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Lawyers Oppose States’ Regulation of Hotels
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Mbonu David is passionate about research and always willing to delve into any field of human endeavor just to be well informed of trends and happenings, both local and global.
Studied at Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State Nigeria, where he obtained his Bachelor of Technology Honors’ (B.Tech Hons.) Library and Information Science. In addition he also obtained a University Diploma in Information and Management Technology from the same University, was active in the Students’ Union Government (SUG), and served as a Senator 7th Republic 2012 under SUG FUTY chapter.
He is an open minded individual, looks at the world with tender eyes of innocence and respect for humanity.
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My name is Paul Schaub, I am a free software developer and computer science student from Germany.
I’m working on some free software projects in my spare time. In my opinion free software is very important to a free society, since only free software give the user freedom and control over the machine.
This project started as part of my bachelors thesis. smack-omemo is an implementation of OMEMO encryption for the XMPP library Smack. I chose this as the topic of my bachelors thesis, since I’m very interested in cryptography and I believe, that using strong encryption is necessary for a functional democracy. Implementing this functionality is my political activism against the growing surveillance state.
The project is split into two parts. First there is smack-omemo, which encapsulates the XMPP logic and stanza elements. This module does not contain any code related to the double ratchet algorithm as used in the Signal protocol, which OMEMO is based on. Instead it defines some interfaces and abstract methods.
The second part is smack-omemo-signal, which is a concrete implementation of smack-omemo. It contains libsignal-protocol-java, which implements the double ratchet algorithm.
I had to split the project, since libsignal-protocol-java is licensed under the GPL, Smack on the other hand is Apache licensed. Also the modularization makes it easy to port the module to another double ratchet library at a later point in time.
Here you can find the code. Contributors are welcome :)
smack-omemo, smack-omemo-signal.
As a reaction to the german interior ministers decision to allow government spying on popular messengers, I wrote a tutorial in which I show, how easy it is, to create an OMEMO encrypted messenger in less than 200 lines of Java code. This is my political resistance against a dangerous decision made out of either malice or plain stupidity. The tutorial can be found here, while the source code is hosted here (FSFE) or here (Github).
When the government fails (or refuses) to protect your communications, you’ll have to take action yourselves.
As part of my Google Summer of Code 2018 project, I created an implementation of XEP-0373 and XEP-0374 OpenPGP for XMPP: Instant Messaging for Smack. Together with smack-omemo, this is the second end-to-end encryption implementation I wrote and the second one included in Smack.
The code for smack-openpgp can be found here.
Since I needed an easy to use OpenPGP library for java and Android for my GSoC 2018 project, I created PGPainless (https://pgpainless.org).
PGPainless aims to be as simple to use as possible, while offering all functionality that is needed when dealing with OpenPGP encryption.
The projects repository is found here.
For quite some time I was maintainig the dandelion* (inofficial) Android app for the social network diaspora* together with @gsantner. I spent many hours enhancing the overall experience of the app by adding features like proxy support and sharing functionalities. Also I spiced up the UI by implementing customizable color themes and animated fragments!
Here you can find the project. We are always looking for new contributors and translators!
A simulation of the Enigma machine for Android. I reverse engineered the mechanics of the cipher machine from Wikipedia articles and tested the interoperability using an online simulator. The app is written in java as most of my projects are.
EnigmAndroid is available on FDroid only, since I want to support free software and do not agree with Googles politics.
If you are interested, please feel free to check it out :)
Other work
Bachelors Thesis
I wrote my bachelors thesis about OMEMO encryption (in German). Here you can take a look for yourselves.
Bachelors thesis - OMEMO encryption
Summer of Code 2017
I participated in the Google Summer of Code as a student for the XMPP Standards Foundation. I contributed to Ignite Realtime’s Smack project to implement Jingle File Transfer (XEP-0234) combined with end-to-end encryption.
My work resulted amongst other things in two XMPP Extension Protocols, XEP-0391 and XEP-0396.
The project page with an overview of my work can be found here, all related blog posts can be found here.
Summer of Code 2018
This year I got another opportunity to work full time on Smack for 3 months. This time my project is an implementation of OpenPGP for XMPP (XEP-0373 and XEP-0374) for Smack. As you can see, I really like cryptography ;)
The project page can be found here, all related blog posts are found here.
My Blog
I’m very actively blogging about my free software advantures. If you want to follow my work, take a look at my blog.
Contact me
If you want to get in touch with me, you can find me on mastodon. I’m also a supporter of the FSFE, so if you want to send me a mail, feel free to do so. Here you can find my PGP-Key.
You can also reach out to me via XMPP: [email protected] (QR-Code).
Occasionally I do post stuff on Movim, a federated social network based on XMPP. You should really check it out!
If you want, you can support my work by donating bitcoins ;).
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Jesus Creed
SpiritDove.jpgThis post is by my friend John Frye, who blogs at: Jesus the Radical Pastor. He’s got a very important point, and it is one that ties with T’s post last Friday: Discernment through the Spirit on how to live today. Do we really believe in the Spirit? Or, do we believe in Scripture alone and that Spirit is entirely contained there? Or, does the Spirit lead us to do things today the way the Spirit led Jesus to break down boundaries and for Paul to start ministries with Gentiles?
Note Paul’s encouragement for the believers to “learn” and he offers little specific sexual direction. God calls us to a holy life. Paul concludes that on the issue of being holy (sexually) that God in fact “keeps on giving the Holy Spirit” (present active verb). Little instruction, few directives.
I once was at a pastors’ seminar….
… in Detroit attended by hundreds of Christian leaders being taught by a renown Bible teacher. The topic of sexual purity was on the agenda. This famous Bible teacher, based on teachings of Jewish Rabbis, taught that the Levitical sexual purity laws (e.g., Leviticus 15) given to Israel were God’scontinuing directives today for the church. I am not kidding. I sat stunned. This was a blatant expression of the Galatian heresy confronted by Paul in the fiery little Book of Galatians. This guru of the faith was dragging New Covenant believers back under the legislation (Law) of the Old Covenant…without even batting an eye! I looked around and saw hundreds of leaders taking notes like this was the best news since the resurrection of Jesus.
Now compare that example of “Bible teaching” in Detroit with Paul’s words to the Thessalonians. If anyone knew the levitical code for sexual purity and cleanliness, it was the former Pharisee named Paul. When he wrote that it was God’s will for the Thessalonians to be sexually holy, he could have whipped out a divinely revealed litany of directions (from Moses) and written it to the new church. Paul did not do this, but the Bible teacher in Detroit did. Who was correct on the topic?
Most of the church in Thessaloniki were converted Gentiles. Paul even said that they had turned from idols to serve the living and true God (1:9). The levitical sexual purity laws given to Israel would have meant nothing to them. So, Paul gives directions for them to learn to be sexually holy and reminds them that holiness is best learned from, get this, the Holy Spirit. Paul could rest in the reality of the living presence of the Spirit in that young church Who would guide them into a practice of sexual purity. The new believers would learn to discern. They did not need a code of conduct. They needed only to attend to the Holy Counselor.
What a challenge discernment is! Do we have that kind of trust in the Spirit’s ability? Do we have that kind of trust in believers’ ability to develop Spirit-empowered discernment? Do we have the courage to tear up all the fine-tuned directions we want to lay on people so they will be sure to live holy lives?
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Luke 4
The Temptation of Jesus
2 for 40 days to be tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over,a He was hungry.
3 The Devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."
4 But Jesus answered him, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone. " b c
5 So he took Him upd and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 The Devil said to Him, "I will give You their splendor and all this authority, because it has been given over to me, and I can give it to anyone I want.
7 If You, then, will worship me,e all will be Yours."
8 And Jesus answered him,f "It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only. " g
10 For it is written: He will give His angels orders concerning you, to protect you, h
12 And Jesus answered him, "It is said: Do not test the Lord your God. " j
13 After the Devil had finished every temptation, he departed from Him for a time.
Ministry in Galilee
15 He was teaching in their synagogues, being acclaimedk by everyone.
Rejection at Nazareth
18 The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me l to proclaim freedom m to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. n o
22 They were all speaking well of Himp and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
23 Then He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb q to Me: 'Doctor, heal yourself.' 'All we've heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.' "
27 And in the prophet Elisha's time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed r -only Naaman the Syrian."
29 They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edges of the hill their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.
Driving Out an Unclean Spirit
34 "Leave us alone!t What do You have to do with us,u Jesus-Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are-the Holy One of God!"
36 They were all struck with amazement and kept saying to one another, "What is this message? For He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!"
Healings at Capernaum
38 After He left the synagogue, He entered Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him about her.
41 Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Messiah.
Preaching in Galilee
44 And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.v
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David Cameron criticised for 'crass' BBC jibes
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ITV's Elliott orders YTV dramas
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We are in the process of implementing Passwordstate for tracking and automatic resetting of our company's passwords. We have a number of SharePoint servers that handle some public web data, and I'd like to be able to add these to the automatic cycle.
However, I'm running into 2 different challenges.
1) The Account Discovery doesn't find the accounts that are being used within SharePoint - it picks up on the service accounts without an issue, but won't show, for example, the account that handles the SharePoint crawl service, since that account is set within SharePoint, and isn't a Windows service. Is there any way for me to grab these accounts?
2) Our Web Developers are telling me that we need to use special SharePoint PowerShell commands to reset the passwords for the SharePoint accounts in order to ensure these resets don't cause any issues. Has anyone written scripts for this for Passwordstate?
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We're sorry you're having some issues with this, but we can only Discover and perform resets on standard Windows Services, which are configured to run under the identity of a domain account. We're not aware of any customers creating custom PowerShell scripts for this, but if you're developers can let us know what PowerShell commands need to be executed, then possibly we can help you develop a custom script which can be associated with an account in Passwordstate? I'm assuming this 'crawl' account is also an Active Directory account?
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Bless Your Heart
When I moved from West Virginia to Delaware, naturally there were adjustments to be made. Terminology, for one. For example, it's a grocery "cart", not a "buggy". I also learned there's a difference between the "beach" (Rahoboth or Ocean City) and the "shore" (Jersey). Eventually, my speech picked some some of the flavor of that area. How much, you ask? Well, I…
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FAQ 000740 EN-US
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Which criteria are used to defined the "top" and "bottom" reinforcement?
If the global Z-axis shows downward, the following definition applies:
"Bottom" is on the surface side showing in the direction of the positive local z-axis of the surface, and "top" on the side of the negative local z-axis.
(Please note that the capital letter for the global axis Z and the lowercase letter for the local surface axis z.)
If the global Z-axis shows upward, the definition is reversed: The bottom reinforcement is on the side of the negative z-axis of the surface, the top reinforcement on the side of the positive z-axis of the surface.
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Right-click the corresponding surface and select "Reverse Local Axis System." In this way, you can unify the reinforcement layers of walls.
It is recommended to define the global Z-axis as downwards when creating the model. In this way, you can ensure that the local z-axes for surfaces in the XY plane show automatically downward and therefore the bottom reinforcements are on the bottom side of the surfaces.
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Inspiration - where and how?
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To keep track of my inspirations before they leave me, I always carry pen and paper. If I don't have that, then there is my cell phone where I can leave text messages to myself. Sticky notes are great, too. I go through a LOT of sticky notes!
Simply put: everywhere and everything. The world is my muse. Sometimes it's when I'm meditating, or taking a walk, or even showering, but most of the time my greatest inspirations come to me when I'm not looking for them. It can be the way someone looks over their shoulder, or the way a fork falls on a plate, or just the way the sun catches the reflection on a leaf. But what inspires me isn't limited to just that incident. For example, if a shiny leaf has inspired me, it could have triggered a thought of a wet shiny cucumber on a bright metal plate. My thought processes can be strange at times. :) People have told me that my mind can be a strange and scary place to travel to! But what can I say? I'm moved by everything. :)
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Once your report has been made
Once you have reported a crime, you will be given a crime reference number. Make a note of this, along with the name and number of the officer you spoke to, the date it was reported and the name and number of the officer dealing with the incident if it is a different person.
If the information you have given is enough, an initial investigation will be launched. The officer will start to look for other witnesses, evidence such as CCTV footage, and if the offender is known they will find and talk to them.
Depending on the type of crime, how serious the offence is and whether there’s a likelihood of the person committing another offence – or of you being at risk of harm – the offender may be arrested and questioned quite quickly. In some cases it can take quite a long while to identify the offender, or to find them.
You will receive a victim of crime letter, and you will give a witness statement.
Your initial needs and vulnerability will be identified, and Goleudy Victim & Witness Services will contact you to offer you emotional, practical support, personal to you.
There will also be an offer to complete a victim personal statement to explain how the crime has affected you. This can be made at any stage of the process until sentencing at court.
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In some cases there is not enough evidence to progress and the case is closed. If this happens, you will be told why, and police will make sure you have help and support.
You will be asked if you want to be notified about future reviews of the case.
What happens if someone is arrested?
You will be informed if an arrest is made.
Where appropriate, restorative justice will be offered. This gives victims the chance to meet or communicate with offenders and explain the real impact of crime. It gives victims a voice and holds offenders to account for what they have done. It does not affect the criminal justice process and has been shown to help victims cope with the impact of crime and reduces the likelihood of reoffending.
The police will question the suspect and decide if there is enough evidence to charge them.
What happens if someone is charged?
Once the police questioning has finished, the police must decide if there is enough evidence to charge the person. Depending on the severity of the crime, the police decide if they can lay charges or if this must be done by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Can the offender be punished out of court?
The suspect might be given an out of court disposal. This means the offender is given a punishment by the police and CPS without going to court. These can include:
• Caution: A formal warning not to commit a crime again, with one or more conditions attached. If the offender breaks any of these, they might have to go to court. The offender has to admit they committed the crime and sign a paper accepting the conditions before a conditional caution can be given.
• Reparation: This might include the offender fixing or replacing something they broke, damaged or stole, or giving the victim some money. It may be decided that the offender could help make things right by doing something for the community.
• Penalty notice disorder (PND): A PND is like a fine. It can only be used in minor crimes, and not in cases where a lot of damage has been caused to property or people. An offender can refuse to accept it and ask to go to court. The police must then decide if an alternative charge is possible. A PND can range from £60 to £90.
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straight - lines - and - curves
straight - lines - and - curves
(Parte 1 de 4)
Lines and Curves
N. Vasilyev V. Gutenmacher
Mir Publishers Moscow
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N. B. Vasilyev V. L. Gutenmacher
Straight Lines and Curves
Mir Publishers Moscow
Transla ted from the Russian by
Anjari Kundu
Firf;t published 1980 Revised from the 1978 Russian edition
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Preface (7)
INTRODUCTION (9) Introductory Problems (9). Copernicus' Theorem (13).
A Family of Lines and Motion (23). Construction Problems (25). Set of Problems (30).
A Circle and a Pair of Arcs (38). Squares of Distances (42). Distances from Straight Lines (51). The Entire Alphabet (57).
Through a Single Point (60). Intersection and Union (67). The "Cheese" Problem (74).
Where to Put the Point (82). The "Motor-Boat" Problem (84).
The "Bus"··Problem (90). Functions on a Plane (93). Level Curves (94). Graph of a Function (94). The Map of a Function (100). Boundary Lines (101). Extrema of Functions (103).
Ellipses, Hyperbolas, Parabolas (108). Foci and Tangents (113). Focal Property of a Parabola (117). Curves as the Envelopes of Straight Lines (121). Equations of Curves (124). The Elimination of the Radicals (129). The End of Our Alphabet (130). Algebraic Curves (138).
The Cardioid (141). Addition of Rotations ·(142).A Theorem on Two Circles (153).Velocities and Tangents (157).Parametric Equations (166). Conclusion (170).
ANSWERS, HINTS, SOLUTIONS (172) APPENDIX I. Method of Coordinates (181) APPENDIX I. A Few Facts from School Geometry (183) APPENDIX I. A Dozen Assignments (187) Notation (196)
The main characters of this book are various geometric figures or, as they are frequently called here, "sets of points". The simplest figures in their different combinations appear first. They move, reveal new properties, intersect, combine, form entire families and change their appearance, sometimes to such an extent that they become unrecognizable. However, it is interesting to see old acquaintances in unusual situations surrounded by the new figures which appear at the end.
The book"consists of approximately two hundred problems, most of them given with solutions or comments. There is a whole variety of problems, ranging from traditional problems in which one has to find and make use of some set of points, to simple investigations touching important mathematical concepts and theories (for instance "the cheese", "motor-boat", "bus" problems). Apart from ordinary geometric theorems on straight lines, circles and triangles, the book makes use of the method of coordinates, vectors and geometric transformations, and especially often the language of motion. A 1ist of useful geometric facts and formulas is given in Appendices I and I. Some of the tedious finer points in the logic of the solutions are left to the reader. The symbol (1) replaces the words "Exercise", "Verify", "Is it clear to you?", "Think, why", etc., depending upon where it is. The beginning and the end of solutions are marked with the symbol 0 while t means that the solution or the answer to the problem is given at the end of the book. The problems at the beginning of each section are not usually difficult or else are analysed in detail in the book. The rest of the problems do not have to be solved in succession. One can, while reading the book, choose those which seem more attractive. It is useful to verify much of what is discussed in the problems through experiment: it is best to draw a diagram or-even better-several, with the figures in different positions. This experimental approach not only helps one to guess the answer and formulate a hypothesis but also often leads one to a mathematical proof. In drawing the diagrams in the margins the authors were convinced that almost behind every problem there is hidden an auxiliary problem of constructing the points or lines which are stated in the problem. The preliminary problem often appears to be more simple but it is no less interesting than the problem itself!
The authors are deeply thankful to I. M. Gelfand whose advice helped the entire work on the book, to I. M Yaglom, V. G. Boltyansky and J. M. Rabbot, who read the manuscript, for their significant remarks. Since the publication of the first edition (1970) of this book, it has been used in the work of the Moscow University Correspondence mathematics school. The experience which the teachers of this school shared with us-and also the experience of our friends and colleagues has been taken into consideration in the detailed revision undertaken for the second edition.
We thought it necessary to furnish the book with an additional appendix, Appendix I. This will assist in 'systematic study of the book, and will help to reveal rela- tionships between different sections of the book which are not immediately apparent.
N. B. Vasilyev, V. L. Gutenmacher
Introductory Problems
0.1. A ladder standing on a smooth floor against a wall slides down. Along what line does a cat sitting at the middle of the ladder move?
Let us suppose our cat is calm and sits quietly. Then. we can see behind this picturesque formulation the following mathematical problem.
A right angle is given.. Find the midpoints of all the possible segments of given length d, which have their end-points lying on the sides of the given angle.
Let us try to guess what sort of a set this is. Obviously, when the segment rotates with its end-points sliding along the sides of the angle, its centre describes a certain line. (This is obvious from the first pictur- A esque statement of the problem.) First of all, let us determine where the end-points of this line lie. They correspond to the extreme positions JB of the segment when it is vertical or d/2
LB o
M/" 1 horizontal. This means that the endpoints A and B of the line lie on the sides of the angle at a distance d/2 from its vertex.
Let us plot a few intermediate points of this line. If you do this accurately enough, you will see that all of them lie at the same distance from the vertex 0 of the given angle. Thus, we can say that
The unknown line is an arc oj a circle of radius d/2 with centre at o. Now we must prove this. o We shall first prove that the midpoint M of the given segment KL
(I KL 1 = d) always lies at a distance d/2 from the point O. This follows from the fact that the length of the median OAf of tile right-angledtriangle KOL is equal to half the length of the hypotenuse KL. (One 'can easily convince oneself of the validity of this fact by extending the triangle KOL up to the rectangle KOLT and recalling that the diagonals KL and OT of the rectangle are equal in length and are bisected by the point of intersection M.)
Thus, we have proved that the
midpoint of the segment KL always lies on the arc AB of a circle with centre O. This arc is the set of points we were looking for.
Strictly speaking, we have to prove also that an arbitrary point M .of the arc All belongs to the unknown set. ]t is easy to do this. Through any point M of the arc AB we may draw a ray OM, mark off the segment
, MT I == I OM I along it, drop perpendiculars TLand TK from the point T to the sides of the angle and the required segment KL with its midpoint at M is constructed. 0 The second half of the proof might appear to be unnecessary: It is quite clear that the midpoint of the segment KL describes a "continuous line" with end-points. A and B; it means that the point M passes through the whole of the arc AB and not just through parts of it. This analysis is perfectly convincing, but it is not easy to give it a strict mathematical form.
Let us now consider the motion of the ladder (from problem O.t) from another point of view. Suppose that the segment KL (the "ladder") is fixed and the straight. lines KO and LO ("the wall" and "the floor") rotate correspondingly about the points K and L so that the angle between them is always a right angle. The fact that the distance from the centre of the segment to the vertex 0 of the right angle always remains the same, reduces to a well-known theorem: if two points K and L are given in a plane, then the set of points 0 for which the
~ angle KOL equals 90 is a circle with diameter KL. This theorem and also its generalization, which will be given in the proposition E of Sec. 2, will frequently help us in the solution of problems. Let us return to problem 0.1 and put a more general question. 0.2. Along what line does the cat move if it does not sit at the middle of the ladder?
In the figure a few points on one such line are plotted. It can be seen that it :s neither a straight line nor a circle, i.e, it is a new curve for us.
The coordinate method will help us to find out what sort of curve it is.
D We introduce a coordinate system regarding the sides of the angle as the axes Ox and Oy. Suppose the cat sits at some point M (x; y) at a distance a from the end-point K of the ladder and at a distance b from L (a + b = = d). We shall find the equation connecting the x and y coordinates of the point M.
If the segment KL is inclined to the axis Ox at an angle cp, then y = = b sin cp and x = a cos q>; hence, for any arbitrary q> (0 ~ q> ~ ~) x2 y2~+b2== 1. (1)
The set of points whose coordinates satisfy this equation is an ellipse llunce, the cat will move along an «llipse. 0
Note that when a = b = d/2, then i,. the cat sits as"above at the middle of the ladder, and equation (1) becomes the equation of a circle x2 + y2 =(d/2)2. Thus, we get one more solution of problem 0.1, an analytic-al solution,
The result of problem1~.2 explains the construction of a mechanism for drawing ellipses. This mechanism shown in the figure is called Leonardo da Vinci's ellipsograph.
Copernicus' Theorem
0.3. Inside a stationary circle, another circle whose diameter is half the diameter of the first circle and which touches it from inside rolls without sliding. What line does the point K of the moving circle describe?
The answer to the problem is astonishingly simple: the point K moves along a straight line-more correctly along the diameter of the stationary circle. This result is called Copernicus' theorem.
Try to convince yourself of the validity of this theorem by experiment. (It is important here that the inner circle rolls without sliding, i.e. the lengths of the arcs rolling against each other are equal). It is not difficult to prove, we need only to recall
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the theorem on the inscribed angle.
D Suppose that the point of the moving circle, which occupies position A on the stationary circle at the initial instant, has come to the position K, and that T is the point of contact of the circle at the present
-... ---...
moment of time. Since the lengths of the arcs KT and AT are equal and the radius of the movable circle is half as large, the angular size of the
arc KT in degrees is double that of the arc AT. Therefore, if 0 is the centre of the stationary circle, then according to the theorem on the
-<: inscribed angle (see p. 24), AOT =
»<. = KOT. Hence, the point K lies on
the radius AO.
This argument holds until the moment when the moving circle has rolled around one quarter of the bigger circle (the circles then touch at the point B of the bigger circle, for which
After the motion will be continued in exactly the same way-the whole picture will be simply reflected
.BO and then, after the point K -t......--~-_
symmetrically about the straight line A' A reaches the opposite end A' of the diameter A' , the circle will roll along the lower half of the stationary
circlo and the point K will return to A. 0 Let us compare the results of pro- blems 0.1 and 0.3. They are attractive probably for the' following reason. J30th problems deal with the motion of figures (the first with the motion of a segment, the second with the motion of a circle). The motion is quite complicated, but the paths of certain points appear to be unexpectedly simple. These two problems turn out to be not only related in appearance, but the motions themselves, discussed in the problems also coincide with each other.
Indeed, suppose a circle of radius d/2 rolls along the inside of another circle of radius d, and suppose KL is a diameter of the moving circle rigidly fixed to it. According to Co- pernicus' theorem the points K and A'I---~------1 IJ move along stationary straight lines A
(along the diameters A' and B' of the bigger circle, respectively). Thus, the diameter KL slides with its endpoints along two mutually perpendicular straight lines, i.e. it moves just like the segment in the problem 0.1.
