much to sum up in a few sentences. With that in mind, I'm going to break down my best first time visitor advice in a few posts to help spread a little pixie dust to those of you planning your first vacation.
First things first, decide on your when to go and where to stay!
For most families, this process begins about a year prior to their big trip. However, don't fret if you're throwing together a last minute Disney trip. As I've shown, it can be done! Regardless of how far away your trip is, deciding when and where to stay is usually the first step. Walt Disney World has many great festivals and holiday celebrations throughout the year that add to the already fantastic attractions at the parks. If you're looking for the least crowded times to travel, avoid major holiday breaks and summer as times that children are usually off school tend to drive up attendance numbers in the parks and wait times on the rides.
When deciding where to stay, the first thing you need to know is that you have both "on property" on "off property" choices when staying in Orlando. For first time visitors (and even the experienced Disney traveler), I highly recommend staying on property. You get free transportation to and from Orlando International Airport, easy transportation to and from each theme park, extended park hours, advance FastPass+ reservations and so much more! There are also over two dozen resort hotels to choose from in various price categories so that there is something for every budget.
There are some other options outside of the traditional vacation package booked through Walt Disney World. There are several companies, such as David's Vacation Club Rentals, that will allow you to rent Disney Vacation Club points from members to stay at Deluxe Villa Resorts without the full price tag. You could also consider staying off property where you will find some cheaper prices, but without the extra perks of staying inside the "Disney bubble." Whichever option you choose, your family is well on it's way to planning a magical vacation!
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The 2019 European Parliament election in Italy will be held on 26 May 2019, electing members of the 9th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the European elections held across the European Union.
The party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic from its establishment in 1946 to 1994, thus it was also adopted to elect the Italian members of the European Parliament (MEPs) since 1979.
Two levels were introduced: a national level to divide the seats among parties and a constituency level to distribute them among candidates in open lists. Five constituencies were established, each including 2–5 regions and each electing a fixed number of MEPs. At national level, seats are divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. Seats are allocated to parties and then to their most voted candidates.
In the run-up to the 2009 European Parliament election, the Italian Parliament introduced a national threshold of 4%. An exception was granted for parties representing some linguistic minorities: such lists can be connected with one of the major parties, combining their votes, provided that those parties reach the 4% threshold and that candidates from minority parties obtain a sufficient number of votes, no less than 50,000.
In 2014 the governing Democratic Party (PD) of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won the election with 40.8% of the vote and 31 seats, followed by the Five Star Movement (M5S) with 21.2% and 17 seats, and Forza Italia (FI) with 16.8% and 13 seats. As a result, the PD was the second largest national party in the European Parliament by number of seats after the German CDU/CSU and the largest among the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). The PD's score was also the best result for an Italian party in a nationwide election since the 1958 general election, when the Christian Democracy (DC) won 42.4% of the vote.
However in December 2016, after less than three years from the 2014 electoral landslide, Renzi was forced to resign after the defeat in the constitutional referendum and his foreign affairs minister, Paolo Gentiloni, was appointed new head of government. Moreover the 2018 general election was characterized by a strong showing of "populist" parties. The centre-right coalition, led by Matteo Salvini's right-wing League, emerged with a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment M5S led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes; Renzi's centre-left came only third, with the worst electoral result of its history. However, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. After three months of negotiation, a government was finally formed on 1 June by the M5S and the League, with the M5S-linked independent Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister, and Di Maio and Salvini Deputy Prime Ministers.
In March 2019 Nicola Zingaretti was elected secretary of the PD. Subsequently, in April, he presented a special logo for the election, including a large reference to "We Are Europeans", a manifesto launched by Carlo Calenda, and the symbol of the Party of European Socialists (PES). Additionally, the PD is trying to forge an alliance with the Article One (MDP) and minor parties. March and April registered more developments on the centre-left side of the political spectrum: under the new leadership of Benedetto Della Vedova, More Europe formed a joint list with Italy in Common (IiC), the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), the Italian Republican Party (PRI), the Italian section of the European Democratic Party (EDP) and minor parties; Italian Left (SI), the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), minor parties and individual splinters from the disbanded Free and Equal (LeU) formed The Left (LS), a joint list inspired by the Party of the European Left (PEL); the Federation of the Greens (FdV), Possible (Pos) and Green Italy (GI) formed Green Europe (EV), under the banner of the European Green Party (EGP). On the centre-right side, FI welcomed in its lists candidates of the Union of the Centre (UdC) and several alike minor parties, while Brothers of Italy (FdI) formed a partnership with Direction Italy and minor groups.
This is a list of the main active parties which would likely participate in the election and/or are polled in most opinion surveys.
^ Running as "Democratic Party–We Are Europeans–PES" and including Article One and Demo.S. The list will also form an alliance with the French-speaking minority list ApE from Aosta Valley, composed of UV, UVP, ALPE, SA and EPAV. PD has 26 MEPs, MDP three.
^ Including UdC, IdeA, CP, MpA, NPSI, RC, EpI and individual members of NcI. The list will also form an alliance with SVP, German- and Ladin-speaking minority list from South Tyrol, for the occasion also including PATT from Trentino and SSk from Friuli-Venezia Giulia. FI has 11 MEPs, UdC one, SVP one.
^ Including (in the South) NcS and MNS.
^ Including DI, (in the North-East) AAC from South Tyrol and (in the Islands) DB from Sicily. FdI and DI have two MEPs each.
^ Including SI, PRC, AET, PdS and individual splinters from the disbanded LeU. SI has two MEPs, one sitting with S&D and one with GUE–NGL, PRC one, sitting with GUE–NGL.
^ Including FdV, Pos, GI and (in the North-East) Grüne. FdV and Pos have one MEP each, sitting with Greens/EFA and S&D, respectively.
^ Including IiC, PSI, PRI, the EDP's Italian section and (in the North-East) TK from South Tyrol.
In the following table the top candidates of each party/list in the five constituencies are listed.
Poll results are listed according to the date of publication of the survey. Detailed data are usually published in the official website of the Italian government. The publication of opinion polls during the last 15 days of the electoral campaign is forbidden by Italian law.
^ In the 2018 Italian general election LeU was a joint list, mainly comprising Article One and SI. Some polls have included MDP or SI or both, sometimes together, instead of LeU. Since April 2019 some polls started to track SI along with PRC and MDP separately. MDP finally chose to run with PD.
^ In the 2018 Italian general election PaP was a joint list, including PRC and PCI, which left the alliance a few months later. Some polls have included these two parties within PaP and/or CP. In March 2019 CP's leader Luigi de Magistris announced it would not participate in the election. In April PaP decided not to run in the election.
^ Until March 2019 the results refer to the proposed joint list formed by FdV, IiC (which finally decided to side with +E) and GI, since April to EV, joint list of FdV, P and GI.
^ "UPDATE 2-Renzi's triumph in EU vote gives mandate for Italian reform". Reuters. 26 May 2014 – via www.reuters.com.
^ @lex_sala. "Referendum costituzionale 2016 Il No al 60%, la riforma non passa Renzi: «Ho perso io, mi dimetto". Corriere.it. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
^ Sala, Alessandro (2018). "Elezioni 2018: M5S primo partito, nel centrodestra la Lega supera FI".
^ "Italy election to result in hung parliament | DW | 05.03.2018". DW.COM.
^ "Governo, Conte accetta l'incarico e presenta la lista: 18 ministri, 5 le donne. Tria all'Economia". 31 May 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
^ Angela Giuffrida (3 March 2019). "Nicola Zingaretti elected as leader of Italy's Democratic party". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
^ "Simbolo di unità. Nicola Zingaretti svela il logo Pd-SiamoEuropei". Huffington Post (in Italian). 30 March 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
^ "Pizzarotti «lascia» i Verdi e si schiera con +Europa: in arrivo la lista per Strasburgo". Il Sole 24 ORE.
^ "Europee, la delusione dei Verdi dopo l'addio di Pizzarotti: "Ci avevano cercato loro, potevano dircelo prima"". Repubblica.it. 27 March 2019.
^ Vytiska, Herbert (22 October 2018). "Südtirol: Erschütterung für alte Parteistrukturen". Retrieved 3 April 2019.
^ Berlusconi: "Non sarò capolista ovunque, Tajani al centro"
^ "Europee, parte oggi la corsa dei «veri amici di Tsipras»" (in Italian). Il Manifesto. 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^ "Elezioni europee 2019, chi sono i candidati di Europa Verde, tutti i nomi e le liste" (in Italian). Fanpage. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
^ Fabio Martini (15 April 2019). "Elezioni, Bonino e Pizzarotti accettano la candidatura: "Più Europa" schiera i leader" (in Italian). La Stampa. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
^ Svelato il simbolo di Forza Italia per le Europee: "Berlusconi per cambiare l'Europa"
^ Berlusconi mostra simbolo europee "Berlusconi per cambiare l'Europa"
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I don't like it when people litter the park. Nick picked his trash up when he saw the no littering sign.. Always we should watch Traffic symbols while driving. I dislike people who litter. He littered in the park.
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What is a security nut?
A security (tamperproof) nut is designed for applications where theft or vandalism is a concern. They are designed to be installed easily but they cannot be removed. Common types of security nuts are breakaway nuts that break off the driving portion once tightened and one way nuts that can be tightened but not loosened.
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Caught 3 juveniles at Chinese Garden, can anyone help ID them ?
The first one I caught was an accidental catch while netting shrimps then I realised there were a few more pieces nearby. Also caught and released 2 pygmy halfbeaks.
Probably juvenile Pterygoplichthys - the species recorded in Singapore are Pterygoplichthys pardalis, P. multiradiatus, P. joselimaianus, and P. disjunctivus.
Ohh I see, thanks a lot May I know which report/article can this info be found in?
Identification of sailfin catfishes (Teleostei: Loricariidae) in Southeastern Asia - confirms that Pterygoplichthys pardalis and P. disjunctivus are present in Singapore.
An Annotated Checklist of the Non-Native Freshwater Fish Species in the Reservoirs of Singapore - adds P. joselimaianus to the list.
P. multiradiatus is listed as being present in Singapore in the Global Invasive Species Database, but I cannot find any locally published references. It's possible that this is an error, but in any case, this species is recorded in other Asian countries, so it's entirely possible that it's also present as an introduced species in Singapore.
Do also note that this paper: Identification of Exotic Sailfin Catfish Species (Pterygoplichthys, Loricariidae) in Taiwan Based on Morphology and mtDNA Sequences, which mentions the possibility that non-native populations of P. pardalis and P. disjunctivus in Taiwan may be hybridising, which could also be the case in Singapore.
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University Park is a great place to stay I am looking for one girl to sublease my room for the summer. This apartment offers four bedroom and two bathrooms, split evenly on each side of the unit - with a kitchen and living area in the middle Some of my favorite aspects is that everything is furnished, there is a washer/dryer in the unit, and the area is very quiet and cozy We have the apartment cutely decorated with a kitchen full of supplies for cooking that you would be welcomed to use Not to mention, my roommates are absolutely wonderful and would welcome you in warmly. Additionally, the complex is located just across the river from downtown and campus, making commuting very easy. Finally, there is plenty of parking, a great pool, a volleyball court, and a hammock garden to make your stay even more enjoyable.
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I saw a flash of green above the horizon at sunset. Was it real? What caused it? Will I be able to see it again?
Congratulations! The green flash is real but it is rarely seen, since it requires special conditions to be observed. The green flash is usually a band or vertical ray of green light just above the setting or rising sun, and can be green, violet, or blue. To see it, you need a clear, flat horizon and a haze free sky. An ocean works well - so do deserts.
The green flash is caused by rays of sunlight refracting (bending) in the atmosphere. Because refraction depends on the wavelength (color) of the light, blue, violet and green light are refracted more than yellow, orange, and red light. So at sunset, when the light has the most atmosphere to be bent by, the sun is surrounded by "shadows" of different colors, with the blue/violet/green shadows farther out. The red, orange, and yellow shadows are absorbed by the atmosphere, and the blue and violet shadows are scattered by the atmosphere, so the strongest shadow left is usually the green one. This effect is only strong enough to see for a few seconds during sunrise and sunset, hence the "green flash."
To see the green flash again, you'll probably need to watch a lot of sunsets on clear days over the ocean. It really is mostly just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Briony is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, and uses orbital remote sensing of Mars and the Moon supported by laboratory and field work to investigate planetary surface processes. Her primary tool is spectroscopy, including both visible/near-infrared and mid-infrared. Briony earned her B.S. in Physics from Oregon State University in 2005 and her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Space Sciences from Cornell University in 2010. Her thesis advisor was Prof. Jim Bell (now at ASU). Her thesis was titled "Wind, water, and the sands of Mars", and focused on using spectral and morphologic characteristics of sediments in the northern lowlands of Mars to reveal past and ongoing interactions with liquid water. After her PhD, Briony became an Exploration Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, working primarily in the Mars Space Flight Facility with Phil Christensen. There she investigated the composition, spectral properties, and terrestrial field analogs of soils and sediments on Mars. The results of these studies will aid in constraining the habitability of ancient surface environments on Mars, and may have implications for our understanding of the early Earth.
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How do I enable non-paying employees to register for an event without other attendee types seeing what they are being charged?
There is no payment required on the event registration form for employees,and the school does not want other attendee types to be able to see what they are paying or not paying for their registration fee.
On 2/4/2015, there was a release the included the ability for non-paying registrants, such as employees to be able to register without having the other attendee types able to see what they are paying.
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What is the Amillennial position?
Nathan Jones: You know, Don, I and many other people grew up with Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth. I also read every one of the books in Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Left Behind series, and so generally I always thought that there was primarily just the Pre-Tribulation and Pre-Millennial viewpoint. But, the more I studied Bible prophecy the more I realized that this view is a minority case and that most people especially like the Catholics believe in an Amillennial position, and lots of Protestants do, too. Can you explain what the Amillennial position is?
Don McGee: Kind of in a nutshell, the early church was Pre-Millennial, and I use that term broadly because there were a lot of varieties of that especially 2,000 years ago. When I say "Pre-Millennial" I'm meaning that the return of Jesus is before the Millennium at the Second Coming of Jesus to this earth. Jesus will come and reign for a thousand years.
The Amillennial view came in with guys like Origin and Constantine and people like that. Those men came out of a background that said philosophically that anything of the body, meaning anything physical, was bad and that it was only the spirit that counted. It is Gnosticism basically.
Amillennialists when they got into Scripture spiritualized it by saying, "Jesus is not going to come back to a literal earth because a literal earth is physical, therefore it is inherently evil. Jesus cannot do this so what I have to do now since I am denying that is then I have to come up with an idea that I can believe." What they came up with was Amillennialism. The "a" there is often called the alpha-privative and it simply means that it negates the Millennium. In Greek if you put an "a" in front of a word it negates the word. So, there is no Millennium to them. That is what they did and that is where the term Amillennial comes from.
Nathan Jones: They do not then believe in a literal 1,000 year reign of Jesus on earth?
Don McGee: They do not believe in that. They believe at the Rapture, though in fact they don't even like to use the term Rapture, but they believe that when Jesus does return it could be even 10,000 years from now. As they say, Jesus does come back and takes the Church out, but they don't even refer to it as the Rapture. They call it the Resurrection. They believe that — Bingo! — 2 Peter 3:10 kicks in and the earth is destroyed and burned up and that's it.
Dr. Reagan: They take the position that the Millennium actually began at the cross?
Don McGee: Yes, and that we are in it right now, though I can't understand that. If Jesus is ruling and reigning over this world right now. He is doing an awfully bad job of it and I have some correction to offer.
Dr. Reagan: Yes, they argue the Millennium began at the cross. Early when Augustine began to argue this he argued that Jesus was going to reign for a 1,000 years and then He will come back. Well, in 1000 AD Jesus still hadn't come back, so then the spiritualizers had to spiritualize the first 1,000 years and they've been doing that ever since then.
Don McGee: The majority of Christendom (and I use that term very broadly) is Amillennial.
Dr. Reagan: That they argue we are in the Millennium right now is so hard to believe since the Bible says that during the reign of Christ the earth will be flooded with peace, righteousness and justice as the waters cover the sea (Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14). They also argue that Satan is bound now because it says when the Millennium begins he is going to be bound. Do you believe that Satan is bound now?
Don McGee: Peter says he's not. Peter says that he is roaring lion, and that was written after the resurrection (1 Pet. 5:8). And, Peter says that he is out to devour anyone that he can. So, no, Satan is not bound.
Dr. Reagan: John many years after the Resurrection said the whole world is under the power of the evil one (1 Jn. 5:19). Satan was bound by the cross in the sense that believers ever since then received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and now have greater power in combating Satan. But, it says in the Book of Revelation that Satan will be bound and that he will no longer be able to deceive the nations (Rev. 20:2-3). That is a special kind of binding.
Don McGee: He is not talking about Satan not deceiving just the Christians. He is not talking about Satan not deceiving just the Jews. He is talking about the whole world.
Dr. Reagan: Also, the Bible says that when the Millennium begins that Jesus Christ will reign on the throne of David. Is He on the throne of David right now?
Don McGee: He is not on the Throne of David right now for several reasons besides the obvious. Secondly, the throne of David never has been, is not, and never will be in Heaven. It is in Jerusalem. So, Jesus is at the right hand of His Father on His Father's throne. He is sitting on a chair, but He is not on a throne, if I can use that term.
Nathan Jones: Amillennialists will say that there is a spiritual kingdom, and I believe that is true. There is a spiritual kingdom where Jesus rules and reigns over the Church, but not a physical kingdom which is totally dedicated to the Millennial Kingdom time period.
Don McGee: Well, I don't see how they could come up with that either. One of the problems that Amillennials have is that they try to take the Kingdom of God and try to put it into the Church. If you go to Luke 13:28, Jesus Himself talks about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob being in the Kingdom of God. Now, were they in the Church? I mean, were they Pre-Pentecost or Post-Pentecost? They aren't in the Church as we know the body of Christ to be and yet they are in the kingdom.
Dr. Reagan: Let me play the Devil's advocate for a moment. I have actually had people write in several times and tell me this idea of Jesus reigning a thousand years is only mentioned in one place in the Bible in the book of Revelation and therefore it's not that all important and also it couldn't be true.
Don McGee: Do we have a test that if something in the Bible is mentioned three times it is no good, or if it is mentioned five times, but that it's like got to be mentioned ten times for us to finally believe it to be true?
Nathan Jones: Six times I found "a thousand years" as the description for the length of the time period, found in Revelation 20.
Dr. Reagan: Why isn't it just good enough if God just mentions something once? I have also had people write in and say, "Well, now, if you go over to 1 Peter you will find that it says that Jesus is going to come and the earth is going to burn up immediately afterwards, and so how can there be an earth for the Millennial reign?"
Don McGee: It is going to burn up, but that's going to be before the eternal state. You have to consider all the prophecies about a topic altogether. You don't take one prophecy out of context and stand on it and declare that this is all God has to say about that. Well, you do if you want to "prove" your own point.
Actually, the Millennium is needed because God is going to fulfill a lot of the promises that He's made to the nation of Israel, and He's going to fulfill the promises that He made to the entire world.
But, there is another aspect to this. If there is no Millennium, then Satan wins and God loses. In the Garden of Eden everything was perfect. God says this is the way that I want it. When sin entered there came following a curse, and we are experiencing the consequences of that even today. But, there will be a time coming when Jesus is going to take back from the clutches of Satan that which He created.
Sue? Doc? You guys got raptured?
I see you got "Left Behind" also!
About mid-day on May 21 here, after sundown in Jerusalem [since they are the real center of the world], it was technically the 22nd, so I called up my sons to find out if any of them had missed Camping's rapture too.
I usually have my monthly epiphany on the 2nd... Oh! That's today.
I wuz checking [in vain] the last several postings on this site for any new comments or news and wondering why there hadn't been any activity for a day when I suddenly noticed that little word "July" in the upper right sidebar, right above the little word "June" and then it dawned on me; you guys were all in the new month now!
This has been happening to me [sorry to admit it] for about the past 2yrs.
We've been off-line 4 about a week trying to recover files off my wife's HDD. We were down to 1 compuker [hers] and it was bogging down really weird frequently so she ran a virus scan & found a 'root-kit' Trojan with a key-logger. When she deleted it, it apparently had a 'farewell' hook that gave us an unrecoverable 'blue screen of death', so we've been having 'fun' rebuilding it.
would likely be off line for a bit.
Thanks guys. I do recall now that she was having PC issues. I have them all the time but my puter works fine.
in there that is all that interesting.
