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Calculating The Poverty Line Classroom experiences that critically investigate the causes and meaning of poverty in our own nation offer students tools for change, and new ways to interpret the world around them. Grade Level • Students will learn how the federal government estimates the poverty line. • Students will calculate alternatives to the federal estimate, in small groups or individually. • Students will discuss the possible effects of underestimating the poverty line. The federal poverty line is used to determine individuals' and families' eligibility for particular kinds of aid and services and also is an important benchmark that helps the nation know how many Americans are struggling financially each year, and over time. In 2012, the federal government set the poverty line for a family of four at $23,050. The figure is based on food costs — the government identifies how much it should cost to feed a family of four for one year and then multiplies that number by three. The formula has been used for decades. What it fails to capture is this: In today's America, food expenses represent just one-fifth of the average household budget, not a third. Other costs — housing, health care, childcare and transportation — typically eat up larger portions of a family's budget. Suggested Procedures Step One Ask students if they have ever heard of the federal poverty line. If so, invite them to share what they know. Review the above framework and objectives with students. Step Two Working in diverse small groups, or individually, ask students to complete the handout (PDF). Be sure to "walk the room" and help students or groups who are struggling with particular portions of the word problem. The answers, along with mathematical solutions, appear below. So, how much income is really required to make ends meet? 1: Adjusting the federal estimate • Based on the government's estimate, what is the annual cost of food for a family of four? ($23,050/3=$7,683.30) • If annual food costs represent one-fifth of a family's expenses, how much money does a family need to purchase food and everything else it needs? $7,683.30 = x       20          100 x= ($7,683.30x100)/20 = $38,416.50 The adjusted federal estimate is $38,416.50. 2: Using other benchmarks What if the government used other factors —childcare or housing costs, for example — to calculate the poverty line, instead of food costs? Typical rental (2 bedroom) costs in the United States today run $949 per month, and a family with one four-year-old and one school-aged child pays an average of $1,066 per month in childcare costs. ($1,066 x 12 months x 3= $38,376) ($949 x 12 months x 3= $34,164) • If the federal estimate was based on childcare cost, not food, the poverty line would be $38,376. • If the federal estimate was based on housing costs, not food, the poverty line would be $34,164. So, how severely does the federal poverty line underestimate income a family really needs to make ends meet? $23,050 $38,416.50 $38,376 $34,164  Federal Estimate  Adjusted Federal Estimate  Childcare Benchmark  Housing Benchmark 1. Judged against the adjusted federal estimate, the federal estimate underestimates the income necessary by 40%. ($38,416.50 -$23,050=$15,366.50)/$38,416.50)=.39 (40%) 2. Judged against an estimate based on childcare costs, the federal estimate underestimates the income necessary by 40%. ($38,376-$23,050=$15,326)/$38,376)=.39 (40%) 3. Judged against an estimate based on housing costs, the federal estimate underestimates the income necessary by 52%. (34,164-$23,050=$11,114)/$34,164)=.33 (33%) Step Three Remind students that the federal poverty line serves two primary purposes: 1) to establish eligibility (or ineligibility) of individuals and families for certain kinds of aid and services, and 2) to help the nation gauge the number of Americans who are struggling financially, in a given year and over time. As a whole class, discuss: • Based on what we've learned, how likely is it that a family making $25,000 a year — an income above the poverty line — would struggle financially? Why? (Very likely — we've learned that it could take anywhere from $23,050 to $38,416 for a family of four to make ends meet.) • What are some possible effects of the government underestimating the poverty line? (Answers will vary, but may include: people who need aid and services won't get them; the government won't really know how many people are struggling; it paints a healthier economic picture than there really is.) • Why might the government be hesitant to change its formula for calculating the poverty line? (Answers will vary, but may include: we're running a deficit, and don't have money to provide more aid; it's the way they've always done it; changing it would mean changing lots of government programs, and that would be cumbersome for a big bureaucracy like the federal government.) • Do you think the federal government should change the way it calculates the poverty line? Why? (Answers will vary.) Statistical data in this activity is drawn from Ending Poverty, eds. John Edwards, Marion Crain and Arne L. Kalleberg, The New Press, 2007, Income, Expenditures, & Wealth, U.S. Census Bureau, 2004, at www.census.gov and the Bureau of Labor Statistics at www.bls.gov. Extension Activity To help students understand that working people with all kinds of jobs can struggle financially or experience poverty, allow time for them to research the median wages of different professions. A good place to start is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Samples include: Profession: Median Salary School cook: $24,230 Retail salesperson: $25,130 Hairstylist: $26,460 Preschool teacher: $30,150 City bus driver: $37,440 News reporter: $27,600 Realtor: $51,170 (includes commissions) Firefighter: $47,720 Note: These salary numbers assume full-time employment (40 hours per week) for 52 weeks per year. Source for Calculating the Poverty Line All of the salaries are from this link: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm National Housing Conference, Factsheet: Most to Least Expensive Rental Markets from Rankings for More Than 200 U.S. Metropolitan Areas,which rents are based on the FY2012 Fair Market Rents from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. More information on how it is calculated is available here: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr.html

