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Resource Library Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 Administrative data have the potential to help us answer pressing social policy questions. Government stakeholders and researchers are exploring the promises of using administrative data for research purposes. This brief summarizes an Innovative Methods Meeting that was organized by OPRE in the fall of 2015 that considered the potential benefits and pitfalls of using administrative data for research purposes... In the fall of 2014, OPRE organized an Innovative Methods meeting to explore cutting-edge applications of methods and analytic techniques that can inform social program practice and policy. This brief summarizes the meeting and includes..
July 16, 2006 You Will Watch This Nudity, And You Will Like It Last week, a court judge ruled that companies that resell or rent custom DVDs that have been scrubbed of potentially offensive content (i.e. profanity, nudity, etc.) are violating U.S. copyright laws, and are therefore illegal. That means that companies such as Clean Flicks are out of a job. As I understand Hollywood's argument, they have their panties all in a bunch because they dislike "other people" (e.g. non-Hollywood types) mucking around with their "art". The studios and directors say they made a film a certain way, and by golly, nobody is going to sell a different version to the public. Nevermind the fact that movies viewed on regular television usually begin with those magic words "This film has been edited for content." Or that films shown on airline flights are typically edited to be "kid friendly". Or that six months after the DVD release of a particular blockbuster film, a special "Director's Cut" version of the DVD is also released. It's not like companies like Clean Flicks were ripping the studios off by buying just one retail DVD, making their edits, and then turning around and selling hundreds of their own custom copies like some Asian bootlegger. No, if a customer wanted a scrubbed DVD, said customer must first buy the DVD through proper channels like a good consumer, mail said DVD to the scrubbing company, and five days later they get a scrubbed version of the movie in their mailbox. Hollywood got their money for the DVD purchase, and the scrubbing company got a small profit for their service. And little Junior gets to watch "Titanic" without seeing Kate Winslet naked. So what's the harm in that, right? Apparently, a lot, or so ruled Judge Matsch. Eventually, I believe Hollywood will catch on. They are already championing the Clear Play technology, which allows a special DVD player to filter original store-bought DVDs "on the fly", based on parameters you set. It was not targeted in the recent court ruling, because their technology does not involve creating an altered copy of a movie. I have not seen it work in action, but apparently it has a fine level of granularity regarding the level of filtering. I guess that means you can set your "vulgarity" filter to mute out the big profanities like the F-bomb, but keep the "lesser" ones such as "hell" or "damn". Or throw them all out. Or keep 'em in. You have the power. Although I have a feeling if you turned all the filters on while watching something like "South Park: The Movie", the screen would be blank and the audio muted for practically the entire film :) Heck, the DVD player would probably explode from a nervous breakdown. Here's an interesting scenario I discussed with some movie friends a few years ago. When I watch "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope" on DVD at my house, I always fast forward through that horrible new Jabba/Han Solo scene. Every. Single. Time. I have effectively "edited" the film. If I had the technology and time, perhaps I would burn my own version with that scene excised. While I was at it, I would also make sure that Han shoots first, like he's supposed to. Perhaps I would tinker even more. Maybe I feel that the camera lingers just a little too long on that severed alien arm that Obi-Wan cuts off in the cantina. So I shorten the scene, or perhaps remove it altogether. Maybe I object to Obi-Wan's use of an explicative when he tells Luke that his uncle "was afraid he might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade", so I edit the audio track to remove this "offensive" profanity. I remake the movie into a form that suits my tastes and needs, burn a new disc, throw away the Lucas version, and play my "vastly superior" version in my home from now on. Do I have the right to do this? Sure, I made the edit primarily for my own viewing pleasure, but what if I show this version to my friends when they come over to watch "A New Hope" on my jumbo widescreen television? What if some of them like my "improvements", and they ask me to burn a disc for them as well? They've already bought the Lucas version legally from a store, so it's not like they're getting it for free off the internet, or buying some three dollar bootleg copy available on a New York street corner. Let's take it even further. Suppose one of my rich friends with waaaay too much time on his hands decides that he wants to be in the movie. He has taught himself CGI modeling, and purchased all the cool software that the pros use for his dual 8.6Ghz Mac. He creates a few of his own TIE-Fighter and X-Wing battle scenes, that actually look as good as the stuff Lucas' ILM created. He also films himself as an X-Wing pilot, combines it with his custom CGI footage, and creates this fantastic new five-minute sequence, which he inserts seamlessly into the Lucas version. To someone not familiar with the original 1977 version, they wouldn't have a clue that the film had been modified. Is this legal? Should this be legal? Could he show his modified Star Wars to other friends and relatives? What if they liked it so much, they also wanted a copy (to replace their existing ones, of course, so nobody can cry about pirating). Can he do that? Imagine hundreds of people creating their own edited versions of Star Wars. They are duplicated, and over time, distributed to friends, families, and fans. Ten years later, when you are your buddies are hanging at a friend's house watching Episode IV, will you all be scratching your heads, wondering "Where the heck is the scene with the X-Wing pilot Jimbo?", or "I could have swore Obi-Wan said a different line there!". All because their are hundreds, if not thousands, of different edited version of Star Wars out there. July 01, 2006 See You Later, Space Cowboy... I'm not what you would call a huge anime fan, but I do like to dabble in a good anime series everynow and then. Of late, I've been enjoying the six-disc DVD set of the anime series Cowboy Bebop. Yeah, I know. Don't let the somewhat silly title turn you off. Anyway, I was watching "session" 22, when suddenly the series took a quite unexpected twist with the departure of two key characters. Then, over a lengthy montage of poignant images, this incredible song, totally perfect for the moment, started playing. I wondered why it had never received any major radio airplay, because it rocks. The song is "Call Me, Call Me" performed by Steve Conte of the Seatbelts. Give a listen to this short snippet, and see if you don't agree.
Interaction of Xenopus Cdc2 x cyclin A1 with the origin recognition complex Piotr Romanowski, Jackie Marr, Mark A. Madine, Alison Rowles, J. Julian Blow, Jean Gautier, Ronald A. Laskey Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review 34 Citations (Scopus) The initiation of DNA replication in eukaryotes is regulated in a minimum of at least two ways. First, several proteins, including origin recognition complex (ORC), Cdc6 protein, and the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) protein complex, need to be assembled on chromatin before initiation. Second, cyclin-dependent kinases regulate DNA replication in both a positive and a negative way by inducing the initiation of DNA replication at G(1)/S transition and preventing further rounds of origin firing within the same cell cycle. Here we characterize a link between the two levels. Immunoprecipitation of Xenopus origin recognition complex with anti-XOrc1 or anti-XOrc2 antibodies specifically co-immunoprecipitates a histone H1 kinase activity. The kinase activity is sensitive to several inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases including 6-dimethylaminopurine (6-DMAP), olomoucine, and p21(Cip1). This kinase activity also copurifies with ORC over several fractionation steps and was identified as a complex of the Cdc2 catalytic subunit and cyclin A1. Neither Cdk2 nor cyclin E could be detected in ORC immunoprecipitations. Reciprocal immunoprecipitations with anti-Xenopus Cdc2 or anti-Xenopus cyclin A1 antibodies specifically co-precipitate XOrc1 and XOrc2. Our results indicate that Xenopus ORC and Cdc2 x cyclin A1 physically interact and demonstrate a physical link between an active cyclin-dependent kinase and proteins involved in the initiation of DNA replication. Original languageEnglish Pages (from-to)4239-4243 Number of pages5 JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry Issue number6 Publication statusPublished - 2000 Dive into the research topics of 'Interaction of Xenopus Cdc2 x cyclin A1 with the origin recognition complex'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Cite this
Diet to increase the size of the butt Diet to increase the size of the butt 11th Apr 2019 When it comes to the appearance of the rear end, both men and women are concerned with it. The look of the buttocks is important not only for the overall appearance of the body but also to make us feel sexier and more alluring, considering the fact that buttocks are considered an erotic and sensual area of the body, just like breasts. If up until some time ago women desired to have small buttocks, nowadays the mainstream trend is exactly the other way around. Nowadays we want big buttocks, as big and as round as possible and with an impressive projection. Celebrities have also hopped on the trend of having bigger buttocks. When it comes to enhancing the appearance of the buttocks, many people first think about physical exercise and diet. Physical exercise can be used to tone the muscles of the buttocks, but intense physical exercise can lead to the burning of fat cells on the buttocks, hence making the butt smaller instead of bigger. This is probably the reason why some people are wondering what would be the diet to increase the size of the buttocks. The idea behind this is to enhance the appearance of the buttocks by affecting the fat layer on the butt and making it bigger. So how about putting on fat exactly where you want to? Is this possible? Strangely enough it is, but not in the way you might imagine. Before anything else, you should know that there is no such thing as a localized gain of weight. When we put on weight, it deposits all over the body depending on our natural predisposition. Most people would start accumulating fat around the midline after a certain age while others would get thicker thighs. This is dependent on the shape of our body and the genetic predisposition. So diet to gain weight that accumulates directly on the buttocks is a myth. What could happen though is for the plastic surgeon to recommend a diet to put on weight and develop a thicker fat tissue. As we have already said, the fat tissue will increase in certain areas of the body when weight gain occurs. The plastic surgeon can address these areas with liposuction and then purify the fat and inject it into the buttocks. This is how the fat gets to the buttocks after weight gain. To become eligible for fat transfer, patients are advised to eat healthy produce that are high in calories and to avoid exercising at least until a few months after the procedure is performed. If you need to put on weight to increase the size of your buttocks, make sure to discuss your diet with the plastic surgeon. Share this article:
Mississippi’s fault based divorce requirements usually harm women and the poor. Mississippi’s State-wide newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger, did a long story on Mississippi’s divorce laws on Sunday, February 19, 2017. The article points out that Mississippi is one of only two states that do not allow for what is called “no fault” divorce. The basis for holding on to this scenario when 48 states have not, is fundamental religious and family values that divorce is not good and should not be easy. Mississippi Legislators openly acknowledge they know this presents problems for people of our state but cannot be changed due to religious and right-wing lobby. The article does not quote practicing divorce lawyers, but it points out that despite the tough divorce laws, Mississippi still has a high divorce rate. It’s sort of like the current lottery ban which is costing our state millions; you can ban the lottery but you cannot stopping people from betting. Any practicing divorce lawyer will tell you that the rigid divorce laws usually negatively impact homemakers and the poor, who do not have resources to stand on their own or to mount a legal battle. The article features one husband who says he will not divorce his estranged wife of many years because he still loves her. I am not questioning that gentleman’s motive, but my experience is that love is rarely behind someone standing in the way of divorce; the motive is usually revenge or blackmail. By the way, I am a practicing Christian and have been happily married for 38 years with 4 children and wish everyone could be as fortunate as I in that regard, but they are not and they need ways to resolve their problems and move forward positively. Learn more about divorce in Mississippi
Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev Indra asks Ganga the reason for her sadness and she tells him that she wishes to marry Mahadev. Indra, in turn, reveals to Ganga the facts about the birth of Adi Shakti. The other half of Shiva is born as the daughter of Him Naresh and Menavati. Tarakasur learns this and sends Bahurupa to destroy the child.
The Embalmers’ Archive: Jobs of Embalmers By Bob Brier, Ph.D.Long Island University The ancient Egyptians mummified people for 3,000 years, but there is not a single papyrus that tells us how to mummify a person. Why? Well, it was probably a trade secret. But archives such as ‘The Embalmers’ Archive’ tell us about the embalming business. Papyrus showing people fishing and farming. Most papyri and tomb drawings show people engaged in ordinary activities, rather than showing details of mummification in ancient Egypt. (Image: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock) Working with Mummies How do you figure out how to make a mummy? One source—it’s not a great source—are the tomb walls. As you know, the Egyptians painted almost every aspect of daily life on their tomb walls. So maybe there is a picture of somebody being mummified? Not quite. You’ll get pictures of people working in the fields. You will see people at banquets, drinking. You will see them fishing or hunting. Nobody’s being mummified. The closest thing that we have are two tombs, in Thebes, that show a mummy in the last stages of preparation. The painting shows a mummy with two embalmers working on it. They’re just doing the last stages of bandaging with little thin strips of bandage and they’re wrapping it around. But what’s really interesting is that the mummy isn’t lying on a table. It is lying on two blocks. And the reason is quite simple. The bodies are put on blocks because when you have to pass the bandage under the body, you don’t want to have to lift the body off the table all the time. With the body up on blocks you could just simply pass the bandages beneath the mummy. This is the only information we get about the mummification process from these tombs. The Family Papers Apart from the tombs, we have some papyri that are relevant. They don’t tell us about mummification, but they’re relevant. One is called The Embalmers’ Archive. These papyri were found in the area that we call the Fayoum, southwest of Cairo. They’re records of families of embalmers. But they’re not going to tell us how they did it. But they tell us something about the life of an embalmer. Illustration of Anubis with an embalmed mummy. Anubis was the jackal-headed god of embalming for the ancient Egyptians. (Image: sulca/ Shutterstock) First of all, they were called ‘Men of Anubis’. Now, why Anubis? Anubis was the jackal-headed god. The jackal was associated with the dead, because jackals’ digestive systems are such that they prefer rotting meat. So they used to prowl cemeteries, looking for old bodies to eat, because it’s sort of predigested protein. So the jackal became the god of embalming, Anubis. And at mummifications there would be a priest who wore a mask of a jackal—a big, black jackal’s mask. And he was sort of representing Anubis. Learn more about ancient Egyptian medicine. The Sealer and Tomb Maintenance Eventually, the embalmers became responsible for tomb maintenance. But what is tomb maintenance? Why was it important? One complex question was that of the ownership of tombs. For example, imagine this: Your grandfather is buried in a tomb. And your father oversees the tomb, he visits it. And maybe you visit it. But what about 500 years down the road? Is anybody going to visit that tomb? Maybe your family dies out. And then the question becomes, whose tomb is it? Perhaps at some point it’s robbed. The tomb is then vacant. Now whose tomb is it? It belonged to your family, but nobody’s around to claim it. There were many, many such cases in the law courts in ancient Egypt about tomb ownership. Somebody said, ‘My family owned that tomb.’ Others said, ‘No, it’s a vacant tomb. We took it.” This was a difficult and time-consuming argument. Doorway to an ancient Egyptian tomb. There are a few recorded arguments in history about the ownership of tombs in ancient Egypt. (Image: Jason Benz Bennee/Shutterstock) So the job of the ‘Sealers’, the people who were in charge of sealing a tomb and maintaining it, was also to keep track of the ownership of a tomb. They were the equivalent of the modern cemetery caretakers. Hopefully, these families would be around and watch over the tomb. So as a ‘Sealer’ you were paid a fee for this. And you might be paid a fee to make sure that the inscriptions aren’t falling off the wall. So embalmers did a variety of things. Learn more about what mummies tell us. The Embalmers’ Oath of Allegiance Now from this archive, we also have an oath of allegiance that the embalmers took. This archive is comprised of records for two families of embalmers. The oath of allegiance is, basically, from one family to the other, saying, “We’re not going to encroach on your territory.” In other words, they carved out part of the town. So “The Embalmers’ Archive,” as we call it, has a wealth of information about the embalmers and their jobs. But this archive doesn’t tell us much about the process of embalming itself. And that’s what we really want to know. How did they do it? Common Questions about the Embalmers’ Archive: Jobs of Embalmers Q: What do we know about mummification in ancient Egypt from the tombs in Thebes? The two tombs in Thebes tell us a little about mummification in ancient Egypt. The paintings in these tombs show the embalmers busy in the last stages of bandaging. The interesting detail is that the mummy isn’t lying on a table. It is lying on two blocks. Q: What is ‘The Embalmers’ Archive’? ‘The Embalmers’ Archive‘ tells us about the families of embalmers in ancient Egypt. Q: Why were embalmers also known as ‘Men of Anubis’ in ancient Egypt? Anubis was the name of a jackal-headed god in ancient Egypt. Jackals were associated with death, so the embalmers were called ‘Men of Anubis’. Q: What was the job of a ‘sealer’ in ancient Egypt? In ancient Egypt, a sealer was the in charge of sealing a tomb and maintaining it. He had to keep track of which tomb belonged to which family. He was the equivalent of the modern cemetery caretakers. Keep Reading Mummification Process in Ancient Egypt: Preparing for the Journey Glory Years of Ancient Egypt Under Amenhotep III Ancient Egypt Under the Rule of the Hyksos
Home > Uncategorized > Interview: U.S. Violates Law For Large-Scale Killings In Pakistan Press TV July 3, 2011 ‘US changes law to kill in Pakistan’ Interview with Rick Rozoff, manager of Stop NATO organization in Chicago Audio at graphic above The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is reportedly using airbases in Afghanistan to launch deadly drone attacks on Pakistan despite Islamabad’s warnings against continued unauthorized US air raids on its soil. The US is pressing ahead with its unsanctioned drone bombing of Pakistan by using an Afghan airbase, as the CIA claims the aerial operations originally launched from a Pakistani airbase have stopped over the past three months, according to a Saturday report by The Washington Post. The report states that the US stopped drone strikes from the Shamsi airbase in Balochistan in April after a diplomatic row over a CIA operative, Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistani nationals in Lahore on January 27. The newspaper added that since then the CIA has carried out its drone attacks on the Pakistani soil from an airbase in Afghanistan. Ties between Islamabad and Washington have become tense over the attacks, which Pakistan considers as a violation of its sovereignty. Press TV interviewed Rick Rozoff, manager of Stop NATO in Chicago. Press TV: These drones, do we know where they are getting their information on what targets to attack? Rozoff: Do we know how they are obtaining information and how they are targeting people for unmanned aerial vehicle attacks? I have an idea of how the operation works. Your lead-in to our conversation, of course, mentioned that over a thousand people have been killed in the tribal areas in northwest Pakistan last year. The total figures since the US drone war began in Pakistan, starting in 2004, are at least 2,500 people. I mean this is large-scale killing of course. The so-called pilots who direct the drone attack are based in the United States, and that information is provided via video communication from the theater, from Afghanistan, Pakistan, back to the States where the strikes are ordered. That’s the general mechanism used for the strikes. I don’t know if it has been noted, but I think it is worth paying attention to the fact that the new defense secretary of the Unites States, Leon Panetta, has come to that post from being the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which in fact is in charge of the predator drone attacks inside Pakistan, and even though there had been a decrease in those attacks under the former chief military commander of US and NATO forces – International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) – in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, they were intensified under his successor David Petraeus, who is now taking over the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency. So, you have a CIA director who really ramped up the drone attacks taking over the Pentagon, and you have a military commander who officiated over or collaborated with the drone attacks taking over the CIA, which runs them. So all indications are that you’re going to see a dramatic escalation of deadly drone attacks inside Pakistan. Press TV: How is it the US is expanding in Afghanistan, when the Afghan people and President Hamid Karzai has specifically said they want the US soldiers out as soon as possible. Rozoff: They want ISAF out ASAP, they are correct to say that. As a matter of fact, a couple of weeks ago Afghan President Hamid Karzai stated that the foreign troops in his country, which are an enormous amount, they are up to 152,000 US, NATO and partnership troops in the country, that’s the largest amount of troops ever stationed on Afghan soil incidentally. It’s substantially larger than the Soviet troop presence at its highest, and it is also the largest number of troops from the largest number of countries ever stationed in one warzone, over 50 countries all together with 48 officially what NATO calls Troop Contributing Nations, and other numbers in addition to that. You alluded to airbases like those of Bagram, I would also recall that at Shindand in the western part of Afghanistan. So, one of the major objective that the United States and NATO have had in invading and occupying Afghanistan, for what will soon be ten years, is to come into possession of the Soviet-built air bases in Afghanistan and upgrade them to police the entire region, which means northward to Central Asia and eastward to the Indian sub-continent and of course west to Iran and the Persian Gulf. Although frankly I cannot tell you from where the predator drones take off for their deadly mission inside Pakistan, you know the Bagram air base has been expanded to a monumental size in recent years, and it is a clear indication that notwithstanding Afghan President Karzai’s demand that foreign troops leave the country, the US and NATO have no intention of doing that. Press TV: These drones are considered illegal acts of war by the UN Council for Human Rights and also considered targeted killings, how is it that the Unites States gets away with these inhumane acts? Rozoff: That’s a very good question. I would say it is simply the moral default of the world that permits them to get away. You know that very loosely phrased UN resolutions permitted the United States and NATO to move into Afghanistan ten years ago in the first place, comparable in many ways to UN Resolutions 1970 and 1973 recently, which have been allowed for what is now a 105-day war against Libya with no end in sight. The fact is that the major legal adviser to the US State Department, Harold [Hongju] Koh, uses exactly the term that you have just used, “targeted killings” in Pakistan. Dawn News, one of the major English-language news sources in Pakistan, estimated some 18 months ago that last year there were over 1,000 killed, but a year prior to that, of 700 people killed in Pakistan, five of them were so-called al-Qaeda operatives or forces, so there was a 140 to 1 ratio of civilians killed for every targeted terrorist. Yet Harold Koh in the State Department uses the term targeted killing, not targeted assassaination, which in fact it is, because of a law passed in the 1970s in the United States in response to CIA operations prior to that which makes it a violation of the law to conduct targeted assassinations, so they simply changed the name. Now, if you are somebody in Pakistan whose entire family is wiped out in a Hellfire missile attack, it’s small consolation to be told that it wasn’t a targeted assassination but a targeted killing. And in fact in my opinion this is a gross violation of international and certainly humanitarian law. Categories: Uncategorized 1. asher July 3, 2011 at 3:13 pm It was good to run into this article and now the site to get another perspective on this terrible catastrophe inlicted on many nations in this continous ‘hegemonistic war’. Mr Rodoff’s views need to heard more on the main stream media well, I can understand they are not.The anti war lobby has become weak despite mushrooming of wars in the last decade. 1. No trackbacks yet. Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
Omega-6 and Non-Dairy Milk Which has the least omega-6 fatty acids: oat milk, soy milk, or almond milk? Click to find out Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N, CNS 1-minute read Q. After listening to your episode on omega-3 and fish oil, I am trying to decrease the omega-6 in my diet. To that end, I’m wondering which is lowest in omega-6: oat milk, soy milk, or almond milk? A. In my episode comparing various non-dairy milks, I found that soy milk is higher in protein, almond milk is generally lower in calories, while oat milk is higher in fiber. I didn’t talk about omega-6 because most manufacturers--although they never fail to mention that a product is high in omega-3—usually don’t provide information about the omega-6 content. I’m afraid an educated guess is the best we’ll be able to do. Of the three raw ingredients (oat grains, almonds, and soybeans) almonds are the lowest in omega-6 and soybeans are the highest, so I would guess that the respective milks would rank the same way, with oat milk somewhere in the middle. Keep in mind, however, that the amount of omega-6 can never be higher than the amount of total fat (and is probably somewhat lower). So, even though soybeans contain a lot of omega-6, soy milk that is low-fat or fat-free probably doesn't. Image courtesy of Shutterstock About the Author Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N, CNS
Packers and movers in Basavanagudi, Bangalore • Home • Office • Car Get Started for your move from\in Basavanagudi, Bangalore About Basavanagudi, Bangalore Basavanagudi was named after the famous temple of Nandi Bull situated in the center of the locality. The area is one of the oldest in Bangalore and features the most traditional part of the city. Some claim the area is older than the city itself. The Ramkrishna math and other old temples dot the entirety of Basavanagudi. Incidentally, the famous book Malgudi days is named after an amalgamation of the Bangalore localities Malleswaram and Basavanagudi. Why ShiftKarado? As a part of the Star Worldwide Group we have across India Over 2 Lac of warehouse and office space all over India Local Moves within Bangalore What does ShiftKarado offer as packers and movers in Basavanagudi 2. Professional packing by an expert team 3. Covered vehicles ensuring safety of your belongings About Bangalore
Feeling Lonely? Can mindfulness decrease your loneliness? Feeling Lonely? Can mindfulness decrease your loneliness? Imagine you are enjoying an evening with your friends and you are about to go to a party or just hang out and talk. Your friend just told you this really silly story about what happened to him yesterday and all of you are laughing. You feel happy, surrounded by your loved ones, knowing the evening is going to be good. The last time you had an evening like this feels ages ago. Instead, you are sitting at home, seeing your friends over the screen of your mobile phone, or watching another show on Netflix. You feel isolated and alone. It is normal to feel lonely occasionally, but extreme situations, such as a pandemic lead to an increased feeling of loneliness. But we are optimistic to have found a tool with which everyone might be able to reduce this feeling of loneliness. The tool we are talking about is called mindfulness meditation which is defined as focusing on the present moment while being non-judgemental of current flowing thoughts. Since loneliness is linked to feelings of depression and anxiety, we hypothesize that mindfulness meditation can reduce feelings of loneliness, as it was shown to be effective in reducing feelings of depression and anxiety. However, up to this date, no research investigated if mindfulness mediation can reduce feelings of loneliness. It is urgent that one looks into this, as we believe that regarding the pandemic we are facing right now, it is necessary to figure out effective ways to cope with loneliness. Brouzos, A., Vassilopoulos, S. P., Baourda, V. C., Tassi, C., Stavrou, V., Moschou, K., & Brouzou, K. O. (2021). “Staying Home–Feeling Positive”: Effectiveness of an online positive psychology group intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology, 1-13. Luberto, C. M., Huberty, J., Puzia, M., & Vranceanu, A. M. (2021). Usage Patterns of the Calm Meditation App Among People with Cardiovascular Disease. Mindfulness, 1-11. Image by Melk Hagelslag from Pixabay Leave a Reply
by Andrew Bovell add to cart read extractlarge order enquiryproduction rights Read the full script online, with an Australian Plays Transform membership preview full script by Andrew Bovell On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aboriginal people have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionary's wife to lie? What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers? This title appears in: AWGIE Stage Award (2002 winner) Louis Esson Prize for Drama (2002 winner) Customers who bought this also bought:
How Many Pounds Of Poop Do We Carry? Why does pooping feel so good for guys? The pudendal nerve might get in the act, too.. How can you tell your losing fat? Why do men’s poop smell worse? Is it normal to poop 20 minutes? If it regularly takes you more than 10 to 15 minutes to poop, it could be a sign that something is going on, Dr. Thorkelson says. It could be as simple as stress, which can reduce peristalsis and slow the movement of your bowels. Where do you lose fat from first? How many pounds of poop do we poop in a lifetime? Therefore, a man living to age 76 would produce about 24,320 lbs. (11,030 kg) of poop over his lifetime, and a woman living to age 81 would produce about 25,920 lbs. (11,757 kg) — so a lifetime of a woman’s poop weighs about as much as three adult male hippos. Do you poop more when losing weight? What is an unhealthy poop? Should your poop float or sink? How much poop is too much? Why do guys poop longer? What is the average poop time? Most professionals recommend spending no more time on the toilet than it takes to pass a stool. Studies have shown that the average bowel movement takes 12 seconds. Sometimes it does take longer, however, so at maximum, you should not spend more than 10 minutes on the toilet. Does pooping a lot mean you have a fast metabolism? Is it normal to poop once every 2 weeks? A “normal” pooping frequency is anywhere from three times a day to every other day. Most people notice a pattern in their bowel habits. People tend to poop at about the same time each day. Doctors define constipation as pooping two or fewer times per week.
Category Archives: Oakdale Divorce Lawyer Divorce Can Have Some Positive Benefits For Children I have seen many ugly divorces and custody battles. It is without doubt an ugly divorce where children are used as pawns or placed in the middle of conflict will cause serious emotional harm to children. It has been a pleasant change that the procedures and family law rules have now been changed to encourage amicable resolution of custody disputes without ugly litigation through Mediation or Social Early Neutral Evaluation and to minimize Temporary Hearings until amicable Alternative Dispute Resolution is attempted. Some experts are also now confirming that divorce can have some positive benefits to children. Jackie Middleton has stated in Canadian Living that many divorce children can experience these five benefits: 1. Divorced children often learn to be Resilient and Adaptable. 2. Divorced Children often learn to be more Self-Sufficient. 3. Divorced Children often have an increased sense of Empathy towards others. 4. Divorced Children will often not take their own marriage for granted. 5. Divorced Children often learn more about each parent based on the quality time they spend alone with each parent individually rather than in a family setting. There is far from consensus opinion on how divorces affect children. But based on my observations and experience it is very important to keep the children out of the conflict. Children do far better when they have both parents in their lives and are not subject to a parent constantly bad-mouthing the other. Your children will be much better off, as will you, if you find a way to settle your Parenting Disputes and avoid Custody Litigation and a Custody Trial. Sometimes this is not possible, but do your children a favor and do your best to keep them out of the conflict. A good divorce lawyer can litigate when necessary, but also can guide you through more amicable options and procedures that can lead to an amicable settlement. It is critical to promptly retain an experienced divorce attorney at the beginning of any divorce or custody dispute. Significant Other’s Can Impact Custody Decisions In an unpublished opinion in Newman vs. Newman, A15-0561 (Minn.Ct. App. Dec.21, 2015) the court of appeals reviewed an appeal from a divorce involving a 16 year marriage involving three minor children with a mother who had been a full-time homemaker since 2003 and a father who recently retired early. The trial court granted joint legal custody, but granted the father sole physical custody. Mother appealed and claimed the trial court erred in not granting her joint physical custody or sole physical custody. The appellate court noted there had been acrimony and a lot of personal attacks in the case and that a current harassment restraining order precluded father from harassing the mother. It was noted this conflict did not support their ability to cooperate under a joint physical custody arrangement. The court also found that although there was not evidence of domestic abuse, the court had deep concern about the safety of the parties’ daughters around the mother’s live in boyfriend who had been convicted of felony invasion of privacy of a minor for hiding a video camera in his 17 year-old, step-daughter’s bathroom. It was specifically ordered the mother’s parenting time not include her boyfriend and that the mother’s boyfriend directing impacted the physical and emotional safety of the children. In addressing the best interest factors the court noted nine were neutral, one inapplicable, two favored the father and one favored the mother. The deciding factor was the interaction and interrelationship of a person who may significantly affect the children’s best interests. In this case the mother’s decision to live with a convicted felon who had harmed his step-daughter lead to her losing physical custody. If custody is an issue in a divorce or paternity action it is crucial to immediately consult with an experienced divorce lawyer or knowledgeable family law attorney. Decisions about living arrangements, significant others, and high conflict disputes with your spouse can preclude sharing joint physical custody or even lead to a longtime homemaker to lose physical custody. Moving On After A Marriage Ends Clinical Psychologist, Kristin Davis, has recently published a thoughtful article in the Huffington Divorce section on February 1, 2016 suggesting 5 ways to move on after a relationship ends, which is sound advice to consider after a divorce. I concur and believe the tips can help an individual transition and overcome the emotional and psychological pain that divorce often brings. These are the recommendations: 1. TAKE STOCK. As painful as it might be it is helpful to think through your take and what you learned from that relationship. Would you do things differently the next time? What struggles on both sides may have contributed to the marriage ending? Many people just want to run away and hide or escape another way through other means such as alcohol, dating, or other destructive behavior and this will only lead to more problems and potential heartaches. Instead analyze , where do I see myself? What have I learned? What , if anything would you do differently in the next relationship? How is it best for you to move on? Some may realize there are positive things and aspects of the break-up such as freedom, optimism, empowerment and relief. Remember this is an opportunity for a fresh start and to recreate yourself and pursue dreams or things that may never have been realistic or available when married. 2. PURGE SOCIAL MEDIA. Make sure you remove your former spouse off your social media. Delete and remove picture, emails, and texts. Do not follow him or her on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. If you fail to do so you will be confronted with continuing painful reminders and will lead to you being stuck in the past and not focusing on the future. 3. INDULGE AND EXPAND HORIZONS. Reconnect with family and old friends. Expand your knowledge, take a class and read some interesting books or take up a new hobby. Exercise can often help with overcoming emotional pain. Be open to things, experiences or old hobbies. Explore things you have never done. 4. DO NOT RUSH INTO A NEW RELATIONSHIP. Many professionals believe rushing into dating is not the best way to move past your last relationship. It is often wise and better to give yourself some time and space before you rush back into another relationship. Give yourself time to spend on yourself to step back, evaluate and provide an opportunity for clarity and introspection. People often fail to analyze the mistakes of the past and end up repeating things that lead to future failed relationships. Look for patterns that can help prevent future relationships mistakes. 5. ACCEPT CHANGE AND UPHEAVAL. It often is not easy to get over a divorce or the end of a relationship, but do not dwell on the past every minute of the day. Over time you will heal and the ride will become less bumpy. Your new freedom can lead to many new adventures and you have an opportunity for a new beginning. Never give up. There will be future opportunities for love and fulfillment. I am not a mental health expert or psychologist but as a divorce lawyer with several decades of experience and after representing a few individuals in multiple divorces and experiencing and witnessing the struggles some clients have I believe these recommendations are extremely helpful to prepare for your exciting future. Anti-Palimony Statute Does Not Bar Claim For One-Half Interest In Property Listed As Joint-Tenant In Lendzyk vs.Wrazidlo, A14-1331 (Minn. App .July 13, 2015) the Minnesota Court of Appeals interpreted the Minnesota Anti-Palimony statute in an appeal involving a couple who were dating and commingled money in a new home they built. Boyfriend Lendzyk and girlfriend Wrazidlo began dating in 2006. At that time each owned a home in northern Minnesota. Girlfriend sold home and moved into boyfriend’s home with her two children. They then decided to build a home together. In 2008 girlfriend bought a lot, title to lot was recorded in her name and she financed a construction loan for the home. After the construction was completed the parties arranged to refinance the construction loan. The loan was refinanced into joint tenancy and both parties signed a mortgage identifying them as joint tenants and girlfriend signed a quit claim deed that conveyed her interest in the property to herself and boyfriend as joint tenants. The relationship ended in 2010. In 2012 the boyfriend brought a partition action claiming one-half interest in the property requesting the property be sold and the proceeds be divided between the parties. Testimony was taken that since girlfriend sold her home she would initially buy the lot and pay the majority of the construction costs. After the home was built boyfriend would pay the refinancing cost and then pay for mortgage and insurance. The parties looked at and selected the lot together. Boyfriend testified that the parties agreement was to own the property together, build it together and start a family together. He was going to become more financially involved once he sold his home. Boyfriend paid $10,532 toward closing costs and made monthly mortgage payments and property insurance from 2008 to 2010, which together totaled $77,323. Girlfriend presented evidence she had put $201,171 towards purchasing the property and improvements. Trial court found anti-palimony statute did not bar boyfriend’s claim to an interest in property and found that as joint tenants, the property should be sold and the proceeds equally divided. On appeal the court interpreted the anti-palimony statute, Minn. Stat. 513.075, which in part provides that a contract between a man and woman living together out of wedlock is enforceable only if: (1) the contract is written and signed by the parties, and (2) enforcement is sought after termination of their relationship. Minn. Stat. 513.076 states that unless a contract is executed complying with Minn. Stat. 513.075 a court is without jurisdiction to hear the matter and shall dismiss it as against public policy. The court appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision citing to two other cases. In, In re Estate of Ericksen, 337 N. W. 2d 671, 674 (Minn. 1983) the supreme court held that even though cohabitants had not signed a contract detailing their financial arrangements regarding a home and it was solely titled in on party’s name, the probate court properly considered an unjust enrichment claim to a one-half interest in home where both parties equally contributed to the purchase and maintaining the home. In another case In re Palmen, 588 N.W. 2d 493 495 (Minn. 1999) two cohabitants agreed to built a log cabin together on a lot owned by Palmen. After Palmen died cohabitant Schneider claimed an interest in log cabin stating it was agreed if their relationship ended she would be reimbursed her investment for labor and financial contributions to the log cabin’s construction. The trial court denied the claim, but the supreme court reversed holding the anti-palimony statute does not bar the enforcement of unwritten agreements between parties living together if a party can establish the agreement was supported by consideration independent of the couple living together in contemplation of sexual relations out of wedlock and that the party is seeking to protect their own property and is not seeking to claim the property of the cohabitant. The court noted under the facts in the current case the party was seeking to protect his own property and it was supported by independent consideration unrelated to the cohabitation. Girlfriend also claimed boyfriend’s interest should not be one-half, but limited to the amount of his contributions. The court stated if a property is held as joint tenants there is a presumption of equal property interests. The court found this presumption was not overcome based on the evidence. The trial court found girlfriend’s testimony that boyfriend pressured her to put his name on deed and mortgage was not credible and that the only other evidence presented to rebut the presumption of equal ownership was that girlfriend made greater contributions to the property. The Court upheld the trial court’s decision to equally divide the sales proceeds in light of lack of other evidence to rebut the presumption. In any property or relationship dispute it is prudent to seek representation and advice from an experienced family law attorney.
Question: How Many Calories Does It Take To Heal A Broken Bone? What helps broken bones heal faster? What foods help heal broken bones? Protein helps your body absorb calcium and also aids in tissue repair. With adequate protein, you can accelerate your fracture recovery….You can get protein from many sources, including:Meat.Nuts.Beans.Cheese.Yogurt.Fish.Baked potato.Soy. What are the 5 stages of bone healing? However, these stages have considerable overlap.Hematoma Formation (Days 1 to 5)Fibrocartilaginous Callus Formation (Days 5 to 11)Bony Callus Formation (Days 11 to 28)Bone Remodelling (Day 18 onwards, lasting months-years) Are eggs good for broken bones? Eat plenty of eggs Eggs are a great source of quality protein and they are one of the few dietary sources of vitamin D, so they should be a part of your recovery plan. What should you not eat with a broken bone? Do Broken bones hurt as they heal? Acute pain usually occurs immediately after the fracture when the bone has broken. Sub-acute pain usually occurs the first few weeks after the fracture while the bone and soft tissue heal. Chronic pain is pain that continues long after the fracture and soft tissues have finished healing. Which fruit is best for bones? Do you need more calories when you have a broken bone? When people are immobilized, they worry about gaining weight. However, you should NOT decrease your calorie intake because you will be inactive. In fact, your calorie needs are now greater than usual because your body requires energy from nutritious foods to fuel the healing process. Does your body burn more calories when healing a broken bone? Energy expenditure increases depending on the severity of the injury: long bone fractures, for example, may increase your basal metabolic rate 1 by 15-20%. If your basal metabolic rate is 2,000 calories a day, that’s an extra 300-400 calories, though minus the amount you may no longer need because of exercise. Does sleep help bone healing? From the moderately active to professional athletes, sleep plays a crucial role in injury recovery. Whether you’re dealing with a muscle strain, damaged tendon, or bone injury, sleep is key to getting your body back in top form. How do you know if a broken bone is healing? Why do broken bones hurt more at night?
Transferable Skills A common question posed by clients is “How can I determine what are my transferable skills?” It’s a good question, but emanates from what is often a mistaken belief that a crisp articulation of transferable skills will qualify a job applicant for consideration. Unfortunately, in most instances that’s simply not the case. What are some of the most commonly sought transferable skills? Here’s a list of some of the most common of them: 1. Project management 2. Ability to effectively communicate in writing and orally 3. Time management 4. Multitasking 5. Attention to detail 6. Organization 7. Training 8. Teamwork 9. Technological literacy 10. Public speaking 11. Analysis/Research Most of these skills are primarily functions that have been fulfilled in previous jobs. What’s more important to prospective employers is the degree to which an applicant has made something happen. So, rather than transferable skills I recommend that you think instead about transferable impact, and the skills that are able to demonstrate what effect you’ve had. Skills that lend themselves more readily to illustrating impact are, for example: 1. Leadership 2. Problem solving 3. Motivating others 4. Creativity 5. Initiative If you’re applying for a job that demands some of these skills you will of course need to illustrate them on a resume and in an interview with specific examples. But employers are generally reluctant to gamble on transfer-ability; they are much more comfortable with direct evidence of skills and accomplishments that have been demonstrated in settings, situations, and applied to problems that are likely to be encountered in the new job. This evidence is very difficult to communicate in a resume. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because YOU know you can do a job that you want to land, an employer can easily be convinced of that if you don’t have very clearly related experience. And even if you do, again impact trumps experience. If you are not able to cite directly applicable experience it becomes particularly important to use connections who can vouch for your ability to make a difference. Think about the people you’ve worked for and with who are familiar with your accomplishments, and then ask them to introduce you to (ideally) decision makers when it comes to hiring, or at least to people in an organization for which you’re interested in working. Strong personal recommendations will open doors for you that a resume submitted online simply won’t.
