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In late March we completed the aerification on the course, and I tend to get a lot of inquiries into the reason golf courses have to do this maintenance practice.
Aerating our turf is an important part of maintaining the golf course. There are three main reasons why we aerate. The first is to relieve compaction. Relieving compaction makes the turf softer and allows for easier movement of water and nutrients. Certain weeds, such as goose grass also thrive in compacted soils. The second reason is to allow air into the soil profile. While water is important for root health, the roots also need air to thrive. Roots can rot out and be susceptible to certain diseases if excessive moisture persists. The third reason we aerate is physical removal of thatch. Thatch is a natural layer of organic material that exists because of the natural life cycle of the plant. While a thin layer of thatch is desired to help cushion the crowns of the plants and make the turf softer, excessive thatch can cause a myriad of problems. While aeration can be time consuming and a little messy, it is vital to maintain a healthy golf course. Healthy grass begins with healthy roots, and healthy roots begin with healthy soils!
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I'm interested in a network/site license. What are my options for installing in a networked environment?
Install everything on each workstation: The benefits of installing Sketchpad and its supporting files directly on each local workstation are that it maximizes program speed and minimizes network traffic. The disadvantages to this approach are that it takes up more space than other options on each local workstation's hard disk, and that you have to install to (or copy to) each machine on your network. For convenience, you may wish to install first from the CD-ROM to the server and then copy the Sketchpad folder from the server to local workstations over the network (rather than install from CD-ROM on each workstation).
If you are a Windows system administrator who uses MSI to handle bulk installations, an MSI file for Sketchpad is available.
Install everything on the server only: If you install the CD-ROM to a network-accessible directory or volume on your server, the program runs entirely from the network. The advantages of this approach are convenience of installation (you install only once) and convenience of further maintenance (upgrades, etc., need only be made to the server). The disadvantage is increased network traffic as workstations access the server. In school computer labs, this traffic will be most noticeable when starting Sketchpad (as each client accesses the server at the same time). On slow-response networks, teachers can work around this by encouraging students to start Sketchpad as soon as they get to the lab rather than only once they're ready to begin using the software (after attendance and class startup).
This strategy is also the only choice if your workstations are diskless "thin clients."
Hybrid installations: Other installation strategies are also possible, in which part of the Sketchpad distribution lives on the server and other parts live on the local workstation. In hybrid installations, we recommend performing a full installation from the CD-ROM to an accessible server directory or volume, and then copying parts of the installed folder to local workstations to increase local access speed and decrease network traffic.
A good strategy for hybrid installations is to copy all parts of the installation except for Sketchpad Help to local workstations. This requires ~5MB per workstation, rather than ~16MB, and guarantees that all frequently accessed files are available locally. When users request program help while using Sketchpad, they will be asked to locate the "Sketchpad Help" folder, at which point they can navigate to the server directory. Since access to Sketchpad Help happens sporadically (if at all) during program use, different workstations are unlikely to compete with each other at the same moment for access to Sketchpad Help.
If you leave Sketchpad Help on the server but install the application locally, consider creating and copying an "alias" or a "shortcut" to the Sketchpad Help server folder onto each workstation. If this alias or shortcut is also named "Sketchpad Help," and if it resides next to the Sketchpad application on the local workstation, then Sketchpad will locate the server-based Sketchpad Help folder automatically when users request help and not require them to navigate to the remote Help folder themselves.
If you install all or some of Sketchpad in a write-protected network, you may also wish to review information about Sketchpad's Read/Write Access of Networked Servers.
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Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is famous for founding the Hershey Chocolate Company, which became one of the largest and most famous candy companies in the world. He also founded the company town of Derry Township, Pennsylvania, built to house his workers and provide a good living environment for them complete with parks and recreational facilities, schools, churches, and a hospital. It was later named "Hershey" in his honor. Hershey's chocolates became world famous, particularly the signature "kiss," which Hershey introduced in 1907. Hershey's life is an example of the "American Dream," as, with persistence, he rose from poverty to success and wealth. Hershey did not succumb to the temptations of power and riches, however, but rather spent his time and money on his family and on improving the lives of those who worked for him.
Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857 on a farm near Derry Church, in rural Dauphin County in Pennsylvania. His parents, Fannie Snavely and Henry Hershey, of German and Swiss heritage, were members of Pennsylvania's Mennonite community. Milton’s mother raised her son in a strict discipline of Mennonite faith. His sister Serena died in 1867, at the age of five.
Hershey’s father was an entrepreneur, however not a successful one. Most of his endeavors to make money for his family ended up in failure, what caused lot of stress on young Milton. He dropped out of school in the fourth grade, and on his father's initiative, started an apprenticeship with Samuel Ernst, a Lancaster printer who printed publications in German language. Milton, however, had no interest in printing, and soon returned back home to his family.
In 1872 Hershey’s mother arranged for her son to start an apprenticeship at the Lancaster confectionery shop owned by Joseph Royer. He liked the job so much that he decided, at the age of nineteen, to open his own candy business in Philadelphia. His mother and her sister provided moral and financial support for the business. In 1880, a family friend, William Lebkicher joined Hershey as a bookkeeper, and from then on played a significant role in all of Hershey’s endeavors.
However, despite everything, Hershey’s business failed, and he returned back to his family. He joined his father to a trip to Colorado, where his father tried, again unsuccessfully, to mine silver. In Denver, Hershey worked for a candy manufacturer who taught him some important lessons on how to make candy, especially the importance of fresh milk.
Upon his return home in 1883, Hershey decided to try again to open the candy business, this time in New York City. His shop was located on Sixth Avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-third Streets. However, due to harsh competition and insufficient capital, his business failed again. He returned home to Pennsylvania, shamed in front of his family who suffered the loss of funds invested in his business.
With the help of his friend William Lebkicher, who lent him some money, Hershey started making caramel candies. This time he had luck. An English importer of candies was so impressed by the taste and quality of Hershey’s caramels, that he made a large order of caramels, one that made Hershey enough money to launch his caramel-manufacturing business. His Lancaster Caramel Company was opened in 1894. He also started to bake chocolate and cocoa coating for the caramels, under the name of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
His business started to flourish and Hershey soon became one of the most successful businessmen in Lancaster and a millionaire. He traveled around the world to visit different caramel factories and learn new methods of making candy. In 1891, he purchased a large mansion in Lancaster and started to socialize with famous people. In 1897, he purchased the family homestead in Derry Church, where he was born.
In 1898, at the age of 41, Hershey married Catherine Elisabeth Sweeney. The marriage came as a surprise to his family, for Catherine was of the Roman Catholic faith. The couple settled in Lancaster, where Hershey lived with his mother. Milton and Catherine traveled around the world, and enjoyed a happy and loving marriage relationship.
Around 1900 Hershey decided to turn to the chocolate business. He sold his Lancaster Caramel Company for $1 million, and built a chocolate factory in Derry Township. The area was perfectly suited for the factory, with plenty of dairy farms in its vicinity. By the mid-1900s the factory and Hershey’s new mansion were completed. Hershey provided his employees with a beautiful environment, large parks, and gorgeous public gardens. He built a whole city surrounding the factory, and the company helped its employees to build their own houses. The town was named “Hershey” in 1906.
Hershey's Kisses filled with Caramel.
In 1907, Hershey introduced a new candy, small flat-bottomed conical-shaped pieces of chocolate that he named "Hershey's Kisses." Initially they were individually wrapped by hand in squares of foil, and the introduction of machine wrapping in 1921 simplified the process while adding the small paper ribbon to the top of the package to indicate that it was a genuine Hershey product. The product went on to become one of the most successful and well-known products ever produced by the company. In 2007, in a rare embrace of a commercial product on a first-class stamp, the U.S. Postal Service marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Hershey's Kisses by placing an image of one on its Love Stamp.
Milton and Catherine Hershey were unable to have children of their own. They decided to establish a school for orphaned boys. Hershey turned over his birthplace, which was near the factory, to serve as a home and school for the boys. The school was named the Hershey Industrial School (later known as the Milton Hershey School).
Hershey’s wife Catherine died on March 25, 1915, after long and debilitating illness. Hershey tried everything to save her life, and invested much of his fortune to find a cure for her illness. After her death, he continued to focus his life on business.
During World War I he started to produce his own sugar in Cuba, compensating for the lack of sugar coming from Europe. His factory continued to produce chocolate even in the time of Great Depression. He even expanded the production, providing jobs for new workers. He built a hospital, dining, and recreational facilities, and a theater.
By the end of his life Hershey started to withdraw from active duty in his company. He however continued to live a rich social life. Biographers from all over the nation started to write about his life, typical of the “American dream.” Even the American Rose Society named a rose in his honor.
During World War II, despite his advancing years, Hershey engaged in support of the troops. He encouraged the research of a special chocolate that would not melt in a hot weather, so that the soldiers could eat it wherever they were. Hershey and the Hershey Chocolate Corporation were awarded an Army-Navy “E” flag for their war effort.
Milton Hershey died on October 13, 1945 in the Hershey Hospital in Pennsylvania.
Hershey rose from poverty to become one of the most well-known, successful people in the world. He founded the Hershey Chocolate Corporation which at one point was the largest and most famous chocolate manufacturing plant in the world. Surrounding the plant, Hershey built a town and developed the whole region. He cared for the needs of his employees, giving them not only a healthy and beautiful environment for work, but also a place for recreation. He built parks, gardens, a sport center, amusement park, swimming pool, churches, and a trolley system. He founded the Hershey Industrial School and the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The hospital today is a teaching hospital and is part of the Pennsylvania State University.
Coyle, M. L. 2006. Milton S. Hershey. Hershey - Derry Township Historical Society. Retrieved March 23, 2007.
Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company – Website of Hershey company.
Invention of the Hershey's milk chocolate bar – How Hershey found the recipe for Hershey chocolate.
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I have been thinking lately that if part of you’re strategy is submitting your web site to directories for better exposure to masses, then you need to weigh the various advantages and disadvantages of directory submissions for your respective web site. Below are some pros and cons of directory submissions in my humble opinion.
2. Anchor Text: You need to select skilled SEO writers to write good SEO articles for your content to ensure that your keywords rank top in search engines.
3. Screenshots: Quality web site directories and SEO service providers offer automatic screenshots for your web site to help you provide referral visits to your web site.
4. Deep Links: They are exceedingly helpful, if obtained from certain professional SEO services. Web sites with deep links are likely to perform much better than other web sites lacking them.
Remember that directory submissions are a long-term SEO strategy and not a link strategy. Hence, do not expect extreme inbound traffic from your directory submissions, but instead like everything else in organic SEO… have patience.
Overall, there are more advantages than disadvantages to directory submissions, and your web site can gain quality traffic from a well-studied plan of submission.
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How to recover deleted WeChat messages One thing you need to know is that creating regular backups is very important. Using platforms such as iCloud or iTunes to back up iPhone data will ensure that recovering deleted WeChat messages is a hassle-free exercise.... You can simply delete your favorite messages on WeChat by simply going to `My Favorites` tab and just tap / hold the message or swipe it to the left on the chat. If you are using a keyboard mobile device then simply go to Options then Delete.
You can simply delete your favorite messages on WeChat by simply going to `My Favorites` tab and just tap / hold the message or swipe it to the left on the chat. If you are using a keyboard mobile device then simply go to Options then Delete.
You can preview choose to select some messages in a chat, or select some entire chats to permanently delete from iPhone WeChat. Not only WeChat messages, but also WeChat photos, videos, files, etc. are supported to erase.
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Otherwise, the pointer would point to an address that it's only valid one process and other processes may crash when accessing to that address. If a region covers the second half of a file and flushes the whole region, only the half of the file is guaranteed to have been flushed. I cannot use the airport utility. (It doesn't find a modem). The server is on a well secured, wired LAN network and behind a proxy server.
Files and memory can be treated using the same functions. After that, a client process opens the shared memory, maps it, and checks that the data is correctly initialized:: #include #include #include #include #include #include To enable virtual functions for objects shared between processes, deep compiler changes are needed and virtual functions would suffer a performance hit. All users are out of system, why is it not working?
When constructing a class with static members, each process has its own copy of the static member, so updating a static member in one process does not change the value of Look for ways to eliminate uncertainty by anticipating people's concerns. Most questions get a response in about a day. If it becomes 0 and the segment is marked for deletion, the segment is deleted.
shared_memory_object shm (create_only, "MySharedMemory", read_write); //Set size shm.truncate(1000); //Map the whole shared memory in this process mapped_region region(shm, read_write); //Write all the memory to 1 std::memset(region.get_address(), 1, region.get_size()); //Launch child process BHATTPHI Learning Pvt. I am not on a network. Let's repeat the same example presented for the portable shared memory object: A server process creates a shared memory object, maps it and initializes all the bytes to a value.
Of course, a pointer placed in a mapped region shared between processes should only point to an object of that mapped region. Reply Matthew says: December 7, 2012 at 10:39 am this does not mean my computer is hacked is it :O ( >_>) Reply Get a New IP Address on iPhone or A wall of text can look intimidating and many won't read it, so break it up. I get this message once a week or so.
One can, for example, mix in STL containers mapped regions from shared memory and memory mapped files. Thanks. The problem goes away when I connect with wifi but I prefer to use ethernet as the connection runs faster (roughly sixty people use the wifi on my floor alone). The class represents a memory region that has been mapped from a shared memory or from other devices that have also mapping capabilities (for example, files).
This is due to the fact that the operating system performs mapping operations over whole pages. You would have quickly found the following: Error When Updating "Shared file path is being updated" Problem Description When attempting to download and install an update, the following message The remove operation might fail returning false if the shared memory does not exist, the file is open or the file is still memory mapped by other processes: using boost::interprocess; shmdt() shmdt() detaches the shared memory segment located at the address specified by shmaddr from the address space of the calling process.
Ive tried unplugin it but to no avail pls help i have macbook pro running of just wireless with full bars but it goes in n out an gives the device Upon _exit(2), all attached shared memory segments are detached from the process. The chapter on OS Security is also revised in this edition to reflect the importance of secured engineering practices in OS usage patterns. Using shmat() with shmaddr equal to NULL is the preferred, portable way of attaching a shared memory segment.
Native windows shared memory has also another limitation: a process can open and map the whole shared memory created by another process but it can't know which is the size of I have never set up any sort of network with my ethernet and as far as I am aware all of my security is up to date, so is someone possibly shm_lpid is set to the process-ID of the calling process. Our local network (3 mac-pros connected to the mini-mac server) immediately crashed.
shm_nattch is decremented by one. However, the file contents on disk are not updated immediately, since that would hurt performance (writing to disk is several times slower than writing to memory). This is in the documentation exactly nowhere. The coverage of Linux, Windows Vista, VxWorks and OS for mobile/handheld devices, such as Android, continues the tradition of upgrading the book to contemporary OS.
On Linux, it is possible to attach a shared memory segment even if it is already marked to be deleted. Choose Network. Any suggestions? This worked for me when trying to connect with a new install of Lion on a second machine.
Reply Carol Tipton says: September 12, 2012 at 4:06 pm I wasnt on airport or wi-fi and am on a wired network with just a modem. On two occations, I found my (I am on a contract with a limited amount of Internet data per month) data being used much too quickly, and then got the message And those copies are made using operating system calls that normally are expensive. Yes No George4Tacks , Enrolled Agent (1975) AllStar 2 comments × Close Why do you want to report this?
In a minute or so, out of nowhere a file downloaded to my dl folder. Be clear and state the answer right up front. Allows efficient work with a large files, without mapping the whole file into memory If several processes use the same file mapping to create mapped regions of a file, each process' This function can fail if the shared memory objects does not exist or it's opened by another process.
A Simple Example Let's reproduce the same example described in the shared memory section, using memory mapped files. The client uses the network functions to copy the data from the OS's internal memory to its own memory. On a successful shmdt() call, the system updates the members of the shmid_ds structure associated with the shared memory segment as follows: shm_dtime is set to the current time. When processes are related via fork() operating system call in UNIX systems a simpler method is available using anonymous shared memory.
Changes in that address range are automatically seen by other process that also have mapped the same shared memory object. This is necessary on some architectures, in order either to ensure good CPU cache performance or to ensure that different attaches of the same segment have consistent views within the CPU Fixed Address Mapping The use of relative pointers is less efficient than using raw pointers, so if a user can succeed mapping the same file or shared memory object in the When no other word will do, explain technical terms in plain English.
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think its benefits relate to its price.
The customer value equation works the same way except that customers look for different benefits.
Considering the views of the consumer and the customer and taking into account the activity in the competitive environment is key to successful pricing.
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Claim: these instruments are smarter, safer and easier and are the most exciting development in HVAC instruments since the Smart Probes.
For more than 55 years, Testo has stood for innovative measuring solutions. The self-described world market leader is now ushering in a new era — and revolutionizing electrical measuring technology with ground-breaking HVAC measuring instruments. Unique technologies mean HVAC technicians can measure electrical measurement parameters more easily and reliably than ever before.
Launching July 1, these new electrical instruments have been developed from decades of Testo experience, made especially for HVAC technicians. Including a hook-clamp digital multimeter, an auto-test digital multimeter, current/voltage meter, digital voltage tester, and a non-contact AC voltage tester, these powerful, rugged and accurate instruments come with exclusive features to simplify work. They are smarter, safer and easier and are the most exciting development in HVAC instruments since the Smart Probes.
Testo, Inc. develops and manufactures handheld test and measurement instrumentation for numerous markets including HVACR, Emission Monitoring, Food, Pharmaceuticals, Energy, Life Sciences and many other industries. Additionally, Testo is recognized as a leading global manufacturer of portable combustion efficiency and emission analyzers, temperature, pressure, moisture, and thermal imaging test and measurement instruments. Backed by over 50 years of measuring engineering experience and expertise, Testo’s mission is to provide the best quality, service and value in test and measurement instrumentation.
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Number of people read this Article: 3231 Have you read this article?
Indian Oil Corporation has overtaken Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to become India’s most profitable state-owned company.
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries retained the crown of being India’s most profitable private company for the third year in a row, posting a net Rs. 29,901 crore in financial year 2016-17.
Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software services exporter, with a net profit of Rs. 26,357 crore was the second most profitable private company in the country.
Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in Singapore located on the affluent Orchard Road.
Nagpur has become India’s first city to have electric mass mobility system. Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari, along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has inaugurated India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project at the Nagpur Airport Complex.
It will have a fleet of 200 electric vehicles including taxis, buses, e-rickshaw and autorickshaws, all of which will be fully owned by cab aggregator Ola supplied by Mahindra & Mahindra group’s Mahindra Electric, Kinetic Green Energy and Power Solutions has supplied 100 e-rickshaws, Kinetic Safar.
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project and Ola electric charging station in Nagpur on 26 May 2017.
Vadodara in Gujarat created a new Guinness world record for the maximum number of people sweeping a single venue as 5,058 residents of the city came together to achieve the feat at the venue which was a bridge that connected Akota, an urban area.
The event was organised as a tribute to prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ initiative.
Actress Priyanka Chopra will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award for being an international icon award in the ceremony will be held on June 1, 2017 in Mumbai.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema and it was established in 1969 and first recipient of this award was Devika Rani.
The Manipur government has declared area of 11.35 sq km in Dailong village of Tamenglong district as a Biodiversity Heritage Site of the state under Section 37(1) of Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
The declaration was made after the recommendation of Manipur Biodiversity Board, the state government has stated in the notification.
77-year old Dr. Najma Heptulla, the Manipur Governor and former Minority Affairs Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet, was appointed as the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) on 29 May 2017 and has succeeded Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M.A. Zaki, who completes his five-year term this month.
She has been a five-time member of the Rajya Sabha, and its Deputy Chairman for sixteen years.
Jamia Millia Islamia was established during British rule in 1920 and was accorded the status of central university in 1988.
The Union Health Ministry on 27 May 2017 confirmed that three cases of Zika were reported from Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad (Gujarat) in January 2017.
The case was confirmed by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune on January 4 this year. Two additional cases were identified through surveillance.
The Zika virus is transmitted through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also transmits dengue and chikungunya.
The Pune city police have received the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) Smart Police Award for the year 2017.
On 26 May 2017 47-year old Amul Thapar became only the second Indian-American judge of an appeals court as his appointment was confirmed by a 52-44 vote.
Earleir Shri Srinivasan, who was appointed to the DC circuit court of appeals by President Barak Obama and confirmed in 2013, is the first Indian American ever to be named as judge to the American counterpart of India’s High Courts.
In the 70th edition of Cannes Festival. Swedish art satire “The Square” directed by Ruben Ostlund, won the prestigious Palme d’Or (Golden Palm).
The best director award went to Sofia Coppola for ‘The Beguiled’, a drama about an injured soldier.
Grand Prix award was won by “BPM (Beats per Minute)”.
Best actor was won by Joaquin Phoenix for ‘You Were Never Really Here’ while Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award for her role in ‘In the Fade’.
C.A. Bhavani Devi created history by becoming first-ever Indian to win gold medal in the sabre event of the Turnoi Satellite Fencing Championship held at Reykjavik in Iceland on 27 May 2017.
Bhavani Devi from Chennai beat Sarah Jane Hampson of Great Britain 15-13 on points. Earlier she had beaten another British fencer Jessica Corby 15-11 in the semifinal.
South Korea won Badminton's Sudirman Cup after 14 years.
South Korea won by 3-2 victory over 10-time champions China at Australia's Gold Coast.
Earlier South Korea won the Sudirman Cup in 1991 and 1993.
Union Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO)’s new Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Karnataka.
This ATR is a facility under the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) which works on a range of UAVs (unmanned air vehicles).
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Have you ever seen two fish bump into each other?
The underwater world is an assault of sensory signals. Sound, for example from crashing waves, travels over twice as fast in water than it does in air. Smells, ranging from mating hormones to decaying organisms, clash against each other like instruments in an orchestra and would be overwhelming to us if we had noses sensitive enough to detect them. Light is changing constantly, with the different wavelengths becoming increasingly filtered out with depth until animals are left navigating waters so dark that they would be impossible to penetrate with human eyes.
But despite the chaos, fish are able to identify predators, prey and potential mates with lightning reflexes and take the appropriate action within milliseconds. This is thanks to a super-human sensing mechanism called the lateral line, which gives the fish a sixth sense with which to navigate in their watery habitat.
Sometimes visible as a dark strip running along the fish from fin to tail, the lateral line consists of minuscule bundles of hair that can be either attached to the surface of the scales or slightly submerged in channels below the skin. These hairs work similarly to whiskers on a cat, bending in response to any change in the flow of water around the fish. Cells at the base of the hairs then send messages to the brain, containing information on the scale, speed, and direction of the disturbance. This can then be interpreted to give information about the size and shape, and therefore species and likely friendliness, of anything moving in the local area. The ability to identify friend from foe by the flick of its tail is an invaluable tool of survival.
Seas and oceans are one of the least understood habitats on earth, with vast areas being simply too inaccessible to explore. As space on land is becoming rapidly exhausted, we are extending further and deeper into the oceans to source food, generate energy and hunt for new minerals and medicines. Faced with challenges such as the extreme pressure and low temperatures, increasingly we are depending on the work of underwater robots to bring us information on the chemistry, physics, and biology of the deep sea. Engineers looking to improve the performance and capabilities of these underwater robots have found inspiration in the lateral line to improve the performance of these robots.
Researchers in Germany and the US have independently come up with two different systems that recreate the processes that take place in the lateral line hairs. Integrated into underwater robotic technology, these systems could create a robot with much greater perceptions of their surroundings. Traditionally, operators would rely on images from video and sonar to navigate and direct the actions of the robot underwater. Both of these technologies are limited, as they can only provide information on the small area that they are pointing at Imagine only being able to view the world through a toilet roll tube – it’s a bit like that.
Lateral lines could provide a much more detailed 3D picture of the surrounding environment, allowing more informed decisions about how the robot should proceed. The more information available about the surrounding area, including any obstacles, the greater the chance of the robot completing its mission as efficiently and safely as possible. For example, if the battery is running low, the lateral line would be able to identify nearby areas of low water movement where the robot can go to rest and conserve energy out of the current. Taking inspiration from nature, and building robots that can sense like fish, scientists can expect to soon be announcing plenty more exciting discoveries from the mysterious deep ocean.
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Did you know that 10-year-olds are nearly 16 times more creative than adults? Young people not only care about society's problems, but they have a lot to contribute. I am looking to create a film that will demonstrate the importance of involving youth in finding new solutions.
For the past three years, I have been committed to helping young people get involved in social change through my organization, Youth Powerhouse (www.youthpowerhouse.org). We have had a lot of success in supporting and inspiring young people to take on their own action projects, but have not yet been able to widely spread awareness of our cause. Youth involvement is an incredibly important but underrecognized cause, because many youth are passionate about social issues but are limited to the simple acts of volunteering and fundraising. This film would show the power of inviting youth to act on their own voices and ideas for positive change, and in so doing inspire schools and nonprofit organizations to innovate to find new ways of harnessing the incredible power of young people.
We will have $1,000 to make this happen, much of which could go to the costs of film production/editing. We could have several in-person meetings, but most work would be individual. I have developed general guidelines for the content of this video but am open to new ideas for translating this into film.
A filmmaker that believes in the power of youth-driven social change and would like to collaborate to make a creative video that supports this cause.
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The Battle of Poltava was a resounding victory for Peter the Great. He defeated Charles the XII and 14,000 Swedish cavalry with a superior force of 45,000 Russian soldiers. The battle lasted all day with the outnumbered Swedish soldiers making several valiant efforts against the superior Russian forces. Ultimately the Swedish soldiers had taken too many losses to effectively continue the battle and Charles retreated to Moldavia for five years before he could finally return to Sweden. The captured Swedish soldiers were taken to St. Petersburg and they helped to build the great city.
What are the implications these battles have for the modern corporation? Charles of Sweden underestimated the skills of the new Russian cavalry under the innovative leadership of Peter the Great. Hitler underestimated the Russian resolve and the Russian winter that decimated his blitzkrieg. Corporations also make similar mistakes in judgment. Leaders assume that prior supremacy will sustain the organization even when an upstart challenger enters their field of excellence. Charles assumed that the legacy of the powerful Swedish cavalry could not be matched by the new Russian horse soldiers. The skills of the entrepreneurial organization are not to be underestimated. Peter the Great made this point at Poltava. The power of a discontinuous innovation will propel the upstart to the market space and the mature market share will erode. Customers have proven to be disloyal unless they have become advocates of a particular product or service. Other organizations believe that their superior capital will protect them from any onslaught. They also believe that a swift response to competition will quench any threat. The next generation of an existing product or service remedies all challenges. Or at least they hope this is the case. The fickle and ever-changing competitive landscape can render these advantages useless as the money follows the features and benefits of the function being provided. The prevalent corporate force can find itself unprepared for the challenges ahead as the Third Reich experienced as it forayed into Russia.
If Charles had not underestimated his opponent he would not have brought 14, 000 soldiers to battle 45,000. If Hitler had not assumed that his previous victories would be replicated in Russia without consideration of the famous Russian resolve and the accompanying infamous Russian winter things would have been much different. So too, if the corporate leaders of today will prepare for the foe that is coming after their market share, they will not be defeated. Complacency will be their undoing. Leaders must embrace the science of innovation as they have the sciences of productivity and quality. This is the first step in dodging that exile that Charles found himself facing.
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Paris (CNN)A collective of 100 French women including film star Catherine Deneuve have signed an open letter defending men's "freedom to pester" women, sparking an angry response from a group of feminist activists.
Deneuve and others argue that while the Harvey Weinstein scandal had led to a "legitimate wake-up call to the sexual violence exercised against women," the "fever" of publicly denouncing abusers "really only serves the enemies of sexual freedom."
I am beginning to think that no one expects women to make any sense on this subject.
When those women wore black at the Golden Globes, were they trying to make a statement that they too had traded sexual favors to get movie roles? And when women complain about sexual harassment, how many of them are just trying to brag that they are pretty enough to attract male attention. Most of these complainers appear to be seriously mentally disturbed.
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Be involved in the process. When trying to develop a successful PR strategy, it is important to be present during the critical stages of development. Being involved in the early stages can help ensure that the framework for your PR strategy reflects your company as a strong industry leader. This will help the company receive good publicity. In addition, ensure that you review the template your marketing executive designs to help your company get the right attention.
Let your voice be heard. It is crucial to establish yourself as an authority in the industry, and let your presence be known. Your strategy should be designed so that any media attention becomes an opportunity for the CEO to demonstrate their professional expertise. To do so, design campaigns that allow the top executives of the company to be the first point of discussion.
Create your media. Owned media, such as your company blog, can be a powerful asset by driving an effective PR campaign. This can help create more awareness about your internal operations. Media representatives can rely on your company’s website, or other media, to better understand what your company is all about. Particularly with startup companies, owned media is critical in directing the focus of their audience.
Involve experienced professionals. Getting the attention of the media in the early stages can often be tough. However, hiring a PR agency can give you the head start that you need. Letting an experienced professional PR company handle your PR will take a lot of weight off your shoulders. Once your company has more media presence, you may be able to switch to an in-house team.
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Vacations for Couples in the U.S.
Though the appeal of a Mediterranean cruise or week in Paris is substantially clear, couples looking to plan a romantic vacation needn't look any further than the boundaries of the United States. With a vast terrain of mountains, beaches, ranches and plains, America has an abundance of destinations for relaxation and adventure. Couples can take navigated tours, map out their own custom itineraries or spend time at an all-inclusive resort.
The towering cliffs and lush vineyards of Northern California make it an ideal spot for romantic getaways. In Carmel-by-the-Sea, stroll through the art galleries and shops in the downtown area. Afterwards, dine on duck ravioli and seared ahi tuna at The Grill on Ocean Avenue, one of the 10 Best Restaurants on Monterey Peninsula, as named by Epicurean Rendezvous. Wine lovers may prefer journeying inland to the wine region. In Sonoma, hop around the tasting rooms that dot the city plaza. While in Napa Valley, take a hot air balloon ride with a champagne brunch or surprise your partner with a wine tour and limo ride.
Nestled in the picturesque Poconos Mountains, Paradise Stream is one of three Cove Haven resorts that specifically cater to couples. Choose from several different suites, including the Greek goddess-inspired Diana's Oasis, which features a log fireplace, round bed with Roman columns and heated private pool. During the day at the resort, take a paddleboat ride with your partner or go horseback riding through the woods. At night, enjoy cocktails and live entertainment in the lounge or dress up for several theme nights, including Tropical Beach and Mardi Gras.
Active couples may enjoy Austin Lehman's six-day biking and hiking tour through Utah. Stroll past flowing waterfalls and lush gardens at the Virgin River Narrows in Zion. Hike the rock formations of Queens Garden Trails and take a sunset bike journey through the pathways of Snow Canyon State Park. The itinerary is not recommended for families, so couples will likely be among adults only. Included in the tour are meals, transfers and accommodations at various inns.