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Dyche pleased with mentality as Clarets come from behind to win in the cup Sean Dyche Sean Dyche Share this article A half-time dressing down from Sean Dyche inspired a second half revival at Middlesbrough Burnley were not at the races in the first half at the Riverside Stadium but went in level as Rouwen Hennings cancelled out Diego Fabbrini's opener. Stephen Ward went on to score the winner as Burnley progressed to the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time since 2011. Dyche said: "Second half pleased me, first half I had a quiet word at half-time, it's fair to say. "They are a good side, it's a tough place to come, but we didn't play our game, and we agree we would. "Apart from a flash of superb play for our goal...they want you to play your way and let you play and wait for the chance to take it from you and then play their game. "But second half we made it way more uncomfortable for them and that was on show. "Overall, after Tom Heaton playing very well in the first half - they had two or three really good chances - second half they had nowhere near as many, and I was really pleased with that tactically from the team." Dyche felt there was too much respect for Championship leaders Boro in the first period: "I think sometimes there's a bit of respect and it goes onto the pitch. You don't want it to, respect is before you play, and when the whistle blows, it goes out of the window. "There was a bit too much respect, and you can imagine that, they're going great, conceded two here before today. "Footballers aren't daft, they think it's a tough challenge here, and there was that feeling. "Second half, after a short reminder, we came out being us, and the mentality was excellent, playing our game, to bring them out of their game." Hennings levelled right on half-time, the turning point, and he added: "The goal gives you something when you've not played well. I don't think they were brilliant, it was more a case of us not playing well. "We just weren't on top of our game, but second half it was obvious to everyone in the stadium that we were, the first 15 minutes in particular. "It's unusual teams come here and dominate like we did the first 15 minutes of the second half. "They had a little spell, and then we finished organised and strong."

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Bukkit: The Next Chapter Thread Status: Not open for further replies. 1. Offline Multiplay - especially Steve Hartland AllGamer - especially Clinton and Scott Our Staff who work tirelessly and thanklessly to keep everything in order jflory7, Acharige, iiHeroo and 88 others like this. 2. Offline From bukkit to this new thing? I will the second it's out. troed and iPhysX like this. 3. Offline Err From their Home to Mojang :p iPhysX likes this. 4. Offline I think he meant the devs physically moving, from current home location to a new home in Sweden. Dinnerbone has already confirmed on Reddit that he is, but is unsure of the other members. 5. Offline I wouldnt but hey... there is only way. Move along or get stepped on and die :) EDIT: hehe lol in a hurry i actually though that was meant for server admins ... considering context 6. Offline I recall that I read something about Dinnerbone moving to Sweden on the Reddit page. EDIT: Ninjas! iPhysX likes this. 7. Offline Oh lol. That would be pretty sweet. 8. Offline definitely! ill take the things i learned here and move forward to hopefully make better plugins. If this API is going to be as good as it sounds then i already have plans for Plugins! I wont be making " simple " plugins. When The new API is released then ill go back to Occupy. Meduax and iPhysX like this. 9. Offline Meduax likes this. 10. Offline This is a huge step forward for not only Bukkit, but for Mojang and the Minecraft community. I would not be surprised if this causes another eventual spiking of Minecraft sales, and/or brings back some Alpha players who may have either quit or no longer play near as much. Zeroth likes this. 11. Oh yes. 12. Offline i wont do it the second it comes out, maybe 15 min after, assuming that they have a bridge, and all my plugins are working. 13. Offline lol what who said that. No good developers are the ones who have actively sat with Bukkit for the 1 year it was alive. Im talking about sk98q, matejdro, afforess, hidendra. The ones who have changed the server hosting experience. Well me? hmm how should i explain myself. I created small mediocre plugins that either had no use or just contained many bugs * i.e - Clocked * 14. Guys, i'm really happy for you, and for mojang. i, for one, be sure that you will provide us a very cool server, and this time, you wont have to decompile it :) 15. Offline i do wonder with them merging weather or not we will get weekly snapshots that can support mods? 16. Offline This is amazing, congratulation guys! 17. Offline Achievement get: Getting employed! Good job guys! 18. Offline Lol, you see Bukkit Server - 24/7 now it's Minecraft API Server 24/7 lol.... Also why change the code? Keep the same one for servers and recreate one for client side mods? Last edited by a moderator: May 24, 2016 19. Offline Most likely. As the new API should be part of Minecraft itself and directly integrated into its codebase, it should be available in all of the snapshots too. However, just like anything in snapshots, I'd not expect it to always work as expected. 20. Offline EvilSeph representing our GTA! Congrats. 21. Offline While it is good news that the Minecraft team are finally getting around to making a modding API, I have mixed feelings about where this will take the community. I personally have a substantial time investment in Bukkit and this uncertainty over the future of API makes me nervous. I am also interested to find out how this will work in practice. Since Bukkit is licensed under the GPL how can they legally include the source into the minecraft server jar? While I understand the team themselves can just re-license their contributions they can not do the same for all the pull requests that they have accepted without contacting those contributors. It may explain though why my own pull request was not accepted though and instead implemented as-is by one of the team members to avoid contacting yet another contributor about a licence change. I am sure this is something they already know the answer to but it would be nice if they shared what it is. My main concern is the detail surrounding the new API. Is there any point in me continuing to update the rest of my plugins to the new build considering that Bukkit is no longer supported and they will all require a rewrite in the near future? 