One more interesting problem connected with the motion of the segment KL: what set of points is covered by this segment, or what is the union of all· the possible positions of the segment KL during its motion? The curve bounding this set is called the astroid. It is possible to construct this curve in the following way: make a circle of diam.eter d/2 roll inside another circle of diameter 2d and draw the trajectory of any particular point of the rolling circle. This trajectory will be the astroid. We shall discuss this curve and its close relatives in Sec. 7 of our book where the reader will make a more detailed acquaintance with the interconnection between the problems which we have·discussed.
However, before discussing such intricate problems and curves, let us pay thorough attention to the problems dealing with straight lines and circles. Other types of lines will not appear in the first five paragraphs.
I Set of Points
In this paragraph we shall discuss and illustrate with a number of examples the basic statements of the problems which the book deals with and also provide an arsenal of concepts and methods used for solving them. The paragraph ends with a set of various geometric problems.
We shall first discuss the term which is most often used in the book and which is at the head of the paragraph.
The concept of a "set of points" is very general. A set of points could be any figure, one point or several, a line or a domain in a plane.
In many of the problems of our book, it is required to find a set of points which satisfy a certain condition. Answers to such problems are, as a rule, figures known from school geometry (straight lines, circles, sometimes pieces into which these lines divide a plane, etc.). The main task is to guess what sort of a figure the answer is. Thus, in problem 0.1 about the cat, we have guessed the answerit was a circle, and in problem 0.3 the answer turned out to be a straight line.
In solutions of some problems we have to carry out a thorough investi- gation. One has to establish the fol- • lowing:
(a) all the points satisfying the given condition belong to the figure;
(b) all the points of the figure satisfy • the given condition. M
Sometimes both of these statements are obvious, the direct statement as • well as its converse, sometimes only • one of them. Sometimes it is even • difficult to guess the answer.
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she said. Then there was a
man’s voice, saying how the flesh and muscle would be
much more tender if you
cook it at a certain temperature. But he had a certain
lust in his voice.
Disturbing actually, there was a fireplace, but instead
of a fire a TV took its
place, with perfectly cooked meat. I knew it was human.
Now the lady began
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me, next to the TV.
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A small skin rash, called purpura, is a hallmark symptom of the most common form of vasculitis in children. Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), named for German doctors, Eduard Henoch and Johann Schönlein, is seen most often in kids aged 2-11, with twice as many cases in boys than girls.
In HSP, capillaries become irritated, causing them to swell. This swelling, or vasculitis, usually occurs in kidneys, intestines, or the skin. When the capillaries in the skin swell, they often leak, causing the purpura rash associated with HSP. Vessels in the intestines and kidneys also can swell and leak.
The Mayo Clinic explained that this condition occurs when the immune system reacts to a protein, known as immunoglobulin A (IgA). HSP usually strikes after a child has a bacterial or viral infection in the sinuses, lungs or throat. Some medicines, food, insect bites, or vaccines can also cause it.
Since a rash accompanies nearly all HSP cases, doctors can usually diagnose from the purpura rash or another one, made up of small red dots known as petechiae. The rash occurs on the buttocks and legs, but can also show up on elbows, trunk, face, or arms.
Another common symptom of HSP is painful swelling in the larger joints -- knees, elbows, ankles -- but feet and hands can also hurt. About a week after the rash appears, a child may have stomach aches, accompanied by vomiting or diarrhea.
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Do High Mutual Fund Fees Make Sense for Investors?
Dennis Miller |
Should You Pay High Mutual Fund Fees for Good Performance?
Over the last five years, 65.4% of active, large-cap fund managers failed to outperform the S&P 500; 81.6% of mid-cap fund managers lagged behind the S&P Midcap 400; and 77.7% of small-cap managers were outperformed by the S&P SmallCap 600.
Since the majority of mutual funds can't beat the S&P 500 or their respective indices, what's the point of paying 1.5% in annual fees when one can buy the S&P 500 ETF for an annual fee of 0.1%? To be blunt, there really isn't any point… unless one enjoys wasting money.
One common objection to my argument: Doesn't it make sense to pay higher fees if a fund's performance is good? That just seems like common sense. If someone does a good job, he should be rewarded. If the manager grows your portfolio, it's all right for him to charge a little more.
Let me explain. Suppose that you've been reading about cheaper alternatives to mutual funds, and you'd like your financial advisor to suggest some options. However, at the same time, you tell the advisor that you're willing to pay higher fees for funds with a good performance history.
In any given year, some mutual funds and ETFs will do well and some will perform badly. Some of those funds will be high-fee funds and some will be low-fee funds. There are thousands of mutual funds and ETFs out there. It's not particularly difficult to find one with both good performance and a high fee. By accepting high fees on funds with solid past performance, you're really not beating the financial advisor and the expensive mutual funds at their game.
But if both funds are performing well, does it really matter? Yes. Remember that fees are a percentage of assets. They are not based on returns, as is often the case with hedge funds. Sure, if the fund grows, the mutual fund company will earn a little more. But the bulk of the fee is earned regardless of its performance. For example, if the fee is a very large 2%, you're still going to pay that 2% even if the fund stays flat. If the fund drops 30%, you're still going to be paying 2%. So, in some sense, you never pay for performance – investors always pay for assets under management.
Also, remember that past performance is just that… past performance. Each year is a new year. Would you rather be with a fund that earned 20% but charged 2% in fees, or a fund that earned 20% and charged 0.3% in fees? The answer seems pretty simple to me. With the first fund, you're already down 2% from the start. In effect, you're playing catch-up.
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Welcome to the Odell Beckham Jr. School of Photobombing
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In order to properly execute a photobomb, certain criteria must be met:
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2. The photobomber must make a ridiculous facial expression or movement that is completely unrelated to what is happening in the foreground.
3. The photobomber must draw all attention away from the main subject of the photo and direct it to him or herself.
4. Extra points for videobombing.
With that said, may I present to you Odell Beckham Jr.'s perfectly executed photobomb of Fox Sports's reporter Laura Okmin.
Note the perfect form, the ridiculous dance moves, the on point timing, and the brilliant finale: mocking Okmin by talking into a fake mic. A+ job.
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Mixing Music Basics For Composers
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Mixing Music Basics For Composers
by Tim Juliano
I come from a family of engineers. My father is an electrical engineer, my older brother is a software engineer/music engineer and my younger brother is a mechanical engineer. All three of them are also musicians. Even though I didn't follow suit and become an engineer I feel their presence and skill sets really helped me to understand the gaps in knowledge (or lack of care) I generally find when I talk to composers about mixing. Obviously there are exceptions in that we find a rare composer that is extremely talented at mixing as well as composing. Of course there are also the polar opposites who are just all around terrible at music and mixing. However, not counting these 2 extremes, we find that most composers fall into 3 categories on the mixing music spectrum.
On the far left side we have producers/engineers who's music has amazing production value, but lacks completely in compositional value or depth. On the far right side we have composers who can compose really well, but are lacking in production value. Finally, we have those who are down the middle and are okay or adequate at both.
This article is mainly for the composer who has little to no knowledge of mixing music. The two reasons for it being focused on the novice mixing composer, is that:
1)Producer/Mixers and Composer Mixers will most likely already know what I'm about to share
2)Producer/Mixers and Composer Mixers have an upper hand because as of today, good, bad,or indifferent production usually wins out over composition.
The reason behind production winning over composition is there's an industry standard expectation for everything to sound amazing, regardless of whether it's a good piece of music or not. Just listen to the radio. There are several examples of forgettable songs with amazing production value.
I'm not trying to diminish production value, because it's one hundred percent important. I'm also not trying to make a composer minded only individual, try to become an amazing mixing engineer either. If you are not into learning or have the passion for the ins and outs of audio engineering then you really won't learn it. It will just be a drag on your life!
What I do hope to do is point out the major missteps that I hear and give solutions, so that your demos will get you gigs. Essentially, if you are an incredible composer, and can pull off a decent production, you'll have a better chance getting a job composing. Then you can budget for an engineer to really help your music shine. You'll also be able to better communicate your wishes to the engineer during the final mix down.Okay let's get to it.
The very first issue I come across with poor mixes from composers is the lack of panning. On an actual mixing console there is a knob that says "Pan" usually above the volume fader. The "Pan" is the shortened name for Panoramic Potentiometer. (Pan Pot) The pan pot directs a mono signal left, center, or right of a 270 degree sound field.
Basically, if the pan pot is in stationed down the center at a 90 degree angle then the audio will come out equally between the left and right channel. If the the pan pot is at 0 degrees then the signal will mostly come out the left channel. If the pan pot is at 180 degrees then the audio will mostly be heard out the right channel. If you turn the pan all the way left or all the way right, the signal will completely come out those sides. Of course there are incremental degrees in-between.
The Pan is an underutilized knob, but it is important mainly for 2 reasons.
1)When you pan a signal/instrument it can allow for separation from other instruments allowing it to be heard better.
2)When you pan a signal/instrument you're helping to recreate how the human ear hears audio in the real world. This contributes to a more natural a appealing mix.
In the real world when you're enjoying music, instrumentalists do not line up one behind the other in a straight row. Why then would you mix them like that in your compositions? Instruments are usually arranged by their tone and volume. Essentially the louder more penetrating instruments will go behind the ones that aren't. Below is a diagram of a general orchestral layout. The direction or degree you set your instrument pan to has already been decided. Really, your only job is to finesse the degree to taste.
All genres have a pretty standard expected placement of instruments. For example pop/rock music guitars are usually stage left, drums are usually stage up center, bass is usually stage right and vocals are usually stage down center.
When you're panning your instruments within a mix, it's best to pan them from an audience perspective. When you're mixing music, imagine that your are row 1 center in seats looking at the stage. Where are the instruments in relation to you? When you ask yourself that question, you'll be amazed at what specialty and depth you can create with just a simple panning of an instrument.
One thing to keep in mind when your panning virtual instruments is knowing whether or not the sample library you have has already panned the instruments for you. For instance East West sample libraries have their instruments already panned for you. They usually set their instruments pan according to the instruments standard placement on a stage. There are plenty of other libraries that do this as well, so it's best to check to see your pan is already set or if you need to change it.
The next thing on my list I'd like to talk about is EQ. Many people do not know that equalizing frequencies by raising or lowering their amplitudes cannot make a poorly recorded piece of audio sound good. Essentially, if you didn't have a knowledgeable person using good gear to record the instrument to begin with. Consequently an EQ cannot make your audio sound better.
My older brother, who's a software engineer, has a term for poorly thought out processes. It's called garbage in, garbage out. In his case he's referring to poorly written computer code that will not be useful or work even if you have a nice graphic user interface. The same applies to recording anything. If your audio sounds like crap after it's been recorded, then adding EQ won't help it. In fact it can make it worse.
Moreover, the first step to EQ'ing properly is having a decently recorded piece of audio to begin with. This can easily be achieved for 1 person recording 1 live instrument.(I recommend that larger groups that need to be recorded simultaneously be handled by professional studios. You alone will not suffice. You'll be stressed, and you'll be really unpopular by the people you're recording.)
These days there are many inexpensive great sounding pieces of equipment that help you achieve really great live recordings. Most audio professionals and enthusiasts already have computers and audio interfaces. In my humble opinion you just need to have a decent audio interface then you can easily get good tones with it. All you need in addition to any decent interface is 1 mic pre, like a Golden Age Pree-73and 1 good mic, like an SM81. This mic pre and microphone are not the only game in town, these are just products that I think do a great job for the money. Also there's no rule to having to buy equipment brand new. You can easily find these items used on eBay as well
Now that we have a good piece of audio recorded how do I EQ it? Well, I like to take the simple approach when it comes to EQ'ing. Less is definitely more. Specifically, I think that cutting or lowering frequencies is much more effective than raising them. First and foremost is, cutting unnecessary low frequencies.
The human ear can only hear 30hz at it's lowest. Unless you are an enigma, most people will not hear below this frequency. However, many instruments and tones have frequencies and amplitudes below that. Consequently you have all this extra noise that's adding unwanted volume to your mix. Everything then starts to compete for a space to be heard, and it just ends up sounding very muddy. Although there is an argument that you can feel the frequencies below 30hz and that can add a dimension to your mix, most of the time people do not have a bass or sub-woofer speaker that's capable of playing those frequencies, so it would just be lost anyway.
What I do is apply a High-Pass EQ. A high pass filter does exactly what the name says. It lets higher frequencies pass while cutting out lower frequencies. All you have to do is turn the gain all the way down on your EQ around 30hz. If you have a spectrum analyzer(some are already built into EQ's) you'll be able to see the frequency range of instrument. If you insert this into your channel you'll be able to see if you can set the 30hz high pass filter to a higher frequency. The instrument may only have a range to let's say 80hz, and by cutting the frequencies below that you can potentially increase the overall headroom of your mix.
This technique can still be applied to sample libraries. I put high pass filters on every single one of my tracks and adjust accordingly regardless of the track being live audio or a sample. This significantly increases the clarity of my mixes as well as gives me more room to increase the volumes of the tracks that need it.
I don't recommend raising the frequency gain of instruments, live or sampled, if you are not skilled or practiced in EQ's. You will absolutely make your mixes sound overly bright or piercing. It takes time to learn when or when not to adjust the gain louder for frequencies. Start with cutting frequencies, as more often than not, the cutting of lower frequencies will allow for higher frequencies to stand out a bit more anyway. With time and practice, you'll start to hear when it's necessary to raise the amplitude of frequencies.
The next thing that I'd like to address is reverb. What many novice audio engineers do not realize is that reverb is actually a very very fast delay. Think of being at the Grand Canyon and yelling hello. You would obviously hear an echo as the audio hits the canyon walls and bounces back at you repeating itself.
The difference between a delay and reverb is you cannot discern the time difference between the signal returning back to you, yet you still have a sense of the space the signal is in.
Now my reason behind talking about the difference between delay and reverb is that quite often poor mixes do not realize that they are artificially applying the reverb effect. What I mean by this is that unless you are intentionally trying to create an unnatural sound, a good mixes goal is to recreate a sound based upon how it occurs naturally. When you're applying reverb, you need to think about how the instruments would sound in a live environment.
For example if you are mixing an orchestral track, do you want it to sound like it's an orchestra playing in a large concert hall, a scoring stage, outdoor venue etc.....? This will help you to determine how much reverb to apply to your mix. If you don't have an idea in mind, you may put too much reverb on your mix and it's like have multiple delays piling up on each other. Consequently this starts to dull the mix, and wash out clarity. When applying reverb think about the space the instrument would be playing inside of with regards to composition and adjust for that. If you're not super confident on how to adjust reverbs, it's always better to err on the side of less. Your mixes may sound more intimate and close in perspective with less, however that's far more acceptable than an indiscernible mess.
Okay the last bit of business is compressor/limiters. For this article I am not going to go too in-depth into compressors as that can be a whole book in it's own right. A compressor in it's simplest definition is an automatic volume control. It's basic function is to even out dynamics in a recording by making loud amplitudes softer and softer amplitudes louder. It's very easy to screw up audio with compressors either by distorting the audio or changing the tone into something undesirable. For this reason I recommend that novice mixers don't use them. I'm sure there's plenty of people that disagree, but I really think that the only thing novice mixers should start out with is limiters.
A limiter can be thought of as an extreme compressor. It has many uses, but if you're just getting into mixing, then only place you'll want to worry about using it, is on the master output of your mixer. What the limiter allows you to do is to "limit" what frequencies and volume level will make it into the final mix down. This is necessary because even when you adjust the volumes and place high pass filters on your audio tracks the summing of all the audio tracks together can still cause the output to have an overload and the track will distort.
The limiter allows you to to adjust the over all gain of the mix as well as what frequencies it will limit from exiting the mixer. The limiter achieves this through it's Peak Reduction (also known as threshold) function. The most basic explanation is that the frequencies with the loudest amplitude will first start to be quieted when adjusting the Peak Reduction. The further you change the amount the more frequencies are affected. Keep in mind that it's necessary to listen and not blindly set the limiter. You are basically trying to use as little of the limiter as possible as the tone of the mix will be colored the more you use the limiter. You are trying to adjust the limiter as little as possible just so that it does not distort or "Peak" in the mix down.
Obviously, I am only touching on a very small part of all the infinite amount of techniques and skill needed to create an amazing mix, but these are still important. Your job is to get your music into a presentable form to get you noticed or at the very least understood. If people can hear your music and at least see the potential in it, that will weigh heavily in your favor for present and future work.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 secondsGrab your little packet of your ECG electrodes. There's always 12 on a sheet, unless someone's stolen some, as you can see. Someone's already stolen some from that sheet there. That usually tells me they've had problems with adhesions so they've had to take another strip.
Skip to 0 minutes and 32 secondsSo picking up your electrodes, we're going to go to the inner aspect of each ankle. And you want the free end of the tab facing towards the patient. That's just purely on a practical basis. When you're applying your actual leads themselves, it stops the electrode peeling back. And you do the reverse on the wrist. You actually want them facing down the little electric tab when you go to connect your cable.
Skip to 1 minute and 3 secondsI always just give them a nice little gentle press to make sure you have good contact because you're reliant on the quality of the application to give you a good, reliable reading. Now, at this point I will need to actually place the chest electrodes, otherwise called the precordial leads. To do that, you need to identify clearly some specific anatomical landmarks. These are most important in terms of getting a good quality ECG, which is actually translatable into clinical assessment and management of your patient.
Skip to 1 minute and 40 secondsSo you just need to make sure your patient's chest is nice and clear and that they're comfortably back at 45 degrees, and that you can actually feel the little V notch at the top of the sternum here. What you're looking for is an anatomical position called the Angle of Louis, and that corresponds to intercostal space number two on the chest wall. For V1 placement, which is your first chest electrode, you're looking to place V1 at the fourth intercostal space to the right of the sternal border. So in order to do that, most easiest way is to gently feel for that notch, which is very easy, whether the patient's male or female. Slide your finger down.
Skip to 2 minutes and 21 secondsYou'll come to a little raised ridge called the manubrium. And below that, where the ridge dips away and you move straight across on the horizontal plane, which automatically bring you over to intercostal space number two. And then you're going to gently slide over the chest wall to feel for intercostal space number three. And then further down-- and again, you're going to feel for intercostal space number four. And note that position, and apply your electrode.
Skip to 2 minutes and 57 secondsOK. We'll need to do the same procedure to locate V2. V2 is described as being the fourth intercostal space to the left of sternal border. And in order to do that, you'll perform the same process. You'll feel for the notch of the sternum, slip down over the manubrium when you come off the ridge and into the indentation, and move horizontally straight across. You're going to be, again, at intercostal space number two. And you want to feel for intercostal space number three and intercostal space number four. Note that position, and apply your electrode.
Skip to 3 minutes and 35 secondsGenerally, in most patients, it's going to be a mirror image of V1, but there are certain clinical conditions-- such as scoliosis, kyphoscoliosis, other chest wall deformities-- which may mean that the patient's chest is actually asymmetrical as opposed to symmetrical in most people. The next electrode you're going to apply is slightly out of sequence. We're going to apply electrode V4. To identify this, it is described as mid-clavicular line, fifth intercostal space. To do that, the tip of the clavicle articulates the center of the chest here with the notches and the tip of the clavicle comes all right out to the top of the arm here.
Skip to 4 minutes and 17 secondsSo what you have to imagine is that clavicle, and you want to imagine yourself halfway along it. And then you're going to drop an imaginary plumb line straight down and you're going to feel for one intercostal space lower. And that will be position V4.
Skip to 4 minutes and 38 secondsSo just to reiterate, it's described as mid-clavicular line, fifth intercostal space. Then you'll apply electrode V3, which is described as equidistant between V2 and V4.
Skip to 4 minutes and 59 secondsAnd then you're going to move along to apply electrode V5 and V6. In female patients with a significant amount of breast tissue or gentleman who happen to have enlarged breast tissue because of conditions such as gynecomastia, you'll need to make sure that the breast tissue is moved away to apply electrodes V4, V5, and V6. You don't want to apply on top of the breast tissue. So in order to assist you and to maintain the patient's dignity, what I've found useful is to get the patient to pop their hand on top of their breast and just to lift and cover it so you could find the anatomical landmarks. And once your electrodes are placed, the patient can release the breast again.
Skip to 5 minutes and 38 secondsSo we're going to apply precordial lead V5, which is described as the fifth horizontal plane, but this time anterior axillary line. To locate the axillary line, you're looking at the crease here at the top of the arm where it joins the chest wall. Again, you're coming down with an imaginary plumb line, parallel to V4, and that will be your V5 placement.
Skip to 6 minutes and 12 secondsAnd the last electrode will be V6. Now, this one is described as fifth horizontal plane, mid axillary line. To locate the mid axillary line, we want to raise your patient's arm gently up and look into the axilla. And, again, imagining about 50% along that axillary line here, which is represented by this crease. You want to, again, draw another imaginary plumb line coming down and meeting the fifth intercostal plane. That's where V6 would sit. It's often a little further around than you think. And the most important thing is you keep to the fifth horizontal plane as opposed to the fifth intercostal space because the heart is apex, is sitting here.
Skip to 7 minutes and 5 secondsAnd if you were to follow just the intercostal space and follow the ribs, you'd actually move away from the apex, which is what you don't want to do. You want to pick up the big muscle mass of the left ventricle on that side. So this represents the positioning for your precordial leads, V1 through to V6. The only thing I would suggest you do if you are new to performing 12 lead ECGs on a regular basis, or you may not be from a cardiac area, is once you have the electrodes positions at this point, call for someone senior to come and inspect the position to make sure it's accurate before you apply your electrodes.
Skip to 7 minutes and 41 secondsAnd you can cover your patient comfortably while someone's coming along to do so.
Electrode placement
In this second video of our ‘How to record an ECG’ series, Clinical Simulation Specialist Jasmine Burnett demonstrates how to place the ECG electrodes on the patient using anatomical landmarks.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 4 secondsSo we're going to look at the performance of a spark ignition engine that operates on an ideal auto cycle. We're told in each cycle that it uses seven milligrams of gasoline, that combusts at its flash point of 232 degrees C, and has a net calorific value of 44,400 kilojoules per kilogram. And if the engine discharge is its exhaust at an ambient temperature of 20 degrees C, then what will be its maximum power output at 3,000 RPM, assuming Carnot efficiency. So I'm going to start this problem in the same way I have all the other ones we've done, by drawing a diagram.
Skip to 0 minutes and 49 secondsExcept that this time, I'm going to draw a plot of the volume on the x-axis versus pressure on the y-axis. And we're going to start the cycle down in the bottom corner here at 0. And we're going to suck in gases into the engine at a constant pressure till we get to location 1 here. And then we're going to adiabatically compress those gases up to 2 here. So we're going to go up here in adiabatic conditions. So that means there's no heat transfer. And then we're going to combust the fuel and move to here. And in the process, there'll be a heat input into the engine.
Skip to 1 minute and 47 secondsAnd having done that, we're going to do some work and allow the gases to expand. And so we'll progress back down here, adiabatically again. But now we're going to get some work out of this engine as we expand. So it takes us to 4. Then we'll open the exhaust valves those gases will begin to escape and then the final step will sweep them back out as we go from 0 back from one back down to zero. So that's the schematic representing an ideal cycle and a way of being asked to look at its thermal efficiency.
Skip to 2 minutes and 33 secondsSo we can say that by definition, thermal efficiency, eta TH, is going to be equal to what we want out, which in this case is work. So this is work output divided by what we have to provide in order to get that, and that's the heat in here. So this is heat is input. So we can express that in terms of the symbols I've used here as w out divided by Q in. So we can rearrange that and say that w out will be equal to the thermal efficiency times the heat in. So we're told that this is auto engine's operating at Carnot efficiency. So we can find this efficiency in terms of Carnot's expression.
Skip to 3 minutes and 38 secondsSo we can say, assuming Carnot efficiency-- and Carnot efficiency is essentially the best that we can ever hope to achieve. It's right on the edge of what the second law of thermodynamics will allow us to get. So we can effectively say this is the maximum thermal efficiency that's possible. And it's defined in terms of the temperature range over which the engine is operating. So in this case, that's going to be between the cold temperature it's operating, which is ambient temperature in this case, and the temperature combustion of the other gases. I'm going to use TC and TH for those. And so if we substitute in some numbers into that, it's exhausting its gases at 20 degrees C.
