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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16191 | Movie Fest!!
We actually watched Rocky Balboa and Parzania back-to-back. Rocky Balboa from 3-5 and Parzania from 5-7. Shailesh had this idea during the movie session today that we should watch at least four movies back-to-back someday at the theatre. Considering that a ticket costs 150 bucks this gonna be one heck of an expensive idea, but lots of fun none the less.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16256 | Website Privacy Policy
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16267 | The State Of Nature As A Free And Equal System
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The state of nature is very differential to that of feudalism which was taking place during Hobbes’s time period; this is evident in social relationships and the characteristics of human beings in each state. In feudal society the notion of equality was not present and was class based, meaning there was a social hierarchy (Weinstein, 2015) , this is rather different to Hobbes who described the state of nature as a complete free and equal system. In feudal society there is a mutual cooperation and obligation in the system making it a direct social relationship among individuals which portrays the system more like a community (Weinstein, 2015) rather than separate, isolated individuals that are present in the state of nature. In feudalism the economic problem is solved through the production of agricultural goods which is done by the labour of the surfs. The idea of accumulation of wealth is not significant since the system operates through a direct social relationship and so due to this the payment the surfs get for their labour is payment in kind. Meaning the surfs exchange their labour for order, security, and peace that the system grants them (Weinstein, 2015). In the state of nature there is no form of “payment” or “system”, every individual in the state of nature is self-preserved and only fights for its own well-being making this individual not obligated to anything or anyone. During feudalism the government was based on divine rights, in other words it was God who
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16288 | Courier Mail Server 3.09
Courier Mail Server is an email server for office and home networks. Compact, easy to configure and usage, contains Web and SOCKS servers. It will help you to quickly arrange email exchange in local network and Internet. Major Features: - SMTP and POP3 services - web server supporting PHP and Perl (HTTP service) - proxy server (SOCKS service) - support for protected connections (SSL/TLS) - remote administration - support of multiple mail domains - processing and antispam filtering the mail by specified rules - interaction with the console antiviruses - limited sizes of local mailboxes - user and domain aliases - alias-based mailing lists - domain mailboxes and domain forwarding - mailing to fixed servers (smart hosts) - direct mailing to recipients' servers (MX delivery) - restricted forwarding of external mail (antirelay) - limited size of sent messages and number of recipients - automatic re-sending of outgoing mail - notifications of undelivered messages, viruses and other events - customizable notification templates with support of macros - separation of access rights on client IP addresses - limited number of incoming/outgoing connections - mail collector from remote mailboxes (POP3, IMAP) - dispatchers of connections, outgoing messages, remote messages - scheduler with external application run feature - copying of certain messages to the specified addresses - mail processing using external applications No time limits. No paid subscriptions and renewals. You pay once and get an 'eternal' key (license) and free software updates as part of the current version line (3.xx). Demo version is free fully functional version for three users. It has no limitations of working period.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16298 | The Property
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16362 | Cannabis Derived Terpenes
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Cannabis derived terpenes , there are at least 20,000 different terpenes in existence and the cannabis plant has more than 100 of these terpenes. There are other places in nature that produce terpenes. However, there are a couple of terpenes that are in high concentrations in cannabis plants. Here are the ones to know.
What are terpenes?
But wait. You thought that cannabinoids were the compounds in the cannabis plant that caused healing, right? Yes, but terpenes play a big role in that as well. In fact, cannabinoids and terpenes work together in something called the entourage effect.
The entourage effect happens when cannabinoids such as THC and CBD, hundreds of other compounds, and terpenes work together. It’s the whole plant that does the best job, not just a single compound. While relief does come from using a CBD oil or a THC oil, whole plant therapy has been the most common use. Utilizing all the compounds and terpenes in the plant may just be the best way after all.
Terpenes can intensify or downplay the effects of the cannabinoids. Have you ever noticed how two similar strains can produce profoundly different effects? One may leave you with couch lock and the other may energize you? The aspect of the entourage effect driven by both cannabinoids and terpenes.
Other Terpene Sources and How They Compare to Cannabis
Terpenes are the primary components of essential oils — aromatics responsible for a plant’s regeneration, oxygenation, and immunity defense. Essential oils have been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years, and extracted from a variety of plants and foods.
There’s no recognizable difference, for example, between isolated caryophyllene from hops or from cannabis. However, there’s difference between the other compounds at play in cannabis compared with other plants. Further research needed to know exactly how the remedial effects of cannabis terpenes compare with terpenes from other sources. What we have discovered is that cannabis terpenes support other cannabis molecules in producing desired effects.
Where Are Terpenes Found on the Cannabis Plant?
You’ve probably noticed the tiny glandular hairs that cover the surface cannabis plant, giving it a crystal-like sheen and sticky feel. They call them trichomes, and they’re responsible for terpene production in cannabis. Trichomes contain resin glands that make terpenes and cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), which turn into tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), respectively, when decarboxylated. In other words, almost everything a user wants from cannabis, including terpenes, are found in trichomes all over the plant’s surface.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16378 | 5 Reasons You Should Play (or Not Play) ‘Unravel’
Video games have a problem with boring heroes. The games that top the charts tend to star battle-hardened soldiers who carry guns and wear standard issue armor. They’re almost always white men, and they’re usually humorless. In other words, we need more heroes like Yarny.
Small, unassuming Yarny is the main character of Unravel, a game that sends this stringy hero out into a world filled with peril. Unlike many games, Unravel takes place in the real world. But because Yarny is so small and fragile, a puddle spells death and a tall rock becomes an obstacle you’ll have to work to overcome.
The game is obviously interesting, but is it worth playing?
1. The presentation is incredible
Unravel is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played. The natural environments like beaches and forests almost look photorealistic, thanks to the phenomenal lighting effects, depth of field, and high-quality textures. When mosquitos begin buzzing around you in a level that takes place in a marsh, don’t be surprised if your skin starts itching.
The audio side of the game is no slouch, either. The music, composed mostly of strings and light percussion, is minimal and unassuming. Sound effects like a bubbling brook and creaking wood are crystal clear, setting the mood for a low-key gaming experience.
2. Effective environmental storytelling
The game doesn’t have words, but you’ll piece together themes and a vague story as you play. The game starts in the house of an old woman, whose framed photos act as portals to each level in the game. As you traverse the world of each photo, you get the sense that you’re reliving the memory of the day the photo was taken. Spectral versions of the people in the photos appear at some point in each level, only to blow away like dust as you pass by. The meaning of it all may be elastic, but it’s a poignant way to tell a story.
3. Yarny is great
Yarny is cute as hell. He’s also a capable outdoorsman, thanks to the string you’re constantly trailing. You can tie knots at certain points in the environment to pull levers or swing from hooks. You can set up a taut line of string that acts as a springboard, sending you soaring through the air. And if you fall down a pit, you can use the string to pull yourself back up.
4. The controls can be finicky
Despite all of those things you can do, it’s occasionally difficult to pull them off. Tying and untying knots doesn’t always work on your first try. Setting up complex webs of string in the environment often takes a good deal of time and hassle to do. Swinging from hook to hook can feel like a crapshoot when the yarn you toss doesn’t always hit its mark. This can lead to frustration, especially when the levels require pinpoint precision.
5. The puzzles can be annoying
Yarny may look like the mascot of a game made for kids, but make no mistake: Unravel is tough.
The challenge comes from the environmental puzzles, many of which I found more frustrating than fun to solve. That could be due to my shortcomings as a puzzle solver, but all too often I’d find myself stumped for 15 or 20 minutes while looking at the same screen, wondering if I was wasting my time with the game.
Here’s what I mean. You’ll often find your path blocked by an obstacle like a pool of water that will kill you if you fall in. If you climb a nearby tree, a branch breaks off. The branch floats on the water, but there’s no obvious way to convey yourself across the pool on the branch. So I would set up a series of knots wherever I could and try to pull my way across, which often wouldn’t work. Eventually, after a becoming more and more frustrated, I’d backtrack and find some key thing I’d missed when I passed it way back when.
The real issue is that the game has no hint system, so when you’re stuck, you’re stuck. Walkthroughs on YouTube may help ease these frustrations for players willing to seek them out, but it would be nice if the game offered a little nudge to players who were obviously stuck.
Still, it’s worth it
In the end, I was glad I played Unravel. It might not have lived up to my high expectations, but it does plenty of things right. If you’re looking to play something that doesn’t star a boring old soldier, give it a try.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16384 | AEP Texas Central
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American Electric Power, often referred to as AEP, is a major U.S. electric utility based in Columbus, OH, that operates in 11 states. In Texas, the company operates as AEP Texas with two units – AEP Texas North (formerly West Texas Utilities), which operates in west Texas, and AEP Texas Central (formerly Central Power and Light), which operates in central and south Texas. AEP Texas Central joined AEP in 1997.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16401 | Think “Outside the Box”
How many times have you seen the familiar C&L logo advertising our company when driving around northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan? (C&L Sanitation has been in business for over 30 years, so the answer to that question is probably “Lots!”) The logo is on our restroom units and on our trucks.
Getting Ready for a Busy 2019
Don’t let the dreary days of early 2019 fool you! Spring is just around the corner, and here at C&L Sanitation, we are gearing up for another busy year of supplying our customers with portable toilets, restroom trailers, portable sinks, and portable showers. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16403 | Tech Talk with David Pogue
No ‘System,’ but Music Housewide
“Multiroom sound system? There’s an app for that.”
That’s not Sonos’s slogan for its new ZonePlayer S5 wireless speaker consoles, but it could be. Now, in addition to tracking your weight, calculating recipes and identifying bird calls, your iPhone or iPod Touch can serve as a touch-screen remote control for the music playing in different rooms of your home.
It’s a pretty giddy feeling. You stroll magisterially through your dwelling, browsing your music collection on your phone. You can start playing some Broadway in the bedroom, Latin in the living room and rock in the rec room. All with a few taps on the screen of your iPod/iPhone.
You can adjust the volume all at once or room by room. If you like, you can sync everything up so that the same music is playing in every room.
In short, you can pretend to be a well-wired rich person — without having had to pay $10,000 for somebody to install a “system.”
Sonos ZonePlayer S5
This, of course, has always been the Sonos specialty: multiroom stereo system components that communicate wirelessly, operate effortlessly and require very little technical ability.
In the past, though, Sonos provided only electronic receiver boxes ($350 apiece); you had to supply your own powered speakers to plug into them. You still undercut the price of a professional sound system, but for a wireless system, you wound up with a lot of wires.
The S5 ($400 per unit) is different; it has both the wireless receiver and the speakers built into a single box. Five speakers, actually: two tweeters, two midrange speakers and a woofer for bass, all built into a 14 x 8 x 4-inch white cabinet that looks a lot like one of those white Bose speaker docks for the iPod.
This time, though, there’s no socket for the iPod. Instead, like the speakerless Sonos boxes before it, the S5 speaker is designed to play the music collection you keep on your Mac or PC.
But already, this system, famous for its simplicity, is starting to sound complicated. And it’s true that there are a bunch of different pieces to it:
1. Some music to play. For most people, this means a collection of music files. It might be your iTunes collection on a Mac or PC, or even a bunch of MP3 files sitting in folders.
(If you have some of the older, copy-protected iTunes songs in your stash, they won’t play. When Apple eliminated copy protection from the iTunes Store, I’ll bet nobody whooped louder than the Sonos gang.)
So what happens if the computer is turned off or, worse, gone (because it’s a laptop and you took it with you — hey, it could happen)? In that case, nobody else at home can play any music until you return. It’s nice to be missed, of course, but not after you’ve just spent $400 on a music system.
In those situations, you can copy your music collection to a network-attached hard drive (or Apple Time Capsule) either attached to the S5 or somewhere on the network.
There’s also an audio input on the back of each S5 speaker (and a headphone jack). That’s so you can connect an iPod, CD player or some other directly connected audio source.
2. A home wireless network, complete with a router. Presumably you already have this part.
3. An S5 speaker unit, or more than one.
You’re supposed to plug the first S5 directly into your router. Additional S5s don’t have to be connected to anything but a power outlet; that’s the beauty of Sonos’s “mesh network.” Each S5 repeats the wireless signal from the first one, rebroadcasting the music up to 100 feet at a time.
Ah, but what if the router is someplace awkward — like a utility closet, where you presumably don’t listen to music very often?
In that case, you’ll have to spend another $100 for something called a ZoneBridge. It’s a little white box that connects to your router, wherever it is, and sends its signal to the S5s, wherever they are.
4. Playback software. The only buttons on the S5 speaker console itself are volume and mute. So you need a way to start and stop the music, choose which music you want (by song, band, genre, playlist or whatever) and so on.
For this, you have three options. First, you can download Sonos’s free iPhone or iPod Touch app, which is beautifully designed and wicked fun to use. (My only criticism: Too many confirmations. If I tap the Pause button, I don’t need the software to ask, “Do you really want to Pause?”)
Second, you can use the free Desktop Controller software on your Mac or Windows machine.
Third, you can buy Sonos’s hand-held, touch-screen remote for $350. (Hint: If you buy an iPod Touch instead, you’ll save $130 and have a lot more fun after hours.)
All three of these playback tools can operate both S5s as well as Sonos’s earlier wireless music boxes.
Sonos sent me two S5s and a bridge for testing. My router isn’t where I wanted the music, so I connected the bridge thing to my router, and parked the S5 speakers in two different rooms.
To get started, the instruction card says to open the Controller software on the Mac or PC, and then, while it’s “listening,” press the volume and mute keys together on the S5. That’s how you introduce the first S5 to the computer.
It didn’t work. The computer didn’t find the S5.
I called the help line. A friendly technician told me to introduce the computer to the bridge first, and then the S5’s. That worked, but why on earth wasn’t it in the instructions to begin with?
But never mind; I was flying. I was a multiroom maestro, starting and stopping music in two distant rooms, all from the privacy of my breakfast nook.
Better yet, two taps let you tap into the Sonos’s menu of 25,000 podcasts and Internet radio stations (including and ). Christmas music, anyone? Kiddy tunes? Neo-grunge? It’s all there.
The Sonos can also play Internet music from paid services like Rhapsody, Napster and Sirius.
So no, the Sonos S5 may not be just what the doctor ordered for everyone, especially in recessionary times. But $400 is a reasonable price for the S5’s size, sound, portability, control, refinement and pure pleasure.
And yes, now there’s an app for that.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16411 | Pantone evaluation of created profiles
Hi there,
does anyone know if there is a software which i can load my icc into and run a test against known values such as pantone references?
onyx has a facilty for this and gives Delta-e results, but i would like a stand alone version.
many thanks.
Can you be more specific in what you want to do? I’m assuming the pantone references you mention are Lab values. Are you wanting to convert from Lab to a destination space (RGB or CMYK) then back to Lab and compare delta values? ColorThink Pro can do that.
thanks for the reply.
yes the pantone references are lab values…
the way that the onyx one works is you right click the profile and i think if i remeber right its a gamut report on the icc.
this then lists the pantone colours and the delta-e that the coresponding profile edition would be.
it then breaks down the results for example and says that x% of pntone values are below delta-e >2 x% delta-e>5 x% delta-e>10.
hopefully this makes sense/
ColorThink will report deltas for each color individually, and of course graph a list, but won’t specifically report percentage at or below a given delta value (though you can get a decent visual at delta levels you define by sliders, or could export the deltas to Excel and crunch this). I’m not familiar with what other apps will report percentage this way…other than now Onyx. :wink:
could you give me an idea how to do this in colorthink? i am not familiar with the software.
Here is how you would do this in ColorThink Pro:
• Open the worksheet and drag your Pantone color list onto it (or drag your Pantone color list into ColorThink and the worksheet will open automatically.)
• Drag your printer profile onto the color list (This applies the transform to the colorlist.)
• Drag your color list again onto the color list (This provides the reference to compare to.)
• And click the dE button (To turn on deltaE)
Most of these options can be adjusted or changed, but by default you are viewing a comparison of your Lab Pantone list with the same colors as they will end up going through your printer (rel col and deltaE 2000).
The yellow-orange-red slider can be changed to present a different color for whatever you want your limits to be. For example if you want red to show up with dE’s larger than 6, you would move the slider to 6.
Any of these color lists on the worksheet can be exported as text files, so you can run them through Excel or a text editor.
You can also send them to the 3D grapher along with your profile, highlight individual colors to see where they lie in the color space… Oh brother, don’t get me started… |
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Are Your “Core Systems” and “Key Processes” a Joke?
We had to laugh out loud at the June 3rd “Dilbert” comic strip. As usual, Scott Adams put his finger on how often strategic management processes like “core systems”– that sound so good in the board room–can misfire and become punchlines around the water cooler.
Are you actually encouraging your employees and colleagues to act randomly because no one in your organization knows the answer to Wally’s question either. Are the terms Core Systems and Key Processes just more examples of baffling management-speak that fail to connect to what people actually DO at work?
If that’s the case—as we see so regularly in all types of organizations—then your company’s most sincere efforts at improving organizational performance and standardizing operations may be just plain confusing and counter-productive.
It doesn’t matter what words you use to describe your systems. The real key to successfully standardizing operations is making sure everyone in your organization understands what is important and why, who does what, and how to correctly complete their daily tasks.
That’s why the COMPROSE Operations Mapping approach is so different from other approaches. Operations Mapping integrates all levels of operations including detailed tasks. It starts with envisioning the goal and then breaks high-level processes into detailed tasks that roll back up to the top. Business goals are LINKED to the processes, policies, people, and detailed tasks needed to achieve them. Piecemeal approaches only address part of the puzzle.
So if you don’t want your organization to end up looking like a Dilbert comic strip, take a closer look at a more effective approach.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16480 | Honey & honey syrup
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Honey syrup
Mixing honey with water to make honey syrup (AKA honey water) makes it easy to pour, measure and integrate with other cocktail ingredients. This shouldn't be confused with honey sugar syrup which is either honey bulked up with sugar or just honey flavoured sugar syrup with little or no actual honey.
Properly stored natural honey will last years without any loss of flavour. Indeed, it can last for hundreds of years and remain entirely stable [see storing honey]. This impressive natural preservative-free shelf life is due to honey containing so little moisture that there is almost no free water for microbes and moulds to live on. Honey also has a low pH so is too acidic for most microbes. However, diluting with water upsets honey's natural sugar/water balance.
Honey sold in the UK must be a maximum of 20% water, and ideally it should be just 18% water. This is the natural level produced by bees when they concentrate flower nectars, which can be as much as 70% water, into honey as a winter food store for the colony. Honey with a water content of less than 20% is so concentrated that yeasts and bacteria are prevented from growing. Due to honey being hygroscopic, meaning it will absorb water from the air, there is no safe amount of water to add and even a small percentage of additional water may be enough to allow yeast and other microbes to grow and fermentation to start. [See fermenting honey].
Due to the above, you should only mix enough syrup to last a few days and ideally, you should store your syrup in a refrigerator.
Honey naturally consists
80% natural sugars (of which circa 70% is glucose and fructose)
18% water
2% pollen, minerals, vitamins and protein
How to make honey syrup
Raw honey sourced directly from a local beekeeper is preferable but, whatever your quality of honey, it's important not to 'cook' the honey whilst making syrup. Artisan honey producers are careful not to heat their honey to above the natural hive temperature, as above 36°C / 97°F honey starts to breakdown and lose delicate flavours. Sadly, this is not the case with supermarket 'honey' from large scale producers who heat their honey to pasteurise it and make easier to blend. These industrial honeys are less likely to ferment due to their natural yeasts being killed during pasteurisation. However, even these sterilised honeys will be susceptible to microbes in your kitchen or bar environment once water is added.
Given all the above, it's fair to assume that your honey, whether artisanal raw honey or supermarket 'honey', contains 18% to 20% water. Opinions on the proportion of water that should be added to this vary from 1:1 honey to water, to 2:1 and 3:1. We prefer and recommend 3 parts honey to 1 part water as this achieves the desired fluidity while retaining mouthfeel and viscosity.
I use raw honey from a local beekeeper, and I mix this in a honey pourer which then makes a convenient and elegant dispenser for my honey syrup. I only make small batches of syrup that I'll use within a few days, either in cocktails or on my breakfast cereal. I also recommend balancing the bitter tannins in a mug of black tea with honey syrup.
How to mix
To make a small quantity, I place the empty syrup pourer onto a set of scales and zero the scales. Then I pour in my desired amount of honey followed by 1/3 as much again (by weight) of water. If your honey is already warm and 'runny' and you use hot water then you probably won't need to heat further, just agitate the pourer to encourage the two liquids to combine. Otherwise, apply gentle warmth by placing the pourer in a water bath and remember to keep this below 36°C / 97°F. Allow to cool and then refrigerate.
To make larger quantities, use a glass bowl in a pan of water over a hob or sous vide cooker with 3 parts honey to 1 part water and gently warm and stir to combine. Aim for 36°C/97°F max and be sure to keep below 40°C/104°F or you risk destroying desirable qualities in your honey.
Flavoured honey syrups
You can flavour honey syrup but infusing the honey with herbs, spices, citrus peel or other botanicals during the heating stage and then either strain out immediately or leave to infuse for a prolonged period before straining.
Due to the popularity of the Penicillin Cocktail, ginger honey syrup is by far the most popular flavoured honey syrup in bars, particularly in the USA and the UK.