Tens of millions of our hard-earned tax dollars used for experimenting on Zulu women in South Africa.
oystersman: Bill Gates is funding this? It's yet another reason to dump that bloated crapware called Windows in favor of alternative operating systems like Linux Mint or Ubuntu. They're many times cheaper, anyway (it's free!). Looks like Microsoft's operating systems are not the only thing getting a blue screen of death.
Kem, Seem like all the email providers are wanting 'linked' accounts and seem to be consolidating info for the NWO.
I only give up paired alias accn'ts: A linked to B but not to CDEFG, C linked to D but not to ABEFG, etc.
Welcome 2da Nue Whirled Oder!
My puter is being nursed by my ‘godson’. It’s still a bit wobbly, so I am reluctant to be too adventurous as yet, but I am chancing this because of a very serious issue indeed.
Coming up - I hope?
CAUTION – to Post-Tribulationist AND Pre-Wrath brothers and sisters in Christ.
I have evidence to warn – very strongly – that Pre-wrath British author Neville ?, pen name ‘Dusty Peterson’, has devised a master plan to escape the tribulation by buying a house on the Island of Gozo, off Malta, and hiding out there with the chosen few, consisting of himself and anyone stupid enough to sign a cheque to him.
He told a single lady that in return for her parent’s assets, he will help her elderly parents to escape when the Tribulation hits. He has been pressuring a married couple to sell their home and business to help fund the ‘escape’; also an elderly man in Wales.
He has defrauded (mainly women) of their assets and inheritances to the tune of many, many thousands of £’s; not only from the U.K., but also other countries. (To date, two sums of £50,000 and £35,000 are known about and there are other unnamed people).
This has been going on for two, plus years now, and ‘Dusty Peterson’ has chosen to ignore requests for refunds and lie through his teeth with denials. His victims are being advised by Elders to go to the Serious Fraud Squad, for their own sakes as well as to stop him from ripping off any more who are fearful of going through the coming Tribulation.
As yet, the victims have not taken legal action against this ‘christian brother’, presumably because of the Scripture that says don’t take a believer to court? To make matters much worse, this villain is spiritualising Scriptures to frighten, convince and deceive folk into backing his ESCAPE campaign.
All we can do is warn as many as we can, and as Posties and Prats like to keep a wary eye on this Pretrib blog, the warning will be going to a far wider audience until it is made public when the law nabs him and the Media broadcasts the case. (More shame heaped onto the church).
In my personal contact with this idiot via Bob Mitchells Shofar Postie blog (his ‘good’ friend) he was a mealy mouthed bully fully adept at Scripture twisting and context violation via Covenant Theology’s Allegory and ‘Progressive Dispensationalism’. I can assure you I gave him several well aimed shots across his bows from The Canon.
Until recently, I had always felt guilty for being so strong in contending with him for the Truth. NOW I know that my discernment of this deceiving, cheating toerag was correct.
If the name ‘DUSTY PETERSON (Neville ?) is familiar, he wrote a critique with co author Elizabeth ? about ‘ALPHA’. Having the cheek to point the finger at the heresies of others, when he is just as bad.
Sue, does that mean Neville(?) intends to escape the purification of the tribulation?
PS I've been in touch with the church below re a pro Israel PDF file written by Dr Paul Wilkinson. He's the gent who wrote "For Zion's Sake" as part of his PhD.
They seem dispensational and biblical and have a catalogue of free literature. Might pay to look into it.
Hazel Grove Full Gospel Church, 68 London Road, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 4AF. Tel. 0161 682 1157. Email: grainforthefamine@hotmail.co.uk.
I am confident you refer to Dr Paul R. Wilkinson who is on the British Council for the very kosher PWMI The 'Prophetic Witness Movement'.
It is Pre-trib and Dispy. They print articles from 'Israel My Glory'.
They had links with D.L. Moody and FB Meyer.
Paul has a continuing article in this months Magazine "You Shall Be My Witnesses". He writes of Amzi Clarence Dixon (1854-1925)from Shelby in North Carolina. When he came to London he dined with Sir Robert Anderson of Scotland Yard who wrote the Christian Classic 'The Coming Prince'.
PWMI began in 1917 - and no, I wasn't at the opening!
Dr.Arnold Fruchtenbaum and Dr J. Dwight Pentecost are among the Vice Presidents. Although I don't know the Church, if it is backed by PWMI then it must be 'safe'.
Sounds like you have your finger firmly on the pulse, Sue.
Wolves in Post-Tribber clothing is becoming more common and I'm hearing more scams like these increasing. A young couple made an entire website trying to prove children won't be raptured and for a fee they'll take care of the Pre-Tribber's kids. It's a former "Christian" turned atheist's site. Saw another site that offered the same thing for pets. Another site run by a Jewish lawyer will help make sure your assets get delivered to whomever minus his fee. Sadly, people are sending money to these people.
My PC started crashing just after I had a warning of 313 suspicious activities on my identity. Still don't know what's been up with it. It still has a few odd moments?
I am appalled to hear there are other scams cashing in on the coming Tribulation.
What made my blood really boil is the false application of Scripture 'Neville' (Dusty Peterson) is using to put the fear of God into at least one ‘silly woman’. She thinks she will be as bad as him if she takes him to court! His arrogance is contemptible and underlines the absolute necessity for a Literal interpretation of Scripture. Allegory is a trap door into the nether world.
What a charlatan he is; and what makes them all believe Gozo will be exempt from the attentions of the a/c? The Revelation says the WHOLE world is to be infected, bar the Petra area of present day Jordan.
This reminds me of a date setting PRE-trib bloke who recommended that I ‘buy’ a new washing machine on credit as I wouldn’t have to pay for it – for the same reason. That was around five years ago; it makes me shudder to think if anyone took his advice as they would be in serious debt by now?
This has nothing to do with Faith in Christ; this is wilful abandon of His instructions to ‘occupy’ until He returns.
It all boils down to greed and fear based on ignorance of the Truth. Know THE Truth and THE Truth shall set you free.
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Henry Jaynes "Hank" Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning more than five decades.
Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics such as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for the movie On Golden Pond, his final film role.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank." In 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
In the late 1950s, when Jane Fonda asked her father how he prepared before going on stage, she was baffled by his answer, "I don't know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Andrea, I don't know."
Fonda continued stage acting throughout his last years, including several demanding roles in Broadway plays. He returned to Broadway in 1974 for the biographical drama, Clarence Darrow, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974 when he collapsed from exhaustion. After the appearance of a cardiac arrhythmia brought on by prostate cancer, he had a pacemaker installed following cancer surgery. Fonda returned to the play in 1975. After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.
Fonda appeared in a revival of The Time of Your Life that opened on March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, where Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Jane Alexander, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard X. Slattery, and Pepper Martin were among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.
In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman (E. G. Marshall) and General MacArthur (Fonda), produced by ABC. After an appearance on the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel.
Three years later, he appeared in ABC's Roots: The Next Generations, but the miniseries were overshadowed by its predecessor, Roots. Also in 1976, Fonda starred in the World War II blockbuster Midway.
The writer Al Aronowitz, while working on a profile of Jane Fonda for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s, asked Henry Fonda about method acting: "I can't articulate about the Method," he told me, "because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it...I don't know what the Method is, and I don't care what the Method is.
Everybody's got a method. Everybody can't articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method—and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do; it doesn't matter."
Aronowitz reported Jane saying, "My father can't articulate the way he works. He just can't do it. He's not even conscious of what he does, and it made him nervous for me to try to articulate what I was trying to do. And I sensed that immediately, so we did very little talking about it...he said, 'Shut up, I don't want to hear about it.' He didn't want me to tell him about it, you know. He wanted to make fun of it.
Fonda died at his Los Angeles home on August 12, 1982, from heart disease. Fonda's wife, Shirlee, his daughter Jane, and his son Peter were at his side when he died. He suffered from prostate cancer, but this did not directly cause his death and was noted only as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate.
Fonda requested that no funeral be held, and he was promptly cremated. President Ronald Reagan, a former actor himself, hailed Fonda as "a true professional dedicated to excellence in his craft. He graced the screen with a sincerity and accuracy which made him a legend.
Fonda is widely recognized as one of the Hollywood greats of the classic era. On the centenary of his birth, May 16, 2005, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) honored him with a marathon of his films. Also in May 2005, the United States Post Office released a 37-cent postage stamp with an artist's drawing of Fonda as part of their "Hollywood Legends" series. The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, originally known as the Carter DeHaven Music Box, was named for the actor in 1985 by the Nederlander Organization.
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The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of video rental stores. “In order to reverse the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Movies Galore’s ten video rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits. Last month our store in downtown Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 P.M. rather than 9:00 P.M. and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years ago. Therefore, in order to increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering great movies at low prices, we recommend implementing similar changes in our other nine Movies Galore stores.” Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation. The recommendation provided cannot lead to the similar result which were achieved in Marston before the analysis and feasibility of the solution in different stores. As it may be true that by reducing the operating hours may not have affect in downtown but it might have a major impact on sales in town or other store locations. Furthermore, it is also required to analysis the interest of customer at different stores. The main question which need a valid answer is whether the populace living near other stores are similar to the populace living near Marston. As it is said the store, Marston, is in downtime, the main high time for the store’s operation is before 6 pm but store in city may have high rush in the store between 6pm to 9pm as in cities most the customers are corporate people and buys after working hours. The nightlife of the store’s location may vary depending on the customers. The customer in Marston where able to adapt to the change in operating hours as time is not constrain for the people in Marston whereas in some other downtown stores people may not be able to go to store due to time constraint. If the answer to the question that the all stores have a rush time before 6 pm then reduction in operating expense may not be increase profit if the reason for the decline in profit is independent of the operating hours. Another question which need a justified answer is that whether the interest of the people in all stores are alike, if not then the elimination of all movies released more than five years ago can not only help in increase of profit but may lead to decline in the profit for the stores. The customer of the store where the recommendation has been executed are more interested in the movies which are latest but it might be a possibility that the interest of the customer at other store may be more incline towards old movies. Nonetheless, a particular area might have more sales owing to a specific movie genes which have been released before 5 years. If this can be verified from the records that the sale of movies released in last 5 years is greater than earlier, it may be the case that the main reason for the decline profit is not dependent on the stock at all. The recommendation has assumed that the reason for decline all 9 Movies Galore’s store is same as the one in Marston. Different stores can have different reason for the decline in profit. Operating hours and excessive store may not be a reason for decline in profit in other stores. There are many other factors needed to be considered. One integral factor is the quality of the product, may be the company to known for the great movies at cheap price but the quality of the movies is not satisfactory for the customer. Moreover, Quality is imperative then expense. Additionally, factor for decline in the profit is stock availability of a movies. Furthermore, location is an important factor. Nonetheless, the people are less interested in renting the movies than buying them. Moreover, the customers are more inclined towards the online rental where less equipment is required than cd or dvd of the movies. The recommendation can considered to be achieve the predicated result if all these questions are answered and it may be answered if we analyses the last records of sales in the stores individually and also feedback from the people in the area where store is located as well as of the customer will help to achieve the goal.
Argument Task: The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of video rental stores. “In order to reverse the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Movies Galore’s ten video rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits. Last month our store in downtown Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 P.M. rather than 9:00 P.M. and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years ago. Therefore, in order to increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering great movies at low prices, we recommend implementing similar changes in our other nine Movies Galore stores.” Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation. Essay: The argument claims that Movies Galore is being in loss and to regain profit, they must reduce operating cost by limiting store hours and remove 5 years old stock from the stores. Stated in this way the argument reveals examples of leap of faith, poor reasoning and ill-defined terminology. The conclusion of the argument relies on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. Hence, the argument is weak and has several flaws. First, the argument readily assumes that they are famous of offering movies at low prices and increasing rates doesn't look like viable solution. This statement is a stretch with no evidence supporting whether increasing rates would have caused any issues so far. And it does not provide idea of market analysis which would have made them stay with low rates. For example, if company offers good quality with low cost makes it obvious for them to gain from it. If they plan not to increase rates and check whether it generates money or not. Clearly, store won't get to know whether prices they offer is very low with respect to operating expenses which would have been damaging revenue since long time. The argument could have been much clearer if it explicitly stated that it was tested before which did not end well. Second, the argument claims that only way to make profit is by reducing operating store expenses with no information from the store where it is already applied whether it was profitable or not. This is again a very weak and unsupported claim as the argument does not demonstrate any correlation between operating cost decrease and profit from it. To illustrate, The store where they changed closing time to 6:00 PM instead of 9:00 could lose customers renting movies after 6:00 PM which is actually usual time when people think of renting movie for spending evening hours with their home theatre. While, Removing 5 year old stock also undermines argument as people always tend to watch movies which is high in recommendation and that could be more than 10 years old. In fact, it is not at all clear if there was profit with new methods rather planning to start same logic in other stores. If the argument had provided evidence that the store has gained then the argument would have been a lot more convincing. Finally, owner's plan could be invisible and based on his experience and instinct by decreasing availability of stock and daily schedule timing which could push fear of loss for customers and reign back on movie rental market. Still, was it owners deliberate plan? How would reducing operating cost marks profit? Do we have solid ground to make use of new plan? Without convincing answers to these questions, one is left with the impression that the claim is more of a wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence. In conclusion, the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons and is therefore unconvincing. It could be considerably strengthened if the author clearly mentioned all the relevant facts about new method stats and customers feedback and if there is deliberate plan which is not discussed. In order to assess the merits of a certain decision, it is essential to have full knowledge of all contributing factors. In this particular case profitable plan is based on mere weak assumption with no proof. Without this information, the argument remains unsubstantiated and open to debate.
Hi, Guys Please help me review this argument. Any feedback is more than welcome. Thanks The following appeared in a magazine article about planning for retirement. "Clearview should be a top choice for anyone seeking a place to retire, because it has spectacular natural beauty and a consistent climate. Another advantage is that housing costs in Clearview have fallen significantly during the past year, and taxes remain lower than those in neighboring towns. Moreover, Clearview's mayor promises many new programs to improve schools, streets, and public services. And best of all, retirees in Clearview can also expect excellent health care as they grow older, since the number of physicians in the area is far greater than the national average." Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. The article is trying to advertising Clearview as the best candidate for all retire people, but it’s vague and inconsistent argument causing its conclusion to be not persuasive. It first brings up one of the reason as considering for top choice to be its natural beauty and climate, but the premise is all people, who are seeking retirement, is prefer that. There will be cases that people enjoy changing climate to feel the heat of summer and snow of winter. Thus, if majority of the people consider change weather as their preference, this is not the place to be. Some comparison on house cost and taxes are also provided in the article, but without base number to quantify, the full picture is not provided. House cost can fall significantly but still high since initial price can be much higher. Also, in terms of tax, only mentioning nearly towns is also incomplete, since the whole area may have terrifying tax rate overall. Physicians are also mentioned in the article, but the premise it is assuming is larger number of physicians leads to higher health care quality. Without considering the qualification as well as the scope of each physician, the conclusion cannot be made. Overall the argument is trying to advertising Clearview but those assumptions as well as missing link render the conclusion disbelief.
Please be kind enough to give you valuable feedback on my attempt. Argument - 1 The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a company that builds shopping malls around the country. "The surface of a section of Route 101, paved just two years ago by Good Intentions Roadways, is now badly cracked with a number of dangerous potholes. In another part of the state, a section of Route 40, paved by Appian Roadways more than four years ago, is still in good condition. In a demonstration of their continuing commitment to quality, Appian Roadways recently purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery and hired a new quality-control manager. Therefore, I recommend hiring Appian Roadways to construct the access roads for all our new shopping malls. I predict that our Appian access roads will not have to be repaired for at least four years." Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation. ============================================================================================================ The argument presented by the vice president has a number of logical flaws. These flaws give birth to numerous questions that have to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation will have the predicted result or not. A major flaw in the vice president's reasoning that raises questions is the flawed comparison between Good Intentions Roadways and Appian Roadways. To begin, the first question that needs to be answered is whether the traffic on Route 101 is similar to Route 40 or not. If, for instance, Route 101 caters to heavy traffic whilst only light traffic is allowed on Route 40, the presence of potholes on Route 101 can be explained. Therefore, it is not necessary that the deterioration of Route 101 is because of poor quality. The superior quality of Appian's work can only be accepted if the routes cater to the same traffic. Even then other circumstances on the two routes may also explain the difference in their conditions. The fact that the two routes are present in different parts of the state begs the question: are the weather conditions similar or different on the two routes? If, for example, the region where Route 101 runs through experiences torrential rainfall whilst the area where Route 40 passes from has a mild climate, the differences in the road conditions can be attributed to weather as well. This means that it is not necessary that the condition of Route 40 is better because of higher quality work by Appian Roadways. The better road condition can be attributed to favourable weather conditions. Therefore, it is imperative that the above question is answered as it can render the basis of the recommendation illogical. In addition to the differences (or similarities) in weather conditions, it is also important to ask if there are any other alternative companies available than Good Intentions and Appian Roadways. The above argument assumes that there are only two companies available in the market. However, it is important to see if other companies can be approached or not and how Appian Roadways fares against them. It can be possible that Appian performs poorly in comparison to other competitors. Another interesting question that needs to be answered is about the credentials of the new quality control manager of Appian Roadways. The argument assumes that the new manager will perform better than the previous manager and therefore improve the quality of work. It could very well be the case that the new manager was hired on the basis of nepotism and not on the basis of performance. As a result, the quality of the work deliviered could deteriorate. Therefore, it weakens the preditiction that the roads will not have to be repaired for four years, thus, weakening the recommendation. The answers to the questions above would provide a better picture of the comparision between Appian Roadways and its competitiors. For the recommendation to be valid, it is important that Appian and its competitors deliver in similar conditions.
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Here are my two writing section samples. This is the first time I've tried a timed writing section. If you have a moment and would like to provide some feedback, I thank you in advance Claim: In any field—business, politics, education, government—those in power should step down after five years. Reason: The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based. Oftentimes, our society is lead to believe that change always implies something good. However, change that occurs too often, and without direction, may lead to disasterous results. I argue that those in power, whether it be in business, education, politics or government, should not have to step down after five years. First of all, leadership does not always need to be renewed in order for an institution to be successful. Although the renewal of leadership may lead to some systematic changes that result in an overall positive outcome for an institution, oftentimes there is no method to prove that these results will occur. However, there is one conclusion that usually can be agreed upon: with new leadership comes new rules, or at least a slightly different ones than with the previous leader. New rules do not automatically entail a successful paradigm. The rules of the new leadership might lead a company, university, or whole country into complete chaos. Although changing the leadership might give a fresh start to an organization, choosing a new leader is not always the most reliable way to create positive change within a system. Secondly, a leader that is in power for longer than five years isn’t always past his or her prime. The current person of power might actually be in the process of instigating change within a system and that change would be stunted or even completely destroyed due to the new leadership. Having a policy which forces the leadership to change every five years would mean that each leader, no matter the situation, would have to fit their plan for a system into a mere five years; this is absurd. Understandably, five years is too short for many leaders, especially those who prove to be competent at their job. However, there are some cases in which having the leadership change every five years might prove effective. In the United States, the president changes every four years; this allows for other political parties and, perhaps, minority positions, to have a chance at a position of power, rather than having one ruling party. The same goes for some businesses: in growing fields, such as IT or any other technology-related area, there is always a massive growth rate. Having a veteren within a technology-related field wouldn’t be as useful as in other more stable categories, such as at a University. However, even in these fast-growing field cases, having a limit of five years seems too short – if a person of power is doing well in their position, they should have the ability to continue their leadership. Taken from the example given above – even the president of the United States is allowed a second term. In conclusion, I have aruged that those in a position of power – whether is be in business, education, politics, or government – should not have a five-year cap on their leadership. A recent study of eighteen rhesus monkeys provides clues as to the effects of birth order on an individual's levels of stimulation. The study showed that in stimulating situations (such as an encounter with an unfamiliar monkey), firstborn infant monkeys produce up to twice as much of the hormone cortisol, which primes the body for increased activity levels, as do their younger siblings. Firstborn humans also produce relatively high levels of cortisol in stimulating situations (such as the return of a parent after an absence). The study also found that during pregnancy, first-time mother monkeys had higher levels of cortisol than did those who had had several offspring."" Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument. The argument that an experiment with eighteen rhesus monkeys provides clues as to the effects of birth order on an individual’s levels of stimulation is flawed for numerous reasons. First, the argument makes the assumption that rhesus monkeys and humans have almost identical physiologies. Also, the argument uses confusing language that could lead to equivocation of terms, as well as unreliable numbers. Finally, the argument assumes a causal relationship between cortisol and stimulation within the mother and the child, when we have little or no reason to believe this claim. The main problem with this experiment is the fact that humans and rhesus monkeys do not have identicial physiologies. Small physiological differences can take a huge toll on a body; cortisol, although present, might have a different effect on the human physiological system than on the monkeys. The argument mentions that there is a relationship between stimulating situations, which “primes the body for increased activity levels” but does not clarify if this also applies to the human body. If the argument were to include information on the effect of cortisol on the human body, the study would have a stronger argument but not quite solid since monkeys and humans are innately different. Another problem with the argument this study makes is about the vagueness of the language, as well as the statistics. The report of the study relies on the term “stimulating situations.” However, the study does not provide a through account of the meaning of the term. In such cases, if the definition were to be too broad (i.e. simulating situations could be seeing a new object, or watching the death of ones mother), then the results of the experiment would be much less significant. If the argument were to clarify narrow and precisify the unclear terms, then the thesis would be much better supported – perhaps a better comparison between the stimulation in the mother and child. As for the statistics, there is an issue with the number of participant monkeys – only 18! This small sample wouldn’t be representative of any results within scientific literature; furthermore, there were no statistics taken from humans. The argument would be stronger if the statistics were taken from a much larger sample group, as well as a human sample group. The last issue with this argument which I will address is related to the casual assumption between cortisol in mothers and children. Although the argument provides examples of when cortisol and stimulation are connected (i.e. an encounter with an unfamilar money; return of a parent) there isn’t a strong connection established between the levels of cortisol present within the mother and the effect on the infant, as the first-born. Perhaps the high levels of cortisol were not caused by the fact that the infant was first-born, but that the mother was experiencing a new situation for the first time. If the argument were to make clear that there are no other factors causing the change in cortisol, as well as some more experimental evidence which supports the relationship between cortisol present in the mother on the child, then the argument would be much stronger. In conclusion, the argument that an experiment with eighteen rhesus monkeys provides clues as to the effects of birth order on an individual’s levels of stimulation is flawed for numerous reasons, and should be investiaged further before making any strong claims.