Skip to 4 minutes and 29 secondsSo that's going to be at 293 Kelvin. And the combustion of the fuel happens at 232 degrees C. So that's 505 at Kelvin. And if you get your calculator out and do that little sum, it comes out at 0.419. So that's given us a value that we can use here. So now we need a value for the heat inwards. And we've been given the calorific value of the fuel that we're burning here, and so we can say that Q in is going to be equal to the amount of fuel we use as a mass times NCV. And NCV is the Net Calorific Value of the fuel. And we're told that's equal to 44,400 kilojoules per kilogram.
Skip to 5 minutes and 35 secondsSo that means we can substitute the numbers into here. We're going to get Q in is equal to the mass, which is 7 milligrams. That's 7 times 10 to the minus 6 in order to get into kilograms, times this value here. That's 44.4 times 10 to the 6, because we've got three powers of 10 here and another three buried in this kilojoules. And so now, if you do that sum, the answer comes out at 311.3 joules. And so finally, we can work out the w out. And so we can say, hence w out will be equal to this efficiency value we found here, 0.419, times-- we need the Q in that we've just calculated. So that's 311.
Skip to 6 minutes and 37 secondsAnd if you do that little calculation, it comes out at 130.5 joules. So that's the amount of work we can get out per cycle as we go around this cycle here. Now, we're asked to find the power. So that's the amount of work per second. So we can say, so at 3,000 RPM, the power output-- so w dot out, in other words, it's the work per unit time, per second-- will be equal to this 130 times number of revolutions per second. So that's 3,000 divided by 60, because it's defined in revs per minute. And this is a four-stroke cycle, so that means actually we get two revolutions each time the engine goes around this cycle.
Skip to 7 minutes and 36 secondsSo we need to put a factor of 2 in here to account for that. And when you do that calculation, it comes out at 3,263 watts. And that's the power output of this engine.
Spark ignition engine (worked example)
A spark ignition engine operates in an ideal Otto cycle. In each cycle it uses 7mg of gasoline that combusts at its flash point of 232°C and has a Net Calorific Value of 44,400 kJ/kg. If the engine discharges its exhaust at an ambient temperature of 20°C then what will be its maximum power output at 3000 rpm, assuming Carnot efficiency.
Work through the example, and then watch the video or check your answer with the solution at the bottom of this page.
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What Is iPhone 4's FaceTime Video Chat?
Steve Jobs usually saves the meatiest bit if keynotes for the end. But WWDC's "One More Thing" was a little tame: FaceTime, a video chat system for iPhone 4. So, what's special about FaceTime, and how does it work?
First, let's get this out of the way: Yes, FaceTime is just video chat, similar to what the HTC Evo demonstrated last week, and not unlike what my British LG slider from 2006 could pull off, over 3G. But regardless, video chat hitting the iPhone is a big deal. Here's what we know:
...It only works over Wi-Fi...
For now! Though Jobs says they're working with carriers to get networks up to speed to support cellular video calling later.
...with both the front and rear cameras...
Though I suppose those entail drastically different use scenarios. (Front-facing camera for "hello, this is my face!; rear camera for "hey, look at this!")
...It's an open standard...
Meaning that other manufacturers could tap into the protocol if they want to. It's kind of like a standalone network, in a way; like a Skype, or an iChat. (Presumably, iChat is too loaded of a name for a industry wide standard, so they went with something brand-neutral, like FaceTime.) Says MacRumors:
[FaceTime is]Based on many open standards, h.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, RTP, SRTP, Apple going to standards body tomorrow to make FaceTime an open industry standard.
SIP? I guess Apple just build their own little VoIP network, sort of!
...but it's only available for the iPhone 4 at launch.
People may groan a bit at what seems like a smallish technological step, but this lays a lot of groundwork. First, it means that within a few years, the one of the most popular handsets in the world will support video calling, which is still relative rare. It also means that Apple competitors will likely speed up their development on competing techs. It also means that Apple could potentially expand video chat to all kinds of platforms , that we could see it in Mac OS and elsewhere, and even on Android. It's effectively an open VoIP network, meaning that all-purpose chat clients, like iChat, could easily integrate it in the future, assuming Apple opens development for non-mobile software.
Then again, that's just Apple's hope - they don't yet own video chat, so FaceTime could just as easily become as marginal tech as a dominant one.
Thanks to GDGT for the photo, and fantastic liveblog, and MacRumors for their coverage. For more on iPhone 4, here's our complete coverage.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
SPOILERS: Earth 2 Batman on Dealing With the Joker
Earth 2 #18 came out today, and it saw Thomas Wayne Batman breaking people out of the World Army's Arkham base to help in the war against Darkseid brainwashed Superman. Who's in the World Army's lock up? Aquawoman, Jimmy Olsen, and hey, the Joker! So what happened with these two?
Oh, well that's grim. Well Thomas THIS NEW BATMAN WHO WASN'T LEAKED BY DC'S TWITTER ACCOUNT is certainly playing the part well.
What happens next?
Wait… what? Batman doesn't use a gun! What the fuck is going on here, Earth 2? Maybe he's just shooting the glass out?
Oh jeez, OH JEEZ!
Also, he can get shot in the head, BYEEEEEEE.
1. I really wish I kept reading this. Time to track down some back-issues...
2. Is it just me, or is "Joker dies" becoming a trend? Arkham City, Injustice, Earth 2...
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HMRC internal manual
Oil Taxation Manual
PRT: Exempt Gas - Tariff Receipts of Exempt Gas Fields
Where non-mobile qualifying assets belonging to an “exempt gas field” are used by other fields, any resulting tariffs will be chargeable to PRT.
Tariffs assessed in an “exempt gas field” are eligible for TRA (OT15600).
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Carpe Manyana
If you've never heard or read Leonard Sweet, then sieze tomorrow and do it. If you're into metaphors, he'll be that kiosk that you gravitate toward in the open market. His is a fresh voice for the emergent church. One of his quirky and funny ideas is Carpe Manyana. No, not carpe diem, but Carpe Manyana. Sure, it mixes a dead language and a living one (Spanish is from Latin and I suppose Manyana comes from Latin), but the idea is to be watchful for where people are going tomorrow and be there. This idea could work for business or the American Dream, and I hesitate to "sieze" ideas that are often co-opted to satisfy our own cultural values. So the idea is not uniquely Christian but does point to ideas that are uniquely Christian: the resurrection, the second coming of Christ that we await and say "Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus." When we are siezing tomorrow, we acknowledge that today is a chance to prepare for what is coming, both in terms of ministry and in terms of waiting for the Lord.
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#Enter the fqdn of your forest/domain
$fqdn = "fully.qualified.domain.name"
#Create Empty HashTable
#Enumerate Domain Controllers
ForEach ($strComputer in $dclist) {
#Get IP Info of each DC
$strComputer.name -filter "IpEnabled = TRUE"
ForEach ($objItem in $colItems){
$ht.FQDN = $strComputer
$ht.MACAddress = $objItem.MacAddress
$ht.IPAddress = $objItem.IpAddress
Powershell: Using PoSH to Search Across Multiple Domains in Forest
I was recently asked to get a quick report of all Windows 7 computers within a multi-domain AD forest. After banging my head into the keyboard for a while, I finally figured it out. The script below should do the trick.
Also, if you use the OperatingSystemVersion attribute, you will find that Server 2008 R2 shares version “6.1 (7600)”. So, the best way to find Windows 7 only, is to search for “Windows 7*” with the wildcard character against the OperatingSystem attribute. That will ensure all Windows 7 versions are returned and will exclude Server 2008 R2 from your results.
#Get Domain List
$objForest = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest()
$DomainList = @($objForest.Domains | Select-Object Name)
$Domains = $DomainList | foreach {$_.Name}
#Act on each domain
foreach($Domain in ($Domains))
Write-Host "Checking $Domain" -fore red
$ADsPath = [ADSI]"LDAP://$Domain"
$objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($ADsPath)
$objSearcher.Filter = "(&(objectCategory=Computer)(operatingSystem=Windows 7*))"
$objSearcher.SearchScope = "Subtree"
$colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll()
foreach ($objResult in $colResults)
$Computer = $objResult.GetDirectoryEntry()
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How to Buy a Murse
The convenience of carrying a purse isn’t just for women anymore. Men, it might be time to buy a murse.
• Step 1: Once you buy your murse, wear it confidently. Walk tall and smile as you enjoy the freedom of having everything in a bag, rather than uncomfortably stuffed in your pockets.
• FACT: A single word formed from combining two words is known as a portmanteau.
• Step 2: Sling the murse over your shoulder; the bag should fall to at least the middle of your back, where it can rest without distracting from your manly physique.
• Step 3: Buy a murse made from a heavy material; weak, little totes are for weak, little men. Look for a bag that's rugged enough to withstand the elements.
• TIP: Ignore anything labeled a clutch; these long, thin bags are only for ladies.
• Step 4: Choose a subtle murse; flashy colors or designs that can call unnecessary attention to your accessory. Look for bags that are the size of what you'd need to carry -- all of your important, manly items.
• Step 5: Find a store that sells murses; shoulder bags marketed to men or both genders. Look for these totes under a variety of names, including satchels, messenger bags, and men's carry-alls.
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How to Plant a River Birch Tree
A fast-growing shade tree, river birch (_Betula nigra_) is the most widely adapted of the birch trees. It is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 9a. In USDA zones 8b and 9a, river birch needs regular irrigation to survive the heat.
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River birches have distinctive exfoliating bark.
Preferred Conditions
Since river birches can reach 40 to 50 feet tall and 20 to 30 feet wide, they need plenty of room to grow. Space them 15 to 20 feet apart and at least that far from hardscape elements. Avoid planting them in shallow soil in USDA zones 8b and 9a, so they can establish deep root systems to survive the heat.
River birch grows best in full sun, but tolerates partial shade. The tree will grow in a more open shape if planted in the shade. The drooping branches can be messy, so don't plant them close to high-traffic areas unless you want to clean up after the trees and prune them regularly.
As the name implies, river birches prefer moist soil. Once established, however, they will tolerate dry soils. They grow best in acidic soils, and develop iron deficiency in soils with a pH higher than 6.5. This high sensitivity to alkaline soils means you should test your soil before planting river birch to make sure the soil is safe.
Soil Amendments
Adding organic matter to the soil before planting will improve the texture and increase the soil's ability to retain water. Composts are a familiar amendment, but they are often slightly alkaline. Unless your soil is already acidic, don't use compost when amending soil for river birch. Sphagnum peat moss is a much better choice than compost, since it has an acidic pH.
Spread the peat moss 4 inches thick over the soil surface where you will be planting. Mix it into the soil to a depth of 8 to 12 inches. If possible, amend and till the soil in an area two to three times the size of the hole you'll be digging to plant the birch tree.
If a soil test indicates the pH is too high for river birch, applying granular sulfur is an alternative to amending with peat moss. If the current pH is 8.0, apply 0.3 to 0.4 pounds of granular sulfur per 10 square feet. For soil with a pH of 7.0, apply 0.1 to 0.2 pounds. If you're applying more than 0.2 pounds per 10 square feet, spread this out over two applications three months apart. This is best done a year before planting the tree.
How to Plant
Plant in the late winter or early spring, just before new growth starts and after soil temperatures are higher than 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Dig a hole 2 to 3 times the size of the container or root ball. Make the hole the same depth as the roots, so after planting the tree sits in the soil at the same depth that it was growing previously.
If the plant is balled and burlaped, set the whole root ball in the hole without removing the burlap. Fill in about three-quarters of the hole. Loosen burlap and fold it back so the top of the root ball is exposed. Remove any wire that was holding the top of the burlap. Finish filling the hole.
For container-grown plants, remove the tree from the pot. Use a pruning knife or shears to cut any large roots that completely circle the root ball, and loosen the smaller roots by hand. Set the plant in the hole and fill in around the root ball. If the container is biodegradable, tear off any part of the pot that extends above the soil level and cut five or six slashes in the side of the pot with a utility knife, then plant the entire thing. Before use, disinfect any cutting tools by soaking them in a mixture of 1 part bleach to 3 parts water for 5 minutes, then rising them with clean water.
After Planting
Watering enough to keep the root ball moist after planting is key. To help keep the water near the root ball, build a ring of soil 6 to 8 inches from the edge of the hole. Fill this ring every time you water. The ring should be smoothed into the soil by the end of the second growing season.
For plants that were grown in containers, plan on watering two or three times a week for the first few weeks. Plants that were balled and burlaped typically have roots surrounded by a water-retentive soil and only need water once a week.
Avoid over watering by checking the soil moisture before watering. If it still feels wet, don't water. About 1 inch of water per week is a good guide, perhaps more in particularly hot weather.
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How to choose the right ETF
Three points to consider when picking an ETF for your portfolio
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You’ve learned all about exchange traded funds (ETFs), and decided they are a good fit for your portfolio. But how do you pick which fund to invest in? Read on for three key things to consider when choosing an ETF.
1. The benchmark index
With over 1.5 million indices to choose from, deciding which benchmark index your ETF should track can be a tough task. Try to focus on finding the fund that best fits your trading plan; be that exposure to the FTSE 100, the US energy sector or all of Europe.
2. The fund’s size
A fund’s assets under management (AUM) should also be taken into account. This is because larger funds can benefit from economies of scale, allowing them to cut their fees and saving you money in the long run.
Additionally, a larger fund should have better liquidity than a smaller one. In general, larger liquidity in ETFs means lower spreads, so you can buy your fund for less and sell it for more.
3. The structure of the fund
There are two main types of ETF available. Physically replicated ETFs use assets to track their index, while synthetically replicated ETFs use derivatives.
Each of these types of ETF has different features and benefits that you should consider before buying. Physical replication, for instance, makes it easier to see what you are invested in and is generally considered less risky than synthetic replication. On the other hand, with some markets physical replication is either impossible or hugely inefficient.
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Organic Desiccated Coconut UK
Desiccated coconut are used in a host of dishes and baked goods, and have made its way from the tropics into restaurants, stores and homes worldwide.
Aside from infusing tropical flavor to food products, desiccated coconut also add texture to it. And because it swells slightly when exposed to moisture, it also gives food more volume. Desiccated coconut can be used as dusting, sprinkle, garnish and dressing to both sweet and savory food.
Origin: Sri Lanka, Philippines or Indonesia
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Good for: Weight loss, Brain, Blood sugar, Blood pressure, Candida, Allergies, Immune system, Kidneys
Nutrition: Iron, Calcium, Health Fat (Medium Chain Fatty Acids)
Usage: Add Dessicated Coconut to your muesli or porridge or use in making delicious treats
How Desiccated Coconut is made
It could be confusing to find there are so many coconut products in the market today such as raw coconut nectar, organic coconut sugar, raw virgin coconut oil and many more. And more often than not, people interchange desiccated coconut with shredded coconut and flaked coconut. Though they are essentially the same, they have difference that goes beyond the size of their “granules.”.
Desiccated coconut, although they also come in both sweet and unsweetened form, have been dried to the point where so little moisture from the original fruit is left. Desiccated coconut is in fact drier than dried coconuts despite the word “dried” in its name which means it has a longer shelf life.
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Help stop government censorship forever!
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Join the Internet Defense League's Anti-censorship Network by adding a few lines of code to your site. Then, whenever anyone visits from a country where the Internet is censored, we'll pop up an overlay showing them how to use anonymity and VPN software to get unrestricted access to the full Internet. Together we can make government censorship a thing of the past!
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Shah Rukh Khan and Uday Chopra had a Twitter conversation
This cryptic Twitter chat between SRK- Uday Chopra is basically a promotion of Thesaurus
Twitter is a nice place to be if you are a sucker for celebrity conversations. Quite often we come across chats between celebrities that gives us an insight into their lives. But there is one conversation that recently happened which fails to give any such sneak peek. Instead, it is will force you to take out your dictionaries.
The conversation in mention is between actors Shah Rukh Khan and Uday Chopra. The ‘Mohabbatein‘ actors indulged in a dialogue on the micro-blogging website and flaunted their vocabularies.
It all started when Uday tweeted a thought about having weltschmerz. SRK was prompt enough to tell Uday this isn’t the case, it is just something to do with the year ending. A doubtful Uday asked if it is an end of year ennui to which King Khan used words like Anhedonia to explain his point.
Here is the Twitter conversation between them:
Mind-blown, right? We mean who uses these words in a chat that is about feeling low?
Read also: Shah Rukh Khan has got his 3rd doctorate degree but the real reason for his happiness is quite emotional
If you too are suffering from the fear of these words, we’ve got you covered.
Here are what the words used by SRK and Uday mean:
Weltschmerz: A feeling of melancholy and world-weariness
Anhedonia: Inability to feel pleasure
Ennui: Feeling of dissatisfaction arising from lack of excitement
Pedagoguery: A teacher
So basically, Uday Chopra was feeling low and SRK explained to him it was just because the year was ending.
Read also: When Jagjit Singh, Amitabh Bachchan, SRK and Yash Chopra got together to celebrate Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s poem
Celebrities and their choice of words, we tell you!
Maybe next time SRK could turn pedagoguery for all of us, just like he did for Uday. Only this time to teach us such words.
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How to Protect an Email Account from SPAM
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Most of us get SPAM every day. Some of us get more and some little. Even a newly created email account will begin to receive spam just after a few days of its creation. Many times we wonder where these spam come from and why? But this question remains unanswered within ourselves. So in this post I will try my best to give every possible information about the spam and will also tell you about how to combat spam.
What is SPAM?
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. Most widely recognized form of spam is email spam.
Where do these SPAM come from?
These spam come only from spammers and never from a legitimate user or a company. These spammers send a single email to hundreds (some times thousands or millions) of email addresses at a time. They either send it manually or use spambots to automate the process of spamming.
Why do spammers SPAM?
The main goal of spammers is to send the spam (unsolicited bulk messages) to as many people as possible in order to make profit. For example, John builds a small website to sell an ebook which gives information about weight loss. In order to make sales he needs publicity for his website. Instead of spending money on advertising, John decides to create an email which contains information
about his site along with its link and send this email to say 100 email addresses in his contact list. If 1 person out of hundred buy this book john gets $10. What if he sends this email to 1000s of email addresses. He gets $100. Imagine, if he sends this email to 1 Million email addresses he gets $100000.Now I hope you understood the idea behind spamming. So in order to make money, spammers send their advertising emails to as many people as possible without respecting the recipients privacy.
From where do SPAMmers get my email address?
On the Internet there exists many sites who collect the email IDs of people and sell them to spammers in bulk. Most often, people sign up for monthly newsletters and take up surveys. This is the time where these scam sites get
their email addresses. Also many spammers collect email addresses by using spambots. These spambots collect email addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists. Such spambots are web crawlers that can gather email addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, forums, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations.Spammers also use the trick of creating Hoax Emails for gathering a huge
list of email IDs. For example, a spammer sends a hoax email which says Forward this Message to Help Severely Burned Child. This email claims that 11 cents will be donated to the childs family every time the message is sent to others. Most of the people believe this and start forwarding this hoax email to all of the IDs in their contact list. In this way the email spreads rapidly and eventually when it reaches the creator (spammer),
the spammer gets a huge list of valid email addresses in the email header. When you get these kind of hoax emails, you can see for yourself in the email header which contains a huge list of email addresses of all those people to whom the email is being forwarded to. This is one of the effective methods used by spammers to gather email addresses.
Is SPAMming legal?
Spamming is completely illegal. Yet it is really difficult to stop spammers from spamming since they keep moving from one hosting company to another after getting banned. This makes it practically impossible to catch spammers and prosecute them.
How to protect my email account from getting SPAMmed?
The following methods can be used to combat email spam.1. Use spam filters for your email account. If youre using email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. then spam filters are used by defaut. Each spam filter has its algorithm to detect spam emails and will automatically move them to SPAM folder. This keeps your inbox free from spam. However some
spam emails become successful to make their way into the inbox by successfully bypassing the filters.2. Do not post your email address in public forums, user comments and chat-rooms. Give your email address only to trustworthy websites while signing up for newsletters.3. While taking up online surveys and filling up feedback forms, it is better not to give your personal email address. Instead singup for a dummy email
account and use this for surveys and feedback forms.4. While posting your contact email address on your website use this format:emailaddress [at] instead of This protects your email address from being indexed by
spambots.5. Do not respond to hoax messages. When you receive a hoax email, avoid forwarding it to your friends. Examples of hoax messages can be found at If you really want to forward it to your friends, make sure that you use Bcc (blind carbon copy) option to send the email. This will hide all the email IDs to which the mail is forwarded to.I hope this helps. Pass your suggestions and feedback via comments.
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Why we should love invasive species. Or not.
There is a trendy argument doing the rounds – possibly based on a certain recent book about why invader species could be nature’s salvation. I haven’t read the book, and I won’t name the author, or criticise it – because the argument put forward is no doubt more nuanced than portrayed in the headlines.
However, I have come across people genuinely arguing that ‘invasive species represent evolution’, that they are ‘better suited to the habitat than native species’ and have read headlines that suggest that we should learn to embrace all invasive non-native species.
It is these ideas that I am looking to challenge – particularly with regard to invasive plants.
Firstly, it’s important to distinguish between native- and non-native invasive species. Our native invasive plants (like bindweed, bramble, nettles and bracken) are very well adapted to the conditions that they live in, having developed traits which make them successful in our environment.
Although they are often hard to get rid of, tend to crowd out or strangle other plants and to form monoculture stands, they also generally support a variety of insect, bird and/or animal species which have evolved alongside them, providing food, or habitat, or both.
Non-native invasive plants have evolved to be successful in their native environments – but in most cases, they are not successful enough to become invasive in their native range. They are just one plant among many others, competing to survive under pressure from competition and more significantly from predation by insects, fungi, bacteria and viruses which exist in the environment they evolved in.
Once the plants are introduced to a new environment, they are often removed from the pressures of the predators in their native habitat, they effectively have a head-start on all the other plants around them. Native insects, animals and birds are rarely adapted to the habitats the plants provide and (as is the case with species like rhododendron), the plant soon becomes the only living thing in the area.
Of course, there are exceptions; in fact, many non-native species are affected by similar parasites to those found in their native range – which is a reason why they don’t go on to become invasive. Some of our native fauna can interact even with the most invasive of alien species – bees love Himalayan balsam, for example. Of course, this works in the plant’s favour – as without effective pollination to produce its seeds, this annual plant could not survive.
In the very long term, however, parasites will evolve to predate Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and Himalayan balsam, and it’s conceivable that they could return to being very niche plants, rather than the widespread invaders that they are today.
Introducing non-native species is not evolution as we know it – and evolution will eventually catch up with these species – but in the meantime, the majority of them offer our native fauna little or nothing that isn’t already available from native plants, and they compete with our native flora to the point where valuable habitats and biodiversity are lost, as well as knock-on and trickle down effects on our waterways, embankments and things like flooding.
To argue that we should embrace the grey squirrel is not something I would particularly disagree with – although I wouldn’t oppose conservation efforts for red squirrels.
Humans (and probably pretty much everything else in the British eco-system) can probably adapt to what is essentially the like-for-like swap of one squirrel species for another. An evolutionary niche has been filled, and things are more-or-less as they were before.
That may or may not be the case for things like signal crayfish, and killer shrimp, which are able to predate on different species to their closest native relations. However, in these cases, it’s still conceivable that the food chain would be kept more-or-less in-tact – with predators and prey of the substitute species remaining in a position where they can all eventually develop and maintain fairly stable populations.
However, for zebra mussels or quagga mussels, which are capable of multiplying prodigiously, occupying large amounts of space and surface area and removing significant amounts of food which would otherwise have been available to a wide range of other species, we see a more problematic set of circumstances.
These circumstances are further enhanced where plant species are concerned, when physical space (soil) becomes the prime factor for competition. Invasive plant species are not “filling an ecological niche” by outperforming a single equivalent species; they are directly competing for space with all sorts of different native plants –which often have complicated interlocking relationships with the wider ecosystem. In this case, the successful invaders are often basically destroying habitats in favour of a monoculture which provide no food or shelter for native species.
Other native insects and animals further up the chain who relied on the aforementioned species are displaced, and the effect on the wider ecosystem is significant.
So when I see simplistic arguments (especially when they say invasive species are good) I am immediately sceptical. While humans may well be able to adapt in limited, short-term ways, we are heavily reliant on our existing ecosystem, and it’s a bit of a push to expect UK wildlife to undergo millions of years of evolution because of human activity – and it’s completely ignoring the issue of biodiversity loss, which is the principal problem with the most problematic invaders…
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Another session of the Utah Legislature is in the books, and lawmakers have enacted several new laws of which em-ployers should be aware. Most of the new laws went into ef-fect May 8, 2018. In last month’s issue of Utah Employment Law Letter, we reported on the passage of an amendment to the Post-Employment Restrictions Act (i.e., Utah’s law gov-erning noncompete agreements) that affects broadcasters (see “Broadcast the news: no noncompetes for TV and radio tal-ent in Utah” on pg. 1). Below is a summary of some of the other new laws with which you should familiarize yourself.