22. Offline (Disclaimer: I do /. usually, not reddit. I'm old like that. Maybe everyone is always that positive over there compared to here?) It seems a lot of speculative negativity in this thread could be avoided if people read Dinnerbone's comments on reddit: "Bukkit was heavily restricted in what we could do, for many reasons (mostly, we didn't want to force people to use a client mod too). The new API will have none of these restrictions, and we'll allow for whatever we + the community thinks of." "Don't need to bug jeb :)" 23. Offline grandwazir: Bukkit in its current form will probably be still around and working for many weeks, even months, so updating them still makes sense. The new API will likely not reuse a lot of Bukkit code, because they now have the opportunity to do everything they want directly instead of somehow awkwardly hooking into existing, obfsucated, unmodifiable code. mushroomhostage and iPhysX like this. 24. Offline Don Redhorse did you read this thread? If they would have planned the transation this wouldn't have happened to THAT extent. But I believe you, Grum also posted he doesn't know... I'm off posting... keep on having fun... 25. Offline dead server? How exactly does a server die..? It really can't, Just get new players. Theres always, always people looking for a server, if your server that costs month goes down, maybe you should set aside money now. My server doesn't cost anything monthly, also i don't use the donations for personal use. They are there in case we need something, (my computer for instance dies, replacement, my power goes out a lot during wind storms, back up battery). Its planning for the future, its not like this is happening tomorrow. 26. Offline Thank god. 27. Offline That's the problem with the total lack of proper communication 'round these parts...nuclear bombs go off when something potentially world ending gets announced without sufficient information. But that's not news... 28. Offline 1. It's not that easy to find good players (and i'm talking about players who dont get banned in the first 10 minutes) 2. I never use donations for myself, i also pay the rent because donations are not enough, that's why i cannot set money aside and let server go for a month or so... (also i'm not able to pay rent by myself either) 29. Offline OK, so as a MC Admin, I LOVE hearing there is something official as it was chaotic in the past. However, hoping this means bukkit will be improving their code and make the multiplayer a better experience to manage, MC seems to be the biggest resource hog compared to any game I play (even with very few mods/plugins). I am still however, mad that managing a server is almost impossible with the map/feature updates. Mojang, can we please have a long long break on the feature updates so my map can be good for at least a solid 3+ months? Or please just stop developing for Minecraft 1 and make a new release for Minecraft 2 a year from now. My members are just mad when I want to upgrade a map to the newest version which makes survival impossible unless you want to cut and paste everyone's work to the new map... I just want to play, just like in the Alpha days but I think MC lost that originality. Stone_Tigris, main(), fahlman and 3 others like this. 30. Offline Great news guys . Congrats 31. Offline I don't think it is too much to ask for the team members of Bukkit to post replies about their announcement in their own community. The fact that they are not leaves a bad taste. While that is the expectation I'd like to hear it clarified by the actual team. fahlman, Don Redhorse and Meduax like this. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Share This Page

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I Have A New Job As previously mentioned here at The Handbasket, I recently left my home state of Ohio for the sun blasted plains of Texas. desert and mountains in west Texas This decision was not made lightly, nor without anxiety.  But more than half a century of northern dwelling didn’t pan out like I hoped.  Jobs were scarce, and employment with good wages were almost nonexistent unless one had an advanced college degree.  My lack of disposable income meant that I was forced to live in a craphole apartment complex, smack-dab in the middle of a high crime area. chalk outline with caution tape How bad are we talkin’?  I would have to reach for my gun about twice a year to fend off aggressive criminals, although I never had to draw when they realized I was armed. old man with hatchet, musket, and pistol Nothing ever came of it, because the vast majority of criminals are base cowards who will do almost anything to avoid going up against someone who has the legal means for defense.  Although, I must admit, I might just be a bit more prepared in the means department than most. So I quit my job, which barely paid the bills, and relied on the kindness of some friends who put me up while I searched for employment. It took six weeks to find my dream job. So, better money?  On paper it is a bit less, but I take home more cash.  How is this possible? Because I was beset with taxes in my old life.  My former home of Columbus, Ohio sports income taxes for both the state and city, both governments burrowing their mandibles deep to suck their fill on the sweetly flowing lifeblood of my labor. bloated tick Critics will point out that prices in Texas are inflated due to a statewide sales tax, but Ohio also has a sales tax.  At least now I only have to budget for one tax, instead of three. So I’m enjoying small town life, the people are much friendlier and polite than at my old place of residence, and the entry level position at my new job pays more so far as dollars in the bank. What could be better? Howsabout that I can carry my concealed self defense handgun when at the office? Businessman With A Gun Why in the world didn’t I move down here decades ago?

