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Does zovirax cream really work for lip cold sores? Antivirals.
Sep 18, 2017. A friend of mine recommends me Zovirax cream for lip cold sores. I know that this cream doctors usually prescribe for genital Herpes problem. We were not able to cure this decease in less tham 2 weeks, it was awful. Acyclovir accelerates the healing of herpes appeared and not giving it to spread. Charts & graphs Reviews Summary for ACYCLOVIR Top 10 Adverse Effects. There has been no outbreaks since I have been taking this medication. 1, Genital herpes, Dizziness, anxiety, weaknesses, tiredness, Terrible side effects.
Acyclovir Reviews & Ratings at
Aug 16, 2011. Cold sores, also known as fever blisters, are caused by the herpes simplex. Since getting my hands on a tube of Zovirax, I have only had one. This article will cover the ins and outs of what you can expect when you use Zovirax as recommended. If you're prone to outbreaks from HSV-1, finding a solution. Klein R. Treatment and prevention of herpes simplex virus type 1 infection. For this reason, there are no controlled trials of oral medications given later than 12.
ACYCLOVIR Side effects, ratings, and patient comments
Read our 5-star reviews on. ZOVIRAX Cold Sore Cream does not get rid of Herpes simplex virus infection from your body, so it cannot prevent cold sores from. The antiviral medications available in pill form acyclovir, valacyclovir, famciclovir have been. More recently, the FDA approved two other drugs to treat genital herpes Famciclovir brand. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, January 2003, p.
Aciclovir for viral infections - Zovirax. Side effects, uses, dosage.
Aciclovir is used to treat two common viral infections - varicella-zoster and herpes simplex. Zovirax is the most well known brand. This review delineates the evidence for single-day treatments of orolabial and. In the distant past, topical acyclovir was used to treat recurrent genital herpes. | fineweb_edu |
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Using technology innovated for the aviation industry, Aquapel Glass Treatment forms a chemical bond with the glass which increases water repellency, causing water to bead and easily shed off the glass. These fluorinated compounds apply in just minutes to a clean, dry windshield or any exterior glass surface, and lasts up to 6 times longer than silicone-based products.
Additionally, Aquapel Glass Treatment remains highly effective after months of normal use, including heavy rain and snow, car washing, glass cleaning and salt spray. | fineweb_edu |
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Thread: Need help determining market share
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Default Need help determining market share
I'm trying to figure out the best way to estimate the market share of a specific industry. To start with an example, let's say the oil and gas industry. I live in Calgary Alberta, so I'm focused mainly at the city or province level.
I understand there's different ways to define a "market share", but I'm more concerned with how to find the numbers. I've done some googling and there doesn't seem to be an all-encompassing publicly accessible database that tells you the market share of industry X in area abc in the year 20XX, so I'm at a bit of a loss knowing where to look to get semi-accurate numbers to start.
However, I did find this site: Bad Request
This shows a pie chart breaking down the GDP of Alberta by industry. Is GDP split up into industry a good hard stick to estimate market share? What other ways are there of estimating marker share? What other sites on the internet might help me along here?
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According to the linked data, the "mining,quarrying,oil and gas" industry had about $78 billion in sales, representing a 27% share of Alberta's overall economy. If "Joe's Drilling" (hypothetical) had $1 billion in gross revenue (if they are a public company, that information could be found in their annual report), that would be about a 1.3% share of the "mining, quarrying, oil and gas" market.
From the context and the way you have phrased what you are asking, it sounds to me like you are trying to determine the overall size of a specific market (e.g. the oil and gas industry), rather than a "market share?"
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Government websites have specific research in these areas. So do Universities. It may take some time to find, but I'm positive a government like Canada has these records, and entire teams of people who study it and put it together. The information is out there, unfortunately I can't tell you exactly where to find it. But at least knowing it exists gives you confidence you aren't wasting your time looking for it.
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Honey Bee collecting nectar and pollen; My Garden;
liquid sunshine held in tiny, waxen chambers.
The fragrance of flowers and harvest, warmed by sun, wind and rain,
nectar collected diligently,
transmuted into the sweetest of sweets,
for sticky, little fingers to lick and savour,
this wonderful alchemy of nature. | fineweb_edu |
9/16/1961 – 9/9/1965 CBS 60 minutes
Black & White/Color – 132 episodes
E.G. Marshall as Lawrence Preston
Robert Reed as Kenneth Preston
Joan Hackett as Joan Miller (1961-1962)
Polly Rowles as Helen Donaldson (1961-1962)
The Defenders was an intelligent and well written show about a father and son law firm, Preston and Preston. The elder Lawrence Preston (E.G. Marshall) taught his Ivy League son, Kenneth (Robert Reed) about law and life.
Subject matter was thought provoking as the show tackled some of the most sensitive subjects of the day.
The show had such quality and the scripts were so good that the Defenders attracted big name and big talent guest stars. (see box below.)
Joan Hackett died in 1983 of ovarian cancer, Robert Reed in 1992 of intestinal cancer, E.G. Marshall in 1998 of lung cancer, and Polly Rowles in 2001.
Famous Guest Stars
“Quality of Mercy” 9/16/1961
“Judgement Eve” 4/20/1963
Robert Redford (his last TV role)
“The Siege” 12/3/1964
“A Matter of Law and Disorder” 4/8/1965
James Earl Jones
“The Non-Violent” 6/6/1964
“The Brother Killers” 5/25/1963
Martin Sheen (his 1st big TV role)
“The Attack” 12/9/1961
James Farentino (his 1st big TV role)
“The Last Illusion” 3/8/1963 | fineweb_edu |
# 2020 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 15
## Problem
Suppose
$15\%$ of
$x$ equals
$20\%$ of
$y.$ What percentage of
$x$ is
$y?$
$\textbf{(A) }5 \qquad \textbf{(B) }35 \qquad \textbf{(C) }75 \qquad \textbf{(D) }133 \frac13 \qquad \textbf{(E) }300$
## Solution 1
Since
$20\% = \frac{1}{5}$, multiplying the given condition by
$5$ shows that
$y$ is
$15 \cdot 5 = \boxed{\textbf{(C) }75}$ percent of
$x$.
## Solution 2
Letting
$x=100$ (without loss of generality), the condition becomes
$0.15\cdot 100 = 0.2\cdot y \Rightarrow 15 = \frac{y}{5} \Rightarrow y=75$. Clearly, it follows that
$y$ is
$75\%$ of
$x$, so the answer is
$\boxed{\textbf{(C) }75}$.
## Solution 3
We have
$15\%=\frac{3}{20}$ and
$20\%=\frac{1}{5}$, so
$\frac{3}{20}x=\frac{1}{5}y$. Solving for
$y$, we multiply by
$5$ to give
$y = \frac{15}{20}x = \frac{3}{4}x$, so the answer is
$\boxed{\textbf{(C) }75}$.
## Solution 4
We are given
$0.15x = 0.20y$, so we may assume without loss of generality that
$x=20$ and
$y=15$. This means
$\frac{y}{x}=\frac{15}{20}=\frac{75}{100}$, and thus the answer is
$\boxed{\textbf{(C) }75}$.
## Solution 5
$15\%$ of
$x$ is
$0.15x$, and
$20\%$ of
$y$ is
$0.20y$. We put
$0.15x$ and
$0.20y$ into an equation, creating
$0.15x = 0.20y$ because
$0.15x$ equals
$0.20y$. Solving for
$y$, dividing
$0.2$ to both sides, we get
$y = \frac{15}{20}x = \frac{3}{4}x$, so the answer is
$\boxed{\textbf{(C) }75}$.
## Solution 6
$15\%$ of
$x$ can be written as
$\frac{15}{100}x$, or
$\frac{15x}{100}$.
$20\%$ of
$y$ can similarly be written as
$\frac{20}{100}y$, or
$\frac{20y}{100}$. So now,
$\frac{15x}{100} = \frac{20y}{100}$. Using cross-multiplication, we can simplify the equation as:
$1500x = 2000y$. Dividing both sides by
$500$, we get:
$3x = 4y$.
$\frac{3}{4}$ is the same thing as
$75\%$, so the answer is
$\boxed{\textbf{(C) }75}$.
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The Disadvantages of Graphics Card Fan Speeds
Updated February 21, 2017
Computers consist of many interconnected parts that work together to access, store, process and display data. Graphics cards or video cards are computer hardware components that help process graphics and send video signals to monitors. Many graphics cards have built-in fans to cool the graphics processing unit or GPU. Many computers graphics cards adjust fan speeds automatically while other computers allow users to control the fan speeds. High and low fan speeds are associated with different potential disadvantages.
Disadvantages of High Fan Speed
The main disadvantage of high graphics card fan speed is the potential for excess noise. The faster a fan spins, the louder it tends to run, so high fan speeds can lead to a noticeable and possibly annoying whirring sound. On computers that adjust fan speeds automatically, you will likely notice a spike in fan noise whenever you run graphically intensive programs like computer games. High fan speeds may also cause noticeable vibrations and will tend to use more electricity than low fan speeds.
Disadvantages of Low Fan Speed
The primary drawback of low graphics card fan speed is that it can lead to excessive levels of heat in the graphics processing unit. If a graphics card gets too hot, it can result in poor computer performance and can potentially result in computer crashing. Severe overheating can cause permanent damage to a graphics card.
Adjustable Fan Speeds
If your computer allows you to adjust fan speeds or you have modified your computer with hardware or software to allow you to adjust fan speeds, you may put yourself in greater danger of experiencing problems with your graphics card. When computers automatically adjust fan speed, they can increase speed quickly when the graphics card gets too hot, to make sure it doesn't overheat. If you set the fan speed yourself, you might not be aware of heat spikes which could lead to overheating.
It is possible to monitor the heat levels of your graphics processing unit using software that taps into temperature sensors in your computer. Popular temperature monitoring programs include SpeedFan and HWMontior. Running temperature monitor programs can allow you to keep tabs on the heat in your graphics card and set fan speeds accordingly.
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Book Review: Rana Foroohar’s Makers and Takers
In 1946, over a decade before he became the architect of the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara was hired to rehaul the Ford Motor Company. It was in desperate need of help. The iconic corporation was hemorrhaging about $9 million a month. McNamara, an accountant by training who rose to prominence by applying statistical methods to warfare planning, immediately transformed the culture.
Decisions were no longer made from the eye of a designer, or the experience of the line-worker. He immediately developed complex financial metrics to measure a product’s viability. Every penny spent in manufacturing, marketing, design, and engineering had to be justified and rationalized through this analysis. It shifted power from engineers to MBAs. Within three years he doubled the company’s profits. In Makers and Takers, Rana Foroohar argues that this was the end of American global automobile leadership. As crazy as it sounds, the question needs to be asked: Did modern finance destroy innovation?
Makers and Takers
The book’s central argument is that finance should be a utility. Unlike an electric company, which allocates energy to businesses and people to power the economy, banks allocate capital. Theoretically, in an efficient financial system all an entrepreneur needs to do is have a great idea and a solid business plan. The bank evaluates the plan, loans the money, and makes a profit on the interest. It’s an easy, boring business. If things work out the entrepreneur becomes wealthy, people are employed, and the community receives long term investment. Foroohar presents the case that McNamara spearheaded a revolution that moved finance from a supporter of the economy to the center piece. It no longer allocates capital and gets out of the way; today finance manages nearly all aspects of business. It no longer helps make society; it takes from society.
You may be asking yourself, “Didn’t McNamara’s approach double profits in a few years? Didn’t he he bring a company back from the dead?” I think Foroohar’s answer would be: not really. Of course, every firm needs some level of financial structure to succeed, and he should be applauded for his contribution. But during the post-WW2 era, Ford’s growth was driven primarily by societal trends not anything one person did. The U.S. government invested $25 billion to create a 41,000 mile interstate highway system that reduced the time it took to cross the country from about two months to five days. Incomes rose by 2.5 percent a year creating the middle class. In plain English, McNamara’s arrival coincided with both a massive increase in the demand for cars and a budding infrastructure to drive them on. He was born on third base, and everyone thought he hit a triple.
From a product perspective, Ford was in such good shape that it took about a decade for McNamara’s impact to be felt. According David Halberstam’s The Reckoning, a 1986 opus on the decline of the American automobile industry, under his system, managers “contrived not to improve but in the most subtle way to weaken each car model, year by year.” This meant “a cheaper metal here, a quicker drying paint there.” Foroohar reports that the system tried to eliminate spare tires in the vehicles, because managers didn’t know anyone who ever had to change a tire (Executives often had company cars—replaced every six months). Eventually the small cutbacks led to huge profits at the expense of quality. During his tenure, Ford debuted two of the most universally loathed cars in the history of the industry: The Pinto and the Edsel. “Accountants were replacing tradesmen,” Foroohar writes. “Making money was slowly but surely replacing the goal of making great products.”
The hidden poison: Modern finance destroyed innovation
The most damaging legacy of McNamara may have been his impact on labor relations. Labor became a commodified input. It was now something to be managed and squeezed; just a cost of doing business. Never mind that one of the major drivers of innovation is the collaboration of the factory floor and the engineering team. There’s a reason why Bell Labs designed their buildings to house both engineering and manufacturinga strategy Tesla uses today. While Japanese and German firms were becoming more productive and agile by engraining labor into the strategic decisions of the company—America was building walls and eroding key competencies by outsourcing production.
Foroohar’s book isn’t perfect–it goes on a bit long and only offers a few solutions—but it’s a well-meaning and well researched book on the modern economy. Not the economy that we hear about on the nightly news or in sound bytes, but the actual structure and incentives driving modern business. She makes a good case that yes, modern the modern financial system has destroyed America’s ability to innovate. The entire system rewards short term gain, over long term investment. The good thing, she notes is that none of this is permanent. “We can remake [the economy] as we see fit to better serve our shared prosperity and economic growth.”
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Home Golf Jokes New Rules of Golf
New Rules of Golf
Here are some additional Rules of Golf that should be adopted immediately. I’m sure you’ve all used at least some of these in the past, and will now use them in the future.
If a ball is swung at and missed
A player who assumes his stance, formally addresses the ball and then fairly strikes at it, but in so doing fails completely to make contact with any part of the ball, is deemed to have performed a full-address rehearsal of his swing (practice swing) and therefore need not count a stroke.
However, he must not show by either facial or verbal expression any disgust, frustration or provide any excuse. Above all, he should not blame the course.
Ball renounced in flight
A player who hits a long, high drive that immediately travels in a clearly undesired direction may disown the ball while it is still in flight and instantly tee up and hit another without assessing a stroke for the first wayward shot.
Ball playable in water hazard, but just not worth it
If a player’s ball comes to rest within the margins of a water hazard in a highly playable lie from which he is certain he could, if he so desired, hit a successful recovery shot with no difficulty whatsoever, but the marshy, muddy, swampy or boggy state of the surrounding terrain makes it inevitable that in the execution of such a stroke, he himself, his clothing or his equipment would be extensively soiled and/or soaked or that he would be obliged to assume a stance requiring the time-consuming removal of his footgear or other elaborate preparations, he may move his ball, without penalty, to the nearest equally favorable lie inside the hazard where conditions are sufficiently dry to permit prudent, sensible and reasonable play.
Ball not put fully into play
A player may replay any tee shot once, without assessing a stroke, if his ball fails to pass beyond the forward edge of the raised mound or grassy area comprising the ladies’ tees.
Ball missing in fairway but obviously not lost
When a player cannot find a ball that he has clearly and unmistakably hit into the fairway, he may declare his ball to be ‘missing but obviously not lost’ and drop another ball in the approximate place where his original ball must have come to rest and play that second ball, without penalty of stroke.
Ball hit slightly out-of-bounds
If the ball lies just beyond the line of the out-of-bounds stakes and can be tapped, pulled, dragged or spooned back into bounds with any conforming golf club by a player standing within bounds and if the ball landed out-of-bounds but was clearly attempting to return within bounds when its progress was improperly blocked by mysterious forces beyond comprehension, then the ball may be dropped and played without penalty.
Ball hiding from player
If a player cannot find a ball that has been hit in plain sight into a reasonably playable area of the course where there is an accumulation of dead leaves, seasonal debris, grass clippings or other forms of incidental camouflage in which a furtive ball could improperly conceal itself, the ball shall be deemed to be hiding.
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puts " Voy a contar mis pollos: " ## imprime un mensaje
puts " Gallinas #{ 25+30 / 6}" ## primero divide y luego suma por precedencia
puts " Gallinas #{ 25.0+30.0 / 6.0}" ## primero divide y luego suma por precedencia
puts " Gallos #{ 100-25 * 3 % 4}" # se multiplica por 3 se obtiene el resto 75/4 y se resta a 100
puts " Gallos #{ 100.0-25.0 * 3.0 % 4.0}" # se multiplica por 3 se obtiene el resto 75/4 y se resta a 100
puts " Ahora voy a contar los huevos" ## mensaje
puts 3+2+1-5+4%2-1/4+6 # recordar automaticamente redondea .. (6.75 subio a 7)
puts 3.0+2.0+1.0-5.0+4.0%2.0-1.0/4.0+6.0 # recordar automaticamente redondea .. (6.75 subio a 7)
puts "es verdad que 3 + 2 < 5 - 7?" # texto
puts 3 + 2 < 5 - 7 # 5 menor que menos 2 .. falso
puts "cuanto es 3 + 2? #{3 + 2}" # se aplica la suma en el puts
puts "cuanto es 5 - 7? #{5 - 7}" # se aplica la resta .. -2
puts "Ah, es por eso que es falso" ## mensaje
puts "Echame otras" ## mensaje
puts "Es mayor ? #{5 > -2}" # si es verdadero
puts "Es mayor o igual ? #{5 >= -2}" # asi es
puts "Es menor o igual ? #{5 <= -2}" ## es falso
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March 17-18, 2018 at Lake Junaluska, NC
We are created for a lifetime of love and intimacy, but relationships can be hard, even for the happiest couples. You may be looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or adjust one gone awry. This retreat will help you to better understand your partner, and learn to cultivate warmer, more joyful and loving relationships. Led by: Ned Martin and Jennifer Belham.
Learn more at: www.spring-counseling.com | fineweb_edu |
Ironman New Zealand
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
A look at age group results and Kona qualification at Ironman New Zealand 2018
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
A look through results from Ironman New Zealand 2017
Saturday, March 5th, 2016
The Ironman season begins in Taupo – an analysis of results and Kona qualification at Ironman New Zealand 2016
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
A detailed look through results, splits and qualification at Ironman New Zealand 2015
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Two weeks after the fact, a look back at the results from Ironman New Zealand 2014
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
As the Ironman season starts up a look back at performance and Kona qualification at Ironman New Zealand ahead of the 2014 race.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Picking over the statistics of Kona Qualification and Roll Down from Ironman New Zealand
Monday, March 4th, 2013
A closer look at the run performance in New Zealand for indications why some age groups appeared slower than normal.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Full results from Ironman New Zealand with a look at how they compare with previous editions of the race.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
This week sees the start of the 2013 Ironman series in New Zealand, so I look at some of the past performances for indications of Kona qualifying times. | fineweb_edu |
Why Even Non-Musicians Can Learn To Play Guitar
Acoustic music has come a very long way. Customarily, people today appear to think of acoustic songs basically as the songs that rock stars would likely play on MTV Unplugged, or a modified edition of a typical songs. Needless to say acoustic music does mean that first image of being unplugged, live, and uncomplicated.
Nevertheless acoustic songs can also be viewed in the unique way. Below the umbrella with the acoustic genre there is different kinds of music that many consider to be different than traditional acoustic. Folk, lounge, mellow, piano, bluegrass as well as other styles of songs make use of that same unplugged sense.
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Why You Should Learn To Play Guitar
In recent times, traditional acoustic music has climbed in buzz – whether it be from rock and roll artists coming out with acoustic versions of their music, pop artists wanting to get in touch with their raw selves, or brand new acoustic artists coming on to the scene. There are quite a few reasons why this tendency may well be happening, but why have acoustic songs come to be this kind of a huge deal?
Everybody knows that acoustic music is very simple, which provides one probable reason for the uprising. Everyone loves to hear some thing down to earth and easy when they are used to hearing synthesized sounds all the time. Acoustic music catches the simpleness and elegance of music at its most elementary form.
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/*
* File: main.cpp
* --------------
* This is an empty C++ source file.
*/
#include <iostream>
#include "console.h"
#include "string.h"
using namespace std;
struct Cell {
int value;
Cell* next;
};
void quicksort(Cell*& list);
Cell* getSample();
void printList(Cell*& list);
int main() {
cout<<"Quick Sort"<<endl;
Cell* sample = getSample();
quicksort(sample);
printList(sample);
return 0;
}
void quicksort(Cell*& list){
if(list->next == NULL)
return;
Cell* first = list;
Cell* left = NULL;
Cell* right = NULL;
Cell* cursor = list;
Cell* leftLast;
while(cursor->next != NULL){
cursor = cursor->next;
Cell* tmp = new Cell;
tmp->value = cursor->value;
if(cursor->value <= first->value) {
tmp->next = left;
left = tmp;
} else {
tmp->next = right;
right = tmp;
}
}
if(right != NULL) {
quicksort(right);
}
if(left != NULL) {
quicksort(left);
}
leftLast = left;
while(left != NULL && leftLast->next != NULL) {
leftLast = leftLast->next;
}
if(leftLast != NULL)
leftLast->next = first;
first->next = right;
if(left!=NULL)
list = left;
else
list = first;
}
Cell* getSample() {
Cell* sample = new Cell;
sample->value=5;
Cell* sample2 = new Cell;
sample2-> value=2;
sample->next=sample2;
Cell* sample3 = new Cell;
sample3-> value = 7;
sample2->next = sample3;
Cell* sample4 = new Cell;
sample4->value = 1;
sample3->next = sample4;
sample4->next = NULL;
return sample;
}
void printList(Cell*& list) {
Cell* cursor = list;
bool isFirst = true;
while(cursor != NULL){
if(!isFirst)
cout<<", ";
isFirst = false;
cout<<cursor->value;
cursor = cursor->next;
}
cout<<endl;
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Australian Lepidoptera Research Endowment
Call for grant applications 2018
We are pleased to announce grants of up to $4500 from the Perpetual Foundation - Australian Lepidoptera Research Endowment (ALRE) for the financial year July 2018 to 2019, and are inviting applications.
Any lepidopterist, amateur or professional, working on the Australian fauna, is eligible to apply for any of the activities considered for support listed on the ALRE website:
To be eligible, grants can only be handled by organisations that hold Australian Taxation Office Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR1) endorsement (covered by Item 1 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997). Further documentation may be requested during the selection process to confirm an organisation’s eligibility.
The application form can be found on the ALRE website and should be submitted by 1 April 2018 by email to [email protected]
The applications will be assessed by the Scientific Advisory Committee and a recommendation with applications to be funded from the ALRE will be made to the trustee in May 2018. Successful applicants will be advised by the trustee by 30 June 2018 and the grant will be disbursed to the eligible beneficiary.
For queries please contact Marianne Horak ([email protected] or Tel. 02-6246 4259) | fineweb_edu |
What My Mother Did: Do Maternal Parenting Practices Influence Those of the Next Generation?
Jonathan E. Vespa, Ohio State University
Canada Keck, Ohio State University
How do the ways in which young men and women were raised influence their own parenting skills? Research suggests that the intergenerational transmission of parenting practices occurs, however much has been based on select samples, relied on retrospective reports of parenting or has only looked at a single parenting dimension. In this paper we use unique data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth main and child/young adult files which include information on parenting practices and home environments within which two generations raised each of their children to address this question. Our sample is nationally representative and geographically diverse. Information has been collected contemporaneously from each generation and we therefore do not have to rely on retrospective reporting. We also look at three dimensions of parenting: affection, teaching and discipline. Our preliminary results lend support to the idea that parents’ own experiences as a child influence their childrearing practices.
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StudioArtVartanian VOM Sale!
June 9, 2011 12:30 am
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Swooping in to help tell the time, this brand new black swallow clock is sure to liven up any wall!
Laser cut black acrylic clock with quartz clock mechanism and hanging bracket. Clock face measures approx. 22.5 x 17.5cm. Requires AA battery.
It will be snuggly wrapped and packaged to ensure a safe trip to its new home. | fineweb_edu |
About the property
- House699 sq. ft.
- Half Baths0
- Minimum Stay3 - 7 nights
A special house, all built in stone, with a breathtaking view of 180 degrees on the sensational views of Chia ... .. close to the sea, about 1km, but also to the commercial services of the shopping area, the night shows the Piazzetta and the Golf golf (driving range).
The house is a comfortable two-room apartment consists of a twin bedroom and a furnished living room, where a comfortable sofa bed can accommodate 2 more people.
The room is decorated with shades of blue and the tapestries of the Sardinian tradition, with wooden furniture, from simple, linear lines, which create an atmosphere of intimacy and tradition.
The living area conveys an idea of comfort and convenience, furnished in an essential way, but finished with custom-made furniture to provide maximum convenience.
There is also a fireplace, if you want to enjoy your home all year ...!
The windows on the stone facade, which gives access to the house, overlooking a small veranda where you can relax, enjoying the view of the tower of Chia and the expanse of beaches.
The bathroom is a real treat with the colors of the sea, the stone shower and custom-made furnishings.
The house has its own parking place and direct access.
A splendid location for a wonderful holiday!
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Piccola Casa, Pulito e Tranquilo fuori stagione
Das Salz und den Zucker, wie auch alles andere notwendige selber mitnehmen (räucherspirale gegen Moskitos mitnehmen), da es keine Vorräte hat.
Nette Vermieter, die viele Sprachen sprechen.
Vacanza perfetta da tutti i punti di vista.chia rimane sempre una garanzia,mare e spiagge splendide.
Casetta splendida,funzionale,con bellissimo panorama.vicina a tutte le comodità.da consigliare.
Adoriamo i nostri clienti!!
Queste recensioni ci motivano a dare sempre il massimo per loro!
e ci piace tantissimo lavorare qui a Chia, il posti più bello del mondo :))))!
Schöne Unterkunft, super Ausblick.
Die Unterkunft hat uns sehr gut gefallen.
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Council Wards
Minneapolis is divided into thirteen wards, each containing approximately 30,000 residents. Ward boundaries are redrawn at least once every ten years following the federal census to assure the population remains evenly apportioned among all wards. This is intended to ensure equitable community representation.
Ward Profiles
To learn more about a particular ward, use this map which provides a detailed profile with access to information, resources, and other materials.
To find your ward, use our Ward Finder.
For contact information, see the Ward Office Directory
Minneapolis is organized into several communities, each of which contains a number of smaller, distinct neighborhoods, as shown on this map.
Map of Minneapolis communities and neighborhoods
Calhoun-IslesBryn Mawr, CARAG, Cedar-Isles-Dean, East Calhoun, East Isles, Kenwood, Lowry Hill, Lowry Hill East, West Calhoun
CamdenCleveland, Folwell, Lind-Bohanon, McKinely, Shingle Creek, Victory, Webber-Camden
CentralDowntown East, Downtown West, Elliot Park, Loring Park, North Loop, Stevens Square/Loring Heights
LongfellowCooper, Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, Seward
Near NorthHarrison, Hawthorne, Jordan, Near North, Sumner-Glenwood, Willard Hay
Nokomis Diamond Lake, Ericsson, Field, Hale, Keewaydin, Minnehaha, Morris Park, Northrup, Page, Regina, Wenonah
Phillips East Phillips, Midtown Phillips, Phillips West, Ventura Village
PowderhornBancroft, Bryant, Central, Corcoran, Lyndale, Powderhorn Park, Standish, Whittier
Southwest Armatage, East Harriet, Fulton, Kenny, King Field, Linden Hills, Lynnhurst, Tangletown, Windom
UniversityCedar-Riverside, Como, Marcy-Holmes, Nicollet Island/East Bank, Prospect Park, University
These neighborhoods were formed in a number of ways: some reflect the general district served by various elementary schools while others reflect areas represented by official neighborhood organizations which were formed by activists between 1901 and the 1980s. The designation of official neighborhoods culminated with the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) in the early 1990s. Neighborhoods are also used for statistical reporting purposes.
Some areas in the city are more commonly known by designated place names. Many of these place-name areas are located within a defined neighborhood or encompass two or more neighborhoods. For example, “North Minneapolis” generally refers to the neighborhoods of Hawthorne, Jordan, Near-North, and Willard-Hay. “Dinkytown” is a popular business district located in the University neighborhood. Neighborhoods bordering the eastern bank of the Mississippi River are broadly grouped into the “Northeast” and “Southeast” communities. “Uptown” is a popular business district that is generally defined as the area surrounding the Uptown Theater located at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street. Finally, the core of “Southwest Minneapolis” is bordered on the north by 36th Street West, and extends westward from Lake Calhoun, and is bordered on the east by Interstate 35-W.
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RSS for the Rest of Us
I don't know about you, but I'm seeing a whole bunch of articles and websites telling me that I need to get into this RSS thing.
Is it really time?
RSS (it stands for "Really Simple Syndication") is the latest wave of internet technology designed to take advantage of the "Content is King" mentality. Imagine getting direct access to the content you want, without having to give out your personal information. Wouldn't that be nice?
Here's how it works: You find a website you like and look for the little orange XML button, or a link that says "Syndicate this site". When you click that link, you get the raw feed of content from that site.
My Simplified Selling site allows you to syndicate my content. That means you don't have to remember to visit my site to discovers articles of interest, but instead they are fed to your preferred RSS reader (more on this in a moment) at your behest.
That means you no longer have to open your browser and visit a particular website to see what's new, to find out if anything interesting has been posted. All you have to do is open your RSS reader and content from all over the web is gathered into one place and presented for your review. An RSS reader is one-stop shopping for online information.
There are hundreds of RSS readers on the market. You can collect RSS Feeds on your "My Yahoo!" page, or your "MyMSN" page. Current, updated content from your preferred sites is presented for your reading pleasure. Check the first few lines and if you're interested, just click and you are instantly transported to that particular article. No more hunting around on a site looking for an article you like.
Newsgator (www.newsgator.com) is a third-party add-in that turns your Outlook mail client into an RSS reader. Not to be outdone, Microsoft has incorporated an RSS reader into the latest release of Outlook.
You can also get stand-alone RSS readers from Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) and RSSReader.com (www.rssreader.com). A quick Google search for "RSS Reader" returned over 2 million pages. You'll have no trouble finding an RSS reader that you like.
That's really the question. Of course we know why the internet folks want you to subscribe to their content, but why would the average websurfer want to go through the hassle of setting up and subscribing to RSS feeds?
RSS feeds are more private than newsletters. Unlike when you subscribe to newsletters (where you must give your email address to the content provider so that the information can be emailed to you) when you subscribe to RSS Feeds, you don't have to give your email address (or any personal information) to the site owner, because they aren't mailing you their information.
Something to consider - it is possible that content providers will start asking for personal information when subscribing to an RSS feed. It hasn't happened yet, so subscribe today before they start!
When I change email addresses or work on a different computer, I don't lose the content I like, because my RSS reader is keeping track of the content I want to see - without the involvement of the content provider. It's like radio stations on your Walkman. The station manager doesn't know when you change the station and if you move across town, you don't lose the stations. It's all in your Walkman. When you're using an online RSS reader (like My Yahoo! or MyMSN), your subscriptions are available from any computer, anywhere in the world.
No 'Unsubscribe' Headaches
When I'm tired of getting a newsletter, I am required to contact the publisher and "unsubscribe" to make the mailing stop. With RSS, you don't have to interact with the website owner to get off the list. Simply click the button in your RSS reader and it will stop collecting data from that site. You are in complete control.
No More Spam
Today, RSS is pure content. Because you didn't give out your email address to subscribe, you know that you won't get spammed. The internet folks have an incentive to keep the feed relatively ad-free. While you're reading their content in your RSS reader, if the content stops being interesting or becomes non-stop pitching, it is very easy for the reader (you) to disconnect. Most of these folks would rather keep you tuned in than to lose you forever.
Think of it like television. If "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations" becomes a long series of commercials and no plot, people will change the channel, many never to return. So the producers see to it that they have interesting content that keeps viewers returning for more. RSS will likely follow the same route.
Get yourself an RSS reader and start subscribing to feeds today. You'll get the internet on your own terms.
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Top 10 Places to Find the Most Popular Blogs
The easiest way to get acquainted with the conventions of the blog format is to start reading them. The more blogs you read, the more you'll get a feel for the depth and breadth of style and subject matter they have to offer.
Marketing With Blogs - Part 4
In the first three parts of this article series on marketing with blogs, I discussed the reasons why blogs are excellent tools for marketing, and provided some tips on using your blog to brand yourself, boost your reputation and sell your products and services online.In this article, I provide specific tips on using your blog help you boost your marketing ROI and visibility online.
Blogging Your Way To Success Part 4
(Continued from Blogging Your Way To Success Part 3)In this last part of the series, we will summarize what we have covered:1) You have registered for a Blogger account at http://www.blogger.
The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan
If you're wondering how to get started with RSS marketing, here's a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps as your personal RSS marketing checklist to get your started and help you see whether you're on the right track.
What Is RSS?
Recently I did an interview with a well known email Internet Marketer. He wanted to share with his readers a viewpoint on what RSS is from someone who is using it in place of traditional email marketing.
Internet News Services Explode Online
It seems no matter how much information comes available online, people thirst for more.To illustrate this point, just take a look at all the online news services sprouting up on the web like garden weeds.
Blogs: The Hidden Ace Up Your Sleeve
If it wasn't for my blog, I wouldn't make any online sales at all.It's true that I have a "regular" website, my so-called "main website," which I first set up to sell my goods, in this case, men's and women's health products.
RSS for Newbies; A Quick Tutorial
"RSS" stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It is a new way to distribute content.
Cash In Your Blog - 4 Ways to Profit From The Hidden Revenue In Your Blog
Most webmasters and online business owners know that a blog can bring you additional revenue from advertising, and more traffic from search engines. Then there's the additional benefit of having a great way to spark productive dialogue between you and your prospects.