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Prompt: In 2003, the city of London instituted a Congestion Zone Charge, a substantial fee levied on vehicles traveling into central London on Mondays through Fridays between 7 A.M. and 6 P.M. (Taxis, ambulances, buses, bicycles and alternative fuel vehicles, among others, are exempt from the charge.) This successful and ongoing program, which is already in effect in other large cities of the world and has been considered for both San Francisco and New York, should be instituted immediately in the ten most significantly congested and polluted cities in the United States. Results will include cleaner air, safer streets, happier citizens and a dramatic increase in revenue. Directions: Write an essay that frames the questions that require answers before both this argument and the prediction that accompanies it can be reasonably evaluated. Discuss how the answers to the questions are fundamental to a thoughtful evaluation of the argument and the prediction. Answer: The author of this essay explains that vehicles must pay a substantial fee in order to travel in central London on Mondays through Fridays between 7 A.M and 6 P.M. This fee is assumed to result in cleaner air, safer streets, happier citizens and a dramatic increase in revenue. If these are the goals of this fee, however, there are many questions that should be raised and evaluated in order to asses these assumptions.To begin, it's vital to ask how much pollutants and toxic emissions have been released into the atmosphere VIA standard vehicles. Assuming that taxis and ambulances, and other alternative fuel vehicles are exempt, to what extent are these vehicles releasing toxins into the atmosphere. Hence, will making owners, who drive standard vehicles, really reduce emissions and increase cleaner air? Or are emissions more likely to be emitted from the vehicles that are exempt from the fee? Also, if those who drive standard vehicles at the aforementioned times, wouldn't these people then flood the vehicles that are exempt from these fees? Therefore, these individuals will have to utilize alternative vehicles, ultimately making the desire for clean air futile? This essay also assumes that there will be a dramatic increase in revenue. However, the essay fails to account for those who are driving these standard vehicles. Who is truly benefiting from these fees? Finally, this essay assumes that this fee will result in safer streets. However, many people, without the use of standard vehicles, may have to walk longer distances in order to get to their destination. Specifically, young people who need to go to school while their parents are taking other alternative methods of transportation to make it to work. Is it still safer for these young people to walk to school alone rather than driving in congested areas? How many people have been car accidents before this fee? How can we truly assess whether or not the streets will be safer with this fee, if there is no comparative basis of analysis? Finally, the essay assumes that this fee will also make citizens happier. However, how will these people be happier if they have to reschedule their lives around these alternative modes of transportation? Also, why isn't there any specific evidence that this will increase happiness based off of the other cities who have already adopted this program? It is also important to understand that every city is different in terms of infrastructure. How do we know that this fee will work in central London? Where have fees, such as the one described above,been implemented?
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I've been working really hard to better my score in the other sections, but haven't hit the essay portion of the test as well as I would've like...Thanks in advance for taking a look at this. Everything you need is below. Here is an official scoring guide as well for ya: https://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/argument/scoring_guide Prompt: The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company. "According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any other year. And yet the percentage of positive reviews by movie reviewers about specific Super Screen movies actually increased during the past year. Clearly, the contents of these reviews are not reaching enough of our prospective viewers. Thus, the problem lies not with the quality of our movies but with the public's lack of awareness that movies of good quality are available. Super Screen should therefore allocate a greater share of its budget next year to reaching the public through advertising." Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation. My response: In the argument stating Super Screen should spend more money on advertising movies, the author makes several unwarrated assumptions. First of all, the author states that the marketing department reported increased positive reviews, but only on specific movies. It is unclear at this point what types of movies the survey reported satisfaction ratings on. For example, the survey could have just asked those who took the survey how they felt about the good movies that Super Screen produced, and left the bad movies out. It is possible that Super Screen produced bad movies that no one wanted to see, and this may be the reason for the lack of people attending the movies, but we are not told what these "specific Super Screen movies" are and, thus, can not assume that all the movies are "good" ones. To make this a fair report, the marketing department could attempt sharing with the audience proof that Super Screen movies that recieved a satisfaction rating were random. Donig so would ensure the audience that the satisfaction rating of those movies were fair. Also, provides faulty reasoning that these surveys reached the same pool as all the other mentioned years. Perhaps, these surveys were given ot a remote population that were unfamiliar with Super Screen movies. The author even neglects to share with the audience that the survey questions were even the same as last year. Therefore, the audience has no reason to believe that these surveys were not biased in some way. Another obvious fallacy in this argument is that the only thing that could bring people to watch Super Screen movies is the advertisement. Since the author does not tell us where these movies can be watched, we are left not knowing that maybe customer service, price, or even acessability could be a potetntial problem as well. All these problems could prevent people from watching their movies also. In sum, to make the author's argument more sound, the author would need to define what specific movies the reviewers reported on, and provide information about what methods the marketing department gained this report. Without more information, the reader of this argument has no way to conclude if spending more of the budget really is the best choice in this case.
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What do babies need to grow and develop into bouncing babies and healthy active toddlers? Looking after the nutritional needs of an infant until six months is fairly easy: feed them breast milk (ideally) or formula. But at around six months, a baby's nutritional needs exceed what he or she can get from milk feeds, which is why we begin complimentary feeding or solids. Breast milk or formula will still remain a considerable part of their nutritional requirements right through until at least 12 months.
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He was born in Gretna, Louisiana, as Vincent Francis Guzzo, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, and was the adopted son of Vincent and Anna Guzzo, who named him Vincent Francis Guzzo, Jr. He learned to sing and dance at an early age, and when at high school joined a group, the Syncopators, as singer and pianist. He was spotted by manager Joe Caronna, who took him to Johnny Vincent of Ace Records. Taking the stage name Frankie Ford, he made his first recordings for Ace in 1958. He toured locally in Louisiana, before recording a vocal overdub on the song "Sea Cruise", a song written and originally recorded by Huey "Piano" Smith with his group, the Clowns, and featuring overdubbed bells and ships' horns. As Smith already had a record in the charts, and was away touring, the record label decided to release Ford's version, and it rose to #14 on the US pop chart and #11 on the R&B chart, selling over one million copies, and gaining gold disc status.
Ford toured widely around the US, but his later records were less successful, with his versions of "Alimony" and "Time After Time" only reaching the lower reaches of the national charts. He also recorded a novelty record in praise of a local TV presenter, "Morgus the Magnificent", with musicians including Mac Rebennack and Jerry Byrne, but it failed to sell. Ace released an LP by Ford, Let's Take A Sea Cruise With Frankie Ford, before the singer moved to Imperial Records in late 1960. He recorded with producer Dave Bartholomew, and released a version of "You Talk Too Much", but Ford's recording missed out in competition with one by Joe Jones which was issued almost simultaneously. In 1961, his version of Boyd Bennett's 1955 hit "Seventeen" was Ford's last chart entry.
Ford was drafted in 1962, and performed for troops in Japan, Vietnam and Korea. He later recorded occasionally for small labels, but mainly performed in clubs in and around New Orleans. He appeared in the 1978 movie American Hot Wax, and toured in Britain and Europe, recording the album New Orleans Dynamo in London in 1984. He continued to record and perform through the 1990s. Ford co-owned the Briarmeade record label, which issued several singles and albums by him from the 1970s to the 2000s. On May 16, 2010, at the Louisiana Music Homecoming in Erwinville, Ford was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Ford died in Gretna at the age of 76 on September 28, 2015, following a long illness.
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How to properly winterize your Outdoor Kitchen.
Now that it's too cold for cookouts and outdoor entertaining, it's time to winterize your outdoor kitchen to keep it in good shape for next year. Outdoor kitchens don't require too much maintenance, but the maintenance they need is very important. If you neglect winterizing your outdoor kitchen, you risk facing broken water lines and appliance damage. Put that kitchen to rest for the winter so it can be ready to serve you in the spring.
1. Shut off water lines. Locate and shut off all the water lines connecting outdoor kitchens to indoor plumbing. Use the indoor shutoff so you don't have any water in the lines running outside.
2. Drain all water lines. As you're draining your water lines, don't forget water lines to the refrigerator, sinks, and ice makers. Neglecting this step could cost you in repairs to both the water lines and to your appliances.
3. Position drain valves for winter. It's important to leave your drain valves open all winter long to protect the lines from freezing water.
4. Clean out the refrigerator. Switch off the power to the refrigerator and unplug it. Remove all food items from the refrigerator and clean it completely with mild soap and water. Remove the front grill (the toe plate) and vacuum underneath it to remove loose dirt and debris. After you've cleaned underneath the refrigerator, put the front grill back on. Don't cover the refrigerator for the winter because moisture can accumulate under the cover and damage it.
5. Prepare the ice maker. Switch off the power to the ice maker. You should already have drained the water line and opened the drain valve. Remove any remaining ice from the ice maker and clean the ice bin.
6. Clean the sink. After draining the water line to the sink, fully open the hot and cold taps. Some people like to completely uninstall the faucet and store it indoors for the winter, but this is generally an unnecessary step. Thoroughly clean the sink according to the manufacturer's instructions and then cover it securely to keep winter debris from scratching the finish and entering the drain.
7. Take care of the grill. Give your grill a thorough cleaning. Start with a degreaser, and then follow the degreaser with stainless steel polish. Use a metal brush to clean areas that are hard to reach. Empty the grill's cleanout, and thoroughly clean the cooking grates. Season your cooking surfaces by wiping vegetable oil on both sides of the cooking grates. Put the grates back on the grill and heat the grill to about 500-degrees Fahrenheit, keeping the hood closed. Allow the grill to season the cooking grates for about 20 minutes. The cooking surfaces should be brown or black when they're sufficiently seasoned. Keep the hood vent closed. If you're not planning on using the grill at all during the winter, turn off the gas line.
8. Winterize your cabinets. Depending on what type of cabinets you have in your outdoor kitchen, your winterizing methods will be different. If you have stainless steel cabinets, coat them with a fresh layer of stainless steel polish. Any cabinets made from wood need to be oiled or sealed to protect them from winter's harsh temperature and moisture swings. This is also a good time to remove any food from your cabinets and transport it inside.
In order for outdoor kitchens to serve you well all summer, it's important to give them the end-of-season maintenance they deserve.
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There is a single plausible explanation that politicians and bankers alike have fallen back to, whenever challenged as to why the global investment banking system was left to its business, up to the point of it's near freefall collapse. Financial innovation is what banks cared most about, when explaining why there should be no control over derivatives - no effective oversight on off-balance sheet operation. In brief to have a free-for-all playground funded by cheap FED loans.
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Financial innovation is a broad term that is used to describe the generation of new and creative approaches to different financial circumstances. The term is sometimes used in relation to the creation of new types of securities. At other times, it has to do with new and interesting approaches to money management or investing. In any situation, financial innovation is all about offering an idea or financial instrument that is different from what has gone before, and has the potential to be extremely desirable in the long run.
Innovations can effect the financial sector as a whole, relate to changes in business structures, to the establishment of new types of financial intermediaries, or to changes in the legal and supervisory framework. Important examples include the use of the group mechanism to retail financial services, formalizing informal finance sysems, reducing the access barriers for women, or setting up a completely new service structure.
Financial Innovations LLC is an SEC registered investment advisor providing integrated wealth management and investment consulting solutions for select individuals, corporations, retirement plans and trusts.
Financial institutions the ability to create different titles from the state contingent payoffs, or customized to the desires of investors' for certain groups of investors or the influence of particular help to promote these potential benefits.
The purpose of this paper is to explain why some markets for financial products take off while others vanish as soon as they emerged. To this end, we model an infinite sequence of CAPM economies in which financial products can be used for insurance purposes. The involvement of agents in these financial products, however, is restricted. Consecutive stage economies are linked by a mapping ("transition function"), which determines the structure of the next period involving the participation of the previous period.
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Got it. Financial innovation is important to know to avoid any circumstances to happen that would lead to loss of investment.
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Financial sector of the economy has evolved to such levels that professionals have development the ways to keep the finance under control and these ways are permanently keep changing with every passing day.Pre-emotive measures are most preferred in the financial sector in order to avoid loss before it materialize.
Financial innovation can be of three types: institutional, product and process innovation.
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Labatt's was purchased in 1995 by the Belgian company Interbrew (now part of Brazilian-Belgian Anheuser-Busch In Bev, the world's largest brewing company) and Molson merged with US company Coors in 2005 to create Molson Coors, now the world's fifth largest brewing company.
With the purchase of Sleeman Breweries, the largest remaining Canadian brewer, in 2006 by the Japanese owned Sapporo Brewery, Canada’s beer production has been mainly under the control of foreign multinationals.
In other words: non-jock men and young women, who traditionally haven’t been courted by beer marketers." This makes it understandable that the major Canadian brewers have been acquiring small, local breweries.
It was only in the late twentieth century that there has been a revival in craft brewers and microbreweries.
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The confirmation that cotton seeds have begun to sprout aboard China's Chang'e 4 lunar lander marks the first time biological matter has been grown on the Moon's surface.
The Chang'e-4 probe, which landed on the "dark" or far side of the Moon on January 3, is housing an airtight container designed for growing plants and crops in shocking conditions. It has now achieved another first: a seed successfully germinating while on the Moon. The temperature on the lunar surface can climb up to 100 degrees Celsius (202 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day and drop to negative 100 degrees at night.
The director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Petrukovich, has explained the biological experiment that was carried out on board of Chang'e-4, where two containers were placed -one with potato seeds and the other with silk moth larvae.
The lunar mini biosphere was designed in a canister to test photosynthesis. All countries are welcome to participate in China's follow-up lunar exploration and deep space exploration projects, he said. "Learning about these plants' growth in a low gravity environment would allow us to lay foundation for our future establishment of (a) space base".
Because then when we went and saw Ready Player One with our kids and they played the Westworld trailer and it looked great. Fortunately for fans clamoring for footage, that will change in the near future.
The overarching implications of this successful experiment are huge. While the seed potatoes and rapeseed had also germinated in the sealed container, the cotton seeds were the first to sprout.
Will China be the first country to send humans to Mars?
The world's second-biggest economy is doubling down on its space program as the race with the U.S. to explore Mars and beyond heats up at a time both the powers are vying for economic, technological and military dominance. This significant event is the first time that a biological experiment was conducted by humankind on the moon.
China's space administration also released a 12-minute video of Chang'e 4's landing, using more than 4,700 images taken by an on-board camera.
The far side of the Moon, which humans know much less about than the side that faces the Earth, is often mistakenly called the "dark" side, though it is not actually deprived of light.
El título completo es John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum y fue revelado en la cuenta oficial de Twitter el martes 15 de enero. Este capítulo promete mucha más diversión, drama y seguramente los golpes y los disparos no quedarán escasos.
The tale follows Quasimodo , the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame, and his struggles with loneliness and isolation. However, it will not pull from the production that Schwartz and Menken collaborated on for the stage in Europe.
Lo anterior provocó que ella se enojara y buscara gasolina la cual lanzó sobre el masculino y luego le prendió fuego . Un vecino fue testigo del hecho y de inmediato llamó a las autoridades, así como a los servicios médicos.
On Christmas Day, he didn't join the rest of the royals at the Christmas day service, instead spending the day privately. Prince Philip was involved in a auto accident near the Royal Family's Sandringham Estate on Thursday (Jan. 17).
Trump himself was not supposed to travel to Davos this time, "respectfully " canceling his trip last week citing the shutdown. The government shutdown has lasted 27 days as the president and congressional leaders are at a standstill.
Kloos, 24, has skated in only one game with Minnesota, but he has 30 points in 34 games with Iowa of the AHL. He was selected by Nashville in the second round (37th overall) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.
También incluyeron un video donde aparece Francisco Javier González junto al director de Chivas , José Luis Higuera dando la noticia.
La oportunidad de alcanzar la grandeza dentro del ring . "Siempre he creído que le puedo ganar al Canelo ". No ha perdido desde entonces y tomó el cinturón de la FIB al derrotar a Sergiy Derevyanchenkoto.
El jueves, el Barcelona cerrará los octavos de final cuando reciba al Levante con la misión de remontar el 1-2 del primer cotejo.
Thursday's Big Bash League match between Brisbane Heat and Sydney Thunder was abandoned after a power failure at the Gabba. The lights are fine, in terms of the boundary, it's particularly the middle, we've said we will bowl only spin.
Entonces, comparó las situaciones de los animales según su conocimiento. Y son chicos que no tienen autos, ni bicicletas, ni zapatillas.
Those who preorder on PS4 and Xbox One will get access to a prelaunch beta sometime in March, our sister site GameSpot noted . The news came via The Nerd Mag and some sort of official email leak on the subreddit for Mortal Kombat .
But the players heard there was rain in the forecast, so made a decision to stay put, because Margaret Court Arena has a roof and Court 3 does not.
Precisó que en la terminal de la plataforma de Dos Bocas, Tabasco , se vende la mayor parte de lo que se produce. Aseguró que eran ladrones, pero no lograron afectar el ducto Tuxpan-Azcapotzalco.
Vale recordar que, además de Schwartzman , sigue con vida en el torneo Leonardo Mayer (jugará con Fabio Fognini). Nunca me tocó jugar con él, así que estará bueno para saber en qué nivel estoy", valoró Schwartzman .
The voting will close on January 21 and the substitutes, chosen by the coaches, will be announced ten days later. That said, the fan vote only accounts for 50% of the final vote to determine the 10 All-Star starters.
Back then some leaked pics show Yung Miami and Cardi sporting zebra and tiger print body suits while twerking on a boat. City Girls and Cardi B take over Miami for a " Twerk " fest in their booty-filled music video.
Naydev jumped from the ledge and waved his arms and legs as he fell around 100 feet down toward the water below. In the video, Naydev's friends have gathered around as he climbs up the railing of the balcony.
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Prince Charles, also attended two official engagements in Scotland on Wednesday night.
Levante claim that Barcelona's teenage defender Chumi Brandariz, who played in the first leg, was ineligible to take part in the match because he was suspended .
Entonces, esa sería la razón principal por la que el país organizador del Mundial de 2022, se opone a la ampliación de países participantes.
Ahora los jugadores volverán a ponerse en la piel de uno de estos agentes para viajar hasta una ciudad de Washington D.C. destrozada y en pleno colapso.
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The man was taken to a hospital, where he underwent surgery. He will be hospitalized for some time yet.
Like the victim, the police have no idea what happened to this man. They call on witnesses to come forward.