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GRID Now Available On Games On Demand
It's available right now, pretty much everywhere (except Japan), with pricing to of course vary depending on where you are. In the US, for example, it's $US30. In the UK, it's £20, while in Australia, it's... AUD$70 (USD$65).
Kotaku AU Note: A quick check of EB ($55), JB ($100) and GAME ($60) puts that $70 price tag into perspective.
I just ordered my 360 copy off ebay for $30 :D
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We badly need treatment for our amnesic politicians and their close collaborators. Make it urgent please! Amnesia (Latet Kokom) has become the biggest scourge to afflict our stressed-out breed of honourable governors, to the extent that they are doing exactly the opposite of what they have promised, in a past which is not so distant. As a layperson, I am seeing a country in disarray, which is struggling to maintain a dignified façade somehow. The petty internal conflicts gnawing away at both the ruling dalliance and party members have provided us with a ridiculous spectacle where the dirty linen is washed in public on a quasi-daily basis. It is clear that there is a vertiginous lack of consensus and the claws are mercilessly out. Meow!
Apart from the list of ‘provisional’ charges which keeps getting longer and longer and more and more tedious by the day, especially when they are subsequently dropped, squabbling, score-settling and ironically increasingly bad governance, what novelty is there on the Mauritian landscape concerning our honourable rulers? Yes, there are the never-ending international missions with fat perks, while the roads here are still in shambles, unemployment is rife, our health and education sectors are going through turbulent zones, law and order is anxiety-inducing among so many others. It seems that our politicians are also affected by cataracts, where they cannot see the obvious! When their near and dear ones get privileged access to public lands or marine zones (whether for the cultivation of ‘kokoms’ or ‘kokoms de mer’), big fat nominations in key governmental institutions (without forgetting the accompanying juicy wages), how in the world is this proper governance? When protected privileged ones claim that they have applied for a post whose details they are blissfully unaware of, does this mean good governance is an ass? How can one simply apply for a job, without knowing anything about it and still nail it? How ‘Latet Kokom’ can these persons be? Well, we are being taken for a big, bumpy ride! When people dare speak out the truth and rampant inequalities, they are immediately threatened with defamation lawsuits. Where is the freedom of expression? Swept away under the dusty rug of amnesia? Shame!
Therefore, as a caring population, it is imperative to find a cure at the earliest to relieve our politicians of the ‘Latet Kokom’ affliction. The cure is simple: We know, we think, we see, we hear and we shall not be silenced.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
'I'm Never Shopping Here Again' by Black Rat Projects, 1st December 2013
With a name that conjures up images of a pathetic consumer desperately trying to assert their importance to an uncaring corporate God I'm Never Shopping Here Again feels rather timely. The run-up to Christmas turns much of London into a hellish, sweaty, fevered cattle pen - what feels like the whole world descending on the city with the aim of making each other as miserable as possible. Navigating this is like being shoved into a fleshy blender, jostled this way and that, yelled at by knock-off perfume sellers and stalked by invisible, sharklike pickpockets.
So this new exhibition by Black Rat Projects, stuffed into some stygian Victorian industrial hellhole and populated by dead things and shuffling mechanical ghosts feels rather appropriate. This is a showcase of two artists; Giles Walker and Candice Tripp. I've written about Giles Walker a few times here, first encountering him at The Museum of Curiosity and then again at POP MODERN back in August. In both those exhibitions Walker was merely a piece of a larger puzzle, his work impressive, though always a touch out of sync with whatever's around it. Not here. Working in collaboration with the appropriately named Candice Tripp, the two are free to spiral off down a rabbit hole of creepiness, plumbing entertainingly disturbing depths.
There's something intrinsically illicit about crawling underneath the skin of London and poking around its hidden innards. Even the illusion of being somewhere you shouldn't is a powerful one, so heading into the dank, cool brickwork of the arches under Waterloo Station induces a faintly mystical sensation, the parabola of the ceiling throwing out the same vibes as a church crypt.
The gallery space is clean as a whistle, but just beyond there's the whiff of centuries of accumulated dust, geological fag-end strata, beer cans with last decade's design peeling off the front and everywhere the blood poisoning potential of rusted metal and rat shit. My kinda vibe. The psychogeographic sensations are so strong that fighting against it would be like King Canute beating back the ocean. Fortunately, Walker, Tripp and accreted history work super well together, the crafty hand-made quality of the work snugly growing out of the brickwork.
Walking through the thick curtain of the entrance you're confronted by an army of clanking, disembodied jackets. Headless and legless they wriggle and writhe in a janky, juddering stasis. Spooksome ambient sound fills the air - unseen things rustle and quiver under a candle halflight. It's seeing the ghosts of soldiers coming home from war; humanity burned away to leave piles of shuffling brown rags disconsolately rambling towards some unknown destination. After all, the travelling dead are not strangers to these arches; we're stood directly adjacent to the abandoned terminus of the London Necropolis Railway; the very arches we're standing in used for the storage of rotting choleric corpses that awaited their reservations on special 'coffin trains' to Brookwood where they'd be burnt and buried.
So, perhaps unwittingly, Walker and Tripp have reverted these arches to their original purpose; death's waiting room. The metaphor continues as you round the corner into the gallery proper - where you're faced with a view that'd bring a cheeky grin to the face of Hieronymous Bosch. The floor and walls are populated by an army of Lilliputian figures; Walker's signature bird-skulled humanoid figurines meeting some smaller, fairylike dainty homonculi. The two mingle around a giant cage in the corner of the room, tended by person-sized dolls; looking a lot like the android toys that march around J.F. Sebastian's house in Blade Runner.
This is a joint piece, though sprinkled around the space are great examples of each artist's solo works. Walker's birdmen are often confined; placed in jars, behind bars or in bondage. We seem to capture them at emotional breaking points, hammering on the unconscious chest of the figure next to them, clutching their groins in agony or pleading with bare beaks to a God that clearly couldn't give less of a fuck. Tripp's paintings are slightly less effective; though intricate and beautifully designed, they seem to revolve around creepy young doll-girls with mangled faces. The aesthetic is warped Alice in Wonderland, which is to my eyes just a touch played out.
Fortunately the show more than picks up the slack when it comes to the big, dramatic centrepiece sculptures. A tiny army clambers up the white plastic sides of a child mannequin, decapitating her for reasons unknown; a robo-Mum with a lamp for a head and scissors in her hands gently rocks a pram with a British flag on top; hanging burlap bags wriggle obscenely - who can say what's inside? Whatever it is, it's alive and it's in pain.
The best of these are the hanging kinetic mannequin sculptures. Recalling the hell-bondage-chic of Clive Barker's Hellraiser and the iconic Nurse baddies of Konami's Silent Hill they jerkily thrash about in their suspension, arching their backs in agony, contorting themselves with an animatronic grinding of servos and gears. Lit from below they look like emaciated, mutilated angels tossed out of heaven, wings and heads brutally hacked off, manacled in neverending, barbarous oubliette.
.....Merry Christmas everyone!
I'm Never Shopping Here Again was a psychic brillo pad that scrubbed my brain clean of the blizzard of enforced cheeriness that pervades every damn thing out there in December. So brave the bastards of Oxford Street; elbow some old duffer in the guts for that last perfect present; fruitlessly ponder whether Dad prefers the Family Guy or Simpsons soap set; glare at the checked-out checkout operator as you endlessly queue to toss away your pounds on junk, and then, finally - when your volcano of misery frustration reaches critical levels - get your ass down underneath Waterloo and give your brain a freakshow sensory massage. Yum.
I’m Never Shopping Here Again by Black Rat Projects is on at 137-139 Lower Marsh, SE1 7AE until 12 December. Free Entry.
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Entering and leaving Scandinavia is very easy and usually achieved with minimal waiting time.
Customs Regulations
From non-EU to EU countries For EU countries (ie Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Estonia), travellers arriving from outside the EU can bring duty-free goods up to the value of €430 without declaration. You can also bring in up to 16L of beer, 4L of wine, 2L of liquors not exceeding 22% vol, or 1L of spirits, 200 cigarettes or 250g of tobacco.
Within the EU If you're coming from another EU country, there is no restriction on the value of purchases for your own use.
Åland islands Arriving on or from the Åland islands (although technically part of the EU), carries the same import restrictions as arriving from a non-EU country.
Other Nordic countries Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands have lower limits.
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On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 11:54 -0500, Aharon Zingman wrote:
> Internal Affairs is a hypothetical proposal. Essentially, this puts a
> person in charge of keeping shitters, griefers, and people who wish
> to disrupt Agora out. I might elaborate if this would be a good idea.
Our current anti-disruption mechanism is called Festivity; it basically
allows us to start a temporary period in which only the more long-
standing/established players can do anything, buying us enough time to
change the rules to deal with the nuisance.
We've never had to use it. (Of course, the mere fact that it's there
serves as something of a deterrent in the first place.)
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On 9.4.2012 12:54, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
vdr -v /mydir
it uses /mydir as the video directory, but still uses /video for the
configuration files. I believe that as long as there is no explicit
-c option given, the config directory should follow what's given in
the -v option.
Shouldn't it follow option given at ./configure?
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Talk about playing hard to get! These female monkeys try to attract their mates by throwing stones at them.
The bearded capuchins flirt with male monkeys by chucking rocks at them.
It is the first time this bizarre mating ritual has been spotted in the wild.
The stone-slinging women who can throw with great accuracy succeeded in attracting sexual partners.
Females try to attract males, by pouting at them, making whining calls or touching them and dashing away.
This behaviour builds with females seen pursuing their mates around the Serra da Capivara National Park in Brazil.
The capuchins then sneak-up behind the unsuspecting males and hurl rocks at them.
But rather than a signal of aggression, the stone-throwing is intended as a compliment.
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Ben Lee's Rocking Alongside Guest Mandy Moore - NBC Southern California
Ben Lee's Rocking Alongside Guest Mandy Moore
Ben Lee's Rocking Alongside Guest Mandy Moore
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Actress/singer Mandy Moore joins Ben Lee on stage at Largo at the Coronet, on Tuesday, February 17.
So we should just get out of the way a couple headline-y things before getting to Ben Lee's guest-filled Largo show. One, Ben Lee recently married the divine Ione Skye, which, for people who have seen "Say Anything" a few times, is just damn cheerful news. (We want to know if the "Rebirth of Venus" singer proposed by holding a boombox over his head, maybe? Probably not.) We've only seen "Say Anything" maybe two, or three, times. In 2003 alone.
Then last week's splashy entertainment news revealed that Mandy Moore, who started as a singer, went onto movie stardom in films like "American Dreamz," and has lately been returning to the mic, got engaged to rocker Ryan Adams.
So what's the upshot of all this lovebird-y tongue-wagging? That the Ben Lee show (we find it impossible not to use Ben Lee's entire name each time we say/write it; we can't be alone in that, we're thinking) will likely be rich with emotion, butterflies and hearts, but his shows have never been known to be short in the emotive, feel-deep qualities. But love is in the air, all around, no doubt, and can strong feeling only benefit music, even music already rich with depth? It can indeed.
Ben Lee with Mandy Moore
Tuesday, February 17, 8:30PM
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Closer Than That
The assassination of J.F.K., fifty years later.
Poets are not the unacknowledged legislators of the world, lucky for us, but they can be worldly judges of poetic legislators. Lincoln’s soul survives in Whitman’s words, and the response of American poets to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, fifty years ago, suggests that there really was, beyond the hype and the teeth, an interesting man in there. An entire volume of mostly elegiac poems, “Of Poetry and Power,” with a Rauschenberg silk-screen portrait of the President for its cover, came out within months of his murder. (It was even recorded, complete, on Folkways Records.)
John Berryman wrote a “Formal Elegy” for the President (“Yes. it looks like wilderness”); Auden an “Elegy for J.F.K.,” originally accompanied by twelve-tone music by Stravinsky. Robert Lowell—who in the Second World War had gone to prison as a conscientious objector, and in the late sixties became a Pentagon-bashing radical hero—wrote to Elizabeth Bishop that the murder left him “weeping through the first afternoon,” and then “three days of television uninterrupted by advertising till the grand, almost unbearable funeral.” The country, he said, “went through a moment of terror and passionate chaos.” Lowell’s friend and fellow-poet Randall Jarrell called it the “saddest” public event that he could remember. Jarrell tried to write an elegy but could get no further than “The shining brown head.”
This passionate chaos was set loose, then, in every back yard. It is easy to be cynical about it in retrospect—being cynical about it in retrospect is by now a branch of American historical studies—and say that the poets’ overwrought grief was the product of a sleight of hand worked by Jackie, no other group so easily bought as American writers. (Even the Salingers were invited to the White House—and Mrs. Salinger wanted to go!) But there was more than that. The death of J.F.K. marked the last time the highbrow reaches of the American imagination were complicit in the dignity of the Presidency. In Norman Mailer’s “Presidential Papers,” published the month Kennedy died, the point is that there was a “fissure in the national psyche,”* a divide between the passionate inner life of America and its conformist, repressed official life: “The life of politics and the life of myth had diverged too far.” For Mailer, Kennedy’s Presidency supplied the hope of an epiphany wherein the romantic-hero President would somehow lead his people on an “existential” quest to heal this breach. It sounded just as ridiculous then, but there was something gorgeous in the absurdity.
Of course, people made fun of Kennedy—the Kennedy impersonator Vaughn Meader was the single biggest loser after the assassination. (“Poor Vaughn Meader,” Lenny Bruce is said to have muttered in his standup act on the night of the killing.) And the John Birch right wingers hated him as implacably as their children do Obama. But the king always has his fool, and the haters were largely marginalized. Lowell wondered what character in Shakespeare Bobby, the dour younger brother, most resembled. Finding Shakespearean dimensions in politicians was an accepted sport. This kind of contemplation became increasingly incredible in the years that followed. (L.B.J. could be Macbeth, but only as the burlesque MacBird.) Reagan and Clinton were both larger-than-life figures drawn from simpler American entertainments—Mr. Deeds and the Music Man, the wise innocent in power or the lovable fast-talking con man who turns out to be essential to everyone’s happiness. Kennedy, by contrast, was still seen as a king of divine right out of the seventeenth century—the subject of endless reverie about his capacity to renew the world. And so the obsession with his body, that shining head, recalling the seventeenth-century French court watching the King sleep and rise and defecate, leads in the end to the grisly conspiracy-theory compulsion to review every square inch of his autopsied body. (One conspiracy theorist, David Lifton, said once that he never married because every would-be bride realized that he was more interested in the President’s dead body than in her living one.)
The nation really did get turned inside out when Kennedy was killed, as nations do at the death of kings. But what altered? In many ways, it was a time more past than present. Though it’s said that the event marked the decisive move from page to screen, newspaper to television, all the crucial information was channelled through the wire-service reporters, who, riding six cars back from the President’s, were the first to get and send the news of the shots, and were still thought of as the authoritative source. Walter Cronkite’s two most famous moments—breaking into “As the World Turns” to announce, “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired”; and his later, holding-back-tears “From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 P.M. Central Standard Time”—were in both cases simply read from the wire-service copy. You can see the assistants ripping the copy from the teleprinter and rushing it to the anchorman.
Yet an imbalance between the flood of information and the uncertainty of our understanding—the sense that we know so much and grasp so little, and that reality becomes an image passing—does seem to have begun then: the postmodern suspicion that the more we see, the less we know. A compulsive “hyperperspicacity,” in the term of one assassination researcher—the tendency to look harder for pattern than the thing looked at will ever provide—became the motif of the time. To dive into the assassination literature fifty years on—to read the hundreds of books, with their hundreds of theories, fingering everyone from Melvin Belli to the Mossad; to visit Dealey Plaza on trips to Dallas; and to venture in the middle of the night onto the assassination forums and chat rooms—is to find two truths overlaid. The first truth is that the evidence that the American security services gathered, within the first hours and weeks and months, to persuade the world of the sole guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald remains formidable: ballistics evidence, eyewitness evidence, ear-witness evidence, fingerprint evidence, firearms evidence, circumstantial evidence, fibre evidence. The second truth of the assassination, just as inarguable, is that the security services collecting that evidence were themselves up to their armpits in sinister behavior, even conspiring with some of the worst people in the world to kill the Presidents of other countries. The accepted division of American life into two orders—an official one of rectitude, a seedy lower order of crime—collapses under scrutiny, like the alibi in a classic film noir.
“Know why you couldn’t figure this one, Keyes?” the guilty Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) tells his virtuous insurance colleague Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) at the end of the great “Double Indemnity,” in a taunting confession. “I’ll tell ya. Because the guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya.” Keyes’s beautiful, enigmatic rejoinder is: “Closer than that, Walter.” He means that the cop and the killer share more than they knew before the crime, that temptations that lead to murder are available to us all; the lure of transgression makes us closer than we think.
These two truths lead you not so much to different claims as to different worlds. Every decade or so, the Oswald-incriminating facts are comprehensively reviewed—most recently by Vincent Bugliosi, in a thousand-plus-page volume, “Reclaiming History” (Norton)—and, every decade, people who don’t care tend to accept those facts, while the people who care most remain furious and unpersuaded. The world of the conspiracy buffs has a bibliography and a set of fixed points that run parallel to but separate from reality as it is usually conceived. The buffs, for instance, rely heavily on the memoir of Madeleine Brown, who claims to have been one of L.B.J.’s mistresses, and to have been told by him, the night before the murder, “Those goddam Kennedys will never embarrass me again!” The buffs debate whether she is wholly, largely, or only sporadically reliable. In the latest volume of Robert Caro’s L.B.J. biography, by contrast, Brown is not thought worth mentioning, even to disprove. (In any case, the key conspiracy scene she paints, a kind of pre-assassination party at the millionaire Clint Murchison’s Dallas house, attended by Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, and Richard Nixon, has been conclusively debunked. No record of it exists in any Dallas newspaper, and Johnson can be safely placed in Houston that night.) In the same way, the buffs take for granted the role of Joseph Kennedy, first as a bootlegger, then as a campaign fund-raiser for his son entangled with the Mafia, and argue about whether the Mafia alone was the killer or the Mafia in league with the C.I.A. Joe Kennedy’s guilty past is the entire pivot of the assassination in a new conspiracy book, ominously titled “The Poison Patriarch,” by Mark Shaw (Skyhorse); and the same idea is dramatized in the screenwriter William Mastrosimone’s Broadway-bound play “Ride the Tiger.” Yet David Nasaw’s recent, far-from-admiring biography of old Joe dismisses as complete legend the notion that he ever made a penny as a bootlegger or worked closely with the Mob. (He made his money in Hollywood and on Wall Street, mobs of their own.)
Bugliosi handles the conspiracy theorists with a relentless note of sarcastic condescension. But there are ways in which the pattern-seeking is a meaningful index of the event, and gives us more insight into its hold fifty years on than the evidence does. A web without a spider still catches the light. There are distinct period styles in paranoia. The first generation of assassination obsessives—Josiah Thompson, still writing; Harold Weisberg, long dead—were essentially hopeful proceduralists, men and women with thick files and endless clippings, convinced that due scrutiny of the record would reveal sufficient inconsistencies, opacities, and falsehoods to compel the reopening of the entire case. Their model was journalists of the I. F. Stone kind, the isolated man of integrity who could find the truth by scrutinizing the record.
The second kind of assassination obsessive emerged only later, in the mid-seventies. Where the proceduralists believe that the truth is in there, buried in some forgotten file folder, the fantasists believe, “X Files” style, that the truth is out there—available to those bold enough to imagine on the right scale of American extravagance. An exemplar here was David Lifton’s book “Best Evidence,” published in 1981, but his theories percolated at lectures and conferences throughout the seventies. He put forward an obviously mad idea with admirable logic: that the President’s body was secreted away between the killing and the autopsy, and his wounds altered.
The paradox is that, just as Thomas Pynchon or Don DeLillo dramatizes paranoia with a texture of specificity, the paranoid types are, in their own way, often much more empirically minded—willing to follow the evidence where it leads, even if that is right through the looking-glass—than their more cautious confrères. It is, in other words, possible to construct an intricate scenario that is both cautiously inferential, richly detailed, on its own terms complete, and yet utterly delusional. The J.F.K. conspiracy theorists are the first and hardiest of those movements—the truthers and birthers and moon walkers being their stepchildren—in which the old American paranoid style, once largely marginal and murmuring, married pseudoscience and became articulate, academic, systematized, and loud.
No matter how improbable it may seem that all the hard evidence could have been planted, faked, or coerced—and that hundreds of the distinct acts of concealment and coercion necessary would have been left unconfessed for more than half a century—it does not affect the production of assassination literature, which depends not on confronting the evidence but on discovering new patterns of connection and coincidence. The buffs’ books—Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann’s “Legacy of Secrecy,” in development as a major Hollywood film, is a perfect instance—lay out ever more intricate and multiple patterns of apparent intention and reaction among Mafia dons and C.I.A. agents, all pointing toward Dealey Plaza. “Had ties with . . .” is the favored phrase, used to connect with sinister overtones any two personalities within the web. Waldron and Hartmann dismiss even Oswald’s murder of the Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit, forty-five minutes after J.F.K.’s assassination, despite the many witnesses who saw him shoot Tippit, or identified him as the man with the gun running from the scene.
Arguments like this tend to lead toward the same cul-de-sac, where the skeptic insists on being shown the spider and the buffs insist that it is enough to point to the web. One argument can stand for a hundred like it: a key early piece of evidence for conspiracy is that many of the doctors in the emergency ward at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the President was brought from the fatal motorcade, said that they saw a large wound to the back of J.F.K.’s head, instead of the right front side, where the later autopsy and X-rays locate it. This is not really hard to explain. The wound was enormous, and the doctors never examined it, or turned J.F.K. over to verify that there was a rear head wound. The Zapruder film of the assassination shows, unmistakably, that the horrible wound was indeed to the right front side of his skull, while the back remained intact (aside from the small, almost invisible entrance wound).
So for the claim of a “rear head wound” to be accurate, it would be necessary for the Zapruder film to have somehow been altered and turned into a cunning animated cartoon. That is exactly what the “second generation” of theorists insist—that the Zapruder film itself is a fabrication, produced, in the words of one buff, “in a sophisticated C.I.A. photo lab at the Kodak main industrial plant in Rochester, New York.” Nor is this idea simply asserted. It is patiently argued, step by step, with the name of the optical printer detailed, even though Kodak’s own expert on 8-mm. film, Roland Zavada, has dismissed the idea of introducing complex optical-printer effects onto 8-mm. film in 1963, and declared that “there is no detectable evidence of manipulation or image alteration on the Zapruder in-camera original and all supporting evidence precludes any forgery thereto.” A theory that has the Zapruder film altered is absurd—but a theory that doesn’t have the Zapruder film altered has to accept that Kennedy had no rear-exit head wound, and therefore must have been shot from above and behind.
This constant cycle of sense and speculation is not about to end. Josiah Thompson, one of the most rational of the skeptics, wrote once that “you pull any single thread, any single fact, and you’re soon besieged with a tangle of subsidiary questions.” And this is true: any fact asserted can be met with a counter-fact—some of them plausible, many disputed, most creating contradictions that are unresolvable. But this is not a fact about conspiracies. It is a fact about facts. All facts in all inquiries come at us with their own shakiness, their own shimmer of uncertainty. The threads of evidence usually seem separate and sure only because life mostly comes at us in finished fabrics, and nothing requires us to pull the thread. When we do, whenever we do, there’s a tangle waiting.
Bugliosi makes this point in a practical, prosecutor’s spirit, saying that, once you are sure of the conclusion, you have to live with the evidentiary inconsistencies: you may not know the answer to a question, but that does not mean that the question is unanswerable. To take one of many that arise in the assassination case: much used to be made of the mysterious “three tramps” who were arrested shortly after the shots. They turned out to be, after long years of speculation . . . three tramps, with knowable names and mundane histories. It is a safe, though not a certain, bet that the remaining mysteries will resolve just as mundanely. In the meantime, though, every fact in the case, no matter how solid-seeming, can be countered by some other fact, however speculative. Facts provoke new patterns even as they disprove old ones.