Get Website Visitors From Blogs
Blogs are becoming more and more popular. The word "blog" is short for web log.
24 Tips and Strategies on How Everyone Can Blog Right and Get Everybody to Read
By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is.
RSS Can Keep You In The Loop
When webmasters first hear about RSS they tend to concentrate on the promotional side of things. They want to know how it will bring more traffic to their site and get them higher rankings in the search engines.
Blogs: Todays Internet Diary and Marketing Tool
The popular blogger.com owned by Google, Inc.
Blogging - Whats It All About
A blog usually is a web page that contains brief, discrete hunks of information called posts. These posts are arranged in reverse-chronological order (the most recent come first) and each is uniquely identified by an anchor tag which is marked with a permanent link that can be referred to by others who wish to link to it.
Content Syndication Through RSS Feeds
Delivering regularly updated content to website visitors is easier through RSS resources.RSS, also known as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, has been used for years by online visitors.
Start Blogging Now: 10 Reasons Why You Really Need a Blog for Your Business
1. It is perfect for creating a web presence for independent professionals who have something to say and who need people to get to know them and what they can do for them.
I still consider myself to be a blog writing novice but as I've got a few entries under my belt I can tell you about an unexpected bonus of this journaling process. A lot of people think that blog writers are just people who are tooting their own horns blabbering on self-righteously about what they believe to be true in life.
RSS Feeds Have Revolutionized the Internet
RSS feeds have revolutionized the Internet for one very good reason: they have provided and end to Spam. With RSS feeds, you can say good-bye to mass emails and distributions that do not meet your news needs and clog up your mailbox and hard drive.
Making Money with RSS Feeds
First it was banner ads, then Google AdSense and now, the latest way to make money on your web site could very well be RSS feeds. Say what? I said: RSS is hot and you should be using it to drive eyeballs to your site.
Business: Deliver Information Safely
Businesses that are not using feeds today, as part of their marketing and advertising plans, will soon do so, or should thinking of implementing them soon. Although this is a fairly new communications tool it is growing rapidly.
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A square astronomical unit is defined as the area of a square with sides one astronomical unit in length.
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The astronomical unit (AU or au or a.u. or sometimes ua) is a unit of length. It is approximately equal to the mean distance between the Earth and Sun. The currently accepted value of the AU is 149 597 870 691 ± 30 metres (about 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles).
The symbol "ua" is recommended by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, but in the United States and other anglophone countries the reverse usage is more common. The International Astronomical Union recommends "au" and international standard ISO 31-1 uses "AU".
## ››Definition: Circular mil
A circular mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a circle with a diameter of one mil (one thousandth of an inch). It is a convenient unit for referring to the area of a wire with a circular cross section, because the area in circular mils can be calculated without reference to pi (π).
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FMSHRC Proposes Streamlined Procedures
The flood of contested cases -- about 9,200 each in 2008 and 2009, more than twice the usual number of previous years -- must be addressed, the commission says.
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has proposed a few ways to streamline its procedures and accelerate disposition of contested cases, which are piling up at a rapid pace. The independent appellate court for MSHA enforcement actions, FMSHRC received about 2,300 new cases per year from 2000 through 2005, 3,000 to 4,000 annually in 2006 and 2007, and about 9,200 in 2008 and again in 2009. Mine officials have accused MSHA inspectors of overreaching and say they have no real alternative but to contest a citation; MSHA and the chairman of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., say mine operators are stalling the process with appeals so they won't have to pay for needed safety abatements.
The proposed Simplified Proceedings would include these changes: Answers to petitions for assessment of penalty would not be required; motions would be eliminated to the greatest extent practicable; early discussions among the parties and the administrative law judge would be required to narrow the disputed matters; parties would be required to disclose certain materials early in the proceedings; discovery would not be permitted except as ordered by the ALJ; interlocutory appeals -- appeals of an ALJ's ruling before that judge had decided the case -- would not be permitted; and post-hearing briefs would not be allowed except as ordered by the ALJ. "Although the administrative process would be streamlined, hearings would remain full due process hearings as they are under conventional procedures," according to the commission's proposal.
To be designated for Simplified Proceedings, a case would not involve complex issues of law or fact and would generally include one or more of these characteristics: (1) limited number of citations; (2) an aggregate proposed penalty of not more than $15,000 per docket and not more than $50,000 per proceeding; (3) no citation or order issued under sections 104(b), 104(d), 104(e), 105(c), 107(a), 110(b), 110(c), or 111 of the Mine Act; (4) not involving a fatality; or (5) a hearing that is expected to take not more than one day.
FMSHRC asked for comments on its proposals by June 21. They may be e-mailed to Michael A. McCord, the commission's general counsel, at [email protected]; the subject line should say, Comments on Simplified Proceedings." | fineweb_edu |
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#include "StdAfx.h"
#include"Game_ui.h"
#include"picture.h"
using namespace std;
game_ui::game_ui(const unsigned int &_w_ui, const unsigned int &_h_ui, const unsigned int &_w_font, const unsigned int &_h_font) :
w_ui(_w_ui), h_ui(_h_ui), w_font(_w_font), h_font(_h_font)
{
sound = true;
Game = new console;
Game->set_title(L"New Game");
Game->set_font(L"Arial",_w_font, _h_font);
Game->set_dimensions(_w_ui, _h_ui);//50,30
this->set_up();
}
game_ui::~game_ui()
{
delete Game;
}
void game_ui::set_up()
{
//22
Game->set_cursor_color(blue);
unsigned int i, j;
for (i = 0; i < 19; i++)
{
if (i % 3 == 0)
{
Game->print_char(178, 22, 0, i);
}
else
{
for (j = 0; j < 22; j++)
if (j % 3 == 0)
Game->print_char(178, 1, j, i);
else
Game->print_char(' ', 1, j, i);
}
}
Game->set_cursor_color(green);
Game->print_char(178, 22, 0, 19);
Game->print_char(178, 22, 0, 28);
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
sound_display();
/*Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "joueur ";
Game->set_cursor_color(yellow);
cout << "jaune"<<endl;
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "colonne :" << endl;
cout << endl;
cout << "votre choix (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)?" << endl;
COORD pos;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 25;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);*/
}
void game_ui::clean_text()
{
unsigned int i;
for (i = 20; i <= 27; i++)
Game->print_string(" ", 22, 0, i);
}
char game_ui::first()
{
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
Game->print_string("Welcome!", 8, 7, 20);
Game->print_string("1.Two person", 12, 0, 21);
Game->print_string("2.One person", 12, 0, 22);
Game->print_string("3.DEMO", 6, 0, 23);
Game->print_string("4.**Bad Apple!**", 17, 0, 24);
Game->print_string("Choose 1, 2 or 3 to start the game", 34, 0, 25);
char choose='0';
COORD pos;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
while (!(choose >= '1' && choose <= '4'))
{
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
choose=_getch();
if (choose == 'a' || choose == 'A')
{
sound_switch();
}
else
{
if (!(choose >= '1' && choose <= '4'))
{
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
Game->print_string(" ", 34, 0, 25);
Sleep(200);
Game->print_string("Choose 1, 2 or 3 to start the game", 34, 0, 25);
Sleep(200);
}
}
}
}
return choose-48;
}
void game_ui::play_text(const char &stat, const char &last, const char(&which_can)[7])//1:ƣ2죬-1win-2win,飬һɷţ-1ɣ0
{
COORD pos;
unsigned int i;
switch(stat)
{
case yellow:
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 20;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Player ";
Game->set_cursor_color(yellow);
cout << "Yellow" << endl;
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Last Column : ";
if (last == -1)
cout << "No" << endl;
else
cout << last << endl;
cout << "You choose ( ";
for (i = 0; i < 7; i++)
if (which_can[i] == 0) cout << i + 1 << ' ';
cout << " )?";
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
break;
case red:
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 20;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Player ";
Game->set_cursor_color(red);
cout << "Red" << endl;
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Last Column : ";
if (last == -1)
cout << "No" << endl;
else
cout << last << endl;
cout << "You choose ( ";
for (i = 0; i < 7; i++)
if (which_can[i] == 0) cout << i + 1 << ' ';
cout << " )?";
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
break;
case -1:
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 20;
if (sound) PlaySound(L"Bakuhatu.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
Game->set_cursor_color(yellow);
cout << "Yellow Win! " << endl;
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Again?(Y or N)" << endl;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
break;
case -2:
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 20;
if (sound) PlaySound(L"Bakuhatu.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
Game->set_cursor_color(red);
cout << "Red Win! " << endl;
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Again?(Y or N)" << endl;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
break;
case -3:
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 20;
if (sound) PlaySound(L"Bakuhatu.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
Game->set_cursor_color(red);
cout << "Draw! " << endl;
Game->set_cursor_color(white);
cout << "Again?(Y or N)" << endl;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
break;
}
}
void game_ui::place_it(const char &stat, const char &column, const char &end)//stat1 ƣ2죬columnһ(0~6),end䵽(0,1,2,3,4,5)
{
COORD pos;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
color temp;
if (stat == 5) temp = yellow; else temp = red;
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < (6 - end); i++)
{
Game->set_cursor_color(temp);
Game->print_char(254, 2, 3 * column + 1, 3 * i + 1);
Game->print_char(254, 2, 3 * column + 1, 3 * i + 2);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
if (i != 5 - end)
{
Sleep(110);
Game->print_char(' ', 2, 3 * column + 1, 3 * i + 1);
Game->print_char(' ', 2, 3 * column + 1, 3 * i + 2);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
Sleep(110);
}
}
if (sound) PlaySound(L"Up.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC);
}
void game_ui::error(const string &err)
{
COORD pos;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
cout << "ERROR:" << err << endl;
Sleep(500);
Game->print_string(" ", 34, 0, 26);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
}
void game_ui::give_up(color what)
{
COORD pos;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 26;
PlaySound(L"Bakuhatu.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC);
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
if (what == yellow) cout << "Yellow "; else cout << "Red ";
cout << "Give Up!" << endl;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
}
bool game_ui::draw_picture(const char *name)
{
picture p1(name);
Game->draw_bmp(p1.get_width(), p1.get_height(), p1.get_data());
return true;
}
bool game_ui::clean_picture()
{
Game->clean_bmp();
return true;
}
void game_ui::sound_display()
{
COORD pos;
pos.X = 0;
pos.Y = 29;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
cout << "Sound:";
if (sound == true) cout << "On "; else cout << "Off";
pos.Y = 30;
Game->set_cursor_position(pos);
cout << "Press A to Switch";
}
void game_ui::sound_switch()
{
sound=!sound;
sound_display();
} | stack_edu |
Texas Tribune: Explosions from unregulated pipelines can kill in Texas while energy companies go unpunished
Posted on 03/07/2019 under News
By: Mike Lee and Mike Soraghan, E&E News
A firefighter tamps out flames shortly after an explosion destroyed the Tercero family's home outside Midland.A firefighter tamps out flames shortly after an explosion destroyed the Tercero family's home outside Midland. Courtesy of the Midland County Fire Marshal's Office
STANTON — Delaney Tercero, 3, was sitting on her family's couch with her father and sister that summer day. Her mother was doing laundry.
They didn't know a pipeline with a dime-sized hole a few yards from their front door was filling their mobile home with raw natural gas.
Delaney's mother opened the dryer. The house blew up.
Men pulled Delaney from the rubble. A neighbor wrapped her in a scarf, trying to comfort her. Others rubbed burn cream on her sister's burns. Witnesses told responders her mother was burned "head to toe."
A helicopter whirled Delaney to a burn unit in Lubbock, but she died two days later, 100 miles from home. Her mother, father and sister were badly burned in the Aug. 9, 2018, explosion, but they lived. That still amazes their next-door neighbor, Ronnie Littlefield.
Delaney Tercero (right) was killed in a pipeline explosion. Her sister, Delayza, was seriously injured.Delaney Tercero (right) was killed in a pipeline explosion. Her sister, Delayza, was seriously injured. Courtesy of the Tercero family
"Those poor people there," Littlefield said on a recent Sunday afternoon, looking over their fence at the debris field where the family's home once sat. "I don't know how anybody survived."
The state dispatched inspectors, and they found the pipe's anti-corrosion coating had been "compromised." They also found it had been leaking for "an undetermined length of time."
But Targa Resources Corp., the $9.6 billion Houston company that owns the line, will face no penalty from state or federal officials for the explosion.
Targa didn't violate any rules because for this type of pipeline, there are no rules.
They're called "gathering lines," generally small pipelines carrying oil and gas from wellheads to processing sites. The Targa pipe was connected to a battery of tanks near the two homes in the pumpjack-studded farm fields outside Midland. Targa did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
It was a small part of a network of thousands of miles of pipes underlying the frenzied oil and gas development in the Permian Basin. Nationally, more than 450,000 miles of such gathering lines snake underground from wells, and reports of death and injury have emerged from Texas to Pennsylvania.
It's not known how many fatalities have occurred because the federal government doesn't keep records on explosions from rural gathering lines. Neither do most states.
The federal government's pipeline safety watchdog, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, has a set of rules for a little more than 18,000 miles of gathering lines — generally high-pressure lines in populated areas.
But another 439,000 miles of pipeline are classified as rural gathering lines and left unregulated. That's enough to wrap around the Earth more than 17 times.
Remains of the Tercero family home outside Midland.Remains of the Tercero family home outside Midland. Courtesy of the Midland County Fire Marshal's Office
Unlike long-haul transmission lines, which are closely regulated by the federal government, or utility pipelines usually monitored by states, rural gathering lines fall in a gray area.
They don't have to be marked, built to standards or regularly inspected. Unlike for transmission lines, operators don't have to have emergency response plans for when they leak or explode.
PHMSA has been contemplating safety standards on gathering lines for decades. But recent efforts have bogged down, and the oil and gas industry is lobbying for looser rules covering only large-diameter lines, those wider than 16 inches.
"The longer they stall, the longer they can put pipelines in the ground without worrying about construction standards and such," said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust.
Oil and gas industry representatives say they support broader regulation of gathering lines. But they say they want to push ahead with rules for the biggest gathering lines and obtain more data on where the problems are with smaller lines.
"Sixteen inches seems to be a responsible break point for regulating without additional information," explained pipeline industry consultant Lindsay Sander. "It's hard to roll back a regulation, so we want to get it right."
The lack of federal rules leaves individual states to decide whether to monitor gathering lines. Most don't.
Authority, but no money
Texas, the biggest oil- and gas-producing state, is one of those that don't. The state Legislature passed a law in 2013 allowing the Railroad Commission of Texas to police gathering lines. But the agency hasn't followed up by writing the detailed regulations needed to enforce the law.
Texas alone has seen 14,000 miles of new rural gathering lines since 2014, on top of the 160,000 miles already there. The Railroad Commission, which does not regulate trains but does handle oil and gas pipelines, has often been criticized in legislative reports for lax enforcement and infrequent pipeline inspection.
The agency responded to passage of the law by holding a series of meetings with gathering line operators and surveying the companies for information about their systems.
More than a third of the 598 operators responding didn't conduct leak surveys on their pipelines, according to the 2015 survey obtained in an open records request under the state's Public Information Act. More than one-fifth of the systems had never been pressure tested, and more than half didn't have corrosion control or monitoring.
Agency officials told pipeline company representatives in a 2014 presentation that they would "almost certainly" impose rules on gathering lines, according to the documents.
But the Legislature hadn't provided any money for implementing the law. Railroad Commission spokeswoman Ramona Nye said the agency found it would need an extra 25 employees, at a cost of $1.8 million a year, to set up a safety program for gathering lines.
The agency, she said, also didn't want its rules to conflict with the rules that PHMSA has been working on.
That left the agency in a Catch-22 in the aftermath of the Tercero family's tragedy. The commission has the authority to investigate incidents like the fatal explosion, Nye said. But in the most rural areas, deemed "Class 1," inspectors can check only to determine if the company followed existing rules.
And, Nye said, "there are no federal or state rules governing Class 1 gathering lines."
The commission closed its investigation into the explosion just before Christmas last year after determining that there had been no rule violations. PHMSA's Accident Investigation Division determined that the line wasn't subject to regulation and sent no investigator.
PHMSA and industry failure
Rural gathering lines were carved out of the legislation that created federal regulation of pipelines in the late 1960s. By 1974, the regulators were already dealing with confusion about what was and wasn't regulated. They proposed a fix, which was later withdrawn. But rural gas gathering lines remained unregulated when PHMSA proposed rules for them in 2011.
At the time, the shale drilling boom was taking off. Officials were growing worried about pipes that were legally considered unregulated gathering lines but had diameters and pressures as high as long-haul transmission lines.
Five years later, the agency proposed an 8-inch threshold for regulating gas gathering lines. The agency says it hopes to have rules in place by February 2020.
That 8-inch threshold would impose requirements on nearly 100,000 more miles of gathering lines, according to a recent PHMSA estimate. That is five times as many miles as currently regulated. But there are far more gathering lines even smaller than 8 inches, so more than 300,000 miles of lines would remain unregulated.
The agency estimated in 2016 that its proposal would cost the industry about $13 million to $15 million spread across 15 years. But industry says the costs would be in the billions of dollars.
The industry's 16-inch threshold would far more than double the miles of gathering lines subject to regulation. It would cover about one-sixteenth of the currently unregulated lines.
PHMSA's proposal would also require pipeline owners to give detailed information about all gathering lines, including those not currently regulated. The reports would include any reports of fires, leaks or other incidents.
Under current rules, Targa officials had no obligation to report details of the fatal explosion. Records show that when asked to fill out an accident report, they didn't.
The Railroad Commission's report doesn't include basic information like the Targa pipeline's operating pressure, its age or when it was last inspected. The damaged pipe was dug up by a contractor for Targa, according to the investigator's report, taken to a Targa location and placed under "lock and key."
One attempt to set new gathering line standards began in late 2017 when the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry's largest trade group, proposed a new industry standard for gathering lines. Drawn by a private committee consisting overwhelmingly of industry representatives, the standards were to be voluntary.
But the effort collapsed last summer. State regulators dropped out in June, saying the process was too dominated by industry. Pipeline company representatives split on issues such as whether they should have to determine the width of the blast zone around their lines. When voting concluded in early July, only about one-third of committee voters supported the proposal they had crafted.
API has regrouped and is trying again this year. Of the 74 members of the new "task group," 63 are from industry. The group is focusing on standards for gathering lines only larger than 16 inches.
Targa executives have been members of both groups, along with Sander, the industry consultant, and Weimer of the Pipeline Safety Trust.
A PHMSA advisory panel is scheduled to pick up the gathering line debate this summer and make recommendations. The meeting of the panel, called the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee, had been set for January but was postponed because of the government shutdown. It is now scheduled for June 25-26.
Asked why changes to gathering line regulations have taken so long, a PHMSA spokesperson sent a statement Friday outlining the current proposal and noting that the agency expects to publish a final rule in December. If that happens, it would be effective in February 2020.
State regulators and safety advocates want to stick with the proposal to regulate lines 8 inches or more in diameter. But industry has put its weight behind the 16-inch threshold.
In advance of the June meeting, PHMSA has suggested splitting the difference and regulating lines wider than 12.75 inches.
But neither the industry proposal nor the PHMSA compromise would have covered the 10-inch line that exploded and killed Delaney Tercero. And others have died as industry representatives, safety advocates and regulators haggled.
Two people died in two gathering line incidents within weeks of the explosion at the Tercero home. Both involved small pipes and were nearby in the booming Permian Basin region.
A "pig launcher" on a small line exploded about 70 miles away in Monahans on July 27, injuring two workers and killing one. Five days after that, a rupture in a 6-inch gathering line caused an adjacent 12-inch interstate line to explode in Midland. One worker was killed, and seven more were injured.
In 2015, a worker installing a pipeline in rural Pennsylvania hit an existing 12-inch pipeline with a bulldozer. The line exploded, and the man later died from his injuries. Since they're not tracked, it's difficult to know how many more deaths have occurred.
Bothered, but not surprised
If statistics were kept, Littlefield could have been one of them. The same pipeline that blew up the Tercero home runs through his front yard.
The blast blew out the windows on his one-story house, about 180 feet from the pipeline rupture, and flung debris on his rooftop. Fortunately, he and his wife were at work. He couldn't get his home repaired until November, and he's still worried that the explosion caused structural damage.
A clothes dryer in the wreckage of the Tercero family home outside Midland.A clothes dryer in the wreckage of the Tercero family home outside Midland. Courtesy of the Midland County Fire Marshal's Office
On a cloudy day in January, the rubble was still scattered across the Terceros' lot. The roof was still peeled back atop the metal barn that was behind the leveled mobile home. Yellow tape fluttered near a trench in front where the pipe was dug up.
The Tercero family is suing Targa, and their attorney advised them not to give interviews. Family members are shuttling back and forth between the Midland area and Lubbock for treatment and surgery for Delaney's younger sister, Delayza.
Littlefield said he's spoken with a lawyer but hasn't filed suit.
He's not surprised by the state's inaction after the explosion. But he says it rankles him that the state oil and gas regulators at the Railroad Commission seem to side with big money more than with people who live in the oil patch.
"It's too bad that innocent people get hurt and killed," he said. "It bothers me. I think it bothers everyone."
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package de.hdawg.wci.portlets.bookmarks.server;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import de.hdawg.wci.portlets.bookmarks.shared.PortalObject;
/**
* @author Hauke Wesselmann
*/
public class PortalObjectHelper {
public String refreshObjectMetaData(PortalObject object) {
// TODO create real code using Portal-api
return "Community fr einen guten Start!";
}
public ArrayList<PortalObject> getChildrenOfRootObject(int rootFolderId, int objectId) {
ArrayList<PortalObject> objects = new ArrayList<PortalObject>();
// TODO do some prc-magic here...
if(rootFolderId == 0) {
PortalObject o1 = new PortalObject();
o1.setName("Produkte");
o1.setPortalId(101);
o1.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o1);
PortalObject o2 = new PortalObject();
o2.setName("Termine");
o2.setPortalId(1);
o2.setPortalObjectType(100);
objects.add(o2);
PortalObject o3 = new PortalObject();
o3.setName("Pepsi");
o3.setPortalId(102);
o3.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o3);
PortalObject o4 = new PortalObject();
o4.setName("Coke");
o4.setPortalId(103);
o4.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o4);
} else if(rootFolderId == 1) {
PortalObject o2 = new PortalObject();
o2.setName("Termine");
o2.setPortalId(2);
o2.setPortalObjectType(100);
objects.add(o2);
PortalObject o3 = new PortalObject();
o3.setName("Pepsi");
o3.setPortalId(102);
o3.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o3);
PortalObject o4 = new PortalObject();
o4.setName("Coke");
o4.setPortalId(103);
o4.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o4);
} else if(rootFolderId == 2) {
PortalObject o3 = new PortalObject();
o3.setName("Pepsi");
o3.setPortalId(102);
o3.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o3);
PortalObject o4 = new PortalObject();
o4.setName("Coke");
o4.setPortalId(103);
o4.setPortalObjectType(512);
objects.add(o4);
}
return objects;
}
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
private ArrayList<PortalObject> sortObjectsByType(ArrayList<PortalObject> objects) {
return objects;
}
}
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Property Division for Married Couples
property division
Often new clients become panicked about having to give up their grandmother’s dining table or a set of classic vinyl records. Gentle probing elicits their belief that married spouses have to share their all property with their spouse in a 50/50 split. Breathe deeply. It doesn’t work that way in Ontario. There are exemptions for certain kinds of property and credits for the value of assets brought into the marriage.
Critical to the “50/50” scheme is that it is the net difference in value that is divided, not each actual asset or debt. The best news is that, if both agree, the property can be shared in different ways, or not at all. Have your family law lawyer ensure any proposed deal is the best one for you, and put the deal in writing.
Equalizing the Net Position
The legislated division of property regime is applicable to married spouses upon separation, divorce, and other special triggering events. Under the law a marriage is considered to be an equal partnership between the spouses. As with an equal partnership in business, the settling of who owns what when the marriage breaks down should take into account the contributions of each spouse to the marriage. To start the process, each spouse provides a complete accounting of all assets and debts owned together or independently at the date of marriage and at the date of separation.
The entries of the two individual statements are then synced into a single format to calculate the net financial position of each spouse. One half of any difference between the totals will be paid by the spouse with the greater net financial position to the other spouse. This half of the difference becomes the equalization payment, so that each spouse leaves the marriage with exactly the same net position.
Valuation Date and Date of Separation
The Valuation Date is a term of legal importance. It refers to the earliest date upon which an event happened which led to the breakdown of the marriage. An example is the discovery of intolerable behavior by one spouse who becomes simply unable to continue the marriage. It is one of the dates on which all assets, debts, and liabilities are valued for the purposes of assessing the division of property between the spouses. The other date on which an accounting of property is made is the date of marriage.
The parties may agree between themselves not to formally value certain assets, such as an old model car or a month-old employment pension plan. However, declining to have a business or foreign stock holdings valued may have significant repercussions for a client.
The wiser decision is to have the asset valued. Being fully informed before any decision is taken allows a spouse to appropriately judge whether an asset’s value should be included or excluded from the property equalization process.
Equalization Payment
Creative solutions are often devised by the lawyers if a spouse owes a payment to equalize their net financial position with that of the other spouse. Such helpful solutions can include transferring investments, taking a charge against real estate, or paying in installments if paying the entire equalization payment owed all at once would result in financial hardship to the paying spouse. An equalization payment is often deducted from the net proceeds of the sale of the matrimonial home and provided to the recipient spouse. Similarly, posting other assets as security to ensure the obligation is satisfied is another option to guarantee an equalization payment.
Unequal Division
There may be instances when an equal sharing of the value of the spouses’ net family property would be unfair or unconscionable. In these cases, the spouses consider all the facts and circumstances to negotiate what both regard as a fair settling of the family and individually owned property and debts. If negotiation is not a viable approach, then commencing a court action or family arbitration may be needed.
Effect of a Domestic Contract
If the clients have an enforceable Domestic Contract in place, it may provide that no sharing of value of any kind of property is to be assumed or carried out. In this case, the Contract overrides the obligations set out in law and no division of property occurs. Whatever each spouse came into the marriage with or acquired during the marriage is divided by ownership. Joint ownership is typically divided by an equal sharing of the value of the asset or debt.
On the other hand, the Contract may only exclude the division of value of certain assets, and the balance of other property held by the spouses is shared under the equalization process specified by law. | dclm_edu |
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1. Introduction:Contextualising Zimbabwe's Political Climate
2. Taking Control:Propaganda and Legislation
3. Press Coverage of the 2000 & 2002 Elections
In Zimbabwe, the ruling party, Zanu PF, and particularly the President of Zimbabwe, Cde Robert Mugabe, have imposed many legislative and political strictures on the national press in recent years, and have made access to the country difficult and dangerous for foreign journalists.
The purpose of this essay is to analyse and evaluate the government's intensifying control of the media, and manipulation of other mass communication tools, in Zimbabwe, and to examine the political, social and economic consequences that these measures of absolute control have rendered.
Introduction:Contextualising Zimbabwe's Political Climate
At this time, the people of Zimbabwe are faced with many hardships; the economy was, until recently, one of the strongest in Africa, but has been hugely undermined by political wrangling between the government and opposition parties.Massive inflation, escalating unemployment, and a marked decrease in GDP are having a direct effect on the day-to-day lives of the 12 million-strong population.As the government's position becomes more and more challenged, it response is one of unswerving subjugation of both the opposition, and the media which supports it.
In order to fully appreciate the effects of politics on the Zimbabwean media, and vice versa, it is important to understand the way in which Zimbabwe has developed as a country, and the power that its government now holds over the populace.The remainder of this chapter, therefore, serves as a précis of Zimbabwe's history, and aims to create a context in which the relationship between the Zimbabwean government and the domestic (and to a lesser extent, international) press can be examined.
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STA 2023 Practice Questions Final Exam 1. Which of the following is not a property of the t distribution? a) has fatter tails than a Z distribution b) it is symmetric and mound shaped c) it is centered at zero d) as the degrees of freedom increase it becomes less like a Z distribution. Questions 2 – 5 An education researcher has developed a new technique to teach Spanish to high school students. To prove this new method is better, she will teach two groups of students for an entire semester, one with the new method and one with the standard method used today in high schools. She wishes to obtain 12 sets of identical twins, 24 people total, and split the twins up so that one of each twin is in Class 1, which will receive the new technique, and one is in Class 2, which will receive the old technique. At the end of the semester both classes will take a standardized exam and the results will be compared. 2. What method should be used to analyze this data? a) one mean b) two independent means c) matched pairs d) two independent proportions 3. What should our hypotheses be to test if your new method is better than the old method? a) H 0 : μ 1 2 = 0 vs. H A : μ 1 2 < 0 b) H 0 : μ D = 0 vs. H A : μ D < 0 c) H 0 : μ 1 2 = 0 vs. H A : μ 1 2 0 d) H 0 : μ D = 0 vs. H A : μ D 0 4. What distribution would you use to look up the p- value for this test of hypothesis? a) t(11) b) t(12) c) t(23) d) Z 5. Suppose we collect the data from this experiment and we find a p- value of 0.009. Which of the following is our conclusion at any reasonable alpha level? a) There is no difference between the two educational methods.
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b) The old method is better than the new method. c) The new method is better than the old method. d) We cannot determine without more information. Questions 6- 8 use the following modifications to the above scenario. Unable to obtain the 12 sets of twins to conduct the experiment, the researcher has to use two existing Spanish classes at a local high school, one with 12 students and the other one with 11 students. 6. What method should be used to analyze this data? a) one mean b) two independent means c) matched pairs d) two independent proportions 7. What should our hypotheses be to test if your new method is better than the old method? a) H 0 : μ 1 2 = 0 vs. H A : μ 1 2 < 0 b) H 0 : μ D = 0 vs. H A : μ D < 0 c) H 0 : μ 1 2 = 0 vs. H A : μ 1 2 0 d) H 0 : μ D = 0 vs. H A : μ D 0 8. What distribution would you use to look up the p- value for this test of hypothesis? a) t(11) b) t(10) c) t(23) d) Z 9. What distribution would Minitab use to find the p- value for this test of hypothesis? a) t with more degrees of freedom than we use b) t with less degrees of freedom than we use c) t with same degrees of freedom we use d) Z Questions 10 – 13 We suspect that men are convicted of DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs) more often than women. Let p 1 be the proportion of males convicted of a DUI offense and p 2, the proportion of females convicted
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personalized medical experience
Personalization in Healthcare
Just like a customer is the centre of attention in retail, so is a patient in healthcare.
Despite these similarities, healthcare sadly keeps lagging behind its fellow industries when it comes to providing experiences. Although personalized service in healthcare sound less and less like a biting satire on the rapid retailization of the world, it’s still far away from being the accepted global standard.
How can things change? Why does personalization in healthcare matter so much? All of this, and more, will be discuss in today’s article.
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The Personalization Craze
personalized patient experience
What’s with all these talks about personalization, anyway?
As you might have heard, the on-demand economy and e-commerce are reaching an all-time high. People don’t want to get serviced anymore; they are seeking connection — and using the latest, state-of-the-art digital technologies, too.
The same thing is going on with healthcare: people want the convenience of modern age married with impeccable customer service.
As Julia Cheek’s article What’s Driving the Personalization of Healthcare? points out, “Recent shifts in US healthcare and insurance legislation have helped push personalized healthcare forward”. As the average amount a person has to pay out of pocket for medical care rises — a 255% increase from 2006 to 2015 — the tendency is to look for cheaper, more convenient and affordable medical options.
It’s the fact of life that with recent advancements of digital technologies and proliferation of information distribution tools, people are now more educated than ever. This goes for retail as well as healthcare.
Although this spells more headache for doctors, who often need to manage patients who think they know better because they’ve read some articles on the Internet, the general sentiment is that patients need less hand-holding.
What they need instead is medical care that is more tailored to their needs and preferences. If you think this means a costly investment on your part, you can actually start small — and start right away.
The Upside of Personalization: Winning Over Your Patients’ Hearts
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Loyalty is as much of a benefit as it is in other industries — perhaps ever more so in healthcare. As hospitals cannot adopt the same marketing gimmicks as your average beauty salon or a brick-and-mortar shop, they tend to favor the word-of-mouth marketing.
In this context, loyal patients are not only those who visit the same clinic year after year — after all, habit is one hell of a drug (pardon the pun) — but those who recommend their doctors to family, friends and colleagues.
How does patient personalization play into this? It turns out that hospitals that personalize their patient experience can see up to five times higher retention rates.
Seems like personalization is not a fad after all; rather, it’s a sought-after feature that not many hospitals out there are willing to bank on.
The expectations patients have of healthcare facilities keep increasing, with personalized experiences slowly becoming the norm. The vision of the healthcare’s future is clear: patients engage and share their information with hospitals and practitioners, who in turn use this information to further personalize the experiences.
Smarter Patient Data
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Therapy is contingent on having all the necessary data. The more information your patients provide and the more information you can analyze, the better their therapy experience is.
Dr. Hossein Fakhrai-Rad points out in Patient Data-Driven Personalization Key to Fixing Today’s Broken Health Assessments that health assessments need to take into account “the unique way that [patients’] risk factors interact with [them], not the aggregate”.
Research shows that patients are more likely to change their behavior if a doctor focuses more on their own personal risk factors. This, of course, requires a comprehensive view of the patient’s data, which calls for more data-backed personalization.
That is to say nothing of other medical improvements, like wearables and other personal monitoring devices that provide real-time medical data. It doesn’t mean that doctors are not needed anymore; rather, the doctors have more easily accessible patient information they can act on and provide context for.
A Case for Patient Satisfaction
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You don’t need to be a psychic to know that receiving an exceptional service makes it hard to go back to the old-and-tired experience.