To make honey & ginger syrup
1. Peel and thinly slice 100 grams (3.5oz) of root ginger and place in a saucepan with 350ml (8.5oz) water.
2. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
3. Allow to cool and place in a sealed container and leave to steep in a refrigerator for 12 hours.
4. Strain, to remove ginger pieces from the flavoured water, and place in a glass bowl in a pan of water over a hob or sous vide cooker with 340 grams (12oz) honey and gently warm and stir to combine honey and flavoured water.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16486 | • Fri. Dec 4th, 2020
Remains of Jurassic sea predator found in Chile’s Atacama desert
Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the world’s driest desert in Chile.
Pliosaurs were reptiles from about 160 million years ago with a more powerful bite than Tyrannosaurus rex, according to University of Chile researchers. The fossils are the second oldest record of this species in the Southern Hemisphere.
Chile’s vast Atacama desert, once largely submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, is now a moonscape of sand and stone with parts untouched by rain for years. Pliosaurs reined the region, with their large skull, elongated face, short neck, menacing teeth on a hydrodynamic body and fin-like limbs.
Scientists found jaw, tooth and limb fragments of the creatures “ecologically similar” to killer whales at two sites in the Loa river basin near the mining city of Calama.
The find helps scientists fill gaps in evolution, said Rodrigo Otero, a University of Chile paleontologist who led the research.
The complete fossil, under excavation since 2017, is likely to measure six to seven meters (19.7 to 23 feet). The skull is around a meter (3.3 feet) long, with teeth each around eight to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches) long, Otero said.
The study was published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences in early September.
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FOR the first time since the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) started making decade-by-decade surveys of the world's forests, it says it has evidence that efforts to slow the world's rate of deforestation are working. The total area of forest on the planet is about 4 billion hectares (10 billion acres). In the “key findings” of its Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (the full report is not out for a few months) the FAO estimates that, during each of the past ten years, an average of roughly 13m hectares of forest (an area twice the size of Latvia) were either converted to other uses or lost through natural causes such as drought and fire. In the 1990s the figure was 16m hectares.
Reduced rates of deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia form a large part of the story, but the reduction was more broadly based. It was seen on all continents apart from Oceania and forest-free Antarctica—and the increased loss of forest in Oceania was caused largely by drought and fire, rather than by extra logging.
In net terms, moreover, the story is even better. Taking newly planted trees into account, the average annual shrinkage of forest cover during the past decade was 5.2m hectares, down from 8.3m hectares in the 1990s.
Should poplars be popular?
These findings, though encouraging, fall short of cause for unfettered joy. New forests have some advantages over old ones. They can be planted with the trees well suited to the market, and in convenient places. In terms of biodiversity, though, and often of carbon storage as well, they are at best inferior replacements. And they are not always at their best.
Take the case of China. On the face of it, things are good. The country has planted trees in vast numbers. Indeed, it claims to have invested $70 billion in such efforts. At the Copenhagen climate conference last year Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, boasted of the 20m hectares planted from 2003 to 2008 and officials talk of increasing the rate of afforestation from 4m hectares a year to 5m in the coming decade. At that rate China could add 10% to the world's total area of planted forest—which the FAO puts at 264m hectares, about 7% of the total forested area—in just five years. And China has also, for the past decade, been implementing a Natural Forests Protection Programme (NFPP) to look after older woodland by such actions as stopping logging.
Scratch below the surface, though, and things are not quite what they seem. According to Andreas Wilkes, who covers China for the World Agroforestry Centre, an international institute based in Nairobi, it is the NFPP, rather than the new plantations, that is most responsible for the largest share of the increase the volume of wood in China's forests. That is partly because the new planted forests are still young. But it is also, according to Timm Tennigkeit of Unique, a German consultancy that works on forestry, because they are often badly managed, and the species being planted do not necessarily match the places—often in Inner Mongolia and northwest China—where they end up. That the snow and ice storms of early 2008 were able to damage 18.6m hectares of forest may speak to the poor resilience of these woods. Critics have talked of endless monocultures of fast growing poplars as “green deserts” growing at the expense of more diverse ecosystems.
None of this means that the expansion of Chinese forestry is for naught. Both Mr Wilkes and Mr Tennigkeit see ways in which, with better management and different patterns of investment, the country's forests could be improved further. It merely serves to point out that raw numbers are not everything.
And even the raw numbers are not above reproach. The FAO works by aggregating reports from national governments and other bodies, and these reports may not all be strictly comparable with each other—or, for that matter, terribly accurate. A sense of the issues at stake here is provided by the fact that the change which has led the FAO to conclude that deforestation is slowing is a change to the figures for the 1990s. The figures reported at the time, it is now thought, were too optimistic. They have been revised upwards to 16m hectares a year, which is why this decade's numbers are seen as a decrease.
As in other areas, such as greenhouse-gas measurement, it would be nice if there were top-down as well as bottom-up data that would allow comparison, and give a more reliable picture. At the moment, though, there is no regularly updated set of satellite data that can be employed to assess changes in forest cover accurately, though satellite data are used to cross check ground-based data. In the long list of aspects of the Earth that need better monitoring, doing something about that should be pretty near the top.
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Follow links to detail pages of each of the visible results on this page.
From the detail pages the following fields need to be scraped to a single JSON object:
- Full URL of page
- Get (only!) the euro value from h2 element
- [login to view URL] (CSS selector)
- [login to view URL] (CSS selector)
- Full object description text
- Status
- Construction type
- All URLs of the available photos (in "All photos" section)
- From the "Features" section get the "Deposit" field value:
The "Deposit" column might not exist or be located further down on the page.
So, your code should check for the occurrence and position of field "Deposit" and scrape the corresponding value, e.g. "available", "" (non-existing), "rented"
All JSON objects need to be collected in a single array that is then stored as a single file "[login to view URL]" on disk.
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- Results are loaded dynamically so you cannot simply get the raw HTML, JavaScript needs to be executed (view the page in the browser to see that the displayed results are different from what is available in the HTML source.
- The search result page loads more results on page scroll, so those results too have to be taken into account when scraping, so Lua custom script needs to be executed
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16624 | Creative People Riff Off An "Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away" With Other Fruits and Veggies
Apples didn't work out so well for Adam and Eve or Snow White, but the saying goes that an apple a day is good for you. Of course it's only supposed to keep away doctors, not snakes or evil stepmothers.
Reddit user SpacedJ asked "If garlic keeps vampires away, and apples keep doctors away, what do other fruits and vegetables keep away?"
Here are the suggestions.
Apple keeps PC gamers away.
Dipped in Olive Oyl?
Spinach keeps Bluto away.
Avocados (on toast) keep the baby boomers away.
Or will keep millennials away from owning real estate.
Holes in the Story
Onions keep Yellow Spotted Lizards away.
To the Yard
Milkshakes bring boys. So not that.
Too Soon
Potatoes don't keep anyone away, everyone loves potatoes.
Maybe they keep hatred away.
A LACK of potatoes keeps the Irish away.
Poor Kitty
Cucumbers keep the cats away.
Did Someone Lose a Bet?
Durian fruit keeps away everyone.
Pizza Isn't Hawaiian or Italian
Pineapple is a well known Italian repellent.
I recently brought hard boiled eggs to work and my coworker (older than me by 40 years) got super confused and freaked out because my eggs were brown. He had never, in 65 years, seen a brown chicken egg. "Aren't eggs supposed to be white?" He kept asking. I explained that chicken eggs can come in all kinds of colors and I swear I blew his mind. He then went into a tirade, demanding to know why the brown eggs "cost more." He literally didn't know they existed a moment before, but just assumed they cost more than white eggs. He got so upset he left and didn't come back to the water cooler for the rest of the day.
So, brown eggs keep the confused baby boomer away, I guess.
White is Just Bleached Wheat
Worked in Subway. During very busy days, (especially) towards the evening, we have run out of white bread. Apparently plain brown bread is enough to scare away 95% of customers.
Lob It
Any type of fruit can keep anyone away, as long you throw it hard enough.
Ghost pepper sauce in a spray can keeps lots of things away.
Dilly Dilly
Lavender keeps moths out of your closet. It also keeps spiders and scorpions away
He's Got an Office in Transylvania
Garlic soaked apples keep away Dr. Acula.
Rotten tomatoes keep moviegoers away.
Romance Repellent
Beans keep potential dates away.
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(2 Agreganse to the article 3 the following numbers 15) and 16): "15) the video and slide shows, and 16) computational programs.";
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4.-in letter r) item 5 ° replace the comma (,) that follows "producer" by point and comma (,) and disposed of the conjunction 'and' that follows it: in the letter s) article replace the dot (.) final that follows "oral" by a comma (,) and add the conjunction "and";
5 be added to the article 5 the following letter t): "t) computer program: set of instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to perform or obtain a particular process or result, contained in a cassette, diskette, magnetic tape, or another material support."
Copy of a computer program: material that contains statements taken directly or indirectly from a computer program, and which incorporates the whole or substantial part of the instructions set out in the. ";
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8 Agreganse article 47 the following sub-paragraphs: "also, for the purposes of the present law, adaptation or copy of a computer program by its holder or authorized by its legitimate owner, does not constitute breach of its rules, provided that adaptation is essential for use on a particular computer and is not determined him to a different use , and the copy is essential for use on a particular computer or for archive or backup purposes.
The adptaciones obtained in the designated form may not be transferred under any title, while mediate prior authorization from the respective copyright holder; also, copies obtained as indicated not may be transferred under any title, unless they are jointly with the computational program that served them in array. ";
(9 replace the number 1-article 76 with the following: "1. projects of engineering, architecture and computer programs, 35%;", and 10-letter b) article 80 deleted the comma (,) that follows "film" and replace the term "nationals or foreigners" by "or computer programs". |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16643 | A homily on the Presentation of Christ in the Temple by a parish priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
To the eyes of the world, the Meeting of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple is nothing more than a heartwarming family ceremony. Casual observers would see it as a ceremonial rite of passage, perhaps, or merely a happy "Kodak moment" for proud new parents. It is, many would say, a curious ritual of minor interest, but one without any real spiritual significance.
But to Orthodox Christians who read the Gospel with the eyes of faith, the Fortieth-Day Blessing of Jesus Christ constitutes a high and holy Feast of the Church every second of February. For on this day a great milestone is attained in the course of our salvation.
In the Law of Moses it had been decreed that the firstborn son who opened His mother's womb was to be brought to the Lord on the fortieth day in a solemn act of worship, to be sanctified unto God as His special possession (Exodus 13:2, Leviticus 12). And so, in conformity to the ancient commandment, the Most-Holy Theotokos and Joseph brought their child Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem.
Their intention was simply to fulfill the law of worship. But what took place was a transformation of the very nature of worship itself.
This should not surprise us who keep the Feasts of the Church: He who declared to His apostle John, "Behold, I make all things new," (Revelation 21:5) had as His saving mission the renewal of all created things.
By His Incarnation, by the descent of His divine person into the life of mortal man, Christ transformed the very essence of our humanity.
And at the Epiphany Christ entered into the Jordan and changed the nature of the waters, tranforming the tributary of the Dead Sea into a medium of blessing and new life by His Baptism, along with all the waters of earth.
And in the present Feast our Lord transforms the nature of worship through His participation in the worship of the Old Covenant, signaling the revelation of grace upon grace to come in the worship of the New Covenant in His blood. The aging eyes of Simeon behold the transformation as the Christ-child, by His presentation in the Temple, blesses and establishes the essence of our eucharistic worship as Christians. Thus does Simeon declare, "Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word, for mine eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples" (Luke 2:29-31).
From time immemorial, the human race had worshipped through the offering of sacrifices as an expression of fear. Bulls and goats were laid upon altars, offerings of grain and libations of wine were poured out by trembling supplicants before the powers of divinity. These offerings were but a percentage of their possessions, a mere substitute for their souls, which they hoped to atone through the fires of sacrifice. In the same way, on this day the humble new parents from Bethlehem bring an offering of two doves (Luke 2:24) as propitiation to the God of Israel.
But something happens today that marks the end of the era of animal sacrifice and the advent of New Covenant worship. From henceforth we shall say in uttermost truth, "Thine Own of Thine Own we offer to Thee." For the offering unto God will be God Himself in the flesh, and the broken body and spilt blood will belong to the Lord alone, who in His own person establishes the reconciliation of God and man.
It is this mystery which is revealed in the events of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. The Mother of God, who is the supreme figure of the Church, places Christ in the hands of Simeon and receives Him back again. What is this but a foreshadowing of our own worship in the Divine Liturgy, week after week?
Like Simeon, every Orthodox priest receives Christ into his hands under the form of the amnos?the Lamb of God. He receives this Gift at the hour of his ordination, when the Church, who is the Mother of us all, by the hand of her hierarchs places into his palms the bread that is consecrated to be the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ. Like Simeon, therefore, every priest bears up Christ within the holy place, with voice lifted up to bless the Most High God (see Luke 2:28). And like Simeon, the priest comes forth again from the holy place to give Christ back to the Church, to distribute His all-pure Body and Blood to the faithful, for the forgiveness of sins and for life everlasting.
In that one glorious moment the righteous Simeon beheld the revelation of God's plan of salvation in the face of the forty-day old child in his arms. He foresaw the end of blood sacrifices on altars of stones; He apprehended that the Son of God forever lives to make intercession for us (cf. Hebrews 7:25), to be both the Offerer and the Offering, the One who receives and is distributed to His people unto the ends of the earth. And having seen the revelation, Simeon believed, and therefore he spoke these words: "Mine eyes have seen your salvation, ? a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel" (Luke 2:30, 32).
This scene of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple contains the essence of our New Testament worship. No longer do we come to God's temple in fear bearing offerings of dead animals. Now we present a living sacrifice through the Eucharist in the person of the Son of God, who is with us whenever we are gathered together in His Name (Matthew 18:20, 28:20), and Who is given back to us, so that we too may become living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:1).
And in turn, each one of us becomes another Simeon when we receive Christ in the person of the poor and needy, the sick and dying, the widows and orphans: whenever, in other words, we receiving the least of our brethren as though they were Christ Himself. It is our Eucharistic task, our liturgy after the Liturgy, to embrace them, to bring them into the Church, and to announce to them the love, mercy, and power of God. So doing, we transform every human encounter, every meeting with another person, into an act of worship, into a new Presentation of Christ.
And at the end of our life's calling, may we too also be inspired to say,
"My eyes, Lord, have seen your salvation. I have seen your light to the nations. I have seen the glory of your people . . . their consolation, and their redemption."
May Christ our True God, who condescended to be carried in the arms of the righteous Simeon for our salvation, bless and strengthen you, and may He always remember your service in His kingdom, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16722 | What Has Changed Recently With ?
The Importance of Hiring a Machine Manning Expert
Machines have been here for quite a long time already and it looks like they’re going to be here for good. They’ve gone through their own evolution and now there’s a lot of variations you can find out there. As a company owner or organization manager, one of the primary concerns you might have at the moment is how to perfectly and efficiently make your machines work in your best favor. This means it’s a task on your part to find a way to ensure your machines will perform according to your expectations and in line with your short-term and long-term goals.
The Importance of Hiring a Machine Manning Expert
1. Knowing What Machines Work Best
Machines are here and it can be one of the plenty of things to thank technology for. They make life easier because they can perform certain tasks multiple times faster than humans. However, not all machines are great to invest in. This is a given fact. Your organization comes with its own line of products as well as a line of goals and it’s important to determine which machine will go well with your company. The aspect of identifying, choosing and investing in major operational machines can be a burdensome task and that is why it is really important to consider hiring a machine manning expert. This person can help you analyze data to identify the most suitable machines to procure for your company.
2. Knowing How to Man Machines
Manning machines is another very critical aspect of operating with and around machines. While these machines are programmed, manning workers can find it challenging to begin the work. Gaps and breaches can still get in the way and because of that, employing the services of a machine manning expert is really a valuable thing. In some instances, even the best of machines cannot do anything good to a company because of a lack of knowledge and experience in manning. This is exactly one of the areas why machine manning experts are here for. They help your company connect with your machines so that works are achieved and expectations are met.
3. Knowing How to Make Machines Profit
Your company definitely operates for the purpose of earning profits. But in some instances, the challenging of manning machines get in the way so that you are led to think that machines are a culprit. But it does not have to be that way, as you can see. Machines are indispensably useful but perhaps it may be because of lack of knowledge and experience that manning a machine is not perfectly conducted. Through the experienced and professional services that machine manning experts can provide, your company can be aided in understanding the capabilities of your machines, how to man them, and how to make them work according to your margin goals. For a better connection between your human workforce and machines, having around a machine manning expert is seen to be a great move to take.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16723 | 11 Black Podcasts Leading The Golden Age Of Audio
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1. The Read
It's safe to say that no "best podcasts" list would be complete without The Read, so let's just get this one out the way. Hosted by YouTuber Kid Fury and his BFF, writer Crissle West, each weekly show features hot topics, listener letters, and a "read" where the pair cuss out everything from f***kboys to rude Best Buy workers. If you're not listening to this show already, why? The duo perfectly balances hilarious pop culture commentary with observations on real-life issues like police brutality.
This show is described as "a podcast for long-distance besties everywhere." Co-hosted by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, this free-form, conversational podcast gives the warm fuzzies and also really makes you think. Every week is different, but a sampling of the kinds of topics covered include: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the beauty of caftans, menstruation news, Kimye, Pitbull, Hillary Rodham Clinton, casual racism, emoji, straight people, California, rom-coms, Lorde lipstick, and so much more."
On this podcast, four intelligent and endlessly witty black women (Alesia, Fatima, Aurelia and Ramou) meet up for topical conversations on pop culture, politics, and race. It's a simple but powerful format, and the ladies have had amazing guests come through to chat, including journalist Janet Mock and comedienne Charla Lauriston.
Buzzfeed writers Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton recently created this weekly, booze-filled podcast where they get together for snarky, spot-on commentary on the latest in entertainment. You'll come for their drunken debates about sexism and race but you'll stay for their numerous awesome guests, like Chirlane McCray and "Veep" writer Alexis Wilkinson, who was the first black female president of the Harvard Lampoon.
For Colored Nerds adds another perspective to the black nerd dialogue, as best friends Brittany and Eric get together every week to discuss nerd culture from both a male and female perspective. But it's not just nerdism that the pair focus on -- in the above episode, for instance, they have a fascinating conversation about finding and keeping mentor-mentee relationships for black people in the creative world.
"Last Name Basis" is an adorable and funny new podcast from actress and YouTuber Franchesca Ramsey (host of MTV's Decode) and her husband Patrick. The recently married couple discuss what it's like to navigate the new territory of married life, give relationship advice to listeners, and discuss the latest happenings in pop culture. Many couples podcasts drift into the territory of the saccharine, but Franchesca and Patrick's weekly conversations are a refreshing departure: always sweet, but never mushy.
Rantin’ and Ravin is a bold, endlessly hilarious podcast hosted by comics Yamaneika Saunders and Chole Hillard. As the title suggests, these two women brazenly tackle topics that are at times controversial or taboo -- but always with a heavy dose of humor. They also had N*SYNC member Lance Bass join them for a show which, of course, is reason enough to give the podcast a listen.
This podcast comes from comedienne Marina Franklin, who offers up some of the most refreshing and relatable observations on comedy and race on the Internet. Franklin regularly invites a wide array of women of color creators and commentators to join her for frank, lively discussions about hot-button issues within the black community like interracial dating and colorism.
Hosted by Jamil Smith, senior editor of The New Republic, this bi-weekly podcast tackles identity politics one episode at a time. Topics include masculinity, Cuban heritage, and the "queering of marriage." Through conversations with every day people, activists, and politicians, Smith "explores how race, gender, and all the ways we identify ourselves and one another intersect."
Also on HuffPost:
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Andrei Alexandrescu, Ph.D., is the author of the award-winning books Modern C++ Design (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and, with Herb Sutter, C++ Coding Standards (Addison-Wesley, 2005). Through his work, Andrei has garnered a solid reputation as a leading innovator in programming languages and methods. Since 2006, he has collaborated closely with Walter Bright—the original designer and implementer of D—on designing and implementing the language and its standard library. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16765 | More ASX website problems
ASX website problems
ASX website problems
The new ASX website launched on 12 October presents issues for many companies who use it to show announcements from their own websites or publish links in their emails.
These companies need to fix potentially hundreds of incorrect links, and possibly get permission from ASX.
These issues apply to you if...
1. Your corporate website contains links to the ASX website for your ASX Announcements,
2. Your email alerts about your announcements contain links to the ASX website for the announcement, or
3. You are an IR consultant who sends emails on behalf of your clients including links to the ASX website.
Fortunately, if you're an IRM customer, none of these issues applies to you.
Issue #1 - Incorrect Links
On the old ASX website, you were able to provide a link directly to a particular announcement on their site. Many companies' sites have hundred of links directly to announcements using those old links. Likewise, many emails they have sent in the past contain the same links.
On the new ASX website, the links to the announcements have a different format.
The old links no longer go to the announcement PDF, instead they direct this traffic to the general market announcements page.
So if the ASX Announcements page on your website has, say, 50 links to your latest 50 ASX Announcements, then all 50 links go to the same place, which is the ASX landing page of all market announcements for a specific day.
To find the one which the investor thought they had clicked on, they would then need to do a search of some kind to find it, remembering the announcement name or date or something.
Too hard. It won't work. They will not find your announcements.
Their next click will probably be on some other company announcement that caught their eye and you have lost their visit. Worse, you will look very much like you just don't care about your website visitors and your investors.
Effectively, the ASX has made your links incorrect and made you look very lazy in your attitude to investors.
The new ASX website has taken down your whole ASX Announcement publication strategy.
