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Something tells me that this is SO good, we'll see this poster in McDonald's stores nationwide.
They had spotted a blank wall flawless for their poster, but the hard bit was going to be getting it up there undetected.
'What motivated me was Crazy Rich Asians, the movie that came out, that boosted my confidence into thinking maybe one day I could be just like that, and if I take a step and do something small like this, it could make a difference.
They pulled off the prank on 13 July and the poster has been up ever since.
'I kind of hope they will ask us to be representative models for them, ' Maravilla told KHOU.
In June, Maravilla and Toledo went to work on their poster.
That has led to a furious dispute between Mourinho and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward at the beginning of this season. However, a lack of signings should not be used as an excuse for the poor start to the season. "Absolutely top.
Jevh says he was anxious his parents would be cross but they were so amused they visited the restaurant and posed for photos with it.
"It fit me perfectly", he said.
Jev and his friend, Chris, took a picture in front of their neighborhood event center, edited the photo to match the graphics in the McDonald's posters, and received a print of their picture a week later.
On a YouTube video Maravilla posted in August after he first carried out the prank, he explained a little more about the motivation behind it.
In a statement obtained by DailyMail.com, Pearland McDonald's franchisee Mariselle Quijano said, "We take pride in highlighting diversity in every aspect of our restaurants".
McDonald's, however, did not indicate whether it meant to remove Maravilla and Toledo's photo.
Amazingly, they arrived in the restaurant, put the poster up and left without any real McDonald's staff member coming to question them. "We applaud these students" creativity and hope to see them in our restaurants again soon'.
Aretha Franklin's friend Ron Moten , a MI businessman, gave the four sons some guidance in his speech at Friday's funeral. Musicians, family, friends and fans have said a final goodbye to Aretha Franklin at her funeral in Detroit .
Lewis Hamilton - Ferrari was just quicker at Monza But Hamilton's team-mate Bottas, who had yet to stop, played his role in backing Raikkonen up, and allowing Hamilton to close . Hamilton now holds a 30-point lead over Vettel in the drivers' standings heading into the Singapore Grand Prix.
Imran Khan ropes in foreign experts to rebuild Pakistan's debt-ridden economy Mr Sidhu on Sunday said, "I will tell you why my hope about the improvement in relations of both the countries got strengthen". Under the deal, Iran undertook to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions.
Serena steers past Kanepi to reach US Open quarterfinals Serena said she was too focused on her 6-1, 6-2 demolition of seven-time major victor Venus to notice them. I think what I have improved most is my fitness. "Coming back from a baby is hard, harder than I thought".
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What jobs are available for people who study theatre?
Those who study theatre, acting, and other performing arts may become actors, producers, or directors in the legitimate theatre (the stage), feature films, television, educational, government, or industrial films, commercials, and/or documentaries.
Actors perform in stage, radio, television, video or motion picture productions. They may also work in cabarets, nightclubs, theme parks, and commercials and in "industrial" films produced for training, advertising, and educational purposes. Some actors also teach in high school, college, or university drama departments, acting schools, or public programs.
Producers are entrepreneurs, overseeing the business and financial decisions of a production. They select and oversee development of scripts, arrange financing, hire staff, negotiate contracts, and coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, and agents.
Directors are responsible for the creative decisions of a production. They interpret scripts and direct the work of cast and crew. They approve the design of the production including sets, costumes, choreography, and music.
This is an extremely competitive field with only the most driven achieving financial success. Many people in this field supplement their incomes by holding jobs in other fields.
Those in the performing arts need to have creative instincts, rigorous work habits, and the intellectual capacity to perform, produce, or direct. Formal dramatic training in voice, movement, characterization, acting styles, and Shakespeare generally is necessary.
Actors need talent, creative ability, and versatility. They must have poise, stage presence, the capability to affect an audience, and the ability to follow directions. Physical appearance is often a deciding factor in being chosen for particular roles.
Producers have no specific training requirements. They must, however, have talent, experience, and business skills.
Directors need to have experience in all areas of the theatrical arena.
While the employment of actors, producers, and directors is expected to grow faster than the average through 2010, it remains a highly competitive field due to the large number of trained and talented applicants for each position. Community and regional theatres are expected to offer many job opportunities.
Pay varies widely. Those who become "stars" make many millions of dollars while the majority of those in the entertainment field must supplement their earnings by having another job.
What are the related occupations?
People who work in performing arts occupations that may require acting skills include announcers, dancers and choreographers, musicians, singers, and related workers, hairdressers, cosmetologists, costumers, set and exhibit designers, sound and lighting engineers, and writers.
Information in this report is gathered from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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How can I turn off app notifications in Windows Phone 8?
That's great, I had problems with disconnecting and so did many others with the stock WhatsApp Web, hence that notification, it's a way apps can stay enabled in the background without disconnecting and they can keep getting notifications. Unfortunately you cannot disable this without disabled everything.... Specifically, I'm looking to turn off notifications on a per app basis so I can disable notifications from Whatsapp. Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 174 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow , the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
hello, ios you can turn off notification from settings > notification center > whatsapp. The below method is for Samsung Android devices Open Setting in your Android phone. how to build a sustainable city Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap Notifications, then turn off Notifications Indicator. Manage notifications Your Apple Watch notifications mirror your iPhone settings, but you can customize the settings for each app.
WhatsApp users can now turn off unwanted and annoying WhatsApp calls on their Android phones by installing the Disable WhatsApp Calls app from the Google Play Store. how to delete activities off of garmin 520 You can also browse the topics below to find what you are looking for. iPhone. How do I change my ringtone for WhatsApp?
Turn off the notifications you don't want to sync to your PC. Tap on Choose which apps to sync . Turn off all the apps you don't want to sync notifications to your PC.
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Immediately upon retiring from business life, Georg Ludwig Rexroth and his wife Annemarie on March 30th 1973 founded the Georg Ludwig Rexroth-Foundation.
They used the proceeds from the sale of their shares in G. L. Rexroth GmbH to set up a foundation fund with the aim of sponsoring their own development projects in the Third World and ensuring the function of social institutions through financial support.
The funds available to the Foundation each year for distribution originate from the revenues of the Foundation's assets, which are supplemented by further donations from the family, the Mannesmann Group, Bosch Rexroth AG and other private donors.
In building up the Foundation, Georg Ludwig Rexroth was ably assisted by the Personnel Director of Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH, Eugen Tatarko, who was a Board Member of the Foundation until his death on June 11, 1986, by his sons Gerd and Bernd and by Irmgard Heider, the Foundation's authorized officer until 2010.
The Foundation has its headquarters in Lohr am Main, Germany.
In Pakistan's port city of Karachi there is a school named after Georg Ludwig Rexroth, who during his lifetime never set foot in Pakistan. Who therefore is this unusual man and why has the school been named after him?
Georg Ludwig Rexroth descended from a family of entrepreneurs with a more than 500 year old tradition in iron-processing. The Rexroth family have owned iron hammer works in the Spessart Hills Nature Park area of Bavaria, Germany, since the 18th century. In 1840, an ancestor of Rexroth acquired 50% of the shares in the lower iron works in Lohr am Main, also in Bavaria. Ten years later, he acquired the second half of the business and in 1854 the town received a railway connection, which proved significant for the business.
On 3 March 1902, the man after whom this foundation was named was born in Lohr. At that time, approximately 70 people worked for Rexroth's father. Having completed secondary school, Georg Ludwig Rexroth studied from 1921 to 1924 and graduated as a mechanical engineer. He then successfully completed a degree in business studies in Munich in 1928 and started as a commercial clerk in his father's business.
In 1931 he married Annemarie Faupel with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1933 his father made him a shareholder in the company. As well as iron castings, the company produced machinery for the agricultural sector.
At the end of the Second World War in 1945 the factory had been substantially damaged. To carry on production, it was suggested to the military government in charge at the time to use existing materials to manufacture pots and pans and other simple kitchen utensils necessary for survival. In 1947, the production of pots and pans was discontinued. Instead, the manufacture of machinery for the agricultural sector was resumed and meat cutting machinery came to the fore.
When Georg Ludwig Rexroth discovered that the American war victors used novel diggers, which were unknown in Germany at the time, in their clean-up efforts, he sent an engineer to America to study the new hydraulic systems. Soon afterwards, together with his brother, a casting house specialist, he started to develop the first hydraulic valve.
Hydraulic engineering became a great success for the business and elevated it to become a global market leader. This success can be attributed partly to Rexroth's attitude towards his employees whom he considered colleagues not subordinates. At the beginning of the 1960s, he granted them a share in the profits of the business. In subsequent years, fast expansion into the global markets required more capital funds than the family was able to contribute. Consequently, in 1968 the German Mannesmann group, which was famous for its seamless tubes, acquired a 50% shareholding in the company, which it then took over completely in 1975.
Georg Ludwig Rexroth stepped back from the management of the business on 31 December 1972 at the age of 70. He did not however simply retire: On 31 March 1973, he founded the Georg Ludwig Rexroth-Stiftung, a charitable foundation. He equipped the foundation with a significant amount of equity and set out what it should achieve, namely to be there for the sick and needy in the world. The eligibility for help, he declared, should be independent of skin colour, political or religious beliefs. One of the first big tasks that Georg Ludwig Rexroth took on was to support the German doctor, Dr. Ruth Pfau, who devoted her life to the fight against leprosy and whose work, which started in Karachi, expands from nowadays Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Alarmed by the movement of refugees from Bangladesh to Orangi in Pakistan, Rexroth, with the support of the German Siemens group, initially provided water containers for the supply of drinking water. The foundation later decided to shift its support to education with the establishment of a school, as education was seen as the most important means for young people to enable them to self-determine their lives. It was Rexroth's aim to support girls in particular, who are still disadvantaged when it comes to the provision of education in Pakistan.
Georg Ludwig Rexroth died on 13 June 1992 at the age of 90. His work was recognised through numerous awards: On 30 March 1977 he was awarded the honorary citizenship of his hometown of Lohr. One year later he was awarded The Federal Cross of Merit First Class by the Federal President of the Republic of Germany, Walter Scheel.
The Rexroth foundation does not only provide support in Pakistan. It supports people in need in many countries across the world, for example in South Africa, South America and India as well as in the poorer countries of Eastern Europe.
The fact that Georg Ludwig Rexroth's ideas are continued almost 20 years after his death is due to his entrepreneurial vision. The capital of the foundation belongs to a not for profit organisation which is led by three managers. The capital is invested and the regular income from these investments is used to fund projects. The capital itself cannot be touched. This ensures that there will be sufficient capital in the future to help where the need is greatest.
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There are more women than men in Dutchess County, New York. Total population of Dutchess County, New York is estimated at 296,579 people with 147,592 male and 148,987 female. There are 1,395 more women than men in the county, which is 0.47% of the total population.
The Dutchess County, New York Gender Ratio is 99 men to 100 women (99:100) or 0.99. Dutchess County, New York's gender ratio is higher than the New York State average of 94 men to 100 women (94:100) or 0.94. The gender ratio is also higher than the national average of 97 men to 100 women (97:100) or 0.97.
Gender Ratios vary by age group as well as location. The table below shows the gender ratios breakdown in Dutchess County, New York by age.
Amenia, Annandale On Hudson, Bangall, Barrytown, Beacon, Billings, Castle Point, Chelsea, Clinton Corners, Dover Plains, Fishkill, Glenham, Holmes, Hopewell Junction, Hughsonville, Hyde Park, Lagrangeville, Millbrook, Millerton, Pawling, Pine Plains, Pleasant Valley, Poughkeepsie, Poughquag, Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Rhinecliff, Salt Point, Staatsburg, Stanfordville, Stormville, Tivoli, Verbank, Wappingers Falls, Wassaic, and Wingdale.
Annandale, Red Hook, Red Hook, Clinton Cors, East Fishkill, Hopewell, Hopewell Jct, Wiccopee, Pleasant Vly, Arlington, Milan, New Hamburg, and Wappingers Fl.
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There are two machines A and B. Machine A has n kinds of working modes, which is called mode_0, mode_1, ..., mode_n-1, likewise machine B has m kinds of working modes, mode_0, mode_1, ... , mode_m-1. At the beginning they are both work at mode_0.
Obviously, to accomplish all the jobs, we need to change the machine's working mode from time to time, but unfortunately, the machine's working mode can only be changed by restarting it manually. By changing the sequence of the jobs and assigning each job to a suitable machine, please write a program to minimize the times of restarting machines.
The input file for this program consists of several configurations. The first line of one configuration contains three positive integers: n, m (n, m < 100) and k (k < 1000). The following k lines give the constrains of the k jobs, each line is a triple: i, x, y.
The output should be one integer per line, which means the minimal times of restarting machine.
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4 Lab 5. Introduction to Matplotlib Plot. Use plt.contour() to create a contour plot and plt. schemes,seehttp://matplotlib.org/examples/color/colormaps.
Eric Firing, on 2011-12-27 15:31, wrote: > It looks like this is something I can fix by modifying ListedColormap. > It is discarding the alpha values, and I don't.
Color maps in Matplotlib. ax2. legend (loc = 'best'). See Chris Albon's Set The Color Of A Matplotlib Plot for another example,.
Matplotlib Examples. frontpage Examples. plot_3D; plot_contour; plot_histogram; plot_membrane; images_contours_and_fields Examples. contourf_log; image_demo.The basic steps to creating plots with matplotlib are: 1 Prepare data 2. (title='An Example Axes',. Label a contour plot Figure Axes/Subplot Y-axis X-axis 1D.
Density and Contour Plots. There are three Matplotlib functions that. it can sometimes be useful to combine contour plots and image plots. For example,.
The following are 50 code examples for showing how to use matplotlib.pyplot. def plot_pts (points, values. colorbar=True, subplot_loc=None, mytitle=None, show.
modified the manual contour plot label. The following graphics primitives. examples on github repository, nbviewer and gist, Matplotlib manual #legend(loc="upper. Matplotlib - bar,scatter and histogram plots. Simple bar plot¶ import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt. figure (). Capstone Example.
Tag: matplotlib Generate heatmap in. The example below embeds a matplotlib plot in a PyQt5 window. ('Matplot 3d scatter plot') plt. legend (loc = 2) plt. show.Matplotlib: gridding irregularly spaced data. A commonly asked question on the matplotlib. which you can then plot with contour, imshow or pcolor. Example 1.
Plotting in Python with matplotlib. Once you view the plot in the example above,. p.legend(loc=’upper left’) p.ylabel.
Producing polar contour plots with matplotlib. The example above will set up the plot for a ‘normal. If you find that these lines of code give an error.Python Data Science Handbook by. A contour plot can be created with the. This is a peek into the low-level artist objects that compose any Matplotlib plot. First introduction to Matplotlib. legend (loc = "lower right") # Add a legend table Out:. To end this chapter we show a somehwat longer contour plot example.3. Various Plotting Examples. There are a wide array of other plot types available in matplotlib;. Contour plots can be used to show the variation of a quantity.2d slices in 3d plot. create plots like the one below with matplotlib?. tutorial.html#filled-contour-plots. Keep in mind, those examples are surface data.
Python examples for objects of class Matplotlib.colors.ListedColormap.Matplotlib Tutorial: Introduction in Countour Plots both line based and filled contour plots.Matplotlib tutorial Nicolas P. Rougier. Contour Plots. Help on function plot in module matplotlib.pyplot: plot(*args,.
Tutorial contains examples of Line Plots,. MatPlotLib Tutorial. Introduction: Matplotlib is a. plt.title('Advertisement effect on sales') plt.legend(loc.
Matplotlib: latex examples. such as high-resolution contour plots or three. capability in recent versions of matplotlib. Here is an example as it.This page provides Python code examples for matplotlib.pyplot.colorbar. def contour_plot_of_delta. def plot(obj, colorbar=True, subplot_loc=None,.. contour plots, etc.)., loc = 'center left'). You can learn more from the provided examples from Matplotlib tutorial pages and see how you can plot them.. you can just plot a contour-level at 0 on top of. div_cmap function. def cmap_example_plot. type of plot might be to use a matplotlib.collections.Other types of plots. Matplotlib can do many types of plots. For example, a dot plot can be constructed like so:. contour plots (plt.contour), pie chart.
Python Advance Course via Astronomy street. Plotting with Matplotlib. >>> help(pl.plot) Example of using RGB to get a blue color. A contour plot is a set of level curves where a level curve is a function of f. Drawing a Contour Plot using Python and Matplotlib:. Example 2: Here is the.Matplotlib Plotting in Python. function of # http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/legend_auto. leg = ax. legend (loc = 'upper left', fancybox = True. matplotlib / matplotlib. Code. Issues 1,064. These are classes to support contour plotting and labelling for the Axes class. For example, a single contour.
Matplotlib: beautiful plots with style. Example charts using the Matplotlib BMH style. leg = plt. legend (loc = 'best', numpoints = 1, fancybox = True).Plotting with matplotlib. Basic plotting:. Plotting with matplotlib. (loc = 'best') Out: < matplotlib. legend.Basic Plotting with Python and Matplotlib. Example from section on contour plots. 3. Figure 3: Setting the aspect ratio to be equal and zooming in on the contour plot.
Matplotlib Examples. pylab_examples Examples. pylab_examples example. # Now make a contour plot with the levels specified, # and with the colormap generated.Move legend outside of figure in matplotlib. See how legend overlaps with the plot. Fortunately matplotlib allows me to move legend. Here is an example: pylab.
Matplotlib Examples. pylab_examples Examples. pylab_examples example code: contour_demo.py. (Z2-Z1) # Create a simple contour plot with labels using default.Colors and Colorscale options in matplotlib. Examples of different colors and colormaps available in matplotlib.
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Ask me how much reading I did today, Jacqui. Baseball practice, and two soccer practices, plus a meeting tonight. All starting within at hour of each other, at four different locations.
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What rights does a buyer have if a mortgage lender withdraws a mortgage offer because of a discharged bankruptcy found in the bankruptcy checks? Surely this would put the buyer in a breach of contract through no fault of their own?
I suppose it would depend on the mortgage application. If, as I would expect, the application form asked if the borrower had ever been bankrupt and if the borrower said no then the bank would not be liable because it would argue it might not have issued a mortgage offer in the first place had it been told about the past bankruptcy. If it wasn't asked on application then the bank (or solicitor who could have done the search before exchange albeit this is not usual practice) may be liable.
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This article documents Anders Behring Breivik’s reception on the Russian far Right, with a comparative view to Western Europe. On July 22, 2011, Breivik carried out two terrorist attacks in Norway, killing 77 people. Based on a variety of open sources, the article finds that Breivik has received much more open support in Russia than in Western Europe. I suggest there are three main reasons why Russia stands out. First, a weaker social stigma attached to Right-Wing extremism reduces the cost of publicly embracing Right-Wing terrorists. Second, higher levels of violence in Russian society increase desensitization and violence acceptance. Third, the embrace of Breivik fits into a vibrant tradition of iconizing Right-Wing militants on the Russian far Right. The article highlights Russia as a hotspot of Right-Wing extremist activism in Europe. It also provides insights that may prove useful in future comparative research on cross-national variation in Right-Wing violence and terrorism.
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Is there any reasonable way to get NT to send extended order information to IB instead of having just the regular MKT, LMT, ... orders?
I would need to send a buy order (limit) with an attached bracket order with a stop loss order (immediately active) and a target limit order (maybe also immediately active or the next day at open, so a 'start time' would need to be attched), plus an additional market order which should be sent to the broker (IB) already with the inital entry and bracket order but should become active before the end of the close in some days, i.e. a 'start time' (= activation time) should be attached to the order.
This is all (relatively easily) possible within IBs TWS and other than NT API software, but how could I do that from NT? Maybe it requires another application, like a C# prgramm or whatever, which would get the signals including the parameters (entry limit, stop loss, ...) from NT, which then would generate the order?
Same is true for another strategy: There I would need to send MOO (market-on-open) orders which than reside at the exchange an will get the official fill at the open price (and are not similar to wait until the open and fire a MKT or LMT order).
No, these are not supported.
I know that NT does not support them natvely. I just wonder how else this could be realized. Maybe writing to a file which would be interpreted and excuted by a third application, like a C# program (like the samples that come with IBs API).
Has there been a solution to this ,ie.. attaching the stoploss and profit taking order as an attached order to the main order from NT to Interactive brokers .I am only looking for this as a day order.
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So klang eine Aufführung am 20. Januar 1940 an der New Yorker Metropolitan Opera.Unter dem Motto ‘Immortal Performances’ bringt das Label ‘Guild Historical’ eine originaleRundfunkübertragung aus der Met. Das war vor 65 Jahren. Die Ätherwellen rauschen immer wieder und von besonderer Eindringlichkeit ist die Stimme des Rundfunksprechers, der die Übertragung ansagt, in das zu hörende Werk einführt, die Applausordnung kommentiert und den Eindruck, doch irgendwie dabei zu sein, vermittelt.
Am 20. Januar 1940 wurde in New York ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ von Christoph Willibald Gluck gegeben. Die Besetzung war erlesen, und am Pult des Orchesters der Met stand kein Geringerer als Erich Leinsdorf. Ich nehme einige Trübungen, die u.a. dem historischen Bandmaterial geschuldet sind, gerne in Kauf, ich akzeptiere, dass der Aufführungsstil so historisch erscheinen mag, wie die ganze Aufnahme, aber ich bin angetan von den Stimmen und der Stimmung, die dieses Dokument atmet.
Leinsdorf – soweit man das hören kann – sorgt für einen recht dramatischen Ton, da gibt es keine übermäßigen Weichzeichnungen, es geht um Leben und Tod, um die Kraft der Liebe durch den Ausdruck der Musik, insbesondere des Gesanges.
Hat man sich an die mal mehr oder weniger mitrauschenden Ätherwellen gewöhnt, dann hat man etliches in dieser Aufnahme zu hören, das wahrscheinlich sehr selten auch in heutigen Aufführungen an unsere Ohren dringt.
Der Chor der Metropolitan Opera ist präsent und den unterschiedlichen zu besingenden Stimmungen angemessen präpariert und sorgt für etliche Dramatik und Spannung.
Die Partie des Orfeo singt Kerstin Thorborg, und allein derentwegen ist die Aufnahme den Besitz wert. Ihr Gesang ist ein seelenwarmer dunkler Fluss, keine Sentimentalitäten, dafür große Linie und ausgeglichene Qualität des Tones in allen Lagen. Dazu kommt der große Atem einer Künstlerin, die zugleich mit den Fachpartien Richard Wagners überzeugen konnte.
Leuchtend, wie der Klang von edlem Silber ist die Stimme Jarmila Novotnas als Euridice. Die Eleganz ihres Singens ist von Kritikern in die Nähe Lisa Della Casas gestellt worden.
In der Partie des Amore ist die Stimme von Marita Farell dokumentiert.
Natürlich ist diese Aufnahme zunächst eine Referenz an die 1896 in Schweden geborene Altistin Kerstin Thorborg, die an der Met in über 350 Aufführungen sang, das in 20 Partien ihres Faches. Dafür wurde sie vom Publikum geliebt, aber wahrscheinlich vor allem wegen ihres Grundtones menschlicher Güte der zu Herzen geht. Als Zugabe bringt die CD noch ein Gespräch mit der 1970 verstorbenen Sängerin in englischer Sprache über ihre Tätigkeit an der Met. Dem Gespräch folgt ein Tondokument, in dem die Thorborg ebenfalls als Orfeo zu hören ist, allerdings in deutscher Sprache und sieben Jahre zuvor.
Es folgen Aufnahmen vom Mai 1940 mit den wichtigsten Wagnerpartien der Altistin. Erda, Fricka, Waltraute aus ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’, Brangäne – nicht Isolde wie im Booklet aufgeführt – aus ‘Tristan und Isolde’ und Kundry aus ‘Parsifal’. Welche Sinnlichkeit, welche Linienführung, welche Verschmelzung von Wort und Ton, Musiktheater! Nicht mehr und nicht weniger.
Since I have some reservations to make, I should like to start by saying that I put this on without great enthusiasm, supposing that primitive sound and old-fashioned performance practices would make it advisable to hear one act at a time. Instead, I listened to the whole opera without a break, and really enjoyed it far more than the “authentic” Naxos recording of the “pure” French version which came my way recently – review.
Here, then, is another piece of Met history. Following Toscanini’s performances with Louise Homer in 1914, Orfeo ed Euridice was not heard again there until 1938 when Bodanzky revived it with Kerstin Thorborg. Further performances followed in 1939. After Bodanzky’s death that year the young Erich Leinsdorf took over the German repertoire at the Met and consequently was at the helm for the present 1940 live broadcast. A year later the production was repeated for four performances directed by Bruno Walter, with whom Thorborg had already sung the role in Vienna and Salzburg. No Walter performance has come down to us, so our knowledge of Thorborg’s celebrated interpretation depends on the 1940 revival under Leinsdorf. It can be appreciated in sound which is mostly firm and clear and is really as good as we have a right to expect for this sort of thing.
Bodanzky was a notable cutter and adapter (he wrote his own recitatives for Fidelio) and, though Richard Caniell refers to Leinsdorf’s version of the score I should have thought it more likely that the young conductor was simply briefed to play Bodanzky’s score as it stood; certainly, the omission of the overture and the foreshortening of the first scene of Act Three sound more like Bodanzky ideas than Leinsdorf ones. When a conductor of Walter’s experience arrived a year later it was another matter and he opened out these cuts.
On the other hand, there is no reason to doubt that the shape of the music on this occasion was Leinsdorf’s own. He takes a powerfully tragic view from the outset, with slowish tempi which are nevertheless propelled forward inevitably by a purposeful rhythmic tread. When he lets fly in the Dance of the Furies the result is fearsome indeed. Caniell is pretty rude about this aspect of Leinsdorf’s treatment of the score but I must say I found it exciting. Here and in the Chaconne the conductor’s clear textures and sizzling articulation seem a blueprint for many of today’s “authentic” performances and, while an “original instruments” conductor today would probably take the Dance of the Blessed Spirits faster (Ryan Brown certainly does on the Naxos issue I mentioned above), the cool detailing of Leinsdorf’s response nonetheless seems closer to our own day than to his. My reservation, and this is where Leinsdorf still today divides opinion, is that while I was certainly gripped, my involvement remained intellectual rather than emotional, presumably because Leinsdorf’s own involvement was so. No doubt Bruno Walter infused the work with greater humanity, and if we can only guess at the results, maybe the audiences at La Scala heard something along the same lines, Gluck’s classical world illuminated by a romantic Claudian glow, when Furtwängler conducted the opera there in 1951, with Fedora Barbieri and Hilde Gueden, a recording of which has survived and was recently reviewed for the site by my colleague Jonathan Woolf.
Kerstin Thorborg was the Orfeo of her generation, only too briefly succeeded by the short-lived Kathleen Ferrier. Her powerful, dark voice carries chest resonances which mean that at times she can almost seem a male alto, while at others she takes on a more feminine hue. It is a stately, dignified interpretation with a notably clearer enunciation of the words than any of the other singers here provide – though in comparison with a native Italian like Barbieri she is perhaps too careful, and her “Rs” are decidedly Teutonic. Barbieri is much more overtly passionate. While Thorborg seems to fit admirably with Leinsdorf’s interpretation, a suggestion that she might have wished something different comes with her 1933 recording (in German) of the opera’s most famous aria. Here the conductor allows a slower tempo, about the same as the famous Ferrier recording in English; Leinsdorf is not as fast as Stiedry in Ferrier’s Glyndebourne recording, a tempo which Ferrier didn’t like at all, but he keeps things moving pretty purposefully. With this framework, Thorborg offers in 1933 a much more intimate, withdrawn and obviously heartfelt reading. But the sheer size of the Met, as well as the conductor, may have contributed to her more “public” manner in 1940.
The other parts in this opera do not have a lot to do; Novotna is an attractive Euridice, Marita Farell a soubrettish Amore. Chorus and orchestra are a good deal more precise than they tended to be in Europe in those days. The broadcast announcements at the beginning and end of each act have been preserved and the set is completed by a quite long interview with Thorborg and some Wagner extracts. The date of the interview is not known, and nor is the interviewer, though from the sound of her voice and the reference to a number of her colleagues in the past tense it must have been post-1962 (Thorborg died in 1970). The Wagner extracts show her wonderfully even voice, rich and gleaming in every register, her exemplary technical control and her fine musicianship. They also suggest, and the interview confirms, that she may have been a most professional singer and a considerate, hardworking colleague, but perhaps not aflame with inspiration, especially when inspiration is signally lacking in Karl Riedel’s accompaniments. With an inspiring presence on the rostrum it was no doubt another story, and she was by all accounts a striking presence and a fine actor.
One or two aspects of production call for comment. Firstly, it was reprehensible indeed not to name the conductors and orchestras of the 1933 Gluck and the Wagner extracts (I have reinstated them after an Internet search). Secondly, while Richard Caniell refers to the considerable research which took place to trace the version of the score and libretto used, obviously those concerned did not look at the libretto which accompanies the Monteux performance with Risë Stevens which, though recorded in Rome, actually documents the 1955 Met revival. Had they done so, they would not have needed to label CD1 track 6 lamely as “Ritornello” when Thorborg can be heard to sing “Restar vogl’io” with perfect clarity, nor to call track 14 “Si les doux accords de ta lyre” when Marita Farell’s Italian, though poor, is not so bad you could mistake it for French, or doubt that she is singing “Se il dolce suon de la tua lira”, nor to exchange “Vivr’Amore” for “Divo Amore”. Above all, they need not have given up the ghost at track 33, providing “E’ quest’asilo ameno e grato” from another source, when the words “Questo asilo di placide calme” can be heard without any difficulty. Textual variations between the Leinsdorf and Monteux versions are in fact minimal in the first two acts, more substantial in the third; it would appear that the Met was still using the same material in 1955, plus Walter’s reinstatements.
The origin of all this confusion lies in the fact that, while Jonathan Wearn and Professor Hugh MacDonald, on behalf of Guild, have correctly taken into account the three primary sources – the Italian version (Vienna 1762), the French version (Paris 1774) and Berlioz’s conflation of the two (Paris 1859) – they seem not to have borne in mind that most performances up to the mid-20th Century used neither of these but the so-called “Ricordi version”, or something like it, which was basically the Berlioz version back-translated into Italian. This was necessary because Gluck added new music for the French version, and revised other parts, so Calzabigi’s Italian libretto cannot e sung “straight” to the French version. Track 33 is a good example of this, since “E’ quest’asilo ameno e grato” is a literal translation of the French “Cet asile, aimable et tranquille”, which is in its turn a free rendering of “Questo asilo di placide calme”. So a range of variants grew up which basically accepted the Berlioz as their musical text, but fiddled around with the Italian words. Furtwängler’s performance is musically more or less the same as Leinsdorf’s (with the Overture reinstated and some variations towards the end), but often substitutes a different sung text.