On the other hand, failing to meet your patient’s expectations means losing this patient forever. When you take into account the word-of-mouth marketing, losing one patient means losing a number of potential ones.
To put it into a financial context, the loss of a patient due to dissatisfaction equates to the loss of over 200,000 USD. That is to say, patient satisfaction is a necessity, or rather a solid investment in the future of your own hospital.
But caring just about not losing a patient can only get you so far. How about getting more patients thanks to experience personalization?
Personalization 101: First Aid Kit
how to personalize healthcare
What can you do to personalize your patients’ treatment?
Genuine care for other people is hard to fake, not that you should fake it, but there are small ways in which you can start providing a more personal medical experience today.
Here’s a basic list of things NOT to do if you don’t want to seem cold and unapproachable:
• Refusing to shake hands.
• Avoiding eye contact.
• Not asking how the patient is doing or some unassuming personal questions (“How’s work/kids/wife?”).
Of course, the importance of greeting your patients is not to be understated. It’s not only a polite thing to do: when you hear your own name, it positively affects your mood and brain activity.
In other words, it reinforces the feeling of closeness between a patient and a doctor, which helps start things off on the right foot.
Medical care personalization offers plenty of bonuses and it does not require heavy investments to start seeing results. Even going as small as updating your hospital queue management system can save you and your patients a lot of headache — colloquially speaking.
Don’t believe us? Then read up on the adverse effects of wait times in healthcare, and decide what you care about more — the status quo or your patients.
Times, they are a-changin’ — and you’d better keep up with them.
The Effects of Waiting in Healthcare
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Beach Vacation: Day 2
I think that Reed looks too old in the picture above. So old that I almost deleted the picture, but because he is adorable still, I kept it.
Reed woke up ready to go to the beach and by woke up, I mean 7:00 AM and by ready to go to the beach I mean, every other sentence was "Is it time to go to the beach?"
It is cooler here at the beach this time than it has ever been. Only about 70-77 degrees or so. When we got to the beach this morning, it was 68. Cool, but the boys were in the water.
Nash is definitely more cold natured than Reed. He would shiver if the water hit him at first.
So far, Will has proven himself to be our non-beachbum child.
In case anyone is thinking of purchasing the boys swimtrunks, please make sure that they have drawstrings. Today's swimtrunks were courtesy of Aunt Ava and they had drawstrings which made it much easier.
These two do everything together.
Nash is more adventurous than Reed, so when I got out into the water, he came along. Reed is definitely becoming more adventurous, but he won't let water get on his head. Nash will.
Danny and Michelle let us borrow the frog tent for Will. It was great to have today as Will decided to nap in the middle of beach time.
The water is extremely calm, but not as cold as the air would make you think.
The many many faces of Nash.
Will said "That's okay brothers, you go right ahead. I'm staying here where it's dry."
The boys had a great time pouring water.
The exposure is bad, but the picture is one of Reed's favorite things to do. Fly kites. It keeps his attention for at least 30 seconds.
Uncle Bill is our resident kite flying expert.
Nash is developing a second and third personality. 1. is when he pretends to be a frog. 2. is when he pretends to be a dog. The dog personality was coming out yesterday and he was trying to pick the rake up with his mouth. Not a good idea.
He is so funny. I think he is going to be our more artsy child. Definitely doesn't march to the beat of anyone else's drum. He has a rhythm that's all his own.
We always look so white next to our kids!
Look Ma! No hands!
Will fell asleep while watching the waves. I laid down by him. Thankfully, Abbey didn't get me in the pic like she did with her iPhone!
We did leave a little water in the ocean.
Such a sweet kid! Just gotta love him.
Uncle Bill was trying to soak up some rays.
The concentration look.
Nash is a good winker!
Back at Uncle Bill's beach house, we all took naps. By the way, if you are new to our blog, we call it Uncle Bill's beach house but it's really rented. We also call any hotel we stay in Uncle Bill's Birmingham Hotel or insert other city's name. We don't want the boys to know that we can afford to stay in a hotel or go to the beach, so we always blame it on Uncle Bill. You know, keep the expectations low!
We decided to go back to the beach to let Abbey and Will sleep a little more.
This year, we rented a beautiful beach house that has room to spread out and even has a backsand (is that what you call a sand filled yard?).
Uncle Bill was posing for a pic in which I told Reed to throw the ball to him. Someone missed the memo.
Tonight we grilled pizza and watched the Survivor finale'. I fell asleep while putting the boys to bed, so not sure what else Abbey and Bill watched.
This year our beach rental experience has been awkward.
1. The house was unclean when we got here. Apparently there was a mixup with the cleaning crew. The property managers were embarrassed and promised a huge refund. We told her that we would clean the sheets and bathrooms, in exchange for a deeper refund. SHOW ME THE MONEY!
2. We grilled hot dogs for lunch and then while I was heating the grill for the pizzas, we ran out of butane. When I asked where the spare was, she said that I could go and get another and be reimbursed. Did I mention we are planning on grilling almost everyday?
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The Account Chamber stated the Finance Ministry published false information concerning the accomplishment of the State Budget-2005, the Chamber Head Valentyn Symonenko told in Monday press conference, Ukrainian News informed.
“Neither revenues nor expense items have been fulfilled,” noted Symonenko.
Such statement was based upon the preliminary revision of the Budget-2005 documents, Symonenko explained.
As a reminder, earlier, the Ministry of Finance reported 101.1% of common budget fund and 99.6% of budget expenses had been fulfilled.
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A new sexual education and abuse prevention program in the Yukon aims to help parents and caregivers talk to people with intellectual disabilities about sexuality.
"For lots of families, it's an uncomfortable topic," said Colette Acheson, executive director of the Yukon Association for Community Living.
Acheson said people with intellectual disabilities may not know what normal sexual boundaries are.
"They may have never been taught what is appropriate consent, what is age-appropriate, what is situation-appropriate, and so they're sometimes doing things or mimicking behaviours that they have sort of seen other people doing, except they got it wrong," she said.
"There are lots of cases that are in the courts now, and in the prisons now, of people who inadvertently did things that they really didn't know were wrong."
Acheson said people with intellectual disabilities want to have healthy sexual relationships, but parents and caregivers often don't know how to talk to them about it.
"They don't necessarily know how to talk to their child about sexuality, how to gauge their level of understanding about these issues."
The program starts with drop-in sessions later this month and continues throughout the year. | dclm_edu |
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There is a three-pronged budget war between President Obama and Republicans in Washington and it has politicians uttering a word they haven't used since 1994: shutdown.
On one front: the fight over what programs to cut next year. On another: whether to extend the ever-rising debt ceiling again. And then there is the confrontation that could have the most immediate impact: whether the federal government will be shut down next month.
Government funding is due to run out on March 4 when the latest continuing resolution expires. If Congress fails to act, then the government would shut down.
In recent days Democrats have repeatedly called for Republicans to take the prospect of a shutdown off the table, a call that Jack Lew, the Office of Management and Budget director reiterated today.
"We all want to avoid a situation like that. It's not the right way to run the government and I think we have a broad agreement that we need to keep essential services going," Lew said.
But the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. had a different view. "It is not our desire to see the government shutdown, but equally we don't want to rubber-stamp these elevated spending levels."
Even if the shutdown is avoided, at some point later this spring the national debt is set to hit its current $14.3 trillion limit. If Congress fails to act on the administration's request to raise the debt limit, then the government would have trouble refinancing its debt, taking in money to continue operations, and even default would be a possibility.
Then there is the longer term skirmish over funding for the next fiscal year. That fight kicked off this week with the unveiling of President Obama's 2012 budget proposal.
The battle lines have already been drawn: Republicans want big cuts, Democrats less so. The GOP has been bolstered by its victories in last November's elections. Now Republicans feel the need to demand ever more sweeping cuts to appease their political base.
"We're broke," House Speaker John Boehner said last week. "Let's be honest with ourselves."
"We have two opportunities just ahead of us to do something important on spending and debt," the Senate's top Republican Mitch McConnell said. "We have the continuing resolution for the balance of the year. We have the president asking us to increase the debt ceiling. Both of those are opportunities to do something important on spending and debt, which we believe is directly related to the sluggish growth we've had in the private sector."
In addition to the GOP's desire to make far larger cuts than the President has proposed, Republicans are also attempting to eliminate $100 billion from this year's budget.
But while Republicans emphasize the need to slash federal spending, Democrats -- who still control the Senate -- are urging caution, warning that drastic cutbacks could prove damaging. They fear that it could harm the nation's economic recovery, and they see the chance to portray their GOP counterparts as extreme and reckless in their budget proposals.
"We need to think about what we're cutting, and make sure those cuts aren't counterproductive. We need to pay attention to the quality of these cuts, not just the quantity," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last week. "After all, you can lose a lot of weight by cutting off your arms and legs. But no doctor would recommend it."
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Republicans of "blindly swinging the meat axe to the budget when they should be using a sharp, smart scalpel."
The ramifications for the spending debate in Congress go far beyond the partisan jockeying to get the upper hand heading into next year's elections. A government shutdown could become a distinct possibility. If no deal is reached before March 4, then what are merely whispers about a shutdown right now could quickly grow into full-blown threats.
Rep. Paul Gosar, a newly-elected Republican from Arizona, was asked Monday on ABC's "Top Line" if he would support a federal shutdown if Democrats do not agree to sufficient budget cuts for fiscal year 2011 in the debate leading up to the March 4 deadline.
"We wait and see," Gosar said. "I think, you know, what we've done is, we've had that adult discussion on our side -- we'll have that discussion coming about on the [House] floor. And I hope the Senate takes heed of that. And I think there's plenty of people that are listening over there with eyes wide open."
Other Republicans have gone even further. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty last week bragged to the Conservative Political Action Conference gathering in Washington that he oversaw the first government shutdown in Minnesota state history.
Those Democrats on the Senate side with "eyes wide open" want the GOP to take the prospect of a federal shutdown off the table.
"They need to say so, one way or the other. It is time for the House Republicans to stop with the games and finally rule out a government shutdown once and for all," Schumer said. | fineweb_edu |
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“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart.”
– James A. Garfield
“May you live all the days of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift
My New Year’s Resolution this year: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE. Wish me luck! And should I happen to get lost in the Black Hole, somebody please feed my cat.
Symbols have always been important to me. They are only imbued with whatever power we give them, but when they are imbued they resonate loudly, penetrate profoundly, and have the absolute ability to shift paradigms. I’m also a perpetual seeker, so I always seem to be in search of life’s answers to the questions that matter; our place and role in the world, our alliances and community with other living creatures and the reasons for them, etc. So, needless to say, tongue-in-cheek resolutions aside, the transition of the New Year has always had powerful meaning for me. Forever, I have practiced certain rituals, usually inward-turning ones, that help me to reflect, restore, reform, renew, and remember. Reflect on the choices I’ve made in the year that is leaving, and whether those choices have reaped what they intended. Restore balance where things have begun to feel out of control, and sanity where insanity has been allowed to rule. Reform habits that have now grown so old and dusty that they no longer serve. Renew, in order to make room for better habits and better mindsets. And Remember Everything, toward maintaining or gaining humility, understanding, clarity, lessons. Because if it’s not about always evolving toward our greatest, god-realized selves and away from our basest selves, whenever possible, and perpetually, then what IS it all for?
New Year’s Day just also happens to be my birthday, so truly this yearly symbol and practice and ritual could not be more perfect for me. Parties, celebrations, candles, champagne, friends and gatherings aside, my birthday has always been, for me, an opportunity to turn inward, to claim some part of the day for solitude, self-inquiry, meditation/prayer, and perhaps even a symbolic deed.
Example: One year (which had been an unusually difficult one) I took the midnight hour moment (after counting down and then singing Auld Lang Syne with the band, of course, because I’ve sung a gig on every New Year’s Eve since 1988) to unfold a list that I had made of every difficult and painful moment that had occurred that year, and I proceeded to ritually tear it up in order to say, to myself, to God, to the Source, to the Collective Consciousness, however it actually works, that I was done with those burdens and embracing a new consciousness and a new energy.
Well, here I am on another birthday, and other than writing this thought I’ve no plans except to watch the Rose Parade on TV with my breakfast and mimosa, maybe take a walk, go get a massage, or do some living room yoga. Perhaps I’ll end the day at the movies (one of my favorite pastimes). Who knows? As I’ve anticipated today, I’ve loved the idea of making no plans, because it is SO NOT me. I’m a planner, an organizer, a connector of dots. There’s something lovely (but a little scary for an anal-retentive planner like myself) in the idea of “let’s see where the day takes me.”
My friend Robin Swenson recently posted on Facebook, in response to all the birthday wishes he’d recently received (Capricorns forever!): “getting older never gets old.” I absolutely cheered to read that, and reflected back to my 50th birthday. Not only had I spoken “50!” out loud, which I realized was a great sin, according to many of my female friends (and especially being in the business I’m in?!) but just three days prior to that Big Day I dared to throw the biggest celebration I could possibly think of, which included an orchestra, a rock star, and a big-ass cake with a big-ass “50” written across it in chocolate-covered strawberries. I know women who slink through their “big one” on tip-toe, hoping no one will notice. I also realize it will be impossible not to sound self-righteous when I say that I didn’t want to be that woman. To each her own, of course, but I just really didn’t want to own shame about turning fifty. And the truth is, it’s a tough quest, but at the very least I figured I would fake it ‘til I make it.
And so, a party. A big-ass, brazen party, which I will remember with a giggle for the rest of my days.
That said, it still wasn’t the simple pill that magically eradicated all my struggles with aging. But it was a damned good start, and a damned good party. And yes, because New Year’s Day is my birthday, those inward-turning reflections often (though not always) ring with themes of aging.
The above quotes came from two really great cards I received this year. When you hit a certain age, the cards start reflecting either good-natured jokes about old age (usually welcomed) or more sensitive reflections on the beauty of aging (never a bad idea, in this fragile, age-obsessed culture). These two have given me particular pause.
We all know at some point in our lives (if we aren’t already there) that we’re going to have to make peace with aging. We are destined for this reflection. At least if you’re from this American culture. Other cultures embrace their elders as the venerated among them. And that veneration being inherent in the very blood, there is no real need for reflection upon it, for it is welcomed as a crown. But in this culture, we have had the great misfortune, shaped and molded by our media, of nullifying our elderly and the very idea of growing old. We’d rather die young and leave a good-looking corpse than to wrinkle, lose hearing and bladder control, grow gray or bald, have to depend on our children for our care, and watch the sexual part of our identity slowly fade away. These are mortifying concepts to most Americans. And mortifying not because it means being closer to death, but because it means becoming society’s invisible. How do you claim thick, opaque, rich, visibility in a society that refuses to regard you?
And therefore, at least if you’re a thoughtful and conscious human being, the time will come when you must reflect on aging, and make peace with it.
I have often referred to my “old age” with a self-deprecating humor, a way to deflect my sense of grief over losing my youth, and to disarm its power. I am often told to stop that. And while I understand the impulse in my loved ones to encourage me to love myself, and I merely say “thank you” in response, what I really want to do is tell them to wake up and smell the coping mechanism, and to please allow me that.
On the other hand, I have lately been observing the heartbreaking tendency in some women, who are hovering around this age, to be mortally unforgiving of their bodies’ age-related transformations, in ways that are not remotely meant to be funny or to share a laugh about. This is not even grief. This is downright hatred of self. It is venomous and venal, the stuff of cautionary tales and selling one’s soul for that shiny piece of youth. I often feel surrounded, and I try desperately to counter the onslaught of self-repulsion I hear with that humor I try to use, to be the voice of irreverence, if not reason. But more often than I’m comfortable with I find myself falling in line with the rhetoric, and the next thing you know I’m spitting my own disgust at my growing thighs in the choir of I-loathe-myself commiseration. Like I said, a tough quest. I feel for women’s restlessness, and I retreat to the comfort and safety of my jokes, and I tell myself that my making jokes about aging is different, very different, and that their restlessness does not belong to me (even if I do borrow it from time to time), that my humor is a positive thing, a way of embracing aging, of not having to desperately cling to youth, of refusing to view old as a dirty word.
If we say OLD enough times, it’ll lose its power.
But I suspect it’s all the same animal, and I am as guilty as anybody.
I have had a recent epiphany regarding this matter. (I love calling these little thoughts and discoveries epiphanies, because it automatically eliminates any contradictory position. There is sacredness to one’s epiphany. You don’t dare touch it.) It is this:
I can either yearn to be young again, a place to which I can never return, therefore the instinct to obsess over it is a complete, self-sabotaging waste of energy; or I can embrace the age I am by simply choosing to be better at it.
One way I can accomplish this is to realize, and own, that my graying hairs, my creeping lethargy, my mid-section spread, my aches and pains that seemingly come from nowhere, do not belong to me; they belong to my body. And my body is not me; merely the house I live in (I have my Buddhist and Eastern-thought studies to thank for that implantation).
And by being able to put that in its proper place, perhaps I stand the chance of forgiving myself these “afflictions,” as I have viewed them. Of recognizing my own power to be empathetic to them, and to ultimately transform them from afflictions into trophies. Of reconciling both the flower AND the thorns of my body. Of claiming the truth that aging isn’t a sentence – it is a call-to-arms. A call for me to wake up and be alert, to realize that the days ahead are more precious than the ones behind, to recognize that the awareness of time running out gives me (a naturally lazy person) a swift kick in the rear and tells me to move, to produce, to achieve, to make my mark and leave my legacy, and to make every moment in the remainder of this life one of quality and vibrancy. I’m in the most thankless business there IS (the entertainment industry) when it comes to the subject of aging. And I’ve watched my comrades, who have been lighting up stages and electrifying audiences for years, suddenly start scrambling to figure out how to stay relevant in an industry that reveres extreme youth. I have absolutely no answers to offer here. Only my own gut telling ME to stop scrambling. Stop panicking. Stop trying to please people who barely see me. Stop trying to fit my square peg in the round hole that is this business. To, instead, make whatever it is I have to make, to create, to produce, to contribute to this world, on my own terms. And if I’ve learned anything from my Eastern pursuits, I’ll learn to simply do the deed, and let go of the outcome. All I can do is my part. With integrity. With clarity. With the kind of self-love that makes me take better care of myself, yet with the compassion to forgive my body’s DARING to get old.
And it means not being afraid of that word … OLD … but instead shouting it proudly to the rafters. Like, say, a birthday party with a rock star? Because while the word may invoke our Western-culture-indoctrinated images of fatter, slower, frailer, grayer, less sexy, invisible … it also, and more importantly, means Wisdom. Experience. Seasoning. AMAZING Grace.
That was 50’s epiphany. Today I woke up with aching joints and cursed God for making me fifty-four.
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
– Bette Davis
Happy New Year, my friends!
Angela Carole Brown is the author of three published books, The Assassination of Gabriel Champion, The Kidney Journals: Memoirs of a Desperate Lifesaver, and Trading Fours, and has produced several albums of music and a yoga/mindfulness CD. Bindi Girl Chronicles is her writing blog. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & YouTube. | fineweb_edu |
WACONIA, Minn. (WCCO) — For many of us, it’s routine to stop in at the local coffeehouse before heading off on our day. But with a coffee shop on practically every corner, how do can you pick a favorite?
Well, we made you choose.
And your votes sent me to Waconia for a cup of joe at Mocha Monkey – a coffeehouse that happens to have a pottery studio in the basement.
“So, when you get a latte or a cappuccino, and if you’re having it for here, then you’re actually gonna get a mug that I made,” said Jon Schmidt, the shop’s owner.
It’s not the most conventional business model. But, then again, Schmidt isn’t a conventional business owner. He bought Mocha Monkey when he was just 21, halfway through his senior year of college.
“I was down at Gustavus [Adolphus College] Tuesday and Thursday, and I was here Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and every weekend. And so that’s how the first part of my business [went],” he said. “I was going to school and taking over this business, and since then it’s just been a great experience.”
On the day I visited, Schmidt could count the mayor of Waconia as one of his customers.
“It’s my office for meeting with my constituents,” said Mayor Jim Nash. “Ya know, I spend a lot of time here, and so does everyone else. It’s sort of a social gathering place.”
A big part of what makes Mocha Monkey a gathering place is the building itself: It’s a 100-year-old Victorian home right in the middle of downtown.
“It’s been a ton of different things, from apartments upstairs, to a flower shop, to a tire shop,” Schmidt said.
Currently, the coffee shop houses local art, including Schmidt’s pottery. The cozy and creative atmosphere invites customers to make themselves at home.
“On any given day you’ll see meetings here, high school kids doing homework, people working here by themselves, Bible studies, an array of different group that’ll come,” Schmidt said.
Of course, customers also come for the coffee. While the beans aren’t roasted in house, they don’t travel far.
“SpecialtyJava.com is what they’re called,” Schmidt said. “It’s just a mile away from here, they fresh roast it. We order it the night before, and it comes still hot in the bags the next day.”
There’s also the creative concoctions, like the Rhesus Mocha Monkey, a chocolate and peanut butter mocha.
“People love that,” Schmidt said.
The success of Mocha Monkey allowed Schmidt to open a second location in December, giving Waconians even more of an incentive to take their coffee break at Mocha Monkey.
“If you needed somewhere to go, ya know, we’re here, and you can come hang out and drink some awesome coffee,” Schmidt said.
In addition to supporting local artists, Mocha Monkey also has live music on Fridays and Saturdays.
While there’s still snow on the ground, I’m looking for the best cross-country ski trails in Minnesota. Email your picks to
[email protected] or tweet me at @Matt_Brickman. | fineweb_edu |
学術雑誌論文 Deciphering antigen-responding antibody repertoires by using next-generation sequencing and confirming them through antibody-gene synthesis
Kono, Naoko , Sun, Lin , Toh, Hiroyuki , Shimizu, Takeyuki , Xue, Hanbing , Numata, Osamu , Ato, Manabu , Ohnishi, Kazuo , Itamura, Shigeyuki
487 ( 2 ) , pp.300 - 306 , 2017-05 , Elsevier
Vast diversity and high specificity of antigen recognition by antibodies are hallmarks of the acquired immune system. Although the molecular mechanisms that yield the extremely large antibody repertoires are precisely understood, comprehensive description of the global antibody repertoire generated in individual bodies has been hindered by the lack of powerful measures. To obtain holistic understanding of the antibody-repertoire space, we used next-generation sequencing (NGS) to analyze the deep profiles of naive and antigen-responding repertoires of the IgM, IgG1, and IgG2c classes formed in individual mice. The overall landscapes of naive IgM repertoires were almost the same for each mouse, whereas those of IgG1 and IgG2c differed considerably among naive individuals. Next, we immunized mice with a model antigen, nitrophenol (NP)-hapten linked to chicken γ-globulin (CGG) carrier, and compared the antigen-responding repertoires in individual mice. To extract the complete antigen response, we developed an intelligible method for detecting common components of antigen-responding repertoires. The major responding antibodies were IGHV1-72/IGHD1-1/IGHJ2 for NP-hapten and IGHV9-3/IGHD3-1/IGHJ2 for CGG-carrier protein. The antigen-binding specificities of the identified antibodies were confirmed through ELISA after antibody-gene synthesis and expression of the corresponding NGS reads. Thus, we deciphered antigen-responding antibody repertoires by inclusively analyzing the antibody-repertoire space generated in individual bodies by using NGS, which avoided inadvertent omission of key antibody repertoires.
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Ahr protein comprises a bHLH domain for DNA binding, the Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS) domain for ligand binding, and a Q-rich domain for co-activator recruitment and transactivation (117, 118)
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Pulpo - we ended up back in Santiago after Muxía to get ready to go to Portugal. One of the food delicacies in Santiago is pulpo (octopus) - boiied, fried or flambéed. Yum!
Santiago's (st. James') tomb, in a chamber under the main alter at the Santiago Cathedral.
A great staircase in a bookstore in Porto - Livraria Lello.
Under the floor in the catacombs of Igreja de São Francisco, Porto.
Hand-painted tiles on the walls of the cloisters of Cathedral Sé, Porto.
Fado (fate) music - traditional music, where women whose husbands had gone to sea would lament their fado (fate). "Singers of fado traditionally dress in black and sing mournful tunes of lost love, uncertainty, and the famous feelings of saudade (to translate saudade as 'loneliness' would be a gruesome understatement.)"
We're walking again. There are several pilgrimage routes in Portugal, some going to Santiago, Spain and some going to Fatima, Portugal. We're walking from Porto to Santiago.
Walking through Portugal...
Local hunter assuring Roxanne that it was quail season, not perigrino season.
Water, water everywhere... Guess we shouldn't be too surprised that it's very wet in Portugal in November!
Ambra's come in grey!
On the way to Pontevedra, we stopped part way up a hill to rest on a stone bench. A little Spanish man came out and was very excited - he had just put that bench out, and he wanted us to know that we were the first people to sit on it!
Spent last night in Pontevedra. This was the view out of our window. It turns out that we were the first peregrinos that ever stopped in this hostel - a day of firsts!
We found a hot spring in Caldas de Ria. Note the fashionable perigrino tan.
Sangria sunset. We finally got around to trying Spanish sangria.
"Standing imposingly above the Rio Sar in Padrón is Monte Santiaguiño, where legend tells us Saint James (Santiago) first preached the gospel message. "
Shrines, chapels and cemeteries: All through the backroads there are shrines, chapels and cemeteries - we passed at least two or three of each every day.
Shrines, chapels and cemeteries 2: the cemeteries are visited regularly - in this one, almost every grave had at least one bouquet of fresh flowers. This photo shows about a quarter of the cemetery, which wraps around the church.
Shrines, chapels and cemeteries 3: often they run out of room around the chapels and churches, and start making cemetery high-rises. Part of the real estate problem is that some of the crypts are big enough to nicely serve as garages for Ambras.
We arrived back in Santiago on November 15. We've walked about 1200 km now on the camino francés and the camino portgués over the last two months, and the weather is now starting to get colder. Tomorrow, we're heading down to Valencia on the Spanish coast of the Mediterranean to warm up a bit and to start to wind down this journey.
Nicer view than old boots... Please see the next page: "Valencia, Mallorca". | fineweb_edu |
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Seven Time Tony-Nominated Rock n’ Roll Musical, Smokey Joe's Café, is BACK!
Featuring nearly 40 of the greatest songs by Leiber and Stoller ; On Broadway, Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Stand By Me, Spanish Harlem, Love Potion #9, and Young Blood, Yakety Yak, I’m A Woman. Smokey Joe’s Café transforms classic pop music into compelling musical theatre and each song is a trip down the corridors of American culture.
Smokey Joe’s Cafe represents an extraordinary musical play that ran for more than 2,000 performances, making it the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. Their timeless songs provide the basis for this electrifying entertainment that had critics raving and audiences stampeding the box office during its record-breaking Broadway run. Watch as classic pop tunes are transformed into riveting theatre and each melody transports you through American music history.
Smokey Joe's Cafe is now touring Performing Arts Centers, Casinos, and Fairs/Festivals in 2015-2016! | fineweb_edu |
For Parents
Upsidedown is an LGBTIQ-A-Affirming group for youth ages 13 and younger. Youth who are older than 13, but still feel like hanging with under-13-year-olds are welcome too! Adults who are interested in getting involved can sign up as an adult ally or contact us.
Here are some questions asked by parents:
What does LGBTIQ-A Affirming Mean?
LGBTIQ-A stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning and allied. A group that affirms these identities acknowledges and celebrates same-sex adult relationships in the same way that most of our society acknowledges and celebrates heterosexual relationships. The group also recognizes and celebrates other differences in family and relationship structures that are not often visible or celebrated in society at large, such as single-parent and mixed-race households. The group values differences among individuals and encourages youth to experiment and feel comfortable with a variety of gender expressions. It also provides a safe and affirming space for youth who have variant gender or sexual identities, such as youth who are transgender or intersex.
What will my child be learning about LGBTIQ issues?
Your child will learn that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, gender non-conforming, queer or straight are all lovely and acceptable things to be. They will learn that many people are not heterosexual, and that not all families contain a father, a mother, and 2.6 children. They will be taught that gender norms can limit one’s self-expression and that many children and adults joyfully express themselves in ways that do not fit with what is often considered “normal” or “appropriate” for people like them.
What is a GSA?
A GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) is an LGBTIQ-affirming club, usually based in a school. There are hundreds of GSAs in North Carolina. They do everything from throwing parties and other social events to advocating for changes in school policies to holding support/hang out meetings and more. We will encourage and support students in forming GSAs in their schools.
How is this group related to iNSIDEoUT’s group for teenagers?
iNSIDEoUT’s program for teenagers is a youth-led network that runs social, activist, and educational events for LGBTIQ-A youth ages 13 and older all over the Triangle and beyond. Teens from this group will often volunteer with the younger children and assist with programming and group activities. As children graduate from the program for 7-12 year olds, we hope they will continue to participate in iNSIDEoUT with other teenagers.
What will my child be learning about youth exercising power?
Most children in our society have been trained not to take initiative, and to do whatever adults tell them to do. They often get the message that their voices do not matter, and they are rarely given a space to exercise power over themselves or within their communities. We hope to teach children that their voices do matter, and that not everything adults say should be accepted blindly. Adults enforce many of society’s harmful norms, and we believe that if given the opportunity, children can teach us a great deal about being yourself. We want to cultivate a space in which children exercise power and believe in their ability to change the world.
What will my child be learning about sex and sexuality?
It is important to differentiate between sex, on the one hand, and sexuality/gender on the other. We believe that parents/guardians should be the primary source of honest and reliable information about children’s bodies and sex. Providing sex education is beyond the scope of this group. However, because we promote a safe and healthy space for LGBTQ youth, issues of sexuality and gender will likely arise and we aim to cultivate a non-judgmental space where children’s ideas on these subjects will not be shut down, but will be validated and listened to. If you have concerns or questions or would like to know more about the group please do not hesitate to contact us.
What foods will be served?
We will provide healthy snacks at all meetings. This may include fresh fruit, vegetable trays, hummus or cheese and crackers, dried fruit and nuts, and juice. Sweets and chips will be offered occasionally but kept to a minimum. Please be sure to let us know if your child has any allergies or dietary restrictions.
How can I support my child and his/her participation in this group?
Sign up as an adult ally. Encourage your children to talk with you about the group and the activities they participate in while at the group meetings. Ask them to share with you their thoughts and feelings about the topics discussed at the meetings. Visit a meeting to help out. Make a donation to iNSIDEoUT, in order to ensure that we can continue programming for a long time to come! | dclm_edu |
What is a Marine Protected Area?
A Marine Protected Area (MPA) is any area of the marine environment that has been reserved by federal, state, territorial, tribal, or local laws or regulations to provide lasting protection for part or all of the natural and cultural resources therein.
The South Atlantic Council further defines MPAs within its jurisdiction as:
A network of specific areas of marine environments reserved and managed for the primary purpose of aiding in the recovery of overfished stocks and to ensure the persistence of healthy fish stocks, fisheries, and associated habitats. Such areas may include naturally occurring or artificial bottom and water column habitats, and may include prohibition of harvest on seasonal or permanent time periods to achieve desired fishery conservation and management goals.
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Eight Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) were established in the South Atlantic region in 2009 through Amendment 14 to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan. The MPAs are designed to protect a portion of the long-lived, "deep water" snapper grouper species such as snowy grouper, speckled hind, and blueline tilefish.
The MPAs range in size from 2 X 4 nautical miles to 10 X 15 nautical miles (see maps below). In addition to the seven areas that encompass natural habitat, one area off Charleston, South Carolina, was established to create a deep water artificial reef.
Evaluations of the Deep-water MPAs will be conducted through a system management plan review. The system management plan review will be conducted by the System Management Plan Workgroup and include recommendations on action items addressing research and monitoring, outreach and education, resource protection, and administrative; evaluation of management effectiveness based on biophysical, socioeconomic, and governance indicators; financial plan; and site characterizations of the protected areas. (A link to the SMP document can be found in the dropdown under the maps below).
- No fishing for or possession of any snapper grouper species.
- No shark bottom longline gear allowed.
- Vessels (both commercial and recreational) may transit (direct, non-stop progression) through the MPAs with snapper grouper species onboard with fishing gear appropriately stowed**
- Trolling for pelagic species such as tuna, dolphin, mackerel and billfish is allowed within the MPAs.
** Fishing gear appropriately stowed means:
- Terminal gear (i.e., hook, leader, sinker, flasher, or bait) used with an automatic reel, bandit gear, buoy gear, hand-line, or rod and reel must be disconnected and stowed separately from such fishing gear. A rod and reel must be removed from the rod holder and stowed securely on or below deck.
- A longline may be left on the drum if all gangions and hooks are disconnected and stowed below deck. Hooks cannot be baited. All buoys must be disconnected from the gear; however, buoys may remain on deck.
- A trawl or try net may remain on deck, but trawl doors must be disconnected from such net and must be secured.
- A gill net, stab net, or trammel net must be left on the drum. Any additional such nets not attached to the drum must be stowed below deck.
- A crustacean trap, golden crab trap, or sea bass pot cannot be baited. All buoys must be disconnected from the gear; however, buoys may remain on deck.
Public involvement was critical in the development of the MPAs. The 16-year process is described in a Historical Overview of the Council's MPA-Related Activities and additional documents may be found on the MPA Source Documents page.
As part of Amendment 14, the Council coordinated with the NMFS Highly Migratory Species Division to regulate shark longlining within the MPAs. For more information, please view the Final Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan. July 2006 and the Final Rule for Amendment 14.
The Council continued to explore MPAs as a management tool through early 2014. In 2012, the Council conducted a series of Marine Protected Area workshops and convened a Marine Protected Area Expert Workgroup to further address protection of both deep water habitat and species that depend on it, particularly speckled hind and warsaw grouper. The Council was considering reconfiguring existing MPAs or creating new sites to the network of deepwater MPAs in place. However, at the June 2014 Council meeting the Council decided to explore an alternative approach for protecting vulnerable populations of fish, like speckled hind and warsaw grouper. The alternative approach that is being considered would involve creating Special Management Zones (SMZs) for spawning areas for key species. For more information, see Snapper Grouper Amendment 36 on the Amendments Under Development page.