Issue #2 - Permission
The terms and conditions of the ASX website include these words:
Market Announcements
Market Announcements are freely available for investors’ private and personal use only, and cannot be used for any commercial purpose without the express written authority of ASX. A commercial purpose is any use other than accessing and using the content for your own personal and private decision making.
Linking to the Site
You may not link any third party website to any pages of the Site unless we agree in writing.
Clearly, if any company's corporate website has a commercial purpose and links to the ASX website for any reason, you need ASX permission to do so.
The terms and conditions are silent on the subject of including such links in emails, but we would not like to have to run the defence...
If you are an ASX listed company with links to the ASX website on your website, and if you have the permission, we suggest that you mention it on the web page so investors will not doubt your compliance. If no permission, we suggest you request it, and for safety, while you wait for it, you should cease.
If you are an IR consultant in the habit of sending emails with links to the ASX website, we suggest you take action. Perhaps ask each of your clients about permission, and in the meantime, it might be a good idea to find another practice.
If you are a listed company employing an IR consultant who sends links to the ASX website you might think about your position.
IRM NewsroomConsider the IRM Newsroom as an alternative for sending your ASX Announcements.
Action Needed
If you are publishing links to an ASX Announcement on the ASX Website, the document will have the watermark "For Personal Use Only". What impression does this create with your website visitors - do they understand, or just get confused? Most companies do not do this, you are probably raising an unnecessary doubt.
IRM Newsroom offers fast and easy alternative solutions for these situations without links to the ASX website or use of the market announcements on the ASX website.
Our multi-ticker version of IRM Newsroom is ideal for IR consultants.
Just before you go off seeking permission, and set about recalibrating a few hundred links, why not call IRM on +61 2 8705 5444 for a better solution? Or jump straight on and organise a FREE TRIAL of IRM Newsroom.
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Wu Ting
How would you interpret the word ‘tunnel’ here? How would you interpret the word ‘tunnel’ in the phrase ‘the smashed tunnel by the river where the fighting had been’? What kind of tunnel is that? I guess it means trench by the river. What do you think? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.the context: The next year there were many victories. The mountain that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south and we crossed the river in August and lived in a house in Gorizia (the town). People lived on in the town and there were hospitals and cafés and artillery up side streets and two bawdy houses, one for troops and one for officers, and with the end of the summer, the cool nights, the fighting in the mountains beyond the town, the shell-marked iron of the railway bridge, the smashed tunnel by the river where the fighting had been, the trees around the square and the long avenue of trees that led to the square….
29 déc. 2015 10:17
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A railway tunnel through the mountain.
29 décembre 2015
Hi, I'm not an expert but I have an idea... It would be unusual to refer to a trench as a tunnel. Trenches could be connected or undermined by tunnels, but a trench typically has to be open-topped like a ditch. I think the tunnel refers to a system of passages cut into the valley side/mountains surrounding the river. The area of the battle is quite mountainous and so tunnels were likely necessary. You can see some photos here in an article discussing battles from the same Isonzo Campaign area: Apparently people fought in the dark inside those tunnels - must have been terrifying. Hope this helps. :)
29 décembre 2015
I think it could mean also that the tunnel is collapsed or damaged.
29 décembre 2015
In "A Farewell to Arms" is a real tunnel. As you are studying french : "le tunnel écroulé près de la rivière" L'acier du pont de chemin de fer cabossé par les obus, le tunnel écroulé près de la rivière, là où on s'était battu, les arbres autour de la place.....
29 décembre 2015
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16785 | Hello everyone, this is my second semester learning java and I have an assignment to do that requires the following:
1. Input from user to use in app/game and Output to the console
2. One abstract parent class and 2 child classes
3. One interface
4. One (or more) overriden method and one overloaded method.
5. An ArrayList, a LinkedList, a Queue and a Stack
6. Write to text file to save progress
7. Read from text file (so that user can close the program and then pick up where he left off)
8. Use Random class
Rather than a question, the purpose of this post is for suggestions. What console application or game can I code to meet these requirements?
Any input will be appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16806 | How Weight Lifting Changes Monkeys’ Neural Connections2020-10-06T12:22:47-04:00
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Over the course of two months, researchers trained macaque monkeys to lift more and more weight, until they were able to do the equivalent of a one-armed pull-up. When the researchers stimulated a bundle of nerves in the spinal cord known as the reticulospinal tract (RST), they saw increases in the resulting neuronal electrical signals in the monkeys’ arm muscles as training progressed, while they did not see the same consistent upward trend in the muscles’ responses to stimulation of the corticospinal tract (CST). The results suggest that RST connectivity may play a critical role in muscle strengthening.
Published in The Scientist magazine, October 2020. Writing by Jef Akst.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16861 | Devotionals- MOSAIC MSC “Tremble” (Devotional #2)
ΓÇÿBreathe, call these bones to live, call these lungs to sing, once again I will praise.ΓÇÖ
Have any of your dreams not gone to plan or come to fruition? Sometimes it can feel like our goals or desires have died and are lost forever, but Ezekiel 37:4 says, ΓÇ£I will put my Spirit in you and you will live…ΓÇ¥ Scripture reminds us that God has the power to breathe life back into things we once believed were dead. When we call on the name of Jesus to give us his life, he breathes into us new hope, new love, new wisdom. It only takes a breath from him to bring any dead part of us to life again!
As you eagerly expect God to move on your behalf, praise Him in worship for what you believe in faith he will do! Take time to write down moments where God has been faithful in your life, moments where He has brought joy or comfort. This simple task will create a strong foundation of gratitude in your relationship with God and serve as a concrete reminder of his faithfulness toward you. Jesus is faithful and good! Take peace in this and worship Him because He is worthy.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16866 | Reza Oktovian - Cookie Jar
Flow too windy I got too many fans
Ice colder than the winter in Japan
All of the fakes they wanna be your friends
Only looking for the Clout on the gram
Buy my mama some Gucci
Boss move can’t move me
And I’m living in your dreams
I think my life is a movie
Why are they hating me for?
Haters so good on the keyboard
Gimme head till her knee sore
Up and down like a seesaw
Just got a cheque in the mail
Looking at my face you can tell
Trying so hard but you fail
Need my photo for ya thumbnail
[Bridge 2x]
It’s best you leave me alone
You don’t want no game of thrones
All of y’all lookin like clones
I’m in a different timezone
[Chorus 2x]
Why everybody wanna be a star?
I’m just trying to return to mars
Zooming through space in my car
Your girlfriend in my cookie jar
Shock the world, issa teaser
Drop a punch Joe Frazier
My words they cock like a knife
Why you think they call me Reza?
[Bridge 2x]
[Chorus 2x]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16869 | Herodian 1.14
Fire destroys Rome
[1.14.1] [191] In that time of crisis a number of divine portents occurred. Stars remained visible during the day; other stars, extending to an enormous length, seemed to be hanging in the middle of the sky. Abnormal animals were born, strange in shape and deformed of limb.
[1.14.2] But the worst portent of all, which aggravated the present crisis and disturbed those who employ auguries and omens to predict the future, was this. Although no massing of dark clouds and no thunderstorm preceded it, and only a slight earthquake occurred beforehand, either as a result of a lightning bolt at night or a fire which broke out after the earthquake, the temple of Peace, the largest and most beautiful building in the city, was totally destroyed by fire.
[1.14.3] It was the richest of all the temples, and, because it was a safe place, was adorned with offerings of gold and silver; every man deposited his possessions there. But this fire, in a single night, made paupers of many rich men. All Rome joined in mourning the public loss, and each man lamented his own personal loss.note
[1.14.5] For the Vestal Virgins snatched up the image and carried it along the Sacred Way to the imperial palace. Many other beautiful sections of the city were destroyed in this fire, which continued to burn for days, spreading in all directions. It was not finally extinguished until falling showers put an end to its raging.
[1.14.6] For this reason the disaster was held to be of divine origin; in that critical period, men believed that the fire was started and stopped by the will and power of the gods. Some conjectured from these events that the destruction of the temple of Peace was a prophecy of war. And subsequent events, as we shall relate in the books to follow,note confirmed this prophecy by actual events.
[1.14.7] With so many disasters befalling the city in rapid succession, the Roman people no longer looked with favor upon Commodus; they attributed their misfortunes to his illegal murders and the other mistakes he had made in his lifetime. He no longer concealed his activities, nor did he have any desire to keep them secret. What they objected to his doing in private he now had the effrontery to do in public. He fell into a state of drunken madness.
[1.14.8] First he discarded his family name and issued orders that he was to be called not Commodus, son of Marcus, but Hercules, son of Zeus. Abandoning the Roman and imperial mode of dress, he donned the lion skin, and carried the club of Hercules. He wore purple robes embroidered with gold, making himself an object of ridicule by combining in one set of garments the frailty of a woman and the might of a superman.
[1.14.9] This was the way he looked in his public appearances. He assigned new names to the months of the year; abolishing the old ones, he called the months after his own list of names and titles, most of which actually referred to Hercules as the manliest of men. He erected statues of himself throughout the city, but opposite the senate house he set up a special statue representing the emperor as an archer poised to shoot, for he wished even his statues to inspire fear of him. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16871 | The Trials: Secrets, Spells and Tells - Ch 2!
Updated: Jun 1
Did you like yesterday's sneak peek? Check out chapter two of The Trials: Secrets, Spells and Tales.... #31DaysOfOctober
Sarah sat in the Salem Commons with her trusty sketchpad drawing the schooner she had been studying from her balcony earlier that morning. For a week now her psyche had been dreaming of such a ship and she had been repeatedly depicting its shapes, its sails and its fluidity. This morning had presented her something else to portray with her pencil outlines. Besides two of the three masts being split and some chunks missing from the port side, there had been a man at the bow. Technically there had been two men, but only the one had resonated with her.
As she closed her eyes she could still see his tall strong figure gripping the railing, his blazing hair outlined by the misty pink sunrise and she had sworn, even though she hadn’t been close enough to tell, that his eyes were the same color as the sea. She wondered if they perhaps changed with the color of the current.
When a small black bird landed on her black laced-up boot, her eyes popped up, and she was shocked to see the mysterious stranger strolling into view. Without hesitation, she hopped off the bench, with her sketchpad and purse in tow, ducked around a tree and into a bookshop named Candlesticks. What was that? She curiously wondered at her actions. Why the sudden fear that he may see her? Or was it that her art project would be discovered? Or discover my admiration of his stormy eyes.
Sure he hadn’t seen her, she stuffed the sketches into her bag and moved away from the window. She’d wanted to pick up a book on the history of Salem anyway, so how coincidental this shop had been right there. Now seems to be as good as a time as any, she thought.
The shop was cute and had a comfort-factor about it, as though one was more than welcome to curl up with a coffee and dream for a while. It made Sarah smile as she went in search of historical knowledge, witchy or not. Most of what she came across in the ‘About the Town’ section seemed to be based on The Trials. There were only four books that appeared to be comprehensive histories of Salem and she automatically put two back since they didn’t have any pictures. She had to see images; she had always been a very visual person. It was the only way she seemed to retain information – when she could carry the picture in her mind.
In fact, that’s how Sarah had known she was adopted. When she was a mere seven-years-old, sitting in her mom’s lap, perusing through family photo albums when she stopped to tell her mother that she knew she wasn’t her daughter by blood, but that was the way it was supposed to be. Then Sarah simply returned her focus to the photos, as if no major emotional bomb was dropped with her statement, and her adoption just a simply matter-of-fact detail, like her height or hair color. Now, most kids at age seven are only interested in knowing what types of cartoons they could watch or how many cookies they could have before bedtime. Sarah hadn’t been concerned with those things. She was a very intellectual child and could never lie, not even one little fib. And she always had this guttural instinct about her. For as long as Sarah could remember, she seemed to somehow always know an answer before a question was asked. Except when the question was her own, of course. Sarah’s path had never been clear in her mind.
When her mother had asked how she knew about the adoption, Sarah first stated she ‘just did’. When her mom gaped back at her, she continued to tell her that it was simply scientific reasoning; she had to be adopted. Not one other person in her family had black wavy hair and big blue eyes. In fact, both her parents and her grandparents had stick straight blonde hair and small green eyes. To an overly curious and inquisitive child like Sarah the facts had merely been obvious. Even more, though, Sarah had just been able to see the truth. It was as though she had a mind’s eye, and it saw what Sarah felt she knew within... somehow. But I always recognized their love for me, Sarah thought. That had never been a question.
Kids she went to school with hadn’t much cared for her though, and they never hid their distaste either. Because of her long, and often unruly black mane, and pale porcelain skin, the other children had called her a witch. She now thought that was pretty ironic since she was living in what was basically deemed Witchville, USA. The nickname lasted all the way through elementary school and but by the time she had made it to junior high, it had seemingly been forgotten. Sarah never forgot it though. It had clung to her like a coat of armor.
In fact, Sarah actually became quite popular by the time high school arrived. She joined nearly every club or group possible, and even won prom princess during her junior year. She knew that, even then, her popularity was solely based on the same thing that had haunted her youth, the very same reason kids had termed her a witch for years: her looks. Black hair and sapphire-hued eyes made for quite the exotic outer shell.
After she left high school, she attended a college out-of-state and retained none of her relationships from her childhood. After all, why would she? They hadn’t ever really known her, so why bother keeping those people around as friends? Sarah certainly hadn’t expected them to stay in touch and those expectations had not let her down. In so many ways, high school had never seemed real to her - because she never really belonged.
Her sophomore year of college was when her life took a downward spiral. Both of Sarah’s parents and her only living grandparents died in plane crash. The guilt was a hump she never managed to climb over. Her family had been on their way to see her, and by some freak accident with the landing gear, the plane crashed on the runway and killed her four only remaining relatives. Nobody else on the plane died on that horrific day – just her family. The memory of telling her family about the weariness of them flying that particular morning still overwhelmed her. She’d had a terrible pit in her gut and warned her family not to fly. Saying how much they wanted to see her, they boarded the Charleston-bound flight anyways. Her heart still felt stained.
In spite of Sarah’s grief she finished college - because her parents would’ve wanted her to - and moved back home to her parent’s house in Missouri. She got a job, because that’s what you were supposed to do after college, but she hadn’t much cared for her career. It’d never felt satisfying or challenging. The motions she put herself through everyday left her feeling numb. Always numb.
Her world was rocked once again when she turned twenty-five and discovered she was to inherit all of her grandparents estate, which made her rich enough to buy all of Salem if she felt ever-so inclined. After laying black magic roses on their tombs, she said goodbye to her beloved family and left Missouri altogether in search of fulfillment. Something had been missing in her life and she was determined to discover what it was.
Sarah traveled in a spirit of wanderlust, alone except for her cat Hanks. The precocious black cat was her only friend and had been with her since college. She soon discovered that nowhere in the world were people compliant to seeing a cat on a leash, but Hanks wasn’t the typical cat she supposed. Hanks often voiced his opinions and Sarah would swear to it that he answered her questions. He also seemed to be in agreement with Sarah’s search for wander and was quite the comfortable companion.
And for the first time in her life, Sarah Elizabelle Felix realized there wasn’t any reason not to find out where she had come from. What was her history? Her story?
After finding her adoption papers, she went to Boston as the papers indicated the agency her parents used was there. A quick Google search gave her the current address. The only problem was, when she found the place, it had burnt down - walls and all - two days earlier. All the records, the files, the answers, had gone up in smoke and flames with it. Who still keeps the dinosaur-old paper filing systems anyway? Talk about ancient, she thought. For the second time in five years, she felt cursed.
Then a breeze swirled around her, dandelions dancing in the air, and she looked up to see a sign for Salem Tours – A Bewitching Hour. That was the day she’d spontaneously drove to Salem and started her life over.
Sarah sighed as she picked herself up off the floor, unsure of the moment she’d even made herself so comfortable. Having completely zoned out and not bothering to look at either book, she groaned. Oh well, I’ll just buy both. It’s not like I can’t afford it now. She took them up to the owner who doubled as a cashier and smiled.
“Both please,” she said as she set them on the counter.
“Sure thing sweetie.” The owner, with her blonde bouncy curls, was dressed in black, head-to-toe, except for her fingernails. They were indigo blue. “Are you a tourist?”
“No… I just moved into town actually.”
The voluminous curly-haired blonde raised an eyebrow. “Are you a witch?”
Having already gotten this question several times, Sarah just laughed. “No, not that I know of. Are you?”
The petite owner broke into a smile. “Well duh,” she smiled prettily. “I’m a white witch.”
Somehow her answer didn’t faze Sarah. “And that means?”
“It means I harm none, even though they deserve it sometimes, and I am considered a healer. Also I see truth in people or their actions. I’m not Wiccan, however, I don’t belong to a coven.” She smiled again and Sarah realized how young she must be, probably the same age as herself. “My name is Kirsten.” She seemed friendly enough as her hand shot out between them.
Sarah took her hand to shake it but Kirsten gasped, pulling away.
“You aren’t new here.” Her voice had lowered in curiosity.
“Yes, yes I am. I just moved here from Missouri.”
“That’s not what I meant. Here, hold on a sec.” Kirsten left and Sarah could hear her open a drawer. “Okay,” she said, returning and clutching a deck of cards in her hand, “pick one”.
Sarah was interested enough to stay and find out what Kirsten meant, so she chose the second card and turned it over. Oh, Tarot Cards. She drew Death. Holy crap.
As if she read her mind, Kirsten reassured her. “No, it doesn’t mean you are going to die. Death represents the beginning of a new life and that your old one has served it’s purpose. You are about to go through major changes, some abrupt and some due to past events.”
“Oh, well, I did come here to start over.”
“Draw one more.”
“It means awakening or rebirth.”
“Of what?”
“I feel you’ll figure it out. Hey, is that your car outside?”
“Yeah it is.” Sarah didn’t bother to look up; she was still looking at Death and Judgment.
“And is Harry a friend of yours or is he playing Peeping Tom to your Audi?”
“Who?” That jarred her and she looked up to see a familiar ginger-headed daydream drooling over her car. Damn, he’s almost too good looking up close.
“Yes, yes he is,” Kirsten winked. “You should see his butt.”
Sarah really had to find a way to keep her thoughts to herself.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16883 | Ministering To The Lord Is Being “A Man After My Heart”
Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne:
1 Samuel 13:14
These were the words of the Lord through Samuel, now a grown man, to king Saul, who had “not kept the commandment of the Lord your God” (1 Samuel 13:13).
David was the one whom God had found, “a man after His own heart,”who would soon be anointed king by Samuel (1 Samuel 16:4-13).
The apostle Paul, on his first missionary journey, commented upon this Scripture from 1st Samuel, when he preached the gospel at Pisidian Antioch, saying, “He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will’” (Acts 13:22).
David himself wrote, “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ my heart said to You, ‘Your face, O Lord, I shall seek’” (Psalm 27:8).
Similarly today, when we minister to the Lord, we are actively seeking the face of God from our hearts.
Ministering to the Lord is our confession and act of being a person “after My heart,” just as we saw with Samuel who, as a child, ministered to the Lord and thus became the one God could speak to and reveal His plans, His heart, to.
David expressed this desire himself, earlier in the 27th Psalm, when He wrote, “One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple” (Psalm 27:4).
Praise God, when you and I minister to the Lord, we are dwelling “in the house of the Lord,” in our inner room, in our inner most being, where our Lord presently dwells. What a precious privileged blessing our God has given us in our priesthood to Him.
When we minister to the Lord we truly are beholding “the beauty of the Lord” and we are meditating “in His temple.”
Let us thank our gracious Lord that every single one of us, when we are born again, are given this same pure heart for God.
Our ministering to our Lord is the active cultivation of a heart that truly is “after My heart.”
I encourage you to be a person “after My heart” today. Yes, let us all go after God’s heart with thanksgiving in His presence today! Let us Bless His holy name and be blessed to do so. Hallelujah!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16887 | Psalm 115:1
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, But to Your name give glory Because of Your lovingkindness, because of your truth.
When we consider living out the calling or specific purpose that God has for us, we tend to somewhat naturally focus on ourselves. It is our purpose after all, right?!
However, what if I told you that fulfilling our purpose actually has very little to do with us, but everything to do with God and those around us.
This past weekend I had the privilege of attending a conference in North Carolina geared for Christian women who feel called to write, speak, and/or lead. There were over 700 attendees present and another 700 on a wait list.
Now, I don’t know about you, but that seems like a whole lot of women with a pretty narrow focus in regards to their purpose. With that in mind, I was not quite sure what to expect at the conference.
What I found so interesting; however, was that of the countless women that I spoke with, not one of us had the same specific focus in regards to our purpose. There were women who felt called to reach adoptive parents, women in leadership, the underprivileged, the list could go on.
Reflecting on all of the unique aspects of each individual’s purpose, I was reminded how the conference was really just a glimpse of the greater picture in regards to God’s call for each of us. Just as different as we are from one another, so is the call that God has placed within us.
The purpose that God has placed within each of us is really not about us. It is about Him. Fulfilling our call is about bringing God glory and loving and serving those around us.
Consider the following verses:
Matthew 5:16 In the same way let your light shine before others, so they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
No two of us have the exact same purpose or reach. God has created each of us wonderfully, with our own gifts, talents, strengths, relationships, and communities. Those who you can impact are different from those who I can. Only you can fulfill your purpose and others are counting on you to do so.
Don’t minimize what you feel called to do, or think that you shouldn’t pursue your dream because someone else already has done, or is doing something similar.
If God has placed a call on your heart, go after it. You may be just the person that He wants to use for a very specific task.
Don’t compare yourself or your call with others. Follow God and trust that He will use you in a very special and unique way.