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Sunday, September 6, 2015 The Giant Behemoth (1959) It’s sad that Willis H. O’Brien’s last giant monster movie was The Giant Behemoth, rather than 1957’s The Black Scorpion.  Both his, and Pete Peterson's work (Peterson worked with O’Brien on Mighty Joe Young and did most of the animation in both Scorpion and Behemoth) suffer greatly under budget constraints in both films, but their final film sees most of the work coming after the hour mark of this 80 minute feature, and contains several instances of the same scene reused, but cropped in order to give the impression of a different shot.  The Black Scorpion would have been a much better send off than this dull, lifeless film. Yeah, you'll see this scene a lot in the last 20 minutes of the film. The story is pretty basic giant monster stuff.  American scientist Steve Karnes (Gene Evans), delivering a speech in England on the dangers of radioactivity to ocean life, learns of a fishing village where thousands of fish washed ashore dead.  Oh, and a local fisherman died of mysterious circumstances, after describing a behemoth coming from the sea. Convincing Professor James Bickford (André Morell) to allow him to visit the village, the two discover another fisherman suffering what they suspect are radiation burns, after he touched a strange glowing mass where the first fisherman was found.  Though no evidence of radiation, or the behemoth, is found in the village, a family is found severely burned (okay, more char broiled), along with a giant footprint miles away.  Searching the ocean in the area of the attack, Karnes catches a glimpse of the monster, only to be called back to shore by the local Coast Guard to help with the investigation of a grounded ship. Finding evidence the behemoth rammed into the ship, Karnes and Bickford contact a local paleontologist (Jack MacGowran), who identifies the creature and discloses that, like an electric eel, it can discharge a shock to stun its prey.  Karnes theorizes this allows the creature, which has absorbed a massive dose of radiation, to discharge radiation, resulting in the burned remains at the site of the most recent attack.   And the images in the film are very harrowing,  especially for British citizens with memories of The Blitz. The paleontologist mentions that, back when these creatures roamed the Earth, they swam up the Thames River to spawn or die.  Of course, that means when the creature reaches land, the military’s first option, blowing it to bits, isn't an option, as it would spread radioactive behemoth bits over a wide part of London.  Oh, at this point, we’ve only seen the puppet head of the behemoth once.  In place of monster attacks, the script tries to create tension with scenes of people talking seriously about destroying a monster no one, including the audience, as seen for more than a couple of seconds.  But fear not, the puppet head rears up again at about the 50-minute mark, to sink a ferry on the Thames and barbecue the passengers.  It's unfortunate that the script follows the attack up with another ten minutes of people talking about the threat before the stop motion creature emerges in London. Oh, scary. Alas, the effects become underwhelming in a short time.  The initial scene, with the behemoth emerging from the Thames and wreaking several large cranes, is really nice.  And a later sequence, as the monster stomps down several power lines, looks great as well.  But it’s pretty obvious O’Brien and Peterson weren’t given much money for their work, as the creature’s seams are pretty visible (and at times, open on the screen).  And directors Eugène Lourié and Douglas Hickox squeeze every second they can from the stop motion mayhem, resulting in repeated shots that are cropped in an attempt to pass them off as different shots. Oh, you have the monster attacking the same building within five minutes. And it feels, with this feature, the pupil had become the master.  Ray Harryhausen's work on The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (an inspiration for this film I'll get to in the next paragraph), as well as It Came from Beneath the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (all released before Behemoth) showed stop motion creatures with a sense of personality.  Most acted more like actors, rather than stomping beasts, and (with the exception of the "octopus" in It Came from Beneath the Sea), Harryhausen's creatures died in such a fashion that invoked sympathy from the audience.  His creatures were beings, actors sharing the screen with their human counterparts.  O'Brien's behemoth, on the other hand, shared more in common with his much earlier work on The Lost World, rather than his amazing animation on King Kong. The fault could be contributed to script,  Originally envisioned to be more a Quatermass-style film, with the mysterious radioactive blob seen early in the film being the main “monster," the distributors insisted on a more Beast from 20,000 Fathoms feel (echoed in several drawings of the behemoth before it’s seen on screen), but one suspects no additional money was added to the film’s budget to compensate for the new direction. What, this looks like The Creature from 20,000 Fathoms? I don't see the similarity at all. I will credit the script for taking a different direction than most creature features of the time, at least when it came to a potential love interest.  Early on, we’re introduced to the daughter of the behemoth’s first victim (played by Leigh Madison).  