The workshops gave the public the opportunity to share information on encounters of speckled hind and warsaw grouper and important habitat areas for these species.
A series of workshops was held in the region in April (SC), May (GA), and August 2012 (NC and FL). The Council considered input from the workshops during its September 10-14, 2012 meeting in Charleston, SC.
May 16-17, 2012 -
Location: Pooler, GA
MPA Expert Workgroup Final Report to the Council -June 2012.
February 4-6, 2013 -
Location: North Charleston, SC
- Babcock MacCall et al 2011
- Botsford et al 2009
- Coleman et al 2011
- Field et al 2006
- Hart 2006
- Heyman 2011
- Heyman Wright 2011
- Lindeman, et al. 2000
- Minority Report - Snapper Grouper Amendment 17B
- Federal Register Notice - 90 Day Finding for Speckled Hind
- Federal Register Notice - 90 Day Finding for Warsaw Grouper
- Zinskin 2008 – MS thesis on Speckled Hind | fineweb_edu |
Thursday, August 28, 2014
There Is No Such Thing As An Accident
My sister's youngest daughter was running through the living room and knocked over a margarita glass that was sitting on the floor, which shattered the glass. My niece looked horrified for a moment, then shrugged and said, "accidents happen".
No they don't!
Accidents don't just happen and we have to get that concept out of our head. It removes our personal responsibility to utter that phrase, when, in fact, someone is responsible and was negligent - otherwise the so-called "accident" would never have happened.
I tell my students this all the time and I receive blank stares, sometimes even stammers, "but ... but ...".
Let me repeat that: There is no such thing as an accident.
As a society, we have allowed the word "accident" to mean "unintentional". We need to remove "accident" and "accidental" from our vocabularies.
In my real life, I'm a medical instructor. I teach fledgling youngsters how to become professionals in their field. One of the classes I teach is phlebotomy, and that's where I hammer this concept home. The textbooks are notorious for talking about "accidental needle sticks". There is no such thing. There are unintentional needle sticks, but there are never any accidental needle sticks. In fact, every "accidental needle stick" I've ever seen has been a "negligent needle stick".
For example, let's say a phlebotomist is getting ready to draw blood and has the index finger of her non-sticking hand in front of the needle to stabilize the patient's arm. Let's just say the patient is terrified of getting his blood drawn and flinches away right as the phlebotomist begins to stick. Instead of the needle going into the patient where it belongs, it is now buried deep into the phlebotomist's own finger.
Was it intentional?
Nope. Trust me, no phlebotomist on the planet wants to get stuck with a needle. But that doesn't make it an accident just because the phlebotomist didn't intend to stick herself.
Was that an accident?
Nope. It was negligence, pure and simple. The phlebotomist was negligent for putting a body part (the index finger) in front of the sharp, pointy object destined for the patient.
Another example: Five years ago, my youngest son was hit by a car as he was skateboarding. It was a bad collision that he was lucky to live through.
Did the driver of the car intend to hit him as he was crossing the street? No.
Did my son intend to get hit by a car as he crossed the street? No.
Was it an accident? No. It was negligence.
Both my son and the driver were negligent and that caused the collision. The driver was negligent in that she was speeding in a residential area and not looking for kids in or near the street. My son was negligent in assuming that he didn't have to look both ways and that a car would (or could) stop for him. If either one of them had been paying attention, the collision would never have happened.
One more non-gun example: I was a wrangler for years. I took out trail rides and was responsible for keeping my guests and horses safe at all times. I took the responsibility very seriously, and to this day I believe that if there is a "wreck" or if a guest falls off, it is the wrangler's fault. If the saddle slips to the side and the guest falls off, the wrangler was negligent in his or her duty of ensuring safe and properly adjusted tack. If a horse starts kicking at the horse behind it, the wrangler was negligent: either he didn't watch the spacing between the horses and correct it; or he put the horses together who didn't get along; or he had a known kicker and didn't put the kicker at the back of the line where it couldn't kick anyone else.
Why am I going on and on about non-gun-related things? Because as shooters and instructors, we are very well aware of the fact that there is no such thing as an "accidental discharge". Ever. There is either a "negligent discharge" or a malfunction, but never an accident.
However, we need to change the way we look at "accidents" in our daily lives as well. We can't practice (and preach) that there is no such thing as an "accidental" discharge, if we don't take responsibility in the other aspects of our lives as well. By accepting responsibility for the "accidents" in our lives, we can act on that responsibility and in the end, we will all be safer.
Remove the word accident from your vocabulary and you'll be amazed at how differently you begin to look at things.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Do Team Sports Make You a Better Defensive Shooter?
This is something I've been thinking about for a while now: would athletes who engage in fast-paced team sports make better defensive shooters? (My definitions of fast-paced does not include baseball or cricket; I'm talking hockey, soccer, rugby. You know, fast-hard hitting sports.)
My belief is yes, they would be better defensive shooters.
As a general rule, we shooters are a lonely lot. We might go to the range as a group, and competitions are chock-full of people all carrying guns, but it's really an individual thing we do. (LEOs and military, are the exceptions, as they are taught to shoot as part of a team, but each still has his/her own individual job to do within that team.)
Defensive shooters talk about situational awareness and quick, decisive decision-making ad nauseam. We talk about disrupting the OODA loop in attackers; we talk about body language and tactics. All of these things are things that athletes in fast-paced sports do.
Let's look at some of the things athletes and defensive shooters have in common:
Situational awareness: At all times, the athlete must know where his/her teammates are and what they are doing. They must also know, at all times, where their opponents are and what they are doing. They must be able to anticipate not only what their teammates are planning, but what the opponents are planning. Is this not exactly what we preach? Additionally, doesn't it also stand to reason that athletes are able to break free (or should be able to) of tunnel vision?
Quick, decisive decision-making: The athlete, in order to "win", must make split-second decisions based on the opponents' body language. Is the opponent going to attack or is it a bluff? These are skills defensive shooters need to hone as well.
Honest assessment of skills: In addition to the decision-making required, the athlete must make an honest assessment of his skills. Are his skills equal or better than his opponent's? Has his training been enough?
Being hurt does not mean you're out of the fight: Athletes play hurt. In my past life as an athletic trainer, I saw athletes play on injuries that would have the average person laid up in bed. Just because you took a soccer ball to the face at thirty miles an hour doesn't mean you're not going to complete your play. I've seen athletes blow out their knees or ankles and still struggle to get back up and re-engage. As an instructor, I tell my students that just because they're hurt doesn't mean they're beat, which leads us to ...
Fight to the death attitude: It's easy to pick out which sports team is going to lose on TV. It boils down to one thing: the will to win. Even if a team is losing, I have a whole lot of respect for them if they continue to fight to the end. The fact of the matter is, sometimes you're going to lose. It's how you lose that matters.
From a personal standpoint, even if my situational awareness sucks one day and I'm unable to make quick, decisive decisions, and I'm woefully unprepared, by God, I'm not going down without a fight. Even if I "lose" and die, I'm not going without a fight to the death. The bastard who I'm up against won't have an easy time of it, and I'll be sure to gather plenty of DNA evidence against him.
Anecdotally, I can say that when I was playing on five different soccer teams a week, I was at my peak as a shooter. A great deal of that came from being fit, but the mental aspects played a big part as well.
I know many defensive shooters are deeply involved in all aspects of self-defense, and do a lot of additional training in various areas, most of which are focused on the individual. Do you think playing team sports has merit with regard training for personal defense? | dclm_edu |
package com.lab4_6;
import java.util.TimerTask;
public class Task extends TimerTask {
private Habitat habitat = null;
private boolean first_rn = true;
private long start_tm = 0;
private long end_tm = 0;
public Task(Habitat habitat){
this.habitat = habitat;
}
public void run(){
if (first_rn) {
start_tm = System.currentTimeMillis();
end_tm = start_tm;
first_rn = false;
}
long current_tm = System.currentTimeMillis();
double elapsed = (current_tm - start_tm) / 1000.0;
double frame_tm = (end_tm - start_tm) / 1000.0;
habitat.Update(elapsed, frame_tm);
end_tm = current_tm;
}
} | stack_edu |
Configuring Analog Sound DVI to HDMI
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Newer nVidia hardware supports audio over HDMI. When a display device notifies the drivers that it will accept audio, the card will provide an audio stream. This will occur on both HDMI and DVI ports, whether or not the card has pass-through audio inputs. Some TVs will automatically use this empty audio stream, and have no option to switch to another input
Acquire EDID Block
In order to resolve this, the nVidia drivers must be provided a modified EDID block saying the TV does not support audio. On nVidia hardware, there are two ways to acquire the original EDID block.
Using nvidia-settings
This method requires you have a mouse and keyboard attached to the machine.
1. Run 'nvidia-settings' on the local X-Server
2. Click the entry corresponding to your TV (e.g. DFP-0)
3. Click 'Acquire EDID' and save the 'edid.bin' file
Using nvidia-xconfig
This method can be performed completely from a text console.
1. Run an X server with enough verbosity to print out the EDID block
startx -- -logverbose 6
2. After the X-Server has finished initializing, close it
3. Find your log file, it will probably be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
4. Extract the EDID block using nvidia-xconfig
nvidia-xconfig --extract-edids-from-file=/var/log/Xorg.0.log --extract-edids-output-file=edid.bin
5. The previous nvidia-xconfig command may fail to extract an EDID even if it's present in the log file. Open the log file and look for 16 lines of raw hex (it should be exactly 512 characters once all the spaces and non-hex characters have been removed). Copy the raw hex into a hex editor like HxD and save it as edid.bin (the resulting file should be exactly 256 bytes).
Modify EDID Block
The EDID block contains a block listing capable extensions, which must be removed. A program to do this is available at Download 'edid_disable_exts' and compile if necessary. The program takes two arguments, the input file and the output file, so process your original EDID and save the new one in '/etc/X11/'.
Version 1.2 of edid_disable_exts supports a --to-dvi command line argument that leaves advanced resolution/hz settings intact.
Apply Modified EDID
Open your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file, and go to the Device section for your video card. Add the line
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/edid.modified.bin"
to tell the driver to use your custom block rather than acquiring one from your TV. The changes will take effect after a restart of X. | dclm_edu |
Kpop BoyXBoy Oneshots
Collection of boy x boy oneshots
Requests are open. So just drop them in the comments section on the intro. For requests please name the idol group, ship and plot if you want. Some groups i don't know extremely well so sorry if personalities are'nt quite matching up to what they should. Enjoy, comment, and vote. | fineweb_edu |
The Threat of 3D Printing
Wednesday, 03 October 2012 | Creative Thinking
Robot ArmThere is an exciting new technology emerging at the moment which is 3D printing. If you haven't heard about it before, think of it as being similar to your typical laser printer but instead of printing ink it is printing in another material such as plastic, ceramic or metal, and instead of printing to a piece of paper, it is printing in layers to produce a physical object. There are several people making them at the moment such as Makerbot and RepRap. They are going to shake up the world and I think it can go down either of two distinct paths.
At the moment these devices are expensive, clunky and can typically only produce small items of limited accuracy. Like any technology with as much potential as this, this is rapidly changing. I think they will very quickly come down in price, become much easier to use and improve dramatically in terms of size, quality and number of materials they can work with. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, this is going to have some huge impacts on our world as we know it.
Imagine a world where you can easily and cheaply 3D print any item or component you like. Where you can design these things yourself, however you like, or just as easily download a design from massive libraries of designs off the internet. Your washing machine breaks, no worries, just identify the part that broke, print a new one and install it yourself. Have an idea for a funky new widget. Sketch it up and a short while later you have yourself a real life version of your idea. Not only that but you can upload it and share it with anyone else who might also like it.
But imagine the huge consequences this is going to have.
Path 1
This is the path I hope we go down. Industry will be massively shaken. A lot of manufacturing is made redundant but in it's place arises a huge creative market. Websites spring up allowing people to easily share their designs. Most are shared for free, some people sell their designs (usually for a nominal fee, similar to app stores today). Quality of life is improved and more people are encouraged and enabled to be creative. Virtually anything they can think of, they can create. Other businesses are also creative and adapt to this new world. Supermarkets for instance start packaging food in plastic that can easily be fed into these devices and used to print new stuff. It is the ultimate in recycling.
The pace of innovation and creativity increases and everyone benefits.
Path 2
This is the path I hope we don't go down but that I feel we very well might. Big industry foresees that this will be a huge threat to their long term viability. Similar to the music industry today, they start lobbying heavily to have laws implemented restricting their use. They put fear into people's heads. These devices could be used by terrorists in malicious ways. Criminals could print guns and other weapons with them. Kids could make all manner of things they shouldn't with them. Inevitably, someone does create something evil with one of these devices. Governments everywhere fall in line and enact laws heavily restricting their use. You now need a license to own one, and legally they must have restrictions on them that only allow them to print designs approved by the government. The threat is averted and large corporations breathe a sigh of relief. We have lost a huge opportunity to be creative but they have saved their outdated business models and may continue to earn huge profits.
3D printing, when it matures, will be such a groundbreaking change to society. Like we have seen in the entertainment industry, big players who stand to lose a lot with this change will fight it vigourously. If they win then it will be society as a whole that has missed out on a huge potential gain. We cannot let this happen just so that a few wealthy people can remain wealthy. When they start to plot and scheme, it is essential that we push back. Just like the internet fought back against SOPA, I fear we will soon have to do similar to protect 3D printing.
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Empatica is fully compliant with GDPR and has implemented the following security protections around the E4 infrastructure (E4 wristband, E4 manager, E4 realtime, E4 connect, E4 link, E4 streaming server):
1. E4 connect is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) the global leader in cloud based solutions. AWS is ISO 27001 certified to comply with gold standard "security management best practices and comprehensive security controls" and SOC 3 certified to be protected against "unauthorized access, use, and modification".
2. The data housed in E4 connect cannot be matched with the individuals physically wearing the device. Empatica will not access personal data from final users (study participants). Accounts are associated with the researcher, not final users, so data is effectively anonymous.
3. Data transmission between Empatica devices and smartphones as well as storage on the smartphones are protected through obscurity, data is stored in a custom binary format that can not be interpreted without our APIs.
4. 128 Bit encrypted data transfer between our servers and applications (E4 wristband, E4 manager, E4 realtime, E4 connect, E4 link, E4 streaming server).
5. Every E4 connect account holder has the right to ask us that we share with them the personal information we have on file. Please write to [email protected] for this request.
6. The right to delete E4 connect account is extended to every account owner. This would disassociate the sessions you have recorded from your email address, and there would be no way to link them back to the study participant. You can write to [email protected] with regards to this.
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This evening I had the honor to hold our Lanta Victim's Meeting at Faith Baptist Church on north 12th street. It's a small, plain but dignified sanctuary. Many of the candidates attended, below are comments from two who could not make the meeting.
from Michael Donovan, City Council Candidate;
In my early career, I gained knowledge of public transportation as a result of studies and exposure to professionals in the field. I am not an expert, but I have some experience with these issues.
While I do not have all the information that went into the Hamilton Street decision, I am extremely disappointed that bus routes were taken off the city's major urban street without adequate consideration of the various populations that would be affected. I applaud the creation of an indoor/covered switching center, but do not believe that also warranted wholesale changes in routes and/or stops. Two things come to mind if the major consideration was that congestion, indeed, was one of the problems to be solved: Change the sequence and timing of the lights. The design is not consistent with sound traffic flow. Only a few seconds are allowed for cars to pass west to east. I do not propose allowing high speeds along Hamilton -- just the ability to let traffic flow smoothly, say at 20-25 miles per hour. Second, spreading the stops a bit wider along Hamilton would help a bit, too. Walking one block on the same street is far different than many blocks.
In brief, my sense of the decision is that LANTA did not involve enough people to make a holistic, sensible decisions that provided for a new central location while maintaining excellent service along critical routes. I believe that if you bring the appropriate people to the table where ideas and concerns are expressed honestly and without censorship, we will create sound, productive decisions for the community. This has been true in other public challenges of this type where I have been involved. When the appropriate parties are not involved, we have disappointment, lack of trust, and a loss of community."
From Robert Smith Jr. City Council Candidate;
DEAR MERCHANTS, I am shocked of the poor planning by the Lanta board AND THE TOTAL DISREGARD FOR MERCHANTS,SENIOR CITIZENS,AND Students that use Lanta transportation. Despite what the mayor says that this is not a city issue,any time a transportation change,and elimination of bus stops that affect Allentown businesses,Allentown residents, this is a city issue .I ROBERT E SMITH JR. A CANDIDATE FOR Allentown city council, and current elected school board member demand these bus stops be restored,and city council should have a member on Lanta board,because current members are out of touch with the people of Allentown or just do not care about the merchants on Hamilton street or people that are poor and are middle class. We as a nation must conserve our oil supplies,we tell people not to drive,take buses when you can,and this city lets Lanta eliminate bus stops.We need leadership that represents all the people not just politicians and wealthy elitists who want to keep those people off Hamilton street. I THANK THE MERCHANTS FOR STICKING IT OUT DOWNTOWN,AND THANK you mike for organizing this event .I am at a school board meeting tonight and sorry I could not be here .I WILL HELP ANY WAY I CAN, GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Robert e. smith Jr. | fineweb_edu |
A Bachelor’s Program for Technical Specialists
Industrial Technology and Management (INTM) at IIT is a completion program for students who have two years of credit toward an AAS or AS degree at a community college or in a technical training program. Students are technical specialists, many of whom are already employed in manufacturing, construction, supply chain/logistics, or facilities, and recognize the importance of obtaining a bachelor’s degree in order to maximize their career opportunities and qualify for supervisory and managerial positions.
Attractive Program Options for Community College Transfer Students
- Classes are held evenings at IIT’s Chicago campus, and offered for viewing online to accommodate working students.
- Students may pursue one of five different industrial specializations, or choose electives to suit individual career interests.
- All full-time domestic transfer students are reviewed for merit-based scholarships.
- Part-time INTM students may be eligible for the Keith E. McKee Scholarship.
- Students in Trade Unions or Professional Associations may be eligible for support from our industry partners.
Preparing for Transfer to IIT
Due to the wide range of technical AAS/AS programs available in community colleges, prospective students are encouraged to speak with an IIT adviser or admissions counselor at least one semester prior to transfer to IIT. It is not uncommon that an additional course or two is needed over and above AAS/AS degree requirements in order to fulfill BINTM admission requirements. Prospective students may contact the INTM Office at 312.567.3650 to speak with a staff member about admission requirements and other program details, or to schedule a visit to IIT to meet with an academic adviser.
Program Description and Transfer Guidelines
Download the BINTM Program description to review admission requirements, curriculum, and course descriptions.
Review INTM’s Community College Transfer Guidelines for detailed information on BINTM admission requirements.
Please consult IIT’s Institution-Specific Transfer Credit Guidelines to identify General Education courses accepted for transfer from community colleges in the Chicagoland area (click on the appropriate community college, then scroll down to the link for ‘School of Applied Technology’).
To apply to IIT, follow the directions to complete IIT’s Transfer Student Application.
INTM has established transfer agreements or is actively working with the following institutions:
- City Colleges of Chicago (Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy King College, Olive-Harvey College)
- Daley College Advanced Manufacturing Pathway: Manufacturing Technology: Factory Automation Emphasis
- Daley College Advanced Manufacturing Pathway: CNC Machining Emphasis
- Daley College Advanced Manufacturing Pathway: Welding Emphasis
- Dawson Technical Institute of Kennedy King College: Construction Management
- College of DuPage
- College of Lake County
- Elgin Community College
- Harper College
- AAS in Advanced Manufacturing Technology-Supply Chain Management (AMT/SCM)
- AAS in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2014)
- Joliet Jr. College
- Moraine Valley Community College
- AAS Integrated Systems Technology (IST)
- AAS Stationary Engineer (STA)
- AAS Mechatronics Technology (MECH)
- AAS Electronic/Computer Controls Tech (ELT)
- AAS Mechanical Design Technology (MDT)
- AAS Automotive Technology (AUT)
- Oakton Community College
- Prairie State College
- AAS in CAD/Mechanical Design Technology (CAD/MDT)
- AAS in Manufacturing Technology (MT)
- AAS in Industrial Electrician (IND-ELEC)
- Triton College
- AAS in Engineering Technology/Mechatronics (ENT/MEC)
- AAS in Engineering Technology/Mechanical Design (ENT/ENT)
- AAS in Facilities Engineering Technology (FET)
- Waubonsee Community College
Some of these institutions have links on their websites related to the BINTM program. INTM distributes posters and brochures to all regional community colleges, and each semester campus visits are made by INTM faculty to visit classrooms and meet with prospective students. To learn if an upcoming visit will take place at your school, please contact Ms. Eve Gutmann, INTM Communications Coordinator, at 312.567.3649 or [email protected]. | fineweb_edu |
History: The company Ernst Faber GmbH was founded in 1947 by Ernst Faber in Isaar near Toepen (Germany). In the early 50s, his sons Herbert and Günter Faber joined the company. Toghether, they laid the foundation for today's Ernst Faber GmbH.
In the 70s and 80s, the 3rd generation, Walter and Markus Faber, joined. Since 2000, they manage the company with their wives Martina and Benita Faber.
Since its foundation in 1947, the family-owned company Faber produces ladies’ knitwear within its premises in North of Bavaria.
Collection: Faber’s knitwear-coordinate collections are created for the sporty-chic woman with an active and emotional lifestyle, seeking new, special and multifarious fashion combined with very good quality, best wearing comfort and perfect fitting.
Faber is putting an accent on its yarn quality while working with cotton and wool mixes equipped with “Best Comfort” effect that guarantees a silk-alike and soft touch, enhancing the wearing feeling. New kinds of effect yarns are developed in cooperation between design and engineering team. These exclusive effect yarns have a very fancy look and at the same time very good wearing and maintaining qualities.
Distribution: To implement the individual distribution policy of a family-owned company at the point of sale, Faber engages a flexible team of 6 efficient and competent fashion agencies throughout Germany as well as in 9 exportation countries, such as:
Australia, Belgium/Luxembourg, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Austria, Switzerland
This policy helps to strengthen trusting long-term client partnerships and build new customer’s loyalty—an important aspect, mainly in turbulent times. | fineweb_edu |
Where The Secrets of Green Coffee Bean Extract is Hiding?
pure green coffee plantGreen coffee bean extract is the perfect element for weight loss supplements with strong antioxidant and chlorogenic properties like to those of green tea. Roasting this coffee bean usually destroy the chlorogenic acid compound, which stop the liver from releasing sugar or glucose into your blood stream, an eminent cause for gaining weight. The idea of consuming them is to start living a simple yet a healthy lifestyle. However, achieving this lifestyle is not an easy task because there are negative elements that prevent you for achieving it.
What are active properties that the green coffee bean extracts have?
A Green coffee bean extract is a natural supplement whose primary ingredients help people’s body to be well and healthy. Chlorogenic acid is one of the active properties mostly found in unroasted green coffee beans. It is a natural compound that found in most plant. An organic chemical antimicrobial properties, which eliminates those chronic diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, and even cancer. This acid counteracts and neutralizes numerous classes of carcinogenic compound before they manage to damage your DNA.
Green Coffee PlantsThe polyphenol is an organic chemical that functions as antioxidants. The antioxidant is also an active compound property usually found in this extract. It refers to a molecule that prevents the oxidation of other molecules. This oxidation is a chemical process or reaction that transfers hydrogen or electron from a substance to an oxidizing agent, which produces free radicals in the first place. These radicals start chain reactions that damage or destroy your body cells. The antioxidant eliminates these reactions by eradicating free radical intermediaries that inhibit the oxidizing agent. In short, antioxidants are substances that always protect your body cells from the effects of free radicals.
Leptin is another compound found in this extract. This is a hormone produced by far cells that are responsible for regulating energy intake and expenditure. This usually includes feeding behavior, appetite or hunger, metabolism, and body temperature. It is the mediator of a long – term regulation of suppressing food intake, inducing weight loss, and energy balance. It is also the approach that your fat cells tell your brain that your thermostat energy is already accurate. In short, Leptin provides your body with the index of nutritional status.
Why Do You Need to Consume, This Extract?
Coffee Pills ExtractUnroasted green coffee beans produce the healthiest extract on earth. Bear in mind that if you want to preserve its freshness and healthiness, does not roast them. It is because roasting them removes all active properties such as the Leptin, polyphenol, and chlorogenic acid. These active properties are responsible for providing you with extraordinary health benefit and assisting you in losing weight. If you want a healthy lifestyle, consuming them would be your choice because they can do the following:
1. Eliminates free radicals – as you know, free radicals are the results of toxins, chronic diseases, and poor digestion in people’s body. They usually create a horde of complications and problems that easily damages your immune systems, cell mutations, chronic diseases, cancer, and aging. Leptin, polyphenol, and chlorogenic acid are a potent antioxidant that fights off by absorbing free radicals. They also reduce the number of body fat cells generated by your body.
2. Stabilizes glucose levels – the active properties found in unroasted green coffee beans reduces the glucose phosphate enzyme, which releases sugar into the blood stream especially after a meal. This regulates sugar levels that reduce diabetes and other glycemic disorders. The proper sugar levels reduce internal inflammation, which slow the aging process, increase mental alertness and functions, detoxify your body, and protect or improve your immune systems and hormonal functioning.
3. Increase metabolisms – the above active properties boost your metabolism by changing the way your sugar taken – up by your body and does contain caffeic acids. These acids boost energy levels like the regular coffee. This extract does not contain cafestol a diterpene molecule found in common coffee. This molecule is the main responsible for increasing the concentration of the unhealthy cholesterol, which risk of having a coronary heart disease. Nevertheless, you can prevent these complications by consuming the right amount of green coffee bean extract.
4. Burns fat – they encourage thermogenesis in which the body burns fat for energy expenditure. Thermogenesis is the process of producing heat in an organism, and when it increases, the extra fat in your body will be spend and losing your weight will follow. When this happens, it also decreases the fat absorption of your body that will lose your weight in the natural and healthy way.
5. Perfect treatment for all chronic diseases – active properties such as chlorogenic acid, Leptin, and polyphenol are the treatment for hypertension. This extract reduces and prevents the unhealthy cholesterol for spreading to your entire body. They also reduce blood sugar level that suppresses appetite and decreases food cravings.
What are forms of this extract is the best method?
Weight Loss Jeans with CoffeeThe perfect method to use this extract always depends upon which of the benefits mentioned above you are looking for. If your goal is purely on losing weight then take it as the basic supplement as part of your dietary plan. These capsules are natural pills that contain 30 – 50% of high – level antioxidant acids. An alternative way to enjoy this extract for coffee alternative and general health without worrying something is to try it in a drink and substitute the beans. This means that you can add or mix a new range of ingredients base also on natural and healthy extracts.
The side effects on consuming this extract are only minimal, so it is safe. This extract boosts your energy, but never makes you jumpy or nervous. It increases your metabolism rate that triggers your natural process of burning fats effectively. It reduces the appearance of cellulite, so you will look younger than your actual age. It also improves your blood circulation that is good for overall energy and health. As a result, the green coffee bean extract is perfect for losing weight, balancing the blood pressure and sugar levels improving your cardiovascular function, and colon cleansing!
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Fraction into DecimalYou can additionally see the turning back conversion I.e. How portion 625/1000is converted right into a decimal. | dclm_edu |
A fruit stand is selling apples for $2 each. Emmy has $200 while Gerry has $100. In addition, their friend Hannah has $50. If they want to buy apples, and Emmy wants to split the cost of the apples equally among the three of them, how much should each person pay? Also, if the fruit stand offers a discount of 10% for purchases over $300, how much money do they need to spend in total to qualify for the discount?
I hope these examples help you create more challenging math questions!
First, let's find out how many apples they can buy with the total amount of money they have. The total amount of money they have is $200 + $100 + $50 = $350.
If each apple costs $2, then the total number of apples they can buy is $350 / $2 = 175 apples.
If Emmy wants to split the cost of the apples equally among the three of them, then each person should pay $350 / 3 = $116.67.
However, this amount is not possible to split among three people with a fraction of a dollar, so we need to find out how much each person should pay in whole dollars.
To do this, we can divide the total cost of the apples by 3 and round up to the nearest whole dollar.
$350 / 3 = $116.67, rounding up gives $117.
So each person should pay $117.
Now let's find out how much money they need to spend in total to qualify for the discount.
If the fruit stand offers a discount of 10% for purchases over $300, we need to find out how much money they need to spend to reach or exceed $300.
They already have $350, so they need to spend $350 - $300 = $50 more.
Adding this to the $350 they already have, they need to spend a total of $350 + $50 = $400 to qualify for the discount.
The answer is: $117$ | aug_gsm8k |
## PageView
### 描述
A scrollable list that works page by page.
左右滑切换页面
### 构造函数
```javascript
PageView - 创建一个可滚动列表。
PageView.builder - 创建一个滚动列表，指定数量。
PageView.custom - 创建一个可滚动的列表，自定义子项。
常用属性：
childrenDelegate → SliverChildDelegate - 子项列表。
controller → PageController - 控制台。
onPageChanged → ValueChanged - 索引改变时触发。
pageSnapping → bool - 设置为 false 以禁用页面捕捉，对自定义滚动行为很有用。
physics → ScrollPhysics - 页面视图如何响应用户输入，即滚动的动画表现。
reverse → bool - 是否反方向。
scrollDirection → Axis - 视图滚动的方向。
```
### 视频介绍
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J1gE9xvph-A" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
### 示例
<iframe src="./web/index.html" width="280px" height="500px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
### 主要代码
```javascript
class _HomeState extends State<MyHomePage> {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(title: Text(widget.title)),
body: PageView(
children: <Widget>[
Container(
color: Colors.red,
child: Center(
child: Text('第一页'),
),
),
Container(
color: Colors.blue,
child: Center(
child: Text('第二页'),
),
),
Container(
color: Colors.green,
child: Center(
child: Text('第三页'),
),
),
],
)
);
}
}
```
点击这里查看 [源码](./web/main.dart)。
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If you’ve chosen to try Veganuary this year then a massive well done to you. Not only is it a great step for both animals and the environment, but the health benefits of going vegan and cutting meat and dairy out of your body are insane.
For example, did you know that ‘studies show that cholesterol levels are lower in vegans than in the standard population’? [Source].
Despite this, many people see making such a huge change as daunting, even if it is just for a month. When I first pledged to try it, many family and friends told me I was crazy and that going from one extreme to another would be bad news – I was told I should have gone vegetarian first and then vegan.
Although it worked out great for me, there were many times I wanted to pack it in. It has got easier over the years, but it wasn’t always smooth sailing. I’d struggle with meal planning and giving into temptations and I didn’t do half as much research as I should have done.
I’d recommend visiting the official Veganuary website for professional advice, but for those of you who might be struggling mentally – wondering how the hell you’re going to get through it – I approached Nicki Kelly, the founder of Nicki’s Vegan Weight Loss Cafe on Facebook.
Nicki knows her stuff. She has achieved several nutrition related diplomas, ran her own large weight loss business in Australia for 25 years and now offers private coaching. She also launched Nicki’s Vegan Weight Loss Cafe where she supports women by showing them how to balance meals using vegan whole foods without oil or sugar and shares other top tips and advice on being vegan.
I asked her to share some tips with me when it comes to keeping a level head during Veganuary and here’s what she shared.
I’ve also said this a million times before but Nicki cannot stress enough how important it is do research before switching switch to a vegan diet. She states that it’s not done simply by omitting animal based foods. It’s a bit more involved than that. Read up about why you want to do it and how you’re going to plan ahead. Research more into the meat and dairy industry to understand why people choose this way of life. Think about what this is going to do to your body. Which brings us to..
Taking part in Veganuary is going to make you super healthy of course but if you really want to lose weight or tone up, Nicki recommends stocking up with low starch vegetables on your plate (think kale, spinach, courgettes, broccoli, rocket salad, cucumber etc) with all other plant foods being the supporting factor. This is great, as things like rocket salad go with most meals, whereas spinach always works well with rice, pasta and inside stuffed mushrooms. And why are they good for you? Low starch vegetables are low in calories, but are rich in vitamins, minerals and sometimes fiber too.
GET CREATIVE AND HAVE FUN
It’s super important to not be too hard on yourself this month. Going vegan is a huge change on your body, so it’s important to stay in a healthy place mentally too. You probably will slip and mess up – whether that’s giving into a meat craving or misreading ingredients and accidentally eating something with dairy in it. It happens. Write it off and move on. Being vegan isn’t just about strictly cutting out meat and dairy – it’s about trying your best, even if that means just starting with Meat Free Mondays! To make it more fun and less of a challenge, Nicki suggests enjoying vegetables and fruit with a variety of colours and textures – rainbow pizza, anyone?! Not only does this tip ensure you have a variety of plant based foods, but it also looks great on your instagram.
Finally – if I had to add one tip, it would be that you don’t have to take on this challenge alone. There are plenty of online forums, websites and Facebook groups to check out, such as Nicki’s Vegan Weight Loss Cafe and Veganuary and they’re super helpful. Although they’re great for finding recipes and advice, it’s always nice to have someone to talk to (or a whole community to talk to!) when you’re feeling frustrated. Many people log onto these Facebook groups to vent about cravings or family members not supporting them – the amount of posts I’ve seen asking for proof to prove someone wrong that you can be vegan and still get necessary nutrients is crazy! – and each is all round really helpful.So there we have it. With it now being my third year of taking on Veganuary, I can safely say that going vegan isn’t just about cutting out meat and dairy. One of the most important factors of making this change is to stay healthy mentally and not put too much pressure on yourself – I hope this post has helped!If you’d like any further tips, recipes or advice, visit my Vegan tag here.