What call has he placed on your heart? Are you pursing it? Why or why not? What next step might you need to take?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16888 | Darkness in the Amazon Jungle
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For a long time, Amazon.com had us in the palm of its hand. From the privacy of our Web browsers, we could buy any book on earth for less money than we would spend at a local, tax-charging bookstore. The whole place seemed up-front and trustworthy. Amazon was the Big Warm Consumer Fuzzy.
The first time I noticed weird things going on at Amazon was a couple of years ago, when I ran into a fellow book author. "Have you been watching my new book?" she asked breathlessly. "Don't you mean reading your new book?" I asked. "No, no -- watching it. On Amazon. I hit 359 last week!"
She went on to explain how each book's Amazon page shows its sales rank. Hour by hour, you can see how a book is selling, relative to the other 5 million books in Amazon's catalog. (I remember thinking: "She sits there all day, clicking on the Reload button over and over again, gloating over every little uptick in her book's rank? That is pathetic!" Two hours later, I was doing the same thing.)
The thing is, nobody understands how Amazon's sales-rank computations work, and the company isn't telling. It's easy to fool their system; if six friends order your book simultaneously at 5:26 on Thursday afternoon, then, by golly, you'll see it shoot into the top 50 (for a few enchanted minutes, anyway).
One of my books hums along in the 1,500 range during evenings and weekdays, but it tanks to 80,000 or so on weekends. What's that about? I mean, if the answer is "People don't buy books on the weekend," then all books should tank on the weekend, and their relative rankings should stay the same. Furthermore, it's a little odd that the sales-rank numbers don't correspond to Amazon's own "most popular" sort order, which appears when you're viewing the results of a search.
Glowing Praise
OK, so maybe those numbers are for entertainment purposes only. But what about those reviews that ordinary readers are allowed to post? This Amazon feature, too, holds a grisly fascination for those of us in the book-creation business. It takes a lot of chutzpah for an online store to post negative reviews of the very products it sells. But the funny thing is, Amazon's editors don't post every negative review, as those of us on an authors' mailing list have discovered by comparing notes; the overwhelming majority of books appear with mostly positive reviews. To paraphrase Garrison Keillor, Amazon is a place where every book is above average.
But I really began to wonder about Amazon in 1999, when the New York Times reported that secret promotional fees from publishers, not the independent judgment of editors, determined Amazon's "Editor's Picks."
Amazon responded quickly; it now tells which books are backed by paid placements.
Slippery Prices
Last September, Computerworld magazine unearthed another slippery tactic: Amazon charges different prices - varying by as much as $10 - to different people, depending on "which browser was being used, whether a consumer was a repeat or first-time customer, and which Internet service provider a customer was using." The Men in Black DVD, for example, cost the reporter $2 more when she used Netscape Navigator than when she tried Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Economists call this game "yield management" - the science of playing with prices to eke out the most profit, even though two consumers might pay wildly different prices. Airlines and hotels practice yield management all the time. All that's new is that a company that sells things, instead of services, has joined the party. This practice would never work in a local store, but Amazon can get away with it - after all, from your Web browser, you can't see what price anyone else is paying.
Amazon's pricing games have grown only more complex since then. In August, on all books under $30, the company cut its usual discount of 20 percent in half. Add in the $4.50 single-book shipping charge, and you can see how Amazon wound up quietly dismantling one of the pillars of its image: that it offers lower prices than the local bookstore.
In November, shortly after the pricing switch became public, Amazon restored the 20-percent discounts. But that may change again, and the damage has been done; Amazon is no longer Old Faithful. You may have a different shopping experience each time you visit.
Do the Right Thing
It's certainly Amazon's right to fiddle with its business model; the company has done nothing illegal (although some of its experiments have their seamy side). But we, the book-buying public who loved the original bookstore, helped make it the company's only profitable division. By constantly tweaking the formula, Amazon appears to be trying to make us subsidize the struggling departments - the ones that sell cars, patio furniture, and shaving cream. Let's just hope the company's tinkering doesn't squeeze the appeal right out of what used to be not only the "world's largest bookstore" but also one of the best.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16892 | On Fri 2007-01-12T18:35:55 +0000, Tony Finch hath writ:
According to the slides linked from Dave Mills's "Timekeeping in
the Interplanetary Internet" page, they are planning to sync Mars
time to UTC. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ipin.html
There seems to be an unwarranted assumption that a spacecraft always
knows its own position. I also wonder whether it might be productive
to consider closing the NTP "servo loop" in velocity (frequency) in
this case, rather than position (phase).
Regarding the choice of UTC - it sounds like this project is
ongoing. Dave Mills is nothing if not responsive to NTP issues. We
might consider raising the issue with him.
On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
From an engineering standpoint a variation of 2 ms in a year on
Mars is certainly better than any time scale that could be
established there in lieu of landing a cesium chronometer.
Any comments on the practicality of space-rating such timepieces?
Power source, radiation hardening, hand-off maintenance procedures, etc?
Also - what are the actual use cases requiring a common time scale,
rather than establishing a separate Martian civil cesium standard and
simply tracking the deltas? I suspect we're all bemused to
contemplate issue terrestrial leap seconds on Martian bases. How
does the LOD vary on Mars? No significant moon - but then, leap
seconds are needed on Earth even if the tidal slowing is detrended.
Can something as naive as POSIX time_t really serve all such
applications, even the ones on earth, for the next 600 years?
One would argue that deprecating leap seconds will make the naive
POSIX model even less acceptable. Some applications (and perhaps
we'll be surprised to learn how many) most certainly do require an
approximation to actual UT, not just to "I'm going to lie and call it
UTC". With leap seconds, this approximation is maintained within the
civil time standard and POSIX doesn't need to worry about it.
Without leap seconds, this approximation is maintained through an
explicit application of a DUT1 correction - a correction that would
start to grow without meaningful bound. POSIX exists to support
applications of interest to users. The existence of significant
numbers and classes of users requiring knowledge of actual UT (mean
solar time) would suggest that POSIX would, in turn, need to start
accommodating DUT1.
Rather than defining a perceived problem out of existence, one could
actually find that a real problem has been defined into existence.
Or perhaps I'm wrong. Demonstrate why.
Rob Seaman
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Revised RomanizationSambyeolcho
Sambyeolcho was a military unit of the Goryeo dynasty during the era when the Choe family held the reins of power as military dictators behind puppet kings.
Sambyeolcho meant specially selected troops. The Sambyeolcho originated from a unit called the Yabyeolcho (야별초, 夜別抄), Special Night Unit which was established to prevent burglaries and provide night time security in the capital. When additional units were subordinated to the Yabyeolcho the new organization was divided into two main units, the Jwabyeolcho (좌별초, 左別抄), Special Unit of the Left, and the Ubyeolcho (우별초, 右別抄), the Special Unit of the Right.
Later when a number of soldiers had been taken prisoner by the Mongols and subsequently escaped, they were organized into a third force, the Sinuigun (신의군, 神義軍), and these three came to be known collectively as the Sambyeolcho. The Sambyeolcho performed both police and military functions, but were elements of the private army of the Choe family. Choe U's private armies superseded and replaced the Royal armies. The Sambyeolcho together with the Dobang (도방, 都房) comprised the means by which the Choe family military dictators projected their power after their military coup usurped the Royal power. The Sambyeolcho were disbanded when the Choe military regime collapsed.
Sambyeolcho is an army with a strong public character in combat with the police, and its conductor has also been assigned a national official such as Doryeong. As a soldier and a military officer, it was easier to move around than other soldiers. Sambyeolcho rose in rebellion in 1270 to protest against the strong ambition of the government. After establishing its own government and fighting for three years against the government and the won, it was destroyed by the Korea-Mongolian alliance in 1273.[1]
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1. ^ "삼별초(三別抄) - 한국민족문화대백과사전". (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-06-24. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16905 | Women less active than male counterparts
• New study says females are less active than the opposite sex
Females do less exercise at either end of their lifetime than their male counterparts, according to two new studies.
School children and women in their 70s were both analysed by researchers and in both instances males were inclined to be more active.
Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University examined the behaviour of 10 and 11-year-old children in the playground and discovered that boys play differently to girls.
While girls pass the time in smaller groups, playing verbal games and socialising, boys form larger groups and play more active games.
Lead researcher Dr Nicky Ridgers commented on the findings saying: ‘It is a concern that girls’ activity levels are lower than boys and, although it is just one piece in a complex picture, this could be contributing to girls being overweight and obese.’
The second study at the University of Bristol again proved the theory that women are less active in older generations too. Among the over-70 age group, levels of physical activity in women were very low. Over 70% of those who took part in the study walked less than 5,000 steps a day.
Researcher Professor Ken Fox said: ‘Men accomplish more higher intensity physical activity than women and this seems to be explained by trips out of the house.’
Professor Adrian Taylor of Exeter University commented: ‘Society and our environment are leading us to do increasingly less physical activity with adverse health consequences such as heart disease, diabetes and mental health problems for people of all ages.’
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16909 | Take It Easy with Marnie Barranco, Chandana & Isha Bawa
Join myself and Chandana & Isha Bawa as we talk tools, tips and strategies for parents in this second wave of home schooling due to COVID19.
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- allow yourself some space
- be willing to change constantly
- stop judging yourself
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16935 | Ways to charge conductors
By conduction(contact) Procedure: A metal sphere with an excess of negative charge is brought near to a neutral object. Upon contact, electron move from the sphere to the object and spread about uniformly. The metal sphere now has less excess negative charge and the object now has a negative charge. By induction Procedure: When a positively charged rod is brought …
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Field and charges
A field is the region of space in which a body experiences a force as a result of the presence of some other body. An electric field is a region of space in which a force acts on an object due to it’s electrical charge and the presence of some source that creates the field. Conservation of charges: Charges cannot …
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Electric fields
This topic covers “Electric Fields” of A Level Physics. (Equivalent to Advanced Placement) If this is too advanced for you, you can try the more basic version here. Sub-topics: Field And Charges Ways To Charge Conductors Coulomb’s Law Drawing Field Lines Acceleration Due To Electric Field Electric Potential Equipotential Line Electric Potential Energy Questions: (With Worked Solutions) Set 1
Special Relativity
Sub-Topics: Inertial Frames and Non-inertial Frames Galilean Transformation Equation Einstein’s Principle of Relativity Simultaneity and relativity of time Time Dilation The twin paradox Length Contraction Lorentz Transformation Confirmation of TD, LC and simultaneity using Lorentz Transformation Relativistic Addition Of Velocities Relativistic Momentum and Energy Back To H3 Physics
Inertial Frames and Non-inertial Frames
Inertia frames of reference are those reference frames in which Newton’s laws are valid. They are non-accelerating frames (constant velocity frames). If a person performed an experiment in a train, he will not observe any difference between the readings obtained when the train is moving at constant velocity or when the train is at rest. Consider an airplane in flight, …
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Rolling Uphill Illusion
I came across this particular video on youtube. The video was suggesting that there are places where there are illusions of objects defying gravity. I was so interested by this phenomenon that i went and googled for the explanation. I hope you enjoyed this as much as i did. Back To Interesting Phenomenons The following explanation is extracted from: …
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Tea Leaf Effect
Q: Why tea leaves stay in the centre of a cup of swirling fluid. Explanation 1: Coriolis force, which drives atmospheric circulation around regions of high and low pressure, is a fine example of a fictitious force. But it is not the explanation for the beautiful tea leaf effect. That honor goes to pressure. As fluid swirls in a container, …
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16940 | A screenshot of an Instagram post Facebook linked to Russia
The social media companies said the accounts and pages were linked to Russian actors that had launched “hack-and-leak” operations to hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16950 | sibling fighting during social distancing
Social distancing is stressful for everyone—there's no way around it. And as difficult as it can be, it becomes even harder when you have multiple children. Healthy sibling relationships require thoughtful parenting and care even under the best of circumstances. Add in non-stop togetherness, stretched-thin parents and kids going stir-crazy from being trapped at home, and sibling tensions can begin to reach new (and unpleasant) heights.
These 7 easy-to-use strategies can help siblings get along better and ease the tensions in your home during social distancing:
1. Create a family marble jar
Sibling tensions often rise when kids compete against each other to get parental attention or other needs. With a marble jar, kids work together towards a common goal.
Start by setting a few sibling goals (think: sharing, using kind words, offering to help) and a family reward, like pizza night, sleepover in the living room or double dessert day. Whenever you see a child demonstrating a goal behavior, praise the child and put a marble in the family jar. Encourage kids to "report" on each other by telling you when a sibling has earned a marble with good behavior (but don't allow self-reporting—it gets hard, to be honest).
When kids start to fight, rather than reprimand them, remind them you're looking for kind behaviors so they can earn their reward. When the jar is full, everyone gets the prize. Although it may take a few days to break their old habits, kids soon realize that they get more out of being kind than arguing.
2. Use timers to support sharing
Doesn't it seem like kids always want the same toy at the exact same moment? Although it can be frustrating, it's also a great teachable moment. Explain that everyone gets to use family toys, so we need to be kind and take turns. Then, use a timer to help ensure each child gets the same amount of time.
When parents monitor sharing, we often get distracted and forget to have the first child share the toy at the promised time. A timer keeps everyone on track and, eventually, kids can learn to track turns themselves. Visual timers (like hourglass timers) work best with little kids who may not know numbers yet.
3. Model self-advocacy with self-talk
When kids begin to battle, parents often jump in to resolve disputes. Although this approach stops the fight, it doesn't teach kids how to manage the issue, and the next time the issue arises, they're likely to end up fighting again.
It can be far more useful to walk kids through how to handle disagreements with self-talk. In self-talk, an adult gives suggestions on how to handle a situation by "thinking out loud" to themselves. For example, if your daughter is complaining that she wants to use the markers her brother has, prompt, "If I wanted a marker, I'd say 'Can I have the red, please?'" Self-talk teaches kids what to say without talking for them. It also limits battles between children and parents.
Direct instruction ("If you want the marker, just ask him") often leads to arguments ("I know he won't share with me! He never does!"). Self-talk puts an idea into the world, but allows your child to decide whether to use it.
4. Build in daily physical activity
To help keep tensions low, ensure kids have a daily dose of physical activity. In addition to exercise being good for little bodies, it helps relieve tension while improving moods. Make sure you find ways to let your little ones burn energy every day—even if you're stuck inside and it's just a vigorous game of head, shoulders, knees and toes!
5. Keep kids on a schedule
While being stuck at home can make days feel long and lazy, sadly, as we all know, this isn't actually a vacation. You're probably tired of hearing it by now, but to help kids get through the days, it really is best to keep them on a daily schedule or routine. Ensure they're eating healthy foods at consistent times. Make sure they still get to bed on time. These routines help bodies feel healthy, and that's an important component of good moods—everyone is grumpier when they're tired and hungry.
6. Create individualized break areas
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, being quarantined means kids are going to be tired of each other. Give children their own spaces for times when they just need a break.
Even in small homes you can still find a way to make an individualized spot for each child. If your children have their own rooms, create a break spot in one corner. If they share a room, it may be a spot next to the dresser or in front of the bed. It could also be in your bedroom or under the kitchen table. The goal is to make sure it's a safe space, it's just for one child, and it's accessible anytime they need a break. If it has cozy materials (pillows, stuffed animals, blankets), even better!
When your kids start getting frustrated with one another, remind them about their break areas. Remember, it's a positive break, not time out. Don't angrily send your child there, rather, gently ask if they might like a break ("You seem frustrated right now, do you want to take your teddy bear and go chill in your cozy spot until you feel happier?").
7. Schedule individual parent time for each child
Meeting your child's needs for attention and connection will help reduce sibling tension and allow them to better manage frustration and stress. The care they need from you right now includes actual physical care (diaper changes and bottles) as well as emotional care (story time, snuggles and attention).
If you have a baby that needs a lot of care, build in blocks of time for older children when the baby naps. If your children are bigger, plan blocks of time with one child when your other children are engaged in preferred activities. Have one child watch a show while you play a game with another. Have one child eat a snack while you read a book with another. It's okay if you only spend a few minutes together, just as long as each child gets some solo parent time.
Being a parent during these days of social distancing isn't easy—stress levels are high and kids are going to get frustrated with one another. By using a few simple strategies, though, you can help make your days run more smoothly.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16992 | [Webcast] OPCON Transfer and its Potential Impact on the United Nations Command and the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Korea Defense Veterans Association and Institute for Security and Development Policy
November 6, 2020, 7:00 am EST to 8:30 am EST
On July 14, 1950, South Korea’s President Syngman Rhee, handed over operational control (OPCON) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) armed forces to the United States. In 1978, the Combined Forces Command (CFC), the ROK-US integrated military command structure, headed by a U.S. four-star General, was established. Since the early 1990s, there have been talks between Seoul and Washington on when and how to transfer full operational command over its own military forces back to the ROK.
To this day, however, no agreement on when and how OPCON transfer will materialize has been reached between the ROK and the United States. President Moon Jae-in ran on the promise that OPCON transfer will take place prior to the end of his presidency in 2022. Within OPCON transfer remain a few issues of contention, one being the future role of the United Nations Command (UNC) and its authority in the de-militarized zone under the Armistice Agreement. As an indirect consequence of the transfer, the relationship between the ROK, the UNC and the NNSC may also change as may the role of the NNSC and its working conditions.
ISDP’s Korea Center, in collaboration with the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA), is hosting a webinar to discuss the possible impacts of the full transfer of operational control to the Republic of Korea. The speakers will tackle questions such as: What is driving the OPCON transfer? What are the obstacles? What possible consequences for the UNC and the NNSC can we assess? And how would this affect the security situation on the Korean Peninsula?
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Udwy-VVbTuW2aRABDq4v6g
Gen (ret) Vincent Brooks,Chairman and President of the KDVA and the former UNC Commander in South Korea
LtGen (ret) Chun In Bum, Vice President of the Korea Freedom Federation and the former deputy Commander of the First ROK Army
Mr. David Maxwell, Senior Fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) with several years of military service in South Korea
MG (ret) Urs Gerber, Former Head of the Swiss Delegation to NNSC between 2012-2017
Maj Gen (ret) Mats Engman (moderator), a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/16999 | Geo Relocate Firefox Extension
Download Geo Relocate 0.2.3.
NOTE: you need to run Firefox 4.0 or above.
Version 0.2.3
Minor update because of Firefox version number incompatibility.
Version 0.2.2
Initial public version.
Web applications like Google Maps “Show My Location” feature use the W3C Geolocation API to report your computer’s location. This location is usually determined by your IP address, WiFi access points and/or GSM/CDMA cell IDs. More precisely, Firefox is internally using Google’s Geolocation Service by transmitting mentioned data to Google, which in return matches the data to it’s geo database to assume your computer’s coordinates. However big Google’s geo database might be, it’s definitely not complete. In my case, the reported location is some 500 km off my real position. So Google’s “Show My Location” feature is almost useless for me.
This is where the Geo Relocate Firefox Extension comes into play. It lets you permanently override the coordinates that are reported by Firefox’s implementation of the W3C Geolocation API.
Using Geo Relocate
After installing the add-on you can simply access the Geo Relocate configuration window through different ways:
• Menu: Tools->Configure Geo-Relocate
• Customize your Firefox Toolbar by adding the Geo Relocate Button.
Geo Relocate Configuration Window
In the configuration window you specify your exact location by latitude and longitude. You can find your latitude and longitude by clicking on “Get Lat Long”, which opens a map where your can pinpoint your position. The “Show Test Page” button can be used to verify that Firefox is reporting your desired position. Or you can just go to Google Maps and hit the “Show My Location” Button.
As long as the extension is active, no data is transferred to and from Google’s Geolocation Service, even though the browser might show you the “share your location” dialog. You have to deactivate the extension if you want the orginal geo location to be reported again.
IMPORTANT: Web servers can still make a rough assumption of your location based on your IP address. This extension only works for web applications that use the W3C geo location API. So if you want to hide your location altogether, then this extension is not what you want. You probably have to tunnel your traffic through a proxy, VPN access or something like that.
Privacy Statement
The Extension does not log or report any location data to me or anyone else. I even urge you to look inside the xpi file (it’s just a plain zip file) and study it’s content. It’s not that big and does not contain any compiled code. It’s all just plain human readable javascript, xul and xml.
Future Features
The Geo Relocation Extension was originally only meant to be an experiment. However, since it seems to be useful to other people as well, I released it into the wild. Here a some features I plan to implement in future versions:
• Let the user specify latitude and longitude by clicking onto an embedded map inside the configuration window.
• Let the user disable the entered location from withing the configuration window. So that the original location reported by Google is used again. So far this is only possible by deactivating the whole extension.
• Implement a log window, which let’s you see the data transferred to and from Google’s Geolocation Service when the location is not overridden by the extension. (Needs above feature first)
Please let me know if you can think of any other useful feature or if you find any bugs by leaving a comment below or contact me at norbert AT netzgewitter DOT com.
1. Drew says:
Good job,
I'm also in the lake :^)
2. Elaine says:
Holy cow this works great!! I was having trouble with the geo location add on with firefox, ,but this one is much easier and simpler. Also the other one malfunctioned and wouldn't allow me to choose from my saved location. This is perfect!!
3. al says:
How about every time you open Firefox, this extension offers a randomized location in a country you choose or, if you're using VPN, it offers co-ordinates that would match pretty well to your IP address? idk it that last one is possible but i like to obfuscate my data for the tracking and profiling companies.
Thanks. 🙂
4. Oto says:
Doesn't work for me on Firefox 24. Also links in configuration page are not working or dead.