Yet the foundational sense that there were bizarre forces at work in the period, paranoid and violent and tightly interlocked in the strangest imaginable ways, and by their nature resistant to the common-sense impulses of ordinary explanation—this is, as far as one can tell, true. As J.F.K. himself is claimed to have said, apropos of the then popular coup-d’état thriller “Seven Days in May,” such a coup in the United States was far from being unthinkable: “It’s possible. It could happen in this country. But the conditions would have to be right. If, for example, the country had a young president and he had a Bay of Pigs, there would be a certain uneasiness. . . . Then if there were another Bay of Pigs, the reaction of the country would be, ‘Is he too young and inexperienced?’ The military would almost feel that it was their patriotic obligation to stand ready to preserve the integrity of the nation, and only God knows just what segment of democracy they would be defending if they overthrew the elected establishment.” (He added that he intended it not to happen “on his watch.”)
By J.F.K.’s own accounting, the Bay of Pigs was the first failure. In the eyes of the national-security hawks, the Cuban missile crisis, though presented to the public as a showdown that Kennedy won, was the second, an exercise in abject appeasement. Kennedy had refused the unanimous advice of his generals and admirals to bomb Cuba, and had settled the crisis by giving the Russians what they wanted, the removal of missiles from Turkey. (This was kept quiet, but the people who knew knew.) The notion that the Cold War national-security state, which Eisenhower warned against, might have decided to kill the President is not as difficult to credit as one wishes. There were C.I.A. operatives prepared to kill foreign leaders, some of them previously friendly, for acts they didn’t like, and to recruit gangsters to do it, and generals who were eager to invade Cuba even at the risk of nuclear war, and who resented Kennedy for restraining them. (A veteran journalist, Jefferson Morley, has been pursuing the trail of a now dead C.I.A. agent named George Joannides through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, believing that, at a minimum, the C.I.A. was keeping a much sharper eye on Oswald than it ever wanted known. Relevant documents are supposed to be released in 2017.)
Oddly, there’s confirmation of this in the work of the Kennedy brothers’ house historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. An establishment figure devoted to maintaining the image of the Kennedys, and no friend to the conspiracy theorists, Schlesinger made plain that the Kennedys really did believe themselves to be subject to a hostile alliance of the military and the C.I.A., largely outside their direct control. “Intelligence operatives, in the CIA as well as the FBI, had begun to see themselves as the appointed guardians of the Republic, infinitely more devoted than transient elected officials, morally authorized to do on their own whatever the nation’s security demanded,” Schlesinger concludes. Ted Sorensen, another Kennedy intimate, wrote in his memoir that when Jimmy Carter nominated him, in 1977, to be the director of central intelligence, agency officials worked furiously (and successfully) to get the nomination withdrawn, quite possibly because there was evidence about J.F.K.’s death that they didn’t want him to see. Vincent Bugliosi’s confidence that these things don’t happen here isn’t shared by those closest to the case.
An assassination should be significant for more than its atmospherics. Kennedy’s should also matter for people who weren’t there, because something happened in America that would not have happened had Kennedy lived. The conventional claim is that optimistic liberalism died in Dallas. Ira Stoll, in his new book, “J.F.K.: Conservative” (Houghton Mifflin), makes this claim in reverse: he believes that the path of true conservatism would have gone more smoothly if Kennedy had not been killed. Stoll sincerely believes that Kennedy’s spiritual heir was Reagan, while shifty Nixon was the real liberal, whose heir is—who else?—shifty Obama.
Of course, every American President is in some sense a conservative—there are no Léon Blums or Salvador Allendes in our record. But Kennedy was a classic Cold War liberal: someone who believed in confronting the Communists (nonviolently, if at all possible) and creating a network of social welfare to relieve social anxiety. The real conservatives of the time, the John Birch Society and the Goldwater wing of the Republican Party, believed in confronting Communism violently, and in abjuring any federal programs of civil rights and social welfare, since these were certainly left-wing and possibly Communist. (Ronald Reagan, after all, came to notice for crusading against Medicare, the way his successors crusade against Obamacare.) Unable to explain why the actual right-wingers hated J.F.K. as much as they did, Stoll insists that a conspiracy of leftish doves who surrounded J.F.K.—Sorensen and Schlesinger, in particular—warped his words and purposes retrospectively: a conspiracy theory every bit as loony as any from the buffs.
At the other end of the spectrum, Thurston Clarke, in his new book, “J.F.K.’s Last Hundred Days” (Penguin), argues passionately that J.F.K. was moving ever more decisively left, flapping his wings like a dove, just before he was killed. The evidence is that Kennedy began to argue, more loudly than he had before, that American politicians should do everything possible to avoid provoking a nuclear holocaust that would destroy civilization. One would think this a minimal ground of sanity, rather than a radical departure from orthodoxy—but, as Clarke reminds us, driving to the very edge of universal destruction was widely seen as an opportunity to outsmart the Soviets. Conversations about how many million casualties the United States could endure were not just material for “Dr. Strangelove.” More specifically, the line goes, Kennedy was planning to get out of Vietnam by the end of 1965, or at least had made up his mind not to get drawn any farther in. Accounts of private conversations and notes from National Security Council meetings are played as cards in this game. Jeff Greenfield, in his new counterfactual book “If Kennedy Lived” (Putnam), asserts, along with many other larksome predictions (the Beatles would have gone to the White House; Ronald Reagan would have got the Republican nomination in 1968), that J.F.K. would never have escalated the war in Vietnam.
It is hard to take these claims as much more than wishful thinking projected retrospectively onto a pragmatic politician, whose commitment to Cold War verities, while less nihilistic than that of some others, was still complete. It’s true that Kennedy was not inclined, as his two immediate successors were, to see foreign affairs as a series of challenges to his manhood; a true war hero, he truly hated war. But though the compulsions of personality are strong, the logic of American politics is stronger. Kennedy might well have felt little of the insecurity that troubled Johnson’s soul as he escalated the war. But exactly the same political circumstances would have confronted him. Had the North Vietnamese Army been allowed to march into Saigon in 1965 instead of in 1975, the Goldwater Republicans would not have said, “Thank God for Kennedy’s wisdom in not wasting tens of thousands of American lives and millions of Vietnamese ones in an effort to stop what was sure to happen in any case!” They would have said, “Another country, another region, fecklessly lost to Communism, and on your watch!” The truth, that the fate of Vietnam, of crucial importance to the Vietnamese, was of little consequence to America, or to its struggle with the Soviet Union, was simply a taboo statement on every side.
Paranoid as the period was, it was in ways more open. Oswald’s captors decided that he would have to be shown to the press, and arranged a midnight press conference for him—not something that would happen today—while a lawyer for the Warren Commission met at length with a Communist pushing a conspiracy theory. (One doubts that a 9/11 commissioner ever felt obliged to meet with a truther.) The national-security state might have been in place, but the national-surveillance state wasn’t, quite.
Oswald was a kind of wooden pawn of the Cold War era who seemed always on the verge of being sacrificed. As a teen-ager, he educated himself as a Marxist, and he remained a fantasist who feasted on James Bond novels—just like the President!—and subscribed to both mainline Communist and Trotskyite papers, without ever really grasping the difference between them. When he decided to flee, as a teen-age marine, to what he imagined to be the socialist paradise of Russia, the K.G.B. seemed so bewildered that it sent him off to work in a factory in Minsk, and watched him as unhappily as the American security services did later.
Once again, the problem is not an absence of intelligence; the problem is having too much intelligence to add up intelligently. Another thousand Oswalds, long since lost to time, were under scrutiny, too. To take a specific instance: the man whom Oswald sat next to on the bus to Mexico City turned out to be, certainly unknown to him, a con man and onetime fanatical Hitler supporter named Albert Osborne. Osborne earned an appendix in the Warren report; he appears briefly and then vanishes into history again. Had he shot someone, we would ask what he was doing there, and why no one knew more about him than about the odd, long-forgotten defector Oswald. Oswald’s life reminds us that modernity in America, with its rootless wanderings and instant connections, permanent dislocations and endless reinventions, is a kind of coincidence machine, generating two or three degrees of separation between the unlikeliest of fellows.
What is true of Oswald is true as well of his own assassin, that lesser mystery figure Jack Ruby. Ruby is cast in the buff literature as a sinister Mafia hit man, there to silence Oswald before he could speak. (The killing of Hyman Roth, in “The Godfather Part II,” seems modelled on Ruby’s act.) Jack Ruby did seek out Mafia-connected characters in the months before the assassination—but he seems to have been trying to get help to put pressure on the American Guild of Variety Artists to enforce its rules about using unpaid strippers. (He considered his rivals’ amateur striptease shows to be unfair competition to the polished pro acts at his own joint.)
*“The Presidential Papers” was published the month Kennedy died, not soon after Kennedy’s death, as originally stated.
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Why You Need to Segment Your Donors
In this episode of the Nonprofit Jenni Show podcast, I spoke with the head of Kindful's sales and marketing efforts to learn about the basics of donor segmentation, and how this segmentation can help nonprofits generate more donations. He also told me how segmentation can support volunteer efforts, corporate sponsorships, and overall engagement with your nonprofit.
Please note: I highly encourage you to listen to the You Need to be Segmenting Your Donors podcast episode before reading this blog post! My blog lists some great “action items” for you to take after you listen to the podcast, plus additional resources you can check out if you have further questions. However, my podcast guests give so much additional rich information which isn’t included in the article you’re about the read.
Bradley told me the main reasons nonprofits need to segment their supporters:
• You don't want to confuse people by sending information to the wrong supporters. For example, if you're sending a "thank you" message to participants from your recent 5k, you don't want to ask everyone to become a donor if some of them already donate to your organization. The message may be confusing, and may also give the impression that you don't appreciate the donations they're already providing.
• Segmenting helps you form a sales funnel to capture donor leads and encourage them to give more and more over time.
• Segmenting allows you to send targeted messages to the donors who will care the most. For example, some donors may only be interested in your organization's end-of-year campaign. You don't want to fatigue these donors by sending them tons of messaging about programs they don't care about.
• Your segmenting system can help you customize your "ask" to each donor. You can see their previous giving habits, types of email stories they like to open, and other information which helps you personalize the next donation ask you make.
Bradley recommends finding about five segments you can send messages to. If you create too many segments, you'll spend too much time creating separate messages. He also says that most messages don't have to be completely rewritten for each segment--you can generally alter one or two phrases or sentences to make the message appropriate for each recipient group.
Be sure you listen to the full podcast episode to hear Bradley's tips on using segmenting to increase your donations and sponsorships!
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Digital D&D books are $20 for Cyber Monday
I love physical tabletop rulebooks and character sheets—they're the only reason I've had to use a mechanical pencil since grade school, and I also love mechanical pencils—but I can't deny that D&D Beyond is a convenient way to manage characters, especially if you have a tablet or small laptop to bring to the table.
The Beyond Marketplace's digital books, such as the D&D Player's Handbook, aren't just copies of the text. When you buy one, it also becomes part of a searchable database of rules, spells, items, and monsters available to you, and the Handbook in particular feeds into D&D Beyond's character creation and management tool.
If you've been thinking of going digital with your DMing or playing, now's the time to do that, as nearly all of D&D Beyond's digital books are on sale for Cyber Monday. The three primary 5th Edition texts are the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual, and they're each $20 right now, down from $30.
A bunch of other books, like Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes and the Waterdeep Dungeon of the Mad Mage adventure are likewise on sale. And if you want to go all out, the Legendary Bundle for $384.79 unlocks all digital books on D&D Beyond and gives you a 15% discount on all future digital books. To purchase any of this, though, you'll have to log into D&D Beyond with a Twitch account (for some reason).
If you prefer physical books, you can still get a deal. Amazon has the Player's Handbook and others on sale, with a little extra coming off if you use the NOVBOOK18 code at checkout.
For more discounts, head to our Cyber Monday deals page, which we're continuously updating with the best new sales on PC hardware and games.
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Fluid resistance (drag)
1. Jan 22, 2006 #1
Is there any relationship (formula) that can determine the force of drag to an object. thx in advance.
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3. Jan 22, 2006 #2
Drag is directly proportional to velocity squared. Hence Drag=C * V^2 where c is a constant and v is the velocity of the body relative to the fluid. The usual form is Drag=1/2 CpAv^2. Where C is the drag coefficient, p is the Greek letter rho representing the density of the fluid and A the effective cross sectional area.
Note: Before just asking for a formula try google or wikipedia in future.
4. Jan 22, 2006 #3
ok thanks hmm c, i have my doubts about it being the speed of light what constant is it?
5. Jan 22, 2006 #4
c would be the constant of proportionality. eg. if y directly varies with x then the relationship between y and x will be y=kx; Where k is a constant whose value is determined to fit a set of data.
In the case above the constant will take the form 1/2 CpA wich will be determined by the fluid and object.
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Homework Help: Quantum Phys Questions PLEASE HELP THANK YOU
1. Jul 18, 2006 #1
Quantum Phys Questions PLEASE HELP THANK YOU!!!
DeBroglie postulated that the relationship lambda=h/p is valid for relativistic particles. The Planck's constant is 6.63x10-34 Js. What is the deBroglie wavelength for a relativisitc electron whose kinetic energy is 6.77 MeV? Answer in units of m.
What I did was v=c sqrt (1-(Er/K+Er)^2), solved for v, plugged that into relativistic p=mv/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), then plugged that into lambda=h/p to solve for lambda, but I got it wrong. I also tried using KE=1/2mv^2.
One more ques: A beam of neutrons with a kinetic energy of .00061 eV falls on a slit of width .0001m. What will be the angular spread of the beam after it passes through the slit? Answer in units of radian.
I have no idea how to do this...the only thing can possibly think of is getting wavelength from the kinetic energy and somehow using the single slit equation to solve for theta? But then I don't have distance from source to slit screen or y (width of bands?)
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I would post this in the advanced physics forum. You'll get more people who know exactly how to answer all of this there (I could make an educated guess on the first one, but I don't think that's what you're looking for :) )
4. Jul 19, 2006 #3
nevermind i got it. -_-
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Homework Help: Static and Kinectic Problem Help
1. Oct 11, 2006 #1
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A Worker is pulling a box and applies a force at an angle of 45 degress to the horizontal, how large must the force be to move the box
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:confused: Please help, confused about how to solve this problem
Thanx in advance
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3. Oct 11, 2006 #2
Well since they didn't give you any values (I assume), you are going to leave everything as variables. Break the force down into components first, find the component in the x-direction necessary to be greater than the force of static friction, then rebuild your original force knowing that value.
Try it and post when you get stuck.
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Prayer to Sell My Home to a Good Owner
by Me (Essex)
My prayer is such a little thing but it means so much to me, just me, for me,
I have asked and I have prayed ,I have wished, and prayed again. Dear St Jude you will look into my heart and see this prayer, please answer it. It is not for greed it is for peace of mind.
I so badly want, need to sell my house! and I know some will laugh and say how silly is that all! but this is to me as much as it can mean and be, so if you can find it in your heart to answer this small prayer I will be eternaly grateful. So many thanks I m sending.
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Editorial: A Poor Choice of Words
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Broadcast technologists understand what the word means, in various contexts. Yet the advertising business — the very engine that drives our industry — generally uses the term "digital" to refer specifically to the online advertising sector.
When engineers say "digital," they mean anything that uses bits; when they use the word in a radio broadcasting context, it refers to audio production, storage and transmission systems that utilize digital technology.
But when advertising, audience research and media sales professionals say "digital," they typically mean "the Internet," and when they discuss this in the context of radio advertising, they are referring to ads on a Web site or in streaming online media.
While knowing the context often provides clarity in such situations, we've witnessed discussions where the same data was interpreted quite differently by various staff within a single operation. In one example, engineers and others understood the numbers cited as a station's "digital audience" to mean those listening via HD Radio (which is now possible to measure separately given the coming of the PPM), but the numbers — which came from the sales department — turned out to actually be a measure of the station's online radio listeners. Other similar cases abound.
It is more than mere semantics — it can affect how a business makes decisions. In these pivotal times of multiple transitions, crystal clear presentation of timely information among all parties is critically important. And the word in question isn't going to fade from usage anytime soon; in fact, the opposite is far more likely.
Yet this is not so difficult to fix. There are commonly understood terms in widespread use that more precisely identify what is intended by ad folks when they currently say "digital," and we implore this sector — and the entire industry — to begin using such alternate terminology in standardized fashion. Now's a good to time institute this change, too, with the coming of the wireless Internet, which will also benefit from its own differentiated designation.
Thus we propose the following labels: Let's all use "Online" to refer to content and services delivered via the Internet, and "Mobile" to refer to its wireless subset. These terms are clear to all, and cover just the constituencies intended, with no overlap or confusion with other distribution technologies.
There are challenges enough facing our medium today. Let's not add to them with confused communication.
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What To Do When Your Kid Says They "Hate" You, Because It Can Be Really Jarring
I have vivid childhood memories of stomping up the stairs, slamming my door, and yelling out the most terrible insult I could think of to my parents: "I hate you!" While most people probably uttered the same words to their mom or dad at some point, as parents, you realize that being on the other side of that coin is kind of devastating. But you're the grownup here, so unfortunately it's up to you to handle the situation well, no matter how hurt you feel. Here's what to do when your kid says they "hate" you, because it happens to everyone sooner or later.
Pediatrician Dr. Jarret Patton says that although your kids' words can certainly be hurtful, it's helpful to see them as a demonstration of the child's emotions and quest for independence rather than take it literally or too personally. "Children often say 'I hate you' in response to something they don't like. This is an attempt to change the rule, procedure, or decision," Patton tells Romper. "Although this is partly the development of negotiation, the use of potentially hurtful language signifies their passion for change and need for immediate attention."
What exactly is the development of negotiation? Patton explains, "Children have developmental stages in their negotiation with every part of their verbal reasoning. In the beginning it starts with the understanding and use of the word 'no'. Most of the time it develops into meaningful discussion of feelings and reason as they age."
So what's a mom to do with all that emerging negotiation? First and foremost, don't give in. Calmly explain your stance yet again, and hold your ground with a level head and in control of the conversation. If she continues to spew the H word, Patton recommends ignoring it. "If the phrase continues after a couple of explanations that they understand, your next best bet is to ignore it like any bad word you may hear them say. If they don't get the desired reaction from you, it won't be used anymore."
Patton believes that painful times like these can actually be great parenting opportunities, urging moms and dads to "take full advantage of that 'I hate you' moment." As hard as it can be to not let your own hurt feelings get in the way, you have to rally like grownups and, you know, be the bigger man. If you find your own anger triggered by your child's words, walk away, take a brief pause, and take yourself to your happy place (or at least count to 10).
There's a life lesson here that your kid shouldn't miss, but the conversation will vary depending on his or her age. For young children, Patton says, "The discussion can move towards love and why it's important to love each other. Love translates easily into the reason behind the rule or decision made by the parent, for instance, "it's because I love you (that I want you to be safe, healthy, etc)."
Older children have a higher capacity for critical thinking, and learning to listen to and consider viewpoints they don't like is an important part of growing up. Once the older child has calmed down, parents can turn the topic of hate into a deeper discussion on healthy ways to express feelings. Teaching children to use appropriate feeling words such as "I'm angry" or "I'm so frustrated" equips them with important interpersonal skills for the future.
And as for you, mom or dad? An early bedtime, glass of wine, and Netflix binge for you might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Closing Is Usually Not The Problem In B2B Sales
I'm working with a client at the moment that provides brilliant cloud solutions with a compelling business case. When I asked what their biggest challenges were within the sales team they said: "Many of them can't seem to close... they want better closing techniques."
Here's the thing I've learned from three decades in the trenches... the problem is rarely the problem. Inability to close is usually a symptom of a deeper problem. In complex B2B selling, or even with simple or transactional small to medium business (SMB) selling where there is one decision-maker, there is a universal truth that must be embraced if we are improve results: Opening is far more important than closing.
The way we open the relationship determines the likelihood of success. We need to set a vision to establish the right agenda and anchor three key areas to earn the right to close:
1. Establish trust and rapport (by being authentic and transparent).
2. Agree compelling business value (as defined by them).
3. Understand their timing and priorities (and their process for evaluation, selection and procurement if in complex enterprise environments).
Once these three things are in place, the date for purchasing commitment becomes clear to both buyer and seller and contracting or finalizing the purchase becomes a 'next step' rather than a white knuckle adventure. For many in sales they feel like they need to lock their customer in a room or go sit in their lobby for days on end until the purchase order is secured... desperation is the worst way to attempt a close. I recently wrote a post about waterboarding your prospects for commitment... don't do it.
Symptoms are rarely causes. Difficulty in closing is almost always a symptom rather than a root cause. Closing must be earned. Objections usually evidence that the seller has made mistakes by pushing before trust and value has been established and without the necessary understanding of their timing, priorities and processes.
For managers; remember that you cannot manage by results; only by activities and actions. Ask the right questions of your sales people right at the beginning of the quarter and help them identify and execute the right actions that create progression throughout the quarter. Firing-up the blow torch with just days to go in the quarter after neglecting the inputs that create success is a sure-fire way to damage relationships and drive-down price and margin.
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Install CGI Scripts
How To Install CGI Scripts
To install CGI scripts, first thing you need is a web server that support CGI scripting language like Perl.
Uploading Files to Web Server
CGI scripts are text files, these need to be transfered to your web server in ASCII mode. Transfering files from your local computer to remote web server can be done in two ways, ASCII and BINARY mode. You must upload all your Perl CGI scripts in ASCII mode. This is because, text file format varies betwen Linux, Windows and Mac. So by using ASCII mode, FTP program will take care of file convertion.
You can use any FTP program to upload files to your web server. If you don't have a FTP program installed on your computer, you can use WebFTP available at
There are many free and paid FTP client software available. You can find a list of FTP Programs at
Configuring Perl Script
Once you have the Perl script that need to be installed, you need to configure it before uploading to the web server. Each perl script is different, so to know how exactly this is done, you shoule refer the readme.txt or documentation file provided by the script author.
Most web servers allow you to run Perl scripts with .pl and .cgi extension. Perl CGI scripts are run with an external executable, called the perl interpreter. This is specified in first line of the Perl script.
First line of any Perl CGI script is called shebang line. This specify the location of perl installed in the web server. So you need to edit your perl script with any text editor and put correct path to perl on your web server. For most of the servers, the default value will work fine. If perl is installed in a different location on your web server, you need to modify the path.
To find location of perl in your web server, contact your web hosting provider, if you have SSH access, you can find it yourself with "which perl" command. Popular control panels like Cpanel will provide the path in your control panel. If your web server use standard control panel like cpanel, chances are, you already have the correct path to perl in your CGI script.
You will find first line of perl script start with #!, this line is called shebang line. If perl is installed in /usr/bin/perl, your first line will look like #!/usr/bin/perl
Perl Variables
Variable in perl start with $ and array start with @. For example $myvar is a variable. @myarray is an array. Variable can be defined in two ways.
$variable = 'What is your name';
$variable = "What is your name";
Once you have done the configuration as perl the script documentation or install guide, you need to upload all files to your web server. Make sure all .pl, .cgi files uploaded in ASCII mode.
Making CGI Scripts Executable
Once you have uploaded all your files, you need to change file permission. You need to refer script documentation to know what perlmission is needed for each files.
Most .pl, .cgi script need permission 755 (chmod 755 filename) and files that need writable to public/webserver need permission 777. You can set permission of a file with most of the FTP client software or chmod command in SSH.
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“It is believed that hormonal fluctuations, which can be menstrual or cyclical (or both) in women do cause increased oil production in the pore,” says Dr. Jegasothy. This is how skin-care experts believe hormonal acne starts, although the actual cause has yet to be determined.
How can you tell a hormonal breakout from run-of-the-mill acne? Dermatologists use a few key characteristics to pinpoint if a pimple is hormonal. Keep reading to learn how to spot hormonal breakouts, plus six expert-approved solutions for treating them.
Related: 7 Reasons You Have Adult Acne, and 7 Ways to Get Rid of It
It’s probably hormonal acne if…
1. You’re no longer in your teen years.
While we’d love to leave acne behind (along with our braces and boy band posters) once we enter our 20s, the reality is flare-ups are possible at any time. Hormonal acne is the type that’s most likely to attack in your twentysomething years. That’s because those are the years when women are most hormonally active, says Dr. Jegasothy. “Your 20s is often peak childbearing age, making women more prone to the intense hormonal fluctuations of pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation (breastfeeding).”