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What are we doing now? —Nayana Nair Another chance to get our high from the powdered dust of dreams, from digging desperately, getting closer to the voice of the demons we buried just yesterday, breaking nails and curfews to save the skins we can’t live without. Another chance at making a home, choosing colors for our ceilings, choosing the sides we will sleep on, choosing not to be the ones we have always been. Another chance, another precious child to be broken, another angel dress to be painted red waiting for our hands, for our tasteless kiss. Choosing everything that leads us to lives that couldn’t possibly have been ours, couldn’t have been so wrong. I know we are the only ones who can give each other chances. Chances – that we are so fond of. But do we need to call it love? Though we have tried and tried and have run out of things that can be fixed. Do we have to call this happiness just because we have been told we must? Do we have to ruin every word, every feeling that we have not felt yet, just because we fear we may never feel them otherwise. Nayana is an engineer and technical writer who also moonlights as an amateur poet. She says, “Writing for me is a process of self realization and an effort to understand what is ever-elusive.” Read more poetry from Nanays Here. %d bloggers like this:
I Remember: The Amusement Park The times they are a-changin’. I remember that I was around 4 or 5 years old (I think) and I was at an amusement park with my friend Eric Boyd and his dad, Tom. And we were going to meet up with my dad, but we couldn’t find him. So we paged him. I was upset.
What is obesity, causes, its effects and how to prevent it Obesity and overweight are sometimes confused. The two terms are related, but obesity refers to the chronic or excess amount of body fat. The body requires a certain amount of fat or weight for heat insulation, energy storage as well as shock absorption. When it is excess, it is associated with health risks. What causes obesity Several factors determine a person’s weight. The most important amongst them is the energy expenditure and calorie intake. When a person takes in more calories than the body requires, such the person will gain weight, and this means that the body stores the excess fat which it could not metabolize. On the other hands when the person takes fewer calories, such a person will shed weight. You now have a basic idea of the primary cause of obesity which is overeating and less of physical activity. Apart from that, there are several other causes of obesity. Some of them are examined below. Common causes of obesity Genetics: This suggests that obesity is inherited. If any of your parents were obese, the chances of one becoming obese are high. Genetics can affect those hormones which are responsible for weight regulation. The primary genetic factor often pointed out as causes of obesity includes leptin. When there is leptin deficiency in the body, it can lead to fat cells in some parts of the body especially the placenta. Leptin is useful in weight control because it directs the brain as to the right quantity of food to be consumed. When it is deficient, it means that the critical function would no longer be performed. Overeating: Perhaps the primary cause of obesity is overeating. When one eats more than the body requires or more than the body metabolizes, the excess would be stored in the body. This implies that it would lead to weight gain. The problem is more in food rich with fat or in sugar. Foods like fried food, fast food as well as sweets are some of the fatty foods. Diets which are very rich in high fats are responsible for obesity when they are taken excessively. Carbohydrates: Furthermore, diets rich in disaccharides could be responsible for the problem. This is because carbs are known to increase the glucose level in the blood. It, in turn, would lead to insulin releases by the pancreas. Again this is not good for the body. Research has shown that insulin enhances fat tissue especially those that can promote weight gain. Because of that, simple carbs such as fructose, sugars, wine, beer, as well as soft drinks and desserts can lead to obesity. Eating habit: Frequency of eating can also cause obesity. When one frequently eats more than the body requires, the excess can be stored in the body cell. Eating more fatty foods could spike the insulin level in the body. This is known to be detrimental because it can lead to weight loss and obesity. Physical inactivity: Sedentary live is not suitable for overweight people. The reason is that inactivity leads to fewer calorie consumption. It implies that excess fat would be stored in the body. This would lead to obesity. Also, some medications are known to cause obesity. Some of them are the antidepressant medications, anticonvulsants as well as valproate and so on. There are several other causes of obesity. These are the major causes. Is obesity a disease There was a debate as to whether to classify obesity as a disease or not. The issue was finally settled in the year 2013 when the American Medical Association AMA came out with the decision that obesity should be treated as a disease. They came to that conclusion after considering the various challenges and the social consequences associated with the condition. These health experts believed that obesity has to do with indiscipline and laziness on the part of patients. These experts concluded that like other medical conditions that can be diagnosed, obesity could be diagnosed. The problem is associated with insufficient willpower on the part of the patients as well as the bad choices they make. There is a need for more research. The classification as a disease will spur more research. Apart from the fact that it requires discipline and proper nutrition, there is the need to carry out more research to discover other ways of dealing with the problem other than behavioral changes that are often canvassed. There is a need for more efforts to effective treatment. It is a disease because it can affect the normal functioning of the body. Furthermore, like other diseases, it comes with its symptoms and signs. Obesity Medicine Association described that condition as chronic, multi-factorial, as well as relapsing neurobehavioral disease. If not adequately addressed, it could lead to adverse psychosocial, biomechanical and metabolic consequences. Such an individual would suffer from impaired metabolic pathways. The pathology of that condition is vast. It also varies, and it depends on the factor responsible for a particular situation. Just like other diseases, the problem cannot be traced to one factor. There are several factors already pointed out to be the primary cause of the problem. Besides, there are several types of obesity, just as the case with several other medical conditions. Some of the models are menopause related, stress induced as well as those that are congenital. Furthermore, there are those that are MC4R deficient and so on. Moreover, research about the condition further revealed that it is related to physical, genetic, metabolic, psychological as well as hormonal and neurological factors and a few others. Furthermore, the condition does not end there, as it is linked to other conditions such as sleep apnea, heart disease, and cancer. Besides, it can influence interpersonal and social relationships negatively. As scientists become aware of fat mechanics, it is clearer while obesity should be classified as a disease. It is has become a health problem responsible for the death of millions of Americans and people from other parts of the world. There is, therefore, the need to confront that pandemic and the best way to do that is to label it a disease so that global attention would focus on that. It is not different from other conditions that attracted medical attention. If the situation is not tackled the symptoms can lead to death. Even if it does not lead to instant death, it can make a living condition to become more worrisome. It is, therefore, a disease. Causes of childhood obesity One of the problems confronting many children across the globe is child obesity. This condition manifests when the child weight is well above the standard weight, and it exposes him to enormous health challenges. It is certain that almost the same factors that are responsible for excess weight among adults are responsible for childhood obesity. Such other factors like genetics and behavior are factors. Research has shown that at that younger age, the primary cause of childhood obesity is genetic factors. This implies that such people always inherit that from any or both of the parents. Besides, genetic issues, as well as unhealthy eating patterns and absence of physical activities, are responsible for that problem. In children, it is only in rare situations that the condition can be associated with medical issues such as hormonal challenges. Research has shown that in most cases of children suffering from the condition, the cause can be traced to family factor. However, not all children born to the obese family would eventually develop that problem. This implies that apart from the genetic issues, life pattern is another cause among children. It is possible for somebody to suffer from that problem while none of the parents suffered obesity. Even in families where that problem is rampant, it could be caused by shared family behaviors. Some of the actions include the family eating pattern as well as their activity habits and so on. When it comes to a child’s weight, two issues are very important, and they include the diet habit as well as the activity level of that child. Research has shown that many of the children who are suffering from that condition prefer to be inactive. This means that they refuse to engage in any physical activity. They like to stay indoors and live a sedentary life which is not suitable for the health of that child. Today, it is common for such children to spend much of their times watching television, videos and so on. This condition is exactly what you get when the child indulges in an excessive daily caloric which is less than caloric which the child expands. The worst is that those foods that are taken excessive calorie do not take healthy ones, but what is known as food junk. If there is excessive consumption of such big food, one needs to indulge inadequate physical activities so that the excess fats can be consumed. If the child engages in physical activities, it would be to his advantage because such a person is going to be more functional. When he or she is more functional, it will lead to the breakdown of those dense foods. Perhaps those children should be helped by their parents to come out of their condition. To go about it, parents can monitor and regulate the quantity of food they consume. If they consume less food, then there would not be excess storage. When those junks do not find its way to the fat cells, the problem of overweight would not be there. They would remain healthy and very functional in society. Overweight and Obesity Overweight and obesity are used interchangeably. While there may be a little difference between them, the two have lots of things in common. Both conditions relate to excessive accumulation of fat in the body system, and this impairs their health. The problem is ravaging millions of people in American, and it is believed that many others have died as a result of that condition. Both conditions are determined by the BMI which is the Body Mass Index, which is the person’s weight measured in KG divided by the height squared. This is measured in meters. Obesity is common in both adults and children. For adults, one can say that somebody is suffering from overweight when the BMI is more or equal to 25. On the other hands, the condition can turn to obesity when the BMI has reached or more than 30. Through that measurement, it is easy to determine the number of people in American that are suffering from any of the conditions since it is now easy to say when somebody is suffering from obesity and when such a person is suffering from overweight. When it is determined, the appropriate treatment can then be formulated to deal with that problem. Obesity in children is not the same as those of adults. This is because there is the age difference between the kid and adults. When it comes to children, there could be classifications as to the number of years. Those below the age of 5 can be described differently from those more than five years and so on. Age differences mattered a lot when it comes to adult and childhood obesity. Research has shown that the problem of childhood obesity is more in female children than it is in male children. The problem of obesity and overweight is a problem not only in developed countries. Many countries in the developing world have more of the problem even than those advanced countries. People used to assume that obesity is because of surplus food available to the patients. The problem used to be more manifest in the developed countries. It seems that the reverse is the case as people in the third world countries have more patients than the developed world. As at the year, 2016, it was assumed that well of 40 million people of children are suffering from that condition. These are children who are within the age of 5 years. Just as the number of obese and overweight patients are on the increase across the globe, the number of deaths associated with it is also on the rise. In many parts of the world especially the developed world, it appears that the number of people suffering from the two conditions is more than those regarded as underweight individuals. The same factors that are responsible for obesity are also responsible for overweight. In most of the cases, it arises as a result of energy imbalance between consumed calories and expended ones. Research has also shown that these are on the increase. Many people now resort to the consumption of unhealthy foods. Effects of obesity Obesity is a big problem in America and all over the world. This is because of the adverse health effects it has on the individual and their relations as well as society generally. It is reported that well over 150 billion dollars were expended yearly for the treatment of obesity-related problems. Apart from that, this problem has led to the death of hundreds of people across the country. Most of these deaths are premature deaths. The worst is the health challenges brought about by the condition. Here are some of the health and other problems that are associated with it all over the globe. High blood pressure: One of the significant challenges of the problem includes high blood pressure. Because it flooded the body with more fat tissue, there is still the need to keep these fat tissues alive, and the best way to do that is to supply sufficient quantities of essential nutrients and oxygen to the body. Blood vessels have to supply more blood to those fatty tissues. This is not good for the heart because it increases the workload. The more blood to circulate also entails more pressure to the artery wall. This will increase the blood pressure. Apart from that, another problem of that extra pounds of weight is that it can increase the heart rate. When that is persistent, it can lead to death. Causes diabetes: Perhaps the worst negative effect of obesity is diabetes. Research has shown that it remains the primary cause of type 2 diabetes among patients. The worst aspect of this is that this kind of diabetes which used to occur only in an adult can now occur in children. It is more in children, and this is a big worry to people all over the world. The best way to deal with diabetes is the application of insulin. The problem is that it can resist insulin which the diabetic patients need to survive. Heart disease: Research has shown that one of the adverse side effects of the condition is heart disease. It can lead to a condition which is known as atherosclerosis, which means the hardening of the arteries. This condition is more in obese people. Research shows that the ratio is ten times to 1 time of a person that does not suffer that problem. Furthermore, it could lead to a coronary artery. This problem is always there. It is because of the fatty deposits which eventually finds its way to the arteries. This means that the smooth flow of blood would be highly impeded. The consequences of this are that it can lead to heart pain and finally, it can cause a heart attack, which can also cause death. When blood clots are formed in the arteries which means that it narrows down the artery, it can cause an instant stroke. Most importantly, it is responsible for joint problems. One of the joint problems that can result from that condition is osteoarthritis. When it affects the essential joints of the body such as the knee as well as the hip. The reason is that the extra weight places the severe burden to the joint and this result in a joint problem. How to prevent obesity Preventing obesity is possible. In medical parlance, prevention is the key to every medical condition. Much will be achieved if it can recognize those symptoms before it becomes severe. In the case of obesity, it is not difficult to tell when one is suffering from that. This is because the sign is visible. If you measure your weight and health experts warn you of the danger you would likely encounter, then you must begin to work on that problem before it becomes manifest. This is what prevention is all about. You must be active: The first thing to do is to be active if you want to avoid this problem. Take an active lifestyle such as walking, climbing upstairs and other sports activities. All these are to ensure that you are active and very functional. This can no doubt increase your metabolic activities. If you can make it to the gym, it is welcomed, but that is not a must. Just go out of your home and spend a few hours exercising. When you do that, those sedentary activities and boredom that lead to overweight would no longer arise. Eating healthy: Another cause of the problem is an unhealthy diet. If you can regulate the way you eat and consume an average of 2000 calories daily, then you can avoid that problem. Moreover, you must be careful about the type of food you eat. Because of that, it is recommended that you consume such diets like legumes, vegetables, fruits, grains, meats as well as the diary. These can help you by not adding unnecessary fat to your body cells. Study FDA food standard and adjust your dietary provision to meet that standard. Watch your weight: Besides, you must watch your weight from time to time. Check your weight routinely to ensure that you are still within the healthy weight consideration. Water: Besides, you require constant water to remain strong and healthy. Water flushes out unhealthy toxins out of the body. You should stick to the FDA standard which is eight to ten glasses of water. If you take that daily, you would be better off as the problem of obesity would hardly arise. When you drink enough quantities of water, it will ensure that you are well hydrated. While water is recommended, you must not take it out of proportion. This means that you have to take it naturally. There is no need to take all these glasses of water at once. It could be counterproductive. Moreover, drink only water and not flavourings and so on. You should not confuse sugar or juice with water. Eat healthy food: The primary cause of the problem is eating junk food. The best thing that you have to do is to ensure that you do not take any of the junk foods. You can also check with the FDA for those foods that are classified as junk foods. The much you avoid this inferior food the best for you. You have to eat, but that would be only when you are hungry.
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By Ifeanyi Chijioke September 13 2016 We have really given this FG hoax faction a chance to live before we kill it, that I term a perfect blow, and I feel we have done so much in exposing the truth and the world now know the truth. The FG, her agents, her publicity tool and MEND will be ruing somehow that they have failed with their hoax TRIPOB, REIPOB and others and it is very crucial that we put this hoax to rest because the more we talk about it when everybody have denied involvement is the more we waste time on FG’s failed strategy. It is said that no publicity is a bad one but the gallant Biafran journalists really gave FG a smelling publicity. • The people of the world have come to the reality that there is no group except a hoax managed by FG through Vanguard media. We have done much to make sure a lie is countered but lingering on it might not be essential. The funeral of the ‘faction’ strategy is over and more might be coming, let us save our strength for their worst. When the news of REIPOB was floated by Vanguard news, it has no basis or whatsoever, there is no identity and neither was anybody shown to the world. The group only existed on the pages of the news paper and used the unprofessionalism or complacency or involvement of Vanguard to wax or live. This was a clear indication of the frustration the FG was into and having made it clear that IPOB is intact and the faction non-existing; it is therefore imperative to put the issue to rest. There is no faction in IPOB because nobody has said he is a faction or he is responsible for any group. The world have not seen any group or neither has any faction been unveiled; this whole thing is a hoax and non-existing; should we not rather put this issue to rest? This hoax faction or non-existing faction has gone on to mention series of names, with Wole Soyinka and Jerry Gana, who are respectively Yoruba and Hausa standing for Biafra; this however gives credence to the fact that Buhari is trying his possible best to fight IPOB and it should be understandable and more of the reason to put this hoax to rest. While the group succeeded in mentioning names of certain Biafrans, those their names were mentioned stood and warned that their names should never be mentioned again because Vanguard mentioning names of people for the FG or the said REIPOB etc is not on ground or did not have any group or met anybody. They are only whipping up names and trying to get attention and in the end make use of the attention they have. Up till date, nobody knows who gives Vanguard press statement and except Henry Okah that was mentioned, nobody knows again who is REIPOB or anything about any faction. So can we please put this faction to rest because there is nothing like REIPOB or TRIPOB and all other names whipped up by Vanguard? Henry Okah was quick to claim acceptance as the leader of the group while the other leaders mentioned warned that they are not aware of any existing group and have not had any contact with anybody over establishment of faction or new groups. It was very clear that when Henry OKah allowed Vanguard to write about him and his acceptance; the whole TRIPOB and REIPOB was the handiwork of MEND. If MEND has shifted its ground after battling Niger Delta Avengers with same strategy; they believed that battling Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB with same strategy will work. But they have failed woefully because the people of Biafra have shown a magnitude of tenacity and determination. They have shown that unity is paramount to them and having understood this, nobody can be bought with money or gold. There is every reason to agree with me that FG is trying to lay their hands on anything like a man being drowned and TRIPOB and REIPOB is one of the thing they could hold and when they held the thing which has given them a little time before being finally drowned; they are now trying to feed off from our curiosity. I cannot apprehend the rationale behind this continued mentioning of a name of a group that is not in existence and giving it unnecessary attention. A group nobody knows its tale or head, a group being managed by Henry Okah to be a faction? I cannot just comprehend and hence I ask what is left for us to put this group to rest? They are not in existence and cannot exist, has MEND left its name to be addressed by REIPOB and TRIPOB. Will Henry Okah get the freedom he is looking for with acceptance of the Vanguard’s report? IPOB is not a terrorist organization or a body but a people and Henry Okah who is a terrorist to have been propelled by FG as the leaded of their hoax is a serious case for the head. • FG through Vanguard mentioned names of people and the leadership of TRIPOB and REIPOB but the leaders mentioned denied any involvement and publicly reiterated that IPOB is one and that they are not aware of any group and warned that FG through Vanguard should stop mentioning their names. Is this not enough to put this hoax to rest; when their said leadership declined and denied, why still mention REIPOB and TRIPOB? It is high time we stopped giving attention to this REIPOB and TRIPOB of a thing because it has come and gone and did not work as planned. If Ikedife the most likely saboteur of Biafra restoration project denied REIPOB and TRIPOB, why is this group still being mentioned, why not put it to rest? Had Emma Powerful the group said is now their factional leader and Emma Mmezu not pleaded to Nnamdi Kanu by washing off their hands, there would have been need for an issue. The whole people mentioned by TRIPOB and REIPOB have openly declared their loyalty to Nnamdi Kanu and urged that there is nothing like faction in IPOB. The names as mentioned by the hoax faction and denied by the people mentioned killed the hoax that it deserves to be put to rest. I finally urge the people of the world and entire Biafrans to put this issue to rest. There is no saboteur anywhere and there is no faction anywhere. The whole thing about TRIPOB and REIPOB is becoming childish that a man mentioning the names or calling them saboteur is simply a kid without IQ. Emma powerful was mentioned as the factional spokesman and he denied and pledged allegiance to Nnamdi Kanu. Emma Mmezu was mentioned as the factional group and he laughed and pledges allegiance to Nnamdi Kanu. Ikedife was mentioned as the leader and he denied and warned never for his name to be mentioned. Other people are mentioned and they warn Vanguard to stop mentioning their names; the whole thing is becoming childish and is due to be put to rest. Game over! Mr.Ifeanyi Chijioke writes for BiafraPost Editor/Publisher: Akachukwu Udo For Biafra Reporters Post A Comment:
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Monday, December 31, 2018 Blogging in 2018 When Google announced that they would shut down Gplus, I decided to move to a blog instead of MeWe or another social network. I had over 1,200 contacts on Gplus, between various Indie RPGs groups and OSR groups. I was quite silent on Gplus save for occasional posts, but I had one or two very productive convesarions per month with various people. That social network allowed me to interact with a network of worldwide contacts and especially UK and US games - which was quite important since I live in Italy and I am definitely out of the loop when it comes to meeting people in person or going to conventions, or even gaming shops. So while I was not posting a lot, I was commenting more and reading even more, basically on a daily basis. I will miss that network when it will be gone. But I do not intend to work to rebuild the whole thing over MeWe or another social network, or at least not in the very near future. I started reading blogs - especially related to OSR games - and I started to write my own (this blog, in fact). And to my surprise, I managed to keep up with a steady 1 post per week since October, and I plan to continue to go on like this in 2019. It's not the same as Gplus. In fact, in 3 months there were 0 comments (so no "connections"), but a decent amount of readers (even if most of them are robots for sure). Still, I find the blogging platform to be better than a social network. I love that what I write remains there for others to read for years to come, that I can discover new blogs and browse their archives, that I can search for content, tag mine, browse tags, etc. This is how I want to read and write OSR in the coming future. So no MeWe for me, thanks. Below, is an index up to December 31st 2018 of what I published in the so called "OSR Bible" project. If you come by this blog just now, have fun reading. And happy 2019! XP and Levels Thursday, December 27, 2018 d6 Saving Throws for LotFP I love the simplicity of the Skills in LotFP which are presented graphically with a d6 with black and white pips. When improving your skill, you color one pip more and the roll is quite simple: roll with a d6 equal or under the score presented by the d6 drawn on your sheet. Using something similar for Saving Throws is something that I was considering for a while, so here it is. This thing is long and boring, though, so here is the final rule. Roll Saving Throws with a d6, as Skills. Roll equal or under for a successful Save. Add one point to a Save score of your choice at level-up, up to level 13 (17 for Clerics). The highest score cannot be more than 2 points above the lowest. The starting scores would be: ParalyzePoisonBreathDeviceMagicUp to level Cleric23232up to 17 Fighter23232up to 13 Magic-User33232up to 13 Specialist22222up to 13 For a cooler, stronger Specialist you may allow a progression up to level 17 (as the Cleric) or at least grant one or two points more at level 1 (player's choice). Read more just if you're interested in the process of getting to the above rule. Let's start by looking for the basic save chances compared with the d6 probabilities, and the d20 probabilities of regular Saving Throws. d6 probabilities (roll equal or under): pips prob. 1 16.7% 2 33.3% 3 50.0% 4 66.7% 5 83.3% 6 100.0% d20 probabilities (roll equal or higher) with specific attention to scores close to the d6 probabilities (note that in some cases the d6 probability is close enough to two different d20 scores): save prob. as d6 1 100.0% as 6 pips 2 95.0% 3 90.0% 4 85.0% as 5 pips 5 80.0% as 5 pips 6 75.0% 7 70.0% 8 65.0% as 4 pips 9 60.0% 10 55.0% 11 50.0% as 3 pips 12 45.0% 13 40.0% 14 35.0% as 2 pips 15 30.0% as 2 pips 16 25.0% 17 20.0% 18 15.0% as 1 pip 19 10.0% 20 5.0% It is clear, comparing the two tables, that the d20 allows for more granularity in the percentage of success. With the d20 each increment counts as making 5% more likely your success in a Saving Throw, while with the d6 chances step up over 16,7% (somewhere between 3 and 4 points on a d20 scale). This means that of course also the improvements at level-up should increase proportionally slower. Consider also that in the progression tables provided by LotFP, the Saving Throw scores increase not every level, but every four or so... and increments are not by one point only, but two, three, sometimes four points each time (thus favoring the implementation of the d6). Below are the tables with the proposed d6 scores (roll equal or under), for the four human classes. The column with (d6) are with the new scores. When in doubt, I tried to favor a little the lower levels, and less the higher levels (thus increasing a bit survivability at the start, and keeping the game dangerous at higher levels). Also note that when the score reaches 6, the success is not granted. LotFP, for skills, requires that with a score of 6 you roll 2d6 and fail if both come up with a result of 6. In the tables, it is presented as 6. Level Paralyze Paralyze(d6) Poison Poison(d6) Breath Breath(d6) Device Device(d6) Magic Magic(d6) 1 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 15 (30%) 2 (33.3%) 5 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 9 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 13 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 3 (90%) 5 (83.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (85%) 5 (83.7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 17 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 2 (95%) 6 (94,7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 4 (85%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (80%) 5 (83.7%) 0* 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 15 (30%) 2 (33.3%) 18 (15%) 1 (16.7%) 1 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 15 (30%) 2 (33.3%) 13 (40%) 3 (50%) 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 4 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 13 (40%) 3 (50%) 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 7 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 10 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 13 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 4 (85%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (80%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (80%) 5 (83.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 0* NPCs only 1 13 (40%) 3 (50%) 13 (40%) 3 (50%) 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 13 (40%) 3 (50%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 6 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 11 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 16 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 5 (80%) 5 (83.7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 19 5 (80%) 5 (83.7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (85%) 5 (83.7%) 4 (85%) 5 (83.7%) 1 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 16 (25%) 2 (33.3%) 15 (30%) 2 (33.3%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 5 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 14 (35%) 2 (33.3%) 13 (40%) 3 (50%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 9 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 12 (45%) 3 (50%) 11 (50%) 3 (50%) 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 13 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 10 (55%) 3 (50%) 9 (60%) 4 (66.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 17 5 (80%) 5 (83.7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) 8 (65%) 4 (66.7%) 7 (70%) 4 (66.7%) 6 (75%) 5 (83.7%) For better use, here are the tables only with the d6 scores. Level Paralyze(d6) Poison(d6) Breath(d6) Device(d6) Magic(d6) 1 2 (33.3%) 3 (50%) 2 (33.3%) 3 (50%) 2 (33.3%) 5 3 (50%) 4 (66.7%) 2 (33.3%) 3 (50%) 3 (50%) 9 3 (50%) 4 (66.7%) 3 (50%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (66.7%) 13 4 (66.7%) 5 (83.7%) 4 (66.7%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 17 5 (83.7%) 6* (94,7%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 0* 2 (33.3%) 2 (33.3%) 2 (33.3%) 2 (33.3%) 1 (16.7%) 4 3 (50%) 3 (50%) 3 (50%) 3 (50%) 2 (33.3%) 7 3 (50%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (66.7%) 3 (50%) 10 4 (66.7%) 5 (83.7%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (66.7%) 3 (50%) 13 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 4 (66.7%) 0* NPCs only 16 5 (83.7%) 4 (66.7%) 4 (66.7%) 5 (83.7%) 5 (83.7%) 9 4 (66.7%) 3 (50%) 3 (50%) 3 (50%) 3 (50%) I am not a big fan of this sort of tables, so the next step would be to determine a starting line for each class, with Save scores at level 1, and assign a number of points to add every level (not every few levels like LotFP). This way, the player gets a little freedom in which score to increase, and gain a little more chances of surviving every level. A Cleric for example starts with 2-3-2-3-2 and with 4 levels (1 to 5) gains 3 points, 1-1-0-0-1. To favor lower levels, we could grant one point per level. To keep the balance, we could also rule that the highest Save score cannot be more than 2 points higher than the lowest. This would ensure a progression across all Saves. If we compare what we have at the start and what we would have at the highest level presented by the original tables, we would get: - Up to level 17, one point too much for the Cleric (I could live with that) - Up to level 13, ok for the Fighter - Up to level 19, too many points for the Magic-User. Either we accept this power-up, or we stop the MU at level 13 as the Fighter, which I prefer (not exact math, but having the same level helps you to memorize the rule. This makes the progression in Saves faster, though, but again I am ok with this) - Up to level 17, three points too much for the Specialist. The temptation is to stop it at level 13 as Fighter and Magic-User, but I also like the idea of a Specialist who can survive better (as a Cleric) at higher levels So the final rule would be this. The starting scores would be: Paralyze Poison Breath Device Magic Up to level Cleric 2 3 2 3 2 up to 17 Fighter 2 3 2 3 2 up to 13 Magic-User 3 3 2 3 2 up to 13 Specialist 2 2 2 2 2 up to 13 I like this. I was not the only one of course to come up with something similar, so here are a few links which I collected after I made my own rule: - In Alternate Saving Throw by DeathKnight4044 there is a draft of a system connected to the level of the characters and of the opponent - In Some Thoughts on Saving Throws by KYLYNSMALL there is a system similar to mine - In Saving Throws as d6 Skills by Red Flanagan there is another system similar to mine, with a nicer layout and presentation and with slightly lower Save scores at low levels - In A suggested alternate saving throw system to go along with LotFP by CaptainAhash Saving Throws are rolled with 2d6 (presenting the chances for success if both or either die are equal or lower than the save level - In Skills revisited: Dice pools and the LotFP playtest rules by Dan Domme there is a short review of the new Saving Throws system presented by James Raggi in his playtest document for new rules for LotFP. Alternate Saving Throw by DeathKnight4044 [...] Thanks for all the replies everyone. This is mostly what im leaning towards at the moment: - Saving throw is recorded along with all other skills at a base of 2 in 6 chance of success. - A 13+ in a relevant attribute will increase this rank by 1 - At levels 3 and 6 the saving throws skill rank increases by 1. (so a 6th level character has a 4 in 6 saving throw) - Saving vs an enemy or spell casters magic that is higher level/HD than you lowers your skill rank by 1. Saving vs an enemy or spell casters magic whos lower level/HD than you grants a +1 to your saving throw skill rank. - A 6 is always a fail [...] Some Thoughts on Saving Throws My house rule for saving throws integrates alongside this skill system. In the same way that the thief skills were taken from a table of automatic progression and their own distinct mechanic, it takes the saving throws off of preset tables and gives them the same level of player choice as the specialist has in its skills. As of now, I suggest using the same “classic” saving throw categories (Paralyze, Poison, Breath, Device, and Magic), but simply starting each one at a 1 in 6 chance on a d6 of success. Maybe providing class based starting levels, such as starting fighters with a 2 in 6 chance of Poison and Breath saves, to reflect their greater resilience and reaction time. All classes would get a single “Save Point” per level that they could apply to any of the saving throws, moving from a 1 in 6 to a 2 in 6 chance for example. Specialists, on the other hand, would move from getting 2 Skill Points per level to 3 Skill Points per level. The Specialist can use these points on either skills or saving throws. This gives the opportunity, for example, for a specialist that is extremely resilient and dexterous rather than extremely skilled if most points are applied into saving throw categories. Or even a Specialist that is particularly weak in terms of saving throws but is extra skilled compared to others. [...] A suggested alternate saving throw system to go along with LotFP by CaptainAhash [...] Roll 2 dice to save. If either are equal to or less than your save level, you succeed. save level 0 (only snake eyes succeeds): 1/36 (2.8%) save level 1: 11/36 (30.6%) save level 2: 20/36 (55.6%) [...] Roll 2 dice to save. Both must be equal to or less than your save level to succeed. save level 0: automatic fail save level 1: 1/36 (2.8%) save level 2: 4/36 (11.1%) [...] Skills revisited: Dice pools and the LotFP playtest rules by Dan Domme Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Traits for characters Something which I found particularly interesting at char-gen, is the option to have one or more (but just a few) traits associated with the character. It's true that in the spirit of the OSR, it is perfectly fine to start with a "blank" character, and see it emerge in play. This process of discovery of your own character is a part of the "exploration" contained in the classic OSR spirit. You don't just discover what's in the dungeon and explore the surrounding wilderness; you don't just hexcrawl through the kingdom... in the process, you also discover "who" your character is (if they survive, of course). Depending on how your character will face certain situations or dangers, how it will react in front of failure or success, and depending on what will inspire you when role-playing, you may find yourself with a character who has proven to be smart or brave, cautious or avid, careless or clumsy, cold or ambitious or whatever. On the other hand, I've seen too often characters who are "blank" at the start which simply develop in a cliché, in something (someone) too familiar, too simple, too flat. Having one or more character traits at the start, right from char-gen, can change that. When your character has perhaps a positive and a negative trait from the start, you get something to role-play with. You don't get a blank sheet, but some constraints, and as we all know, constraints foster creativity. It is often easier and more satisfying to role-play a character with a couple or a few traits (not too many, so they don't become a burden)... you still get to decide what to do, of course, but you try to play with the cards that fate dealt you. So try this, build a list of negative and positive traits, and assign a couple to every new character at the start of the game. See how it goes, see how they get to be played in the game - and why not? how they change adventure after adventure. As for how to assign traits, I am of course a firm believer in random tables. For example, these are snapshots taken from the Crying Blades. If you look for some source of inspiration outside the usual OSR links, here are some for you: 638 Primary Personality Traits (lots of traits, divided in Positive, Neutral and Negative) 1,000 NPC Traits by Chad Samuels 100 NPC Personality Types by SHAM AKA DAVE - d100 NPC Character Traits A list of mannerisms for writers The last link is especially interesting because it offers examples of how a character behaves in certain situations. The article focuses on a temporary conditions, such as: Anger, frustration, apprehension: Hands clasped behind back Boredom: Prolonged tilted head These are not useful on their own, as traits, but may very well serve as inspiration for a typical character behavior. Think of a newly generated fighter with average stats and regular gear. You start with an empty sheet and you will perhaps see the fighter's personality emerge over time. Take the same fighter and give it (totally random): careful, broken nose, and the habit of walking around with the hands clasped behind his back. I guess I could play with this; I could make something of this right away, in the first scenes of the first adventure. I guess even if the fighter died soon enough, perhaps a few months later we would still, sometimes, talk about that fighter I lost in the third room of the dungeon - yes, the one with the serious attitude and a broken nose, walking with the hands behind his back, muttering to himself half of the time... Note also that if you search'll for random tables for traits, you'll most likely find more complete tables if searching for NPCs' traits rather than characters' traits. The only thing you need to do is to parse those tables, copy-paste what seems interesting to you, and build your own tables. A classic is one positive and one negative trait, although (as you've seen above for the Crying Blades) I like to leave a bit of margin for players to pick up what they like better. Still, I don't present players with lists of tens or hundreds of traits asking them to pick one or two. Too many choices would lead to a long decision time, and I like better the idea of a random roll (perhaps mitigated by the option of selecting instead the entry right after or right before the number you rolled). Something to remember is that those traits should inspire role-play, but have no mechanical rules associated with them. There are no bonuses or penalties (not to rolls in game, not to XP rewards). The idea is that those traits simply describe a little of your character's personality and give you some guidelines on how to portray this new character. Moreover, traits should not become something that burdens the player and forces them to role-play something they are not happy with... If a fighter comes up with a "coward" trait, the player could still want to role-play a brave and fierce character. Either change the trait from the start, or perhaps consider the option to role-play how your character, from coward becomes brave (if they survive long enough). If you want to add a mechanical weight to those traits, though, consider for example the article below, with traits which come with some mechanical modifiers or abilities. In fact, they are named as traits in the title of the post, but I consider them more like innate abilities or backgrounds. Yet, they're presented here as an example of adding something mechanical from the start to a character, to give it somehow more depth. I guess it's clear already that I prefer narrative traits - and backgrounds - and I would leave such mechanical bonuses to abilities or similar... but this does not take away anything from the value of the post below (which I will reasonably re-link again when presenting innate abilities or skills or backgrounds). Exceptional Traits for B/X (oh crap...) by JB [...] Disclaimer: Please be aware that I do not think any of this is necessary to enjoy B/X play. I believe the creative minded person can come up with their own interesting/unusual character within the confines of the seven fine character types and the Big Six ability scores. [...] For each character roll once on the proper table at 1st level to determine the character’s exceptional trait. Dwarves and Halflings should roll on the Fighter Table; Elves may roll on either the Fighter or Magic-User Table (not both). DMs may allow characters to gain additional traits as a character advances in level [...] Cleric (Roll D10) 1. Animal Friend 2. Apostate* 1. Animal Friend: Normal animals (not giant, prehistoric, or magical) are naturally disposed to the cleric (+2 all reaction rolls). 2. Apostate: The cleric was originally a member of an opposite order and retains much forbidden knowledge; the cleric may freely cast normal or reversed spells regardless of alignment. [...] Fighter (Roll D10) 1. Berserk 2. Dopplehander 1. Berserk: In melee combat the fighter may enter a frenzied state gaining a +1 to hit and damage rolls and immunity to fear effects. The fighter may not flee or evade combat once entering a berserk and is always fatigued afterwards. 2. Dopplehander: The fighter is adept at using two-handed melee weapons, gaining a +1 on damage rolls and +1 bonus to Armor Class. The fighter still attacks last and may not use a shield. [...] Magic-User (Roll D10) 1. Conjurer 2. Elvish Blood 1. Conjurer: The magic-user may perform simple illusions and sleight of hand tricks and may pick pockets as a thief of the same level. 2. Elvish Blood*: The magic-user has elvish blood in his or her ancestry and enjoys both the infravision and immunity to paralysis abilities of the elf class. The magic-user will generally be long-lived as well. [...] Thief (Roll D10) 1. Acrobat 2. Cat Burglar 1. Acrobat: The thief is capable of many feats of agility and has a 50% chance of being able to somersault or back-flip behind an opponent in melee allowing a “backstab” attempt. 2. Cat Burglar: The thief has no fear of heights and may balance on thin ledges or tight ropes with the same chance as climbing sheer surfaces. If the thief falls while climbing, the player may make a second roll at half the normal chance in order to catch himself, preventing any damage. [...] More to the point of narrative traits - yes, this is the last link - you can browse the post below on the enworld forum. I think in the end they play very similarly to those provided in the previous lists, but they are listed as Personality Traits, Ideals, Bonds, and Flaws. The presentation is a little more verbose; perhaps a bit harder to fit in a multiple-columns table but probably nice if your players need a bit more to work with, when they have to role-play. In fact these sentences give some specific direction at the expanse of brevity, but I find them even easier to role-play. List of All Personality Traits, Ideals, Bonds & Flaws by Leugren [...] Personality Traits I idolize a particular hero of my faith and constantly refer to that person's deeds and example. Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude. [...] Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful) Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic) [...] Everything I do is for the common people. [...] I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely. I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple's hierarchy. My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god. I am inflexible in my thinking. [...] So, some design notes for traits: - Randomly assigned - One or more tables (of course by setting/spirit of the game, but also by type of trait... at minimum positive/negative) - Expand with mannerisms, for example - From all the lists, take only what is clearly interesting... Don't use stuff which is too hard to role-play or may have only a very marginal appearance in play - I would stay away from traits with mechanical effects, and leave mechanics to abilities/skills/talents - Consider using also something a little more verbose, if your players need a bit of help in role-playing Friday, December 14, 2018 Black Dogs zine - issue number 7 Less than a month ago it was an adventure, The Village and the Witch... Now it's a new issue of my fanzine, the Black Dogs - issue number 7. (Don't get used to this, it has been a coincidence and I expect 2019 to be different, with a much slower publishing rate) It has been a year of publishing the Black Dogs, and although there are a few things that I would like to have done differently (read: better), I am quite proud of the result. I also would love to go back to the previous issues and fix a few things, improve some others, etc., but life always gets in the way. Perhaps in 2019... Issue VII contains: creatures that are not elves, some words about dwarfs, quick-start adventuring gear, an adventure in Balthergar and some swamp monsters. Download and POD on Drivethrurpg: Print on Lulu: This product is an independent production by Daimon Games and is not affiliated with Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Lamentations of the Flame Princess is a registered trademark owned by James Edward Raggi IV. Thursday, December 13, 2018 In the second article about getting XP, we mentioned Carousing. Basically, it allows characters to gain XP by wasting their money (in a fixed or variable amount) on vice and celebrations after an adventure. It is typically a downtime activity, and often leads to entertaining misadventures and complications. In fact, the best part about carousing house-rules is not the rule(s) itself, but the one or more random tables of possible complications. Carousing has become a fashionable system to award XP to characters. In most cases, carousing may have rules that either: - Grant additional XP - Replace (at least in part) the treasure for XP rules In the first case, as in JEFF RIENTS article below, Party like it's 999, carousing is used as an additional source of XP. Your character brings home 1,000 coins (gold, silver, whatever your standard is...) and gains 1,000 XP for the purpose of leveling-up. If that money is spent regularly (i.e. to buy equipment, set aside to buy a piece of land or a headquarter for the party later on, spent on bribes or in the normal upkeep costs of retainers, etc.), that's all. One thousand coins, one thousand Experience Points. The obvious design drive behind this sort of rule, is that money spent wisely brings regular XP. Money spent carousing, though, is "wasted" but charming - so if you spend your treasure carousing like any respectable adventurer would do, you gain extra XP. It's again encouraging players to make a choice so that they get additional XP. Carousing is good, of course. It helps to give some depth to the characters, to show their flaws, their spirit... it spices up downtime and offers a chance for other adventures, to meet new NPCs, and so on. It makes the characters feel alive between adventures. It is, as said above, a reasonable thing for adventurers to do... Moreover, it may keep the characters broke or nearly so, or anyway avoid or delay the moment where they have so much money that they don't know what to do with it... Accumulating wealth for the sake of getting XP is not so funny... wasting it in meaningful, entertaining carousing which gives you a great story to tell about the adventures' weekend? It's great! Party like it's 999 Carousing Mishaps 5) Gambling losses. Roll the dice as if you caroused again to see how much you lose. (No additional XP for the second carousing roll.) [...] A more drastic approach is to say that treasure counts for nothing unless it is wasted on carousing. In his article, Well, I was a wee bit tipsy and... Extended Carousing-Mishaps, our ZAK SABBATH does just that. See this? "Normally, PCs will only get x.p. for monsters" [...] Normally, PCs will only get x.p. for monsters. However, once they get to a Big City, they may trade g.p. for x.p. by blowing it on various forms of strong drink. Exchange rate is 1 to 1 and must be exchanged in chunks of at least 100 g.p. per PC. Resulting X.p. is divided evenly among the players. However, for every (total # of PCs) x 100 x.p. exchanged, one member of the party (the party may choose who) must carouse excessively. The excessive carouser must then roll d20 on the Modified Carousing Mishaps Table below. [...] Complex results are resolved at the beginning of the next session: 1-As original chart . 2-Random pub brawl. Whole party faces number of brawlers = # of PCs. Resolve as normal combat but overcarousing PC is at -2 for being drunk. 3-As original. 4-Wake up in bed with someone... roll on subtable below. 5-Gambling losses. Gain o x.p.. [...] Wake Up In Bed/Smitten Subtable (d12) 1. Succubus 2. Dead albino elf 3. Apparently normal attractive member of orientation-appropriate gender 4. Randomly determined other PC (neither remembers anything) 5. S/he's ugly. You're married. 6. (Roll again on this table.) You're married. [...] In another articles, we can find additional random tables, divided for example by topics, such as Philanthropy, Drinking/Orgies, Study/Research, and Gourmandising, etc. or rules with a focus on characters deciding how they spend money on carousing: On Cities, Part III, by Courtney Campbell - Carousing and other ways to go mad, by Gieljan de Vries Downtime Activities + Carousing Table, by Arnold K. Party Like You Mean It: A Gathoxian Carousing Table by Jesse Goldshear - Bacchanalia - Enhanced Carousing Tables by Aleksi Nikula (link to Gdocs since there is no blog post about this) - d30 - DRINKING, CAROUSING AND GENERAL MERRYMAKING by Shane Ward (added January 2019) So, when it comes to carousing, if you want to adopt any of the systems presented or you want to design your own rules, consider these notes: - Is carousing the source of additional XP, or is it the only way to convert treasure into XP? - Is it based on a random, or partially random amount? Can it introduce debt? - What do you want to insert in the random table for carousing? - Do you roll every time, or only in certain instances (i.e. a failed save, or too much money spent)? Do you want to introduce variables to this roll (i.e. based on the amount spent or based on success/failure cases)? A thought, now, on the original gold-for-XP design... If we look at the original XP rule of 1 coin equal 1 XP, we notice that carousing adds a layer of complexity... or more than one layer if we start to consider random amounts, debts, multiple tables, rolls to save, etc. What is it better? The simplicity of 1 gp for 1 XP, or carousing rules and random tables? Well, in a sense we could say that carousing adds complexity, but gives you also a lot of flavor and opportunities, so if you're looking for a very simple and straightforward game, 1 gp for 1 XP is ok, but carousing seems like a very good option if you can manage its overload. On the other hand, someone could argue that a good GM does everything that carousing do, without the need of formal house-rules. A GM could keep the standard 1 gp for 1 XP rule and then: - Enforce the payment of upkeep costs and perhaps just add a certain (even variable) amount to spend for the characters (which takes care of reducing the accumulated treasure and perhaps introduces debt) - Roleplay not just the dungeon, but also the downtime. A skilled GM could introduce anything that is on a carousing random table, and more, as complications, and could do it with all the flexibility that a random table cannot have (i.e. present opportunities with NPCs, romance, complications, etc. which are tailored to the specific character or perfect for the situation) In a sense, I now have the feeling that having rules for carousing would be good, especially if you're planning on long-term play. The upside of having interesting actions occurring in downtime, the fun and opportunities of random tables, are worth the price of additional complexity. And while a good GM could come up with better events perfectly suited for your characters, and obtain the same results without the need to tie this to the XP system, all the carousing material remains a valid source of inspiration. Thursday, December 6, 2018 Gaining XP (number 3), by class See part one here. See part two here. Look at the images below; they are cut from the XP sheets of Shadis and were posted by Greg Gorgonmilk. I didn't know about the game before I saw these, but look how they are focused in driving players to play their characters in a certain way. - Treasure: 50% for clerics (but double if it's a religious artifact) - Killing: 50% for clerics (normal if the enemy is of opposite alignment) - Treasure: 50% for magic-users (normal if it's a magical treasure, but must be investigated) - Killing: 50% for magic-users (normal if the enemy has special abilities, double if magical) - Killing: 50% for thieves (normal if the enemy is not killed but negotiated past) - Treasure: 50% for thieves (normal if treasure did not involve killing or force, double if stolen) - Killing: 100%(?) for fighters (not clear if this is normal, 100%, determined by the GM) - Treasure: 100% for fighters (double if treasure is armor or weapons etc.) - Points for leading the party through danger (pushing the "leader" role) So with all the other design notes about the XP rewards, we could add this: different XP reward according to the character's class. There is one way to put it, which is to reduce the XP for those actions considered to be not perfectly aligned with the character's class (i.e. a thief is discouraged from killing monsters - 50% XP - but instead encouraged to find other treasures, perhaps unguarded - for a full 100% XP) and another way to increase the points when the actions fit the archetype of the class (i.e. for the thief is better to steal treasures - for 200% XP, double). I didn't know Shadis but actually I found in other games a similar approach (i.e. I am thinking of several modern indie games which encourage players to hit "keys" or use their character's abilities to gain XP). So when I worked on the Black Dogs 'zine and made my own XP system, I used something similar... There is the traditional silver-for-XP (for treasures and rewards) and HD-for-XP (for killing or defeating enemies), but there are additional sources of XP, as by the image below. They are not divided by class, but of course different classes would pursue certain goals more easily than others. Something more, though, still from the Black Dogs, that I haven't seen formalized as such in other games: give XP for actions done by the players which mirror those of the characters. (I am sure someone can post a link with someone else using this or something similar as an house-rule 10 years earlier than me... there is "nothing new" in the OSR... but I still like that I came up with this on my own, independently.) In the Black Dogs the characters fight monsters and explore the wilderness, and I guess if that fantasy world was real, there would be some accumulated knowledge about how to fight monsters, about how to overcome certain obstacles, and there would be maps, and there would be tales of previous members of the company of the Black Dogs (think of the Black Company annuals, yes). And when I think back at my time playing RPGs when I was just a kid or just a little older, I remember drawing and writing a lot, and enjoying the feeling of having multiple notebooks full of ideas, stories, characters, monsters, maps... So, this is actually to encourage players to get their hands dirty with ink. Basically, players are encouraged to make maps, drawings, and write reports (diaries), with a 100 XP reward per session. Anyone working on that material to polish them up and make beautiful maps, drawings or writings, gets another 200 XP. So a map could be worth 300, for example: 100 for mapping during game night, and 200 for polishing it up at home, between sessions. Note that there is a reward for physical, not digital products. This also encourages players to keep in touch with their fantasy world even when some time passes between sessions... Having a map to re-draw, an illustration to polish, some pages of a diary or report to edit or copy in a nice calligraphy, is a great way to reduce real-life stress and to earn XP! You don't need the full Black Dogs 'zine to introduce these XP rules in your game. Just the images above are sufficient. But if you want to support the Black Dogs 'zine and me, the XP rules are in issue number 4: So, design notes: - different XP reward according to the character's class - XP for hirelings or leadership - XP for HP loss or wounds - XP for critics - XP for searching, discovering, curiosity, for facing dangers - XP for players' actions: maps, drawings, writings (with bonus for physical products, not digital) Thursday, November 29, 2018 Gaining XP (number 2) See part one, here. Where Jeff Rients was not suggesting to replace gold for XP with exploration for XP, Gieljan de Vries does so in the article linked below. The change is drastic: treasures (and killings) do not count for level-up. Only special items do (physical trophies [...] stuff with a story attached). eXPloration - XP is selling a story about a thing by Gieljan de Vries [...] This post is about making all XP gains about discovering sites and information, and bringing back trophies of your adventures. - XP is tied to physical trophies of your adventures: the stuff with a story attached. There can be extra treasure without an XP value which is still worth money. - You convert these trophies into money and XP by selling them to interested parties. Ask if you know any likely buyers or suggest shady contacts of your own. - Bigger sites can involve multiple items to carry all the XP home. If the DM hasn't prepped specific items, feel free to suggest mementoes you could take with you. - Each coin of silver earned via trophies gives you 1 XP. This assumes a silver-based economy - adjust to taste. [...] - Just in case this needs to be said: no XP for killing random opponents or for just bringing home a haul of coins and gems. [...] - Carousing is still a thing. I don't want it to overshadow the main XP sources, so will probably tweak the gains a bit. If the regular rate is 1 XP per silver, maybe have carousing give 1 XP per 5 silver. [...] Oh well, Gieljan de Vries changed his mind towards the end of the article. Carousing is still a thing. But keeping XP tied only and exclusively to trophies (treasures in the sense of special, rare or unique items) is definitely interesting. Another article about exploring to get XP - see how it reinforces the idea that killing and looting are not the only ways to play OSR games. (Remember that we said that what you give XP for, will be what players will do?) Meeting interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and NOT killing them by Zzarchov [...] Some examples listed in Piecemeal are: - Uncommon Locations 50xp (ie, a border fort deep in the woods) - Rarely Visited 400xp (ie, a far off mountain monastery) - Unseen for Years 1000xp (ie, a far off kingdom across the sea) - Unseen for Generations 2000xp (ie, the same kingdom if the sea is infested with sea monsters) - Of Questionable Veracity 5000xp (ie, uncovering Troy or Machu Picchu) - Fabled Locations 10,000xp (ie, finding El Dorado or Shangri-La) - Mythic Locations 50,000xp (ie, finding the Garden of Eden or Noah's Ark) These are just rough guidelines if you have your own unique XP awards for various locations. [...] Also the next two linked articles are again from Zzarchov: the first goes back to the idea that the way XP is awarded will influence the style of your game. In this example, to encourage players to capture enemies instead of killing them (a prisoner is more valuable than a corpse), Zzarchov suggests to give more XP for capturing an opponent than for driving them away or killing them. Murder gets boring by Zzarchov This one deals with the problem of wholesale slaughter of your enemies. In this particular post I'll deal with murdering opposing villains, the big villain or at least the stalwart dark lieutenant. Many GM's are frustrated that they cannot have a recurring villain because PC's will not stop until they murder them. [...] This creates an incentive to not ALWAYS murder, without making it mandatory. While taking prisoners is more valuable it is also more dangerous. [...] The last article goes back to the root of changing the way you award XP if indeed you desire a slightly different style of play, or want to introduce more variety. Zzarchov recognizes that most games do not support "high fantasy adventures" (and several, explicitly so). But if you want something other than looting dungeons, you need to change the way XP is awarded... or change the way levels are gained. This is indeed a slightly different take on the subject: instead of telling you to reach milestones and giving a level every milestone, Zzarchov puts a sort of level cap, or better yet, a level requirement. For example, killing nameless orcs is meaningless at a certain point; if you want to level-up past your limit, you need to slay a dragon or something similar. Adventuring should be the best option mechanically by Zzarchov This is a broad flaw, a lot of games that support "high adventure" really don't. The most effective route to achieving your personal goals and ambitions is to not go out and adventure. [...] 1.) Keypoints (or milestones) part of the XP system is that merely gaining XP won't let you exceed level caps. To get beyond certain levels ( Zero, Five, Ten and Fifteen) you need to accomplish feats of certain worth. No matter how many orcs you slay, you won't get past level five until you do something that raises you from Local Hero to National Hero, such as slaying a dragon, overthrowing a corrupt barony, converting a province to ones faith, robbing the royal vault, etc. [...] Design notes: - gold for XP, traditional (low power adventurers trying to get rich) - consider also silver for XP, treasure in silver, but prices in gold (characters are often broke) - mission for XP - survival (food? other? survival to horror? to monsters?) for XP - Gain a level on a main achievement (a kill, an island) - which brings us to explore for XP; XP granted for visiting specific places (or just for travel, I wouldn't drop the miles-per-XP of the good old MERP), for witnessing life-changing events, and so on... - XP tied ONLY and exclusively to trophies (special, rare or unique items); no XP for killings and no XP for coins and gems Additional thoughts: - Your kills are your level - Your inventory is your level - XP for kills: what about giving XP the first time you kill a certain monster (i.e. a goblin), but only the first time? This will make players keep a note of their "first kills", which is great (I am sure this is not my idea, I must have read it somewhere...) - XP for capturing: give more XP for a captured enemy than for a dead one - Level caps or limitations; you cannot get past level 5, 10, 15 etc. unless you achieve something very special (which could also be translated in doing something which grants you a really popular status in-game) Next, let's talk about gaining XP differently depending on your character's class. Will continue here.
so here is what I have: $G$ is a group. For $i \in \{1,2\}: p_i:G \twoheadrightarrow G_i$ is a surjective morphism of groups. $H_i = ker(p_i), H_1 \cap H_2 = \{1\}$ In the other parts of the question I found out that: $p: G \rightarrow G_1 \times G_2$ given by $p(g) = (p_1(g),p_2(g))$ is injective. $K_1 = p_1(H_2) = p_1(H)\lhd G_1$ and $K_2 = p_2(H_1)= p_2(H)\lhd G_2$ and $H= H_1 \cdot H_2 \lhd G$ and $p(H) = K_1 \times K_2$. I also know that $p^{-1}_1(K_1)= H$ and $p_2^{-1}(K_2)=H$ and there are isomorphisms of groups $\bar{p_i}: G/H \rightarrow G_i/K_i$ sending $gH \mapsto p_i(g)\cdot K_i$ From this I am supposed to find the isomorphism induced by $p$ that maps $G \rightarrow L=\{(x_1,x_2) \in G_1 \times G_2 \| f_1(x_1)=f_2(x_2)\}$ where $f_i: G_i \rightarrow G/H, f_i=\bar{p_i}^{-1} \circ \pi: G_i \overset{\pi}\twoheadrightarrow G_i/K_i \overset{\bar{p_i}^{-1}} \rightarrow G/H$ I figured that there would be a function $\bar{p}: G/H \rightarrow (G_1/K_1, G_2/K_2)$ mapping $gH \mapsto (p_1(g)\cdot K_1, p_2(g)\cdot K_2)$ and that $f_1(x_1) = f_2(x_2) \iff p_1(g) = p_2(g)$ for some g. I'm stuck at this point and just can't figure out how to proceed. Any help would really be greatly appreciated! The solution from class in the end was this: $ p: G\rightarrow L=\{(x_1,x_2) \in G_1 \times G_2 \| f_1(x_1)=f_2(x_2)\} \subset G_1\times G_2$ because we know that $p$ is an injective morphism of groups and for $g\in G: p(g)=(p_1(g),p_2(g))$ and $f_1(p_1(g)) = \bar{p_1}^{-1} \circ \pi (p_1(g)) = \pi(g) = f_2(p_2(g)) \Rightarrow p(g)\in L.$ Also for $(x_1,x_2)\in L, x_i := p_i(g_i), g_i\in G:$ $\pi(g_1) = \bar{p_1}^{-1}\circ\pi\circ p_1(g_1) = f_1\circ p_1(g_1) = f_1(x_1) = f_2(x_2) = \pi(g_2) $ $\Rightarrow g_1^{-1}g_2 \in H = ker(\pi) = H_1\cdot H_2 \Rightarrow g_1^{-1}g_2=h_1h_2, h_i\in H_i, g:=g_1h_1 =g_2h_2^{-1},$ $\Rightarrow p(g) = (p_1(g),p_2(g)) = (p_1(g_1h_1), p_2(g_2h_2^{-1})) = (p_1(g_1), p_2(g_2)) = (x_1,x_2)$ Your Answer
Mwotlap is a member of the Southern Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken in Vanuatu, mainly on Motolava island, and on the nearby Ra and Vanua Lava islands. There are also a few Mwotlap speakers in other parts of Vanuatu. In 2012 there were 2,100 speakers of Mwotlap, which is also known as Motalava or Motlav. Mwotlap alphabet and pronunciation Mwotlap alphabet and pronunciation Stress falls on the last syllble of words. Download an alphabet chart for Mwotlap (Excel) Sample text (The Story of the Gecko) Tog tog i van en na-myanag t-Aliwan. Na-myanag t-Aliwan, na-myanag tē-Tēlmitig: Aplōw, Tēlmitig. Kōyō tog van i tog en, ba – velqōn̄, mayanag tē-Tēlmitig ni-van me Aliwan, kōyō gengen bah, kē ni-hō m̄ōl lok hag mi ni-siok. ayanag tē-Tēlmitig ni-m̄ōl, mayanag t-Aliwan ni-hatig ni-van Tēlmitig, kōyō gengen bah kē ni-hō m̄ōl lok me Aliwan. Velqōn̄ kōyō malaklak, kōyō van wanwan, kōyō gengen – Once upon a time there lived a chief of the village of Aliwan, to the west, and a chief of Telmitig, to the east, near Aplow. They led a peaceful life. The chief of Telmitig went regularly to Aliwan to share a meal with him, then went back home by canoe. And when it was the chief of Telmitig who had made the journey, it was then the chief of Aliwan's turn to go to Telmitig to eat with his friend, before taking the canoe back home to Aliwan. Their happiness from one day to the next: meet each other to drink kava and eat together ... Sample videos in Mwotlap Information about Mwotlap Oceanic languages Adzera, Ajië, Apma, Are, ’Auhelawa, Buhutu, Bwaidoka, Drehu, Hiri Motu, Kakabai, Kaninuwa, Kove, Kurti, Lote, Maskelynes, Mato, Motu, Mwotlap, Nyelâyu, Paamese, Raga, Rotuman, Roviana, Sakao, Saliba, Sio, Tami, Tolai, Ubir, Vurës, Western Fijian, Yabem, Yapese Languages written with the Latin alphabet Green Web Hosting - Kualo Why not share this page: Learn a nuevo language while you browse with toucan
Let's go topside and see what kind of trouble we can get into. ~ Jak Jak is the main protagonist of the Jak and Daxter series, being the titular and playable character in all of the games in the series (with the exception of the spin-off game Daxter). From his debut in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, he has undergone many changes in his body - both internal and external - and matured into a fully-grown man, with a constant thirst for some action. He was voiced by Aaron Lohr (Jak and Daxter), Mike Erwin (Jak II, Jak 3, Jak X, and Playstation Move Heroes), and Josh Keaton (Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier onward, mostly voicing Jak in non-canon titles, like Playstation All-Stars). Lohr was also the singing voice of Max Goof, whilst Keaton also voices Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and Shiro in Voltron: Legendary Defender, and XLR8 in the 2016 reboot of Ben 10. Jak's appearance varies over the course of the series. However, his clothing maintains the basic pattern of a blue tunic and off-white trousers. The metal plate on his left shoulder remains intact for every game, though it is made of Precursor metal in Jak 3, giving it a brown appearance. Except for in Jak X, he has a steel ring in the center of his chest held up by three leather straps (except for The Lost Frontier, in which it's held by just two). He has a lean, muscular, yet athletic build, as well as yellow-green hair and cerulean-blue eyes. He has long and pointy ears, common to most humans in Jak and Daxter's universe. He also wears goggles and a bandana wrapped around his neck in nearly every game. The most noticeable change in Jak's appearance from game-to-game is often his hair, which ranges from spiky and long, to short and rough, in addition to the appearance of his goatee seen in all games except the first and last. Also, as a child, his hair was completely green, though it became more blond as he aged. Jak grows in terms of both height and mass as the series progresses, since he is still not quite at his peek in height due to being a teenager; the number of times that he has fought enemies would also contribute to the growth of his muscle. Jak and Daxter Jak's personality is ever-changing due to the various changes in his character throughout the series. When he was first introduced as a 15-year-old boy, Jak was notably headstrong, courageous, adventurous, and loyal - willing to leap into danger without a second thought. However, he appeared to have been somewhat shy, as he never spoke once, though he does occaisionally attempt it before being interrupted by Daxter. As noted by Samos, Jak has trouble listening to his wisdom; when he didn't listen to Samos' advice about Misty Island, Daxter was turned into an Ottsel forever. Jak also has a perchant for doing various heroic poses with Daxter after gaining a Power Cell, and again after their victory over Gol and Maia. Jak II His personality took a turn for the worse after being plunged into the future with Daxter, Keira, and Samos, separated from them and tortured for two long years with Dark Eco experiments. With both his body and personality, Jak changed forever. He became violent, blunt, sarcastic, angry and reckless - this is exacerbated by the presence of Dark Eco in his body that gradually corrupted the innocence inside him. He also takes some enjoyment in killing metal heads and a fondness for guns. Revenge becomes his main motive, he and will stop at nothing to get revenge on Baron Praxis, the ruler of Haven City. His morality had also to fallen, having allied with Krew, the heavy of the city and notorious crime lord solely so he can fight the Baron. Furthermore, his temper has caused friction with others, notably Daxter, his best friend whom he almost killed upon meeting again after two years due to his Dark Jak form, as well as Keira, his childhood friend with him almost pushing her away due to his desire for revenge. Nonetheless, Jak does retain some heroic personality traits. This is apparent when he truly wants to stop the Baron and save the city from his evil rule and join the Underground to stop him. He also retains some of his humor, having casually having to ask Vin to turn the power back on and joking that he couldn't do it and chuckling on more than one occasion, with Daxter upon hearing Pecker's name, when Daxter got himself drunk while trying to go "undercover", and when Kor's staff was peed on by the Crocodog. He also forms a bond with Sig, a Wastelander and fellow warrior whom Jak trusts as much as Daxter with his life. Jak also retains his bravery, refusing to abandon his friends and protect them at the cost of his life. He was also disgusted when Krimzon Guards tried to apprehend a child, and told them to pick on someone their own size. Also, despite his temper, Jak truly felt guilty over his fight with Keira and, after the two awkwardly tried apologizing, Jak was able to make amends with both her and himself. Jak 3 After being banished to the Wasteland, Jak had to adapt the harsh lifestyle of the desert in order to survive. This, coupled with the city having thrown him out to die, blaming him for the war going on in the city after Kor's death, made Jak very bitter, and he refused to help Ashelin, claiming he has new friends, and is done with saving the world. However, Jak eventually accepted that he couldn't just abandon all his friends, and resolved to reunite with them and save the city. After gaining Light Eco inside his body, Jak's anger and the darkness corrupting him due to the Dark Eco gradually disappears. He becomes less angry and much more mature, and even happy, as he was in his introduction, and he smiles more often. He begins to regain more of his original loyal and kinder self with the balance of Light and Dark Eco inside him. After the death of his father Damas, Jak takes on a much more leader-like role in protecting both Haven City and Spargus. Since he was little, Jak had no knowledge of his parents and would frequently treat Samos with deep respect for his wisdom and for being the only father figure he had (unlike Daxter). He also forms a bond with Damas, who views Jak as one of his finest warriors, who are both notably similar in personality: head-strong, reckless, stubborn, brave, and loyal. After learning that Damas was his father, Jak was clearly saddened over his death, and flew into rage to the point of turning into Dark Jak after Count Veger mocked him for his death. Since then, Jak vowed to protect Spargus in his father's place (though he does choose to let Sig rule it in his stead). By his father's death, Jak had truly matured into a strong and confident man ready and willing to protect those dear to him. In Jak X, he turned into something of a relaxed character, though his final encounter with Mizo shows that the anger still exists under his calmer exterior. In The Lost Frontier, he seems to be more carefree and happy. Despite some scenes hinting at his anger (for example, when he tries to turn to Dark Jak, seeing the Dark Warrior Program chair, among others), he seems to be more cheerful and like he was when he was younger. Jak's goatee may seem to represent this attitude; he was angriest in Jak II, when his goatee was at its longest, whilst he'd mellowed down in Jak 3 and Jak X, when his goatee was shorter. In Jak & Daxter and The Lost Frontier, he appeared his happiest, when he had no facial hair. Jak's most prominent relationships are with his childhood friends Daxter and Keira, and his mentor/father-figure Samos the sage. Powers & Abilities • Eco Harnessing: Jak demonstrates the ability to harness and use different kinds of Eco far superior than those of the Eco Sages, later revealed to be due to his heritage as a direct descendant of Mar. Whenever Jak comes in contact with any kind of Eco he can absorb and use that Eco's powers as his own up until the Eco runs out, letting him use different kinds of powers such as electrically charged super speed, shooting projectiles, super strength, etc, depending on what kind of Eco he is harnessing. Jak's Eco powers allowed him to survive being injected with Dark Eco as part of Baron Praxis' Dark Eco program where every other test subject had died, though the Dark Eco did have a negative impact in Jak's psyche and powers which created Dark Jak. Jak then obtained a Light Jak transformation which keeps his Dark Jak form balanced. • Dark Jak: As a result of being injected with Dark Eco for 2 years, Jak mutate into a dark form of himself, though the transformation is only temporary and wears off if Jak doesn't absorb more Dark Eco. Dark Jak is highly dangerous and difficult to control, nearly killing Daxter the first time Jak transformed. Jak initially struggled to control Dark Jak, but overtime he slowly learns to control Dark Jak and even use it as an asset in battle, however Jak can still occasionally transform involuntarily in moments of high stress, such as when battling Marauders in the Spargus Area or after Veger taunted his father Damas' death. • Light Jak: During his time as a Wastelander Jak was given Light Eco by the precursors which created his Light Jak form. Compared to Dark Jak, Light Jak's powers are more oriented towards protection rather than destruction. Light Jak's presence also balances out Dark Jak which in turn makes Jak's anger issues less problematic. • Combat Skills: Jak is proficient at hand-to-hand combat. • Driving Skills: Jak is a prodigious driver with different kinds of vehicles such as zoomers, dune buggies which he used to explore the Wasteland desert, or the race cars used for the Kras City Championship. • Shooting Skills: After being given a Morph Gun, Jak quickly demonstrated talent using the weapon. • One of the reasons Jak is banished from Haven is because he is tainted with Dark Eco. While he's rather darker than he used to be, he still has his heart in the right place. • Since Jak is approximately 200 years in the past in the first game, and he's roughly 10 years in the past in the next four games (since his child-self is present there), he'd first time-travelled with Samos back 200 years as a child, and has never been in the correct time since. PSABR Logo.png Heroes
Say I had an object with 4 motors/wheels attached (in a fairly standard arrangement). I need to calculate the amount of torque required from the motors to be able to move the object of x kilograms consistently (without skipping any steps) at a velocity of y, travelling up a slope of angle z. I'm guessing this would also depend on factors like the grip of the tyre and such? This is a standard dynamics problem. Let's use this figure I drew: Corrected car going up incline. Some definitions: $$ \begin{align} m & \mbox{, the mass of the vehicle in kg.} \\ \mu_{\mbox{rolling}} & \mbox{, the rolling friction coefficient of your tires.} \\ \theta & \mbox{, the incline of the plane in radians.}\\ g & \mbox{, the gravitational constant, 9.81 } m/s^2 \\ r_{\mbox{tire}} & \mbox{, the radius of the tire in m.} \end{align} $$ The normal force of the vehicle against the incline is going to be $$ f_{\mbox{normal}} = mg \cos{\theta} \\ $$ The normal force is going to play into your frictional force in that $$ f_{\mbox{friction}} = \mu_{\mbox{rolling}} f_{\mbox{normal}} \\ $$ The force opposing the vehicle, trying to cause it to roll down the slope, is $$ f_{\mbox{opposing}} = m g \sin{\theta} \\ $$ Now, keep in mind that the opposing force and the frictional forces are both at the point of contact between the wheel and the surface. Also note that frictional coefficients are constant for a given force regardless of contact surface area, so as long as all four tires are equal and evenly loaded, you don't need to worry about the per-tire information yet. So, you have your forces to overcome; opposing and friction. Now you need to convert those to torques: $$ \tau = f r_{\mbox{tire}} \sin{\phi} $$ Where here I've used $\phi$ to help distinguish between the applied force angle and the incline angle $\theta$. Anyways, the force is being applied at a right angle, $\sin{90} = 1$, so you can leave that term off and you're left with $$ \begin{align} \tau_{\mbox{ losses}} &= (f_{\mbox{opposing}} + f_{\mbox{rolling friction}}) r_{\mbox{tire}} \\ &= (mg( \sin{\theta}+\cos{\theta} \mu_{\mbox{rolling}})) r_{\mbox{tire}} \\ \end{align} $$ Now your speed comes into play, with the formula: $$ P_{\mbox{rotating}} = \tau_{\mbox{applied}} \omega \\ $$ where $P_{\mbox{rotating}}$ is the rotational power output in Watts, $\tau_{\mbox{applied}}$ is the torque applied in Nm, and $\omega$ is the rotational velocity in rad/s. Your vehicle's linear speed, in $\frac{m}{s}$, is given by: $$ v = r_{\mbox{tire}} \omega \\ $$ so $$ \omega = \frac{v}{r_{\mbox{tire}}} \\ $$ Putting it all together: $$ \begin{align} P_{\mbox{rotating}} &= (mg (\sin{\theta} + \cos{\theta} \mu_{\mbox{rolling}})) r_{\mbox{tire}} \frac{v}{r_{\mbox{tire}}} \\ &= v m g(\sin{\theta} +\cos{\theta} \mu_{\mbox{rolling}})) \\ \end{align} $$ Now, finally, this is the rotating power required to move the entire vehicle. At this point, however many (equally sized and loaded) tires you use needs to contribute a corresponding fraction of this power; 4 tires = each one needs to deliver at least 1/4 of the power given above. • $\begingroup$ @Bending Unit 22 - thanks for the edit. I'm still new to Latex. $\endgroup$ – Chuck Aug 4 '15 at 13:34 • $\begingroup$ This is a nice reference on math meta $\endgroup$ – Bending Unit 22 Aug 4 '15 at 20:19 • $\begingroup$ sinθ changes to cosθ at the end here, is this a mistake, or am I missing something? Protating=(mgsinθ(1+μrolling))rtirevrtire=vmg(sinθ+cosθμrolling)) $\endgroup$ – Alec Dorrington Aug 23 '15 at 10:00 • $\begingroup$ @Alec Dorrington - you are correct. I revised the equation. Sorry I normally post from my phone so the equations can get a little muddled on my end. $\endgroup$ – Chuck Aug 23 '15 at 12:59 Your Answer
February 07, 2017 Nightguards take turns to rape traveller in Oyo (Photo) Zainab (surname withheld) had been travelling from Patigi in Niger State to Eruwa, Oyo State on February 1, 2017 when she was allegedly raped by two night guards, Olajide Olakanmi (30) and Olanrewaju Taiwo (29), in a mosque on Eleiyele-Ologuneru Road where she sought refuge. Speaking with journalists on the arrest of the suspected rapists last week, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, said that the victim came to the state from Patigi, Niger State and was on her way to Eruwa town en route Ibadan to see her father. “Unfortunately for her, she got to Ibadan around 7:00p.m to connect a bus travelling to Eruwa. But at that time, vehicles plying the Eruwa-Ibadan route had retired for the day, and there was no way she could get to Eruwa that night. “Being from the North, she sought the assistance of a man selling grilled meat (suya) on where she could pass the night. The man then directed her to a mosque nearby, assuring her that she was safe there till the following morning. However, as the stranded lady approached the Maisuya on her plight, two night guards at a filling station were monitoring her situation. They noticed when the Maisuya directed her to the nearby mosque to sleep,” the police commissioner disclosed. According to the victim, who spoke through an interpreter at the Oyo State Police Headquarters where her assailants were paraded, she said she had slept off when two men burst into the mosque suddenly around 1.00 a.m. “Initially, I was not afraid because I saw the mosque as a place of refuge, but I was taken aback when the two men started questioning me.“Before I knew what was happening, they began to beat me, while searching through my luggage. They were able to take my N32,000, as well as my phone. “After they were satisfied that I no longer had any valuables in my bags, they took turns to rape me and then after they were done with the act, they pushed me out of the mosque in the early hours of the day,” Zainab said, as she sobbed. She stated further that she was finally able to find a place to stay till it was dawn, when a sympathiser helped her lodge a complaint at the police station in Ologuneru, Ibadan leading to the arrest of the suspects. The two suspects confessed to the crime, saying they didn’t know what took over them that night that made them commit the crime. According to Olakanmi, they were guards at a filling station beside a mosque whew Zainab sought refuge, and around 1a.m, they just decided to move around the area when they saw Zainab sleeping in the mosque. “That was how the devil took control of our hearts and we did what we did,” Olakanmi said. The police commissioner said that the suspects would be arraigned in court immediately, while warning travelers who reach a place at odd hours to be careful about their personal safety. Nigerian Tribune No comments:
What is insurance? At its simplest, insurance is a safety net. You purchase an insurance policy to protect what you love and value. That can range from your legs (if you’re someone whose livelihood depends on them like, say, David Beckham or Heidi Klum) to more relatable examples like your home and your pets. If anything happens to them, insurance can help ease the financial burden. How does insurance work? Insurance at its core is about managing your financial risk, which is another way of saying the money you owe when something bad or unexpected happens. Insurance policies let you take the financial risk you have of certain occurrences, like damage to your home or car, and transfer it to a company. In exchange for a monthly fee, known as a premium, the insurance company agrees to take on your risk. It then pools your premium with all of its other customers’ and uses that money to fund any payouts it must make when bad things happen to its customers. Why do insurers take on your risk? The insurance company is making a calculated bet that only a small portion of its policyholders will file a major claim at any given time. It’s betting that it will collect more in premiums overall than it will end up paying out for insurance claims. What types of insurance are there? There are seven main types: 1. Health insurance, which covers costs associated with keeping you healthy. 2. Life insurance, which can provide money to loved ones who depend on your income should you pass away 3. Short- and long-term disability insurance, which gives you a percentage of your salary, should you find yourself suddenly unable to work 4. Auto insurance, which generally covers costs from damage your car may cause (and, depending on your policy, damage your car may receive itself) 5. Homeowners insurance, which can cover damage to your home, theft of your belongings and costs from injuries occurring at your home 6. Renters insurance, which works much like homeowners insurance for those who rent, rather than own, their homes 7. Pet insurance, which can cover unexpected medical expenses your pet may incur, though generally it does not cover routine, preventive care Why would someone need insurance? Generally, the benefit of taking out insurance is so that if something bad happens, you won’t get stuck covering all the costs. If you’re worried about your ability to cover a major expense—or just anxious about the possibility of having to do so—having insurance can provide peace of mind. And, of course, it can help you or those you love avoid getting into financial trouble if something does go wrong. You may also be required to have certain forms of insurance, like health, car and home insurance, depending on your state’s laws and mortgage provider’s policies. What’s an insurance premium and how often is it paid? As part of your agreement with your insurer, you agree to pay a certain amount every month, six months or year, depending on your policy. That money is your premium. In exchange for paying a premium, your insurance company agrees to provide coverage in the event that something happens to whatever (or whoever) you’ve insured. Certain types of insurance, like car insurance, may require premium payments less frequently, like every six or 12 months, meaning you may have fewer (but larger) payments. Life insurance, on the other hand, may require a smaller premium payment every month. Average annual premiums in the U.S. for the major types of insurance appear in the table below. Keep in mind that premiums for each kind of insurance vary widely based on coverage amount, deductible amount, policy length, credit score, state of residence and more. Insurance Type Average Annual Premium Health insurance Life insurance Short-term/long-term disability insurance 1-3 percent of salary Auto insurance Homeowners insurance Renters insurance Pet insurance What is an insurance policy? An insurance policy is the document you and your insurer agree to that outlines what your insurance will cover, what it won’t, how much your insurance premium will cost, what your insurance deductible will be and how long your policy will last. You should read potential policies carefully to make sure you get the kind of coverage you need and there aren’t any surprises if you have to file a claim. Many policies, for example, have deductibles—meaning you’re responsible for a certain amount before insurance money kicks in—and there can also be exceptions to what’s covered. (Standard homeowner’s insurance policies, for example, may not cover earthquake or flood damage.) What is an insurance claim? An insurance claim is the request you make to your insurer to pay for something covered by your policy. Depending on the insurance type or policy, your insurer may pay for expenses upfront or you may have to pay them yourself and then file a claim to be reimbursed by your insurer. For example, with your health insurance, your doctor will normally send the bill to your insurance company and then to you, if you need to cover anything more than your insurer pays. But with your pet’s health insurance, you’ll frequently be expected to pay out of your own pocket and then get reimbursed by your insurer. Check your policy to make sure you know who will pay for what—and when. What does insurance cover? Insurance coverage varies widely based on what you’re trying to insure. A better question is what insurance generally doesn’t cover—which is your deductible. What is a deductible? A deductible is the amount you must cover yourself before your insurance coverage kicks in. If your health insurance plan has a $500 deductible, for example, you’d be responsible for paying for covered healthcare expenses up to $500, and then your insurance provider should start to pay. Depending on your policy, you may have a total deductible, a per-use deductible or another set up entirely. For example, your homeowner’s policy may have a $1,000 deductible. So if a storm causes bad flooding that results in $2,500 worth of damage to your home, you’d be responsible for $500 of that bill. You may also have different deductibles depending on how your policy is used. You may, for example, have one health insurance deductible if you see an in-network doctor and another if you don’t. Why do I have a deductible? When you enter into an insurance policy, you and your insurer make a deal. In exchange for your premium, your insurer will cover any large, unexpected expenses. But that can potentially be very expensive—and risky—for your insurer. Just like you, your insurer doesn’t want to get hit with any surprise large bills. So it’ll usually offer a few different ways to balance taking on your risk with the amount of money you pay for your premium. Generally speaking, the higher your deductible is, the lower your premium is. (And the lower your deductible is, the higher your premium is.) That’s because your insurer wants to lessen the likelihood you need to tap into its money. The more money you have to pay before that happens, the less likely you will be to do so, so the insurer is willing to charge you less overall for your coverage. But even once you hit your deductible, your insurance may not cover all charges associated with what you’ve insured. Your policy may have annual or lifetime maxes, depending on what type of insurance you’ve taken out. So always be sure to read your policy closely before signing.