5. Jacob says:
the latest versions of firefox do not allow the use of unverified plugins. The only workaround is to downgrade to Firefox 47.0.1 and disable automatic updates.
Or you could validate the plugin at:
Could you validate the plugin?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17006 | 'Move to Iran' Trends as Many Tell Rose McGowan to Leave America After Actress Apologizes to Iran on Twitter
Rose McGowan Faces Harsh Criticism After Apologizing to Iran on Twitter
Rose McGowan attends the Global Gift Gala 2019 at Four Seasons Hotel George V on June 03, 2019, in Paris, France. McGowan faced criticism on social media after tweeting an apology to Iran on January 3, 2019. Marc Piasecki/Getty Images
Rose McGowan's tweeted apology to Iran early Friday morning was met with swift and harsh backlash on Twitter.
"Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani," McGowan tweeted along with a gif of a waving Iranian flag.
Her apology followed confirmation that President Donald Trump ordered the drone strike on Baghdad that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force.
McGowan's message sparked instant outrage from Twitter users who pointed out Soleimani's controversial history of aligning with terrorist organizations in the Middle East and ordering the killing of Americans. The Pentagon also recently said Soleimani and the Quds Force were to blame for the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad on December 31. Some even suggested she move to Iran.
McGowan responded by noting Soleimani "was an evil evil man who did evil evil things," but suggested the Trump administration's handling of the situation did more harm to Americans than good.
"The United States is morally corrupt and acts illegally. It is only logical to appeal to Iran's pride by apologizing. I'm taking one for the team. #TeamStayAlive," she wrote.
Hundreds of people blasted McGowan for the tweets, which they deemed were "un-American."
"You think Iran gives two craps what some girl from Charmed says? You're not taking one for the team. You're betraying the ones killed by terrorists to defend your freedom," one user wrote.
Several others used the trending hashtags #DearRose and #MoveToIran to suggest McGowan leave the country since she was so displeased with America's efforts in the Middle East.
"Dear Rose McGowan, You can 'escape' the USA, you treasonous psycho, by immediately moving to Iran," one user wrote.
Another said: "Dear Rose, you're obviously not an intelligent person but in case you didn't know; Iran funds terrorist organizations meanwhile its citizens are suffering. Feel free to go live there if you hate your own country so much. Have some respect for the country I served."
Some people thought McGowan's words were particularly disrespectful to the thousands of American soldiers who have died in the Middle East because of Soleimani and his regime.
"Dear @rose, you just spit on the graves of soldiers my brothers in arms that never made it home. You put politics before your countrymen and have no loyalty to the country you call home. You're a disgrace to this country and don't deserve to be a citizen #usa," one person wrote.
McGowan responded to some of the criticism by insisting she wasn't choosing the side most likely to survive the odds of war. "I do not side with Iran, but I most definitely do not side with the USA," she wrote.
McGowan has not yet responded to Newsweek's request for comment via Twitter. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17077 | Cancer that Occurs in the Stomach
Stomach cancer - also known as gastric cancer or gastric carcinoma - is rare in North America. Stomach cancer mostly affects older people - the average age of diagnosis is 68. It is often diagnosed at an advanced stage because it has few symptoms.
Most stomach cancers begin in the mucus-producing cells that line the stomach. This type of cancer is called adenocarcinoma.
The Gastrointestinal Oncology disease team specialists at the Penn State Cancer Institute are committed to the early detection and management of this disease. Our team includes not only doctors but social workers, nutritionists, physical therapists, psychologists and palliative care providers.
Treatment options depend on how advanced stomach cancer is when it is detected.
• If stomach cancer is detected very early and has not spread, surgery to remove cancerous tumors is generally recommended.
• If the cancer involves deeper layers of the stomach and possibly the surrounding lymph nodes, surgery with chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells is generally recommended.
• If the tumor cannot be surgically removed, chemotherapy and radiation therapy to destroy cancerous cells may be recommended.
• If the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, palliative treatment options include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and clinical trials.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
Stomach cancer is cancer that starts in the stomach.
Common signs of stomach cancer include:
• Fatigue
• Feeling bloated after eating
• Feeling full after eating small amounts of food
• Severe, persistent heartburn
• Severe indigestion that is always present
• Unexplained, persistent nausea
• Stomach pain
• Persistent vomiting
• Unintentional weight loss
Some tests to diagnose stomach cancer include:
• Upper endoscopy. A thin tube containing a tiny camera is passed down your throat and into your stomach. This allows your doctor to look for signs of cancer. If any suspicious areas are found, a piece of tissue can be collected for analysis (biopsy).
The stage of your stomach cancer helps your doctor decide which treatments may be best for you. As cancer grows from the mucosa into deeper layers, the stage becomes more advanced and the prognosis is not as good.
Tests and procedures used to determine the stage of cancer include:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17105 | Arata Isozaki 2019 Pritzker Prize
The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international award that can be bestowed upon an architect. It is considered the “Nobel of architecture”.
This year, 2019, the prize was awarded to Arata Isozaki, one of Japan’s most outstanding architects.
Thanks to his innovative ideas and amazing work, he has influenced an entire generation of architecture professionals. .
Arata Isozaki was born in Japan in 1931 and as a child lived through the war and post-war period. .
He arrived at architecture after studying to be an engineer, which gave him an approach and perspective of architecture, in which his desire to understand how things work stood out. He has not followed trends, preferring to forge his own path. .
From the early 1960s with a brutalist architecture and thereafter with architectural works with an outstanding modern engineering component. .
He was a disciple of Kenzo Tanje and was one of the first Japanese architects to exchange knowledge with the west and build outside of Japan.
Since the 1960s he has built over 100 works around the world (Europe, Asia, Australia, America…), some of which are 20th century icons. Of his works in Spain, the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona stands out. It was built for the 1992 Olympic Games and is a work that used a system of structures (Patadome system) that enables a building’s roof to detach in a simple manner. .
Fuente: BBC
The Pritzker Prize seems to alternate recognising a career, where applicable, with awarding architects with very consolidated work but still a long way to go. . |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17155 | In the era of digital marketing, setting up an online presence is a necessity for those companies looking to be found by their customers. Maybe you just started your fence company, or you’ve been in business for decades. No matter the case, you need an online presence. Many businesses are completely in the dark when it comes to anything to do with digital marketing, but we are here to help! It’s easier than you might think.
Create a website for your fence company
The first step to creating an online presence for your fence company is to create a website. There are tools and platforms that make this an easier process, such as Wix or WordPress. Even Google helps you put a basic website together so you can be found. What should you include on your website? If you’re just trying to get a website up and running, the most basic items you need on your website are the services you offer, the areas you work in, pictures of your work, testimonials and how your customers can contact you. Don’t get caught up in the design aspect of it, you can always make it look better after the basic information is uploaded. If you have the budget or know someone that is tech savvy, hire someone to build a website for you. They will design the website with your brand in mind, including your colors, logo and general feel of your business. This will give validity to your fence company and something to be proud of.
So you have a website, how will your fence company be found online?
There are multiple ways to get found online, but if you’re just starting out- stick to the basics. Write the content on your website around search friendly terms (keywords) that you want to be found for. Words such as “Denver Fence Company” will help your website get ranked and pull up higher in search results when people search that term. Although SEO (search engine optimization) is way more in depth than just having the correct words on your website, this is a good starting point if you don’t have the budget to pay for true SEO.
Consistently writing blogs and uploading new content to your website with your desired keywords will help the performance of your website in search engines. Blogs can be centered around different services you offer, a specific project you have completed or observations you have in the industry. Whatever the case, make sure you use those keywords throughout your blog – or if you have the budget, hire someone to help with your blog optimization.
Free ways for your fence company to be found online
Gone are the days where Facebook was just something the kids did when they were bored or for sharing family photos. Facebook is a powerful tool for your business if you know how to use it. Having the budget to spend money towards ads on Facebook is helpful, but there are ways to achieve success without spending a dime. Make sure your Facebook page is set up in a way that people will easily be able to know what you do. Have the name of your company, pictures of your work and the easiest way to get in touch with you. Many customers prefer to communicate via Facebook, so make sure the Facebook Messenger app is available on your mobile devices so you can respond to customers on the go.
Post relevant content 1-5 times per day to grow your audience. Share photos of your work, educate your audience and share some love with fellow fence companies or people in your industry that you admire. It’s a social game- so make sure you are nice to everyone and have good intentions. People can feel when a company is genuine and are more likely to work with you.
Instagram is also a very powerful tool for businesses in 2019. Similar to Facebook, make sure your Instagram account is set up as a business account and is linked to your Facebook page. Have the most relevant information on your account such as your fence company name, location, phone number, website and what you do. Instagram is a photo sharing platform so make sure you are constantly taking photos of your work. You can also use tools like Canva to design graphics with your logo on them or sayings that are meaningful to you or your business. Instagram is even more social than Facebook so follow, follow, follow. One of the quickest ways to get followers for your own page is to follow others and show them love. You can use apps like Repost to share other people’s work- but make sure you’re always crediting the original source.
These are just a few examples of ways to set up your online presence for your fence company. Stay tuned for part 2, as we dive into more ways to be seen online! |
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Categoria: Strategy – English Version
Military virtues – An individual perspective – 3
By Ssolbergj – The vexilloid of the Roman Empire
Always keeping in mind the importance of the classical period of Roman history, Vegetius suggests that the best soldiers are peasants in peace: they are more accustomed to the harsh reality of hard work for surviving, to the difficulties of a merciless and uncomfortable life. They are also well-motivated people not to die because they have a lot to lose. Even if it was not the subject of (fairly recent) studies, it was already clear in the past that humans considers the fear of loosing more relevant for making decision than betting to get something more. One strives for the defense of what already owns, rather than the love of risk for something better. According to the studies of neuroeconomics, this is true for a ratio of 2/1, so that peasants already have several virtues useful from a military point of view.
Vegetius and the principles of war – 2
Vegetius’ analysis is grounded on three main assumptions. They are the conditions to define a good army:
(EB) An army is good if and only if
(a) is organized rationally,
(b) each unit is efficient in relation to its role,
(c) is able to have sufficient means to act.
Points (a) and (b) are poorly formulated because they already imply and require a quality assessment, which makes the Vegetius’ definition slightly circular – it implies already an account of what a good army is even though he is explaining exactly that point. However, at least in the first glance, these principles immediately able to be grasped by anyone who is not a philosopher who naturally needs more rigor. In any case, let’s eliminate the problematic terms (“rational” and “efficient”) to obtain greater clarity regarding our topic:
The Art of War – Publio Flavio Vegezio Renato – 1
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The Art of War (De rei militaris or Epitoma de rei militaris) is a classic of war studies. It has a particular descriptive value and not strictly strategic, that is, not so much focused on a normative dimension (principles of war and what I’ve called pure theory of war). Publio Flavio Vegezio Renato (from now only Vegetius, as it is universally known in English) is not substantially interested in general and strategic elements of war and “military art”. Therefore, he is not so much interested in what we would say today the part of war most connected with the state politics (or an empire) or concerning the nature of the strategic planning of the military campaign. Rather, he is a historian and tactician of the classical Roman era. Let it be said straight away that the Vegetius’ Art of the war is not a text written in the Rome’s Republican period but during the epigonic phase of the empire (4th century AD). The influence of the classical Roman period (understood in the period between the monarchic and the republican period up to Augustus included in this broad concept of Latin classicism) extends for all the pages of the work of Vegetius. He was far by considering the Roman imperial mandate as ended with the center of gravitation of civilization. He tries to find the reasons why the ancient Roman armies had made the city the center of the known world (by the Romans). |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17216 | Once an application for Building Permit is ready to be made, the Approved Certifier of Design (Building Structures) generates a certificate from the SER system.
The certificate fee is a charge by SER to the client, but it is the member's responsibility to collect the certificate fee.
Initial certificate fees
In order to obtain a certificate, a fee must be paid. SER charges a flat rate of £73 for each certificate.
Additional certificate fees
Subsequent certificates associated with the same project cost £73.
Are there any differences between old and new certificates? +
There is now only 1 type of certificate rather than the previous 3. Where conversion work is included in the work certified this will be recorded on the certificate. The description of works should detail the new build, alteration/extension, and conversion elements of the project.
When creating a certificate Certifiers will be asked to identify the Risk Group of the building being certified and this will be recorded on the certificate. Risk Groups RG2A, RG2B and RG3 correspond to Risk Classifications RC2A, RC2B and RC3 for disproportionate collapse. RC1 is split into two Risk Groups RG1A and RG1B, with RG1B covering houses or extensions to houses of larger size or non-traditional construction. Guidance Note 8 - Guidance on the use of the Building Risk Group Matrix, gives further information on this and links Risk Groups to the level of checking required.
Can I access my old certificates? +
All of your certificates are accessible on the new system and can be downloaded in their original form from the certificate status report on your user home page. You are also able to create amendments to permit and add further stages to these legacy certificates.
Can I pay online? +
Yes, we prefer that all payments are made online where possible.
There is also provision to pay via cheque. For payments over £1,000 we are also able to accept payment via BACS.
Can Sole Practitioners produce certificates? +
Sole Practitioners may certify provided they are registered as both an Approved Certifier and an Approved Body.
Have the fees changed? +
Certificate fees for the Jersey Scheme have not changed.
They remain at a flat rate of £73 for all certificates |
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Diverticular Disease: What is it, Symptoms, Causes, Treatments | Singapore General Hospital
Diverticular Disease - What it is
Diverticular disease of the colon is a common condition that affects mainly patients above the age of 40. Only a small percentage of those with diverticulosis have symptoms and even fewer will ever require surgery.
Diverticula are pockets that develop in the colon wall. It may involve only part of the colon or the entire colon. Diverticulosis describes the presence of these pockets. Diverticulitis describes inflammation or complications of these pockets.
Diverticular Disease - Symptoms
Many patients with diverticular disease have no symptoms at all. Some patients may have abdominal pain, diarrhoea, or change in the bowel habits. Occasionally, there may be bleeding. Diverticulitis -- an infection of the diverticula -- may cause pain, fever and change in bowel habits. More severe symptoms can occur with complications such as perforation, abscess, or fistula formation (connection between the large intestine with another organ).
Diverticular Disease - How to prevent?
Diverticular Disease - Causes and Risk Factors
Causes of diverticular disease
It is believed that inadequate fibre in the diet creates a high pressure in the colon. This pressure then causes pockets or diverticula of the colon.
Diverticular Disease - Diagnosis
Diverticular Disease - Treatments
Diverticulosis and diverticular disease are usually treated by changes in your diet and occasionally, some medicine to help control pain, cramps and changes in bowel habits. Increasing the amount of fibre (e.g. fruits and vegetables), reduces the pressures in the colon, and complications are less likely to occur. However, these measures do not get rid of the diverticula once they are formed.
Diverticulitis usually requires hospitalisation. Treatment usually consists of oral antibiotic or dietary restrictions and possibly stool softeners. Severe cases require injections of antibiotics and strict dietary restraints. Most attacks can be relieved with such methods. For mild cases, your doctor may treat you without hospitalisation.
Surgery is reserved for recurrent episodes, complications or severe attacks when there is little or no response to medication. Young patients and patients with a severe episode have a higher chance of recurrent attacks and may be advised surgery.
In surgery, usually part of the colon, commonly the left or sigmoid colon, is removed and the colon is joined to the rectum. Complete recovery can be expected. Normal bowel function usually resumes in about three weeks.
Diverticular Disease - Preparing for surgery
Diverticular Disease - Post-surgery care
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How to use Snapchat
Your first steps with Snapchat
How to use Snapchat
Snapchat is a picture messaging service with a difference. After a set time chosen by yourself, your Snapchat message – or Snap – disappears, and is removed from Snapchat's servers.
Since its launch Snapchat has gone from strength to strength. Over 700 million photos and videos per day are sent using the application, and Snapchat Stories – a blog-like feature where you can post content for your friends to see for 24 hours – are viewed around 500 million times every single day.
If you've not yet tried Snapchat, this tutorial shows you how to set up and use Snapchat, taking you through the basics of finding your friends, editing pictures and sending Snaps.
How to use Snapchat
1. Set up your account
Download and open the Snapchat app for either the Apple iPhone or your Android device. If you don't have an account, you need to set one up.
The process is straightforward. You have to fill in details such as your email address, date of birth and the username by which you will be known on Snapchat.
You also have to verify your phone number, by SMS or a call. When verified, give Snapchat permission to access your Contacts app to find your friends.
How to use Snapchat
2. Connect with your friends
Snapchat lists all the people in your Contacts who also use Snapchat, by matching the phone numbers they registered with Snapchat's database with the numbers listed in your Contacts.
The people in your Contacts who don't use Snapchat are also listed. You can invite them to use the app too by tapping the envelope icon next to their names.
How to use Snapchat
3. Take pictures and videos
After registering, when you first open Snapchat, you get a camera screen. To take a photo, tap the big circle. To record a video, press and hold it, releasing it to stop the recording.
The icons at the top turn the flash on and off , and toggle between the front- and rear-facing cameras. The ones in the bottom corners take you to your feed list or your friends list.
How to use Snapchat
4. Edit and save your Snaps
You can caption a Snap; tap anywhere on the picture, and type. When you're done, tap the picture again to remove the keyboard, and drag the caption up or down to position it.
You can draw and doodle on the image by tapping the pencil icon in the top-right, or abandon it without sending by tapping the cross in the top-left.
The down-pointing chevron at the foot of the screen saves it to your photo library.
How to use Snapchat
5. Setting seconds and sending
To set the number of seconds your Snap can be viewed before it disappears, tap the icon in the bottom-left – it's a circle with a number in it.
You can set it so the recipient can see it for between one and ten seconds before vanishing. When you're done, tap the chevron in the bottom-right to be taken to your friends list.
Tap the square next to the name of everyone you want to send it to, then tap the chevron again to send it.
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6. Snapchat Stories
A Snapchat Story is a Snap that's shared with all your friends, and is viewable an unlimited number of times for 24 hours after you post it.
Think of it as a Snapchat blog. To send a Snap as a Story, tap the icon in the bottom-centre, the one that looks like a box with a plus in it.
You're asked whether you want to send it as a Story. To view your friends' Stories, tap on a friend's name that has a circle next to it.
How to use Snapchat
7. Friends and Settings
From the camera screen, tap the three-lined icon in the bottom-right or swipe left to get to the Friends screen. Tap a friend's name, then the cog to edit the screen name, or delete or block that contact.
You can add new friends by pressing the icon in the top-right. From the next screen, invite people in your contacts to join Snapchat or search for friends by their username.
To get to the Settings screen, tap the icon in the bottom-left, or swipe then tap the cog in the top-right.
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8. Feed page icons
The feed page, titled Snapchat, lists the Snaps you've sent and received. A red icon has no audio, a purple one has audio, and a blue one is a chat.
A solid arrow means it was sent by you. An arrow outline means it has been opened by the recipient. A square icon is received by you; a square outline received and opened. An exploding arrow means a screenshot was taken of your Snap, and a circular arrow shows that the Snap has been replayed.
9. Snapchat filters
One of the most fun parts of using Snapchat is using filters within the app. When using the selfie camera, press down on your face and a 3D map will appear where your face is in the image.
You'll then be able cover your face in silly augmented reality images and send them to your mates. Hold down the Snapchat record button and some filters will move when you send them to your mates.
10. Catch up on the news
Snapchat now has a featured content section that offers up a selection of news sites with tailored content for the Snapchat platform. It can include quizzes, listicles and even videos created just for Snapchat.
Brands such as Vice, IGN and many others are included here, and you'll find it by pressing on the Stories button in the bottom right of the main Snapchat menu. You'll then need to scroll down past your Friend's stories to find the tailored brand's profiles.. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17360 | person on grass
In today’s always-on workplace, where being busy is a badge of honor and around-the-clock availability has become the norm, employees who seek a healthy work-life balance can get a bad rap.
Those who try to find the balance between personal quality of life and career success are sometimes accused of seeming lazy and uncommitted. There’s an assumption that people who want balance are skirting responsibility, while in most cases, they’re really just trying to engineer a workday that promotes long-term productivity and keeps their motivation and focus high.
It’s no wonder, then, that so many of us fail to speak up when we’re feeling burned out or want more flexibility in our day-to-day; we fear being labeled the office slacker.
So how can you achieve work-life balance without seeming like you’re bailing on your responsibilities? The secret is working more strategically, so you can excel at your job and have more time for your life outside of the office.
Here are some tips to help you navigate working smarter and more efficiently—rather than harder and longer—to both avoid burnout and deflect any question of your work ethic.
1. Remember Parkinson’s Law
According to Parkinson’s Law, work expands to fill the time available for its completion. If you give yourself until the end of the day to write a report, guess what? It’ll most likely take you until the end of the day.
This illustrates the importance of setting boundaries for your projects. To avoid spending more time on tasks than is really necessary, you have to learn to implement more structure, so you can work efficiently—not constantly.
Try this: Instead of leisurely spending the first 30 minutes of the day checking email, give yourself five minutes to process as many messages as you can.
Or, schedule your day creatively by using enjoyable personal or social activities to sandwich your to-do list. For example, make plans to attend an art class or meet a friend after work to put a hard stop on the time you leave the office. Limiting the amount of time you have available to crush your tasks can push your focus through the roof.
2. Eliminate the Urgent, Not the Important
Before you start working on a project, make sure you have a clear sense of why you’re doing it and the tangible outcome or impact you expect to achieve. Often, “urgent” tasks, like emails, phone calls, or emergency meetings can keep us on a perpetual hamster wheel, while important tasks that actually contribute to long-term mission and goals get pushed to the wayside.