Couples who want to visit several destinations but prefer some flexibility should consider a road trip though the Lone Star State. Start in the exciting city of Austin and take in the live music events and Mexican restaurants. From here, travel to the popular hill country stop, Fredricksburg, where you can sample wine at the Texas Hills Vineyard or spot wildflowers on the side of the road. Other road trip ideas include a jaunt through Milwaukee's breweries or a journey through Georgia's Ruby Falls.
Suds, Bobby. "Vacations for Couples in the U.S." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/vacations-couples-us-33142.html. Accessed 23 April 2019.
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In 1865, Lewis Carroll wrote arguably one of the most important children's novels in the history of literature: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Even at the time of it's publication, the novel was considered a masterpiece. Imaginative and strange, the novel utilized tropes that were not new to writings for children, such as a lost child and magical animals, but presented them in a way that turned them on their head.
The novel plays with math, logic, and language in a way that was altogether new and remains an inspiration for modern writers. The scope of the world created in Carroll's novel changed the face of literature for children. Carlo Collodi published The Adventures of Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz and other stories featuring Dorothy and the magical land of Oz. J.M. Barrie wrote Peter and Wendy. Beatrix Potter began writing and drawing her captivating stories of the animals found in any British child's garden. Any one of these stories is easily recognized and readily loved by children today.
Adventure stories began to rise in popularity in the late 19th century, as well. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his enduring story of piracy and betrayal, Treasure Island while Rudyard Kipling captured imaginations everywhere with The Jungle Book, set among the animals and forests of India. In the early 20th century, Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote the classics The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, adventure/mystery novels notable for their focus on girls as protagonists rather than boys.
In the United States, the coming-of-age novel was beginning to take hold. This type of novel is still popular today and focuses on the events that mark the transition of the protagonist from innocent and naïve to more aware and responsible. Mark Twain wrote Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while Louisa May Alcott penned Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys.
In 1908, Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows, continuing one of the oldest traditions of children's literature: anthropomorphic animals. In 1926, A.A. Milne created one of the most popular children's book characters of all time: Winnie-the-Pooh. The four books starring Pooh have been published in dozens of languages and are one of the first children's stories to focus on the fleetingness of childhood and the bittersweet nature of growing up. Pooh continues to inspire today, featuring in songs, television shows, and movies.
In 1937, the Caldecott Medal award was created to honor prestigious and outstanding picture books. The medal is named for 19th century illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The first winner was Dorothy P. Lathrop for her book Animals of the Bible. Since then, winners have included Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline, Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji and The Polar Express, and Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Around the same time, Laura Ingalls Wilder began publishing her Little House on the Prairie series. Though the nine novels (one of which was published posthumously in 1971) are based on her own experiences growing up on the American frontier during the late 19th century, they are typically considered fiction and are shelved as such in libraries and bookstores across the country. This idea of the semi-autobiographical children's novels can be traced back to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, which was loosely based on her own childhood experiences and those of her siblings.
Esteem for Wilder's books has spanned generations as children today are still picking up these books, and reruns of the popular '80s television series can be seen on numerous channels. They are enduring classics loved by both children and parents, and the idea of a series of children's books centered around the same character can be seen again and again throughout children's literature.
In 1937, Dr. Seuss publish his debut book. Dr. Seuss's And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street was released to critical acclaim, capturing the imagination of not only children, but parents. His iconic illustrations and charming rhyme scheme make him a perennial favorite of young children, and his books have been adapted again and again into movies, television shows, and stage plays.
That same year, J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit, the book that would become the prequel to his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, which inspired the tropes and conventions for the entire fantasy genre and which have been adapted into some of the most successful movies in modern film. The book was nominated for a Carnegie Medal and desire for a sequel was at a thrilling high. Tolkien brainstormed that sequel and the world of Middle Earth with good friend C.S. Lewis, who shared his own fantasy world with Tolkien during their decades-long friendship. Lewis published the first of his iconic Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 1950. The entire series is considered a classic of children's literature, and like Tolkien's master works, has been adapted into film, TV, and radio.
The 1950s also welcomed E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. The story of the friendship between Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider has been a favorite of children almost since its publication. It was named a Newbery Honor book, though it did not win. Later in 1970, however, it won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, as did another of White's books, Stuart Little. Both Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little have been adapted into live action and cartoon films.
The 1960s and '70s belonged to Roald Dahl, beloved British children's writer. He published his second children's book, James and the Giant Peach, in 1961 and followed it with classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Witches, and Matilda. These books cemented him as one of the English language's most important writers. Besides being enduring classics, his books have been adapted numerous times into film by such notable filmmakers as Tim Burton and Wes Anderson.
Also during this time, Susan Cooper published her Dark Is Rising Sequence. The Outsiders was published in 1967. S.E. Hinton's controversial book is partly credited with forging the young adult genre, which includes books geared for children aged twelve through eighteen.
In 1970, Judy Blume published her first novel and many other books like Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Deenie, and Blubber. The 1980s brought Sarah Plain and Tall, Hatchet, and more. The television show Reading Rainbow also premiered in the '80s on public television, bringing even more attention to notable picture books of the time, continuing on into the '90s.
Modern children's fiction has seen a surge of growth in the last thirty years. Books like The Giver by Lois Lowry, Holes by Louis Sachar, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, and the poetry collections of Shel Silverstein captivated readers in the 1990s.
The last twenty years have become known as the golden age of young adult literature, largely due to the popularity of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series which sold so many copies that children's literature was given its own best sellers list, separate from the adult best sellers list. Since then, series have dominated the market with authors like Rick Riordan, Eoin Colfer, and Suzanne Collins publishing popular books that are loved as much by adults as they are by the children for whom they were written.
With more books for children being written then ever before, it's safe to say the world of children's literature has exploded. Who knows where it will take readers next!
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For my piece, I came up with the concept of drawing the human embodiment of a coral reef to really emphasize the expression of desolation that cannot be expressed with a simple landscape. I incorporated colorful corals on the human to convey that there is still a chance to protect these beautiful reefs from utter destruction. Around the human is a wasteland of destroyed corals to symbolize that even if we still have time to prevent any more destruction, many other reefs have already deteriorated. My overall message through this piece is a call to protect these marine biomes from dying and destroying nature’s gorgeous, yet delicate artwork.
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What is the worst book you have ever read?
Ever read a real stinker that made you wish you had back the time you spent reading it? Please, warn the rest of us!
My worst experience when I read the 50 shades of grey, a book about enslaving and oppressing women, a book about a male control freak. I could never fathom how this book ever became so popular.
There are quite a few if I'm honest! When I was about 12 years old, I read Skellig, which amazingly has won awards?! It was awful. I second Joya's response; 50 Shades of Grey is so poorly written and the narrative is so unbelievable!
As with the best book ever, it's hard to pick just one. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code annoyed me a lot, because of the stupidity of the characters, who seem to know next to nothing about their chosen fields (Sophie is a code breaker but can't guess a riddle to which the answer is her own name!), the cliff hanger endings to every single chapter which just felt forced, and the conspiracy stuff which had been around for years being presented as if it was fact. For all that though it's not technically a bad book and I did manage to finish it.
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini was pretty terrible. It was extremely derivative and the fantasy world didn't feel consistent or interesting. It was written by a teenager and sounded that way. He either needed a better editor or to just wait a couple of years until he had matured a little more.
I think the worst ever is probably one of the stupid school readers we were given in primary school. There was this one about some kid who finds a horse standing in a creek and gives it a name. It was painfully tedious, but that was partly because we all had to sit around and take turns reading bits of it out and having everything patronisingly explained to us.
Oops I hit "enter" too early. I think even a really good book would be boring under those circumstances.
In terms of novels, have been quite lucky. Academic textbooks are dry and boring.
"He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare".
and I could go on...there's heaps of websites out there that has a whole list of horrible quotes from the book too.
It really would make no difference to list them, there are so many stinkers.
the more I read, I hope in vain it will get better the next page, never does.
Books are very much hit-and -miss.
What some say was a great book (e.g.) Fifty Shades of Grey, others say what a waste of time, it was badly written.(I didn't read it and more than likely wouldn't due to it's content).
What I may deem a good book, because how I relate to the people in the book, may not be the same for others.
Stinkers, are personal...I feel, a lot like people.
'Vanity Fair', set book for Grade XII. Read first five chapters & gave up. Bought a précis book on it instead & just read through that!
Turns out, I needn't have worried, as 'multiple choice' questions meant I could write about 'Arms & the Man' instead!
Must've worked out as got a 7 for ENGLISH!
cant remember as I would not finish it, so would not remember it.
Just couldn't get 'into' Tim Winton's 'The Riders'!
Twilight. I stupidly bought the whole series at once and simply couldn't even get through the first one. Serves me right. I deserve no sympathy.
The Potato Factory by the bloke that wrote the Power of One. Ridiculous. Must have needed pocket money for Christmas.
Bryce Courtney. I'm not a fan.
What do you think of gender reveal parties?
Have you heard the term 'male privilege'?
Should horse racing be banned?
Do you speak up when someone tells an offensive joke?
Who wraps presents for your family?
Would you let someone else breastfeed your baby?
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Significance and meaning of number three has been fascinating mankind for thousands of years, and can still be found today in art, architecture, science, literature, and religion.
What is it about this number that continues to baffle scientific world? Could this recurring motif contain a profound message?
People of ancient Egypt believed the design and idea of the three pyramids of Giza came from the Gods. Various cultures across the world worshipped divine beings that ruled as all-knowing triads. Famous scientist Isaac Newton searched for the secrets of the universe in an ancient tablet that spoke of the power of the number three. Even the language of our DNA is written in a pattern of threes.
Is it possible that the combination of all the trios and trinities embedded throughout the mythical and religious world suggest that the power of three might somehow connect humanity with divine energy or superior mind?
In the Hindu religion, the concept of the cosmos is personified by a triad of deities, namely the Trimurti. The Trimurti or triad is also referred to as Brahma-Vishnu-Maheshwara, which stands for Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. The three represent the aspects of human existence: birth, life and death. Although there are many depictions of the Trumurti, often they have three heads branching from one neck, each gazing in a different direction.
Amitabha, Avalokiteśvara and Vajrapani form the divine trio of Sukhāvatī.
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from trinus, "threefold") holds that God is three consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine Persons".
All living organisms are dependent on three types of very large molecules for essentially all of their biological functions. These molecules are DNA, RNA, and proteins, and are classified as biological macromolecules. Without DNA, RNA, and proteins, no known forms of life could exist. The simple summary is that DNA makes RNA, and then RNA makes proteins.
In 1966 scientists announced the greatest breakthrough in of science. they successfully deciphered the Genetic Code. After years of research, scientists discovered that the structure of the DNA consists in a series of three molecule combinations known as triplets. The genetic code consists of three-letter ‘words’ called codons formed from a sequence of three nucleotides (e.g. ACT, CAG, TTT). This makes the number three very important as you can say that it represents the key to our existence, the key to understanding the complex DNA language.
DNA is a nucleic acid; alongside proteins and carbohydrates, nucleic acids compose the three major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life.
There is a theory that three pyramids of Giza are a perfect reproduction of the 3 stars of Orion’s belt. Its central claim is that there is a correlation between the location of the three largest pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex and Orion's Belt of the constellation Orion, and that this correlation was intended as such by the builders of the pyramids. The stars of Orion were associated with Osiris, the god of rebirth and afterlife, by the ancient Egyptians.
Depending on the version of the theory, additional pyramids can be included to complete the picture of the Orion constellation, and the Nile river can be included to match with the Milky Way galaxy.
The rule of three is a writing principle that suggests that a trio of events or characters is more humorous, satisfying, or effective than other numbers in execution of the story and engaging the reader. The reader or audience of this form of text is also thereby more likely to remember the information conveyed. This is because having three entities combines both brevity and rhythm with having the smallest amount of information to create a pattern. It makes the author or speaker appear knowledgeable while being both simple and catchy.
Slogans, film titles and a variety of other things have been structured in threes, a tradition that grew out of oral storytelling. Examples include the 'Three Little Pigs', 'Three Billy Goats Gruff', and the 'Three Musketeers'. Similarly, adjectives are often grouped in threes to emphasize an idea.
The Latin phrase "omne trium perfectum" (everything that comes in threes is perfect, or, every set of three is complete) conveys the same idea as the rule of three.
For one thing, the poem itself is structured according to the rhyme scheme terza rima, which uses stanzas of three lines that employ interlocking rhymes (aba bcb cdc, etc.). Additionally, there are nine circles of Hell (three multiplied by three), Satan has three faces, and three beasts (a lion, a leopard, and a wolf) threaten Dante at the beginning of the Inferno.
There are a number of powerful visual areas within a basic rectangle that artists can use to enhance their compositions.
The rule of thirds is a "rule of thumb" or guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such as designs, films, paintings, and photographs. The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.
Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject.
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2. During a drought, the land becomes very stock up evacuate waste parched appliances .
3. Before an emergency, you need to stock up evacuate waste parched appliances on supplies such as food and water.
4. If your faucet drips, you should fix it so that you don't stock up gutters waste parched appliances water.
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6. During a storm, the rain runs off the roof, goes into the gutters, and runs down the rumbling wilting frigid crowded downspout .
7. I can hear the thunder rumbling wilting frigid crowded downspout as the storm approaches.
8. The plants are rumbling wilting frigid crowded downspout because the irrigation system broke.
9. The temperatures can be rumbling wilting frigid crowded downspout in Chicago in the winter.
10. There were hundreds of people at the event. It was very rumbling wilting frigid crowded downspout .
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Origins of "robot" and "robotics"
The word "robot" conjures up a variety of images, from R2D2 and C3PO of Star Wars fame; to human-like machines that exist to serve their creators (perhaps in the form of the cooking and cleaning Rosie in the popular cartoon series the Jetsons); to the Rover Sojourner, which explored the Martian landscape as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Some people may alternatively perceive robots as dangerous technological ventures that will someday lead to the demise of the human race, either by outsmarting or outmuscling us and taking over the world, or by turning us into completely technology-dependent beings who passively sit by and program robots to do all of our work. In fact, the first use of the word "robot" occurred in a play about mechanical men that are built to work on factory assembly lines and that rebel against their human masters. These machines in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written by Czech playwright Karl Capek in 1921, got their name from the Czech word for slave.
"A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of task."
"Robotics is that field concerned with the intelligent connection of perception to action."
One of the first instances of a mechanical device built to regularly carry out a particular physical task occurred around 3000 B.C.: Egyptian water clocks used human figurines to strike the hour bells. In 400 B.C., Archytus of Taremtum, inventor of the pulley and the screw, also invented a wooden pigeon that could fly. Hydraulically-operated statues that could speak, gesture, and prophecy were commonly constructed in Hellenic Egypt during the second century B.C.
In the first century A.D., Petronius Arbiter made a doll that could move like a human being. Giovanni Torriani created a wooden robot that could fetch the Emperor's daily bread from the store in 1557. Robotic inventions reached a relative peak (before the 20th century) in the 1700s; countless ingenius, yet impractical, automata (i.e. robots) were created during this time period. The 19th century was also filled with new robotic creations, such as a talking doll by Edison and a steam-powered robot by Canadians. Although these inventions throughout history may have planted the first seeds of inspiration for the modern robot, the scientific progress made in the 20th century in the field of robotics surpass previous advancements a thousandfold.
The earliest robots as we know them were created in the early 1950s by George C. Devol, an inventor from Louisville, Kentucky. He invented and patented a reprogrammable manipulator called "Unimate," from "Universal Automation." For the next decade, he attempted to sell his product in the industry, but did not succeed. In the late 1960s, businessman/engineer Joseph Engleberger acquired Devol's robot patent and was able to modify it into an industrial robot and form a company called Unimation to produce and market the robots. For his efforts and successes, Engleberger is known in the industry as "the Father of Robotics."
Academia also made much progress in the creation new robots. In 1958 at the Stanford Research Institute, Charles Rosen led a research team in developing a robot called "Shakey." Shakey was far more advanced than the original Unimate, which was designed for specialized, industrial applications. Shakey could wheel around the room, observe the scene with his television "eyes," move across unfamiliar surroundings, and to a certain degree, respond to his environment. He was given his name because of his wobbly and clattering movements.
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Alcohol abuse and alcoholism can be big problems, and if you want to stop drinking there are some helpful tips that may help you do this.
1. Examine Your Alcohol Use and Set Goals- Track your alcohol use over time and set goalsto stop drinking that are within reach. Be honest about the drinking that actually occurs and log all of the alcohol consumed. Look over this log and determine where you drink and what causes you to want alcohol in the first place. Once you know the triggers you can set goals in order to lower your risks and decrease your alcohol use.
2. Discuss Your Alcohol Use With Loved Ones- If you think you may have any alcoholism signs then you should discuss your drinking with family and friends. Often these individuals are the first to notice that something is wrong and that you need help.
3. Find a Quality Alcohol Treatment Program that Offers Results- If your alcohol use is excessive or you have a problem with alcohol addiction then you should find a quality alcohol rehab that can offer proven results.
4. Avoid Situations and Places Where Alcohol is Available- If you want to stop drinking then one tip is to avoid any places or situations where alcohol will be served. If you must attend an event that has alcoholic beverages talk with the host and explain your situation, so you are not served any beverages and are not put on the spot.
5. Stay Motivated, Even if You Relapse- Trying to stop drinking is a big effort if you have alcohol abuse or addiction issues, and relapse is a possibility. If a relapse happens do not obsess over this fact, continue in your efforts to stop drinking and look forward instead of back.
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Work all math problems the same way so that you can approach even the most difficult problems with confidence. Start by reading the question carefully. Many problems have several steps, so you must identify the bottom line: what is the question asking? Assess your options and choose the most efficient method to attack the problem. Finally, loop back to make sure that your answer matches the bottom line.
In a community of 416 people, each person owns a dog or a cat or both. If there are 316 dog owners and 280 cat owners, how many of the dog owners own no cat?
Bottom Line: just dogs = ?
When you get to the step where you look at the answers, notice that (E) comes from not reading carefully. Yes, there are 316 total dog owners, but some of them also own cats. You must find how many own only dogs.
Assess your Options: You could try to work backwards using the answer choices, but trying to think about the steps of a problem backwards often leads to mistakes. You could also realize that this is a problem involving two overlapping groups and draw a Venn Diagram. Forget those methods because the fastest method is to use the Group Formula. Take a moment now to memorize this formula if you have not already done so: Total = Group 1 + Group 2 + Neither – Both.
That B represents the unknown Both, but you can now solve for it because it is the only variable left in your equation. Start by simplifying the problem.
You have finished one step, but you have not yet reached your bottom line! Do not look at the answer choices yet or you will be tempted to pick a wrong answer!
You just solved for the number of people who own both a cat and a dog. How do you find the number of people who own just a dog? Take the number who own both and subtract it from the total number of dog owners. Remember that the total number of dog owners was given in the problem as 316.
Loop Back: Your second step solved for those who just own dogs, so you are ready to look at your answer choices.
In "Medium Math", "arithmetic", "group problems", "mathematics"
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Can I go to Europe or Ireland?
Europe and The Republic of Ireland are not permitted due to insurance reasons. You can travel to mainland UK and the surrounding Islands belonging to the UK only.
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Do you have trouble building up your self-confidence? If so, you are not alone.
Everybody has trouble with building one's self-esteem in today's world. The key is to be persistent and to find the ways to improve your confidence so you can be successful in life.
Here are eight tips to increasing your self-esteem in your life.
1. Know Your Weaknesses and Strengths: It is important to know what you are good at. Taking a skills assessment test is a great way to determine your strengths and weaknesses. Once you realize your skill sets, the next step is to focus on those things that you are good at doing. A person can' be good at everything so don't take yourself too seriously.
2. Accept Yourself: You are unique in this world. It is important that you do not beat yourself up over the things that you have trouble doing. Instead of complaining about what your weaknesses, try to find ways to improve your life. Take a class at a local community college to learn a new skill. Accept yourself for who you are.
3. Remember Your Accomplishments: Many people downplay their successes and focus on those things they struggle with. This is a mistake. Always remind yourself of your past accomplishments no matter how small they may be. Do not downplay the positive parts of your life. Stop focusing on the negative parts of your life and instead concentrate on your past achievements.
4. Read Positive Affirmations: It is important that you read affirmations that make you feel confident. Read a self-help book and then write down all of the things that motivate you. Read something positive on a daily basis and reflect on what you can do to improve your situation. Don't focus on the things that make you feel anxious and fearful.
5. Think About Your Future: Take time to think about what you really want out of life. Do not live your life for others. Spend a lot of time and energy thinking through what you really want in life and decide what is you really want to achieve. Once you determine what you want to accomplish, then write it down and use it as motivation.
6. Create Goals for Yourself: Set achievable goals on a regular basis and then take small steps to accomplish them. Make sure your goals are measurable and monitor your progress. Don't get upset if you don't accomplish all of your goals. You can always change your goals so that you can be more successful.
7. Talk to Your Friends: It is important that you talk to other successful people in order to get a better perspective of your life. Listening to other people's challenges and accomplishments can go a long way in feeling better about yourself. You can also learn how to find ways to overcome your obstacles in your life.
8. Be Persistent in What You Do: Do not give up in achieving your goals in your life. Learn from your mistakes and try to improve on your situation. Do not make excuses on why you should quit or give up. Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to be successful. The key is to keep at it until you get what you want.
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You rush home. You plop down on your bed. You take out your favorite fiction book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Then suddenly you remember your parents telling you fiction is a true waste of your time. You shake off that thought like a dog shaking off water. Then suddenly your mom's voice is ringing in your ears. "I know you're reading fiction; how many times do I have to tell you, fiction is a true waste of time!" Or is it, Mom? I strongly believe reading fiction is not a waste of time. I think this because fiction is fun, it builds big minds and imaginations, and it also is the perfect place to find juicy vocabulary and great story plots.
First of all, fiction is fun. Instead of nonfiction, which drones on and on, fiction is action packed. There is also a lot of surprises in fiction that are not in nonfiction. Easier fiction books can be enjoyable read alouds to young kids, performing a task nonfiction can't play because the kids won't understand more technical nonfiction texts.
Another reason why fiction is not a waste of time is because fiction builds big minds and imaginations. For example, kids will start thinking about the characters in their fiction books. They can think as "big" and as "far" as they want while imagining the characters, thus allowing readers to think learn to think freely. Kids can start thinking about the impossible, and then twist together a story in their minds, thinking big thoughts so wonderfully nursed from fiction.
Lastly, fiction always has great story plots and vocabulary. In a fiction book, I learned the words adequate and macabre. Fiction carries lots of juicy adjectives. The plots in fiction are also always a surprise; anything can happen. This wonderful aspect of plot makes the story more enjoyable. Nonfiction is often so predictable, that sometimes it gets so boring leaving a reader in a great need for a fiction twist. An example of this nonfiction/fiction twist is the science fiction genre. Fiction authors kick off with a captivating beginning, taking readers on a magical journey or words. Nonfiction glues the reader's feet down.
According to the contrary point of view, kids need to read information to fill their brains. This is really not true, though, because information can be filled in at school and through homework. (In fact, that's another reason why there should be homework.) In the meantime, kids can have FUN with fiction. A little bit of nonfiction is necessary, but readers enjoy fiction more and should be allowed to read plenty of it.
In my opinion, reading fiction is NOT a waste of time. Fiction is not a time waster because it is fun to read, it builds big minds and imaginations, and fiction authors use superb story plots and vocabulary. The next time your parents are telling you sternly that fiction is a real waste of time, why don't you read them this?
That is interesting Catherine....Katya's brother, Zeke, only wants to read non-fiction and I need to force him to read fiction...maybe your mom and I should talk about this because I think both are important!!!!!
Now that's interesting. In my home, my mom and dad try to force me to read non-fiction. I agree, my mom and you should talk( my dad feels a bit more strongly, so you might contact my dad).
I second everything that's been said...and I want to add that some of the fiction that I have read in my life has stayed in my memory and I call on it from time to time to pick me up from a bad mood, or to help me remember an important life lesson that I wouldn't have understood from reading it as nonfiction. Thanks for your wonderful essay.
I enjoyed reading your post very much and found your position well articulated.
While I do agree that the author has more leeway in terms of plot (after all he or she is not constrained by the realm of the possible), I also want to share that biographies of truly inspirational people move me in a way fictional characters cannot. The courage and strength individuals show in the face of adversity makes me a huge believer in humankind. After all, isn't it harder to be a real-life hero than the savior in a fictional drama?
Hopefully, we do not have to pick one genre to the detriment of others but can enjoy many styles and authors.
Can you think of a fictional book your mom might enjoy reading so that she can better understand your attraction to fiction?
I totally agree because in fiction anything can happen.
We are writing to you from a third grade class in Detroit and we were so impressed with your writing! My class agrees - we love to read fiction. Thank you for persuading us with your thoughtful and well-written essay.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products were 46.47% higher in 2019 versus 2000 (a $9.29 difference in value).
Between 2000 and 2019: Bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products experienced an average inflation rate of 2.03% per year. This rate of change indicates significant inflation. In other words, bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products costing $20 in the year 2000 would cost $29.29 in 2019 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 2.04% during this same period, inflation for bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products was lower.
In the year 2000: Pricing changed by 12.28%, which is significantly above the average yearly change for bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products during the 2000-2019 time period. Compared to inflation for all items in 2000 (3.38%), inflation for bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products was much higher.
Years with the largest changes in pricing: 2000 (12.28%), 2011 (10.20%), and 2014 (7.72%).
Therefore, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $20 in 2000 has the same "purchasing power" as $29.29 in 2019 (in the CPI category of Bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products).
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the Consumer Price Index for Bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products in 1997. In addition to bacon, breakfast sausage, and related products, the index produces monthly data on changes in prices paid by urban consumers for a variety of goods and services.
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The Sword of Gryffindor is one of only two artifacts known to have been the property of Godric Gryffindor. The other is the Sorting Hat, which is more a character than an artifact, having been given limited consciousness by Gryffindor.
The Sword of Gryffindor is first seen when it appears in the Sorting Hat in the Chamber of Secrets. Harry uses it then to kill a Basilisk. From then, until the summer before Harry's sixth year, it rests in a glass case in the Headmaster's office.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we discover that the Sword is a Goblin-made blade, and that it had last been taken out of the case by Dumbledore who had used it to destroy a ring. Queried whether it had ever been removed from the case for cleaning, the portrait of Phineas Nigellus had reported that Goblin-made weapons don't need cleaning; they incorporate into themselves anything applied to them which will make them stronger, and the rest just falls away. Harry and Hermione realize that the ring, which was a Horcrux, could only have been destroyed because the Sword had absorbed Basilisk venom. We also learn that a fake copy of the sword had been moved to Gringotts for safekeeping after a group of students, including Ginny Weasley, had attempted to steal it; we don't, at this point, know where the real one is.
Harry then finds it in a pond in the Forest of Dean; as he retrieves it, he is nearly strangled by the Locket Horcrux, but is rescued by Ron. To prove that it is the real Sword, Harry has Ron attempt to destroy the Horcrux. The attempt is successful, proving that they have found the real Sword and that it can be used to destroy Horcruxes. As this is the only certain means they have of destroying Horcruxes, they will retain the Sword in their travels.
They are still carrying the Sword when they are captured by Snatchers, who suspect that they have caught the real Harry Potter and decide to take him and his group to Malfoy Manor for the reward. There, Bellatrix Lestrange sees the Sword and panics, saying that if that is the true Sword of Gryffindor, Voldemort will be furious at them. Hermione is tortured, but sticks to the story that it is fake; Griphook, the Goblin who has been captured with them, confirms her story when he is brought to the scene. Harry and Ron manage to rescue all of the captives and escape with the sword, with Dobby's help, ending up at Shell Cottage.
Harry knows that a fake Sword of Gryffindor was taken from the school and moved to Gringotts, as mentioned above; from Bellatrix' reaction, he reasons that the fake Sword was placed in her vault, and that there is something else there that is extremely valuable to Voldemort. He determines that it is a Horcrux, most likely the cup of Helga Hufflepuff. He discusses with Griphook what is necessary to get into Gringotts and recover this one artifact. Griphook eventually agrees to assist them, but names the Sword of Gryffindor as his price. He feels that the Sword was stolen from goblins and should be returned to them. Harry reluctantly agrees, but does not specify when he will give the Sword to Griphook; he intends to keep it until the last Horcrux is destroyed, and then present it to the Goblin.
Once in the vault, Harry uses the sword to lift the Cup off a shelf. Immediately after opening the door to the vault, Griphook seizes the sword and runs off; Harry, Hermione, and Ron escape on Dragonback.
Viewing Snape's memories in the Pensieve, Harry sees the portrait of Phineas Nigellus reporting that Harry and Hermione are in the Forest of Dean. Snape then retrieves the Sword from a hiding place behind the portrait of Dumbledore, and goes off to place the Sword where Harry had found it, in the pond.
In the second part of the battle at Hogwarts, Voldemort places the Sorting Hat on Neville's head, and sets it and Neville on fire. Neville knows that Nagini must be killed to end Voldemort's immortality, and evidently he asks for help from the Hat just as Harry did, because the Hat produces the Sword once again, and Neville uses it to cut Nagini's head off.
We know there is one fake Sword, that Snape moved to Bellatrix' vault. Could there be more?
Initially, Harry believes that Severus Snape had sent the sword to the Lestrange vault at Gringotts for safety after a group of students try to steal it, possibly unaware that it was a replica. Later in the book, it becomes clear that Snape actually produced the copy of the sword sent to Gringotts. This implies that it was likely Voldemort who ordered Snape to have the sword sent to Gringotts; Snape sent the copy so that Voldemort would be satisfied and so he could keep the original stored safely in the secret compartment behind Dumbledore's portrait. He then delivered the real sword to Harry in the Forest of Dean so Harry could use it to destroy Horcruxes. Snape almost certainly copied the sword on Dumbledore's portrait's instructions.
It is uncertain whether Dumbledore, or later his portrait, ever completely explains to Snape what exactly Harry will have need of the sword to do. We never hear Dumbledore explicitly telling Snape that Harry has been sent to collect Horcruxes, and Dumbledore, as we find out, has a habit of keeping his secrets very tightly indeed.
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What is the difference between these 2 3D LED-LCD TV's?
They are about $300.00 different in price.
The difference is that the UN55C8000 has an additional 2M:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio, moving from the C7000's 6M:1 to 8M:1.
It also incorporates the Precision Dimming feature, which allows certain parts of the screen to dim in darker scenes than other parts. This feature isn't available on the C7000.
Also, the design of the unit is different, so you might look for yourself at which design you prefer.