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Black pepper, also known as the “king of spices,” is very popular. You would be hard-pressed to find a dish that does not benefit from a few dashes of the spice that imparts a subtle heat and smokiness to dishes. Often paired with salt, it cuts through the richness of thick, cream-based sauces such as béchamel and alfredo, and enhances the acidity of tomato-based dishes. It also kicks up the spiciness a notch in curries and chutneys, and transforms a humble slab of steak into a meal fit for royalty. It can be used whole, cracked, or finely ground, depending on the desired effect. Apart from its use in savory recipes, black pepper can also be used to enhance desserts, such as chai cupcakes, Icelandic pepper cookies, and sugar-and-spice cookies, to name a few.
Black pepper comes from the fruit of a pepper plant from the Piperaceae family and is native in Kerala, a southern state of India. Three to four years after being planted, the black pepper plant bears clustered, small, and white flowers. After a while, these flowers develop into small berries called peppercorns. The peppercorn is grounded into a fine powder called black pepper. Peppercorn and black pepper are widely available year-round, as it is not a seasonal plant. It was one of the most valuable and highly-traded spices in earlier times.
Aside from being widely used for culinary purposes, black pepper is also used as medicine. This is because it is a rich source of minerals such as manganese, copper, magnesium, calcium, iron, potassium, and phosphorous. It is also rich in vitamins such as vitamins C, K, and B6, as well as riboflavin. It has a moderate amount of protein and carbohydrates and has a high content of dietary fiber. Meals that have black pepper are not just flavorful, they are usually healthy too.
Regular consumption of healthy foods that use black pepper may aid in weight loss and the treatment of asthma. It can also clear nasal congestion and treat sinusitis. On a broader scale, it helps reduce the risk of cancer, heart diseases, and liver ailments.
1. It helps give you better skin.
Pepper is one of the most effective known cures for vitiligo, a skin disease that causes areas of the skin to lose its normal pigmentation and turn white over time. The piperine content of pepper stimulates the skin to produce melanocytes pigment, which prevents the skin from turning white in splotchy areas. While there are numerous treatment options for vitiligo, most of them are harsh and chemical-based, which in the long run can pose serious health concerns. Topical treatment of piperine, along with ultraviolet therapy, is a gentler and more effective way to treat vitiligo.
Black pepper also helps limit your exposure to the sun’s harsh ultraviolet rays, which then reduces the chances of getting skin cancer.
2. It has natural antibacterial and antioxidant properties.
Black pepper is a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent or repair cell damage caused by free radicals – harmful byproducts of cell metabolism that attack the healthy cells and cause their DNA to mutate into cancer cells. Black pepper and other antioxidants help neutralize these free radicals, thus protecting your system from numerous conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and liver problems, among others. Antioxidants are also known to help reverse and prevent premature aging symptoms such as wrinkles, age spots and sun spots, and memory loss.
Aside from being a powerful antioxidant, black pepper also has natural antibacterial properties that help fight infections and insect bites. A diet that is rich in black pepper helps keep the arteries clear, scraping the walls free of excess cholesterol. It acts like fiber in that it helps fight atherosclerosis, which causes heart attack and stroke.
3. Black pepper aids in digestion and weight loss.
When you consume pepper, your stomach secretes hydrochloric acid in the stomach, which facilitates digestion. Digestion is extremely important to prevent common stomach problems such as colic, constipation, and diarrhea. It also prevents the formation of intestinal gas and promotes sweating and urination – two processes that are vital in helping the body detoxify. Sweating rids the pores of foreign bodies and toxins, and removes excess water that contributes to bloating. Pepper helps you excrete uric acid, excess water, and fat when you urinate, therefore keeping your urinary tract healthy and free of infection.
When your body can digest food properly and efficiently, your body can function better, and you are at a much lower risk of getting gastrointestinal conditions. Furthermore, it aids in weight loss, as it prevents the buildup of harmful toxins inside the body.
Consuming foods that are rich in pepper also helps you shed weight naturally, as it assists in the breakdown of fat cells. Black pepper is also known to be rich in fiber, which aids in ridding the body of fat and excess weight.
4. It helps you absorb nutrients better.
When black pepper is added to food, it maximizes the overall effect of the other nutritious ingredients, which makes the substances readily accessed and absorbed by the body. It helps transport the nutrients present in the herbs, protein, and vegetables consumed to other parts of the body faster and more efficiently.
5. It strengthens your memory.
One of the key components of black pepper is piperine, which has been proven to reduce memory impairment and cognitive malfunction. Adding pepper to the diet of patients with Alzheimer’s and those who have dementia and other age-related or free radical-related cognitive breakdowns can help prevent memory loss. This doesn’t just apply to individuals suffering from these conditions – consuming a diet that is high in black pepper can help you remember things easier.
Black pepper, the king of spice, does not just make your food taste better – it also helps your body turn into a healthy, well-oiled machine that is able to withstand everyday stress. Never take your pepper shaker for granted again!
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Are low doses of radiation in the environment PROTECTING you from cancer?
High doses of radiation are known to cause cancer. However, there is increasing evidence that low doses of radiation can prevent or delay cancer. There is also a large amount of evidence demonstrating that low doses of radiation can protect from damage induced by high doses of radiation. We have been studying the biological effects of extremely low doses of radiation, doses which are orders of magnitude lower than most other studies in the literature, and which are more closely relevant to population and occupational exposure. Data from our studies will be presented and discussed in light of the importance of understanding biological effects of low dose radiation and also the difficulties associated with conventional assays for low dose radiation studies.
Understanding the short and long-term biological effects of low dose radiation has important social and economic implications for understanding which doses of radiation are actually harmful, and also for the potential of harnessing low dose radiation induced protection for cancer prevention.
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A guy rings his boss and says "I can't come to work today The boss asks why and the guy says "it's my eyes." "What's wrong with your eyes?" asks the boss.
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In the last few years, for many people and their leaders, globalisation has become a scourge to be purged in favour of greater protectionism and unilateralism. This represents a sharp departure from the recent past, when globalisation was widely regarded as a positive force. What changed, and why?
Key components of globalisation include greater cross-border mobility of goods, labour, and capital, each of which promises significant overall benefits for economies. Free trade enables countries to capitalise on their comparative advantages, boosting all participants' economic performance and prospects. Migration can inject diversity and dynamism into, say, an aging society, while helping to reduce poverty in source countries, such as through remittances. And foreign direct investment (FDI) can create employment, spur research and development, generate tax revenues, and enhance competition.
The problem is that these benefits are not necessarily broadly shared. For example, migration can put wage pressure on lower-skill workers in destination countries. By enabling companies to move operations to lower-wage markets, the elimination of trade barriers can have a similar effect. Even cross-border investment has its downsides, as domestic players may struggle to compete with foreigners.
Such factors have contributed to rising inequality in many countries. In the United States, for example, lower-skill workers in the Rust Belt—the manufacturing region stretching from Michigan to eastern Pennsylvania—have faced decades of stagnant wages, while high-skill workers in finance and technology—Wall Street and Silicon Valley—have enjoyed soaring compensation. While economic openness boosts economies as a whole, there is an obvious need to ensure that the benefits are more equitably distributed or, at least, that some groups are not inordinately hurt by it.
Many economists argue that the key to success on this front is to adopt redistributive policies, typically via the tax system. But such policies are very difficult, if not impossible, politically. That lesson has been learned by many a progressive politician, including US Senator Bernie Sanders, who tried and failed to secure the Democratic nomination for the 2016 US presidential election on a platform that focused on addressing people's frustrations with the increasingly unequal status quo, largely through redistribution.
More politically effective, but economically and socially damaging, is the approach of populists like US President Donald Trump, who offer simplistic explanations that play on voters' fears and frustrations (for example, by blaming immigrants or countries with trade surpluses) while pretending that there are easy fixes (say, erecting walls and import barriers).
Trump blamed the struggles of Rust Belt workers on international competition. But that is only part of the story: technological displacement has played a larger role, though this has often been ignored, not least because it is harder to demonise. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has pursued extreme and morally unconscionable anti-immigration policies, such as the recently reversed policy of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border with Mexico.
Similarly, in many European countries, the backlash against globalisation has translated into virulent opposition to migration, not to mention increased resistance to European integration. Voters in Austria, Hungary, and Italy have elected politicians who campaigned explicitly against immigration. In the United Kingdom, the 2016 Brexit referendum partly reflected a rejection of the free movement of people within the European Union.
By encouraging unilateralism, and to some extent even authoritarianism, the backlash against globalisation threatens not only to prevent countries from reaping the economic benefits of openness, but also to undermine the structures of international cooperation that have supported nearly three-quarters of a century of relative peace since World War II.
Reversing this trend will require, of course, the unequivocal rejection of policies that flout democratic values and repudiation of the leaders who advocate and implement them. But it will also demand efforts to address globalisation's real negative effects—beginning with an excessively unequal income distribution. Here, measures like a carbon price or a “Tobin tax” on international financial transactions could help. In my country, Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration may need to consider direct wage hikes.
Today's globalised world is far from perfect. But protectionist and isolationist policies will only make things worse, especially if they are used as an excuse to deny basic human rights to immigrants, among others. Balanced policies aimed at reaping the benefits of openness—and ensuring that those benefits are broadly shared—may not be the most politically expedient option today; but they would do economies and societies a lot of good tomorrow.
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A team of Japanese astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo University, and Kyoto University in Japan obtained infrared and high-resolution images of galaxies from 11 billion years ago using the adaptive optics (AO) system and the infrared camera and spectrograph (IRCS) on the Subaru Telescope. Thanks to the removal of atmospheric blur by the AO system, high spatial resolution imaging was achieved in the near-infrared and the profiles of the distant galaxies were revealed (Fig. 1). The images of the distant galaxies show almost all of the galaxies have a light profile similar to the disk galaxies in the local universe.
In the local universe around our Milky Way galaxy, there are primarily two types of galaxies: elliptical and disk. Elliptical galaxies have stars that cluster in shapes ranging from nearly spherical to highly elongated, and disk galaxies have stars that make a spiral structure on a flattened disk shape (sometimes called "spiral galaxies", see Note 1). When, why, and how these galaxies in the local universe establish their current shapes are some of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. In order to answer these questions, it is important to observe galaxies as far away as possible, going back in time tracing their cosmic history examining their shapes and forms to determine their evolutionary profile.
Thus far, research with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has lead studies into the profiles of distant galaxies. HST observations have revealed that galaxies seen in the local universe are similar to the galaxies observed 8 billion years ago, and the elliptical and disk type galaxies prevail in both eras. The important next step in this study of distant galaxies is to examine shapes of galaxies even further away at an earlier time in the universe. Subaru found a galaxy at 12.9 billion years ago, which is the farthest object found so far, using the wide field imaging camera. However, the difficulty with looking ever deeper into space is that more distant galaxies have smaller apparent size and smaller actual size, making their profiles difficult to distinguish. In response to these hurdles, astronomers used the sophisticated instruments and state-of-the-art technology of the Subaru Telescope to explore into galactic realms billions of light years away.
In 2004, a team of Japanese astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo University, and Kyoto University in Japan used the adaptive optics (AO) system and the infrared camera and spectrograph (IRCS) instrument on the Subaru Telescope to obtain infrared and high-resolution images of galaxies further than previously observed. Over a 12-month period, astronomers looked at 44 very faint objects within 13 fields of view. Their research was based on knowledge that galaxies consist of stars with various masses, sizes, and ages, and stars whose masses are similar to the Sun dominate the total masses of stars inside galaxies. The shapes of galaxies observed in the visible spectrum reflect their distribution of stars, and, therefore, astronomers think the shapes represent the "framework" of the galaxies (see Note 2). Consequently, studying the profiles of the galaxies in near-infrared light was necessary in order to reveal this "framework" due to the "red shift" effect of the expanding universe (see Note 3).
This galactic study obtained high spatial resolution near-infrared images of galaxies from 11 billion years ago. As a result, the profiles and "frameworks" of these very distant galaxies were revealed for the first time (Fig. 1). The results show the light distributions of the very distant galaxies have similar light profiles to the flatter disk galaxies in the local universe. Only one galaxy shows the light profile barely similar to the concentrated elliptical galaxies (Fig. 2). Considering the two types of galaxies seen in the local universe already exist in the universe 8 billion years ago, the initial findings showed that concentrated elliptical galaxies formed from the collision and merging of extended disk galaxies between 11 billion and 8 billion years ago. The profiles of the galaxies further away infer that the evolution of the galaxies is drastic between 11 and 8 billion years ago than the present and 8 billion years ago (Fig. 3).
Currently the AO observation is limited only for targets close to a local bright star. For the future, galaxies away from bright stars will be observed using the recently upgraded AO system with artificial laser guide star at the Subaru Telescope. It is expected that additional observations of large numbers of distant galaxies will further reveal their history and morphology, establishing their shapes and profiles seen in the local universe around our Milky Way.
Elliptical galaxies have shapes ranging from nearly spherical to highly elongated, and disk galaxies have a flattened disk shape. Disk galaxies are sometimes called spiral galaxies. They have different light distributions: elliptical galaxies have concentrated light distributions which appear smooth and featureless, while disk galaxies have extended light distributions consisting of a flattened disk with stars forming a spiral structure.
Note 2: Visible light has a wavelength around 0.6 micron and can be detected with human eyes. Infrared and ultra violet light cannot be detected with human eyes. Infrared light have wavelength longer than 1.0micron, and ultra-violet light have wavelength shorter than 0.3micron. The shapes of galaxies in visible light reflect the distribution of stars which dominate the total mass of galaxies. On the other hand, the ultra violet light of galaxies, which is dominated by heavier stars with shorter life time than the Sun, reflects only the area where currently stars are born inside the galaxies.
Note 3: The universe is thought to be expanding uniformly. As a result, more distant galaxies move away faster. If we observe a galaxy from Earth, the galaxy moving away faster will be observed in longer wavelength. We call this effect "redshift". Due to this redshift effect, the visible light from distant galaxies in the early universe is "shifted" to a longer wavelength and observed in the infrared. Consequently, ultra-violet light from a distant galaxy will shift and be observed in the visible wavelength.
Figure1: Profiles and "frameworks" of galaxies from 11 billion years ago revealed by AO and IRCS at the Subaru Telescope. The high spatial resolution images are taken at the near-infrared light with wavelength of 2.0 micron. The white bar at the bottom right indicates the scale of 1 arcsec, which corresponds to 25,000 light years scale in the distant universe.
Figure 2: These two figures show Indicator of Light Distributions of Galaxies as the vertical axis and an Indicator of the Size of the Galaxies as the horizontal axis. The left figure shows the light distributions of the galaxies at 11 billion years ago. The figure on the right side shows simulation of how the galaxies at 5 billion years ago look like if we "bring" them back to 11 billion years ago, based on the images obtained with HST.
Figure 3: This figure summarizes the observed evolution of the shapes of galaxies in the cosmic history. The disk galaxies observed at 11 billion years ago evolve into elliptical galaxies until 8 billion years ago through collision and merging of the galaxies. In the universe 8 billion years ago, there are elliptical- and disk-type galaxies, and it is thought that the evolution of the galaxies is much more milder between the present and 8 billion years ago than between 11 billion and 8 billion years ago.
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The overall text of the bill does little to affect its chances of being enacted. The bill's primary sponsor is from the state/territory: TN. The bill's primary sponsor is a Republican. The bill is assigned to the House Agriculture committee. There are 3 related bills in Congress. The bill's primary subject is Public lands and natural resources.
This bill designates specified federal lands in Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee as wilderness and as additions to existing components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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Našli jsme další záznamy k osobě Doris Margaret Jones.
Doris Margaret Jones je pohřben(a) na hřbitově Saint Tudor Church v místě zobrazeném na níže uvedené mapě. Tyto informace o GPS jsou k dispozici POUZE na stránkách BillionGraves. Naše technologie vám pomůže najít umístění hrobu a také další členy rodiny, pohřbené poblíž.
Doris Margaret Jones was 5 years old when The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. It was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster.
Doris Margaret Jones was 21 years old when Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy". Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Doris Margaret Jones was 23 years old when Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,197,000,000 in 2017) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline.
Doris Margaret Jones was 34 years old when World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
Doris Margaret Jones was 50 years old when Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, aided by captured German missile technology and personnel from the Aggregat program. The technological superiority required for such dominance was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, uncrewed space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.
Doris Margaret Jones was 56 years old when The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania"; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Doris Margaret Jones was 66 years old when Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The majority of Americans believe the war was unjustified. The war would last roughly 19 years and would also form the Laotian Civil War as well as the Cambodian Civil War, which also saw all three countries become communist states in 1975.
Doris Margaret Jones was 74 years old when The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. In addition to the prototype whose completion was cancelled, five complete Shuttle systems were built and used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST); conducted science experiments in orbit; and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station. The Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds.
Doris Margaret Jones was 87 years old when The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government. An estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed during the 100-day period from 7 April to mid-July 1994, constituting as many as 70% of the Tutsi population. Additionally, 30% of the Pygmy Batwa were killed. The genocide and widespread slaughter of Rwandans ended when the Tutsi-backed and heavily armed Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led by Paul Kagame took control of the country. An estimated 2,000,000 Rwandans, mostly Hutus, were displaced and became refugees.
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With the start of the new year, how does one ensure a year full of highs and sticky sweet success?
The answer is rice cakes.
Unlike Western rice cakes, Asian rice cakes (mochi in Japan, tteok in Korea, and nian gao in China) are made with glutinous rice flour and have a soft, chewy, sticky texture. In China, the name nian gao (nin gou in Cantonese) takes this feature to a whole new level, with a literal double meaning of either sticky cake or year high. Because of this, nian gao is a traditional celebratory food eaten during Lunar New Year, suggesting a year of high success.
The beauty of nian gao is that it is eaten in a variety of different ways depending on geographical regions in China. In Shanghai, it is stir-fried with pork, mushrooms, and vegetables in a savoury dish. In southern China and Hong Kong, it is steamed with brown sugar and then pan-fried in an egg coating, resulting in a delicious dessert or breakfast food with a crispy outside to contrast the familiar soft inside. In northern China, it is steamed plain or with red or green beans, and eaten as a not-too-sweet dessert or comfort food. Nian gao is so versatile that you can prepare it to suit your tastes, whether it be sweet or savoury, tangy or spicy; and use it to complete your meal as a side, main, or dessert.
You can make nian gao yourself by using glutinous rice flour found in Asian supermarkets. Mix the flour with coconut milk to create a batter and then cook in a steamer for around 3 hours until the top is firm. You can add various fillings and mix-ins if serving it in large pieces, or make it plain and then cut into thin slices to create a pasta-like starch for stir-fry dishes or soups.
Baked nian gao, perfect for frying with egg or serving as-is.
However, especially during the Lunar New Year season, pre-made nian gao can be readily found in Asian supermarkets. It may come in several variations, so be sure to choose the type best suited for your desired preparation method.
Even though nian gao is celebrated as being the go-to food for Lunar New Year, its uniquely satisfying texture and versatility in the kitchen gives it high potential as a staple all year-round.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) his Egyptian counterpart and (b) the Egyptian ambassador on the recent crackdown on reporters, the media and bloggers; and if he will make a statement.
Officials continue to raise concerns about restrictions on freedom of expression with the Egyptian authorities both in London and in Cairo. Egypt is a human rights priority country for the UK and the UK wants to see more political progress and better protection of human rights for all Egyptians, as set out in Egypt's Constitution. Our Ambassador to Cairo raised our concerns about human rights and restrictions on media freedom with the Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights on 21 February. We also voiced our concerns in our recent statement at the UN Human Rights Council on 12 March.
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The Battle of Short Hills was fought June 26, 1777, during the American Revolution (1775-1783).
Having been expelled from Boston in March 1776, General Sir William Howe descended on New York City that summer. Defeating General George Washington's forces at Long Island in late August, he then landed on Manhattan where he suffered a setback at Harlem Heights in September. Recovering, Howe succeeded in driving American forces from the area after winning victories at White Plains and Fort Washington. Retreating across New Jersey, Washington's beaten army crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania before halting to regroup. Recovering late in the year, the Americans struck back on December 26 with a triumph at Trenton before achieving a second victory a short time later at Princeton.
With winter setting in, Washington moved his army to Morristown, NJ and entered winter quarters. Howe did the same and the British established themselves around New Brunswick. As the winter months progressed, Howe commenced planning for a campaign against the American capital at Philadelphia while American and British troops routinely skirmished in the territory between the encampments. In late March, Washington ordered Major General Benjamin Lincoln to take 500 men south to Bound Brook with the goal of collecting intelligence and protecting farmers in the area. On April 13, Lincoln was attacked by Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis and forced to retreat. In an effort to better assess British intentions, Washington moved his army to a new encampment at Middlebrook.