Lastly, Guild claim that “Che farò senza Euridice?” is sung by Euridice herself, an unlikely state of affairs.
In spite of my comments, if you don’t mind 1940 sound and want an austerely tragic, but vital, view of this opera, this issue is a good deal more than a collector’s piece.
I finished my review of a competing transfer on Walhall WLCD 008 with the thought that this was natural Guild territory. And so it’s proved. If it’s belated that’s nonetheless worthwhile; it’s enabled the Guild team to collate some additional material, not least an eighteen minute, undated interview in English with Thorburg. And there’s a more-than-respectable pendant in the form of the commercial 1940 Victor Wagner extracts, all sung with Thorburg’s singular directness and power. It might be as well to reprise part of that review and set the scene for the Leinsdorf-led Orfeo.
This performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice comes live from the Met in 1940 and was the first staging at the house since Toscanini’s 25 years earlier. The star is Thorburg, better known as a towering Wagnerian but who had performed the part to acclaim under Bruno Walter. Her Euridice is the newly arrived Czech soprano Jarmila Novotna, who had only recently made her Met debut in La Bohème. She’d hurriedly left Vienna following the Anschluss having already inspired Lehár to write for her (Giuditta, 1934) and Toscanini, reputedly, to fall in love with her.
The acetate discs have suffered some damage with surface scuffing and some swishes, noticeable very early on; the Chorus is diffusely captured, but the orchestra under the young-ish Leinsdorf manages to be both expressive (with some old fashioned rallentandi) and forward moving – fortunately so as Leinsdorf tended to sprint through his Wagner nights at the Met – and he applies the same sort of solution to this most static and columnar of operas.
So yes there are some sonic limitations despite the two principals and Leinsdorf. Guild has gone to some trouble to rectify an abrupt side change between Deh! Placatevi con me and the passage beginning Mille pene; the alarming pitch drop in Che puro ciel and elsewhere which had previously troubled the transfers, not least Walhall’s, have been attended to as well. The sound is certainly generally very listenable. The Wagner Victors are from commercial copies and in fine estate. There are some dropouts in the Thorburg interview but we can hear her talk about her admiration for Bodanzky and for Bruno Walter, of Traubel’s beautiful voice and her “nice colleagues” generally. She’s witty concerning the rise of American singers noting the main difference between them and European artists is the confidence of the Americans; “they’re not nervous” she says with incredulity. Part of the interview is off the cuff and part sounds heavily scripted.
Walhall’s single disc Orfeo has no notes, just a cast and track list, an inferior transfer, and an unlistenable extract of live excerpts as fill-up. Contrast Guild, with its well-researched notes, restored sound and apposite additional material. You’ll have to pay more for the two discs – but there’s no advantage in paying less.
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Political map of the Americas in 1794.
European colonization of the Americas started with the Vikings who came from Scandinavia, the north end of Europe around the year 1000. They settled in what was later called Newfoundland and called their colony Vinland, but abandoned it.
In 1492 Columbus rediscovered America. Soon Spanish conquistadores and many other Europeans went to stay. Different European countries took different territories, and fought over who should get which land. Natives died in great numbers. The survivors lost most of their land, and most learned the language of their conquerors.
After a series of wars in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, most of the colonies became independent countries.
In 1300s - 1400s people in western Europe searched for trading routes between the Indies and Europe, because the old spice trade route was too hard and too long. Prices were also high because groups of merchants controlled the trade and could charge whatever they wished. Some geographers thought the world was so small, ships could sail west around the world to reach East Asia. The Genoese sea captain Christoforo Columbo persuaded Queen Isabella of Castile to finance an expedition to do this.
In August 1492, Columbus left southern Spain with three ships: Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. On October 12, after weeks at sea, the ships reached an island in the Bahamas. Columbus named this island San Salvador. He thought it was an island of India, so he called the people "Indians". Columbus next sailed farther into the Caribbean, reaching Cuba where he saw people smoking tobacco. Then he sailed back to Spain. The King and Queen gave Columbus many honors.
On his later voyages Columbus took more men, including missionaries. The ships also carried farm animals and supplies to establish colonies. He established a new settlement on an island that is now the Dominican Republic.
After they realized that they found a “New World” but not a new route to Asia, the main task of the Spanish was to gain the new lands. The conquistadors had permission from the Queen to explore and conquer the New World.
Spanish conquistadors with only a few hundred soldiers defeated large Indian empires. In 1519 Hernando Cortes and few hundred soldiers marched into Aztec capital and eventually destroyed the city, later rebuilt as Mexico City. Francisco Pizarro was able to conquer the Inca Empire. The Spanish won for several reasons. Indians thought that they were Gods and they were afraid of horses and guns. The Indians also fought each other.
Juan Ponce de León (Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain). He was one of the first Europeans to arrive to the current U.S. and led the first Spanish expedition to Florida, which he named.
Penn's Treaty with the Indians. This treaty between the pacifist Quakers and Indians was never violated.
The Spanish and Portuguese people were the first to colonize many parts of South America and Central America in the 16th century. They also won many parts of North America. In the next century, people from many countries of Europe reached the Americas. They settled mostly in North America since the Spanish and Portuguese already had the warm countries. France and England were the most successful in these later colonies. England took the middle of eastern North America, and the French took what they could further north. Eventually, the English colonists took over most of the French territory.
The people in the southern English colonies sought gold at first. However, they had good soil, and because of this they could grow cash crops, starting with tobacco. The English people in colonies further north could not grow these crops so easily. The ones who started New England were Puritans and wanted to be free from the Anglicans back home. The Middle Colonies were more commercial. They traded furs, and grew food for themselves and the other English colonies and later exported some back to England.
The Spanish settled in Central America and South America, mining for gold and silver, and farming tobacco, the Spanish had a surplus of labor, because they used the Natives to do the work for them, this was called Encomienda. In some places this system killed too many of the natives, so they imported slaves from Africa. The Portuguese grew much sugar and other tropical cash crops in Brazil and imported many Africans for this purpose. They were the biggest buyers in the Atlantic slave trade.
France had colonies in the Caribbean, and also in the north of the North American mainland which they called Canada. In the north they were looking for what we call the Northwest Passage, finding a route to Asia. They had a low population, forcing them to cooperate with the natives to survive. The French had major profits in the fur trade until they lost Canada in the French and Indian War. The French Caribbean colonies were warm and good for farming, so they bought many slaves. French Canada had poor farmland, so no slaves.
Fur traders in Canada, trading with Indians, 1777.
European colonization of the Americas Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which, like the House of Lords (the upper house), meets in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body consisting of 650 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs). Members are elected to represent constituencies by first-past-the-post and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved.
A House of Commons of England evolved at some point in England during the 14th century, becoming the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland in 1707 and in the nineteenth century the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the political union with Ireland before assuming its current title after independence was given to the Irish Free State in 1922.
Under the Parliament Act 1911, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The Government is primarily responsible to the House of Commons and the prime minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains its support.
Describe the Danish raids of England. The struggle of Alfred the Great and its results.
Anglo-Saxon Britain was not a united country. There were a lot of small kingdoms which constantly waged wars against one another for supreme power. These little kingdoms were weak and could not hold out against attacks from abroad.
Beginning with the 8th century, pirates from Scandinavia and Denmark began raiding the eastern shores of Britain. In the 19th century the country had to struggle with the Danes. At first they acted as pirates attacking the country & robbing it, but later they came in larger numbers conquering one territory after another. They landed their longboats, killed & robbed the population of the towns and villages and sailed away. Gradually they began settling in Britain and seized more and more land. The Anglo-Saxons understood that their small kingdoms must unite in order to struggle against the Danes. In the 9th century Egbert, the king of Wessex, one of the stronger Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, united several neighbouring kingdoms. The united kingdom got the name of England, and Egbert became the first king of the united country. The kingdom of Wessex alone was left to resist the Danes.
Alfred, the grandson of Egbert, became king in the year 871, when England's danger was greatest. The Danes, who had settled on the eastern shores of Britain, continued robbing and killing the people of England and occupying more and more land. Alfred gathered a big army and gave the Danes a great battle at Maldon in 891. The Danes were defeated in this battle, but still they remained very strong and dangerous, and Alfred hurried to make peace with them.He had to give the Danes the greater portion of England. The kingdom that was left in Alfred's pocession was Wessex. There were some years of piece, and during this time Alfred built the first English navy. He worked out a code of laws. He translated the Church history and parts of the Bible from Latin into Anglo-Saxon. He started the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the first history of England. It was lucky for Wessex to have a very talented king who organized the struggle against the Danes. This was Alfred who ruled from 871 to 901, and who eventually defeated the Danes making them sign a peace agreement. Though the country was divided into two parts - one under the Saxons, and the other under the Danes, peace was won and later the English took over the land occupied by the Danes. Danish influence is still felt in some place-names ending in -by, -toft, such as Appleby or Lowestoft, as well as in the presence of some words in the English language. Alfred was also a great lawgiver and a patron of learning. He is considered to be the founder of the English fleet.
The Anglo-Saxon kings that ruled after Alfred, continued fighting the Danes, until all England was once more ruled by English kings. But 80years after Alfred's death the Danes came again with great armies and occupied much of the territory. Again Britain was divided into two parts: the northern part ruled by the Danes, and Wessex in the south ruled by English kings. The Danes continued their attacks on Wessex and finally occupied the whole the territory. In 1016, the king of Denmark Canute became also, the king of England. Canute was a strong monarch and gave England peace for nearly 20 years. When he died in 103B his two sons ruled England for a short time one after the other. With the death of Canute's second son in 1042, the Danish rule was over. An English king came to the throne.
Danish way of making a name in English: placenames ending in – by: Derbly, naseby, rugby.
Роза Тюдоров The Tudor rose(sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty.
The "Lancastrian" red rose was an emblem that barely existed before Henry VII. Lancastrian kings used the rose sporadically, but when they did it was often gold rather than red; Henry VI, the king who presided over the country's descent into civil war, preferred his badge of the antelope. Contemporaries certainly did not refer to the traumatic civil conflict of the 15th century as the "wars of the roses". For the best part of a quarter-century, from 1461 to 1485, there was only one royal rose, and it was white: the badge of Edward IV.
On his marriage, Henry VII adopted the Tudor rose badge conjoining the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster. The Tudor rose is occasionally seen divided in quarters (heraldically as "quartered") and vertically (in heraldic terms per pale) red and white. More often, the Tudor rose is depicted as a double rose, white over red and is always described, heraldically, as "proper".
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I love shopping at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando. Are there any great apartments nearby?
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How much do movers in Fairfield charge? The moving cost depends on the size of your home and how far you're moving.
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Here is some background information about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. On December 26, 2004, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 struck the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
227,898 people were killed or listed as missing and presumed dead.
Material losses in the Indian Ocean region were $10 billion.
Tsunamis are formed by a displacement of water - a landslide, volcanic eruption, or, as in this case, slippage of the boundary between two of the earth's tectonic plates - slabs of rock 50 to 650 feet (15 to 200 meters) thick that carry the Earth's continents and seas on an underground ocean of much hotter, semi-solid material.
The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by slippage of about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) of the boundary between the India and Burma plates off the west coast of northern Sumatra. The convergence of other plates strains the area, and at the quake's epicenter, the India plate is moving to the northeast at 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year relative to the Burma plate. The aftershocks were distributed along the plate boundary from the epicenter to near Andaman Island.
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake was the strongest since the March 28, 1964 quake in Prince William Sound in Alaska. It was the third-strongest since 1900.
The two stronger earthquakes, May 22, 1960 in Chile (9.5) and March 28, 1964 in Alaska (9.2), also produced tsunamis.
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Trade Wars is the title, with some variations in spelling and capitalization, of a series of computer games dating back to the early days of personal computing. Based on influences from Star Trek, Star Wars, and early strategy door games for bulletin board systems, Trade Wars was an early example of the appeal of online games. During the height of its popularity in the early 1990s, Trade Wars was the preeminent BBS door game, played by tens of thousands of computer enthusiasts around the world.
The first game with the title, "Trade Wars" by Chris Sherrick, was developed in BASIC for the TRS-80, and immediately ported to the IBM PC for the Nochange BBS system in 1984. Though other space trading games appeared earlier, including "DECWAR" 1974 and "MegaWars" 1983, Sherrick states that he was unfamiliar with either game, and conceived his game as a cross between Dave Kaufman's BASIC program "Star Trader" 1974, the board game "Risk", and Gregory Yob's "Hunt the Wumpus" 1972.
Because Sherrick released his earliest versions with a free license, variations of the game proliferated. By 1993, Computer Gaming World remarked "Many versions are circulating ... Except for the core concepts and basic mechanics, no two boards seem to carry the same exact game." Some of these variants include TWV - Galactic Armageddon, Yankee Trader, and TW2 (a development of the original by John Morris who took over from Chris Sherrick).
The most definitive version was the TradeWars 2002 series (Gary Martin, John Pritchett, 1986). TW2002 was designed originally as a WWIV chain (a way of calling external programs which was a part of Turbo Pascal 3 - and one that often required the source code to work, which is why so many people were able to get copies) in September 1986 by a sysop with the handle "Lord Darkseid" (his BBS was called Apokolips, and he was apparently a DC Comics fan). Its original name was TW2 for WWIV - and it shared no source code with the Sherrick version, which was written in Basic. Another WWIV sysop - B0b "OM" Mosley - made additional modifications, including porting the code to Turbo Pascal 4.x specifications, numerous bug fixes, a series of cosmetic changes to allow the game to reflect a Star Trek theme, and development of a map editor that allowed for both larger maps and the ability to randomly generate new maps as well as reinitialize the game's databases to reflect the new map data. After two years of development, Mosley released the source code for the game and editor, which allowed fellow WWIV sysop Gary Martin to make his own changes to the included source code. Gary's first version was Trade Wars 2001, and it contained many of the base features. It also used exactly the same TWSECT.DAT file (the file with contains the information on all of the warp points in the game) as Trade Wars 2002.
While TW2001 was well received, Gary (who was a Traveller game master) decided to expand the game further. In addition to the port in Sector 1 where you could buy fighters/shields/holds, another port was added called the Stardock where you could buy new types of ships. Over a period of time, feature after feature was added, so that Trade Wars 2002 V0.96 was a very different game than Trade Wars 2002 V1.00. TW2002 V1.00 was released in June 1991. One of the major design choices made was influenced by changes in the BBS software — WWIV author Wayne Bell had rewritten the WWIV BBS System using Turbo C instead of Turbo Pascal. This meant that classic Chain programs would no longer work, and Trade Wars 2002 V2 used a general purpose door library which allowed the game to be run under other brands of BBS software for the first time.
TW2002 V1, V2, & V3 were BBS mainstays throughout the 1990s. In 1998, Gary Martin sold the Trade Wars license to John Pritchett. John and his company, EIS, developed a stand-alone game server, TWGS, which has allowed Trade Wars to survive beyond the BBS era.
Though specifics vary from one version to another, in general the player is a trader in a galaxy with a fixed set of other players (either human or computer). The players seek to gain control of resources: usually fuel, ore, food, and equipment, and travel through sectors of the galaxy trading them for money or undervalued resources. Players use their wealth to upgrade their spaceship with better weapons and defenses, and fight for control of planets and starbases.
Since the basics of the game structure are numerical, these games are not reliant on high resolution graphics or rapid processing, which makes them ideally suited to low-resource computing platforms.
Today, classic Trade Wars is primarily hosted by Windows NT/2000/XP computers running the Trade Wars Game Server (TWGS), which accepts incoming telnet connections and launches the Trade Wars ASCII game. Trade Wars is also run by many of the surviving BBSs, and variations have been ported to the web, cell phones, and the Palm OS. A major on-line game based on Trade Wars 2002 was under development in the early 2000s under the name "TW: Dark Millennium", later renamed "Exarch". When the developer, Realm Interactive, was acquired by their publisher, NCsoft Austin (Richard Garriott/Destination Games), development of "Exarch" was discontinued. What started as TW: DM was eventually released by NCsoft as "Dungeon Runners".
In its May 1993 "Telegaming" issue, Computer Gaming World gave Trade Wars two points out of three, stating that for many players "there is no other on-liner than Trade Wars ... This game will be around for a while, in one form or another".
↑ Jeon Rezvani (2008). Guild Leadership. Lulu.com. p. 175.
↑ 3.0 3.1 William J., Shefski (May 1993). "Mining the BBS On-line Games". Computer Gaming World. Golden Empire Publications. p. 68. ISSN 0744-6667. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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I just felt weird from this sentence..
I think it should be like..
Is there something wrong with grammar or proposition??
There's nothing at all wrong with ''I went to watch ice hockey tonight'' (no capitals needed for 'ice hockey').
I share yuirobo's feeling about this; I disagree with you, Rover.
(if the subject of tonight's match has already been discussed) I went to watch the Ice Hockey (match) tonight.
I like to watch football whilst Mrs Rover watches tennis.
And I still don't believe ice hockey needs capitalising.
If somebody wants to capitalize "ice hockey" then presumably they capitalize baseball, football, poker, basketball, hunting, fishing, drinking, carousing, pub crawling and every other pastime, a practice that no authority with which I'm acquainted endorses.
That's all for now. I'm going to watch football (American style).
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a different context: you're talking about likes, whereas yuirobo's question is about a particular game of ice hockey (no, it doesn't need capitalising, but I didn't raise the point because it's not the issue here).
Another way is:-I went to a hockey game this evening.
Point being that in Montreal there is likely no lawn hockey .I should know.
Whereas our neighbors to the often-frozen north are indeed likely to equate "hockey" with only the kind played on ice, Google provides 420,000 "hits" for 'Montreal field hockey' (without quotes).
I don't think there is anything wrong with the sentence.
Field hockey is a very healthy sport and I am glad they practice it in Montreal although they are rather quiet about it; not so about la soirée du hockey.It exported well.
Whatever "an international friend" may be, and please don't tell us, the sentence is fine as written, except for the needless capital letters.
Your friend may have gone to a hockey rink, or to a friend's house to watch the game on television, or to a frozen pond.
I agree with everyone else, including sound shift .
I think "I went to watch ice hockey tonight" is a perfectly respectable sentence.
But I'm pretty sure that I'd be more likely to say "I went to watch some ice hockey" or "I went to watch an/the ice hockey game/match".
O.K. the sentence is a bit awkward, nothing dramatic, and of course the capitals are a mistake. But in Canada, nobody adds "ice." It marks you as a non-Canadian. But since most people are not Canadian, I can't complain. "I went to a hockey game tonight" sounds more natural, since most people who go also watch. Eh?
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The rent control act is intended to make rental homes affordable by prohibiting landlords from charging higher rent than the rate the government considers fair. In other words, through this act the government attempts to prevent exploitation of tenants by landlords.
Rent control act is intended to protect the interests of tenants, and applies to rental agreements of 12 months or higher. Rent control acts of state governments generally prohibit landlords from charging more than the rent ceiling fixed by the government. The rent control act also prohibits evicting tenants from the home he stays, except for reasons specified in the rent act.
Landlords, however, may evict tenants if they are guilty of any crime or misappropriation, according to the rent control act and Indian laws. Landlords may also evict tenants if the latter attempt to transfer the property in their names. The rent control act also applies to legal heirs of tenants, as long as they renew the contract and stay on in the same home.
Landlords, for instance, may evict tenants if they do not pay the rent within a certain time period, damage the building or use the premises for purposes not mentioned in the rental agreement. Landlords may also evict tenants if the latter sublet the premises without the permission of the landlord. The specific rules vary from state to state.
Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck once said that in many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique currently known to destroy a city — except for bombing. Economists generally agree that across the world rent controls have led to inadequate investments in rental stock because the returns from renting out homes are low. It also leads to deterioration in quality and quantity of existing rental stock, poor maintenance and low property tax revenues for local municipal corporations. India's experience with rent control act is similar. Former World Bank research scholar Alain Bertaud observes that in Mumbai many buildings under rent control collapse, leading to the death of tenants because landlords are not allowed to evict them. Though landlords can still sell the whole building, tenants have certain rights over the individual units.
The Maharashtra state government recently proposed exempting commercial units from the rent control act.
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Can someone pls enlighten me on whether Gautam Budha's teachings were fundamentally the same as Advaita ? I think Budha never talked about Brahman or the Absolute , but otherwise are they the same ?
Also why Budha had to start a new religion instead of reforming the religion he was born with, as was done by other greats like Shankara etc ? Jesus and Mohammed has to start new religions as there was no organised religions during their time at their part of the world, but when so much of knowledge such as Vedas and Upanishads already available in India, could not Budha correct their interpretations and save people from the caste prejudices prevalent at that time like Shankara did instead of totally deviating from Vedas ? I am not questioning anyone here, just trying to understand myself.
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What is the meaning of gowk in Hindi?
GOWKED, from "gowk," to stand staring and gaping like a fool.
Thus "hunting the gowk" is to send someone on a fool's errand.
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Convolutional neural networks have been shown to have a very high accuracy when applied to certain visual tasks and in particular semantic segmentation. In this paper we address the problem of semantic segmentation of buildings from remote sensor imagery. We present ICT-Net: a novel network with the underlying architecture of a fully convolutional network, infused with feature re-calibrated Dense blocks at each layer. Uniquely, the proposed network combines the localization accuracy and use of context of the U-Net network architecture, the compact internal representations and reduced feature redundancy of the Dense blocks, and the dynamic channel-wise feature re-weighting of the Squeeze-and-Excitation(SE) blocks. The proposed network has been tested on INRIA's benchmark dataset and is shown to outperform all other state-of-the-art by more than 1.5\% on the Jaccard index.
Furthermore, as the building classification is typically the first step of the reconstruction process, in the latter part of the paper we investigate the relationship of the classification accuracy to the reconstruction accuracy. A comparative quantitative analysis of reconstruction accuracies corresponding to different classification accuracies confirms the strong correlation between the two. We present the results which show a consistent and considerable reduction in the reconstruction accuracy. The source code and supplemental material is publicly available below.
Figure 1 summarizes the pipeline followed in the paper. Firstly, an orthorectified RGB image is fed forward into the neural network to produce a binary (building/non-building) classification map. Next, the binary classification map becomes the input to the reconstruction process. Due to the fact that it is extremely difficult to acquire building blueprints or CAD models for such large areas, and depth/3D information is not available for the images of the benchmark we posit that the building boundaries extracted from the binary classification map and refined, can serve as a proxy to the accuracy of the reconstruction. This is justified since the extracted boundaries are extruded in order to create the 3D models for the buildings. Therefore, the building boundaries are extracted, refined, and are used for the comparative analysis and evaluation of the accuracy of the reconstruction.
The diagram summarizes the work presented in this paper. Firstly, we focus on the building classification and propose a novel network architecture which outperforms state-of-the-art on benchmark datasets and is currently top-ranking. Secondly, we investigate the relation between the classification accuracy and the reconstruction accuracy and conduct a comparative quantitative analysis which shows a strong correlation but also a consistent and considerable decrease of the reconstruction accuracy when compared to the classification accuracy.
The proposed network architecture is distinct and combines the strengths of the U-Net architecture, Dense blocks, and Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks. This results is improved prediction accuracy and it has been shown to outperform other state-of-the-art network architectures such as the ones proposed in which have a much higher number of learning parameters on the INRIA benchmark dataset. Figure 2 shows a diagram of the proposed feature recalibrated Dense block with 4 convolutional layers and a growth rate k=12 used by the ICT-Net. The proposed network has 11 feature recalibrated dense blocks with [4,5,7,10,12,15,12,10,7,5,4] number of convolutional layers in each dense block. Perhaps the closest architecture to the one proposed in the paper named "The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation" which uses 103 convolutional layers. If SE blocks are introduced at the output of every layer this will cause a vast increase in the number of parameters which will hinder the training. In contrast, in our work we have chosen to include an SE block only at the end of every Dense block in order to re-calibrate the accumulated feature-maps of all preceding layers. Thus, the variations in the information learned at each layer in the form of the features maps which are weighted by the SE block according to their importance as determined by the loss function.
Proposed feature recalibrated Dense block with 4 convolutional layers and a growth rate k = 12 used by the ICT-Net. c stands for concatenation.
This research is based upon work supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Grants DG-N01670 (Discovery Grant) and DND-N01885 (Collaborative Research and Development with the Department of National Defence Grant and Presagis Inc, Canada).
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Founded in 1976 by a small group of filmmakers and film supporters in north Alabama, the Alabama Filmmakers Co-op was among the largest of the media arts centers supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) during the early 1980s. The list of independent filmmakers and videographers affiliated at various times with the co-op represented many of the leading filmmakers in the region.
The organization was most active in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it had a screening room and workshop facilities in Huntsville, a staff of seven, and satellite programs in Birmingham and Anniston. In 2006, it celebrated 30 years as an alternative screening society presenting independent, experimental, and foreign film and video in Huntsville as the Alabama Film Co-op.
The co-op incorporated in January 1977 as a nonprofit media arts center to provide public film screenings, instruction, and access to film and video equipment. Its initial board included Jimmie Dawkins from the art department at Alabama A&M University, Jack Dempsey from the art department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Tim Bennett and Yvonne Hegney from the Army Motion Picture Production Unit at Redstone Arsenal, with Alabama A&M telecommunications professor Wade Black as executive director. Its first public program was a film festival featuring works by experimental filmmaker Will Hindle; Frank McGeary, president of Motion Picture Labs in Memphis; film editor Neale Traugh from the Army Motion Pictures Production Unit; and freelance screenwriter Bill Irwin. Despite limited publicity, the festival drew audience members from as far away as Birmingham and middle Tennessee. Hindle, an award-winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow whose works are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was the major draw. The enthusiastic reception he received led him to become a long-time supporter and mentor for co-op members.
Funding from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and local donors eventually permitted Black to become a full-time director for the co-op and attracted other Alabama filmmakers from Birmingham, Anniston, and Tuscaloosa. The co-op's first filmmakers-in-residence were experimental filmmaker and sculptor Ralph Ambrose and animator Greg Killmaster, a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and now a senior animator for George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic. Will Hindle became a frequent presence and major artistic influence during his breaks from teaching at the University of South Florida, which he spent at a wooded retreat in rural Blount County.
By early 1978, the co-op acquired Super 8 film equipment and offered instructional programs in filmmaking to schools statewide, as well as public access to basic 16mm film equipment. The organization began to network with other media arts centers in the Southeast and was actively screening foreign and alternative films. In 1979, the NEA funded a major summer residency program, "Baillie, Bartlett, Brakhage, and Hindle, in Alabama," that attracted national attention. Shortly thereafter, the co-op piloted a regional fellowship program for film and video artists that later became the NEA Regional Media Arts Fellowships.
The co-op moved in 1980 from its makeshift facilities on the courthouse square in Huntsville into the Huntsville Arts Center and began regular weekly screenings, with additional monthly screenings in Birmingham and the "Movies on the Mountain" series during the summer. By 1981, the co-op also provided short-term residencies for media artists such as Bruce Baillie, Stan Woodward, Chuck and Eloise Philpott Black, and others. It also produced a documentary series on Alabama folk artists that included Sacred Harp singer Dewey Williams, bluesman Bunk Pippins, oysterman Jim Lilly, and others.
Film and video projects tended to focus on documentary, animation, and experimental works rather than on narrative drama. Artists associated in various ways with the Alabama Filmmakers Co-op have included Will Hindle (Watersmith, Chinese Fire Drill), Bruce Baillie (Castro Street, Roslyn Romance), Stan Brakhage (Dog Star Man), Stan Woodward (It's Grits!), Greg Killmaster (Possum O'Possum), Peter Bundy and Bryan Elsom (Alabama Departure), Stevenson Palfi (Piano Players Hardly Ever Play Together), Wade Black (Dorothy Molter, We Dare Defend Our Rights), Chuck and Eloise Philpott Black (Blackbird), Ralph Ambrose (Jim Lilly, Oysterman), Scott Didlake (experimental videos and works for Mississippi Public Television), Art Humphreys (Bunk Pippins), Marge Dean (Autobiography of a Fat Girl), Landon McCrary and Charlie Burruss (Dewey Williams), and others. Other individuals associated with the co-op included workshop and screening programmers Kathy Woodward, Tina Petrig, Julie Albright, and Isabel Hill. Barbara Kopple, Academy-Award winner for her documentaries Harlan County USA and American Dream, used co-op facilities while filming at the mills in Huntsville.
Co-op activity gradually declined in the 1980s owing to several factors. Wade Black departed in 1982 to become administrative director of Film in the Cities in St. Paul, Minnesota; there were funding cuts in the NEA; the economic recession of the early 1980s hit Alabama especially hard; and Will Hindle died in 1987. After a name change to the Alabama Film Co-op in the late 1980s, the organization became primarily a screening society that recently celebrated 30 years of alternative film screening in Alabama. It is now located at the Flying Monkeys Arts Center in Huntsville.
McDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Vol. 1-5, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Moore, Alan. "Film Co-op Sets Meeting Tuesday to Decide Fate." Huntsville Times, 3 April 1983, p. C1.
Vogal, Amos, and Scott McDonald. Film as a Subversive Art. New York: Random House, 1974.
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1970.
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Create a new place for your cat. An ideal relaxation spot, with opportunities for observation from a higher point. Your cat will feel safe and relaxed. Specially shaped as a wave it provides the ultimate comfort.
High quality materials and modern design will perfectly fit any interior.
The material for fixing the shelf is included. Easy to install.
A combination of high-quality wood and plywood. Shelf is covered with carpet.
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You are instructed that reworking operations means any and all actual acts, work, or operations in which an ordinarily competent operator under the same or similar circumstances would engage in a good faith effort to cause a well or wells to produce oil or gas in paying quantities.
The jury answered “no.” Crystal River appealed.
Many cases have arisen disputing the meaning of “reworking operations” in an oil and gas lease. Does repairing a pipeline constitute reworking operations? Continuous or periodic swabbing of a well? Negotiating a new gas contract?
The term “Reworking Operations” shall mean actual work in the hole of a well previously completed as a producer, in a good and workmanlike manner, prosecuted with reasonable diligence, in an attempt to recomplete or repair said well to return it to production or to enhance production. “Reworking Operations” shall not include swabbing of a well or applying soap sticks or other chemical treatment to increase or restore production.
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Dickinson is a southwestern Texas city that is located between Houston and Galveston. Houston is approximately 30 miles to the northwest, and Galveston is about 20 miles to the south. This is a convenient location that allows residents to vacation on Galveston Island or commute to Houston for employment while driving about a half hour each way. There were close to 20,000 residents in 2010, and visitors travel through the area regularly in search of the Gulf Coast.