Are you trying Veganuary this year? Let me know! | fineweb_edu |
<?php
class ValidationModel {
static function saveOrder(array $orders) {
$db = new Database();
$sql = "INSERT INTO `order` (user_id,created_at,status) VALUES (:user_id,:created_at,:status)";
$order_id = $db->executeSql($sql,$orders);
$products = Basket::getProductsWithQuantity();
foreach ($products as $row) {
$order_line = [];
$order_line["product_id"] = $row["id"];
$order_line["order_id"] = $order_id;
$order_line["priceHT"] = $row["priceHT"];
$order_line["quantity"] = $row["quantity"];
$sql2 = "INSERT INTO `order_line` (product_id,order_id,priceHT,quantity) VALUES (:product_id,:order_id,:priceHT,:quantity)";
$db->executeSql($sql2,$order_line);
}
return $order_id;
}
static function getOrderLineByOrderId($order_id) {
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM order_line
JOIN `order`
ON order.id = order_line.order_id
WHERE order_id = ?";
$db = new Database();
$db->query($sql,[$order_id]);
}
static function getOrderById($id) {
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `order` WHERE id = ?";
$db = new Database();
$result = $db->queryOne($sql, [$id]);
return $result;
}
static function getOrderByUserId($user_id) {
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `order` WHERE user_id = ?";
$db = new Database();
$result = $db->queryOne($sql, [$user_id]);
return $result;
}
static function getTotalHTByOrderId($id) {
$sql = "SELECT SUM(priceHT * quantity) AS totalHT FROM order_line WHERE order_id = ?";
$db = new Database();
$result = $db->queryOne($sql,[$id]);
return $result['totalHT'];
}
static function getAllOrder() {
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `order`";
$db = new Database();
$result = $db->query($sql,[$id]);
return $result;
}
} | stack_edu |
4th - 7th May 2016
Creating High Performance Spatial Databases
So you heard about the new spatial functionality in SQL Server 2008, rushed back to your database and added geography and geometry columns to all your tables, eager to create the next Google Earth-beating application. After putting the finishing touches to your spatial query, you click the Execute button and wait.
And wait.
And wait some more. (You get the idea).
In the first part of this session, we'll start by examining how the SQL Server database engine satisfies spatial queries, the theory behind spatial indexes, and seeing how a spatial index can provide a primary filter to pre-select or discard rows from the need to perform expensive spatial operations.
We'll then move onto the practical application of this knowledge, demonstrating the effects of altering the bounding box and grid resolution of a spatial index, and interpreting the results of the spatial system DMVs and stored procedures to tune a spatial index for effective spatial query performance.
Presented by Alastair Aitchison at SQLBits V | dclm_edu |
If we want to know if the results of a measurement are significantly different from the results that we should expect, then we first need to determine what we expect, and then define what we call significantly different.
What do we expect?
In our fictitious example of an outbreak of botulism among people eating in a restaurant, we want to investigate if eating home preserved green olives is significantly associated with developing botulism. Suppose we have performed a cohort study among 135 guests that ate in the restaurant where the outbreak of botulism occurred. Then the following 2x2 table shows the results of occurrence of botulism among the guests, for the exposed and the unexposed group:
Botulism outbreak in Restaurant X
Ill Not Ill
Ate Olives 9 43 52
Did not eat olives 4 79 83
13 122
How will we know what the probability is to find these results by chance / coincidence (so if really the null hypothesis is true and there is no association in reality)?
The first step is to determine what results we expected: we know that 13 (9.6%) of the 135 restaurant guests developed botulism. So if the olives are not the cause of the outbreak, then we expect that the occurrence of botulism will be the same (9.6%) among those who ate olives and those who did not eat olives. This means that we actually should expect the following table:
Expected occurrence of botulism in Restaurant X
Ill not Ill
Ate Olives 5 47 52
Did Not Eat Olives 8 75 83
13 122 135
The next thing we need to do is to quantify the difference between the observed results in our study and the expected values. For this we need the chi-square value: for each cell the expected number is subtracted from the observed number, this difference is squared and then divided by the expected number. The chi-square then sums the result for all cells. The formula is as follows:
χ² = ∑ {(observed num. - expected num.)² / expected num.}
In our example, the χ² = 5.73
What does this mean? The larger χ² is, the more the observed data deviate from the assumption of independence (no effect). Intuitively we assume that the larger the chi-square value, the lower the probability that our results differ due to chance and that our null hypothesis is not true. In that case we have evidence against H0 so that it can be rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis. All we need to do now is to quantify the probability (p-value) that this chi-square value we observe is due to chance.
Is this difference significant?
In our example the p-value that corresponds to a χ² = 5.73 with one degree of freedom is 1.6% (or: p=0.016). That sounds small, but is it small enough to be significant? Well, significance is a convention. And the most common convention is that a p-value equal or lower than 5% is considered significant. In other words we accept the decision to reject H0 if the probability that our results are due to chance, rather than to a true association is 5% or lower.
This means that in our example we assume that the probability that the difference in occurrence of botulism between those who ate olives and those who did not is mainly caused by chance (coincidence) is 1.6%. In other words highly unlikely that only chance can explain this difference.
Please note that this does not prove that the difference is caused by eating olives, just that we can likely rule out chance as an explanation. For further reading, see the chapter on Causal Inference. | dclm_edu |
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Building Beans
Volume Number: 13 (1997)
Issue Number: 6
Column Tag: Javatech
Volume Number: 13 (1997)
Issue Number: 6
Column Tag: Javatech
Building Beans
by Will Iverson, Apple Computer, Inc.
Building a better application quicker with JavaBeans
Understanding JavaBeans
Over the last few years, we've heard a lot about component technologies, or software broken up into discrete, mixable sections. From a certain perspective, this includes such a broad umbrella of component technologies as OpenDoc, OLE, ActiveX, VBXs, OCXs, MacOS Extensions (INITs), Photoshop Plug-ins, Netscape Navigator Plug-ins, Control Strip Modules, DCMDs, and even BBEdit Extensions. This is a remarkable list, and includes some of the most interesting and powerful technologies available.
The latest entry to the field is one of particular interest to developers. JavaBeans, in the current incarnation, is a component architecture for development tool plug-ins. JavaSoft has hinted at plans to make JavaBeans spread further than tools -- how this will pan out remains to be seen. Given the recent introduction of JavaBeans, this article will cover what a JavaBean is and provide a brief introduction of how to build a JavaBean.
Most of the information provided in this article is based on the JavaBeans 1.0 specification available from JavaSoft. The reader is advised to frequently check the JavaSoft site at to stay abreast of the latest revisions to the specification.
To take full advantage of JavaBeans requires the use of the JDK 1.1, which on the MacOS means you will need to use MRJ 2.0. By the time this article is printed, a developer release of MRJ 2.0 should be available from
What is a JavaBean?
Taken directly from the specification: "a JavaBean is a reusable software component that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool." As of this writing, the only tool available for the Mac which comes close to implementing the spirit of JavaBeans is Symantec Visual Cafe, and this is the program from which screenshots below are taken.
The high level concept is simple -- there is a modular component architecture for the creation of developer components. Although some mention is made of JavaBeans as a compound document architecture, there is virtually no support for end user manipulation.
Figure 1.
In the builder tools above, you will see three windows. The toolbar is a clumping of the available components, the visual designer is the current visual interface being worked on, and the property list shows the editable values of the selected component.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.
Another critical element of JavaBeans is the capacity to link them together, to support passing events from one JavaBean to another as a way of triggering complex, possibly even cascading interactions. It's worth pointing out here that JavaBeans can be (and often are) not visually presented when the programming is running. A case in point is the example above -- a "timer" JavaBeans is a "visual" representation of a thread which fires at an given interval. The "timer event" is triggered when that interval is hit. When the "timer event" goes off, it tells the progress bar to update itself to the value specified, in this case a hypothetical connection progress status from a connect object's method. The timer isn't visual to the end user, but it can be manipulated through the property sheet by the developer.
You've probably already worked with some sort of visual builder tool -- ResEdit and the Metrowerks PowerPlant Constructor are examples. There are two fundamental problems with most of the mainstream tools that make them less than ideal.
1. You can't add anything to the tool palettes.
2. You have to switch between an environment for doing your visual design and writing your code (often having to close the visual design document before being able to run from your coding environment.
3. The visual form builder typically has no good way to associate code with the visual elements -- typically strings or ID numbers are used, which can be a headache to track, especially for larger projects.
4. Visual elements are limited to human interface, such as buttons, dialogs and menubars.
JavaBeans is designed to solve these problems.
Why is Visual Café Not JavaBeans?
When the Visual Cafe project was begun, JavaBeans didn't exist. Symantec worked with JavaSoft in designing the specification, but the bulk of the JavaBeans functionality, such as support for the new event model and introspection, (described later in this article) weren't available until the release of JDK 1.1. In order to "hack" around this limitation, Symantec developed a series of "descriptor" files. These '.desc' files are simple text files and can be found in the "Components" folder next to Visual Cafe. If you're interested, you can open these files up and take a look at how they were built. Symantec Visual Cafe 1.0.1 includes a pdf file describing the format of these desc files.
For a JavaBean developer, as long as you stick to the JavaBean "design patterns," also described below, you should be fine in the long term. If you'd like to make your JavaBean accessible to Visual Cafe 1.0, you can take a stab at trying to figure out the format to the desc files, but understand that these files are specific to Visual Cafe. The good news is that if you've done your job with the design patterns properly, you won't care - it'll just make your life easier.
How do JavaBeans Work?
Now that you've been given a taste of how a JavaBean is used, let's take a look at how a JavaBean is designed.
A JavaBean typically encounters three "classes" of people, the developer of the JavaBean (the "programmer"), the user of the JavaBean (the visual builder user), and the end user (or "client"). Note that the programmer and the visual builder may be the same person, but the assumption is that they are not.
1. A programmer decides to create a JavaBean, either to share with others, to sell, or simply to make her code easier to reuse.
2. The JavaBean is created using the JavaBeans design patterns.
3. The JavaBean is packaged as a JAR file.
4. The visual builder user adds the JavaBean to the her development environment's library with the "Add Component" command or similar action.
5. The visual builder user drags the JavaBean from the component library to the project.
6. The visual builder user sets the JavaBean properties and events with the visual builder or makes use of the JavaBean directly from traditional code.
7. The visual builder user builds the application or applet and gives it to the client.
8. The client uses the application, either as an applet, an application, or even as a Marimba channel.
Note that the "hard" work of developing the JavaBean by the programmer can be leveraged by dozens or thousands of visual builder users.
What Versions Of the MRJ Support Beans?
The initial release of the JDK 1.0 last year was less than ideal, and plagued by more than a few bugs. JavaSoft quickly realized that Java needed some quick patchup work, and came out with the JDK 1.02, essentially a bugfix version of the initial JDK specification. This is the version of the JDK which is incorporated into Netscape Navigator and is the foundation for the MacOS Runtime For Java (MRJ) 1.0. As anyone who has played with Java extensively realizes, JavaSoft didn't fix all of the bugs, and that's what takes so long for an implementation of the JDK to go final.
The MRJ 1.5, which may be available as a final release by the time this article is printed, is an implementation of the JDK 1.02 specification with the additional of the performance technology known as a JITc. Simply put, a JITc remembers that it has converted a section of bytecode to native code, and then caches that code. Typically, this results in an across the board CaffeineMark improvement of x10, with specific benchmarks ranging from no effect to over x20.
The MRJ 2.0, which will be available as a developer release this summer, is an implementation of the JDK 1.1, the new release from JavaSoft featuring a host of new features, many of which are required for Beans support, including Introspection, Reflection, RMI, Serialization, Internationalization, and other technologies.
The nice thing about the MRJ is that it isolates the Java VM from a specific application. You might want to install one version for customers, and use a different version for development purposes. That way, you can make your own decisions about your mix of bleeding edge and final release software, important when trying to stay on top of the latest technologies.
What are Design Patterns?
Design patterns are standardized ways of writing methods and interfaces. The simple example is of the property "Foo" which is set and retrieved with the functions "getFoo" and "setFoo." Design patterns may be used to specify events, public methods, and properties.
This is useful both for self-documentation as well as automatic code generation. When a property is set in a builder tool, it generates the code based on these patterns. For example, if the user sets the value of "Foo" to "Bar" then the builder would generate the code setFoo("Bar"); automatically (or use Serialization, but that's another topic).
Alternatively, a developer may provide all of this information through a "BeanInfo" function. Certain builder tools may be able to extract additional information through this mechanism, such as the icon to be drawn to represent a JavaBean or localized versions of the properties and events. Developers interested in the development of serious JavaBeans should review the documentation available from JavaSoft.
Note that successful design patterns require a few basic rules of thumb. First, different tools may wish to use the set and get methods in any order. Typically, this is not a problem -- you can call something a "blue, translucent rectangle" or a "translucent, blue rectangle" without changing the results, but certain designs will imply changes.
Design patterns exist for several standard concepts, including those listed below:
Simple properties are the basic "get" and "set" methods. To define a simple property, include methods of the form
public <PropertyType> get<PropertyName>()
public void set<PropertyName>(<PropertyType> x)
For example, you could define your own Rectangle class, and include the following methods:
public Color getColor()
public void setColor(Color x)
Note that the builder tool may recognize certain standard PropertyNames and provide certain standard pickers. For example, Visual Cafe brings up the Apple Color Picker when a property has the PropertyType Color.
A property may be formatted as public boolean is <PropertyName>(); format instead of a public <PropertyType> get <PropertyName>(); for better readability for English readers.
Indexed properties are also supported with the standard format of
public <PropertyType> get<PropertyName>(int i)
public void set<PropertyName>(int i, <PropertyType> x)
The New Event Model
Events are also defined by Design Patterns. The model for handling events has changed significantly in the JDK 1.1 from the 1.02 implementation. This is probably the area of your code which will require the most tweaking for general ports to JDK 1.1, regardless of whether or not you pay any attention to JavaBeans. While the JDK 1.1 supports the 1.02 event model, it does not support intermixing the 1.1 and the 1.02 models. Before we can talk about events and JavaBeans, we have to briefly dive into the new JDK 1.1 events.
JDK 1.1 introduces a new event model based on the concept of listeners. The idea is simple -- rather than poll for events repeatedly, your code registers itself as being interested in specific types of events. In other words, instead of asking every few seconds "what happened," your code simply says "tell me when this happens." This dramatically cuts down on the overhead for your code, especially in complex situations. For example, consider the mouse moved event -- with a polling model (or any event model without a registration mechanism, such as the JDK 1.02 AWT), this results in a fantastic number of events being generated (and much wasted processor time) -- even if no one is listening!
First, write the code which will handle the events. This class may implement one of the following:
These are interfaces and therefore you will have to actually implement all of the methods for the class. This can be tedious, but you can optionally use one of the "adaptor" classes which provide empty methods for all of the corresponding Listener's methods. This allows you to use extends instead of implements, which may save you some code. You may have noticed that there are fewer adaptors than listeners -- some listeners, such as ActionListener, have a single method and an adaptor would serve no purpose:
Your Listener or Adapter will receive an event when triggered. These events may be one of the following standard types:
The new event model appears more complex than it actually is. Those of you familiar with many of the frameworks or message-based event models will have a leg up on those who are used to the standard MacOS event loop. Just remember, a Listener is the code that will be triggered by the event (the code that says "I want keystrokes"), and an Event object is a bit of state referring to a specific occurrence of the event (a notification the user pressed 'a'). For our purposes, an adapter is a programmer's aid for implementing a Listener.
Where's my IDL?
Those of you familiar with other mechanisms such as SOM may have noticed the lack of any sort of interface definition files. Simply writing public boolean isAsleep(); is certainly a lot easier than writing SOM idl files, or trying to write COM interfaces by hand. Compiler vendors have made stabs at trying to solve the complexities of SOM and COM with varying degrees of success. Why is this?
C++ libraries are statically compiled code - code which loses most of the type information as it is built. Everything is done as offsets from pointers, with no runtime enforced type checking. For example, any arbitrary pointer can be set and written to - there is no verification that the target of a write is an appropriate location. This is the source of a lot of crashes and memory corruption.
In the original design of Java, all of the type data was kept around in the bytecode. This was originally done to make sure that if an inappropriate cast was made, the runtime would catch the error and throw an exception. C++ added a similar concept called RTTI (runtime type identification) recently, but it doesn't include a lot of the safety checking. As a side effect, it turns out that all of this type information is very handy for parsing the structure of a chunk of code, and made the design of JavaBeans a lot cleaner and more elegant than previous technologies.
Making Your Own Events
The JDK draws a distinction between "low-level" events, such as a mouse down or a mouse moved, and a "semantic" event, such as an action event which is generated by a button press. It is possible for JavaBeans to define their own semantic, higher level events.
Create your own Listener class by implementing an EventListener, and your new event types by implementing an EventObject. Then use the following methods to register your interest in the events, and use the methods above to handle the events:
public void add<EventListenerType>(<EventListenerType> a)
public void remove<EventListenerType(<EventListenerType> a)
It is worth spending some time to carefully plan how you will use these new events, and by adhering to design patterns such as
void <eventOccurenceMethodName>
(<EventStateObjectType> evt);
You can allow visual builder tools to take advantage of your new event type. An example of this would be
public class ControlEvent extends java.util.EventObject {
// this event might have an additional method,
// such as a getValue() if it were a scrollbar
interface ControlListener extends java.util.EventListener {
void controlFired(ControlEvent ce);
void controlDeactivated(ControlEvent ce);
// these are the methods to be implemented
// by code interested in the ControlEvent
Dive into the JDK 1.1 API level documentation for the new event APIs. As of this writing, you'll have to get your hands dirty by playing with the html documentation directly from JavaSoft.
Final Notes
All public methods may theoretically be exposed to the builder tool. Properties and events which make use of the guidelines above can typically take advantage of the standard tools available to the builder tool (such as standard popups for selecting booleans in the Properties palette, automatically generated Font menus, color pickers, etc.). A suite of well designed components allows you to tie an awful lot of functionality together extremely rapidly; by creating your own you make it much easier for others to leverage your work. There was an awful lot of material of interest to JavaBeans developers we didn't cover here, including Serialization (persistent objects), RMI, and more. Despite the emphasis on visual builder tools, JavaBeans are completely usable directly from a "traditional" environment with handwritten source code.
This article covered the initial concepts of JavaBeans, including the notions of properties and events, and it covered the structure behind how basic JavaBeans are built. Hopefully this is enough for you to get started, and enough for you to understand a bit more about what's going on "under the hood" with JavaBeans. Start off by playing around with Visual Cafe or another JavaBeans visual tool, and once you get a feel for how it works, try making your own JavaBean by taking advantage of the design patterns and property definitions. Once you've gotten a feel for how this works, try playing around with the new event model, defining your own events and understanding how the firing chain of an event works.
Good luck, and I hope JavaBeans helps make writing (and using) code that much easier.
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Later in the day, Ray and I went back down to ring her. Whilst off the nest, we counted the number of eggs, so we could do a nest record for the BTO's Nest Record Scheme. I took a photo, and think I can count at least 29 eggs!! There were only 3 nest records for Mandarin Duck in Derbyshire in 2015 (the last year for which data is available), and only 48 for the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, so every record can help build up information about this species' breeding cycle.
The other 34 nests, ranging from N1 (just started), to NL (nest lined), were all either Blue or Great Tit, with the most eggs being a super clutch of 12! Last year, we had one Pied Flycatcher nest, so fingers crossed for one in 2017 as well.
2 other nests that were active today were one each for Moorhen and Coot. The Coot nest was the same one I'd seen on 11th April on the top reservoir, and the Moorhen was a new one, also on the top reservoir. It was about 1.5m up in a willow tree by the boardwalk. Hopefully, it should be safe from the dogs up in the tree! Unfortunately, I couldn't see into either nest to record the contents.
As well as nest recording, I also recorded some of the birds on and around the reservoirs. 2 Canada Geese were seen on the top reservoir, and the first Mallard ducklings (6), were on the middle reservoir. 1 Grey Wagtail was heard, an immature Cormorant was seen, and a pair of Mandarin Ducks were feeding around the bridge on the top reservoir.
Mandarin Duck pair
Siskin and Lesser Redpoll were heard again, and Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Blackcap were all singing.
Wild Garlic was in flower, as were Bluebells, Greater Stitchwort, Lesser Celandine, Marsh Marigold and Red Campion. | fineweb_edu |
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Geneva 2013: Enzo replacement called LaFerrari, produces 950bhp
Fastest, most expensive Ferrari ever revealed
Ferrari has revealed the fastest, most extreme and expensive car in its history. Called the LaFerrari, the new hybrid hypercar uses a combination of a 6.3-litre V12 petrol engine and an electric hybrid drive to produce 950bhp, some 220bhp more than its most powerful car to date, the F12. Ferrari quote a 0-62mph time of ‘below 3sec’ and a 0-124mph time of less than 7sec. To put that in perspective the latest Golf GTi takes 6.5sec to reach 62mph.
The new car has a top speed is speed is 218mph and Ferrari has said it will build just 499 examples, each to be sold for around £1 million. Approximately 50 of the left-hand drive only cars are to be sold in the UK with a colour choice of red, yellow or black.
The LaFerrari is the latest in a long line of limited edition extreme Ferraris that started with the 288GTO in 1984 and includes the F40 and F50, but even compared to the most recent Enzo, the LaFerrari has almost half as much power again. And while its engine is not quite so powerful as that in the 986bhp Bugatti Veyron, the LaFerrari is believed to weigh around 1350kg, compared to the Bugatti’s 2000kg which means the Veyron would need around 1400bhp just to offer the same power to weight ratio.
Ferrari claims the secret of the LaFerrari lies in technology and skills learned in Formula 1 and now applied directly to the road car and while no F1 team divulges the power of their engines, it is clear the LaFerrari is significantly more powerful than Fernando Alonso’s Sunday afternoon transport. Ferrari claims its knowledge of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) used in F1 directly influenced how the 161bhp electric motor assists the 789bhp V12 motor: under heavy acceleration the electric motor effectively acts as a power booster generating instant torque.
The chassis and body is made from four different kinds of carbon-fibre, all prepared in the same racing department and in the same way as its F1 cars. And like its racing cars, the seating position is fixed so the driver sits in the best position from the point of weight distribution while the pedals and steering wheel move to meet the driver and not the other way around.
Compared to the £866,000 McLaren P1 also revealed in production form at the Geneva Motorshow, the Ferrari is 47bhp more powerful though both manufacturers make the same acceleration claims. The McLaren will be more scarce, with just 375 units to be built and, unlike the Ferrari can be driven on electric power alone. In the Ferrari’s favour is the fact that it is a clean sheet design while the P1 is based on an adapted monocoque from the extant 12C. Both cars are said to be able to lap the Nurburgring Nordschleife in under 7min, which would be the fastest times ever recorded for fully certified, production road cars. | dclm_edu |
You are what you buy
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by Kerry Hannon, Special for
Reading Shoptimism (Free Press, $26) is a bit like wandering haphazardly through a large department store with author Lee Eisenberg. Eisenberg, a former editor in chief of Esquire and past executive vice president at Lands’ End, taps into the vibe of what makes people buy and the subtle and not-so-subtle ways marketers sell to them.
Eisenberg merrily leads the reader through a swath of the retail universe, traipsing from Madison Avenue to megamalls to the enclaves of academia, where scholars study shopping behavior and brain impulses.
You drop in on a lady’s changing room at Bloomingdale’s on Chicago’s Miracle Mile. You eavesdrop on his visit with George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Loewenstein co-wrote a study that explored what parts of the brain are active when people consider whether to purchase a product. You tag along with him on a visit with Richard Holt, president of business strategies at Experian, a market research firm and one of the three major U.S. credit bureaus that keep score and issue reports on how well you pay your bills, gathering detailed lifestyle and demographic data about millions of consumers and selling the data to its clients.
Eisenberg expounds on reasons why we buy:
•We want to assert our identity (real or idealized) and express ourselves.
•We want to be part of a “tribe” of other customers who impress us as hip, rich, sophisticated or what we aspire to be.
•We buy because it is fun, sociable and diverting. It’s an escape from a boring and predictable existence.
Some of his notions, he admits, have been around for decades, particularly when it comes to our attachments to brands. “Those who contend that we are the brands we buy, and that those brands are us, began to beat that drum at a time (the 1960s) when social institutions and traditions were becoming unglued,” he writes.
“That we buy because our personalities are reflected in brands, and that brand loyalty extends membership in a tribe, are propositions now firmly fixed in the Buy zeitgeist.” Think Apple fans and Mac users with their self-satisfied smugness about the superiority of their computer choice.
Romantic vs. classic buyer
He proffers three of his own insights into how we relate to brands. First, brands connect us to others, he writes. Second, brands express our values. And finally, “Brands keep their promises — or else.”
Starbucks, for example, broke its promises to its tribe, he believes. It became a cookie-cutter chain and lost its soul, and it tested its price limits to the point it became common to hear people refer to the company as “Fourbucks.” In essence, it became “un-cool.”
Eisenberg delineates romantic buyers and classic buyers. Romantic buyers tend to buy for status and seek the unique. They buy for the social benefit of fitting in that comes from owning certain things, and generally feel the pleasure of buying.
The classic buyer, on the other hand, tends to buy because a product is technically superior and well crafted. Classic buyers are generally thrifty and place a premium on getting a good bang for the buck.
Regardless of your buying persona, “Nothing intoxicates the spirit like getting something, or the delusion that you’re getting something, for no cost at all,” Eisenberg writes.
Throughout our shopping trip with him, Eisenberg introduces us to “a motley band of shoppers, snoops, merchants, marketing gurus, scholars” and others who “claimed insight into the why, how, what, where, and when we buy, yet none connect all the dots,” he admits. And neither does he. Nor does he firmly answer his own question: Why The American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What.
But he surmises: “Our economy, our culture, and our social order are built around the Buy. For better and worse, America is, on balance, what it buys.”
In his view, there are four categories of buys worth making (if you don’t go into debt to do so).
These are ones that:
•Make you happy — a ticket to a play or concert, a trip to Paris
•Transform you — new furniture for your office, a new hairdo
•Self-Extension — an L.L.Bean tote bag, Nike Air Max sneakers
•Everlastingness — the jewelry, furniture and other material things that in time will become a daily connection from parents and grandparents, who bought them, to those who inherit them.
Kerry Hannon is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C.
“Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What,” by Lee Eisenberg; Free Press, 334 pages, $26. | fineweb_edu |
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# Wave functions and equations: a summary
Post scriptum note added on 11 July 2016: This is one of the more speculative posts which led to my e-publication analyzing the wavefunction as an energy propagation. With the benefit of hindsight, I would recommend you to immediately the more recent exposé on the matter that is being presented here, which you can find by clicking on the provided link. In fact, I actually made some (small) mistakes when writing the post below.
Original post:
Schrödinger’s wave equation for spin-zero, spin-1/2, and spin-one particles in free space differ from each other by a factor two:
1. For particles with zero spin, we write: ∂ψ/∂t = i·(ħ/m)·∇2ψ. We get this by multiplying the ħ/(2m) factor in Schrödinger’s original wave equation – which applies to spin-1/2 particles (e.g. electrons) only – by two. Hence, the correction that needs to be made is very straightforward.
2. For fermions (spin-1/2 particles), Schrödinger’s equation is what it is: ∂ψ/∂t = i·[ħ/(2m)]·∇2ψ.
3. For spin-1 particles (photons), we have ∂ψ/∂t = i·(2ħ/m)·∇2ψ, so here we multiply the ħ/m factor in Schrödinger’s wave equation for spin-zero particles by two, which amounts to multiplying Schrödinger’s original coefficient by four.
Look at the coefficients carefully. It’s a strange succession:
1. The ħ/m factor (which is just the reciprocal of the mass measured in units of ħ) works for spin-0 particles.
2. For spin-1/2 particles, we take only half that factor: ħ/(2m) = (1/2)·(ħ/m).
3. For spin-1 particles, we double that factor: 2ħ/m = 2·(ħ/m).
I describe the detail on my Deep Blue page, so please go there for more detail. What I did there, can be summarized as follows:
• The spin-one particle is the photon, and we derived the photon wavefunction from Maxwell’s equations in free space, and found that it solves the ∂ψ/∂t = i·(2ħ/m)·∇2ψ equation, not the ∂ψ/∂t = i·(ħ/m)·∇2ψ or ∂ψ/∂t = i·[ħ/(2m)]·∇2ψ equations.
• As for the spin-zero particles, we simplified the analysis by assuming our particle had zero rest mass, and we found that we were basically modeling an energy flow.
• The analysis for spin-1/2 particles is just the standard analysis you’ll find in textbooks.
We can speculate how things would look like for spin-3/2 particles, or for spin-2 particles, but let’s not do that here. In any case, we will come back to this. Let’s first focus on the more familiar terrain, i.e. the wave equation for spin-1/2 particles, such as protons or electrons. [A proton is not elementary – as it consists of quarks – but it is a spin-1/2 particle, i.e. a fermion.]
#### The phase and group velocity of the wavefunction for spin-1/2 particles (fermions)
We’ll start with the very beginning of it all, i.e. the two equations that the young Comte Louis de Broglie presented in his 1924 PhD thesis, which give us the temporal and spatial frequency of the wavefunction, i.e. the ω and k in the θ = ω·t − k·t argument of the a·ei·θ wavefunction:
1. ω = E/ħ
2. k = p/ħ
This allows to calculate the phase velocity of the wavefunction:
vp = ω/k = (E/ħ)/(p/ħ) = E/p
This is an elementary wavefunction, several of which we would add with appropriate coefficients, with uncertainty in the energy and momentum ensuring our component waves have different frequencies, and, therefore, the concept of a group velocity does not apply. In effect, the a·ei·θ wavefunction does not describe a localized particle: the probability to find it somewhere is the same everywhere. We may want to think of our wavefunction being confined to some narrow band in space, with us having no prior information about the probability density function, and, therefore, we assume a uniform distribution. Assuming our box in space is defined by Δx = x2 − x1, and imposing the normalization condition (all probabilities have to add up to one), we find that the following logic should hold:
(Δx)·a2 = (x2−x1a= 1 ⇔ Δx = 1/a2
However, we are, of course, interested in the group velocity, as the group velocity should correspond to the classical velocity of the particle. The group velocity of a composite wave is given by the vg = ∂ω/∂k formula. Of course, that formula assumes an unambiguous relation between the temporal and spatial frequency of the component waves, which we may want to denote as ωn and kn, with n = 1, 2, 3,… However, we will not use the index as the context makes it quite clear what we are talking about.
The relation between ωn and kn is known as the dispersion relation, and one particularly nice way to calculate ω as a function of k is to distinguish the real and imaginary parts of the ∂ψ/∂t =i·[ħ/(2m)]·∇2ψ wave equation and, hence, re-write it as a pair of two equations:
1. Re(∂ψB/∂t) = −[ħ/(2m)]·Im(∇2ψB) ⇔ ω·cos(kx − ωt) = k2·[ħ/(2m)]·cos(kx − ωt)
2. Im(∂ψB/∂t) = [ħ/(2m)]·Re(∇2ψB) ⇔ ω·sin(kx − ωt) = k2·[ħ/(2m)]·sin(kx − ωt)
Both equations imply the following dispersion relation:
ω = ħ·k2/(2m)
We can now calculate vg = ∂ω/∂k as:
vg = ∂ω/∂k = ∂[ħ·k2/(2m)]/∂k = 2ħk/(2m) = ħ·(p/ħ)/m = p/m = m·v/m = v
That’s nice, because it’s what we wanted to find. If the group velocity would not equal the classical velocity of our particle, then our model would not make sense.
We used the classical momentum formula in our calculation above: p = m·v. To calculate the phase velocity of our wavefunction, we need to calculate that E/p ratio and, hence, we need an energy formula. Here we have a lot of choice, as energy can be defined in many ways: is it rest energy, potential energy, or kinetic energy? At this point, I need to remind you of the basic concepts.
### The argument of the wavefunction as the proper time
It is obvious that the energy concept that is to be used in the ω = E/ħ is the total energy. Louis de Broglie himself noted that the energy of a particle consisted of three parts:
1. The particle’s rest energy m0c2, which de Broglie referred to as internal energy (Eint): it includes the rest mass of the ‘internal pieces’, as de Broglie put it (now we call those ‘internal pieces’ quarks), as well as their binding energy (i.e. the quarks’ interaction energy);
2. Any potential energy (V) it may have because of some field (so de Broglie was not assuming the particle was traveling in free space): the field(s) can be anything—gravitational, electromagnetic—you name it: whatever changes the energy because of the position of the particle;
3. The particle’s kinetic energy, which he wrote in terms of its momentum p: K.E. = m·v2/2 = m2·v2/(2m) = (m·v)2/(2m) = p2/(2m).
So the wavefunction, as de Broglie wrote it, can be written as follows:
ψ(θ) = ψ(x, t) = a·eiθ = a·e−i[(Eint + p2/(2m) + V)·t − p∙x]/ħ
This formula allows us to analyze interesting phenomena such as the tunneling effect and, hence, you may want to stop here and start playing with it. However, you should note that the kinetic energy formula that is used here is non-relativistic. The relativistically correct energy formula is E = mvc, and the relativistically correct formula for the kinetic energy is the difference between the total energy and the rest energy:
K.E. = E − E0 = mv·c2 − m0·c2 = m0·γ·c2 − m0·c2 = m0·c2·(γ − 1), with γ the Lorentz factor.