A strong position, the encampment was situated on the south slopes of the first ridge of the Watchung Mountains. From the heights, the Washington could observe British movements on the plains below which stretched back to Staten Island. Unwilling to assault the Americans while they held the high ground, Howe sought to lure them down to the plains below. On June 14, he marched his army Somerset Courthouse (Millstone) on the Millstone River. Only eight miles from Middlebrook he hoped to entice Washington to attack. As the Americans showed no inclination to strike, Howe withdrew after five days and moved back to New Brunswick. Once there, he elected to evacuate the town and shifted his command to Perth Amboy.
Believing the British to be abandoning New Jersey in preparation for moving against Philadelphia by sea, Washington ordered Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling to march towards Perth Amboy with 2,500 men while the rest of the army descended the heights to a new position near Samptown (South Plainfield) and Quibbletown (Piscataway). Washington hoped that Stirling could harass the British rear while also covering the army's left flank. Advancing, Stirling's command assumed a line in the vicinity of Short Hills and Ash Swamp (Plainfield and Scotch Plains). Alerted to these movements by an American deserter, Howe reversed his march late on June 25. Moving quickly with around 11,000 men, he sought to crush Stirling and prevent Washington from regaining a position in the mountains.
For the attack, Howe directed two columns, one led by Cornwallis and the other by Major General John Vaughan, to move through Woodbridge and Bonhampton respectively. Cornwallis' right wing was detected around 6:00 AM on June 26 and clashed with a detachment of 150 riflemen from Colonel Daniel Morgan's Provisional Rifle Corps. Fighting ensued near Strawberry Hill where Captain Patrick Ferguson's men, armed with new breech-loading rifles, were able to force the Americans to withdraw up Oak Tree Road. Alerted to the threat, Stirling ordered reinforcements led by Brigadier General Thomas Conway forward. Hearing the firing from these first encounters, Washington ordered the bulk of the army to move back to Middlebrook while relying on Stirling's men to slow the British advance.
Around 8:30 AM, Conway's men engaged the enemy near the intersection of Oak Tree and Plainfield Roads. Though offering tenacious resistance that included hand-to-hand fighting, Conway's troops were driven back. As the Americans retreated approximately a mile toward the Short Hills, Cornwallis pushed on and united with Vaughan and Howe at Oak Tree Junction. To the north, Stirling formed a defensive line near Ash Swamp. Backed by artillery, his 1,798 men resisted the British advance for around two hours allowing Washington time to regain the heights. Fighting swirled around the American guns and three were lost to the enemy. As the battle raged, Stirling's horse was killed and his men were driven back to a line in Ash Swamp.
Badly outnumbered, the Americans were ultimately forced to retreat towards Westfield. Moving quickly to avoid the British pursuit, Stirling led his troops back to the mountains to rejoin Washington. Halting in Westfield due to the heat of the day, the British looted the town and desecrated the Westfield Meeting House. Later in the day Howe reconnoitered Washington's lines and concluded that they were too strong to attack. After spending the night in Westfield, he moved his army back to Perth Amboy and by June 30 had fully departed New Jersey.
In the fighting at the Battle of Short Hills the British admitted to 5 killed and 30 wounded. American losses are not known with accuracy but British claims numbered 100 killed and wounded as well as around 70 captured. Though a tactical defeat for the Continental Army, the Battle of Short Hills proved a successful delaying action in that Stirling's resistance allowed Washington to shift his forces back to the protection of Middlebrook. As such, it prevented Howe from executing his plan to cut the Americans off from the mountains and defeat them in open ground. Departing New Jersey, Howe opened his campaign against Philadelphia late that summer. The two armies would clash at Brandywine on September 11 with Howe winning the day and capturing Philadelphia a short time later. A subsequent American attack at Germantown failed and Washington moved his army into winter quarters at Valley Forge on December 19.
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Add cream of tartar to it, depending on the number of egg whites you do. Like for 2 egg whites, it'd be 1/4 teaspoon. Adding the cream of tartar let you keep it for longer as it strengthens your meringue.
No, I don't think you can, but you can prepare the dishes ahead. Make the souffle mixture, put into the dish or dishes, and then you can hold at that stage for up to 24 hours if you refrigerate them. Then bake slightly longer if its come from the fridge. Should bake up just as well as if made immediately before.
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Edward Arthur Craig (November 22, 1896 — December 11, 1994) was a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War who eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant General. Craig is best known as the general who commanded the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade during its actions in the Korean War.
Edward Arthur Craig was born on November 22, 1896 in Danbury, Connecticut. His father was an officer in the United States Army, so Craig, a military brat, spent much of his childhood moving around the country. Craig had his first experience with the US Marine Corps when he was 10 years old while sightseeing at the Washington Navy Yard, where he was arrested for photographing naval guns. The Marines released him after confiscating the film from his camera.
He attended St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin and graduated in 1917. Craig had been in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps for four years in the academy, and with the outbreak of World War I, he was offered a commission as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He had originally wanted to join the US Army, but was unable to do so because the minimum age for a commission was 21 years old, and so he decided to pursue the Marines, where he could commission at 20. Craig, who was living in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas at the time, failed two eyesight tests in Chicago, Illinois and had to personally plead to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Major General George Barnett, for a third try. He passed his third eye exam and was commissioned on August 23, 1917. Craig later said his chief motivation to join the Marines was to fight in World War I, and he thought the failure of his eye test slowed his career considerably. He also said his father did not approve of his decision to join the Marines, thinking them "a terrible bunch of drunks and bums".
Craig was sent to training at Marine Corps Base Quantico near Triangle, Virginia. In November 1917, Craig was assigned to duty with the 8th Marine Regiment as an adjutant to the senior staff. He continued officer training there into 1918. His unit was never dispatched to fight in World War I, instead it was moved to Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas to safeguard oil fields in Tampico and other coastal areas from attack by the German Empire. The regiment stayed there for 18 months, during which it trained intensely and Craig was promoted to First Lieutenant.
In April 1919, Craig was ordered to foreign shore duty in Haiti. His regiment, along with the 9th Marine Regiment sailed for Cuba and landed in Santiago, then Guantanamo Bay before landing in Port-au-Prince. The troops were made a part of the 1st Marine Brigade as part of the US contingent during the occupation of Haiti. He only stayed in Port-au-Prince for a short time, though, before being transferred to the 2nd Marine Brigade during the occupation of the Dominican Republic. He was placed in command of the 70th Company, 15th Marine Regiment operating out of La Romana. There he spent much of his time patrolling the area for bandits and rebels. He spent 8 months with the 70th Company before returning to Santo Domingo, being promoted to Captain before returning to First Lieutenant due to reorganization in the Marine Corps. He was then transferred to a remote outpost, Vincentillo, where he served for six months.
He returned to the United States in December 1921, returning to Quantico before heading to San Diego, hoping to join new units forming at that city's newly established base. However, the Marine Corps diverted him to Puget Sound, where there was an opening. where he served as Commanding Officer of the Marine Detachment at the Puget Sound Naval Ammunition Depot, Washington State. Craig later said he did not enjoy this duty because of its isolation, and so requested transfer. He was ordered to foreign shore duty in 1922, on this occasion to the Olongapo Naval Station in The Philippines. Craig only stayed there briefly, though, as he was again dissatisfied with the station.
Above a photo of the USS Huron in the harbor in Shanghai, China dated December 19, 1924. This photo was contributed by 2LT. Brendan B. Finnegan, USAF stationed at Robins AFB. It was a photo from his Great-Great Uncles photo album. He was a Marine officer serving in China at the time and may have traveled on the Huron to China. His name was Captain Edward Arthur Craig (later LTG Craig). The album was put together by his late first wife prior to 1943.
The USS Huron, where Craig spent two years as part of the Marine detachment.
In February 1924, Craig met a former commanding officer in a chance encounter and was able to trade his duty with that of an officer aboard the Pennsylvania-class cruiser USS Huron, part of the detachment of Marines on that ship. He spent the next two years aboard the ship traveling throughout the Pacific Ocean. He later said he looked fondly on these years. During the duty, he also participated in several landings in Asia. Troops from the Huron were among an international force that landed in Shanghai, China in 1924 to protect the Shanghai International Settlement from rival Chinese armies fighting nearby. This duty lasted a month and Craig's force never saw combat. As it was in the midst of its Warlord Era, China's scattered international interests were frequently threatened, and Craig again landed in China, and the force was sent to protect the Peking American Legation from an offensive by warlord Wu P'ei-fu. He remained in Peking for around a month as part of another international force before returning to the Huron.
Craig returned to the United States in March 1926, and was assigned to the 4th Marine Regiment at San Diego, California briefly, before being assigned in June of that year as aide-de-camp to the Major General Commandant at Headquarters Marine Corps, John A. Lejeune, in Washington, D.C.. This post entailed numerous inspection trips and civilian duties with the General, whom Craig later said he liked. Craig remained in this post until Lejeune's retirement in 1929.
In May 1929, Craig requested to be moved to Nicaragua for duty with the Nicaraguan National Guard. Craig was subsequently sent to serve at Jinotega as one of the staff officers for the local battalion, and Craig later said this entailed numerous routine inspections of local outposts and training local troops. Near the end of 1931, Craig then joined the Marine Corps Base at San Diego, California, where he remained until June 1933. During this period he was on temporary duty in Nicaragua under the State Department from June to November 1932. Following a short interval of three months during which Craig commanded a Marine detachment at Disciplinary Barracks, San Diego, he returned to the Marine Corps Base where he was assigned as a Company Commander in the 6th Marine Regiment, Fleet Marine Force. In July 1936, he was detailed as the personnel officer in the 2nd Marine Brigade. Craig joined the Marine Corps Schools at the Marine Barracks in Quantico, Virginia, in July 1937, as a student in the Senior Course. Upon graduation in May the following year, he again returned to the Marine Corps Base at San Diego where he served as instructor in the Platoon Leaders' Course, Inspector-Instructor of Reserve Battalion Field Training, and Base Adjutant.
From June 1939 to June 1941, he was Marine Officer and Intelligence Officer for Admiral Ernest King aboard the aircraft carriers USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise, and for an interval of four months was stationed at the Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor. Here, Craig was often on the move with King's staff as they moved and exercised throughout the Pacific Ocean. During this time he also served under Charles Adams Blakely and William Halsey, Jr., each of whom commanded the force for a short time.
In July 1941, he again joined the Marine Base at San Diego and in October the same year was appointed Provost Marshal and Commanding Officer of the Guard Battalion at the base. These duties took on increasing importance with the outbreak of World War II, and particularity after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. During Craig's tenure the military police presence grew substantially. Craig stayed at this post until March, 1942 when he joined the 2nd Marine Division as the commander of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion, but was quickly reassigned in June 1942 as Executive Officer of the 9th Marine Regiment. In this position, though, Craig only conducted maneuvers with the division, and never sailed for combat. He remained in the position until October when he became Commanding Officer, Service Troops, 3rd Marine Division, and was promoted to Colonel.
Craig sailed with the division for the South Pacific in February 1943. He arrived in New Zealand with the division, commanding the service troops in training and maneuvers there, Craig requested to return to an infantry unit and in July of that year was made commander of the 9th Marines, replacing Lemuel C. Shepherd, who had been promoted. Craig was subsequently transferred to Guadalcanal with those Marines. Commanding the 9th Marines during the landings at Bougainville Island in November 1943, Craig led his troops through Bougainville Campaign for months as they fought Japanese forces on the island. Craig's troops continued their presence on the island until April, 1944, when they were pulled back to Guadalcanal to prepare for another operation. For his leadership during the campaign, Craig was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
For his participation in the invasion and subsequent recapture of Guam, Marianas Islands, he received the Navy Cross, and while serving as Operations Officer, V Amphibious Corps, he was awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding services during the bitter campaign on Iwo Jima. Later while commanding the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in Korea he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star Medal, and the Air Medal with Gold Star in lieu of a second award.
Remaining as Commanding Officer of the regiment he took part in the invasion and subsequent recapture of Guam, Marianas Islands, in July and August 1944, where he was awarded the Navy Cross. He was ordered to the V Amphibious Corps in September 1944, where he became Corps Operations Officer, in which capacity he planned and participated in the landing and assault on Iwo Jima in February 1945. He returned to the United States in July 1945, and assumed duties as Chief of Staff of the Marine Training Command, San Diego Area. From October 1945 to July 1946, he served as Commanding Officer of the Redistribution Regiment of the Marine Training and Replacement Command, San Diego Area.
After six months as Chief Instructor of the Troop Training Unit, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, during which time he was in charge of the Specialized Amphibious Training of Eighth Army Troops in Japan, he was promoted to brigadier general and again ordered overseas as Assistant Division Commander, 1st Marine Division (Reinforced), Tientsin, China. On 1 June 1947 he was assigned as Commanding General, 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force on Guam where he remained for two years.
The U.S. Marine Corps, which had been drastically reduced in size after World War II, was unprepared for another war at the outset of the Korean War on June 25, 1950. The United States military Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the Marine Corps to ready a 15,000-man division into Korea as a part of the United Nations Command being created there. The Marine Corps began rebuilding the 1st Marine Division to wartime strength, but in the meantime assembled a 4,725-man force around the 5th Marine Regiment to assist in the war effort as quickly as possible.
On July 7, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade was reactivated in California. One week later it sailed from Long Beach and San Diego. The regiment, which had originally been slated for landing in Japan, bypassed that country and landed at Pusan in South Korea on August 3.
It was put under command of Craig. The brigade was supported by Marine Aircraft Group 33. It became a subordinate unit of the Eighth United States Army under Lieutenant General Walton Walker, who placed it in his reserve.
The senior Marine was a brigadier general, Edward A. ("Eddie) Craig, fifty-three, ADC of the 1st Marine Division. In World War II Craig had commanded the 9th Marine Regiment ("Ninth Marines") on Guadalcanal and during the amphibious invasion of Bougainville and Guam, winning a Navy Cross and other decorations for heroism. The Fifth Marines were commanded by Raymond L. ("Ray") Murray (Texas A&M, 1935), thirty-seven. During World War II Murray had been a battalion commander in the Sixth Marines on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan, winning a Navy Cross and other awards for heroism.
The Army regimental commanders in Korea were jealous of these Marines, who arrived in Korea in a blaze of publicity. The majority of the Marine commanders and senior noncoms were combat experienced infantrymen who had fought Orientals in the Pacific War. The ranks were filled with physically tough young men who had joined the corps to fight, not to sightsee. The Marines had superior firepower in squads, platoons, and companies. Moreover, in addition to its organic tank and artillery battalions, the Marine brigade had its own integrated, well trained close air support. Whereas Army regiments still had to request FEAF close air support through a complicated, slow, and unsatisfactory chain of command, the Marines had support aircraft close at hand and virtually on instant call.
At 1120 on 7 August, General Craig received a telephone message from General Kean directing the Brigade commander to assume control of all troops in the Chindong-ni area until further orders. With this overall responsibility, Craig went forward to observe the 5th RCT in action. He ascertained by personal reconnaissance that enemy resistance was light, although few friendly gains were being made because of the scattered and confused nature of the fighting. The MSR between Sangnyong-ni, at the base of Hill 342’s spurs, and the vital Tosan junction was jammed with men, vehicles, and equipment, while infantrymen probed the surrounding high ground in an effort to weed out snipers and infiltrators.
When the 1st Marine Division subsequently arrived in Korea, he once again became Assistant Division Commander and took part in the landing at Inch'ŏn and operations in Northeast Korea. He was appointed to his present rank in January 1951. In March 1951, he returned to the United States, and assumed duties at Marine Corps Headquarters as Director of the Marine Corps Reserve.
Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig, served as Director of the Marine Corps Reserve prior to his retirement on 1 June 1951, and a veteran of more than thirty-three years of Marine Corps service, died on 11 December 1994 at his home in El Cajon, California, at the age of 98.
On the same date that the first U.S. ground forces set foot in Korea, MacArthur made a formal request for a Marine regiment supported by an air group. The Corps quickly assigned Brigadier General Edward Craig, ADC of the 1st Marine Division, to command the newly created 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, composed of the reinforce 5th Marines and Marine Aircraft Group 33. The force would depart by sea for the Far East on July 14.
It appeared to be a scene of mad confusion at Pendleton as Marines arrived hourly by train, bus, and plane. But the situation was kept well in hand by General Craig, who had seen many other departures for battle during his 33 years in the Corps. Born in Connecticut and educated at the St. Johns Military Academy, Delafield, Wis., he was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant in 1917 at the age of 21. Throughout the next 3 decades he served with distinction both as a line and staff officer, and both as student and instructor at the Marine Corps Schools.
During World War II he was executive and later commanding officer of the 9th Marine Regiment, which he led in the landing at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville and the recapture of Guam in the Marianas.
Awarded the Bronze Star and Navy Cross for gallantry in these operations, Craig became operations officer of the V Amphibious Corps in time to help plan the Iwo Jima operation. After the war he returned to Guam for 2 years in 1947 to command the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, before becoming ADC to Major General Graves B. Erskine, CG 1st Marine Division, in 1949.
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Martin Martello: A newcomer to the crime-world of Oak, Martin is a ruthless gang leader who opposes Vincenze Tessio. He is aware of the fact he is fighting an uphill battle against the older, more powerful man, but Martin does not care. He resorts to force at the slightest notice, not resting until he comes out on top.
Summary: The Martello family has captured a member of the Tessio family during crime family meeting and wants to interrogate him to get information out of him. They are convinced that this member has some crucial information about a cash transport. Martin needs someone to beat him up badly to get the information out of him. They can't do it themselves since Vincenze Tessio is suspicious that the Martello family is behind the kidnapping.
Captured Guy: A member of the Tessio family who was present at a crime gathering between many families in Oak Town. He got knocked out when he was outside smoking a cigarette. He doesn't know who kidnapped him cause everyone at the gathering could've been the culprit but he does know what they want from him.
Objective: Beat the information out of the captured person.
Create a topic in Oak Streets.
A member of the Martello family will approach you and walk you to the building in which they have kept the Tessio member captive.
Before you enter the room, he will give you a balaclava to hide your face and tells you that you may only use your fists. The person will be dumped outside somewhere alive afterwards. You may also not mention that you are doing this for the Martello family.
Go inside, you'll find the man tied to a chair. Ask him questions about the cash transport. He won't cooperate.
Beat him up, slowly but surely he will tell give you details about the cash transport.
All he knows is that the cash transport will take place next week and that they'll use a certain route through Oak Town to get it out. He will tell you the route as well.
Leave the room and take off the balaclava.
Share the information with the Martello member and he'll give you your jewels.
She hated to hear her name spoken in such a manner. It made her feel like a thief, a murderer. She was anything but that, but perhaps in time even she would begin to taint her own reputation. Whatever the matter was, she hired for one thing. And that;s what she was going to do.
"Do you want my help or not?"
The man shrugged at the thought that she was who they hired. He thought nothing of her, just another street rat who fell into a pot of gold and dressed her self to play rich men fools. But even he couldn't deny her aura.
"There's much of this world I can still pull strings for. In order for us to get where he is, we need to find both sides of the coin." Her god spoke to her, as she always did. Though this day was much different for the both of them. They had tried something new, and they would learn what they would do to them both.
The woman would follow the suit and tie, only to be met with other men, though these one were masked. It was to be expected when someone wants to keep a secret, or were doing something they knew they weren't supposed to.
"Put this on." one would tell her, handing her a balaclava. it amused her, and she would nod and obey. It wasn't how she wanted to do it, but it was her duty for this night.
They would open the door and the frail woman would appear. Laughter would follow the sight of her.
"You're behind this?" he laughed, "I'm not telling you a damn word. Now if you undressed-"
With a single bound, she leaped up at the man. Her left leg bent, knee faced forward. Her arms behind her and her right leg extended. Without another thought or word, her knee would meet the man's face, breaking his nose at contact.
The man would fall backwards in his chair, landing onto the ground. The woman in black stood there, without even looking at his face.
"What the hell lady!" he would yell out, blood pouring down his face. "I'll kill you!"
As his words left his mouth, her body would twist and she knelt to the floor. Her right fist descended upon the ground to land directly in the center of his chest. She aimed for nothing more than the heart and lung of the man. Enough to knock the wind out of him. But following her strike, cracking sounds could be heard, and it wasn't from her hand.
The man would gasp for air. "I don't know nothing!" he would say, and it only made her want to kill him.
She would lift her foot to place it over the man's neck. With her hands she would pull the man's tie, up to her heel. His jaw would press against her foot and soon he would find himself with trouble breathing.
". . . Yes, just as I would do it." Nameless spoke, enjoying her show. But Chi knew why she was really here.