This fisherman’s daughter is easy on the eyes, and though she has an admirer in the town, one could see the dashing American scientist finding a flimsy reason for bringing her on his quest for the monster, and eventually romancing her.  Yet, the script forgoes this cliché and she’s gone once Karnes leaves the village.  It’s a bit of a surprise, yet the script seems intent on not letting romance get in the way of endless scenes of talking scientists and military men.  Though a few extra scenes of her and Karnes getting to know each other would have been more interesting than endless discussions about killing the monster. While the underwater scenes of the monster are nice, one has to wonder if Karnes’ idea of using a torpedo to implant more radiation into the behemoth to accelerate its death (as he believes the creature is dying from it’s exposure to radiation) is really a good idea.  Blowing it up on land is considered bad, but spreading its irradiated carcass in the Thames becomes the best opinion.  Sure, one can point to the public’s naivety concerning radiation, given the time and misinformation spread by the government (duck and cover, my ass), but the bullet used in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms seems a more logical response.  But, as the audience has been lulled to sleep by the countless times the movie has talked about the monster, rather than seen it, I suspect such a dramatic conclusion was needed. O’Brien would work on one more giant monster movie, the Irwin Allen version of The Lost World.  This could have been the capping mark of his career, working on stop-motion dinosaurs in a remake of the film that catapulted him to fame and lead to his most famous creation, King Kong.  But, trying to compensate for the over-budgeted Cleopatra, 20th Century Fox slashed the budget of numerous other films, leading to the use of lizards with fins in The Lost World, rather than the work O’Brien had sketched out for the production.  If you're a completist, seek out The Giant Behemoth.  But, if you'd rather watch a fitting finale to the work of a great effects artist, stick with The Black Scorpion.  Despite its faults, that film has more of O'Brien and Peterson's work on the screen, a more fitting tribute than the endless montage of cropped sequences in this feature.   I don't think the cropping fooled audiences in the 50s,  any more than it would now.   NOTE: An early version of this review incorrectly identified Pete Peterson as "Pete Patterson."  My apologies for the error, and my thanks to Steve Sullivan for pointing it out.

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Thursday, September 9, 2010 Melt Down (Psalm 71:20-21, NLT) I am sitting here tonight looking at my white screen. I am not sure what to write. It has been a long day. Not bad.... just long. There are days when I hit the wall. When I am so tired, overwhelmed, frustrated, and irratated that I can't see straight.  I feel like the sky is falling and nothing is right. Today was one of those days.  Today I felt jaded by all of the responsibility raising a child with special needs brings. Jaded that I am doing it alone.  Jaded that I can't just pick up and leave the kids with grandma and go on a girls weekend to Vegas or out to lunch for that matter.  Jaded that I have no time for me. Jaded that my boys have had to go thru all of this. Jaded this all happened to Makenzie.  This is not how my life is supposed to be! After all of the rum drum of today Makenzie and I headed up stairs to get ready for bed. I sat Makenzie down in her chair and she began her nightly temper tantrum, Makenzie loves the bath but she HATES mommy's shower before the bath. As I stepped into the shower Makenzie started the pouty lip. Then she moved onto breath holding followed by wailing. I started singing Splish Splash to her in the silliest voice I could muster at the top of my lungs. Makenzie looked at me and gave me a huge smile and started belly laughing. I continued singing and she continued laughing,   I stood there looking into her big blue eyes and everything just melted away. This is hard but if Makenzie can be so strong and happy how can I be so upset? Why am I letting all of the unfairness of life get under my skin? Yes this is all unfair but that is just life.  This is something I have been telling my children forever but it is still something I need to be reminded of sometimes! I will melt down again. It is inevitable but it will be short lived and I am looking forward to what ever craziness tomorrow brings! "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; he leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." (Psalm 23, NKJ) Related Posts with Thumbnails

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NUFORC Home Page National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report Occurred : 12/9/2010 20:00 (Entered as : 12/09/2010 20:00) Reported: 9/19/2011 6:24:54 PM 18:24 Posted: 10/10/2011 Location: Ventura, CA Shape: Teardrop Duration:2-3 minutes December 9, 2010 Just after 8:00pm Ventura, California I was driving home from a business meeting on the northbound 101 freeway when I noticed a small hazy red-orange glow of light hovering over the ocean in the north-western sky. Given the color I assumed I was looking at the moon obscured by a cloud of smoke; as a resident of California it is a phenomenon I have seen often enough. The depth of color was indicative of a very dense, very close fire so for safety sake I scanned the inland sky hoping to locate the source but I saw no plume of trailing smoke and there weren’t even clouds in the sky. Several things crossed