So before you dive in to any task, ask yourself the hard question, “Do I actually need to do this?” You may find you’ve been superfluously tracking metrics or busying yourself with projects that could be trashed—which could free up significant time for you to focus on what really matters.
3. Create Systems
If you complete any activity or task more than once, document your process from start to finish. Not only will this save you time the next time you have to replicate that assignment, but it’ll also help you get a clearer view of which tasks you can delegate.
Routinized, repeatable projects—such as filing reports in a certain way or formatting a presentation to fit your company’s template—are perfect targets for delegation since they include clear instructions and are generic enough that you don’t have to be the person who completes them.
The same goes for your personal life, too. For example, if you host a birthday party every year, make a note of when to send out invitations and to whom, when to decide on a venue, and which friends to call to help with different aspects of the planning and set-up. This will save you time and stress in the long run.
4. Know Your Lazy Hours
Most of us realize that we’re more productive at certain times of the day, but the key to benefitting from this information is being able to identify those times and adapt your schedule around slumps.
Over the next few weeks, pay attention to the times when you’re at peak productivity and when you’re the least motivated.
Do you power through the morning, but hit a wall just before lunch? Are you mentally checked out from work tasks around 5 PM in favor of trolling the internet? These are your lazy hours. Once you figure out your peaks and valleys, you can set yourself up for success by structuring your days so that you’re tackling the most important, attention-grabbing work before or after your slow blocks. (If you’re struggling with this, this quiz can help.)
5. Set Expectations Early and Often
Straightforward, candid, and frequent communication with your boss and team is essential for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. They should understand exactly what you’re working on, what types of tasks you don’t work on, and what they can and can’t expect from you when you’re working from home, during the weekend, or when you’re on vacation.
For example, rather than giving the general expectation that you’ll be traveling for a few days and will have limited access to email, specify your availability and the best way to reach you (an out-of-office message is good for that). Getting more specific by saying, “I will be traveling and available via email from 10 AM until 12 PM. After 12 PM, please reach me by phone,” helps avoid miscommunications and ensures you’ll be pinged at times that won’t interfere with your other plans.
As long as you share your boundaries in the spirit of team collaboration and transparency, your co-workers will appreciate—and respect—your honesty.
6. Outsource Your Life
Free time is precious. When you have downtime, you want it to be restorative—but that can’t happen if you’re running around looking for an open washing machine, waiting in line at the grocery store, and cleaning your apartment.
When your downtime becomes just as stressful as your workday, you can create more time for yourself by outsourcing errands to others. These days, there’s an app for everything, and depending on how busy you are, the benefits of hiring someone’s services can seriously outweigh the costs. Too busy to cook? Look into a meal delivery service. Laundry piling up? Send it out to be cleaned professionally. Apartment cleaning, home improvement, grocery shopping, errand-running—you name it, there’s a service for that.
Work-life balance is incredibly important for your physical and mental health, and it’s perfectly reasonable to fight for it. When you’re able to spend more time doing the things you love, you’re better equipped to confront challenges when they arise. And having time for activities outside of work will help stoke your creativity in the office and propose out of the-box-ideas. And altogether, this will make you a more productive, more valuable, healthier, and happier employee. |
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How To Know When She’s Flirting Back
How to know when she's flirting back
How to Tell if a Woman is Flirting with You
Let’s face it boys, sometimes we just don’t know when a girl is hitting on us.
This can actually become truer if you’re always the one approaching and initiating the conversation. Even if you’re getting numbers, dates and hooking up, you’re probably just thinking, “oh, I did a really good job of hitting on her.” Totally oblivious to the possibility that maybe she was just really into you.
Believe it or not, every now and then, but merit of you not trying at all, a girl will become interested and hit on you.
So how can you tell when the tables have turned and she’s the one flirting with you?
The signs a woman likes you are really not all that different from when you’re hitting on here.
1. She asks you questions.
She asks about you, your hobbies, your job, your interests, if you have any wild stories. She wants to know more about you, because she’s interested and she wants keep you talking and keep you around.
2. She remembers your name instantly.
And she uses it a lot. This is because she wants you to remember her. She’ll also ask you at some point, “do you remember my name?” So you better be paying attention, but don’t miss a chance to flirt back and purposefully, jokingly guess her name wrong (be obviously way off).
3. She wants to stick around.
“Oh you’re getting a drink? I’ll get a drink too? The patio? Sure I could use some air.”
She doesn’t want you out of her sight. Does this require an explanation?
4. She’ll keep ‘bumping into you’.
See above.
5. She fidgets and plays with her hair.
Playing with hair is one of the most common fidgets that a girl will do while hitting on you. It’s because of nervous energy. She wants you to like her back.
6. She’ll tease you and test you.
Women will neg you! How about that? The reason they do this is because they want to make sure that their interest is not misplaced.
They’re double-checking to make sure that you’re not just a walking façade and that you’re as sexy and confident as you appear to be and that they hope that you are.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17412 | The Benefits of Multithreaded Programming
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Some of the benefits of multithreaded programming are given as follows −
Multithreaded Programming
• Resource Sharing
All the threads of a process share its resources such as memory, data, files etc. A single application can have different threads within the same address space using resource sharing.
• Responsiveness
Program responsiveness allows a program to run even if part of it is blocked using multithreading. This can also be done if the process is performing a lengthy operation. For example - A web browser with multithreading can use one thread for user contact and another for image loading at the same time.
• Utilization of Multiprocessor Architecture
In a multiprocessor architecture, each thread can run on a different processor in parallel using multithreading. This increases concurrency of the system. This is in direct contrast to a single processor system, where only one process or thread can run on a processor at a time.
• Economy
It is more economical to use threads as they share the process resources. Comparatively, it is more expensive and time-consuming to create processes as they require more memory and resources. The overhead for process creation and management is much higher than thread creation and management.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17418 | CCN meeting | Antonia Hamilton (University College London, UK)
30-01-2020 from 13:00 to 14:00
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Social signalling as a framework for understanding human non-verbal behaviour
Face to face social interactions between two people involve a rich exchange of verbal and non-verbal signals, but the cognitive and neural mechanisms supporting dynamic interactions remain poorly understood. This talk will use a social signalling framework to make sense of one particularly social behaviour – imitation – which has been described as a ‘social glue’ that causes affiliation and liking. However, it is not clear what cognitive and brain mechanisms could link imitation to affiliation. By placing the ‘social glue’ hypothesis within a signalling framework, it is possible to make specific testable predictions for how and why we imitate. First, to act as social glue, imitation should be produced when another person is watching and can receive the imitation signal. Second, the person watching should change their evaluation of the imitator. I will describe a series of studies which test the first of these predictions in detail, using a behavioural and neuroimaging methods with infants, children, typical adults and adults with autism spectrum condition. The results converge in showing that being watched increases the tendency to imitate, and supports the interpretation of imitation as a signalling behaviour.
Building on this, the second part of this talk describes the new methods available to explore social signalling behaviour in live interactions. Using detailed motion capture together with wavelets analysis, we can track and quantify precise patterns of natural mimicry behaviour and other social cues in two person conversation. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy, we can record neural signatures of imitating and being imitated while freely-moving participants are engaged in naturalistic tasks. These new approaches can give deeper insights into the details of social behaviour and allow us to define the neural mechanisms of dynamic social interactions. Applying these methods and interpreting them within the context of a social signalling framework shows how we can turn the idea of ‘second person neuroscience’ into a concrete reality. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17420 | Airplane Engine Nozzle: Function, Properties and Heat Treatment
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The nozzle allows the air to flow out of the engine with extreme power. It is known for its role in creating the thrust. The hot airflow energy and the cold airflow around the engine core creates a force to cause the propulsion. Some nozzles on certain high-speed aircrafts can be located after a mixer which prevents the loud noise of the engine by combining both temperatures.
Nickel steel alloy is the material that most nozzles are produced from. This is due to the high strength which it can maintain through high temperatures. Its high melting point prevents corrosion and a faulty engine. This material also possess’ durability and reliability in bad environments. Various types of nickel alloys are used for example, Duranickels contain high amount of nickel alloys which contain more than 94% of nickel. If heated thermally, a duranickel may develop stronger. On the other side, a broad variety of mechanical characteristics and elevated corrosion resistance can be found in nickel-copper alloys.
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They withstand sub-zero temperatures which are free from stress-corrosion cracking when hardened. Also, nickel-chromium superalloys which are known for resistance to corrosion in high temperatures can be strengthened even more adding tungsten and columbium metals. These different alloys are used on nozzles because of high temperatures.
Nickel steel alloys undergo heat treatment procedures to restore stresses. This procedure restores ductility and reduce tensile properties strengthening the material to its original state or maybe stronger. The types of heat treatment are used depending on the design. Stress equalization is performed at reduced temperatures to balance stress with reduced mechanical strength in cold worked material.
Annealing occurs when an alloy heats up to 1300°F-2200°F. The temperature will be maintained for a while, followed by refrigeration. Annealing eliminates any material stress, decreases tensile strength and enhances ductility. Solution annealing is a high temperature anneal only for some alloys. Age hardening uses heat between 800°F-1600°F to change the solubility of an alloy. Alloys must remain in high temperatures for a long period of time for this procedure.
Nickel steel alloys were tested for thermal properties and discovered they expand during heat absorption like other materials. Even though they are intended to withstand heat due to their high melting points, they will expand from heat generated around 20°C to 1,000°C.
Alloys are not affected by weather as its properties can avoid corrosion and erosion. They are tough at temperatures below zero which the material gets hardened makes it free of stress-corrosion cracking. The materials are all tested under extreme weather conditions and heat treated before placing around the actual airplane engine. The nozzle is one of the hottest parts of the engine while running, which can prevent it from freezing up at low temperatures keeping the engine functional.
Firstly, annealing is used to manufacture nickel steel alloy and other similar alloys. Melt the base alloys for eight to twelve hours at 3000°F in a furnace. The molten steel should be annealed in a controlled sequence by quickly cooling and heating. Once done, it should be heated for four hours a further 1,000°F, then cooled for two hours at 35°F with water. Let the material cool for four hours in the air.
The steel must be immersed in a bath of hydrofluoric acid. Repeat the method for Annealing. The steel should be heated at 3,000 ° F for eight hours afterwards. Pour the molten incomplete steel into casts, blooms, billets and plates, cast it into moulds and let it cool down for four hours. Moreover, the steel blooms, billets and slabs cool down to 200 ° F through a fast-moving conveyor belt. Alternate between cooling and pushing through a sequence of rollers in the air. Roll blooms, billets and slabs through heated rollers to cut off the ends and burn off defects. Roll the blooms in the steel bar, the billets in the wire, the strips and slabs in the steel and steel sheet. Roll the steel through hot presses to a dull finish or send it through a series of hot and cold presses to a polished finish.
Cut the steel to the item and tolerances of the end user and split it into orders. The steel will be further processed by other production plants and the end products will be produced. Use industrial shears for cutting steel wire, sheet steel and strips, and use industrial steel bar saws. Cut through steel plate with industrial plasma torches or ionized gas torches. Cut down the final product of rail shipping, so the steel weighs anywhere from a few hundred lbs. Whether sheeting of steel, steel wire, plate of steel or bar of steel, up to 40 tonnes.
The aquatic environment only gets affected by nickel because it is classified as a heavy metal. It does not affect the local environment immediately. Even though the nickel does not affect the fish or animals it can affect the water quality by being in the soil or base of the river or sea.
Smart materials such as shape memory alloys can switch with specific triggers such as extremely hot temperatures from one shape to another which can also be a downside as its form can be changed. Economic high-temperature memory alloys used to work at temperatures up to about 400°C.
All together I think nickel steel alloy is the best material to be used for the nozzle as it goes through high temperatures and does not get damaged. Even though it does not affect the environment as much as other material it can be safe to use. Manufacturing wise it is complicated to produce due to the circumstances of the time that needs to be spent for the material to heat and cool. And even more it can withstand harsh weather preventing the engine from being faulty.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17424 | Is it Legal to Drive Without Insurance?
No!In almost all states, having a valid auto insurance policy is required. Even if you reside in one the few states that do not specifically demand you have an insurance policy, all states also have financial responsibility laws. This means that even if you live in a state that does not require a liability insurance policy, you still need to have sufficient assets to pay claims arising if you ...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17462 | It's the most hyper-busy time of the year. Holiday shopping, hosting and travel preparations. Year-end financial moves. A mountain of work to finish before using up any final vacation days. For once, the all too common "I'm just so busy" gripe feels like a legitimate complaint.
But most of the year, it has taken on the feel of an overused humblebrag, a self-deprecating yet showy effort to tout one's own importance, value and desirability at work or among friends. In our information-drenched, 24/7 work workplaces, where time for leisure has become an even scarcer commodity for many professionals than money to buy luxury goods, being "so busy" seems to be a badge of honor, a status symbol in our always-on world.
Now researchers from Columbia, Georgetown and Harvard universities say that's exactly what it is, with "busyness" replacing conspicuous consumption as a public marker for our worth. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, based on a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Consumer Research, the trio argue that "busyness" is an actual way people signal their importance -- and that marketers are responding to it.
In experiments, they found that participants thought of people who were described as working longer hours as having higher status. They also tended to put brands or products that offer convenience or multi-tasking on a level with those known simply for being expensive.
"Luxury goods are losing signaling value" as more people can afford them, said Silvia Bellezza, a professor of marketing at Columbia University who co-authored the paper. Talking about a scarcity of time is "a more nuanced way to display [importance] that doesn't go through conspicuous consumption. It's implicitly telling you that 'I am very important, and my human capital is sought after, which is why I'm so busy.' "
Bellezza's research conducted several studies to see how "busyness" influences status. In a series of experiments, she and her colleagues asked respondents to rate the social status of a person described as working long hours at work versus one who has a more leisurely lifestyle. Again and again, participants rated the person who worked more as having more social status, even when the person the researchers asked about was thought to work slowly. In other words, getting the work done fast and having more time for leisure was not something associated with prestige.
That tendency to see people who work many hours as more prominent is something that likely influences how many managers see their people. While it's difficult to do, Bellezza says managers should "shift as much as possible their attention to what people are producing, rather than how long they're in the office." Her own experience in past jobs was a reminder of how rarely that happens: Her boss told her all he wanted was to see results -- "but then it wasn't true," with him telling her "the junior shouldn't leave before the boss."
The study also found that brands associated with helping people deal with their busyness can also take on higher status. They compared what more than 450 respondents thought about a middle-aged consumer who shopped at an online grocery service like Peapod, the high-end grocery store Whole Foods, or a middle-of-the-road store like Trader Joe's. Both Whole Foods and Peapod were seen as having more status than Trader Joe's, but were on par with each other in how consumers viewed them.
"Shopping online conveys that the person doesn’t have time to shop, and that operates as a signal of status," Bellezza said. Likewise, in another experiment, people wearing a Bluetooth headset, which acts as a display of professional multi-tasking, switching between talking and listening to music, were seen as higher status than those wearing traditional headphones, which are more associated with leisure time.
Some brands have already tried to use that dynamic in their advertising. She points to a Cadillac ad from 2014 starring actor Neal McDonough that touted American achievement and hard work, even finishing with "as for all the stuff, that's the upside of only taking two weeks off in August." She believes we're likely to see even more ads "where you see these products that have nothing to do with [being busy], but they're implicitly telling people they’re important because their time is scarce."
Bellezza also did a comparative study in the paper of how American subjects versus those in Italy perceived busyness at work. Unsurprisingly, they saw the reverse among Italian respondents, with busyness at work being less of a status symbol, similar to the way it was a century ago, when leisure time was the mark of the good life.
Of course, the more people brag about how busy they are, the more common it becomes, and as that happens, particularly in workaholic cultures, status symbols, just like fashions, are likely to change, Bellezza says. "It becomes mainstream," Bellezza says. "For signals of status to operate, they need to be visible and they need to be costly. And visibility is compromised if everyone else is doing it too."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17469 | FARM Supports DjangoGirls Manchester
16th February 2016
It was amazing how much progress I was seeing - people going from zero programming experience to a complete website, hosted in the cloud, in just one day. I'm so pleased to have been part of this.
Jon Atkinson, Technical Director- FARM Digital Ltd.
Last Saturday, FARM participated in DjangoGirls Manchester.
Django Girls is a non-profit organization and a community that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. They are a volunteer run organization with hundreds of people contributing to bring more amazing women into the world of technology. DjangoGirls are making technology more approachable by creating simpler tools and resources designed with empathy.
During the event, around 20 people built their first web application using HTML, CSS, Python and Django. For a lot of the participants, it was their first exposure to a lot of technology; from using the terminal, to how the internet works.
We're proud to be associated with this event, and we're looking forward to being involved again the next time DjangoGirls visits Manchester.
Thank you to Claire Dodd and Leona So for organising and hosting a great day. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17478 | Poker is a popular game that’s easy to learn but difficult to master. Although it’s a card game, poker is also a game of strategy, and you'll need to constantly read the other players to decide when to fold, when to bluff, and when to call someone else’s bluff. There are many variations of poker, but Texas Hold’em is the most popular. While each variation has its own rules, the basics of the game are always the same. All you have to do is master the basics - then you can start developing your own winning strategy!
Part 1 of 4:
Playing a Round of Texas Hold'em
1. 1
Learn the 10 basic 5-card hands and their ranking. No matter what type of poker you play, the hands will always be the same. To start familiarizing yourself with the different hands, print out a "cheat sheet" and study it. Then, memorize the different hands so you can easily recognize them. Here are the winning poker hands, from highest to lowest:
• The highest-ranking hand is a royal flush (the royal straight flush). This hand includes a 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace of the same suit, one kind (all clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades). It can only be tied but not beaten by the royal flush of another suit.
• A straight flush is made up of 5 consecutive cards of the same suit.
• 4 of a kind means you have 4 cards of the same rank (but different suits, of course) and a fifth card of any rank (such as 4 aces and a 9). If you have 4 aces, then no one can have any hand with an ace, so that no royal flush is available.
• A full house contains 3 matching cards of 1 rank and 2 matching cards of another rank.
• A flush contains any 5 cards of the same suit. These skip around in rank or sequence, but are from the same suit.
• A straight contains 5 cards of consecutive rank but from more than one suit.
• 3 of a kind means you have 3 cards of the same rank, plus two unmatched cards.
• 2 pair is made up of two cards of one rank, plus two cards of another rank (different from the first pair), plus one unmatched card.
• Pair means you have 2 cards of the same rank, plus 3 other unmatched cards.
• High card is the lowest-ranking (called a "nothing") hand, when no two cards have the same rank, the five cards are not consecutive, and they are not all from the same suit.
Tip: Keep in mind that if two people face off with the same type of hand, the hand with the higher-ranking cards wins. If the hands have the exact same ranks of cards (suit does not matter), it is a tie and the prize, if any, is split evenly.
2. 2
Place the blinds (starting bets) or "ante up." In poker, bets are placed at the beginning of the game in one of 2 ways. In Texas Hold’em, the player next to the dealer typically places a small blind bet that’s half of the usual minimum bet, while the player to that person’s left places a big blind that’s at least the minimum bet. As another option, each player can “ante up” the minimum starting bet, which means placing a minimum starting bet into the pool.[1]
• Aside from Texas Hold’em, most poker variants use an “ante up” system.
3. 3
Look at the 2 cards the dealer gives you, which is your hand. The dealer will "burn" the first card on the deck, which means placing it out of play. Then, they'll pass out 2 cards to each player. Check your cards to see what you're holding.[2]
• In poker, the dealer will burn a card every round of dealing. That way, it’s harder for players to anticipate what card is coming up and the game becomes more of a gamble.
• The dealer will always pass out the cards in a clockwise direction, starting on the left.
Tip: Players don’t show their hands to anyone else until they reach the showdown. Even if another player is out, it’s best to keep your cards a secret. You don’t want them to accidentally (or purposely) reveal the value of your cards.
4. 4
Bet, call, or raise after each round is dealt if you want to. Every time the dealer puts out new cards, you'll make a bet, with the first bet being made solely based on the two cards the players have in their hands. Betting happens in a circle – when it's your turn to bet, you have a few options. At this point you can:[3]
• Place an initial bet if no one else has yet.
• Say "check" to avoid betting.
• Say "call" to match the bet someone else has made.
• Say "fold" if someone else has bet and you don't want to match their bet. If you fold, turn your cards into the dealer face-down to avoid giving the other players any advantages!
5. 5
Look at the “flop” to see if you have a good hand. After the first round of betting, the dealer will "burn" the top card on the deck. Then, they'll put 3 cards face-up on the table, which is called the "flop." These are the community cards that every player can use to build their hand. Compare these cards and the cards in your hand, then place a bet, call a bet, or fold.[4]
• In total, the dealer will reveal 5 cards. You will have 7 cards total to use to create your best hand of 5: your two personal cards in your hands, and the five community cards on the table. While your luck can turn later on in a game, take some time to analyze the table after the "flop" – are you well-positioned to end the game with a good hand?
• Depending on the rules where you’re playing, you can also draw replacement cards for the cards in your hand. This is usually done during or just after the betting round.
6. 6
Check the “turn” card after the second round of betting. The dealer will "burn" the top card, then they'll place 1 card face up next to the flop. This is called the “turn” card or the “fourth street” card. Check all of the cards on the table and the cards in your hand to see if you want to bet, call, or raise.[5]
• Your game may also allow a card exchange at this point, but this isn’t typical in professional games.