"O-o-o-okay!" the man would say, his face turning blue. Chi would lessen her grip, only enough to let him breathe, but not enough to ease the pain of the tie-burn. "They're gonna move the money next week! I swear! They're gonna use mail trucks for it. They're gonna hide it in the boxes I swear!"
Chi would release the tie, only to place her foot on the man's head. She would lean in, without speaking a single word.
"They're gonna use the backroads, that's all I know!"
Chi would lean in, closer, putting in all of her weight, but careful to not crush the man's skull. "You're been helpful." She would say to the man. She would move off of him, close to whisper to his face. Her warm breath would be felt against his cold skin. "The Nameless thanks you."
She would push off from the man, leaving the room. She would rip off her mask and drop it on the floor.
The men would face her, wondering how she was able to do it all so silently and without remorse. They had heard all of the strikes and hits. They almost wondered how or why she came to help them. Blood even seemed to drip from her hands, and she had not showed a single sign of caring.
"Well, what did he say?" the man would ask of her, "And I hope he's still alive, or else our cover will be blown."
But Chi would stand there, absorbing what she had done. But even so, she knew it wasn't really her who did all of that. The relic, the preserved skin of a supposed god, a deity. The more she considered her true power, the more she begun to understand all of her clan's rituals and why they were the way they were. Death was meaningless to them, and people often saw their relatives rise from the grave and protect their home. Was this the power of her god?
"He's alive." Chi would answer. "They'll be in mail trucks in the back roads of the town. Said the money will be in packages, boxes, most likely disguised as mail."
" . . . Good. "
They had received information about what they wanted, and Chi begun to understand what she needed.
Her god was not immortal. She could die like anyone else, but what she could do was rise from the dead, but within the lives of others. That was how she learned so much about her family, her past, her life.
The Manji House had offered her the most bodies, and as such she had used more of her family than any of the other houses. With the bodies, their power was taken. But with her power sealed... How could she continue to protect?
Of course, that was how they were able to enter her village.
"I need their name." Chi would ask herself.
"You help me get my power back, and I will help you avenge your entire family."
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Question My protagonist is also the main character. At various points I want to have either the MC or the author be the narrator. I assume that is acceptable.
Also, sometimes one or more of the other characters might also be the narrator, or give his recollections. In the either case, the reader might not even know for sure whose POV is being expressed, and might or might not ever know, except that the POV is clearly neither that of the author nor the MC.
For me, it seems all of this could work very well in a particular story I'm imagining. And, I believe I have seen these representations in other stories here and there.
Answer: I think you may be opening up a big can of pitfalls for yourself.
Readers typically imagine themselves in the shoes of the character from whose point of view the story is written. When that point of view becomes unclear, it confuses the reader. They know longer know who they are in the story. It's a bit like an actor breaking character. Suddenly, they are not the person you have been imagining them to be and empathizing with, and the drama is spoiled.
It is possible to have a frame narrator. This is usually a character who then reports what other people say or the contents of other people's letters or journals. The reader understands that each person's story is being conveyed by the frame narrator.
have an author (or omniscient) narrator, and also have your main character narrate, how is the reader to understand the relationship between the two? Should the reader understand that the author is relating what the main character says about his story?
It is also possible to have multiple point of view characters. But if the reader does not know who is narrating at any given point, the danger is that you omit any context in which the story can be understood. How can a reader have empathy for a character when that character seems to have no clear identity? And yet, the reason you write from a character's point of view is so that the reader can partake of the personal experience of that character.
You might be able to get away with some ambiguity if you have a way to make it all clear in the end. Readers will give you the benefit of the doubt, sometimes, for a while.
You also have a little more leeway if you are writing literary fiction, and if the exploration of identity is a theme of the book. But your prose had better be quite riveting if it is to make up for the lack of narrative consistency. If you aren't completely brilliant in your execution, your book could easily appear amateurish.
Overall, while there are no absolute rules in creative writing, I think the challenges you face may be greater than the benefits you might get from creating such confusion.
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what's the best way to save up money to go to college?
If you are good at muli-tasking, and if you can handle your school work pretty well, then you can get a part time job. A lot of people mow lawns for neighbors, etc.
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Hey everyone, I'm about to embark on a fun project to build a 3 (or 5?) day survival kit for my household in Berkeley, CA. The primary reason for this is to use when "the big earthquake" hits. I was wondering if people wanted to give me suggestions on cool stuff to get/include in the kit. Here are some initial thoughts: 1) I'm generally price insensitive (within reason). I wouldn't be surprised if this kit ends up costing $2500. 2) I'm against having a firearm (I accept there are some practical reasons for this, it's just not my thing.) 3) I plan to include a sat-phone in the kit 4) I want to plan for mobility, i.e. have the kits in large containers, but also have backpacks in there so I can pack up and move if needed 5) I'm thinking 2 separate kits in 2 parts of the house, in case one becomes inaccessible when parts of my home collapse. 6) We have 2 adults and 2-year-old at home. I've literally done zero research into this, going to start now, likely going to try to post updates here, and would love to hear people's suggestions on cool/useful things to include (ideas/concepts, or specific products) Thanks for your time, wish me luck!
We have a decent emergency kit setup now, similarly born of a "when the big one hits" mentality. I found a good place to start was to buy prepacked bug-out bags from Amazon and supplement with additional items. We bought three: one for the humans, one for the dog, and a smaller one to keep in the car. They came with the basics (nutrition bars, water packs, mylar blankets, flashlights, first aid, masks, gloves, goggles, radios, whistles, tape, etc.), which we supplemented with tools, pantry items, changes of clothes, personal medications, card games, coloring books, headlamps, extra pairs of eyeglasses, etc. Stored important documents in one of these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075J4GTY5) and repacked everything into two sturdy backpacks for "grab and go" (the ones Amazon sends are pretty cheap/flimsy), plus one large bin for the house. Truthfully, a lot of the camp stuff we brought to Burning Man years ago has been applicable here, so this list ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnZUbqyodtS2cGpZMG4yaWY2SDJYVTlyUkExOVBNWFE&output=html) may be worth cross-checking if you want to get comprehensive. Also like the idea of keeping kits in two different parts of the house. Good luck!
https://mypatriotsupply.com/pages/2-week-emergency-food-supply-preparewithben-com 25 year shelf life, good selection of food and they taste pretty darn good too. This link is to a deal on the 2 week kit they offer. Kit is for 1 person.
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I am starting a bookkeeping and accounting business. I'm currently in the start-up stage and facing challenges of getting clients. What advice do you have for me that can help overcome this challenge?
• Hire a strategic planner who will develop a comprehensive business plan for you. Make sure, your business plan is a reliable person who has ample amount of knowledge and plethora of on this matter.
• Know your target customers. Once you get hold of this idea, progress won’t be that difficult. Moreover, it will help you in designing the cardinal working principle.
• For the initial days, start with lesser employees. Hire through definite skill assessment test and personal interview. You must know that the employees strengthen a foundation.
• Location is extremely important for any kind of business. A good green area motivates employees offering them a great sense of relaxation. If you have found a crowded place, make sure the interior is soothing.
It’s important for every entrepreneur to know that the fate of a company largely depends on the initial efforts. The rest enduring maintenance just adds fuel to it. Good luck with your new venture!
Bookkeeping companies are providing accounting and financial report services to their clients at right time. They can manage business' financial risks, accounts payable and receivable, and taxation. If you mean to start a good bookkeeping service, you must know the best inspiration for bookkeeping companies and also take advantage of accountants and financial specialists.
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Describe the structure of antibodies and the 5 types that are found in the body.
Describe the mechanisms used by the cell to create millions of antibodies.
Explain how antibodies defend against pathogens.
B lymphocytes or B cells are the class of immune cells that synthesize antibodies and are responsible for humoral or antibody-mediated immunity. Antibodies react with antigens and the immune system has a virtually unlimited capacity to create antibodies that react with millions of potential antigens.
Each B cell contains on its surface about 100,000 identical antibody molecules (IgD or IgM) The binding sites of these antibodies will all react specifically to the same antigenic structure, but each unique B cell will contain a different antibody, reactive with a different antigen. These membrane-bound antibodies serve as receptors for the antigen and contain two additional polypeptides (dimers of a protein called Ig-α/Ig-β) that span the cellular membrane and play a role in transmitting the binding of antigen to antibody to the cytoplasm of the cell as shown in Figure 16.2. Binding of an antigen by several different antibody receptors on the surface of the cell causes the receptors to cluster in a small area. This clumping of membrane bound antibody molecules then activates a signaling cascade that eventually results in the transcription of genes and thus the production of proteins important for B cell activation.
Figure 16.2. B cell activation. Binding of antibody activates tyrosine kinase and tyrosine phosphorylase in the cytoplasm that then phosphorylates and dephosphorylates tyrosine residues on the Ig-α/Ig-β polypeptide. These phosphorylation/dephosphorylation reactions activate B cells by at least three different pathways: (i) Activated tyrosine residues on the Ig-α/Ig-β polypeptide cause phospholipase C activity to increase. Phospholipase C then cleaves phospholipids into inositol triphosphate and diacyl glycerol. Diacyl glycerol activates protein kinase C eventually leading to the formation of nuclear factor NF-κB. (ii) Inositol triphosphate causes Ca2+ influx from the endoplasmic reticulum and the outside environment. Increased Ca2+ concentrations activate calmodulin that in turn phosphorylates Ets-1, a DNA binding protein. (iii) Activated tyrosine residues on the Ig-α/Ig-β polypeptide activate the p21ras protein, which leads to the activation of a serine/threonine kinase. This in turn phosphorylates cJUN, another DNA binding protein. NF-κB, Ets-1 and cJUN then travel to the nucleus and cause the transcription of specific genes important in B cell activation.
The activated B cell then goes through a process of rapid division (termed clonal expansion) where many more copies of the cell are made. Some of these cells differentiate into plasma cells that produce large amounts of antibody. The antibody molecules produced specifically react with the antigen that caused the initial activation of the B cell. A fraction of the cells from the clonal expansion remain as undifferentiated B memory cells that are capable of reacting with a second antigen challenge at a later time. If a future challenge does appear, this secondary response is much more rapid, normally inactivating the pathogen before a detectable infection appears.
The “B" of B cell comes from the Bursa of Fabricius, where B cells differentiate in birds. (Some of the early research on the immune system was done in chickens). In mammals, B cells mature in the bone marrow and then travel in the bloodstream eventually settling in immune tissues throughout the body with high concentrations in the lymph nodes and spleen.
We will now spend a bit more time looking at the structure and function of antibodies to give you a more in-depth understanding of their different types and roles in the immune response.
Antibodies have the interesting challenge of needing to respond to a wide array of antigens, yet still be recognizable to the immune system. They therefore, need to interact with two different types of macromolecules, antigens and parts of the immune system. If antibodies were too similar to each other in structure, they would not be able to recognize many antigens, but if they were too different, they would not have a consistent enough structure to react with various immune components. Antibodies solve this dilemma by having two regions, a highly variable region that recognizes the antigens and constant regions that interact with the immune system.
Plasma cells synthesize a number of different types of antibodies and these serve different functions for the cell. Antibodies are proteins made up of two light chains and two heavy chains, see Figure 15.1. The heavy chain determines the type of antibody class and is bound to the light chain by sulfhydryl linkages. Each chain has a constant region that is similar amongst all antibodies. The constant region interacts with the rest of the immune system to facilitate the immune response. Each chain also has a variable region containing a high degree of amino acid variability that is unique to each antibody and this is the part that binds to the antigen. The proteins wrap together and form a Y structure with the two prongs of the Y containing the variable (Fab) regions and the bottom stem of the Y containing the constant (Fc) region.
The different classes of antibodies are defined by the structure of the constant region of the heavy chain. Each heavy chain gives the class of antibody certain properties. Here we first introduce the properties of these antibody classes and then describe the various roles antibodies play in the inactivation of pathogenic microorganisms.
While billions of different variable regions are made, the general structure of antibodies falls into just five classes and this is based upon the type of heavy chain present in the antibody as shown in Figure 16.3. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is the most abundant circulating antibody, making up 80% of the total antibodies and 75% of that found in serum. It contains a single antibody protein complex, with two heavy chains and two light chains. IgG is the second type of antibody synthesized in response to an infection and is the only antibody that can pass through the wall of small blood vessels to access antigens present in the extracellular spaces. It is also the only antibody capable of crossing the placenta in humans, where it confers the mother's immunity onto the fetus and newborn. This immunity protects a baby for the first 6-12 months of its life and allows it time for its own immune system to mature. IgG is particularly effective at attacking extracellular viruses and protein toxins and is also capable of activating the classic pathway of the complement cascade. It helps to prevent the systemic spread of infection and facilitates recovery from many infections. Finally, IgG is the antibody that serves as an efficient handle for phagocytes, allowing phagocytes to bind to a pathogen through Fc receptors on IgG and rapidly phagocytize a pathogen.
Figure 16.3. Different Antibody Types. There are five different antibodies classes that are formed in the cell. See the text for more details.
IgM is the largest antibody, with five Y structures being joined by their Fc regions in a circular configuration. A J chain (another polypeptide) links the five antibodies together. IgM is present in serum, making up about 10 % of antibodies in the blood. The presence of its ten antigen reactive sites helps agglutinate or clump antigens (see the explanation of this term in the next section), making it easier for the immune system to eliminate them. IgM is more efficient than IgG at activating the complement pathway. IgM is synthesized by plasma cells early in a primary infection and is very important in slowing or stopping the spread of a pathogen during the initial stages of an illness. IgM is also found on mature B cells in a monovalent form, where it serves as a receptor.
IgA is present in serum, mucus, saliva, tears, sweat and milk. Two subclasses with different heavy chains are made, IgA1 and IgA2. IgA1 is synthesized in the bone marrow and makes up most of the serum IgA. IgA2 is synthesized by B cells present in MALT. The antibodies are synthesized as dimers that are joined by a short J chain polypeptide. As the secreted IgA2 passes through the intestinal epithelium, a second secretory protein attaches. Dimerization and binding of the J and secretory proteins make IgA more resistant to proteases present in the environments that it protects. IgA in breast milk interferes with the colonization of the GI tract by harmful microorganisms in the first few months of life. The mother's IgA in the GI tract of newborns keeps these pathogens at low populations, preventing them from causing serious disease, but still allowing the stimulation of the infant's own immune system. The newborn thus develops its own immunity while being partially protected by the mother. IgA molecules do not activate the classical complement pathway, but may activate the alternative complement pathway.
IgD is found on the surface of B-lymphocytes and together with monomeric IgM, serves as antigen receptor for the activation of B cell as described previously. IgD is monovalent.
The immune system in mammals is capable of producing a seemingly unlimited number of antibodies that can react with the millions of antigens we potentially encounter in our lifetimes. This genetic diversity is key to the effective protection of our bodies against pathogens that are constantly evolving new antigen molecules.
Does the cell have millions of genes to create all this variability? This was one early theory, but given the small number of genes in the human (about 25,000), it is clear that this cannot be the case. Antibody diversity was difficult to understand until researchers realized that eukaryotic genes are formed by remarkable recombination events.
The essence of the current theory of antibody diversity is that the genes responsible for the synthesis of a particular antibody are not contiguous units, but are assembled from clusters of gene fragments present in regions of the DNA. One section of these gene fragments codes for the constant region of the antibody, while several other sections, present in multiple copies, code for the variable regions. See Figure 16.4. Somatic recombination allows shuffling of these gene segments into numerous gene combinations that encode for the varieties of light chains and heavy chains that make up complete antibodies. This shuffling begins in the B cell germ line and continues as new B cells are formed and differentiate. Each mature B cell therefore has a unique combination of these regions and makes a unique antibody.
Figure 16.4. B Cell Differentiation. Determination of the variable region of an antibody occurs during the differentiation of the B cell. As it matures, the variable region is randomly picked from several choices and this is spliced to a constant region. Millions of variable regions are possible by this mechanism.
Light chain antibody regions consist of a constant region (C), a joining region (J) and a variable region (V). During the differentiation of the B cell, a deletion joins one V region to one J region. Transcription of the light chain antibody DNA proceeds through the C region and includes the V and J regions. The transcript is subsequently spliced to join the three regions together forming a functional antibody.
Joining of heavy chain antibody genetic regions proceeds in a similar fashion, but is slightly more complex. There are five C regions corresponding to the five classes of antibodies and a third multigenic region, the D (diversity) region, which increases the potential variability of heavy chains. During DNA deletion of the germ line, V, D and J regions are joined together and link to the constant region. Initially, all B cells produce heavy chains with the μ type of constant region that corresponds to IgM antibodies, but later in antibody expression, further splicing can occur causing a different constant region, often the γ region corresponding to IgG, to be produced. This explains why initial antibody production to a new pathogen is high in IgM, but later production shifts to IgG. Also, subsequent infections with the same organism produce more IgG.
Using the known number of V, D and J regions, it is possible to determine the potential number of different antibodies that could be formed. The actual number is probably more than this as explained in the text.
The amount of antibody diversity that can be generated in the human is diagrammed in Table 16.2. In the germ cell, the DNA in humans contains about 40 V regions and 5 J regions in κ light chains and 30 V regions and 4 J regions in λ light chains. Note that κ light chains and λ light chains are two separate types of light chain constant regions. Assuming that all combinations are possible, that gives a potential diversity of (40 X 5) + (30 X 4) or 320 different light chain combinations. For heavy chains, there are 65 V regions, 27 D regions and 6 J regions for a total of 10,530 heavy chain combinations. Since any light chain can combine with any heavy chain, this give a total of 320 X 10,530 or 3,369,600 possible antibody types.
It turns out that 3 million is actually a dramatic underestimate of the number of actual antibody types because of two additional mechanisms.
The V region of germ cell line DNA is susceptible to a high rate of mutation resulting in significant amino acid differences even in originally identical V regions.
Combinational joining between V and J in light chains or V, D and J in heavy chains is deliberately inexact. The junction between these regions can combine at different crossover points, forming different codons. If the number of potential junction points is 10 between each V and J region, then the number of possible antibody types also increases 10-fold.
So the actual number of antibody types is in the hundreds of millions. This large antibody diversity allows reactions with any number of conceivable antigens.
Any pathogen has many different molecules on its cell surface and each one is a potential antigen that the immune system could react to. Each antibody that reacts with a given foreign object has characteristic affinities. Also, for any one antigen, there are usually several different antibodies that react with it and these antibodies can have a whole range of affinities for the antigen. Interestingly, the B cells that have the most reactive and specific antibodies on their surface are stimulated by the antigen to greater extent and end up proliferating more than B cells that react in a weaker fashion. In this way, strongly reacting antibodies are favored and thus the cell can fine-tune its response to an antigen to get the most bang for the buck. This affinity maturation results in the host creating ever more effective antibodies against an infection.
Antibodies bind antigens, but how does this happen at the molecular level? It turns out there are two processes that bring antigens and antibodies together.
Attractive forces. Attraction between the antigen and the antibody manifests itself in forces we have already talked about in previous chapters. Antibodies and antigens interact by various combinations of H-bonding, electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions, though the exact contribution of each depends on the particular antigen-antibody pair. The combination of these three forces can result in a powerful attraction between an antibody and its antigen, but attraction is not enough.
Complementary shapes. The shape of the antigen must fit snugly inside the binding site of the antibody as a hand fits inside a glove. Without this tight fit there is weak binding even if there are attractive forces.
Reacting pairs of antigens and antibodies can have very strong binding equilibria, with association constant values as high as 1012, indicating that antibody binding reactions progress a trillion fold faster than the reverse reaction.
Once bound, antibodies use a number of pathways to cause the destruction of the antigen source.
Complement activation. Antibodies can stimulate the classical pathway of complement activation. This results in cell death due a number of mechanisms as described in Chapter 15.
Agglutination. Antibodies can cause the agglutination of antigen-bearing entities as shown in Figure 16.5. Remember that every antibody has at least two identical reactive sites. Potentially these sites can bind two antigens. If these happen to be on two different invading pathogens, they will then be stuck together. With the large amounts of antibodies that are produced, the pathogenic cells end up trapped in large clumps and fall out of solution. The host's phagocytes can then easily deal with these networks. IgM antibodies with ten binding sites and IgA with four are especially adept at causing agglutination reactions.
Toxin neutralization. Antibodies that react with protein toxins almost always cause their inactivation. Toxins play an important role in pathogenesis and their elimination often nullifies the damaging effects of the pathogen. One of the vaccines you receive regularly, TDaP has inactivated diphtheria and tetanus toxins. Being immune to these toxins, makes you immune to these diseases.