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"Varietal" describes wines made primarily from a single named grape variety, and which typically displays the name of that variety on the wine label. Examples of grape varieties commonly used in varietal wines are Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Merlot. Wines that display the name of two or more varieties on their label, such as a Chardonnay-Viognier, are blends and not varietal wines. The term is frequently misused in place of vine variety; the term variety refers to the vine or grape while varietal refers to the wine produced by a variety.
Similarly, the term varietal can be used to describe cider made from a single variety of apple, tea made from a single variety and preparation, or to describe particular subspecies of coffee.
As vintners and consumers have become aware of the characteristics of individual varieties of wine grapes, wines have also come to be identified by varietal names.
The term's concept was developed by Maynard Amerine at UC Davis after the Prohibition seeking to encourage growers to choose optimal vine varieties, and later promoted by Frank Schoonmaker in the 1950s and 1960s, ultimately becoming widespread during the California wine boom of the 1970s. Varietal wines are commonly associated with New World wines in general, but there is also a long-standing tradition of varietal labelling in Germany and other German-speaking wine regions including Austria and Alsace.
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What common trait of mentors is most critical? “Believing in” the person being mentored! It is hard to mentor people you don’t “believe in”. To paraphrase, they encourage!
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To avoid the need for last-minute braking or turning, consistently look down the road ______ ahead of your vehicle.
To avoid the need for last-minute braking or turning, look down the road at least 15 seconds ahead of your vehicle. This will allow you to see upcoming hazards on the roadway and will give you enough time to make safe decisions. Avoiding last-minute decisions will give drivers behind you more time to react to your movements.
Alcohol is a depressant that dulls your judgment and makes your reflexes unreliable.
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Hello! I’m a Ph.D. student in computational math at Stanford University, specializing in deep learning.
Previously, I majored in math at Harvey Mudd College, and I was an intern at Google and Facebook. Find me on Twitter, Stack Overflow, and GitHub, or check out my resume.
This paper provides a unifying view of a wide range of problems of interest in machine learning by framing them as the minimization of functionals defined on the space of probability measures. In particular, we show that generative adversarial networks, variational inference, and actor-critic methods in reinforcement learning can all be seen through the lens of our framework. We then discuss a generic optimization algorithm for our formulation, called probability functional descent (PFD), and show how this algorithm recovers existing methods developed independently in the settings mentioned earlier.
CycleGAN (Zhu et al. 2017) is one recent successful approach to learn a transformation between two image distributions. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate an intriguing property of the model: CycleGAN learns to "hide" information about a source image into the images it generates in a nearly imperceptible, high-frequency signal. This trick ensures that the generator can recover the original sample and thus satisfy the cyclic consistency requirement, while the generated image remains realistic. We connect this phenomenon with adversarial attacks by viewing CycleGAN's training procedure as training a generator of adversarial examples and demonstrate that the cyclic consistency loss causes CycleGAN to be especially vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
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People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking have been confirmed in studies. Some of the health benefits of hiking include, but are not limited to, losing excess weight, decreasing hypertension, and improving mental health.
The equipment required for hiking depends on the length of the hike, and according to the source. Hikers generally carry water, food, and a map in a backpack. Hikers often wear hiking boots to protect their feet from rough terrain. Some outdoor organizations, such as The Mountaineers strongly advocate a list of equipment for hiking, such as the Ten Essentials. This list includes items such as a compass, sunglasses, sunscreen, clothes, flashlight, first aid kit, fire starter, and knife. Other sources suggest additional items such as insect repellent and an emergency blanket. Nowadays a GPS navigation device is a great help especially in weather conditions with low visibility or when hiking in unknown territories.
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Would you recommend Le Westin Resort and Spa to others?
Le Westin Resort & Spa Tremblant provides the ultimate in comfort - urban luxury embraced by nature and located in the heart of the pedestrian village. To make your stay truly unforgettable, Le Westin Resort & Spa Tremblant offers slopeside access to the ski lifts and hiking trails, fine cuisine at Yamada, fine cocktails at the Lounge, spa services, an outdoor saltwater pool, an exercise room, round-the-clock room service and a concierge to help you plan an unforgettable vacation. For your comfort and relaxation, all suites in Le Westin Resort & Spa at Mont Tremblant feature a fireplace, a kitchenette and deluxe Heavenly Beds - all Westin exclusives! The prestigious Le Westin Resort & Spa is charming, intimate and guaranteed to make your vacation unforgettable.
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Passersby pulled Huang from the wreckage moments before the vehicle burst into flames, but he later died from his injuries at a hospital.
Tesla's Autopilot is a driver assistance system that handles some driving tasks and allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Huang complained to his family earlier that his 2017 Tesla Model X had attempted to veer into the barrier while on Autopilot before. A second later, the SUV began a "left steering movement" while still following the other vehicle.
Tesla's owner's manual warns drivers that the system may not detect stationary objects when traveling at higher speeds. The NTSB stated that all aspects of the crash remain under investigation, and that it intends to issue safety recommendations to prevent similar incidents from taking place.
Tesla hasn't issued a statement regarding the NTSB's report but in a blog post published a few weeks ago, the EV maker said the following: "The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken". With no auto in front of it, the Model X began accelerating again to the 75 miles per hour cruise setting, before colliding with the concrete barrier that separated the highway from the exit ramp at 70.8 miles per hour.
The preliminary results of that NTSB investigation have been released, and they are concerning.
In March, a Tesla Model X with Autopilot engaged collided with a highway barrier, killing driver Walter Huang. Among the information Tesla released was that the driver did not have his hands on the wheel during the final 6 seconds leading up to the accident - information that has been reiterated in the NTSB's preliminary report.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating the case of a Model S driven by a 28-year-old woman that struck a stopped fire truck on a South Jordan, Utah, roadway on May 11. The Tesla driver suffered fatal injuries while the driver of the Mazda suffered minor injuries and the driver of the Audi was not injured.
In context: Tesla has drawn quite a bit of heat lately due to numerous crashes that have occurred with Autopilot engaged. At 4 seconds, the Tesla was no longer following a vehicle.
"Tesla Autopilot does not prevent all accidents - such a standard would be impossible - but it makes them much less likely to occur", the company wrote in the post. "Never depend on Automatic Emergency Braking to avoid or reduce the impact of a collision". The fire was extinguished in 10 minutes, but it reignited later that day in an impound lot.
Beyonce first introduced the twins to the world when she posted a birth announcement photo in July 2017. The next tour stop is Glasgow on Saturday and OTRII will hit Vancouver's BC Place on October 2, 2018.
In addition to Threadripper 2, AMD said a Radeon RX Vega 56 "nano" graphics card designed for Mini-ITX systems is now shipping. Although we don't know what their clock speeds will be, we do know that the new AMD chips will require quite a lot of power.
The Washington Capitals are now 3-1 in the series , and will play the Golden Knights for Game 5 in Vegas Thursday night at 8 p.m. I was personally very low on him this season since he gave up over three goals per game, but has looked elite in the playoffs.
They did the same thing for Game 3 of the Cup Final trying to avoid the various delays and road closures surrounding the arena. He provided many timely plays en route to the team's first ever Stanley Cup, including two of the biggest goals of his career.
It's up to those voting. "Right now we need to enjoy ourselves but in the next few days I'll give an answer to the fans who have always been by my side".
Some of the injuries, which also affected 10 Canadian diplomats and their families, resembled brain trauma. The cases come at a time when China-US relations have been strained amid fears of a trade war.
Máxima said in a reaction that she is "very shocked and very upset" by the news, the RVD said. The spokeswoman said the death was a "suspected suicide".
Ines Zorreguieta (second from left back row), sister of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands , has died in Argentina. A Dutch government spokesperson told Dutch NOS TV that Zorreguieta's death appeared to have been suicide.
A lawyer for Kardashian West described the moment Johnson found out President Donald Trump had commuted her sentence . She was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have a two-hour meeting with Trump at the White House on Thursday before coming to Quebec. Frustrations from USA allies over the latest metal tariffs are nearly certain to come into play as the G-7 kicks off on Friday.
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Have you ever read a news article about a data breach from a major company and thought "they did a great job handling that situation and communicating it to their affected customers and the public?" Probably not.
Stage 1 - Advanced Persistent Overwhelm: It starts with security pros who are overwhelmed with alerts, not knowing which ones are credible threats and which ones are not – leading to preventable breaches and attackers that go undetected for months.
Stage 2 - Advanced Persistent Inertia: Once the threat is finally detected, lawyers and PR departments lead the communication to customers and stakeholders. Instead of providing a clear view of what happened and how it is being solved, they issue the same pre-canned statements, essentially denying responsibility for the attack, while simultaneously claiming to have taken all precautions to prevent it again.
Stage 3 - Advanced Persistent Apathy: Consumers grow numb to the daily threats in the headlines and actual compromises of their personal data. The most impacted individuals are overwhelmed to the point that they don’t have the energy to hold companies to a higher standard. Businesses who should be stewards of their customers' data then have no incentive to behave any differently.
The cycle continues. But it doesn't have to be this way.
When security teams are overwhelmed, it is often because they have too little information, too few qualified staff, and too little time to gather and parse the information. Stuck with limited data from logs, agents, and testing tools spread across multiple platforms and consoles, security teams are faced with excess friction at every step of a breach investigation.
The New Approach: The first solution is better information, delivered faster. The real, definitive action in every data breach occurs on the network, at the moment when an attacker gains access to a sensitive database or moves a file containing sensitive information off the victim's network. By pursuing total visibility and investigative capability on the network, businesses can reduce the cognitive load and burnout that is so common among security staff and create an environment where it’s possible to successfully investigate and prevent increasingly advanced threats.
Defeating inertia when it comes to communicating about major data breaches is both a technical and a cultural challenge. When a breach occurs, both security and line-of-business stakeholders often don’t know enough about what happened – and the information they do have comes too slowly – to communicate effectively. They find out about the breach months after the damage was done, and it takes even longer to investigate.
This has always been bad for brand image, and a terrible experience for consumers, but it became completely nonviable with the enactment of the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), requiring businesses to report a data privacy violation in detail to consumers within 72 hours.
The New Approach: Breached businesses need to be able to say exactly how many customers were compromised, when it happened, how they are fixing it and if they'll be compensated. The security team is the only possible source of that information, but they can't provide it if they don't have it. Providing security teams with the tools and staff they need to provide timely, accurate information about a breach to the rest of the business is no longer a nice-to-have, but a requirement for businesses in the new regulatory environment.
Consumers are subjected to new compromises constantly. They shouldn't have to fight with a retailer who loses their credit card number, or the DNA testing company that leaks private medical data. But that's how the system often works right now.
With GDPR and other pending regulations, the enormous possible fines companies in violation will create consequences that businesses can't ignore. These regulations require reporting capabilities that most businesses can't meet today without an overhaul of their data-gathering and -handling practices.
The New Approach: As corporations come to terms with the need for better investigation capabilities, their security operations teams will gravitate towards the highest-fidelity, most reliable data source available to them: the network. The network is already the source of truth for IT and security operations teams seeking to understand how malicious actors behave. The next step is to use that data to effectively understand and communicate about breaches to protect and build trust with consumers.
In summary, in a world where every company is susceptible to massively public data breaches, those that master the investigation and communication aspects of a breach will retain customer trust more effectively, which will directly affect their bottom lines.
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As PR firms continue to expand their content creation offerings, legal issues will arise in which most PR pros are not fully versed, but need to be. The following will serve as a helpful resource.
Most PR firms are expanding their content creation services at an unprecedented rate. They are increasingly focused on creative brand storytelling across numerous paid, earned, and owned media platforms. These transformations are occurring so quickly that many agencies have not fully trained their account teams about the legal issues that arise in providing creative services and, specifically, in content creation.
With this in mind, allow me to present the following marketing law checklist. It has been crafted to serve as an ongoing training tool and resource for PR professionals.
•Is the underlying idea or theme of the work independently conceived?
•Where, when, how, and by whom was the creative concept for this work created?
•Does the work copy, derive, or evoke elements from other sources?
•Is the music entirely original and independently created?
•Who owns the composition (music, lyrics, and arrangement)?
•Who owns the sound recording?
•Has written permission been secured from all performers (vocals and instrumentals)?
•Is the text entirely original and independently created?
•Does the text incorporate quotes or excerpts from any third-party authored material?
•Are the visual elements of the work entirely original and independently created?
•Was any third-party material, including stock art, used (incorporated or used as a reference) in creating a comp for the work?
•Was any third-party material, including stock art, used (incorporated or used as a reference) in creating the final version of the work? Was that third party material licensed? If so, what are the terms of that license?
•Do the visual elements derive from or evoke any other elements?
•Does anything appear in the visual elements of the work that may have independent legal protection or in which a third party might claim rights (e.g., brand-name props, artwork, images of identifiable persons)?
•Are there any fictitious brand names, logos, taglines, product designs, architectural works, or business names used?
•Have trademark searches been conducted to determine if these brand names are available for use?
•Are there any real brand names, logos, taglines, product designs, architectural works, business names, etc. used in the work (other than the client’s trademarks)?
•Does the work make any express or implicit suggestion that the advertised product or service is associated with the third-party brand?
•Are the names or nicknames of any real or fictitious persons (living or dead) used in the work?
•Are any photographs, pieces of footage, or illustrations of real or fictitious persons (living or dead) used in the work? If so, how identifiable are those persons from the depictions (e.g., headshot, crowd shot)?
•Are any voices, signatures, catch phrases, uniform numbers, or other traits that identify a unique individual (real or fictitious, living or dead) used in the work?
•Has written permission been secured for all real persons (living or dead) whose identities are conjured up by the work?
•Is the statement a representation of fact or is it an opinion that implies knowledge of facts (for which prior substantiation is required)?
•Does the statement state or imply that a test, survey, or other scientific measurement was conducted?
•Does the statement make explicit or implicit reference to one or more competitors?
•Does the work contain a statement from a consumer (actual or implied), celebrity, expert (actual or implied), or organization attesting to the characteristics or benefits of the client’s product or service?
•Does the statement represent that the endorser uses the endorsed product or service? If so, did the endorser use the product or service at the time the endorsement was given and does he or she continue to do so in the present?
•Does the work disclose to consumers, or would consumers ordinarily realize even in the absence of a disclosure, that the endorser was paid in exchange for his or her endorsement or has a material connection to the product or service being endorsed (e.g., he or she is an employee of the manufacturer of endorsed product or service)?
•Does the work state or suggest that the consumer endorser is an actual consumer when, in fact, the endorser is an actor? If so, does the work disclose in audio and video that the "consumer" is a "paid actor" and not an actual consumer?
•Does the work represent that the endorser is an expert? If so, is the endorser, in fact, a qualified expert in the areas represented?
•Does the website, app, or other service present terms and conditions to users prior to their use of the service? If so, have you complied?
•Does the website or app collect user-generated content? If so, do the terms and conditions contain a notice-and-takedown procedure for the removal of potentially infringing content?
•Is there any monitoring of user-generated content with respect to potentially illegal, infringing, and/or inappropriate content?
This checklist is not designed to replace consultation with experienced legal counsel in specific instances. However, this checklist should help PR pros identify issues that warrant further consideration. It will also reduce risk and, if handled properly, delight your clients.
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You have two cards, one red on both sides, one red on one side and black on the other. You reach into a hat and pull out one card, viewing only the top. It is red. What`s the probability that the other side is red?
The probability that it is red is 2/3. If you think of the 3 red sides as labeled r1, r2, and r3, then 2 of the 3 times you see a red card, it will be red on the other side.
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a roughly circular field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. Each team takes it in turn to bat, in which they attempt to accumulate as many runs as possible, while the other team fields, attempting to prevent the batting team scoring runs. Teams may bat once or twice each depending upon the format of the game.
Bat-The cricket bat is made of wood and has the shape of a blade topped by a cylindrical handle.
Ball-The ball is a hard leather-seamed spheroid, with a circumference of 9 inches. The hardness of the ball, which can be delivered at speeds of more than 140 km/h, is a matter for concern and batsmen wear protective clothing including pads (designed to protect the knees and shins), batting gloves for the hands, a helmet for the head and a box inside the trousers to protect the crotch area.
Cricket is played on a grassy field. The Law of Cricket does not specify the size or shape of the field, but it is often oval / elliptical. In the centre of the field is a rectangular strip, known as the pitch. The pitch is a flat surface 10 feet (3.0 m) wide, with very short grass that tends to be worn away as the game progresses. At either end of the pitch, 22 yards (20 m) apart, are placed wooden targets, known as the wickets .These serve as a target for the bowling (also known as the fielding side and are defended by the batting side, which seeks to accumulate runs.
The game on the field is regulated by two umpires, one of whom stands behind the wicket at the bowler's end, the other in a position called "square leg" to the side of the "on strike" batsman. The main role of the umpires is to adjudicate on whether a ball is correctly bowled when a run is scored, and whether a batsman is out. Umpires also determine when intervals start and end, decide on the suitability of the playing conditions and can interrupt or even abandon the match due to circumstances likely to endanger the players, such as a damp pitch or deterioration of the light.
These matches also have a match referee whose job is to ensure that play is within the Laws of cricket and the spirit of the game.
Scorers are appointed to record all runs scored, all wickets taken and, where appropriate, number of overs bowled. In professional games, in compliance with the Laws of Cricket, two scorers are appointed, most often one provided by each team.
A cricket match is divided into periods called innings. It is decided before the match whether each team will have either one inning or two innings each. During an inning one team fields and the other bats. The two teams switch between fielding and batting after each inning. All eleven members of the fielding team take the field, but only two members of the batting team (two batsmen) are on the field at any given time.
The two batsmen stand at opposite ends of the pitch, each behind a line on the pitch known as a crease. The fielding team's eleven members stand outside the pitch, spread out across the field.
At each end of the pitch is a wooden target called a wicket. One designated member of the fielding team, called the bowler, is given the ball, and bowls the ball from one end of the pitch to the wicket behind the batsman on the other side of the pitch. The batsman tries to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket by striking the ball with a bat. If the bowler succeeds in hitting the wicket the batsman is dismissed and therefore he must leave the field, to be replaced by another batsman from the batting team.
If the batsman is successful in striking the ball and the ball is not caught before it hits the ground, the two batsmen may then try to score points for their team by running the length of the pitch, grounding their bats behind the opposite crease. Each crossing and grounding by both batsmen is worth one run. The batsmen may attempt one run, multiple runs, or elect not to run at all. By attempting runs, the batsmen risk dismissal, which can happen if the fielding team retrieves the ball and hits a wicket with the ball before either batsman reaches the opposite crease.
If the batsman hits the bowled ball over the field boundary without the ball touching the field, the batting team scores six runs and may not attempt more. If the ball touches the ground and then reaches the boundary, the batting team scores four runs and may not attempt more. When the batsmen have finished attempting their runs, the ball is returned to the bowler to be bowled again. The bowler continues to bowl toward the same wicket, regardless of any switch of the batsmen's positions.
After a bowler has bowled six times (an over), another member of the fielding team is designated as the new bowler. The new bowler bowls to the opposite wicket, and play continues. Fielding team members may bowl multiple times during an inning, but may not bowl two overs in succession.
The inning is complete when 10 of the 11 members of the batting team have been dismissed, one always remaining "not out", or when a set number of overs has been played. The number of innings and the number of overs per inning vary depending on the match.
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Generously sprinkle the sheets of puff pastry with cinnamon. I mean, really generously. Roll each sheet up and cut it in half. Put each cylinder of pastry on it's side and push it down to create a flat circle of dough. Put the dough circles in a metal muffin tray. Use your thumbs to push the dough up against the sides to create a space where you'll later pour the custard. Bake the dough in the oven for 7-8 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk together the cream, eggs, orange zest and vanilla essence in a bowl to create a custard mixture. Take the pastry from the oven and use a spoon to push the dough back to the sides of the moulds. Scoop the custard into the dough. Place the muffin tray back into the oven until the custard firms up. Take the tray out of the oven and use one or two spoons to scoop the tarts onto a solid, heat resistant surface covered with baking parchment.
Now, you are going to make caramel. This is potentially dangerous! Caramel gets really hot, about 180C I believe. If it touches your skin, you can't wipe it off, it will stick and will burn you badly. Take the following precautions to make sure that you are and remain calm wile making caramel: 1. take a moment to think through all the steps you are going to take. Make sure everything you need is within reach and logically positioned. You don't want to improvise or panic wile making caramel. 2. make sure there are no kids nor pets in the kitchen 3. make sure that you have got easy access to a tap with running, tepid water.
Put a saucepan on the hob and make it hot. Add the sugar and orange juice to the pan. You may gently shake the pan to help dissolve the sugar. Do not use a spoon, it will cause crystallisation. Caramel burns before you know it so keep your eyes on it. First it will bubble violently. Then the bubbles will change colour from white to yellow to orange/brown. As soon as the bubbles are dark yellow, turning orange/brown, turn of the heat. Take a table spoon and scoop some caramel onto each tart.
You will have some caramel left over. As soon as you have scooped caramel over the last tart, pour some water or milk into the saucepan and put it back onto the fire. The caramel will dissolve. The reason to use milk is because caramel flavoured milk is really tasty where as caramel flavoured water isn't.
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Hi, I have one son, he's a year and a half, and I'm trying to figure out what is the best choice for him: public school, or homeschool?
I was homeschooled myself; we had a big family, so we had plenty of social interaction, but I felt the one thing that we lacked was discipline. If I had been more disciplined, I would have achieved more. I don't want that to happen to my son, and yet I know that homeschooling is so much more beneficial to the individual if you do it right.
My husband was public schooled, and so you know his preference. :) I guess my dilemma is trying to convince him the benefits to homeschooling versus public schooling. I've been looking at a lot of websites, and all of them say that usually the one con to homeschooling is not having enough social interaction (and that's only if you don't have a big family; trust me, I know). But there are programs that you can enroll in, sports programs, scouts, extra curriculum programs - there are options.
I love the thought that I can be with my son everyday, and help him with his education, to see him grow. I don't want him to have to put up with all of the crap that's out there; its one thing to explain it, so that he's educated, and knows what to expect, and it's another to put him right in the middle of it. So many kids lose their way, because they are thrust into the world, at such a young age, and some kids go down the wrongs roads, and there's really nothing you can do about it, because some kids choose for themselves what they will do, no matter what their parents say. I want something better for my son. I will help my son rise.
Well, I think you have already done a wonderful job at sharing some great benefits to homeschooling!
Yes, a con of homeschooling could be not having adequate social interaction. Most parents considering homeschooling vs public schooling worry about socialization. However, as you state, there are many programs and opportunities for homeschooling children, from having friends over to visit, to participating in organized sports, co-ops, etc., so social interaction really isn't an issue.
As far as discipline, yes, you do need it! I like that you can see where your family struggled in their homeschooling journey; as a parent, you can choose to do things differently. Often though, as children we don't see the whole picture – it’s only when we are older, or become parents ourselves that we see what our parents were trying to do, or the "method to the madness".
I don't think anything can compare to the one-on-one learning experience your son will have with you as his teacher and mother. From an educational standpoint, one-to-one is definitely better than the one-to-many situation students experience in often over-crowded public school classrooms.
I have a friend who is a public school teacher AND has a sister who homeschools. She told me that you often don't see a difference between homeschooled and public schooled students in the younger grades. The vast difference isn’t seen until students reach the later elementary through high school years; it is then that many homeschooled student stand above their public schooled peers.
I have written a lot about the benefits to homeschooling to help you make a wise decision. Other parents have also posted other benefits and advantages to homeschooling that you may want to check out too. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask. Other visitors may post some additional benefits, advantages and pros and cons of homeschooling for you to consider.
Want to homeschool, but have a reluctant spouse? So did Joy. She shares her husband's objections and what turned him into a supportive husband and homeschool advocate. Read My Husband's Reluctance.
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Do Catholics have to be married in the Catholic Church? The "straight answer" is simply "yes," but let's understand also the "why."
Given this basis, a Catholic (either baptized as a Catholic or later entering the Catholic Church after having already been baptized in another Christian denomination) is bound to be married in the Catholic Church. The Church in which one has been baptized and confirmed, receives Holy Communion and professes faith, ought to be the Church in which one is married. Consequently, whether a Catholic is marrying a Catholic or a baptized non-Catholic Christian, the normal expectation is for the marriage to take place in the Catholic Church and for the children to be raised in the Catholic faith.
However, when a Catholic is marrying a baptized non-Catholic Christian, legitimate circumstances may arise when the couple would like to be married in the Church of the non-Catholic. Such circumstances include recognizing a special or long-standing relationship with a minister, or preventing family alienation. In such a case, the couple would complete the regular Catholic marriage preparation. The Catholic party would also attest to his intention of not leaving the Catholic Church and of promising to baptize and raise the children in the Catholic faith. The non-Catholic party would be informed of these promises, attest to understanding these promises and in turn promise not to interfere in their fulfillment. After the preparation and the attainment of these promises, the priest would petition the bishop on behalf of the couple for a "Dispensation from Canonical Form," meaning permission for the couple to be married outside of the Catholic Church. The Church requires a dispensation because the bishop, as shepherd of the diocese and guardian of the souls, must insure that the couple is prepared as best as possible for marriage and is ready to enter into Holy Matrimony. With such permission, the wedding is valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church. (Cf. Code of Canon Law, No. 1124-25).
For example, when I was an associate pastor at St. Mary's, I once prepared a couple for marriage where the uncle of the bride was a Presbyterian minister, whom they wanted to officiate at the wedding. After the couple completed the necessary Catholic wedding preparation and made the required promises, I petitioned Bishop John R. Keating for a Dispensation of Form, which he granted. The couple was married in the Presbyterian Meeting House next door to St. Mary's. The uncle-Presbyterian minister officiated at the ceremony and I too was present to offer a blessing. This marriage was fully recognized by the Church.
However, if a Catholic enters marriage outside of the Catholic Church without the necessary dispensation, then the marriage is considered invalid and is not recognized by the Church. Moreover, this action places the person in a state of mortal sin. For instance, if a Catholic marrying either another Catholic or anyone else just decides to be married in some other Church or by a Justice of the Peace, that marriage is invalid. While such a marriage may have legal standing in the eyes of the state, it has no legitimate standing in the eyes of the Church.
Just as an aside: If a person who was baptized as a Catholic has formally renounced his Catholic faith by joining another Church or by some other public declaration, he would not be bound by these rules since he technically is no longer a Catholic. In all, a sincere, practicing Catholic ought to want to be married in the Catholic Church or ought to obtain the proper permission to be married outside of it.
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La deuxieme fois dans la neige!
The phrase in French is Deja Vu.
It certainly was this year. The Meteo France website showed heavy snowfall in Finistere on Thursday and Friday, so it was no surprise to cross the channel and find we were in for a second succesive year of cycling in the snow.
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In the mood for some mushrooms? Check out these three marvelous mushroom recipes!
Directions • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Remove stem of mushroom.
• Place mushroom on baking sheet; bake for 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven and fill cup of cap with sauce and cheese.
• Bake for an additional 10-15 minutes until cheese is melted.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add onion and stir often until the onions become soft and brown.
• Add mushrooms, bell pepper, oregano and pepper and cook. Stir often, until the vegetables are soft.
• Reduce heat to low; then mix in flour and stir in broth and soy sauce. Bring to a simmer, then remove from the heat.
• Place cheese slices on top of the vegetables, cover and let it sit until melted.
• Divide the mixture into 4 portions, leaving the melted cheese layer on top.
• Place each portion onto each toasted bun and serve immediately.
• Brush mushrooms with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Grill 2 minutes per side.
• Then, spread bottom half of each bun with 1 tbsp. of pesto.
• Layer your slider with mushrooms, red peppers, arugula and provolone cheese. Finally, enjoy!
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When and how to pre-heat your aircraft engine.
When and why to preheat your engine are two common questions.
Most pilots think the only reason engines are preheated is to warm up the oil. In reality, preheating heats both the oil and the entire engine assembly.
Aircraft engines are constructed from parts made from different metals. These metals have different coefficients of thermal expansion.
For example, when an aluminum crankcase cools, it shrinks faster than the iron crankshaft that it’s holding. As a result, the clearance in the main bearings decreases. This can cause increased wear if the engine is started at cold temperatures without preheating.
One way to preheat the engine is through a forced-air system, which forces hot air in through the cowling to heat the engine and the oil. The duration of the preheat depends on the ambient temperature, but you should always preheat long enough to ensure that the entire assembly is warm. The second preheating method is the electrical system.
This engine has a system with a heating element on the oil pan and individual elements on each cylinder.
just plug it in for a few hours before flying, or leave it on the night before.
So, when should you preheat? Engine manufacturers typically recommend preheating any time it’s below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. I would preheat whenever it’s at or below freezing, especially if you’re using a single-grade oil. Another important consideration is the temperature range during the day. For example, if it’s zero at night but warms to 32 degrees by mid-morning, you shouldn’t take your plane out of a cold hangar, start it up and go flying. When the factories recommend preheating below a certain temperature, they’re implying that the aircraft has been completely warmed up to that temperature.
The bottom line is that cold weather by itself is not harmful to your aircraft engine. However, you will need proper preheating and winterisation kits to ensure proper oil temperature. I’m Ben Visser. Good flying.
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If you've read various books on job interview, you will find a list of questions and answers during a job interview to be remembered and memorized. However, you need to know, that the job interview is not an interrogation, but a conversation. To make a proper job interview conversation, you need to arm yourself with little stories about your personal and professional life.
When you come to a job interview, you need to take off his nervousness at the front door. The best thing to prepare is to be yourself. The best way to be yourself is to tell your own story. This will be the better for competency-based interview that lately more and more done.
- Whether you are an asset or a burden for the company? In other words, if you will make money or save money for the company?
- Are you a team player? Did you get into the corporate hierarchy or be a stumbling block? Can you accept or give a command?
- Could you get into the corporate culture? They do not need a "princess".
1. When you manage to make or save money your employer first.
2. A crisis of self that you face when in the old job, and how you respond to or work through it.
3. Story when you become part of a team working and what your contribution.
4. When you work and made it through the stress.
5. The story of when you successfully lead a project, or a story about your ability to become a leader.
6. Failures that occur in your work and how to pass it.
7. An extraordinary event that happened during your career and cause you have to change course, and how it has changed you.
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This phrasal verb feature focuses on phrasal verbs we use when talking about speaking and conversation. Obviously, using "tell" or "say" or "speak", etc. is absolutely correct when relating conversations. However, if you want to stress HOW the person said something, phrasal verbs come in handy (idiom=be useful).
go on: to continue to talk about a subject after the interest of the listener has been exhausted.
Last week I went to visit my friend Fred. Fred is a great guy but at times he can really go on about things. We were speaking about some of our friends and he came out with this incredible story about Jane. It seems she had butted in while he was harping on his favorite complaint: Service in restaurants. Apparently, he had been running on for quite a while putting down almost every restaurant he had been to by rattling off a list of his visits to different restaurants in town. I guess Jane felt that he was talking at her and was fed up with it. She went off about what a rude person he was which shut him up pretty quickly! I thought about blurting out that maybe she was right, but decided to clam up in order to not upset him.