Peru is one of the best places on earth to go on holiday, not only is there much to see and do there is also some of the best food that you will ever eat. Peru is home to many ancient cultures that have left some very interesting artifacts and constructions that are available to visit and explore. So what are the best Peru tourist places to visit? There is no shortage of things to do in Peru and you should consider the Andean country on for your next vacation. There is no shortage of luxury tours in Peru; the country has many fine hotels, trains and cruises that will not disappoint. When thinking of Peru you may not think of luxury but you will be surprised at the amount of luxury the country has to offer. Available on any budget from luxury private tours Peru to the budget friendly there is something for everyone so let us go through some of the Peru tourist places that should go to on your vacation to Peru. Number 1 Machu Picchu: No visit to Peru would be complete without a visit to Machu Picchu. The Inca Citadel is located near the city of Cusco, high in the Peruvian Andes an hour’s flight from Lima, the capital of Peru. From Cusco, either you can catch a train, of which there are many hikes to take. The magnificence of the Inca builders and the location will be something that will live with you forever. peru tourist places like machu picchu Number 2 Sacred Valley: While you are in the Cusco area, spend some time in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The valley is full of some of the most natural beautiful places in Peru. The mountain peaks are spectacular and the valleys have raging rivers. The climate is mild which is what attracted the Inca to use the valley to grow most of their food. There are some fascinating Inca ruins to tour. The ruin at Pisaq located above the town has an interesting history and is worth a guided tour. Also located in the Valley is the fortress of Ollantaytambo. visit sacred valley is a peru tourist places Number 3 Cusco city: Just because it is a national treasure. The center of the city was the main Inca Plaza and was 3 times as big as what we see today. The city is full of if Inca foundations which the Spanish built their churches and houses on. The lovely stone streets are worth exploring, as there is plenty to see and do. Visit the many museums to get an idea of the history. peru tourist places like cusco's churches Number 4 Puno and Lake Titicaca: Lake Titicaca is one the highest lakes in the world and has an interesting history. The lake sparkles with the sun and the clear blue sky making it appear like a mirror. When you are in Puno, you must take a tour of the lake and visit the Uros Islands. These manmade islands are like nothing anywhere else, made by the Uros people hundreds of years ago with the reeds that grow in the lake. lake titicaca in puno is a peru tourist places Number 5 Arequipa: Is Peru’s second city and what a charming place it is. The city has a dry warm climate and is surrounded by three impressive volcanos. Arequipa is calmer than Lima and has a laid-back atmosphere. yanahuara viewpoint in arequipa is a peru tourist places Number 6 Colca Canyon: Not far from Arequipa is the Colca Canyon, the second deepest canyon in the world, Colca is set among the high Andes, the height will literally astound you. Not only is the canyon the only attraction, daily the majestic Condors put on a show that is to be seen to be believed. peru tourist places like colca canyon in arequipa Number 7. The Capital of Lima: In recent years Lima has had a turnaround. These days most travelers spend at least a few days here. The food revolution draws people from all over the world wanting to try the famous cuisine. The city is a wonderful mix of old and new with the ancient city center and the modern beachside suburbs. main square of lima is a peru tourist places Foto barranco Number 8 Nazca: South of Lima, around 5 hours travel is the desert town of Nazca. This quaint little town depends totally on tourism. The main attraction is just out of town; the famous Nazca Lines are located in the desert and can be seen by small plane. The lines remain a mystery today as to who made the lines and for what reason. On a flight over the lines, you will see the monkey, lizard, and the spider to name a few. explore the nazca lines is a peru tourist places Number 9 The Peruvian Jungle: The wonderfully natural Amazon Jungle in Peru. For those of you who love the jungle you cannot miss these areas. In the northern part of Peru is the city of Iquitos where the luxurious Amazon cruises leave. Close to Cusco is the area of Puerto Maldonado where you will find many jungle lodges where you can explore the Amazon with experienced jungle guides. peru tourist places like amazon luxury cruise No article about Peru is complete without mentioning the Top 10 Best foods Peru. Not only should you experience the culture of Peru but also try the following to complete your trip peru tourist places with peruvian food the best experience 1. Lomo Saltado, beef, tomatoes, onions and French fries 2. Ceviche, raw fish marinated in lemon with corn and sweet potato 3. Aji de Gallina, chicken with a creamy sauce 4. Causa Rellno, pie of potato with either Chicken or Tuna 5. Tamales, ground corn filled with either sweet or savory filling 6. Cuy, oven roasted guinea pig 7. Antichuccos, sold on most street corners, skewers of roasted beef heart 8. Soaps, Peru has many varieties of Soups which you simply must try 9. Piccarones, deep fried sweet potatoes with sweet syrup, sold by street vendors. 10. Chiriuchu only sold in the festivals of Cusco, a plate of mixed food that is special to highlands regions of Peru. So if you are planning a trip to Peru, try to include all the best of Peru and the try the delicious food. Our outstanding tours in Peru 4 Responses on “Peru Tourist Places Leave a Reply
Amazon unseats Microsoft as most valuable US publicly traded company Amazon has eclipsed Microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company in the U.S. as a see-sawing stock market continues to reshuffle corporate America's pecking order. The shift occurred Monday after Amazon's shares rose 3 percent to close at $1,629.51 and lifted the e-commerce leader's market value to $797 billion. Meanwhile, Microsoft's stock edged up by less than 1 percent to finish at $102.06, leaving the computer software maker's value at $784 billion. The repositioning has been triggered by mounting concerns that the Trump administration's trade war with China and rising interest rates will bog down the worldwide economy. If that were to happen, it's likely to slow the growth of companies in technology and other industries that generate a substantial chunk of their revenue outside the U.S. That's one reason most technology stocks are well off their peaks. Amazon, for instance, remains 21 percent below its high reached in September when the company's stock value stood above $1 trillion. Apple was worth even more back then, but its stock has plunged by 37 percent since early October to erase about $400 billion of its market value. Apple confirmed some of investors' worst fears last week when it warned that disappointing demand for iPhones, especially in China, caused its revenue for its most recent quarter to fall well below the projections of its management and industry analysts.
The Impossible Quiz Quiz Image Welcome to the impossible quiz. Warning: The impossible quiz may cause frustration, anxiety, panic, and nausea. You think you can beat this quiz? You think, "anything's possible if you put your mind to it"? Well, putting your mind to this quiz won't help much...and you might get hair gel on your monitor. SPACE FILLER A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z now i know my ABC's next time won't you sing with me! HEY! dont judge, well haters gonna hate Created by: Veronika 1. How can you throw an egg as hard as you can and have it come straight back to you without breaking first? 2. Rock group Smash Mouth had a hit song "Walking on the Sun". However, it is impossible to walk on the surface of sun because: 3. What is the last letter in the alphabet? 4. Attending your own funeral is 5. If you were in an airplane with a maximum speed of 600 miles per hour, and you were traveling in the direction opposite the earth's rotation, could you travel fast enough to never see the sun set? 6. This quiz is 7. Because men and women may provide different answers, it's impossible to score your quiz unless your gender is taken into consideration. You are... 8. What has a tail and a head, but is missing a body (arms, legs, torso, etc.) ? 10. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, OR Sunday? 11. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?? 12. What does this arrangement of letters mean?: "LAL" 13. Select the best answer: 14. What did the ocean say to the shore? 15. Which of the following divides at the fastest rate? 16. If you were looking at an analog clock, which time, below, would display if the hour hand and the minute hand lined up? 17. There are three houses; one red, one blue, and one white. The red house is to the left of the house in the middle and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, so where is the white house? 18. You're in the woods, and it's dark out-pitch black-I mean REALLY DARK, but you have a match, and you have some stuff that you can light on fire. So, what do you light first? 19. What letter has not appeared at all in this entire quiz? Remember to rate this quiz on the next page!
Power of Inspiration, Perspiration, and Cooperation—in Sports and in Business - Smart Simplicity The Power of Inspiration, Perspiration, and Cooperation—in Sports and in Business By Peter TollmanJoshua SerlinMichelle Akers, and Anson Dorrance Editor’s note: Two authors, Michelle Akers and Anson Dorrance, participated in the events described in this article. For the sake of simplicity, their experiences and recollections are presented in the third person. “We play for each other.” This guiding philosophy of the 1990s US women’s national soccer team—as articulated by Anson Dorrance, its coach during the first half of the decade—propelled the squad to unparalleled success. The team won the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991 and the first gold medal awarded to a women’s soccer squad at the 1996 Olympics. It concluded the decade by defeating China in the thrilling 1999 World Cup final. The team did not just win the big games but dominated throughout the decade, compiling a remarkable record of 155 wins, 21 losses, and 9 ties while outscoring opponents by an average of three goals per game. “We wanted to dominate, to crush every single team every single minute of every single game, as individuals and as a team,” said Michelle Akers, one of the star players. The team was notable not just for its victories. The players redefined the role of women in sports, fighting for gender equality, equal pay, and the reputation of women’s soccer. They willingly subjected themselves to brutal training and conditioning sessions in order to attain those goals. “They can be credited with nothing less than the founding of women’s soccer as an international game,” wrote Sally Jenkins in The Washington Post. “The worst that could be said of them was that they were joyous carousers. They were one of the few things left in sports you could watch without suspicion.” How many businesses and organizations today have been equally dominant? How many can say that their employees truly “play for each other” and for a higher purpose? In our experience, not many. To be sure, the US squad had stars, such as Akers and Mia Hamm, but the stars themselves attributed their success to team alchemy. Playing for each other is what happens at effective organizations. In these institutions, people cooperate—they seek group success over individual attainment and accomplish more than the sum of their individual achievements. Unfortunately, this happens infrequently because few organizations are designed to promote cooperation. A BCG approach called smart simplicity unlocks organizational effectiveness by systematically encouraging cooperation. While hard to achieve, cooperation is easy to see in the success of such dominating sports teams as the Golden State Warriors, the New England Patriots, Bayern Munich, and the All Blacks, New Zealand’s national men’s rugby team. We chose sports teams as the canvas to show how other organizations can promote cooperation and improve performance because of sports’ consistent rules and binary outcomes. We chose the US women’s soccer team of the 1990s, specifically, because it was arguably more successful for a longer period than any team in any other sport. The Mess Facing Organizations Today Most businesses and organizations do not perform close to their peak potential, and even when they do, they struggle to sustain that level of performance, especially in today’s climate. We know this empirically through shorter corporate lifespans and rising volatility rates. (See the exhibit.) And we know it in our gut. High-performing organizations are buzzing with activity, excitement, and possibility. Teams work together—they cooperate—to achieve common objectives. But at many organizations, the lethargy is palpable. People are motivated, just not on the job. They apply their talents in their hobbies and volunteer work, or with their friends and family. Why do great things happen so seldom or so fleetingly at so many large organizations? One major reason is that most organizations still rely on outmoded management theories born of the assembly line. These theories were developed in a simpler time when most work was rote and precision was more important to organizational success than critical thinking. They assume that people are the weak link and need to be controlled through rules (the “hard” approach) or through team-building activities such as offsite retreats, affiliation events, and even lunchtime yoga classes designed to foster camaraderie (the “soft” approach). These approaches to management may have been effective when most work was algorithmic—routine—based on following a set of rules. But thanks to increasing competition, globalization, digitization, and regulation, today’s economy is far more complex. Business problems have become more dynamic, and ambiguity and uncertainty have grown. Work has become heuristic, an exercise in problem solving requiring intelligent judgments and the resolution of often contradictory requirements. Heuristic work is responsible for 70% of new-job growth in the US today. For this type of work, people cannot simply fall back on rules, because the nature of the work requires the interpretation of rules—and there are no rules to interpret the rules. In fact, rules have become counterproductive, creating bureaucracy, hindering cooperation, and frustrating employees. A Smarter and Simpler Approach Smart simplicity is an antidote to organizational complexity, bureaucracy, and lethargy. It unlocks latent energy and enthusiasm by encouraging cooperation. Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. That famous quote misses the critical role that cooperation played at his labs, which were populated by teams of “muckers”—tinkerers, machinists, and scientists who collectively tested, tweaked, and built his inventions. When cooperation, inspiration, and perspiration come together—as they did in Edison’s labs and with the US women’s soccer team in the 1990s—great things happen. The role of leaders today is to provide inspiration while encouraging perspiration and, ultimately, cooperation. Inspiration gives people a reason to perspire—to work their butts off. But inspiration and perspiration are not enough to break through the entrenched bureaucracies of most large organizations. People, teams, and entire organizational units also need to work together, since few of today’s complex problems can be solved by individuals acting independently. Hence the need for cooperation. People are not irrationally uncooperative. They behave the way they do in order to meet individual objectives and are influenced by the resources and limitations of their workplace—or what we call context. There are always good reasons for their behavior—even when, if viewed from the perspective of the organization and its goals, that behavior appears irrational or dysfunctional. Smart simplicity encourages cooperation, not by attempting to control people or force them to behave differently, but by understanding their objectives and changing the work context in such a way that cooperation becomes a rational goal. By shaping context, leaders can inspire, foster hard work, encourage cooperation—and achieve incredible results. (See “Six Simple Rules.”) Six Simple Rules These rules help unlock performance by encouraging cooperation. The first three empower people. The rest harness that autonomy in the service of cooperation. 1. Understand what your people really do. Analyze the work context to understand what people actually do and why they do it. With this understanding, you can use the other rules to foster cooperation. 2. Reinforce integrators. Identify roles whose success depends on fostering cooperation across the organization, and then support those roles with the resources they need to be successful. 3. Increase the total quantity of power. Figure out ways to give people more power without taking power away from others. 4. Increase reciprocity. Make each person’s success dependent on the success of others. 5. Extend the shadow of the future. Create direct feedback loops that expose people to the consequences of their actions. 6. Reward those who cooperate. Provide greater opportunities, recognition, or financial rewards to those who cooperate, and punish those who fail to do so. That may seem abstract, but it was exactly what happened during the magical run of the US women’s soccer team in the 1990s. Lessons from the Team The US women’s victory over Norway to win the 1991 World Cup was a wakeup call for more storied soccer nations that had long dominated the men’s game. Traditional powerhouses such as Brazil and Germany dedicated themselves to building world-class women’s teams. But despite their efforts, the US women kept winning, culminating in the victory over China in the 1999 World Cup. Two head coaches and a rotating cast of supporting players were responsible for this dynasty. Two of the contributors to this article were integral members of that team, and we rounded out their perspectives and experiences with multiple in-depth interviews with other team leaders, including captains Julie Foudy and Carla Overbeck; Lauren Gregg, an assistant coach during the 1990s; and Tiffany Roberts, a key reserve. We also interviewed members of winning men’s teams, such as Bayern Munich. (See “The People We Interviewed.”) The People We Interviewed Julie Foudy was a member of the US women’s national soccer team from 1987 to 2004, its co-captain from 1991 to 2000, and its captain from 2000 to 2004. She chose a career in soccer rather than medicine after her graduation from Stanford University and now works as an ESPN broadcaster. Lauren Gregg played on the 1986 national team and was assistant coach on the squad from 1989 to 2000, serving briefly as head coach in 1997 and 2000. She was also the head coach of the women’s soccer team at the University of Virginia for ten years. Philipp Lahm was captain of Bayern Munich, the professional team he played for during most of his career. He also captained the German national team when it won the 2014 FIFA World Cup and is considered one of the greatest defensive players of all time. Carla Overbeck was a three-time All-American selection at the University of North Carolina, a member of the national team from 1988 to 2000, and a co-captain (with Foudy) in the 1990s. She is currently an assistant women’s soccer coach at Duke University. Tiffany Roberts was selected for the national team in 1994, when she was 16 years old, and played through 2003. She is currently the head coach of the University of Central Florida women’s soccer team. The interviews revealed three distinct practices, all grounded in the six simple rules, that fostered cooperation among the team’s members. They worked well on the field, and they can likewise take hold in executive suites, on shop floors, and in field organizations. Provide a Higher Calling Organizations extol the virtues of a clear mission and vision. While clarity is important, the ambition itself must be resonant and uplifting. For most employees, revenue targets and profit margins are not reasons to get up in the morning. Leaders must give them an authentic higher calling, a mission that inspires—not corporate gobbledygook. Anson Dorrance became the national team coach in 1986, one year after the team’s founding as a somewhat ragtag collection of largely unknown players. In the early years, they subsisted on $10-a-day meal money, traveled to distant games by bus, stayed in cheap hotels, and wore uniforms with ironed-on names and numbers. Despite this humble origin story, Dorrance was able to instill a higher purpose by establishing goals that transcended wins and losses. As an American raised overseas, he wanted to show the world that the US could not be kicked around on the soccer field. Akers remembers Dorrance telling the team, “Every time you step on the field you’re selling the game, changing minds, and changing the culture of what is possible for women and for everyone.” Dorrance selected a group of teenagers that included Foudy, Hamm, Overbeck, Brandi Chastain, Joy Fawcett, and Kristine Lilly—“joyous carousers” who embraced this higher calling. “It wasn’t really for us. It was for the future of women’s soccer,” Overbeck recalled. The team fought with the US Soccer Federation to receive pay equal to that of the men’s team. Nine players, including Foudy, Overbeck, and Akers, were briefly locked out of training camp before the 1996 Olympics over the dispute. But the struggle helped galvanize the team. “We decided that, if we were going to get something done, we all had to be together,” Overbeck said. On the field, Dorrance and his team did not just want to win; they wanted to crush their opponents, who viewed the US as a second-class soccer nation. “I was going to beat them with the tools of the American spirit,” Dorrance said. This translated into a simple but incredibly demanding strategy: the US would double every player on the opposing team, requiring players to train tirelessly in practice and on their own. As Akers put it, “We had a culture of ‘extra’—doing whatever it took to be the best. I trained harder knowing that my teammates were doing the same thing and that this was what it would take to accomplish our goals.” Dorrance demanded that his players be in shape from day one. Early on, a player failed a training drill on the first day. Dorrance sent her home that evening. After that, no player arrived at practice out of shape for the remainder of his tenure. These aspirations increased reciprocity (the fourth of the six simple rules), and therefore cooperation, in two important ways. First, they were audacious and beyond the reach of any single player. They made it rational for each player to subsume her individual goals to the team’s shared objectives. Second, they motivated each player to devote every ounce of her effort to the team’s interests. That’s what led Akers, for example, to endure over 30 orthopedic surgeries during her career. “Each of us had a role to play to help the team win. Part of mine was being the target for opposing teams.” Rather than shy away from this role, Akers embraced it. “By serving as the target, I could help others play more freely,” she said. “The more challenging it was, the more fun it was, and the better I got, so bring it on.” These aspirations also extended the shadow of the future (the fifth rule). Players who failed to cooperate or who gave less than 100% damaged the team’s chances of winning and put at risk the larger goals of gender equality and women’s participation in sports. Make It Clear That Every Player—Even the 20th—Matters For reciprocity and cooperation to occur and for the higher calling to have meaning, players have to believe that their roles matter. This is not easy on a soccer team, where strict substitution rules limit the playing time of reserves. How do coaches keep players engaged when their role may not seem important? This is not easy in business, either. It can be hard to motivate middle managers and frontline employees, who often don’t see how their efforts contribute to the larger purpose of the organization. But without the engagement of these players and employees, teams and organizations will fall short of their goals. It’s not just a matter of paying lip service. Negativity can spread quickly on a sports team, especially among players who spend most of their time on the bench. The coaches of the US team were keenly aware of this challenge, which they aptly referred to as “engaging the 20th player.” The engagement—and ultimate success—of the entire team depended on the engagement of each member. One way the US coaches achieved buy-in from reserves was to elevate the importance of practice relative to games. As Gregg and Dorrance put it, games were simply an outcome of the training that occurred in practice. Tiffany Roberts, all five-foot five-inches and 120 pounds of her, joined the team as an inexperienced 16-year-old but quickly made her mark through tenacious play in practice. Roberts’s gritty play “helped other players improve,” Gregg recalled. “She elevated the practice.” Roberts’s selection didn’t just pay off in practice. In the semifinals of the 1996 Olympics against Norway, Tony DiCicco (Dorrance’s successor, who died in 2017) started Roberts and asked her to play a new position and to hound Hege Riise, the best player in Norway at the time, and arguably in the world. By neutralizing Riise, DiCicco hoped to win a 10-on-10 game. It worked. Roberts shut down Riise, and the US went on to win the semifinal match and eventually the Olympic gold medal. “It felt really good to know how much my team trusted me in such a big job,” Roberts said. Even reserves who had lost their starting jobs bought in to the mission of the team. Dorrance remembers overhearing midfielder Tracey Bates talking to her mother on the phone about losing her starting job to Lilly, five years her junior. “‘Don’t you understand, Kristine is better than I am,’” Dorrance recalled Bates telling her mother. Even when they did not play in a game, reserves received praise for their roles on the sideline. Akers described how coaches complimented bench players who ran water bottles to the starters during breaks. This mentality led to a running joke that the players were “socialists.” Joking aside, the focus on the 20th player increased reciprocity and cooperation. In other words, “whether I am the 20th player or a key player, whether I am a substitute or I start, whether I assist or I score, my role matters,” Gregg said. Walk in One Another’s Shoes Cooperation requires that leaders and coworkers understand what the other really does (rule number 1). Otherwise, it’s impossible for people to understand how to work together most effectively and for leaders to know which behaviors to encourage and reward. The coaches of the US team encouraged this understanding in several ways. First, Dorrance meticulously tracked individual performance on the field. He refers to this tracking of individual performance as a “competitive cauldron,” which he then sought to balance with off-the-field camaraderie. “What’s critical for me as a coach is to recruit every single element to drive performance,” he said. He also wanted to understand the “internal narrative” of his players, the beliefs about themselves that both motivated and inhibited them. So he asked players to rank themselves on a 1 to 5 scale on such attributes as self-discipline, competitive fire, self-belief, love of playing the game, love of watching the game, and grit. “The first step in player development is for the player to figure out who she is,” Dorrance said. “A great way to unlock potential is to get the player as close to the truth of her internal narrative as possible.” Second, in pregame meetings, coaches carefully tied the individual responsibilities of each player, including the reserves, to the broader objectives of the team. Players understood why their role—no matter how seemingly insignificant—mattered. Finally, the coaches created “small societies,” player groupings—the “attacking front six” or the “defensive back four,” for instance—that had to work together effectively to help the team win. Dorrance borrowed this concept from the great Argentinian coach César Luis Menotti. The coaches set specific objectives that could only be achieved if each small society worked together as a unit. In the men’s game, Pep Guardiola, one of the most successful coaches of all time, used a similar technique to encourage cooperation. He would force players to play out of position in both practices and games. Philipp Lahm, who served as captain under Guardiola at Bayern Munich, says the tactic taught his teammates “the role of the other,” the ability to see the game from different perspectives and the value of sacrifice for the greater good. These practices all engendered a shared sense of responsibility and a desire to work together—and may have rescued the 1999 season from defeat. In the early minutes of the 1999 World Cup quarterfinals match against Germany, a routine pass by Brandi Chastain back to goalie Brianna Scurry squirted into the US goal. On a team of me-first players, such a mistake could have broken everyone’s spirit, but Gregg and Akers remember that it galvanized the squad. Overbeck came to Chastain’s side, not to berate but to encourage. “I wanted to make sure I got to Brandi first and told her it was going to be okay,” Overbeck said. “It’s over. There is nothing you can do about it. We need you, now more than ever.” Chastain went on to tie the game at the end of the first half. Two rounds later, Chastain scored one of the most iconic goals in women’s soccer history—the final penalty kick against China—to win the World Cup for the US in what remains the most watched women’s sporting event in history. To be sure, the US team experienced failure, falling in the semifinals to Norway in the 1995 World Cup, for example. But it was a failure of cooperation, not a failure of talent. Recalling the 1996 team that won gold, Foudy said, “When we got on the field we were very intense, but off the field we were always pulling pranks and messing around. The year before, we had talent on the team, but we didn’t have the joy or the unity.” Let’s be clear. Sports and business are different activities, and metaphors that attempt to connect the two are often artificial. There is a joy and camaraderie in sports that is hard to find in business. One involves play; the other, work. But cooperation is essential—and the same—in both activities. Cooperation is less about huddling together and rallying behind the coach than it is about leaders providing a context in which teamwork and individual self-sacrifice can occur. At a time when the structural advantages of companies and entire industries are diminishing owing to digital disruption and other forces, leaders can still rely on what they profess to be their most valuable asset: their people. Not by directing or controlling them but by unleashing their latent talents. That ultimately is the lesson of the US women’s soccer team of the 1990s. The BCG Henderson Institute is Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. For more ideas and inspiration from the Institute, please visit Featured Insights.
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Apex Legends' No-Fill Matchmaking Explained The Chaos Theory Collection Event is underway in Apex Legends, and a number of new Takeovers, tools, and settings have been introduced to the game. Recent updates to Apex Legends have brought fans new Legends, updates to favorite weapons, and just a touch of controversy. Now, the Chaos Theory Collection Event is bringing a new mode that pits solo Legends against complete teams. The new feature, called No-Fill Matchmaking, allows players to opt in for solo play — but why would a Legend choose to do such a thing? EA has stated that choosing to go it alone to warm up for team play, meet weekly goals, and challenge oneself is reason enough to opt in for No-Fill Matchmaking. Overall, adding the option to play solo or with a team provides gamers with more versatility in how they play Apex Legends, as well as more strategic choices in the arena. No-Fill Matchmaking isn't mandatory, though, and the default setting will still be Fill Matchmaking, which pairs up queued Legends with Duos or Trios. How does No-Fill Matchmaking work? To opt in to No-Fill Matchmaking, players must uncheck the box that now appears beside "Fill Matchmaking" before each match. Unselecting the box allows players to go into the match without a party, skipping the line so to speak to battle on their own. In its Chaos Theory Collection Event announcement, EA stated that it believes that "at its best, Apex Legends is a game about teamplay. But we're launching this No-Fill matchmaking as an option for solo players because we think it gives a lot of creative opportunities for you to play the game your way." Of course, there are some specific rules regarding No-Fill Matchmaking. EA shared, "We only allow six potential No-Fill players in any match, and the feature isn't available in Ranked." EA explained that it didn't want No-Fill Matchmaking to "greatly disrupt" usual play or change the entire Apex Legends system. For now, there will be a limit on how many players can enter a match solo, and players won't be able to play Ranked matches unless they're part of a team. That being said, No-Fill Matchmaking still allows for players to experiment on their own and perfect their technique before playing in the big leagues against other teams.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Datsun Trucks of Minahasa Indonesia by Charles Roring in Manokwari of West Papua - Indonesia Minahasa, a beautiful regency in North Sulawesi, is not only famous for its Bunaken National Marine Park that is visited by a lot of scuba divers, but also for its agricultural region. The beauty of Minahasa's coral reef is balanced by the beauty of its farmlands, mountains, valleys and mountainous villages. Many people in Minahasa work as farmers. They grow rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables, clove, coconuts and many other plants that have high economic values in the market. To transport these agricultural commodities the Minahasan farmers use small trucks that can enter narrow roads leading to their gardens so that they can bring the produce to their houses or markets. One of the types that is famous in Minahasa is Datsun. This is the type of truck that has served the Minahasan farmers since 1970s. In the past, a Datsun equaled to two or three sacks of clove. Now, the price of the clove is not high. Minahasan farmers cannot easily buy small trucks anymore. Datsun trucks are sturdy and robust. They do not have complicated instruments on their dashboard. Farmers like their simple design. Nissan Motor was the Japanese company that manufactured Datsun. This brand was discontinued in 1986. No new types of Datsuns have been released until now. In addition, the spare parts for these trucks are getting fewer. To keep them roaming the roads and streets of Minahasa, mechanics must apply "cannibalism." The parts of Datsuns that cannot be repaired anymore are dismantled and sold to other Datsun owners. I often see that farmers who own a Datsun is very proud of his car because it is not only seen as a transport car but an antique one. A reconditioned Datsun can still be sold in higher price in Minahasa and run on the streets and roads of this beautiful mountainous region for the next one or two decades. Recently the company announced that it will relaunch Datsun cars as a low cost vehicle to Indonesian, India, South Africa and Russian markets. Farmers in Minahasa will be glad to buy Datsun pick up trucks again if they are affordable and reliable as their old brothers. No comments:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you actually remembered everything you have purchased during the weeks, months or years? If you are constantly checking your bank account for your actual balance, you can have that accessible on your iPhone, iTouch or iPad without giving out your bank information. Forget the applications that can give out your password to your bank account and start using The Economizer. Whether you are experienced or not with applications, The Economizer is easy to use and offers a quick interface in which you can keep track of your money. So how does the Economizer work without compromising my bank account? All you have to know is your account balance or your daily, weekly or monthly stipend. The first thing that the app asks you is the amount of days that will take to keep track of your money. You can choose to have it daily, monthly or as many days as you want it to track your money. What The Economizer does is that it takes your stipend and divides it into days so that you can have a daily spending limit. You can also view a calendar in which it tells you how much you have spent from your limit each day and the balance remaining of your budget. If you pass the daily limit, The Economizer will discount the additional amount to the next day, which compels you to stay within the daily limit so that you do not run out of money. You can also add or subtract money to your budget on the settings tab so that you can spend it within the set time limit. The Economizer also has a surrender button, which you can use to erase the current tracking and it allows you to start a new cycle. This application can also show different currencies such as USD, Yen, Euro, Pound, Yuan and Russian Ruble. One thing that would benefit this app greatly is a currency converter for those people who do like to travel or just travel regularly. What makes the economizer fun to use and interactive is that whenever you spend some money, you have a device used to “flush” the money. On the settings tab, you are able to change the rope to a knob, or a button that says “flush”. When you flush, the economizer asks you how much you spent and for what purpose, which you can review later and manage your accounts with ease. If you go over the limit, the application notifies you as you input the last amount of money, saving you from an embarrassing experience at the register if you input what you want to spend your money on in advance. As you start managing your cash efficiently, you can lower the daily limit and start saving up for that trip you always wanted to go on, renovations or something that requires a lot of saving up. There are two versions of this application on the App store. The lite version offers the same options as the full version; yet the only thing that changes are the days that it can track your money. The lite version only offers 6 days of tracking, which really limit your options to save money. It is better to have a weekly or monthly stipend, so that you can input your balance and forget about it until you reach your limit. You can also check the apps website through Twitter or Facebook for new updates and input on their app, since there are no reviews on the App Store yet. This app has proven to be very useful and a must have for people who want to start saving up. Apps400 Rating for the App : * * * * * Have this Finance Assistant app today – Download the Application Just look at Official Website of Economizer Application for more updates.
Skip to main content Are you a legal professional? Visit our professional site Please enter a legal issue and/or a location Legal to Use Someone Else's Contract? By Cynthia Hsu, Esq. on November 10, 2011 5:44 AM Entrepreneurs and small business owners often run into problems when starting a business. One issue that constantly crops up is getting all the required legal documentation in order. So, are contracts copyrighted? Is using someone else's contract legal? After all, it would be so much easier to use someone else's contract. Hiring an attorney to draft agreements for you would be costly. And small businesses are acutely aware of how important it is to keep costs lowered. So is it okay to use contracts you find on the web? And should you? Contracts Are Subject to Copyright Protection Copyright protection extends to all works that are "original" and "fixed" in a tangible form of expression. Traditionally, most people think only works like music, art or books can be copyrighted. But legally speaking, contracts can be subject to copyright protection as well. So if you lift someone's contract word-by-word without their permission, you could be violating the law. That doesn't mean you can't use someone else's contract as a base for your own. If you take someone's contract and tweak it so that it's "yours" using your own creativity, you could escape copyright liability. Using Someone Else's Contract May Come Back to Bite You Of course, just because you can use someone else's contract doesn't mean that you should. One of the reasons why people hire attorneys to draft contracts is to ensure the contract or agreement does exactly what you want it to. And, there is no guarantee that a contract you find online will hold up in court. It's possible that whoever drafted it was sloppy and left loopholes. So there you have it: it's possible that contracts can be copyrighted. But that doesn't mean you can't use contracts as an inspiration to help you build you own. Just make sure it's a good one. Related Resources: Or contact an attorney near you: Copied to clipboard Find a Lawyer More Options
Police Dispatch A Different Kind of College Blowout East University Boulevard June 27, 1:10 p.m. A random man decided to host a disorderly daytime shindig for himself (and a stuffed animal) out of a car parked in the middle of the University of Arizona campus, according to a UA Police Department report. A UA officer was called to the traffic circle near the Student Union's north entrance, where he saw a small group of people had gathered to stare at a silver Honda sedan parked in the street. One onlooker told him the car's driver had "pulled into the circle, honked his horn (at) random extended blast intervals, yelled at passers-by, made obscene gestures, was intoxicated and reportedly had an open container in the vehicle." The officer could see through the car's rolled-down windows that the man inside was swaying back and forth to music blaring from its speakers while screaming indecipherably at onlookers. Approaching the vehicle, he peered inside to see numerous cigarettes and butts littering the seats and dashboard; a sizable stuffed animal sat next to the driver in the passenger seat. The man turned down his music at the officer's request. Asked what was going on, he simply replied, "Feeling good!" He thrust his arm toward the officer in an odd gesture with his index finger folded down over his palm, then—when asked to give up his car keys—extended that finger and shook his head, "indicating no" before turning away to gaze through the windshield, turning his music back up, and resuming his rhythmic back-and-forth sway " honking the horn in a random pattern." The officer left the car's side, called for backup and moved the bystanders farther from the vehicle for questioning. One witness said she'd been inside her office in the Student Union when she heard a loud horn blast that brought her outside, where she saw the man in his car. When he saw her, she said, he started yelling, "Hey, baby baby!" and "other unintelligible utterances" before putting his fingers up to his mouth in a V shape and lewdly flicked his tongue between them in gesture she found "disgusting." Other witnesses said they'd seen the man catcalling her, "laying on his horn" and yelling, and that he seemed intoxicated and was drinking something from a can. When one backup officer arrived, the man refused to talk any more, just sitting there "smoking cigarettes, sporadically honking his horn, turning his stereo up and...shaking slightly." When another officer arrived and loudly informed the subject he was disturbing people, the man turned up his music even more, declaring "he was partying." Eventually one officer was able to reach inside the car and grab the keys from the ignition, and another dragged the man out of the vehicle by the legs of his jeans. He was handcuffed and brought to the Crisis Response Center for psychological evaluation. Comments (2) Add a comment Add a Comment
Help and advice \| Christian Vocations Help and advice Whether just starting out or looking for new inspiration - here's a range of excellent resources to help. How can we understand and know God's call? Hope, help and practical guidance for those experiencing uncertainty about their future employment due to Covid-19. Many workers are currently being plunged into homeworking for the first time - here's some helpful hints and tips to help you adjust.
Hedgerow installed by Solano RCD in Dixon, CA Densely planted trees and shrubs around the perimeter of a farm have long been used as windbreaks, visual screens and much-needed wildlife habitat. In addition, long-lived, large trees can take up a significant amount of CO2 over their lifetime, contributing to on-farm carbon sequestration. Populations of native pollinators (bees, butterflies, moths and other insects) and European honeybees have declined significantly in recent decades. One thing we can do to promote these essential species is create nesting, rearing and feeding habitat for them wherever possible. And the bonus is that this entails planting LOTS of flowers, so it looks great too! A diversity of flower types and flowering times ensures that a diversity of insects will have access to resources throughout the year. Pollinator Plantings Bird Boxes Encouraging the right type of birds to nest and rear young on your farms is a win-win. Barn owl boxes are usually occupied soon after they are installed, and provide an instant rodent control service. This can be particularly beneficial in perennial cropping systems like orchards and vineyards, where rodent populations often become established. Cover Crops Annual or perennial cover crops offer many advantages to farm systems, including increased percolation of storm water to improve groundwater recharge, increased soil organic matter and carbon sequestration, and the addition of nitrogen to the system. At Wild Oak Vineyards, a perennial cover crop was planted in the vineyard alleys. This will keep the soil in place, contribute carbon and nitrogen to the system, and attract pollinators for years to come. Riparian Vegetation California's riverine areas once had vast borders of native trees and shrubs on either side of waterways. These vegetated corridors are critical for wildlife movement and habitat, and have become scarce as homes and farms have occupied the land right up next to streams. Planting natives in these areas, wherever possible, is a great way to improve wildlife habitat and sequester carbon. Other Information Sources
🖱 computer mouse What is the official name for the🖱emoji? The official name is computer mouse. There are plenty of other slang names, too (see below). What does it mean when someone uses the🖱emoji? It probably means that they are thinking about a computer mouse, which totally makes sense given that you just got this emoji in your text or DM. What else can the🖱emoji symbolize? Does it have any hidden meanings? There are definitely some hidden meanings for the 🖱 emoji. It can also mean they are looking at a computer mouse and know you’ll appreciate it as a good inside joke. Does the🖱emoji appear on any lists? How do I copy and paste the🖱emoji? Select this – 🖱 – with your cursor and copy! Is the 🖱 emoji an ideogram? Definitely. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s an official emoji.