2. It’s happening around your chin and jawline.
Related: 4 Reasons You Have Big, Painful Pimples—and What to Do About It
3. It’s recurring once a month.
“Hormonal acne often manifests in a cyclical pattern, much like women’s menstrual cycles,” Dr. Jegasothy explains. “This is true even in postmenopausal women, because these women still experience monthly fluctuations in their estrogen and progesterone levels, albeit lower than pre-menopausal women.” Hormonal breakouts tend to pop up in the same place each month as well. This is usually the result of a particular pore being enlarged in size by a previous pimple. However, Dr. Jegasothy tells SELF that it could be that the actual pore opening happens to trap oil naturally. This can vary from person to person and pore to pore.
4. You’re seriously stressed.
Cortisol, the stress hormone, can affect all of your other hormones too. “Women who are prone to monthly hormonal fluctuations, which are quite steep, and have periods of acute stress, are setting up a ‘perfect storm’ for themselves to get a hormonal acne flare,” explains Dr. Jegasothy.
Before you get downtrodden about the finicky nature of hormonal acne, know first that it’s pesky but perfectly normal. So normal, in fact, that there are many methods to help treat it. Most patients with hormonal acne have usually tried over-the-counter treatments to no avail. Therefore, many of them are seeking the help of a dermatologist. In general, it is good to see your dermatologist if you have deep or cystic pimples, because they could be a marker of something more serious, such as a thyroid condition or abnormal hormone levels, adds Dr. Jegasothy. Here are a few common treatments to know about:
Over-the-counter cleansers
Topical retinoids
Related: 12 Acne Treatments That Really Work
Birth control
If you’ve ever been on birth control and then gotten off of it, you probably noticed your skin go into total panic mode—leaving breakouts behind. But before you go cursing your sensitive skin, know that this type of reaction is totally normal, as oral contraceptives can do a great job of clearing acne in women. In fact, some, like Ortho Tri-Cyclen and YAZ, are approved by the FDA for the treatment of hormonal acne. “These oral contraceptives are composed of ethinyl estradiol plus either the progestin norgestimate, norethindrone acetate, or drospirenone, which work together to alter levels and activity of hormones that can trigger acne,” explains Dr. Peredo. If you’re not on the Pill, you might want to ask your doctor if he or she recommends it to help stabilize your hormones.
Antiandrogen drugs
“These oral therapies help reduce the amount of excess androgens (primarily male hormones) that can cause hormonal acne,” says Dr. Peredo. Antiandrogen drugs, such as the Spironolactone pill, work by blocking androgen receptors to decrease the actions and effects of testosterone in the body. “When given at low doses, Spironolactone works very well to improve cystic acne and decrease overall oil production in the skin,” says Dr. Levi.
A much stronger defense mechanism against breakouts is Accutane, a form of oral vitamin A that reduces the amount of oil released by oil glands in your skin and helps your skin renew itself more quickly. “It’s used in the treatment of severe acne and is usually given after other acne medicines or antibiotics have been tried without success,” Dr. Peredo explains. “Due to its strength and potential side effects, however, this treatment isn’t typically considered as a first solution, but it can be quite effective when other remedies aren’t working.” Your doctor will likely ask whether or not you’re pregnant or trying to conceive in the near future before writing you a prescription for Accutane, as it’s been shown to cause birth defects. Peredo tells SELF, however, that taking Accutane in general will not affect your childbearing potential for the future.
You might also like: 12 Common Acne Treatments
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Spreaker Studio for Desktop
Spreaker Support
Help Topics
Still haven't found what you're looking for?
This section refers to Spreaker Studio for Desktop.
Video Tutorial
I want to make and take calls. How can I connect Skype with Spreaker Studio?
We've streamlined Skype integration with Spreaker Studio with the help of simple external software. A quick tutorial walking you through the process can be found right in Spreaker Studio's menu, by clicking on the Skype icon.
I want to make and take calls. How can I connect Google Hangout with Spreaker Studio?
Integrating Google Hangout with Spreaker Studio is easy with the help of simple external software. Take a look at our quick tutorials walking you through the process, for both Windows and Mac / OS X.
How can I add audio files or music?
You can add audio files or music in two ways, by creating playlists or adding individual tracks.
Playlist: under Playlist, drag and drop tracks from your computer onto the console, or alternatively click on Add Tracks. Click on the "+" symbol to add more. Once you've completed your playlist, enable Auto DJ to have the songs play in a continuous queue, from first to last without interruption.
Tracks: if you choose the Track Option: to have a bit more control, opt for Tracks. Click on the "+" symbols in each deck to add an audio file or song. You'll be able to fade in and out of each as you segue into new topics or interviews.
Note: you can only add audio files to Spreaker Studio that are already on your computer. Spreaker's web-based Music Library is not available on the desktop app.
Why can't I find my Music Library?
The Music Library you put together through Spreaker's website can only be accessed through the web-based console, and isn't accessible through Spreaker Studio for desktop. Instead, through the app, you'll be able to drag and drop audio files and tracks directly from your computer into the deck, with no uploading required whatsoever.
In fact, if you really want to speed up the process, we recommend you keep a special folder of audio files and tracks on your desktop dedicated to your podcast. It's a simpler alternative to the Music Library.
What is the difference between mute and monitor?
There is an important difference between the monitor and mute button.
Can I sync Spreaker Studio with external equipment? Or, what are the Microphone & Sources and Output sections and how do they work?
You can connect and manage professional equipment with Spreaker Studio through these drop-down menus.
For example, if you've connected a USB microphone to your computer, from the input sources, you'll be able to select the external mic instead of the built-in one on your computer.
What is Auto DJ?
When Auto DJ is enabled, the songs you had set up in the playlist will play in a continuous queue, from first to last without interruption.
How can I delete a song from my playlist?
Click on the delete symbol towards the right of each track (the trashcan symbol).
Can I add more sound effects?
You can upload your own sound effects by clicking on the "+" sign at the bottom and adding audio files from your computer. By clicking on Edit at the top, you'll be able to delete any unwanted sound effects by clicking on the "x" symbols that appear. You'll then have more room to upload even more sounds.
Can I broadcast live and/or record a podcast beforehand?
You can broadcast live if you've got internet access. If you don't, you can still record a podcast, and then publish it once you're connected.
Can I pause in the middle of recording?
Yes, you can pause your broadcast at any time and continue when you feel ready, but only when recording offline, or off the air.
In the image, the button marked by the yellow arrow is the one you have to click in order to pause as well as restart your broadcast. The one marked by the red arrow will end the recording and direct you away from the console.
Is it possible to chat while broadcasting live?
Yes, during a live broadcast, just click on the Chat tab on the right and jump in the conversation.
Can I broadcast from different computers with the same account?
Yes, you can, though not simultaneously.
Can I program my show to run through Spreaker Studio even after I've shut my computer off?
You must keep your computer and the app running when podcasting or broadcasting with Spreaker Studio.
For example, you cannot set up your playlist, hit play, and then shut down the app assuming it will keep going - the app has to stay open. The only way to have content play later is to first record your audio, then access the finished recording in your Drafts & Uploads, click Publish, and then choose to Publish later at a set time and date.
Why can't I broadcast for longer than 15 minutes?
Why can't I install Spreaker Studio for Windows?
If you're having issues running the installer and are getting the following error message: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." try disabling your antivirus software temporarily and installing the app again.
I can't hear my Skype callers and/or they can't hear me, but VB Cable is set up correctly. What's going on?
1. Go to the Control panel
2. Open the Sound settings
3. Choose the Record tab
4. Click the VB Cable (Output) Properties button.
5. Opened Advanced tab.
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Festival Safety by the Summer Festival Guide
Festivals are a great way to spend a summer weekend. Good bands, good beer, good weather: what's not to like? It is important, though, to keep safe. That's why we're going to use today to look at the various ways in which you can ensure that your weekend goes by without any kind of hitches.
Keep a mobile charger on you. The simple fact is that in 2014, it's virtually impossible to get through the weekend without using your phone for something. (No, not Facebook. For goodness sake, give it a rest for the weekend!). In any busy festival, it's almost guaranteed that at some point you'll probably get separated from your friends. Invest in a mobile charger (i.e. one that's powered by batteries rather than the mains) and stock up on a load of batteries. This way, you'll be able to call your mates and meet up with each other every time you find yourself getting pushed to the other side of the crowd!
Don't bring your valuables. Repeat after us: 'I do not need to take my iPad to Glastonbury'. Most modern festivals are pretty friendly and, generally speaking, people try and look out for each other. However, it's not a good idea to take a load of expensive gear with you. Cameras are fair enough, but leave the laptops, credit cards, tablets and the like at home. You simply don't need them.
Be sensible
At even the most orderly festival, there probably will be the odd group of people insisting on being...well, a word we probably can't use here. The best move to make if anything happens that makes you feel remotely uncomfortable is to simply move to a different section of the area (again, keep your phone on you so you can re-meet friends easily). If you're particularly concerned, try and find a security guard (most festivals have them stationed throughout the venue).
Don't get carried away with moshing and crowd-surfing.
We're not just saying this to be killjoys. It's a simple fact that even the biggest and hardest metalheads get injured in moshpits. Honestly, they do. Don't get the wrong idea: we're not suggesting you start twerking whilst Machine Head are on stage (though that would be sort of hilarious), but don't put yourself at risk unnecessarily. Also, crowd-surfing is even more risky – you’re likely to get a bad landing.
Care for your hearing
Split your cash
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Food safety in an industrial age
Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by E.L., Sep 30, 2006.
1. E.L.
E.L. Moderator of Lead Moderator Emeritus Founding Member
Food safety in an industrial age
When it comes to food, Americans live in an industrial age. The stuff of most meals is mass produced and processed. The recent mass removal of tainted and suspect spinach from the market is a reminder of this - and of the need for US agriculture to adopt more appropriate safety measures.
The E. coli problem with fresh spinach highlights enormous differences in the oversight and regulation of produce compared with meat. More US residents are harmed by contaminated produce than by faulty beef, poultry, or seafood, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
The problems with produce contamination are growing, while those with meat are declining. Yet the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees produce, has far fewer resources and less regulatory authority than the US Department of Agriculture, which oversees meat.
Consider these imbalances: The USDA inspects meat-processing plants every day. The FDA has the manpower and resources to inspect facilities handling vegetables and fruit, seafood, or processed food just once every five years. USDA meat regulations are mandatory; the FDA's guidelines for produce are voluntary.
At the very least, the FDA's food- safety budget needs to be bulked up. As of 2007, it will have been cut by almost 30 percent from 2003 (one result: more than 250 fewer inspectors).
And industry self-regulation has a less than stellar track record, at least in California's lettuce and spinach industry, which fills America's salad bowls. This latest outbreak has been traced back to the state's Salinas Valley area, and so have nine of the 20 other known E. coli lettuce and spinach contaminations since 1995.
Food-safety experts pushing for produce to be as regulated and overseen as meat are probably right, but this direction involves an irony and perhaps an element of faulty reasoning.
Moving to meat-like inspections will force even more centralization of food production, because only large producers will be able to afford to implement across-the-board regulations. Centralization, however, can compound safety problems. Because food ends up in central processing plants, problems spread widely.
And realize that the strain of E. coli that led to this outbreak originated in the 1980s from industrial beef production - from feed-lot cattle. Scientists don't know exactly how the E. coli reached the spinach, but say it probably came from contaminated runoff from nearby fields of cattle or from river flooding.
The USDA's approach to meat regulation has made meat safer, but it's also had the effect of putting local, small ranchers out of business. Whether it's produce or meat, local food can contribute to safety. It's transported and handled less, and when there's a problem, it's easier to pinpoint and contain.
Consumers are gravitating to local food. The number of farmers' markets has at least doubled in the past 10 years, and supermarkets now offer "locally grown."
The spinach recall must act as a wake-up call for produce safety. But whatever solutions are offered should be flexible enough to accommodate food's industrial producers - and their retro cousins, local farmers.
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Long scale versus regular scale strings?
Discussion in 'Strings [BG]' started by Dkerwood, Apr 12, 2006.
1. Dkerwood
Aug 5, 2005
So for as long as I can remember, I've been buying long scale strings for my regular scale basses. As far as I have been able to tell, they're just longer. I bought a set of regular scale strings once for an axe I had with a tricky bridge, and because the tail was so far back from the bridge, the reg scale strings wouldn't quite reach to the G on the headstock (4 in a row tuners). I've bought long scale ever since.
Of course, now I'm dealing with four basses - none of which require long scale. I just get them so I have plenty of string to sit in the tuners. Is there anything significantly different about "long scale" strings, or are they really just longer? I read a thread on here about strings being "designed" for a certain scale, so I thought I'd get some feedback on that from you guys.
2. Jazzin'
Jazzin' ...Bluesin' and Funkin'
Long scale is for 34" basses, the regular scale of an electric bass guitar.
3. Mystic Michael
Mystic Michael Hip No Ties
Apr 1, 2004
New York, NY
There's nothing significantly different about long-scale strings - except the length...
4. georgestrings
georgestrings Banned
Nov 5, 2005
That's my understanding of things, as well - AFAIK, there's Short Scale(30" - 31"), Medium Scale(32" - 33"), Standard Long Scale(43"), and Long Scale Plus(34" - 36")...
- georgestrings
5. 43 inches eh?
I always thought it weird how most basses are 34 or 35 and its considered long scale. I walways think of long as 35-36 medium 33-34 and short anything else...Damn bassists always have to think outside the box
6. Kronos
Dec 28, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
Try putting regular long scale strings on a 35" scale bass...the windings start to end before the nut.
7. Fuzzbass
Fuzzbass P5 with overdrive Gold Supporting Member
This isn't true for all long scale string sets. I've never tried it, but I asked Modulus about this, and they said that some brands of regular long scale strings will fit the 35" Quantum bass. But of course the use of regular long scale strings on a 35" bass is not recommended... there are other risks besides the windings ending too early.
Side note: isn't there a 1" or more difference between top-load and through-body on some basses? Many regular long scale strings work with through-body stringing, so I would think that these would also work top-load on a 35" bass.
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Hi everyone, im currently forced to take the accredited compaq technician course by my company and its through web-based training from compaq and it does not give me any insight, does anyone know where I can find other resources or braindumps? the course is 010-613 proliant systems......
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Connect win95 to winxp
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Is there a way to get a win95 machine and a winxp machine to see each other on a peer to peer network connection? I can't seem to get them to see each other. The main purpose is to share an internet connection and printer. Is XP's direct cable connection my only option?
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by lumberjack In reply to Connect win95 to winxp
Yes, and no (in that order) basically
ensure that an account on the Xp pc exists that has the same id and password as used by the 95 PC, and vice versa - or use same for both!
then a cross over cable between pc nics will handle connection, assuming ip etc all configured with same mask ( similar ip addresses ( and .2)or standard cables through a shared hub.
ensure printer is shared, plus any drives you require
if the internet connection is via Nic then a 2nd will be required for peer2peer in the XP machine.
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by michol In reply to Connect win95 to winxp
To get both the PC to see wach other, you got to make sure both has the same workgroup. For instant, Win9x by default will have the workgroup as "WORKGROUP". Then you have to make sure the Win XP is set the same way. All in all, PCs can see each other only if they are in the same workgroup. If you need more detail, let me know.
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win xp has a networking wizard, you just have to run it on the xp pc and create a network setup disk with the wizard then use the network setup disk on the 95 computer and make sure they both have the same domain and connected by a crossover cable
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there are four computers, only two of them are authorized for internet, the isp says the first two to connect will have acces, (this is not always the case) how do I get the computers to see each other and to have two of them getting cable interntet? I have to set the nics to have the ip assigned autmatic for the computers to get the isp ip. How do I set the other computers to have all networked and sharing the net printer?
Actually we have to simple swithes 5 ports each, how can accomplish this with just one switch and what model or reference should I use?
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by tom.greendyk In reply to Internet and networking
Get a Linksys BEFSX41 Cable/DSL Firewall Router. Should cost around $50.
If your ISP has assigned you a static IP address, put one in when going through the configuration. This allows you to use only 1 IP address. Configure the Linksys router to be your DHCP server. This way you can have ALL of your PCs on your network use the Internet connection, while only ever using 1 IP address ecternally. The Linksys router will assign IP addresses like 192.168.1.x internally (the private network range).
The box is a 4-port router, but you can daisy-chain fromother switches.
Hope this helps.
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by flan In reply to Internet and networking
if it's only a few computers go to local computer store and buy a home router. make sure all the pc's are dhcp, and this will solve all of your problems... assuming you know how to read a manual.
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by vikigarg In reply to Internet and networking
assuming that all your computers are on LAN, run a proxy server (e.g. analogx) on the computer on which you have internet access and configure rest of the computers to use the IP address of the computer on which you have i-net access using following steps in IE:
Tools, Internet Options, Connections, Lan Settings and select the proxy settings and enter the IP address of your computer on which you have i-net.
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hello for some reason when i go into nslookup debug and query my isp's dns for one of my web sites it resolves but i get a
non-authoritative answer
does anybody know what this means, and how i can troubleshoot it?
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by aliz In reply to Troubleshooting DNS
that's a problem in the ISP dns configuration and not in your client side.
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by Churdoo In reply to Troubleshooting DNS
Actually this is not necessarliy a problem at all. "non-authoritative answer" simply means that the nameserver that's answering your query is not an authoritative nameserver for that domain ... i.e. it is not listed in an NS record in your domain's zonefile, and basically it had to rely on some other nameserver for ultimately answering the query.
As for troubleshooting, well again, may not be trouble. If you look at the whois record for your domain(s)and if your zonefile is configured consistently with the whois info, then querying the listed nameservers directly should respond as "Authoritative," and querying anything else would respond as non-authoritative.
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Restoring the voice of Tamar: three psychoanalytic views on rape in the bible.
In 2 Samuel 13, the reader is confronted with the tragic and horrific story of Tamar, who is raped and repudiated by her half-brother Amnon, not validated by her brother Absalom, and ignored by her father David. This particular passage can no doubt leave one quite disturbed. Stepping inside the subjective world of a person capable of such acts can evoke feelings in the psychotherapist that are often quite foreign. Although therapists tend to be quite familiar with experiencing sadness, anxiety, despair, and hopelessness with patients, Mitchell and Melikian (1995) note that identifying with a person's sadism and aggressive sexuality can be very unnerving. Indeed, many therapists would find identification with the trauma suffered by Tamar far easier than identifying with Amnon's sexual aggression. While developing an understanding of Amnon's actions does not make them any less reprehensible, such conceptualizations do offer a way to develop a meaningful empathic connection with those who perpetrate such violence.
Toward this aim, three Christian psychologists practicing from three different psychoanalytic perspectives present discussion of the underlying causes and consequences of Amnon's sins against Tamar. Dr. Lowell Hoffman offers a view informed by the British object relations school and its focus on love repudiated and destructiveness. Dr. Earl Bland provides an examination from Kohut's (1984) Self Psychological model in which narcissism, entitlement, and rage emerge from significant failures to meet normal needs for mirroring, idealization and connection. Finally, Dr. Mitchell Hicks explores the passage from a relational intersubjective view focused on the failure of mutual recognition, extreme self assertion at the expense of the subjectivity of the other, and the reversal of doer and done to. It is hoped that this exercise will offer those interested in psychoanalytic ideas an opportunity to see how they may be useful in making sense of complex phenomena.
Object Relations--L. Hoffman
Object relations theory is a paradigmatic shift in psychoanalysis that began with Sandor Ferenczi and the Sutties, Ian and Jane. Freud had privileged nature over nurture and understood nurture as the self-preserving attempts of humanity to contain its natural proclivities toward destructiveness.
Object relations theory starts and ends with love, the paramount posture of nurture. Apart from Melanie Klein, who retained destructive drives and thereby remained aligned with Freud, object relations theorists privilege nurture and understand nature as organized toward the ultimate outcome of seeking and maintaining relationships.
Beginning with the Sutties' work, hate and aggression are not understood as nascent drives, but as merely the result of thwarted love. They effected the epistemological break with drive theory and prefigured W.R.D. Fairbairn's and D.W.Winnicott's writings, which emphasized the maternal environment and de-emphasized Freud's patriarchy. The Sutties also pre-saged Winnicott's interest in play and Bowlby's work with attachment. Bowlby has written a preface to Ian Suttie's only book, The Origins of Love and Hate (1999) originally published in 1935, days after Suttie's tragic and untimely death. Ian and Jane Suttie were Christians and were explicit about their faith in their writing.
Object relations theory borrows heavily from Freud's development of the unconscious and emphasizes repression as the defensive operation that constellates the accretions of unconscious material. According to Klein (1975), a pathologically organized unconscious splits off external and internal affects of anger and hatred toward another which are felt as persecutory. Not only are these persecutory perceptions repressed, but the object (i.e. the person) associated with the feelings of hatred/anger becomes the target of envious, annihilating/rejecting attacks. Additionally, a pathologically organized personality who desires its ideal object (person) will enviously attack this object/person when the desire is unrequited.
In the rape of Tamar, Amnon lusted after his half-sister, but believed he had no chance to asah, translated "do her" (2 Samuel 13:2). Her virginity was essential to her worth as a woman, a commodity waiting to be brokered at her father's choosing. Amnon's hesitancy to act on his longings may be further explicated by Fairbairn's (1952) description of the schizoid position. When a child consistently feels unloved and not valued (especially by the mother), the child understands its love to be destructive and bad--a malignant love which has destroyed the mother's affection. The child assumes a schizoid (withdrawn) position since its love is too dangerous to release. In the service of assisting in Amnon's (schizoid?) hesitancy to pursue his goal of "doing" his sister, Jonadab, his cousin, the son of Shimeah, David's third eldest brother, connived a plan to trick David into bringing Tamar to be alone at Amnon's residence. Alone with Tamar, Amnon shakav or "laid her" (2 Samuel 13:14). The Hebrew is much more graphic than our sanitized translations. Brueggeman (1990) notes "a long established practice of an 'innocent' or 'pious' reading of [this] Samuel narrative." (p. 2).
In a feminist critique of the narrative, Pamela Cooper-White (1995) observes that Tamar is "... the only rape victim in the Old Testament to have a voice and yet all power to act or even speak is taken away from her. It becomes men's business. In the end, the father [David] ... weeps[s] bitterly day after day--not for the victim--but for the perpetrator and the victim's brother" (p. 1). She continues, "The narrator of 2 Samuel 13 portrays Tamar's seduction poignantly, ... but steers us in the direction of primary interest, even sympathy for the men around her." (p. 5).
We can infer from the reference to Amnon's strength during the rape that Tamar struggled valiantly to resist the violation. Tragically, she is forced from Amnon's presence immediately after the rape because of a reversal in his passion from wanting her to despising her. Fairbairn (1952) described this reaction to unrequited love. "Since the joy of loving is barred [by Amnon's unconscious belief that his love is destructive], he may as well deliver himself over to the joy of hating and obtain whatever satisfaction is there." Fairbairn continues, "He thus makes a pact with the devil and says, 'Evil, be thou my good.'" (p. 27).
The double and triple trauma to Tamar yet await her. Upon apprising her beloved brother Absalom of the heinous treachery, Absalom minimizes the crime. He urges her to keep it quiet, to stifle her feelings: "He is your brother, do not take this to heart". Likewise her father David, was very angry, but did nothing. Tamar's end is as "a desolate [childless/husbandless] woman in her brother Absalom's house" (2 Samuel 13:20, New International Version). Inferences from the text suggest she died within the next 5-7 years and in her place Absalom names his daughter Tamar in memory of his deceased sister.
This treachery, which was suppressed and denied in David's family follows in the train of many prior generational treacheries including: Abraham passing off his wife as his sister; Rebecca tricking Isaac into blessing Jacob; Jacob's trickery of Laban; Judah's plot to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites and his account to Jacob of Joseph's death; Judah's refusal of his third son to an earlier Tamar (his daughter-in-law) and his unknowing entrapment to Tamar's prostituting seduction that yielded her twins Zerah and Perez and Jacob's crossing of his hands to bless Joseph's younger son Ephraim. As a result of David's passivity in the face of Tamar's rape--the transgenerational treachery continued with Absalom's murder of Amnon and Absalom's hatred for his father which drove him to usurp David's throne with the assistance of Joab, David's nephew and son of David's sister, Zeruiah.
The sins of David's fathers were visited down 13 generations from Abraham through Jesse and continued their treacherous trajectories through the ongoing debacles of the divided kingdom. The untold human suffering that occurred in David's line of ancestors and descendants climaxed in the life of a Man of Sorrows who was acquainted with grief. He alone drank from the cup that made men stagger, that caused their children to lie in a stupor at every street corner--and survived. (Isa. 51:17-20; Matt. 28:6).