The Dickinson Bayou extends from Galveston Bay and flows through the southern half of the city. The town was originally developed as a small community around this waterway and was named after the first person granted the land in 1824, John Dickinson. The population started to increase after the railroad extended through the region, but the City of Dickinson wasn't incorporated until 1977.
The Dickson Picnic Grounds was one of the first attractions used to bring wealthy residents to town, but residents now have access to a variety of amenities. This includes the Dickinson Public Library, Paul Hopkins Park, Bayou Campground, Ray Holbrook Park and Chaparral Golf Club. Residents are served by the Dickinson Independent School District, which includes more than five elementary schools, several middle schools and one high school.
Investing in a rent-to-own home is a good option if you intend to purchase a house in the next year or two. This is a modern contract that allows you to move into a new home without securing a mortgage loan first. You start with a rental period, and you can use that time to strengthen your financial standing. This may allow you to qualify for better terms when you're ready to take out a loan and close on the home. Once you buy the property, you take over as owner with no need to move again.
Dickinson is a tourist city positioned a short drive from Houston and Galveston Island in southwestern Texas. Many residents commute to Houston for employment while others find jobs at smaller businesses and tourist companies located closer to town. The city's average yearly income is well over $60,000, and the cost of living is often comparable to the national average. The median listing price for homes is often around $200,000 or slightly below. While many residents are attracted to this area of Texas because it is convenient to the Gulf of Mexico, this location also attracts tourists throughout the year.
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Point out all the number 2's (his body is a number 2, he has a 2 on his cake and he has a number 2 on his hat). How many items are in groups of two (two cakes, two eyes, two arms, two hands). Add up all the twos (two cakes + two eyes + two arms + two hands = 8 twos). Count all the number 2's (his body + the 2 on his cake + the 2 on his hat = 3 twos).
Glue the hat, face and arms onto the body (the number 2).
Glue the cakes into his hands.
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When to use a proxy and when to use a VPN?
A proxy server is an intermediary waypoint between your computer or device and the internet. The proxy makes requests to websites, servers and all kinds of internet services in your name.
For instance, if your web browser is configured to use a proxy server and you're trying to visit www.digitalcitizen.life , the request is not sent directly to our website. Instead, it goes to the proxy server. Once the proxy server receives your web browser's request, it forwards it to the server on which Digital Citizen is hosted. Then, our server responds and sends back the Digital Citizen homepage to the proxy server, which in its turn sends it to your web browser.
Because it's not your web browser that makes the direct request, but the proxy server, our website doesn't see your computer or device as a visitor. Instead, it sees the proxy server as a visitor.
If you want more details proxy servers and how they work, then you'll enjoy this article: Simple Questions: What is a Proxy Server & Why Would You Use One?.
Using a p roxy server has the following advantages:.
You are hiding your IP address from basic checks. If you want to see a sample of what information about you goes out to the world during such a basic check, visit this webpage: Lookup IP Address Location.
Using a proxy server means that you are also hiding your geographical location. The websites and services you access see the location of the proxy server that you are using.
Depending on how they are configured, proxy servers can improve your security by blocking malicious websites that distribute malware, because they can check for malicious content before it is sent to your computer.
Proxy servers can be used to access geographically restricted internet services.
There are lots of public free proxy servers available on the internet and some of them provide solid proxy services.
Proxy servers don't encrypt your internet traffic.
Neither your IP address, nor your real location is hidden from more advanced detection techniques. You can get an example of how your location can be detected with the help of your browser and its location services, here: W3C Browser Geolocation.
When using a proxy server, all your internet traffic goes through it. That means that a malicious proxy server can see and control everything you do on the internet, compromising your privacy and security.
Proxy servers usually monitor and log your activity when using them, which can be used for identifying you. This can be harmful in certain situations.
Although you're accessing a secured encrypted website or internet service, if the proxy server was not configured correctly, it can transfer to your computer unencrypted data. Unencrypted information can be sniffed by others.
There are lots of public free proxy servers available on the internet and many of them are unreliable. Some of them are downright malicious.
A Virtual Private Network or VPN is a secure network between your computer and a VPN server from the internet. All the network traffic that goes through this connection is encrypted so only your computer and the VPN server knows what website or internet service you access and use.
For instance, if you use a VPN and you're trying to visit www.digitalcitizen.life , the request is encrypted and sent to the VPN server. Once the VPN server receives your request, it decrypts it so that it knows what you want. In this case, it will send a load request to the server on which Digital Citizen is hosted. Our server responds and sends back the Digital Citizen homepage to the VPN server, which then encrypts it and sends it back to you.
Because every bit of data is encrypted, nobody can see what websites you visit and what internet services you use. That includes your government and your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
If you want more details about VPNs and how they work, read this article: What is VPN? What does it do?.
All the network traffic between you and the VPN server is encrypted, so that makes it almost impossible for anyone to see what websites you visit or what services you use on the internet.
VPNs hide your real IP address. Websites and internet services will only see the VPN server's IP address.
VPNs hide your real geographical location. The internet thinks that your location is the location of the VPN server that you are using.
Using a VPN server can help you bypass geographical restrictions. You can access content available only for some countries or regions, if you connect to a VPN server from those regions.
Your network traffic can't be sniffed because it's all encrypted.
There are plenty of VPN providers that offer not only paid services, but also free VPN servers.
VPN servers must encrypt all the internet traffic that goes through them and that can take a toll on performance and speed.
When you connect to a VPN server, every bit of data between you and the server is encrypted. However, that data is decrypted on the VPN server, so it knows what you do on the internet. It's essential that VPN providers don't keep logs about your activity. Otherwise, the VPN provider will know how you are using its service. Also, their logs may be used by other organizations which get authorized or unauthorized access to it (NSA anyone?).
Solid VPN services tend to have higher costs than what you'd pay for a good proxy. All that encryption means that VPN server must have powerful hardware to keep up with the demand.
We consider VPNs better than proxies in almost all re spects . VPNs are better at providing you with anonymity and they are certainly better at providing you with security. Everything you do on the internet while using a VPN service is encrypted and nobody can monitor or track your activities. The only major downside of VPNs is that they tend to cost a lot more than proxies. If all you want is to hide your IP address or real location from a website or internet service that only does basic checks, than maybe a proxy server is good for you. If you want anonymity, security and confidentiality, then subscribing to a VPN service is what you need. However, double check that it doesn't store logs of your activity and, if they are stored, they are not shared with third parties.
Simple Questions: What is a proxy server and what does it mean?
What is a VPN? What does a VPN do?
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The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational and research institute and museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by endowments, contributions, and revenues from its retail stores and publications. Most of its facilities are located in Washington, D.C., including the National Zoo, but its 19 museums and eight research centers include sites in New York City, Maryland, Virginia, Panama, and elsewhere.
The Smithsonian's popular Air and Space Museum houses the most historic artifacts from the age of flight, including the iconic Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer and the landing module from the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon. In all the Smithsonian has over 140 million items in its collections. It receives thirty million visitors annually, and access to the institution's museums and galleries are free and open to the public.
The Smithsonian has been criticized for its copyright restrictions, limiting of public access to some holdings, and, along with other museums, its acquisition and retention of Native American remains. Regardless of these disputes, the Smithsonian Institution works across a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary sciences as a leading research center and innovative public education resource to deepen our understanding and appreciation of the natural world and its diverse human cultures.
The history of the Smithsonian Institution is as complex as the organization itself. In 1826, the British scientist James Smithson created his last will and testament in which he stated that should his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, die without heirs, the Smithson estate would go to the United States of America for creating an "Establishment for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge among men." The exact reason for this request is unknown, for Smithson never visited America nor did he seem to have any ties to the country.
Nonetheless, after his nephew died without heirs in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest, which amounted to 104,960 gold sovereigns, or $500,000 U.S. dollars. Given the questionable intent of Smithson in making this bequest, Congress debated extensively regarding the nature of the institution. Proposals included a national university, museum, library, observatory, research institute, and an institute to promote science. Finally, in 1846, Congress passed an act establishing the Smithsonian Institution, a hybrid public/private partnership, and the act was signed into law on August 10, 1846, by James K. Polk.
Physicist Joseph Henry was selected as the first Secretary of the institution. He envisioned it as a scientific research institute, carrying out programs of weather observation and instituting the International Exchange Service whereby scientists could gain access to scholarly publications from around the world. Since the institution was created with the requirement that the public have access, Henry conducted a series of public lectures as well as inviting other prominent speakers.
An antique letterbox, both on display and still in use in the Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle").
In 1855, the Smithsonian Institution Building on the National Mall, designed by architect James Renwick, Jr., was completed. Its crenellated architecture has made it known informally as "The Castle." It housed laboratories, a science museum, art gallery, lecture hall, office, and living quarters for resident scientists. When meteorologists received word of impending storms they signaled from the tower. Henry was careful to keep the institution separate from politics, flying no flag during the American Civil War.
Many of the other buildings of the institution are historical and architectural landmarks. Detroit philanthropist Charles Lang Freer's donation of his private collection for the Freer Gallery, and funds to build the museum, was among the Smithsonian's first major donations from a private individual.
This taxidermy Elephas recki stands in the National Museum of Natural History.
Although the Smithsonian's first secretary, Joseph Henry, wanted the Institution to be a center for scientific research, before long it became the depository for various Washington and U.S. government collections. The voyages of the U.S. Navy had circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, and the United States Exploring Expedition amassed thousands of animal specimens, an herbarium of 50,000 examples, shells and minerals, tropical birds, and jars of sea water and ethnographic specimens from the South Pacific. These specimens and artifacts became part of the Smithsonian collections, as did those collected by the military and civilian surveys in the American West, such as the Mexican Boundary Survey and Pacific Railroad Surveys, which assembled many Native American artifacts as well as natural history specimens.
The Institution became a magnet for natural scientists from 1857 to 1866, who formed a group called the Megatherium Club. Such expeditions added to the Smithsonian collection, but it also relied heavily on donations of private collections, particularly with regard to works of art.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, American involvement in global affairs led the acquisition of specimens, particularly those of anthropological nature, at an ever increasing rate. At the same time, the Smithsonian became a growing repository for national treasures, such as the Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer and the 1969 Apollo Moon Lander, as well as presidential artifacts not held by private presidential libraries. Cooperation with other institutions around the world led to trading and purchasing of works of art and specimens. Along with the recognition of the history of African and Native Americans in the U.S., diversification of the collection led to sub-divisions within the Smithsonian that created separate institutions focused on the display of particular collections.
An Egyptian coffin mask made of wood and glass, from the New Kingdom, dated to Dynasty 18 or 19 (1550-1196 B.C.E.). From the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Washington D.C.
Despite its large size and complexity, the Smithsonian Institution is guided by the same principles and vision as most of the museums and research facilities around the world. Through research in nearly every humanistic and scientific discipline, the Smithsonian strives to gather a complete vision of the world and its people.
The accumulation of such knowledge is first and foremost for the dissemination to the public; the Smithsonian Institution is a public organization and therefore believes it is responsible for sharing its information firstly to the American public, but also to the world at large. The Smithsonian thus has several museums that display specimens and offer interactive exhibits, publishes research and magazines, and engages the educational system with learning opportunities. Over the course of its history, the Smithsonian has realized the need not just for study but also preservation. Whether it be wildlife, the environment, artifacts, or culture, the Institution now devotes many resources to safe-guarding, as well as studying, the world and its people.
The Smithsonian Institution was established as a trust instrumentality by act of Congress, and it is functionally and legally a body of the federal government. More than two-thirds of the Smithsonian's workforce of some 6,300 persons are employees of the federal government. The Smithsonian is represented by attorneys from the United States Department of Justice in litigation, and money judgments against the Smithsonian are also paid out of the federal treasury.
The nominal head of the Institution is the Chancellor, an office which has always been held by the current Chief Justice of the United States. The affairs of the Smithsonian are conducted by its 17-member board of regents, eight members of which constitute a quorum for the conduct of business. Eight of the regents are United States officials: The Vice President (one of his few official legal duties) and the Chief Justice of the United States, three United States Senators appointed by the Vice President in his capacity as President of the Senate, and three Members of the U.S. House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House. The remaining nine regents are "persons other than Members of Congress," who are appointed by joint resolution of Congress. Regents are allowed reimbursement for their expenses in connection with attendance at meetings, but their service as regents is uncompensated. The day-to-day operations of the Smithsonian are supervised by a salaried "Secretary" chosen by the board of regents.
There are numerous museums, galleries, and other public facilities that are either a part of or associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Below is a list of the major individual facilities.
Anacostia Community Museum: Beginning as a museum on the local history of the Anacostia community, the museum now is dedicated to the history and culture of the African American experience. Features an on-line interactive educational database.
Freer and Sackler Gallery: Named after Arthur M. Sackler the medical doctor that donated his collection of art to Smithsonian upon his death, and for Charles Lang Freer who donated his collection to the Smithsonian, the museum houses a large collection of Asian artwork.
Arts and Industries Building: The original building of the National Museum.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Smithsonian's museum dedicated solely to contemporary and modern artwork.
National Air and Space Museum: Perhaps the most famous of all Smithsonian museums, the institution specializes in the history of aviation and space exploration, and houses such famous aircraft as The Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo landing capsules.
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A new museum solely dedicated to the complex experiences of African Americans since slavery. It brings to life the vibrant cultural contributions African Americans have made to every facet of American life.
National Museum of African Art: Art museum exhibiting the wide-ranging artwork of the African continent.
National Museum of American History: One of the largest of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is dedicated to the history and many cultures of America from the Colonial period to the present.
National Museum of the American Indian: Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the cultures of Native Americans.
National Museum of Natural History: Devoted to the natural history and evolution of the world. Special exhibits include the Hope Diamond.
National Portrait Gallery: Exhibits portraits by famous American artists, as well as portraits of famous Americans. Outside of the White House it is the only building to house a complete collection of Presidential Portraits.
National Postal Museum: Depicts the history of the Postal system in America.
S. Dillon Ripley Center: The center houses the International Gallery and Smithsonian Travel exhibits which continually change as well as the Smithsonian Associate center.
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Exhibits artwork of America throughout the country's history.
Smithsonian Institution Building: Nicknamed "The Castle," it was the first building in the Smithsonian complex and now houses the Smithsonian administration offices and information center.
Smithsonian National Zoological Park: Commonly rated as one of the world's best zoos, the National Zoo exhibits over two-thousand animals and is one of the few zoos in North America to house giant pandas. It also runs various conservation projects around the world.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: Only institution in America dedicated to the history of and contemporary progress in the field of designing.
The George Gustav Heye Center: Dedicated to the history and culture of Native Americans, featuring permanent and temporary collections.
National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: The companion site to the National Air and Space Museum, the center is a large facility that exhibits aircraft not able to be shown in the Mall museum.
The following is a list of Smithsonian research centers.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: In corporation with the Harvard College Observatory, the program focuses on the cosmology of the universe.
Carrie Bow Marine Field Station: Located at the Natural History Museum, this project was originally established as a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the eco-system of coral reefs. However, the project now also promotes the conservation of coral reefs.
Center For Earth and Planetary Studies: Located at the Air and Space Museum, the center is dedicated to the study of space.
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: The center is committed to the study and preservation of the environment.
Marine Station at Fort Pierce: Affiliated with the Museum of Natural History, the project focuses on the bio-diversity and preservation of the marine environments of Florida.
Museum Conservation Institute: The institute is devoted to educating other institutions on the proper procedures for preserving artifacts and specimens.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Located in Panama, the project enables researchers to study the bio-diversity of the rainforest.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Catalogs and archives all research and knowledge gained throughout the Smithsonian organizations, as well as collects materials to supplement its collection.
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Devoted to the study and preservation of American folk culture.
Like similar institutions, the Smithsonian has been subject to criticism. Since it is a government establishment, some have questioned the justification for using public taxes to pay for the institution. Others have criticized the bureaucracy of the institution and motives of the Secretaries. The Institution has also been criticized for politicized decisions relating to climate change, exhibitions of American history, and the controversy over Intelligent Design.
There are those who have claimed that the Smithsonian Institution' strong copyright restrictions imposed on its image collections which overwhelmingly consist of public domain content dating to the nineteenth century deter access and use of information that is suppose to be for the public. Re-repatriation has been an issue, not just for the Smithsonian but also all museums that possess Native American remains and artifacts.
Despite these criticisms the vast majority of its work and holdings remain a treasured knowledge resource. All of its museums and other facilities are free to the public, as it tries to remain true to its founding vision of protecting and sharing knowledge.
This limestone statue of a Boddhisattva was created in the Northern Qi Dynasty of northern China. It's housed in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
"Leonard Wood - Maverick in the Making 1882-1921" (1860–1927) by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) oil on canvas, 1903 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Lamentations over the Death of the Firstborn of Egypt. Oil on canvas, 51.5in x 38.5in, Smithsonian Museum of American Art , Washington, DC USA .
A picture of a male Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew at the National Zoo. The Elephant shrew is part of the small mammals exhibit at the zoo.
Enola Gay on display at the U.S Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
National Air and Space Museum, in Washington D.C.
Prince's guitar. "At the Smithsonian Information Center originally housed at the Smithsonian Museum of American History"
The Hope Diamond on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the Smithsonian museum of Natural History.
↑ Heather Ewing, The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian (Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 9780747576532).
↑ International Directory of Company Histories, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
↑ Nina Burleigh, Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum, The Smithsonian (HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 0060002417).
↑ Smithsonian Institution, About the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 8, 2007.
↑ Smithsonian Institute, Smithsonian Images-Copyright. Retrieved August 23, 2007.
Ewing, Heather. The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian. Bloomsbury, 2007. ISBN 9780747576532.
All links retrieved September 9, 2014.
The Smithsonian Scientific Series, a publicly accessible digital resource intended to enlighten and interest the general reader. It does not represent an attempt to summarize all science, or even all branches of science on which the Smithsonian can speak with authority. It will, however, acquaint the reader with the organization, history, and activities of the scientific institution which has grown up with the nation and fostered the nation's scientific activities. It is an introduction to the workings and achievements of the scientific method over a large field, and may open doors to some branches of science.
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Determine the price of two type A footballs if the total cost of a type A and a type B football is $500.
1. Type B football costs $200.
2. Two type A and three type B footballs costs $1200.
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Government regulation and public awareness are external forces that have increased the social responsibility of business. But business decisions are made within the company. Two contrasting philosophies, or models, define the range of management attitudes toward social responsibility; the economic and the socioeconomic model.
According to the traditional concept of business, a firm exists to produce quality goods and services, earn a reasonable profit and provide jobs. In line with this concept, the economic model of social responsibility holds that society will benefit more when business is left alone to produce and market profitable products that society needs. To the manager who adopts this traditional attitude, social responsibility is someone else's job. After all, stockholders invest in a corporation to earn a return on their investment, not because the firm is socially responsible and the firm is legally obligated to act in the economic interest of its stockholders.
In contrast, some managers believe they have the responsibility not only to stockholders, but also to customers, employees, suppliers, and the general public. This broader view is referred to as the socioeconomic model of social responsibility. It places emphasis not only on profits but also on the impact of business decisions on society. Recently, increasing numbers of managers and firms have adopted the socioeconomic model and they have done so for at least three reasons. First, a business is dominated by the corporate form of ownership and the corporation is a creation of society. Second, many firms are beginning to take pride in their social responsibility records. Third, many business people believe it is in their best interest to take the initiative in this area, prior to their competitors.
The merits of the economic and the socioeconomic models have been debated for years by business owners, managers, customers, and government officials. Each side seems to have four major arguments to reinforce its viewpoint. Proponents of the socioeconomic model maintain that a business must be more than simply seek profits to support their position and they offer that businesses cannot ignore social issues because a business is a part of our society. Moreover, a business has the technical, financial, and managerial resources that are needed to tackle today's complex social issues. Additionally, by helping resolve social issues, business can create a more stable environment for long-term profitability. Finally, proponents of socially responsible decision making practices argue that these types of tactics can prevent increased government intervention, which would force businesses to do what they fail to do voluntarily. All these arguments are based on the assumption that a business has a responsibility not only to stockholders but also to customers, employees, suppliers and the general public.
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La filière des sciences agronomiques à l’université n’est pas beaucoup fréquentée, voir même dans les écoles secondaires au monde et surtout en Afrique.
En effet cette dernière est considérée comme inutile et ne valant pas la peine d’exister car on y apprend uniquement ce que les paysans pratique déjà sans passer nécessairement au banc de l’école.
Et bien si vous êtes de cet avis, je suis vraiment désolé de vous informer que vous vous trompez au sujet des sciences agronomiques. Ces dernières ne sont pas seulement réduites à la production agricole, mais sont plus étendues que vous ne le croyez.
Que direz-vous, si vous étiez informé que l’agronomie est le domaine incontournable pour la production de l’énergie demain ? Eh bien, mis appart la production agricole, l’agronomie comporte à son sein, la transformation des produits agricoles, l’économie agricole, la zootechnie et ce qui vas vous étonnez, la bioénergie.
En effet la bioénergie désigne les formes d’énergie stockées par la biomasse (surtout par conversion photosynthétique d’énergie solaire). Il s’agit par exemple des cultures énergétiques, des résidus agricoles et forestiers, des déchets organiques, qui peuvent être utilisés pour produire de la chaleur, du froid, de l’électricité ou des carburants. Tant qu’elle n’est pas surexploitée, elle est considérée comme « renouvelable ».
Opportunités récemment offertes par les biotechnologies (ex : éthanol cellulosique produit par génie génétique via des bactéries génétiquement modifiées).
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Et qui peut résoudre ce défi si ce n’est que l’ingénieur agronome !!!!!!!! ca faut la peine de souhaite la bienvenue au jeunes qui aspire à la carrière agronomique.
c est un defis des agronomes, ns avons du pain sur la planche.
et ce n’est pas à dire que nous excluons d autres Ir. mais l agronome a un role important a jouer dans cette histoire.
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Claude Garamont (c. 1510–1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. He worked in the tradition now called old-style serif design, which produced letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen but with a slightly more structured and upright design. Considered one of the leading type designers of all time, he is recognised to this day for the elegance of his typefaces. Many old-style serif typefaces are collectively known as Garamond, named after the designer.
'Petit texte' type intended for body text, created by Garamond.
Estienne's 1550 edition of the New Testament was typeset with Garamond's grecs du roi. The result is one of the most sophisticated pieces of printing in the history of metal type, quite unlike Garamond's structured, upright designs in the Latin alphabet.
Garamond's original punches for the Grecs du roi type, which remain owned by the French government.
Garamond's early life has been the subject of some research and considerable uncertainty . Dates as early as 1480 and as late as c. 1510 have been proposed for his birth, the latter being preferred by the French ministry of culture. In favour of a later date, his will of 1561 states that his mother was then still alive. He married twice, to Guillemette Gaultier and, after her death, to Ysabeau Le Fevre.[a] Garamond may have apprenticed with Antoine Augereau and was perhaps also trained by Simon de Colines. He later worked with Geoffroy Tory, whose interests in humanist typography and the ancient Greek capital letterforms, or majuscules, may have informed Garamond's work.
Garamond came to prominence around 1540, when three of his Greek typefaces (now called the Grecs du roi (1541)) were requested for a royally-ordered book series by Robert Estienne. Garamond based these types, now known as the Grecs du roi, on the handwriting of Angelo Vergecio, the King's Librarian at Fontainebleau. The result is an immensely complicated set of type, including a vast variety of alternate letters and ligatures to simulate the flexibility of handwriting.
Although Garamond himself remains an eminent figure in French printing of the sixteenth century, historical research over the last century has increasingly placed his work in context. Garamond was one figure among many at a time when new typefaces were rapidly produced in sixteenth-century France, and these type designers operated within a pre-existing tradition defined by the work of figures such as Aldus Manutius who were active over the preceding half-century. The period from 1520 to around 1560, encompassing Garamond's career as an artisan, was an extremely busy period for typeface creation, with a wide range of fonts created, some apparently for exclusive use by a specific printer, others sold or traded between them. Many engravers were active over this time, including Garamond himself, Granjon, Guillaume Le Bé, Antoine Augereau, Simon de Colines, Pierre Hautin and others, creating typefaces not just in the Latin alphabet, but also in Greek and Hebrew for scholarly use. This period saw the creation of a pool of high-quality punches and matrices that would supply the French printing industry, to a large extent, for the next two centuries.
Despite Garamond's eminence, he was never particularly financially successful, perhaps due to a surfeit of competition and piracy in the Parisian book industry of the time. In 1545, Garamond entered the publishing trade in a partnership with Jean Barbé, a Parisian bookseller. The first book Garamond published was called, "Pia et Religiosa Meditatio" by David Chambellan.
In November 1561, following his death, his equipment, punches, and matrices were inventoried and sold off to purchasers including Guillaume Le Bé, Christophe Plantin, and André Wechel. His wife was forced to sell his punches, which caused the typefaces of Garamond to become widely used for two centuries, but often with attributions becoming highly confused. The chaotic sales caused problems, and Le Bé's son wrote to Plantin's successor Moretus offering to trade matrices so they could both have complementary type in a range of sizes. Egelhoff-Berner brought out a specimen in 1592 of types by Garamond and others, which would later be a source for many Garamond revivals.
The only major collection of original Garamond material in the Latin alphabet is that collected soon after his death by Christophe Plantin, based in Antwerp. This collection of punches matrices now forms a major part of the collection of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, together with many other typefaces collected by Plantin from other typefounders of the period. The collection has been used extensively for research, for example by historians Harry Carter and Hendrik Vervliet.
^ A document called the Le Bé Memorandum (based on the memories of Garamond's contemporary Guillaume Le Bé, but collated by one of his sons around 1643) suggests that Garamond finished his apprenticeship around 1510. This is considered unlikely by modern historians, especially since several other dates in the document also seem to be about twenty or thirty years too early. It has been suggested that the first Roman typefaces designed by Claude Garamond were a set created for Robert Estienne and first used by him around 1530-3. However, Vervliet, Mosley and the French ministry of culture's history of Garamond's career suggest that these 'Estienne typefaces' were not designed by Garamond and that his career began somewhat later. Vervliet suggests that the creator of this set of typefaces to a unified design may have been a 'Master Constantin', recorded in the Le Bé Memorandum as a master type designer of the period before Garamond but about whom nothing is otherwise known and to whom no obvious other body of work can be ascribed. (Nicolas Barker suggests very tentatively that his name may suggest a connection to a known family of printers from Lyon.) If so, his disappearance from history (perhaps due to an early death, since all his presumed work appeared in just three years from 1530–1533) may have allowed Garamond's reputation to develop in the following decade. Vervliet does however note that attributions of the Estienne type to Garamond do begin quite early.
^ A famous example of this style of italic with upright capitals is the work of Arrighi in Rome, which also inspired French printers of the sixteenth century. Early italic typefaces were not intended as complements to roman type, but as a more condensed alternative.
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^ Carter, Harry; Morison, Stanley (1967). Sixteenth-century French Typefounders: The Le Bé memorandum. Private printing for A. Jammes.
^ a b Mosley, James (2006). "Garamond, Griffo and Others: The Price of Celebrity". Bibiologia: 17–41. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
^ a b "The Career of a Punch-Cutter". French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
^ a b Hendrik D. L. Vervliet (2008). The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces. BRILL. pp. 167–171. ISBN 90-04-16982-2.
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^ Elizabeth Armstrong (28 April 2011). Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus. Cambridge University Press. pp. 48–9. ISBN 978-0-521-17066-6.
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Guy Sircello (1936–1992) was an American philosopher best known for his analytic approach to philosophical aesthetics.
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In 1963, another daughter, Pier Andrea, was born in New York City just prior to the family's move to Portland, so that Guy could join the Reed faculty. In Portland, in 1965, another daughter, Anne-Marie Sircello was born, not long after the death of Maria Anne, who had been born with multiple serious disabilities. In 1966, the entire family of eight moved to Irvine, and finally, in 1967, the final child of the Sircello family, Christopher Chapin Sircello, was born. Guy was an attentive and involved father, and enjoyed family camping outings to Yosemite, a three-month family camping trip to Europe, and visits to museums, concerts, and the ballet. He was a major influence, along with Sharon, in three of his children becoming professional dancers, two others becoming professional visual artists, and another an accomplished amateur pianist. The Sircellos separated, and later divorced after 15 years of marriage. Sircello was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine from 1966 until his death in 1992 at the age of 55. He earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1965. He taught at Reed College before becoming a founding member of UC Irvine’s Philosophy department. While at Irvine he served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1973 to 1977, Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1978 to 1983, Chair of the Committee on Educational Policy from 1988 to 1989, and as the Philosophy Department's Director of Graduate Studies from 1990 until his death. Sircello was active in the American Society for Aesthetics and served as the President of its Pacific Division from 1978 to 1979. His emphasis was in analytic philosophy of aesthetics, and he was best known for what he called his New Theory of Beauty Philosophy Sircello's book Love and Beauty (1989) provides a sketch of his theory, which encompasses such topics as arousal, expansion, sublimity, and indulgence. He considers the implications of his theory for aesthetics and ethics. He also develops theories of pleasure, quality, beauty and love. Introduction According to Sircello, philosophers have usually failed to understand and theorize properly about certain fundamental human modalities. Among these is the human relation to and feeling for beauty. In particular, Sircello found it dismaying that among philosophers the ancient conception of love of beauty had been displaced by other human concerns. His last book, Love and Beauty, was intended to provide a theory to begin to fill the void left by this loss of interest. Pleasure Sircello distinguishes pleasure from enjoyment. He uses propositional pleasure as an example of a particular type of pleasure distinct from enjoyment. Propositional pleasure is characterized as a pleasure taken in the occurrence of a fact, event, state or the like. Such pleasure is relatively passive. We may take pleasure in the outcome of a ball game or in the fact that traffic is light on the way to work, but the pleasure itself resulting from this satisfaction is something that happens to the subject rather than something they effect. Enjoyment is constituted by the active role played by the subject. Enjoyment can be obtained from experiences that are not entirely pleasant in all their parts via effort or resolve on the part of the subject. For instance, a strenuous hike can be enjoyable even though parts of it may be difficult and painful. The subject’s resolve and ability to overcome difficulties can make the hike enjoyable despite these troubles. Enjoyment involves a complex relationship to desire in that enjoyment tends to fuel further desires for its continuation. As such enjoyment of experience is fundamental in Sircello’s theory of love. Qualities Central to Sircello’s philosophy is his theory of qualities. He defines the precise sense in which he uses this term through the concept of Properties of Qualitative Difference (or PQDs). Such properties are to be distinguished from quantitative properties. According to his theory, it is the perception of qualities that lies at the center of the experience of beauty. According to Sircello qualities come in four main varieties. These constitute four ways in which we experience our world.