• As you look at the cards, think about the possible hands other players might have. For instance, if all 4 cards on the table are spades, then any player who has a spade in their hand will have a flush, which means they have 5 cards from the same house.
• If you have nothing good in your hand but the cards on the table make for an easy winning hand, then you may want to fold, as it’s likely another player has a winning card.
7. 7
Examine the "river" card and decide on the hand you'll play. After the dealer "burns" the top card on the deck, they'll put 1 last card face up next to the “turn” card. This final card is called the “river.” Check your hand and the community cards to decide on your best 5-card hand. Then, bet, call, or fold.[6]
• If the rules allow it, you may be able to exchange your hand 1 final time before or after betting. However, this isn’t common in professional games.
8. 8
Reveal each player’s hand clockwise in the final “showdown.” After each player calls, folds, or bets in the last round, each remaining player will participate in the “showdown.” Starting to the left of the dealer, all players involved will reveal their cards face up. Then, everyone looks at the turned over hands to see who has the highest value hand to win the entire pot.[7]
• If there is a tie, the tied players split the pot.
• If you fold your hand, then you don’t have to show your cards.
• In Texas Hold’em, there are 5 cards on the table and 2 cards in your hand. You can create any 5-card combination using these 7 cards. The remaining cards aren’t counted.
• If you want to play the cards on the table only, this is called “playing the board.” However, it’s an option that everyone has, so it may not be the best strategy.
Part 2 of 4:
Adding Betting and Strategy
1. 1
Guesstimate the risks on your starting hand. Look at your cards to see what you’re holding. Check for a pair, 2 consecutive numbers, cards that are from the same house, or face cards, which may be good cards. Then, decide if it’s worth placing a bet to see what the community cards will be.
• You should almost always raise when your hand is a pair, face cards, or aces. An ace and a king or an ace and a queen are strong hands as well. If you have these hands, bet before the flop to raise the value of the pot.
• If the card you need doesn’t turn up, you can either bluff or fold. Sometimes, with good bluffing skills and some luck, a bad hand can win the whole game.
2. 2
Start the bidding with the player to the left of the big blind or dealer. On the first round, bidding starts to the left of the big blind. In later rounds, the bidding starts to the left of the dealer. From there, the bidding goes clockwise.[8]
• If you’re playing a game with an ante instead of a blind, always start betting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. 3
Call the bet if you want to stay in but don’t have great cards. This means you want to stay in the game but don’t want to raise the bet. When you call, match the bet of the person before you by adding your chips or money to the pot. Your turn is now over.[9]
• If the flop comes and you’re holding a hand that doesn’t play, check and fold. You don’t want to keep betting money at a hand that won’t win.
4. 4
Raise the bet if you have a good hand. When the bet comes to you, tell the other players you want to raise. Then, say how much you are betting and place your money or chips into the pot. This ends your turn.[10]
• Say, “I raise the bet to $30.”
• You can’t raise the bet above the maximum for your game.
Variation: You might decide to go ahead and raise the bet to trick everyone into thinking you have good cards. This is called “bluffing.” It’s a strategy used to win a hand even with bad cards. You can “bluff” at any point in the game, but it’s a risky strategy because your bluff might get called.
5. 5
Fold if the current bet is too high or you have a bad hand. This means quitting the round of poker. To fold, place your cards face down on the table and say, “I fold.” Then, add your cards to the discard pile.[11]
• Don’t show your cards when you fold during a game, as this can spoil which cards are out of play. That may give certain players an upper hand.
6. 6
Decide if you want to draw any cards (if the game allows it). Look at your cards and decide if you want to play this hand. If you’d like to try for better cards, discard the cards you don’t want. Then, draw replacement cards from the draw pile at the center of the table. [12]
• You can discard as many cards as you’d like.
• You may not be allowed to draw new cards when playing Texas Hold’em, so check the rules for your game before you start playing.
7. 7
Play only with money you’re willing to lose. When you are learning, you should never gamble more than you would consider acceptable to lose. During the game, don’t add to your bankroll or dive back in after losing everything you planned to gamble. Wait until you’re comfortable losing that amount again before you play another game.
• The general rule of thumb is you should be able to easily afford to lose 200 bets at the highest limit. So if the limit is $5 bets, then your bankroll should be $1000, and stop there.
• Remember that you must keep records and pay taxes on your gambling income to avoid legal trouble.
8. 8
Learn to read basic tells. Playing your opponents is arguably even more important than playing your cards in poker. This is a more advanced aspect of the game, but it’s always good to be aware of players’ tells—especially your own. Watch for betting patterns such as betting early, very often (probably with weak hands), or late in a hand (as intimidation). Physical tells can also give you an estimation of your opponent’s strength of hand and help you keep your own strategy secret by avoiding such patterns.[13]
• Some classic tells include shallow breathing, sighing, nostrils flaring, flushing red, eyes watering, blinking, swallowing excessively, or an increasing pulse seen in the neck or temple.
• A hand over the mouth is usually to conceal a smile, while shaking hands usually reveal nerves.
• If a player glances at his or her chips when the flop comes, they probably have a strong hand.
• If a mediocre player tries to impress you by staring you down, they are likely bluffing.
9. 9
Identify conservative players from aggressive players. This will help you determine players' betting patterns and read them more easily. You can tell if players are more conservative by noticing those folding early—evidently only staying in a hand when their cards are good.
• Very conservative players won’t lose as much money, but they're easily spotted by more experienced players. Because they tend to avoid high betting, they can often be bluffed into folding.
• Aggressive players are risk-takers that often bet high early in a hand before seeing how the other players are acting on their cards.
Part 3 of 4:
Looking Like a Pro
1. 1
Practice and watch others play to develop quick instincts. The more you play and watch, the faster and better you’ll get. Since every poker game is different, it’s important to develop good instincts rather than try to memorize and apply tricky systems. Observe experienced players and imagine how you’d react in their position. Then, watch how the experienced players react to build your own instincts.
• While you do this, consider how successful you’d have been if you were playing and reacted as you did. Would you have won, or would you have lost? Then, decide how you can improve your strategy going forward.
2. 2
Shuffle the cards and cut the deck before they’re dealt. Shuffling the cards mixes them up to make the game fairer. To do a basic shuffle, split the deck into 2 stacks. Next, hold a stack in each hand close together and facing each other. Use your thumbs to flip through the cards, combining the deck into one. After the cards are shuffled, get someone who isn’t the dealer to cut the deck by separating it into 2 stacks and placing the bottom stack on top.[14]
• Do several shuffles to make sure the cards are mixed up.
• You can cut the deck more than once if you’d like.
• The dealer typically does the shuffling and bets last, which is called the “button” position. After each hand, you’ll pass the dealer/button position to the next player on the left. If the dealer is always the same person, like in a casino, the button position will still pass clockwise around the table.
3. 3
Say “check" to skip placing a bet or simply tap the table twice with two fingers. You can say this if you are the first better or if all those already betting have checked. If you say "check" when it's your turn at the beginning of a new hand, that means you are choosing not to place a bet at that point. Instead, you pass the chance to open to the next player.
• In the following rounds, if you say “check,” that means you’re staying with the bets you already paid into the pot during this hand, and you won’t pay more until someone else raises during their turn.
• If another player does raise on that hand, then you nor anyone else can say "check" or maintain your “check”—so when the play comes around to you again you have to either match or raise the latest bet or fold your hand.
4. 4
5. 5
Say “call” if you want to bet the same as the last person. Calling means making a bet equal to the last bet or raise. For example, if the person right of you just bet $10 and it's now your turn, you would say "call" or “I call” to match that bet. Then you would place $10 in chips or cash in the pot.
6. 6
“Raise” to increase the current betting amount. This is also known as “sweetening the pot.” Raise or re-raise requires finishing this round and making another round to now allow any others to "call" or "raise" the amount of that last bet to stay in the game, or else "fold". The ones who already called can check on this turn and the hand is finished unless someone re-raises.[15]
• If someone before you bets $20 and you think you have a winning hand or you want to bluff, you can raise when it's your turn by saying “raise to $30.”
• However, do not say “I see your 20, and I’ll raise you 10…” Despite being popular in movies, this is actually frowned upon as sloppy table talk.[16]
7. 7
Say “I fold” when you're ready to quit a hand. Folding means forfeiting your cards and giving up that pot with any bets you've made into it. Wait to be dealt into the next hand if you have chips or have not reached your limit of losses. To fold when it’s your turn, put your cards face down on the table and place them onto the discard pile.[17]
• You can fold at any point in a hand when it’s your turn.
8. 8
“Cash-in” when you’re ready to quit the game. This means exchanging your poker chips for money. If you still have chips but don’t want to play anymore, take your chips to the bank and tell them you’re ready to cash in. The bank will determine how much money your chips represent, then they’ll hand you cash.[18]
• You can usually return and watch the game after you cash in.
Part 4 of 4:
Learning Popular Poker Variations
1. 1
Master the basics of five-card draw. This variation has optional rules that can be agreed on before the game begins, such as whether or not to use jokers and wildcards, or which cards are high and low. The object of the game is similar to Texas Hold ‘Em: to get the best 5-card hand, but within the bounds of your own 5-card hand, without common cards.
• Determine the betting structure by deciding if you’ll play fixed-limit, pot-limit, or no-limit.[19]
• Decide on the dealer by asking "Who deals first?". Depending on the group you’re with and where you’re playing, a dealer may be elected or each player could draw for the position. The organizer or host may also choose to deal first.
2. 2
• Like with a 5-card draw, you can choose to vary the rules if you’re playing at home. For instance, jokers can be wild, meaning they can be used in represent any card value.
3. 3
• You can learn more about these games online.
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• You can bluff, or trick the other players into believing you have a powerful hand, by placing high bets. If they fall for it, they'll fold and you'll take the pot with a weak hand.
• Select a "banker" if it is not a cash game. That person will issue and keep the supply of chips under lock and key.
• Don't bet more than you are willing to lose—fold for that hand if some extremely high betting starts.
• Watching professional poker players in tournaments is a great way to examine the dynamics of the game. You can watch these on TV or online.
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• If you do develop a gambling addiction, you can find help and resources by calling the national helpline at (1-800-522-4700) or going to a Gamblers Anonymous meeting.
• Remember that poker and other gambling games can be extremely addictive. Pace yourself and limit betting to a healthy amount.
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1. High card.
2. Pair of cards, like two 2s.
4. Three of a kind, like three 4s.
5. Straight, which is five cards in sequential order. For example, a player might have a 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of any suit.
6. Flush, which is when a player has five cards of the same suit in any order. For example, a player might have a 2, 7, 10, Jack, and Queen of spades.
7. Full house, which is when a player has a pair and a three of a kind.
8. Four of a kind, like all four Aces.
9. Straight flush, which is when you have five cards in sequential order of the same suit. For example, a player might have a 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of clubs.
10. Royal Flush, which is a straight flush containing a 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
If two people have the same hand, the person with the higher cards wins. So for example, if Daniel has a pair of 3s and Maggie has a pair of 10s, Maggie wins because her pair is higher.
To play Texas Hold’Em, which is the most common type of poker, you’ll first need to bet your “ante,” which is your “buy in bet” to play the round. The ante is usually a small bet, like $1 or $5, and it’s decided by the table. Once everyone has their ante, the dealer will deal two cards to each player. Keep these cards secret from everyone else. Now, every player will take a look at their cards and choose whether or not to bet. Whenever there’s a betting round, you can choose to “fold,” which means not playing this round, “check,” which means matching their bet, or “raise,” which means adding more money to the betting pool. Players that are unwilling to “check” a bet have to fold; and if everyone but one player “folds,” that player wins! Once everyone has bet, the dealer will reveal three cards. These cards are known as the “flop.” When you see the flop, start planning what hand you want to make, keeping in mind that there are still two more cards to be revealed. For example, you might want to aim for a flush, which is when you have five cards of the same suit. After the flop, everyone has the chance to bet again, before the dealer reveals the next card, which is the “turn.” Bet again if you want to, then the dealer will reveal the “river,” which is the last card. At this point, you’ll see a total of 7 cards: two in your hands, and five on the table. Now, players will bet once last time, then everyone will reveal their hand. Your goal is to create the highest hand possible out of those seven cards, even if it means only using one card from your hand and four cards from the table. The player with the best hand wins!
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It's so funny how unions have had political power in this country for years and only now want a world communist government!
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What Are Torsion Boxes?
There have been some references on the forums to torsion boxes. What are they and when do you use them?
Ian Kirby: A torsion box has three parts to it:
1. The skin
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3. The glue
The skin is usually plywood or MDF. The core that industry uses is a honeycomb of paper. The skin’s top and bottom are held to the core with PVA glue. A flush door is an example of a torsion box.
I use 5/16″ thick poplar for the skin of my torsion boxes. The width of the corestock is the thickness of the torsion box less the thickness of the skins. If you want a 3″ thick table top and you are using 1/4″ plywood skins, the core size is 5/16″ x 2 1/2″. The core stock is built in the form of a grid. The parts are put together dry using crown staples on the top and bottom edges of the core. With a 1/4″ skin, the grid is made so the parts are 4″ on center.
Once the skins are glued in place, the panel becomes very rigid ? its strength to weight ratio is off the charts! The way to understand what a torsion box is good for is to compare it to a frame and panel. With a frame and panel structure, you can make doors, wall paneling, chests, tables, headboards and furniture of all kinds.
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Social Psychology in the News: Was the Germanwings Flight 9525 pilot a Muslim convert?
Last week, the world was gripped by the story of Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of the Germanwings Flight 9525, who intentionally crashed his plane into the French Alps instantaneously killing all passengers on the flight. This tragic event has left the world wondering why this young pilot deliberately activated a descent into the Alps.
Word associate the phrase “mysterious plane crash.” For many people, this phrase could produce thoughts like “9/11,” or “terrorism;” however for others, suspicion of Islam comes up. In the aftermath of the crash, advocacy websites, social networks, and blogs, such as The Gateway Pundit, capitalized on this availability heuristic and began writing posts about Lubitz’ alleged recent conversion to Islam, complete with a link to a Facebook page with an Arabic cover photo supposedly created by Lubitz. The availability heuristic can be described as a mental shortcut that relies on the examples and information that quickly pop into one’s mind when basing judgments on a specific topic, concept, or event. However, in this case, the evidence does not support the initial attribution some made about Islam as a factor. For instance, the Facebook page used to suggest Lubitz was Muslim was obviously set up by someone besides Lubitz since status changes have been added after his death.
Because anti-Muslim internet sources have speculated about Lubitz’ religious orientation based on a discredited Facebook page, people may subsequently incorporate this misinformation into their memory of the event and believe that it was always “known” that Lubitz had been a Muslim. The misinformation effect can occur when misleading information is presented after an event and becomes incorporated into one’s memory of that event. One popular conservative pundit, National Review’s Andy McCarthy, tweeted out the Gateway Pundit’s “report” initially as credible evidence. He later backed away and said “we will need to wait and see.” Even if McCarthy later acknowledges that there is no evidence that Lubitz converted to Islam, the presentation of the conversion rumors may contaminate how his readers’ recall the event.
In fact, no other clues have been found which suggest he had converted to Islam. Of course this lack of evidence has not stopped speculation that Lubitz was a Muslim. Another social psychology concept, belief perseverance, may be at work. Belief perseverance is a tendency to persist with one’s held beliefs despite the fact that evidence disconfirms those beliefs. People may be unwilling to admit that the original belief may not be true. Even after it was revealed that the Facebook page was fake and put up post-crash, some readers may still hold onto the original belief that Lubitz was a recent Muslim convert.
Beliefs often persevere due to the operation of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, or recall information in a way that confirms one’s preconceived beliefs. Many people will seek out and read blogs, like the anti-Muslim German PI-News, which affirms their pre-existing beliefs. These sources have reported speculation about the Islamic faith being involved in the tragedy which their readers may be disposed to accept. Unfortunately, belief perseverance and confirmation bias work together to create a sense of certainty which is unwarranted by the evidence. People often stick to their original beliefs and choose to discard useful facts and opinions that don’t closely match their preconceptions. Some go so far as to actively discount evidence which disconfirms their previously held beliefs by denigrating mainstream sources as being biased or part of a cover up.
Most of the time reputable news outlets present their findings in ways that can be evaluated or cross-checked. For instance, media sources have addressed issue surrounding Lubitz’ health. The prosecutor in the case has been cited andspecifically indicated that no evidence has been found which point to “political or religious factors.” According to some reports, Lubitz suffered from mental and medical illnesses. One optometrist had seen Lubitz and considered him unfit to fly; Lubitz reportedly told another doctor that he was too stressed from work. A torn up medical leave slip and antidepressants were also found in the pilot’s apartment. Even with this evidence, it is not clear yet what points are relevant.
Hopefully, being aware of these cognitive factors can help us form judgments based in evidence and relatively free from bias.
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21 - Social choice
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In this chapter we present a model of social choice, which studies how a group of individuals makes a collective choice from among a set of alternatives. The model assumes that each individual in the group holds a preference relation over a given set of alternatives, and the problem is how to aggregate these preferences to one preference relation that is supposed to represent the preference of the group. A function that maps each vector of preference relations to a single preference relation is called a social welfare function. The main result on this topic is Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, which states that every social welfare function that satisfies two properties, unanimity and independence of irrelevant alternatives, is dictatorial.
This impossibility result is then extended to social choice functions. A social choice function assigns to every vector of preference relations of all individuals in the group a single alternative, interpreted as the alternative that is most preferred by the group.
A social choice function is said to be nonmanipulable if no individual can manipulate the group's choice and obtain a better outcome by reporting a preference relation that is different from his true preference relation. Using the impossibility result for social choice functions we prove the Gibbard–Satterthwaite Theorem, which states that any nonmanipulable social choice function that satisfies the property of unanimity is dictatorial. |
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Inverse Operations Multiplication Worksheet Because division is an inverse operation of multiplication and vice versa it can be a valuable tool for students to check their work in this worksheet students practice matching one and two digit Since it is the inverse operation since the digits have moved to the right the zero also moves place value it does not just disappear the zero also moves to the right into the tenths column In calculus differentiation is the inverse operation of something else called integration that is to say differentiation un does integration to arrive back at the original function or signal.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17631 | We all need to lose paunch fat and have a level stomach, however the measure of activity and slimming down needed to have firm well defined abs is past what a large portion of us can sensibly accomplish. As we age, past 30, our body digestion eases back and it is a lot harder to lose stomach fat. Those of us who have stationary positions which don’t include enthusiastic physical movement experience laxity of our muscular strength which typically hold our stomach substance tight to make a level stomach. As we put on weight and our muscles get careless, we build up a distending mid-region or pot tummy.
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Takata Airbags
As many as 30 million cars could still have a defective airbag, despite a giant recall that has been going on for years. Lisa Fletcher talks to a former advisor to the Japanese company Takata that made the airbags. He's written a book about what he knows.
The massive explosion that leveled part of the Lebanese capital Beirut in early August showed the immense destructive power of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical that is also used in millions of vehicles. It’s the power behind airbags that have saved countless people from serious injury, even death.
But there’s a problem with millions of them made by the Japanese company Takata.
Lawyer Jerry Cox has spent years working on Capitol Hill, often involved in automotive safety legislation.
Jerry Cox: Takata decided that they wanted a bigger share of the market and that they could get that by making cheaper airbags. The way they did that was to switch to something called ammonium nitrate, which is a very cheap explosive.
That decision did save money and raised profits, but it was also disastrous. The chemical can degrade over time, especially when exposed to high heat and humidity, making it burn too fast and blow apart the metal canister designed to contain the explosion.
When Takata’s north American executives realized the scale of the problem, they hired Cox to work with them. He says he tried to convince company leaders in Japan that it was time to come clean.
Cox: So they hired me to help try to persuade the owners of the company in Japan to be honest about it and to stop making airbags with ammonium nitrate in them and to recall and replace all the millions of units they had already put out in people's cars.
Lisa: What was the reaction from Japanese executives when you suggested that they take an aggressive approach toward public safety and recall of the inflators?
Cox: The Japanese theory for any kind of a problem like this is, "If it stinks, keep a lid on it." As 2014 went on, it became more and more apparent that, at least to the American executives, it became more and more apparent they were not going to be able to keep a lid on it.
And while executives in Japan fought to keep the problem secret according to Cox, drivers in the United States continued to be injured and killed.
Drivers like Corey Burdick whose 2001 Honda Civic stalled at an intersection and was hit a low speed by another car. The impact triggered the airbag and sent a three inch piece of metal into his skull.
Corey Burdick: It was like a millimeter away from my brain. So it definitly could've killed me.
Worldwide, at least 25 deaths and almost 300 injuries have been linked to Takata air bag inflators.
Cox has now written a book about what he knows. In it, he describes how Takata, got what he calls a ‘sweetheart’ deal from the government at the time, allowing the company to replace defective inflators with new ones using the same chemicals, but with an added ingredient.
Cox: They are claiming that a desiccant, a drying agent that was added to those inflators is going to keep them from blowing up.
Lisa: We're talking about the replacement airbags. You've had a bad Takata airbag, you took it and you got it replaced.
Cox: Well, it was like you had a ticking time bomb in your car, and you took it in and they replaced it with another ticking time bomb, but it was a newer ticking time bomb on the theory that it will take longer for it to blow up and kill you, and I don't call that a fix.
One the people who helped negotiate the deal on behalf of Takata, was American lawyer Steven Bradbury. In 2017, he was nominated by President Trump to serve in the department of transportation and late last year, he became the acting deputy secretary of transportation.