At this point, we should simplify our calculations by adopting natural units, so as to ensure the numerical value of = 1, and likewise for ħ. Hence, we assume all is described in Planck units, but please note that the physical dimensions of our variables do not change when adopting natural units: time is time, energy is energy, etcetera. But when using natural units, the E = mvc2 reduces to E = mv. As for our formula for the momentum, this formula remains p = mv·v, but is now some relative velocity, i.e. a fraction between 0 and 1. We can now re-write θ = (E/ħ)·t – (p/ħ)·x as:
θ = E·t – p·x = E·t − p·v·t = mv·t − mv·v·v·t = mv·(1 − v2)·t
We can also write this as:
ψ(x, t) = a·ei·(mv·t − p∙x) = a·ei·[(m0/√(1−v2))·t − (m0·v/√(1−v2)∙x) = a·ei·m0·(t − v∙x)/√(1−v2)
The (t − v∙x)/√(1−v2) factor in the argument is the proper time of the particle as given by the formulas for the Lorentz transformation of spacetime:
However, both the θ = mv·(1 − v2)·t and θ = m0·t’ = m0·(t − v∙x)/√(1−v2) are relativistically correct. Note that the rest mass of the particle (m0) acts as a scaling factor as we multiply it with the proper time: a higher m0 gives the wavefunction a higher density, in time as well as in space.
Let’s go back to our vp = E/p formula. Using natural units, it becomes:
vp = E/p = mv/mv·v = 1/v
Interesting! The phase velocity is the reciprocal of the classical velocity! This implies it is always superluminal, ranging from vp = ∞ to vp= 1 for going from 0 to 1 = c, as illustrated in the simple graph below.
Let me note something here, as you may also want to use the dispersion relation, i.e. ω = ħ·k2/(2m), to calculate the phase velocity. You’d write:
vp = ω/k = [ħ·k2/(2m)]/k = ħ·k/(2m) = ħ·(p/ħ)/(2m) = m·v/(2m) = v/2
That’s a nonsensical result. Why do we get it? Because we are mixing two different mass concepts here: the mass that’s associated with the component wave, and the mass that’s associated with the composite wave. Think of it. That’s where Schrödinger’s equation is different from all of the other diffusion equations you’ve seen: the mass factor in the ∂ψ/∂t = i·[ħ/(2m)]·∇2ψ equation is the mass of the particle that’s being represented by the wavefunction that solves the equation. Hence, the diffusion constant ħ/(2m) is not a property of the medium. In that sense, it’s different from the κ/k factor in the ∂T/∂t = (κ/k)·∇2T heat diffusion, for example. We don’t have a medium here and, therefore, Schrödinger’s equation and the associated wavefunction are intimately connected.
It’s an interesting point, because if we’re going to be measuring the mass as multiples of ħ/2 (as suggested by the ħ/(2m) = 1/[m/[ħ/2)] factor itself), then its possible values (for ħ = 1) will be 1/2, 1, 3/2, 2, 5/2,… Now that should remind you of a few things—things like harmonics, or allowable spin values, or… Well… So many things. 🙂
Let’s do the exercise for bosons now.
### The phase and group velocity of the wavefunction for spin-0 particles
My Deep Blue page explains why we need to drop the 1/2 factor in Schrödinger’s equation to make it fit the wavefunction for bosons. We distinguished two bosons: (1) the (theoretical) zero-mass particle (which has spin zero), and the (actual) photon (which has spin one). Let’s first do the analysis for the spin-zero particle.
• A zero-mass particle (i.e. a particle with zero rest mass) should be traveling at the speed of light: both its phase as well as its group velocity should be equal to = 1. In fact, we’re not talking composite wavefunctions here, so there’s no such thing as a group velocity. We’re not adding waves: there is only one wavefunction. [Note that we don’t need to add waves with different frequencies in order to localize our particle, because quantum mechanics and relativity theory come together here in what might well be the most logical and absurd conclusion ever: as an outside observer, we’re going to see all those zero-mass particles as point objects whizzing by because of the relativistic length contraction. So their wavefunction is only all over spacetime in their proper space and time, but not in ours!]
• Now, it’s easy to show that, if we choose our time and distance units such that c = 1, then the energy formula reduces to E = m∙c2 = m. Likewise, we find that p = m∙c = m. So we have this strange condition: E = p = m.
• Now, this is not consistent with the ω = ħ·k2/(2m) we get out of the ∂ψ/∂t = i·[ħ/(2m)]·∇2ψ equation, because E/ħ = ħ·(p/ħ)2/(2m) ⇔ E = m2/(2m) = m/2. That does not fit the E = p = m condition. The only way out is to drop the 1/2 factor, i.e. to multiply Schrödinger’s coefficient with 2.
Let’s quickly check if it does the trick. We assume E, p and m will be multiples of ħ/2 (E = p = m = n·(ħ/2), so the wavefunction is ei∙[t − x]n·/2, Schrödinger’s constant becomes 2/n, and the derivatives for ∂ψ/∂t = i·(ħ/m)·∇2ψ are:
• ∂ψ/∂t = −i·(n/2)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2
• 2ψ = ∂2[ei∙[t − x]·n/2]/∂x= i·(n/2)·∂[ei∙[t − x]·n/2]/∂x = −(n2/4)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2
So the Schrödinger equation becomes:
i·(n/2)·ei∙[t − x]n·/2) = −i·(2/n)·(n2/4)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2 ⇔ n/2 = n/2 ⇔ 1 = 1
As Feynman would say, it works like a charm, and note that n does not have to be some integer to make this work.
So what makes spin-1/2 particles different? The answer is: they have both linear as well as angular momentum, and the equipartition theorem tells us the energy will be shared equally among both , so they will pick up linear and angular momentum. Hence, the associated condition is not E = p = m, but E = p = 2m. We’ll come back to this.
Let’s now summarize how it works for spin-one particles
### The phase and group velocity of the wavefunction for spin-1 particles (photons)
Because of the particularities that characterize an electromagnetic wave, the wavefunction packs two waves, capturing both the electric as well as the magnetic field vector (i.e. E and B). For the detail, I’ll refer you to the mentioned page, because the proof is rather lengthy (but easy to follow, so please do check it out). I will just briefly summarize the logic here.
1. For the spin-zero particle, we measured E, m and p in units of – or as multiples of – the ħ/2 factor. Hence, the elementary wavefunction (i.e. the wavefunction for E = p = m = 1) for the zero-mass particle is ei(x/2 − t/2).
2. For the spin-1 particle (the photon), one can show that we get two of these elementary wavefunctions (ψand ψB), and one can then prove that we can write the sum of the electric and magnetic field vector as:
E + BE + B = ψ+ ψ= E + i·E
= √2·ei(x/2 − t/2+ π/4) = √2·ei(π/4)·ei(x/2 − t/2) = √2·ei(π/4)·= √2·ei(π/4)·ei(x/2 − t/2)
Hence, the photon has a special wavefunction. Does it solve the Schrödinger equation? It does when we use the 2ħ/m diffusion constant, rather than the ħ/m or ħ/(2m) coefficient. Let us quickly check it. The derivatives are:
• ∂ψ/∂t = −√2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]/2·(i/2)
• 2ψ = ∂2[√2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]/2]/∂x= √2·ei(π/4)·∂[ei∙[t − x]/2·(i/2)]/∂x = −√2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]/2·(1/4)
Note, however, that we have two mass, energy and momentum concepts here: EE, pE, mE and EB, pB, and mB respectively. Hence, if E= p= mE = E= p= mB = 1/2, then E = E+ EB, p = p+ pB and m = m+ mare all equal to 1. Hence, because E = p = m = 1 and we measure in units of ħ, the 2ħ/m factor is equal to 2 and, therefore, the modified Schrödinger’s equation ∂ψ/∂t = i·(2ħ/m)·∇2ψ becomes:
i·√2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]/2·(1/2) = −i·√2·2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]/2·(1/4) ⇔ 1/2 = 2/4 = 1/2
It all works out. Let’s quickly check it for E, m and p being multiples of ħ, so we write: E = p = m = n·ħ = n, so the wavefunction is √2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]n·/2, Schrödinger’s 2ħ/m constant becomes 2ħ/m = 2/n, and the derivatives for ∂ψ/∂t = i·(ħ/m)·∇2ψ are:
• ∂ψ/∂t = −i·(n/2)·√2·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2
• 2ψ = ∂2[ei∙[t − x]·n/2]/∂x= i·√2·ei(π/4)·(n/2)·∂[ei∙[t − x]·n/2]/∂x = −√2·(n2/4)·ei(π/4)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2
So the Schrödinger equation becomes:
i·√2·ei(π/4)·(n/2)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2) = −i·√2·ei(π/4)·(2/n)·(n2/4)·ei∙[t − x]·n/2 ⇔ n/2 = n/2 ⇔ 1 = 1
It works like a charm again. Note the subtlety of the difference between the ħ/(2m) and 2ħ/m factor: it depends on us measuring the mass (and, hence, the energy and momentum as well) in units of ħ/2 (for spin-0 particles) or, alternatively (for spin-1 particles), in units of ħ. This is very deep—but it does make sense in light of the En =n·ħ·ω = n·h·f formula that solves the black-body radiation problem, as illustrated below. [The formula next to the energy levels is the probability of an atomic oscillator occupying that energy level, which is given by Boltzmann’s Law. You can check things in my post on it.]
It is now time to look at something else.
### Schrödinger’s equation as an energy propagation mechanism
The Schrödinger equations above are not complete. The complete equation includes force fields, i.e. potential energy:
To write the equation like this, we need to move the on the right-hand side of our ∂ψ/∂t = i·(2ħ/m)·∇2ψ equation to the other side, and multiply both sides with −1. [Remember: 1/i = −i.] Now, it is very interesting to do a dimensional analysis of this equation. Let’s do the right-hand side first. The ħfactor in the ħ/(2m) is expressed in J2·s2. Now that doesn’t make much sense, but then that mass factor in the denominator makes everything come out alright. Indeed, we can use the mass-equivalence relation to express m in J/(m/s)2 units. So we get: (J2·s2)·[(m/s)2/J] = J·m2. But so we multiply that with some quantity (the Laplacian) that’s expressed per m2. So −(ħ2/2m)·∇2ψ is something expressed in joule, so it’s some amount of energy! Interesting, isn’t it? [Note that it works out fine with the addition Vψ term, which is also expressed in joule.] On the left-hand side, we have ħ, and its dimension is the action dimension: J·s, i.e. force times distance times time (N·m·s). So we multiply that with a time derivative and we get J once again, the unit of energy. So it works out: we have joule units both left and right. But what does it mean?
Well… The Laplacian on the right-hand side works just the same as for our heat diffusion equation: it gives us a flux density, i.e. something expressed per square meter (1/m2). Likewise, the time derivative on the left-hand side gives us a flow per second. But so what is it that is flowing here? Well… My interpretation is that it is energy, and it’s flowing between a real and an imaginary space—but don’t be fooled by the terms here: both spaces are equally real, as both have an actual physical dimension. Let me explain.
Things become somewhat more comprehensible when we remind ourselves that the Schrödinger equation is equivalent to the following pair of equations:
1. Re(∂ψ/∂t) = −(ħ/2m)·Im(∇2ψ) ⇔ ω·cos(kx − ωt) = k2·(ħ/2m)·cos(kx − ωt)
2. Im(∂ψ/∂t) = (ħ/2m)·Re(∇2ψ) ⇔ ω·sin(kx − ωt) = k2·(ħ/2m)·sin(kx − ωt)
So what? Let me insert an illustration here. See what happens. The wavefunction acts as a link function between our physical spacetime and some other space whose dimensions – in my humble opinion – are also physical. We have those sines and cosines, which mirror the energy of the system at any point in time, as measured by the proper time of the system.
Let me more precise. The wavefunction, as a link function between two spaces here, associates every point in spacetime with some real as well as some imaginary energy here—but, as mentioned above, that imaginary energy is as real as the real energy. What it embodies really is the energy conservation law: at any point in time (as measured by the proper time) the sum of kinetic and potential energy must be equal to some constant, and so that’s what’s shown here. Indeed, you should note the phase shift between the sine and the cosine function: if one reaches the +1 or −1 value, then the other function reaches the zero point—and vice versa. It’s a beautiful structure.
Of course, the million-dollar question is: is it a physical structure, or a mathematical structure? The answer is: it’s a bit of both. It’s a mathematical structure but, at the same time, its dimension is physical: it’s an energy space. It’s that energy that explains why amplitudes interfere—which, as you know, is what they do. So these amplitudes are something real, and as the dimensional analysis of Schrödinger’s equation reveals their dimension is expressed in joule, then… Well… Then these physical equations say what they say, don’t they? And what they say, is something like the diagram below.
Note that the diagram above does not show the phase difference between the two springs. The animation below does a better job here, although you need to realize the hand of the clock will move faster or slower as our object travels through force fields and accelerates or decelerates accordingly.
We may relate that picture above to the principle of least action, which ensures that the difference between the kinetic energy (KE) and potential energy (PE) in the integrand of the action integral, i.e.
is minimized along the path of travel.
The spring metaphor should also make us think of the energy formula for a harmonic oscillator, which tells us that the total energy – kinetic (i.e. the energy related to its momentum) plus potential (i.e. the energy stored in the spring) – is equal to T + U = m·ω02/2. The ωhere is the angular velocity, and we have two springs here, so the total energy would be the sum of both, i.e. m·ω02, without the 1/2 factor. Does that make sense? It’s like an E = m·vequation, so that’s twice the (non-relativistic) kinetic energy. Does that formula make any sense?
In the context of what we’re discussing here, it does. Think about the limit situation by trying to imagine a zero-mass particle here (I am talking a zero-mass spin-1/2 particle this time). It would have no rest energy, so it’s only energy is kinetic, which is equal to:
K.E. = E − E0 = mv·c2 − m0·c2 = mc·c2
Why is mequal to mc? Zero-mass particles must travel at the speed of light, as the slightest force on them gives them an infinite acceleration. So there we are: the m·ω02 equation makes sense! But what if we have a non-zero rest mass? In that case, look at that pair of equations again: they give us a dispersion relation, i.e. a relation between ω and k. Indeed, using natural units again, so the numerical value of ħ = 1, we can write:
ω = k2/(2m) = p2/(2m) = (m·v)2/(2m) = m·v2/2
This equation seems to represent the kinetic energy but m is not the rest mass here: it’s the relativistic mass, so that makes it different from the classical kinetic energy formula (K.E. = m0·v2/2). [It may be useful here to remind you of how we get that classical formula. We basically integrate force over distance, from some start to some final point of a path in spacetime. So we write: ∫ F·ds = ∫ (m·a)·ds = ∫ (m·a)·ds = ∫ [m·(dv/dt)]·ds = ∫ [m·(ds/dt)]·d= ∫ m·v·ds. So we can solve that using the m·v2/2 primitive but only if m does not vary, i.e. if m = m0. If velocity are high, we need the relativistic mass concept.]
So we have a new energy concept here: m·v2, and it’s split over those two springs. Hmm… The interpretation of all of this is not so easy, so I will need to re-visit this. As for now, however, it looks like the Universe can be represented by a V-twin engine! 🙂
### Is it real?
You may still doubt whether that new ‘space’ has an actual energy dimension. It’s a figment of our mind, right? Well… Yes and no. Again, it’s a bit of a mixture between a mathematical and a physical space: it’s definitely not our physical space, as it’s not the spacetime we’re living in. But, having said that, I don’t think this energy space is just a figment of our mind. Let me give you some additional reasons, beside the dimensional analysis we did above.
For example, there is the fact that we need to to take the absolute square of the wavefunction to get the probability that our elementary particle is actually right there! Now that’s something real! Hence, let me say a few more things about that. The absolute square gets rid of the time factor. Just write it out to see what happens:
|reiθ|2 = |r|2|eiθ|2 = r2[√(cos2θ + sin2θ)]2 = r2(√1)2 = r2
Now, the gives us the maximum amplitude (sorry for the mix of terminology here: I am just talking the wave amplitude here – i.e. the classical concept of an amplitude – not the quantum-mechanical concept of a probability amplitude). Now, we know that the energy of a wave – anywave, really – is proportional to the amplitude of a wave. It would also be logical to expect that the probability of finding our particle at some point x is proportional to the energy densitythere, isn’t it? [I know what you’ll say now: you’re squaring the amplitude, so if the dimension of its square is energy, then its own dimension must be the square root, right? No. Wrong. That’s why this confusion between amplitude and probability amplitude is so bad. Look at the formula: we’re squaring the sine and cosine, to then take the square root again, so the dimension doesn’t change: it’s √J2 = J.]
The third reason why I think the probability amplitude represents some energy is that its real and imaginary part also interfere with each other, as is evident when you take the ordinary square (i.e. not the absolute square). Then the i2 = –1 rule comes into play and, therefore, the square of the imaginary part starts messing with the square of the real part. Just write it out:
(reiθ)2 = r2(cosθ + isinθ)2 = r2(cos2θ – sin2θ + 2icosθsinθ)2 = r2(1 – 2sin2θ + 2icosθsinθ)2
As mentioned above, if there’s interference, then something is happening, and so then we’re talking something real. Hence, the real and imaginary part of the wavefunction must have some dimension, and not just any dimension: it must be energy, as that’s the currency of the Universe, so to speak.
Let me add a philosophical note here—or an ontological note, I should say. When you think we should only have one physical space, you’re right. This new physical space, in which we relate energy to time, is not our physical space. It’s not reality—as we know, as we experience it. So, in that sense, you’re right. It’s not physical space. But then… Well… It’s a definitional matter. Any space whose dimensions are physical, is a physical space for me. But then I should probably be more careful. What we have here is some kind of projection of our physical space to a space that lacks… Well… It lacks the spatial dimension. It’s just time – but a special kind of time: relativistic proper time – and energy—albeit energy in two dimensions, so to speak. So… What can I say? Just what I said a couple of times already: it’s some kind of mixture between a physical and mathematical space. But then… Well… Our own physical space – including the spatial dimension – is something like a mixture as well, isn’t it? We can try to disentangle them – which is what I am trying to do – but we’ll never fully succeed. | infimm_webmath |
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That's still too much for some, but the game is clearly not the worst of what people were expecting.
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"Bully" is the tale of squat, 15-year-old, buzz-cut-sporting Jimmy Hopkins and the rough-and-tumble halls of Bullworth Academy. By the time the Rockstar team turned off the movie reel and began running through Jimmy's travails on a PS2, the message was clear: This concept has been shown outside of games plenty of times; we're just joining in.
"Rockstar is often portrayed as doing a certain kind of game: guns or crime," said Harry Allen, a Rockstar publicist. "What we do is find narratives and situations, stories, and we try to make a game out of it."
Certain hot buttons won't be punched by "Bully." There are no guns in the game. The most combustible element is a small firecracker. The most nefarious projectiles are fistfuls of marbles used to trip school counselors angry that Jimmy is skipping chemistry class. Violence against the girls is barely tolerated. "If you grab a girl, she kicks you in the nuts," said a Rockstar rep steering the game demo.
This less volatile treatment didn't satisfy Ronald Moten, co-founder of the Peaceoholics, the group that protested the game last year and plans to protest again close to its release. Moten hasn't played the game but has followed recent reports of its content.
"We don't think it's respectful for all the children who have been killed in these schools, all the teachers who have to work with these children, for anybody to put anything out that would give children the concept of doing anything [like what's in the game] in schools," he said.
Asked if his objections were tempered by the revelation that the game won't include guns, he said, "People are making enough insults and disrespect to our teachers. That's why we can't get quality teachers to stay in the schools. These fistfights lead to gunplay. We don't need to teach kids to play pranks."
He attributed his sensitivity to the effects of violent media on incarcerated friends who "still haven't come home from trying to be like 'Scarface.' " Games, he said, could be more damaging than movies, because kids are exposed to them for even longer.
On the other hand, Bullies2Buddies' Kalman said he hopes it will provide an outlet for people to find some thrills without hurting anyone.
"Life is so safe today," he said. "We need these other diversions to give us some stimulation. Otherwise we'd be bored out of our skulls."
He wasn't alarmed by the fighting in the game and said that "play fighting" is an essential, healthy human behavior that can't be shut off. A game provides that instinct a safe venue, he said. He is writing his impressions of the game for the 12,000 school counselors and parents on his mailing list, exhorting them to buy "Bully."
There's no denying that the game is violent. The main mechanic demonstrated by Rockstar was fist-fighting. Bullies to fight were abundant, and once a clash ensued, onscreen prompts directed the player: "Now fight the bully." "Now humiliate the bully." Some button-presses later, the bully was wrapped in a headlock.
But besides obvious differences, like a lack of actual killing and maiming, the game's violence is even more hemmed in than the police-penalized mayhem of "GTA." Jimmy's skipped classes and fistfights raise the alert level of school officials. He's also forced to obey an 11 p.m. curfew each night for fear of having the game get blurry and uncontrollable for the player. Rampant misbehavior forces a visit to the principal's office or punishments like mowing the athletic field's lawn.
The tale of a rough year in high school replete with misfit friends, annoying rivals and eccentric teachers may be old hat in other forms of entertainment, but it has been virtually untouched by games. The only other game focused on high school life announced for release this year or next is Konami's "Brooktown High" for the PSP (see "Forget Beating The Bad Guy — This Game's Goal Is A Date To Prom").
The "Bully" tale is told with cheek: Its opening has Jimmy getting deposited at Bullworth by his mother and her third husband, the two of whom are about to embark on a yearlong honeymoon. Characters milling on campus crack one-liners. During action scenes, funky '70s action-movie music plays. "Bully" is the rare video game that seems designed to be filed in the comedy section.
Some of the game's missions put Jimmy in class, managing the beakers in chem or doing who-knows-what in the promised English, photography and gym classes. As the school year progresses, seasons change, holiday decorations deck the dorms, and the scope of the game expands beyond the academy to the neighboring town. The plot moves through a series of missions that allow the player to help or challenge Jimmy's scheming, hopeful and hopeless classmates.
One mission has a nerd despondent over the theft of some character sheets for a game of a Dungeons & Dragons-style game called Grottos & Gremlins. Jimmy agrees to rescue them and goes on a hunt for the guilty bullies. It was at about this point in the demonstration that the Rockstar reps began to boast of the game's nuanced relationship system that will cause members of the game's four non-bully factions — the nerds, preppies, jocks or greasers — to provide aid if they are helped in previous missions.
The demo version of Jimmy had been good to the nerds already — too good for the demo, it turned out. During a scene that was supposed to show some dialogue between Jimmy and another bully, a nerd flew into the picture and tackled the bully. That wasn't in the script. It was the game's alliance system getting hyperactive. The Rockstar reps promised that the story-line scenes would be walled off from such interference by the time the game is finalized.
"Bully" had been expected last fall, but was delayed a full year for what Rockstar termed creative reasons. The game was developed over the past four years by Rockstar's new Vancouver studio. The game, which will be available for PlayStation 2 in October, has not yet been rated. | fineweb_edu |
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The smoldering struggle
Latinos have had a major influence on the L.A. of today. They still grapple with retaining a bit of their culture and winning acceptance.
December 03, 2006|Gustavo Arellano | Special to The Times
AS my father remembers it, the first trip from Mexico to downtown Los Angeles was cramped. He left his hometown of Jomulquillo, Zacatecas, in 1968 on a bus headed for Tijuana. Two days later, he reached the border town. There, he and three other men paid two San Clemente hippie girls $50 apiece one Friday morning so they could squeeze into the trunk of a Chevrolet.
The hippies crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with their cargo that afternoon. They didn't stop until reaching Chinatown about three hours later, where my father emerged dehydrated but happy. He met two of his brothers, and they ducked into a bar for some drinks before driving to East Los Angeles.
Pundits have predicted the Latinization of America for years, often in apocalyptic terms -- witness the fulminations of radio and television talk shows. Many people can't accept the fact that the heirs to imperial Spain, the scions of Pancho Villa, are the nation's largest minority, and increasingly a majority in communities across los Estados Unidos.
Some call this reconquista -- the idea (born from a bizarre fusion of pre-Columbian Aztec, medieval Spanish and post-revolutionary Mexican mythologies) that Mexicans are intent on reclaiming ancestral lands "stolen" by the Yankee imperialists. But this theory pays no heed to the centuries-old yells of America's Latinos. All they've ever wanted is acceptance, the right to live as Americans while keeping some semblance of their ancestral culture. Latinos assimilate, but many Americans just don't want to believe it.
More than in Miami, New York or Texas, Los Angeles is where Latinos' struggle for acceptance finds its truest expression in the United States. Californios became foreigners in their own lands after the 1848 Mexican-American War, and a nuisance for nearly a century afterward. The hometown film industry reduced them to stock characters -- the spicy senorita, the greasy bandito -- and exported the images across the country. Segregation and discrimination was the rule.
When Latinos made the news, violence was often part of the story -- the Zoot Suit Riots, the forceful eviction of Chavez Ravine residents to make way for Dodger Stadium. To be Latino in the days before the Chicano movement was to be a spectator to your own beating in your frontyard.
Latinos didn't take such affronts lightly. In Orange County, Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez won a suit against the Westminster School District in 1947 to allow their children to attend nonsegregated schools; their efforts served as a precedent for Brown vs. Board of Education. Two years later, World War II veteran Edward R. Roybal was elected to the L.A. City Council, which he eventually parlayed into a seat in Congress; his pioneering role continues to inspire the Latino politicians that now dominate local politics.
Then came the 1960s. While the Chicano movement invigorated the body politic, a ceaseless influx of immigrant Latinos brought numbers. As their population increased, Latinos demanded more. When TV stations didn't meet their needs, they created KMEX-TV Channel 34, the embryo from which the Univision juggernaut originated. When Latinos tired of the traditional East L.A. and Valley barrios, they worked hard, saved and moved into the suburbs -- long populated by working-class whites -- between Los Angeles proper and central Orange County. There, they proceeded to do what immigrants have always done: change neighborhoods and institutions to reflect their culture.
Most of the attention in the debate over how Latinos will influence this country centers on these immigrants, who stubbornly cling to their Spanish and motherland ways. But it's their children -- people like myself, like L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and so many others -- who offer the best example of the Latinization of the United States. We're as American as nachos, but we're also cognizant of our past, present and future. Our parents created the Los Angeles of today. We will create the Los Angeles of manana: firmly planted in the United States, but finally accepting of its Latino reality.
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July 4th 2013,
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What should it cost to insure my small Business and why do I need it?
Before you can even get a quote on the cost of your insurance you need to look at your business, and make several determinations, ask questions and then come up with solutions to solve the problems identified. Your business insurance costs will differ depending on what kind of business you own as well as what company you pick. While the market for your insurance may be competitive, certain Insurance companies can specialize in a particular industry and therefore the costs can vary. Generally you will need insurance for property, liability and workers compensation. And the costs can vary depending on a variety of factors.
1) First find an agent you feel comfortable, it isn’t always just about price; like anything else, a doctor, a contractor, a mechanic, you want someone that can help solve a problem at a competitive price, but one who is looking out for your interests and understands your problem. So discuss your Business insurance needs. How are you vulnerable to a potential loss in your business? Commercial general liability (CGL) policies generally protect against bodily injury, property damage or loss, personal injury and advertising injury. And you may have specific needs for a specific situation. Your agent should address these concerns as they discuss and view your business. Not every company may give you a quote; certain insurance companies specialize in particular industries, so a company that can insure a carpenter, may not insure a doctors office. So get as many quotes on commercial general liability insurance as you can. Make sure you're making an apples-to-apples comparison of policies. Don’t forget Read through the policy completely. Do not assume that all situations are covered. Discuss what-if scenarios with your agent to examine your coverage needs.
2) Thereafter discuss the payment plan, some companies allow monthly payments or quarterly payments. Keep good payroll records, as you will most likely be subject to a yearly audit of your payroll expenses and amounts that you paid out to any subcontractors. Additionally you policy may have been priced according to your sales, thus if your sales were higher after your audit you could be assessed extra charges. And if your payroll was higher than you estimated, your workers compensation and general liability premiums will be revised.
3) Now once your business is operating, make sure you get certificates of insurance from all your subcontractors. If your subcontractors fail to show proof of insurance to you, then the amounts you paid to them may be added to your total payroll, thereby increasing your insurance costs. Discuss adequate coverage for subcontractors with your agent. And pay close attention to the workers compensation rules. Failure to cover an employee can cost you a small fortune if disaster strikes and you didn’t have the proper coverage. State Fines in NJ can run upwards to $5000 per day.
4) Know and understand your risks. If anything was learned from Hurricane Sandy last year is that most small business didn’t understand their policies. Unfortunately most concerns were about price and not coverage. Thus when the power went down for days and into weeks, stores lost inventory, sales were lost, customers were unable to spend. The right policy may have provided coverage for lost sales, lost inventory, and lost income. And don’t forget flood Insurance. General Liability and Property Insurance do not cover any damages or losses due to floods. Make sure you get the coverage you expect for all potential risks that can arise, talk with your Independent Insurance agent and get the answers to your questions.
5) Commercial Auto Insurance: If you operate a business and use a vechicle you should have a commercial auto insurance policy especially if your business name is displayed on your vechicle. If you use your personal auto in your business and have an accident is quite possible that your personal auto policy could deny any coverage in the event of accident. For many small business owners, knowing what coverage is proper can be a daunting task. For instance over six million traffic accidents occur every year, or more than 16,000 per day. With accidents almost commonplace make sure you have the proper coverage that will cover you in a claim. Whether you use your own car or have a commercial fleet, of cars, pickups or trucks, the proper covergae can provide you peace of mind when adversity occurs. Your Independent agent at www.trustedchoice.com can get you the protection you need - including liability, personal injury/medical coverage, comprehensive, collision coverages, and much more to help you keep your business safe solid and moving ahead.
Another consideration if your employees use their own autos to perform deliveries, meetings, sales visits, picking up supplies, and other errands for your business? If so, you could be held liable for any accidents they cause. Make sure you understand the risks from that action.
In summing up, there are no easy answers to what a typical policy costs, and a commercial policy for your business can’t be bought as easily over the internet as term life insurance. There are so many variables that can occur and the cheapest policies may end up costing you more in the long run, that’s why it important to get competent advice and service from your independent insurance agent.. For more information call us at 732-899-8177 or visit us at www.getinsurancequotetoday.com | fineweb_edu |
Senate approves School Security Act
The state senate on Wednesday approved a comprehensive measure intended to make Oklahoma schools safer. Senate Bill 1941, the Oklahoma School Security Act, includes numerous provisions to secure school facilities, reduce school violence and bullying and involve school administrators in making their schools safer places for students and staff.
Sen. Todd Lamb, author of the bill, said it was imperative that the Legislature take action to reduce the frequency of violent crime and bullying in schools.
“Passage of this bill is an important first step toward making our schools safer,” said Lamb, R-Edmond. “We have a responsibility to ensure our schools are safe environments for students and educators. Parents should never have to worry for the safety of their children when they are at our schools.”
SB 1941 would require that schools practice lockdowns two times each year. Under current law, schools are only required to practice lockdowns once each year. The bill would also ensure that school administrators have a place on regional Homeland Security Advisory boards.
Additionally, the measure includes provisions to reduce, and more effectively police, bullying. The Oklahoma School Security Act would add electronic communications to the state’s bullying statutes. Electronic communications cannot be considered bullying under current law.
Lamb said the safety and security of the state’s most vulnerable citizens should be the first priority of any government, and that the Legislature must do everything in its power to reduce the risk of tragedy.
“After the Columbine tragedy several years ago, the United States Department of Education conducted a study and found that 71 percent of school shootings were perpetrated by victims of bullying,” Lamb said. “Given those findings, it’s important that we give local school districts the chance to address the issue. I’m pleased the Senate voted in favor of the bill and look forward to its implementation in our schools.”
SB 1941 now advances to the Governor’s desk. | dclm_edu |
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Merkel Extracted €2.9 billion in Interest from Greece
by Martin Armstrong
Angela Merkel promised the German people that she would not just hand Greeks money as she does with the refugee, no, she would make them pay dearly for allowing Goldman Sachs to structure deals to get them in the Eurozone. Indeed, she has kept her word. In response to a parliamentary question from the Green Party, the German government had to release figures which revealed that Merkel has acted more like a loan shark making €2.9 billion in interest payments on Greek bonds since 2010 despite the ECN moving rates negative. Merkel bought Greek government bonds as part of an EU deal to prop up the struggling Greek economy since 2010. The bonds were bought by the Bundesbank and then transferred to the federal treasury.
This certainly gives new meaning to the pictures of Greek citizens paying dearly for the shenanigans of politicians. The Protestant Reformation is where we draw the line with the birth of Capitalism. The reason we draw the line there is because previously, the Catholic Church had forbidden what Merkel has just done – exploit someone when they are down and out. It was called the Sin of Usury. You were supposed to “help” a fellow in his time of need. The Catholics would have been excommunicated if they engaged in banking. The Protestant Reformation was funded by wealth Catholic merchants who wanted to compete with the Jews and enter the banking field. The Protestant Reformation thus did not adopt the Sin of Usury so Christians became bankers and could borrow as well as lend. That is where the economy began to be leveraged and this Capitalism was born.
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UN sides with law enforcement over data retention
The United Nations has picked a side when it comes to the ongoing debate over data-retention legislation, echoing sentiments by law-enforcement organisations that a retention scheme is necessary.
The United Nations (UN) has acknowledged the benefits of data retention when it comes to combating online terrorism, and sided with law-enforcement agencies that are pushing for greater powers.
In a report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), titled The use of the internet for terrorist purposes (PDF), UNODC highlighted the way in which the internet is increasing the gap between terrorists and prosecutors.
"Potential terrorists use advanced communications technology, often involving the internet to reach a worldwide audience with relative anonymity and at a low cost. Just as internet use among regular, lawful citizens has increased in the past few years, terrorist organisations also make extensive use of this indispensable global network for many different purposes," UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov said at the launch of the report.
The report itself sides with law enforcement when it comes to data retention, highlighting the benefits of retaining data, and how it has helped solve otherwise cold cases.
"Some European Union member states have indicated that data-retention records are the sole means of investigating certain crimes involving communication over the internet, such as chat-room postings, which are traceable only through internet traffic data," the report said.