Sue Grand (2000), contemporary relational psychoanalyst, writing in the object relations tradition, poignantly depicts the annihilating unconscious dynamics of "Evil, be thou my good" which our Lord experienced, survived, conquered, and delivers us from:
Evil seduces with its perverse promise of recognition. Evil will always be constituted so that victim after victim is accompanied by her perpetrator to the obscure solitude of extinction. In each new victim, the perpetrator shares his own catastrophic loneliness, in what [Christopher] Bollas calls the "companionship of the dead." Evil always reaches its terminus in the shared loneliness and in the shared disappearance of selves. (Grand, 2000, p.7)
Self Psychology--E. Bland
To some degree the current theoretical exposition is a violation of a basic principle in self psychology--that of the empathic introspective position. Kohut (1984) believed categorically in the primacy of empathy as the most effective method of psychoanalytic inquiry. We discern the meaning and significance of events through empathic immersion and vicarious introspection into the subjective self-experience of the other. Despite this limitation, however, it is not difficult to imagine the destructive emotional and relational dynamics that must have plagued David's family during the tragedy of Tamar's rape and the subsequent killing of her assailant and half brother Amnon by her brother Absalom. The powerful needs and expressions of rage in this narrative evoke both sorrow and outrage authenticating the scriptural portend that sins of the father will be visited upon the children (Numbers 14:18). Amnon's lustful and violent bedding of Tamar echo's their father David's scandalous assignation with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband to cover the crime. Unified in their unhinged passion, both father and son give play to their desire beyond reasonable boundaries. "Such a thing should not be done in Israel!" (2 Samuel 13:12).
Given the epic and archetypal nature of this family tragedy one way to demonstrate a self psychological perspective is to analyze the Amnon/Tamar narrative in the context of the well travelled Oedipal myth so central to the classical psychoanalytic vision. First, let us review relevant self-psychological principles followed by a brief review of the story in light of Oedipal themes. We will end with a reinterpretation of the drama using the concepts of self psychology.
Theory review
Self psychology, as its name suggests, is a psychology preoccupied with the development, organization, and maintenance of the self. A broad and elusive term, the self is understood as the subjective experience of I. Inescapably paradoxical, the self is both structure and process wherein conscious and unconscious memory, knowing, and initiative coalesce in one's sense of self-esteem, efficacy, and vitality. The self emerges within a complex matrix of motives and organizes patterns of relational connection which provide self sustaining functions called selfobject experiences. These selfobject experiences refer ". to those affective experiences that are sought by the self to build and maintain, or restore, cohesion" (Lichtenberg, Lachman & Fosshage, 1992, p.122). A responsive selfobject environment not only acts to transform early narcissism into vital ambitions and ideals; relationships are required for ongoing selfobject experiences. A healthy self is generative and connected with permeable boundaries that allow "a deeply felt presence of another in one's experiential world" (Geist, 2008a, p. 132).
Alternatively, development in the context of empathically barren and misattuned environment compromises the self. Unregulated loss, trauma, or persistent selfobject failure results in a deficient development of the self, ". a derailment of normal narcissism" (Silverstein, 2007, p.35). Powerful and infantile self needs for idealization, mirroring and connection remain intact, leaving the adult with an enfeebled and unsteady self structure. This compromised self organization leaves one exceedingly sensitive to selfobject failures as the internal self is empty of meaningful emotional selfobject ties, making it prone to episodes of fragmentation. Fearing collapse the self responds to fragmentation threats with defensive soothing or narcissistic rage. The subjective emotional experience of fragmentation is one of shame, helplessness, rage, and loss.
Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom--tragic selves
Upon reflection it is not hard to see the oedipal themes running through the story. Consider that Amnon is David's eldest son and in direct succession to the throne. Absalom is next in line, most likely due to the premature death of his older brother Chileab. Remember also that Absalom and his sister Tamar are children of royalty from both parents. Amnon's mother, on the other hand, is of less than noble birth. Despite being raised in separate households Amnon would have no doubt known of Absalom's voracious ambition and seen him as a threat. Amnon's Oedipal wish, however, to kill the father and possess his phallic power by lying with the mother is a dangerous quest. David is a treacherous figure, a war lord brought to power by overthrowing the father of his best friend, and he has already committed premeditated murder to protect his throne. Amnon resolves his sexual and aggressive strivings by displacing them onto Tamar. In the rape of his half-sister, Amnon asserts his phallic power (equal to that of David) and shames the family of his rival for succession. Absalom, of course, shamed by his sister's weakness, enacts his own Oedipal drama by slaying the only impediment between him and his father. Symbolically, Amnon's murder was a trial run, "If not, at least let my brother Amnon go with us" (2 Samuel 13:26). In time, Absalom would make a bid for his father's throne.
In contrast to a more classic psychoanalytic interpretation based on sexual and aggressive drive motives, how would self psychology view the drama differently? Remember that in self psychology the self develops appropriately in a responsive and empathic selfobject milieu where narcissistic strivings of entitlement, grandiosity and idealization are transformed into realistic and appropriate ambitions and ideals. Aggression from this perspective is not an inherent and inevitable expression of the human condition. Aggression is a byproduct of selfobject failure.
When needs, assertions, and grandiosity are empathically understood and validated the child is able to use connection with the parent to soothe and temper anger, eroticized feelings, competition, and envy. In this light self psychology does not need to deny that Oedipal passions may exist (Geist, 2008b). As Ornstein (1980) points out, when the child feels a deep selfobject connection with the parents these passions are experienced in a way that further consolidates the self. Anger, competition, and the sexualization of feelings are empathically held and allowed to appropriately disperse as deep connection and care help the child integrate these unwieldy emotions into a mature sense of self.
In the case of Amnon, Tamar and Absalom it is conceivable that such an empathic early environment was unavailable. Amnon was most likely born when David was king in Hebron as the struggle for power in Israel was still in progress. Preoccupied with politics of domestic reign and an ongoing war David would have been unavailable as a responsive selfobject to his children. Although we do not know the state of David's household it is likely that the wives lived in separate dwellings with their children and that competition amongst the different households existed--who would curry the favor of the King?
For Amnon and Absalom the needed selfobject mirroring and the availability of a responsive and ideal parent imago were missing. Contained in the privileged but emotionally disconnected royal family, both would have grown up with weakened self-structures. Their longing for a responsive selfobject experience of admiration from the idealized father remained active but hidden behind expectations that one should seek power and dominance within the family setting. Vulnerable and dependent selfobject needs for love, soothing, and connection were not mirrored or affirmed. The only manner by which one could attain connection was through the patterned relational pathways of dominance and power. Unable to give conscious consideration to his deep need for connection and soothing Amnon experiences his selfobject longing disguised in the proscribed but more tolerable form of lustful desire. Amnon is unable to consider the subjectivity of Tamar as a woman with valid and primary claim to her personhood. She is an instrument of narcissistic gratification. Amnon's sense of entitlement dismisses cultural and familial taboos and sees her refusal--even compromised hesitancy--as an injury to his grandiose claim. His actions boldly state: I am the King's heir apparent, I deserve what I want.
Once the soothing of his selfobject need is accomplished Amnon is ashamed. Although the classical view might see Amnon's expulsion of Tamar after the rape as evidence of guilt feelings for having transgressed a sexual boundary; from the view of self psychology Amnon's "intense hatred," greater than the love he previously felt is most clearly seen as the flush of shame. A unique self experience shame motivates one to hide, to not let one's vulnerability show. But why so intense? "Get this woman out of here and bolt the door after her" (2 Samuel 13:17). Consider that Amnon's needs for affection, tenderness, and love, unconsciously retain the idyllic grandiosity wherein he wishes for the perfect union with the perfect object as a reinforcement of his own perfection. Moreover, is it possible that Amnon is performing for his father, a wish to have his father admire his own vitality by demonstrating sexual decisiveness? Yet violence and entitled taking does not produce the reverie of shared connection so longed for. In the moment after orgasmic release, when drivenness is abated, Amnon is faced with the starkness of his continued hunger for selfobject responsiveness and the destructiveness of his rage. Despite having just completed an act of utmost intimacy, the emptiness of his inner self remains. The lack of reciprocity repeats the trauma of his childhood. In his own self-contained narcissistic cycle Amnon desires connection with an idealized figure and affirmation of his own narcissistic strivings, yet pursues it in a manner that guarantees he will be left unfulfilled.
For Absalom the assault on his own entitled experience is immense. Like Amnon, he does not see the subjective experience of Tamar "Be quiet now, my sister, he is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart." (2 Samuel 13:20). In some ways Absalom's self-structure is more solidified than Amnon. Absalom is able to temper his passions, holding onto his rage for years. His eventual commission of fratricide is not an expression of a biologically induced aggressive drive to assure the ascendency of his progeny. Rather, Absalom's rage contains both shame for not protecting his sister and a displaced frustration at his father who was unable to validate his grandiose wishes. No doubt David's tacit approval of Amnon's rape by refusing to seek justice for Tamar is an assault on Absalom's sense of self. Absalom's needs and strivings are of secondary importance and only find their place after Amnon. The removal of Amnon from the sight of David is Absalom's only solution that will allow him the potential of catching the gleam of his father's eye and quieting the shame of narcissistic injury. To conclude, from a self psychology perspective violence and aggressive sexual taking may be common human experiences but they are not inevitable. Destructiveness is a sign of a deeper need for validation and connection; the need for empathy and love.
Intersubjective--M. Hicks
At the beginning of this passage Amnon is driving himself mad with fantasies regarding Tamar. What could be the meaning of these idealizing fantasies? One possibility is that Tamar as the pristine and snow-white virgin is representing moral purity, and he may have a wish to identify himself with this purity in an attempt to fend off unconscious shame. The text tells us that her status as a virgin was clearly identifiable to all because of the clothing that she wore-perhaps a symbol of the supposed righteousness of King David and his family that stands in stark contrast to the judgment pronounced by the Lord on David's house just one chapter before. This history no doubt has had a significant impact on the intersubjective field of David's house. Yet when considering Benjamin's (1999) contributions, we must recognize that "all fantasy is the negation of the real other, whether the fantasy's content is negative or idealized" (p. 197). Rather than relating to Tamar as an independent subject with feelings, desires and rights, Amnon is already distraught that he cannot "do anything" to her. In short, he is already denying her status as a subject.
It is at this point that Amnon's friend and cousin Jonadab enters the scene. The text describes Jonadab as a very "shrewd" man, and he asks in an almost rhetorical manner why a son of the king, a person of such privilege and prestige, should have to suffer such sadness and deprivation. With this change in the intersubjective field, Amnon seems to experience an increased level of entitlement that for the first time allows him to consider actually manipulating even the king himself to serve Tamar up to his lustful desires (or at least as permission to do so). Although this plan was suggested by Jonadab, Amnon seems to experience a major shift in his own level of entitlement and shrewdness. He begins to contemplate what is rightfully his as a prince and the extent to which he is willing to go in order to secure it.
This scene with Jonadab ushers in a major shift in Amnon's subjective state. As has already been insinuated above it is quite difficult to suggest that Amnon's preoccupation with Tamar had much to do with true love. Not only did he not consider simply asking her to marry, he seems to become all the more enraged when she refuses his advances and instead requests that they marry first. If his sexual urges truly had been born out of a love of Tamar as a person, this would have been a cause for celebration. But instead Amnon becomes enraged and defiles her. What could produce this?
In her rebuke of him she sent a very clear message. By stating that "such things" (e.g., forcing a woman to have sex against her will) are not done in Israel was a communication that this was a violation of the Torah, and that following through would place him amongst the fools of Israel. No doubt this was experienced as a narcissistic injury that fueled such a high degree of entitlement and sense of privilege that he cannot hear Tamar's entreaty, one that may have stimulated an underlying sense of unbearable shame and humiliation that he defended against with rage. Further, she is communicating clearly that she is not interested in the same thing right now as Amnon. Benjamin (1999) observes:
The initial response to [the discovery that we do not want the same thing] is a breakdown of recognition between self and other: I insist on my way, I refuse to recognize you, I begin to try to coerce you, and therefore I experience your refusal as a reversal: you are coercing me." (Benjamin, 1999, p. 194)
We have already established that Amnon was failing to recognize Tamar's status as a subject, but in this portion of the text we see the level of destructiveness achievable when narcissism, disowned shame, extreme entitlement, and a failure of recognition and empathy occur.
As this horrible scene ends, the Benjamin (1999) quote above offers insight into yet another great insult toward Tamar in Amnon's attitude toward her, which is marked by hatred and repudiation of her. Although it is not stated in the text, it could be inferred that Amnon has experienced Tamar as forcing him to rape her, not only as a disavowal of his agency but also as a denial of both her subjectivity and his own. It is as if he is saying, "how dare you force me to force you! I hate you! Get out of my sight!" Rather than viewing his own behavior as repugnant and shameful, he sends Tamar away in a disgrace that she bears for the rest of her life. Amnon has succeeded in destroying this image of purity, and has managed to disown his own self hatred. It is as if with this forced, aggressive sexual act Tamar found herself penetrated with the shame and brokenness that Amnon himself could not bear. In short, this extreme act of aggression became a way to dispose of a bad feeling (Benjamin, 1990, 1999, 2004; Lichtenberg, 2008).
Before concluding, it would be appropriate to briefly examine what this approach might offer regarding an understanding about what led to this regression. In an analysis informed by feminism, Benjamin (1988, 1999) suggests that viewing women as objects rather than subjects is woven into the social fabric of a patriarchal society, and that men often assert power and dominance over women out of dread and retaliation from the days of the omnipotent mother who dared to assert her own will. Thus, in Amnon's heinous crime we might hypothesize that he is enacting vengeance on the mother of his infancy in response to the rage that he felt but was never able to resolve. Within a society dominated by men where women were often viewed as property, with the transgressions of his father, and with a perceived entitlement to sex and perhaps whatever else his royal heart desired, Amnon entered a fit of unbridled rage that blinded him to Tamar's position as subject. This was a perfect storm for an act of sexual violence. It seems useful to also consider Stolorow and Atwood's (1992) conceptualization of the dynamic unconscious as those things denied articulation via repression or other defenses because of their perceived associations with threats to important emotional ties. With this in mind, let us consider the Biblical text. While very little is known about Amnon before this point, it is clear that his father David also had some difficulties with destructiveness and using others for his own gain; a problem that seems to have continued given his complete lack of concern for what had been done to Tamar. It is therefore possible that expression of these types of feelings during more formative years was met with disapproval or worse and David, and perhaps Amnon's mother, attempted to deny this aspect of David's character (Lichtenberg, 2008).
In closing, two final issues merit consideration. One of the most disturbing aspects of this passage is its silence with respect to Tamar. There is a stunning lack of concern for her plight shown even by her father; instead David mourns for his son. Although the authors of this article are male, each independently sought to restore Tamar's voice through recognition of the sexual and psychological violence done to her. Further, each of us has drawn to varying degrees on the work of feminist psychoanalysts and Biblical scholars.
Second, one may ask if Amnon's acts should be considered to be so beyond the bounds that few but the most sinful and ill could commit them. That is, are his sins so beyond the humanly comprehensible? To endorse this would be a denial of the universal fallenness of humanity. By believing that such actions are beyond one's ability, the effects of sinfulness in one's own life are disavowed. Further, Benjamin (1999) asserts that there is nothing inherently unusual about failing to see the other as a subject--all are expected to fail at this at least some of the time. It even has some adaptive value, such as in the expression of creativity or in the ability to perform surgical procedures. What is important is whether or not mutuality can be restored quickly, and becomes pathology only when it becomes a rigid way of relating or spurs violence and mistreatment as is the case in this passage. A similar notion can be found in the sex offender treatment literature. For example, Ward and Hudson (2000) theorize that those who commit acts of sexual aggression are seeking in destructive ways universal human "goods," such as autonomy, relatedness, happiness, creativity, and mastery. Lapses in mutual recognition or seeking some human "good" is not in and of itself sinful, but rather establishes necessary yet insufficient conditions that lend themselves to offense.
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Stolorow, R. D., & Atwood, G. E. (1992). Contexts of being: The intersubjective foundations of psychological life. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
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Ward, T., & Hudson, S.M. (2000). A self-regulation model of relapse prevention. In D. R. Laws, S. M. Hudson, & T. Ward (Eds.). Remaking relapse prevention with sex offenders: A Sourcebook (pp. 79-101). New York: Sage.
Mitchell W. Hicks
Walden University School of Psychology
Earl D. Bland
MidAmerica Nazarene University
Lowell W. Hoffman
Brookhaven Center for Counseling & Development
Mitchell W. Hicks (Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of Cincinnati; Certificate, Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; ABPP Clinical Psychology) is core faculty in clinical psychology at Walden University, and maintains a private practice in Arlington Heights, Illinois. His interests include psychoanalysis and Christian faith, sexual addiction, and the psychology of men.
Earl D. Bland, (Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology, Illinois School of Professional Psychology) is a Professor of Psychology at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, KS and a Licensed Psychologist. His research and professional interests include psychoanalytic psychology, integration of psychology and Christianity, psychologist/clergy collaboration and narcissistic disorders.
Lowell W. Hoffman (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Union Institute; Certificate, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University; M.A.R., Theology, Westminister Seminary) is clinical psychologist/co-director of the Brookhaven Center for Counseling & Development in Allentown, PA., and is co-director, Society for the Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies and Theology.
The authors are grateful to John Carter, Ph.D. who initially conceptualized this article and moderated an expanded presentation of the paper at the 2009 International Convention of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies in Orlando, Florida. Please address correspondence regarding this article to Mitchell W. Hicks, Ph.D., 1655 North Arlington Heights Road, Suite 205E, Arlington Heights, IL 60004;
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How to Make Fondant Pearls: a Photo Tutorial
Chocolate cupcake with fondant pearls
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Knead the Fondant
Knead the Fondant
Elizabeth LaBau
To make this recipe, you will need:
• White fondant (or marzipan or chocolate plastic)
• Clear alcohol or clear flavored extract like orange or lemon
• Round piping tip(s)
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Roll out the Fondant
Roll out the Fondant
Elizabeth LaBau
Lightly dust your workstation with corn starch or powdered sugar, and roll out the fondant until it is about ¼ inch thick.
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• 03 of 06
Cut out Fondant Circles
Cut out Fondant Circles
Elizabeth LaBau
Use the top of a piping tip to cut discs out of the fondant. For small pearls, use a tip with an opening of 1/4” to 1/2” wide. For larger pearls, use the bottom of a small or large tip to create much larger circles.
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Roll the Fondant Circles into Balls
Fondant Pearls
Elizabeth LaBau
After you have cut a number of circles, roll them one by one between your palms to form balls. If you don’t have piping tips you can always just pinch off bits of fondant and roll that into balls, but the beauty of cutting out circles is that it produces pearls that are all very close in size. At this point, the balls can be stored in an airtight container or bag for weeks or even months before they’re needed.
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Coat the Pearls in Luster Dust
Coat the Pearls in Luster Dust
Elizabeth LaBau
• When you are ready to finish you pearls, pour some luster dust into a container that can be sealed, like a Tupperware container.
• Add a small amount of clear alcohol or alcohol-based extract, just enough to turn the luster dust into a shimmering liquid.
• Stir until all of the dust has dissolved. Working in batches if necessary, add the pearls, being sure to leave plenty of room in the container.
• Cover the container with a lid, and shake the pearls around until they’re coated with the luster dust. Pour the finished pearls onto a baking sheet covered with waxed paper or parchment, and repeat until all of the pearls are coated and shiny, adding more dust and liquid as needed.
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Your Fondant Pearls Are Finished
Fondant Pearls Are Finished
Elizabeth LaBau
Your fondant pearls are finished! Once dry, the pearls can be used to decorate your cake, cupcakes, or pastry. They can be stored almost indefinitely, but their luster dust coating might need to be touched up if stored for an extended amount of time.
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The sweetest squirrel of all of Squirrel Land is surely the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), like this industrious cutie caught in the act of laying in supplies. Thank you to photographer Mike Friel for this charming critter.
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Mom’s Guide to Infant Dental Health
Having a new baby is both a wonderful and a challenging time, and we are always available to help you as you learn to care for your baby’s oral health. Starting oral care early is an important part of establishing your child’s long-term oral and overall health
Cleaning your baby’s mouth and teeth
You should begin cleaning your new baby’s mouth shortly after birth, as plaque and bacteria will begin to collect on your baby’s gums after every feeding. Start cleaning the gums by gently massaging them with your clean finger, and later begin to use a damp washcloth or a soft infant toothbrush and water.
As soon as your baby’s teeth begin to erupt, they should be cleaned. Use a soft infant toothbrush with either no toothpaste at all or a tiny dab of non-fluoride infant toothpaste to gently clean your child’s new teeth. Unless advised otherwise by your dentist, do not use fluoride toothpastes until age 3. After age 3, and only once your child can be reasonably trusted to spit the toothpaste out, use a pea-sized amount of fluoride toothpaste. Remember to bring your child in for regular exams, usually starting around 1-year-old, so that we may check your child’s teeth for any chalky white or brown spots, which could be the beginning of tooth decay.
Please refer to our Children’s Dental Health section for more information on dental development and care as your child grows.
Teething generally happens between 6 months and 3 years of age. The eruption of your infant’s primary teeth can cause some common physical and behavioural changes and while this can be difficult, it’s a normal part of your child’s development, and the more severe reactions should not last for long periods of time. If symptoms do persist, it’s always recommended to see your infant’s dentist or doctor.
Common symptoms of teething in babies may include:
• sore, red gums around where the tooth is coming through
• increased irritability
• placing objects or fingers in the mouth, and biting down on them
• increased salivation
• loss of appetite or becoming picky about foods
• flushed cheeks
• restlessness
• disturbed sleep
These symptoms can usually be soothed at home but please seek medical advice if you have concerns.
Your child may also display symptoms such as mild diarrhea or diaper rash while a tooth is erupting. Ear pulling may be a sign of teething, but may also indicate a possible ear infection. If you are unsure or if symptoms become more severe, seek medical advice.
Teething does not normally cause fever, vomiting, or more severe diarrhea. If your child experiences these problems, seek medical advice.
Advice on teething
Sore gums from teething usually lasts for a few days at a time. To provide relief, you can try the following:
• Under supervision, give your baby something firm to chew on. A special teething ring is an option, and these can be cooled in the fridge but should not be frozen. Teething rings should never be tied around a baby’s neck, even if the baby is continually dropping the ring. A simple piece of clean, wet, cold flannel cloth may also be effective in soothing sore gums. Be careful to avoid prolonged contact between your child’s gums and cold objects, and never put frozen objects in your baby’s mouth, as this can cause burns. Never put anything in a child’s mouth that might cause him or her to choke.
• A cool sugar-free drink can help to soothe a baby’s gums – water is best.
• An infant’s sore gums may feel better when gentle pressure is applied. Try massaging your baby’s gums with a clean finger or the back of a small, cold spoon.
• Try to distract a fussy, teething baby by playing.
• Teething biscuits and frozen bananas are not recommended, as these objects promote tooth decay and may cause your child to choke. Don’t dip teething rings in anything sugary – even new teeth need to be protected from decay!
If your infant experiences teething pain lasting more than a few days, please visit us or seek medical advice to rule out anything more serious.
Baby Bottle Cavities (Baby Bottle Caries)
Young children with newly erupted teeth are highly susceptible to tooth decay if put to bed with a bottle containing milk, juice, or other sugar-containing liquids. When your infant is sleeping, there is decreased amount of saliva flowing, which slows the rate at which the liquid from the bottle is naturally cleaned from the infant’s teeth. The liquid pools around the upper front teeth and creates an excellent environment to promote the growth of decay-causing bacteria.
Discontinuing the nighttime bottle before the first tooth appears and cleaning your baby’s gums and teeth before bed can help prevent decay.
Signs of baby bottle caries
Check your baby’s teeth regularly for any chalky white or brown spots, which could be the beginning of tooth decay. Brown teeth with fragmented edges or upper front teeth that break easily are signs of baby bottle caries. If you see these signs, you should see your baby’s dentist right away.
Your child’s first dental check-up
The Canadian Dental Association’s guideline is simple: first tooth, first visit! It is recommended that your child’s first visit to the dentist takes place by their first birthday.
Starting early will help your child to become used to visiting the dentist, and set them (and you!) up for a lifetime of easier visits, and better oral health. Our dentists will take the time to get to know your child and set them at ease, then examine your child’s mouth and teeth and make recommendations about home dental care. As your child grows, our Youth Hygiene Program will focus on his or her basic oral health education, emphasizing regular personal and professional hygiene, reviewing flossing and brushing techniques, and providing helpful tips for preventing cavities.