Shingled Drives for Re-Roofing Your Storage? In the last several years, there have been an increasing number of storage options. Initially we had just magnetic hard drives with a single rotational speed. Then they started to come in several varieties. Now we have a range of drive speeds starting at 15,000 rpm at the top end, followed by 10,000 rpm drives, then the ubiquitous 7,200 drives, and slower drives with speeds such as 5,900, 5,400, 4,500 and even variable speed drives. The rotational speed of the disk drive is strong indicator of performance, price, capacity and power usage. Typically the higher the speed, the more expensive the drive. And usually high-speed drive has a smaller capacity, better performance and higher power consumption. As the drive speed comes down, the drive price decreases, the capacity increases, the performance decreases, and the power usage decreases. There are other sources of drive variation, for example, drive cache size and physical drive size (2.5″ and 3.5″). There is also the drive communication protocol such as SATA, SAS or Fiber Channel. There are also protocol speed differences such as 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps), 3 Gbps and slower (although these are older drives). Now there is a new type of drive that is coming out. These drives are referred to as Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives. How SMR Drives Operate A conventional hard drive has two heads. One of them is for writing, and one is for reading. The write head is larger than the read head, which means that the tracks on a hard drive platter have to be wider than necessary from a read perspective. In addition, there is guard space between tracks so that the write head doesn’t disturb the data on neighboring tracks. This layout is illustrated below in Figure 1. Figure 1: Conventional hard drive track layout The read head is on the left and is marked with an “R.” The write head is marked with a “W.” Notice that it is much larger than the read head. The green is the width of the track necessary for writing. The blue is the width of the track necessary for reading. Separating the tracks is a Guard Space. What SMR drives do is to reduce the guard space between tracks and overlap the tracks. Figure 2 below is a diagram that illustrates this configuration. Figure 2: SMR hard drive track layout The tracks are overlapped so they look like roof shingles, hence the name “Shingled Magnetic Recording.” The diagram shows that the write head writes the data across the entire track (the blue and green stripes in a specific track). But the drive “trims” the data to the width the read head actually needs to read the data (this is the blue area of each track). This allows the areal density, the number of bits in a specific unit area, to be increased, giving us more drive capacity. Let’s explore what happens when the drive reads and writes data to the shingled tracks. Figure 3 below shows what happens when the data is starting to be written to the drive. Figure 3: SMR hard drive track layout The tracks are overlapped and are in green. The write drive head writes the data to the full track. Notice that the data is written both to Track N and Track N+1. Then the drive “trims” the data behind the write head to the width of the read head. The trimmed data is the blue. The drive head continues writing to the track leaving behind the trimmed data as shown in the Figure 4. Figure 4: SMR hard drive track layout Only a single track is shown so that you can see how the write head writes to the entire width of the track but is trimmed to the width of the read head (the blue section of the track). If you look at how the data is written to the tracks, you might notice an issue. The write head writes to the current track, such as Track N, but it also writes to the overlapping track, Track N+1, because of the width of the write head. What if there is data on Track N+1 where the write head needs to write data. This is shown in Figure 5 below. Figure 5: SMR hard drive track layout The write head is in yellow and it needs to write some data. The post-trimmed data is show as “New Data,” and the data it will over-write is shown as “Disturbed Data” and is in red. This data already exists and will be overwritten if the “New Data” is written. To get around the problem of data over-write, the drive has to read the data that is about to be overwritten and write it somewhere else on the drive. After that, it can write the new data in the original location. Therefore, a simple write becomes a read-write-write (one read and two writes). I’m not counting the “seeks” that might have to be performed, but you can see how a simple data update can lead to a large amount of activity. For sequential writes, SMR drives are great because it’s just a pure write operation (no reading and no seeking). However, as soon as an application wants to overwrite a piece of data or perform a data update, the write suddenly becomes a read-write-write operation. In an additional scenario, if a block is erased you suddenly have a “hole” in the drive that a file system will likely use at some point. There may be data on neighboring tracks surrounding the hole. A typical file system doesn’t know that an unused block may or may not have neighboring tracks with data so it may be decide to write into that block. Therefore the disk will experience a read-write-write situation again. IO elevators within the kernel try to combine different writes to make fewer sequential writes rather than a large number of smaller writes that are possibly random. This can help SMR drives, but only to a certain degree. To make writing efficient, the elevator needs to store a lot of data and then look for sequential combinations. This results in increased memory usage, increased CPU usage and increased write latency. The result is that the write speed can be degraded for both sequential write IO and random write IO, depending upon where the data is to be written. Therefore many times you will see SMR drives referred to as “archive drives.” That is, once the data is written, it is read much more than it is written, which sounds more like archive storage. However, the appeal of vastly increased drive capacity has many people working on ways overcome the write issues of SMR drives. Improving the Situation How to “work around” the idiosyncrasies of SMR drives has been a field of study for several years. There have been many approaches to “fixing” the overwrite issue in SMR drives, but I’m only going to cover a few of them in this article starting with drive banding. Drive banding As data is written to the SMR drive, the probability of having to rewrite neighboring data increases. In the pathological case, a simple rewrite may cause all of the data on the drive to be read and written again. To help avoid this, SMR drive manufacturers have created “bands.” Inside a band there are a fixed number of shingled tracks. Separating bands is a large “guard space” so that the data on an outside track of one band won’t over write data on a track in a neighboring band. This increased guard space between bands contains all overwrites due to data updates to the particular band. If small amounts of data need to be re-written, the possible cascade of read-write-write cycles to move data to prevent it from being over-written is contained to the band. Using bands has a small impact on the overall areal drive density but not much. The bands have a reasonable number of tracks relative to the number of larger guard spaces so that the overall areal density impact is minimal. The trade-off is between areal density (fewer guard spaces with very large number of SMR tracks in a band) and performance where there are more guard spaces and fewer tracks per band, limiting read-write-write cycles. But so far the verdict is that drive SMR drive manufacturers are using bands in the newer SMR drives. You may have noticed that SMR drives are somewhat similar to SSDs. When you have to update a small amount of storage on a SSD, you have to read the entire block, update the data, and then write the block back to the SSD. SMR drives are very similar. If you want to update a small bit of data that is surrounded by existing data, you may have to read the other data and then write the data back to the drive. This is also referred to as write amplification. Therefore researchers and engineers have been trying to adapt SSD concepts to SMR drives. One of the first techniques adapted from SSDs to SMR drives is over-provisioning. Over-provisioning is the technique of reserving space on the drive that is not accessible by the user for use by the drive for storing data. The drive can use this space for anything it wants or needs. In the case of SMR drives this space can be used to “park” data for blocks that are to be overwritten because of a write-update to an existing block. Once the data has been updated, the drive can copy the data from the “parking area” to the final location. This can also be used in an attempt to lay out files in a more sequential manner to reduce the fragmentation of the SMR drive. Over-provisioning is usually expressed as a percentage with the following definition: Percentage Over-provisioning = (Physical Capacity – User Capacity) / (User Capacity) As you can tell from the equation and what you might already intuitively know, over-provisioning takes away user addressable capacity from the drive. For SSDs the trade-off between losing some capacity and the boost in performance is usually a good one. For SMR drives, the trade-off may not be as clear cut, but that is yet to be determined. File System Integration One option for improving the performance from SMR drives is to use a file system more appropriate to the sequential nature of SMR drives. Many people have discussed using log-based file systems on SMR drives to improve performance. Log-Structured File Systems are a bit different than other file systems with both good points and bad points. Rather than write to a tree structure such as a b-tree or an h-tree, either with or without a journal, a log-structured file system writes all data and metadata sequentially in a continuous stream that is called a log (actually it is a circular log). The concept of a log-structured file system was developed by John Ousterhout and Fred Douglis. The motivation behind log-structured file systems is that typical file systems lay out data based on spatial locality for rotating media (hard drives). But rotating media tends to have slow seek times limiting write performance. In addition, it was presumed that most IO would become write-dominated. A log-structured file system takes a new approach and treats the file system as a circular log and writes sequentially to the “head” of the log (the beginning), never overwriting the existing log. This means that seeks are kept to a minimum because everything is sequential, improving write performance. Log-structured file systems seem like a good option for SSDs or SMR drives because of their emphasis on sequential writes rather than random writes. But they have other advantages as well. I haven’t seen a comparison of a log-structured file system to a tree-based one on SMR drives, but the general thought is that they are much better suited for SMR drives than tree based file systems. There are a couple of notable log-structured file systems in Linux. One is NILFS. It was included in the 2.6.30 kernel and has been shown to have great performance on SSDs. It is also designed for large file systems (exabytes) so it’s suitable for SMR drives. Another example is F2FS which is a log-structured file system designed for NAND-based storage devices, particularly embedded devices such as cell phones and tablets. It currently is limited to 16TB file systems (3.94 TB for an individual file); however, it has been shown to be quite fast for some benchmarks. We can embellish on the idea of appropriate SMR file systems using a combination of drive layout modifications and a file system that understands the drive layout. This concept comes from the supposition that metadata is potentially changed more often than the data itself. For the best performance, the drive would need the ability to be able to do small writes very quickly (write IOPs) for the metadata. SMR drives can’t really do this very well, but classic magnetic drives can do this much better than SMR drives. What if we could combine SMR tracks and “regular” drive tracks within the same drive and get the file system to write the metadata to one track type and the data to another track type? This is exactly what has been proposed. In this new type of drive there are two track types. One track type would retain the current guard space between tracks eliminating the over-write issue of SMR drives, and the other track type would consist of SMR bands. The first track type is sometimes referred to as a “Random Access Zone” (RAZ) and stores the metadata for the file system. The second track type, which uses SMR tracks, is used to store the data itself. Putting file metadata on the RAZ tracks allows it can be easily updated without a read-write-write scenario associated with SMR tracks. The file data is put on the SMR tracks in as close to a sequential manner as possible to reduce any data over-write that might need to take place. However, mixing track types in a single drive reduces the areal density of the drive, and improving the areal density is the strength of SMR drives. In a study by Garth Gibson and his students from Carnegie Mellon University, they showed what happens to the areal density when SMR tracks alone are used and when mixed RAZ/SMR tracks are used. They computed the increase in areal density relative to a non-SMR drive using a simplified model. When only SMR tracks are used, the theoretical increase in areal density was 2.25. When 1 percent of the tracks are devoted to RAZ, the areal density is barely affected, particularly when the number of tracks per band is large. Even 10 percent of the tracks being devoted to RAZ only slightly impacts the overall areal density. For large number of tracks per band, the impact on areal density reduces from 2.25 to about 2.1. For track type combinations to be effective, the file system has to be aware of where the RAZ tracks and the SMR tracks are located on the drive. Or conversely, the file system has to tell the drive which part of the data is metadata and which part is just data, and the drive uses the appropriate track type. Either approach will require both file system work and work on interfacing with the drive. One area this can be used very effectively is for object-based storage since this naturally separates metadata and data. Renumber Tracks A recent research paper suggested that a novel renumbering of tracks of a different track usage pattern could improve SMR performance until a large percentage of the tracks are used. Conventionally, a drive will use the tracks in increasing order. For example let’s say a drive has 4 tracks. Track 1 will be first used, then tracks 2, 3 and 4. For an SMR drive you could potentially get a significant number of read-write-write sequences if data is written in this manner. But if you write the tracks in the order 4, 1, 2, 3 then you can write up to 50% of the number of tracks before the performance decreases (read-write-write operations start happening instead of a simple write). Changing the order of tracks for writing fits well with SMR drives. Since typical SMR drives typically use bands, the order in which the bands are written can be controlled. For example, if the ordering is done in a round-robin fashion, you avoid writing to one band more than the others. In the case of the 4123 track pattern where you write in a round-robin fashion, all of the 4 tracks in the bands are written to before you move on to the first tracks. The paper examined four re-ordering schemes of which two were very good in terms of performance relative to a conventional hard drive. The two schemes show a great deal of promise and only require a little change in drive firmware. I hope this gets implemented in production drives in the near future. IO Patterns All of these “fixes” or “adaptations” to SMR drives can have an impact on performance, areal density (the point of SMR), and overall capacity. But ultimately, the real impact depends upon the specific IO pattern hitting the drive. Do your application(s) do a great deal of “in-place” data updates? Do they do a great deal of IOPS? SMR Drive Examples SMR drives are popping out all the time. Recently, Western Digital announced a 10TB drive with a 12Gb SAS interface that uses SMR. The drive uses 7 platters or about 1.43 TB per platter. It has a 128MB cache, a five year warranty, and a two million hour meantime between failures (MTBF) rating. Seagate also announced a 8TB SMR drive. It too has a 128MB cache and spins at 5,900 RPM. It has an average read/write throughput of 150MB/sec (190MB/sec max), comes with a three-year warranty and a MTBF of 800,000 hours. The price on this drive is targeted at $260 or just a bit over 3 cents/GB. On Amazon you can order a Seagate SMR drive that has 6TB of capacity, a 128MB cache, and a 3 year warranty for $281.00. All of these drives are being labeled as archive drives because of the use of SMR tracks. But given the price, the areal density and the insatiable user desire for storage space, drive manufacturers are likely to develop technology to improve the performance of SMR drives. In the never-ending quest for increased storage capacity, drive manufacturers have created a new type of hard drive called a Shingled Magnetic Recording drive (SMR). SMR drives use tracks that overlap one another like shingles on a roof. The drives write the data to multiple tracks at a time, and the data is then trimmed to be the width of the drive read head. This reduces the size of the track storing the data improving the areal density of the drive. However it also introduces the issue of updating data in place or writing data that has neighboring data that is not to be disturbed. Updating data in place means writing or overwriting the data that is already on a track. Since the tracks are so close together this means that the neighboring tracks will also be overwritten. If there is any data there, the drives needs to first read it, put it somewhere else on the drive, and then update the data. This means that a simple write becomes a read-write-write operation resulting in lower throughput and higher latency. This article presents some possible solutions to the read-write-write issue that people have discussed. Some of these focus on the drive itself and some focus on the file system and others focus on a combination. One of the best and simplest options appears to be a simple re-ordering of how the tracks are used. Whether the read-write-write problem affects you and your applications really depends upon the IO pattern. I’ve talked about the importance of knowing your IO patterns before, but they become even more critical when using SMR drives. Right now SMR drives are very good for data that is read much more than it is written such as in an archive because of the data overwrite issue. But the ideas mentioned here show great promise in restoring the SMR drive performance allowing them to be used in a great variety of situations. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock. 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We have no idea what we would do without our rainbow! My grandmother has a rainbow and I’m sure it’s many year old. I knew what a rainbow was but I had no clue that it would be this amazing. My in laws were the ones who told us about it and asked if we could do a show for them. Of course we said yes. Sara. We have lived in our house a little over a year and it still smells like new. We have carpet throughout our home and we have two small children who love to make messes. Sara was the dealer who came and did our demonstration. The junk that came out of our floor was a total shock! She cleaned in the living room where our children play the most. After just 2 hrs of her staying in one spot, we were sold! I have asthma and so does our son and I have seen a huge difference in both him and I. We constantly leave ours running to circulate the room and make the whole house smell wonderful! It has truly been a life saving investment for our family! Thank you rainbow family and Sara for everything you have done for us!
Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 42.djvu/399 From Wikisource Jump to navigation Jump to search This page has been validated. with the following results: England (London), 1; Canada (Montreal), 2; Washington, D. C., 1; Texas, 1; Illinois, 2; Michigan, 3; Montana, 1; Ohio, 2; Florida, 3; North Carolina, 1; Virginia, 4; Washington Territory, 1; Pennsylvania, 5; California, 1; Iowa, 1; Connecticut, 10; New Hampshire, 4; Vermont, 1; Rhode Island, 9; New York city, 79; Massachusetts coastwise counties, 140. It certainly seems to me that there could be no clearer proof than this that the desire to move inland comes from the thickly populated coast lines and the vicinities of the larger cities. That, after all, the greatest demand for Massachusetts farms comes from Massachusetts itself must be a glory and a pride to that noble old Commonwealth, and an acquittal from the charge that her thousands of common schools and hundreds of town libraries have cultivated in her sons and daughters a distaste for the life of an independent farmer. It is not abandonment, but rotation, and seems to illustrate one of Emerson's postulates, viz., that "demand and supply run into every invisible and unnamed province of whim and passion." But, apart from whim and passion, there is a great justice in this rotation. The catalogue might have been entitled A List of Farms in Massachusetts whose Owners are willing to sell them rather cheaply, and better express what actually appears to be the situation. The Rotation of the Farm, or the Rotation of the Owner of the Farm, would seem to be the better title. Mr. Francis Galton avows himself a qualified believer in the possibility of signaling to Mars. Accepting as a fact that the Lick telescope can bring the planet optically to within 50,000 miles, he has found that a reflected beam of sunlight, sent through a hole one tenth of an inch square, is visible as a glint at a distance often miles. Hence, with fairly clear atmospheres, the flash from many mirrors simultaneously, whose aggregate width is fifteen yards and their aggregate length, say, to allow for slope, twenty-five yards, would be visible in Mars, if seen through a telescope such as that at the Lick Observatory. "With funds and goodwill there seems no insuperable difficulty in flashing from a very much larger surface than the above, and sending signals that the inhabitants of Mars, if they have eyes, wits, and fairly good telescopes, would speculate on and wish to answer. One, two, three, might be slowly flashed over and over again from us to them, and possibly in some years, to allow time for speculation in Mars to bear fruit, one, two, three might come back in response." The remarkable pit of the Creux de Souci, France, is situated in a sheet of recent basalt on the south side of the Puy de Montchal. The opening is eighty-two feet in diameter and thirty-eight feet deep; but at that depth a hole about ten feet wide communicates with a hollow seventy feet deep, at the bottom of which is a stagnant pool overladen with carbonic acid which forbids access to the water surface. The interior is a vast vaulted hollow, apparently formed in the basalt when semi-fluid, by an explosion of volcanic gas. The temperature falls from 51° Fahr. in the open air to 34° near the water.
July 28, 2021 Is 2d echo and echocardiography the same? Is 2d echo and echocardiography the same? 2D Echocardiography or 2D Echo of heart is a test in which ultrasound technique is used to take pictures of heart. It will be displayed in a cross-sectional ‘slice’ of the beating heart, showing chambers, valves and the major blood vessels of heart. What is a 2d Echo with Doppler test? A 2-D (or two-dimensional) echocardiogram is capable of displaying a cross-sectional slice of the beating heart, including the chambers, valves and the major blood vessels that exit from the left and right ventricle. A Doppler echocardiogram measures the speed and direction of the blood flow within the heart. What is the purpose of 2d echo? 2D Echocardiography or 2D Echo: It is a non-invasive heart investigation that creates images of the sections of the heart using sound vibrations. It presents the various parts of the heart as in pictures so that it becomes easy to check if there is any damage or blockages, and blood flow rate. Can a 2d echo detect a heart attack? The pictures show the size and shape of your heart. They also show how well your heart’s chambers and valves are working. Echo also can pinpoint areas of heart muscle that aren’t contracting well because of poor blood flow or injury from a previous heart attack. Can ECG detect heart blockage? Is oatmeal good for heart? However, most research on oats supports the health claim stating, “Soluble fiber from whole oats, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease.” These research studies found evidence supporting oats effectiveness in lowering LDL cholesterol when consumed regularly with a … Is coffee bad for heart? Many studies have been done to see if there’s a direct link between caffeine, coffee drinking and coronary heart disease. The results are conflicting. This may be due to the way the studies were done and confounding dietary factors. However, moderate coffee drinking (1–2 cups per day) doesn’t seem to be harmful. How do you reverse arteriosclerosis naturally? Healthy dietary changes and regular exercise are both very important parts of reducing high blood pressure and high cholesterol, two major contributors to atherosclerosis….Exerciselose weight and maintain your healthy weight.maintain a normal blood pressure.boost your HDL (good cholesterol) levels.
Friday, November 13, 2009 1007. Ali Farka Touré - Savane (2006) Track Listing 1. Erdi 2. Yer Bounda Fara 3. Beto 4. Savane 5. Soya 6. Penda Yoro 7. Machengoidi 8. Ledi Coumbe 9. Hanana 10. Soko Yhinka 11. Gambari Didi 12. Banga 13. N'Jarou First things first. This is a great album, there is no doubt about that, by a truly great musician which is unfortunately no longer alive. Ali Farka Touré is one of the great bluesmen, on either side of the Atlantic. This album is also among his best. This being said I have some problems with the way that this album has become the be all and end all of Touré's music. How it is on number 6 of Metacritic etc. I think this happens for two main reasons, the fact that it is a posthumous album which always draws on the heartstrings and that before this most were not aware of him and so it became a revelation. Although it is obviously not a revelation, it only got a bump in marketing because of its associated tragedy. This being said Touré keeps drawing his amazing parallels between the music of Mali and the Blues in a way that is fresh and beautiful. The sound of the album is intimate and rich as are the instrumentations. Touré is at the top of his game, but the album is just about as good as Talking Timbuktu 12 years earlier. Track Highlights 1. Savane 2. Soya 3. Erdi 4. Soko Final Grade From Wikipedia: Mr Touré, who was suffering from cancer and anticipating the inevitable end to his life, wanted to remain in Mali. So a temporary studio was set up on the top floor of the thatched roof Hotel Mandé in Bamako, where the wide windows offered panoramas of life along the Niger River. The unusual studio setup has produced a resonating spaciness and intimacy in the sound quality of Mr. Toure's final album. "All you can see is river and grasslands and villages and people in pirogues and canoes and boats," Nick Gold said in a recent interview. "It's just beautiful." No comments:
June 30th, 2011 Dylan Princess Strawberry CocoButterLove, Black Books Dylan Poses (no subject) I have a virus. YAY, A VIRUS OF MY VERY OWN! :\| My doctor (whom I love) said it is most likely gladular fever, but she ordered a test just to make sure it wasn't anything else. She said it could also be a virus that pretty much causes the same thing, so basically I'm screwed either way. I don't care about the definition if the results are the same, but she's doing her doctory thing. Does it make me weird that I love blood tests? I love them. The nurse asked me how I felt about needles and I assured her I have no problem with them. Then I informed her she wouldn't be able to find a vein in my arm, as I ALWAYS have to do and no one ever takes my word for it. I have always had blood drawn from, and had IVs in my hands. No one has ever found a viable vein in my arm, yet everyone tries (one lady dug around in there for fifteen minutes because she refused to be beat, but she eventually gave up) because apparently it hurts more in the hands? I wouldn't know. I have nothing to compare it to! And frankly a cat scratch hurts more than needles, in my humble opinion. Anyway she found a vein in my hand and the blood started to go into the tube and I went "OOoooooh!" and she thought it was a sound of distress but I was like "No, I think it's awesome!" because I really do. I like watching it. I might be a freak, but I find it fascinating. So yeah. The highlight of my day was a blood test. My week is going so awesome, you guys. So awesome that my cat used my head to prop her leg up to lick her arse a while ago. But I have doughnuts, so that's something! Now I'm gonna sleep because omfg.
Is investing in robot kitchen devices a good decision in the long run? A growing number of food and beverage processing facilities are investing in robotics and automation, as the technology continues to advance and costs continue to normalize. These tools can be a game-changer for many businesses, offering benefits such as reduced operating costs, upped throughput, and increased food and worker safety, even other kitchen robot models. That said, such a significant investment requires careful implementation. Before incorporating robotics into your kitchen facility, consider these important best practices to ensure you invest wisely and efficiently. Consider Necessary Specifications in Advance Selecting robots is a case-by-case process that largely depends on the particular needs of a manufacturer, but often advise owners to consider many factors before selecting equipment for their facilities, such as level of robot accuracy, level of robot repeatability, maintenance objectives, product dimensions, product materials, product temperatures, product throughput requirements, and product weight. It’s also important to understand how incoming product needs to be positioned and located before entering the robot’s work cell. We suggest compiling this information before engaging an equipment supplier like Cook Unity. They will likely need additional details, but providing this basic information upfront can save time and make the process more efficient. Determine the Type of Robot You Need for your kitchen robot When it comes to the kitchen robot itself, there are several types to choose from. Do you need a Cartesian coordinate (linear) robot? A delta robot? A robotic arm? Consider these factors to determine the type of machine you need. End-of-arm tooling (EOAT) options, or grippers, vary depending on the type of product the robot is interacting with. At Stellar, you’ll often work with robotics vendors to determine the best solution for a particular application. Bellows: ideal for handling cylindrical items The finger can be used for many different applications, particularly for sensitive products. Also has a jaw that is typically specified for more rigid products. The switchable magnets are appropriate for metallic items. Vacuum cups offer a proper grip and transfer for a variety of products. Of course, the ideal type of gripper depends on your specific product, but the main determining factor is rigidity. A softer product, such as a baked good, requires EOAT that is functional and sensitive enough to handle the product. For example, vacuum suction may not work for a porous baked good since the necessary amount of suction would damage the product. Additionally, if one particular section of the robot is under extreme stress, the technical team can give the process engineer a “heads up” and determine if another long-term solution might be better. The simulation can’t predict exactly when something will shut down, but it can paint a clearer picture of the kinds of stresses the equipment will be operating under a particular facility. Ensure Software and Network Integration Across All Systems and Robots Finally, it’s important to standardize what kind of network protocols you will have in place across your entire facility. Making this uniform aids in commissioning helps with future troubleshooting and makes life easier for the plant personnel who will be working with the robots on a daily basis. When you’re considering a kitchen robotic machine, you can look out for those mentioned.
Tips for Women Getting Tattoos For most tattoo artists they’re not worried whether you’re a guy, girl or somewhere in between if you’re in their chair, but for decades this male-dominated industry has also been primarily patronized by men. The stereotyped “Women Getting Tattoos” started out as a sideshow attraction, an oddity, something to be stared at for being different. Now the numbers of women getting inked are skyrocketing, and more women than ever are going under the needle. So what specifics should women be trying to find once they get tattooed? How much does Women Getting Tattoos cost? A good tattoo isn’t cheap, and an inexpensive tattoo isn’t (usually) good. The price of a tattoo depends on the dimensions, the world of the body you would like covered, the artist, and therefore the shop’s minimum, but typically, one will cost you anywhere from $50 for a tiny tattoo…to a few months’ rent for more elaborate art. Yes, really. At most places, the prices are non-negotiable and head up, you should also factor in a tip of 20 per cent. Avoid “that” time of the month You know your body better than anybody which suggests you recognize exactly which days you’re most sensitive. Those days when just wearing a bra hurts and having rough fabrics on your skin seems like sandpaper are bad days to get tattooed. Before booking your appointment make notes the month before to note days when your pain tolerance or sensitivity is especially high or low. This will differ for most women but, time of the month has the widest swings which is why it’s a good idea to stay away. Not only that but if you’re going to be sitting for a long time it’s doubly miserable. tattoo designs for women getting tattoos Do Not Be Intimidated Most artists are professionals who have worked on hundreds of women. They aren’t interested in peeking (unless that’s where you’re getting tattooed) and aren’t trying to get into your pants when doing their job. While many of the blokes can look big and scary looking they’re likely dads, husbands, sons, and normal citizenry like you. You’re just another customer but if you feel like there’s some sort of vibe you’re not comfortable with you can always walk away. It’s important to choose a shop that you feel comfortable in but it’s your choice to patronize a business or not. Choose Wisely Tattoos are permanent which suggests that while fashion plays an enormous influence for a few women that fashionable choice won’t be so fashionable 20 or 40 years down the line. The same goes for making decisions based on boyfriends or people who might not be around that long. The same goes for pulling ideas off Pinterest and getting the same tattoo thousands of other girls have. Listen to your artist. Their experience means that when they tell you your breast area is unsuited for a certain tattoo don’t take it personally. Some people’s anatomy is better suited than others and they have your best interest at heart because they want you to be happy with it in the end. Change Your Beauty Routine A tattoo can be seriously irritated by makeup, scented soaps, perfumes, and other cosmetic products. If you’re getting tattooed in a neighbourhood where you normally apply these then give them a rest for every week or two while your tattoo is healing. The same goes for tanning, even if you’re faking it. Fake tan is like paint so it can discolour your tattoo permanently if you catch on while it’s healing. Think twice about your Stomach and Breasts You should get your tattoos where you want, but these areas are the most likely to change over the course of your life. . It may never return to an equivalent shape it had been afterwards anyway but if you’re planning a crucial tattoo or one that you simply want to treasure instead of risk covering up consider a different area. Women Tattoo Ideas You Will Love
What would it take for Bill O'Reilly to get fired? The "O'Reilly Factor" host makes Fox News a lot of money, but that may not be enough anymore By Matt Gertz April 3, 2017 5:07PM (UTC) main article image Bill O'Reilly (Reuters/Brendan McDermid) Over the past two years, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has drawn attention to President Barack Obama's clothing at a Muslim wedding and claimed Rep. Maxine Waters’ , D-Calif., was wearing a “James Brown wig,” called “many” African-Americans “ill-educated” with “tattoos on their foreheads,” and praised the workplace conditions of the slaves who built the White House. A co-worker accused him of reducing her on-air time on his show after she turned down his repeated sexual advances. His yarns about heroically covering conflicts in the Falkland Islands, El Salvador, and Northern Ireland were exposed as fiction. His latest biography was rejected as "a disservice to history” written by "an opportunistic interloper" who "debases the historian's craft." This fall marks the 10th anniversary of O’Reilly’s shocked declaration that African-American patrons at a famous Harlem restaurant weren’t screaming expletives at the waitstaff. Given this track record, what would it take for Fox News to fire Bill? The reason O’Reilly has been untouchable is simple: He makes Fox News a lot of money. His show anchors Fox’s prime-time programming, bringing in the most viewers in cable news for 17 years, according to the network. There is no heir apparent. It’s difficult to imagine an Eric Bolling or Greg Gutfeld filling O’Reilly’s seat. If the network loses him, it’s screwed. And so Fox excuses offenses that would get talent at other networks — or lesser lights at Fox — kicked to the curb. Fox does damage control for Fox's bigoted commentary Don Imus, Juan Williams, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Curt Schilling, Pat Buchanan, and Laura Schlessinger were pushed out of CBS and MSNBC, NPR, CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, and her radio show, respectively, for making the sort of racially charged remarks that are a regular staple of O'Reilly's programming.Fox executives have a much higher tolerance for on-air bigotry (they hired Dobbs, Imus, and Williams after their scandals on other networks) but even they dropped E.D. Hill and Emily Austen after they made racially charged remarks.The latest controversy over O’Reilly’s casually racist attack on Waters is instructive. Seeking to stem the onslaught of criticism, a statement was released under O’Reilly’s name that minimized his comments but included the phrase “I apologize.” The statement circulated widely and was described by some journalists as O’Reilly “express[ing] regret.” Hours later, speaking to his own audience, the Fox host laughed his waythrough a similar statement before attacking Waters’ patriotism and dog-whistling some comments about her support for the “entitlement system.” Fox doesn’t appear to care about what O’Reilly says. It just does damage control. When O’Reilly’s fabrications were exposed, fox attacked his critics Journalists depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe them. That makes fabricating a story the profession’s greatest sin. When questions were raised about tales Brian Williams had told about his reporting exploits, NBC News convened an internal investigation of Williams’ claims that eventually led to his removal as anchor of Nightly News. Over the years, The New York TimesJayson Blair, The Washington Post’s Janet Cooke, and The New Republic’s Stephen Glass have all lost their jobs when stories they reported were exposed as inventions. O’Reilly spent much of 2015 trying to salvage his journalistic credibility after Mother Jones, Media Matters, and others dismantled a host of tall tales he had told about his journalism career. His incredible claims about reporting from the battlefield during the Falklands War, being present for the suicide of a key figure in the John F. Kennedy assassination, seeing “nuns get shot in the back of the head” during the civil war in El Salvador and “Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast,” and getting “attacked by protesters” during the Los Angeles riots were all false. Rather than investigate the allegations, as a credible news network would, Fox sent O’Reilly out to deny the claims in interviews and on his program. As the fabrications mounted, the network released a statementattacking O’Reilly’s critics and saying they would no longer respond to the “accusation du jour.” For Fox, evidence that its top host had concocted stories about his past work was an attack to be deflected, not a serious allegation to be reviewed. Fox paid off a former employee who accused O'Reilly of sexual harassment Fox spent much of last summer embroiled in a massive scandal over dozens of allegations of sexual harassment by its employees against its founder and CEO, Roger Ailes. After an internal review, Ailes resigned. But just weeks after Ailes’ termination, Fox’s parent company paid off former contributor Juliet Huddy to keep her from filing a lawsuit accusing O’Reilly of sexually harassing her for years and using his position to punish her when she rebuffed him (O’Reilly and the company denied the allegations). This was at least the second time O’Reilly had been accused of workplace sexual harassment; he settled a 2004 lawsuit by one of his show’s producers for millions of dollars. It’s unclear if the network has taken any steps to protect its employees from its star’s advances. What would it take? By Fox News’ own standards and the standards of the rest of journalism, O’Reilly should have been fired long ago. But O’Reilly seems to be worth more to Fox than its reputation with African-Americans offended by his comments, or its duty to other employees who might be subjected to his sexual entreaties, or its stature as an outlet that cares about journalism. Until the network’s executives start caring about something more than the bottom line, or O’Reilly’s ratings fall, or he finally does something so terrible that it offends the right stakeholders, his position at the network will remain secure. When Fox fired an executive just this week over racist remarks she allegedly made to African-American co-workers, the network put out a statement claiming, “There is no place for abhorrent behavior like this at Fox News. Apparently there is a place for that behavior: hosting the network’s highest-rated broadcast. UPDATE: A New York Times investigation has uncovered two more settlements involving sexual harassment claims against O'Reilly from network employees, as well as a former Fox guest who "said [O'Reilly's] offer to make her a contributor never materialized after she declined an invitation to go to his hotel suite after a dinner in 2013." The bombshell April 1 report includes this horrifying paragraph: Bill O'Reilly appears to be a sexual predator who uses his influential position at the network to target young employees. And Fox's response to this point has been to pay off his victims. They should fire him. Now. 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Chef Ned Bell at Kitsilano Farmers Market Kitchen I love to visit the Farmers Market, especially when the monthly Farmers Market Kitchen is on! Last Sunday, Chef Ned Bell of YEW Restaurant gave a demo on BBQing salmon. He started off by introducing himself and his restaurant and how he loves support local food and how we should all donate to the Farmers Market Kitchen. As an incentive, anyone who donated $5 or more received a canned tuna from YEW! The canned tuna is sold for $7 something at the restaurant so everyone jumped at the chance. I got one myself because it's so yummy! Tuna and love are the two ingredients! Starting from the top, Chef Ned Bell proceeded to show us how to fillet and debone a whole salmon! That above is about a 9lb Spring Chinook salmon. It was freshly caught, and has its organic ocean tag with tracking number so that you know which boat caught it, where, when and how it was caught. Ned Bell is very passionate about sustainable seafood, as should we all, since if we continue eating the way we eat, there will be no more seafood period! Traceability is important for seafood to know what you are eating. Ask the server where the fish came from, if it is Ocean Wise, if they don't know or can't answer then...well you got your answer. The Four Seasons is the first luxury hotel in Canada to be 100% ocean wise! All the seafood at the hotel is caught, raised, farmed or harvested sustainably and Chef Ned Bell is very proud to be part of that. So to fillet a fish: 1. start at the head, score down to the bone then follow the backbone with your knife = perfect fillet 2. flip fish, and do the same thing to the other side. Chef had his little sous-chef entourage watching him work. =D You are left with the rest of the fish which you can scrape it with a spoon and use for salmon burger or tartare! Yummy! 3. Take out the belly bones 4. Use a long sharp knife and skin the salmon. He stressed the importance of having sharp knives in the kitchen. 5. Run knife along against pin bones and use good set of fish pliers to pull out the bones and voila! You're done! To give the fish a great flavour, Chef uses cedar paper, which can be bought from any local hardware store, and cook the fish on it. Just lay it on the tray and put the fish on top of it. It doesn't need to be soaked it if you put it on the tray. It is one use and throw it away, easy, clean. Chef says that one of the most important things of being a chef is to work clean. Working cleaning, being organized means you waste less and make less mistakes. Add some extra virgin olive oil. Lots of sea salt like a crust. Then put it into the BBQ preheated to medium to medium/high heat. Or if you don't have a BBQ, medium/high heat 375 - 400 in your oven. Bake for 10min until the fat, white stuff rise to the top. That's when you know it's done. While the salmon was cooking, Chef prepared the compote and salad to go with the fish. Boil crab apples from Vista Dora farms, mix in a cup of honey, a cup vinegar e.g. red wine vinegar or cider vinegar, salt but balance to your taste. Stir it a little bit to break apart the apples when they are soft enough. Hannah Brook Farms provided the greens in the salad. Throw in roasted hazelnuts from Poplar Grove, some extra virgin olive oil, poured some of the liquid from the compote, some sea salt and mix it all together. And you're done your salad. Easy! Checking on the fish...white stuff is the fat that rose to the top. Take it out right away because it will continue to cook! Juicy and perfectly cooked. Mmm. After the demo was done, Chef Ned Bell served up samples to the hungry crowd. Voila! Cedar baked BBQ salmon with mixed greens and crab apple compote. So yummy! Best of all, all the ingredients can be found fresh at the Farmers Market! Chef Ned Bell and his sous-chef Max. The next Farmers Market Kitchen and the last one this season is on September 29 with Chef Eric Arrouzé from UBC Culinary Arts. Make sure to check it out! Please visit for more information. You may also like No comments:
Many Names for Fractions 46 teachers like this lesson Print Lesson SWBAT: • Identify the numerator and denominator of a fraction and how each relates to the part and the whole • Develop strategies for finding equivalent fractions • Simplify a fraction Big Idea What does it mean for two fractions to be called equivalent? Students develop strategies for generating equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions. Do Now 10 minutes • I use the pre test data to determine whether or not students need practice finding equivalent fractions. If not, I move on to the next lesson. Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to connect multiplying and dividing whole numbers by one to multiplying and dividing fractions by 1. Students participate in a Think Pair Share. I call on students to share out their thinking. For problem 3, I am looking to see if students connect their answers to problem 1 and 2. Some students may use an algorithm to solve these problems. What is important to me is that students can explain their answer and why their answer is correct (MP3). Fraction Review 5 minutes We work on these problems together. I want students to recognize that with each new rectangle the shaded amount does not change, but the number and size of the parts increase or decrease. This allows for us to use multiple names to represent the same fraction. These fractions are equivalent because they have the same value, but they look different. Students will work on developing a strategy for generating equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions in the next section. Many Names for Fractions 40 minutes I tell students that their job is to work on the problems in the next section and come up with a strategy to generate multiple fraction names for the same quantity. I have students work in partners. Students are engaging with MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. As students work, I walk around and monitor student progress and behavior. If students struggle, I may ask them some of the following questions: • What does the numerator of a fraction represent? • What does the denominator of a fraction represent? • If you divide only the shaded area of the rectangle, would you be able to create a new name for the fraction? Why or why not? • As you divide the whole into more parts, what happens to the size of the parts? What happens to the denominator as this happens? • Why are ______ and ________ equivalent? • Will the strategy you’re using always work? Why or why not? If students successfully complete their work, they move on to work on the challenge problems. Closure and Ticket to Go 10 minutes For Closure I ask students, “What does it mean if two fractions are equivalent?” Then I ask them to share out their strategies for generating equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions. I want students to connect that they are multiplying by forms of one and then to connect this with the rectangular models. Write 7/10 on the board. I say that I am going to create an equivalent fraction whose denominator is three times the size of the original denominator. What is the new denominator? What must be the new value of the numerator? How do you know? When students understand equivalence they can apply it to figuring out how to add and subtract fractions. I pass out the Ticket to Go and students complete it independently. Then I pass out the HW Many Names for Fractions.