Lisa: So the attorney who did the deal for Takata is now the number two at the Department of Transportation?
Cox: Right, that means that the person who negotiated the sweetheart deal is in charge of deciding whether to enforce even that deal or not, and so far the answer has been not.
Bradbury declined to be interviewed for this story, in a statement, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says he has recused himself completely from any Takata related matters.
As for the newer Takata inflators that still contain ammonium nitrate but with an added drying agent, the government earlier this year announced it wouldn't recall them. A decision Cox says was taken without consulting the engineers who designed the devices.
Cox: If you want to know whether those are safe or not, whether they're really any different from the ones that are now far enough along that they're clear and present danger to people, if you want to know whether those are safe or not, you should ask the people who designed them.
NHTSA says to date, it hasn’t received a single report of a field incident associated with a desiccated inflator due to propellant degradation. It goes on to say “if these inflators show signs of degradation such that they present an unreasonable risk to public safety, NHTSA will not hesitate to act.”
Takata the company at the center of this filed for bankruptcy in 2017. The following year it was sold and rebranded as Joyson Safety Systems.
Lisa: We're years down the road now with Takata, it triggered the largest recall in US history. Why is it important to keep blowing the whistle now?
Jerry: Because people will die, it's really simple. You're going to see, and there are official estimates, between 1,000 and 2,000, I think it's probably going to be more like 3,000 people who are going to get blasted by these things in the next few years. And that depends entirely on whether people take their cars in and get these repairs done.
Sharyl (on camera): You can check if your own vehicle has a recalled airbag by going to NHTSA dot gov slash recalls. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17675 | Who was Asaph?
What Asaph is it who wrote the Psalms bearing such a name?
There seems no reasonable room for doubt that the Psalmist is Asaph —son of Berachiah, a Levite of the family of Gershon, one of the leaders of David’s choir (see 1 Chronicles 6:39). The only other Asaph is generally known as “the Recorder,” but this seems to be based on a mistake, owing to a certain ambiguity in the English version—it seems more correct to understand Joah as the recorder, of whom Asaph (quite possibly the one mentioned above) was the father or progenitor. In any case, if they are distinct persons, the role of psalmist fits in better with the first named. He was then the author of Psalm 50: , and of the first eleven Psalms of Book Three. There are passages which must be understood prophetically whether the author lived in the days of David or of Hezekiah (e.g., Psalm 74:6; Psalm 80:16). There is a didactic, historic character about Asaph’s Psalms. He was, like Apollos, “mighty in the Scriptures,” and he applied them to the present need. |
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What is rheumatology?
Rheumatology is an area of medicine dedicated to treating joint pain diseases. This includes disorders of the bone, joint, muscles and the immune system. Examples include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, lupus and gout. Additionally, rheumatology encompasses individual areas of pain including bursitis and tendonitis.
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Diseases that we treat in our clinic are Rheumatoid Arthritis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Sjögren’s Syndrome, Inflammatory Muscle Diseases, Recurrent Blood Clots, Psoriatic Arthritis, Vasculitis, Fibromyalgia, Osteoporosis, Lupus (SLE), Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome, Osteoarthritis, Raynaud’s, Paget’s disease, Scleroderma, Positive ANA, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Gout/Pseudogout, Back Pain, and cases of recurrent Uveitis. |
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5 Top Tips How to Hide Pimples
You do not have a slightest idea how to hide pimples, do you? The article is sure to provide you with a step-by-step instruction on how to mask them.
Pimples have a tendency to appear in the least suitable moments: right before a date or another important meeting.
In such moments everyone is feverishly looking for methods how to hide pimples.
First of all, one must mention that you must treat pimples and it’s extremely important you found the reasons of acne in order to properly treat them.
Perhaps, you must consult a doctor-endocrinologist, who is likely to discover whether the rash is connected to the hormonal changes in the organism and how you should treat it.
Moreover, a proper diet is a sure-fire way how you may change the condition of your skin for the better.
It restricts the amount of fats and carbohydrates.
Surely, a crucial meaning has proper skin care, which includes cleaning from the excess oils and mud, which litter the pores and trigger inflammations.
Nevertheless, everything that was mentioned above is not a process of one day.
Well, what would you do if in the crucial moment of your life an unexpected, spiteful pimple or even few of them appeared?
Here you are sure to wonder how you can hide pimples.
Let’s discuss it and figure out how to do it.
How to hide pimples: preliminary face preparation
1. Select a gentle cleanser and buy one.
Choose a very soft product.
Do not use peeling face products.
Besides, the product you choose must not have alcohol in its composition.
Otherwise, using such products may only make the problem even worse.
Though you should not practice chemical cleansers, you may try effective products against pimples.
Prefer those, which contain salicylic acid or benzol peroxide.
Salicylic acid cleans the pores and makes edema and redness less visible; benzol peroxide kills all bacteria and peels the derma.
Wash your face with cold water and the chosen cleansing product.
Hot water will only make your skin dry.
2. Hydrate your skin as soon as you wash your face.
Make sure you apply hydrating cream before going to bed, after you wash your face.
Use light hydrating cream, which suits your skin type.
You may also apply hydrating cream in the morning, after you wash your face, though you’d better pay most attention to the inflamed areas.
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3. Apply ice.
Wrap ice cubes in the towel.
Apply ice to the skin (clean) and keep it there for a minute.
If a pimple does not get smaller, you should repeat the procedure five minutes later.
4. If you have only one night to get rid of pimples, try the following methods.
Put on your face few layers of aloe and lemon juice (in turns).
This simple method definitely knows how to calm and lighten your skin, which is likely to help you make the redness almost invisible in the morning.
One can also apply tea tree oil.
This method is more efficient with acne, but it takes more time – approximately 5-6 hours.
If you have enough time, you can use it with confidence.
Why is tea tree oil so effective?
Everything is due to the bactericide influence, which effectively eliminates the redness and inflammation.
You must apply the oil on the acne pointwise, with the help of a cotton bud. Right after the first try you are sure to notice how much the skin condition improved.
However, you should not abuse the usage of oil.
If you often have rashes, you’d better start proper treatment instead of looking for the ways how to hide those pimples.
How to hide pimples using make-up?
1. Choose a primer – a makeup foundation.
The primer is applied before concealer and foundation, thanks to which you are able to hide pimples.
Take a makeup brush in order to apply the primer on the face.
Apply enough primer to cover the whole area, but not too much, lest you attracted even more attention to the inflamed area.
There are different primers with therapeutic effects – those that eliminate redness (created for rosacea, acne), drying a little (with salicylic acid) and plenty of others.
Pick up the one, which suits you most of all.
For oily skin type (or separate oily areas in case you have combination skin type) you might need a degreaser cream, which has different names, but one mission – to eliminate oily shine from the face and minimize the pores.
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2. Use concealer pointwise on the pimples.
It’s better to hide red pimples with the concealer of green color (yes, this color neutralizes red).
We take special concealer pencil of greenish color (or something, which is likely to hide your pimples) and put a dot in the middle of a pimple.
Then you should carefully stump it on the skin by the concealer of the skin color.
Besides, concealer can easily hide scars from pimples and other blemishes.
In order to hide the contrast, you may apply any other product, which coincide with your skin tone (or is a little bit lighter) above the green product, or take light foundation, or a powder.
Small redness is likely to be hidden by beige concealer.
3. Now, right on the primer and concealer you can finally put foundation.
Its tone must be a bit lighter than your natural skin color.
Darker foundations look good only on the healthy face, but on the inflamed one it will definitely look very awkwardly.
Avoid pink tones, because they are likely to emphasize all derma’s drawbacks and blemishes.
Special BB-cosmetics is considered to be a very comfortable option how you can hide pimples.
Such products have masking effect.
Besides, they eliminate inflammatory process and make your skin matte.
Foundation may be applied by your hands, by a sponge or with the help of a tough brush.
It’s very important to shade all the borders with hair and neck, lest these borders were visible.
4. If pimples are still seen, you may use concealer.
Choose a suitable tone, which corresponds to your skin color.
Pay attention that it will be visible on the makeup.
Take a brush for concealer.
Apply it on the pimple and slightly spread it around in order to hide it.
Avoid pushing on the inflamed area.
Shade the concealer.
You can do it with your finger and spread it all over the pimple.
Concealer must cover it with even layer and the inflamed area must not differ in color from the rest of the skin.
5. In order to fix your makeup and smooth it, you should use fixing powder.
Apply powder to the whole face, paying special attention to the T-zone.
You’ll need a furry brush, which is most likely to spread the powder with a thin and even layer.
6. Make the emphasis on the face in order to distract the attention from the pimples.
If the pimple is located on the upper part of the face, on the forehead for example, you should make emphasis on the lower part, making your lips bright.
If the inflamed area is on the lower part (for example, on the chin), you should make the emphasis on the upper part.
In order to do it, you may underline your eyes or apply bright eye shadows.
If the pimple is on the cheek, you’d better prefer natural makeup, but still emphasize eyes and lips, picking the colors which are close to natural and not too bright.
Moreover, you should not use too much blush or bronzing powder, because they only put stress on the pimples, which were hidden by different cosmetic products.
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Useful pieces of advice, which will teach you how to hide pimples for as long as possible:
• Use liquid bandage.
Surely, you should not do it all the time.
You might use it, if you really need to hide a pimple before an important meeting or event.
Apply liquid bandage to the pimple.
Put on concealer above it and stop worrying about the skin blemishes.
• Do not touch your face after you put on hiding products.
Otherwise, you risk ruining your makeup.
• Have concealer or corrector always at hand, so that you could use it during the day.
• When you apply concealer, you should do it top-down but not from left to right.
It’s very important to remember that you should think not only how to hide pimples, but how to prevent their further appearance.
Proper makeup hiding is only the urgent way how you can hide pimples, that’s why you should not use it every day.
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Between 2000 and 2008 there were 6,433 total crimes reported in Raymondville, Texas (1,105 of them violent). Of the 715 crimes that occur a year in Raymondville, almost half happen less than a mile from home. On average, someone is a victim of a crime in Raymondville, Texas every 12 hours. This includes 5 murders, 39 rapes, and nearly four thousand thefts (including 114 motor vehicle thefts).
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During the previous 10 years, crime data were available in Raymondville, Texas for 9 years. Over that interval, reported crime in Raymondville increased by 53 percent. Over that same time frame, violent crime increased by 76 percent. Overall, the crime numbers reveal a sudden increase in crime over the last 9 years in Raymondville. If the current trend continues, predicted crime numbers could hit more than one thousand for Raymondville, Texas in 2009.
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To produce great religion stories, journalists need a good toolbox. Most tools are the same as for any other beat. Religion, however, requires some special skills. When journalists encounter religion in a story, they often end up reporting on a powerful, unseen authority that many people say they believe in. Unfortunately, God doesn’t grant interviews.
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Web Scraping 101 with PHP and Goutte
The Basics
I’ll be showing how to scrape pages easily using PHP and Goutte. To get started download Goutter.phar from here. Then create a file called in the same directory as the one you put goutte.phar in. Now pop the following into the file:
include_once __DIR__ . '/goutte.phar';
$goutte = new Goutte\Client();
This will load Goutte and create a new Goutte Client, now let’s find a page to scrape. For this example we’ll be using the following dummy page created by me for the tutorial. Now that we have a page, we need to find sections to scrape, to do this we’ll open up Google Chrome and inspect the element(s) we want to fetch. This is as simple as just hovering over the section you want to retrieve, right click and navigate to ‘Inspect Element’. From here we can see the details for this element, including the ‘id’, ‘class’ and we can even grab the XPath by clicking ‘Copy XPath’. The XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, full information can be found on the w3 website.
I’ll quickly run through how to extract the data using the ‘id’, ‘class’ and the ‘xpath’. We will be fetching the ordered list from the dummy page, so right click the first point in the list, click ‘Inspect Element’ and then copy the XPath. This will copy the following
What this tells us is that the element we’re trying to reference is nested under all of those elements. Any numbers beside a DOM element is the element number that this item is under. For this tutorial as we’re interested in getting the ordered list, we can remove the [1] from the retrieved XPath and pass that through. Using this we can now add the following to our Scrape.php file:
$baseURL = '';
$urlEndpoint = 'resources/scrape-this-page.html';
$domSelector = '//*[@id="points"]/li/p';
$crawler = $goutte->request('GET', $baseURL . $urlEndpoint);
$results = $crawler->filterXPath($domSelector)->each(function ($node, $i) {
return $node->nodeValue; // This is a DOMElement Object
This code starts off by defining the URL and DOM Selectors we’re going to use and then creates a request to fetch the HTML from the given page and store it in $crawler. The section after that grabs the HTML Page we retrieved and filters based on the data in our $domSelector variable. It passes into the closure a DOMElement object for each found occurrence and also the index. As such we can use any of the methods described in the PHP DOMElement class. Then this data gets stored into an array which we finally dump out. I’m only pulling the nodeValue which DOMElement inherits from DOMNode.
To grab this data using the ‘id’ or ‘class’, we can do the same as above but instead of providing the XPath we instead provide the ‘id’ or ‘class’. To do this we can hover over the section we want to grab and inspect the element, from there we can copy the ‘class’/’id’, then all we have to do is change the domSelector and change filterXPath to filter like
$results = $crawler->filter($domSelector)->each(function ($node, $i) {
and the domSelector to
$domSelector = '#points li';
and to get this content using the ‘class’ we can just use
$domSelector = '.points li';
That’s it, it’s rather simple to grab information from a page. I’ve added a few snippets below showing how to do some of the common things when working scraping the DOM.
Please keep the following in mind when scraping pages:
• Ensure that you don’t hammer the server(s) that you are fetching data from, you can do this by simply adding a sleep(seconds) after each call. This will have the script stop and do nothing for the number of seconds you tell it to.
• Whilst your experimenting with getting the data you want from a page, it’ll be better to use a dummy page which mirrors the page structure you want or better still use a cached version.
• Check whether a RSS, API or another format is provided by the website you wish to scrape, as this may be better, easier and more reliable in the long term since page references and xpaths are more likely to change without notice than a official API.
• Plan your code and implement ways to alert you when something fails repeatedly, as this could mean that the page structure has changed (amongst other things). Also it’s best to keep your code well structured so you can use it for multiple cases and/or allow for easy updates when the page structure does change.
Retrieve Element X
If you want to grab a element in a list you can do the following:
$results = $crawler->filter($domSelector)->eq(0)->text();
The value in eq can be replaced with the position of the element you wish to retrieve, also it’s worth noting that you can grab the first or last by replacing eq(position) with first() or last().
Checking for a Attribute and Retrieving a given Attribute
To check whether a element has a given attribute we can use the following methods on the $node element in the closure, getAttribute() or hasAttribute().
if ($node->hasAttribute('id')) {
return $node->getAttribute('id');
return 'noID';
Simpler way to extract wanted data
You can grab a list of attributes from a CSS Selector by running the following:
$results = $crawler->filter($domSelector)->extract(array('_text', 'class', 'id'));
This will return an multidimensional array of each element, with a an array element for each of the provided attributes. If there is no value it will put an empty string in the position. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17779 | 10月 222018
A SAS programmer asked how to rearrange elements of a matrix. The rearrangement he wanted was rather complicated: certain blocks of data needed to move relative to other blocks, but the values within each block were to remain unchanged. It turned out that the mathematical operation he needed is called a block transpose. The BTRAN function in SAS/IML performs block-transpose operations, so the complicated rearrangement was easy to implement with a judicious call to the BTRAN function.
This article discusses the block-transpose operation and gives an example. It also shows how a block transpose can conveniently transform wide data into long data and vice versa.
The block-transpose operation
In general, a block matrix can contain blocks of various sizes. However, the BTRAN function requires that all blocks be the same size. Specifically, suppose A is a block matrix where each block is an n x m matrix. That means that A is an (r n) x (c m) matrix for some whole numbers r and c. The BTRAN function transposes the blocks to create a (c n) x (r m) block matrix.
The idea is more easily explained by a picture. The following image shows a matrix A that is composed of six blocks (of the same size). The block-transpose operation rearranges the blocks but leaves the elements within the blocks unchanged.
A block-transpose operation transposes the blocks but leaves the contents of each block unchanged
The BTRAN function in SAS/IML
Let's see how the block transpose works on an example in the SAS/IML language. The following statements create a 4 x 12 matrix. I have overlaid some grid lines to help you visualize this matrix as a 2 x 3 block matrix, where each block is 2 x 4.
proc iml;
x = repeat(1:12,2);
x = x // (10+x);
print x;
A 4x12 matrix visualized as a 2x3 block matrix. Each block is 2x4.
You can use the BTRAN function to apply a block transpose. The first argument is the matrix that contains the data. The second and third arguments specify the size of the blocks:
y = btran(x, 2, 4); /* block size is 2x4 */
print y;
A 6x6 matrix visualized as a 3x2 block matrix. Each block is 2x4.
The output is a 6 x 6 matrix, visualized as a 3 x 2 block matrix.
Block transpose for wide-to-long transforms
If the number of rows in the block equals the number of rows in the data, then the BTRAN function stacks columns. In particular, if the block size is n x 1, the BTRAN function stacks multiple variables into a single column, just like the SHAPECOL function. For example, the Sashelp.Iris data contains four variables named SepalLength, SepalWidth, PetalLength, and PetalWidth. The following SAS/IML statements stack the four variables into a single column and create a new column that identifies the name of the original variable:
proc iml;
/* wide to long */
varNames = {"SepalLength" "SepalWidth" "PetalLength" "PetalWidth"};
use Sashelp.Iris;
read all var "Species"; /* 150 x 3 */
read all var varNames into X; /* 150 x 4 */
n = nrow(X); m = ncol(X); /* n = 150; m = 4 */
ID = repeat(Species, m); /* repeat the vars that are not transposed */
Var = shapecol(repeat(varNames, n), n*m); /* create column that contains variable names */
Value = btran(X, n, 1); /* vector with 150*4 rows */
create test var {ID "Var" "Value"}; append; close;
Block transpose for wide-to-long transforms
In a similar way, you can transpose balanced data from long form to wide form. (Recall that "balanced data" means that each group has the same number of observations.) For example, the Sashelp.Iris data contains a Species variable. The first 50 observations have the value 'Setosa', the next 50 have the value 'Versicolor', and the last 50 have the value 'Virginica'. You can use a WHERE clause or a BY statement to analyze each species separately, but suppose you want to create a new data set that contains only 50 observations and has variables named SepalLengthSetosa, SepalLengthVersicolor, SepalLengthVirginica, and so forth for the other variables. The BTRAN function makes this easy: just specify a block size of 50 x 4, as follows.
/* create pairwise combinations of var names and group levels */
BlockRows = 50;
w = btran(X, BlockRows, m); /* 50 x 12 matrix */
s = Species[ do(1, n, BlockRows) ]; /* s = {'Setosa' 'Versicolor', 'Virginica'} */
vNames = rowcatc(expandgrid(varNames, s)); /* combine var names and species */
print vNames, w[c=vNames L="Measurenents (cm)"];
In summary, the BTRAN function is a useful function when you need to rearrange blocks of data without changing the values in a block. For balanced designs, you can use the BTRAN function to convert data between wide and long formats.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/17799 | Sunday, April 5, 2009
Tobacco Factory of Pinar Del Rio
Definitely worth a visit. The tour cost about 5 CUCs and unfortunately no cameras are allowed. My camera isn't also particularly small to smuggle it in secretly :) The tour was in English, but it seemed that the lady giving it had an English vocabulary just enough to cover the tour. If i asked her more specific questions, she had quite a blank face. I wouldn't even call it a tour, it was more like a speedy walk-through. I did the whole thing through with her and then went once more alone. She did watch me a bit funny, but didn't say anything.
The tour takes you through many different parts of the factory. First stop is the rolling room where lovely dark ladies roll the cigars. After initial rolling cigars are placed into a mould and under a press for 20 minutes. Then they are finished off by rolling a finer quality tobacco leaf around them for an outer layer and sealing/cutting off the endings.
In selection room you can see how tobacco leaves are selected and categorized by color and texture.
Packing area is where cigars are labelled with different stickers and packed into various boxes and packages (which are all made on the place).
I wonder if those factory workers feel like trained monkeys who are being observed day and night? They don't seem to be bothered much by the constant audience, though one lady did start getting a bit itchy after i had been standing next to her station for about 15 minutes and watching her work. Understandable, hehe. The speed and precision of her work was just very captivating, specially considering that she was using some seriously sharp knives and other cutting instruments. Every rolling worker has to fill the quota of 80 cigars per 8 hour work-day, though usually they make about 100-120 per day. Those cigars that do not pass the quality control are distributed to the workers for free. I wonder if making cigars is like working in McDonalds - after work the last thing they want to see or smoke is a cigar :).
My father is always the one who suffers when it comes to bringing souvenirs from my trips. I can never think of anything useful to bring him and i always feel bad. So this time i wanted to buy him authentic Cuban cigars. Considering my budget and form of luggage i chose a pack of cigarillos, mostly because they were the only ones which were packed in a metal box. Important point when shoving fragile cigars into your already about to burst backpack. Hours later when i was counting my remaining cash, i realized that the shop-boy had made an error and given me back more money than i had given him to begin with. For once my "blond hair & blue eyes" worked in my advantage rather than contributed to my financial ruin. And if to consider that tourists in Cuba are greatly over-charged with every service or product they pay for, i didn't also feel particularly guilty for the mistake. So basically i got a free entrance to the factory and a complimentary package of cigarillos to boot.
Prices are in CUCs, they also use the dollar sign.
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