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Get a Sneak Peek of Prey, BBC America's New Crime Drama (VIDEO)
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BBC America may have another hit on its hands. Prey, a six-episode crime drama miniseries from the network, is set to debut this Thursday.
Prey tells the story of Detective Marcus Farrow (John Simms) who is suspected of murdering his wife and son. All the evidence suggests he's guilty, making a conviction a sure thing. But looking to clear his name of the charges, Farrow finds a way to escape from police custody.
In the exclusive clip below, watch a particularly tense scene of Farrow going head to head with Detective Susan Reinhardt (Rosie Cavliero), who's convinced he's guilty. But Farrow maintains his innocence, and things between the two detectives escalate very quickly.
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Prey, Series premiere, Thursday, Feb. 25, 10/9c, BBC America
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Quif my flaps off (Kweef-my-flaps-off). The act of Quifing soo hard that your labia blows out irreparably. To be used in place of LMFAO (Laugh my fucking arse off).
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1. The name given to the new vegemite. 2. The coolest player in SwiftIRC. 3. Kraft ripped iSnack off Apple by using the 'i' prefix, famous in its use in Apple computer hardware. (iPod, iPhone, iTunes.)
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Off-road hashing (running) trail through muck, mud or other wet areas. Term derives from shigella/shigellosis - bacteria causing dysentery occurring most frequently in areas of poor sanitation such as pig sties and back-water swamp lands. Term first used by Brits & Aussies on Hash House Harrier runs (in Asia) in 1940's.
The hares laid much of the trail through deep shiggy and nearly every hasher had to wash up prior to down-downs. On On!
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Off-trail terrain popular in hashing, typically consisting of brush, brambles, mud, and stream crossings.
I went hashing last weekend and was up to my neck in swampwater and shiggy!
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An abbreviation of the name of creator of Nintendo and a lot of their emblematic characters, Shigeru Miyamoto.
Dude! did you see the regginator pwn shiggy at that Wii fit soccer game at the E3 nintendo press conference!?
Yeah! that was intense!
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Why Your Business Should Choose Vinyl Banners over Digital Banners
Why Your Business Should Choose Vinyl Banners over Digital Banners
Should your business opt for vinyl banners or digital banners? You may have been asking yourself this question for some time. Granted, the world is in a digital era right now. For this reason, anything digital is likely to appear more attractive. You are more likely to choose digital solutions over any other. To answer this question properly, though, you would need to consider the advantages of both types of banners.
Before doing that, it would be good to look at the benefits of banner advertisement.
Benefits of Banner Ads
One of the benefits is you have your banner in the shortest time possible to begin advertising an upcoming special event or promote your business and its products. Time is of the essence in today’s business environment. Everything has to move at top speed. Additionally, it’s possible to transfer any image you want on to the banners using full-color printing. The banners are also cost effective and able to resist the effects of wear and tear thus serving you for years.
Now that you know the benefits, which one should you go for?
Base your choice on cost
Here, your choice would probably be determined by cost. How much does it cost you to print a vinyl banner or a digital one? For the most part, vinyl banners are less costly. For this reason, you are better off spending money on the vinyl. Digital banners are not the most expensive type of signage. Nevertheless, they cost more because of the many benefits and features they offer. You are likely to pay more for digital banners because they:
1. Are highly efficient
2. Are not susceptible to vandalism and the elements
3. Offer increased dynamism that allows you to change the ad published on it anytime
4. Work just as perfectly indoors as they do outdoors
5. Are visible from a long distance
You should invest in vinyl banners if your business finds digital ones costlier.
Disadvantages of digital banners
For all their advantages, digital banners also possess a few drawbacks. For example, they only work well when installed in places where they are easy to access and service. Businesses that wish to advertise their products across a large area (such as a country) will be greatly disadvantaged in using digital banners. They are too costly for short-term marketing and advertising campaigns. Moreover, they only handle a limited spectrum of photos and designs.
Therefore, do not hesitate to spare money for vinyl banners.
They are perfect for commercial ads. They can be installed outdoors and indoors.
Just be careful not to expose the vinyl banners to harsh weather, which can damage them.
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Lesson Planning: Connect-Reflect ...
Today’s teachers ought to be a catalyst for learning or a choreographer of curriculum, not a talking textbook. The best learning happens in the midst of immense stimulation, variety of experience, rich multi-sensory real-life stimulation, music, roleplay, art and movement.
—Freeman Dhority 1998
Activity 1: Now that you have read about brain function, answer the following questions to see how much you remember.
1. The brain stores memories.
a) True
b) False
Check Your Answer:
2. Research indicates that most brain functions are attributed to either the right or the left hemisphere.
a) True
b) False
Check Your Answer:
3. The brain is not designed to sustain continuous, high-level, focused external
a) True
b) False
Check Your Answer:
4. We are more likely to focus student attention through multi-sensory, student-centered
a) True
b) False
Check Your Answer:
5. While feedback is an essential part of learning, peer feedback is not nearly as beneficial as that coming from the instructor.
a) True
b) False
Check Your Answer:
Activity 2: Using the following link to a lesson entitled "Fitness in Deutschland", evaluate the effectiveness of this lesson by answering the questions below. These questions were derived from the characteristics listed on p. 181 of the Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages guide.
Fitness in Deutschland:
1. Do the teachers & students use a variety of materials including authentic target language sources? Name 2.
2. Is there more student activity than teacher activity? Describe.
3. Are assessments ongoing? Describe an informal and a formal assessment.
4. Which levels of thinking skills are students guided to use? Select two of the following and describe: repeat, recognize, recall, apply, create, predict.
Personal Connection: Please copy and paste the following questions into your word processor or download the word document containing the questions. Then answer the questions and save it for your professional development portfolio.
Lesson Planning Connect-Reflect: Word Document
1. Thinking back to the unit with the lessons you'd like to revise, how would you enhance those lessons based on what you have learned about how the brain functions in language acquisition? Review p. 163 of the Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages guide for a concise description entitled Lesson Planning for Brain-Compatible World Language Acquisition.
2. Now, thinking back to that same unit and lessons, answer the following questions based on p. 181 of the Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages guide's description of Characteristics of Effective Foreign Language Instruction.
1. What is already done well in this lesson? Please describe.
2. How might you improve this lesson? Please describe.
3. What effect do you anticipate these changes make on student performance? What evidence would you seek to demonstrate this?
Next: Expansion
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Just a heads up, this chapter is gonna make you mad. You'll figure out after you read it....
Jazzmine POV.....
Me:Daniel? What the hell do you want?
Daniel:Look, I know I'm the last person you wanna be talking to right now but just hear me out?
Daniel:Well the crew is getting together tonight and going to the pier like old times. You down?
Me:I don't know about tha-
Daniel:Please? It won't be the same without you
Me:Fine. What time?
Daniel:We're meeting there right now
Me:Alright, I'll be there
Daniel:Aight bye
•End of Convo•
I hang up an head upstairs to get ready. I simply get dressed.When finished I grabbed my keys and walked out the house. Chris is still mad at me so I'm just gonna let him cool off. I got in my car and drove off to hang with my crew.
~30 minutes later~
Me:Hey girl!
Beauty:Hey Jazz!
I ignored the fact that Star was standing there. I could tell her feelings were hurt but I didn't care!
Me:Hey Beauty! Where's the guys?
Beauty:Oh, here they come
I watched as MB, Jacob Latimore, and Daniel all walked up to where we were. I hugged all of them except Daniel. Once we all greeted each other we all walked in. I was having a good time catching up with everyone. Me and Prince decided to go on the Ferris Wheel and so did Daniel and Star. We all walked over and got in line. Me and Prince were talking about everything possible. Out of all the guys me and him are the closest now. I turned around behind just to see who else was in line, but only saw Daniel and Star making out. Really? Prince grabbed my arm and led us onto the Ferris Wheel. And guess who got on next to us? This is gonna be a long day.
I walked in the house and sat my keys and my phone down on the coffee table and sit on the couch. I definitely was not expecting to hear from Daniel. I am happy that I got to hang out with the crew again like old times, well not Daniel or Zonnique but it is what it is. Chris still won't talk to me and it hurts me. I mean, I didn't mean to hurt his feelings. I was just simply speaking my mind. Chris came from the kitchen and started walking upstairs until I called for him and he stopped halfway up.
Me:Don't be mad at me
Chris:Mad? Why would I be mad when my pregnant girlfriend basically says that I can't support our family?
Me:Chris, look I didn't mean to make you upset. I think you're just taking this all out of proportion.
Chris:I ain't taking nothing out of proportion aight? If you learn to shut you damn_ mouth sometimes it wouldn't be a problem now would it?
Did he really just say that?.....I stood up and walked over to where he was.
Me:Look...I am sick and tired of yo attitude. You keep snapping at me and talking to me like you ain't got no sense. I ain't one of yo lil homeboys so get yourself together. You hear me?
Chris:Whatever, get out my face with that shit_
Me:I'm being serious! Dammit just stop acting like a bitch long enough to listen to me!
He looked at me with pure anger in his eyes as he got up in my face.
Chris:You wanna say that again?
Me:You heard me the first time
Chris:See you really testing me right now. I swear if you wasn't pregnant...
Me:What? If I wasn't pregnant what would you do Chris? Hit me? *gets in his face* huh?
Chris:Get out my face?
Me:gets closer Or what? What you gone do?
Chris:I said get out my face!
Before I knew it I felt myself flying backwards and I did the last thing I imagined. I landed on my stomach.
Getting ready to finish this book! Please give some feedback! This book is almost finished so I would really love to know how you're feeling/ your thoughts about the book right about now.
@ least 4 Comments and 9 Votes = Next Chapter:)
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She's Mine Markiplier x Reader
She's Mine Markiplier x Reader
73.7K Reads 2K Votes 34 Part Story
Royaleyes03 By Royaleyes03 Updated Oct 05, 2017
You suddenly wake up in who's room? MARKIPLIERS?!? OMG WOW FANGIRRLLL!
No but just stick with the story, it gets a lil confusing it's worth it in the end.
I think.
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Lauren1645056 Lauren1645056 Jul 01, 2017
Let me get this straight. I appear in markipliers house then he kisses me. Then we hav-...
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I bet you every fan girl is just waiting for this to happen to them. It’s once in a life time you just randomly end up in Markiplier’s house and he immediately kisses you and asks you to stay with them😂
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I feel like if I'm gonna kick the floor it's gonna kick me back or I'm gonna flip and fall XD
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Not gonna lie. That went from a two to a ten really quickly. I'm serious. Like, don't mind me I'm just that psychopathic murderer who was on the news. Oh, and don't try to call anybody because I'm psycho and cut the phone lines!
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First thing I know, I'm drawing Undertale AUs.
I go to sleep, and the next thing I know, I'm here!
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Okay so psyco bitch fan goes into his house then he makes out with her
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Baba Tong Double Bass - F Minor – 10 Notes
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For most people hearing is something ordinary. It was for me for a long time also, until my son Elias lost his hearing caused by meningitis when he was 4 month old. I began to ask myself some questions: What is the difference between hearing and listening? How do we perceive sound? What is sound?
I started to build sound tubes (chimes) and Elias showed me that even a deaf person can "hear" - with his hands, his feet, his whole body and his wide open senses. He is Listening rather than Hearing.
He inspired me to research, observe and sharpen my senses to understand the relationship between notes, tones, sounds and their effects.
In 1989 I established "Klangfarben - Studio für Klangkörper" with the purpose to build instruments for researching the effects of individual sounds and various sound sequences on natural organisms.
My earliest creations were windchimes with different basic tones. Each chime elicits a different mood. The combinations of different notes were based on my own experience to their effects.
During my research I discovered a brass alloy, which is the most effective material for what I want to achieve. Since then, I have mastered precise tuning to create sound tubes of exceptional quality in timbre and vibrations. Each chime is meticulously hand finished.
From 1994 until 2007 I had an intensive and inspiring cooperation with Fabien Maman to develop instruments with specific sound sequences and their applications in healing techniques. Throughout Europe and the United States, clinics, doctors, facilities for the disabled, naturopaths, therapists and individuals have profound results using the sound tubes (chimes) for healing.
I will use this page to thank everyone who crossed my path, shared their experiences, encouraged and inspired me. I shall start with Elias, who showed me how to listen with all senses.
Wolfgang Deinert, January 2012
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Throw in a mix of both the traditional classroom and online learning tools (plus a dash of ingenuity), and what do you get? A recipe for ‘raised’ educational standards via blended learning! What is blended learning? The term ‘blended learning’ is often mentioned in education – but what does it actually mean? ‘Blended learning’ is the umbrella […]
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As businesses grow and get more complex, they often experience a financial evolution. While we believe that even a startup should have a budget, the fact of the matter is that many do not. Establishing a budget is typically the first step a company will take when they decide to get serious about their financials. A budget allows a business to set a framework within which it operates as well as a way to measure it performance and adapt its operations.
Why do you need a budget? You need to understand the cash needs of your business, to make sure that your costs are in line with your revenues, and to make sure that you have the working capital necessary to operate the business as it grows. In addition, a budget gives you a baseline against which to measure your performance as well as to get a read on your forecasting skills.
Most financial software and management tools will provide a relatively easy way with which to establish a budget. For example, Quickbooks and Xero, two of the leading small business accounting tools, allow a means to do so within their software. In Quickbooks you can use previous year data as the starting point for your budget as well as run reports comparing actual data against your budget to measure performance
Many entrepreneur's excuse for not setting up a budget is that they don't know where to start or can't make an accurate one. While you want numbers to be realistic and accurate as possible, those thoughts shouldn't cause you to not create one. In my mind, a budget is a living document that you are constantly revising. Over time, it will get more accurate. Short-term budgets will be more accurate and easier to generate than long-term. This is especially true in organizations that are experiencing substantial growth.
Budgeting is an important first step in upping the performance of your business. Let us know if you have any questions on the specifics of the process or how an accountant can help you start in the right direction.
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Visitation Guidelines For A Sick Child
Are there visitation guidelines for a sick child? Generally, this is an issue that is not addressed by the court, but rather by the common sense of the child's parents. The following article discusses how to handle the situation.
In Sickness and In Health
By Brette Sember
One thing you can count on when you are a parent is that your child will get sick. There's simply no avoiding it. But when you're sharing parenting time with your ex, childhood illnesses can play havoc with your schedules. Follow these tips for preserving your mental health when your child's physical health is on the wane.
Share parenting of a sick child.
Visitation when a child is sick
When your child is sick with a minor illness, your parenting instincts kick in and you may want to nurse him or her back to health yourself. It's natural to feel protective when your child is sick, but the other parent can provide adequate care as well. Your child can lie on the couch with a box of tissues at the other parent's house as well as at yours. Caring for a sick child is an important part of the parenting process, so give the other parent that opportunity. As long as your child is mobile and not seriously ill, stick to the visitation schedule as much as possible.
Allow access.
If your child needs to be in bed, is vomiting, or is just too sick to get up and go anywhere, that doesn't mean the other parent should be shut out. Your child may not be able to go to the other parents' house, but that doesn't mean the other parent can't come by for a short visit. Allow them some time alone together, even if it just for the other parent to sit by the bed and hold the child's hand while he sleeps.
Pinch hit for each other when possible.
Kids seem to always get sick at the most inconvenient times. If you have an important meeting scheduled and your child is home sick from school, see if the other parent can take the day off to care for him. If you can rely on each other to fill in during these times, you'll always have back up child care and your child will be able to be cared for by a parent while sick.
Offer directions if you're worried.
If you send your child off to the other parent's house with a cold or stomach ache and you're concerned that your ex doesn't really understand how to care for the child, offer some written instructions if it will make you feel better. Make sure that your ex has the phone number for your pediatrician. The bottom line though is that you have to let go. You have to let the other parent be a parent and learn how to care for a sick kid.
Keep charts for medications.
When you have two people administering medications it makes sense to create a chart so that you can both mark down dosages and when medications were given. This can avoid confusion, overdoses, and missed medications. Do this for prescriptions, as well as over the counter medications.
Work together in the worst situations.
If your child is seriously ill, this is a time to put aside your differences and focus on getting her healthy. If you're seeing specialists, having both parents along can be useful, if you're able to handle the situation together.
The good thing about most childhood illnesses is that they pass as quickly as they came on. Remember that you and your ex are both parents, in sickness and in health.
Brette Sember
Author Brette Sember
These visitation guidelines for a sick child can help you do what is best for your child. The following articles can also help you work through the various other situations that may come up when you have children from your divorce:
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• Clinton Is Already Vowing to Overreach
Remember Hillary’s pledge in 2007 to ‘rein in the presidency’? Neither does she.
Written constitutions matter little in Latin American countries run by strutting ex-colonels and widows of populist demagogues. In these banana republics, the caudillo exercises both executive and legislative powers. Laws are not written by legislatures, but emanate from the strongman’s pen.
The U.S. would be heading further in this direction if Hillary Clinton becomes president. This might sound outlandish, but consider that President Obama has repeatedly taken unconstitutional actions and sabotaged the separation of powers....
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Q: Q: Squealing
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Hi! My name is Edgar I just had a question about my brakes. While I'm driving my car does a bit of squealing, but more so when I'm braking. and from my understanding it's coming from my cars front passenger side. (My right while driving) Would this be something of a belt or a brake issue????? An help would be great thanks!
It sounds like it could be your brakes; however, it could be a belt. I have seen issues where the belt won’t make noise until you let off the gas. I will give you some steps to go through to make sure it’s not your brakes.
1. On the passenger side, look at your rotor and see if it has any rough marks at all. If you do see rough marks, from over heating, uneven wear, or an excessive amount of rust, there is no need to investigate further: you will need your front brakes replaced.
2. If you can, jack up your car. Note: Put a block behind your rear tires before you do this for your safety.
3. Take off the tire.
4. Look at the thickness of the brake pads. If they are less than 12 millimeters of thickness you will need to replace your pads and rotors.
5. Look on the back of the rotor.
To inspect your serpentine belt, simply have the vehicle on and open the hood. If you hear a squealing sound, turn your engine off and look at the belt. If you see a lot of cracks in your belt, then you’ll need to replace your serpentine belt. Also, look around the area for possibilities of wetness where oil may have dripped or a leaking brake line.
I recommend having a certified technician, such as one from YourMechanic, come to your home or business and inspect the brakes to determine the best course of action.
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Should We Cut Grandpa Some Slack?
What to say when Grandpa wants more grandkids?
I received this note from one of my favorite readers:
Dear Spinsterlicious:
So I called my grandfather in Canada to say hello and I told him what a good auntie I was keeping my sister and brother's kids, when he commented "so I guess you've decided you don't want kids...". WTF, blindsided by Pops
I had to read it twice, though, to really understand what she was saying. On the surface, she spoke about wanting acknowledgement from her grandfather for being a great aunt to her sister's kids. I think what it is really about, though, is that grandpa doesn't know --and therefore can't acknowledge-- the real pain she feels of not having the kids she really wants. But I'm sure he doesn't know…maybe because she hasn't really told him. So he made an assumption. Read more:
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People Who Wake Up Early Are Smarter, Healthier & More Productive
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People Who Wake Up Early Smarter, Healthier, More Productive
Science doesn't lie!
I always thought when I grew up, I would be a person who got up early.
My dad is an early riser and the dude is basically a genius. Though to be fair, my mom will sleep as long as she can as often as she can, and she's no slouch either.
While recently flagellating myself over getting up at 11am on Saturday (HELL YEAH NO KIDS) I resolved to start getting up earlier. But there was a devil on my shoulder sleepily whispering, "what's the science behind this puritanical way of thinking? Getting up early isn't going to make you a genius."
Verily, I took to my Googling machine and made some startling discoveries. I kind of don't want to share what I learned about waking up early, but you go-getters are so self-righteous anyway. But I'm a journalist, so I will. Here's what I found about getting up with the mother fucking birds:
1. It Will Make You Smarter
In 2008 a study by the University of Texas found that students who self-reported as early risers earned up to a full letter grade higher than their classmates who were probably still sleeping while the questionnaires were passed out.
2. It Will Make You Happier
The same study also found that early birds reported being happier with their lives than the night owls. To be fair, this could be because the night owls were suuuuper pissed about being woken up before ten to answer this question.
3. It Will Make You Healthier
If you get up early, you can do shit like exercise before the sun sets. The earlier you exercise, the more benefits you get all day long from that workout. Note: waking up early itself does not count as exercise. I know, I'm sad too.
4. It Will Make You More Productive
A study at the University of Education at Heidelberg found that early risers got more done and felt in more control over their schedules than late risers. I don't know about you, but I'm a super night owl and while "watching all of the TV" might not sound productive, believe me, it took time and effort.
5. It Will Give You Better Self Esteem
Research indicates that those who get up before the butt crack of dawn are more likely to exhibit character traits like optimism, self-satisfaction, and social awareness. I am proud pessimist and if you need me I'll be under my covers until the light goes away, please and thank you.
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Native American Tales: Raven and the Shadow People
From The Thunder Bird Tootooch Legends – Sacred Texts
Presented below is a retelling of The Shadow People and the Raven, from The Thunder Bird Tootooch Legends, by W.L. Webber.
The Shadow People and the Raven
Raven flew down softly alighting on the beach. Taking off his wings and beak he became a man and walked along the strand. It was a very hot and sunny day and his naked skin began to burn as he walked in the sunshine beside the sea. The beach was covered with shells and as he walked they scrunched underneath him cutting and bruising his feet. Raven made his way to the village to the lodge where the Shadow People lived
The Shadow People saw him coming and whispered among themselves,
“Careful, Raven is here!
He who twists truths!
He who is cunning is here!
Watch him, watch him, watch him!
Raven entered the large shady lodge, glad to escape the burning sun and to rest his cut and wounded feet. Looking around he noticed with surprise how clean and orderly everything was and how everything had its place. Hanging from the beams were salmon and halibut. The roof planks had been left open for the smoke hole and light streamed in illuminating all the corners of the lodge. Raven walked around the lodge and as he did so, he caught a quick glimpse of something from the corner of his eye. He quickly looked around and but there was no one there. He began snooping around just to see what he could see.
He saw lots of different kinds of food stored neatly on shelves around the lodge. There were berries, nuts, roots and many other kinds of food. He was feeling hungry and seeing the red salmon hanging from the beams he took one down and as he did so out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw someone following him. Turning quickly, he saw a shadow was following him everywhere he went but saw no person. Ignoring the follower he made his way over to the Chief’s beautifully carved cedar chest and sat down placing the fish beside him while he looked at his cut feet which were hurting him.
Reaching beside him for the salmon he found to his surprise that it was gone. Thinking he must have been imagining things and had not picked it up after all, he went back and chose another. While doing so he noticed again that a shadow was following close behind him all the time.
He thought this was very strange and mysterious and while he sat thinking about it he put the salmon down beside him to considered the matter. After awhile he reached down beside him for the salmon, but it was gone, which he found very disconcerting. He tried a third and a fourth time but the same thing happened and all the time the shadow followed him. Looking over to where the salmon were hanging he saw the ones he had taken were hanging in exactly the position when he had take them and still the shadow was beside him.
Raven began to lose his temper and tried to stamp and jump on the shadow but it jumped as he jumped and was quicker than him. Then to his surprise someone he could not see said in a loud voice next to him,
“You look to be well fed,
What are you going to do?
Where will this lead you to?”
Whence the questions came,
Raven could not name.
Their bodies were not plain;
He gazed and looked in vain.
Sane or insane was he!
Afraid to wait and see,
He limped toward the door
But, moving as before,
His angry Shadow wriggled.
The others laughed and giggled.
Raven knew ’twas near.
“Something strange is here,
I’ll out, and quick away,
They’ll have no more to say.” (1)
Raven left the lodge and walked back through the village. The villagers ignored him as if he was invisible but he knew they really saw him. To test them he walked over to where a group of children were playing, but still they appeared not to see him. Raven found that no matter where he went and no matter what he did he could not escape from the shadow that followed him.
He came to a place where there were a number of strange wooden carvings and he sat down to try and think things over. Was he cleverer than his own intelligence? Was he stronger than his own self? Would he always be followed by this shadow?
Raven rested until his feet were healed and then putting on his beak and wings assumed the shape of a bird. Flying up into the bright, happy sky he felt free of these concerns. Whether Raven found the answers to all of his questions we do not know, but even now as he flies high in the sky his shadow follows his every move on Earth.
© 28/11/2018 zteve t evans
References, Attributions and Further Reading
Copyright November 28th, 2018 zteve t evans
(1) The Thunder Bird Tootooch Legends – Sacred Texts
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