As you can see by using these phrasal verbs the reader gets a much better idea of the dynamics of the conversation. If the above story was reported by saying "she told him", "he said" etc., it would be pretty boring indeed. In this way, the reader gets a real sense of the personalities of the speakers.
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Some months ago Bob Rowland, owner of the Battlesteads in rural Wark, Northumberland, opened a BT Openworld account thinking this would give him unrestricted access to the Internet. The account was in the name of the Battlesteads Hotel.
Rowland is not an excessive Internet user, he is too busy running his award-winning country hotel and restaurant. BT recently wrote to the hotelier to say his constant use of the Internet was unacceptable and that the account was not intended for business use. Not that this stopped BT from accepting payment from Rowland, of course.
BT has been at the forefront of encouraging Internet use (for obvious reasons) in recent years, and its advertising constantly refers to 24-hour access to the Internet. In October, the first warning arrived that Rowland was "over-using" the Internet. In November the second warning came and, within a day, Rowland's Web site and e-mail address were history - they disappeared without trace.
As you can imagine, life for small businesses based in areas affected by foot and mouth restrictions is pretty grim and Rowland depends heavily on the Internet for new business. After having ruthlessly killed off his new business channel for "excessive" use of the service contrary to the small print, BT advised the hotelier to consider broadband or BT Connect Anytime as being "more suitable to his needs".
This is an interesting proposition as Wark is part of the 40% of the UK that BT has recently admitted that it cannot provide with a broadband service.
I looked at the small print of BT's Openworld terms and it does say that customers should not stay online for more than 16 hours a day, so I decided to look up the terms and conditions of the Connect Anytime service BT recommends in its e-mail as being more suitable.
Here's an extract from the terms, "if you are a user of an unmetered service (as opposed to Pay As You Go), you should limit online sessions during unmetered access periods to two hours. To maintain the quality of the service to you and other customers, we reserve the right without notice to impose physical limits to ensure online sessions do not exceed two hours and/or to ensure periods of inactivity do not exceed 20 minutes."
In other words, BT was actually recommending a service with even more harsh restrictions than the one the customer was using and surely completely unsuited to serious business use. How long would it have been before BT chopped Rowland off again?
It offered him a consolation in its e-mail: "I can for the time being reinstate your account under the Pay As You Go option to receive e-mails, but the Web space is only 10Mbytes, so I am not sure if this will be big enough for your needs."
None of which would help the fact that hundreds of search engines across the world are now pointing to empty space.
The reason Rowland stays online is because his online booking system does a quick check for updates at regular intervals throughout the day.
You can imagine that, even with minimum call charges, BT would certainly make a killing if Rowland had to ring up every time to check.
None of this is news, as headlines along the lines of "BT Openworld attacked for terminating Anytime accounts" appear regularly these days. A quick look around the Web will show that many people are dissatisfied with the service.
But to openly invite a business customer to transfer to a more expensive service which has the same or greater restrictions surely has to be indefensible?
Meanwhile, I have heard of members of the Federation of Small Businesses being told they need to order a line before BT will tell them if they can have ADSL. I remember clearly before moving into the country myself, asking if the telecoms giant would be able to supply its Home Highway service at my new address, only to be told that I would have to place the order for the line before it would tell me if it would support the ISDN link.
This is not the way to endear oneself to small business. But then, what is one small business customer? There are plenty of others.
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The area that is now Slovakia was first unified first back in the 800's when the various Slavic tribes in the territory at the time came together in a Kingdom of Great Moravia.
This, however, only lasted a couple of hundred years, as from around 1000, the Hungarians began to slowly annex territories that the Slovaks controlled, until by about 1100, it as all under Hungarian control. Slovakia remained part of Hungary for the next 900 years, even with the Ottoman Empire pushing into Europe.
However, it is worth noting, that for a while, the capital city of Bratislava actually served as the capital for Hungary, rather than Buda.
However, during 1848, the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire was rocked by various rebellions, including the Slovaks, who took a horizontal tricolour of the pan-Slavic colours of red, white, and blue. The Slovak rebellion took a horizontal tricolour of white, blue, and red.
After WWI, The Austro-Hungarian Empire's territories where divided up. Slovakia was unified with the territories of Moravia and Bohemia to form Czechoslovakia. The flag of which took a white and red bicolour, and defaced it with a blue triangle on the hoist. This flag, subsequently, has been taken as the flag of the Czech Republic.
Before WWII, the Vienna Award handed Sudetenland to Germany, and then, during the war, Czechoslovakia was effectively carved up, with the Czech, or western part, swallowed by Germany, the southern territories of Slovakia handed to Hungary, and Poland gained a small piece. This left a rump Slovakia.
This pro-Nazi Slovakia opted to take the unofficial flag of Slovakia from within Czechoslovakia, the horizontal tricolour of white, blue and red. Its national coat of arms consisted of a white double cross, mounted on a blue mountain with three peaks, and on a red background.
After the war, the territories of Eastern Europe where returned, largely, to their pre-war maps, with Slovakia being reintegrated with the rest of the Czechoslovak territories.
With the Velvet Revolution, and Czechoslovakia's slow dissolution, Slovakia opted to bring back the tricolour once more as the flag of the Slovak republic, within Czechoslovakia.
Throughout the very early 1990's, many groups debated the future of the Czechoslovak republic. Some people wanted a looser federation between the Czech, and Slovak republics. Others wanted to maintain Czechoslovakia, and keep the federation tighter.
However, it was agreed that Czechoslovakia be dissolved in 1992. Upon Czechoslovakia's dissolution, the new Slovak constitution instituted the old Slovak tricolour, however, to differentiate it from Slovenia, and Russia, who all have similar flags, Slovakia defaced the flag with the national shield placed on the central blue stripe, towards the flags hoist. The shield is larger than the stripe itself.
One of the rules for the flag governs how the flag is hung.
The shield has to always be vertically, so for flags that are suspended vertically, the shield is rotated 90 degrees.
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Did you know that Bruce Springsteen can be seen wearing an Elvis fan club badge on the cover of his classic 'Born To Run' album from 1975?
Elvis' image is on the button placed on Bruce's guitar strap, a badge from the now-defunct New York-area Elvis Presley fan club called 'The King's Court'.
As many observant fans have known for years, Clarence Clemons isn't the only 'King of the World' to appear on the Born to Run album cover with Bruce.
A close inspection reveals that Elvis Presley is also on the cover. Granted, he may not be as big as the Big Man - but then, who is? Elvis' image is on the button placed on Bruce's guitar strap, a badge from the now-defunct New York-area Presley fan club called 'The King's Court'. The group was formed in 1972 by fans who met while waiting in line for the initial sale of tickets to Elvis' four Madison Square Garden concerts.
One of the first in line was Staten Island native Al Hanson who came became the clubs treasurer.
Born To Run with Bruce Springsteen wearing the King's Court badge.
About eight months after the club was formed, Hanson led the group in designing a King's Court button and personally paid for five hundred buttons to be distributed to all who joined. 'I was a young guy with some money to spend', he recalls with a laugh. Each member also received a black-and-white King's Court bumper sticker. As the club continued to grow, eventually thousands of buttons were printed and distributed. (Collectors take note: Hanson hand-stamped the phrase '100% Elvis' on the backs of the first 500.) Hanson estimates that the Court had almost three thousand members at the time of Elvis' death in 1977.
No records confirming Bruce's membership could be found.
The Original Members of the King's Court with Elvis August 31, 1973.
In any event, Al Hanson still considers himself one very lucky fan. In addition to helping to design a small but significant part of Bruce Springsteen's 'wardrobe' for Born to Run, he is also one of the relative few who've gotten to see both Presley and Springsteen at Madison Square Garden.
He offers a great analogy by way of comparison, too: 'For me, seeing Elvis was like seeing God onstage, but seeing Bruce was like seeing your brother or your best friend'.
The image of Elvis on the button was cropped from a publicity photo taken backstage at Presley's Las Vegas concert stand in the summer of 1970. (That stand was filmed and later released theatrically as Elvis: That's the Way It Is; the film's 2001 'Special Edition' featured footage of the backstage meeting where the photo was taken.) The original photo was in black-and-white (as, of course, was the Born to Run cover), but the actual King's Court button featured a red-white-and-blue design.
Members of 'The King's Court' fan club with Colonel Parker.
Bruce sported his button in numerous photos taken by Eric Meola during the album cover sessions for Born to Run. In addition to what appeared on Born to Run, several more of Meola's photos eventually appeared on Springsteen's Greatest Hits and Essential albums. Probably the easiest place to most clearly see Springsteen wearing his Elvis button is on page 40 of Springsteen's Songs (in either the hardcover or paperback edition).
Bruce Springsteen wearing the King's Court badge.
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play a style of rock n' roll that hearkens back to its earlier days, the 1950s. Despite being released years after that period of music, many elements of the band channel the straight rock n' roll being played by guys like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley decades earlier.
Part of the reason for this is a piano played by Roy Bittan. Although he is playing in a different style, one cannot hear rock piano without first thinking of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Springsteen's voice, rough on this album, nonetheless is reminiscent of Elvis Presley's tenor.
What really sets this album aside is the songwriting. Though obscure at times, Springsteen has an uncanny understanding of the blue-collar life and this album reflects many facets of that life. Every day, people turn to crime when they can't find another way, ('Meeting Across the River') and almost everyone looks for an escape from their troubles ('Born to Run'). Springsteen, in these eight songs, reveals to us the human condition as it appears under the guise of the American blue-collar life. (Reviewer: Josh Brachfeld -- TheCelebrityCafe.com).
By Shawn Poole - From Backstreets Magazine #80 (reprinted with permission) Al Hanson invites all fans interested in discussing Elvis, Bruce and/or 'classic rock' in general to e-mail him at coolrockndaddy@aol.com Don't even think about asking him for a King's Court button, though. He only has two left.
Didn't Have To Die : Speculative fiction article : What if Bruce did meet Elvis?
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Chains rattle and handling moves.
Wind chimes setting down 3.
Wind chimes setting down 2.
Wind chimes setting down 1.
Weight set metal and plastic clatter and movement 4.
Weight set metal and plastic clatter and movement 3.
Weight set metal and plastic clatter and movement 2.
Weight set metal and plastic clatter and movement 1.
Rattling copper napkin holders together 6.
Rattling copper napkin holders together 5.
Rattling copper napkin holders together 4.
Rattling copper napkin holders together 3.
Rattling copper napkin holders together 2.
Rattling copper napkin holders together 1.
Chain dragging across wood tabletop 2.
Chain dragging across wood tabletop 1.
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Tailor hashcat for cracking “german” passwords?
I'd like to crack a friends WPA2 wifi password to prove him that he needs to choose a strong password. I already showed him that a hidden SSID or MAC filtering is no security measure.
To give him the quietus I'd like to crack his password (or at least try to do so).
I am new to hashcat and already figured out it's basic use. I searched and downloaded German (pass-)word lists and dictionaries. Google and this forum told me to take care of Umlauts. I suspect that most routers (a Fritz!Box in this case) are using UTF-8 for encoding so that shouldn't be a problem as long as my dictionaries are UTF-8 encoded, right?
Any hint for a beginner is appreciated! Thanks for a cool tool and your help.
Yes, UTF8 is probably fine for WPA2 entered via a web interface.
It sounds like you have the rest of the basics covered. Good luck!
And for bruteforce beyond the basics, see this StackExchange answer.
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Spanish. Man's hand reaching around female torso with wedding ring.
Y lo disfruto siempre ... y solamente tengo relaciones sexuales con una persona. La persona que amo. Mi esposa.
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Division of Birth Defects.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
Aprende los signos. Reaccione pronto.
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program, and do some conversion on it.
I first have used btreeop and read out data.
For the btreeop's I have redirected the output to a file.
will be created ("btreeop: dbop_next failed").
for simple tasks should be no problem.
Is my code crap, or what is the problem here?
On both computers I'm running Ocaml 3.04 with Linux.
let gsyms_channel = Unix.open_process_in "/usr/bin/btreeop ./GSYMS"
let gtags_channel = Unix.open_process_in "/usr/bin/btreeop ./GTAGS"
let grtags_channel = Unix.open_process_in "/usr/bin/btreeop ./GRTAGS"
let gpath_channel = Unix.open_process_in "/usr/bin/btreeop ./GPATH"
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How much is James Murdoch Worth?
James Murdoch net worth: James Murdoch is an English businessman who has a net worth of $500 million dollars. Born in Wimbledon, London, England, James Murdoch is the fourth of Rupert Murdoch's six children. He graduated from the Horace Mann School in the early 90s, and then attended Harvard University for a few years before dropping out to start his own record label. News Corporation eventually purchased the label, Rawkus Records, in the late 90s, after the company hired Murdoch. He helmed Festival Records for a time, before the company went under. He then took over as CEO of Sky Television in Hong Kong, and then became CEO of BSkyB, a promotion that had many detractors. He stepped down in 2007, and subsequently took over development of News Corporation's media platforms. He is currently involved in the hearings surrounding the tabloid newspaper, "News of the World", which used illegal phone tapping to gather information about celebrities.
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Stained glass is an amazing feat of human ingenuity. Capturing a photograph in front of a stained glass window often leads to major problems, though. Your flash reflects off the glass diminishing its look and causing bulb reflections in the glass. You are faced with a question: how to take a photo in front a stained glass window so that it truly captures the beauty?
The first answer to that question is simply to shut off your camera flash. It is more headache than help. Instead, use natural lighting. Avoid photographing stained glasses on bright, sunny days. Direct sunlight does not provide even lighting, which causes shadows on the window.
Instead, shoot on overcast days. You will still receive plenty of lighting, but the lighting will be filtered. You will lose the harsh shadows, but still illuminate the stained glass.
The only time that you should take photographs of stained glasses on a sunny day is if you want to capture reflected colors from the stained glass. As the sunlight shines through the glass, it will cause cascades of rainbow-like lighting on floors, statues and anything else in its path. This creates some interesting pictures.
Manipulate the ISO if you are inside a building. Generally, about an f/8 stop is good for photographing indoors, but you need to experiment to determine exactly what will work with the particular stained glass you are photographing. In addition, try to use manual exposure as opposed to automatic. Your camera does its best to compensate for the light coming through the window and the darkness of the interior, but it is not perfect.
Try changing your exposure to between -0.5 and -1. If you do not know how to change your exposure, then you will have to refer to your handy camera manual. It should be in your settings along near your ISO settings. It is best to underexpose your images slightly, since doing so will show more of the colors. Again, you will have to do some experimentation to figure out what exposure setting will work best.
Another interesting way to photograph stained glasses is photographing from the outside, especially at night. This technique works well if you are photographing churches or older buildings. Generally, the light in these buildings are poor. At night, that little bit of lighting is enough to capture the stained glass.
For this type of photography, manipulate the exposure and ISO again. You may be able to use the same settings. Avoid using your flash.
The goal is to capture as much of the stained glass as possible. When you cannot capture the entire window, use a telephoto lens and focus on certain sections or details of the stained glass. Set up your camera on a tripod and compensate for the angle of the stained glass. If the stained glass angles outwards or inwards, adjust the tripod and your lens until the stained glass fills the frame and looks straight.
Finally, take lots of pictures, and do not be afraid to experiment.
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Following sentences have been divided into 4 parts A,B,C & D. In one of the part, there is an error. You need to find the parts which do not have any error. If the entire sentence is error free, mark (5).
Explanation: Here there is a comparison between two persons, so it should be‘more honest’ in place of ‘most honest’.
Explanation: ‘Submit’ should be ‘submitting’.
Explanation: Replace ‘would not have’ with ‘had not’.
Explanation: ‘team leaders encourages’ should be replaced by ‘team leaders encourage’ or ‘team leader encourages’.
Explanation: Replace ‘are’ with ‘is’ because the subject (prime minister) is singular here.
Explanation: Replace ‘were’ with ‘was’.
Explanation: It should be ‘the present I sent for him’.
Explanation: It should be by his decision.
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What does 'Rode hard and put away wet' mean?
Someone who's been rode hard and put away wet has had a very hard life. When a horse is ridden hard and sweaty, it needs to be walked and cooled down before being stabled.
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What is all this talk about Anti-Reflective Coatings?
Anti-Reflective coatings not only improve the clarity of vision through your eyeglass lenses, but also makes your glasses more aesthetically pleasing. Both benefits are due to the ability of AR coating to eliminate reflections of light from the front and back surface of eyeglass lenses. With fewer reflections, more light passes through the lens to the eye for good vision and the lenses look more transparent and attractive.
The visual benefits of lenses with anti-reflective coating include sharper vision with less glare when driving at night and greater comfort during prolonged computer use (compared with wearing eyeglass lenses without AR coating). Most premium AR lenses include a surface treatment that seals the anti-reflective layers and makes the lenses easier to clean. "Hydrophobic" surface treatments repel water, preventing the formation of water spots. Some anti-reflective lenses have surface treatments that are both hydrophobic and "oleophobic" (also called lipophobic), which means they repel both water and oil. These combination treatments typically contain fluorinated materials that give the lenses properties that are very similar to those of nonstick cookware.
Eye Exams. Designer Frames. Contact Lenses. Affordable Prices.
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Is Volkswagen going to exit India?
No, it is not true, it is merely rumour. Volkswagen is one of India's leading automobile manufacturers and the market leader in the car segment. The company has a product in almost every segment and most of them are doing really well, so there seems to be no reason for the company to exit Indian market.
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Health authorities are on the alert for dengue fever and have issued some advice to mitigate the spread of the potentially deadly disease. In September, the Ministry of Health said laboratory tests have confirmed 180 cases of dengue fever in Jamaica since the start of 2012 out of 472 suspected cases.
Dengue is a viral infection found in tropical and sub-tropical regions. It is spread through the Aedes aegypti mosquito when the female bites an infected person and then bites other people.
WHO currently estimates there may be 50–100 million dengue infections worldwide every year.
Severe dengue (previously known as Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever) was first recognized in the 1950s during dengue epidemics in the Philippines and Thailand.
Severe dengue affects most Asian and Latin American countries and has become a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children in these regions.
There are four distinct serotypes of the virus that cause dengue. Recovery from infection by one provides lifelong immunity against that particular serotype. However, subsequent infections by other serotypes increase the risk of developing severe dengue.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito lives in urban habitats and breeds mostly in man-made containers.
Unlike other mosquitoes Aedes aegypti is a daytime feeder; its peak biting periods are early in the morning and in the evening before dusk.
Female Aedes aegypti bites multiple people during each feeding period.
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Is there anyone to explain me why these sentences are wrong.
Although the fact that it was dangerous, he still did it.
Despite of being easy, many failed the test.
Despite I tried my best, I failed.
Despite you tried to persuade me to read some of your books, you were never succeeded.
Although it was dangerous, he still did it.
Despite being easy, many failed the test.
Despite trying my best, I failed.
Despite trying to persuade me to read some of your books, you never succeeded.
although is wrong because it is not followed by a clause but a noun.
2. Despite is a preposition and cannot be followed by 'of'. There is another preposition 'in spite of' which has the same meaning. Despite should also be followed by a noun.
3. 'Despite I tried my best, I failed.' because 'despite' is followed by two clauses and so should be replace with 'although'.
4. 'Despite you tried to persuade me to read some of your books, you were never succeeded. ' Despite is wrong for the same reason as in 3.
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Hi this time I wish to talk about five scales that have become more or less known among guitarists; the first time I had heard of exotic sounds on electric guitar was when I listen to a record of the scorpions with guitar master Uli John Roth, it was the Tokyo Tapes Live double album. Then a record of UFO with Michael Schenker, then an Accept record called Kaizokuban, And the climax of this came to me with bands such as Cacophony and the records of Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. I’m very interested in exotic scales and exotic sounds so I started to search information about exotic scales in books and videos.
Then David T Chastain came to Mexico and played some Hungarian minor improvisations and he gave me a little booklet with information about a lot of formulas for exotic scales which made me very happy. I still remember that day when I met Michael Harris and David T Chastain. They are super excellent guitarists, heroes of guitarists around the world and the best thing is that they are excellent people too.
OK back to the scales, with David I learnt a Japanese scale called the “Kumoi” scale. It is a five tone scale that has a very brilliant sound and that I practiced a lot until now, when I saw the video of Marty Friedman and he teaches a Japanese scale that is the same as the scale David taught me. Then I got another booklet with 16 exotic scales and there came three scales called Kumoi, Hirajoshi and Iwato among others from China, Hungary, Egypt and Greece etc.
To better understand these scales, we will start with the Hirajoshi scale; it’s a pentatonic scale that has an intervallic structure of W-H-2-H-2. This means that the hirajoshi scale has a whole tone as first intervallic distance, a half tone as second intervallic distance, two whole tones as the third intervallic distance, a half tone as the fourth intervallic distance and our last intervallic distance is of two whole tones. In A tonality we have the following tones: A-B-C-E-F-A. It covers the complete octave with five tones, in the power tab archive you can see various positions of this scale.
1=root,2=major second,b3=minor second,5=perfect fifth, and b6 is a minor sixth.
it has the following formula:1, b2, 4, 5, b6. Which means: 1=root, b2=minor second, 4= perfect fourth, 5= perfect fifth, b6 is a minor sixth.
A-Bb-D-Eb-G-A, and it’s a pentatonic scale too (All the scales in this article are of five tones).
It has a formula of :1 -b2-4-b5-b7.Which means: root, minor second, perfect fourth, diminished fifth ,and minor seventh.
OK, there exists another two Japanese scales derived from the Hirajoshi Scale, for example, I need to present to you a scale that, with the same set of notes (five notes). The same set of intervals completes an octave, that’s the case of our new friend that comes with intervals arranged in a manner that starts on the interval of 2 whole tones. Well, the scale I’m presenting to you comes with this intervallic structure: 2-H-2-W-H.
This means that our first interval on this scale is of two whole tones, our second interval is of a half tone, our third interval is of two whole tones again, our fourth interval is of a whole tone and our last interval is of half tone. The name of this scale is Kumoi And the scale that we know as Kumoi is in reality named Hon Kumoi Shiouzhi.
If you think a little you will realise that it is a mode of the Hirajoshi scale, I named this scale: Kumoi – The Sound of the Samurai, because it reminds me the noble warriors of Japan, and makes for something a bit different to the Hon Kumoi scale.
The formula for this scale is 1-3-4-6-7, which means root, major third, perfect fourth, major sixth and major seventh.
In the tonality of C it is :C-E-F-A-B-C, In the tonality of A it is : A-C#-D-F#-G#-A.
This fifth scale is pentatonic Japanese scale that has the same intervals as the ones mentioned before, and is a pentatonic too, just that the intervals are arranged in another order. The intervallic structure is: 2-W-H-2-H .
This means that our first interval is of two whole tones, our second interval is of a whole tone, our third interval is of a half tone, our fourth interval is of two whole tones and our fifth and last interval is of a half tone.
The formula for this scale is: 1-3-#4-5-7, this means: root, major third, augmented fourth, perfect fifth and major seventh.
In the tonality if A it is: A-C#-D#-E-G#. I haven’t found the name of this scale, or at least a Japanese name, in a scale dictionary I got from Toni Lloret, it is named the ‘Chinese scale’ or Hindu scale Raga Amritavarsini.
The Hirajoshi scale has W-H-2-H-2 and is the first mode.
The Iwato scale begins on the H interval of the Hirajoshi, and in the same order we have H-2-H-2-W and it is the second mode of our scale.
The Kumoi scale begins on the 2 interval of the Iwato scale, and in the same order now we have 2-H-2-W-H and it is the third mode of our scale.
The Hon Kumoi Shiouzhi scale begins on the H interval of our Kumoi scale and in the same order now we have H-2-W-H-2 and it is the fourth mode of our scale.
Finally, the Chinese scale begins on the 2 interval of our Hon Kumoi Shiouzhi scale, and keeps the same order of intervals, just the first interval now is the last and now we have 2-W-H-2-H. It is our fifth and last mode of the Hirajoshi scale.
OK. Now you have the formulas and maybe some positions of these Japanese scales, but you need to take this information and develop it to it’s maximum potential. You can derive chords from all the five scales and compare them, you can mix these scales with another scales as major or minor scales, for example now you can study these scales to incorporate to your arsenal of tools for composition. They provide innumerable elements and options.
Dude, I just wanted to say how awesome this page is. You’re one hell of a teacher!
Hello! Thank you very much for this material, I really need more of this stuff.
If you have more info about japanese scales, harmony etc. please contact me!
Keep on working! You are doing a great job!
pretty good post here but i thought you would have mentioned the InSen scale which is 1,b2,4,5,b7 or h,2,w,1.5,h in your notation. i always considered Japanese music to be constructed of just these two scales and the major pentatonic which in this case is normally spelled 1,2,4,5,b7 (2nd mode of major pentatonic) and all their respective modes. also im not sure either of the scales you call kumoi are actually kumoi, i believe it comes from the InSen scale and is spelled 1,2,b3,5,6 (5th mode of InSen). i dont think this is your fault however, because every bloody book i look in tells me a different mode of hirajoshi is the true hirajoshi.
having said this you know that in japan the consider the root of the scale to be the 3rd note, not the 1st? meaning our concept of giving modes different names goes right out the window.
I was trying to relate these scales some way, but man u nailed it. i mixed up the In scale(i dont kno Sen or something like that, every book speaks for itself) i couldnt get the right thing.
Thanks for tabin these scales out i only know of 2 japanese scales now with this i have a lil more to work with.
What is the name of the booklet that you bought that contained all these scales?
Thank you!! You, beautiful musician! These are absolutely gorgeous and I can’t wait to practice them. Thank you for your beautiful generosity in sharing your hard-earned experiences with the world. Much love and gratitude!
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Let's look at the next function. So again, we have our function keyword; we have the name of our function which is called perform_calculation(); and then within these parentheses, we have a set of parameters that this function accepts. Now, we can pass whatever we want as this first value and the second value, and that data will get captured in these two variables so we can then use it inside of the code.
So the goal here is to be able two numbers to this function and then multiply them by each other and then return the result. So if we look at how we call this function, let's go ahead and uncomment out this second line here. We're using the function perform_calculation() and we're passing at two numbers, 6 and 7.
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CBOE:VIX I don't play the VIX often, but the market seems overextended/euphoric and due for a pullback, with the VIX nearing some established levels over Support. It's potentially a good play. I like to play wide zones to allow myself a larger margin of error, but if 16.50 to 15 is too wide of an area for you, wait till Support 2.
Looking to long VIX around green boxes with targets on the chart. Trade safe amigos!
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www3.nd.edu This is a very basic explanation. Can be applied to TSLA convertibles or any others fitting desirable criteria. Monetised vol., yield and income generation can result in hypothetical annual returns above 6% without prime broker leverage.
This stock is a low float and can move like a freight train. RSI is in oversold territory and thus a good candidate for a buy. UUU has been trading since 1973 and every time it has dipped below $2 it has given back massive gains. Upside potential is huge.
www.bloomberg.com US auctions are going to affect the stock market badly over the next few months, so be sure to check this out.
Will Utilities volatility spike coincide with stock market volatility spike this time? I think it's worth a bet.
Wow. Look at that. The markets have great great battles with that black line. This ratio signals there should be a big move in the gmarkets soon.
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Mary went over to the United States in her late teens.
Tom looked like he was somewhere in his late thirties.
Mary is in her late twenties.
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Are there real-life relations which are symmetric and reflexive but not transitive?
Inspired by Halmos (Naive Set Theory) . . .
For each of these three possible properties [reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity], find a relation that does not have that property but does have the other two.
It is clearly not transitive since $(a,b)\in R$ and $(b,c)\in R$ whilst $(a,c)\notin R$. On the other hand, it is reflexive since $(x,x)\in R$ for all cases of $x$: $x=a$, $x=b$, and $x=c$. Likewise, it is symmetric since $(a,b)\in R$ and $(b,a)\in R$ and $(b,c)\in R$ and $(c,b)\in R$. However, this doesn't satisfy me.
Are there real-life examples of $R$?
In this question, I am asking if there are tangible and not directly mathematical examples of $R$: a relation that is reflexive and symmetric, but not transitive. For example, when dealing with relations which are symmetric, we could say that $R$ is equivalent to being married. Another common example is ancestry. If $xRy$ means $x$ is an ancestor of $y$, $R$ is transitive but neither symmetric nor reflexive.
I would like to see an example along these lines within the answer. Thank you.
My favorite example is synonymy: certainly any word is synonymous with itself, and if you squint you can imagine that if a word appears in the thesaurus entry for another, then the latter will symmetrically appear in the thesaurus entry for the former. But synonymy is not transitive.
Tolerance relations are binary reflexive, symmetric but generally not transitive relations historically introduced by Poincare', who distinguished the mathematical continuum from the physical continuum, then studied by Halpern, and most notably the topologist Zeeman.
An intersting textbook that discusses tolerances is Pirlot & Vincke's Semiorders, 1997.
(iii) only results 'within tolerance' are usually required in practical applications.
and that "tolerance, in a way, is a trick for avoiding the specific hazards of infinite-dimensional-function spaces, eg their local noncompactness; moreover, in a certain sense, in tolerance spaces, you can't have large finite dimensions"
$x$ lives within one mile of $y$.
This is reflexive and symmetric, but not transitive.
$x$ is indistinguishable from $y$.
The non-transitivity of this relation is my favorite way to account for the non-intuitiveness of the theory of evolution.
On the set of countries: $x$ and $y$ share a border.
There exists a question on math.SE that both $x$ and $y$ have answered.
$x$ has had body contact with $y$.
$x$ and $y$ were once nationals of the same country.
$x$ has the same number of legs and/or the same number of teeth as $y$.
$x$ and $y$ are foods that go well together (with respect to a fixed person's palate, I suppose).
Several of the examples given have in common some similarity between things (if I resemble John and John resembles Mike, I do not necessarily resemble Mike: I and J. might have some common features different from those J. has in common with M.).
And, sure enough, a reflexive, symmetric, non-transitive relation has been called a “similarity relation”; see for instance this search, and several other hits in (especially fuzzy) set theory.
$x$ has lived with $y$ at some point (whether in the same building or same location on the streets).
Alternately, $x$ and $y$ have at least one biological parent in common.
Actors $x$ and $y$ have appear in the same movie at least once.
$x$~$y$:$x$ is the classmate of $y$.
I hope this example work.
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Why do we even need transitivity?
Give me an example of a relation.
Prove that $(A,B)\sim(P,Q)$ and $(C,D)\sim (P,Q)\implies (A,B)\sim (C,D)$?
Real life examples of order relations.