Qualities that qualify our own actions: Qualities such as those we experience when we perceive or remember our own actions fall in this category. Two examples used by Sircello are “my gentleness when I speak” and “my efficiency when I work”. These qualities comprise a major part of our experience of ourselves in our everyday lives. Qualities that we experience as qualifying the actions of others: We may experience the grace of another’s movements, or the stubbornness of their attitude. Sircello also includes in this category qualities perceived as being expressed by others in photographs, movies, painting, sculptures and so on. So, we may perceive another's stolidness or joviality in a photo or video as well in first hand encounters. Qualities that are experienced as “tracks” of the actions of ourselves or of others: Sircello defines “tracks” as “objects” that we may experience as the result of actions of sentient beings, either ourself or others. Tracks need not actually be the result of such actions but are objects that can be perceived as such, in the way that a landscape might be regarded as a trace of the hand of a creator. Sircello provides many examples of tracks in his book. For example, the mark left by the tracing of your hand in the sand or the streak of light left by the movement of a firework sparkler through the air. Qualities experienced by a person as belonging to an “object” of any sort under the following two conditions: a) the quality is experienced as either like the act, trace or representation of an act of a sentient being and b) the quality is experienced by that person as belonging to that act, trace or representation: Perhaps too briefly, the quality may be experienced as being an act of the “object” being considered. Examples of this type of quality are: “A calm sea might be seen as if it were resting calmly. In the delicate rustling of the leaves of a tree we might see the tree as delicately moving its limbs."
For any subject S, any quality for S (Qs), and any experience of Qs by S, if S is Loving this experience, then there is some part or parts of the experience that S is reproducing such that what S produces are themselves parts of the experience. For any subject S, any quality for S (Qs), and any experience of Qs by S, S is Loving this experience only if the S’s reproducing parts of the experience both arouses and satisfies S’s desire to so reproduce. For any subject S, any quality for S (Qs), and any experience of Qs by S, if S is reproducing part or parts of the experience such that what S so reproduces are part(s) of the experience, and if such reproducing both arouses and satisfies S’s desire to so reproduce, then S is Loving the experience. For any subject S and any “object” for S, if S is Loving the “object”, then there is (at least) some experience for S involved with the “object” that S is Loving.
Mind & Art: An Essay on the Varieties of Expression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. Paperback, 1978. A New Theory of Beauty. Princeton Essays on the Arts, 1. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. Love and Beauty. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
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How do I charge my passenger at the end of the trip?
After selecting the End of Trip button, manually enter in the cab fare from your taxi meter into the driver application. You should still enter the cab fare into the application if your passenger pays with cash in order to keep records for your taxi company. This will also allow you to automatically issue a receipt to the passenger.
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1933 Emigration in die USA.
Josef Albers (1888-1976) was born in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany. As a young man, he taught the primary grades in Bottrop; then, following study in Berlin, received certification to teach art. During this time Albers began to think of himself as an artist. In 1920, at age 32, he enrolled at the newly-formed, progressive Bauhaus school in Weimar. (The Bauhaus, a design workshop formed by architect Walter Gropius, was "dedicated to merging the traditionally separate disciplines of the fine and applied arts in an effort to improve the quality of modern life in all its aspects and, ideally, at every social level. At the Bauhaus, the design of a teapot was as important as the architecture of a building, and the craft of furniture making as serious an undertaking as mural painting."1) After finishing his studies there, Albers joined the faculty to teach the preliminary course on material and design. It was during his time with the Bauhaus that Albers came into his own as a creative talent. Eventually becoming Assistant Director and Director of the Furniture Workshop, he retained his position with the Bauhaus until it was forced to close, under Nazi pressure, in 1933.
In America, the organizers of Black Mountain College, a utopian experiment in education in the mountains of North Carolina, asked Philip Johnson, then director of the department of architecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to recommend an art teacher. He suggested Albers, who, though he did not speak a word of English and did not know where North Carolina was, accepted. (Albers's wife, Anni, thought perhaps North Carolina was in the Philippines.) According to Marcia J. Wade, "His [Albers's] influence at Black Mountain was seminal. He emerged there as one of America's most important and original teachers of art--a reputation solidified by the publication decades later of Interactions of Color, the definitive work on color theory."2 Albers remained at Black Mountain until 1950 when he became head of the Department of Design at Yale University School of Art. He remained there until 1958, when he assumed the position of Visiting Professor until 1960.
As a teacher, Albers influenced many younger American painters, among them Robert Rauschenberg.. Albers lived a highly disciplined life, always at work. He seldom socialized--much like a cloistered monk; he simply worked. In 1971 he was the first living artist ever to be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Albers died in 1976 at the age of 88.
Albers's earliest works were figurative drawings and paintings. His style became increasingly abstract at the Bauhaus where he began to explore abstraction and color, his primary lifelong preoccupations. He was fascinated by the ambiguities of visual and spatial perception. This preoccupation is central to his famous Homage to the Square series begun in the 1950s and continuing until his death. In this series, color assumes the main role of producing deceptive and unpredictable effects, causing multiple readings of the same hue depending on what colors surround it. Albers did not mix colors, putting the colors on the painting right out of the tube. He forced his viewers into a changing and dynamic relationship with his work, rather than accepting one visual truth.
1. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Artist's Profile: Josef Albers," Guggenheim Calendar of Events (March-April 1988).
2. Marcia J. Wade, "Homage to a Square Man," Horizon 31 (April 1988).
Craven, Wayne. American Art. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark, 1994.
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Josef Albers, April 27-June 2, 1995, exhibition catalogue. New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1995.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Josef Albers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of His Paintings & Prints, exhibition catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971.
Spies, Werner. "Albers." New York: Abrams, n.d.
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Which are the professions of the future?
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is already having a profound impact on the labour market. Some professions will disappear while others will blossom and require new abilities and skills. Let's see what they are!
Professions of the future in the company.
An expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a brilliant master of Machine Learning (ML) and a Robotics Engineer are having a friendly chat after a day at work in one of the smart factories on the outskirts of the city. They are joined by several other young engineers who are experts in nanotechnology, 3D printing and genetics. In the conversation many topics will be frequently mentioned, things like strong algorithms, software design, cloud services, DNA, prototypes, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
These are the professionals of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, born into a digital world and who are playing the lead roles in the transformation of production systems and business models. They work in a coordinated fashion in an environment which is a fusion between industry and the Internet in sectors such as energy, smart homes, motor vehicles, aeronautics and pharmaceuticals. And this multidisciplinary coordination greatly increases the effect on efficiency, flexibility and productivity.
But it is not simply a question of technical skills. The most sought-after abilities and skills in the 21st century will be qualities which are typically human like solving complex problems, critical thought and emotional intelligence, to name just a few.
The most sought-after labour skills in the 21st century.
Ability to negotiate: through a mutual respect between those involved is the best way to make an agreement possible.
Adaptability: we must leave our comfort zone when faced with any kind of situation.
Keep an open mind: adapt what we know to each situation, to each moment.
Decision making: the global analysis of any problem will always lead you to the best solution.
Emotional intelligence: machines are not able to handle emotions in interpersonal relationships.
Creativity: to develop it, there is nothing better than imagination and teamwork.
Initiative: be proactive and propose new ideas before we are asked for them.
Be inquisitive: it is essential to be inquisitive about what surrounds us and to make new discoveries.
Critical thought: the key factors are self-discipline and a global and rational outlook.
Resolving complex problems: the search for gradual solutions will help us to avoid errors.
In its report on The Future of Jobs (2016) the Davos World Economic Forum concluded that "65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don't yet exist".
This means that the new labour market will entail the loss of routine jobs which can be mechanised. In the same way, there will be an increased demand for those working in information technology, communication and entertainment media as well as professional services. The key to employment in the future is not so much the appearance of new jobs but rather developments to a large number of those already existing.
White hat: this is the name for someone fighting against cyberpiracy. Doing what? Hacking for ethical reasons, like testing the security of your own system for example. They become experts in penetration testing and the assessment of vulnerability.
Growth hackers: they are responsible for the growth of the company in new channels or markets and the perfect profile is a blend of programming, engineering, marketing and online positioning. They collect and analyse data and then draw conclusions so as to implement creative strategies which position a product or service before that of competitors.
AI experts: the use of algorithms and guided learning enables data to be processed so you can learn from them and be able to make a forecast or suggestion.
Experts in the IoT: the Internet of Things is taking giant steps forwards and together with AI will provide new opportunities for growth and development. It is most often used for monitoring energy and the use of materials using intelligent technology, security management and the automation of business processes.
Intelligent transport developers: there will be engineers specialising in light vehicles made with carbon nanotubes, an allotrope of carbon with unusual and valuable properties with technological applications. It is considered to be the first material known to humankind which, in theory, is capable of indefinitely supporting its own weight above our planet.
Climate guardians: the green economy with global awareness will also promote the appearance of new professions, like that of product tracer, carbon footprint control services and the vertical farming of hydroponic crops in cities.
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Why is the media so determined to make every excuse on behalf of disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder? A puff piece on Holder's Senate testimony from US News & World Report actually insults the intelligence of every American with the following: "So far, no evidence has come to light showing that Holder read 100-plus page memos that briefly and broadly referred to the operation, or that his senior aides knew either."
They actually state this asinine caveat as though it's a good thing. That there's no proof he read the memos doesn't make Holder look any better but would just be yet another altogether separate yet compelling reason that he should be replaced immediately. Not having read the memos just speaks to his incompetence. Most other media outlets are giving Holder a similar pass, as evidenced by the coddling in the latest CNN report: They make a point of quoting Holder as he scolds Republicans for allegedly playing "gotcha" politics, but make no mention that he admitted his Congressional testimony was misleading.
CNN never acknowledges Holder's mea culpa, which to be fair is wishy-washy and insufficient at best, but of great significance nonetheless. Holder admitted to the Senate committe that he testified in May Congressional hearings of only having been aware of OFF for a few weeks when he had actually been aware of it for at least a few months by that point.
Holder also admitted to Leahy that Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley handed him letters in person in late January, months before Holder previously claimed he knew of the controversial initiative of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). The BATFE is a division of the Department of Justice.
All hell should be breaking loose in the media, calling for his resignation and characterizing him as incompetent at best, yet the vast majority of media outlets are omitting the most pertinent details of his Senate testimony. It appears that news is now being reported quite selectively. Too bad Eric Holder isn't a football coach or his mistakes, both real and perceived, would be newsworthy.
If someone in the private sector gives false testimoney before congress they will go to jail for pergury. When a government official does lies it is somehow acceptable to an elite ruling class, especially the left. There are a few of us who notice!
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IIn recognition of the three Tiffany Windows and four Spence Windows located in the Bloomsburg University library, the Andruss Library Special Collections contains over 40 books with a focus on the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stained Glass Windows.
NK5398.P56 O82 1997 "John Piper and Stained Glass," (1997) by June Osborne, a well known author and lecturer on stained glass from the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education. Osborne is one of the first to teach regular classes on the topic of stained glass. In this book she explores how Piper, one of Britain's great artists, came to design stained glass and shows Pipers range of work. It includes over 100 illustrations from all over the world.
• NK5306 .A73 "Architectural Stained Glass," (1979) edited by Brian Clarke is a unique book that looks at stained glass as a constructivist, rather than medieval, art form, making it useful for architects. Contributors to the book included some of the world's foremost critics, artists, and scholars on the topic of stained glass. The second half of the book explores some of the most innovative architectural stained glass designs from the US, England, and Germany.
• NK5349.A1 K4613 1997 "The Narratives of Gothic Stained Glass," (1997) by Wolfgang Kemp. This book is the first study of stained glass from a narratological standpoint. At the time of publication Kemp was a professor of art history at the University of Hamburg and a scholar of medieval art. Most of this book was written during a guest professorship at Harvard University.
The Tiffany Windows were purchased in 1920 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bloomsburg State Normal School's first graduating class, and to honor the retirement of David J. Waller, Jr. The collection also includes book about Tiffany's other various art forms.
• N6537.T5 F74 2006 "Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate," (2006) by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen takes the reader inside Laurelton Hall, Tiffany's estate in Oyster Bay, New York. Laurelton Hall, constructed between 1902 and 1905, is known to represent the height of Tiffany's artistic endeavors. Tiffany designed every aspect of the property including architecture, gardens, and interior decorations and accents. With over 350 illustrations this book accompanied the exhibit located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• NK5198.T5 C68 1989 "The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany," (1989) by Vivienne Couldrey explores Tiffany's different art forms and includes a chapter specifically on stained glass. Some of Tiffany's other art forms include lamps, vases, mosaics, jewelry, painting, interiors, metalwork and enamels. Tiffany is especially known for his use of color and work with glass. Couldrey was a novelist and short story writer and former editor of "Collectors World," she specifically writes about Art Nouveau.
• NK5398.T52 D86 1982 "Tiffany Windows: The indispensable book on Louis C. Tiffany's masterworks," (1980) by Alastair Duncan includes over 230 illustrations of Tiffany's stained glass windows. In addition this book provides text that examines how the glass was made and how the windows were constructed, his critics and international exhibitions, window themes, (including religious and historical figures, landscapes, and ornamental and abstract designs) a partial list of all known Tiffany windows (as of 1980), and much more.
• N6537.T5 A4 1981 "Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany," an exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from the collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation from the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, (April 25-August 8, 1981) by Donald L. Stover.
• N6537.T5 A4 2005 "Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages" (2005) by Marilynn A. Johnson; with essays by Michael John Burlingham, and contributions by Michele Kahn and Joan T. Rosasco.
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Directions (1-15): For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word/phrase from the alternatives that is most the appropriate substitute in the given context and mark its number as your answer.
Q1. Ail: This medicine is good for what/whatever ails you.
Sol. Ail- to cause pain or trouble for (someone), afflict (someone) in mind or body.
Q2. Welter: We need to sort through the welter of data we have collected.
Sol. Welter -move in a turbulent fashion, lie soaked in blood, a large number of items in no order; a confused mass.
Q3. Cornucopia: The book includes a cornucopia of wonderful stories.
Sol. Cornucopia -a container that is shaped like a horn and is full of fruits and flowers, a great amount or source of something/an abundant supply of good things of a specified kind.
Sol. Knavery -action or practice characteristic of a knave. 2. unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery. 3. a knavish act or practice.
Sol. Embellished-to decorate (something) by adding special details and features, to make (something) more appealing or attractive, make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
Q6. Cogitating: With a frustrated sigh, he sat back and cogitated, going over his various options.
Sol. Cogitating-think deeply about something; meditate or reflect.
Sol. Tyranny- cruel and oppressive government or rule, a state under cruel and oppressive government, cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control.
Q8. Suffusion: He suffered from suffusion of blood on the brain.
Sol. Suffusion: the act or process of suffusing or state of being suffused with something; specifically: the spreading of a fluid of the body into the surrounding tissues, a suffusion of blood.
Q9. Precarious: He was unable to get down from his precarious position on the rocks.
Sol. Option D is related to the word given.
Q11. Pique- A talented youngster who smashes his guitar in a fit of pique finds it magically reassembled just in time for a crucial concert.
Sol. Pique means a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one's pride, arouse (interest or curiosity), feel irritated or resentful.
Q12. Limpid: Her limpid prose made even the most recondite subjects accessible to all.
Sol. Limpid- clarity in terms of expression. Limpid is typically used to describe writing or music.
Q13. Stride: He was standing only a few strides away from me.
Q14. Expletive: Expletives were deleted from the transcript of their conversation.
Q15. Hiatus: The band is making an album again after a five-year hiatus.
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ssIn 2006, Tim Campbell founded Studio Tim Campbell to provide design services for high-end residential and commercial projects, along with historical renovations.
If you don't know who Tim Campbell is, you should.
Here's a brief rundown for the uninitiated: Campbell is a bicoastal designer with over 25 years experience creating sophisticated and modern residential projects in both Los Angeles and New York, but also renovation and restoration of well-known homes including Richard Neutra's Singleton House in Bel Air, a Spanish Mission Revival Remodel for actress Diane Keaton, and the 1936 Spanish Mission Revival Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Spring. In 2006, he founded Studio Tim Campbell to provide design services for high-end residential and commercial projects, along with historical renovations.
Excitingly, he's a released a new book, "Intentional Beauty" published by Pointed Leaf Press, which provides readers with an unprecedented and intimate access to Campbell's world. Filled with earnest examples of his thought process and stunning photography of sunny palatial LA homes, the book certainly earns its title "Intentional Beauty."
The Rex Lotery’s Parkes Residence original structure was specifically designed to lay low across the landscape, only occasionally raising its head to peek over the site.
Despite his European sophistication, Campbell grew up in the United States as the son of a Southern Baptist preacher, and raised in "the backwoods of West Virginia," as he puts it in his book. But at the age of seven, he experienced the rare clarifying moment of discovering one's talent when he visited a local junk shop in West Virginia and found an old copy of "Architectural Digest" where a Parisian pied-à-terre inspired him to recreate it by wallpapered his bedroom with newspapers to mimic a room overlooking the Seine that was papered with French newspapers.
"I was seeing for the first time the direct impact of intentional beauty set out to evoke an emotional response. I would later come to identify this deliberate feeling as peace," he writes.
From there he began to draw and saved money from his minimum-wage fast-food restaurant job to buy a drafting table. Drawing, architecture, and design in a way became his escape from the prosaic world he occupied and instead transcend into one of consummate beauty. In 1985, Campbell design career began in earnest when he founded CADD Production Resource, a company that provided outsourced design, construction documents, and project management services to the design community. His work denotes a methodicalness when it comes to design, the composition of which consists of a process involving fractals, form and function.
"Every project, regardless of size and scope, starts the same way—with a spark, an inspiration, a feeling, or a moment," he writes, adding, "The spark serves as the trigger for what becomes the fractal of the project, or its essence." Fractals allow Campbell, when designing, to employ a process in which a building, or room, can be boiled down to its "absolute minimal number of elements or shapes." The purpose of this is to allow repetition to turn those elements and shapes into the quiet, restful patterns that are capable of conveying a sense of peace.
In the living room, a pair of custom-made brass cubes, an homage to minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, stands almost invisibly in front of a classic Chesterfield sofa by Soane Britain that has been covered in a midnight-blue leather. Above is a work of an urban Los Angeles scene by German photographer Karin Apollonia Mueller.
Meanwhile, form is largely driven by outside constraints such as a building code, site restraints like topography, and a client's own vision. "These constraints can actually generate an opposing force: Creative tension. For me, that is a powerful tool to use not simply to sculpt a form, but to do so in a way that is natural," he writes. After this, the next piece of the intentional puzzle is thinking about how a home operates -- someone will live there after all, so it should provide to them a sense of relief and peacefulness.
"How do the spaces flow one to the next, how is nature invited in or asked to remain away, where are the “honeymoon moments” in the house, and where is the silence kept? Practical and esoteric, function is the piece that is felt but not seen when executed properly."
The book also details Campbell's love affair with art collecting and includes photos of his own properties, including his "brutally modern" Los Angeles home and more "fanciful" New York one. The LA home features mostly white walls, concrete floors, rusted steel and dark woods, while the New York one was inspired by the flamboyant English writer, raconteur and actor Quentin Crisp’s, whose memoir "An Englishman in New York" served as muse for Campbell. Photos of the interiors show burnt sienna leather chairs and sofas, Prussian blue curtains and accent walls and clay red rugs. In many ways, it appears to blend southwest Americana with a kind of rustic Brutalism. But this is all method to the madness for Campbell, who writes that he decorates with a conscious disregard for conventional rules, instead, allowing an eclectic blend of period and regions to mingle.
Campbell lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, with his partner Steve Machado, and his two dogs, Jack and Boss.
The last part of the book focuses on Campbell's travels to Africa, which began with Cape Town, South Africa. He expected the usual suspects of elephants, lions, and zebras in their natural environment, and expected it would take his breath away. What he did not anticipate, nor could he, he writes, was that it would settle his soul in a way he could never have fathomed. But his travels to the remote villages also inspired activism, and since 2006 Campbell has returned every year to Africa in a humanitarian capacity. He has raised money to help fund a hospital in Maputo, Mozambique, which trains doctors in modern, Western medical care, and helped to fund an organization in Rwanda that provides medical care for the dwindling numbers of gorillas left on the planet, in addition to other projects.
Overall, the book serves as evidence that beauty is not just the admiration of physical objects or reveling in the exclusivity of refined taste. It is more akin to the harmonization of purpose, peace, and appreciation tempered by veneration.
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What was New Amsterdam renamed?
User: What was New Amsterdam renamed?
Weegy: The communists renamed Saigon Ho Chi Minh City.?
New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
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Q: When considering the security of email communications technologies, which of the following is not something that you need to worry about?
Breakdown: Email is largely an “insecure by default” set of protocols, but a basic set of security precautions must be implemented to minimize risk. These consist of protecting email in transit by using encryption, securing the email server(s), and protecting those reading emails in the form of antivirus software and user education to be alert to phishing schemes and other social engineering exploits. Security of the email client falls outside of the scope of the email infrastructure and onto the realm of computer and application security.
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What are the upcoming events happening at the Rogers Centre?
A During the Major League Baseball season (April-October), the Rogers Centre is home to Toronto Blue Jays games, while during the Canadian Football League season (June-November), the arena hosts Toronto Argonauts games. Non-sporting events at the Rogers Centre include Disney on Ice, and concerts from artists like Foo Fighters, Luke Bryan, and Taylor Swift. Check Ticketmaster often for a complete list of upcoming events at the Rogers Centre.
When is the next Toronto Blue Jays game?
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You slowly go through the list and label five things you can see, four things you can feel, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.
Normally I’m a type of person who’s always running around at 100 miles an hour with all sorts of busywork, so it really struck me how this forced me to slow myself down and focus on the minute details.
I just love that. Every time I get to that point I feel a wave of warmth envelope me. I feel relaxed and accomplished to have come back to the present moment and ultimately bring down my stress levels.
Perhaps you may be thinking that stress isn’t such a big deal. You’ve gotten along fine so far, even in a stressful environment, so why add something like this?
The thing is, when you get so worked up, the body goes into fight-or-flight mode, releasing all sorts of chemicals that result in physiological changes such as increased strength and blood flow, dilation of the pupils, and a host of other effects that prepares the body for times of crisis.
Unfortunately, when the source of the stress is something like rush hour or a bad day at the office, this really does no good. It’s even downright dangerous if it’s chronic, leading to issues such as anxiety, depression, or panic attacks among other things.
In reality, adding a short little exercise like this is more than worth the extra couple of moments you have to take out of your day. If anything, it can’t hurt to try it at least once or twice, right?
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Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), was an English noblewoman living at the courts of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. She was the fourth wife of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who acted as her legal guardian during his third marriage to Henry VIII's sister Mary. Her second husband was Richard Bertie, a member of her household. Following Charles Brandon's death in 1545, it was rumoured that King Henry had considered marrying Catherine as his seventh wife, while he was still married to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who was Katherine's close friend.
An outspoken supporter of the English Reformation, she fled abroad to Wesel and later the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the reign of Queen Mary I, to avoid persecution.
Katherine Willoughby, born at Parham Old Hall, Suffolk, on 22 March 1519 and christened in the church there four days later, was the daughter of William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and his second wife, María de Salinas. Lord Willoughby's first wife, Mary Hussey, the daughter of William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, had died childless before 1512, and in June 1516 he married Maria de Salinas. Dona Maria de Salinas had come to the English court with Henry VIII's Queen consort, Catherine of Aragon, and was one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting and closest friends. The King favoured another match bolstering his own marital alliance with Spain, and even named one of his warships the Mary Willoughby. It seems Katherine was named for the Queen, but her mother's lifelong friendship with Catherine of Aragon did not prevent her daughter from becoming one of England's Marian exiles later in life.
Katherine had two brothers, Henry and Francis, who died as infants.
According to Goff, Katherine likely spent her early childhood at Parham, as her mother was in almost constant attendance on Henry VIII's Queen, Catherine of Aragon. On 14 October 1526, when Katherine was seven years of age, Lord Willoughby died after falling ill during a visit to Suffolk, and was buried at Mettingham. As his only surviving child, Katherine inherited the barony. Her father held some thirty manors in Lincolnshire, and almost the same number in Norfolk and Suffolk, worth over £900 per annum, and Katherine is said to have been 'one of the greatest heiresses of her generation'. However her inheritance became a subject of dispute for many years, as there was doubt as to which lands had been settled on the heirs male and which on the heirs general, and the matter was further complicated by a deed which Lord Willoughby had drawn up before leaving for France to campaign in Henry VIII's wars in 1523. In 1527 Katherine's uncle, Sir Christopher Willoughby, accused his sister-in-law, Catherine's mother, Maria de Salinas, of withholding documents from him which established the title to various estates, and of having kept him out of possession of estates which rightfully belonged to him.
At her father's death, Katherine's wardship fell to the king, who on 1 March 1528 sold it to his brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. On acquiring Katherine's wardship, Suffolk immediately intervened in the family quarrel with a letter to Cardinal Wolsey, and his intervention appears to have cowed Sir Christopher Willoughby, who wrote to Wolsey that the Cardinal's anger was 'worse to him than death'.
On Sunday next the Duke of Suffolk will be married to the daughter of a Spanish lady named Lady Willoughby. She was promised to the Duke's son, but he is only ten years old, & although it is not worth writing to your Majesty, the novelty of the case made me mention it'.
Although Suffolk was forty-nine and Katherine only fourteen, the marriage was a successful one. The Willoughby inheritance was not fully settled until the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, but Suffolk was able to force Sir Christopher Willoughby to relinquish possession of some of the contested Willoughby estates, and Suffolk eventually became the greatest magnate in Lincolnshire. As such, he played an important role in quelling the Lincolnshire rebellion in 1536, and built an imposing residence at Grimsthorpe, which came into Catherine's possession at the death of Elizabeth de Vere, Dowager Countess of Oxford, widow of the 13th Earl.
The Duke and Duchess had two sons, Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, born 18 September 1534 at Catherine's mother's house in the Barbican, and Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, born 1537. The marriage brought Catherine into the extended royal family, because Henry VIII's will made his younger sister Mary Tudor's descendants the next heirs to the throne after his own children. The Duke and Duchess of Suffolk officially greeted Anne of Cleves when she arrived in England in 1539 to marry the King, and in 1541 they helped arrange a royal progress for the King and his next wife, Catherine Howard. This progress later became notorious for the Queen's adulterous trysts with her kinsman, Thomas Culpeper, though the Duke and Duchess's home at Grimsthorpe Castle was "one of the very few places on the route ... where Katherine Howard had not misbehaved herself".
Noted for her wit, sharp tongue, and devotion to learning, by the last years of Henry VIII's reign the Duchess of Suffolk was also an outspoken advocate of the English Reformation. She became a close friend of Henry's last queen, Catherine Parr, particularly after the Duke died in 1545, and was a strong influence on the Queen's religious beliefs. In 1546, as these views grew controversial, the King ordered the Queen's arrest, though his wife managed to cajole him into cancelling this.
The Duchess of Suffolk once gave a banquet and during a party game afterwards named Bishop Gardiner as the man she loved least. She named her pet spaniel "Gardiner", provoking much amusement when she called her dog to heel. Several years later when Gardiner was imprisoned during the reign of King Edward VI, she is quoted as saying, "It was merry with the lambs when the wolf was shut up."
Suffolk died 22 August 1545, and it was rumoured that the King was considering the Duchess – still only in her mid-20s – as his seventh wife. In February 1546, Van der Delft wrote: "I hesitate to report there are rumours of a new queen. Some attribute it to the sterility of the present Queen, while others say that there will be no change during the present war. Madame Suffolk is much talked about and is in great favour; but the King shows no alteration in his behaviour to the Queen, although she is said to be annoyed by the rumour". But their friendship remained strong, and after Henry VIII's death in 1547, the Duchess helped fund the publication of one of Catherine Parr's books, The Lamentation of a Sinner. She also became a patron of John Day, England's leading religious publisher; Day printed various books with the Duchess of Suffolk's coat of arms from 1548 onward. Beginning in 1550, the Duchess helped establish stranger churches for foreign Protestants, principally Dutch, who were fleeing religious persecution on the Continent.
The Dowager Queen Catherine Parr remarried to Thomas Seymour shortly after the death of the King. In August 1548, she gave birth to a daughter and died several days later, presumably of childbed fever. Upon her death, her widower went for London with their new baby daughter. Months later, Seymour was arrested, tried, and executed for treason. Their daughter, Mary, was left an orphan aged only seven months. The Duchess of Suffolk was appointed guardian. The Duchess could not support the young infant so she wrote to Sir William Cecil, asking for funds. The letter reflects her resentment towards the child. The letter was obviously taken into account for in January 1550, an act in Parliament was passed restoring Mary to what was left of her father's property. No claim was ever made and the queen's daughter seems to disappear from history at this time. Parr's biographer Linda Porter believes that the child died and was buried near the Duchess's estate in Grimsthorpe. Years later, the Duchess also became the custodian of one of her Brandon step-granddaughters, Lady Mary Grey, when the latter was placed under house arrest after marrying without royal consent.
In 1551 both the Duchess's sons, already students at Cambridge, died within an hour of each other of the sweating sickness. Four months afterwards, attempting to reconcile herself to this tragedy, Catherine wrote to Sir William Cecil that 'truly I take this [God's] last (and to the first sight most sharp and bitter) punishment not for the least of his benefits, in as much as I have never been so well taught by any other before to know his power, his love, and mercy, my own wickedness, and that wretched state that without him I should endure here'. In recovering from this misfortune and its severe test to her faith, Catherine built a new life. In this period she employed Hugh Latimer as her chaplain.
She married her second husband, Richard Bertie (25 December 1516 – 9 April 1582), a member of her household, out of love and shared religious beliefs, but she continued to be known as the Duchess of Suffolk, and her efforts to have her husband named Lord Willoughby de Eresby were unsuccessful. In 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, the Berties were among the Marian exiles who left for the Continent. Their persecution by Stephen Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor, and subsequent wanderings were recounted in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, in an account probably written by Richard Bertie himself for the 1570 edition. During this period Sigismund II Augustus, the King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania appointed them as administrators of Lithuania, based at Kražiai.
After their return to England, they lived at Katherine's estate, Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire, and at court. By Richard Bertie, Catherine was the mother of Peregrine Bertie (named for their peregrinations in exile), who married Mary de Vere, only sister of the whole blood of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and of Susan Bertie, who married firstly, Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent, and secondly, Sir John Wingfield, a nephew of Catherine's friend, Bess of Hardwick.
Katherine and Richard Bertie's exile became the basis of a ballad by Thomas Deloney (1543–1600), The most Rare and Excellent History, Of the Duchess of Suffolks Calamity, and of Thomas Drue's play, The Life of the Duchess of Suffolk, published in 1624. It may also have been the subject of an unpublished play from 1600 by William Haughton, The English Fugitives. Katherine's second marriage to one of her servants and subsequent persecution also present parallels to the plot of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (1537/38– 14 July 1551) died of the sweating sickness an hour after his older brother.
Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent (1554 – unknown) Married firstly in 1570, Reginald Grey of Wrest, 5th Earl of Kent and secondly on 30 September 1581, John Wingfield by whom she had two sons Peregrine Wingfield and Robert Wingfield.
Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (12 October 1555 – 1601). Married 1577 Mary de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding. They had seven children.
^ a b c Goff 1930, p. 9.
^ Goff 1930, pp. 2–3.
^ According to Goff, he died at Hertford in Suffolk.
^ Harder 2008, p. 28.
^ Goff 1930, p. 13.
^ a b c d Wabuda 2004.
^ Harris 2002, p. 66.
^ Goff 1930, p. 15.
^ Goff 1930, pp. 10, 15–16.
^ Wabuda dates Suffolk's acquisition of the wardship to February 1529.
^ Goff 1930, pp. 17–18.
^ Goff 1930, pp. 23–4.
^ Goff 1930, p. 20.
^ Goff 1930, p. 23.
^ Goff 1930, p. 28.
^ Goff 1930, pp. 61, 83.
^ Goff 1930, pp. 7, 85.
^ Goff 1930, p. 37.
^ Anthony Martienssen,"Queen Katherine Parr", p. 195.
^ Richardson I 2011, p. 299.
^ a b c d e f g Linda Porter. Lady Mary Seymour: An Unfit Traveller, History Today Volume: 61 Issue: 7 2011.
^ Harris 2002, p. 109.
Goff, Cecilie (1930). A Woman of the Tudor Age. London: John Murray.
Harder, Melissa Franklin (2008). Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
Harris, Barbara J. (2002). English Aristocratic Women 1450–1550. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373.
Works related to Catharine Bertie at Wikisource: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 4, p. 403.
Her character is played by Rebekah Wainwright in the historical fiction series The Tudors, where she is called Catherine Brooke, and much of her story has been changed.
Catherine and her second husband Bertram appear in Stanley Weyman's 1891 novel The Story of Francis Cludde. It covers the period 1555-58, when the eponymous hero helps them escape Mary's agents and reach safety in Germany; he also is made godfather to their son Peregrine. As with most of Weyman's novels, the historical detail is accurate and well-researched.
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Which Country Produces the Most Papayas in the World?
In 2015, the country with the largest volume of the papaya output was India (X thousand tonnes), accounting for X% of global production. Moreover, papaya output in India exceeded the figures recorded by the world's second largest producer, Brazil (X thousand tonnes), threefold. The third position in this ranking was occupied by Mexico with a share of X%.
From 2007 to 2015, an average annual growth rate of papaya producton in India stood at +X%. The remaining producing countries recorded the following average annual growth rates: Brazil (-X% per year) and Mexico (-X% per year).
Global papaya production amounted to X thousand tonnes in 2015, rising by +X% against the previous year level. Overall, the global papaya output pursued a pronounced growth from 2007 to 2015. The trend pattern, however, indicated some noticable fluctuations throughout the analyzed period. The total output figures increased at an average annual rate of +X%. The growth pace was the most rapid in 2009, when the output figure increased by +X% from the previous year level. Over the period under review, the global papaya production reached its maximum volume in 2015, and is likely to continue its growth in the immediate term.
Over the analyzed period, an increase in global papaya production was primarily driven by disposable income growth and population growth. Furthermore, these key drivers are expected to continue promoting the papaya output in the immediate term. This general positive trend was largely conditioned by a measured expansion of the harvested area and solid gains of the yield figures.
The world papaya harvested area amounted to X thousand ha in 2015, which was -X% less than the previous year figure. The papaya harvested area indicated a slight increase over the period under review, representing a compound annual growth rate of +X% from 2007 to 2015. This trend pattern was relatively stable throughout the analyzed period. Over the period under review, the total papaya harvested area peaked in 2012, falling back in the following year. From 2013 to 2015, the total papaya harvested area fluctuated at lower levels.
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Except as noted below, the national finals of the Canadian Chess Challenge are played according to FIDE (World Chess Federation) rules for rapidplay games.
The touch move rule applies to all grades.
When castling, the king should be touched and moved first. Players will receive a warning for the first violation of this rule. Thereafter, if the rook is touched before the king, castling is not allowed and the rook must move (if legally possible).
Chess clocks will be used for all games in grades 3 to 12. The time control is 25 minutes for each player with a 5 second delay. Digital clocks will be provided.
For grades 1 to 2, clocks are added if necessary, after 40 minutes of play. The clocks are then set for 10 minutes with a 5 second delay. If both players agree, a clock may be used from the start of the game. The chief tournament director may, at his discretion, put a clock on a game at any time if it appears that either player is stalling or using an excessive amount of time..
Players must make their move and press the clock with the same hand. Clocks may not be picked up or moved during the game. The organizers determine on which side of the board the clocks are placed.
In case of a dispute, or any violation of the rules, or any irregularity (illegal move, illegal position), players should stop the clock and notify a referee immediately. Do not make another move or wait until after the game to make a claim. Once the game continues, most claims are invalid.
The penalty for illegal moves varies depending on the situation. In games with clocks, the penalty for the first illegal move is adding two minutes to the opponent's clock. A second illegal move forfeits the game. In games without clocks (grades 1-3), there is no penalty for illegal moves. After a clock is added, the penalties are the same as in games that start with a clock (adding two minutes for the first illegal move, forfeiting the game on the second).
3) If the opponent runs out of time, provided the following conditions are met: To claim a win on time, a player must notify a referee and have mating material. Claiming a win on time is invalid after a checkmate or stalemate has been played, or after a player has resigned or agreed to a draw.
Claiming a draw in a position that "cannot be won by normal means" is not allowed with the 5 second delay time control.
If a player has any questions concerning the rules, they may raise their hand and talk to a referee, in the language of their choice (French or English). In case of any dispute or claim, stop the clocks and summon a referee. Any decision by a referee may be appealed, if done immediately, to the chief tournament director. The decision of the chief tournament director is final.
Only the two players in a game may make claims concerning their game. For example, players may not call touch move or indicate that time has expired in someone else's game. One exception to this rule is that referees may point out illegal moves, but only when both players have at least 5 minutes remaining (Referees may not call touch move or indicate that time has expired).
Spectators (including parents and coaches) are not allowed in the playing area. Players may only leave the playing area during a game with the permission of a referee. Players may not speak with spectators during their game, even if they are permitted to leave the playing area. When a game is completed, the players become spectators and must leave the playing area. Spectators should remain quiet and not interfere in any game.
It is forbidden for players to have cell phones, or other electronic communication, computer, or media devices in the playing area (even if turned off). Spectators should have the ringer on their cell phones turned off.
Good sportsmanship is expected of all players and will make the event a more enjoyable experience for everyone involved. Shaking hands with your opponent before and after a game is customary. Players are encouraged to exchange provincial pins before the start of the game.
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Considering that there are very many vape stores in the current vast online platform,, it is not easy for one to find the best store easily. This is the main reason of this piece, to guide you on how to identify the best vape store online.
One, it is good tonsure that you are buying high quality products, meaning that you have to make sure that the vape store sells high quality product. The intelligent way of doing this is by checking if the vape store deals with high quality brands. This is a wise way of making sure that you get what you really want and of the quality that will satisfy you fully. It is always good to get the best quality that matches with the investment or money that you pay.
It is also good to make sure that the online vape store has branded E-liquids as well as vape devices. Through this, it will be very easy for you to know the visibility of their products in the current dynamic vape market. This is a paramount point because only reputable vape stores have branded products.
The online reviews are also superb way of telling if the vape store is credible or not, meaning that you should read them very carefully. This means going an extra mile to know what people say about the services and the products of the vape store. If the store is very well reviewed, it will be very easy to know that the store is committed in delivering the best services to their customers. You should therefore take time to read the online customer reviews so as to have a precise picture of what the services of the online vape shop are. If you are sure that the customer are happy and satisfied with the products and services of the online vape shop, then you will be sure that you will their next happy customer.
The experience of the online vape store should also be keenly evaluated. The reason behind this is a company that has been in the field for long, means that they are skilled in offering services to different people. In fact, with such a company that has been successful in the current market for quite some time it means that they deal with high quality products. It is obvious that if they have been in the vape market for quite time, it means that they are fully skilled in meeting the demands of their customers and exhibit high level of professionalism that yields good customer satisfaction.
Lastly, the accessibility and reliability of the vape shop is also very paramount. The reason behind this is rather simple because you may need their product at any given moment.
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Potomac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River.
The land that is now Potomac Village was first settled by Edward Offutt in 1714 after he was granted a 600-acre (2.4 km2) land grant "Clewerwell" by Lord Baltimore. His grant of land was by the Tehogee Indian Trail, an Indian trade route built by the Canaze Indian nation in 1716. Throughout the 18th century, what became known as Offutts Crossroads was a small, rural community which served planters and travelers. In the 19th century, a few small dwellings had been built along with a tavern established in 1820. By the time of the Civil War, the community contained two general stores, a blacksmith shop, and a post office which served a community of 100. Offutts Crossroads was renamed Potomac in 1881 by John McDonald. An Irishman and veteran of the Civil War, McDonald settled in Potomac around that time. He petitioned for the name change since postal officials were asking for brief names and there were already several other communities in the area with the name "crossroads". By the turn of the 20th century, Potomac experienced a period of growth. Thomas Perry, an operator of a nearby general store, built a house on the corner ofFalls and River Roads in 1902. More residential structures were built on the northern section of Falls Road throughout the 1920s and 1930s. During the 1950s, Potomac was one of many communities in Montgomery County to experience suburbanization. Potomac quickly transformed from a rural farming community to a suburban community from the mid to late 20th century.
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In reference to Charles (1987) fossil records show a great extent the order of development in living organisms. Specifically, fossil records seek to address the question of origin, development and classification of species in view of studying and understanding the characteristics and evolution process. On their own, fossil records are independent piece of evidence for common descent, and a very significant since they explain more about the past. George (1997) argues that, existences of Fossil is enough evidence and prove that evolution has been living over the past four to five million years ago. He points out that, though studying fossil records, it is evident and illustrated that life has been changing gradually up to the present time. As a matter of fact, discoveries of fossils in the past years have provided powerful evidence that organisms have been undergoing radical changes overtime. Organisms of the modern world have evolved over a period of time.
According to (Walt 2001) fossil evidence shows that various animals have similar bone structures, giving the superficial appearance and relationship between them. This main evidence indicates organism had a common ancestry until significant advancements were made in biochemistry. He points out that, Similarity in fossil does not imply a genetic relationship but rather the predictions and clear explanation of what is expressed and seen in the fossil records. If common descent occurred, then the organisms found in the fossil record should generally conform to a common family tree where the end nodes of the tree express separation occurrence of different species. In reference to Thomas (1966) finding, a rare hominid skeleton aged from 4.4 million years ago displays some surprising features, such as a skull and pelvis that give an hint that an upright walking combined with hands and feet t vacillated climbing of trees existed. In his attempt to explain further, he argues that the existence and new finding of fossil evidence for human compliment evolution to become more understandable and complete, in this regard, it is increasingly difficult to challenge discrete statements which go contrary to the claims of evolution theory in favor of Creationists theory which bears no point of prove rather than belief. According to Spencer (2001) Dragon Bone Hill in China has been the most outstanding site of cave with distinguished fossils of the first living species. Up to date, the fossil of Homo erectus still remains the largest cache of pokiness. The fossils are important to the history of organism evolution since they point out how Homo erectus behaved before Homo sapiens came to be. Charles (1987) asserts that, the remains of a cave man discovered at the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, was a composite of the remains of some fifty women, children, and men who unfortunately never escaped being a prey of a giant hyena which lived in the cave. In addition, it is said that Homo erectus found this homestead while he was on his plight from the rude and tide environmental change of Africa into Eurasia. The fossil still show that he used sharp rocks and fire wood to make fire indicating that the pecking man was a great hunter and gather.
In conclusion, fossil evidence is important in understanding of organism’s evolution because it helps us understand the concept of life on earth. It seeks to demonstrate how different species evolved through the study of the Fossils records. In this regard, the interpretation of the fossil record needs description of the fossils, classifying them in a biological context, and determining their age so as to provide the correct evidence. Many theories about how life evolved are understood by knowing the time sequence of the fossil record where by The age of fossils is expressed by relative dating or absolute dating of rock hence establishment of when the fossil was formed.
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How do I implement Gmail like swipe to delete list view in Android?
I am developing an application with a shop list in a listview. I need that when I swipe the item of listview to the right(or left), this item should get deleted from the listview.
I have my listview and only need the function to do it.
Library to make the items in a ListView or RecyclerView dismissable with the possibility to undo it, using your own view to provide this functionality like the Gmail app for Android does.
Add the .jar files to your project's libs folder, or add them as external jars to your project's build path.
To make an item in the list dismissable, you need ot place a ViewGroup (i.e. FrameLayout) as the root view of your layout. Inside the ViewGroup, add one view that contains the main content for the row (your primary layout when the row hasn't been dismissed yet) and another view that contains the contents of the dismiss layout (i.e. with an undo button).
For example, the following layout uses a FrameLayout with two child views: a TextView to contain the main content (populated by an Adapter at runtime), and a LinearLayout for the undo layout.
NOTE that the second child in the layout (here the LinearLayout), must have the visibility set to GONE, or both the data and the undo layout will be displayed in the row at the same time.
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Clinical Question In patients with major depressive disorder is tooth loss more prevalent than in people without it?
Clinical Bottom Line In adults with current depression, tooth loss is more prevalent than in adults without current depression. This is supported by a cross-sectional study that analyzed the association between tooth loss and current depression after adjusting for confounding factors in 80,486 adults using logistic regression analyses.
Key results The results showed that, after adjusting for confounding factors like sociodemographic factors and the use of oral health services, the odds of being in the 1-5 missing teeth, 6-31 missing teeth, or all-teeth-missing categories versus 0 teeth removed are higher in adults with current depression than adults without depression (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.35; 95% CI=1.14–1.59; AOR = 1.83; 95% CI=1.51–2.22; and AOR = 1.44; 95% CI=1.11–1.86, respectively).
The Evidence Validity: The cross-sectional study showed significant correlations between major depressive disorder and tooth loss. There were a large number of subjects in the study, which strengthens the evidence. One thing that might be a source of bias is that the survey was only conducted in 16 states, so there might be some non-coverage bias. Also, all the data obtained for the study was done via questionnaires, which could be a source of recall or response bias.
Applicability For patients with current depression there is a higher prevalence of tooth loss; therefore it is important to try and identify these patients and manage them appropriately to decrease the risk of tooth loss.
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When searching for the best cloud applications for your business, choose the app for the task at hand.
Businesses often take their first steps onto the cloud in a piecemeal fashion, with first one cloud app and then another. However, because these integrations can often happen in the pressure of the moment rather than after considered and deliberate decision making, some businesses find themselves with a sprawling network of cloud-based services, some of which are redundant, and some which may not fit the task.
In order to find the best cloud applications for your business, it’s important to look at what tasks you need to accomplish. If you need a robust sales tool, piecing together a number of smaller, cheaper applications won’t be as effective as a more comprehensive solution. On the other hand, if you only need your app to accomplish one task, there’s no need to over-invest in a more robust application.
To help you find some of the best cloud applications, here are a few broad categories many of the top services fall under.
1. Communication: Team messaging and video conferencing.
Cloud-based communication programs cover a wide range of services, from project management to video conferencing. One of the most revolutionary apps in this filed has been Slack, which practically dominates the industry for text-based group messaging.
However, for video conferencing applications such as Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, and join.me have been more effective. Hangouts is the most light-weight of these options, and is convenient in that users only need a Google account to join. Join.me is a mid-sized option which offers a few more features, including more stable connections for larger groups. Finally, GoToMeeting offers a broader toolset for larger businesses who frequently have recurring video conferences with members around the globe.
2. Cloud Storage: Drives and hosting.
Cloud storage allows users to access their files at any time, from any device. It’s especially crucial for file backups and for helping groups stay coordinated.
However, the larger your files are, the more storage you will need to pay for. For businesses with mostly text documents, Google Drive is an accessible cloud storage solution. Amazon and Microsoft have storage solutions (Amazon Drive and OneDrive respectively) that can be effective for users who rely on their product suites. Finally, Box has become a major market contender in recent years with a wider range of tools that integrate well with many other software services.
3. Marketing: Email, social, and automated tools.
Most marketing departments, particularly those focused on digital marketing strategies, operating without cloud-based tools is basically impossible. Some of the most popular tools for small businesses include email managing tools such as MailChimp, and social media scheduling tools like Hootsuite. Some programs, such as Coschedule, offer a combination of these programs, along with options that allow synchronization with other popular marketing applications.
4. Sales: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
That said, marketing automation and sales often blend together in the sphere of cloud application software. Nowhere is this more apparent than with Customer Relationship Management software (CRMs). These cloud applications identify visitors using browser cookies, then track their behavior to better target marketing materials and cultivate sales leads.
The industry leaders in this field is unquestionably SalesForce. However, as a large platform with a lot of functionality, it can quickly become overwhelming for small businesses. HubSpot, another well-know brand in the CRM and marketing automation field, is more manageable with SMBs, as is SharpSpring.
5. Website: Content Management Systems (CMS).
These days, almost all websites are built using a cloud-based Content Management System. The most popular by far is WordPress, which powers approximately a quarter of the Internet. However, other popular CMSs include hosted options, such as Wix and Squarespace, or open-source platforms such as Drupal and Joomla.
These services make it easier for businesses to edit and update their websites, without needing to know any coding. As such, they are a powerful tool to help businesses represent their brands.
6. Accounting: Billing, invoicing, and time tracking.
Cloud-based accounting tools have helped many small businesses create and send invoices more efficiently, log expenses, and track time. FreshBooks and QuickBooks are at the top of the list, particularly for small businesses. With options to track time logged by project, client, and task, it helps organizations manage their time on projects more effectively, as well as track how employees are using their time during the day. This in turn helps businesses learn how their resources are being spent so that they can create better project estimations.
7. Software Suites: Software application packages.
Finally, many software brands have switched to cloud-based subscription packages rather than the license model they used to run on. By charging a monthly subscription fee, they can bring in users who otherwise couldn’t afford the up-front cost of the full software package. This also lets them offer related cloud storage services for files creating using their products.
The Google application suite, including Drive, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Hangouts, and more, is one of the most widely-used among small businesses. These services mirror the programs Microsoft offers with OneDrive, Word, Excel, Outlook, and Skype. Finally, Adobe offers a Creative Cloud service which links with its desktop apps to improve team coordination.
For a more integrated approach, private cloud is also an option.
Cloud applications can be a great boon to businesses in terms of improved productivity, communication, and backups. But managing numerous apps from a browser can be confusing, and sometimes the program you want to use doesn’t have a cloud counterpart.
Fortunately, there is an option for businesses who want to run their desktop applications in a cloud environment: a virtual desktop using a private cloud. With a virtual desktop, users don’t just log in to an application, they log in to the entire work environment. They can log out of their work computer, then log in to a laptop or home work station and find all their files as they left them.
While many businesses may still rely on other cloud apps for certain functions (marketing automation, for instance), private cloud can improve the overall accessibility of their data, as well as aid in backup and recovery services.
Brightline Technologies offers a proprietary private cloud environment for businesses who would like to take advantage of a virtual desktop. To learn more about how your team can benefit from these services, contact us today.
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Your bathroom is an area of the house that might not receive the attention that it deserves when you begin a remodeling project. Since it’s usually a smaller room, it wouldn’t require much in the way of new decorations, designs, and fixtures to transform the space into one that looks completely different. If you’re on a budget, there are a few ways that you can remodel the bathroom that will deliver an impact without spending a lot of money.
1. New colors in the bathroom will transform the look more than major renovations, and you don’t have to spend a lot of money on paint or tile. Remove the old paint from the walls so that you start with a clean surface. Choose a color that is light so that it makes the room appear larger. You can get mosaic tiles to put on the wall behind the faucets or on the shower wall. Another way to change the colors in the bathroom would be to put new tiles on the floors or new tile or another material on the counter.
2. Changing the hardware is another easy option that you have if you want a new look in the bathroom. If you combine this idea with new paint or a new floor, then you can have an almost completely different bathroom in no time at all. Try to get new hardware that is a different shape and design than what you had on the cabinets and drawers as well as a new color, such as chrome instead of brass or gold.
3. Take a look around hardware stores to see what bathroom and light fixtures are on sale. Change the fixtures in the bathroom based on these items instead of trying to find a specific design that might be a bit too expensive for the budget that you have. You can change everything from the towel racks to the switchplates on the walls. Other fixtures that you can change include the covers over the lights, the faucets, and the shower head.
4. If you want to replace the larger items in the bathroom, such as the toilet and the tub, then consider getting used items that you can refinish. You can often get these items from contractors or hardware stores that have extra supplies that they don’t need for a project or from stores that sell overstocked goods. Search online for items that people are getting rid of that are gently used for the bathroom. When you find something that you like, examine the plumbing connections to ensure that they will work in your bathroom.
5. Do as much of the work yourself instead of hiring a contractor. There are numerous videos online that show how to do everything from replacing the flooring to changing the toilet to a different one. You can also consult with family and friends to see if anyone knows how to perform bathroom remodeling work to keep from hiring a company as well.
6. The little details of the bathroom are often what people notice when they enter the room. These are the details that can make an impact whether it’s pictures on the walls or decorations on the counter. After painting the walls, you can apply stickers to them if you don’t want to hang pictures using nails or tacks. If you own the home, then you could use a paintbrush to paint designs on the walls for a unique look.
7. Use items that you already have in the home to put a personal touch on the bathroom. Examples would be a few pieces of sports equipment or a vase with flowers alongside a small shovel if you like to work outside. These are the details that will make your bathroom stand out and that will make it your own without spending a lot of money.
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are short-lived molecules. Thus, localizing the production of these molecules is essential if they are to participate in cell signaling events. Two groups report mechanisms for localized production of ROS by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase in migrating endothelial cells (Wu et al.) and in the growing tips of plant root hair cells (Carol et al.). Wu et al. report that in endothelial cells, recruitment of the adaptor TRAF4, which binds the p47phox subunit of NADPH oxidase, to focal adhesion sites through interaction with Hic-5, a focal adhesion site scaffold, allowed the local activation of NADPH oxidase, which biased the focal adhesion site environment toward tyrosine phosphorylation through the oxidative inactivation of the tyrosine phosphatase PTP-PEST, and the activation of redox-sensitive kinases such as Pyk2. Forcing TRAF4 to lipid rafts by addition of a myristoylation site also promoted activation of RhoA guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase), as well as the GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1, which increased the activity of the kinase PAK1, leading to phosphorylation and activation of p47phox, which in turn inactivated PTP-PEST by oxidation. Cells expressing the myristoylated TRAF4 also exhibited extensive membrane ruffling, which was blocked in cells also expressing catalytically inactive versions of the tyrosine kinases Pyk2 or Src. Endothelial cell migration was blocked if the abundance of either TRAF4 or Hic-5 was decreased by RNAi or if ROS accumulation was prevented by the addition of a superoxide dismutase mimetic. Thus, TRAF4 provides a mechanism for localized ROS generation, which contributes to a permissive environment for formation of transient peripheral focal adhesion sites. Trichoblasts of Arabidopsis roots form a single root hair by a process involving polarized growth and localized ROS production. Carol et al. identified a Rho GTPase guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor (GDI) encoded by the supercentipede (SCN1) gene that, when inactivated, caused multiple root hairs to form. In wild-type roots, ROS are locally produced by RHD2, the Arabidopsis NADPH oxidase. In the scn1 mutants, ROS was produced at the ectopic root hair cell sites and was more broadly distributed. The rhd2 scn1 double-mutant plants exhibited single root hair growth sites that failed to elongate properly. The Rho GTPase ROP2 was also mislocalized in the scn1 mutant root hair cells to the ectopic hair formation sites. These two articles show that localized Rho GTPase activity combined with localized ROS production contribute to polarized growth and movement in plants and animals.
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In order to explain what is LDAP in Active Directory, the role it plays and what it actually does, I will have to first start with a short description of what LDAP is.
LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and it is a client-server application protocol that provides the means and facilitates the use of a directory service and also maintains the information services over the network. For example, it can distribute the whole directory of files to a large number of devices on the network, replicate them and also synchronizing the content regularly. It comes from an older protocol for networks called DAP with the lightweight add which is actually a downside that comes from the fact that it’s simpler and also less secure.
Like any other Application layer protocol, LDAP does not dictate the way the programs should communicate and how data should be managed while reaching different network layers; it doesn’t do this for server and it doesn’t do it for the client either.
LDAP relies on lower layer network protocols (Network Interface, Internet, Transport) to support the communication of and between programs (flow of data on the network, addressing, error checking), while it only deals with providing common means (language) for programs (clients) and servers to talk. LDAP also supports some server to server language communication, mainly when we talk about replication and synchronization.
Active Directory is a Directory Service Provider, in fact a Microsoft implementation of LDAP.
Active Directory uses LDAP versions 2 and 3 and it also makes use of Kerberos protocol (network authentication protocol for devices to be allowed to communicate on a non-secure network) and last but not least, a DNS.
There are other IT software and system manufacturers on the market that have LDAP support and use LDAP protocol as the language for their Directory Services, for example: SUN, IBM, Novell and the list could go on.
Active Directory can be seen as a library or an address book that can be easily kept up-to-date, containing contact and other related information about people or their accounts, computers and devices that can be accessed by everyone with the rights to do so.
Active Directory can also store organizations, people, computers, encryption certificates, printers, files, devices and other resources on the network, while also supporting a feature to use the same password for multiple different resources, feature called “single sign on”.
LDAP in Active Directory will allow you to query the directory without knowing the domain name, server IP address, server hostname or even the location, being transparent to a user. Of course, as an administrator of a network you should know some of these things in order to help you manage the directory, but as a simple user with the simple right to install Administrative Tools, you could open up Active Directory Users and Computers from Administrative Tools Kit for example and browse through the different Directory resources, which is in fact a success of the query with the help of LDAP protocol through the use of Active Directory.
LDAP servers are also known as Directory System Agents (DSA). It can be used as a backbone or a structure for looking up people and computers or devices inside a network, for example in multinational companies. It can also be used to route and address emails using different clients like Microsoft Outlook and Netscape Communicator.
LDAP Clients connect to DSAs by default on TCP port 389.
If you are interested into knowing every little detail about LDAP, beginning with the actual communication between a LDAP client and a LDAP server and finishing with the actual commands that LDAP uses and many more, all is covered here:.
I still have a few more things to write about LDAP though, one of them being the fact that when we talk about an email client using LDAP for example, Microsoft Outlook, but not only, most of these clients can only read information from a Directory that they can’t write. The clients that can write or update information inside a Directory are just a few from the existing clients, those that also offer at least a SSL encrypted connection, due to the fact that doing this, requires a certain level of security and encryption, features that LDAP does not offer.
An administrator using LDAP can define permissions on the database (Active Directory) and if needed, he keeps some of the existing data as private. Schema is the format and the attribute value of the data in the LDAP database.
If you ask yourself why I still write about LDAP when the title and the focus of the article should be LDAP in Active Directory, the answer is: due to the fact that LDAP is one of the most important parts of a Directory Service, like in our case, Active Directory.
Windows Servers that run Active Directory are called Domain Controllers and they provide a structured location for network administration and security for users and computers. Active Directory Domain Controllers authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in the Windows Domain network, assigning and enforcing security policies for all Directory resources (objects). Such an environment also allows an administrator to deploy software on computers in the domain.
Active Directory can be easily integrated with Microsoft Outlook, having LDAP protocol running behind the whole architecture and creating an easy to manage environment and providing users with email and network services, using the common resources.
By now, you know that one way or another you have been using this protocol and even more: that Active Directory is what we can call a database system that provides all the things we discussed like authentication, authorization, policies, and hierarchical organization for the resources in a Windows Server technology based environment, while LDAP is a protocol for querying and modifying items in directory service providers like Active Directory, Netscape and so on.
As a note for a better index of the terms in your brain, you can remember Active Directory as a Directory Service Database while LDAP is a protocol that you can use to talk to Active Directory, your common language with AD.
I won’t hide the fact that you can’t find all the details on LDAP or LDAP in Active Directory, but if you check a few more sources, things might be clearer, if not already. The bottom line is that you shouldn’t focus too much on small topics like this, as the basic concept and what it stands for and does is enough because in our days we always see things changed by better and newer ones.
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How does the Potter author really feel after recent accusations levelled at the actor?
Earlier today, JK Rowling posted a statement on her website which finally addressed how she feels regarding the decision to continue with Johnny Depp cast as a major role in her wizarding world.
Some fans have protested boycotting the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them sequel if Depp reprises his role as Gellert Grindelwald.
The controversy stems from accusations his ex-wife Amber Heard laid out, proclaiming that allegedly Depp was "verbally and physically abusive" during their marriage. Depp has denied this, declaring her accusations "salacious false stories, gossip, misinformation and lies."
Until now, Rowling has remained silent on the subject but did today acknowledge that the reports “deeply concerned” her and others behind the production, and that she and director David Yates did indeed consider recasting Depp’s role.
Warner Bros. said it supported the decision in its own statement, and director David Yates has previously spoken out in support of Depp reprising the role.
Fantastic Beasts 2 - officially titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is due for release November 16, 2018.
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The popular British series Peaky Blinders has been recognized for its quality on several levels: acting, script and production. His wardrobe faithfully reconstructs the fashion of the 1920s in the United Kingdom during the interwar period, marked by poverty, marginalization, crime and social differences. As other series and movies have done, Peaky Blinders dresses the mafia with the best of fashion of its time. Suffice it to recall, for example, the Italian mafia in Francis Ford Coppola's classic The Godfather.
Peaky Blinders is followed all over the world, famous people are its spectators. La Nación of Argentina assures that it is the favorite series of president Mauricio Macri. Also the former star of British football, David Beckham, has declared himself a fan. But the former footballer has gone further, he has launched a collection inspired by the series that, from the first season, drew attention to the costumes: all kinds of tailored suits, flat caps, "gatsby", "ascot "and even hats.
Unlike other series, where what catches the attention is the feminine fashion, this stands out more for its masculine fashion.
Of course the wardrobe of Peaky Blinders did not come out of nowhere, it is the product of the fashion studio of the 20s that is reflected in every aspect of the screen. From this, Beckham decided in 2015 to acquire the company Kent & Curwen, specialized precisely in clothes of the time, according to the GQ magazine.
Now, at the London Men Fashion Week, Beckham presented by the hand of Daniel Kearns, former designer of Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent, the Fall-Winter 2019-2020 collection based on the popular series, made for both men and women, according to El País of Spain. The same newspaper, ensures that the former soccer player's company closed 2018 with sales of more than 130 million euros.