Opsonization. Antibodies are excellent opsonins and greatly accelerate the phagocytosis of pathogens. The constant regions of the IgG antibodies contain binding sites that react specifically with receptors on phagocytes as described previously.
Prevention of attachment. Antibodies bound to parasites can cover up proteins on the surface of pathogens (e.g., pili on bacteria or hemagglutinin proteins on the outside of the influenza virus) that are necessary for attachment to the target tissue in the host. Masking of these proteins can prevent subsequent infection and secretory IgA probably has a significant amount of its effect in this manner.
Figure 16.5. Antibody Agglutination. Antibodies have two identical variable regions that can interact with antigen. If the antibody binds to antigens on two separate microbes, it can cause them to stick together. As more antibody attacks the antigen, large clumps of antigen-antibody complexes form and this is called agglutination. Note in this figure the antibodies are drawn much larger than in reality for clarity.
Antibodies are composed of a light chain protein and a heavy chain protein that come together and form a Y-shaped structure. The base of the Y is a conserved region that all antibodies have in common, while the tips of the forks of the Y are unique to each antibody.
The tips react with the antigen, while the conserved base interacts with the immune system.
Five types of antibodies are formed in the body: IgG, IgM, IgA, IgD and IgE.
The variable region of antibodies is formed by spicing together different short segments of DNA during the maturation of the B cell. Using this mechanisms, millions of different variable regions, and thus different antibodies can be made.
Antibodies bind to antigens by attractive forces and complementary (key-in-lock) shapes.
Antibodies help defend against pathogens by activating complement, serving as opsonins, agglutinating and sterically hindering pathogens and by neutralizing toxins.
6. Calculate the amount of antibody diversity for an animal that has 35 V regions and 5 J regions in its light chain and 70 V, 23 D and 6 J regions in its heavy chain.
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Design a full-page ad to showcase your redesigned school supply.
Create an advertisement for your school supply that will be included in your company catalog. Since this school supply has been redesigned, you need a full page ad to showcase your product. Make sure you include the best features of your new and improved school supply so the ad talks about your product and sells it for you.
Each full page ad should have similar elements. At a minimum, an ad should include the name, a description, a picture, and the price of the item. Your company can choose to include other elements in the ads.
At a company meeting, give and receive feedback on the ads. Since you work for one company, the ads should look like they are from one catalog.
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How can I keep a head of romaine fresh and crisp longer?
Separate the leaves and rinse well, then blot dry and bunch them together. Wrap the head in a double layer of paper towel and store in a freezer bag in the crisper. The lettuce leaves will be more crisp than when you brought it home, and it will last a long time.
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Please provide an example of a written analysis about the issues that arise in a business environment. Address the ethical components and factors, as well as how the management would handle the legal issues, and how their decisions would change the outcome of these issues. Discuss factors that you think contribute to the case or issue.
Let us take the case of manufacturing firm that engages in manufacturing of chemicals. The manufacturing process emits pollutants into the air, as well as results in contamination of water. The firm does not take adequate steps to control the air pollution or water pollution, as well as does not pay attention to proper disposal of industrial waste being generated in the factory of the organization. The company has several manufacturing sites located across the globe, including a few in emerging countries such as China and India, where such environmental laws and regulations are not strictly enforced. This issue has several ethical and legal implications for the organization. The company is headquartered in United States.
Provides an example of a written analysis about the issues that arise in a business environment.
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With the large volume of data (and in particular spatial data) floating about, we mere humans are often resigned to attempting to describe these data with single measures, such as an average. But there is a lot in an average, and you'll often find data scientists avoiding the term.
In this Australian Bureau of Statistics link, we are shown the the centre of population as an average (see the Explanatory Notes in the link for an explanation of the calculation). In this instance, we have been shown the arithmetic mean, which is the average that everyone knows - add everything up and divide by the total population.
Here it is for Victoria. We can see that it is located north of the CBD, around the suburb of Coburg.
"Well, it's the average" just doesn't cut it. And, realistically, it is a pretty poor measure. The arithmetic mean in this case is not very helpful. It can be considered as "where you might put the card table, if everyone in Victoria were to visit, and you wanted to minimise the total square of their distance travelled."
What? The square of the distance travelled is not a particularly good economic rule. There are very few, if any transport modes where the cost increases as the square of the travelled distance. Furthermore, when working with an effective penalty that follows the square of the distance, the fact that there is a coast line to the south means that the average will be dragged further north than in general people may expect. Averages, and the leveraged nature of distance squared means that, even if nearly everyone lived on the coast and only one person did not, the average would be dragged northward seemingly disproportionately.
So, we can use more appropriate averages for determining "balance" points of a spatially distributed population.
Instead, let us use the absolute distance itself as a penalty measure, rather than squaring it. Where would we put the card table? This minimises the distance that everybody would have to travel to reach it, so can be used for finding optimal locations.
In Victoria, this point is on the banks of the Yarra, near Bridge Road. That's more like what people might expect. And it is a more accurate economic average.
Rather than simply shoe wear and tear, we can look at distance leverage. If a person walks 1 km and we say "do you mind if you walk one more kilometre up the road?", that is a different impost to saying to a driver who has just driven one hundred kilometres "will you drive one more?"
If we take a common percentage term as the penalty, that is choose the average so that the overall annoyance due to distance is minimised, we would all meet in Richmond.
Again, for those who live and work in Victoria, Richmond is a more conceptual centre than Coburg.
This is not remarkably different to the economic concept of a person "gravity" model, which has a centre of population in the same place in this case. Gravity models don't have a leverage based on percentages, but instead say that the penalty goes not as the distance squared, nor the distance itself, but as the inverse of distance.
For a true city centric view of Victoria, without dastardly manipulations, we might use a penalty that is the reciprocal of that used in the original averaging done by the ABS. That is, one over the square of the distance. This gives a real tapering effect. Originally, the average was built around the concept of travelling twice as far cost four times as much. Now we look at an average where it is cheaper to move large distances than short. An example would be using rail infrastructure or transport where labour is a considerable fixed cost.
Lo, the super-gravity balance point is right in the middle of the CBD.
The point here is about choosing metrics that measure what you want, and not just one that can be found in a Google search. We have demonstrated a number of cost functions which be used in different scenarios. In fact, we can really use any cost function we want, with as much complexity that we we want - the important thing is that it is fit for purpose. Should you choose a metric because it is robust, or one that is sensitive? Choice and properties of metrics are important questions. You cannot have a race car that is both highly manoeuvrable and agile, and simultaneously stable and docile. The same goes for metrics.
With data, and particularly big data, it can be hard to distinguish between noise and signal. A sensitive metric like the arithmetic mean will get the jitters due to noise (such as a miscoded place name a long way away). Conversely, a robust metric like a gravity model may not see a trend until far into its run.
A point to consider is, how do you measure the sensitivity of the various averages? But that is a topic for another time.
The below map illustrates the locations of the different types of averages (click on the markers to see which is which).
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Why does it hurt when my heart misses the beat? We’re here to see a rare concert appearance by an icon of the alternative 80s pop pantheon, Claudia Brücken, and we couldn’t be more excited.
Context. Brücken was lead singer in Düsseldorf group Propaganda, one of the three major bands in the brief heyday of super-producer Trevor Horn’s chart conquering Zang Tumb Tuum empire (Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Horn’s Art Of Noise forming the triad). Propaganda’s extravagant debut ‘A Secret Wish’ was a breath-taking album of ambitious, theatrical European pop, destined never to be repeated. Brücken jumped ship to form a new duo, Act, with bedroom electropop pioneer Thomas Leer, satirising the excesses of 80s big business and the music industry. Act, too, were short-lived, and Brücken has recorded only occasionally since, more regularly now with husband Paul Humphries (of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) in their duo Onetwo.
We’re still not sure quite what to expect tonight, however, as without support or fanfare Brücken’s five-piece band take to a stage cluttered with gear. Locking into an electronic groove, Brücken appears, looking and sounding as striking as ever as she slips into her ’91 single ‘Kiss Like Ether’. We’d almost forgotten this minor hit before tonight, but then much of this evening’s show – and indeed Brücken’s recording career – works by awakening nostalgic pop memories.
Brücken’s recent solo album ‘The Lost Are Found’ is primarily a record of covers, produced by another 80s pop architect, Stephen Hague. Picking from it tonight, she drops in lesser-known songs from the pens of David Bowie, ELO and the Bee Gees along with those by such cult artists as Stina Nordenstam and The Lilac Time. To hear the latter’s delicate folk lullaby ‘The Road To Happiness’ transformed into a shuffling electro ballad by Brücken, Humphries and band, well, it’s like we fell asleep at the end of the 80s and dreamed our way through the ensuing decades, all our favourite groups getting mixed up in our slumber.
Act’s ‘Snobbery And Decay’ and ‘Absolutely Immune’ near-hits are performed back to back, literally by Brücken and co-vocalist David Watson, both revelling in the spotlight and laughing their way through it. Act’s chart failure set the tone for Brücken’s subsequent drift into cult stardom, but there’s no bitterness tonight.
Of course, it’s those huge Propaganda songs that draw the biggest cheers. With two guitarists, two banks of keyboards and an exceptional percussionist, the challenging task of reproducing the complexity of ‘A Secret Wish’ live is met. ‘Dr. Mabuse’, ‘Dream Within A Dream’ and ‘p:Machinery’ are towering, with biggest hit ‘Duel’ saved, inevitably, for the encore. Propaganda split too soon to capitalise on their original success, so to hear these songs in person has been a long, long time coming.
By the time of the stirring closing version of The Band’s ‘Whispering Pines’ we couldn’t have asked for much more, although sadly Brücken’s “lovely friend’, Propaganda’s Susanne Freytag, couldn’t join her on stage tonight. Crush, sigh.
Ah well, to borrow a couple of phrases: It is still 1985. Tonight is forever.
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"I thought it would be something exciting, like a bomb, or a small horse."
"I cannot stay in small spaces, I get hungry."
"When you laugh, it's like a small accordion which plays in the little metro of my mind."
"I want to give you the moon and the stars and the sun, and I want to get you a small planet if you want!"
"My prices are so small you can barely see them."
"Well I think the goal was to express the problem in matrix form, so we're really maximizing C to the power of T times X, which is subject to AX smaller than or equal to B, with X being greater than or equal to zero."
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The massive, triangular Imperial starships that appear in the original Star Wars trilogy (Han calls them "the big Corellian ships") are well known to be "Star Destroyers." Since these vessels are clearly not capable of destroying any stars, the name seems to indicate that they are spacegoing equivalents of naval destroyers. As anyone who had played Battleship knows, destroyers (originally short for "torpedo boat destroyers") are the smallest class of heavy sea-going warships.
Cruisers are larger warships, although still smaller than battleships. However, as the Millennium Falcon is escaping from Tatooine, Han Solo identifies the first ship he sees chasing them as an "imperial cruiser." Is there an explanation in some secondary source of why he makes this apparent error?
Han (and other characters) may have called the Star Destroyers "cruisers" since the Venator-class Star Destroyer used by the Republic during the Clone Wars (and a predecessor design to the Imperial Star Destroyer) was sometimes called the "Republic Attack Cruiser".
The use of the name "cruiser" in Star Wars refers to ships of a wide range of sizes, varying from a small "consular" cruiser like the one used at the beginning of Episode I (which could only carry dozens of passengers at most) to capital ships like the Mon Calamari cruisers. In Star Wars, cruisers are not strictly larger than destroyers.
Why did Han think he could tell what size the Death Star was?
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In short, "Do this and you'll get that" makes people focus on the "that" not the "this." Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
It's important to distinguish well-conducted from poorly conducted research, and to understand the outcome variables in a given investigation. For example, if someone were to announce that studies have shown traditional classroom discipline techniques are 'effective,' our immediate response should be to ask, 'Effective at what? Promoting meaningful learning? Concern for others? Or merely eliciting short-term obedience?' Empirical findings can come from rigorously conducted scientific studies but still be of limited value; everything depends on the objectives that informed the research.
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A. He's diagnosing a patient.
B. He's making an appointment to play golf.
C. He's recommending a restaurant.
D. He's playing a musical instrument.
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There a lot of different opinions and articles on the web about what growth hacking is and how to use it. First of all, you should understand that growth hacking isn’t free and requires some budget. I’m using growth hacking to identify the best traffic sources, attract new potential users (customers) with limited marketing expenses, engage and convert them into payment leads, so that later I could keep a perfect retention rate.
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In addition, growth hacking purely depends on the features that currently exist in your product (startup). Contact me and I can personally research your existing product and features. Based on the results, I can define which models will work best for you and provide practical advice or a complete strategy (if required). Aside from that, I can work with you and coordinate your team directly to implement growth hacking strategy in a proper way.
In general our team can help you to accelerate your marketing strategy and minimize costs of hiring new people.
You can also explore other sections on my website to find more related fields where I can help you. Send me request right away to start our cooperation.
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Olivia Susan "Susy" Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896), was the second child and oldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's works, wrote her own biography of him that Twain later published as part of his autobiography, and acted as a literary critic. Her father was heartbroken when she died of spinal meningitis at age twenty-four.
Her biography of her father was published in 1988 in its entirety as Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain, a volume which also included a biography of Susy Clemens and her correspondence with her father.
Susy Clemens was the inspiration for the character of Joan of Arc in her father's novel Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.
Born in Elmira, New York, Clemens was largely raised in Hartford, Connecticut, but went abroad with her family to England in 1873 and again in 1878–79. At age thirteen, she wrote a biography of her father that Twain later included in his Chapters from my Autobiography. The biography described her impressions of her father and her happy family life. Her father wrote: "I had had compliments before, but none that touched me like this; none that could approach it for value in my eyes." Like her father, she was interested in writing, and wrote her own plays and acted in them during her childhood and adolescence. Twain later described his favorite daughter as intelligent, thoughtful, sensitive and vivacious and said he had regarded her as a prodigy. "She was a magazine of feelings and they were of all kinds and of all shades of force; she was so volatile, as a little child, that sometimes the whole battery came into play in the short compass of a day," he wrote after her death. "She was full of life, full of activity, full of fire, her waking hours were a crowding and hurrying procession of enthusiasms ... Joy, sorrow, anger, remorse, storm, sunshine, rain, darkness -- they were all there: They came in a moment and they were gone as quickly. In all things she was intense: in her this characteristic was not a mere glow, dispensing warmth, but a consuming fire." He based the character of Joan of Arc in his book Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc on his eldest daughter as he remembered her at age seventeen.
In the fall of 1890, Clemens attended Bryn Mawr College, where she was given the starring role of Phyllis in the play Iolanthe, began calling herself by her real first name "Olivia" and developed a close friendship with fellow student Louise Brownell that some biographers have speculated may have been romantic in nature. Clemens left the college after one semester, possibly because of her family's financial difficulties, because she found the studies too difficult, or because of her relationship with Brownell.
As she grew older, she became frustrated with her father's fame, which sometimes left her in the shadows. She was annoyed by her father's reputation as a "mere humorist" and felt he should represent himself as a serious writer instead of just as a funny man. She was embarrassed when Twain performed the ghost story The Golden Arm for an audience at Bryn Mawr. She had begged him not to tell the story, thinking it too unsophisticated for her worldly classmates, and ran out of the hall crying when her father told the story anyway. She later accompanied her family abroad and attended schools in Geneva and Berlin, where she took language and voice lessons, though she was disappointed when a voice teacher told her she had a lovely soprano voice but didn't have enough lung capacity to project her voice from the stage. In Europe she was at loose ends, bored by her family's evenings at home and annoyed by her father's frequent temperamental outbursts. She wrote to her friend Brownell that she sometimes had trouble finding a reason for existence. She was also frustrated by society's refusal to see her as anything other than the daughter of Mark Twain. In Florence, the then nineteen-year-old Clemens became infatuated with a married Italian count. Her physical and mental health suffered, and she sought cures ranging from "mind cures" to hydrotherapy.
Clemens chose not to accompany the family to Europe on Twain's lecture tour of 1895–96, citing seasickness and a desire to recover her health and become an opera singer. She stayed in Elmira, at the home of her aunt Susan Crane. In August 1896, while visiting her former home in Hartford, Clemens developed a fever that turned into spinal meningitis. Susy was moved to her family home, and stayed in her parents' mahogany bed, which had detachable angels on each post, a bed that she and her sisters had fond memories of playing with as children. Katy Leary, the family's Irish maid, took care of her, sleeping on a sofa in the room. Susy developed delirium, at one point clutching an article of her mother's clothing and crying because she thought her mother had died, and at another looking out the windows at the traffic and singing, "Up go the trolley cars for Mark Twain's daughter. Down go the trolley cars for Mark Twain's daughter." Eventually she lost her sight and lapsed into a coma. On August 18, 1896, she died at age twenty-four; her family was devastated.
Clemens was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira. The poem on her headstone was adapted from a poem called Annette by poet Robert Richardson: "Warm summer sun shine kindly here, Warm southern wind blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light – Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night."
A children's book, The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy), features excerpts of Susy's biography of her father with smaller journal-style pages inserted between the main pages. "Mark Twain: Words & Music" is a double-CD that tells the life story of Samuel Clemens in spoken word and song and features segments about his family. The project was produced by Carl Jackson as a benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. The story line was written by Cindy Lovell and is narrated by Garrison Keillor with Clint Eastwood performing as Twain and Angela Lovell performing as Susy.
Lystra, Karen (2004). Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years. University of California Press Ltd. ISBN 0-520-23323-9.
^ Pilkington, Ed (April 21, 2010). "Mark Twain manuscript reveals author's pain at losing his daughter". theguardian.com. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
^ "Susy Reviews Her Father's Performance". etext.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved January 10, 2008.
^ "The Poem on Susy Clemens' Headstone". twainquotes.com. Retrieved January 10, 2008.
This page was last edited on 12 October 2018, at 22:25 (UTC).
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Complete the following sentences using appropriate articles.
1. Maya is a pretty girl.
2. He is the smartest boy in the class.
3. She is writing a novel.
4. She has a six year old son.
5. India is one of the biggest countries in the world.
6. She has won the first prize in essay writing.
7. Lion is the king of beasts.
8. Martha is a lovely girl.
9. Why are you standing on the table?
10. It was a stupid thing to do.
11. It was the worst thing to happen to me. 12. I will be back in an hour.
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How to write Fizz Buzz in Java?
It’s a very common task on job interviews.
Interesting solution without if-else constructs!
"%d", "%d", "Fizz", "Buzz", "%d", "Fizz", "%d", "%d"
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The Hot Stock: Go Oil Stocks Go!
West Texas crude is on the rise, putting oil & gas stocks at the top of the S&P 500 today and making big winners out of energy ETFs.
United States Oil (USO) rose 0.9% to $11.61, while the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) gained 1.4% to $70.33, and the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP) climbed 2.5% to $35.68.
The top three stocks in the S&P 500 today came from the energy sector: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) climbed 4.7% to $3.78; Concho Resources (CXO) gained 4.6% to $146.81; and Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) rose 4.4% to $167.20.
The outlook for oil stocks in looks rosy, explain Jefferies analyst Jason Gammel and team. They contend the oil market is in the process of rebalancing and, given how exploration and production companies have been tightening their belts, the group stands to be rewarded. The small- and mid-cap players at the lower end of the cost curve stand to benefit the most given how they’ve been overlooked, but there are some favorites in the large-cap end of the spectrum as well, including Chevron (CVX) and ConocoPhillips (COP).
By applying simple math to the 2017 D&C program that contemplates 19 average rigs and ~300 gross completions (implying ~23 D&C days per well), one can see that the company’s ~19.4k total locations (this number has also not been updated for some time) equates to anywhere from 30-60+ years of inventory even after factoring in a rig ramp. We currently model a max rig count of 50 rigs (achieved in year 2025), which even then would imply more than 20 years of inventory with additional cycle time efficiencies and excluding additional zone upside potential.
Jefferies has a price target of $173 on Concho, implying upside of about 18%.
West Texas crude is on the rise, putting oil & gas stocks at the top of the S&P 500 today and making big winners out of energy ETFs.
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In the United Kingdom, Panini Comics prints its Collectors' Edition (CE) line, which consists of reprints of Marvel US Comics. These are usually 76 pages long (with the occasional 100 page special), and the current cost of the comics is £3.99. A subscription offer is also available, and each comic is published every 28 days, with the exception of Astonishing Spider-Man which has been published fortnightly since volume 2.
Subsequently, Marvel Comics sold Panini to a group of investors including Indesit Company. Currently, Panini Comics publishes also in Brasil, France, Germany, UK (see next section), Spain, Portugal and Hungary. In Germany and Brasil, it publishes also translation of DC Comics series.