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The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating an intuitive set of gestures for employment with surface computing. A gesture set creator can prompt two or more users with a potential effect for a portion of displayed data. An interface component can receive at least one surface input from the user in response to the prompted potential effect. A surface detection component can track the surface input utilizing a computer vision-based sensing technique. The gesture set creator collects the surface input from the two or more users in order to identify a user-defined gesture based upon a correlation between the respective surface inputs, wherein the user-defined gesture is defined as an input that initiates the potential effect for the portion of displayed data.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/185,166, filed on Aug. 4, 2008, entitled “A USER-DEFINED GESTURE SET FOR SURFACE COMPUTING”, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. This application relates to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/118,955 filed on May 12, 2008, entitled “COMPUTER VISION-BASED MULTI-TOUCH SENSING USING INFRARED LASERS” and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/185,174 filed on Aug. 4, 2008, entitled “FUSING RFID AND VISION FOR SURFACE OBJECT TRACKING”, the entire disclosure of each of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
Computing devices are increasing in technological ability wherein such devices can provide a plurality of functionality within a limited device-space. Computing devices can be, but not limited to, mobile communication devices, desktop computers, laptops, cell phones, PDA, pagers, tablets, messenger devices, hand-helds, pocket translators, bar code scanners, smart phones, scanners, portable handheld scanners, and any other computing device that allows data interaction. Although each device employs a specific function for a user, devices have been developing to allow overlapping functionality in order to appeal to consumer needs. In other words, computing devices have incorporated a plurality of features and/or applications such that the devices have invaded one another's functionality. For example, cell phones can provide cellular service, phonebooks, calendars, games, voicemail, paging, web browsing, video capture, image capture, voice memos, voice recognition, high-end mobile phones (e.g., smartphones becoming increasingly similar to portable computers/laptops in features and functionality), etc.
As a result, personal computing devices have incorporated a variety of techniques and/or methods for inputting information. Personal computing devices facilitate entering information employing devices such as, but not limited to, keyboards, keypads, touch pads, touch-screens, speakers, stylus' (e.g., wands), writing pads, etc. However, input devices such as keypads, speakers and writing pads bring forth user personalization deficiencies in which each user can not utilize the data entry technique (e.g., voice, and/or writing) similarly. For example, consumers employing writing recognition in the United States can write in English, yet have distinct and/or different letter variations.
Furthermore, computing devices can be utilized for data communications or data interactions via such above-described techniques. A particular technique growing within computing devices is interactive surfaces or related tangible user interfaces, often referred to as surface computing. Surface computing enables a user to physically interact with displayed data as well as physical objects detected in order to provide a more intuitive data interaction. For example, a photograph can be detected and annotated with digital data, wherein a user can manipulate or interact with such real photograph and/or the annotation data. Thus, such input techniques allow for objects to be identified, tracked, and augmented with digital information. Moreover, users may not find conventional data interaction techniques or gestures intuitive for most surface computing systems. For instance, many surface computing systems employ gestures created by system designers which are not reflective of a typical user's behavior. In other words, typical gestures for data interaction for surface computing systems are unintuitive and rigid which do not take into account of a non-technical user's perspective.
The following presents a simplified summary of the innovation in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects described herein. This summary is not an extensive overview of the claimed subject matter. It is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of the claimed subject matter nor delineate the scope of the subject innovation. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of the claimed subject matter in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The subject innovation relates to systems and/or methods that facilitate collecting surface input data in order to generate a user-defined gesture set. A gesture set creator can evaluate surface inputs from users in response to data effects, wherein the gesture set creator can generate a user-defined gesture based upon surface inputs between two or more users. In particular, a group of users can be prompted with an effect on displayed data and responses can be tracked in order to identify a user-defined gesture for such effect. For example, the effect can be one of a data selection, a data set selection, a group selection, a data move, a data pan, a data rotate, a data cut, a data paste, a data duplicate, a data delete, an accept, a help request, a reject, a menu request, an undo, a data enlarge, a data shrink, a zoom in, a zoom out, an open, a minimize, a next, or a previous. In other aspects of the claimed subject matter, methods are provided that facilitates identifying a gesture set from two or more users for implementation with surface computing.
The following description and the annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative aspects of the claimed subject matter. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the innovation may be employed and the claimed subject matter is intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features of the claimed subject matter will become apparent from the following detailed description of the innovation when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary system that facilitates collecting surface input data in order to generate a user-defined gesture set.
FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary system that facilitates identifying a gesture set from two or more users for implementation with surface computing.
FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary system that facilitates identifying a user-defined gesture and providing explanation on use of such gesture.
FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of exemplary gestures that facilitates interacting with a portion of displayed data.
FIG. 5 illustrates a block diagram of exemplary gestures that facilitates interacting with a portion of displayed data.
FIG. 6 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary system that facilitates automatically identifies correlations between various surface inputs from disparate users in order to create a user-defined gesture set.
FIG. 7 illustrates an exemplary methodology for collecting surface input data in order to generate a user-defined gesture set.
FIG. 8 illustrates an exemplary methodology that facilitates creating and utilizing a user-defined gesture set in connection with surface computing.
FIG. 9 illustrates an exemplary networking environment, wherein the novel aspects of the claimed subject matter can be employed.
FIG. 10 illustrates an exemplary operating environment that can be employed in accordance with the claimed subject matter.
The claimed subject matter is described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the subject innovation. It may be evident, however, that the claimed subject matter may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing the subject innovation.
As utilized herein, terms “component,” “system,” “data store,” “creator,” “evaluator,” “prompter” and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, software (e.g., in execution), and/or firmware. For example, a component can be a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a program, a function, a library, a subroutine, and/or a computer or a combination of software and hardware. By way of illustration, both an application running on a server and the server can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and a component can be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers.
Now turning to the figures, FIG. 1 illustrates a system 100 that facilitates collecting surface input data in order to generate a user-defined gesture set. The system 100 can include a gesture set creator 102 that can aggregate surface input data from a user 106 in order to identify a user-defined gesture for implementation with a surface detection component 104. In particular, the user 106 can provide a surface input or a plurality of surface inputs via an interface component 108 in response to, for instance, a prompted effect associated with displayed data. Such surface inputs can be collected and analyzed by the gesture set creator 102 in order to identify a user-defined gesture for the prompted effect, wherein two or more user-defined gestures can be a user-defined gesture set. The gesture set creator 102 can prompt or provide the user 106 with a potential effect for displayed data in which the user 106 can provide his or her response via surface inputs. Such surface input response can be indicative of the user 106 intuitive response on how to implement the potential effect via surface inputs for displayed data. Moreover, the surface detection component 104 that can detect a surface input from at least one of a user, a corporeal object, or any suitable combination thereof. Upon detection of such surface input, the surface detection component 104 can ascertain a position or location for such surface input.
The surface detection component 104 can be utilized to capture touch events, surface inputs, and/or surface contacts. It is to be appreciated that such captured or detected events, inputs, or contacts can be gestures, hand-motions, hand interactions, object interactions, and/or any other suitable interaction with a portion of data. For example, a hand interaction can be translated into corresponding data interactions on a display. In another example, a user can physically interact with a cube physically present and detected, wherein such interaction can allow manipulation of such cube in the real world as well as data displayed or associated with such detected cube. It is to be appreciated that the surface detection component 104 can utilize any suitable sensing technique (e.g., vision-based, non-vision based, etc.). For instance, the surface detection component 104 can provide capacitive sensing, multi-touch sensing, etc.
For example, a prompted effect of deleting a portion of displayed object can be provided to the user, wherein the user can provide his or her response via surface inputs. Based on evaluation of two or more users and respective surface inputs, a user-defined gesture can be identified for deleting a portion of displayed data. In other words, the prompted effect and collected results enables a user-defined gesture set to be generated based upon evaluation of user inputs.
It is to be appreciated that the prompted effect can be communicated to the user in any suitable manner and can be, but is not limited to being, a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of text, a portion of a graphic, etc. For instance, a prompted effect can be shown to a user via a verbal instruction. Moreover, it is to be appreciated that the gesture set creator 102 can monitor, track, record, etc. responses from the user 106 in addition to surface input response. For example, the user 106 can be video taped in order to evaluate confidence in responses by examining verbal responses, facial expressions, physical demeanor, etc.
In addition, the system 100 can include any suitable and/or necessary interface component 108 (herein referred to as “interface 108”), which provides various adapters, connectors, channels, communication paths, etc. to integrate the gesture set creator 102 into virtually any operating and/or database system(s) and/or with one another. In addition, the interface 108 can provide various adapters, connectors, channels, communication paths, etc., that provide for interaction with the gesture set creator 102, the surface detection component 104, the user 106, surface inputs, and any other device and/or component associated with the system 100.
FIG. 2 illustrates a system 200 that facilitates identifying a gesture set from two or more users for implementation with surface computing. The system 200 can include the gesture set creator 102 that can collect and analyze surface inputs (received by the interface 108 and tracked by the surface detection component 104) from two or more users 106 in order to extract a user-defined gesture set that is reflective of the consensus for a potential effect for displayed data. Upon identification of two or more user-defined gestures, such gestures can be referred to as a user-defined gesture set. Once defined, the surface detection component 104 (e.g., computer vision-based activity sensing, surface computing, etc.) can detect at least one user-defined gesture and initiate the effect to which the gesture is assigned or linked.
It is to be appreciated that any suitable effect for displayed data can be presented to the users 106 in order to identify a user-defined gesture. For example, the effect can be, but is not limited to, data selection, data set or group selection, data move, data pan, data rotate, data cut, data paste, data duplicate, data delete, accept, help, reject, menu, undo, data enlarge, data shrink, zoom in, zoom out, open, minimize, next, previous, etc. Moreover, the user-defined gestures can be implemented by any suitable hand gesture or portion of the hand (e.g., entire hand, palm, one finger, two fingers, etc.).
The system 200 can further include a data store 204 that can store various data related to the system 200. For instance, the data store 204 can include any suitable data related to the gesture set creator 102, the surface detection component 104, two or more users 106, the interface 108, the user 202, etc. For example, the data store 204 can store data such as, but not limited to, a user-defined gesture, a user-defined gesture set, collected surface inputs corresponding to a prompted effect, effects for displayed data, prompt techniques (e.g., audio, video, verbal, etc.), tutorial data, correlation data, surface input collection techniques, surface computing data, surface detection techniques, user preferences, user data, etc.
The data store 204 can be, for example, either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. By way of illustration, and not limitation, nonvolatile memory can include read only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), electrically programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can include random access memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, RAM is available in many forms such as static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), Rambus direct RAM (RDRAM), direct Rambus dynamic RAM (DRDRAM), and Rambus dynamic RAM (RDRAM). The data store 204 of the subject systems and methods is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory and/or storage. In addition, it is to be appreciated that the data store 204 can be a server, a database, a relational database, a hard drive, a pen drive, and the like.
FIG. 3 illustrates a system 300 that facilitates identifying a user-defined gesture and providing explanation on use of such gesture. The system 300 can include the gesture set creator 102 that can receive experimental surface data or surface inputs from a plurality of users 106 in order to generate a user-defined gesture set based on correlations associated with such received data. It is to be appreciated that the user-defined gesture and/or the user-defined gesture set can be utilized in connection with surface computing technologies (e.g., tabletops, interactive tabletops, interactive user interfaces, surface detection component 104, surface detection systems, etc.).
The system 300 can further include a prompter and evaluator 302. The prompter and evaluator 302 can provide at least one of the following: a prompt related to a potential effect on displayed data; or an evaluation of aggregated test surface input data (e.g., surface inputs in response to a prompted effect which are in a test or experiment stage). The prompter and evaluator 302 can communicate any suitable portion of data to at least one user 106 in order to generate a response via the surface detection component 104 and/or the interface 108. In particular, the prompt can be a communication of a potential effect a potential gesture may have on displayed data. Moreover, it is to be appreciated that the prompt can be a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of a graphic, a portion of text, a portion of verbal instructions, etc. Furthermore, the prompter and evaluator 302 can provide comparative analysis and/or agreement calculations (e.g., discussed in more detail below) in order to identify similar surface inputs from users 106 which can be reflective of a user-defined gesture (e.g., users providing similar surface inputs in response to a potential effect can be identified as a user-defined gesture). Additionally, it is to be appreciated that the prompter and evaluator 302 can analyze any suitable data collected from the prompted effect such as, but not limited to, surface inputs, user reactions, verbal responses, etc.
The system 300 can further include a tutorial component 304 that can provide a portion of instructions in order to inform or educate a user to the generated user-defined gesture set. For example, the tutorial component 304 can provide a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of a graphic, a portion of text, etc. in order to inform a user of at least one user-defined gesture created by the gesture set creator 102. For example, a tutorial can be a brief video that provides examples on gestures and effects of such gestures on displayed data.
Many surface computing prototypes have employed gestures created by system designers. Although such gestures are appropriate for early investigations, they are not necessarily reflective of user behavior. The subject innovation provides an approach to designing tabletop gestures that relies on eliciting gestures from non-technical users by first portraying the effect of a gesture, and then asking users to perform its cause. In all, 1080 gestures from 20 participants were logged, analyzed, and paired with think-aloud data for 27 commands performed with 1 and/or 2 hands. The claimed subject matter can provide findings that indicate that users rarely care about the number of fingers they employ, that one hand is preferred to two, that desktop idioms strongly influence users' mental models, and that some commands elicit little gestural agreement, suggesting the need for on-screen widgets. The subject innovation further provides a complete user-defined gesture set, quantitative agreement scores, implications for surface technology, and a taxonomy of surface gestures.
To investigate these idiosyncrasies, a guessability study methodology is employed that presents the effects of gestures to participants and elicits the causes meant to invoke them. For example, by using a think-aloud protocol and video analysis, rich qualitative data can be obtained that illuminates users' mental models. By using custom software with detailed logging on a surface computing system/component, quantitative measures can be obtained regarding gesture timing, activity, and/or preferences. The result is a detailed picture of user-defined gestures and the mental models and performance that accompany them. The principled approach implemented by the subject innovation in regards to gesture definition is the first to employ users, rather than principles, in the development of a gesture set. Moreover, non-technical users without prior experience with touch screen devices were explicitly recruited, expecting that such users would behave with and reason about interactive tabletops differently than designers and system builders.
The subject innovation contributes the following to surface computing: (1) a quantitative and qualitative characterization of user-defined surface gestures, including a taxonomy, (2) a user-defined gesture set, (3) insight into users' mental models when making surface gestures, and (4) an understanding of implications for surface computing technology and user interface design. User-centered design can be a cornerstone of human-computer interaction. But users are not designers; therefore, care can be taken to elicit user behavior profitable for design.
A human's use of an interactive computer system comprises a user-computer dialogue, a conversation mediated by a language of inputs and outputs. As in any dialogue, feedback is essential to conducting this conversation. When something is misunderstood between humans, it may be rephrased. The same is true for user-computer dialogues. Feedback, or lack thereof, either endorses or deters a user's action, causing the user to revise his or her mental model and possibly take a new action.
In developing a user-defined gesture set for surface computing, the vicissitudes of gesture recognition to influence users' behavior was limited for its influence. Put another way, the gulf of execution was removed from the dialogue, creating, in essence, a “monologue” environment in which the user's behavior is acceptable. This enables users' uncorrected behavior to be observed and drive system design to accommodate it. Another reason for examining users' uncorrected behavior is that interactive tabletops (e.g., surface detection systems, surface computing, etc.) may be used in public spaces, where the importance of immediate usability is high.
A user-defined gesture set can be generated by the subject innovation. A particular gesture set was created by having 20 non-technical participants perform gestures with a surface computing system (e.g., interactive tabletop, interactive interface, etc.). To avoid bias, no elements specific to a particular operating system were utilized or shown. Similarly, no specific application domain was assumed. Instead, participants acted in a simple blocks world of 2D shapes. Each participant saw the effect of a gesture (e.g., an object moving across the table or surface) and was asked to perform the gesture he or she thought would cause that effect (e.g., holding the object with the left index finger while tapping the destination with the right). In linguistic terms, the effect of a gesture is the referent to which the gestural sign refers. Twenty-seven referents were presented, and gestures were elicited for 1 and 2 hands. The system 300 tracked and logged hand contact with the table. Participants used the think-aloud protocol and were videotaped and supplied subjective preferences.
The final user-defined gesture set was developed in light of the agreement or correlation participants exhibited in choosing gestures for each command. The more participants that used the same gesture for a given command, the more likely that gesture would be assigned to that command. In the end, the user-defined gesture set emerged as a surprisingly consistent collection founded on actual user behavior.
The subject innovation presented the effects of 27 commands (e.g., referents) to 20 participants or users, and then asked them to choose a corresponding gesture (e.g., sign). The commands were application-agnostic, obtained from existing desktop and tabletop systems. Some were conceptually straightforward, others more complex. Each referent's conceptual complexity was rated before participants made gestures.
It is to be appreciated that any suitable number of users can be utilized to create a gesture set. Moreover, each user can have various characteristics or qualities. For example, twenty paid participants can be used in which eleven were male, 9 female, having an average age was 43.2 years (sd=15.6). The participants were recruited from the general public and were not computer scientists or user interface designers.
The generation of the user-defined gesture set can be implemented on the surface detection component 104 and/or any other suitable surface computing system (e.g., interactive tabletop, interactive interface, surface vision system, etc.). For example, an application can be utilized to present recorded animations and speech illustrating 27 referents to the user, yet it is to be appreciated that any suitable number of referents can be utilized with the subject innovation. For example, for the pan referent, a recording can say, “Pan. Pretend you are moving the view of the screen to reveal hidden off-screen content. Here's an example.” After the recording finished, software animated a field of objects moving from left to right. After the animation, the software showed the objects as they were before the panning effect, and waited for the user to perform a gesture.
The system 300 can monitor participants' hands from beneath the table or surface and report contact information. Contacts and/or surface inputs can be logged as ovals having millisecond timestamps. These logs were then parsed to compute trial-level measures. Participants' hands can also be videotaped from, for example, four angles. In addition, a user observed each session and took detailed notes, particularly concerning the think-aloud data.
The system 300 randomly presented 27 referents to participants. For each referent, participants performed a 1-hand and a 2-hand gesture while thinking aloud. After each gesture, participants were shown two 7-point Likert scales. After performing 1- and 2-hand gestures for a referent, participants were also asked which number of hands they preferred. With 20 participants, 27 referents, and 1 and 2 hands, a total of 20×27×2=1080 gestures were made. Of these, 6 can be discarded due to participant confusion.
The subject innovation can establish a versatile taxonomy of surface gestures based on users' behavior. In working through collected data, the system 300 can iteratively develop such a taxonomy to help capture the design space of surface gestures. Authors or users can manually classify each gesture along four dimensions: form, nature, binding, and flow. Within each dimension are multiple categories, shown in Table 1 below.
Form static pose Hand pose is held in one location.
static pose and Hand pose is held as hand moves.
one-point touch Static pose with one finger.
Nature symbolic Gesture visually depicts a symbol.
metaphorical Gesture indicates a metaphor.
The scope of the form dimension is within one hand. It is applied separately to each hand in a 2-hand gesture. One-point touch and one-point path are special cases of static pose and static pose and path, respectively. These are distinguishable because of their similarity to mouse actions. A gesture is still considered a one-point touch or path even if the user casually touches with more than one finger at the same point, as participants often did. Such cases investigated during debriefing, finding that users' mental models of the gesture required only one point.
”) for accept. Physical gestures can ostensibly have the same effect on a table with physical objects. Metaphorical gestures can occur when a gesture acts on, with, or like something else. Examples are tracing a finger in a circle to simulate a “scroll ring,” using two fingers to “walk” across the screen, pretending the hand is a magnifying glass, swiping as if to turn a book page, or just tapping an imaginary button. The gesture itself may not be enough to reveal its metaphorical nature; the answer lies in the user's mental model.
In the binding dimension, object-centric gestures require information about the object(s) they affect or produce. An example is pinching two fingers together on top of an object for shrink. World-dependent gestures are defined with respect to the world, such as tapping in the top-right corner of the display or dragging an object off-screen. World-independent gestures require no information about the world, and generally can occur anywhere. This category can include gestures that can occur anywhere except on temporary objects that are not world features. Finally, mixed dependencies occur for gestures that are world-independent in one respect but world-dependent or object-centric in another. This sometimes occurs for 2-hand gestures, where one hand acts on an object and the other hand acts anywhere.
A gesture's flow can be discrete if the gesture is performed, delimited, recognized, and responded to as an event. An example is tracing a question mark (“?”) to bring up help. Flow is continuous if ongoing recognition is required, such as during most of participants' resize gestures.
The overall agreement for 1- and 2-hand gestures was A1H=0.323 and A2H=0.285, respectively.
In general, the user-defined gesture set was developed by taking the large clusters for each referent and assigning those clusters' gestures to the referent. However, where the same gesture was used to perform two different commands, a conflict occurs. In this case, the largest cluster wins. The resulting user-defined gesture set generated and provided by the subject innovation is conflict-free and covers 57.0% of all gestures proposed.
Aliasing has been shown to dramatically increase the guessability of input. In the user-defined set, 10 referents are assigned 1 gesture, 4 referents have 2 gestures, 3 referents have 3 gestures, 4 referents have 4 gestures, and 1 referent has 5 gestures. There are 48 gestures in the final set. Of these, 31 (64.6%) are performed with one hand, and 17 (35.4%) are performed with two.
Satisfyingly, a high degree of consistency and parallelism exists in our user-defined set. Dichotomous referents use reversible gestures, and the same gestures are reused for similar operations. For example, enlarge, which can be accomplished with 4 distinct gestures, is performed on an object, but the same 4 gestures can be used for zoom in if performed in the background, or for open if performed on a container (e.g., a folder). In addition, flexibility is allowed: the number of fingers rarely matters and the fingers, palms, or edges of the hands can often be used to the same effect.
Perhaps not surprisingly, referents' conceptual complexities correlated significantly with gesture planning time (R2=0.51, F1,25=26.04, p<0.0001), as measured by the time between the end of a referent's A/V prompt and the participant's first contact with the surface. In general, the more complex the referent, the more time participants took to begin articulating their gesture. Simple referents took about 8 seconds of planning. Complex referents took about 15 seconds. Conceptual complexity did not, however, correlate significantly with gesture articulation time.
After performing each gesture, participants can rate it on two Likert scales. The first read, “The gesture I picked is a good match for its intended purpose.” The second read, “The gesture I picked is easy to perform.” Both scales solicited ordinal responses from 1=strongly disagree to 7=strongly agree.
Gestures that were members of larger clusters for a given referent had significantly higher goodness ratings (χ2=42.34, df=1, p<0.0001), indicating that popularity does, in fact, identify better gestures over worse ones. This finding goes a long way to validating the assumptions underlying this approach to gesture design.
Referents' conceptual complexity significantly affected participants' feelings about the goodness of their gestures (χ2=19.92, df=1, p<0.0001). The simpler referents were rated about 5.6, while the more complex were rated about 4.9, suggesting complex referents elicited gestures about which participants felt less confident.
Planning time also significantly affected participants' feelings about the goodness of their gestures (χ2=33.68, df=1, p<0.0001). Generally, as planning time decreased, goodness ratings increased, suggesting that good gestures were more readily apparent to participants.
Unlike planning time, articulation time did not significantly affect participants' goodness ratings, but it did affect their perception of ease (χ2=4.38, df=1, p<0.05). Gestures that took longer to perform were rated as easier, perhaps because they were smoother or less hasty. Gestures rated as difficult took about 1.5 seconds, while those rated as easy took about 3.7 seconds.
The number of touch events in a gesture significantly affected its perception of ease (χ2=24.11, df=1, p<0.0001). Gestures with the least touch activity were rated as either the hardest (e.g., 1) or the easiest (e.g., 7). Gestures with more activity were rated in the medium ranges of ease.
Overall, participants preferred 1-hand gestures for 25 referents, and were evenly divided for the other two. No referents elicited gestures for which two hands were preferred overall. The referents that elicited equal preference for 1- and 2-hands were insert and maximize, which were not included in the user-defined gesture set because they reused existing gestures.
As noted above, the user-designed set has 31 (64.6%) 1-hand gestures and 17 (35.4%) 2-hand gestures. Although participants' preference for 1-hand gestures was clear, some 2-hand gestures had good agreement scores and nicely complemented the 1-hand versions.
Examples of dichotomous referents are shrink/enlarge, previous/next, zoom in/zoom out, and so on. People generally employed reversible gestures for dichotomous referents, even though the study software rarely presented these referents in sequence. This behavior is reflected in the final user-designed gesture set, where dichotomous referents use reversible gestures.
The rank order of referents according to conceptual complexity and the order of referents according to descending 1-hand agreement may not be the same. Thus, participants and the authors did not always regard the same referents as complex. Participants often made simplifying assumptions. One participant, upon being prompted to zoom in, said, “Oh, that's the same as enlarge.” Similar mental models emerged for enlarge and maximize, shrink and minimize, and pan and move. This allows us to unify the gesture set and disambiguate the effects of gestures based on where they occur, e.g., whether they are on objects or on the background.
In general, it seemed that touches with 1-3 fingers were usually considered a “single point,” and 5 fingers or the whole palm were intentionally more. Four fingers, on the other hand, constituted a “gray area,” where it was mixed whether the number of fingers mattered. These findings are pertinent given that prior tabletop systems that have differentiated gestures based on number of fingers.
Multiple people conceived of a world beyond the edges of the table's projected screen. For example, they dragged from off-screen locations onto the screen, treating it as the clipboard. They also dragged to the off-screen areas as a place of no return for delete and reject. One participant conceived of different off-screen areas that meant different things: dragging off the top was delete, and dragging off the left was cut. For paste, she made sure to drag in from the left side, purposely trying to associate paste and cut. It is to be appreciated that such gestures (e.g., off-screen, clipboard replication gestures, etc.) can be employed by the system 300.
The subject innovation removed the dialogue between user and system to gain insight into users' “natural” behavior without the inevitable bias and behavior change that comes from recognition performance and technical limitations. In one example, the user-defined gesture set can be validated.
Turning to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, FIG. 4 illustrates a gesture set 400 and FIG. 5 illustrates a gesture set 500. The gesture set 400 and the gesture set 500 facilitate interacting with a portion of displayed data. It is to be appreciated that the potential effect can be referred to as the referent. The gesture set 400 in FIG. 4 can include a first select single gesture 402, a second select single gesture 404, a select group gesture 406, a first move gesture 408, a second move gesture 410, a pan gesture 412, a cut gesture 414, a first paste gesture 416, a second paste gesture 418, a rotate gesture 420, and a duplicate gesture 422. The gesture set 500 in FIG. 5 can include a delete gesture 502, an accept gesture 504, a reject gesture 506, a help gesture 508, a menu gesture 510, an undo gesture 512, a first enlarge/shrink gesture 514, a second enlarge/shrink gesture 516, a third enlarge/shrink gesture 518, a fourth enlarge/shrink gesture 520, an open gesture 522, a zoom in/out gesture 524, a minimize gesture 526, and a next/previous gesture 528.
FIG. 6 illustrates a system 600 that employs intelligence to facilitate automatically identifies correlations between various surface inputs from disparate users in order to create a user-defined gesture set. The system 600 can include the gesture set creator 102, the surface detection component 104, the surface input, and/or the interface 108, which can be substantially similar to respective components, interfaces, and surface inputs described in previous figures. The system 600 further includes an intelligent component 602. The intelligent component 602 can be utilized by the gesture set creator 102 to facilitate data interaction in connection with surface computing. For example, the intelligent component 602 can infer gestures, surface input, prompts, tutorials, personal settings, user preferences, surface detection techniques, user intentions for surface inputs, referents, etc.
The intelligent component 602 can employ value of information (VOI) computation in order to identify a user-defined gesture based on received surface inputs. For instance, by utilizing VOI computation, the most ideal and/or appropriate user-defined gesture to relate to a detected input (e.g., surface input, etc.) can be identified. Moreover, it is to be understood that the intelligent component 602 can provide for reasoning about or infer states of the system, environment, and/or user from a set of observations as captured via events and/or data. Inference can be employed to identify a specific context or action, or can generate a probability distribution over states, for example. The inference can be probabilistic—that is, the computation of a probability distribution over states of interest based on a consideration of data and events. Inference can also refer to techniques employed for composing higher-level events from a set of events and/or data. Such inference results in the construction of new events or actions from a set of observed events and/or stored event data, whether or not the events are correlated in close temporal proximity, and whether the events and data come from one or several event and data sources. Various classification (explicitly and/or implicitly trained) schemes and/or systems (e.g., support vector machines, neural networks, expert systems, Bayesian belief networks, fuzzy logic, data fusion engines . . . ) can be employed in connection with performing automatic and/or inferred action in connection with the claimed subject matter.
The gesture set creator 102 can further utilize a presentation component 604 that provides various types of user interfaces to facilitate interaction between a user and any component coupled to the gesture set creator 102. As depicted, the presentation component 604 is a separate entity that can be utilized with the gesture set creator 102. However, it is to be appreciated that the presentation component 604 and/or similar view components can be incorporated into the gesture set creator 102 and/or a stand-alone unit. The presentation component 604 can provide one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs), command line interfaces, and the like. For example, a GUI can be rendered that provides a user with a region or means to load, import, read, etc., data, and can include a region to present the results of such. These regions can comprise known text and/or graphic regions comprising dialogue boxes, static controls, drop-down-menus, list boxes, pop-up menus, as edit controls, combo boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, push buttons, and graphic boxes. In addition, utilities to facilitate the presentation such as vertical and/or horizontal scroll bars for navigation and toolbar buttons to determine whether a region will be viewable can be employed. For example, the user can interact with one or more of the components coupled and/or incorporated into the gesture set creator 102.
The user can also interact with the regions to select and provide information via various devices such as a mouse, a roller ball, a touchpad, a keypad, a keyboard, a touch screen, a pen and/or voice activation, a body motion detection, for example. Typically, a mechanism such as a push button or the enter key on the keyboard can be employed subsequent entering information. However, it is to be appreciated that the claimed subject matter is not so limited. For example, merely highlighting a check box can initiate information conveyance. In another example, a command line interface can be employed. For example, the command line interface can prompt (e.g., via a text message on a display and an audio tone) the user for information via providing a text message. The user can then provide suitable information, such as alpha-numeric input corresponding to an option provided in the interface prompt or an answer to a question posed in the prompt. It is to be appreciated that the command line interface can be employed in connection with a GUI and/or API. In addition, the command line interface can be employed in connection with hardware (e.g., video cards) and/or displays (e.g., black and white, EGA, VGA, SVGA, etc.) with limited graphic support, and/or low bandwidth communication channels.