Return to Transcripts main page The Beatles Aired June 29, 2007 - 20:00 ET ED SULLIVAN, HOST: Here they are -- The Beatles! THE BEATLES: I say no... Jojo was a man... Here comes the sun... Back in the USSR. Lucy in the sky... LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, Paul, Ringo, Yoko, Olivia, next on LARRY KING LIVE. THE BEATLES: Oh, yes, I'll tell you something... KING: What a night! We're at The Mirage Hotel. We're in The Revolutionary -- The Revolution Lounge, an incredible, even historic night for LARRY KING LIVE, as we meet the Beatles -- the two living Beatles and the widows of the two who departed. It's the one year anniversary of The Beatles Love, this unprecedented Cirque du Soleil production embracing the musical legacy and spirit and passion of The Beatles. We begin with Yoko Ono Lennon, the artist and activist, the widow of the former Beatle, John Lennon, who was killed on December 8, 1980. My God, 27 years already. John Lennon's solo song book is the centerpiece for the benefit album "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur." The proceeds go to support Amnesty International. And there you see its cover. And Olivia Harrison, the widow of the former Beatle, George Harrison, who succumbed to cancer on November 29, 2001. She's executive producer of the reissue of the Traveling Wilburys collection. That debuted number nine on the Billboard 200 list. The Traveling Wilburys group was made up of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. What's this night like for you, Yoko? YOKO ONO LENNON, JOHN LENNON'S WIDOW: Well, it's very emotional, actually. And I was thinking that after a year or so that the show might just go down a little. But, no. It's much, much more exciting now. I was so surprised that they made it into such an incredibly exciting show now. KING: This was -- was this your baby, Olivia? OLIVIA HARRISON, GEORGE HARRISON'S WIDOW: Actually, it was George's vision. George and Guy Laliberte had a friendship and they had this creative spark of a moment and, you know, George was around just long enough to transmit that to all of us. And through everyone's effort it came through. I think it's been seven years -- (INAUDIBLE) seven years. KING: What do you think George would have thought of it? HARRISON: I think he would have loved it. I just know he would have. I know that he -- he loved Cirque. You know, Cirque is a very romantic thing. He was a very romantic person. And I know he would have enjoyed it. KING: What would John have thought, Yoko? ONO: Well, I think that, now, in the beginning I was a little bit worried about what John would have thought. And now I really know that John would be very happy with this, yes. KING: Do you feel their presence? You never remarried, right? ONO: Well, we were talking about that. Yes, we feel so strongly about our husbands that sometimes it's hard for us, isn't it? HARRISON: It is hard, you know. I mean their presence is very powerful and very strong. But the incredible thing about them is that they -- everything they left the world and left us is uplifting and joyful. ONO: That's true. HARRISON: There wasn't anything that they left that was negative or, you know -- ideas that made you think and love and great melodies. So that's pretty unique. KING: Paul and Ringo will be coming aboard. We've got quite a show for you tonight. We're also going to Guy, the founder of Cirque du Soleil. Earlier today, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko and Olivia had a ceremony honoring John and George, and we wanted to share some of the sights and sounds of that event. It happened about an hour-and-a-half ago. RINGO STARR, MUSICIAN: George was a great musician. He was a dear friend. I love him and I miss him. And God bless him. And I'm sure wherever he is, he's smiling right now. PAUL MCCARTNEY, MUSICIAN: It's great to be unveiling this because the guys aren't here and the show has been such a great success. And it encapsulates music, all the stuff we did together. They were great times. They were magnificent men and it is an honor to unveil this plaque to them. STARR AND MCCARTNEY: One, two, a one, two, three, four. STARR: Fantastic. ONO: John would have been very happy and glad that this show is such a success, and also that another magnificent man here introduced him. And I'm very thankful to him. HARRISON: I don't think George would be surprised at the success of this collaboration. He knew it was going to be good in so many ways and I'm just thankful to be a part of it. Happy anniversary. STARR: Peace and love for all of you people. KING: And, again, we'll be meeting Paul and Ringo in a little while. And then at the end, they'll all be with us, a kind of reunion of The Beatles. Do you feel, Yoko, that The Beatles have kind of surrounded you, that you're forever identified as a Beatle? ONO: Well, it's a family. It's a family. The Beatle family is a very, very strong family and we were part of it, I feel, yes. KING: Even though there were breakups and ups and downs? ONO: Well, most families do have some breakups and arguments, don't you think? KING: Yes. Olivia, how do you handle this? They see you, they think Beatle. HARRISON: Yes, well, I mean, it's a real privilege, isn't it, you know, I mean to be involved, you know, with such a great legacy. It's a real privilege. KING: So you don't look at it in any way as it -- there's a down to it? HARRISON: No, I don't. There isn't any -- any down side to it. And, you know, they've been a great support. They're great friends. Our kids are all friends. It really is an extended family. KING: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will join us shortly. When we come back, more talk with Yoko and Olivia, who loved and lost John and George. You'll also meet the founder of Cirque du Soleil. Don't go away. KING: One of the great songs of all time. Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison remain with us. We're joined now by the genius, Guy Laliberte. He is the founder of Cirque du Soleil. What does that song mean to you, Olivia, by the way? HARRISON: Well, it's just an expression of love really, isn't it? KING: It's one of the great love songs. HARRISON: It is. Yes, it is. KING: Beautiful melody and lyrics. Did every one of The Beatles like that song, Yoko? ONO: Oh, yes, definitely, especially John loved it. And he was saying that that has to be a single. KING: It worked out, too? ONO: Yes. Yes. KING: You didn't know that? HARRISON: No, I didn't know that. ONO: Oh, really? I can't believe it. ONO: He's the one who told Allan that, you know, it has to be a single. KING: All right, Guy, how did this all come together? GUY LALIBERTE, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL FOUNDER: Oh, my God. Actually, through a special night in Montreal in the month of June 2000. George and I share, I guess, some -- a lot of things, one in common. We are passionate of racing. So for many years, we -- we met each other at racing tracks, Formula One. But one year he came into Montreal and we organized a party there. And I play golf, so I invite all my businesspeople, friends, on a special night, on a Sunday night. And it goes on all night. And George was invited by our common friend that we had. And he arrived in the place we were in and it was my magical garden. And he was supposed to come only for 30 minutes, say hello, pay a polite visit to us. And, in the end, he stayed with us all night. He jammed with the musicians there. KING: And did he come up with this idea? LALIBERTE: Well, actually when he left, he said -- he said, "I would like to talk to you again." And I said, "Listen, we're (INAUDIBLE). I just want to be very careful about not engaging too much conversation. Then we had a conversation over the phone. And he said, "Listen, I really enjoyed it. And that feeling I had at your place made me -- it reminds me of my own magical garden, which was your house." KING: Did the process begin there... KING: ... And was it underway when George passed away? LALIBERTE: Yes, totally. Totally. You know, there was two moments -- first, when he came to visit my house and then he invited me to visit his house. And he showed me, remember that day? LALIBERTE: I spent an entire day visiting. He showed me all his property. And there, what happened, basically, is we dreamed together. It was not about having a precise vision of the show. It was about defining an emotion that we were looking to -- to maybe achieve in the encounter of Cirque du Soleil and The Beatles. And this what has been the driving force since the beginning. KING: Yoko, you had to sign off on this, didn't you? ONO: Yes, of course. But I was nervous first and then I thought, well, it's a good idea anyway, so. KING: Did you have any questions? ONO: Well, you know, the thing... KING: He says yes. Well, yes. OK. Well, I was a little bit (INAUDIBLE)... LALIBERTE: (INAUDIBLE) enjoyed it. Yoko was bringing us, you know, it was so important for us to have the collaboration and the input of everybody... ONO: Sure. LALIBERTE: ... Because for us, it was the dream of George was to -- to at least, once again, having that creative force working together and contribute to a creative project, at least one more time before (INAUDIBLE)... LALIBERTE: And this is what really happened. ONO: And I just have to protect John, as well, of course, you know. So, John's songs are very important for me and -- and I just have to say a few things. KING: What was it like, Olivia, the first time you saw it done? HARRISON: Oh, well, I think the first time we went to rehearsals in Montreal we were stunned. I mean that would have done it for us at that time. But, you know, being part of the brainstorming and -- and visiting and seeing the costumes and then we were in the studio together with George and Giles Martin. The whole creative process was just so uplifting and energetic and such a great exchange. KING: Were they easy to work with, Guy? The truth. LALIBERTE: The truth -- the truth is -- is creatively, yes, because, you know, everybody there had the history, their heart put in it, the will to make it a success. But there was a lot of nervosity (ph) and emotion, especially coming from Yoko and Olivia. KING: Well, let me tell you the audience, it pays off. If you're in Vegas you must see Love. I mean it's incredible. You're all going to see it again tonight after the show. When we come back, Paul and Ringo. Don't go away. KING: That was nuts. KING: Anyway, we're celebrating the one year anniversary of Love, the Cirque du Soleil presentation of The Beatles here at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Joining us now, Paul McCartney, the former Beatle. His latest album is "Memory Almost Full." I love that title. It's holding at number three on the Billboard 200 List and he's gotten some tremendous reviews. And Ringo Starr, the other former living Beatle. Ringo's EMI catalog goes into global digital release August 28th, a career spanning collection of Ringo's best solo recordings -- "Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr," will be released on the same date. The only two men who can say, living men who can say I was a Beatle. Do you guys keep in touch? KING: You talk often? STARR: All the time. MCCARTNEY: We go on the Larry King show and things like that. KING: What do you make of this? What do you make of this whole thing? MCCARTNEY: Well, of this whole evening... KING: Of this, yes. MCCARTNEY: It's fantastic. It's really beautiful. It's a -- it's great show, so we come out and see a show together. That's great -- with the girls. STARR: I mean we've supported the show from the start and, you know... KING: Were you surprised... STARR: ... It's a year later and the dedication of the plaque so. KING: When you first saw the show, The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil, what did you think? MCCARTNEY: When we first saw it or when we first heard about the collaboration? KING: When you first heard. MCCARTNEY: When we first heard about it, I think we loved Cirque du Soleil anyway. We had seen a few of their shows. Actually, George brought me here years ago to see -- oh, he was so in love with what they did. And so I fell in love with what they did. And then the idea came that we might do a show together. And the thing was yes, OK, the two things sound good together, but what are we going to do? What's it going to be? I kept saying it's like we're going to be in a film with Spielberg (INAUDIBLE) Spielberg. That's great. But what's the script? MCCARTNEY: And, you know, the French guys are sort of saying -- the French Canadian guys were... STARR: And it's in black and white. MCCARTNEY: It's going to be good, you know what I'm saying? But pretty soon they came up with some sensational ideas. KING: Did you like it right away, Ringo? STARR: I did. I did. You know, I mean, it had its process to go through. I loved the way -- where the music was going, you know? We had all that and the five point wand (ph). And then, you know, we saw the show and it was so exciting. You know, it was really exciting. And I haven't seen it since. But the ladies went last night. KING: What did (INAUDIBLE)... STARR: I mean, we're going tonight, but the ladies went and said it's changed. So it will be really exciting. KING: Do you guys, frankly, pinch yourselves? KING: I mean, do you -- do you get up in the morning and say, jeez? MCCARTNEY: I pinch him. STARR: Yes, yes. KING: No, I mean -- you know what I mean? MCCARTNEY: In the morning. STARR: And I pinch him. MCCARTNEY: And he pinches me. KING: It's getting risky. MCCARTNEY: Yes, well, we're risky kind of guys. STARR: Anyway, no... MCCARTNEY: ... Even on national television. We just don't care. STARR: It's got... MCCARTNEY: Come on, pinch. STARR: ... Once a day, otherwise it gets... MCCARTNEY: I mean that's my pinch for the day. STARR: Tell him. He wants to know. Tell him. MCCARTNEY: Well, Larry, you know what? It is true, of course, we do. KING: Come on, you changed the world. MCCARTNEY: We were just kids from Liverpool. KING: Yes. MCCARTNEY: And, yes, it is quite amazing, because as time goes on, it kind of becomes more and more of a phenomenon. KING: It grows. MCCARTNEY: And the young kids, you know, talk about it like as if it's history, which it is. STARR: I think the most exciting thing is that, you know, we expect people our age to know the music. But, actually, a lot of the kids know the music. And if anything is left, we have left really good music. And that's the important part, not the mop tops or whatever, you know? KING: You joined them after they were... STARR: Nothing. KING: You made them? MCCARTNEY: We were nothing... STARR: They were nothing. MCCARTNEY: We were nothing until he joined us. STARR: And then I joined and then they got this record deal and look what happened. Now, I shouldn't... STARR: Everybody feels that, that they were... MCCARTNEY: No, we were good. You wanted to join us. You begged to join us. STARR: I didn't beg. MCCARTNEY: We were really good. STARR: Yes, yes, sure. KING: Were you -- all of you friendly? I mean did it... MCCARTNEY: We, I'll tell you. OK, I can tell you this. We loved him, because we were in Hamburg and we were a good little group... KING: Big in Germany. MCCARTNEY: We were -- yes. STARR: In Hamburg. MCCARTNEY: In Hamburg. Not Germany, just Hamburg. But Ringo was in this other group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. And we just thought he was the very best drummer we'd ever seen. And we wanted him in the group. It was kind of like that. So we were big fans of his. STARR: And I was big fans of theirs. KING: Did you think... STARR: That's how it went. KING: Did you think The Beatles would make it, make it? STARR: We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool. KING: No, you -- really... STARR: Yes, really. KING: Big at home? STARR: And then we were sort of big in London, you know, England. MCCARTNEY: (INAUDIBLE). STARR: Then Sweden and Denmark. I mean, we didn't just do it overnight. We had to go on a lot of planes. KING: When it took off and you -- that first trip to the United States, what was that like? MCCARTNEY: That was something else, I must say. We didn't know that that crowd and that pandemonium was going to be at the airport. We took off and we knew it was going to be good. And we were -- you know, the thing is, we were pretty sure of ourselves. You had to be, you know, to do what we did. So we knew we were good. We had had a degree of success. But we didn't know that was going to greet us. So we... STARR: No, we didn't know it would be that big. MCCARTNEY: We came down the steps... STARR: But to backtrack a little bit, George had actually come on holiday to America. And we were used to, in Europe, the big crowds and the adulation. And he came back and -- because he was going into record stores saying, you know, have you got The Beatles? They would say, "I never heard of them." And he came back and he said, "Oh, it's going to be really hard. They don't know us over there." But by the time we arrived, it was great. KING: And what a story. Where were you when -- when John passed? MCCARTNEY: When John passed I was in Sussex, at my home in Sussex. That's where I was. KING: Did somebody call you? MCCARTNEY: Yes, my manager at the time called me. And it was just the shock of all shocks, you know? KING: George, where were you? KING: Ringo. MCCARTNEY: No, this is Ringo here. KING: Ringo, where were you? STARR: I was in the Bahamas. KING: I was getting to (INAUDIBLE) George. STARR: I was... MCCARTNEY: No, you weren't, Larry. You said his name wrong. STARR: Shut up, it's my turn. STARR: I know. Give him a break. MCCARTNEY: We can't cut it. It's live. STARR: Anyway, I was in the Bahamas and the kids called and they said we've heard something, like John has been hurt. I'm like what? And then we got a call that John had actually been seriously hurt. And we just got a plane to New York, said hello to Yoko. You know, you don't know what to do. I mean it was so weird. And then it was so crazy there. And I didn't think we were helping the situation, because there was another fab (ph) in town. Then we went back to L.A. But I was in the Bahamas. KING: Was George's passing expected? KING: Because you knew how sick he was? MCCARTNEY: Yes. We -- we all knew and he knew. But it was great. You know, in all these -- well, in, actually, in John's case -- I was going to say in all these tragedies. In George's case, in that tragedy, there were some good things about it. In John's case there weren't. But with George, I got to see him... KING: Oh, you did? MCCARTNEY: ... A short time before he died. And it was just the best because we just -- we sat like this, if you don't mind. We sat and just stroking hands like this. And this is a guy, you know, I'd known since he was a little kid. And you don't stroke hands with guys like that. You know, it was just beautiful. And we just... STARR: Not unless you're secure. MCCARTNEY: We just spent a couple of hours and it was really lovely. It was like a favorite memory of mine. KING: We'll be right back with -- on this auspicious, wonderful occasion -- right back with more of Paul and Ringo. Don't go away. KING: Look what I have written. It says here... MCCARTNEY: You're winging it, Larry. KING: We're back with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and a mandolin! (SINGING) Everybody going to dance tonight, everybody going to feel all right. Everybody going to dance around tonight. You can come on my place if you want to. You can do the thing you want to do. STARR: Great! KING: That commercial for that record with you in a kind of a cartoon figure walking. Was that your idea? MCCARTNEY: No, it was their idea. They are very clever people. KING: It's really is a great spot. And the album is doing great, right? MCCARTNEY: It's doing great, thank you. Yes. KING: You couldn't drum with him on that? STARR: I couldn't drum with him on that because he was in another country. KING: You would have used him though. MCCARTNEY: Oh, yes, I've used him all the time. KING: Let's get up to something ... STARR: Get the orchestra ready. KING: Let's get to something current. How are you doing, Ringo? STARR: Really well. KING: Life treating you well? STARR: You know, life is great. KING: Everything good, the wife good? STARR: The wife is great. KING: The wife is gorgeous, too. STARR: She's gorgeous and she's great. KING: And you live in California, right? STARR: No, I live in Monte Carlo. STARR: I have a home in California. KING: I knew that. STARR: And I have a home in England, of course, but, that's where we live. KING: With the swells. KING: And Paul, how are you adjusting to what was tumultuous times? MCCARTNEY: I'm OK. Thank you, Larry. Thank you for asking. I'm doing surprisingly well. KING: I mean, that had to be rough. MCCARTNEY: It is currently rough. KING: Still rough. MCCARTNEY: It is very rough, yes. But I don't talk about it, and that helps. KING: That's fair enough. But life is -- aside from that ... MCCARTNEY: Life is good. Life is good. Life is wonderful, and with friends like these, who needs life? KING: Musically, neither of you has to keep on going, correct? You don't need it financially? STARR: Yes, well, reverse that. KING: What do you mean? STARR: You don't need to do it either, but this is what we do. You know what I mean? Still playing, yes, that's what I do. KING: I love what I do. STARR: You're still playing, yes, that's what I do. That's what he does. MCCARTNEY: It's true. STARR: You know. MCCARTNEY: True, we do it because we love it. We know, it's something that we just love to do, and you know what? The audiences still like it so while they like it... STARR: We'll do it. KING: So the drive is not for -- how much the record sells? It's how well do they like the record? MCCARTNEY: It's how much you like it. MCCARTNEY: For me, it's the self-satisfaction thing. Playing music is something that I like. I think if you don't like it, people aren't going to like it. STARR: I think it's a thrill that a lot of people like the records, but you make it for yourself. And, you know, that's -- that's what you do. You're not just saying oh, they will love this, they will love that. KING: Do you still get a kick hearing the music of The Beatles? KING: Like when we come back... STARR: Oh, I love all that. KING: They were a good group. MCCARTNEY: Good group, man. STARR: And all the clips are so great. MCCARTNEY: Yes. KING: So when you watch the show tonight, and that music comes on and you're watching the dancers and the gymnasts. And -- you still get a kick out of hearing ... MCCARTNEY: It really is fantastic. When we were at the premiere of it, we were getting quite emotional, you know, because it transports you back to actually making it, and the music in this show is so clear that, for instance, Ringo's drums, which were like the central glue in the whole band, you hear them so clear. It's like a miracle, you know. STARR: We actually raised them up a bit, which is good. MCCARTNEY: Buried in mixers. And you realize just how good we were. KING: Central glue, wait a minute, the drums are the key to The Beatles. STARR: Oh, yes. MCCARTNEY: Oh, I think so. I think the bass was terrific, too. MCCARTNEY: Bass was really good as well. STARR: The bass was brilliant. MCCARTNEY: I thought so. STARR: And he's still the most melodic bass player on the planet. KING: What does that mean? STARR: It means he's melodic. No, he plays really cool bass and plays underlines and over lines over the basic rhythm that a bass would usually play. KING: What do you think you've meant in this scheme of things? You came through in the '60s. The world changed. Do you feel The Beatles were part of the impact of that change? MCCARTNEY: Yes, I think part of it, yes. We weren't it all, but we were kind of spokesmen for it. And it's really gratifying now for people to stop you in the street and go, thanks for the music. You know, you saved my life. And you hear so much of that, that it is just a privilege to have been ... STARR: Part of it. MCCARTNEY: ... part of those four guys, you know. We were two of those four guys and it's fantastic. STARR: Underlying all of that, as lads, which we were. I mean, for me personally, I'm an only child and then I had three brothers. Who, you know, supported me and pointed out if I was going mad. Or, you know, pointed out the joy of life, you know, when it was a down day. You know, and so I've always loved that, that, you know, the human contact amongst us was so great. No one else could talk to us... MCCARTNEY: Can I touch you? Can I stroke you? KING: You know I can't tell you ... MCCARTNEY: It's true, though. No, we ... KING: We'll take a break and bring all four on, the widows and the living. STARR: Widow (inaudible). KING: I want to tell you something. No, in all seriousness, I don't get emotional on this show. KING: This is really incredible. KING: Sitting around you guys. You changed the world. MCCARTNEY: You know, it's ... KING: Incredible. MCCARTNEY: ... something we're very proud of. And ... KING: You ought to be. MCCARTNEY: ... like you say, you pinch yourself. KING: We'll be right back ... KING: ... all four of them. Don't go away. KING: And we're in the revolution lounge. KING: Here in Las Vegas with Ringo and Paul. I said that they will all be gathering with us in the next break, but we wanted to show you a little package first and get their reaction to it. The Cirque Du Soleil's production of The Beatles is a unique entertainment experience. But behind the mind-blowing on-stage magic, a lot of dedicated creative energy. DOMINIC CHAMPAGNE, DIRECTOR, "LOVE": The potential of this show is so great. The talent of these guys is -- is already like at a very great level. But we know we can push, like The Beatles did, they pushed the boundaries of their own music, so we want to push with this show for the best. KING: What makes the way these songs are done so special? GILES MARTIN, MUSIC DIRECTOR: Well, it's a new take. It gives people a chance to peel back the layers of dust, I suppose, that have gathered in 40 years. I mean, it's like listening to them as though they're playing in the room. You know, the Beatles were in their 20s when they were playing. Here, in this studio, and in the theater, they are still in their 20s. KING: Everything that happens has to fit the song that's playing? CHAMPAGNE: Yes. So normally, we build our show and the music would follow and support. Now, we have to work on the music. So basically what we've done -- I went to London working with George Martin and Giles Martin, his son. MARTIN: What we did is we took the masters from Abbey Road, we digitized them, brought them over to Vegas, and produced the music for the show in a way where we were replicating everything we heard on Abbey Road. So what we have on the computer here are the master tapes. KING: Can we hear a little sound? MARTIN: I'll show you what we did for the beginning. This is the very beginning of "Come Together," so the drums you're hearing here are actually from another song. We just put them in the end of "Abbey Road," and what you get is "Get Back," another song, starts underneath it. So these are two songs. KING: Let's listen. CHAMPAGNE: We decided to bring the rollerblade on stage for a very amazing acrobatic moment based on the "Help" song, where the Beatles are so glorious, but still like looking for somewhere to escape. KING: See you tonight. CHAMPAGNE: So I decided to bring the walrus into this universe, as the free mind that would turn this sad world into a colorful world. KING: What is that called? MCCARTNEY: Looks just like you, Larry. KING: We could be twin brothers. MCCARTNEY: I know. Just the same. STARR: (inaudible) that shirt? KING: What do you think of all that behind-the-scenes stuff? MCCARTNEY: It's great. Yeah, we've seen a lot of it, you know, because we've been visiting them and encourage them and stuff. KING: When music is remastered, as they were showing us, Mr. Martin, what does that mean to you as a musician? STARR: Well, actually, that was not only remastered. That was put into a system that made it 5.1, which made it surround sound. When we made a lot of that music, it was just mono, which went to stereo, and now it's gone to the surround sound 5.1. But the incredible thing, when you hear it, is that, you know, Paul and I went to listen to the music in 5.1, and we go, whoa, listen to that. You know, you can hear everything now. Things that we buried a lot. It's all very clear, so it's really great to hear it. KING: So it's improving it? MCCARTNEY: It's improving it, yes. You know, I would say that, like, you know, most historic stuff goes down with age, you know? Winston Churchill's old papers go brown and crinkly, while our music gets brighter and shinier. KING: Modern technology. MCCARTNEY: How do they do it. KING: How do they do it? We don't know. MCCARTNEY: How do they do it. STARR: Next year, it will be 10.1. KING: We'll be back with Paul, Ringo, Yoko, Olivia and Guy. All next. Don't go away. ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Coming up at the top of the hour on "360," while Washington talks, the battle on the border is heating up. Tonight, we're keeping them honest, showing what has and hasn't been done on the border while politicians debate. We'll show you how violent criminals can sneak across, and take you to an American town that's adopted Spanish as its official language. Sound incredible? Get this: They're also giving a pass to any illegal who makes it there. We're also going to take a look at the death of pro wrestler Chris Benoit, who police say murdered his wife and child before killing himself. And we'll dig into the facts of the case and into the details of why so many professional wrestlers die young. That and more at the top of the hour on "360." KING: You know, this is historic. They are all together. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison and Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil. A couple of questions as we swing around for each. Is it hard, Olivia, to look at George? HARRISON: Well, it's, you know, the nature of duality. It's great to look at him, and, of course, it's, you know, it's very emotional, too. KING: So it's -- mixed emotions? HARRISON: Yes, I was trying to avoid that word bittersweet, you know, but it is like that. KING: Yoko, what's it like to look at John? ONO: Well, ditto. I mean, it's just -- it's very difficult sometimes. I feel that I got used to sort of just watch these movies and all that, but when I saw the stage, at one point suddenly I just got choked up. I don't know why. KING: Do you get nervous about every performance, Guy? KING: You've got, what, how many Cirque du Soleils going now? LALIBERTE: I have 13, over 1,000 artist. KING: I mean, like you sit up at night and think, oh, he's going to fall? LALIBERTE: We know where things are risky more than in other place, and of course there's always a little moment of tension, but I have great confidence in people working for me. KING: Ringo, do you have to play drums a lot? Do you have to keep in shape? MCCARTNEY: In a word. STARR: I've never been able to, like, sit around on my own and play drums. You know, like practice in the bathroom. Never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. ONO: That's unique, isn't it? STARR: That's how I play. There's no joy for me just to be on my own, bashing away. I need a bass player, piano, guitar, whatever, and now I can play. KING: And when you're drumming... STARR: That's right. KING: ... do you know how good they are singing? STARR: Well, I play with the singer. If you listen to the Beatles songs, the tracks... KING: You played for the singer? STARR: I played for the singer, because if he's singing, there's no good in me boogeying all over the kit, you know what I mean? So it's just stay out, hold the time. If it needs to be raised, you raise it, bring it down. You know, and in the band we're talking about, we had a lot of good singing. KING: What made the Beatles, Paul, musically special? What did they do that people weren't doing? MCCARTNEY: That's a good question. I don't really think I know. We were just very good. I think individually, we were kind of talented people, but when we came together, something special happened. When I started writing with John, it was sort of a magical thing that grew. We developed. Not everyone developed quite as much as we did. KING: You can't plan that, though, can you? MCCARTNEY: No, not really. We were also very sure of ourselves. I wouldn't call it conceited, but we just knew we were good, and we knew we were going to do very well. We didn't know how it was going to happen, but we knew -- people would say to me at the time, do you think your stuff is going to be standards, you know, like Sinatra stuff? And I would go yes, and they would say, ah. And I would say, no, it's true. You just felt it. KING: Guy, is it -- was it difficult to stage to that music? LALIBERTE: Listen, the pressure is enormous. KING: I bet. LALIBERTE: We were just a bunch of little of kids from Quebec, Montreal, you know, achieving... KING: With a bunch of little kids from England. LALIBERTE: Well, exactly, and I think this is where... HARRISON: From Liverpool. LALIBERTE: ... we -- this is where we connect, because at the end, we share the same values. We believe in a better world, and we are love carriers. And they did that with their songs and music; we're doing that with our show, and this is where we connect. MCCARTNEY: That's the big key to it all. The show is called "Love." I think one of the things that we're probably proudest of -- I certainly am -- is that the message was always love, in any form we portrayed it. And that's something to be really proud of. KING: Did George miss the group? HARRISON: Yes, I think he did, you know. All of them had their own time apart, but, yes, I think he did. I think he always liked to have -- he used to say to me sometimes, you know, I wish you played the saxophone, or, you know, or I wish you were a drummer. KING: Did John miss it? ONO: Well, you know, I must say that the first time I met them, so to speak, I was really surprised that they had a sense of humor. And that was a big thing, because, you know, all the composers that I used to meet, meet up or do things together, they were very serious people. Composers were serious. KING: These guys weren't. ONO: And these guys were hey, you know. There was a fun element. KING: We're running close on time, because we have a big finale coming up here. Oh, we have got a production -- a production finale. We're all going to go out, we're going to be next to the theater, the show is going to begin. By the way, we had a quick vote on our Web site, CNN.com/larryking. We asked you to pick your favorite Beatles album. What won? MCCARTNEY: What won? KING: "Abbey Road" won, followed by "Sergeant Pepper," and "The White Album" came in third. Tomorrow night's guest is Paris Hilton. You may have heard of her. Head to our Web site, CNN.com/larryking, and you can send an e- mail for Paris. You can also send a video mail. Send a timeline and participate in a quick vote. It's all on CNN.com/larryking. The whole crew and I are heading for the theater. Don't go away. KING: All right. Well, we're back stage. The whole crew is here. Right? (inaudible) Cirque du Soleil and the Beatles love show. And what we're going to do now is -- oh, my gosh. It's almost showtime. We're going to walk into the theater. I'll -- I'll sort of lead the way. And is that it? We'll all go in together. Come. Come on. Join in. OK. Folks. What can I tell you? Cirque du Soleil and the Beatles have combined on love. The show is a year old tonight. We're in this fantastic theater, where this audience is about to see this incredible show. Hope you'll all enjoy it, too. My little boys are here. The wife, the (inaudible), the gathering of friends. McCartney, Ringo, the whole crew. Everybody here. What a night. "AC 360" with Anderson Cooper is next. I'll see you tomorrow night with Paris Hilton. You may have heard of her. And don't forget, Thursday night, Colin Powell is our special guest, and Michael Moore will be with us on Friday to discuss his new movie, "Sicko." And now it's showtime in Las Vegas.
Question of the day. What small change could the world make to become a better place tomorrow? My answer: People could make sure to get some proper, good quality, long sleep tonight. A lot of people don’t get much sleep around the start of the new year, so if they finally did catch up on their lost sleep tonight, tomorrow we’d have less car accidents, and many other types of accidents, more happier people, smarter people, and people’s immune system would work better. Your turn. 🙂 6 thoughts on “Question of the day.” 1. Ohhhh, great answer!! I totally approve. I cringe when I hear that most people get, like, seven hours a night. How does anyone get by on that?! Hmm…. what change would I recommend… I don’t know… hmm…. I’m not good at thinking large-scale or sociologically. (Is that a word?) I guess I’d urge everyone to choose one person–any person–to whom they can express their gratitude at having that person in their life. In fact… OHHH!! It should be a holiday. Day of Gratitude, not where we exchange gifts, but where we send cards to express gratitude for having the person in our lives, or we do a kindness for them, etc., etc. Liked by 4 people 1. I don’t thinik 7 hours of sleep is that bad, but it surely depends on one’s brain, I don’t think there’s really an objective amount of sleep that is good for everyone. I just think we all should get as much sleep as our bodies and brains need and that could help with some things. Oh yeah, that’s such a great idea! I’d love such a holiday! 🙂 And it could actually do a fair bit of good in a grand scheme of things when people would feel more appreciated, because they’d be motivated to keep on doing the good things they do and that people appreciate them for. Liked by 4 people 2. Some of us would give an arm.or leg to even get 4 hours solid sleep but cannot due to insomnia. We do not want to be tired or less smart,those are just side effects of insomnia and broken sleep. As for what would make the world a better place…empathy. There is so little of it and it creates disharmony and fear and hatred. If well meaning people just took a moment to put themselves in another’s shoes before judging or reacting…that would be a step in the right direction. Liked by 2 people 1. I know, I wasn’t saying it to people who struggle with insomnia, or at least not in the first place for sure, as I deal with it as well as various other sleep issues myself and sleep is all over the place for me a lot of the time, so I know well what it’s like and that you cannot always sleep whenever you feel like it. What I mean is more like, if you can sleep, don’t deprive yourself of it and get as much as you can, because as someone who struggles with sleep in general, I can appreciate its value and I want people to do so too. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Completely agree regarding empathy! 🙂 Liked by 1 person Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
Africa Asia Europe South America North America Central America You are here: Home > Nepal Education in Nepal Nepal (History) The earliest significant state formation in the hilly region of Nepal was the state of the Licchavid dynasty in the Kathmandu or Nepal Valley from 300-400-teKr. However, there are much older archaeological finds, including The Ashoka pillar from 200 BC. in Lumbini in Terai, marking the birthplace of the Buddha. From the Licchavi period, which lasted until the middle of the 700's, there are numerous monuments and inscriptions. During the same period, Nepal became an important link between Tibetand South Asia. During the Mallady dynasty, which ruled the Kathmandu Valley approximately 1200-1769, the valley flourished as a cultural center. It was from the late 1400's. divided into three kingdoms, Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, all belonging to the Mallas family. These city-states controlled the important trade routes from the valley to Tibet and India. • AbbreviationFinder.org: Find two-letter abbreviation for each independent country and territory, such as NP which stands for Nepal. Education in Nepal • COUNTRYaah: Are you interested in learning population information about Nepal? This is the right website where you can get specific data about demographics such as population pyramid, birth and death rates related to this country. The rest of the territory now made up of Nepal was subject to a number of local petty kings. During the second half of the 1700's. the king of Gorkha, Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723-75), and his people, the gorkhalis, succeeded in subduing all of present-day Nepal, incl. The Kathmandu Valley, which created the modern Nepalese state, with Kathmandu as its capital. His descendants were kings of Nepal until the abolition of the monarchy in 2008. Nepal (History) The continued expansionist policies of the Gorkhals led to the British-Nepalese War of 1814-16. The Treaty of Peace of 1816 gave the victorious British the right to representation at the court in Kathmandu and also to the rule of a large part of Terai, which was incorporated into India. In 1846, Jung Bahadur Rana (1816-77) proclaimed himself Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, installed his family in important positions and made both his and their positions hereditary. The Rana family thus gained a monopoly of power, which they maintained until 1951. India's independence in 1947 and China's occupation of Tibet in 1950 helped strengthen the political opposition in Nepal, with King Tribhuvan secretly sympathizing with the opposition's main force, the new party Nepali Congress, NC. In 1951, there was a revolution against the Rana regime. The king regained power and NC gained an important position in the administration. The first years after 1951, however, became very turbulent, and King Tribhuvan's attempts to make some kind of advisory assemblies work fell to the ground, because the NC was plagued by internal tears, and because the Communists had many sympathizers, even though the party was banned. Tribhuvan's successor, Mahendra, had parliamentary elections held in February 1959, although he was not very positive about the introduction of a parliamentary system. It also did not take long before tensions between the king and the new prime minister, BP Koirala (1915-82) from NC, developed into open conflict. In December 1960, King Koirala was arrested along with most of NC's leadership. Parliament was dissolved, the parties banned, and the king appointed his own government. In 1961-62, the so-called panchayat system was introduced, a special political-administrative system that was to function without parties, with elected councils (panchayats) at several levels and with indirect elections to parliament. It was not until the 1980's that direct elections were held for the various panchayats. In general, the 1980's were marked by political unrest, internal rifts and uncertainty as to how far the court and government would go to retain power. The media reports of the collapse of other authoritarian regimes in 1989 contributed to a willingness to cooperate in the opposition to achieve change, and Jana Andolan 'The People's Movement' emerged on the initiative of the NC and the United Left Front, ULF. Bloody riots in Kathmandu, in which a large number of protesters were shot down on April 6, 1990, contributed to King Birendra lifting the ban on political parties and accepting a temporary coalition government in which both NC and ULF participated. The government was given the responsibility for drafting a democratic constitution and for holding free elections. The new constitution was issued in November 1990, and the election was held on May 12, 1991. The result was that NC won a modest majority, after which BP Koirala's brother, GP Koirala, became prime minister. Since the first democratic elections, the 1990's have been marked by a largely unbroken series of political and economic difficulties, changing governments and difficult cooperative relations between the parties. In 1996, Maoist groups proclaimed a "people's war", which until 2006, when a peace agreement was reached, cost approximately 13,000 people alive. The rebel movement, which gained support from marginalized low-caste groups in rural areas, was estimated to include 20,000 soldiers. From both the rebel movement and the government army, systematic human rights violations were identified, including widespread use of torture and abduction. On June 1, 2001, almost the entire royal family died in a massacre at the palace in Kathmandu, committed by Crown Prince Dipendra (1971-2001). Gyanendra, youngest brother of the assassinated, very popular King Birendra, became the new king. The massacre unleashed a massive distrust of the political system. King Gyanendra's popularity was steadily declining from a not very high starting point. The king dissolved parliament in 2002-05 and installed his own prime ministers. In 2005, he took full power, but after massive nationwide protests in 2006, had to reinstate parliament. Subsequently, the king's political power was severely limited. The Maoists and the government entered into a ceasefire the same year, formally ending 10 years of civil war. In January 2007, the Maoists entered into a transitional government. In an election in April 2008, the Maoists became the largest party; one of the first tasks of the new parliaments was to establish the republic, whereby Gyanendra was deposed as king. In the 2013 election lost, the Maoists declined sharply. Since the introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990, Nepal has been in a constant political crisis which, together with ever-increasing corruption, has made it impossible for a coordinated effort to address the country's violent economic and social problems. Nepal is thus among the poorest countries in the world. According to DIGOPAUL, on April 25, 2015, Nepal was hit by a powerful earthquake that caused great destruction and cost more than 8,700 lives. In September of the same year, a new constitution was introduced with more than a five-year delay. The constitution sparked protests among certain peoples in the southern part of Nepal, and India imposed an unofficial blockade, which triggered a serious shortage situation throughout the country. 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1 Comment Points to remember Rinse the sushi rice in cold water until the water runs clear, then soak roughly two parts rice to three parts cold water in a saucepan for 30 minutes. Next, bring the rice to the boil, cover and cook for 10 minutes or until the rice has absorbed all the water and is tender. Check the packet instructions for exact timings. Stir through the rice vinegar and sugar. Cool the rice down as quickly as you can by spreading it onto a baking tray and covering with a slightly damp tea towel. Place a nori sheet on top of your sushi rolling mat. Dampen your hands to prevent sticking, then pick up a handful of rice and spread evenly on your nori sheet, leaving the top third uncovered. Hold the near edge of the mat, lift and roll away from you, encasing the filling. Ensure the ingredients stay in place and the rice sticks. Dampen the top boarder with a little water to seal. Wrap tightly in cling film and chill until firm. Brush your knife with rice vinegar to prevent sticking and cut the roll into neat rounds. Serve with pickled ginger and a dollop of wasabi. on 27 Temmuz 2016 Write a comment: Your email address will not be published. Yardımcı olabilir miyiz? Direk mesaj yazın
Some great ideas from our Merri-Mac Assistant Director, Andrea! We know that all of your normal routines have vanished for the week (and next week). While we could focus on all of the things that lead to this pandemic, we don’t want to further the anxiety that is surely filling your house; let’s focus on what we can control this week! Your kiddos are home from school and this quality time can be an unexpected gift. If you are running low on ideas for how to manage homeschooling and entertainment this week, here is a list of thirteen family friendly things you can still do today. 1. Write a letter. During the summer, everyone at camp starts writing letters. Bring this trend back and write a letter to your friend! 2. Go to the virtual zoo. Several zoos are doing live streams to focus on new animals. Check out the Smithsonian National Zoo, the Houston Zoo, Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, the Monetary Bay Aquarium, the San Diego Zoo 3. Watch an educational TED talk. Here is a list of motivational TED talks for kids. 4. Start a new book series. Physical books, audio books or online read alouds are all great options. The New York Public Library has made it possible to download over 300,000+ ebooks. 5. Experiment! Pinterest has a ton of simple science experiments that can be made with common household items. 6. STEM and STEAM projects. These are a great way to foster creativity at home; here is a list of 60+ projects. 7. Start a puzzle. While Amazon has a ton of options, see if you can support a local store that is offering curbside pickup to select a puzzle. Eeboo puzzles are my favorite! 8. Play a game. Board games, card games, anything goes! 9. Get creative! Set up a watercoloring station or tune into a live stream drawing class. There are several paint-your-own pottery shops that are creating to-go kits; see if there is one in your town! 10. Go outside! Take a hike, a jog or a walk around your neighborhood. You can also take a virtual walk through a national park. 11. Bake a treat. Who doesn’t love a sweet treat? This can also be a great way to review fractions and how math applies to daily life. 12. Exercise. Have a dance party or follow along with an online yoga session. 13. Plan for camp. Create your own packing list, a list of goals, compile addresses for letters. Stay tuned this week and next week for lists of adventures that you can take while being health conscious. Happy camping,
2 Methods To Help You Exploit The Human Brain \| HQ Trick Free Download – Google Drive Links Tip #1: Think win-win. Suppose you want to sell something on eBay or Craigslist or Kijiji. If someone offered you an extremely low amount, why would you feel incentivized to take the offer? So keep this in mind when you are trying to compromise with someone. Never make the person you are negotiating with feel like they are at a loss. Always give offers that seem reasonable to both parties, and never be afraid to explain your reasoning behind an offer. As long as it’s a win-win situation for both of you, there wouldn’t be any reason to deny you. Tip #2: Door-In-The-Face Technique. This is a technique that I really like to use, and if you learn to do it properly, it can be used to your advantage in so many different situations. An example of the technique is: Person A (Negotiator): Could I have $200? Person B: No way, that’s a lot of money. Person A: Fine, could I just have $20? Person B: Yes, that’s a lot less money. As you can see, we started by asking for an unreasonable amount of money, which made the amount that we were really seeking seem reasonable. You don’t even have you use this method for money, you could use it for something as useless and dumb as a pack of gum. Use it sparingly and with value. Congratulations! You learned 2 methods to become a boss negotiator. I would really recommend reading You Can Negotiate Anything to learn more on this topic. You can download the PDF here: https://gofile.io/d/Ulryfh . Happy learning! Leave a Comment %d bloggers like this:
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Rapper Saudi advices Nasty C over his planned move to the US It is no more news that Award winning South African rapper, Nasty C is planning to relocate to the United States of America. The relocation is however being hindered due to Coronavirus pandemic. Rapper Saudi has taken to Twitter to advise his industry mate to be cautious and stay dangerous while in America. "@Nasty_CSA heard you going to the A. Syak' ncanywa, etlek ngyak ncanywa. Kick your pimpin, but stay dangerous. Don't lack. They not playing fair no more. God Bless You. Ubuye Phelele," he wrote. This post is currently not accepting comments.