my mind then, it was too early in the evening for the moon to be in a setting position over the ocean, the new moon had just passed so the sliver of moon visible wouldn’t be as large as what I had just seen and lastly the moon wouldn’t be setting in that location of the sky anyway. So when I looked back at the light it was a little disconcerting to notice it had grown larger and brighter and was definitely taki! ng on an orb like shape. I was driving so I had to alternate between watching the road and watching the orb and each time I looked back at the orb it appeared larger and brighter as if it were coming toward me which meant that it was moving inland in an easterly direction. At one point when I looked the orb had changed shape, like a tear drop on its side with the pointed tip in the tail position and it was moving parallel to me only in the opposite direction (southbound) there were also three small lights visible at the top. Because of those small lights I thought “Oh it’s a passenger plane.” I wanted some kind of confirmation so I looked for the fuselage knowing that if I could see the lights of the passenger windows I should be able to see the plane itself but there was no plane and the whole thing was still glowing orange. It continued southward and I watched it move across the sky until I was almost looking over my shoulder out the driver side window and the glow sta! rted to dissipate then it vanished at a point where my eye cau! ght sigh t of a star in the sky. The whole incident took no more than two or three minutes and I wasn’t the only one who saw this; there were 15 other vehicles in front of me and several behind. I watched the orb disappear then turned my full attention back to my driving and realized everyone had slowed down to watch the strange lights in the sky.

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• London's secret billion-pound guilds London's trade guilds date back a thousand years and have billions of pounds in assets. But have they forgotten one of their original purposes - to spend money on the public good? Among the glass skyscrapers of London's financial district, and ancient centre, are nestled some very grand-looking low-rise halls, and a clue to the home of some of the city's more unlikely pockets of wealth. Livery companies, once a combination of lobbying organisations, regulators and trade unions, are now quite different organisations, focused also on fellowship, education and charity. They represented the old industries that used to dominate the city. Many have names which are easy to recognise, such as the Butchers, who can trace their beginnings back to the year 975, and the Fishmongers. Others bear the names of lost trades, like the Mercers and Bowyers, who traded cloth and made longbows. All would set standards for their goods and often held exclusive rights over their trade in the city, thus wielding political power. The other side of their work was welfare and charity: funerals for deceased members, hospitals, and homes for the poor. Today, they sit on billions of pounds of assets, donated by members over many centuries, including the fortune of Dick Whittington, the former lord mayor. They were ordered as long ago as 1884, after a Royal Commission's investigation, to spend more on the public good or risk their existence. But did they? And are they now? David Ferris is a member of the Vintners - or Worshipful Company of Vintners, to give it its full title - and very much a fan of the companies' history and potential. But he thinks they are not. 'Gentlemen's clubs' "What I like best about them is these are ancient institutions, well alive in our midst, with wonderful old traditions," he says. "They are cultural gems." However, he says, many of the most ancient have forgotten one of their prime reasons for existence from medieval times: the public good. "They became gentlemen's clubs generally from about 1700," he says, "and they have a great deal of wealth." It's the older institutions that Mr Ferris feels may not be pulling their weight. Many have investments in companies listed on the stock market. Some have large land holdings. Among the richest are the Mercers, which owns a number of blocks in Covent Garden. No public accounts In fact, the Mercers and Goldsmiths are the 55th and 73rd largest landlords in London respectively, according to Datscha, a commercial property data firm. Together, they are bigger landowners in the city than supermarket chain Sainsbury's or the National Grid. But the companies do not have to offer accounts for public inspection, and many older ones do not. Still, public records partially covering eight companies and their charities showed £1.1bn of assets, BBC research found. Mr Ferris estimates the 110 livery companies in total might have assets worth at least £5bn. His own livery, the Vintners, spent £210,000 of its 2017 expenditure of £2.1m on charitable giving, according to its annual review. This is too low, says Mr Ferris. Different aims Although there are no rules the companies must follow when it comes to charitable spending, the Vintners told the BBC a better figure to look at was its income, of which it spent 20% on charity, and that it aimed to increase its charitable endowment over time. It said that it let out its hall to charities for free, and that doing so has raised £2.5m in the last three years. Mr Ferris has raised his concerns before. He says he was suspended from events at his company for five years and was ordered to "cease to question the company's governance and administration in any way" in a letter