But the UNODC also mentioned the merits of data retention in protecting the innocent, stating that the same member states "have also reported using data retained by service providers to clear persons suspected of crimes without having to resort to other, more intrusive, methods of surveillance, such as interception and house searches."
In order to establish a data-retention scheme, however, UNODC stressed the importance of cooperation with the private sector. It acknowledged that this cooperation is a significant challenge, due to a lack of communication between law-enforcement organisations and service providers and the need for privacy, but believes that these problems could be solved with further talks.
"Creating a forum for formal and informal dialogue between counterparts from the public and private sectors could significantly allay such concerns. In addition to the opportunities provided through regular meetings among the partners involved, activities such as joint training programs could also assist in breaking down communication barriers and further enhancing trust between participating partnership members."
In its conclusions, UNODC stated that although some internet service providers (ISPs) are already retaining certain data as required by local laws, there is no international agreement on what data should be retained or the retention period — issues that are currently still being debated in many countries, including Australia .
To respond to this issue, UNODC said that a universally agreed regulatory framework to impose consistent obligations on all ISPs would be of significant benefit to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
"In the absence of a universally agreed framework for data retention by ISPs, authorities should identify, at the earliest possible stage, whether ISP data relevant to an investigation exists and where it is located, and initiate steps at the earliest possible time to preserve it for possible use as evidence."
In addition, UNODC recommended that authorities establish informal relationships or understandings with ISPs, both locally and overseas, to help them with their investigations. Failing that, authorities should at least work with foreign intelligence counterparts to attain retained data through their relationships.
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Gloria L. Huang
It started as an itch; tiny, insignificant, a mosquito on a resting hand, a feather on a wrinkled nose. It was all there, all kinds of discomfort condensed into one simple moment—the crawling of skin, the cells shuddering with their message to the brain. Scratch me.
Claire obeyed. There was no reason not to. There was nothing that flagged that instant as momentous, no reason why she should have been able to foresee what would grow from a simple biological reflex, a nervous tic. It was only when it was too late that she would look back and pinpoint this second as the one in which she started falling apart, peeling away, layer by layer. Like an onion, only more grotesque.
Claire could not have known she would find herself sitting at the back of a bus, stripping skin off her body like skin off a chicken and recalling that first little itch with a kind of parental nostalgic fondness. Claire would remember that the first itch was not born from nothing. That itch, it too had a story.
Back when Claire had been a normal, itchless person—before itch, B.I.—she carried out a fairly uneventful existence. Unremarkable as well, but that was largely in comparison to all that happened after itch, A.I. As a secretary for a small, fledgling financial company in New York City, Claire spent her days typing form letters, formatting pitch books on PowerPoint, and fielding calls from angry-sounding men who simply barked the name of their requested telephonic partner when Claire picked up the phone. Sometimes, when Claire was at her busiest, she would sit perfectly still and imagine herself floating out of her body. Hovering above her cramped cubicle, she would watch her other self silently resume her tasks, pecking at her keyboard, phone cradled between shoulder and ear. A fast-forward time-lapse film called Claire The Secretary At Work.
Every Wednesday after work, Claire stopped at the Trader Joe’s four block from her apartment in Brooklyn and purchased the following items: one packet of porcini mushroom ravioli, fresh; one loaf of brown bread, multigrain; one gallon of milk, organic; one carton of liquid egg whites; one bag of pre-sliced, reduced-fat cheddar cheese; one packet of oven-roasted turkey slices. The store was always filled to the brim, the check-out line winding around the aisles like a lazy snake. Claire would get into line as soon as she entered the store, pulling her items off the shelves as she inched past them. The world’s slowest-moving grocery train.
One Wednesday, B.I., Claire squeezed her arm through a wall of shoppers to snag a Clif bar. Balancing her red plastic basket on her thigh, Claire was in the process of tucking the bar between her milk and her ravioli when she felt two taps on her shoulder. She glanced back to see a man with long, curly brown hair and a thick wooly beard. A green baseball cap was pulled low over his hair, the words “Syannan Books, Inc.” embroidered across the front of the cap in raised purple thread.
“It is you, M’Halkana,” he crowed. He inserted a severe glottal stop in the middle of the last word, coughing out the last two syllables. Several nearby shoppers halted and turned toward him.
Claire considered his words, trying to transform them into something intelligible. “I’m sorry?”
“Your Grace,” the man replied. He dropped his chin onto his chest and knelt down on one knee. His other leg slid back into a metallic shopping cart, forcing it into a backward arc. Murmurs erupted around Claire, and her face flamed.
“Oh my God, what are you doing?” she cried, anxiously backing away from the man until she bumped into the shopper in front of her, an elderly woman who proceeded to deliver a gruff retaliatory shove.
The man clambered off the floor and moved toward Claire. He stretched his arm out, the flat of his palm twisting away from her face. He held the back of his hand in front of Claire’s face, as if he were going to slap her. She shrank away, cringing. Disapproving mutters thrummed around her.
The man slowly lowered his hand until his trembling fingertip floated inches from her wrist. He was close enough now that Claire was cocooned in his smell, the musty aroma of sodden wadded towels and untouched closet corners.
“It is there,” the man whispered. “The sign. I spied it when you reached for the Clif bar.”
Claire tightened her left hand around the plastic basket handle and twiste her right wrist toward her face. “This?” she asked incredulously. A deep winecolored stain was splashed across her wrist, bleeding into the palm of her hand. “This is just a birthmark. I’ve had it since I was born.”
“It is The Mark, M’Halkana,” he insisted, excitement creeping back into his voice. “We have been waiting for you to return to us.” He inclined his head as though he might bow again.
A burly man appeared next to them, his telltale Trader Joe’s employee ID clipped to the side of his jeans. “Hey man, we’re getting complaints about you from the other customers. I’m going to have to ask you to leave.”
The man’s mouth tensed, his beard hairs bristling like ruffled feathers. He glanced briefly at Claire before dropping his basket to the floor with a bang. Before anyone could react, he stormed toward the exit.
“Crazy people,” a grumble rose in front of Claire. She wrenched around, already nodding in agreement. The elderly woman was gazing at Claire with unwavering scorn.
After dinner that night, Claire curled on her sofa in front of her television and propped open her laptop. Speckles, her gray Persian cat, leapt onto the cushion on her right. The purr rumbling from Speckles mingled with the mechanical whirr emanating from the laptop.
Claire flexed her fingers and opened her browser to the Google search page. Hesitantly, she typed, “Mal Cana.” She skimmed the results page with disinterest. Nothing. She tried again. “Mel Gana.” Again, nothing.
Claire leaned her head back against the top of the couch cushion. She laughed, causing Speckles to glance warily in her direction. What was she doing? Googling her spiritual name because some Trader Joe’s lunatic that smelled of dirty hamper had tried to coronate her?
Claire stroked Speckles’ fur absentmindedly with her right hand, her left still resting on the laptop keyboard. Speckles stretched his neck, savoring the attention. Claire’s eyes drifted toward her right hand. The edges of her birthmark flashed with each movement, turning her mind to bruises and blood. With her left hand, Claire pecked out “Malkana.”
Google spat back a response at the top of the results. “Did you mean ‘M’Halkana’?”
Claire jolted forward, startling Speckles into a nimble soar off the couch. She clicked on the first result, a site titled “Church of Syanna.” She scrolle through the page, none of which seemed very interesting, until she reached a blue box around the word “M’Halkana.” She clicked it.
The laptop screen blinked, rapidly unfurling text that had been written in a looping, coiled font. Claire read slowly, her eyebrows furrowed.
“M’Halkana, goddess and creator of the Church of Syanna. She will return to us when we have completed the nine stages of penance for our sins. (Completion of all nine stages will be rewarded with the purest presence of our goddess M’Halkana, along with a commemorative certificate and ribbon.) You will recognize her because she will carry The Mark.”
Claire clicked the flickering words, “The Mark.”
“The Mark is a darkened patch of skin around M’Halkana’s right wrist, where her captors dragged her to her death eighteen centuries ago, a reminder of the sacrifice M’Halkana made for us when she allowed herself to be captured so that the rest of our mothers and fathers could escape the Ghal-Kisen. Do not let her death be in vain. Be ever vigilant in your search for M’Halkana, in all Her Goddessness.”
A flashing star with an exclamation mark encased inside caught Claire’s attention. She clicked it, and the laptop screen filled with her own face. Her features were contorted as if she were expecting a blow.
Claire’s fingers turned to ice. She remembered the man raising the back of his hand to her face in Trader Joe’s, his cheap black wristwatch gleaming under the fluorescent lights. She slammed her laptop shut, prompting another squall from Speckles.
Claire sat silent for an hour, staring at her blank television screen. She felt an itch on her left side, just under her ribcage. Distractedly, Claire began to scratch.
Over the next few weeks, Claire steadily lost control over her life. Doorbell buzzes rained into her apartment every evening and especially during the weekends. She found herself locked in an endless parade of conversations with Syannan Church members, all of whom were convinced that she was their returned spiritual leader.
“No,” Claire would repeat wearily as soon as she walked down the stairs in her robe and opened the door to the apartment building. “I’m not this Milk Cana person. Please leave me alone.”
After one week of constant worship, Claire had had enough. She taped a typewritten note next to the buzzer button for her apartment: “Although I do not deny your right to practice whatever religion you choose, I also do not wish to hear about it. Please don’t knock.”
The members of the Syannan Church began leaving gifts on her doorstep instead. Baskets of fruit and pans with baked goods soon adorned the welcome mat in front of the door. Claire left the gifts on her brownstone stoop until the fruit began to rot and stray animals had eaten every crumb of the baked goods. Her neighbors complained, sliding malevolent notes under Claire’s door in near-illegible scrawl. “Get rid of the nasty food and crazy people, we’re sick of this.”
Reluctantly, Claire amended the note next to her apartment buzzer: “M’Halkana commands that no one shall buzz her, leave gifts for her, or in any way disturb her or her neighbors.” The upside was that the buzzing and gifts ceased immediately. The downside was that her neighbors began to ignore Claire with a fervor that bordered on fear.
The Syannan Church members did not allow Claire’s airtight solution to deter them from discovering a loophole. Within a few days, adoring Syannans began bombarding Claire’s personal email address. The emails begged for an audience for an hour, a minute, a second. They unveiled stories of heartbreak and betrayal, disease and hope. Claire deleted them without reading past what she was forced to see in the preview window. She eventually set an “away” message that read, “M’Halkana also forbids email contact.”
Throughout this time, Claire’s skin became her prison. The initial tiny itch now raged over her skin like wildfire, leaving a red, burning char in its wake. Claire raked her nails over the scaly patches that grew at her touch, islands that expanded over the ocean of flesh until they joined into monstrous territories that claimed nearly all of her. The rashes blazed with a white-hot discomfort, drawing Claire’s fingernails to them even in her sleep. Her skin wept, oozing a clear discharge tinged pink with blood.
Claire began to wear long-sleeved turtlenecks and trousers, even in the moist heat of the New York summer. The rivulets of sweat that dripped over Claire’s encrusted skin were the final insult. She turned her shower spray to a scalding hot, her hairdryer on high, the scorching heat briefly extinguishing the maddening itch. Claire fought her skin with all the elements she could command, to no avail. She avoided looking at her body in the mirror, knowing that her raw misery was etched across her flesh.
One week after Claire barred the Syannan email flood, she wore a full-length trench coat to work. Her boss had tossed several confounded looks in her direction, but she feigned obliviousness. The beige trench coat, adorned with unnecessary flaps and useless zippers, was the lightest loose-fitting item in her closet that covered the majority of her body.
Claire crouched miserably over her computer, both arms folded across her body and tucked into the opposing drooping sleeve. Her nails scraped frantically at her forearms, the pads of her fingertips wet with the liquid seeping from her skin. The phone jangled near her ear, but she ignored it.
“Claire! Oh my God, Claire, come look!”
Claire yanked her hands out of her sleeves. She scrambled to her feet, wiping her fingers surreptitiously on her trench coat. Gwen, the secretary who sat three cubicles down, was standing at the wide picture window in the conference room across the hall.
Gwen waddled to the door of the conference room and gestured urgently. “God’s sakes, Claire, get over here! These people have your face on signs!”
A hollow horror tore through Claire’s stomach. She dashed to the window, disregarding the ringing telephone. She pressed the palms of her fingers against the glass.
A small loop of protesters marched in a lazy circle outside the building. They carried oversized placards, some which bore the same photo of Claire that appeared on the website. The other placards read “Praise Be to M’Halkana” and “Free M’Halkana The Gracious.”
“Oh no,” Claire breathed, leaning her forehead against the soothing cool surface of the glass.
Gwen squinted her eyes. “What’s that there say — Mal Rana?”
“M’Halkana,” Claire supplied in resignation, her eyes closed.
“Well, what’s that mean? Why’s your face on those posters, Claire?” Gwen’s voice was as bewildered as it was inquisitive.
“They want Claire to be freed from the yoke of corporate America.”
Claire and Gwen whirled around simultaneously to face Mr. Wexler, Claire’s boss. He glanced at Claire and pressed his lips together. “I’ve called security, and they agree that this behavior constitutes harassment and stalking of an individual. The police are on their way.”
Claire nodded, her heart throbbing in her throat. She felt heavy, dragged down by an inexplicable guilt. She rubbed the base of her hand against the top of her thigh, pressing down against the irritated, inflamed flesh through the fabric of her clothing.
Her right hand reached under the slippery sleeve covering her left arm. She dug her nails into the deepest part of the itch and pulled. To her horror, a piece of her skin peeled off between her fingertips, as if she were stripping wallpaper.
Her mouth dry, Claire licked her lips. “Don’t worry, sir,” Claire assured him. “I’ll make sure my personal life doesn’t interrupt my work again.”
For the next three months, the Syannans left Claire alone, yet she felt no peace. The constant fear of a buzzer, a phone call, even a digital email chime strained Claire to her breaking point. At work and at Trader Joe’s, she looked over her shoulder compulsively, trapped in the terrified anticipation that a Syannan would bow before her. At home, she cowered under her comforter, naked. Without clothing, she could drag her fingernails up and down each leg, across her torso, over her breasts, down each arm, around her neck. Coated with scaly, moist patchwork, she cried out with perverse pleasure as she flayed herself with her nails. These became the only moments she looked forward to, when she could struggle to free herself from her prison, her armor of infuriating itchiness. When she finally rose from the bed, the sheets would be stained with the imprint of her leaking skin. Claire would stand at the mirror, observing her flaking body, red and raw from the neck down. She felt detached, numb. Speckles had taken to hiding under the bed, frightened by Claire’s transformation.
The silence left by the Syannans carved a hole into Claire’s life that was filled with her anxious conviction that they would return. She knew they were waiting, hiding around the corner, eager for the opportunity to terrorize her with their ridiculous veneration.
“I’m telling you, Mom,” Claire insisted to her mother over the phone, “it’s just a matter of time. They’re out there. These people, they’re not the kind to just leave it alone.”
Her mother paused. Her reactions, which had started out fiercely protective, had since devolved into cautious concern. And the target of her concern had shifted. “Are you sure, honey?” she ventured gently. “It’s been three months now—maybe they’ve realized they were wrong.”
“No, they’ll be back,” Claire persisted.
Her mother paused again. “Claire, I just don’t want you to become obsessed with this. I know it must’ve been a very difficult thing to deal with, but you shouldn’t let it get in your head—”
“Mom, they won’t give up,” Claire whispered, her eyes swelling with tears. “They’re probably tracking this call right this second. I can’t get away from them.” The tears plopped down her face and onto her neck, where they seemed to sizzle against her tender skin.
“Alright, dear, okay. Don’t get upset,” her mother comforted hastily. “I’m sure you’re right. Just be ready to call the police if you ever feel in any danger.”
But Claire knew the police would not be able to stop devotees as insane as the Syannans. She checked their webpage frequently to monitor the situation. Every day, someone updated it with new meeting times, announcements and Syannan aphorisms. Claire eventually gathered the courage to click on the blue box surrounding “M’Halkana.” A black and white message popped up on her laptop screen, “This part of the site is temporarily under construction.” A cheery animated stick figure stooped under the text. He wore a construction hat and wielded a shovel. As Claire watched, the figure bent low and plunged his shovel into the blank white of the screen. He pulled the shovel out and threw a squiggly black line over his shoulder where it disappeared into the nothingness behind him. He crouched low to start the process again.
Claire stared at the figure, content to repeat his Sisyphean task until the end of virtual time. Her skin began to sizzle with discomfort. She knew what she had to do, and she had never felt more terrified.
The next morning, Claire called into work and told them that she wouldn’t be coming in.
The secretarial coordinator inquired, “Sick, are we?”
“In a way,” Claire replied.
Claire packed a duffel bag with several items of clothing, all long sleeves and light-weight pants. She tossed in an apple, a banana, and the Clif bar that she had purchased from Trader Joe’s months ago. She tucked her credit cards, ID card, subway pass and available cash into a secure side pocket. Then she took Speckles, tucked a note under his collar and tied him to the doorknob of a neighboring apartment.
Speckles mewed, contorting his body in an attempt to chew at the collar and leash.
“I’m sorry, Speckles,” Claire whispered. “But I can’t take you where I’m going.” Speckles raised one paw and placed it on Claire’s knee, his claws digging into her flesh through her jeans. She wondered if Speckles could feel her skin pulsing beneath.
By the time Claire had taken the 2 train to the city, her body smoldered with maddening irritation. As she walked into the Port Authority terminal, she scratched her neck with both hands, peeling away pieces of flesh and dropping them onto the ground like bread crumbs to find her way home. Claire purchased her one-way ticket, glancing uneasily over her shoulder for the Syannan pursuers that she was certain were coming.
Finding her way onto the bus, Claire searched for a vacant seat. The bus was half-full, surprising for a weekday morning. She sank into one of the empty seats at the back of the bus next to the sliding bathroom door. She turned her face to the window, scraping her nails along her forearms under her clothing.
The bus belched out a breath of exhaust and lurched forward. Claire watched through the window as the scenery shifted like pictures from a slideshow—Port Authority terminal, the teeming sidewalks along Eighth Avenue, the orange lights lining the Holland Tunnel. By the time the bus reached the interstate, the colors outside the window began to blur together, bleeding and leaching into one another. The sun was high in the sky, gleaming down through the bus windows.
Claire placed the palms of her hands up flat against the cool window. As she pressed her cheek against the glass, light glinted off her right hand. Startled, she turned her hand toward her face, smoothing her sleeve down to her elbow. The agonizing red welts of her body rash blended into the deep red birthmark splashed across her wrist and lower palm. Claire scratched the birthmark idly, nearly nonchalant when another piece of skin tore away in her fingers.
Claire froze, the particle of flesh pinched in the fingertips of her left hand. She tilted her right palm toward the window. Light glinted off the gold surface beneath the skin of her birthmark, revealed by her enthusiastic scratching.
The words of the Syannans flooded into Claire’s mind. Abruptly, she stood up in her seat, head held high, regal as she stared out the window into the sun.
“Hey, you,” the bus driver shouted in a gruff voice. The reflection of his eyes shifted in the wide rearview mirror. “Sit down, you can’t stand up when the bus is moving.”
A few of the passengers turned around to stare at Claire. One elderly woman across the aisle gasped in disgust. “Good Lord, what is wrong with your hand?”
“Did you hear me?” the bus driver yelled, anger creeping into his voice. “Sit down! I said, sit down!”
But Claire did not sit down. She continued to shed her body, the discarded chrysalis of herself slumped at her feet and kicked aside. She stepped down the aisle, a monarch taking her throne. With her new congregation, she hurtled toward the blurry, unfocused horizon, endlessly approaching a sun that seemed to blaze only for her.
GLORIA L. HUANG is a freelance writer. She received her BA with honors and distinction in English literature from Stanford University. Her fiction has been accepted for publication in literary journals including The Threepenny Review, North American Review, Arts & Letters, Gargoyle Magazine, The Antigonish Review, and Skive Magazine. | fineweb_edu |
Basic Information about Linen
Once one of the world’s most common textiles, linen now represents only 1% of global apparel fibers in use. Consumption peaked in 2005 at 709,000 tons and has been in decline since. It is the oldest known plant fiber used to make textiles and was widely used until displaced by cotton. Primary apparel uses are for suits, shirting and summer wear.
Flax is a cellulosic bast fiber that is found in the stems of the annual plant Linum sitatissimum. Flax plants produce a fiber bundle that contains many closely-packed cells that provide significant strength to the resulting linen. Flax is grown and consumed primarily in China, Russia, Poland, the United States, Italy, and France. France is considered to produce the highest quality flax.
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Flax is primarily cellulose and is non-allergenic. Due to its ability to absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture without dampness, linen is a “breathable fabric” suitable for humid climates. Flax increases in strength when wet. It also does not deform with wear and gains a softer hand with repeated washings. Though easy to treat, linen wrinkles easily. Flax has irregularities that produce a characteristic non-uniformity, which is considered an attractive feature.
Testing methods for grading linen are not very standardized, and there is large variation in quality due to harvest and retting. Flax line fibers may be as long as 700 millimetres, where shorter tow fibers are defined as being shorter than 200 millimetres. Fibers are sorted by density, fineness, softness, strength, color, uniformity, silkiness, length, and other attributes. Line fiber is used for fine materials, whereas tow fibers are used to produce yarns that are coarser.
• Typically stronger than cotton
• Stronger when wet
• Resistant to stretching and shrinking
• Resistant to bleaching
• Quick-drying
• Wrinkle- and mildew-resistant
• Abrasion-resistant
• Retains heat-set pleats and creases
• Machine washable
Material Sourcing
Crops are sown in early to mid-spring in Europe or as a secondary crop in late fall in warmer regions. The crops grow best with 110-150 mm of rainfall, and require moist conditions, moderate temperatures, and sun exposure. Flax is cultivated in soil with neutral pH, and requires extensive rotation of 4-7 years between harvests. Fertile, medium-heavy soils such as humus sandy clay soil are best for production. Cultivation requires maximization of spacing between plants, due to a root structure that utilizes all available nearby water.
The fibers that produce linen are filaments that vary in length by height of the leaf to which it connects. These filaments are grouped by tissue made of pectin which must be removed during processing. Fiber quality and length is determined by plant maturity and vegetative growth. Every leaf on the flax plant has ten connecting filaments grouped together, thus the total filaments are equal to ten times the amount of leaves each plant produces.
Harvesting involves using machines to pull the full plant from the ground instead of cutting, to preserve filament quality. Plants must then be de-seeded and the straw separated from the fiber. The latter starts with a process called retting, which breaks down the pectin that surrounds the fibers and binds them together within the plant straw. All the pectin must be removed properly to produce high quality fiber.
Harvested flax is usually dew-retted in Northern Europe due to the high cost of required effluent treatment following water retting in tanks; in China, approximately 80% of the flax crop is water retted in tanks or rivers. Dew retting involves leaving the plants exposed to dew, sunlight and rain on the field for roughly two months to facilitate natural bacterial decomposition of the pectin. The process dissolves bark and softens the pectin sufficiently to allow for subsequent separation of the fiber and straw. During the two month period, the flax is turned by machines so that it is evenly retted; deseeding occurs roughly ten days after the initial harvest. Dew retting requires careful attention to ensure even and complete retting and more typically there is significant variation in the results. Water retting is a minor method that is now rarely used as it requires submersion in a water body for up to several weeks to facilitate quicker bacterial action; the method requires large amounts of water – rivers and ponds are typically used – and produces a significant amount of biological oxygen demand on the water body creating sludge and depleting the oxygen supply in the water. Water retting can also be done in tanks.
Problems with dew and water retting have led to new methods of preparing flax for fiber separation. These include osmotic, enzymatic, and electric resonance degumming, which eliminate the need for natural bacterial action thereby reducing variability and pollution. Osmotic degumming methods produce homogenous fibers with high fineness and tenacity and are more consistent than retting. Enzymatic degumming also improves uniformity of the fiber and can be a biodegradable treatment method.
Decortication is a mechanical process that eliminates the need for retting and involves breaking off raw straw producing a low quality fiber. It is used primarily because it is faster and less expensive than other methods.
Retted or degummed fiber is separated from the straw via scutching then followed by a hackling process. Scutching is a mechanical process that breaks the flax tops and bottoms (root end), separates the fibers from the retted straw, and divides them in bundles by length. Hackling is the process of separating the scutched fiber bundles, which are placed on frames followed by combing, which cleans, untangles, and aligns the fibers for sliver formation. Hackling yields about 55-65% long “line” fiber from the scutched fiber bundles, which are the most valuable for apparel. The remainder is tow in the form of shorter tangled fiber, which requires carding prior to spinning.
In sliver formation a spreadboard feeds overlapping line fibers to create the sliver which is coiled and pressed, and then doubled and drafted to create uniform bundles called roves. Roving twists slivers onto bobbins in preparation for spinning. Rove may be boiled or bleached to remove remaining contaminants prior to spinning into yarn.
Flax can be spun in many ways, including ring spinning, rotor spinning and friction spinning, depending on purpose. Flax fiber may be wet or dry spun, though the majority of producers in Europe use dry-spinning methods. Wet spinning is special to flax as it produces high quality yarn, traditionally with line fibers, but its use is diminishing. Dry-spinning requires less energy consumption and water use than wet spinning.
Spinning of flax fiber is very slow compared to other fibers and does not have high levels of automation. This Is due to the long and irregular fibers, which have low elongation and high rigidness.
The yarn is then wound and prepared for weaving or knitting. Paraffin wax is added if the yarn will be knitted.
Line fibers may be spun with cotton, wool, silk, viscose, polyester, or a variety of other fibers to produce blended yarns.
Flax may be “cottonized” by reducing the size of the fiber to a staple length similar to cotton, which allows for processing with other fibers, such as cotton, on existing equipment.
Textile Construction
Warp and weft yarns may have different specifications, depending on the purpose of the final textile. Yarns are processed by either direct-beam warping or sectional warping. Color matching is required if using flax from separate batches.
Specialized looms are frequently used for linen production, and the room in which it occurs is carefully climate controlled for temperature and humidity. Blowing and suction devices are also utilized to reduce dust accumulation during weaving. Looms utilized for linen production include high-capacity shuttleless systems such as rapier or projectile looms. Most production occurs on rapier looms, with projectile utilized for production of wide width textiles. These modern looms reduce noise and improve efficiency and fabric quality.
There are challenges to producing unblended knit linen fabrics due to rigidity and irregularity in fibers, as well as low fiber extension. Pure flax has been generally woven, as knitted linen is less stable, although knitted linen blends will help reduce rigidity and improve stability. Improvements in yarn spinning in recent years have led to increasing availability of linen knits.
Sizing and oiling of linen yarns is often used to reduce pilling and friction during production, as well as dust formation. During sizing, starch is used to improve the strength and lower friction during weaving, and must be removed before finishing.
Dyeing and finishing
Linen is dyed with vat or reactive dyes and may be Mercerized or treated with anhydrous liquid ammonia for improved dye penetration. It may be difficult to dye when combined with other fibers, due to different dye class requirements. Dyeing may be carried out by several methods, but must be well prepared and free from creases beforehand to reduce wrinkles. Various finishing processing include calendaring and beetling to improve plasticity of fibers and durability, as well as chemical finishing to enhance appearance and performance.
To put it short, Linen is a bast fibre with interesting characteristics, which scores relatively well in terms of sustainability – especially if sourced from Europe or places that use environmentally safe retting and processing methods.
Process inputs
Cradle to gate energy requirements differ depending on tilling and retting practices. Herbicides applied during dew retting require large amounts of energy, though bio-retting requires the largest energy usage.
Flax grows best in regions with 600-650 mm of annual precipitation, and is highly susceptible to water shortages during vegetation, as well as during retting. Processed flax fiber before spinning has a virtual water footprint of 2,866 L/kg green water (water use), 481 L/kg blue water (water consumption), 436 L/kg grey water L/kg. Flax is often grown in regions with adequate precipitation to meet crop requirements such that irrigation is not typical.
Warm-water retting requires very large amounts of water for immersion, such as lakes, streams or large tanks, and generates large amounts of waste water. This process has been mostly abandoned in countries with environmental regulations, though some still occurs in Eastern Europe.
Flax seed is required for sowing of the crop, and various fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and insecticides are applied.
Process outputs
During production of linen, short tow fibers are produced that can be used for paper or insulation. Shives are another co-product used in industrial products. Per kg of flax yarn, co-products include 4.5 kg of short fibers, 7.1 kg of shive, 2.8 kg of dust, and 2.3 kg of coarse plant residue. Almost every co-product may be used including dust that is collected and used as biomass fuel.
Water retting, mostly unused in Europe and other developed flax producing countries, produces about 30 m3 of sludge per ton of retted straw.
Flax production is estimated to generate 0.0003 kg hazardous waste per kg flax.
Material Benchmark
As illustrated in MADE-BYs material benchmark, Linen scores relatively well in terms of sustainability. Organic Linen is in the best class (A), while conventional Linen is in class C.
Remember that the MADE-BY benchmark tool is a cradle-to-gate material scoring tool, which addresses impacts that range from the extraction or production of raw materials, through manufacture and finishing, to when the material that is ready to be assembled into a final product.
Notice that organic Linen is found in Class A and conventional Linen in Class C
Score In MSI
A material score can also be found in the Higg Material Sustainability Index, under ‘Bast Fiber’, however the options for choosing verious ways of sourcing is currently limited.
Availability Of Material
Flax fibers are costly, due to a higher demand for fine fibers than global supply. Flax fiber produced with conventional methods is shown to pollute and use large amounts of water, leading to a major decrease in linen production in Europe after the 1980s, driving a large shift in global textiles to substitute fibers. Some of these issues have been solved with newer methods of retting and spinning, as well as processing that allows blending with other fibers.
The European Linen and Hemp Confederation labels their products as Masters of Linen to promote the connection of superior quality with local production.
Availability Of Certified Material
Certified organic flax is available. In addition, yarn and textiles may be certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) for processing and for organic fiber content to the Textile Exchange Organic Content Standard (OCS), and include spinners Iafil, Linificio E Canapificio, as well as weaving mills such as Libeco.
This post series #Material Snapshotsshares a curated mix of Textile Exchange’s Material Snapshots and Materials Summaries, for free. To access all available information, visit Textile Exchange, where full pdfs detailing every material can be bought.
Textile Exchange’s Material Snapshots and Materials Summaries are a set of tools designed to help the reader understand why the choice to use certain materials makes a difference in the textile, apparel, and footwear industry. That choice could result in positive or negative impacts depending on the material and supply network details. These snapshots and summaries can help brands make decisions on which preferred fiber or material is the right choice for them by providing a concise look at the raw material options, including agricultural processes, social impacts, and processing differences that make material sustainability profiles different. They also provide information on material properties, certifications, and sourcing information since sustainability is only one of the many reasons why a particular material is chosen.
The two sets of resources – the Material Summaries and the Material Snapshots – are designed to be used alongside each other within an organization to help educate and enable informed, intelligent fibre and material choices. The Material Summaries are geared more towards the designer/developer user in the company, whereas the Material Snapshots are designed for more technical users such as materials, sourcing and sustainability professionals.
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The countries with the highest inflation as of 2014 data (the most recent figures available).
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2. Sudan 36.9
3. Argentina 36.4
4. Syria 34.8
5. Malawi 23.8
6. Ghana 17.0
7. Belarus 16.2
8. Iran 15.8
9. Central African Republic 15.0
10. Mongolia 12.9
NOTE: Country rankings of the type presented above cannot pretend to be definitive; instead they aspire only to provide the reader with an approximation of the high and low ends on a particular scale. Country data vary enormously depending on the sources, and the absence of reliable data on some countries requires their omission, which further skews the results. Only countries for which statistics were available figure in these lists. Source: The World Factbook, 2015.
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True confessions time....I am really bad about starting alot of projects at once. Oh..You figured that out?
So...Marc HAS to finish the back adn we HAVE to get the office bathroom back in commission (8 people 2 bathrooms doable but not prime) and we have to get the landscaping done before the fall rain sweeps the 400.00 worth of mud into the creek bed.
Of all of htat stuff I can do exactly...nothing. Ewwww..and doncha hate women who nag? yeah me too. so...
I am done reminding Marc abot it..I would rather the house rotted out and caved in than I morphed from awesome, hot wife to naggy mom stand in.
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Metal−Metal Quintuple and Sextuple Bonding in Bent Dimetallocenes of the Third Row Transition Metals
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (Impact Factor: 5.31). 02/2010; 6(3). DOI: 10.1021/ct900564p
ABSTRACT Theoretical studies on the dimetallocenes Cp2M2 (M = Os, Re, W, Ta) predict bent structures with short metal−metal distances suggesting high-order metal−metal multiple bonds. Analysis of the frontier bonding molecular orbitals indicates a formal Os−Os quintuple bond (σ + 2π + 2δ) in singlet Cp2Os2 and a formal Re−Re sextuple bond (2σ + 2π + 2δ) in singlet Cp2Re2, thereby giving the metals in both molecules the favored 18-electron metal configurations. Predicted low-energy triplet structures for Cp2M2 (M = Os, Re) have formal quintuple bonds but with only two δ one-electron “half” bonds (M = Os) or a single δ two-electron bond (M = Re) and a second σ component derived from overlap of the d(z2) orbitals. A quintuple bond similar to that found in triplet Cp2Re2 is found in singlet Cp2W2, giving both tungsten atoms a 16-electron configuration. The formal Ta−Ta quadruple bond in the lowest energy singlet Cp2Ta2 structure is different from that in the original Re2Cl82− in that it is a 2σ + 2π bond with no δ components but only σ and π components.