Friday, May 20, 2011 Ms Marvel – Battle Of The Sexes – Ryan K Lindsay 1. Ms Marvel stands by a pool at a beach resort. She’s wearing a bikini and that sash. Ms Marvel: I like him. I almost don’t want to, but I do. Ms Marvel: Can’t someone just make me magically forget all about him? 2. Spider-Woman lies on a lounger and Jessica Jones is in the pool with Danni. Both wear bikinis. Spider-Woman: You think too much. Have your fun then squash the Spider. Ms Marvel: You should be nicer to your arachnid family. Spider-Woman: One, he’s no family of mine, and two, I like it when men try to squish me. Gives me an excuse to get rough. 3. Jessica Jones laughs as Danni splashes the water. Jessica Jones: Carol, just don’t overthink it. Imagine if I overthought Luke…? 4. Spider-Woman laughs. Spider-Woman: Imagine if you actually thought about Luke? 5. Ms Marvel dips a toe into the pool. Ms Marvel: Why the hell are we here talking like useless women? The boys are probably on the roof bringing down a Doomcopter or something cool. 6. Spidey and Wolvie sit in a sauna. Spidey has the towel on and his mask up. And he’s sitting on the roof. Wolvie has a beer in his hand. Spidey: But, I don’t think you understand just how much I like her. Wolverine: Oh, I get it, bub. And if I hear it one more time you’ll be leaking more than sweat. Spidey: But- Wolverine: I've been there, y'know? Spidey: Wha-? Not my strongest outing, and certainly no way to end the year but sometimes you write a script and you know nothing better is coming and you have to move onto other projects. This week was one of those. So, thus is my 52nd script, in a row. It's been emotional. 1. I think you're being a little hard on yourself, Ryan. I, for one, really like this script. It's some nice quiet moments from both sides of the "relationship". Even though I kind of gathered from the start that the piece would end with a glimpse into Spidey's thoughts on the situation, I really enjoyed that last panel. Now there is an example of how to write Wolverine. I will have to take note. ;) 2. I agree with Grant - it's a nice script. I especially like it due to it being another look at the theme I went with in a much different setting. Plus I find Marvel's second line and the image of towel on his head while he's still wearing his mask (even if it's up) particularly amusing. 3. The scene of all the women by the pool reminds me of those Top Cow "Swimsuit" comics you used to see in the 90's. I love that Carol is still wearing her sash, despite being in a bikini. That's classic :) I also think you nailed Pete and Logan's scene. It's a fun, lighthearted page. 4. I really wanted this page to feel like the old Marvel swimsuit issues, actually. Nothing more awkward than your favourite heroes in speedos and bikinis, ha. Flattered you guys liked this so much. I tettered between and 2-3 star review on it, myself. It just I tweaked the final scene a fair bit, wasn't sure I should give Wolvie that last line but it made me laugh, and laughing is good. 5. Man, I actually really liked this. Sometimes it's just nice to see that we thoughtballooners can execute a straightforward conversation page without it just being back and forth headshots or pithy one-liners. It's solid stuff, and I almost typed about 10 freudian slips in this comment.
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Graham Awards Agent secures £1.2m record price for an ex-council flat London agency Barnard Marcus has secured what is believed to be a record sale price for a former council flat - a cool £1.21m. The two bedroom unit on Tavistock Street in Covent Garden is part of the ex-council mansion block Siddons Court and sold after just six weeks on the market. The sale comes just a few months after the previous most expensive former council flat in London, on Fulham Road above the Stella McCartney store, came on to the market at £1,15m. The Tavistock Street apartment was originally a council flat that was bought off the council in 1990 under the Right to Buy scheme for £130,000; the vendor was the same person who bought it 25 years ago. Barnard Marcus, perhaps with a mind to recent criticism of Right To Buy fuelling the private rental market, has emphasised that the purchaser is an owner-occupier and not an investor. The asking price was £1.35m. “We understand that many of the properties are still council owned but not sure what the split is between private and council” says a spokesperson for the agent. • Rob Davies Ridiculous. Thatcher's RTB legacy, ladies and gentleman! And the current jokers we have in charge want to bring it back. You couldn't make it up. • Stephanos Constantinou The owner made almost ten times the original amount for selling an ex-local flat? that's crazy!! Really good deal although!! • icon What a result for the vendor. Although Rob I can understand your disquiet. A different kettle of fish altogether but I saw on the news last night a flat overlooking the NY skyline which sold for over $100m, wow! • Rob Davies Saw that too, John. Everything that is wrong with the world, in a nutshell! Might sound like sour grapes, and it probably is, but you can't honestly tell me any home is worth $100m. Surely? • Jon Tarrey Really good deal, courtesy of them doing absolutely nothing to warrant it! A return on their investment of 800%. That's just barmy. Purely through luck, market conditions and taking advantage of Maggie's flawed RTB policy, they've made an absolute mint off the property. People will say you can't begrudge them the money, but I can. What have they done to earn that money? To be fair, it's not their fault, it's our ridiculously overblown housing market that is to blame, but still. "With central London property prices at a premium, and with demand for properties far outstripping supply, we weren’t surprised that this former council flat reached this impressive price." Barnard Marcus, to their credit, understand why the market is as mad as it is. But, of course, nothing will be done about it by our current government. How many of those new homes they promised have they built? How many are affordable? How's all that construction on brownfield sites going? We need actions, not wishy-washy words. This, too, is exactly what will happen if RTB is persisted with - council-owned property will end up in the hands of rich, greedy BTL landlords. Wonderful. • Rookie Landlord Wow, that's some return on their investment! If I can get anywhere close to that with some of my properties, I'll be laughing. Good luck to them. They brought at the right time and have benefited hugely from it. Not surprising, given how prime the location is, but still a fantastic price. Please login to comment HBB Solutions HBB Solutions HBB Solutions sign up
Twitter’s Speech Problem: Hashtags and Hate On October 19, 2012, Twitter turned censor. In response to complaints from the Union of French Jewish Students, Twitter pulled tweets that used the hashtag #UnBonJuif, or “a good Jew,” which had been worked into slurs and jokes, some using concentration-camp photographs as illustrations. The student union asked Twitter to reveal information that could be used to identify the offending tweeters. Twitter refused; the social-media company prides itself on its protection of free speech, and argued that taking down the individual tweets was enough. The student group took the case to court. This week, Twitter lost. The Tribunal de Grande Instance, a civil court in Paris, ruled on Thursday that the company must hand over the names, or other identifying information, of the users who had tweeted anti-Semitic content, so that they can be prosecuted. It also ordered the creation of a visible and efficient mechanism for users to alert Twitter to “illicit content” inciting racial hatred or excusing or encouraging crimes against humanity. (Twitter holds that it does not moderate content posted to its platform, though the company does, for instance, quickly take down images of child abuse.) If Twitter does not hand over the information within two weeks, it will face a fine of a thousand euros (about thirteen hundred dollars) per day—not much for a company recently valued at over eleven billion dollars. And Twitter, from its perspective, does not have to comply anyway. Since its data is stored in the United States, and since the company neither operates an office nor has personnel in France, Twitter argues that it is not beholden to French laws. (It does, however, sell advertisements in France, which may become an issue; being constrained from ever hiring a resident of France might, too.) In a statement on Thursday, Twitter said that it was reviewing legal options, but earlier this month the company asserted that it would need an order from an American court before it would, or could, disclose personal details stored on servers here. (Twitter did not reply to requests for comment.) But far bigger than the financial question is that of the First Amendment. Most of Twitter’s two hundred million users tweet from outside of the United States, and so the company bumps, uncomfortably and unavoidably, into other countries’ free-speech laws. Last January, Twitter announced a new “country-withheld content” policy, under which it will block an account at the request of a government, but only within that country’s borders, so the tweet could still be seen elsewhere around the world—an attempt to find a Bay Area–sunny middle ground between freedom of speech and compliance with local law. But free speech means something very different abroad—even in friendly, seemingly similar-to-us countries like France. (This is true particularly when it comes to the kind of speech that just happens to be in question: anti-Semitic speech.) When Twitter instated its “country-withheld content” policy, it broke open the floodgates. In October, a few hours before the French student group petitioned for action, the Twitter censors, at the order of the legislature of Lower Saxony, blocked access throughout Germany to the account of the Besseres Hannover, an outlawed anti-Semitic and xenophobic group known for harassing and attacking migrants. This was the first application of the new policy. The #UnBonJuif tweets taken down in France that day were variations on a slur, and thousands of French users participated, racing in the viral style we all could do without. Some of the tweets might be called political (“A good Jew is a Non-Zionist Jew”). Others sound like the captions of Der Stürmer caricatures (“A good Jew can reinflate your tire with his nose”), or worse (“A good Jew is a Jew dead on the tiles”). Hatred as meme: #UnBonJuif was the third-most-popular trending term in France when it was taken down. It spun off from the hashtag #LaRafle, which had been the most popular trending topic in France the Monday prior. On Sunday, October 14, the national French TV channel TF1, considered the most-watched channel in Europe, aired the movie “La Rafle,” a conscientious reënactment, starring Jean Reno and Mélanie Laurent, of the roundup and deportation of thirteen thousand Jews from Paris on July 16 and 17, 1942. (The Jews were kept for days without food and water in the Vélodrome d’Hiver bicycle arena, near the Eiffel Tower, before they were sent to Auschwitz. Only eight hundred and eleven returned.) Seven million French people watched the 2010 film, making it the most popular program that evening. The broadcast was surely an attempt to educate the French public about the country’s role in the Nazi genocide. Three months before it aired, a study found that that a large majority of French people younger than thirty-five had never heard of the incident. When President François Hollande, whose predecessors for decades lay flowers on the grave of the Vichy leader Philippe Pétain, commemorated the seventieth anniversary of the roundup at the site of the since-demolished velodrome, he said, “We cannot tolerate the fact that two out of three young French people do not know what the Vel d’Hiv roundup was.” Twitter’s removal of the #UnBonJuif tweets forces the Hollande government into a difficult position. Last spring, former President Nicolas Sarkozy made it illegal to frequent Web sites filled with hate speech. But so long as they tweet in a cloud governed by American law, French Twitter users are—or have been—protected. In the months since October, tweeters have developed a series of offensive hashtags, including #SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir (“if my daughter brought home a black”), #SiMonFilsEstGay (“if my son is gay”), #UnBonMusulman (“a good Muslim”), and #UnBonNoir (“a good black”). In the first week of January, #SiJetaisNazi (“if I were a Nazi”) was one of the highest-ranked trending topics in the country. (Incidentally, the same week, France’s official General Commission of Terminology and Neologism announced its decision to bar the Anglicism “hashtag” from the language in favor of “mot-dièse,” or “sharp word”—another difference in speech tactics.) Four prominent anti-racism organizations in France joined the Union of French Jewish Students in its legal case, arguing that these hashtags violate French laws banning hate speech. The president of the student group, Jonathan Hayoun, said, “Because it does not take the necessary measures to identify where the tweets come from, Twitter is offering a platform to racism and anti-Semitism.” And so Twitter finds itself with the ball, trying to dribble through diverging laws around the world, to kick away historical demons, and to hold onto its philosophical ideals—total, protected freedom of expression—as it holds onto its users and advertisers. If the company chooses not to comply with the French court’s decision, and the analogous ones that will surely follow, Twitter will have allowed millions of non-Americans who use the Web to benefit from America’s values of free speech—so quietly that it is almost secret. Illustration by Jordan Awan
Mortgage Question? How Self-Employed Income is Calculated for a Mortgage How do lenders calculate self-employed income for a mortgage? Michael Jensen , Mortgage and Finance Guru When you apply for a mortgage lenders look at your monthly gross income and debt expenses to determine the loan you qualify for. The higher your income and lower your debt payments, the higher the mortgage amount you can afford. Calculating your monthly gross income if you are self-employed can be a little tricky because your income may fluctuate month-to-month or year-to-year. Additionally, If your business is seasonal, your income may vary significantly over the course of the year. To account for these potential variations, for standard mortgage programs lenders typically calculate your self-employment income by averaging your monthly income for the previous two years. Lenders usually require that you provide your tax returns for the prior two years to verify the annual income figures they use. Review How to Get a Mortgage if You Are Self-Employed For example, if you earned $70,000 in self-employed income last year and $60,000 the prior year, the lender adds the income for both years -- so $130,000 in total income over the two year period -- and divides by 24 months to arrive at $5,415 in average monthly gross income ($130,000 total income / 24 months = $5,415 per month). If you have other verifiable income sources such as part-time work or investments, the lender adds that monthly income to your self-employment income to determine the mortgage you qualify for. Other factors including your personal debt expenses, credit score and loan terms also impact the mortgage you can afford. Use ourMORTGAGE QUALIFICATION CALCULATORto determine the mortgage you can afford based on your self-employed income There are a couple of points to highlight given the way self-employed income is calculated when you apply for a mortgage. First, if your income has increased significantly recently, you usually do not receive the full benefit from the higher income. For example, if you currently earn $8,000 a month on a steady basis but your average monthly self-employment income over the past two years is only $5,500, the lender uses the $5,500 income figure to evaluate your mortgage application. Using an average income figure that is lower than your current actual income puts self-employed borrowers at a potential disadvantage. Additionally, many self-employed people try to minimize the income they show on their tax returns to reduce their tax bill. While this strategy offers benefits from a tax standpoint, reporting a lower income figure can significantly reduce the mortgage amount you qualify for. Self-employed borrower qualification requirements may vary by lender and loan program. We recommend that you contact multiple lenders in the table below to understand the mortgage you qualify for as a self-employed applicant. Shopping lenders also enables you to find the best mortgage terms. Current Mortgage Rates in Ashburn, Virginia as of September 20, 2021 View All Lenders Please note that the self-employed income guidelines outlined above apply to standard mortgage programs such as conventional and FHA loans. Another option for self-employed applicants is a bank statement mortgage program. As the name suggests, a bank statement loan enables you to qualify for a mortgage based on your bank statements instead of your tax returns. In short, deposits into your bank account serve as income when you apply for the mortgage. As long as regular deposits appear on your bank statements, you should be able to qualify for the loan assuming the deposits enable you to afford the monthly payment, property tax and insurance. The more steady the deposits and income, the better from the lender's standpoint. Review How a Bank Statement Mortgage Works Many programs only require twelve months of bank statements to verify your income although some programs require 24 months. In many cases you can qualify for a higher mortgage amount using your bank statements than your tax returns, which is why this program is popular with self-employed borrowers. The negatives of a bank statement mortgage are that you usually pay a higher interest rate and other qualification requirements can be more challenging. For example, you may be required to make a higher down payment or have a higher credit score. Additionally, if you own your own business, you may be required to provide both personal and business bank statements as well as detailed financial information about your business. We recommend that you confirm the documentation requirements before you select a lender. You can use the FREEandCLEAR Lender Directory to search for lenders by state, lender type and loan program. For example, you can search for top-rated lenders in your state that offer bank statement mortgages. "B3-3.2-01, Underwriting Factors and Documentation for a Self-Employed Borrower." Selling Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family. Fannie Mae, December 4 2018. Web. "B3-3.4-01, Analyzing Partnership Returns for a Partnership or LLC." Selling Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family. Fannie Mae, June 5 2019. Web. « Return to Q&A Home About the author Michael Jensen, Mortgage and Finance Guru Michael Jensen LinkedInLinkedIn \| Email Michael JensenEmail
clock menu more-arrow no yes Filed under: From the editor's desk: is winning in a lost season important? New, comments The Arizona Coyotes will likely not finish in last place due to some late season wins. Here's why that's okay. John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports The Buffalo Sabres are now all but assured of a lock on last place in the NHL this season. The Arizona Coyotes' 5-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks now makes the gap between 29th and 30th in the NHL two points. Buffalo would need three of four points against the white-hot Columbus Blue Jackets and the unbelievably desperate Pittsburgh Penguins to pass Arizona, and only if Arizona took zero points for the rest of the year. And yet, there are plenty of reasons why winning late in the year is not a bad outcome for the Coyotes. For starters, there's no way Arizona finishes out of the top five, and every single one of the projected top five selections has the potential to be an impact player in the NHL. Arizona may miss out on the top two prizes, but the consolation prizes are not half-bad. Arizona has also demonstrated the ability to light up the scoresheet in the right circumstances. Granted, Antti Niemi has not exactly been Carey Price this year, and the Sharks' defense is not as stingy as it used to be. But the power play continues to produce despite the loss of Keith Yandle, and Oliver Ekman-Larsson is an absolute stud. There's also something to be said for creating a winning culture in the locker room, especially among younger players. Young guys who work hard need to have the right habits rewarded with victories. Constant losing wears on everyone. Just ask Edmonton. So all in all, this last week of the NHL season should provide us a glimpse into the 2014-15 Arizona Coyotes. With players like Tobias Rieder, John Moore, and the aforementioned OEL likely mainstays on the roster for the foreseeable future, the Coyotes are transitioning from a rough and tumble grit team to a speed and skill club. The cost of that transition has been high, and will continue to rise as the rebuild progresses, but it's ultimately the only way to be a contender in the modern NHL. • The Phoenix Suns are reportedly exploring the possibility of a new downtown arena. To say the Coyotes wouldn't benefit from a more centralized location is a bit of an understatement. • I don't think it's as simple as IceArizona walking over to Robert Sarver and throwing money his way though. The two teams are technically competing for the same entertainment dollars, don't use the same arena management company, and a partnership between multi-millionaires could very easily make any arena deal involving public financing from the City of Phoenix politically untenable, if it wasn't already. • Coupled with the fact that the conditions of the Coyotes' stay at America West Arena prompted their move to the suburbs, and I find it highly unlikely that the two ownership groups come together to make a Phoenix arena happen. • The other floated rumor, which has to do with a remodel to the US Airways Center seems even more unlikely. Any remodel that removes the sight-line issues USAC has on the upper level is going to gut a major portion of the building. While doable, it seems like the simpler option would just be to build a new arena altogether. • Mark Arcobello is going to be paid by somebody this summer. He's had a nice coming out party this year, with 17 goals and 14 assists split between four different NHL clubs. • Craig Morgan of Fox Sports Arizona made it sound like Arcobello is not in the team's long-term plans. It's not terribly hard to see why if you dig a little deeper. • Arcobello's shooting percentage with Arizona this year is 17%. In Edmonton this year it was 13%, while last year with the Oilers it was a mere 5.7%. • It's very hard to say what Arcobello's true shooting percentage is going to be given the relatively small sample size of his career. But right now, Arcobello's shooting percentage is 45th in the NHL, next to the likes of Vladimir Tarasenko and Tomas Tatar. • I think Arizona got Arcobello at a high point in his career, and he made the most of available playing time brought on by a struggling roster. Ultimately Arcobello seems like a prime candidate for statistical regression next season, so it may be wise for Arizona to pass on bringing him back. • Brandon Gormley's demotion earlier this weekend makes me wonder if Andrew Campbell makes a run at the 7th spot on the blueline next year (assuming he re-signs, of course). Gormley should get some good playoff run experience down in Portland this season though. 1. How many wins? The Coyotes have three tough teams on the calendar; two of which are fighting for their playoff lives? Can the Coyotes play spoiler? 2. Can anyone pass Mikkel? Shane Doan and Sam Gagner are both tied with Mikkel Boedker with 14 goals this year. Tobias Rieder is one behind. Will any of these players pass him at the last moment? 3. Who leads the team in points? Ekman-Larsson's franchise record 23 goals is impressive, but Gagner has made the point title race a bit more interesting. He sits just three points back with three games to go. Who pulls it out? Player to Watch Let's see what Andrew Campbell does in this final week. He has only a single assist on the year, and is still looking for that first career NHL goal.
Filthy Forever Not Bad For Kids Great curiosity make children love to touch various things, including what adults think is gross. Actually, as far as what the child be allowed to play dirty-dirt? Various studies have shown, letting toddlers exposed to bacteria can actually protect them from allergic diseases and asthma in later life. The rationale is also called the “hygiene hypothesis”. According to the hygiene hypothesis, since young children are rarely exposed to bacteria, parasites, or viruses, as adults they are more susceptible to allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. Other facts also said children who have a brother, a large farm in the neighborhood, and is in daycare (day care) early on, more rarely exposed to allergen. Just like a baby’s brain needs stimulation, input, and interaction that perfect growth, a child’s immune system will be strong also by exposure to germs every day so that the immune army can learn, adapt, and create your own settings. What germs they could be beneficial to the immune system of the child, it is not clear, but recent studies provide clues. In a study conducted Thom McDade, PhD, director of the Human Biology Research Laboratory at Northwestern University, children who are exposed to animal feces and suffering from diarrhea before the age of two years, the incidence of inflammation in the body has a little more when they are adults. Inflammation itself is associated with chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. “His understanding has shifted from the immune system associated with allergies and autoimmune diseases, but also an important role in inflammation and other degenerative diseases,” said McDade. In line with McDade, according to Martin Blaser, prosefor medicine from the University of New York, most of the germs that are around or living in our bodies not only harmless but also has been with us for millions of years. However, in line with changes in human behavior, some microbes, such as those living in the gut, to be reduced or lost. “The loss of microbes that give a result, there were good some were bad,” said Blaser. Fear of parents are realized by keeping the child’s environment may by Blaser will eliminate their chance of exposure to naturally occurring microorganisms that are actually good for the immune system. Coupled with the use of antibiotics, which only made us weaker. So, what should parents do? Blaser recommends that parents and doctors more prudent in giving antibiotics to children. Excessive use will weaken the child’s immune against the disease. Maintaining cleanliness is important, but McDade suggested that parents are not obsessed with cleanliness. “Not everything needs to be washed or sterilized,” he said.
Symbols in Macbeth – Macbeth Symbolism Overview Macbeth Symbols Introduction Macbeth takes place in 11th-century northern Scotland. The weather in this part of Scotland is often dark, cold, and damp, making for the perfect setting for this play about murder, intrigue, and madness. In fact, the play opens in the middle of a storm and this stormy weather continues for much for the play. Furthermore, a lot of the action of the play occurs at night. During the course of this play, several motifs are used that contribute to the major symbolism found in the play. With the setting being so dreary, it follows that the motifs and symbols would play on this. Three major motifs are enhanced by this: hallucinating, violent acts, and prophecies. Hallucinations occur for multiple characters throughout the play and show the piercing effects of guilt. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both hallucinate as they are tormented by guilt over the murders they have committed. Violence is everywhere in Macbeth. Although a significant amount of the killings happen off stage, there will always been a gory retelling courtesy of one of the characters to count on. Violence ranges from killings on the battlefield, to killings as a result of greed or fear, to revenge killings. Finally, prophecies are a significant motif. The Three Witches provide the first prophecy which kicks off the violent actions of the play. Then, the Witches provide another prophecy later that fuels the action forward into more violence. Aside from the prophecy that Banquo’s sons would inherit the throne, all prophecies come true by the end of the play. Symbolism in Macbeth Here’s a list of major symbols in Macbeth. • The Weather • Blood The Weather Meaning what does the candle in macbeth symbolizeAs mentioned before, the weather has a major affect on the mood of the play. Much of the action takes place during storms or at night, which implies that a heavy gloom hangs over all the characters at all times. This increases emotions, irritability, and the dramatic effects of each murder. Thunder and lightning is always present when the Witches show up, which symbolizes the chaotic energy that they introduce into everyone’s lives. On the night of King Duncan’s murder, terrible storms rage on, which heighten the effects of Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s hallucinations. Furthermore, the storms occurring as the king is murdered symbolize the destruction of Scotland’s political and moral order. Blood Meaning macbeth symbolism daggerHow is blood a symbol in Macbeth? As one of the most violent plays of its time, it comes as no surprise that blood is often found throughout the play, playing an important symbolic role in its meaning. From the very start of the play, the war battle between Scotland and the invading Norwegians is said to be a bloody one, which enhances the significance of Macbeth having bravely led his troops to victory. Later, once Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start to descend into their violent and murderous tendencies, blood symbolizes their guilt. They see hallucinations and apparitions soaked in blood, leading them to feel stained by the guilt of what they have done. Lady Macbeth hallucinates blood on herself that she cannot wash off. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel stained by blood for the rest of their lives, until their guilt leads them into a total descent into madness.
for employers What's expected of your communication with students during an in-class project How do I communicate with students? When the project is started by students, they will send you an introductory message and you'll receive an email notification to let you know. This starts a message thread on Riipen so you can continue a group discussion with the students over the course of the project. How often you communicate will depend on what expectations the instructor has set with the students, but also depends on how active you would like to be. Make sure to discuss with the educator how often they expect you to be communicating with students. In a typical project, students are communicating every 1-2 weeks over Riipen messaging, and additional meetings may be held over video conferencing or (occasionally) in person. You should expect in most cases that one or two students will take the lead in communication - this doesn't mean the other students are not engaged, but that the team is trying to streamline communication and create a primary contact for you. When communicating with students, remember they'll be unfamiliar (usually) with your industry and especially with your business. Give them context for your requests and any problems you ask them to solve, and it will improve their understanding. If you're working with multiple teams, you can message all teams simultaneously to reduce your time commitment. As well, you can add FAQ or Resources to your project page over the course of the project to automatically alert participating teams of new information. If in doubt, over-communicate. If your students are communicating more or less than you'd expect, let their instructor know so they can help.
Moroccan currency, exchange rates Moroccan currency Prices, and more information of interest. Traveling on your own or in a group like those organized by our agency, the issue of money is fundamental. Even in all-inclusive tours, there will always be something to pay separately. For this reason, on this page, we explain basic economic aspects such as what is the Moroccan currency, how much is the Moroccan dirham exchange rate, what are the bank opening hours and much more. The Moroccan currency: the Moroccan dirham If you are considering when to visit Morocco, it all depends on the region you want to visit. In general, spring is the best time to visit the country, when the trees are in bloom and the landscapes show all their beauty. Morocco’s currency is the Moroccan dirham, whose ISO code is MAD (Morrocan dirham). As with dollars, euros, and many other currencies, it is subdivided into 100 cents. The bills you will have to handle are 20, 50, 100, and 200 MAD. As for coins, there are 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents and 1, 2, 5, and 10 MAD. The exchange of Moroccan currency is not free. Its exchange rate is included in a ‘simplified basket’ composed of the currencies of the main trading partners, the euro and the dollar. Thus, the average exchange rate is: 1 dirham = 0.09 euro / 1 euro = 10.9 dirham. Money exchange offices and banks in Morocco You can change money in Morocco you can go to the banks of the country, which are present in all the cities. You can also do it in the exchange offices. Banks are open from Monday to Friday except on holidays and you can exchange foreign currency and traveler’s checks, as well as use credit cards. In general, it is a quick and easy operation, and exchange rates vary little from one bank to another. One of the best banks is probably the Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur (BMCE). Credit card and ATM advances incur a fee of about 1.5%. On the other hand, you will find bureaux de change in all cities, airports, borders, and seaports. There are also hotels that have currency exchange and traveler’s checks. To find out how many Moroccan dirhams an amount is equivalent to in your local currency, you can use the currency converter on this page. For information on exchange regulations and policy, see the Office des changes (Moroccan Exchange Agency) and the Central Bank of Morocco. ATMs in Morocco If instead of making a change to the Moroccan currency you prefer to withdraw it directly in that currency from an ATM, you can do it in any city and with a Visa or MasterCard. In any case, here are two tips to keep in mind: It is better to withdraw money directly from the bank during its opening hours to avoid possible problems with your credit card. For each cash withdrawal at ATMs, a variable fee will be applied to your account. Therefore, we advise you to inform yourself before making them and avoid making too many cash withdrawals from ATMs. Credit cards They are accepted by most hotels of a certain level, as well as in some restaurants and stores, but rarely at gas stations. Many credit card scams are now being carried out all over the world, so we advise you to always accompany the merchant with the card until payment is made. The fees are very high for retailers, so many will not accept or excuse themselves by saying their POS is broken. Tipping in Morocco In the most exclusive restaurants, customers are expected to leave a tip for the service provided, usually between 10 and 15% of the bill. In more modest establishments, leaving one or two dirhams will suffice. Tipping is common in many services in Morocco, from tour guides to valet parking to toilet cleaners in establishments and many others. Prices in Morocco In general, traveling comfortably in Morocco will cost between 40 and 50€ per day. Those who do not have much budget and are willing to camp or stay in guesthouses can survive without problems with 15 or 20 € per day. But keep in mind that whims are expensive, as drinking a beer can cost around 4 €. Travel is relatively cheap and there are many transportation alternatives. The most economical means of transport is the bus, while the train stands out for its comfort and punctuality. However, the Grand Taxi can be a personalized and even cheaper option than all this, especially if you have good negotiating skills and get occupants for all the seats in the vehicle. On the other hand, the minivan with a Spanish-speaking driver is an interesting solution provided by a unique desert tour within closed and customizable tours. Contact us. Moroccan currency
GMOs and Your Health Byron White GMOs ARE A SERIOUS THREAT. They cause degenerative disease, cancer, DNA damage and interfere with the body’s ability to heal and maintain balance. We strongly recommend that you pay extra close attention to what you eat and include a GMO detoxification as part of your healing protocol. GMOs contain vaccines, create toxic proteins, instruct the body to produce pesticides, prevent absorption of nutrients, cause allergies and degenerative diseases like cancer, and contribute to sterility. One study that involved feeding GMO potatoes to rats for 10 days showed: GI and immune dysfunction, slower growth, impaired internal organ development, pre-cancerous growth, partial atrophy of liver, reproductive impairment, and brain size decrease. WHAT ARE GMOs? GMOs are plants and animals that are genetically engineered by merging their DNA with that of different species, such as other plants, animals, bacteria and viruses. Certified Organic farmers are not allowed to knowingly plant GMO seed but because pollen and seed are hard to keep isolated in open fields, contamination of non GMO crops often occurs. This toxic approach to agriculture has been responsible for creating “super weeds” and “superbugs” in the same way antibiotics and vaccines have mutated bacteria and viruses. Despite biotech industry promises, there are no consumer benefits to GMO products: they do not increase yield, they are not drought tolerant, nor do they offer enhanced nutrition. More than 60 countries, including Australia, Japan, and the entire European Union are against GMOs and have severely restricted them or banned them outright. 91% of U.S. citizens polled want GMOs to be labeled and a recent CBS/New York Times poll reports that 53% of consumers say they would not buy GMO foods. To learn more about what is safe to eat or how you can influence GMO legislation go to: We are being genetically altered by the foods we eat and clearing these things from the body is crucial. Detoxification of artificial sweeteners (sucralose, fructose, aspartame and others) is also important since they have a similar effect on the body’s systems, causing damage to DNA, cancer and other degenerative diseases. Fructose, and sugar in general, is not only harmful and addictive but often genetically modified. Ask your health practitioner about Byron White Formulas Detox Support Leave a Reply %d bloggers like this:
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Jon Steingard, singer and guitarist for Christian pop-rock group Hawk Nelson, has revoked his faith, declaring, "I no longer believe in God" in a long-winded statement on social media, which outlined his journey to this realization. Hawk Nelson formed in Ontario, Canada in 2000 and have released eight full length albums, the latest being 2018's Miracles. In his statement, Stengard makes no allusions as to what this means for the band's future despite a Facebook post issued on May 21 indicating there was much more ahead. In his Instagram reveal, the frontman explained that his revocation of Christianity was not an overnight decision as he had been grappling with elements of his faith for "several years." Steingard grew up in an overtly Christian home and community with faith being the foremost fixture in his life. "I am now finding that I no longer believe in God," he wrote, noting, "The process of getting to that sentence has been several years in the making. It didn’t happen overnight or all of a sudden. It’s been more like pulling on the threads of a sweater, and one day discovering that there was no more sweater left." In his nine-slide Instagram post, Steingard spoke about his battle to believe that the Bible is the "perfect word of God" as transcribed through the divine inspiration of a collection of human individuals. Struggling to understand all the wickedness present in the world and why an all-powerful God would idly stand by to let it happen, he was told to seek answers within the biblical text. "I found, however, that consulting and discussing the Bible didn't answer my questions, it only amplified them," stressed the Hawk Nelson frontman. Elsewhere, he relayed an eye-opening conversation with his father-in-law, who, like his father, is a pastor. Steingard also mentioned that he and his wife, Jess, were never enthused about going to church, reading the Bible nor praying, all of which he said "felt like an obligation." Still, the Hawk Nelson singer is "open to the idea that God is there," though not in the same fashion he was raised to believe. Read the entire statement below. 25 Legendary Rock Albums With No Weak Songs
I’m Your Woman Ending, Explained Directed by Julia Hart (‘Stargirl’), ‘I’m Your Woman’ revolves around Jean (Rachel Brosnahan), the wife of a career criminal named Eddie (Bill Heck), who must go on the run with her child Harry after things turn sour between her husband and his partner Mike (James McMenamin). The film takes tropes of conventional crime-dramas and then turns them on their head by focusing on the spouse of the criminal and her experience as the world around her begins crumbling down. Brosnahan delivers a remarkable performance by masterfully exploring both the vulnerability and inner strength of her character. SPOILERS AHEAD. I’m Your Woman Plot Synopsis The first part of the film concentrates on Jean’s life with Eddie. She spends her days being restless and agitated, unsure when and if her husband will return home. She had several miscarriages since she and Eddie began their relationship and eventually decided to stop trying. They can’t adopt either because of Eddie’s criminal records. Then, one day, he brings home an infant boy, telling her this is their child. He apparently got the child from a teenage girl, whose father was going to disown her otherwise. So, when Jimmy (Jarrod DiGiorgi), one of Eddie’s friends, comes to Jean one day to tell her to pack her bags, take her child, and leave, she has no choice but to do precisely that. Accompanying her is Cal (Arinzé Kene), who seems to have a history with Eddie. Although he initially takes Jean to a house in a remote town, her husband’s former associates soon find her there. Cal arrives just in time, saving Jean, and takes her to a secluded cabin. From him, she finally comes to know what Eddie truly is, a killer. After Cal leaves, his family comes to the cabin. Jean meets his wife Teri (Marsha Stephanie Blake), father Art (Frankie Faison), and Cal and Teri’s son Paul. In time, the two women develop a close bond, and when Cal’s long absence starts to become a matter of concern, the women embark on a journey together. Jean discovers that Teri used to be married to Eddie, and Cal was one of his crew members. They fell in love and eloped. When Eddie found them, he didn’t kill them. Instead, he told them that he would ask for a favor one day. Ultimately, ensuring Jean’s safety turned out to be that favor. I’m Your Woman Ending When Jean finally meets up with Cal at a diner, she learns that Eddie is dead. Her expression flickers between disbelief, grief, and even relief. The last few weeks have made her realize that Eddie isn’t what she thought he was. Granted, she always knew that he was a criminal, but she never realized that he was part of organized crime, running an entire operation with Mike before betraying him. Jean also didn’t realize that he was a cold-blooded murderer. As the film progresses, she becomes more and more disillusioned with Eddie and their marriage. By the time Jean receives the news from Cal, she has become more focused on ensuring a future for herself and Harry. During her journey with Cal, Jean starts developing feelings for him. He is there for her when no one else is. She keeps questioning him if he has someone in his life and notices several things about him that indicate to her that indeed he has. These assumptions are proven true when she meets Teri. At the diner, there is a moment just involving them, when it is still not known whether Teri has survived following her encounter with the members of Mike’s crew. In that brief span of time, Jean likely imagines a life with Cal, although she keeps asserting that Teri will soon be there. When she does, however, a flicker of disappointment appears on Jean’s face. A Shootout Under the Bridge With Mike and his men are hot on their trail, Jean, Cal, and Teri try their best to escape from the city. One of Mike’s men causes Cal to have an accident, and Mike pulls Jean out of the car. But when he starts questioning her about Eddie, she shoots him with the gun that Teri gave her earlier. Evidently, Jean has come a long way since she was a hapless victim of her circumstances. She gets both Teri and Cal out of the wreckage and puts them in Mike’s car. When Jean tells Teri that she has killed Mike, there is a note of finality in it. She knows what she has done and is fine with it. Retrieving the Children The three of them drive to the cabin, where they find Art dead along with some of Mike’s lackeys. The children are found under the trapdoor, alive and well. Clearly, Art died protecting Paul and Harry. As they leave, Paul tells Jean not to look back, echoing what she told him earlier. She and her son can now enjoy lives in which Eddie’s crimes will not have any effect. As for Cal and Teri, they too are free to live their lives peacefully. Read More: Where To Stream I’m Your Woman?