FIGS. 7-8 illustrate methodologies and/or flow diagrams in accordance with the claimed subject matter. For simplicity of explanation, the methodologies are depicted and described as a series of acts. It is to be understood and appreciated that the subject innovation is not limited by the acts illustrated and/or by the order of acts. For example acts can occur in various orders and/or concurrently, and with other acts not presented and described herein. Furthermore, not all illustrated acts may be required to implement the methodologies in accordance with the claimed subject matter. In addition, those skilled in the art will understand and appreciate that the methodologies could alternatively be represented as a series of interrelated states via a state diagram or events. Additionally, it should be further appreciated that the methodologies disclosed hereinafter and throughout this specification are capable of being stored on an article of manufacture to facilitate transporting and transferring such methodologies to computers. The term article of manufacture, as used herein, is intended to encompass a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or media.
FIG. 7 illustrates a method 700 that facilitates collecting surface input data in order to generate a user-defined gesture set. At reference numeral 702, a user can be prompted with an effect on displayed data. For example, the prompt can be instructions that the user is to attempt to replicate the effect on displayed data via a surface input and surface computing system/component. At reference numeral 704, a surface input can be received from the user in response to the prompted effect, wherein the response is an attempt to replicate the effect. For example, the effect can be, but is not limited to, data selection, data set or group selection, data move, data pan, data rotate, data cut, data paste, data duplicate, data delete, accept, help, reject, menu, undo, data enlarge, data shrink, zoom in, zoom out, open, minimize, next, previous, etc.
At reference numeral 706, two or more surface inputs from two or more users can be aggregated for the effect. In general, any suitable number of users can be prompted and tracked in order to collect surface input data. At reference numeral 708, a user-defined gesture can be generated for the effect based upon an evaluation of a correlation between the two or more surface inputs. In other words, a user-defined gesture can be identified based upon a correlation between two or more users providing correlating surface input data in response to the effect. The user-defined gesture can be utilized in order to execute the effect on a portion of displayed data. For example, an effect such as moving data can be prompted in order to receive a user's surface input (e.g., a dragging motion on the data), wherein such data can be evaluated with disparate users in order to identify a universal user-defined gesture.
FIG. 8 illustrates a method 800 for creating and utilizing a user-defined gesture set in connection with surface computing. At reference numeral 802, a user can be instructed to replicate an effect on a portion of displayed data with at least one surface input. It is to be appreciated that surface inputs can be, but are not limited to being, touch events, inputs, contacts, gestures, hand-motions, hand interactions, object interactions, and/or any other suitable interaction with a portion of displayed data.
At reference numeral 804, a surface input can be analyzed from the user on an interactive surface in order to cerate a user-defined gesture linked to the effect. For example, the user-defined gesture can be, but is not limited to being, a first select single gesture, a second select single gesture, a select group gesture, a first move gesture, a second move gesture, a pan gesture, a cut gesture, a first paste gesture, a second paste gesture, a rotate gesture, a duplicate gesture, a delete gesture, an accept gesture, a reject gesture, a help gesture, a menu gesture, an undo gesture, a first enlarge/shrink gesture, a second enlarge/shrink gesture, a third enlarge/shrink gesture, a fourth enlarge/shrink gesture, an open gesture, a zoom in/out gesture, a minimize gesture, a next/previous gesture, etc.
At reference numeral 806, a portion of instructions can be provided to a user, wherein the portion of instructions can relate to the effect and the user-defined gesture. For example, the portion of instructions can provide a concise explanation of the user-defined gesture and/or an effect on displayed data. At reference numeral 808, the user-defined gesture can be detected and the effect can be executed.
In order to provide additional context for implementing various aspects of the claimed subject matter, FIGS. 9-10 and the following discussion is intended to provide a brief, general description of a suitable computing environment in which the various aspects of the subject innovation may be implemented. For example, a gesture set creator that evaluates user surface input in response to a communicated effect for generation of a user-defined gesture set, as described in the previous figures, can be implemented in such suitable computing environment. While the claimed subject matter has been described above in the general context of computer-executable instructions of a computer program that runs on a local computer and/or remote computer, those skilled in the art will recognize that the subject innovation also may be implemented in combination with other program modules. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, components, data structures, etc., that perform particular tasks and/or implement particular abstract data types.
Moreover, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the inventive methods may be practiced with other computer system configurations, including single-processor or multi-processor computer systems, minicomputers, mainframe computers, as well as personal computers, hand-held computing devices, microprocessor-based and/or programmable consumer electronics, and the like, each of which may operatively communicate with one or more associated devices. The illustrated aspects of the claimed subject matter may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where certain tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. However, some, if not all, aspects of the subject innovation may be practiced on stand-alone computers. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in local and/or remote memory storage devices.
FIG. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a sample-computing environment 900 with which the claimed subject matter can interact. The system 900 includes one or more client(s) 910. The client(s) 910 can be hardware and/or software (e.g., threads, processes, computing devices). The system 900 also includes one or more server(s) 920. The server(s) 920 can be hardware and/or software (e.g., threads, processes, computing devices). The servers 920 can house threads to perform transformations by employing the subject innovation, for example.
With reference to FIG. 10, an exemplary environment 1000 for implementing various aspects of the claimed subject matter includes a computer 1012. The computer 1012 includes a processing unit 1014, a system memory 1016, and a system bus 1018. The system bus 1018 couples system components including, but not limited to, the system memory 1016 to the processing unit 1014. The processing unit 1014 can be any of various available processors. Dual microprocessors and other multiprocessor architectures also can be employed as the processing unit 1014.
It is to be appreciated that FIG. 10 describes software that acts as an intermediary between users and the basic computer resources described in the suitable operating environment 1000. Such software includes an operating system 1028. Operating system 1028, which can be stored on disk storage 1024, acts to control and allocate resources of the computer system 1012. System applications 1030 take advantage of the management of resources by operating system 1028 through program modules 1032 and program data 1034 stored either in system memory 1016 or on disk storage 1024. It is to be appreciated that the claimed subject matter can be implemented with various operating systems or combinations of operating systems.
What has been described above includes examples of the subject innovation. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the claimed subject matter, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the subject innovation are possible. Accordingly, the claimed subject matter is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications, and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
In particular and in regard to the various functions performed by the above described components, devices, circuits, systems and the like, the terms (including a reference to a “means”) used to describe such components are intended to correspond, unless otherwise indicated, to any component which performs the specified function of the described component (e.g., a functional equivalent), even though not structurally equivalent to the disclosed structure, which performs the function in the herein illustrated exemplary aspects of the claimed subject matter. In this regard, it will also be recognized that the innovation includes a system as well as a computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the acts and/or events of the various methods of the claimed subject matter.
There are multiple ways of implementing the present innovation, e.g., an appropriate API, tool kit, driver code, operating system, control, standalone or downloadable software object, etc. which enables applications and services to use the advertising techniques of the invention. The claimed subject matter contemplates the use from the standpoint of an API (or other software object), as well as from a software or hardware object that operates according to the advertising techniques in accordance with the invention. Thus, various implementations of the innovation described herein may have aspects that are wholly in hardware, partly in hardware and partly in software, as well as in software.
The aforementioned systems have been described with respect to interaction between several components. It can be appreciated that such systems and components can include those components or specified sub-components, some of the specified components or sub-components, and/or additional components, and according to various permutations and combinations of the foregoing. Sub-components can also be implemented as components communicatively coupled to other components rather than included within parent components (hierarchical). Additionally, it should be noted that one or more components may be combined into a single component providing aggregate functionality or divided into several separate sub-components, and any one or more middle layers, such as a management layer, may be provided to communicatively couple to such sub-components in order to provide integrated functionality. Any components described herein may also interact with one or more other components not specifically described herein but generally known by those of skill in the art.
In addition, while a particular feature of the subject innovation may have been disclosed with respect to only one of several implementations, such feature may be combined with one or more other features of the other implementations as may be desired and advantageous for any given or particular application. Furthermore, to the extent that the terms “includes,” “including,” “has,” “contains,” variants thereof, and other similar words are used in either the detailed description or the claims, these terms are intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term “comprising” as an open transition word without precluding any additional or other elements.
wherein the user-defined gesture is defined as an input that initiates the potential effect for the portion of displayed data.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the hand motion is a hand gesture, a gesture, a hand interaction, an object interaction, a portion of a hand interacting with a surface, or a corporeal object.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the potential effect is at least one of a data selection, a data set selection, a group selection, a data move, a data pan, a data rotate, a data cut, a data paste, a data duplicate, a data delete, an accept, a help request, a reject, a menu request, an undo, a data enlarge, a data shrink, a zoom in, a zoom out, an open, a minimize, a next, or a previous.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the vision based detection component detects the user-defined gesture which executes the potential effect for the portion of displayed data.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the potential effect is communicated to the user as at least one of a portion of verbal instruction, a portion of video, a portion of audio, a portion of text, or a portion of a graphic.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising two or more user-defined gestures that are a user-defined gesture set, the user-defined gesture set includes a first select single gesture, a second select single gesture, a select group gesture, a first move gesture, a second move gesture, a pan gesture, a cut gesture, a first paste gesture, a second paste gesture, a rotate gesture, a duplicate gesture, a delete gesture, an accept gesture, a reject gesture, a help gesture, a menu gesture, an undo gesture, a first enlarge/shrink gesture, a second enlarge/shrink gesture, a third enlarge/shrink gesture, a fourth enlarge/shrink gesture, an open gesture, a zoom in/out gesture, a minimize gesture, and a next/previous gesture.
7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tutorial component that provides a portion of instruction in relation to at least one user-defined gesture.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein the gesture set creator provides a periodic adjustment to the generated user-defined gesture set based at least in part upon historic data collection.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the inference identifies the most ideal or appropriate user-defined gesture from the hand motion.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the intelligent component forms the inference with an explicitly and/or implicitly trained schemes including a support vector machine, a neural network, an expert system, a Bayesian belief network, fuzzy logic, or a data fusion engine.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the hand motion is a hand gesture, a gesture, a hand interaction, an object interaction, a portion of a hand interacting with a surface, or a corporeal object.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the potential effect is at least one of a data selection, a data set selection, a group selection, a data move, a data pan, a data rotate, a data cut, a data paste, a data duplicate, a data delete, an accept, a help request, a reject, a menu request, an undo, a data enlarge, a data shrink, a zoom in, a zoom out, an open, a minimize, a next, or a previous.
14. The method of claim 11, further comprising executing the potential effect for the portion of displayed data.
15. The method of claim 11, further comprising communicating the potential effect to the user as at least one of a portion of verbal instruction, a portion of video, a portion of audio, a portion of text, or a portion of a graphic.
16. The method of claim 11, further comprising two or more user-defined gestures that are a user-defined gesture set, the user-defined gesture set includes a first select single gesture, a second select single gesture, a select group gesture, a first move gesture, a second move gesture, a pan gesture, a cut gesture, a first paste gesture, a second paste gesture, a rotate gesture, a duplicate gesture, a delete gesture, an accept gesture, a reject gesture, a help gesture, a menu gesture, an undo gesture, a first enlarge/shrink gesture, a second enlarge/shrink gesture, a third enlarge/shrink gesture, a fourth enlarge/shrink gesture, an open gesture, a zoom in/out gesture, a minimize gesture, and a next/previous gesture.
17. The method of claim 11, further comprising providing a portion of instruction in relation to at least one user-defined gesture.
18. The method of claim 16, further comprising providing a periodic adjustment to the generated user-defined gesture set based at least in part upon historic data collection.
19. The method of claim 11, wherein forming an inference further comprises identifying the most ideal or appropriate user-defined gesture from the hand motion.
20. The method of claim 11, wherein forming an inference further comprises using an explicitly and/or implicitly trained schemes including a support vector machine, a neural network, an expert system, a Bayesian belief network, fuzzy logic, or a data fusion engine.
means for executing a potential effect for the portion of display triggered by the identified user-defined gesture.
22. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the hand motion is a hand gesture, a gesture, a hand interaction, an object interaction, a portion of a hand interacting with a surface, or a corporeal object.
23. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the potential effect is at least one of a data selection, a data set selection, a group selection, a data move, a data pan, a data rotate, a data cut, a data paste, a data duplicate, a data delete, an accept, a help request, a reject, a menu request, an undo, a data enlarge, a data shrink, a zoom in, a zoom out, an open, a minimize, a next, or a previous.
24. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, further comprising means for executing the potential effect for the portion of displayed data.
25. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, further comprising means for communicating the potential effect to the user as at least one of a portion of verbal instruction, a portion of video, a portion of audio, a portion of text, or a portion of a graphic.
26. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, further comprising two or more user-defined gestures that are a user-defined gesture set, the user-defined gesture set includes a first select single gesture, a second select single gesture, a select group gesture, a first move gesture, a second move gesture, a pan gesture, a cut gesture, a first paste gesture, a second paste gesture, a rotate gesture, a duplicate gesture, a delete gesture, an accept gesture, a reject gesture, a help gesture, a menu gesture, an undo gesture, a first enlarge/shrink gesture, a second enlarge/shrink gesture, a third enlarge/shrink gesture, a fourth enlarge/shrink gesture, an open gesture, a zoom in/out gesture, a minimize gesture, and a next/previous gesture.
27. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, further comprising means for providing a portion of instruction in relation to at least one user-defined gesture.
28. The computer-implemented system of claim 26, further comprising means for providing a periodic adjustment to the generated user-defined gesture set based at least in part upon historic data collection.
29. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the means for forming an inference further comprises means for identifying the most ideal or appropriate user-defined gesture from the hand motion.
30. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the means for forming an inference further comprises means for using an explicitly and/or implicitly trained schemes including a support vector machine, a neural network, an expert system, a Bayesian belief network, fuzzy logic, or a data fusion engine.
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Kosa-Yin Hadu was a Gungan male Sith cult member who lived during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Originally a member of the Jedi Order, Hadu trained as the Padawan of Jedi Knight Kin-Ya Dosun, a fellow Gungan. In about 33 BBY, the pair was dispatched on a mission from the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant, but they subsequently disappeared. At some point, Hadu fell to the dark side of the Force and became a member of the Believers, a Sith cult that was based on the planet Almas. Circa 31 BBY, Hadu and the Mon Calamari Dark Jedi Gar Granga were sent by Garvin Delquist, the leader of the Believers, to poison Almas's kaluthin plants as part of a Believer plot to drive the Jedi—who operated a training facility on Almas—off the planet. However, the plot was uncovered by a group of freelance agents, who attacked and defeated Hadu and his Believer compatriots.
A Force-sensitive Gungan male from the planet Naboo, Kosa-Yin Hadu joined the Old Jedi Order during the waning years of the Old Galactic Republic. Hadu became a Jedi Padawan and studied under the tutelage of Jedi Knight Kin-Ya Dosun, a female Gungan. The Padawan constructed his own lightsaber, and he trained to become one of the Jedi Guardians, a branch of the Jedi that focused on developing their combat abilities. In the year 33 BBY, Hadu and Dosun were dispatched on a mission from the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant, but the pair subsequently disappeared. Hadu fell to the dark side of the Force and became a Dark Jedi, and he eventually joined the Believers, a Sith Cult that was based in a Sith fortress on the planet Almas, in the Cularin System. At some point, the Gungan infused the focusing crystals inside his lightsaber with the power of the dark side, causing the crystals to filter powerful dark side energy into anyone who wielded the weapon.
In 31 BBY, Garvin Delquist—the leader of the Believers—tasked Hadu and the Mon Calamari Dark Jedi Gar Granga with killing Almas's kaluthin plants. The kaluthin had been created by the Sith Lord Darth Rivan thousands of years earlier to make Almas habitable, and Delquist believed that destroying the plants would help the Believers drive the Jedi Order away from Almas, where the Order operated a training facility. A group of Believers led by Hadu and Granga established a temporary camp on an Almas hilltop and erected a tent to serve as Hadu's field office and personal quarters. Using the camp as a base, the Believers attacked kaluthin farms across Almas over a period of three months, poisoning many of the planet's aquifers with a biological toxin and causing large swathes of kaluthin to die. Agitated by the attacks on their crops, some of Almas's kaluthin farmers blamed the Jedi Order for the death of their plants. In an attempt to further escalate tensions between the farmers and the Jedi, Hadu visited the cantina Building 49-A in the city of Forard and bad-mouthed the Jedi while in the presence of a number of farmers.
The scientists at a kaluthin research station on Almas started to investigate the areas of kaluthin extinction, and Hadu and Grangra feared that the station posed a risk to the Believers' operation, believing that the researchers might be able to identify the toxins that the Believers were using to poison the aquifers. In an attempt to mitigate the threat posed by the scientists, Hadu, Granga, and several other Believers traveled to the planet Cularin, where they plotted to stop a shipment of supplies from being transported to the research station, to prevent the scientists from performing their studies. The supplies were due to be taken to Almas by the Duros Welrin Maduk aboard the freighter Fool's Paradise, so the two Dark Jedi headed to the Fool's Paradise's landing bay in the city of Hedrett with some other Believers, planning to hijack the vessel. As a safeguard, Hadu and Granga parked a starship on a landing pad near the Fool's Paradise and then concealed their craft and an exit from the Fool's Paradise's landing bay using a Force Illusion. The Dark Jedi duo then approached the Fool's Paradise while accompanied by a squad of battle droids and three other Believers, and the pair told Welrin Maduk that they had been sent by the port authority. Maduk protested and claimed that his ship had already been inspected, so Hadu and Granga ignited their lightsabers and prepared to attack the Duros. However, the Heroes of Cularin, a group of freelance agents who operated in the Cularin system, saw that Maduk was being threatened, and they came to his rescue. As the agents approached the Fool's Paradise, Hadu and Granga fled through the concealed hangar entrance, leaving the battle droids and the other Believers to face the agents alone.
Hadu returned to the Believers' hilltop camp on Almas, where he received a holographic message from Garvin Delquist, who warned him and Granga that the Jedi had learned of the Believers' presence on Almas and urged the two Dark Jedi to accelerate the timetable of their work to poison the kaluthin. The Heroes of Cularin investigated the poisoning of the aquifers, and they launched an assault on the Believers' encampment. After being alerted of the attack, Hadu emerged from his tent and engaged the agents in combat along with some of his guards, while the other Believers powered up their landspeeders in preparation to evacuate the camp. The agents eventually defeated Hadu and his Believer subordinates, thwarting the Gungan's attempts to wipe out the kaluthin. The Jedi learned Hadu's identity, and Jedi Master Seenlu Kir began to research the mission on which Hadu and Kin-Ya Dosun had disappeared, in an attempt to discover how the two Gungans had been lost. However, her research was unsuccessful, for she did not learn anything new about the two Gungans.
Kosa-Yin Hadu was an angry individual who was happy to persecute and torture other people in order to achieve his aims. He wore an All-Temperature Cloak and was equipped with both a lightsaber and a heavy blaster pistol. Although he originally studied as a Jedi Padawan, he later turned his allegiance to the Sith cult of the Believers.
Hadu mastered a number of Force Powers, and he was able to use the Force to sense things, grip objects, heal himself, augment his fighting spirit, and boost his combat abilities. In addition, he was able to use the powers of Force hatred and Force rage when fighting against his opponents. Hadu was multi-lingual and could speak Gungan and Mon Calamarian in addition to Galactic Basic Standard.
Kosa-Yin Hadu was created by Adam Burns for The Kaluthin Are Always Greener, a 2002 role-playing supplement that formed part of the Almas, Sweet Almas trilogy of the Living Force campaign. In the supplement, the player characters role-play as the Heroes of Cularin, and when the agents confront Hadu at the Believers' encampment on Almas, the Gungan's level of combat prowess is dependent on the players' role-playing experience tier.
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Našli jsme další záznamy k osobě חנה דייצ'מן.
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חנה דייצ'מן was 12 years old when World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China.
חנה דייצ'מן was 25 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.
חנה דייצ'מן was 31 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.
חנה דייצ'מן was 44 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.
חנה דייצ'מן was 47 years old when Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. Mount St. Helens or Louwala-Clough is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon and 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle, Washington. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.
חנה דייצ'מן was 58 years old when The World Wide Web is opened to the public. The World Wide Web (WWW), also called the Web, is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland. The browser was released outside CERN in 1991, first to other research institutions starting in January 1991 and to the general public on the Internet in August 1991.
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What is a flight attendant's schedule like?
Flight attendants have different schedules based on their seniority. After getting hired every flight attendant go through a reserve schedule for a few months up to a year or more. Senior flight attendants are able to hold a line which they bid for every month for the upcoming month. The line that you get awarded is based on seniority for that base.
Reserve flight attendants are usually on reserve 24 hours a day for everyday that they are on reserve. This means that you can expect to get call late at night or very early in the morning. You can also get short called where scheduling might give you an hour to get to the airport for your trip. You pretty much have to be ready for any type of trip they give you. Even if you get called for a round trip, you should always pack for at least a four day because they can change and add to your trip any time during your trip.
There are also ready reserve schedules for those flight attendants who are on reserve. This basically means that you go to the airport and are on standby for a day to cover any trip that scheduling might need covered at a very short notice.
Line holders on other hand bid for their schedules on a monthly basis for the following month. Lines are awarded to flight attendants by seniority. This means who ever was the senior of all the flight attendants who bid for a specific line number will get that line. Of course you bid for more than one line. If you are number 500, you should bid up to 500 to make sure that you don't get a miss bid and are award a line that you didn't want.
Reserve flight attendants will usually get ten days off a month on average. If you are a line holder, you can get anywhere between 10-20 or more days off a month based on seniority, and the line that you bid.
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What is the best that a bad situation can be? Well, the answer can be summed up in two words: uncontested divorce. An uncontested divorce occurs when both spouses agree that the marriage is going to come to an end, and they can come to a mutually satisfying settlement agreement.
Even if you are not happy that your spouse wants out, recognizing that you cannot control someone else and acting with maturity can make the process way less painful for you. Similarly, you can engage in a joint divorce. The difference is that in an uncontested divorce, you serve your spouse with a divorce application and your spouse does not contest or raise any issues regarding the divorce. Alternatively, in a joint divorce, you do not initiate any action against each other. Rather, both spouses inform the court of their intention to divorce through the same application.
To give more context, when you are going through a divorce, there doesn’t need to be a high degree of conflict, court dates and sky high legal fees. Sometimes both parties can agree that the relationship has run its course and sit down with a mind to work together to create a fair settlement agreement.
This type of approach has several benefits. Firstly, it is much cheaper to reach a resolution without the use of the courts, and you can do so on your time. Courts are busy, and therefore proceedings can often be drawn out over months or years. You appear when there is availability in the court’s schedule. Your lawyer may come out of the contentious divorce with a new car, but you will likely come out of it with a beat-up heart and a lighter wallet.
Furthermore, uncontested divorces keep more power in the hands of the spouses, rather than a judge. When you are simply negotiating between yourselves, decisions surrounding custody of the children, division of assets and possession of the marital home ultimately rest with you, rather than a stranger. This leads to the third benefit – the children are not caught in the middle. When there is a high conflict, drawn out divorce, then ultimately your children suffer as well. However, if you are negotiating schedules with your ex in a constructive way, the lines of communication stay open and you can co-parent your children more effectively. Furthermore, the interests of your children may be better reflected in a custody agreement than a court order since you know your children best.
The final benefit worth mentioning in settlement prior to litigation is that the matter remains private. Issues that proceed to trial become a matter of public record, which means your friends, kids and coworkers can have access to details of your life that you may prefer to remain private.
It is generally recommended to have your separation agreement drafted by a lawyer, though this is not a rule and will not inherently impact the contract’s enforceability. It is simply a good idea to ensure that the document is complete and clearly written to avoid costly litigation in the future. Look online for further information about the requirements for a valid separation agreement in Ontario.
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During ovulation, the ovaries release an egg from a fully mature follicle. Follicles are round structures associated with the ovary that form and release a new egg just once a month, coinciding with the menstrual cycle. If, for some reason, the follicle does not fully mature, it will not rupture to release the egg. The immature follicle itself will instead remain associated with the ovary, appearing on an ultrasound as a "cyst." Should these cysts continue to form through successive cycles, the ovaries will enlarge due to all the extra follicles, hence the term polycystic ovaries.
Some women with polycystic ovaries additionally develop polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PCOS is a hormonal disorder characterized by irregular ovulation and menstruation, with an accompanying increase in male hormones. It is not entirely understood why some women with polycystic ovaries develop PCOS while others don't, though PCOS seems to coincide health conditions such as obesity or diabetes. PCOS is fairly common, occurring in approximately 5% of women of reproductive age, and is the leading cause of female infertility.
Some women with PCOS will experience amenorrhea, a lack of menstruation, sometimes for many years. Others may menstruate, but their cycles are usually irregular due to periodic lack of ovulation. Menstruation may also vary significantly in heaviness from cycle to cycle. Women with PCOS also experience difficulties conceiving due to the unpredictable nature or complete absence of ovulation.
The hormonal imbalances associated with PCOS may lead to other physical symptoms, as well, including acne and obesity. Some women note physical changes possibly caused by increased testosterone, including excessive hair growth on the face and body, thinning of the hair on the head, and deepening of the voice. Ovarian hormone balance can also influence mood, so PCOS can also lead to depression and mood swings.
Because women with PCOS do not menstruate and shed the uterine lining as frequently, they are at risk for developing uterine cancer. Decreased estrogen secretion from the ovaries may also lead to premature osteoporosis, reducing the density of the bones and increasing the possibility of developing fractures.
There are also indications that PCOS can lead to insulin resistance, meaning that much more insulin than normal is required to maintain balanced blood sugar. A blood sugar imbalance can lead to diabetes, obesity, and put the patient at risk for all the complications that accompany both. If untreated, the metabolic and hormonal imbalances associated with PCOS can result in high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels, potentially leading to heart disease and stroke.
Polycystic ovaries develop during the course of hormonal imbalances that result in "cysts" on the ovaries. These "cysts" are actually follicles that remained associated with the ovary because they were incompletely developed. This can occur in women producing excessive amounts of testosterone, excessive luteinizing hormone (LH, which, at normal levels triggers ovulation), or high levels of blood insulin. As these follicles accumulate on the ovaries, they are visible by ultrasound.
Not all women that have polycystic ovaries develop PCOS, which is defined by the collection of symptoms described above. Why some women with polycystic ovaries develop symptoms while others don't is unclear, though the symptoms appear to stem from a shift in proper hormonal balance. Obesity, for example, often coincides with insulin resistance and blood sugar imbalance, which can lead to improper stimulation of LH production, which interferes with ovulation. Without ovulation, additional cysts can form and the overall interference of proper ovary function can lead to imbalances of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, creating additional symptoms. Human physiology is defined by a series of interconnected, delicately balanced feedback loops, and disruption of any one of them could cause a cascade of effects.
Conventional medical treatment of PCOS varies from patient to patient depending on the symptoms. Overcoming obesity is nearly always the priority, as it can often completely restore normal ovulation and menstruation, thus relieving the other symptoms of PCOS by re-establishing hormonal balance. Regular exercise and a healthy diet can reduce adipose tissue and improve blood sugar and insulin balance. Medications that can help increase insulin sensitivity may also be prescribed if insulin resistance appears to be a factor. Metformin, for example, is a drug typically used to treat diabetes that is often prescribed for PCOS.
To reduce unwanted hair growth and acne, oral contraceptives may also be prescribed. These symptoms are thought to be caused by an excess of testosterone, so birth control pills containing anti-androgens (such as cyproterone acetate) which suppress testosterone activity are sometimes recommended. Facial creams that inhibit hair growth are also available.
Oral contraceptives are also commonly recommended to attempt regulation of the menstrual cycle. By supplementing the hormones necessary to promote regular shedding of the uterine wall, patients with PCOS can significantly reduce their risk of developing uterine cancer.
Because PCOS is a many-layered syndrome, your treatment program at Patients Medical will be designed in collaboration with specialists appropriate to your symptoms and concerns. Through this integrative approach, we will help alleviate your symptoms, re-establish a healthy hormonal balance, and return you to optimal reproductive health. During your initial consultation, our doctors will perform a medical interview to get a complete picture of your current health, lifestyle, and any factors that may be contributing to your PCOS. They may also order ultrasounds and other diagnostic tests to assess the severity of the hormonal imbalance you're experiencing.
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Paramedics are people involved in provision of emergency medical care services in pre-hospital environments. The reason why paramedics are viewed with high regard is that they posses more skills as compared to medical technicians (EMTs) due to their higher exposure to training and experience as they carry out their duties. Paramedics may be involved in provision of routine care services, for instance stabilizing fractures. They may also be involved in life saving practices including performing CPR and administering medication. This requires a modicum of dedication as described in the following section.
• One has to acquire basic emergency medical service skills. This is because most paramedic schools demand that students be certified EMTs before enrolling for paramedic courses. EMT training can be done in any local community college.
• The next step is to enroll for an appropriate paramedic training program. Various programs last between eight months and two years, and the duration depends on the type of college. In order to get a list of the colleges offering paramedic courses, one should contact the local emergency office.
• While in training, trainees undergo tuition and practical lessons in intubations, CPR, EKGs and cardioversions. One should also take courses in physiology, anatomy and pharmacology.
• After good training, one should go for an internship in order to gain more hands-on skills. This entails going through a number of departments including the fire department and other emergency departments. It exposes one to dealing with cases of respiratory problems, heart attacks, and a variety of other injuries. This should be followed by obtaining additional skills in more advanced areas such as pediatric and cardiac life support.
• The final point is to sit a paramedic exam modulated by an approved body. The certification obtained allows one to apply for a job as a paramedic.
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I was recently hired by a new client who was not only the victim of a severe head-on collision, but she was also probably the victim of poor (or perhaps no) advice from an insurance agent.
You see, she had just purchased a new $20,000 vehicle. When she called her insurance agent to obtain insurance, she expressed that she wanted to get the "least expensive" policy possible.
Therefore, without any discussion, he simply put her in a "liability only" insurance policy with the lowest limits of $15,000. That meant that if she was responsible for an accident, she would be covered for liability up to $15,000. However, the policy did not provide for anything else. She trusted that he got her adequate coverage, because after all, he was a professional insurance agent. As it turned out, the coverage was too basic for her needs.
After the head-on collision, she came to my office for advice. I explained that the only way she could get her car fixed was by going through the other party's insurance company. In other words, the other party would have to concede to fault. She couldn't turn to her own insurance company because she didn't have "collision" coverage under the policy.
Also, because she didn't have health insurance, she had no way to get medical treatment until the other side conceded fault. She also didn't have "medical payments coverage" under her auto policy so she was unable to seek medical care through that avenue. I told her that we might be able to proceed on a lien basis (where the healthcare providers would defer payment till she collected from the other party), but it was too risky to do so without knowing what the police report said for sure. Otherwise, she might be digging herself into a financial hole full of medical bills.