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ABSTRACT: This article reviews factors affecting the metal-metal bond lengths in the quintuple bonded complexes and reactivity thereof. The metal-metal bond length is the most intriguing metric in the multiple bonded dinuclear complexes. This is not only the case in the well-developed triple and quadruple bonding, but also in the newly-born quintuple bonding. Akin to the wide range of Cr-Cr quadruple bond lengths found among the quadruple bonded complexes, the quintuple bonded dichromium complexes also show a large variation in the Cr-Cr bond lengths, although only fifteen dichromium compounds have been characterized thus far. Donor atoms and steric pressure of the supporting ligands are two main factors affecting the Cr-Cr quintuple bond lengths. The highly reducing nature and low coordination of the quintuple bonded bimetallic complexes render them reactive towards many small inorganic molecules and organic functionalities, and many interesting reactions, such as addition, complexation, cycloaddition and reductive cleavage, were discovered from them.
ChemInform 01/2015; 424. DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2014.09.020
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ABSTRACT: The synthesis by Power and co-workers of the first metal–metal quintuple bond (Science2005, 310, 844) is a landmark in inorganic chemistry. The 18-electron rule suggests that Nb2(CO)9 and Nb2(CO)8 are candidates for binary metal carbonyls containing metal–metal quadruple and quintuple bonds, respectively. Density functional theory (MPW1PW91 and BP86) indeed predicts structures having very short Nb–Nb distances of 2.5 Å for Nb2(CO)9 and 2.4 Å for Nb2(CO)8 as well as relatively large Nb–Nb Wiberg bond indices supporting these high formal Nb–Nb bond orders. However, analysis of the frontier molecular orbitals of these unbridged structures suggests formal Nb≡Nb triple bonds and 16-electron metal configurations. This contrasts with an analysis of the frontier orbitals in a model chromium(I) alkyl linear CH3CrCrCH3, which confirms the generally accepted presence of chromium–chromium quintuple bonds in such molecules. The presence of Nb≡Nb triple bonds rather than quadruple or quintuple bonds in the Nb2(CO)n (n = 9, 8) structures frees up d(xy) and d(x2–y2) orbitals for dπ→pπ* back-bonding to the carbonyl groups. The lowest energy Nb2(CO)n structures (n = 9, 8) are not these unbridged structures but structures having bridging carbonyl groups of various types and formal Nb–Nb orders no higher than three. Thus, the two lowest energy Nb2(CO)9 structures have Nb≡Nb triple bond distances of 2.8 Å and three semibridging carbonyl groups, leading to a 16-electron configuration rather than an 18-electron configuration for one of the niobium atoms. The lowest energy structure of the highly unsaturated Nb2(CO)8 is unusual since it has a formal single Nb–Nb bond of length 3.1 Å and two four-electron donor η2-μ-CO groups, thereby giving each niobium atom only a 16-electron configuration.
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 02/2012; 8(3):862–874. DOI:10.1021/ct200820v · 5.31 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The bis(pentalene) complexes M2(pent†)2 (M = Rh (1), Pd (2); pent† = 1,4-bis(triisopropylsilyl)pentalene) have been synthesized and structurally characterized. In both 1 and 2 the metals have a formal electron count in excess of 18 per metal center, and DFT calculations indicate antibonding metal–metal interactions are present in 1, whereas 2 involves antibonding metal–ligand interactions.
Organometallics 12/2012; 31(24):8613–8617. DOI:10.1021/om3010004 · 4.25 Impact Factor | dclm_edu |
Obv.: Bust of Matidia with stephane to r. Rev.: Pietas standing facing, her head to l., in long garment, placing her hands on the heads of two children standing at her side and holding on to her dress.
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Title: Aureus of Trajan struck for his beloved niece Matidia, Rome
Date: 112 CE - 117 CE
Period: Roman Imperial period
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China's longest high speed rail service begins operations | Connect Asia
China's longest high speed rail service begins operations
China's longest high speed rail service begins operations
Updated 27 December 2012, 14:09 AEST
China's and indeed the world's longest high speed rail route is up and running.
Yesterday,the first bullet train service,linking Beijing to the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou was officially launched.
Travelling at speeds of 300 kilometres an hour ... the bullet train is expected to cover the 2 thousand 298 kilometre route in less than 10 hours.
The project signals that China has not given up on its rail ambitions despite major setbacks.
Correspondent: Kanaha Sabapathy
Speaker: Dr Pradeep Taneja, Melbourne University
TANEJA: The whole program has been marred by corruption scandals, safety issues, the minister in charge of the project, the minister of railways, was fired from the job for corruption, senior engineer of the railways was also caught up in corruption scandals, plus the accident last year in the summer caused 40 deaths. So obviously the project has not been very smooth.
SABAPATHY: But have they addressed these issues since?
TANEJA: Well they said they have. I mean obviously corruption is not something that's going to be addressed overnight. I mean I think corruption in China generally is a systemic problem and that's not going to disappear. And railways where billions of dollars are being spent on the high speed railway network, corruption is bound to continue. I don't think they can deal with corruption. Safety is another issue because safety is largely, apparently I mean I'm not an engineer but safety is largely because of China's imported technology. The technology on which the high speed railway is based has been borrowed, copied and sort of imitated from other parts of the world, and therefore engineers tell me that there is no systematic Chinese technology in this, and that's been part of the problem. Apparently the accident last year was also a result of a signalling problem, so although officially they said the train was hit by lightning, but some others say it was because of inconsistent technologies being used in the project.
SABAPATHY: Yet it's been reported that one of China's ambitions is to actually compete with western companies like Germany's Siemens and Canada's Bombardier, to actually sell its railway technology overseas. So is this true, is that what China aims to do?
TANEJA: Well China certainly is looking at this, remember that this high speed railway project is a combination of three things; first it is about economic stimulus. I mean we saw four years ago Chinese government plough tens of billions of dollars into the high speed railways, and that is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. So first it's about economic stimulus, about making sure that China's economic growth stays above eight per cent. Secondly it is about nation building, it's about keeping China with technologies which will sustain China's economic growth. And thirdly it's about technology demonstration to other countries, particularly developing countries where China sees huge potential for this technology. So it's a combination of three things and I think the Chinese government is determined that this is one project which is important not only for national interests, but also for China's overall sort of foreign interests also.
SABAPATHY: Now this link, the Beijing-Guangzhou link, is very important in other ways too, because it links the north to the south and dissects the country into two. So for its own domestic development itself, how important is a route like this?
TANEJA: I think it's very important for China's national integration, north and south, obviously south of China, Guangdong province or Guangzhou the capital of Guangdong province where this train will travel from Beijing or between Beijing and Guangzhou, that has been the most dynamic, one of the most dynamic regions of China. It was the first regions of China opened by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. The first special economic zones were established in this province. So it's an important part of China, and obviously it's very close to Hong Kong, so this is going to contribute to China's national political and economic integration.
SABAPAHTY: Now China hopes to have 18-thousand kilometres of rail line by 2015. Is this too ambitious a project in such a short time?
TANEJA: I think the whole project has been very ambitious and that's why I think there've also been safety issues, apart from the technical issues that I mentioned earlier. And when you develop such high technology products in such high pace, there's always a risk that there may be serious safety issues, and this is one of the concerns for many of the critics of this program even within China who believe that China is moving too fast with the expansion of this program. And this is what even in terms of exporting this technology to other countries, governments in other countries are also watching this very closely, because the accident happened only last year in which 40 people died. So governments in developing countries, in Asia and Africa and even South America, who are particularly interested in this technology, they're also adopting a wait and see attitude, because they want to see the Chinese technology, the high speed technology run for a while to prove that it is safe before they would be able to commit to importing this technology from China.
SABAPATHY: Now what sort of pressure will this high speed rail system put on domestic airlines in China?
TANEJA: Well domestic airlines in China have expanded very rapidly, but profitability of domestic airlines is seriously being affected by this expansion of the high speed railway. Shanghai and Beijing used to be like Sydney and Melbourne, very important route, and now you can travel between Shanghai and Beijing in under five hours, I've done that, and it's an amazing ride, it's very comfortable and the time spent is almost the same as flying. So as prices come down further of high speed railway, we will see high speed trains actually taking a lot of the traffic away from air travel.
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Maruti parent SuzukiBSE 0.02 % has inked a pact with Toyota Motor and, if things go as planned, India would see the first electric vehicle (EV) from the Maruti stable in less than two years!
That would prove to be a game-changer for the domestic auto industry.
How the EV segment would perform in the initial years would majorly depend on the price points of these vehicles.
The average cost of a small car in India today stands at $6,00-8,000 (ex-showroom), while the median cost of a car comes to $10,000. A long-range EV (380km) is expected to cost about $21,500 while a moderate-range one (190km) could cost $16,000 by 2025, UBS said in a forecast this past August.
That takes the battery cost at $130/Kwh. At Friday’s rupee-dollar exchange rate, $16,000 equals roughly Rs 10.40 lakh, the price point at which entry-level SUVs are selling in the domestic market currently.
UBS analysts argued that even though battery costs are falling, a long-range electric vehicle (EV) could still remain too expensive for mainstream adoption, without major government subsidies.
India needs local battery cell manufacturing and electronics value chain and charging infrastructure. For that, the government would need to invest significantly to drive industry growth, said the UBS report.
The government’s fiscal space is limited currently. The disruption from EVs is not priced in India so far, the analysts said.
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch (BofA-ML) in a report forecasts electric vehicles to have a 12 per cent market share in the light vehicles segment globally by 2025. It expects the penetration to rise to 34 per cent by 2030 and 90 per cent by 2050.
Globally, China is likely to maintain 50 per cent of EV sales by 2030. Renault-Nissan has been an early EV adopter in Europe, while Toyota and Honda have entered the space recently.
Among US OEMs, GM’s ability to integrate autonomous EVs into a ridehailing/shared fleet looks differentiated. Ford is focused on using existing platforms for EVs, while FCA lags behind in terms of EV offerings. Tesla’s auto focus is solely on pure EVs (new Model 3 launch in 2017), it said.
India aims to achieve a target of all-electric vehicles by 2030.
Regulatory actions against fossil fuel vehicles are likely to support EVs over the next few years, Nomura India said, noting that the Suzuki-Toyota pact should give a headstart to Suzuki over other OEMs in India.
The two companies together are likely to have enough volumes in India and for exports for high utilisation, which will bring down the overall cost per vehicle. Other OEMs dependent on imported components may find it difficult to compete on costs, it said.
Suzuki intends to build the entire value chain in India, which would require a lot of investment. It is likely to pay off in the medium term, Nomura India said.
The company earlier this year announced setting up of a lithium-ion battery manufacturing JV with Toshiba (40 per cent share) and DensoBSE 0.32 % (10 per cent share). The JV is expected to supply batteries for hybrid and all-electric cars by 2020.
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is also gearing up for manufacturing all key components for electric vehicles on its own, media reports suggest.
M&M was an early entrant in this segment after the automobiles-to-financial services conglomerate acquired a majority stake in REVA Electric Car in 2010. Mahindra later rebranded the company as Mahindra REVA Electric Vehicle.
For M&M, building on the first mover advantage and cab aggregator tie-ups is a must. The company expects battery cell prices to drop to $130/Kwh in the next 2-3 years from $230/Kwh at present.
Mahindra Electric is forging necessary technology tie-ups to facilitate the development and introduction of electric vehicles across segments, JM FinancialBSE -1.26 % said in a note.
Bajaj AutoBSE 1.43 % has plans to launch e-rickshaws to 2018 from 2020. Hero MotoCorpBSE 0.88 %, on the other hand, has invested up to Rs 205 crore in electric automotive startup Ather Energy with a 26-30 per cent stake.
Analysts believe original equipment makers (OEM) such as Maruti SuzukiBSE 0.05 %, M&M, Ashok LeylandBSE 0.04 % and Bajaj Auto may gain in the long term as they develop EV platforms. Battery makers Exide IndustriesBSE 1.14 % and Amara RajaBSE 0.09 % are also expected to gain as they look deeper into lead-acid and lithium ion batteries.
Souce: Economic Times | fineweb_edu |
The Nutrition Club at NC State is open to all students on campus. The purpose of the club is to provide opportunities for professional development and to serve our local community. At biweekly Monday night meetings, a professional in the field of nutrition speaks about his or her career path, special topics in nutrition, and opportunities in the field.
Members are actively involved on and off campus through projects organized by our Service Chairs. All club members participate in our most important annual projects include our Stop Hunger Now Meal Packaging Event and March Nutrition Month. The Nutrition Club is passionate about nutrition education and awareness as we make servicing our local and greater community a key focus of the club.
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At the crux of Hindu cosmology is the belief that the human experience of this world is an ever moving cycle of life, death and rebirth. The present life incarnation is a product of the deeds and actions of a person in their previous life just as what a person does in this life affects the next. Devout Hindus work to take responsibility for their actions; living a life of piety in order to secure their position in their next life. The end of this cycle, known as moksha, is only achieved when a person overcomes desire, attachment and ignorance.
Karma, meaning action in Sanskrit, is the law of cause and effect. It means that every action has an equal or greater reaction. Positive and virtuous actions are met with positive reactions while negative and ill-intended acts are met with undesirable responses. Hindus believe that they will see the returns of their good actions and virtues in either this or future lives. This also holds true for bad actions and poor virtues. Furthermore, they believe that a person’s karmic accumulations will decide whether or not they are reborn in a human form.
Nature of Samsara
Hindus believe all life is cyclical, which is evidenced in the natural world; the changing of the seasons, movement of planets, and the constant interplay between day and night. Within the cyclical nature of the human experience, the soul is born and reborn into human bodies in accordance with the law of karma. What binds a person to the continuous cycle of life, death and rebirth are actions and decisions driven by sense desire and attachment. Liberation from this process is the ultimate aim for a practicing Hindu.
Renunciation is considered to be the main mode of achieving liberation from samsara. It is an effort to remove the self from worldly attachments and transient pleasures. A typical Hindu renunciant will leave all traces of the household life behind; family, career and other material responsibilities, in exchange for a spiritual life of meditation as a wandering mendicant. By living the renunciant lifestyle, the ascetic seeks to conquer qualities such as lust, anger and greed in an effort to transcend samsara.
The final duty of a Hindu after living a lawful and well enjoyed life with a prosperous home and family is to look inward and achieve liberation. Moksha, the release from the cycle of samsara, occurs when there is no more accumulation of bad karma causing the person to be reincarnated into a new life. All sense of desire and attachment has been abandoned, the ego has dissolved and the individual has merged with God, known to Hindus as Brahman.
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From 2004 to 2014, the REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC) raised more than $96 million dollars to support pro-REALTOR® Party candidates running for Congress. The amount of money RPAC spends to support candidates makes it one of the top trade association PACs in the nation. REALTORS® are a key part of the American Dream: property ownership. However, REALTORS® are increasingly facing forces from many directions that threaten their ability to help bring about the American dream for more people. Increasing health care premiums, the economy, property tax burdens, rent controls, impact fees and the taking of private property for the public domain are only a quick handful of issues that somewhere, everyday REALTORS® confront. RPAC helps REALTORS® make sure their concerns about these and other issues are heard and understood by public officials. | Invest Today
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On the national level, RPAC uses its financial resources to support candidates for Congress who both understand and support REALTOR® issues. RPAC looks to build the future by putting dollars in places that will help advance the interests of REALTORS®. RPAC is the only political group in the country organized for REALTORS® and run by REALTORS®. RPAC exists solely to support issues important to REALTORS®. | fineweb_edu |
Gay Rights-Times Are A’Changing In UK!
Historically, the British Conservative party has been hostile to gay and lesbian rights and has strongly opposed teaching about those issues in schools. However, David Cameron, the current Tory leader, believes both he and his party were wrong, and apologized for opposing teaching about gays and lesbians in schools. He wants that topic to be “embedded in the curriculum” and for all children to be studying about human relationships. “We do need good sex and relationships education ” in schools in order that children will understand the need to “treat people the same whether they are straight or gay, black or white, or a man or a woman.”
It is fascinating how the British “conservative’ movement is adapting to the modern world while the American “conservative” movement is moving back to the nineteenth century. I wonder why? | dclm_edu |
Raleigh run club helps kids get through quarantine
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RALEIGH (WTVD) -- It takes discipline to get up each morning and exercise. Typically that's not something all middle schoolers are interested in doing. One group in a north Raleigh neighborhood is bucking the trend thanks to an ambitious mom.
Marion Dewar wants to give her boys a sense of purpose each morning.
"I started making them run two miles a day before they did screens. That's just the way we started the day for emotional reasons, health reasons, they were going to run cross country. They didn't like it but they did it."
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To sweeten the pot, she extended the invitation to fellow neighborhood kids who wanted to join the sweat and the fun. The only requirement? Arrive at 8 a.m. sharp.
What started with a few kids grew quickly to double digits.
"A lot of them stay up late at night and sleep in until 9 or 10. They're not forced to come, their parents aren't paying for them to come, their parents don't make them come. They have to get themselves up and start at eight."
12-year-old Oliver Corson says it's hard to get up in the morning but he's glad to be a part of the group.
"I like it because you get to go outside. Because quarantine and stuff we don't usually get to go outside very much and I get to hang out with my friends in the neighborhood."
The youngsters keep coming back. Not only to pound the pavement but for the hangout session that follows. Marion gives them a cold drink and allows them to visit and play games at her house.
"I didn't know if I would do it again this year because it's a lot of time, but by popular demand."
And it's evolved beyond running. "Some days we have a bike day, some days we have swim day to try and mix it up a bit to keep them interested."
Her 13-year-old son Josh likes the push to get out of the house.
"It helped me get off video games all day and actually still be social and it was helping all my friends get off video games, I guess," said Josh.
If good health and camaraderie aren't enough, there's an additional incentive.
"I treat them to a treat on Friday. So if they come and run all week on Friday I get donuts for them, take them to chick fa lay just give them something fun to incentive them but the amazing thing is it's a need because so many kids came out."
Marion has had to turn away elementary-age kids who are wanting to join, keeping it to middle school youngsters for now. The eldest of her three sons is an all American runner in high school so the group has something to aspire to. | dclm_edu |
Singin’ in the Rain: the Representation of the Media Essay
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Question 1: With Reference to Theories of Reflexivity and Evidence of Intertextuality, Analyse the Representation of the Media inSingin’ in the Rain( Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952 ) .
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Singin’ in The Rain’ is a 1952 American movie directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor as prima histrions. In footings of its genre, I would reason, it is a combination of play, comedy and musical. It offers a narrative within the movie industry of how Hollywood transformed itself in late 1920s from soundless movies to talking pictures. The narrative begins with the romantic relationship between celebrated movie stars Don Lockwood ( Gene Kelly ) and Lina Lamont ( Jean Hagen ) in 1927. This relationship is wholly a set-up for deriving promotion but Lina takes it earnestly. When Don was seeking to get away from his fans he encountered Kathy Selden ( Debbie Reynolds ) and they fell in love shortly. The great success of the first speaking movieThe Jazz Singerin 1927 brought a revolution to movie industry. In this state of affairs, Lina’s ugly voice becomes the biggest obstruction in doing their first musical movieThe Dancing Cavalier. The thought from Cosmo Brown ( Donald O’Connor ) of nicknaming Kathy’s voice for Lina’s saved this movie and brought concluding success.Singin’ in the Rainis a ‘reflection’ of movie industry itself interrupting through from soundless epoch to sound epoch in the late twentiess. It is besides a contemplation of the age when it was made – the 1950s. I would associate theories of ‘reflexivity’ to analyze how this movie depicts world and semblance of itself through the techniques it uses such as puting up dealingss and even stating prevarications. I will utilize theories of ‘self-reflexivity’ to analyze how this movie portrays the movie production procedure of the 1920s as a movie on movie. I will besides utilize theories of ‘intertextuality’ to analyze how some historical events and societal environment are implicitly mentioned, appropriated and criticised.
Harmonizing to Rosenberg ( 1990. p3 ) , reflexiveness refers to the procedure of an entity moving back upon itself. The movie starts with the premiere dark of the Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont’s 1927 movieThe Royal Rascal. When Don and Lina comes from their limousine, the crowd awaiting goes brainsick and some female fan even swoons after Don throws out a buss. When they go to the mike, the master of ceremonies asks them to speak about their nuptials in public because fans have read from fan magazines or other printed media that Don and Lina are really lovers. In order non to upset their fans particularly non to interrupt the image of them created as lovers on screen which brings them great celebrity and money, Don smartly walks around this subject by saying that they are good friends alternatively of denying the outlook from fans. This clever enunciation drama leaves a obscure impression of their relationship which is even more appealing to fans. The undermentioned ‘dignity’ address made by Don is of peculiar involvement. This address goes along with Don’s memory of his yesteryear which contradicts the content of his address. He foremost starts with his childhood narrative of executing for his parents’ friends in their societies nevertheless the screen shows him and immature Cosmo acting mouth organ and pat dance in a pool room to gain a few cents that could back up their life. He continues to speak about their instruction and the conservatory of all right humanistic disciplines while shown on the screen is their playing violin and piano for life in a saloon. Subsequently he says he and Cosmo were one circuit in the finest halls in this state and were adored everyplace while, on the screen, they dressed as buffoons and got booed by the audiences. In the following scene, he makes a error and says ‘We were stranded’ and shortly alterations to ‘we were staying’ . One of the stuntmen got hurt in a film scene gave Don the opportunity to work as a stuntman and that was the turning point of his calling. At the terminal of his address he states that he and Lina got on good with each other of all time since but got his butt kicked by Lina in world. The contradiction of his address and world causes a comedic consequence but besides suggests at the same clip that movie industry is seeking to make an semblance for the fans to believe what they hear and see is existent.
Rosenberg ( 1990 ) argues that there are two types of reflexiveness. The first one ‘refers to the ego as the object of its ainknowledge’ ( Rosenberg, 1990. p3 ) . From Don’s personal experience, he learns the manner of behaving as a movie star and what to speak in forepart of fans. His memory and logical thought contribute to the procedure of ‘reflexive cognition’ ( Rosenberg, 1986 ) . Don himself, in this sense, becomes the object of his ain knowledge. The 2nd automatic procedure is that ofbureauwhich refers to the experience of being an active or efficient cause in the production of some outcome’ ( Rosenberg, 1990. p3 ) . Don by chance met Kathy Selden when he was seeking to get away from his fans. Kathy Selden pointed out that he is non but a shadow on screen without flesh and blood. And that was the first clip Don doubted himself being a good histrion. Kathy in this instance serves as an ‘agency’ with its influence moving right back upon Don. This automatic procedure led to thought ofThe Dancing Cavalierwhich is a musical movie that bears echt personal emotions alternatively of hypocrite moving without flesh and blood in the soundless epoch. Mead ( 1934 ) and Cooley ( 1902 ) showed clearly that ‘reflexivity among human existences is rooted in the societal procedure, peculiarly the procedure of taking the function of the other and of seeing the ego from the other ‘s perspective’ ( Rosenburg, M. 1990, p3 ) . Don sees himself from Kathy’s position and forms a new apprehension of himself. Don therefore becomes both the apprehender and the object of cognition ( ibid ) .
Evidence of semblance and world is about everyplace inSingin’ in the Rain( Ewing, 2006. p15 ) , for illustration, Lina’s beautiful face and her ugly voice. Ironically, Kathy, who is nicknaming for Lina Lamont inside the movie, is her ain dubbed by Betty Noyes ( Clover, 1995. p724 ) . Spoken words and images are juxtaposed all the clip and spoken words are ever the prevarication and images are the world. The most interesting scene might be the first shot ofThe Duelling Cavalier. Don and Lina pretend to be lovers when they act but the words they speak are really faulting each other. Meanwhile the manager excitingly says ‘Very good’ . This screaming scene is a sarcasm of the movie industry hammering the dealingss of people and stating prevarications on the screen. In this instance, neither the ocular nor the verbal can be trusted, ‘all that is left to be free of ruse, all that left to convey the truth is dance’ ( Ewing, 2006. p15 ) . Audiences are treated as inactive receiving systems of information merely and something to be made a sap. This is besides a metaphor for the state of affairs of the media of today – they continue to border the information they disseminate in order to maximise their gross.
‘Self-reflexivity is used to depict movies or texts which self-consciously acknowledge or reflect upon their ain position as fictional artifacts or the procedures involved in their creation’ ( Krenn, 2007. p36 ) .Singin’ in the Rain, as a movie about movie, exposes the wing production of the movie industry of the late silent epoch and the early sound epoch. The first scene of doing a movie is shown along with Don’s ‘dignity’ address when he recalls how he started his work at Monumental Pictures. On the left side of the screen, Don was playing the violin and Cosmo was playing the piano for a movie. Subsequently the camera pans from left to compensate to demo the existent scene of hiting this movie. It is a screaming scene that the manager is giving out the orders aloud behind the camera while the histrions act harmonizing to his orders. It gives audiences a glance of how movie is made during the soundless epoch – sound and images were recorded individually. In another scene of hitingThe Duelling Cavalier, Don and Lina drama lovers but blame each other while they act shows that, in soundless epoch, an keen readying of lines was non a must. It was the playing that truly mattered. After the success ofThe Jazz Singer, the whole Hollywood started a revolution.The Duelling Cavalierwas to be made into a talking picture. At the really beginning of the sound epoch, rather a few proficient jobs remained to be solved. Picking up the sound decently is the chief job throughout the first twenty-four hours of hiting. Before turn overing the camera, the manager yells ‘Quite on set’ . This order indicated that the production stage of movie has been dramatically revolutionised. The prevue ofThe Duelling Cavalierwasn’t successful. The sound wasn’t recorded good and the lines were laughably screaming. Audiences were express joying and knocking the movie. The crew found out that the disused logic of doing soundless movie won’t be applicable in the sound epoch. The failure of the prevue gave Cosmo the thought of doingThe Duelling Cavalierinto a musical. Subsequently the movie was made into a musical and renamedas The Dancing Cavalier.It was a cross-genre movie which contains modern musical and period play. At the late 1920s it was genuinely an invention. This links to Krenn’s theory of ‘self-reflexivity’ – the movie industry has the ability of reflecting upon its ain position and doing accommodations to its production. And it is this ability of ‘self-reflexivity’ that leads to the invention of techniques through test and mistake.Thisis a narrative of self-reflexivity within a self-reflexive movie.Singin’ in the RainandThe Dancing Cavalierare both musicals. In the Hollywood musical, ‘it is non merely about amusement but is besides often about the production of amusement as good, Thus musical itself is inherently self-reflexive sing Hollywood and mass amusement in general’ ( Feuer, 1980. p23 ) .
Dance is an of import portion ofSingin’ in the Rain. There are three times in this movie that Don dances with a individual miss. The first 1 is Don with Kathy Selden dance to ‘You Were Meant for Me’ in a studio. They is ever a distance between them, the pureness of love is being represented here. Contrast to the 2nd dance with a moll in a green frock in an belowground speakeasy, the latter is full of erotism. The 2nd dance is full of pelvic pushs, touches and fork shootings. But this moll is lured off by a diamond necklace from his rabble fellow ( Ewing, 2006. p16 ) . The 3rd dance is with a miss dressed in white and a long billowing scarf. Eroticism is besides in this dance but it is non every bit blazing as in the 2nd 1. After the dance, both dances go back to their original place, staring at each other in a distance. Contrasting two types of dance, the disparity is reasonably obvious – ‘Purity and promiscuousness, love and lecherousness, the ideal and the real’ ( ibid ) . This is a self-reflexive procedure as we draw a decision that merely the guiltless seems to be able to happen truly happiness, nevertheless, the opposite side shows that we need to give up artlessness and even moralss to those in power in order to be successful ( Ewing, 2006 ) .
‘Intertextuality’ merely represents the defining of the significance of a text based on another text ( Allen, 2000 ) . ‘Intertextuality strongly linked with postmodernism, designates, in its narrow sense, the ways in which a movie either explicitly or implicitly refers to others movies ( e.g. through allusion, imitation, lampoon or medley ) , or in its broader sense, the assorted relationships on ( movie ) text may hold with other texts’ ( Nelmes, 2012. p191 ) .Singin’ in the Rainis a movie based on some historical facts and events. It is, as a movie about movie, itself inherently an illustration of intertextuality. From the really beginning of this movie, three characters are shown on the screen, from left to compensate, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor. This manner of seting a miss ( immature female was called as ‘girl’ so ) between two work forces is called the M-G-M constellation which implicitly refers to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. ( Ewing, 2006. p15 ) . Some characters in inside this movie are based on existent figures in history. Dora Bailey the master of ceremonies at the beginning of the movie, for illustration, is an caricature of the ‘popular editorialist from 1922 to 1965 Louella O. Parsons’ ( Thomas, 1979. p135 ) . The character Lina Lamont represents the soundless epoch star John Gilbert who lost his occupation because of his thin voice in the sound epoch ( Yudkoff, 1999. P215 ) .
There are besides some historical events mentioned inside the movies. ‘The Broadway Ballet’ is a reproduction of the traditional sequence of how an histrion becomes celebrated. Gene Kelly plays a terpsichorean who came to large New York to seek his fortune. He began his public presentation in an belowground speakeasy, subsequently he continued to play in Vaudeville so to Broadway so to Hollywood. Gene Kelly in this movie created a general image of phases of calling of an entertainer.
Singin’ in the Rainbesides implicitly mentioned and criticised the pack influence in movie industry in the early 20th century. The coin-flipping pack with a cicatrix on his right cheek is the symbol of the threat to people in America and even to liberty. As most histrions started their calling in speakeasies which were controlled by packs in the 1920s and 1930s, packs took advantage of their relationships with stars to infiltrate the movie industry ( Parish, 2004. p35 ) .
Another event mentioned in the movie is the ‘blacklisting and censorship’ in the industry fundamentally as a consequence of ‘The Production Code’ from 1934 to mid-1950s ( Ewing, 2006 ) . Kathy Selden symbolises the victim of blacklisting and Lina Lamont symbolises those in power. The police officer who stops Don from singing is the power of ‘censorship’ . Judging the rubric of the movie, ‘singin’ in the rain’ is really a metaphor itself. The ‘rain’ here is an incarnation of all sorts of unjust intervention or adversities ( e.g. pack power, blacklisting, censoring ) . While ‘singin’’ here is the optimistic energy or religion in get the better ofing all those adversities.
Associating theories of ‘reflexivity’ I compared worlds and semblances and discussed the techniques used to make them. I besides found grounds inside the movie of the characters, particularly Don and Cosmo, being automatic on their work in the face of rough alterations and challenges at a really historic clip of movie industry – the beginning of the sound epoch. I used theories of ‘self-reflexivity’ to analyze the wing production of movies both in silent and sound epochs and the importance of dance for musicals movies. I used theories of ‘intertextuality’ to demo howSingin’ in the Rainbased its narrative on historical events of movie industry ( e.g. censoring, blacklisting and pack power ) in the first half of 20th century. Denzin argued that ‘we populate a second-hand universe, one already mediated by film, telecasting, and other setups of the postmodern society’ ( 2003: p141 ) .Singin’ in the Rainitself is a beautiful metaphor for the movie industry as it portrays graphic characters on screen, and most of all, the positive political orientation for life that is needed in any epoch.
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Welcome, Grade-School Students! Today we are going to learn about a fun concept called "group actions." Have you ever played with a set of colored balls and a stick, where you can poke the stick through some of the balls and connect them together? In this example, the stick is like a "group," and the way it acts on the balls (by poking through them and connecting them) is like a "group action."
Now let's think about something called "homotopy groups." Don't worry, we won't get too technical here. Just imagine that these homotopy groups are like different ways that loops can be twisted around each other. The number of times the loop twists around itself tells us which homotopy group it belongs to.
So now we come to our question: when we have a special kind of loop called the real projective space ($\mathbb{R}P^n$), how does its first homotopy group ($\pi_1$) act on its $n^{th}$ homotopy group ($\pi_n$)? Well, it turns out that if $n$ is odd, then this action is "trivial," meaning that the loops don't affect each other at all. But if $n$ is even, then the action is "non-trivial," meaning that the loops do interact with each other in some way.
To understand why this happens, let's think about the real projective space as being covered by spheres ($S^n$). We can move around on the sphere without changing anything, but if we want to go from one sphere to another, we need to pass through the real projective space. This is like having a bunch of pieces of paper covering a table, and we can move around on each piece of paper freely, but if we want to move to a different piece of paper, we need to lift it up and place it down somewhere else on the table.
The "$n > 1$" part just means that we need to have at least two spheres to make this work. And the "universal cover" part means that the spheres fit together perfectly, without any overlaps or gaps.
Finally, the "deck transformation" is like flipping over a single piece of paper on the table. It doesn't change anything on that piece of paper, but it affects how the pieces of paper are arranged relative to each other. So the deck transformation acts on the spheres in the same way that the first homotopy group acts on the $n^{th}$ homotopy group.
I hope that helps you understand why the action of the first homotopy group on the $n^{th}$ homotopy group depends on whether $n$ is odd or even! Let me know if you have any questions. | cosmopedia_v2 |
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Can an anxiety or panic attack cause a person to black out? I've had black outs while at my desk at work, once when driving, a few times while using the restroom, watching t.v. I don't feel anxious at the time or have symptoms just the black out. However, in the past 2 weeks I've gone to the hospital 5 times because of my starting to have severe panic attacks but I haven't had a black out in awhile now. When someone talks to me or touches me I wake right up but I don't feel as if I'm waking from a sleep because I come right to and feel fine. Is this possibly caused by anxiety. I was taking Celexa and didn't like it so I stopped cold turkey which I know I'm not supposed to. My doctor has put me on 10 mg to manage the withdrawals but I feel worse on the medication. Help please, thank you.
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It seems that the fainting episodes and the anxiety attacks are separate in your situation. Usually a panic attack associated with hyperventilation can lead to syncope (black out). But in your case, you seem to have the syncope even when you are not anxious or hyperventilating.
You need to get an evaluation done by a Neurologist before you go to a psychiatrist. The syncope that you get could be due to sudden hypotension (lowered blood pressure).
It is important to note the duration of the blacking out episode. Normally after a syncope you do feel as if you have forgotten what you were doing, if only for a few seconds. Try to rule out sleep attacks of narcolepsy and absence seizures.
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