(202) 999-2084 PERM Labor Certification PERM Labor Certification A PERM Labor Certification is an official U.S. Department of Labor finding that: • No U.S. workers can be found, at the time of filing the application and in the geographic area where the job exists, who are available, willing, and able to fill the position; and • The individual's employment will not "adversely affect" the wages and working conditions of similarly situated U.S. workers. Labor Certification is obtained by filing an application with the U.S. Department of Labor’s PERM system. PERM is an attestation and audit system under which employers seeking permanent labor certification conduct advertising and recruitment prior to filing the labor certification application. The rule imposes a list of mandatory recruitment steps and posting requirements during the recruitment period. To ensure that the wages listed in its recruitment campaign conform to prevailing wage standards, a wage determination must be obtained from a local state workforce agency. The sponsoring employer must maintain documentation of its recruitment efforts and layoffs in the area of intended employment. Such documentation need not be submitted up front with the PERM labor certification application but must be provided if the application is selected for auditing by the DOL. Once they complete the recruitment effort, the sponsoring employer prepares and files its PERM application online at a dedicated DOL website. Cases are filed using an application form that contains both basic labor certification and prevailing wage information. The I-140 Immigrant Visa Petition and Visa Quotas After the PERM labor certification application is certified, the sponsoring employer files an immigrant petition on behalf of the employee at the point it wishes to formally sponsor the individual for U.S. immigration. The petition is a formal offer of "permanent" employment (that is, employment of indefinite duration) and is presented to the USCIS in an I-140 Immigrant Visa Petition. The form I-140 provides information about the employer (the "petitioner"), the candidate (the "beneficiary"), and the job being offered. The sponsoring employer must also request on the form that the beneficiary be classified according to a specific preference category. Under U.S. laws, there are five visa preference categories in which an employment-based immigrant is eligible for assignment. Statutory quotas limit the number of people who can immigrate each year depending both on the preference category in which the person is classified, and the person's country of birth. The vast majority of employment-based immigrants fall into either the second preference (EB-2) or the third preference (EB-3) category. Generally, EB-2 classification is for individuals who are offered jobs that require either an advanced degree (for example, a master's degree or Ph.D.) or its equivalent (i.e., a bachelor's degree plus at least five years of "progressive" experience). EB-3 classification is for individuals whose jobs don't require such education or expertise. An important distinction is that classification is determined by what education and experience is necessary for the person's job as set forth in the labor certification, not by what education and experience the person actually has. Quotas allow only a limited number of people to immigrate to the U.S. each year. The quotas depend both on the preference category and the country of one's birth. The laws do not allow more than a certain number of EB-2 and EB-3 individuals to immigrate, and each country is limited to a percentage of the total number of each category. For people from most countries, it makes no difference whether they are classified as EB-2 or EB-3, because these categories are often "current" (meaning there is no waiting time to immigrate). However, Chinese and Indian citizens often face backlogs of visas, and it can take several years before they are allowed to permanently immigrate. If an employee has to wait to immigrate, how is the length of the wait calculated? The employee must wait until their "priority date" is current before they will be allowed to begin the third step of the immigration process. The priority date is the date the employee's labor certification application was originally filed (generally, the date the application was received by the DOL). Every month, the U.S. Department of State tracks the number of people who emigrate from all countries in each preference category. Based on those numbers, it designates certain priority dates for each category as “current,” and people holding these or older priority dates are eligible to move to the third step of the immigration process. Historically, EB-2 priority dates have been more favorable than EB-3 priority dates. Unfortunately, priority dates do not advance at the same rate as the calendar. In some months, the date may not move at all; in others, the date might move forward by weeks or even months at a time. No Comments Yet. Leave a comment Designed and Developed by Edel Digital LTD.
Gargalesis Tickle Gargalesis is a scientific term for a playful, heavy type of tickle that often induces laughter (like moving your fingers on the sole of someone’s foot). The term was coined in 1897 by psychologists Arthur Allin and G. Stanley Hall, who also coined the term knismesis, a feather-like type of tickling that often creates a sense of irritation (like that from an insect or parasite, for example). Notice concerning medical entries:
SCOTUS upholds ACA, including individual mandate for the uninsured In a surprising ruling the Supreme Court today announced that the Americans With Care Act (ACA) is, in fact, constitutional according to the broad tax authority granted Congress by the Constitution. Opponents of ACA were also dealt a stunning defeat in their argument that so-called “Obamacare” is unconstitutional because it permits the federal government to overreach its legitimate constitutional authority to regulate interstate business according to the Commerce Clause. The majority ruled that the ACA’s individual mandate is not an interstate commerce issue. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in a stunning reversal of the swing vote normally reserved for Justice Anthony Kennedy, claimed the law allowed a choice to uninsured but penalized them with a tax if they chose not to get health insurance. That was the Obama administration’s back up argument, and the Supreme Court agreed. The fact that Roberts sided with the majority and wrote the opinion underscores just how important this ruling is for non-partisan legitimacy of the new health care law. Although critics have scorned the law as “socialism” and derided it based on false assumptions and ignorance about the law’s many benefits, the ruling today represents a major victory for progress in developing a health care system that is both fair and just. Some benefits of the Affordable Care Act: • Children will be able to stay on their parents health plans until age 26, an important benefit in an economy with high unemployment and shrinking benefits. • Insurers will no longer be able to discriminate against persons with prior medical conditions. • States must set up insurance exchanges so that market competition among firms will deliver low cost insurance to the uninsured. • Individuals who can afford insurance but lack it will be penalized by a “free-rider” tax, ensuring that their uninsured medical costs are not passed along to those persons with insurance in the form of higher premiums, more costly health care delivery, and higher taxes for public emergency rooms.
Help me start out with cloth nappies We get many emails from new parents to cloth nappies asking what to buy for their new baby. Cloth nappies are mostly personal preference but having cloth nappied my own 3 babies and seen the experiences of my own customers the following is my recommendations. Which One Size Nappy should I choose? We have a range of trial packs that you can get different nappies to try. One of each style that you are interested in can give you a chance to try before investing in a full stash of one style. If you want to skip the trial pack option and jump right in, Our most popular nappy is the Bare Cub AI2. Its versatile, easy to use and its the most popular choice among our customers. I generally recommend this nappy to new parents as it fits most babies very well, gives great absorbency, a trim fit and its an All in Two which is generally the most popular choice among cloth nappy users. You can buy extra inserts, so you can get more use out of the covers if you'd like to save some money. Many parents do this at the start (for example 10 covers and 20 inserts) and then over time buy more covers in prints they like to make up more full nappies' I recommend 25-30 cloth nappies for full time use. We offer a bundle deal so rather then give you a pack, we ask you to choose your own prints and nappies and then you apply the discount so you get exactly what you'd like. You can choose between styles to get your own pack (you might want some All in One, All in Two and even some Teddy Bare side snap nappies - you can create whatever you like with your discount applied). Why would I choose an All in One nappy? Some parents prefer to do no assembly for their nappies. If this is you, have a look at the Bare Cub AIO. This nappy is the same great fit as our Bare Cub AI2, but all the absorbency is sewn in making it a very convenient nappy. Why choose the Teddy Bare Side Snapping Nappy? Side Snapping nappies allow you to adjust the waist and legs separately. No rise snaps make them easy to fit, though they can be a bit bulkier as you can fold away the excess fabric on little babies. What else should I think about buying? As a minimalist I generally encourage parents to start using their nappies to determine their needs. But as a general recommendation, many parents like a couple of wet bags to store their nappies in for out and about. If you'd like to use the nappies at night time, add a few trifold night boosters in. These can also be handy for longer naps. We also sell a range of bibs, smocks, change mats and then clothing to match the nappies so we offer a broad range of products for our customers. Leave a comment
See what Shanghai, China, looks like as coronavirus fears linger New York (CNN Business)Apple’s surprise warning that it won’t meet its first quarter revenue guidance because of the coronavirus virus sent tremors through global financial markets. Investors awoke Tuesday to the idea that other companies with exposure to China might not meet their first quarter earnings expectations, either. The billion dollar question: Is the financial fallout from coronavirus a short-term problem or a longer-term trend? “This could be a very short-lived one-quarter blip,” JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade told CNN Business. It’s hardly surprising that a company as heavily reliant on producing and selling in China would feel the impact of the outbreak. But Apple (AAPL)‘s announcement was significant because the trillion dollar firm is the first major US business to specifically notifiy its investors that it will take a hit. The company said the outbreak is hurting both its production and sales in China more than previously expected. In response, US stocks kicked off their shortened Presidents’ Day week Tuesday in the red, with the S&P 500 (SPX) down 0.4%. Apple’s announcement overshadowed news of a slowdown in the rate of new virus cases and more government stimulus measures to prop up China’s markets and economy. The announcement was a timely reminder that the next earnings season could be painful, as investors brace for more companies to make similar projections. Consumer brands such as Under Armour (UA) and Canada Goose (GOOS), have already issued warnings that the outbreak will hurt their bottom line. Food and beverage companies like McDonald’s (MCD) and Starbucks (SBUX) are also likely to feel some pain after closing stores in China to limit the spread of the virus. Both the supply chain and end markets for the semiconductor industry are likely affected by the outbreak, so investors are curious to see if companies like Intel (INTC) or Nvidia (NVDA) may be the next to provide some guidance. “I’m really interested to hear from some of the chip makers,” said Kinahan. Semiconductor companies led the best performing stocks last year, even though their big exposure to China made them vulnerable to the US-China trade war. This year, the coronavirus outbreak has replaced that concern, Kinahan said. For some American companies, the obstacle is in their supply chain rather than their end market. Those businesses can fall back on their existing inventories for now, but at some point that buffer will run out, said Glenmede Trust Company’s investment strategy team in emailed comments. Meanwhile, retail giant Walmart, which reported earnings on Tuesday, didn’t provide any guidance about any financial effects from the outbreak, saying it expects a strong 2020. Amid all the uncertainty, investors would be wise to remember that earnings estimates for the first quarter and the full year are running ahead of the historical trend, according to Credit Suisse chief US equity strategist Jonathan Golub. Even if companies miss estimates, it doesn’t mean their earnings will fall off a cliff. For now, the coronavirus impact is expected to be a one-quarter phenomenon that will have little impact on the broader US economy. Economists at BMO estimate the US GDP growth at an unchanged 1.8% in 2020, albeit with growing downside risks. Case in point: Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives remains bullish on Apple despite Monday’s announcement. “While trying to gauge the impact of the iPhone miss and potential bounceback in the June quarter will be front and center for the street, we remain bullish on Apple for the longer term 5G super cycle thesis,” he wrote in a note. Source: Read Full Article
When a commercial real estate project has not gone as planned, bankruptcy options may be able to help out. There are different types of bankruptcy protections and different bankruptcy options to consider and many can help when a commercial real estate project has fallen under water. Which bankruptcy option is best depends on the goals of the party facing the financial difficulties and the situation and circumstances they are in. There are both personal and business bankruptcy options to consider which can sometimes overlap depending on how the filing party’s affairs are structured. All bankruptcy protection options enjoy certain features in common that can help whenever a filing party is facing overwhelming debt and financial struggles they are unsure how to address. All bankruptcy protection options allow the filing party a period of time known as the automatic stay during which time creditor collection actions are halted during the bankruptcy process. This can provide much-needed breathing room for the filing party and help them focus on the next steps if they are trying to save a business or an asset or to address whatever concerns they may be facing. Both reorganization and liquidation bankruptcy options are available to individuals and businesses based on their needs and goals. Bankruptcy protections may be able to help with repossessions, foreclosures and other concerns that might come up and can also provide debt relief. It is important for a business or individual struggling with overwhelming debt or a project that is failing to be familiar with different ways the bankruptcy process may be able to help them through.
No-Code Custom Worklist Combines Business Context With Task Functions Out of the box, K2 Five provides a Worklist control that is great when you need to quickly create a task form for debugging or to use in simple applications. Many applications require a more robust user experience. Consider the value of: • Combining business data with workflow task information • Filtering and sorting tasks based on business data • Managing tasks on behalf of other users (Management Worklist) For example, business users may want business data combined with workflow task information, or to be able to filter and sort worklist items using business data. You can accomplish this and more by using the Bytezoom SmartK2 Worklist. This blog describes features of the Bytezoom SmartK2 Worklist. This worklist is provided free of charge when you license the SmartK2 Service Broker. The worklist includes a header that you can customise, along with user and management worklists that can be customised to include business data. The Management Worklist tab can easily be hidden from users who are not members of an administrator role. You can freely make copies of the worklist application, and filter tasks by application, or you can use one worklist for many applications. You also can use component parts of the worklist in other applications. For example, the Header, User Worklist, or Management Worklist views can all be used independently in other applications if desired. The SmartK2 Worklist includes both a User Worklist and a Management Worklist User Worklist Features • Combine business and workflow data for additional context. • Action a task directly from the worklist without opening the task form • Delegate (share) a task to someone else. • Redirect (re-assign) a task to someone else • Release a task to make it available to other users • Open the ViewFlow report Business data combined with workflow data In the below images, columns Request ID, TERM TYPE, and SEPARATION TYPE, are not Worklist Item properties. Instead these come from a table in the application database. The SmartK2 Worklist makes it easy to customise a worklist to show related business data. Action a Task Directly from the Worklist When a user selects a worklist item for a task that allows actioning from the worklist, a dropdown list is displayed in the upper right of the worklist. When an action is selected and confirmed by the user, The action is carried out. And the Brandon Brown process has now moved to the HR Preparation step. Notice in the image below that when the HR Preparation task is selected, there is no task action dropdown list shown. This is because the workflow step was not configured to allow task actioning from the worklist. This is because this step requires opening the task form where information must be added and documents uploaded. Delegate or Redirect a Task When a user selects a worklist item and clicks Delegate or Redirect, they see a sub-view for selecting a user. The task is then delegated (shared) with the selected user, or redirected to a different user depending on which was selected. In the above example, we delegated a task to Roy. If we then click the Management Worklist tab, we see that a new approver was added to the Manager Approval task for Brandon Brown. Release a Task Sometimes a user opens a task form and closes it without taking action. This can leave the task in an Open state which prevents other users who are assigned to the same task from seeing it in their task list. This may be done intentionally when a user needs to insure that others will not complete the task. If it is done inadvertently, then the task may need to be released. Releasing a task changes its status from Open to Available. In the below image, the task for Rob Joy has a status of Open. When a user selects the task and clicks on Release, the status is changed to Available. This allows the task to be seen be all assigned users. Open the ViewFlow Report When a user selects a task, a ViewFlow link appears in the toolbar. Clicking the link opens a new browser tab that displays the ViewFlow Report. Management Worklist Features Many K2 applications need an application administrator. These admins often need to manage task assignments on behalf of other users. For this purpose, K2 provides a management worklist that is exposed on the K2 Management Site. One disadvantage of allowing application admins to use the K2 Management site is that they are not restricted to a specific application. If you include a Management worklist in your applications, access can be limited to just administrators, and further restricted to a specific application or group of applications. With that in mind the SmartK2 Worklist includes both a User worklist and a Management worklist. Both use the same form and are exposed using Tabs. The Management worklist allows an application administrator to Delegate, Redirect, and Release tasks on behalf of an application user. A custom worklist give you control over the worklist user experience. If the worklist look and feel is the same across all of your applications, users will have an easier time. Instead of spending development time building a custom worklist, use the Bytezoom SmartK2 Worklist and spend your valuable time where it counts most, building business applications that only you can create. 1. Hi Need more details reg. this control. Can i list the all the tasks related to the particular request . Lets say, i have a application submission process and it may initiate more than one workflow with same or different folio number. is this possible to track and mange the worklist related based on the request. • Yes, you can list all the tasks for a given request, even those that may come from multiple processes, or a child process, or those having a different folio. You can download a 30 day free trial version of the SmartK2 Service Broker for K2 FIVE at: Happy to answer any other questions. Leave a Reply to Keith Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
Welcome to the new Linux Foundation Forum! Disabling Nepomuk So basically what I want to do is to let Nepomuk burn in a fire. Now my situation is like this: I am running Debian Squeeze which is the current testing. I am using the Trinity fork of KDE 3.5 which installs KDE into /opt separate from everything else. Now for some reason, what I do not know, Nepomuk is always running when I log into KDE. This does not happen when I log into XFCE for example, only when logging into KDE. So where can I disable this memory hogging monster that is eating up my CPU for seemingly no good reason since it as far as I know is not at all used in KDE 3 but was only introduced in KDE 4. What is it that spawns nepomukserver and all those nepomukservicestub on login? • marcmarc Posts: 647 Why don't you just uninstall it? I don't understand why you even have it on your system if you do not use KDE4... Anyway, given that you have it... can you launch the kde4 systemsettings? if so, you can disable nepomuk in there: Systemsettings->Advanced->Desktop Search • mfillpotmfillpot Posts: 2,180 Nepomuk is enabled when you log into kde because the KDE4 elements have been loaded into your .kde directory within your profile. Since it appears you at trying to use KDE3 and the Nepomuk options do not exist in that implementation you may have to do into ~/.kde/share/config/nepomukserverrc and chahe the line that says "Start Nepomuk=true" to "Start Nepomuk=false". • RovanionRovanion Posts: 73 Thanks a lot for the help. I will look into it once I get home to my laptop again. • RovanionRovanion Posts: 73 Interestingely enough I think it helped slightly but not the whole way. Changing or in my case, adding that line stopped the nepomukservicestubs to be spawned. Tough it did not stop the nepomukserver itself from being spawned. Note that I changed both the nepomukserverrc in .kde and .kde3 since I wasn't sure which one was used, and which one was a backup and whatnot. I could live with having nepomukserver running. Of course it consumes a bit of RAM and some cycles, but if there is noone else has any idea I'll stick with this. • marcmarc Posts: 647 Under .kde/share/config/ksmserverrc check for lines like this And remove them (the number 2 is probably different on your system) You can also make sure you have disasble it for the krunner interface and the plasma desktop. Files: And set them to: You have to do this, of course, while you are not logged in KDE Then again, why don't you just uninstall them? • RovanionRovanion Posts: 73 • mfillpotmfillpot Posts: 2,180 Sign In or Register to comment.
Darwin's fungus (Cyttaria darwinii), Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina Darwin's fungus is a parasitic, golf ball-like fungus that was named in honour of Charles Darwin, who collected it in Tierra del Fuego during his voyage on HMS Beagle in 1832. Darwin’s fungus belongs to a genus of highly evolved parasitic fungi that grow exclusively on species of Nothofagus (southern beech). Year: 2016 From album: Tierra del Fuego National Park Photographer: Peter Prokosch Tags: Argentina Photos included in same album View all media
DP5061 \| SMEs and Bank Lending Relationships: The Impact of Mergers Publication Date JEL Code(s) Programme Area(s) This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan contracts in Belgium. We analyse the effects of bank mergers on the probability of borrowers maintaining their lending relationships and on their ability to continue tapping bank credit. The Belgian financial environment reflects a number of interesting features: high banking sector concentration; ?in-market? mergers with large target banks; importance of large banks in providing external finance to SMEs; and low numbers of bank lending relationships maintained by SMEs. We find that bank mergers generate short-term and longer-term effects on borrowers' probability of losing a lending relationship and on credit availability. Mergers also have heterogeneous impacts across borrower types, including borrowers of acquiring and target banks, borrowers of differing size, borrowers with single versus multiple relationships, and borrowers with differing relationship intensities. Firms borrowing from acquiring banks are less likely to lose their lending relationship, while target bank borrowers are more likely to lose their relationship or see their credit availability harmed. Overlap borrowers ? borrowing from two of the merging banks ? are less likely to lose their relationship than firms borrowing from only one of the merging banks or firms borrowing from non-merging banks.
Technology content trusted in North America and globally since 1999 8,523 Reviews & Articles \| 65,877 News Posts Microsoft vows to fix Windows Store for better PC gaming Microsoft is ready to shore up its weak Windows 10 storefront By: Derek Strickland from Nov 12, 2018 @ 10:41 CST Microsoft's Xbox division wants to bridge farther into PC gaming, but to do so it must address the wonky Windows 10 Store to make it worthwhile. PC gaming is Microsoft's biggest asset over Sony. The company's Xbox platform merges both console and PC gaming with a host of cross-save/compatible games, services, and content that can be played on both hardware realms. But the Windows Store is still a strange, wonky, and often frustrating place to buy, launch, and play PC games, and Microsoft is keen on fixing that so it can not only enable key UWP cross-features but also rake in more money from direct game sales. At the recent XO18 event in Mexico, Xbox exec Phil Spencer outright said he plans to fix the store and make it a place where PC gamers want to actually buy and play games. "I think we've got a ton of work to do on Windows, and Windows is something I'm very committed to," Spencer said at the event. "I've heard the feedback about our Store. I'm going to take a bigger leadership role on what's going on with the Windows Store and make it really tailored to the gamers that we know want to see the best from what we have to offer. It's going to be a fun journey." It's true the Windows Store has made big changes and enabled fundamental PC gaming features--FreeSync/adaptive sync support, various options and tweaks to optimize specific hardware-intensive games, etc--but the platform still needs work. As more and more games come to Game Pass and support cross-platform play we should see Microsoft double down on PC gaming to ensure the other half of Xbox is a stable and potentially lucrative branch for continued engagement. While Microsoft makes far and away most of its money from non-gaming services, Xbox is still an important and long-running facet to its business, so it's important the segment is firing on all cylinders. Gaming is good business for Microsoft, too; it made $2.7 billion in Q1'19 from gaming, and according to analyst firm SuperData, the popular Game Pass subscription pulled in $40.95 million in three months. Since subscriptions like Game Pass spark full game sales it's also imperative Microsoft make the Windows Store a place where gamers actually want to spend money (and their time).
How to Understand the Dial Pattern in S-Series VoIP PBX It is necessary to have a better understanding of the dial pattern when we make an external call. It may easily cause hang up issue if we don’t configure it well. Below is the basic knowledge to know. Dial Patterns in the Outbound Route The default dial patterns is like this when you first configure the outbound routes. Patterns: It is a parameter which means the number you dial should match it. X means one digit (from 0 to 9) can be matched Z means any digit from 1-9 N means any digit from 2-9 .”: Means any character including digits, symbol and etc !”: With the analog phone it means restrict the digits. “223!” means you have to dial 223, 3 digit only. With IP phone, “223.” equals with “223!” you have to dial at least 4 digits and start with 223, for example 2234. Strip: defines how many digits you want to skip Prepend: something what you add it in front of your dialing number Note: If the pattern is “X.”, you have to dial at least 2 digits. Technically speaking, we generate a number to send out that consists of the digits you dialed on the phone to the carrier, and prepend number and strip how many digits from the head according to the dial patterns if you configured before sending out. Frankly, the original numbers you dialed from your IP phones will match the pattern first in the outbound route if it matches the final numbers will be sent to the carrier according to the patterns you configured. If it doesn’t, the call will try to match the second outbound route and go on. So sometimes it is different the original numbers you dial. I will explain you in the following examples. The working flow: Dial from Phone >> Dial Pattern Match process >> Prepend and Strip Process >> Number Sent out to Carrier. Example 1 The number you should dial should start with 8. And the length of the numbers doesn’t matter. You can dial out like 811, 83291, 89448384 as long as you start 8. Example 2 1. The number you dial should start with any digit from 1 to 9, so dial 0xxxx is not allowed. 2. The final number sent from PBX will skip the first two digit. 3. The length of number doesn’t matter. Dial 12345678 >> 12345678 >> 345678, the final number sent to the carrier is 345678 Example 3 1. The number you dial should start with any digit from 2 to 9, so 1xxxxx and 0xxxxx are not allowed 2. The number through PBX will skip the first two digit 3. 063 in prepend will be added before the number after stripping 4. The length of number doesn’t matter Dial 3456789 >> 3456789 >> 06356789, the final number sent to the carrier is 06356789 Example 4 1. The number the number you dial should start with any digit from 2 to 9 2. If the analog phone chosen in the the selected box, the length of the number is 4. If the SIP phone is chosen, “!” is same as “.” 2456, 4569, 6859, numbers like those can be sent successfully. Example 5 It is a combination of number group, there are 4 legal numbers in it, 198, 298, 398, 498. You may add more than one dial pattern in the outbound route Dial Pattern (DID Pattern) in the Inbound Route When a SIP call comes in, PBX will compare the called number with the DID number in the inbound route if it is filled. If it matches, it will comes in, if not it will go through the inbound list and check one by one. Caller ID pattern is used to define which caller ID is allowed to call in through this inbound route. The patterns in “DID Pattern” and “Caller ID Pattern” are same uesd with its in the outbound route. There is a common scenario which the client wants to call directly lead to particular destination. In the example, the DID pattern and the destination should be the serial numbers, the quantity should be the same. In this way, call 7788600 will go directly to 100, 7788601 go to 101 and etc. For more detailed information about DID: DID Instruction Have more questions? Submit a request Please sign in to leave a comment.
(3) For purposes of this subsection— (A) the “spouse” of an individual is a wife or husband of that individual who was married to that individual for at least one year immediately before the death of that individual; (B) a “child” includes a recognized natural child, a stepchild who lived with an individual in a regular parent-child relationship, and an adopted child; (C) a “parent” includes fathers and mothers through adoption; (D) a “grandchild” of an individual is a child of a child of that individual; and (E) a “grandparent” of an individual is a parent of a parent of that individual. 42 USC § 7384s(e)(3) Scoping language Is this correct? or
(2) In this subsection, the term “State” includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, territories and possessions of the United States, and Indian tribes. 10 USC § 7036(e)(2) Scoping language Is this correct? or
Tea & Empathy for Writers The Competitive Edge What is a “Faith-Based Book?” This question was posed to me from a Christian writer who used that expression when discussing a new book and got a rebuff from another writer. So I decided to do a little research and at first, everything I found supported the writer’s use of the definition. However, I couldn’t help but wonder why a book about the faiths of Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc. wasn’t referred to as a faith-based book. Loving research and feeling a little small about thinking faith-based could only refer to Christian (which I am) writing, I changed a few words around on my internet search and discovered a far different take on the adjective. The search proved the point that a writer has an endless job to research every (not very realistic) aspect of their genre, marketing campaign, etc. As with my pondering on the original question, I also wondered how far and wide and deep and high the research had to go and a writer has to spin without always ending in an argument with someone. The answer is probably infinity, also not feasible. Take a look at just a few of the sites I found and tell me what you think about the term “faith-based” that every Christian publisher I’ve found thus far uses to describe their books and publications I’m not sure defining a book, especially for children (adults too actually) as Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhism, Islamic, etc. is a good idea since the basic tenets of most known religions teeter on what I know as the Golden Rule, and to exclude others may deny the material to an audience that might gain valuable knowledge of others and their beliefs, which just might be a good idea in these times of mass global confusion. {I realize that is a Faulknerian length sentence.} Join Me for Daily Updates www.facebook.com/mahalaannechurch/editwriteteach I welcome your feedback and will not use your name if I post the info unless you give your okay. Thanks. One thought on “Tea & Empathy for Writers 1. Thank you, Mahala, for this valuable insight for Christian writers. Understanding comes from books, teachers, the internet, each other, and my favorite, God of the Bible. Comments are closed.
Search for missing Belfast DIY store employees called off A search operation to find someone actually serving customers at a local DIY super-store was abandoned today after all hope of finding anyone doing their job was lost. “I wasn’t sure what sorta strimmer line to get for my yoke” explained Belfast man, John Mower. “But I couldn’t find a single hure’ing member of staff anywhere to ask, so me some other customers formed a search party and then reported them missing to the police.” Fellow searcher, Lee-Ann Que, told us she scoured the store for twenty five minutes before giving up. “There just some doll on the tills serving big queue of anxious looking customers who weren’t quite sure if they got the right thing or not” The Ulster Fry visited the store to investigate the claims, and whilst we did occasionally see a store employee a few aisles away, they would quickly disappear around a corner when we approached. A source inside the store confirmed this was entirely deliberate. “Aye we’re playing a massive game of PacMan to pass the time!” he laughed. “Customers are the ghosts, and we avoid them by ducking in and out of different aisles when they come near us” “But instead of collecting ‘power-pills’ like PacMan, we win points by taking the prices off stuff on the shelves as we pass by, to annoy the absolute shite out of you lot” We contacted the store for an official comment on the matter but they couldn’t find their spokesman anywhere.
Big Echo Critical SF Postscript to Mauser by Natalia Theodoridou "There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons." Gilles Deleuze "I've never died before," he tries to communicate to me. "I have never died before, is it hard? Is it cold is it jagged is it like turning to stone?" It's like riding a wave of electrons, I want to tell this kid, but I can't, because I'm not allowed to talk to him. I'm set on mute and yet I want to tell him at full volume--cables screaming, neurons live with electricity--in Berlin, there's a Jewish museum that has spaces called memory voids. They're polygonal enclosures with high walls and cracks of light where all you can hear is the distant roar of a city seeping through concrete. That's what dying is like. I find myself eager to reassure him, when that's not my role. Friendship can be neither executioner nor revolutionary. Friendship is not what I am here to be, and yet I want to say: Dying is like abandoning one network of enclosures and restrictions for another. Don't worry, kid. You've done it many times before. Remember? First, you were with your family. "Love your father," we used to say back then. "Love your father like you're supposed to." Then, you were at school. "Forget your family. This is where you'll live now," we told you. "Get used to it." Then, the barracks. "School's out, boy," we said. "This is what must be done." And then we put you to work in the factory. When I first saw you there, I thought you were already a convict. (A person in the background feeds me the subtitles: "J'ai cru voir un prisonnier, oui, oui c'est vrai.") ‡ But this here is the real prison. In you I see a real convict now, in the real isolation of your skull. "Punished for what deviance?" you keep asking, but I'm not allowed to say. Am I a friend? A comrade? "At least tell me what it's going to be like," he pleads voicelessly behind unseeing eyes. His unspeaking mouth (does he even remember how to use it any more--do I?), his heaving, frantic chest. We're both cut off from the humanet until his last act, and mine, and everyone's. And I want to say to him: It's like a weight pushing down on your clavicles. (Our clavicles are little keys to the secrets of the universe.) Every user is going to experience your death today, boy. Broadcast across the global neurome, your death will translate you into a body, and your sudden bodiness will infect every sur-face, every spine, every breath. And if we cease to exist as machines, who knows what else we might be able to become? It's already starting--your hair cables, your veins filled with height that drowns us and saves us and everything in between. I can feel your trembling, and all I want to tell you is this: This play doesn't need you, boy, it only needs your death. "Should I be scared?" he asks me. And then, he whispers: "I am scared." I try to form the words with my actual mouth (this is still allowed, isn't it? Nobody forbade it, we just gave it up on our own): There is no need for fear or hope; only for new weapons, I quote, or at least I think I do. The words come out warped and crooked, like the whimpers of a philosophizing dog. He doesn't say anything else after that. † Deleuze, G. 1992. "Postscript on the Societies of Control." October 59: 3–7. ‡ Translation: "I thought I was seeing a prisoner, yes, yes it's true." Paraphrase from Roberto Rossellini's Europe '51 as quoted by Gilles Deleuze (1992: 3). this is a footer
Skip to main content New Sony patent reveals possible PS5 game-streaming service that will rival Stadia Accepted Sony patent reveals possible Stadia-rivalling game-streaming service Image credit: Sony Sony could well be working on a game streaming service for PS5. That's according to the latest rumour, based on a recently discovered patent. This could position PS5 as a streaming rival to Google Stadia, and massively broaden the capabilities of the console. It’s worth noting that although Sony already has a foot in the streaming door via PlayStation Now, a cloud gaming service set up in 2014, the fact that this new patent wasn’t filed until later that same year (April 21 2014, to be precise) would suggest it’s talking about something different. Perhaps this new idea is the next evolution of PlayStation Now? According to a now-accepted 79-page patent (well spotted, Digital Trends) Sony is beavering away on a "system for combining recorded application state with application streaming interactive video output". Which, in the simplest of terms translates as a streaming service, much like that outlined by Google recently: players stream a game through a hosting server, and often achieve better performance than is capable on their native hardware. So, you can simulate the performance of a high-end gaming PC, without actually owning a high-end gaming PC. This would entail, broadly speaking, connecting your device via an internet connection to a main host server, and streaming it to the device's screen - no matter how big or small said screen is. It sounds easy, convenient and attractive as it reduces the hardware burden consumers have, and it'll mean you can play what you want, whenever you want, as long you have that stable internet connection and a subscription to the service. Though there are some issues to iron out such as questions about latency and delay in streaming something so detailed from a single server, and the fact that many players still prefer to own hardware and software themselves - streaming might take away the need for ownership of both. Image credit: Sony/ United States Patent and Trademark Office Image credit: Sony/ United States Patent and Trademark Office The patent does shed some light on how we would actually use and access this service: with subscription fees. Not an enormous surprise, but the two models outlined in the patent see the fee either going to Sony directly (who then pay the developers/publishers), or the fee going straight to the developers/publishers who then pay Sony for the pleasure of using the service. Nothing concrete on either of these as of yet, but in real terms for the end user, its the same method. Could it launch alongside the PS5 as an alternative, purely cloud-based PlayStation experience? No news on that yet, but it might provide an attractive proposition, though we're keen to see questions answered on such game streaming services before advocating diving in. Streaming is popular right now, and the prevalence of the likes of Netflix suggest it's here to stay, but until now all we've seen of PS5 suggests it's a home console first and foremost, so this patent could suggest a dual-launch for PS5, with one standard console and perhaps a cheaper, all digital streaming console (like the new Xbox One S All-digital). And some PS5 VR news... Anything else? Why yes, actually. Elsewhere, in a separate but clearly linked patent that was published recently (props to UploadVR for catching this one), there seems to also be a hint toward PSVR 2. On the face of it, the sentence "prescription glasses with eye gaze tracking and electro optical signaling to a HMD" doesn't scream breaking news (and could even hints at an unlikely move into the optician business), but it could be a big hint to the next-gen of Sony's own VR gear. HMD stands for Head for Mounted Device, so this isn't just a pair of glasses: these would be custom-designed for each user and given the mixed experience wearers of glasses have had with VR headsets this looks like a concerted effort to make a VR headset much more comfortable for that audience and intentionally designed, perhaps for inclusion with PSVR 2. Want more? Here's our look at - based on what we know - what the PS5 price might be when it launches.
Brighton tenants win victory for Enhanced Voucher tenants across the US! In March 2017, ten families at Waverly Apartments in Brighton received letters under their doors notifying them that they were being evicted from their apartments. The letters explained that their landlord had requested a rent increase from the Boston Housing Authority, and that the BHA had deemed the rent increase to be unreasonable. As a result, their Enhanced Vouchers could no longer be used in the development, and tenants would be forced out by the end of June. MAHT had worked with tenants in Waverly in the 90s to secure Enhanced Vouchers, and now some of those same tenants called the MAHT office, ready to fight the eviction. MAHT wrote the BHA, citing a federal regulation requiring the BHA to approve the owner’s request in buildings like Waverly, as long as the owner’s request does not exceed rents already paid by market rate tenants in the building. The BHA quickly agreed with MAHT’s analysis. On April 28, 2017, representatives from the BHA joined MAHT at Waverly Apartments to tell the 10 families that the BHA would approve the owner’s subsidy request. Tenants would not be evicted after all, and could stay in their homes! The precedent established by the Waverly tenants is a significant victory for Enhanced Voucher tenants nationwide, and may prevent thousands of tenants in similar circumstances from facing eviction and losing their homes Be the first to comment get updates
Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private When we launched ProtonMail nearly five years ago, we pioneered a new kind of email service: one that gives you control of our own data. All emails are end-to-end encrypted and zero-access encrypted, meaning not even we can read them. We also offer the ability to set expiring emails, which self-destruct after a period of time chosen by the sender. Several years later, Google tried to integrate some of these same features into Gmail with “confidential mode.” Even though Google launched confidential mode over a year ago, people are still confused about what it does. Is it actually secure or private? Is it encrypted? When you turn it on, does it prevent Google from reading your messages? The answer to these questions is ‘no.’ In fact, the decision to call it “confidential” suggests a level of security and privacy that doesn’t exist in Gmail confidential mode. Gmail’s confidential mode does not mean your messages are end-to-end encrypted. Google can still read them. Expiring messages aren’t erased for good, and the recipient can always take a screenshot of your message. Let’s take a closer look at how confidential mode works and why it isn’t so confidential after all. What does Gmail’s confidential mode do? Gmail unveiled confidential mode in April 2018 with its last major inbox redesign. The feature lets users optionally activate confidential mode from within the composer. When you turn on confidential mode, a panel appears which gives you two options. The first lets you choose when you want the email to expire so that the recipient can no longer read it (you can also revoke access to sent mail at any time). A second option allows you to require the recipient to enter a passcode to access the message. Google generates the passcode and sends it to the recipient’s phone via SMS, so you need to know your recipient’s phone number. Additionally, emails sent in confidential mode cannot be forwarded, copied, downloaded, or printed. The problems with confidential mode Gmail’s confidential mode does not make emails private because Google can always read them. When you send an email with confidential mode turned on, Google keeps the email contents on its servers. Other Gmail users can read the email in their inbox, but outside users only receive an email notifying them that a sender “has sent you an email via Gmail confidential mode” along with a link to a page on (This is similar to ProtonMail’s encrypt to outside feature.) Once the email expires, it is no longer accessible to the recipient. But the message remains in the sender’s sent folder, which Google can also read. This is not an expiring email. It can still be accessed by Google and potentially exposed to governments or hackers. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out, “Because messages sent with Confidential Mode are still retrievable—by the sender and by Google—after the ‘expiration date,’ we think that calling them expired is misleading.” The passcode option is a further privacy invasion. If you choose to set a passcode for your recipient, you must turn over their private phone number to Google. If you are sending a message to a Gmail user, Google likely already knows their phone number from reading their emails or from other Google products. But if you send a passcode-protected email to a non-Google user, you have just allowed the company to link that individual’s phone number to their email address as well as whatever sensitive information is in your message. This is an effective way for Google to gather information about people, who likely have refused to use their service to avoid just such data collection. It also means Google knows quite a bit about your supposedly confidential email. The other supposed security benefit of confidential mode is the inability of the recipient to forward, copy, download, or print the email. “This helps reduce the risk of confidential information being accidentally shared with the wrong people,” Google says. While it’s true this may reduce the risk of accidental data exposure, it is not real security. The recipient can simply take a screenshot of the email. “I was able to easily make a screenshot and paste it into a new email and send it to a friend,” wrote one reviewer for Inc. “It takes about 10 seconds. Anyone who uses MS Paint can figure it out.” How ProtonMail is different from Gmail confidential mode When you send an email from your ProtonMail email address to another ProtonMail user, the message is encrypted on your device using the public key of your recipient. This happens automatically, every time. When you hit send, the email travels to your recipient in encrypted form. The recipient then decrypts the message with their corresponding private key. Because we do not have access to the recipient’s private key, we are never able to read the message. We do have access to metadata, like the email addresses, timestamp, and subject line. (It’s a bit like locking a vault with your friend’s key and then mailing it to them. You can read a full explanation of how end-to-end encryption works) ProtonMail also lets you send end-to-end encrypted emails to non-ProtonMail accounts (such as your friends and family on Gmail, to prevent Google from reading your messages to them). Similar to Gmail confidential mode, this works by using a passcode as well. The difference is that with ProtonMail, you can choose the password yourself and communicate it to your recipient however you’d like. Moreover, the message is end-to-end encrypted, and we cannot read it. Finally, ProtonMail also offers the ability to send expiring emails, except in our case, the emails really do disappear after the expiration time. This works both for emails sent to other ProtonMail users and to non-ProtonMail addresses (provided you set a password for the latter). Of course, it is possible to forward, copy, download, and print ProtonMail emails. But again, this is also possible in Gmail confidential mode just by taking a screenshot. To advertise this benefit as a “security feature” misleads users into a false sense of security. Without end-to-end encryption, Gmail’s confidential mode is little more than a marketing trick designed to pacify users concerned about privacy. Fortunately, you don’t need to settle for fake privacy. You can join the more than 10 million people using ProtonMail to secure their communications. Best Regards, The ProtonMail Team You can get a free secure email account from ProtonMail here. We also provide a free VPN service to protect your privacy. The post Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private appeared first on ProtonMail Blog. *** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from ProtonMail Blog authored by Ben Wolford. Read the original post at:
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