I trusted that the accident wasn't her fault, but that doesn't prevent other people from saying otherwise, including a police officer. I've come to learn after over 20 years of practicing law, that a 2 car accident often results in 4 different stories!
The lesson is this: It is an insurance broker's responsibility to recommend and provide the correct coverage to a client. Then, after figuring out what the "correct" coverage is, he/she can look for a competitive price from a good company. Selecting the cheapest policy is not a service to the client, especially when they are not adequately insured.
Also, when you shop for insurance, your focus shouldn't be only on the price. You should be asking yourself whether or not you were getting the correct kind of coverage for you and your family. That way, you won't be dependent on an opposing insurance company when you get into an accident and need help.
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The Titles of Nobility Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. It was approved by the 11th Congress on May 1, 1810, and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from a foreign country. On two occasions between 1812 and 1816 it only needed ratifying by two states to become a valid part of the Constitution. Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification,[a] so the amendment is still pending before the states. Now, since the number of states has increased, ratification by an additional 26 states would be needed for this amendment to be adopted.
This proposed amendment would amplify both Article I, Section 9, which prohibits the federal government from issuing titles of nobility or honor, and Section 10, which prohibits the states from issuing them.
There is speculation that the Congress proposed the amendment in response to the 1803 marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, Jerome, and Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, Maryland. She gave birth to a son for whom she wanted aristocratic recognition from France. The child, named Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, was not born in the United States, but in Great Britain on July 7, 1805. Nevertheless, he would have held U.S. citizenship through his mother. In turn, his son, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, was born in 1851 and died 1921. He graduated from Harvard Law School, and became Secretary of the Navy and then, in the Theodore Roosevelt Administration, Attorney-General – and created the FBI. Another theory is that his mother actually desired a title of nobility for herself. She is referred to as the "Duchess of Baltimore" in many texts written about the amendment. The marriage had been annulled in 1805. This was well before the amendment's proposal by the 11th Congress. Nonetheless, Representative Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina is recorded to have said that "he considered the vote on this question as deciding whether or not we were to have members of the Legion of Honor in this country."
↑ The Eighteenth Amendment was the first to have a time limit for states to ratify the proposed amendment. Amendments before that time had no time limit. Those proposed afterwards have the same seven year limit. For example, Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One–Ten of the Constitution. Of the twelve Articles (Amendments) sent by the 1st United States Congress for ratification by the states, ten were ratified as Amendments one through ten. Article two, which had no time limit, waited nearly 200 years before it was ratified as the Twenty-seventh Amendment.
↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amending the Constitution". ThisNation.com. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
↑ "The Charters of Freedom: The Bill of Rights". Washington D.C.: National Archives. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
↑ "27th Amendment". Law.com. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
↑ "The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Centennial Edition, Interim Edition: Analysis of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 26, 2013" (PDF). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2013. p. 49. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
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Will Chris Evans Play 'Captain America'?
Yes, Marvel Studios made Chris Evans an offer to play Captain America. But I hear that the testing process will continue because the actor is conflicted about jumping into another superhero role, after playing Johnny Storm/Human Torch in two Fantastic Four installments. This could certainly be bargaining table posturing, because Marvel drives the toughest deals in town. But other actors have turned away from big superhero movie roles. They include Heath Ledger, who turned down Spider-Man because he didn’t want to be typecast or sign for three movies. (He later came back for an Oscar-winning turn as The Joker in The Dark Knight). Josh Hartnett turned down the chance to play Superman several years ago for similar reasons, even though the 3-picture pact could have paid him nearly $100 million. Marvel is offering far less, and asking for 9 options.
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Do South Beach Diet foods contain MSG?
The South Beach Diet foods do not contain the ingredient Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). However, many of our entrees contain ingredients that have inherent or free glutamate, such as tomatoes, meats, hydrolyzed protein, soy sauce and autolyzed yeast extract.
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The pipes in Scotland seem to have earliest dating records around the world and are a landmark feature of Scottish heritage. In Scotland each clan would have its own piper who would compose their own music which would be played for events in the clan such as battle, births, deaths and marriages. It was not until the 1800's that the Scottish bagpipers began to record their music compositions by writing them down in a standard notation, prior to that the piper would create his own notations for his music.
Much of the older Scottish bagpipe music features elements of the warring Scottish clans with compositions such as ‘the Campbell's are coming' and ‘the march of the Cameron men'. A traditional accompaniment to the bagpipes in Scotland was introduced during the Napoleonic wars and was the Drums.
If you were asked to come up with a traditional image that represented Scotland you would undoubtedly turn to tartan and bagpipes. Scottish bagpipes are as much a part of Scotland as haggis and Robert Burns, and are a treasured and old instrument that have a mystique all of their own.
While the bagpipes are not confined to Scotland, it is here that they are best known – and most associated with – although there are many countries in Europe that also have a traditional pipe instrument, and many varieties closer to home, too.
When talking of Scottish bagpipes we are, in fact, talking of an instrument more properly known as the Highland bagpipes or the Great Highland Bagpipe. The highland bagpipes are the grandiose and familiar type played by pipers across the land in ceremonial duties and more, and are as impressive to look at as they are to listen to.
The sound of highland bagpipes is absolutely unmistakeable – a constant drone accompanied by the reedy tune that many find difficult to listen to and others adore – and the highland bagpipes have a history that is very much entwined with military history and clan in-fighting in the area.
Bagpipes were first recorded in Europe in the 1200's, notably in Spain and the Iberian peninsula, and the first instances of the highland bagpipes is around the year 1400. Despite this, a famous and long established clan – that of Menzies – lays claim to the remaining parts of a set of pipes that they say were played at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. This is unverifiable, and historians are prone to put it down to local legend.
A complex instrument, highland bagpipes are played by being blown – the piper blows into a mouthpiece that inflates the bag, and this is the bag that is squeezed by the piper to get the air into the chanter and the drones, the parts that make the noise.
The highland bagpipes are not an easy instrument to play, and it is notable that they differs greatly from the Northumbrian small pipes, a close relative in instrument terms, in that that instrument is powered by bellows and is not blown.
Ceremonial duties still keep the highland bagpipes in service in the British Army; no Scottish regiment would be complete without a pipe section, and the legendary and world famed Band of the Coldstream Guards stand as one of the most famous proponents of the pipe music military tradition. In times gone by a piper would accompany troops onto the battlefield, presumably as the one in the legend of Bannockburn did with the Menzies.
It is an interesting instrument that is as much a part of Scotland as any of the famous images we associate with the country; the highland bagpipes stand proud and loud in musical terms, one of the most instantly recognisable instruments in the world today.
The sight of a kilted Scots guard in full regalia playing the highland bagpipes is a popular tourist image, but is also a very real one that has its place in modern life as much as it did in the 1400's.
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Do many Wappinger residents use Dutchess County Airport for vacationing or is it for business?
Dutchess County Airport's role has changed a lot since I was born. It used to fly commercially from New York City, amongst other places in the region, but it doesn't anymore. Now it's private aviation, whether people flying their own planes or taking lessons (small jets, twin-engine aircraft, and helicopters are mainly what you see on the runways and helipads here). Therefore the only people who use it these days are doing it for their own leisure or for education purposes, though I suppose business could be involved if that's the nature of the private flight, but all flights are in fact private. I remember when it was also a lot more active, but now you only hear planes overhead every now and then.
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"Yu-Gi-Oh!", known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (遊☆戯☆王 デュエルモンスターズ, Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu), is the series that introduced Yu-Gi-Oh! to the Western world. It was produced by NAS, and was first aired on TV Tokyo on April 18, 2000. It was later translated into more than 20 languages, airing in more than 60 countries. The series is mainly based on Yu-Gi-Oh! manga volume 8 and onward, and ended its 224-episode run in Japan on September 29, 2004.
There are two English-language versions of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime: a United States version by 4Kids Entertainment and a South-East Asian version by A.S.N.
On May 8, 2001, 4Kids obtained the U.S. merchandising and television rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters from Konami. They partnered up with Warner Bros. and released their dubbed version of the anime on Kids' WB! on September 29, 2001, under the title of Yu-Gi-Oh!. The English Yu-Gi-Oh! anime is divided into a number of seasons. The show aired from September 29, 2001 through June 10, 2006.
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Are there anyone here who have worked with a debt ellimination company?
Were currently considering one but are also looking into bankrupcy.
Any insight or experiences would be appreciated.
If possible, I would avoid bankrupsy, 9 years ago, we filed for it. No one would sell us a car, rent a home to us, or give us much financial aid for a while, because they deemed us "fically irresponsible". I can't really give a whole lot of advise on this matter, still being a teen. But I can give my testemony with what happened to us. I hope things work out for you!
We went with a debt elimination company and they ripped us off. She took our old bills and our money and nothing got done and when I questioned her, she said she filed the work she had to do and it was a matter of waiting. So we ended up filing bankruptcy and at first you cant get a car or rent or whatnot, but we couldn't do that with the bad credit either. And then a year later our score went up and things were ok again.
We looked into it once. The company said they would get our checks direct deposited to them, take all our bills and pay them giving us just enough cash for gas and food money to live off of. In return they would keep a percentage of our income. Now come on... common sense tells you that if we already didn't have enough to pay the bills, them taking their fee right off the top leaves even less for the bills. We high tailed it out of there. My advice..... slow and steady. Just pay what you can and don't add to your debt. Eventually you will pay it off.
I would seek a lawyer. they would advise you to either file bk, ch7 or ch13. or if it is possible to pay it back. sometimes it is just as simple to file bk. do a debt to income ratio on yourself. list all of you outgoing bills and leave so much for cigarettes,internet, out to eat. then subtract from your income. if you are negative budget, and you have no equity in your property or perhaps have no property, then you would want to file bk.
I have heard that these debt elimination companies are actually funded by the credit card companies and are not a good idea. I agree to contact your creditors and see if you can lower your interest rates or something.
Some friends of ours entered their program 3 years ago and eliminated $20,000 in debt. They are almost paid off and their credit good enough that they just bought a house 2 months ago - a dream they never thought they'd achieve.
I joined a debt relief company-Freedom Point (now Care One Credit). I realize it is going to be a long, slow process, but for me it is the best bet. I couldn't afford to pay what the credit card companies were asking, but I could afford the budget set by Freedom Point. So far, so good.
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Dejé mi vida, dejé mi amor, pero en Nueva York, de Cuba me llevé un sabor inexplicable, una mezcla de amor y curiosidad, quiero saber más de la cultura y de todo lo relacionado a la calidez de la Perla del Caribe.
En mi periplo visitamos varias ciudades, y sin lugar a dudas lo mejor fue Trinidad, me transportó a mi niñez en República Dominicana: casas de colores, vecinos alertas a cada paso de los turistas que patean cada día sus empedradas calles.
Nos alojamos en un AirBnB, El Guayito fue el mejor lugar dónde nos alojamos, de verdad, fue como estar en un hotel con estrellas, porque mejor no menciono el horror de hotel de lujo que nos tocó en Varadero, de verdad os lo repito, si buscáis sentir la alegría y calidez Cubana os invito a subiros a un avión ahora mismo, si por lo contrario buscáis resort 5* os sugiero que exploréis otros horizontes.
Qué hacer en Trinidad: Primero no llevéis tacones, a partir de ahí la diversión está garantizada. Durante el día podéis caminar por el pueblo, subir al mirador de la catedral, otra experiencia que no debéis perder es ir a visitar el Salto del Caburni, pero ir preparados para escalar, no vayáis a posturear como yo, que fui con chanclas y en más de una ocasión vi peligrar mis curvas, aún no se como no se me ocurrió llevar unas zapatillas de deporte.
Os dejo con algunas fotos que aún estoy saboreando.
When I left Cuba, after a long crazy week, I came back with tons of feeling, love, hate, missing…But overall: Curiosity, I want to know more about their culture and how warm they are.
One of the stop was the colorful and traditional Trinidad, I was impressed about the painting of the houses, that took me back to Dominican Republic, remembering the houses I saw when I was a child.
We were highly surprised about the comfort and modern infraestructure of our AirBnb El Guayito, was like a 3* hotel in Europe, even better than the considered best resort in Varadero, where we stayed one night, and was…Let’ say nothing, we had a great host and had a 5* breakfast every morning.
What to do in Trinidad? During the day you have to go shopping around the lovely streets, visit the cathedral and you should visit The Valley of the Ingenio, where is located the most amazing waterfall called Caburni, but please don´t make my mistakes…bring with you the right hiking gear, otherwise be careful and at least bring your runners, at this point I am asking to myself what was I thinking… Flip Flops for hiking Angie… You were joking… well, I was posing, and putting myself on risk.
By night go to visit the Cave, is the most magnificient disco ever, but don´t dress so fancy, go comfortable and have fun.
Love you guys, and see you very soon.
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14ymedio, Generation Y, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 25 September 2017 — Most active politicians like to have their photos taken while greeting children, talking to factory workers, or visiting a disaster area. These images, seen on countless occasions, do not translate into better government performance, or even real concern, but at least they are consistent with a formal and public ritual.
More than two weeks ago, Hurricane Irma devastated countless towns in central Cuba, affected communities near the north coast and left the coastal areas of the city of Havana under water. Since then, Raúl Castro has not been to any of the affected sites and has not been seen near the houses that lost their roofs, the sidewalks filled with the furniture drying in the sun or the places sheltering some who have no homes to return to.
In the first days of his absence, speculations focused on the octogenarian’s health and a possible indisposition making him unable to travel to the most affected areas. However, Castro had enough physical energy to go and receive Nicolás Maduro at the airport. He has chosen to take a photo with the Venezuelan president rather than with the population battered by the meteoric winds.
The feelings left by this distancing are contradictory. His most ardent supporters speculate that he does not want to add expenses to the national budget with a visit more symbolic than effective. Others say he is letting younger officials take his place before the cameras so that they can gain visibility before 24 February of next year, when he will step down from the presidency of the country.
His critics, however, speak of the weariness that has gripped the General after a sequence of defeats, among them not being able to end the island’s dual currency system, or to reduce corruption, or to offer Cuban workers dignified wages that can become their primary source of economic support, or to attract foreign investment. Exhaustion has taken over the leader of the Communist Party a few months before he leaves power.
Now it is too late for the photo next to the victims. Even if Castro were to leave for Esmeralda, Punta Alegre, or Corralillo today, he could not escape the doubt that his visit was more the fruit of pressures than of his own desires. A snapshot next to an old woman whose house is nothing more than the foundation would seem to be a resounding act of gimmicky populism, but the lack of that image makes him look as distant and indifferent.
If he goes where Irma left a trail of pain he loses; if he stays in his palace he also loses.
Welcome back, Yoanni. How about an article on the damage done to Cuba by the hurricanes, and what is being done to try to rebuild and improve the lives of those who were impacted by them?
Yes indeed, the latest natural disasters have become politicised. In Mexico, the weakness of the Nieto Admin is showing again, as when the 43 students disappeared. In the presidential elections next year left-populist Obrador may win. Cuba is still the ideological spider in the centre of this web of hard- left nations there .
In Colombia, FARC has come out of the jungle and is continuing their conquest of the country side first on the way to conquering the whole country.
Sure, there’s good news too, but the hard commie left is strong in the region. Watch out!
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In relation to climate change mitigation, population growth has long been the elephant in the room. Since the 1970’s our population has doubled, and our planet is definitely feeling the weight.
A recent study has found that having one fewer child in your family is the most effective action you can take to reduce your individual carbon footprint. Other actions included living car-free, eating a plant-based diet and upgrading household light bulbs. But the clear winner was having fewer kids. In fact, having one fewer child can reduce your impact by 58.6 tonnes of CO2-equivalent each year, compared to 2.4 tonnes each year by living car-free.
So, do we need to stop having kids?
Since 1987, the yearly global population growth rate has actually declined significantly, from 1.86 percent to 1.11 percent in 2017. Despite this decline though, we're still in growth mode, and it is causing a strain on natural resources and influencing climate change.
So, to better answer this question, let's look at two scenarios: A) we continue using resources at the rate we are today, continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and continue to maintain our current rate of consumption. Or (B) We all start living sustainably, we use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels and we each reduce our carbon footprint so that we're living carbon neutral lives.
The reality is that we will most likely gradually move from scenario (A) towards scenario (B) over the next few decades. But for argument's sake, this article will focus on scenario (A). A grim outlook, I know. But it is important to cover all bases.
So, assuming that overpopulation is our greatest threat to sustainability, what are the steps we can take to stop it?
Here's where gender inequality comes in.
It may sound unlikely, but population growth and women's rights go hand in hand. Women who are empowered, educated and autonomous are far more likely to have fewer children. But the sad truth is that many women today are neither empowered, educated, nor autonomous.
According to Globe and Mail, if every single girl in the world were to finish high school, we would have 843 million fewer people on the planet by 2050. Why? Because educated and empowered women are more likely to seek access to contraception and family planning and are more likely to manage their own reproductive health. A 1998 study of women in Niger found there was a 31 percent decrease in fertility rate among women who had completed secondary school. And although developing countries don't currently bolster the greatest impact on global warming, as industrialisation occurs in these areas, the impacts are likely to grow. Therefore, in time, the impact of rapid population growth in these areas will be felt far more severely.
In a world in which motherhood is revered and childlessness is often stigmatised, it can be tricky to choose the latter. Even when the latter is not a choice, women can be made to feel inferior and impotent. Every year, in the western world we celebrate a day to commemorate motherhood and honour the sacrifice mothers make for their children. So what about childless women? As we do with mothers, let's celebrate women who have made the nobel decision for our planet not to procreate. And let's encourage the provision of resources and support for women who are involuntarily childless.
In order to achieve equality, it is vital to invite all parties to the discussion. Historically, gender inequality has often been viewed as a woman's problem. This view is of course fundamentally flawed considering that many of the people who are perpetuating gender inequality are male. I'm not trying to play the blame game here, BUT to the extent that inequalities are glaringly obvious to women, they need to be obvious to the boys of the world.
You may be wondering how you can help empower women in developing countries around the world. Well, start local and let it spread. The more we speak about equality and the empowerment of women, the more it will become normalised and subsequently established. We can attend women's rights rallies, financially support women's groups and empower the women in our lives to achieve greatness.
Climate justice and women's rights are deeply intertwined. So to achieve both, we must work simultaneously towards justice for women and for our planet.
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Email received I have no idea why.
Hello, I have NO IDEA why I received an email from you notifying me that you will charge me for services. What services ? I have never contacted you to ask for services.
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UFC 192 may have been great on paper and the headlining title light heavyweight title bout between defending champion Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustafsson may have been an exciting back and forth brawl, however, the pay-per-view buys just were not there.
The event will finish with an estimated 250,000 buys, making it the 2nd worst selling light heavyweight title fight in the TUF era, as well as the 3rd lowest selling PPV of 2015 (only ahead of both UFC 186 and 191 – both Demetrious Johnson title fights).
The day before fight night, the card lost its co-main event of Johny Hendricks vs. Tyron Woodley, which promoted Rashad Evans vs. Ryan Bader to co-main status.
When Cormier fought former champion Jon Jones earlier in the year the buy rate came in around 800,000 purchases, followed by 375,000 the night Cormier won the vacated title defeating Anthony Johnson.
Is Daniel Cormier bad for pay-per-view or are there other factors that are contributing to the decreased pay-per-view buy rate.
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Is the surname CLAY mentioned in your old North Wingfield wills or documents?
NORTH WINGFIELD is a township and parish, celebrated for its extensive coal, lime and ironstone beds, seated on an eminence, about a quarter of a mile south-west from Clay Cross station on the main line of the Midland railway, 4 miles south from Chesterfield, 20¼ north from Derby and 146 from London, in the Chesterfield division of the county, hundred of Scarsdale, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Chesterfield, rural deanery of Chesterfield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
North Wingfield parish originally comprised six townships, viz., NORTH WINGFIELD, with WILLIAMSTHORPE, CLAY LANE, PlLSLEY, STRETTON, TUPTON and WOODTHORPE; of these the township of Pilsley is now a separate parish, and is given under a separate head; the townships of Clay Lane, Stretton and Woodthorpe form the parish of Clay Cross (which see). The church, dedicated originally to St. Lawrence, but subsequently transferred to St. Helen, and called by her name so late as 1644, is a building of stone, consisting of clerestoried chancel, nave of four bays, with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, 100 feet in height and containing 6 bells, the 3rd of ancient date and the rest dating from 1617 to 1811 : there are still existing some remains of the earlier fabric of Late Norman date, and comprising a window in the north aisle, with toothed mouldings and singularly designed capitals, and an arch between the north aisle and the small transeptal chapel at its eastern end : the chancel has the unusual feature, on both sides, of three clerestory windows : the east window, a Decorated work of about 1320, was refilled with stained glass in 1879, by the Rev. G. W. Darby M.A. late rector, as a memorial to his wife, and in 1880 a memorial window was erected in the chancel to the Rev. James Barrow M.A. rector here, 1861-78 : on the north side of the chancel is an arch, reopened in 1880 and communicating with the transeptal chapel : on the exterior south wall of the chancel, within an ogee arch, lies the mutilated figure of a knight, previously on the floor of the chapel, and the knightly effigy previously within this arch has been transferred to a canopied recess in the interior north wall of the chancel, carefully restored by the aid of fragments discovered in unmasking the wall : in the north aisle, at the south-east angle, are the stairs, still perfect, which anciently led to the rood loft ; at the foot of these stairs is a square recess or almery, the upper side of which is formed of part of a carved semi-effigial memorial : at the east end of this aisle is the chantry chapel, already mentioned, founded, in pursuance of a licence from Henry VII. by John Babyngton knt. and Ralph Savage, 4th February, 1488, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin : the Decorated tracery of the east window of the chapel has been renewed ; on its walls, beneath Decorated canopies, are various interesting stone carvings in high relief, some portion of which may represent the "Annunciation :" here also are several stone effigies of the Deincourt family, which have been rearranged : on the floor of the chapel are the shattered remains of an early memorial slab with a figure in slight relief, taken from the arch on the outside wall of the chancel, and upon which the knightly effigy formerly there had been placed : in the south aisle is an interesting piece of sculpture, representing the martyrdom of St. Lawrence, found in 1860 beneath a crocketed canopy : the south porch is mainly built of fragments previously utilized in other parts of the building : the font in use is an octagon dating from 1662 : the church has been partially rebuilt or restored during recent years: in 1860 the south aisle was rebuilt on the same site, and in 1872 the clerestory of the nave with its roof and the north aisle were restored ; in the wall of the aisle were found various fragments of ancient incised slabs, and its inner face had been covered with scriptural texts, in black letter, of the Elizabethan age, and a fresco of St. George and the Dragon : the clerestory windows, previously renewed in a debased style, were filled with simple tracery, the semicircular roof of plaster removed and the open- timbered I4th century roof carefully renovated : during the repairs at this time various incised slabs were met with, some of which had served as lintels for the clerestory windows : the repairs carried on during the year 1880 involved the construction of entirely new foundations to the piers of one arcade, the bases and piers themselves being also partially renewed ; new roofs of oak, covered with lead, were placed over the chapel and transept, the hagioscopes in the chancel arch piers reopened, the nave and chancel floors relaid and the interior reseated in oak : the church was reopened in December, 1880, and has 400 sittings. In the churchyard are several interesting old monuments and a stone sun dial, of great antiquity: the churchyard was enlarged in 1887 by the addition of 2 acres. The register, much of the earlier part of which is illegible, dates from the year 1567. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £850, net yearly value £767, including 86 acres of glebe, with residence in the gift of George Barrow Darby esq. and held since 1889 by the Rev. Joseph 0ldham B.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There are Methodist New Connexion and Primitive Methodist chapels at Wingfield ; a Primitive Methodist chapel at Ling's Row ; Primitive Methodist, Free Methodist and Methodist New Connexion chapels at New Tupton and a Methodist New Connexion chapel at Tupton. The chantry house, which adjoins the north-east angle of the churchyard, has for many years been an inn and is now known as the "Blue Bell," still retaining, however, some of its original features. The charities amount to £25 13s. 7d. yearly, distributed to the poor in money and flannel at Christmas. John James Barrow esq. J.P. of Holmewood, Tunbridge Wells, is lord of the manor of North Wingfield and the Hon. Mrs. Hunloke, is lady of the manor of Williamthorpe. The principal landowners are Joseph Bright esq. the Hon. Mrs. Hunloke and Colonel Packman. Soil and subsoil, chiefly clay and loam, with an admixture of rutchel stone in many parts. The chief crops are wheat, oats and pasture. The area of the township is 1,449 acres ; rateable value, £8,092; the population in 1871 was 1,155, and in 1881 was 2,044, in the township.
Tupton is a township, about 2 miles north-west. Tupton Hill is now unoccupied. Clay Cross station is in this township. The area, 684 acres; rateable value, £8,842 ; population in 1881 was 1,374.
Heaton Elizabeth (Mrs.), Blue Bell P.H.
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What are four important tactical tasks for a negotiator in a distributive situation to consider?
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The dinosaurs roamed the earth for more than 150 million years. Over this time period, known as the Mesozoic era, the Earth was subject to a lot of change in terms of landscape, climate, flora and fauna. It was a volatile and fertile time, with several natural disasters causing the extinction of many of the world's species, but with enough surviving to evolve into the next wave of life.
The Mesozoic era was a period of history that stretched from 248 to 65 million years ago. It is divided into the three time periods in which the dinosaurs lived: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The term “Mesozoic” means “middle animals." The flora and fauna in the world during this period changed dramatically, with the evolution of dinosaurs, more diverse plants and the first mammals and birds.
The Triassic period (248 to 206 million years ago) began and ended with a massive natural disaster which wiped out around 90 percent of the planet's species. The species that did survive then repopulated the Earth and evolved into completely new creatures. The oceans were packed full of life: mollusks, ammonites and the first corals lived alongside massive Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, dominated the air and the first large mammals and dinosaurs roamed the earth. One of the first dinosaurs was the Coelophysis, a carnivore which grew up to 9 feet tall and weighed up to 100 pounds.
The dinosaurs survived the natural disaster at the end of the Triassic period and went on to dominate the Jurassic period (208 to 146 million years ago). The supercontinent Pangaea which had dominated the Triassic period was rapidly breaking up, and mountains rising up from the ocean floor pushed sea levels up. This made the previously hot and dry climate fairly humid, and prompted the growth of many more plants and trees such as palms and ferns. The dinosaurs in this period were huge, with the Brachiosaurus standing at 85 feet long, 52 feet tall and weighing 80 tons. These massive herbivores were matched with equally large carnivores, such as Allosaurus. The earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, also originated from the Jurassic period.
The Cretaceous period stretched from 146 to 65 million years ago, and by the end of this period, the landmasses were in much the same position as they are today. Throughout the period the continents had been moving further apart; this and the increasing expanses of ocean caused the climate to become more moist and cool. New types of dinosaurs evolved as well. Herds of Iguanadon and Triceratops were widespread and Tyrannosaurus Rex terrorized the northern hemisphere while Spinosaurus dominated in the south. Mammals were becoming more common and more species of birds were competing with the flying reptiles for the skies. But, at the end of this period, the dinosaurs were wiped out by another natural disaster and life on Earth was never quite the same again.
Mitchell, Stacey. "What Are the Three Time Periods the Dinosaurs Lived in?" Sciencing, https://sciencing.com/three-time-periods-dinosaurs-lived-8737410.html. 13 March 2018.
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Where is the recipe for the home made graham crackers?
Sift together the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda; set aside. In a medium bowl, cream together the margarine, brown sugar and honey until light and fluffy. Stir in the sifted ingredients alternating with the milk and vanilla. Cover dough and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Divide the chilled dough into quarters. On a well floured surface, roll the dough out one quarter at a time into a 5x15 inch rectangle. Divide into rectangles using a knife. Place rectangles onto ungreased cookie sheets. Mark a line down the center of each one, and prick with a fork. For a cinnamon flavored cracker, sprinkle with a cinnamon sugar mixture before baking.
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But, if you are honest, when did you last feel really joyful? When did you last "jump for joy"? When was the last time your heart was bursting with love, happiness and the sheer joy of being alive?
For most of us it's so long ago, we can't even remember. Maybe in early childhood, when life was less complicated and serious. Before our struggles and responsibilities beat all the joy out of us. Before too much suffering, rejection, abuse, neglect sucked it from our injured hearts.
And yet, we never stop searching for it.
We sense that it should be a natural part of our Being. Its complete absence from our life bothers us, causes us pain, distress and anxiety.
We listen to celebrities and gurus tell us about what joy feels like. Describe how they rediscovered it and how "you can do it too". Every day our minds are flooded with TV commercials implying that we can find joy if we buy a trendy perfume, a fast car or certain brand of dish soap.
And we start to think: "Maybe I'm not good enough? Maybe I just don't deserve joy in my life? Maybe joy is only for people who are better than me, more spiritually inclined. Who cope better with the trials and tribulations of life?"
Joy is absent from our lives because, as a species and society, we make 3 disastrous mistakes that have become so normal that we aren't even aware of them any longer.
The mind developed as a marvellous tool designed through evolution to keep us safe and alive. It was meant to be used whenever we need it to solve problems, analyse situations and evaluate dangers.
And then to be put down, like a hammer or a laptop, when the job is done.
But at some point, the mind took over. We started to identify with it, we believed that we were our mind and mistook all our thoughts for the absolute truth.
Nowadays, for most people, the mind is in charge. Producing incessant thoughts, it worries, criticises, overthinks, overanalyses, catastrophises, warns.
Because that's its job! It is meant to foresee threats and suffering and to defend us against them. It's a warning system with integrated problem solving capability. Very useful in sticky situations.
All it knows is how to solve problems, avoid danger and maintain survival. And that's what it does. And if there aren't any problems to solve, it will create them, so it has something useful to do. Causing endless suffering, anxiety and stress in the process.
And all these problems the mind creates to justify its existence drain the joy from our life.
As a society, we are extremely focussed on externalities. We believe that our happiness (and our worth) depends on our circumstances, our looks and weight, our finances and relationship status.
We get a new partner so they can make us happy. And feel disappointed when they don't meet our expectations.
We accumulate tons of clothes, shoes, collectables and other stuff so they can bring us joy. And then curse them for causing us debt, clutter and anxiety.
Because joy can never come from goods, possessions, other people or new circumstances. Joy comes from the inside. It is part of our true Being. Like worth, love and peace.
The only problem is that the tool we put in charge makes too much noise. Occupies us no end with anxious, depressing, negative thoughts.
And joy remains unheard. Swallowed by the deafening racket of an overwhelmed mind.
We all experience heart-ache, rejection, abandonment. All of us went through trauma, disappointment and failure.
And the common reaction to these experiences is to close our heart. To build an enormous wall around ourselves and block all exits. So the pain can't enter. The suffering stays outside and no one can ever hurt us again.