What characterized the fashion of the 20s?
1. Sleeve garter: Sleeve league, used to adjust the size of the sleeves of the shirts, since they were all the same size, it was then the way to customize it.
2. Interchangeable pieces: The collars and cuffs could be interchanged, being the parts that get dirty most of the shirts. This also allowed to give them a starched finish before putting it on the shirt and having a better hygiene with them.
3. Use of wool and tweed: The thick wool and tweed (rough wool) clothing were common at the time, the Shelby brothers practically uniformed with these fabrics that look impeccable.
4. Use of hats and hats: It was a common element both in the working class and in the upper class, designed for different contexts: playing polo, working, covering the rain, the cold, the sun, etc. The Shelby brothers use them with an additional accessory: the knives, which are their hallmark.
The designer of the series is Stephanie Collie, who has managed to work with the details so that the clothes look on screen. The color palette of the series is close to the grays and browns, in agreement with the photograph that shows a dark England, dirty by the coal, the smoke and something of the most characteristic of the time: the poverty, the delinquency and the corruption.
In addition, the production has taken special care with the cultural differences of the criminal groups of the plot that are reflected in the costumes, there are Italians, Americans, Jews, Russians and English throughout the four seasons.
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Does FieldNotes support a team environment?
Yes, FieldNotes can support a team environment. Whether your team consists of a lead and one assistant or a team of agents, FieldNotes can support you. You can set FieldNotes up to share the team client list, assign team members to certain clients and have an individual in charge of specific tasks.
You also have the ability to limit who has access and visibility by assigning "Admin", "Team Leads" or "Member" access. Admins can view all the tasks and contacts of all others, Team Leads can view the details of all members of their designated teams, while Members can only views the contacts that they own or the tasks that they have been assigned.
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Finishers are a new component of weight training, an after-the-strength-portion of the workout calorie burner and metabolism booster. I don't know if these are the "magic bullet" that some people (who sell finishers as a workout time-saver and super-fat-burner) claim they are, but they can be fun if you enjoy the sensation of your heart trying to jump out of your chest.
Seriously, finishers are a GREAT way to add cardiovascular conditioning (metabolic conditioning) to a serious weight session without resorting to the treadmill or elliptical.
• Getting in better shape typically requires some form of cardio work, but that doesn't mean hours on a treadmill or elliptical machine.
• A finisher is a short burst of high intensity performed at the end of a workout designed to speed up fat loss, boost recovery, and build conditioning.
• Finishers are elegantly simple, with most requiring very little specialized equipment – just a bar, dumbbells, and your own bodyweight.
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To highlight the shortage of African female political leadership, African writer, Dr. Ali Mazrui, while interviewing former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, sarcastically quipped that looking at the African leadership landscape - where many presidents seize power via coup d'états - more women should join armies and seize power to correct the gender inequit.
I laughed at this, remembering that while growing up in Nigeria, military officers enjoyed unprecedented privileges, thereby making joining the military attractive to many. Although most people for a variety of reasons eventually chose other career paths, it was often said that if the Nigerian army was like the Senegalese army, which is known as the most peaceful African military model, Nigeria would be a better country. So when I learned about the conference titled "Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed Forces" at Howard University organized by Salia Zouande, a member of Partners for Democratic Change (PDC), I attended to learn about their army's uniqueness.
The speaker, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop, is a proponent of women's integration into Africa's security sector, and his military engendering perspective is invaluable. He leads the Senegal-based African Institute for Security Sector Transformation, which was created by PDC to promote military, police, border-patrol and intelligence service members integration into civilian authority systems, including the parliament, executive roles and the judiciary in Africa, to stabilize careers, prevent conflict and coup d'état conducive environments, and improve governance by inducing better conceptualized and professional environments in the security sector. Below, he discussed with attendees his role in the Senegalese Army's women's integration process.
What prompted you to discuss this topic?
I'm here for a dialogue because integrating women into the security sector, particularly into the military, is an important but challenging issue. However, the views I’m expressing are mine as a researcher and don’t represent Senegal’s official views.
What is history's impact on Senegal's military?
In my opinion, like most African countries, our military was abruptly inherited from the colonialists. Conceptual and theoretical facets were overlooked. Studies defining needs, processes and enhancements weren't conducted prior. Adding to this unstable foundation, there’s an ongoing integration of women, which is creating new challenges. Therefore, institutional foundations like proper governance, organization, documentation and process definition should be the focus and can be executed by reviewing and revamping existing structures to ensure the military's positive future.
What's the current state of Senegalese women?
Framed within the context of our Traditional, Islamic and Christian religions and culture that promotes strong patriarchal dominance, it's not optimum. Based on the Senegalese proverb that a man's success is based on his wife's care, there's strong sentiment advocating women being housewives to care for their families. Whether viewed positively or negatively, this model, in my opinion, is prevalent, especially in the rural areas. It also affects women's treatment, expectations of them and opportunities they are availed.
How have culture and religions affected Senegalese women?
They have not facilitated women's emancipation. Although modernity and economic realities have integrated working women, some men are still averse to it. Also, some women are reluctant to engage in some activities, including occupations in the security sector, particularly the military, while constituting 52 percent of the population.
What are Senegalese women's attitudes to their new military career opportunities?
Culturally, engaging in certain physically violent activities isn't perceived as feminine. Certain Senegalese women don't desire such opportunities, so they aren't passionately expressing their integration desires by vocalizing, demonstrating or advocating societal support. One part of our society isn't encouraging it either. Some expressed interest, while stating their aversion for being the military's weak links, so it's a gradual process. Surprisingly, this is contrary to the famous women who played key roles during our colonial emancipation and also currently in the economy. So sometimes there is an impression that men are advocating for them.
How did the integration occur?
In 1984, Senegal decided that women should be included as health officers and medical doctors. In 2008, the president instituted their inclusion with strong political will because he believes the country’s army should mirror the society. If some say that women weren't consulted and military leaders and organizations weren’t equipped to implement the order, huge efforts are being deployed to ensure its success. In July 2010, the first group of women was integrated. Several groups followed and currently there’s an increasing percentage of women in the military.
What prompted President Wade's integration decree?
In my opinion, it's a personal conviction. He's passionate about gender issues, and nominates and promotes women like Senegal's first female Prime Minister, Madior Boye. He champions women's causes like enabling a 30 percent female senate. He also imposed elective gender parity, which political parties must respect; otherwise their membership list is rejected.
How did you become involved in the process?
Recognizing there wasn't much time to evaluate the integration conditions and that there wasn’t well known sub-regional positive models to emulate, provisions ensuring the integration process's successful execution had to be made. The Ministry of Armed Forces’ contacted our institute. Thus, the institute initiated discussions with partners at the United States Africa Command, the Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Geneva, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a branch of the National Defense University and they all joined the project.
What assistance did you provide?
Studies of the armed forces' available legal founding documents were undertaken for 45 days which revealed that many articles and policies don't allow for women's fair and pleasant presence. So, a diverse platform including civic society members, lawyers and former ministers, chiefs of defense staffs and armed forces leaders was formed. A comprehensive document in which weaknesses were identified and recommendations given was realized. A harmonization process was initiated to ensure the project's implementation by presenting the platform’s findings at a three-day conference to which female armed forces leaders from the United States, Gabon, Nigeria, Mali and Gambia were invited to share their experiences. The document was reviewed and another 10-page summary of the recommendations given by the participants was created. Then the findings were confronted with the National Strategy Work of the Ministry of Gender, because this is a total reorientation.
Officers trained to lead men are tasked with leading and interacting with women. They need to be sensitized and guided. Thus, with the Ministry's experts, there is an agreement on a road map to help build the necessary capacities that ensure gender sensitivity by creating a national document, while ensuring that the country’s adherence to ratified regional and international policies, treaties, conventions and constitutions is in line with the Ministry of Gender's guidelines to train and guide operational staff who issue documents. There are plans to issue tactical training documents for service men who interact with woman, and we have also advised that the rules for interactions must be set.
While integrating women into the military, human resource challenges are often initially faced. For example, concerning military marriages, adopting the French model allowing inter-category marriages could be potentially problematic, as well as the American model which only allows intra-category marriages because love transcends rank. There's no perfect decision. Both models have strengths and weaknesses, and any model adopted will be criticized, so the country’s leaders will decide, keeping our culture in mind.
Operationally, the military requires soldiers' open availability for immediate deployment; therefore coping with many maternity leaves isn't feasible. For example, the French healthcare security sector is approximately 60 percent female. However, many are often unavailable for deployment because they are breast-feeding or pregnant. Therefore, one has to recognize women's reproductive needs as well as deployment availability needs. Also, to avoid gender discrimination, paternity leaves need to be considered, because more men want time off to attend their child's birth and to bond.
How are Senegalese military women treated?
Operationally they're treated the same as men except for gender specificities. However, in the Senegalese paternal culture, men often decide the family's location. Thus, previously, if a woman was posted and her husband objected, there were opportunities for her to stay. Now, if a woman is transferred, her whole family can move with her. So there are mindset changes.
What lessons were learned from neighboring countries regarding military women's treatment?
In some countries, women aren’t always treated properly and are often discriminated against by those who should protect them. Also, in some cases, higher-ranking men abuse their power by having inappropriate relationships with their female subordinates who otherwise wouldn't, for fear of retaliation, victimization and/or not being promoted.
What decisions should be taken based on this knowledge?
To prevent such practices from prospering there’s a need to put structures and processes in place where women can report such cases.
How will sexual harassment situations be addressed?
The definition in the Senegalese context is necessary, so everyone understands what it means, because some words or actions considered sexual harassment elsewhere are considered compliments in Senegal. However, a code of conduct needs to be developed, documented, explained and thoroughly understood for a harmonious dual-gender barrack life.
How are you feminizing the military?
Reviewing certain women's requests to feminize their functions and titles will be considered, because currently they're masculine. For example, a subordinate says, "Mon General" meaning, "My General," but it conveys a masculine connotation.
What are the gender-specific issues?
It is understandable for unlisted women to be paid higher allowances and thus cost a little bit more because their needs are more expensive to maintain. Unfortunately, this can frustrate some men, instigate accusations of women’s preferential treatment and cause discord. While such treatments can be appreciated by the general population, they can also hamper the military’s cohesiveness—a key element of military power—and cause diminishing operational capacities.
What's your view on women in combat?
The Senegalese society, like many others isn't prepared for the mistreatment or killing of women it entails. Even in the West, women aren't sent to the front lines because the enemy will exploit it by using such images to elicit sympathy for their cause and/or turn people against the war.
Do females make armies weaker?
Women are value added. Israel's efficient army includes women. However, women possess physical and biological limitations and often display dissimilar predispositions to men's. For example, their patience and precision makes them excellent pilots and strikers. However, we must be aware of women's predispositions to utilize them wisely.
Are mechanisms ensuring continued gender sensitization in place?
Monitoring mechanisms are important. Gender observatories should be developed to ensure female representation and perspective inclusion. A database needs to be created, and a reorientation policy reviewed regularly. Also, focal points ensuring process implementations must be created in all organizations and field surveys and research and development, which aren’t resource intensive, but often overlooked, must be conducted.
Are you being assisted by some gender-equity organizations?
Partnership with gender-equity organizations is inevitable in order to learn from them and adapt their expertise to the military’s environment.
The military's legal documents, in line with national legal documents assume men are breadwinners. Therefore, if men die, their widows receive pensions to compensate for their breadwinner's loss. Now that both men and women are breadwinners, if wives die, men should naturally receive pensions. So, documents must be reviewed to address this. However, one should remember that due to polygamy, many women don't want their widowers using their death pensions to marry or care for other wives and children. So why not consider direct pensions disbursements directly to children for example?
How is the new dual-gender military being promoted?
Advocacy will definitely ensure the military's ownership of their resource acquisition processes, because it's cost intensive. Also, tactical workshops and case studies need to be done to promote them.
How will you sustain and grow female numbers?
In my opinion, an assessment of the positive impact of women's presence since joining the military must be measured to ensure proper decision-making to improve recruiting and retaining women. Also, affirmative action should be employed to ensure a certain percentage of women. However, if the criteria are set and recruitment is merit based, women should receive roles fulfilling their quota. The question to grapple with is, do we only base our criteria on what's good for both genders and not a fixed percentage?
Is there a shift in African countries' military styles?
Yes, but slowly. Until independence, the military was under colonialists with authoritarian rules focused on squashing revolts. After independence, it didn't change in many countries. They kept oppressing citizens and were not protection oriented like they should be under democratic rule. Except for some African countries, there's now a relational shift occurring. The military is improving because training is improving and professionalism is encouraged, but there's room for improvement. Even some democratic leaders have manipulated armies for their personal interests to ensure their stay in power, but technologies allowing improved communication flow are discouraging that. Work is also being done on a code of conduct of 15 principles to ensure better African militaries.
Is the feminization discussion occurring in other West African countries' military?
It's happening in Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Mali, Ivory Coast [halted by their recent conflicts] and Liberia, having learnt their war lesson. However, many other countries aren't having this discussion.
Why is Senegal's military unique in Africa?
It's because of the high educational levels. After independence, President Senghor focused on investing in human resources because Senegal has few natural resources, so 40 percent of the annual national budget is dedicated to education to ensure Senegal’s autonomous survival.
Why is Senegal the only West Africa country without coup d'états?
This question is often asked. In the foreseeable future, based on my assessments and experience as a researcher, the Senegalese military won't be involved in power seizures. The military's role is defense, not ruling. American sociologist and political scientist Morris Janowitz who authored the book, The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait, which is based on civil-military relations, conducted studies on professionalism and military involvement in coup d'états. He says the more professional service members are; the less likely they'd be to engage in such. Also, British political scientist and historian, Samuel Finer, who was a major contributor to the study of civil-military relations and authored the book, The Man on Horseback, echoes similar sentiments.
Aside from that, a Senegalese soldier knows the constitution, the leaders’ and citizens’ expectations of him, and the death and destruction in countries with military takeovers, so there's no incentive to do that. Professionalism, high educational levels, and having peaceful leaders such as President Senghor and General Diallo—who possessed a clear military vision, because he was a lieutenant in the French Army Core of Engineers, and a strong leader who understood the military's role—have helped Senegal.
What are your thoughts on African military presidents?
Service men aren't trained to rule. The military system is authoritarian and command and execution oriented. It's not democratic, dialog or communication oriented, which are required for political leadership.
What are you doing to assist other African countries?
Many partners are interested in the work that is being done because they’d like to share the findings and model when completed with other countries. However, one must be humble to not be perceived as and/or accused of being immodest. So, while not trying to impose its model, Senegal’s experience could humbly be shared, and it's up to other countries to adopt it or not.
In my opinion, the Senegalese experience has been successful because it’s backed by the president's strong political will, and women were also included in the process.
What future plans are you tasked with?
I believe Senegal has created guidelines to induct women into the military most people are satisfied with, but there is still a need to identify goals and ways to reach them. Also, documents such as the National Security Strategy, which is one of the most important documents that identify countries’ threats, interests, opportunities, weaknesses and strengths, must be kept gender sensitive. If it isn’t, other documents depending on it will be invalid. There’s also a need to advocate operationally to ensure gender sensitization of military doctrines and concepts, including employment strategies.
Finally, the Ministry of Gender could help define and write a realistic and comprehensive guiding National Sectoral Policy on Gender Issues, which will include benchmarking objectives achievable within two to five years. It is also necessary to review capacities and training methods, and reinforce the new model by continuing training at centers of excellence and routinely issuing documentation discussing gender issues. So this is an ongoing effort that all stakeholders have to be committed to.
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In a world's first, Germany has launched two hydrogen-powered trains on a line in northern Germany, with a plan for up to 14 more to be released in the future.
In a green energy milestone, Germany has announced the launch of the world’s first hydrogen-powered train.
As the world’s nations struggle and attempt to come up with new ideas to combat climate change, Germany is the first country that has vied to introduce a new alternative to diesel trains, one of the most intensive vehicles for emitting carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Although solutions abound for small-scale transport systems like electric cars and metro lines, dealing with larger and much more inefficient vehicles like trains, ocean liners, and airplanes have been a struggle up until now.
Hydrogen power has long presented itself as a solution to these problems, and now Germany has taken the first step in showing other nations that carbon-neutral mass transit systems are not only possible, but profitable.
Two hydrogen-powered trains, developed by the French company Alstrom, have been launched on a 62 mile stretch of rail in Northern Germany as a test run for further development within the country.
Along with being entirely carbon neutral, the trains are also far quieter than their diesel counterparts, meaning that they are also reducing noise pollution in the area.
On average, the trains are able to run for 600 miles on one tank of hydrogen, which can easily be sourced in a carbon neutral method.
The Alstrom company claims that it will deliver another 14 hydrogen-powered trains to the region by 2021 in a step towards completely replacing diesel trains in the area.
Although some have raised questions about the initial cost of the new hydrogen-powered trains, their long-term upkeep is a fraction of the cost of older diesel trains, meaning that governments and rail companies can easily save money as they slowly integrate the trains into their transport system.
Alstrom also claimed that other nations are also interested in the carbon neutral trains, including Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Italy, and Canada. France has been the most vocal of these interested parties, promising to introduce hydrogen-powered trains on French railway lines by 2022.
However, the top speed of these hydrogen-powered trains is 86 mph, meaning that they do have limits in their abilities to provide high-speed transport solutions at the moment. These limits, however, are bound to increase as research and investment in the industry further develops.
Do you think this is a more viable alternative to electric line trains?
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Where is NBC News’ headquarters?
NBC News‘ world headquarters is at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The building originally opened in May 1933, with studios dedicated to radio production.
The building’s studios were clustered in the 16-story mostly windowless base of the building.
30 Rock’s original design also included floors dedicated for future TV studios.
Over the years, most of the radio studios were converted for television or other uses as the network changed hands, including becoming owned by the conglomerate GE.
In 1996, NBC purchased the space it has leased for 60 years.
The studio space is now used for multiple NBC and NBC News programs.
In 2014, Comcast, which had purchased NBC, was granted permission to remove the giant “GE” letters from atop the building.
The building was also renamed the Comcast Building.
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Why should learning English be your priority?
When looking forward to learn english, your best bet would be zoni language school. The language school offers a world of options in most parts of the US. The language school would help you learn to write and speak English language in the best manner possible.
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Представете си ароматно шилешко месо, запечено; с ароматна, хрупкава коричка! Не е невъзможно, нали?
А за гарнитура добре овкусени, топящи се в устата картофи.
Да се захващаме за работа! Днешната рецепта е печено шилешко с картофи на фурна! В тази рецепта за шилешко използвах бут, но можете да я приготвите също с плешка например. Обикновено когато пека на бавен огън шилешко, агнешко, свинско или друго месо го шпиковам, но този път не го приготвих така. За да стане ароматно и да не се изсуши просто периодично го поливах с бульона. И се получи вълшебно!
Шилепкото месо се осолява. 2 с.л. зехтин се смесвват с половината червен пипер, половината лют пипер, половината чубрица, черния пипер и сушените зеленчуци.
С тази смес се обтрива добре месото.
Слага се да се пече в тавичка, като на дъното на тавичката се изсипва виното, чесъна и половината от бульона. Завива се с фолио.
Пече се около 30 минути на 200 градуса, след това с лъжица се полива с бульона и се пече още около 1 час на 150 градуса. Периодично се облива с бульон.
После се добавят картофите с останалите подправки и шилешкото с картофи се пече още около час.
Бутът се оставя за около 15 минути след като се изпече да си „почине“ и след това се накъсва на парчета и се поднася с картофите.
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What should we plan to buy as souvenirs or gifts to take back from our Spain vacation? We want something authentic, and priced reasonably.
Cliched but still the most popular souvenir to take back home from Spain. Bullfighting originated in Andalucia, so I would ideally buy bullfighting souvenirs in Seville or Ronda, close to the most historic and original bullfighting rings.
The bullring museums of Seville and Ronda are the best places to buy bullfighting memorabilia. Las Ventas gift shop at Madrid is also a great option. You can check their online shop to have a preview of items available.
When you buy a Toledo steel souvenir, you are helping a dying art survive.
Ideally, you should buy Toledo Steel gifts and souvenirs from Toledo! But at Madrid, shops opposite the Prado also have authentic Toledo steel souvenirs. Just be careful of custom checks in your home country when bringing in swords.
When you visit Spain, it is almost an unwritten rule that you must buy flamenco related souvenirs and gifts. My suggestion is to buy flamenco dresses (polka-dot skirts, dancing shoes, castanets) from Seville. If dresses do not appeal to you, buy flamenco fans, especially the hand painted wooden ones, even if they cost a little more. You will find them at the Flamenco museum at Seville but for the best ones head to Flamenco y Mas on Calle Perez Galdos 32,Seville.
When I get back home from Spain, I make it a point to carry bottles of Sherry to distribute as gifts. Everybody seems to love them. Not everyone knows that for a wine to be called Sherry it needs to be made in the Sherry triangle of Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlucar de Barrameda, and El Puerto de Santa Maria. You can choose from dry styles of Sherry - Fino (Manzanilla), Amontillado, Palo Cortado and Oloroso. A great idea is to take an empty bottle to a tabanco sherry bar, and have them fill it straight from the barrel for 5 euros.
In many upscale bars and restaurants around the world, Cava has started to make its mark. Cava is the Spanish Champagne. La Rioja region has some of the best red wines in the world. La Rioja wineries are the best place to buy cava and other Spanish wines. Don't bother buying wines or cava in a city store because they sell the mass consumed stuff available all over the world.
Paella is easily Spain's biggest export. Paella traces its origin to Valencia and Albufera. You must buy an authentic Paella pan as a keepsake from its place of origin. Resist the temptation to buy them from the department stores.
Bota bags are traditional wine bags made from sheep skin. They make great gifts to give to your friends back home. If you want to invest in a high quality bota bag for yourself, you should go to a 'botería' (bota bag workshop) where you can also watch as they are made.
Madrid has a boteria at Calle del Águila 12, 28005, Madrid, La Latina district. Remeber, black bota bags are the real thing.
The lace shawls used by the best professional flamenco dancers and high society women in Andalucia, are one the most expensive souvenirs you can gift to yourself. The best ones are available at Seville.
Ceramics in Spain has been part of the tradition for centuries.For the best range, buy in Seville from shops in Triana. For porcelain, Lladro is obviously the best. The factory and discount outlet in Valencia is worth a half day visit.
Damascening is the art of inlaying precious metals like gold or silver into an oxidized steel background. As a souvenir, a damascened article is a must-buy when you visit Toledo.
Spain's Jamón Ibérico is the most famous cured ham in the world. Authentic Jamón ibérico comes from black Iberian pigs bred in the Iberian Peninsula.
It makes for a great souvenir to take back home but in some countries, it is illegal to import ham. Check rules of your country before you buy. If you can take them back as a gift, you should buy Jamon Iberico in Huelva, Salamanca or the Alpujarras. It is only in these places that Iberian pigs are bred.
Spanish olive oils make a great souvenir. Not many know that Spain is the largest producer of olive oil. Some of the world's finest olive oil is from Spain. Jaen in Andalusia is the centre for Olive oil production in Spain and also the hub of "oleoturismo” — olive oil tourism. Make sure the olive oil is from Jaen.
Did you know that 70% of the world's saffron comes from Spain's high Castilian plateau known as La Mancha. Saffron was introduced to Spain by the Moors during their occupation of Spain. A bit of Spanish history is packed in every strand of saffron!
Shops around the Granada Cathedral have the cheapest saffron in Spain. You can also buy from gourmet foods counter at El Corte Ingles. Look for 'Azafran D.O. la Mancha' mark of authenticity.
Best place to watch a bullfight in Spain.
It is a great idea to buy a Paella pan as a souvenir or a gift from Spain. Carbon steel is the most traditional material for Paella pans, while enameled steel is easiest to maintain and practical. Pans start at 10 euros for the small ones.
An authentic paella pan is round, shallow, and with a large diameter. Paella pans are not supposed to have a lid. The larger the Paella pan, the thinner the layer of rice, which makes it taste more delicious.
You can buy Paella pans at department stores all over Spain, along with ‘arroz bomba’ the rice used to make Paella.
Flamenco fans are available in all souvenir shops; but if you happen to go to Seville buy a Flamenco fan on your visit there. They could cost as low as 5 euros for the roadside stall variety and go up to 100s of euros for the intricate handmade designs.
The price of Flamenco fan souvenirs varies according to the size of the fan, the material and construction, the quality of the fabric and the handmade designs.
Here is an interesting article about the way fans became part of communication in traditional Spain.
Typically Spanish in origin, the bota bag is a goatskin turned into a container. A boat bag was traditionally used by Spanish peasants for carrying wine and other liquids. The bag is referred to as "bota de vino" in Spain.
A bota bag is a great souvenirs or gift from Spain as it is practical and commonly used for carrying wine on trips without spoiling it. Authentic boat bags cost 25 euros and upwards.
Madrid has an authentic boteria (boat bag maker) at Calle del Águila 12, 28005, Madrid, La Latina district, where you can watch the bags being made from scratch.
Saffron is the best souvenir to buy if you are short of luggage space. Granada and Malaga have the best saffron but you can buy it everywhere in Spain. It is an essential ingredient of Paella.
You must know that saffron is very expensive and costs about 20 euros per gram in Spain. It costs multiples of that outside Spain. You can never go wrong with a gift of saffron from Spain.
Spain is famous all over the world for their azulejos or ceramic tiles. The ceramics are the best in Seville and if you are in Seville go to Triana district to buy the real thing as a souvenir!
You can visit the workshops in Triana that make the ceramics. Prices start at 5 euros and go into the hundreds. Of course if you don’t go to Seville you can also find authentic ceramics all over Spain.
The famous Spanish cured ham Jamon Iberico is a Spain in every bite. Jamon Iberico is best had with melon, washed down with sangria or even beer. If you are in Madrid buy Jamon Iberico from the Jamon Museum. This is a great gift or a souvenir in every bite!
Be aware that pata negra is Jamon Iberico by a different name.
A traditional looking bullfighting poster with your name on it in the space for the matador, is a great souvenir or gift from Spain.
These posters are inexpensive and can start at 5 euros, going up to the hundreds for original fight posters.
Note that these posters will not be available in Barcelona as easily as in Madrid or Andalusia when’re bullfighting is still a sport.
If you are from outside the EU, don't forget to claim your VAT refund before you leave Spain. VAT forms are available at all stores. You need to show customs your purchases so don't pack them in with your check in baggage.
Jamón ibérico are excellent as a souvenir. However, it is illegal to bring any pork products into the U.S.
The same restriction holds true in many countries. If you do buy gourmet ham as souvenir, it is possible that customs department will just toss it out.
The reality is that more olive oil is produced in Spain than in Italy. Spain produces about 45 percent of the world's olive supply as against only 20 percent from Italy. Also Spanish olive oil is different from that of Italy.
However, thanks to 'Godfather' film and book, it is Italy that is strongly associated with Olive Oils. I once bought the best olive oil brand from Andalucía region of Spain and gifted it as a souvenir only to be told that they were looking for something more Spanish!
Spanish wines (Rioja, Malvasia wine from Canaries, Cava - Spanish champagne made in Catalonia and Sherry) make a great souvenir. Before you buy bottles of wine, remember that one person can bring one liter into the U.S. duty-free. Additional quantities has to be declared and are subject to duty and Federal excise taxes. At the time of writing, the duties are not too high.
Airlines will not allow wines in your carry-on luggage. Wine bottles has to be in your checked luggage. If you are taking more than three bottles, consider buying a wine suitcase.
It may sound cliched, but Bullfighting memorabilia is still the best Spanish souvenir. You can buy poster print reproductions either at Seville or in Madrid. If you looking for something more authentic, hunt for bullfighting memorabilia in El Rastro market, Madrid. You can also consider buying sword and cape in the Gran Via area and ask them to ship to your residence.
You can buy Gaudi memorabilia at the well equipped gift shop at Casa Batlló. If you want a heads up on what is available, browse at their e-store. If you buy them online, they will even ship the memorabilia to your residence.
FCBarcelona has more than 3,000 different gift items. You can browse them at the huge store at Camp Nou stadium or any of their other stores in Barcelona.
Real Madrid has also many stores across Madrid.
The famous Mantones de Manila have various versions. The original Spanish mantilla shawls are handmade, of lace and silk. They are expensive and start at a couple of hundred euros each. The really good ones could go to 2000 euros. Calle Sierpes in Seville has the most beautiful mantons. You can buy the mantilla (full square shawl) or Pico "medio-mantones" shawls which are triangular.
I am not a fan of buying souvenirs online if you are already going to Spain. You don't know what you will receive in the mail. If your reason to buy online is shipping convenience, then my suggestion is to buy your souvenirs in person, and ship them ahead to your home country. The Spanish postal service is my top recommended option to do this. Make sure you insure the contents.
When to go souvenir shopping in Spain?
Local shops in Spain are closed in the afternoons, so go when they open around 10am or at 5pm. Of course all department stores (like El Corte Ingles) are open through the day. Note that in smaller cities of Spain the shops may be close from Saturday afternoon all the way through till Monday morning.
Ideally buy all your souvenirs at the city you are flying out from - Madrid and Barcelona have souvenirs from all over Spain. If you must buy a special, very local souvenir midway during your trip in Spain, be prepared to carry it with you all over the country until you leave Spain.
- go to department stores like El Corte Ingles, in big cities.
- focus your shopping on the high street or main street stores, in the smaller cities and towns.
Don't forget the flea markets and food markets of Spain for souvenir hunts!
Flea Markets in Spain are a great place for authentic souvenirs.
Madrid has The Rastro flea market every Sunday on Calle Ribera de Curtidores in Madrid every Sunday. Also, Plaza Mayor has a Sunday flea market.
Barcelona’s best flea market is Mercat del Encants on Placa de les Glories Catalanes. There is also one on Las Ramblas.
Barcelona food markets - La Boqueria or Santa Caterina.
Valencia food markets - Mercado Colon or Mercado Central.
Malaga - Mercado de Ataranzas.
Madrid - Mercado San Miguel.
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QUESTION: What are Edgar Cayce readings?
When Edgar Cayce would go into his "self-induced" sleep state, he would be asked questions. His answers to these questions became known as Edgar Cayce readings. Over 14,000 of these readings were recorded by a stenographer and are now available for viewing.
It worked like this: Cayce would lie down, with his hands folded over his stomach. He would then allow himself to enter a "sleep state." Cayce's assistant would say the name and location of someone who requested a reading. The assistant would then ask Cayce questions about that person. Cayce would answer with remedies and cures to health issues, predictions of future events, etc. These answers became known as readings. Some of his famous remedies include: "bedbug juice" for dropsy; "oil of smoke," a remedy for a leg sore; and "fumes of apple brandy from a charred keg" a remedy for tuberculosis.