It obtained the Marvel UK license in 1995, enabling it to publish reprinted American Marvel Comics titles, and is also the company responsible for printing the Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Comics had been part of Marvel Europe, and had already been reprinting American material across the continent for several years.
Thanks to this licensing deal, reprints of American Marvel Comics material were continued in the UK by Panini from the mid-1990s. Each book contained approximately two or three Marvel US strips in one issue with possibly a "classic" comic printed as a substitute for a comic in the current run, whilst being priced at a reasonable level. Initially the lineup consisted of only Astonishing Spider-Man and Essential X-Men and followed the continuity of the US comics, however it was approximately two–three years behind the current run in America.
In addition to reprinting the mainstream US comics, Panini also published a monthly (later every three weeks) oversized comic, entitled The Spectacular Spider-Man, for younger readers to accompany Spider-Man: The Animated Series, which began broadcasting in the UK in the mid-90s. Initially, the stories were simply reprints of the US comics based on the series, but eventually the title moved to all-new UK-originated stories, marking the first Marvel UK material featuring classic Marvel characters to be produced since early 1994.
Since then Panini extended their line to include other characters within the Marvel Universe. In addition to Essential X-Men and Astonishing Spider-Man came Wolverine Unleashed, in which Wolverine's solo comic was reprinted. The comic ran for 54 issues before it was renamed Wolverine & Gambit to allow reprints of the Gambit series, and subsequently Wolverine and Deadpool when the Gambit material had been exhausted and Deadpool was introduced as a replacement in 2004. Marvel Heroes Reborn was released in 1997, to introduce the new Heroes Reborn saga, and expand the range of characters in Marvel UK's lineup. It was initially published with only two strips (or 56 pages) but this was expanded to 76 pages (commonly 3 strips) from issue 17 onwards. Unfortunately, this title was short lived due to continuously lagging sales, and was eventually cancelled in 2000.
Later titles include Avengers United (later replaced by Avengers Unconquered), Fantastic Four Adventures, Marvel Legends featuring Captain America, Iron Man and Thor, a new The Mighty World of Marvel as well as the introduction of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, consisting of Ultimate Spider-Man and X-Men (which was originally two titles, which merged since it was reprinting the stories too fast for Marvel US to print them) and Ultimate Fantastic Four (cancelled because of low sales, and because it was only a few issues behind the US title by the end).
In March 2006, Marvel Entertainment and Panini S.p.A announced that they had "renewed and expanded their publishing agreement under which Panini retains a master license for producing translated versions of Marvel comics for Europe and selected Latin American countries. The new agreement includes a major expansion of editorial projects in which Panini will originate new content under the creative supervision of Marvel." This made them the "master license holder" for Europe and parts of Latin American and lead to the development of non-English language titles with Marvel, including Wolverine: Saudade, by Jean-David Morvan and Philippe Buchet, and Daredevil & Captain America: Dead On Arrival, by Tito Faraci and Claudio Villa.
Alongside these mainly reprint titles, Panini continues to print Doctor Who Magazine which still features originally produced comics by British creators, something Panini do in their other titles. This includes the first new Captain Britain story by a British creative team in over a decade which was created by Jim Alexander, Jon Haward and John Stokes in Spectacular Spider-Man (UK version) #114 published in March 2005. Also published from 2004 onwards was Marvel Rampage, which like Spectacular Spider-Man was aimed at a younger audience, and similarly featured all-new UK-originated material, this time featuring characters from all across the Marvel Universe. Several of those short stories were written by noted Spider-Man writer Roger Stern.
Panini also release their own range of trade paperbacks. These are all reprinted material from the American originals, and can be bought from their online shop. They have also been printing a seemingly highly successful series of A.T.O.M. comics, which followed on from their Action Man, though it was recently cancelled.
The UK site also has a popular forum, primarily for discussion of Panini Comics' publications and comics in general as well as promotion of British Comic Conventions. It has around 580 members and 580 posts as of August 2011. This closed down in March 2013 and a new forum was set up by its members.
A new title, Marvel Heroes, was launched in 2008, based on the general formula of Spectacular Spider-Man, with new comic stories from creators like Scott Gray, Al Ewing and John McCrea.
^ "Corporate Info Archived 2009-08-23 at the Wayback Machine." Panini Group. Retrieved on 5 September 2009.
^ "Marvel Renews & Expands Its Panini Deal: Share A Milo Manara 'Women of the X-Men' Graphic Novel," ICv2 (March 30, 2006).
^ "Deadpool Unleashed". Paninicomics.co.uk. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
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Why does everyone want to go to Japan? This is the question I was out to answer as I boarded my flight at New York’s JFK airport. For starters, direct flights are available from all over the United States, making the trip there a little easier than many other destinations in Asia. A short 13 hours at 30,000 feet, chasing a sun that never set and I was there.
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Have you ever considered getting an outdoor fireplace in your home? It may not be something that everyone thinks about, but if you have a large backyard or a patio there are a few reasons to consider it.
The first reason to consider getting an outdoor fireplace is the potential design issues you can solve with it. Fireplaces create great focal points, especially with a nice chimney. It can also help with structure and definition to a large open space, helping to create a boundary or anchor. The last thing that fireplaces do to help with design is create a warm look and feel, making your yard look welcoming.
Outdoor fires aren’t only for adding beauty; they help keep bugs away too. This is especially true for wood burning units. The smoke will make the bugs want to stay away from the area, allowing you to have outdoor fun without getting bitten. This also helps you extend your entertaining space, allowing you to move parties outdoors instead of confining them to indoors.
Putting a nice fireplace outside may also help increase the value of your home if you are planning to sell in the near future. Check out the many benefits and options of building an outdoor fireplace and start shopping around.
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Is the Australian economic health that vulnerable?
The Reserve Bank of Australia referred to the word “vulnerable” when talking about the health of the local economy. Yet, The Australian currency rose sharply after the employment data showed an increase.
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Context: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) can be an amazing urge to go legs that always occur during inactivity and during the night. Group requirements (IRLSSG) and experienced centered on demographic features and renal function had been included. This example has explained in main and supplementary forms. The previous usually happens in younger individuals and appears to have hereditary tendencies as well as the latter is because of the iron insufficiency state, being pregnant, and ESRD. Outcomes: Two main theories are created concerning the pathophysiology of RLS. The 1st one issues central nervous program dopamine imbalance and the next one issues intracellular iron dysregulation. The most frequent used pharmacologic Firategrast (SB 683699) supplier brokers in treatment of RLS are dopamine agonists. Additional used therapeutic brokers consist of levodopa, Alpha-2-delta calcium mineral route ligands, opioids, anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, Firategrast (SB 683699) supplier clonidine, iron therapy in low degrees of serum ferritin, and nonpharmacologic therapies. Conclusions: The main factor in analysis is physicians interest and clinical encounter with this problem and using IRLSSG. solid course=”kwd-title” Keywords: Restless Hip and legs Syndrome, SLEEP PROBLEMS, End-Stage Renal Disease 1. Intro Individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) encounter sleep disorders more often than normal populace do and regardless of the great impact of rest disturbances Mouse monoclonal to CD35.CT11 reacts with CR1, the receptor for the complement component C3b /C4, composed of four different allotypes (160, 190, 220 and 150 kDa). CD35 antigen is expressed on erythrocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, B -lymphocytes and 10-15% of T -lymphocytes. CD35 is caTagorized as a regulator of complement avtivation. It binds complement components C3b and C4b, mediating phagocytosis by granulocytes and monocytes. Application: Removal and reduction of excessive amounts of complement fixing immune complexes in SLE and other auto-immune disorder on the standard of living, it continues to be unrecognized by many renal health care companies. About 50% of individuals with ESRD are influenced by at least among the sleep problems including insomnia, rest apnea, extreme daytime sleepiness, restless hip and legs symptoms (RLS), and regular limb motion disorder (1, 2). Individuals with ESRD who are influenced by sleep problems are more vulnerable to cardiovascular occasions and ventricular redesigning, high blood circulation pressure, immunosuppression, and attacks, which can’t be justified by rest disorder only or rest de?cit unwanted effects that could leads to fatigue, anxiety, and depression (3). The mortality price in individuals on hemodialysis (HD) with RLS is usually greater than in those without this problem (4). RLS can be an amazing urge to go legs that Firategrast (SB 683699) supplier always happen during inactivity or at rest and turns into worse at night and night time. In 1945, Ekbom (5) offers launched RLS to medical books; nevertheless, Sir Tomas Willis experienced explained the symptoms 300 years previously (6). Because of the significant impact of RLS symptoms on rest quality, it’s rather a disabling condition. Alternatively, symptoms are often indescribable. Individuals who are influenced by RLS find it hard to explain or occasionally they make use of funny description like creepy or crawly feeling or occasionally they clarify it as discomfort, jitteriness, worms shifting, soda pop bubbling in the blood vessels, and itching bone fragments (7), making the analysis problematic Firategrast (SB 683699) supplier for clinician and it becomes skipped or underdiagnosed despite becoming basically curable. In the sever type of the condition this feeling in legs may possibly also involve various other areas of the body like sides, trunk, hands, as well as encounter but symptoms are more serious in hip and legs, which will be the initial affected component (7). Soon after engaging in bed, patients have got trouble in Firategrast (SB 683699) supplier drifting off to sleep (starting point of rest) or issues for getting back again to rest (maintaining rest). Symptoms tend to be improved by strolling or pacing the ground; therefore, they’re usually awake and strolling away or relocating the bed until midnight. Rest disruptions may lead to daytime sleepiness and exhaustion (8). RLS is certainly a lifelong disorder and even though it could have got a fluctuating training course, permanent remission is certainly uncommon (9). RLS may appear as a principal or supplementary disorder. The supplementary type is normally due to iron insufficiency anemia, being pregnant, or renal failing. Some studies have got reported that diabetes mellitus, Parkinsons disease, or different types of neuropathy are connected with RLS. Generally, two different phenotypes have already been de?ned with regards to the patients age group at onset of symptom, namely,.
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I am a male age 57. Last week I had a glucose reading at my doctor's office. The reading was 185. I weigh 284 pounds as of this morning and am trying to lose weight and get this reading down. What would a safe or a normal glucose reading be in my situation?
The diagnostic level for blood glucose to be called diabetes is a fasting blood glucose of 126 or more. I assume that the 185 was fasting (nothing to eat or drink for 8 hours). That means you have diabetes. The way to get it into control are to lose some weight, which you are working on, and increase your activity. I wouldn't go out and do a marathon right away, just start with a short walk each evening and gradually increase your time and speed. Your goal should be a blood sugar of 80-120 before meals, which will keep your blood glucose average at the level that we now know will give you the best chance for feeling good and staying healthy.
You should feel okay about taking a few months to work with meal planning and exercise to get there, and then if you haven't reached your goal, your doctor may want to start you on one of the oral medications. Don't hesitate to take medication to reach your goal: it's worth it!
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4 How do I Measure Employee Productivity Performance?
Productivity measures are a series of inputs calculated against a series of outputs. Using productivity measures for can help you determine how to maximize the use of your company's resources. Utilizing your company's resources to the fullest extent possible can help you achieve higher sales and revenue.
The average number of sales your employees make is a good measure of productivity because it helps you to determine how much your sales need to increase to justify hiring additional staff. To obtain an average of productivity of all your employees, divide net sales by the number of employees. For example, if your net sales are $10,000 and you have 10 employees, then $10,000/10=$1,000. This means your sales need to increase by $1,000 to justify the cost hiring one new staff member.
To measure each employee's productivity levels, you take their individual net sales and divide it by the number of hours they worked. Employees with higher individual net sales for the same amount of time worked are more productive than those with lower sales. For example, you have two employees, Andy and Alice, who work the same eight-hour shift. At the end of the shift, Andy has net sales of $2,400 and Alice has net sales of $1,600. Andy's productivity measure is $2,400/8=$300. This means Andy averaged $300 in sales per hour. Alice's productivity measure is $1,600/8=$200. Alice averaged only $200 in sales per hour and is therefore, less productive than Andy.
If you manufacture a product to sell, you can measure the productivity of the entire plant dividing number of products manufactured by the total number of hours worked for a specific period. For example, in January you have 10 employees who work one eight-hour shift per day, five days a week, for 40 hours a week each. That is a total of 400 hours a week and 1,600 hours for the month. Your plant produced 24,000 items in January. 24,000/1,600=15. This means your employees collectively produced 15 products per hour in January.
Measuring individual employee labor productivity can help you evaluate an employee's individual performance. The formula for individual employee productivity is employee labor hours divided by number of products produced by that employee during a given time period. For example, you have two employees: John, who works eight-hour shifts per day for 40 hours per week, and Jenny, who works five-hour shifts per day for 20 hours per week. John and Jenny work the same machine that produces lug nuts. At the end of the week, John's personal production is 1,000 lug nuts and Jenny's is 800. John's personal productivity level is 1,000/40=25 and Jenny's is 800/20=40. Even though Jenny works part-time, she is more productive with her time than John is because her personal production level is higher.
Carty, Sue-Lynn. "Formula for Measuring Productivity." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/formula-measuring-productivity-17402.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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We’ve all heard myths about sleep. Sometimes they can be characterized as “old wives’ tales,” but there are other times the incorrect information can be serious and even dangerous. For example, it’s often believed that snoring is common, and it’s often portrayed in movies and television shows in a comical manner. However, snoring can be a symptom of a life-threatening sleep disorder called sleep apnea, especially if it is accompanied by severe daytime sleepiness.
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A: Aren't you going to John's birthday party tonight?
B: What make/made you think so?
A: John is your best friend.
"Aren't you going to John's birthday party tonight?" = I think (now, in the present time) that you are going and I want you to confirm this; that is why I am asking you now.
A: You're going to John's birthday party tonight, aren't you?
Could you give me an example where 'What made you think so?' is used?
A: I called John yesterday night but you weren't at his party. Weren't you suppose to be there?
B: What made you think so?
New2grammar A: I called John yesterday night but you weren't at his party. Weren't you suppose to be there?
I called John yesterday night but you weren't at his party. Weren't you supposed to be there?
A: I knew John was/is your best friend.
Marius Hancu, how would B know whether A thought of it earlier and not at the moment of speaking? There is no way for B to read A's mind. Could you please provide an example that would show B has the knowledge on the time A does his thinking?
New2grammar Marius Hancu, how would B know whether A thought of it earlier and not at the moment of speaking?
He would be taking a guess (of course) that the thinking/decision was done earlier (made) or right then and there (makes).
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Article: At PABT, a $90 million bandaid for a gaping wound :: Second Ave. Sagas.
As Benjamin says, sooner or later, the PA will need to replace this, the third largest passenger terminal in Manhattan.
For the number of passengers, you’d think they’d have added a connection to the new extension of the 7 train, but no.
Oh, and it hasn’t looked like the image in years.
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This article is from an interview with Utah criminal defense attorney Jason Schatz. This portion is regarding how probation violations affect deferred judgments.
Interviewer: If someone has been sentenced to a deferred adjudication, will a probation violation affect that?
Attorney Schatz: Yes. In Utah, we have what’s called a “plea in abeyance” (or PIA for short). Under the terms of a plea in abeyance, an individual may be pleading guilty to some or all of the charges, but rather than entering it as a conviction on their record, the plea is then held in abeyance, or in essence, held in limbo based on their compliance with the sentence and probation. If they comply, then at the end of the probationary period, the defendant gets to move to withdraw his plea and have the charge dismissed. However, if during that probationary period, there is an allegation that the person has failed to comply with any of the terms of the plea in abeyance, then they’re allowed to have a hearing. If the court finds that they failed to comply with the terms of the plea in abeyance, the judge has a couple of options, depending on the nature of the non-compliance. Sometimes the judge will revoke and reinstate the plea in abeyance for an additional period of time with additional conditions. If they choose not to revoke and reinstate, and they instead revoke the plea in abeyance, what happens then is the individual’s conviction that was held in abeyance is then formally entered on the person’s criminal record. It’s then scheduled for sentencing on the conviction.
At that point, it’s as though they’re being sentenced the very first time, and the court can impose anything from community service, fines, counseling, additional probation, and jail time— but the person has lost the benefit of not having that conviction entered. Interviewer: What happens to the violator’s criminal record then? Attorney Schatz: The conviction would be reported to the Bureau of Criminal Identification to be placed on the person’s criminal history, as well as to the Driver License Division if it involved an offense that triggers a suspension or any sort of reporting requirement to the Driver License Division.
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Question: When a bank sues to recover an overdraft created by a Nigerian-style email scam, which party has the burden of proof on the question of whether, in the context of section 3406 of the Commercial Code, the bank acted negligently—the bank or the overdraft account holder?
Answer: The account holder, according to the Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, in Chino Commercial Bank, N.A. vs. Peters (E049170), decided May 25, 2010.
Oddly enough, this scheme still works sometimes.
Appellant Brian Peters agreed to a proposal that his corporation would receive money supposedly owed to an individual in Malaysia and then pay the money out as directed in exchange for a 15% fee. His corporation received over $800,000 and deposited them in an account at Chino Commercial Bank. The company then had the Bank pay out $468,000. Thereafter, all the checks the company deposited bounced and created an overdraft.
The Bank filed suit against the corporation and Peters (who had signed the account agreement rendering him liable for any account shortage) and obtained a right to attach order against Peters. Ruling for the Bank, the trial court concluded that under section 3406 of the Commercial Code, Peters had the burden of proving the Bank was negligent (which he had not done). It also expressed concern that Peters, despite being negligent himself, "then looks to the bank and says, you should have prevented me from doing that."
The court of appeal affirmed. It began its analysis by quoting subdivision (a) of section 3406, which states that, "a person whose failure to exercise ordinary care contributes to an alteration of an instrument or to the making of a forged signature on an instrument is precluded from asserting the alteration or the forgery against a person who, in good faith, pays the instrument or takes it for value or for collection." The court held that it was undisputed the Bank was a "person who, in good faith, pa[id] the instrument or t[ook] for value or for collection." The court noted that in this context, "good faith" simply means that the Bank "acted honestly and in accordance with reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing."
Next, the court of appeal noted there was "ample evidence" that Peters failed to exercise ordinary care and thus contributed to the alteration of the checks. (Indeed, Peters conceded that he was "less than smart in moving forward on the transaction.…") Under subdivision (b) of section 3406, however, if the Bank, too, failed to exercise ordinary care in a way that contributed to the loss, the loss "must be allocated between the Bank and Peters." Citing subdivision (c) of the statute, the court of appeal held that Peters had the burden of proving the Bank was negligent—the Bank was not required to prove it was not negligent. Concluding he had not come close to doing so, the court affirmed the right to attach order.
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Will my blackbaud.com password expire after a certain amount of time?
Is there an expiration on the blackbaud.com password?
No, there is no expiration time on the blackbaud.com password.
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This article is about the city in Connecticut. See New Haven (disambiguation) for other places of the same name.
New Haven is the third-largest city in Connecticut, and is located in the New Haven County, Connecticut on the northern coast of Long Island Sound. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 123,626.
It was founded in 1638 as New Haven Colony by Puritans who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony, hoping to establish a religious community and to take advantage of the excellent harbor.
In 1661, the judges who had signed the death warrant of Charles I of England under the Commonwealth took refuge in New Haven.
New Haven became part of the Connecticut Colony in 1664. It was made co-capital of Connecticut in 1701, a status it retained until 1873.
New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784. It grew rapidly during the 19th century, fueled largely by the cotton and small-arms businesses.
New Haven's federal district court was the location for the trial of the Amistad mutineers.
Yale University, which moved to New Haven in 1718, is one of the city's largest employers. Other important employers are small-arms manufacturing and the oil port. The city is connected to New York City by both intercity and commuter rail, and some New Haven residents commute to work in New York City (a trip of close to two hours).
As of the census of 2000, there are 123,626 people, 47,094 households, and 25,854 families residing in the city. The population density is 2,532.2/km² (6,558.4/mi²). There are 52,941 housing units at an average density of 1,084.4 persons/km² (2,808.5 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 43.46% White, 37.36% African American, 0.43% Native American, 3.90% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 10.89% from other races, and 3.91% from two or more races. 21.39% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 47,094 households out of which 29.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 27.5% are married couples living together, 22.9% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 45.1% are non-families. 36.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.40 and the average family size is 3.19.
The median income for a household in the city is $29,604, and the median income for a family is $35,950. Males have a median income of $33,605 versus $28,424 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,393. 24.4% of the population and 20.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 32.2% are under the age of 18 and 17.9% are 65 or older.
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