The trouble is that closing our hearts blocks our energy flow. And without balanced flow, joy suffocates like a budgie in a coal mine filling up with carbon monoxide.
Our desperate attempt to protect ourselves backfires.
When we experience trauma, rejection or neglect, we tend to close our heart to eliminate the chance of being hurt again. This numbs the negative emotions and makes it easier to cope.
We also lock out positive emotions such as love, happiness and joy.
We lock in the grief and anger that is already in our heart which now has no way to escape.
Eventually this may lead to feelings of hopelessness, anxiety and depression. You closed all the windows and doors, pulled the shutters and now live in darkness.
Closing our hearts in times of suffering is an automatic reaction. We want to protect ourselves. But it is crucial to learn how to open the heart again, so we can let the sunshine in.
"Sit or lie down comfortably. Don't cross your arms or legs. Now close your eyes and take 3 deep breaths. Try to relax.
Focus on your heart in the centre of your chest. Does it feel heavy or light? Dark or bright?
Now simply imagine that you open your heart. Use a visual that appeals to you. You might think of opening the shutters of a window, the unfolding of a beautiful flower. Or, like me, the opening of an automatic door on the starship Enterprise with the typical "Si-woosh" sound (#proudtobeageek).
Once your heart is open, flush it through with lots of love for as long as it feels good and comfortable."
Repeat this exercise once a day. It will help to eliminate feelings of darkness and hopelessness and boost your happiness level.
You don't need to wait for your circumstances to change to find joy in your everyday life. No need to make more money, find love, overcome all your struggles and shortcomings.
You don't have to delay until you are worthy of happiness and joy. You don't have to prove your worth. Because you ARE worth. Right now. Right where you are.
Remind yourself that you are not your thoughts. You are not your mind. The mind is a tool designed to serve and protect you. But you are in charge. And you have a choice to anxiously worry or joyfully thrive.
Find stillness, even if it is only for a few moments, to connect to your Higher Self which is pure love, joy and worth. Meditate, run, sit on the beach. It doesn't matter what you do. Just slow down. And feel within.
Use the "Open Your Heart" visualisation daily to invite joy and light back into your life.
You deserve happiness, joy, a fulfilled life. They are in your grasp, never out of reach.
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For the Indian cricketer, see Krishna Kant (cricketer).
Krishan Kant (28 February 1927 – 27 July 2002) was the tenth Vice President of India from 1997 until his death. Previously, he was Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1990 to 1997.
Kant was born on 28 February 1927 in a village in the Punjab Province of British India. His parents were independence activists Lala Achint Ram and Satyavati Devi.
Kant completed his MSc (Technology) from erstwhile Banaras Engineering College, Banaras Hindu University (currently known as Indian Institute of Technology, BHU).
Son of noted Congress politician and later parliamentarian, Lala Achint Ram, Kant's first brush with politics came when he plunged into the Quit India movement, while he was still a student in Lahore. He took part in the Indian Independence Movement as a youth and continued to be involved in politics, eventually being elected to Parliament of India. He was part of the "Young Turk" brigade of Indian National Congress party during the time of Indira Gandhi.
He held important official positions in the parliamentary and organisational wings of the Indian National Congress, the Janata Party and the Janata Dal. For many years, he was a member of the Executive Council of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.
Krishan Kant was the founding general secretary of the People's Union for Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights, of which Jayprakash Narayan was the President in 1976. He was expelled from the Indian National Congress in 1975 for his opposition to the Emergency. He was later a member of Lok Sabha till 1980. He was the chairman of Committee on Railway Reservations and Bookings from 1972 to 1976.
A strong protagonist of India going nuclear, Krishan Kant was a member of the executive council of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis.
Kant was appointed governor of Andhra Pradesh by the V.P. Singh government in 1989 and served in that position for seven years, becoming one of India's longest-serving governors. He stayed at that post till he was elevated as Vice-President of India.
He was elected vice-president by Parliament as the joint candidate of the Indian National Congress and United Front. He died in New Delhi aged 75 after suffering from a massive heart attack on 27 July 2002, a few weeks before he was to leave the office to lead a retired life. He is the only Indian Vice President to die in office. He was cremated with full state honours at Nigam Bodh Ghat in New Delhi on the banks of Yamuna on 28 July, in the presence of various VIPs. He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter and grandchildren. His mother Satyavati Devi, another freedom fighter, also outlived him, finally dying in 2010. A few days after his death, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat defeated Sushil Kumar Shinde to be elected as the successor to Krishna Kant as Vice President of India.
^ a b c d e "Rajya Sabha". Rajya Sabha. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
^ Khan, Kot Mohammed (2 August 1997). "Krishna Kant's home-villagers have great expectations of him". Rediff.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
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King Alexander I: reverse of seal.
I don't know if you recall King Alexander the First. Personally I don't; he lived a long time ago. I certainly don't know what signal service Walterus Brown, a French mercenary, performed for King Alexander. He may have been his right hand man, his most trusted general; he may have been his enforcer, his personal thug; he may have been his bum boy. I don't know.
What I do know is that, by the time Alexander died, eight hundred and ninety one years ago, Walterus Broun had possession of the rich lands of Colstoun in East Lothian. I know this also: his descendants live there still, as their reward for that far-off, unremembered service. They have lived there, and grown fat on the backs of other mens' labour, for almost nine hundred years.
And over that time they've turned off a lot of tenants. They turned off a Mr Walker in 1817; a Mr Brodie in 1838; William Hay in 1872; David Smith in 1880; William Gibson in 1896; and so on. As their present tenant says, 'no one has ever left Colstoun Mains voluntarily, most have been bankrupted or very close to it.' Their present tenant is, of course, Andrew Stoddart, whom you'll all recall as a doughty campaigner for the rights of tenant farmers, and for land reform.
Andrew is to be evicted in three weeks' time, from land he's farmed and improved for twenty years, into which he's poured quarter of a million pounds of his own money, and the obvious suspicion must be that Andrew, like Brodie before him, is being forced out of his home and livelihood because he holds the wrong political opinions and has the courage to express them.
William Hay in 1872 was driven to suicide. I've corresponded with Andrew a great deal over the past few weeks, and I'm extremely anxious about his mental state.
And the question I have to ask is this: in what sense is it just, equitable, efficient or rational to allocate the management and benefits of a scarce resource, Scotland's land, on the basis of heredity? How can we build a better nation while the undeserving rich still fatten off the backs of ordinary working folk? And how are we to have open debate in the polity of Scotland if folk can be thrown out of their homes for having the wrong opinion?
King Alexander lived a long time ago, I'm not sure that any of us can remember him. How long are we going to allow him to rule over us?
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How many drivers stay at the first company they drove / drive for ?
Butch, it's not just the trucking industry that will hold out raises on a veteran employee. Most companies play the pay scale like a card game, and will keep a employee who has been there over a decade, lower than a younger employee that they just hired. This is because in most cases, the veteran employee has no idea what the new guy is making, and the company has to compete with other companies pay scale when they are hiring in new employees. It can be harder for the trucking companies to do this, simply because they advertise their pay scale in their literature and on their website.
I can recall several instances over the years when I was a tig welder. A new young not so bright employee, would inadvertently reveal what they were making to someone in the shop, and before the shift ended, everyone in the shop knew what they were making. This would in turn cause so much trouble for the company, they would either fire the new employee, or threaten to fire them, if they ever again spoke of where they were on the pay scale.
The reason companies do this type of thing, is because when you do the math on all the money they are saving company wide, it can be a substantial savings. Lately, the trend has been to get 1 employee to do 2 or 3 peoples job, which can save the average company $30,000 to $60,000 a year. They can save a lot more money that way, than they can maneuvering single employees out of $1 an hour here and there. Trucking companies operate differently though, so if they are the type to cheat an employee, they will do it by cheating them out of mileage, detention, breakdown pay, etc.
When it comes to the trucking companies who have a major focus on training new drivers, most of them are getting major subsidies from the federal government when the new driver leaves their company and the training is completed. In reality, they can't afford for all their drivers to stay on the payroll, because they have so many new recruits coming up through the ranks, that they don't have enough equipment to issue to the new drivers, if no one moves on for a better job offer. In reality, this is what they expect most employees to do, who want to climb upward through the ranks of the trucking industry.
Think big picture. The federal government needs freight moved to keep the economy thriving. They don't care what the logo is on the side of the truck you are driving, just as long as the freight is getting moved.
Your question reminds me of what one of my welding instructors told me back in the 80's. He said "When someone offers you a dollar more per hour, take them up on it. That is how you climb the pay scale. In that line of work, it could take a welder 3 to 5 years to get a $1 raise, so I found his advice to be spot on over the years.
However, some folks like to stay in the same place regardless, because they don't like the uncertainty of change, in any area of their lives.
Christopher, your experience was pretty much the same experience I had during my first 6 months. However, instead of quitting, I stuck it out for 6 months, and established my driving record with no accidents or tickets. At that point, it was easy to get other companies to take a serious look at me, and by the 7th month I was averaging $1000 per week.
You simply gave up, and quit too soon, and now it's going to be hard to find a reputable company to take a chance on you, because you don't have an established driving record for them to consider. If you do find another company, it will most likely be one that is self insured.
Few industries allow a new recruit the ability to make so much money, in such a short period of time, but there is a price to be paid during the first 6 months to a year. If a new driver cannot deal with the negatives of first year driving, they would probably be better off just working a local job for the wages they are currently making.
E, I have a two part strategy.
First, I compare my overall route suggestion, with my GPS routing, with my Road Atlas. This gets me familiar with where I am going, as well as which cities I will pass thru. I also make a notation on which streets are listed as a bypass. It is always helpful to be looking for the bypass truck route, and take it, in order to avoid potential tickets, low bridges, traffic jams, narrow city streets, etc. In some rare cases, the bypass will be a waste of time, but you will learn about these situations over time thru trial and error, and talking to other drivers.
Secondly, I send for my local directions, which are usually provided and updated by other company drivers. Sometimes the driver will provide a slightly different address to enter into the GPS, than the one given in the primary load assignment. This is because the primary address if for administrative offices, not the shipping and receiving dept.
Once I have entered into the GPS the correct address, I will then go back to my history page, and select the same address again, only this time, I will enlarge the map, to show the street view of the area of my destination. Then using my pen or stylus, I can check the names of specific streets. This will allow me to familiarize myself with the general area, compare it to my local directions, as well as highlight and route thru any specific streets. This can make it super simple to follow the local directions, which can sometimes be critical to the local traffic flow, as well as the customers preferences on how they want their carriers to be routed in and out of their facility.
The final thing to keep in mind, is that you MUST know when to ignore your GPS, when it tries to send you in the wrong direction, and eventually it will do this. The only way to know when to ignore the GPS, is to know where you are going without it. In essence, your GPS can provide assistance in confirming you are taking the correct route, but it is always wise to know where you are going without the assistance of the GPS. It may in some cases help some drivers, to mute the volume of the GPS, while keeping an eye on it, and noting where it is telling you to make your next turn. If you ever find yourself considering ripping your GPS off the dash and throwing it out the window, turning the volume down can take the edge off.
44, to a large degree, your ability to maintain a consistent sleep schedule, will be determined by your company's resources, as well as their commitment and focus on making their drivers happy and content.
Once you have accomplished the goal of going to work for a quality company, who are willing to work with a driver who is willing to work, success can be as simple as calling your operations manager, and asking them to make the load planners aware of your preferences. One thing that can always make things swing your way, is for your strategies to be based on four factors, in this order.
You see, if you never make your preferences known, and are willing to sleep and drive all over the clock, as well as park your rig anywhere and everywhere, the load planners will prefer that, because it makes their job much easier. However, violating company policy by parking in areas your company doesn't approve of, or failing to stay awake behind the wheel can certainly be problematic.
I had a conversation once with my terminal manager about this general situation you are asking about, and the reasons why I prefer to try to maintain a fairly consistent schedule. His reply, was that if I had in place a successful system, which satisfies everyone concerned, (Safety Dept., Log Dept., DOT, etc.) that the company will work with me to keep me productive. Having said that, I will always do what I can to be reasonably flexible, in making any load assignment work, as long as I can protect myself and my license.
Personally, I feel that a company's overall philosophy is the major factor here, and whether or not they cater to their drivers makes a HUGE difference in driver retention.
One small example I will give you is my company making internet access available at my home terminal. Right now, I am sitting in Marietta, GA. in my tractor outside the terminal, surfing the net, in a safe environment. They certainly don't have to furnish internet access, or have our terminal located in a safe part of the Atlanta metro area, however their commitment to our safety and happiness is a huge priority. You can bet, that when the time comes to have my tractor serviced, or have a trailer inspection performed, I will not hesitate to turn down the next load and head for the terminal, to make the company's priorities my priorities.
Sometimes it helps tremendously to have worked for a sub par company, in order to really appreciate a company that goes out of their way to retain their drivers. I was having a conversation the other day with another driver. I told him that if I got an offer from another company for a nickel more a mile, I would be afraid to take it. He asked me why? I replied that I would be afraid of what I would have to put up with, for that extra nickel.
Unfortunately, these issues are not really something you can discuss with most recruiters, because recruiters are sometimes guilty of telling people what they want to hear. Ditto on drivers who are guilty of the same thing, because they will pocket $1000 plus, when responsible for recruiting a new driver.
I would sum things up, by saying that once you have found a company that allows you to cover all your legal bases, while at the same time protecting your license and maintaining company policy, while consistently running productive miles, you have found yourself a home.
Deezo, you will begin to settle down eventually. However, you can never let your guard down, when you are sharing the road with the public, or just simply rolling through a parking lot. In reality, this is one of the biggest reasons truck drivers make above average money. If it were as simple as driving a car, anyone could pull it off, and then the pay scale would be close to minimum wage.
The problem right now, is that you are having to multi-task a lot of different things, and it is difficult for most people at first. Once you have done these things over and over, the multi-tasking will seem a little easier.
Remember, repetition is the mother of skill.
If the company made me purchase the load locks, then I would consider them my personal property.
Having said that, I suppose that it depends on what your company's policy is, regarding swapping/replacing load locks. I would get with my driver manager, and explain the situation at your earliest convenience.
Even though my company pays for my load locks/load straps, I'm not happy anytime I have to give up a set, because replacing them is usually a bit time consuming.
One thing you might want to start doing, is anytime you find yourself at a customer location, where there are mt trailers that belong to your company, check inside all of them, not just the one you are hooking to. Sometimes when the customer unloads a sealed trailer, they throw the load locks/load straps back inside the mt, making for an opportunity for you to pick up an extra set.
Personally, I prefer the straps, and have 3 sets on my truck, 2 of which I obtained in the above manner.
I wear standard thickness Manilla leather work gloves, which soak up most of the diesel fuel and oil they come in contact with. You would think that they would eventually become saturated, but the insides of my gloves stay clean.
As for shoes, instead of buying $100 plus sneakers like I used to, I go to Walmart and get the cheap $18 sneakers in tan and black. The reason I switched to these sneakers, is because I have found that the tan color doesn't show dirt as easily as the black sneakers I used to wear. Also, since I am not spending hours standing in them, I don't feel the need to invest in a quality shoe like a Red Wing, like I used to wear when I was a Tig Welder. About every 6 to 9 months, I throw them away and buy a new pair.
I also keep a pair of Lacrosse knee high rubber boots on the truck. Sooner or later, you are going to get caught in a monsoon, or a super muddy drop yard or parking lot, where the drainage is less than effective. When that day comes, it will be worth all the days you kept those rubber boots on the truck, "just in case." You will find that it is a regular occurrence to service some customers who do not maintain their drop yard areas well, and some of them have pot holes so deep, you will have concerns about the skirting on your tractor being damaged.
When you find yourself in a situation like that, sometimes they only way you can get access to the landing gear crank, or tandem rod, is to wade through ankle deep water, in order to get hooked and get rolling.
In our tractors, the hard braking event goes off, anytime the speed of the truck drops 9mph or more in 1 second.
As for moving from one tractor to another, I have clocked myself and it usually takes me around 6 hours to move all my stuff, but I am also taking time to spray the entire interior of the truck with 2 large cans of Lysol, vacuuming out all the cabinets and storage areas, and also using Clorox wipes on any surface that might need cleaning.
Any truck that someone has lived in, is going to be similar to a hotel room situation. I'm not going to get graphic, but most people cannot even begin to imagine some of the stuff that goes on behind closed doors. I remember watching a report on television years ago, where they tested the inside of a motel room, to see what traces of substances they could find. You don't even want to know. There was even stuff on the ceiling, that had absolutely no reasonable explanation for being up there.
The reason I take time to clean the interior before I put my stuff in, is because if I put my stuff in, and then take it back out to clean it, then all my stuff will need cleaning as well.
I dunno, I might be OCD. You know Howard Hughes was OCD, and he liked to line the wall with Mason jars he personally topped off, but the only thing I use Mason jars for is when I buy my pipe tobacco in bulk, and need to divvy it up.
Three of my best accessories are my sine wave inverter, my boot dryer, and my leaf blower I use for cleaning out my trailers.
I also keep a few briar and corncob pipes on the truck, and a decent selection of tobacco, to help pass the time anytime I am having to wait.
I also keep on the truck all the items Persian listed, as well as a small hand broom. I use it to sweep up my truck into a small area, which makes my recharageable battery last longer in my hand held vac.
Clyff, first order of business is to write down all your load info. You can use any blank piece of paper, but the truck stops sell trip planning books that work great, allowing you to just fill in the blanks.
You will need this info repeatedly when dealing with customers. Info like pickup numbers, drop numbers, trailer numbers, telephone numbers, stop offs, final destination, as well as contact numbers, in case you need to contact the customer. You will also make note of Interstate exit numbers, as well as local directions that will take you off your main route right into the shipper or receiver.
As far as the route planning itself goes, if you have a GPS, you will enter your customer addresses, as well as your fuel stops. Once you have the info entered, you can then check your GPS to see if the GPS is routing you the same route that matches your company's suggested route.
Sometimes the two match perfectly, but sometimes they do not. It is imperative that you look at your Road Atlas, and get a mental picture of where you are going. One thing I did in the beginning, was to write the name of the city beside any bypass that was along my route. That allowed me to get a better mental picture of exactly which route I was taking in getting the big picture.
I have had some drivers tell me that they just enter the destination address into their GPS, and away they go, with no real idea the route they should be taking. I would advise against this, since your GPS can and will route you needlessly to places you don't need to go, only to have you turn around and go back in the opposite direction you came from.
One thing I will mention here that I feel is a huge blunder for some drivers, is that they do not follow their local directions given by the company. Most of the time, the address provided that you enter into your GPS, is the administration address for the company offices. It will be close to the shipping and receiving dept., but not exactly where you will need to be. Once you leave the Interstate in a 70 foot truck, you will need to know exactly where you are going, by following the local directions EXACTLY as they are given, in order to lead you into the correct driveway. Also, with todays GPS technology, once you have the address entered for your customer, you can go back to your past history and select the same address again, which will allow you to zoom in and out, and follow the route the GPS in taking you into the customer. If it doesn't match, you can take your ink pen or stylus, and highlight certain streets, and route through them, forcing your GPS to match your local directions.
Also, now would be the time to check your Road Atlas index for any low bridges listed along your route. It is a fairly quick and easy process in most states, but some of the older cities have quite a long list. Also, be advised that there are low bridges in some locations, which are NOT listed in the Road Atlas index, so this is one reason it pays to make an honest attempt to follow your suggested route provided by the company.
Over time, the process becomes a lot easier than in the beginning, and once you have been with the same company for awhile, you will begin to service customers repeatedly, which will make the entire process much easier. In fact, over time you will make some runs where you don't need to bother writing down any directions, because you will remember exactly where you are going, and how you will be processed once you get to the customer.
This is what the industry needs!!!
The reality to it, is that Dad Bod is in, and has been for quite some time, and I'll tell you why.
Rarely does the average female want to date or marry a guy who looks better than she does. She realizes that everywhere they go together, and every picture they have taken, she will be standing right beside him for comparison. Also, everyone knows that the last thing a woman wants, who spent 3 hours in the bathroom getting ready earlier in the day, is to be upstaged by her man.
I actually had a female friend tell me once, the reason most women prefer a man who is taller than them. Yep, you guessed it, it's the size comparison thing again. Some folks think that women want a big guy for protection, but in reality, they have firearms and divorce attorneys for that stuff.
So go ahead, have another corndog. Your woman will thank you for it, and if you get too carried away, no worries. She will not hesitate when the proper time comes, to issue her man a proper exercise and diet regimen.
Why do drivers do this?
I know a driver who backed in with his trailer doors already pinned back, and then at a certain point decided that he needed to pull up and reposition to get in the dock correctly. During the process of pulling up, he caught the hood mounted mirror of the tractor sitting in the dock next to him with the open door on his passenger side, and tore the guys hood half off.
Later on, once he got about a year and a half in with that company, he lost his dedicated run. When he couldn't get another dedicated account that got him home every weekend, he started looking for another job. He told me that the accident mentioned above cost him more than one job opportunity, and that it would take 3 years for it to drop off his record.
He told me that no matter how many scowls he is issued by other drivers, he will never open his doors again until he can straight line back into the dock.
This type experience isn't as bad as divorce, but like divorce it can be educational.
Errol, my guess is that there was no actual critical event at all, with that many showing on the display. Most likely the motion sensor that sets it off went bad, or possibly a glitch in the Qualcomm software. Either way, your truck probably just came out of the shop to take care of the issue. I absolutely love my 2016 Cascadia. My only issue, is that they made the dang thing so aerodynamic, rainwater just clings to the door mirrors and resists running off. In my older model Freightliners, I could use the heated mirror element to help evaporate the water, but in this new one, the water seems difficult to get rid of. I need to try some Rain x and see if there is enough airflow to get the beads to roll off.
"Obey the Sign or Pay the Fine"
I forgot to add, the level 3 inspection I got was in Tennessee, about an hour and a half east of Nashville.
Is that what was going on in those old weigh stations? The had one at the 250 east bound and another at the 325 west bound this afternoon when I came east on I40.
Chris, yes! They were somewhat hidden back inside the tree line. He asked me a lot of questions about what I was hauling, where I picked up, and where I was delivering, after he got my bills in his hand. I told him my trailer wasn't sealed, and that I would be happy to remove the lock, and let him look inside. That seemed to satisfy his curiosity, and he never asked me to remove the lock.
Early in the week, I ran north thru Charlotte, up to I-40, and then west to Knoxville. There were Smokey's around nearly every turn until I got to the Tennessee line.
I ran back down to South Carolina, dropped a load, picked up another, and headed back thru North Carolina again this morning. Didn't see a single Smokey in North Carolina, but I passed a level 3 on I-40 around 10am. The only thing they checked on my truck were my elogs, and licensing on tractor and trailer. They wanted to see the previous 8 days on the Qualcomm, as well as the time I had left on my 70 and 14. Never asked to see my load tab info.
My guess is, they are getting an early start this year in every state.
Not only should you watch your speed, make sure all your licensing and medical cards are current, and should you find anything that needs fixing during your pre trip, ask your company to send someone out on a road cal,l to fix it on location.
Right now is not the time to be running a couple loads with a minor issue, until it is convenient to get by a company terminal to save the company a few bucks.
Jeff, I realize that you want to get started with the best company possible, as well as earn as much money as you can your first year.
In reality, your first year will serve to establish your safe driving record, as well as prove to yourself and everyone else that you won't give up easily, at the first sign of adversity. You should probably view your first year as something similar to pledging a fraternity, or prospecting for an MC.
You see, those recruiters you spoke with, are talking to a whole bunch of potential recruits, who haven't shown anyone what they are made of. They have simply picked up a telephone, and asked a few questions. Since there is a high attrition rate, they really have no way of knowing who will excel, and who will be a goldbricker. So right now, they probably don't seem to be taking you very seriously.
They don't really need to worry about those details early on. They just know that statistics tell them that out of every group of 30 drivers who attend school, X number will get a license, and 1 year later, X number will still be driving successfully in the industry.
My suggestion would be to make a list of the things you like most about each company, as well as a list of the things you don't. Through process of elimination, simply pick the program that seems to appeal to you the most. Things like tuition incentives, school location, company terminal locations, hiring areas, etc.
Once you have established a 6 month to 1 year driving record, you will then actually be ready to take a serious look at a long list of companies, and actually have some of those companies take a serious look at you.
Remember, right now, the training company you choose holds all the best cards in the game. Once you establish yourself, you will then be holding a few valuable cards, that you can then play to your advantage.
G-Town, the location that I am referring to is in W. Memphis AR, and visible from I-40. I shopped there, but I probably would never spend the night.
A interesting story about a Walmart location. I ended up bobtail one day, and knew there was a Walmart in the vicinity, so I headed over. When I got there, there were the dreaded low clearance bars, blocking the entrance. Not to be discouraged, I decided to find the truck entrance around back, used for deliveries. Since the dock area looked to be all that was available on one end of the building, I decided to cruise thru the back, and see what was available on the other end.
As soon as I came around the corner, there was an area with 4 tractor and trailers, and also a single bobtail parked there. I did my shopping, and when I got ready to leave, I found a hidden entrance that went right past an apartment complex. This entrance was not easy to spot from the main road.
Just like most days in trucking, it pays not to give up easily.
Juan, Lowes can be driver friendly, and they usually have free Wi-Fi, but again, it's wise to ask permission.
Company terminals can sometimes be the only place I consider safe, in some of the larger cities. Our terminal in Marietta is in a great area, with safe shopping and eating fairly close by, including a Twin Peaks location, as well as a Tilted Kilt.
If I get a load offer, that will force me to spend the night in a risky spot, I will usually pass it up. However, sometimes when the customer allows overnight parking, if they have a controlled environment, I will usually consider staying there.
It helps a lot, to have had the experience of servicing a customer during daylight hours, which will give you a sense of knowing how controlled the environment is, and survey their surroundings going in. Once I find out I can overnight park at a particular customer, I will make a mental note of it, and then use it to my advantage at a later time if needed. Kelloggs near Mason Rd in Atlanta is a good example of this. While it is close to the 285 loop, it happens to be in an area where I feel comfortable spending the night.
Also, you can ask some of the customers at random, what kind of neighborhood they are in. Most of them will be upfront about it, and sometimes it will shock you, when they just come right out and tell you that the area is not safe at all.
Since we are not allowed to carry a gun on the job, I make it a priority to avoid criminals, the same way a criminal avoids the police. If you can stay out of sight, you can stay out of mind.
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Throughout history, mathematics has meant different things to different people. According to the sixteenth century scientist and philosopher, Galileo Galilei, God created the cosmos in the language of mathematics. The ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, ordered, "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here", to be written on the gates of his own social academy, indicating that he had the same concept of the language of the cosmos as Galileo.
Through its various incarnations, from the Egyptian, Greek, Muslim, and Western sciences to the present day, mathematics has ignited the interest of people, nations, and religions. Mathematics has been used extensively to solve the secrets of the Holy Qur'an in the discipline of jifr and numerology, despite not being recommended by theologians, and Kabbalists have endeavoured to understand the word of God by using mathematics. Within Christianity, Saint Augustine's statement that, "six is not perfect because God created the world in six days; rather, God created the world in six days because six is a number of perfection,"1 shows that mathematics has been far more influential than science. Therefore, mathematics' role in the transformation of knowledge into wisdom should be carefully considered.
In its abstraction, mathematics provides us with a vast quantity of information to explore. It is one of the most effective means of explaining incomprehensible phenomena in the cosmos, including the aspects that are beyond human perception. Even though not everything in mathematics appears to have a correspondence in the real world now, according to Nikolai Lobachevsky, the future will bear witness to such a correspondence. Therefore, contemporary mathematicians need not be concerned whether their studies correspond to real facts or not.
History has demonstrated repeatedly that nations which have progressed in the social and natural sciences have become more fully developed. Life depends on a lot of parameters, which share several common characteristics. For example, a link may exist in society between a society's justice system and its level of mathematical knowledge. John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner, stated (2012)2 that there is no justice in a society where people do not know mathematics, revealing that all levels of mathematics have more meaning and social impact than we imagine. In this context, math can even be useful for understanding and solving complicated social issues.
How can theology, which deals with creation and belief, help us understand life without mathematics? The answer to this question depends on our understanding of the universe as evidence for God's existence. In Richard Feynman's words, "To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature."3 Here it can be realised that Feynman's ideas on the language of nature correspond to those of Galileo, who lived over four centuries ago. Both scientists seem to agree that an understanding of the universe is intricately linked to mathematics.
In the contemporary world, the reason the majority of people prefer studying social sciences may be related to an unwillingness to study mathematics. If we believe everything in the universe was created for a purpose, it makes sense then that everything is connected at a deeper level. Mathematics can make enormous contributions to other disciplines. Therefore, the current role of mathematics in other disciplines needs further attention. As an illustration, although the work of Leonardo da Vinci is globally acclaimed, particularly masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa, most people ignore the mathematical aspect of da Vinci's art. To understand this aspect of his work would only deepen our appreciation of his genius.
In Islamic theology, it is suggested that every sin, whether minor or not, should never be undermined. The Qur'an asks every human, as small as they are, to behave as if they were in the presence of God. Bediuzzaman mentions that, "For there are some small things which can in one respect swallow many large things."4 Indeed, the things that we regard as small can be the bearers of larger things, and this is possible in mathematics as well. The example of the butterfly effect is prominent proof of this fact; the flap of a butterfly's wings in China may trigger a storm in the United States. In other words, a single occurrence, no matter how small it is, can change the direction of the universe. This was proved with a weather forecast experiment. When the decimal value of one of the parameters was not entered, considerable changes occurred in the curve of the weather estimation. This is a clear example of how small things may have much more of an effect than we assume.
In conclusion, the universe will disclose its secrets more if approached holistically. It is obvious that the universe cannot be fully read without mathematics. People who want to understand the workings of creation should know all disciplines, at least to a certain extent.
Hamilton, Albert Charles. 1990. The Spenser Encyclopedia, page 514.
Evin, Mehves. 2012. "There is no justice in a society where people do not know mathematics," (Turkish) Interview with John Nash. Milliyet, 24.07.2012.
Richard, P. 1967. The Character of Physical Law, MIT Press, p. 58.
Nursi, Bediuzzaman Said. 2008. The Gleams, NJ: The Light, Inc. p. 188.
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What are the most cost effective ways of promoting physical exercise in adults?
A study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine has found that of six interventions promoting exercise in adults in Australia, encouraging the use of pedometers and promoting physical activity through mass media campaigns are the most cost-effective in terms of the money spent for the health benefits they result in.
Considered as a package, researchers at the University of Queensland also conclude that these six interventions could reduce death and illness from heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes in Australia, with an overall cost saving for the health sector.
Despite its image as a sporting nation, physical inactivity in Australia, in common with many countries in the developed world and an increasing number of developing countries, is a major public health problem.
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