According to the Association for Research and Enlightenment's website, (Cayce's organization), "The underlying principle of the readings is the oneness of all life, tolerance for all people, and a compassion and understanding for every major religion in the world."
Although Edgar Cayce claimed to be a devout Christian, we can rest assured that he did not speak words from God. You see, every prophet of God has to be 100% accurate. Deuteronomy 18:21-22 says, "You may say to yourselves, 'How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?' If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him."
Numerous Cayce readings were not fulfilled on the date Cayce predicted. Although many people report that they received help for their illness or disease, if Cayce was a prophet of God, his record would be 100 percent accurate. God is incapable of lying!
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The holiday of a lifetime... not.
What are some of the worst things that can happen while you’re on holiday? Look at the list below and discuss your ideas with a partner.
● You could get robbed.
●A war could break out.
● There could be an outbreak of a disease.
● The hotel could shut down.
● There could be a general strike.
● You could lose your baggage.
● There could be riots.
● The airline you flew with could go bankrupt.
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Who is Dominico Cuccarese Born in Castellammare di Stabia (na) italy on 03/08/1981 and moved with his family in various places ', Rome, Naples and then again in Latin at the age' of 9 years, where he began to passionately to the instrument of the piano age 13, he entered the conservatory as a private but was admitted to the Latin quarter, here came out' scandal at the conservatory ... more Domenico not touch 'a piano key disappointed by the ambiguous system that there was some music institutions until the age 'of 26 years when by chance he went on holiday in Ischia island known Neapolitan visiting the gardens follow the Aude' a musical concert and reinnamoro 'back of the instrument by studying composition privately. maybe .. '.... not true ... there are only ex-musicians musicians leave out the instrument for a while' and then return to more 'aggressive than before ...' cause the music and 'a trip ... . a "JOURNEY TO THE CLOUDS" ... I dedicate this album to anyone in my life who believed in me, mocking my passion and my bowels stepping musical.
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The Maratha empire occupied the Deccan plateau in India. The Hindu Marathas had long lived in the Desh region around Satara, in the western portion of the Deccan plateau, where the plateau meets the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats mountains. They had resisted incursions into the region by the Muslim Moghul rulers of northern India.
The lands of the Marathas were ruled in turn by various dynasties, from the Satvahanas, the Chalukyas in various guises, the Rashtrakutas, and the Yadavas of Devagiri, until they were invaded by Alladin Khilji, the sultan of Delhi. The Khilji dynasty ruled the Deccan from their capital at Delhi, and this rule later passed to the Tughlaq dynasty.
In the seventeenth century the Marathas found a new leader in the form of Shivaji, the son of the general, Shahaji Bhosale, who had been active in Ahmednagar between 1633-1636, leading the battle against the Moghuls until his defeat, from around 1658, Shivaji was able to free the Marathas from the Muslim sultans of Bijapur to the south-east, and carve out an independent Maratha zone around Pune, incorporating the Bijapur and Golconda sultanates and some Moghul areas. After a lifetime of exploits and guerrilla warfare against the Moghul emperor Aurangzeb, Shivaji died in 1680, leaving a Maratha kingdom of great extent but strategically and vulnerably located.
Headman of Hingani Beradi and Diwalgaon villages near Pune.
Son. Headman of Verul village. Later a noble in Ahmednagar.
Son. General in Ahmednagar and later Bijapur.
The Moghul ruler, Aurangzeb, faces constant battles against the Maratha king, Shivaji in the Deccan from his base in Ahmednagar. Increasing his territory by steadily capturing areas of Bijapur and Golconda, Shivaji proclaims himself emperor (chatrapati).
Son. Founder of the empire.
Brother. Founded the Thanjavur (Tanjore) dynasty.
Moghul emperor Aurangzeb deputes Jai Singh of Amer to tackle Shivaji. Shivaji is no match for Jai Singh's mammoth army, and he is forced to sign the Treaty of Purandar. Humiliated and imprisoned by Aurangzeb, Shivaji manages to escape and resume his attacks on the Moghuls, winning back all the forts he had surrendered under the treaty and increasing the size of his fledgling kingdom.
Son. Killed by Moghul emperor Aurangzeb.
After an alliance with Aurangzeb's son, Prince Akbar, fails, Durgadas, the regent of Marwar, and Akbar take refuge with Sambhaji. In 1682, Aurangzeb himself camps on the Deccan in order to deal with the problem himself, but it takes him until 1689 to capture Sambhaji. Refusing to embrace Islam, the short-tempered Sambhaji dies a tortuous death, but his sacrifice spurs on the Marathas.
Shahuji is crowned king, but very quickly afterwards he and his mother are turned over to the Moghuls. A traitor by the name of Suryaji Pisal, the killedar of Fort Raigad, surrenders both them and the fort to General Zulfiqar Khan, soon-to-be nawab of Arcot. Recognising the need for unity, the Marathas immediately elect the Rajaram, Sambhaji's half-brother, as their next king.
Uncle and regent in 1689, king thereafter.
The capital, Satara, to which Rajaram had earlier moved, is besieged and taken by the Moghuls. Shortly afterwards, Rajaram dies, and his widow, Tarabai, assumes control in the name of her son. She offers a truce which Aurangzeb rejects, so the war continues.
Mother and regent. Exiled to Kolhapur.
Tarabai leads the Marathas across the River Narmada and enters Malwa, then in Moghul hands. The ensuing battle is a decisive one. The Marathas emerge victorious after a drawn-out and fiercely-fought battle, effectively ending Moghul dominance on the Indian subcontinent.
With the death of Aurangzeb, the refugee Rajput, Durgadas, is able to reclaim Marwar. Shivaji also advises the Bundelas of Panna to establish an independent domain. The new Moghul emperor, Bahadur Shah, releases Shahu, son of the dismembered Sambhaji, and he challenges Tarabai and her son for the throne. A short civil war sees Tarabai and Shivaji defeated and sent away to Kolhapur which they govern as a princely state.
Not being especially interested in becoming involved in the politics of government, the mild-mannered Shahu appoints a Peshwa (chief minister) as head of state with certain conditions that he must follow, making the position an hereditary one. The Peshwas become the de facto leaders of the empire, while Shivaji's successors continue as nominal rulers from their base in Satara, while subsidiary branches rule their own domains in Baroda, Kolhapur, Nagpur, and Thanjavur.
A union of three Rajput states, Mewar, Marwar, and Amer, fails and the increasingly powerful Maratha empire is able to conquer the entire Rajasthan region.
Grandson of Raja Ram & Tarabai, adopted by Shahu I.
The Moghul vazir, Gazi ud din, controls the imperial throne from 1754, installing the next emperor and working with the Marathas to help them consolidate their power in the north. In 1759 they briefly capture Delhi itself.
Adopted son. Figurehead between 1803-1808.
The Peshwa sends an army to challenge the Afghans, and the Maratha army is decisively defeated on 13 January 1761 at the Third Battle of Panipat. Maratha internal feuding has cost them greatly in this battle, especially their failure to agree with the Jats and Rajputs, which checks their expansion, prevents the capture of Delhi, and encourages the fragmentation of the empire. Many Maratha lords are killed, including the ruler of Dhar (even today the phrase in Marathi, 'meet your Panipat', has a similar meaning to the phrase 'meet your Waterloo' in English).
Delhi is again captured by the Marathas, but this time they hold onto it for a longer period.
The First Maratha War takes place against the British East India Company. The Maratha empire becomes a looser confederacy, with political power resting in a 'pentarchy' of five Maratha dynasties: the Peshwas in Pune, the Sindhias of Malwa and Gwalior, the Holkars of Indore, the Bhonsles of Nagpur, and the Gaekwads of Baroda.
The Marathas have recently evacuated Delhi, so the opportunistic Afghan Rohillas march on the city, but financially, Delhi is already bankrupt. Finding nothing to loot, the Afghans blind Shah Alam II just before the Marathas return to save him and drive away the Rohillas.
By 1802 a situation of near civil war exists when two Peshwa generals, Daulatrao Shinde of Gwalior and Yeshwantrao Holkar of Indore, start fighting between themselves. Bajirao II aligns himself with his mentor, Daulatrao. However, Holkar ultimately triumphs, and Baji Rao flees to Bombay in September 1802, to seek help from the British who, fresh from their successes in other parts of India, are waiting for an excuse to take on the Marathas. But the Peshwa's move infuriates the Shindes of Gwalior and the Bhosales of Nagpur, who consider it a insult to Maratha self respect. They chose to fight, in the Second Maratha War (1803-1805), but both are defeated by the British. The Holkars of Indore join the war late, and eventually force the British to agree peace terms.
With Maratha power showing cracks due to the internal politics between the Peshwas and their sardars, the British also attack Delhi in 1803. The emperor is helpless against them, and they keep him as a figurehead until his death.
Last Maratha emperor. Relegated to Satara.
The Third Maratha War results in a decisive victory for the British against the Peshwa in India. The last Peshwa, Baji Rao II, is defeated, and the Maratha empire is largely annexed, bound by treaty to the British Crown. The Marathas appear to rule, but are little more than puppets. The Maratha heartland of Desh, including the Peshwa capital of Pune, comes under direct British rule, except for the states of Kolhapur and Satara.
Satara was the original heartland of the Marathas before the empire was created. Following the final Maratha defeat at the hands of the British in 1819, Satara was one of two Maratha principalities which were allowed by the British Bombay presidency to survive the fall of empire, the other being Kolhapur. However, although relations between Pratap Sinh and the East India Company were initially cordial, they eventually broke down, and the king was removed from his throne and banished to Benaras.
Former Maratha emperor. Dethroned and exiled.
Shahaji III is also known as Abba Sahib II or Jangli Sahib Bhonsle Maharaj. He, like Shahu II Raje, is also the birth son of Shrimant Sardar Trimbukji Raje Bhonsle. He is adopted by Maharajah Pratapsinh to succeed him in 1839.
On the death of Shahaji III, the Doctrine of Lapse is invoked in order to veto the succession by his adopted son, Venkuiraje Bhonsle. Instead, the state of Satara is annexed to the Bombay presidency, and Venkuiraje Bhonsle is left with nothing more than an hereditary title. Kolhapur remains a princely state until India's independence from British rule in 1947.
Modern Satara falls within Maharashtra state. In 1848 Satara fell directly under British rule, while the Maratha seat of Kolhapur was recognised by the British as the actual throne of the Marathas. In Satara, the Maratha heirs retained the right to use the title of maharaja without holding any power, with Shahaji's adopted son being the first to be accorded this status.
Adopted son of Shahaji III.
Like several generations of Marathas before him, Pratapsinh remains childless on his death. His widow, Tara Bai, takes the traditional approach and adopts a son to succeed him.
Both these two Maratha princes remain childless at death, so the widow of Bhav Sahib, Tara Bai Sahib Maharaj, has to adopt a son to succeed him. Fortunately, Pratapsinh II, is able to produce his own heirs.
Son and now a prominent politician.
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European discovery and exploration of the San Francisco Bay Area and its islands began in 1542 and culminated with the mapping of the bay in 1775. Early visitors to the Bay Area were preceded 10,000 to 20,000 years earlier, however, by the native people indigenous to the area. Prior to the coming of the Spanish and Portuguese explorers, over 10,000 indigenous people, later to be called the Ohlone (a Miwok Indian word meaning "western people"), lived in the coastal area between Point Sur and the San Francisco Bay.
Early use of Alcatraz Island by the indigenous people is difficult to reconstruct, as most tribal and village history was recorded and passed down generation-to-generation as an oral history of the people. A large portion of this oral history has been lost as a result of the huge reduction of the California Indian population following European contact and exploration. Based on oral history it appears that Alcatraz was used as a place of isolation or ostracization for tribal members who had violated a tribal law or taboo, as a camping spot, an area for gathering foods, especially bird eggs and sea-life, and that Alcatraz was utilized also as a hiding place for many Indians attempting to escape from the California Mission system.
Once Alcatraz Island became a prison, both military prisoners and civilians were incarcerated on the island. Among these were many American Indians. The largest single group of Indian prisoners sentenced to confinement on Alcatraz occurred in January 1895 when the U.S. government arrested, tried and shipped nineteen Moqui Hopi to Alcatraz Island. Indian people continued to be confined as prisoners in the disciplinary barracks on the island through the remainder of the 1800s and the early 1900s.
On this day, Indian people once again came to Alcatraz Island when Richard Oakes, a Mohawk Indian, and a group of Indian supporters set out in a chartered boat, the Monte Cristo, to symbolically claim the island for the Indian people. On November 20, 1969, this symbolic occupation turned into a full scale occupation which lasted until June 11, 1971.
In actuality, there were three separate occupations of Alcatraz Island, one on March 9, 1964, one on November 9, 1969, and the occupation which lasted nineteen months which began on the 20th of November, 1969.
The 1964 occupation lasted for only four hours and was carried out by five Sioux, led by Richard McKenzie. This short occupation is significant because the demands for the use of the island for a cultural center and an Indian university would resurface almost word for word in the larger, much longer occupation of 1969.
The November 9, 1969 occupation was planned by Richard Oakes, a group of Indian students, and a group of urban Indians from the Bay Area. Since many different tribes were represented, the name "Indians of All Tribes" was adopted for the group. They claimed the island in the name of Indians of all tribes and left the island to return later that same evening. In meetings following the November 9th occupation, Oakes and his fellow American Indian students realized that a prolonged occupation was possible. Oakes visited the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA where he recruited Indian students for what would become the longest prolonged occupation of a federal facility by Indian people to this very day. Eighty Indian students from UCLA were among the approximately 100 Indian people who occupied Alcatraz Island.
It is important to remember that the occupation force was made up initially of young urban Indian college students. And the most inspirational person was Richard Oakes. Oakes is described by most of those as handsome, charismatic, a talented orator, and a natural leader. Oakes was the most knowledgeable about the landings and the most often sought out and identified as the leader, the Chief, the mayor of Alcatraz.
Once the occupiers had established themselves on the island, organization began immediately. An elected council was put into place and everyone on the island had a job; security, sanitation, day-care, school, housing, cooking, laundry, and all decisions were made by unanimous consent of the people.
The federal government initially insisted that the Indian people leave the island, placed an ineffective barricade around the island, and eventually agreed to demands by the Indian council that formal negotiations be held. From the Indians side, the negotiations were fixed. They wanted the deed to the island, they wanted to establish an Indian university, a cultural center, and a museum. The government negotiators insisted that the occupiers could have none of these and insisted that they leave the island.
By early 1970 the Indian organization began to fall into disarray. Two groups rose in opposition to Richard Oakes and as the Indian students began returning to school in January 1970, they were replaced by Indian people from the urban areas and from reservations who have not been involved in the initial occupation. Additionally, many non-Indians now began taking up residency on the island, many from the San Francisco hippie and drug culture. The final blow to the organized leadership occurred on January 5, 1970, when Oakes's 13 year old stepdaughter fell three floors down a stairwell to her death. Following Yvonne's death, Oakes left the island and the two competing groups maneuvered back and forth for leadership on the island.
The federal government responded to the occupation by adopting a position of non-interference. The FBI was directed to remain clear of the island. The Coast Guard was directed not to interfere, and the Government Services Administration (GSA) was instructed not to remove the Indians from the island. While it appeared to those on the island that negotiations were actually taking place, in fact, the federal government was playing a waiting game, hoping that support for the occupation would subside and those on the island would elect to end the occupation. At one point, secret negotiations were held where the occupiers were offered a portion of Fort Miley, in San Francisco, as an alternative site to Alcatraz Island. By this time, mid-1970, however, those on the island had become so entrenched that nothing less than full title to the island, the establishing of a university and cultural center, would suffice.
In the meantime, the government shut off all electrical power, and removed the water barge which had provided fresh water to the occupiers. Three days following the removal of the water barge, a fire broke out on the island. Several historic buildings were destroyed. The government blamed the Indians, the Indians blamed undercover government infiltrators trying to turn non-Indian support against them.
The new population on the island became a problem as time passed. The daily reports from the government caretaker on the island as well as testimony from the remaining original occupiers complain of the open use of drugs, fighting over authority, and general disarray of the leadership. An egalitarian form of government was supposed to prevail, yet no leadership was visible with which the government could negotiate.
The occupation continued on into 1971 with various new problems emerging for the Indian occupiers. In an attempt to raise money to buy food, they allegedly began stripping copper wiring and copper tubing from the buildings and selling it as scrap metal. Three of the occupiers were arrested, tried and found guilt of selling some 600lbs of copper. In early 1971, the press, which had been largely sympathetic to this point turned against them and began publishing stories of alleged beatings and assaults; one case of assault was prosecuted. Soon, little support could be found.
In January 1971, two oil tankers collided in the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Though it was acknowledged that the lack of an Alcatraz light or fog horn played no part in the collision, it was enough to push the federal government into action. President Nixon gave the go ahead to develop a removal plan -- to take place when the smallest number of people were on the island and to use as little force as possible.
On June 10, 1971, armed federal marshals, FBI agents, and special forces police swarmed the island and removed five women, four children, and six unarmed Indian men. The occupation was over.
The success or failure of the occupation should not be judged by whether the demands of the occupiers were realized. The underlying goals of the Indians on Alcatraz were to awaken the American public to the reality of the plight of the first Americans and to assert the need for Indian self-determination. As a result of the occupation, either directly or indirectly, the official government policy of termination of Indian tribes was ended and a policy of Indian self-determination became the official US government policy.
During the period the occupiers were on Alcatraz Island, President Nixon returned Blue Lake and 48.000 acres of land to the Taos Indians. Occupied lands near Davis California would become home to a Native American university. The occupation of Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Washington, D.C. would lead to the hiring of Native American's to work in the federal agency that had such a great effect on their lives.
Alcatraz may have been lost, but the occupation gave birth to a political movement which continues to today.
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Is the OPC a fundamentalist denomination? Does it interpret the Bible literally? What would you not interpret literally that a fundamentalist church would? How are you less rigorously Reformed than these churches, is it mainly the drinking issue?
Technically speaking we are not fundamentalist, if you mean by it that we narrow our interests to only a few doctrines and a strict literalism in interpreting Scripture. Our doctrinal standards are the Westminster Confession of Faith and its Catechisms. We refer to these as our secondary standards, Scripture coming first; we believe they give an accurate presentation of biblical doctrine. We do hold the Bible to be the literal Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and written by men moved by God to write what he desired. We also hold the Bible to be inerrant. We identify ourselves as Reformed, i.e., holding the doctrines of the Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Solus Christus, Sola Gratia and Soli Deo Gloria. We hold to the Westminster Standards.
I would say that the OPC is rigorously Reformed, however. We believe that the church is to be reformed by the Word of God, including dealing with the Bible as it deals with itself. If the Scripture depicts an event or person as a literal historical reality, we believe that it is indeed literal history. If a passage is figurative, we will try to understand the figure from the clearer passages.
As far as interpreting the Scripture literally, we believe there are portions that must be interpreted literally: God created the world in six days, Christ literally became a man while remaining God, literally died on the cross for sinners and literally arose three days later and will really and literally return one day. There are fundamentalists who do not believe the Bible uses symbolic language, and argue that only literal interpretations are accepted. The church and Israel, for example, are not to be identified; Israel has one track and the church another. (Perhaps you might know more about these differences than I do, though, coming as you do from that background.) Bear in mind that fundamentalism was not despised by most of our founders. For more information on our founder, J. Gresham Machen, who was happy to call himself a fundamentalist when the Bible was being attacked in the early twentieth century, see the biography on this giant of the faith by Ned Stonehouse, or a briefer version by Henry Coray.
We do not believe it sinful to drink alcoholic beverages, while we do believe the Bible calls drunkenness a sin. As to drinking, we respect the consciences of those who reject drinking as a Christian liberty, but disagree in calling drinking itself a sin.
I could go on, but this should be enough to help you see we are not traditionally fundamentalist while holding to many if not all of the same fundamentalist doctrines.
I think your best course would be to simply make an appointment with an OPC minster and ask him questions and hear answers and discuss them. One thing you will find we agree on with our fundamentalist brothers and sisters is this: sinners must come to Christ and rest in him alone to be saved. Not a bad starting point, is it?
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A pair of numbers, (x, y), that locate a point on a coordinate plane.
The largest factor that 2 or more numbers have in common.
The smallest number, other than zero, that is a multiple of two or more given numbers; The LCM of 10 and 18 is 90.
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How do you tell if your child is gifted? Schools that have programs for gifted students are often able to identify them by using traditional screening methods, like group IQ tests, review of achievement test scores and past grades, observation, and getting input from teachers and parents. So, when it comes to discovering if your own kid is gifted, one option is to wait and see whether teachers or others at your child’s school recommend testing for a gifted education program.
Yet you shouldn’t be entirely dependent on the schools when it comes to identification. Keep in mind that many teacher training programs require little (if any) course work in giftedness, so some teachers and school administrators may not have all the information they need to recognize gifted children. For this reason, your insights are important, and the more knowledge you have, the better position you’re in to partner with others when selecting the best programs for your child.
Early identification is also important when a young child is showing behavioral or social differences — not fitting in, being highly focused on unusual interests, appearing more distractible or inattentive than others of the same age — and parents want to understand the cause. These characteristics may be features of giftedness, or they may be signs of an emotional problem, a condition like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), such as Asperger’s Syndrome. Knowing a child’s IQ can allow insight into their atypical development and help to avoid potentially harmful misdiagnoses.
Some gifted children may not be particularly high achievers in the classroom. These students may have problems with attention (which may or may not be related to ADHD), have poor organizational skills, or simply not “mesh” with the teaching style in the classroom, and therefore may be overlooked when it comes to the selection of gifted program candidates.
The school had never tested Mike for giftedness. Whatever screening process was in place had missed him. Possibly because he didn’t fit the high-achieving, cooperative, wunderkind image that some teachers look for when making recommendations for gifted screening. Yet it turned out that his IQ measured in the in the Exceptionally Gifted range (fewer than 1 of 1000 kids score this high on an IQ test). His problems at school were not atypical for such children. Had he been identified earlier and placed in an alternative program, many of his academic and social problems might have been avoided. At the very least, Mike’s parents and teachers would have had a better understanding of his problems and been able to collaborate from a more informed perspective to come up with solutions.
Parents who are aware of the signs of giftedness can better collaborate with the schools to help assure that their own child’s potential and learning needs are not overlooked.
As you’ve probably guessed, without proper assessment, there is no easy answer. There are no universally accepted traits that you can look for and no definitive signs that will tell you for sure whether your child is gifted. However, many gifted children share some common characteristics, and knowing these is a good place to start.
The reason for these common traits may have a lot to do with the physical characteristics of the brain. Giftedness is the result of both environmental and genetic factors, and both of these influences can lead to differences in the way that the brain works and develops. Some researchers believe that gifted children’s advanced cognitive skills actually result — at least in part — from the ability of their brains to process information faster and more effectively than others their age.
The brain is made up of billions of nerve cells, or neurons, which communicate with each other by releasing and receiving chemicals called neurotransmitters. These chemicals travel through dendrites, root-like structures which branch out and seek connections with nearby neurons at junctures called synapses. The more of these dendrites and synapses we have, the greater our “brain power” — our ability to process information, to perceive, interpret, reason, problem-solve, remember, and do all kinds of tasks associated with learning. It appears that every time we do or experience something — read a book, have an emotion, look at a picture — a specific group of neurons associated with that activity “lights up,” stimulating the growth of more dendrites and “exercising” those already in place, making them better processors of information. All else being equal, the denser and more efficient these neural connections, the easier it is to do the thing that is associated with that area of the brain.
The denser, more efficient neural connections shared by gifted children could help explain the common characteristics many of these children share. But keep in mind that not every gifted child will show all, or even most, of these characteristics, and some will show traits that are quite contrary to what you might expect in a gifted child. It’s commonly known that Albert Einstein learned to speak at a late age and didn’t read until he was 7. Gifted children can be as different from one another as they are from the rest of society.
Below, I’ll review some traits that gifted children may possess. But keep in mind that trying to identify gifted children by comparing their behaviors and traits against lists such as those presented here can be tricky. After all, many or even most children will show a lot of these same characteristics. The most important thing to do when considering your own child is to look at him or her in the context of other children of the same age. If there are consistent, noticeable differences, then advanced mental abilities may be present. Another clue may be that others — friends, relatives, teachers, neighbors — notice and comment on the same traits that you’re seeing.
Gifted children are often more emotionally intense than others. They can also be more sensitive to others’ feelings and circumstances, and may display a great deal of empathy in situations where others their age appear indifferent.
Some gifted children show only a few of the signs listed above, or show traits that are quite the opposite of what you’d expect. For example, some will start to speak late rather than early, some will be emotionally reserved rather than intense, and some appear to think and speak slowly rather than quickly.
Also, keep in mind that there are children who show gifted qualities when it comes to language or emotional traits, but who do not appear exceptional when it comes to learning or academics. While some of these kids may have a specific learning disability getting in the way of their performance at school, others may have learned early on to hide their abilities in order to better fit in with others their age, or to avoid the pressures of higher expectations. And of course there are children who show many of the signs here who do not measure in the gifted range once they are tested. Does that mean they are not gifted? Not necessarily. Many kids don’t shine on IQ tests due to test anxiety — or sometimes because of the very qualities associated with giftedness. For example, IQ tests typically have timed subtests, meaning that the faster a child responds or correctly completes a task, the more points she earns. However, gifted children who are perfectionists may respond more slowly than others, taking their time, working carefully and methodically, and checking their responses for accuracy. A gifted child with a high energy level who has a hard time focusing attention on structured tasks may also be at a disadvantage when it comes to performing in the rigidly structured atmosphere of an IQ test.
In addition, it’s true that children can be gifted in one area (verbal skills, for example), but show only average ability in others (such as perceptual or nonverbal reasoning skills, which are important for math achievement). While these children’s full-scale IQ score might not measure in the gifted range, they may still demonstrate some common traits of giftedness. For example, a verbally gifted child with average nonverbal reasoning skills may still be emotionally sensitive and have an excellent memory.
Identifying giftedness can be tricky, particularly regarding those who test right around that “magic” cutoff point of 130 or so. And IQ tests are certainly imperfect instruments and only one piece of the puzzle. Your insight and instincts, along with those of your child’s teachers, can often be the most important pieces needed to truly understand your child’s unique gifts and potential.
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Identify the hazard to employees of running the blower/rotary valve while cleaning the trucks.
Ensure a procedure is established for the carrying out of cleaning in a safe manner.
Ensure staff is adequately trained to operate the machinery.
Employee had both ankles broken by tailgate of blower truck, then was knocked forward into rotary valve where his hand became trapped and resulted in finger amputation.
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I got a shipment of modern Chinese pop music from my folks back home, and as I played it in my car stereo, I thought the songs didn't sound right to me. It seems to me that lyricists nowadays put words with the wrong tones onto the wrong music notes, which causes a jarring effect.
This reminds me of something my Chinese teacher said in school: many Chinese names have alternating tones (by that I mean "ping jak" in Cantonese -- we simply don't put three characters in "ping", or "jak" together. We alternate them.) Chinese names with the same tones just don't sound right to us.
Anybody out there also speaking a tonal language? Caring to share your experience with us? Is there a universal phonological rule underlying all tonal languages?
I hope you get some responses. This is fascinating.
Meanwhile, I've always wondered: In English we using a rising tone to indicate we are asking a question. But in Chinese, doing that would (I assume from my limited knowledge of it) change the meaning of the last word or so of the sentence, wouldn't it? In English we also use rising and falling tone throughout whole phrases, sometimes to indicate some emotional state or another.
So how can you ask a question in Chinese? How can you indicate emotional states? Is this done by superimposing a sort of "tone of voice" over the tones on the individual syllables? Or is there an entirely different grammatical or pragmatic "machinery" for showing these things?
How can you indicate emotional states?
Is this done by superimposing a sort of "tone of voice" over the tones on the individual syllables?
I guess you can say that. That is in addition to other expressive modes common to most languages, like stretching or speeding up the pronunciations.
I learn Mandarin, and as far as I'm aware, singers have always altered tones somewhat to fit melodies. Do you think there has been a change recently?
Three identical tones in sequence don't seem to slip off the tongue very well. I'd also be interested to learn if other tonal languages have similar naming habits (avoiding these) - I would certainly guess so.
Maybe this is a recent thing with Cantonese songs?
"In modern Mandarin songs, the melodies dominate, so that the original tones on the lyrics seem to be completely ignored. In Cantonese songs, however, the melodies typically take the lexical tones into consideration and attempt to preserve their pitch contours and relative pitch heights."
yes, that's true for cantonese songs. There's 6 or arguably 9 tones in cantonese. Every minor change in tones can represent a whole different meaning and hence people avoid doing it.
for example, "nang gau" (be able to) is a common cantonese word that we use it every day, but if you carelessly say it in high pitch, it can mean *** and ***. Deadly embarassing for anyone.
How can you indicate emotional states? Is this done by superimposing a sort of "tone of voice" over the tones on the individual syllables? Or is there an entirely different grammatical or pragmatic "machinery" for showing these things?
Good question. Tones are fixed and can't be changed in most cases in chinese, but we can use facial expression, and some words (like WA!! AH!!! AIYA!! ) to express our emotions.
I think it's not a characteristic exclusively for tonal language. Japanese is famous for their exaggerating facial expression. I believe it's because its intonations are too flat, and it must be complemented with strong facial expression.
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What is the difference between spirit and flesh?
Almost since its beginning, Christianity has had a complicated relationship with the teachings of the Greek philosopher Plato. Part of this complication has to do with what I consider a misunderstanding of two Greek words that the apostle Paul uses: pneuma (spirit) and sarx (flesh). Paul describes these two entities as being in perpetual conflict and exhorts us to live according to the spirit rather than the flesh. In Plato’s philosophy, there are two levels of reality: the abstract realm of forms and ideas and the concrete realm in which these forms and ideas are expressed in particular objects. Plato also defines the human soul as consisting in three parts: reason, emotions, and appetites. Many of Christianity’s mistakes have resulted from trying to map what Paul is talking about into these two sets of Platonic categories.
I have promised to obey your words.
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If you had lived 20,000 years ago, what would your diet have looked like? Certainly, your diet back then could not have been more different from our diets today. You would have eaten whatever you could gatherer, hunt or fish instead of what is convenient to heat up from the ready-to-eat meals in the grocery store.
Even if you are eating a diet that is considered as healthy, we have to admit, that there is still no consensus of what a healthy diet really looks like. Diet recommendations ranging from low-fat vegan diets over high-fat ketogenic diet to even carnivore diets.
I argue that knowing what our ancestors ate can be an important key to understand what would be the ideal diet for us today as our bodies are genetically adapted to the food we used to eat for most of humans history.
A basic principle in biology is that “everything needs to be viewed in the context of evolution” and proper dietary or health practices cannot do without the lens of evolutionary biology.
Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90% of human history. Therefore, it makes sense to look at the composition of the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors to understand what might be the preferred diet of our bodies nowadays.
To estimate the carbohydrate content of hunter-gatherer populations, researchers from Germany analyzed 229 hunter-gatherer diets around the world.
To feed the energy-hungry brain, the early humans relied on another source of energy, especially if we consider that throughout evolution, our guts became smaller and less efficient to extract the energy from fiber-rich foods.
The authors of the paper “Man the Fat Hunter” explain that fat became of the most important source of calories. Fat provides 9 calories per gram, which makes it the most calorie-dense macronutrient compared to protein and carbohydrates, which only provide 4 calories per gram.
However, the brain cannot simply use fats for energy. Long-chain fatty acids packed in lipoproteins or bound to carrier proteins cannot pass the blood-brain barrier, which is the barrier that protects the brain and therefore, fatty acids need to be converted into so-called ketone bodies to cross the barrier and to provide energy for the brain.
Ketosis is a metabolic state in which some of the body's energy supply comes from ketone bodies in the blood. It generally occurs when the body metabolizes fat and converts it thereby into ketones, a process called ketogenesis. Ketogenesis can be reached by either fasting or by restricting dietary carbohydrates to 5% of the daily caloric intake.
The carbohydrates were also packed in fiber that dampens the insulin response and ensures a healthy gut.
I would argue that low-carbohydrate diets were most common for almost all humans and that ketogenic diets were not unusual, especially during the colder months of the years and for humans living in higher latitudes.
Seasonal changes in food availability likely led to changes in the diet from low or moderate carbohydrate intake where about 30%-40% of the energy is provided by carbs all the way down to ketogenic diets were most of the energy was provided by fatty meat, fish, nuts, and seeds.
Low-carb diets are the most common diets for hunter-gatherer around the world and ketogenic diets were common in higher latitudes.
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What is are cannabinoids anyway? Cannabinoids are the chemicals that are found inside the cannabis plant that will interact with the cannabinoids receptors in the body. These receptors are part of the endocannabinoid system found in all mammals. You have most likely heard of at least one of these cannabinoids before called Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol better known as THC the active component in cannabis. However there are others as well and this is where to learn about all the various cannabinoids and how the effect your body or what medical condition that particular cannabinoid treats.
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You are playing a video game in which several stacks of boxes are lined up on the floor, with a crane on top to rearrange the boxes, as shown in the picture below.
Further, there is a limit H on the number of boxes on each stack. If a 'drop' command would result in a stack having more than H boxes, the crane ignores this drop command. If the current stack has no boxes, a 'pick up' command is ignored.
You are given the initial number of boxes in each stack and the sequence of operations performed by the crane. You have to compute the final number of boxes in each stack.
the number of boxes in each stack from left to right would be 2,1,3,1,4,0,1.
• Line 1 : The width of the game (the number of stacks of boxes), N, followed by the max height H of each stack.
• Line 2 : N integers, the initial number of boxes in each stack, from left to right. Each number is ≤ H.
• Line 3 : A sequence of integers, each encoding a command to the crane.
• The command Quit (0) appears exactly once, and is the last command.
• The initial position of the crane is above the leftmost stack, with the crane not holding any box.
A single line with N integers, the number of boxes in each stack, from left to right.
• The number of commands is between 1 and 105, inclusive.
• 1 ≤ H ≤ 108.
There are 18 test inputs on the server during the exam.
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What country received the most aid under the Marshall Plan?
Great Britain, with $3.1 billion, received the most aid under the Marshall Plan; Iceland, with $32 million, received the least.
The aid came in the form of grants, food, goods, and tariff reductions.
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What are the best foods to eat for maintaining healthy eyes? We’ve compiled a list of five delicious, nutritious and easy recipes for you to try at home this summer.
Good eye health can start from what you eat. Nutrient-rich foods are key in maintaining a well-balanced diet and improving your ocular health. Vitamin A, vitamin C, Omega-3 fatty acids and lutein have been proven to maintain healthy cells and tissues in the eye. They can slow down age-related eye problems, diseases and help against dry eyes. Sources of these nutrients can be found in a range of foods, including high citrus fruits, eggs, oily fish, carrots, green vegetables and even sunflower seeds.
Tip: In particular, compounds that give fruits and vegetables their pigments are known to reduce the risk of eye diseases. So, thankfully they’ll be easy to spot.
Here’s just a few recipes we’ve found that contain the ingredients needed to promote healthy eyes.
Dive into a refreshing bowl of fruit salad. These fruits are the perfect summer snack and hold all the vitamins and nutrients you and your eyes need!
In a small bowl, whisk the honey, orange juice and lemon zest together.
Then, add all of the fruit into a large bowl.
Next, pour over the dressing and gently toss.
Finally chill your fruit salad until its ready to serve.
Enjoy a delicious summer meal, rich in Omega-3 and fatty acids to help keep your eyes clear and healthy.
Start off by pre-heating your oven to 200 ºC.
For the salmon, mix all the ingredients in a bowl together. Then add the salmon fillets and allow to marinade for 30 minutes.
Next, add the sweet potatoes to a pan of boiling water for roughly 7 minutes.
Then, place the marinated salmon into a baking dish and into the oven for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, drain the potatoes and mash together the final ingredients. After this, stir in the finely chopped parsley.
Serve the salmon on top and drizzle the marinade around the mash to finish.
Naturally improve your eye health with leafy greens such as kale. These are good for your eyesight, being a valuable source of lutein. Start your morning right with this refreshing summer drink.
First, ensure all produce is washed.
Use a blender or food processor and start by blending the wateriest produce first (apples, cucumber & lemon are a good place to start). Work your way through each ingredient until everything is blended well together and you’re left with a pulpy juice.
Then, seperate the pulp from the juice using a sieve over a bowl.
This light grilled chicken salad is ideal for preparing in summer, filled with nutrients and incredibly simple to make!
Cut the grilled chicken into bite-sized slices.
Toss the vegetables, cheese and grilled chicken together in a large bowl.
Finally, add the raspberry vinegar and toss once more.
This tasty and colourful soup is incredibly quick and easy to make. It’s also high in vitamin A to help the retina and other parts of the eye function smoothly.
In a large pan, heat the oil and then add the chopped onion to fry for 5 minutes.
Once the onions have softened, stir in the ground coriander and potato. Leave to cook for 1 minute.
After this, add the carrots and stock. Bring this to boil and then reduce to a low heat.
Cook for a further 20 minutes until the carrots are tender.
Finally, using a blender or food processor, mix the carrot batch and coriander together until smooth.
To serve, add salt if necessary.
We hope you’ve been inspired by our recommended recipes. If you have any queries surrounding eye health, our dedicated customer service team are happy to help.
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The day-to-day life of a contact center employee is not all sunshine and rainbows. They're on the front lines with angry customers all day, every day. As if this wasn't enough, 71% of them believe complicated systems and inefficient tools make their jobs even harder. For Larry, a (fictional) contact center employee, this struggle is real.
This is Larry. Larry works in a contact center for a major clothing brand. Larry loves solving problems for his customers, but -- like 71% of call center agents -- feels that system complications and inefficient tools make it harder for him to do his job, leading to frustrations for him and the customers he serves.
Let's look at a typical customer interaction: Larry receives an incoming call from a customer named Jennie. Jennie just received the pair of pants she ordered to find one of the seams was ripped. First, Larry tries to find Jennie in the system, but spells her name with a Y instead of an IE. The system fails to recognize that this is the same person, so Larry ends up creating a duplicate record. Next, Larry tries to find the SKU for the pair of pants Jennie ordered. It takes him several minutes to comb through hundreds of SKUs to find the right one -- meanwhile, an already angry Jennie gets even more fed up waiting on hold.
Her frustration -- and Larry's anxiety -- only increases as Larry proceeds to ask her several irrelevant questions about her order, since his system requires that he complete the same fields regardless of the situation. In the end, Larry is able to help Jennie get a refund for the defective pants, but she is so exasperated by the end of their phone call that she will likely never do business with this clothing brand again.
Jennie calls Larry about the torn pants she received. As he begins typing her name with a Y, the system is smart enough to suggest, didn't you mean Jennie with an IE? This prevents duplicate records from being created and gives a more comprehensive view of each customer.
Next, instead of putting Jennie on hold while he wades through hundreds of SKUs, Larry simply begins typing the name of the product and the system responds, quickly suggesting the right product code. And once he selects a reason for Jennie's complaint, his case screen dynamically changes to show only the relevant fields he needs to complete, and hides the ones he doesn't. The system captures the right information needed for each situation, and doesn't waste the customer's time with unnecessary questions.
With a system like this, it would be so much easier for Larry to make customers happy! Luckily for Larry, the CRM system of his dreams is real -- Astute Solutions' CRM reduces frustration and speeds up issue resolution with smarter data entry. Our technology streamlines customer interactions within any channel, and even provides in-context guidance for agents.
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On Saturday I was out and about with my mom when we passed a panhandler. I felt that nudging in my soul to help, so we drove back by him to give him some money. As I pulled up to him, he seemed almost skittish and kind of hid. When he realized I was ok, he walked up to my car and chatted with us for a few minutes. Apparently earlier someone threw a can of cat food at him. CAT FOOD. Really?! He even said, "They could have at least thrown crackers." This man was nice. Down on his luck. But I was glad to have spent a couple minutes and a couple dollars helping him.
2. On Sunday I was running early so decided to go through the Starbucks drive thru before meeting Ian for church. I pulled up in line and another car pulled up to the side of the line. I decided to be nice and let them go in front of me (once the line started moving). What happened next is when the true story begins. This crazy lady in an suv decided she too wanted in front of me. So, she pulled up super close and revved her engine at me, yelled at me and flipped me off. Two things went through my mind 1. this lady wants coffee WAY MORE than I do 2. I really don't want this crazy lady behind me. So in front of me I let her go. When it was her turn to order, she was arguing with the person taking orders about the cost of the drinks. Really? As if they can do anything to change it! When she got to the window, she proceeded to be rude and even yell at the girl at the window. After she got her drinks, she floored (like literally floored) it out of the drive thru. It was all a very bazar encounter. When I pulled up to the window, I could tell the worker was flustered. I too remember getting flustered by crazy customers at Starbucks. So I decided to try to encourage her a little. Whether it helped or not, I don't know. But at least I got a smile out of her and I can only hope neither I or that poor Starbucks worker ever have to cross paths with that crazy lady again.
Whoa, throwing a CAN of cat food at someone? Seriously?!?! That's so awful, poor guy. I'm glad you felt that nudge and listened. You have such a kind heart Jessica!
Your comments about helping the homeless are striking. I so rarely think of them. Honestly, I barely give them a passing glance. I need to change my attitude on this.
I try to be especially nice to customer service workers, especially if they had a tough customer before me!
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What should I watch out for on a construction site? What's unique about a construction site?
What should I watch out for on a construction site? What’s unique about a construction site? There are a couple of things to watch out for if you do have a personal injury case that arises out of the workplace accident. Number 1, in the workplace there are different industry standards, regulations and codes that are supposed to be followed to prevent workplace accidents. It’s important to understand the relationship between the injured worker, the co-workers, the third parties and the employers and to understand the different contracts that exist among the different parties, because the contracts will spell out oftentimes who is responsible for what. And sometimes based on the contract, different defenders will try to raise particular defenses against the injured person’s personal injury company. It’s important in any workplace accident to get the contracts, evaluate the contracts to understand the applicable codes and then thoroughly analyze them so that you can understand the strengths and weaknesses of the case, and ultimately so you can make your case as strong as possible.
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Display a piece of West African History with pride. This graphic or hieroglyphic symbol is Nsibidi for Music.
Nsibidi is an Ancient West African hieroglyphics dated 400 A.D. - 1400 A.D.
Comprising of nearly a thousand symbols, Nsibidi is an ancient system of graphic communication indigenous to the Ejagham peoples of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon.
Nsibidi does not correspond to any one spoken language. It is an ideographic script whose symbols refer to abstract concepts, actions or things and whose use facilitates communication among peoples speaking different languages.
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I like to take a frozen Nalgene bottle of water to my Bikram Yoga class. The problem is, every bottle I have used so far becomes deformed and, as can be seen in the picture below, the bottom bulges out making it difficult or impossible for it to stand upright until some of the ice melts and it pops back in.
Eventually, the exposure to expanding substance over time causes the bottle to break. What can I do to freeze my water without deforming the container?
You can't win in a battle against the laws of physics. Water expands when it freezes, so you need to leave some room in your bottle for it to expand into. What I find works best is to fill your bottle just over half, then freeze it on its side. This will give the ice more room to expand than if you freeze it upright. When you grab your bottle from the freezer, top it up with cold water; the ice being frozen along the length of your bottle will rapidly cool the water, and you'll have a easier time getting water out when you want a drink.
I have found that soda pop bottles are designed for higher pressure and don't deform as badly. Plus they are cheap to replace. In general a soda pop bottle filled to just the start of the shoulder won't break.
Water freezes from the top down. In a tall bottle, water freezing at the top gets a grip on the sides, and so as the water freezes down, the expansion pushes out the bottom.
Laying it on its side, and not quite filling it to the half way mark, the slab of surface ice is a wedge that can easily be lifted.
In addition: If you freeze the water, then add ice water from the fridge to fill up the bottle, the resulting mix won't melt very fast.
Finally, put the bottle in a thick sock and it will insulate it, keeping it cold longer.
Put the barrel on a pallet. This allows the bottom to freeze as fast as the sides.
Float 3-4 inches of styrofoam peanuts, or broken up styrofoam on top. This slows the ice formation on the top, and also weakens it. The core then breaks through the top when the pressure gets high, instead of pushing out the bottom.
Don't freeze the bottle - fill it with ice cubes. Better still, don't use ice cubes, use ice sticks that fit in the neck of bottles.
I would take one of the flexible bottles like the platypus brand and make sure to fill it only about 70%. You can not beat the physics: Water expands if you freeze it. If you have a flexible bottle and make sure it is not full, the water will be allowed to take its form without damaging the bottle. To be clearly on point: You can not freeze a water container without deforming it. You can actually blast rocks wiht freezing water. This is what happens in the Alps all the time and gives us those talus slopes of all kinds.
If you are okay with taking a more "hands on" approach, then it works to put the water in and then when the top layer is frozen over, then you poke a hole in the layer so that the rest of the expanding ice is not stuck.
Some container with the shape of conical (upside down) bucket is perfect for this. When it freezes, the ice should move upwards.
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I’m looking for some easy quick text effects, sort of one-step type techniques. I know Photoshop has a lot of preset brushes and filters, but does it have any preset text effects?
Actually, you’re in luck! Photoshop does have preset text effects located in the Styles palette. They’re quick and easy to use and can also be a helpful starting point for your own text effect creations.
1. Choose Window > Styles to display the Styles palette.
2. Choose Text Effects or Text Effects 2 from the Styles palette’s pop-up menu.
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Homeland Security to pick up where Arpaio left off?
I may be reading this wrong, but it appears that, after having removed Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio for discrimination against Latinos via his immigration enforcement activities, the Department of Homeland Security will resume his work with federal agents. Per the report on the LA Times: "'...all individuals booked into the Maricopa County jail will be screened to determine if they are removable from the United States,' the agency said. Those arrested for criminal offenses who are in the country illegally will be 'removed from the United States in line with our priorities.'"
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How can I use Google DNS for my website?
How to change my other DNS server to Google DNS for my website?
If you actually host the server you can change your DNS settings at /etc/resolv.conf (Linux). You can add Google DNS there (Primary: 8.8.8.8, Secondary: 8.8.4.4). I use OpenDNS for my website however it's rather low traffic. I imagine on a high traffic website, Google (or any other competent free DNS service) would disallow connections from your server if the requests got too high.
If your using a shared host, you most likely won't be able to change your DNS settings. You can typically only changed the DNS server of a dedicated, virtual and self-hosted servers. Your host will usually have their own DNS server which you are forced to use.
I'm nearly 100% sure that this not what Google DNS does. You don't change your website - Google DNS is simply an alternative DNS provider for home users. It still syncs to the same higher level DNS servers everyone else does.
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Alquilo habitaciones con todos los servicios a extranjeros, y Servicio de Taxi En la mejor zona de Falcón Punto fijo, Judibana, (aún con servicios privilegiados de agua y luz) Punto Fijo, Falcón Alquilo Por Días, Habitaciones Con Baño Privado, A Extranjeros, O Ejecutivos En Casa Quinta Con Todos Los Servicios(aún Con Servicios Privilegiados De Agua Y Luz ), Wifi, Laptop(opcional), Tv, Nevera, Cocina y Servicio De Taxi(opcional) -Decoración Country -Los Cuartos solo estan equipados con baño privado y aire acondicionado, closeth -Televisión por cable en el area de visitas -Áreas verdes -Wifi -Laptop (opcional) -zona completamente residencial, con vigilancia privada, muy tranquilo A pocos kilometros hay una Iglesia, supermercados, parque, banco, gasolinera Zona con aún con privilegios de agua y electricidad Las camas son individuales La ducha de los baños tienen agua caliente y fria La cocina tiene utensilios necesarios para un desayuno, y cafetera Incluye limpieza de los cuartos, cocina, terraza en fin toda la casa todos los días -zona completamente residencial, con vigilancia privada, muy tranquilo A pocos kilometros hay una Iglesia, supermercados, parque, banco, gasolinera Zona con aún con privilegios de agua y electricidad Esta lejos del transporte público, pero yo le puedo dar servicio de taxi , o les fscilito el número telefónico de una Línea de taxi privada.
You wish to find a rental in La Vela de coro? La Vela de coro is a charming city located in Venezuela. With Roomlala, the inhabitants of La Vela de coro are very happy to welcome you, whatever the reason for your rental (tourism, travel, business travel, internship, studies, etc.). The site is at your disposal to help you find a furnished rental in La Vela de coro or a private room in La Vela de coro. What's the difference? By renting a room with the inhabitant, you mainly rent a room, within the housing of the inhabitant in La Vela de coro. Finding a furnished rental in La Vela de coro is like renting a studio, an apartment or even a house in which the owner is also living in the property. In both cases, the rentals will have obligatory equipment that make each a "furnished rental". . Thanks to Roomlala you can also find a roommate or roommates in La Vela de coro. If you have already found an accommodation (house, apartment), you can then simply publish a free ad to look for your future roommates with whom to share it with. If you have neither accommodation nor roommates yet, you can directly find a roommate in La Vela de coro, or in a preferred borough of La Vela de coro, for medium and long durations (room to rent at the month at the year). For shorter stays, our platform also allows you to search for a guest room in La Vela de coro or a bed and breakfast in La Vela de coro, near the tourist places of La Vela de coro. On the occasion of a holiday rental in La Vela de coro, you can visit its essential places and also stroll around the city. You will be able to walk along its most famous avenues and streets. Another possibility: you are looking for accommodation in exchange of services in La Vela de coro? Roomlala offers you rentals for services such as childcare, help for the elderly, school support, home help, intergenerational housing, student help, babysitting, cleaning, etc.
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What do I need to know about getting a divorce in New York State?
New York has laws that limit how you can get a divorce. There are now seven grounds (reasons) you can use to get a divorce in New York. The divorce judgment will include orders about marital property and marital debts, as well as child custody, visitation, child support, and spousal support.
Where do I go to get a divorce?
You must go to the New York State Supreme Court in your county. All divorces in New York State are handled in the county Supreme Courts. Family Court can order child support and/or child custody, but cannot grant a divorce.
What are the 7 grounds for divorce in New York?
Irretrievable Breakdown: The relationship between you and your spouse has broken down irretrievably for at least six months, which means your relationship is broken beyond repair. The court cannot give you a divorce on these grounds until after property, debts, child custody, visitation, spousal support, and child support have been settled (where both parties are in agreement) or decided by the court.
Cruel and inhuman treatment: "Cruel and inhuman treatment" by your spouse. This means that your physical or mental health is in danger if you continue living together. However, if the most recent abusive treatment happened more than 5 years ago, you cannot divorce for this reason if your spouse objects.
Abandonment: Your spouse "abandons" you for at least a year. This means that your spouse has left you, or kicked you out, and does not intend to return.
Imprisonment: If your spouse goes to jail for three or more years. However, if your spouse was released more than 5 years ago, you cannot divorce for this reason. Additionally, the imprisonment must have started after you got married.
Adultery: Your spouse commits adultery. However, this is not a reason for divorce if you do any of the following: encourage your spouse to commit adultery, forgive your spouse by having sexual relations with them after you discover the adultery, or commit adultery yourself. You also cannot divorce because of adultery if it has been more than 5 years since you discovered the adultery. You cannot testify yourself to prove adultery, so you must have a witness who can testify.
Judgment of Separation: You and your spouse have not lived together because of a "Decree of Separation" or "Judgment of Separation", given by the Court, for at least one year. You must obey all the conditions of the decree or judgment. It is unusual to have a Judgment of Separation because it requires similar proof to that needed for a divorce. Most people skip the Judgment and go directly to divorce.
Separation Agreement: You and your spouse have not lived together because of a written "Agreement of Separation" for at least one year. Both you and your spouse must sign this agreement before a notary and the agreement must follow specific legal rules if you live in NY. If those rules are not followed, the agreement is invalid, so it is best to have a lawyer review it. You must obey all the conditions of the agreement.
What is the most common way to get a divorce?
We expect that most people will try to use irretrievable breakdown, sometimes called "no fault" divorce, when they file for divorce in New York. This first became a grounds for divorce in NY in 2010. It is not the only way to get a divorce, though.
What is a "conversion divorce"?
Number 7 listed above is sometimes called a conversion divorce. Conversion divorces allow divorces based upon a Separation Agreement that you already had in place for a full year. Basically, you change the Separation Agreement into a divorce. Even if you want a divorce on other grounds, a Separation Agreement can make a divorce easier and faster.
What are "residency requirements," and what do they mean for my divorce?
Residency requirements give a New York court the power to decide your divorce case. A New York court can only decide a divorce case if at least one of the spouses is a New Yorker. In most cases, one of the spouses must have lived in New York for at least one year before trying to get a divorce.
The law says that property should be divided equitably. This means that the court divides the marital property as fairly as it thinks is possible. Usually the property is divided 50/50, although this does not have to happen. For more information, please read our article called "What Happens to Property after a Divorce?"
How can I make my divorce go as smoothly as possible?
If you and your spouse can agree on how to divide the property, pay support, and settle any debts, you will not need a trial, which takes much longer and usually costs you more money. Try to get child support and child custody orders from Family Court before you file for divorce. It is important to try and settle as much as possible with your spouse before going to court. If your spouse is abusive, get the help of a domestic violence advocate before you try to negotiate these important things.
Why might my spouse argue against my reason for divorce?
In addition to the emotional reasons to resist a divorce, people may have reasons that have to do with money. Ending the marriage allows the court to divide property even if your spouse doesn't agree to do so. Your spouse may want to remain married to be eligible for your health insurance coverage, or may want to stay married for ten years to qualify for Social Security retirement benefits. Even if you don’t get a divorce, your spouse must still support you for as long as the marriage lasts, and you can get a spousal support order from Family Court while you are still married.
What if my spouse filed for divorce against me?
Unless you have a signed Separation Agreement that will become part of the divorce, it is important for you to respond in writing to the court and your spouse if you are served with divorce papers. You usually only have 20 days to send your written response, which is called an Answer. You should get a lawyer to help you if you can. You can ask the court to make your spouse pay for a lawyer if you have less money than your spouse.
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The Bonus Army was name given to WWI veterans who asked government for an early war-related payment.
The following statement best reflects the economic policy of Harding and Coolidge: Both presidents wanted less government regulation of business.
The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers after World War II.
Second New Deal program provided a guaranteed income for retired Americans is Social Security.
Why did some Americans oppose the war in Vietnam? A. They wanted to focus war efforts on the Soviet Union instead. B. They wanted communism to spread. C. They felt there was a lack of progress. D. They felt the United States should never use military force.
They felt there was a lack of progress is why some Americans opposed the war in Vietnam.
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It has been suggested that this article be merged into Research institute. (Discuss) Proposed since October 2018.
A research center (also known as research group) is a facility or building dedicated to research, commonly with the focus on a specific area. There are over 14,000 research centers in the United States. Centers apply varied disciplines including basic research and applied research in addition to non traditional techniques. However, a research center should not be confused with a research institute. Additionally, today many universities are establishing research centers to conduct a specific research or education activity. Over a hundred of research centers can be established in one university. This number certainly differs from a university to a university, but most of the research centers there do bring something to the scientific table.
The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for IBM Research. The center comprises two sites, with its main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, U. S.38 miles north of New York City and with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The center, headquarters of IBMs Research division, is named for both Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas Watson, Jr. who led IBM as president and CEO respectively from 1915 to 1971. The research is intended to improve hardware, software, the center was founded at Columbia University in 1945 as the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, on 116th Street in Manhattan, expanding to 115th Street in 1953. The new headquarters were located with a new lab in Yorktown Heights designed by architect Eero Saarinen completed in 1961. IBM donated the New York City buildings to Columbia University, they are now known as the Casa Hispanica, the lab expanded to Hawthorne in 1984. Gunn, Leroy Chang,1973 Physics Nobel Prize winner, Leo Esaki, the work done at the Center from 1960–1984 was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.
Another well-known installation is Watson, an intelligence system capable of answering natural language questions. Games against human contestants in February 2011 on the site, due to this construction, none of the offices have windows. The lowest level is underground in some areas toward the shorter side of the crescent. A large overhang protrudes from the front entryway of the building, the building houses a library, an auditorium and a cafeteria. It was designed by the architect Eero Saarinen and built in 1956–1961, Hawthorne The Hawthorne building was a leased facility located on Skyline Drive, which is part of an industrial park shared by several area businesses. In 2012 the Hawthorne lease was closed by IBM and remaining employees were relocated to the Yorktown Heights site, the Hawthorne building is easily recognizable by its mirrored facade and large blue pole. Located approximately 25 miles north of New York City, the Hawthorne site was smaller than its site at Yorktown Heights. The building contained a cafeteria, presentation center and library, the site, opened in 1984, was designed by Michael Harris Spector.
PARC, formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems. Xerox formed Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated as an owned subsidiary in 2002. Pake selected Palo Alto, California, as the site of what was to become known as PARC. S, the integration of Ethernet prompted the development of the PARC Universal Packet architecture, much like todays Internet. Xerox has been criticized for failing to properly commercialize and profitably exploit PARCs innovations. A favorite example is the user interface, initially developed at PARC for the Alto. Although very significant in terms of its influence on future system design, a small group from PARC led by David Liddle and Charles Irby formed Metaphor Computer Systems. They extended the Star desktop concept into a graphic and communicating office-automation model. Among PARCs distinguished researchers were three Turing Award winners, Butler W.
Nokia Bell Labs is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia. Its headquarters are located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in addition to laboratories around the rest of the United States. The historic laboratory originated in the late 19th century as the Volta Laboratory, Bell Labs was at one time a division of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary. Eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories, in 1880, the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs, approximately US$10,000 at that time for the invention of the telephone. Bell used the award to fund the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C. in collaboration with Sumner Tainter, the laboratory is variously known as the Volta Bureau, the Bell Carriage House, the Bell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory. The laboratory focused on the analysis and transmission of sound, Bell used his considerable profits from the laboratory for further research and education to permit the diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf.
This resulted in the founding of the Volta Bureau c,1887, located at Bells fathers house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D. C. where its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889. In 1893, Bell constructed a new building, close by at 1537 35th St. specifically to house the lab, the building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972. In 1884, the American Bell Telephone Company created the Mechanical Department from the Electrical, the first president of research was Frank B. Jewett, who stayed there until 1940, ownership of Bell Laboratories was evenly split between AT&T and the Western Electric Company. Its principal work was to plan and support the equipment that Western Electric built for Bell System operating companies and this included everything from telephones, telephone exchange switches, and transmission equipment. Bell Labs carried out consulting work for the Bell Telephone Company, a few workers were assigned to basic research, and this attracted much attention, especially since they produced several Nobel Prize winners.
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a campus of the Louisiana State University System and conducts clinical and population science research. According to its website, its mission is to discover the triggers of chronic diseases through innovative research that improves human health across the lifespan and it is the largest academically based nutrition research center in the world, with the greatest number of obesity researchers on faculty. The Center’s over 500 employees occupy several buildings on the 222-acre campus, the center was designed by the Baton Rouge architect John Desmond. In 1980, Baton Rouge oilman and philanthropist C. B, doc Pennington and his wife, provided $125 million to fund construction of the nutritional research center. With a U. S. Department of Defense contract and funding from the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority, Governor Buddy Roemer proclaimed the official opening of the Center in 1988. Dr George A. Bray, a renowned obesity researcher, was recruited to be the first executive director of the center and under his leadership the center reached its present status in the scientific world.
The main laboratory building of the IBM Research Center is located in Yorktown Heights, New York, U.S.
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What kind of game am I making?
This is the first part of the development journal I have talked about in my previous post. It is titled "Game 0" because it is the first game that I am going to create as part of this journey, and I prefer to use zero-based numbering. Every post on this Blog that starts with "Game 0" will be part of the development journal.
This seemingly small list already contains a lot of complex topics that I need to touch upon, and coming up with a game idea from scratch that fits into these constraints is not a trivial task. So I will be drawing inspiration from an old arcade game, and try to replicate it as best as I can.
I will be trying to clone a version of the arcade game Head On that has been released in 1979, developed by Sega Games Co., Ltd., and published by Gremlin Industries.
Cars continuously drive forward through rectangular channels in a simple maze. At the four cardinal directions are gaps where a car can change lanes. The goal is to collect dots in the maze while avoiding collisions with the computer-controlled car that is also collecting dots.
Head on is considered to be the first maze game where the goal is to run over dots, and it had its own fair share of sequels and clones. One of those clones is called Dodge 'Em for the Atari 2600 which altered the original gameplay slightly.
Instead of collecting dots, the opponent's sole aim is to cause a head-on collision with the player's car. The player, in addition to collecting dots, has to avoid a collision with the opponent. I find this version a lot more exciting than the original, which is why I decided to make a clone of Dodge 'Em.
Since the main gameplay mechanic of the game is to avoid a head-on collision by dodging the opponents car, I decided to call my clone Ausweichen, which is German for dodging. I don't have to worry about the exact gameplay mechanics just yet because I need to get the project base done first.
First, I need to get the basics of the project covered. That means I need to be able to draw the graphical user interface in which the game will be displayed; I need to be able to process keyboard input; and I need to be able to draw something in the graphical user interface. After all that is done, I can worry about the actual game design. So with the rough plan in mind, I will start creating the project in the next part of this journal.
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