seen by the BBC. He won't, he says. And so his suspension continues. The company declined to comment. Each company has different aims and varying relevance in industry, so it would be foolish to lump all livery companies together when it comes to their performance. The Haberdashers and Merchant Taylors, for instance, support schools that bear their names. The Gunmakers tests firearms for safety. The Goldsmiths still has a large role in London's jewellery trade, where its Assay Office hallmarks precious metals, and it supports apprentices. Castro Smith, a jeweller who hand-makes rings, says of the Goldsmiths' role in today's industry: "It [plays] a massive part, especially in training new people. It takes a long time, this sort of skill. "They help financially, and in training, and it's a hub, an umbrella, a network." Medieval benevolence For the newer livery companies, it's a different picture still. Tapping a long history and sense of permanence gives the company a base from which to attract donors for their charities, and a sense of credibility. They are transparent, chatty, and keen to show their works. And many, such as the Arts Scholars, are careful to keep company money - raised from members - separate from funds raised for charitable ends. "We do encourage education. That's really [our] mainstay," says Georgina Gough, Upper Warden of the Arts Scholars, the youngest livery company. It brings together academics, experts and dealers. For David Ferris, though, the older guilds must reform themselves. Their secrecy may not be helping them. What goes on in meetings of their courts - a governing committee similar to a modern company's board - is kept confidential, Mr Ferris says. It is also usual to become a member through patrimony - literally, because your father was a member. Newer and more forward-thinking companies say they try to avoid this. "We need to remember that the source of our assets is the benevolence of people in medieval times," says Mr Ferris. "They would be deeply shocked if they found out only a paltry amount was going to the public good." Next on www.bbc.co.uk System evaluation: This is  truth  with an error of 50% User rating: This is  truth  with an error of 50%

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Digital currency exchanger rating White Zinfandel Round Eye Steak A light healthy and cheap steak. Great for right now!!! It’s incredible for getting in steak, and not adding many calories to your diet. The steaks are tiny portions themselves. Perfect for chopping and topping off a salad with. For that salad you can add vinegar and olive oil to the wine you used to braise the meat. Whisk them or use a food processor, adding oil slowly until there is a smooth texture, and creating a zinfandel vinaigrette! Get recipe: White Zinfandel Round Eye Steak image source

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Fast Is Fast China is ahead of America on clean energy, and China is ahead of America on fast trains. These high speed trains seem to compete with air travel, and I mean in terms of time taken, airport time included. That's fascinating. I don't see why land acquisition is a problem. The value of land on both sides of the track goes up. Does that not pay for the loss of land? World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens in China the world’s longest high-speed rail line, covering a distance in eight hours that is about equal to that from New York to Key West, Florida, or from London across Europe to Belgrade. .... 186 miles an hour ..... Guangzhou, the main metropolis in southeastern China. Older trains still in service on a parallel rail line take 21 hours; Amtrak trains from New York to Miami, a shorter distance, still take nearly 30 hours. ..... China has resumed rapid construction on one of the world’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects, a network of four north-south routes and four east-west routes that span the country. ..... the national network has helped reduce toxic air pollution in Chinese cities and curb demand for imported diesel fuel, by freeing up a lot of capacity on older rail lines for goods to be carried by freight trains instead of heavily polluting, costlier trucks ..... Debt to finance the construction has reached nearly 4 trillion renminbi, or $640 billion, making it one of the most visible reasons total debt has been surging as a share of economic output in China, and approaching levels in the West. ..... the high-speed lines, which haul only passengers ..... The high-speed trains are also considerably more expensive than the heavily subsidized older passenger trains. A second-class seat on the new bullet trains from Beijing to Guangzhou costs 865 renminbi, compared with 426 renminbi for the cheapest bunk on one of the older trains, which also have narrow, uncomfortable seats for as little as 251 renminbi. ....... The first line, from Beijing to Tianjin, opened a week before the 2008 Olympics; a little more than four years later, the country now has 9,349 kilometers, or 5,809 miles, of high-speed lines. ...... a country where four-fifths of new cars are sold to first-time buyers, often with scant driving experience ..... Flights between Beijing and Guangzhou take about three hours and 15 minutes. But air travelers in China need to arrive at least an hour before a flight, compared with 20 minutes for high-speed trains, and the airports tend to be farther from the centers of cities than the high-speed train stations.... Land acquisition is the toughest part of building high-speed rail lines in the West, because the tracks need to be almost perfectly straight ...... the 800-seat trains are often sold out as many as 10 trains in advance on Monday mornings and Friday afternoons, even though the trains travel as often as every four minutes, and even lunchtime trains at midweek are often full as well. Enhanced by Zemanta No comments:

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 I haven't posted in a long time. I've been studying and trying to learn more about number sense and how to teach number sense. I teach older students, and it seems like number sense is either strong or weak in students before they get to me. What can I do to strengthen number sense later in students' academic careers? When a student is in middle school and does not have good number sense, how do we fix it? If we do not build up number sense, all other mathematics learning will be an uphill battle at best. Do I teach these students the skills they should have learned before age 6 or 8 now? How do I go about that without making them feel marginalized? Surely most of them would realize that these are skills that their peers already possess. Number sense is such an important foundation for mathematics that I cannot in good conscience ignore these deficits. How do I build these students in a supportive and nurturing way? I want to show these students that they can succeed. They spend enough time believing that they are stupid. I do not want to add to that. I do, however, want to help them fill in the gaps in their understanding so that they can be successful as soon as possible. I truly believe that if I can build these skills in my students who lack them, they will find success in math classes in general far easier to attain. Am I being naive? Surely it is not "too late" for these kids to get the skills they need. I mean, after all, people can learn to read as adults, so can't I teach a person number sense in middle school? I'm sure going to try. For those of you who might not be sure exactly what I am seeing, I have a few examples. One student, when asked "If I take two-thirds away, how many thirds remain?" had absolutely no clue what the answer was until I drew a picture for him. Another has to count the faces of a cube each time to figure probabilities using dice. He doesn't "just know" that there are six sides on a cube. Students with poor number sense don't really understand that fractions, decimals and percents can all represent the same thing. When changing 6 1/2 into a decimal, I had a student write 6.12. He can't remember that .5 is the same as 1/2. He has to take 1 and divide it by 2 to get the decimal equivalent, and he's not sure enough in his division skills to do that reliably. He has learned some number skills, and memorized some basic facts and procedures for doing basic arithmetic, but it is not at all intuitive to him. When he looks at a problem, he has no idea if the answer should be closer to 2 or 20,000, so he never looks at his answer and thinks, "That doesn't make sense. I must have made a mistake." This is because none of the math makes sense to him. Ok, everybody, I'd love some feedback on this. I would love some strategies for nurturing number sense in older children. I'd love to hear where I'm spot on and where I'm way off base.

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What is State, Meaning & Definition of State Wed, 02/15/2012 - 07:48 -- Umar Farooq Meaning of State In common parlance State is a country considered as an organized Political community by one government . Some times, a republic or federations forming part of a country are also called states where as they can't be termed as states in political sense. Anyhow when we used the term state in the field of international relation , it has the symbolic sense of signifying the existence of an independent sovereign entity. Definition of State There are some definitions of state given below Willoughby says, state is "where there can be discovered in any community of persons a supreme authority exercising control over the, social actions of individuals and groups of individuals and itself subject to no such regulation." Salmond defines it "a society of men established for the maintenance of order and justice within a determined territory, by way of force." To sum up, we can define state as a society of people politically organized within a definite territory, having its own government with coercive power to enforce obedience and which is free from external control. Unitary and Composite States Independent and dependent states Salient Features of State Functions of the state

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Where Did the Money Go? | Wed Jul. 6, 2005 1:25 PM EDT In the London Review of Books, Ed Harriman goes through the audits to tell the broader story of the looting-by-contractor scam that surrounded the reconstruction of Iraq. Notice that most of the money squandered—and we're talking about billions and billions of dollars here—was Iraqi, not American taxpayer, money. All filed under "financial irregularities." Conservatives have spent so many years insisting that government bureaucracies are corrupt, inefficient, and wasteful. They finally decided to get off the couch and prove it in Iraq. Nicely done. And we wonder why they hate us!

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Joanna Macy, fully Joanna Rogers Macy Macy, fully Joanna Rogers Macy American Writer, Teacher, Environmental Activist, Scholar of Buddhism, General Systems Theory and Deep Ecology Author Quotes Spiritual traditions have tended to look at the world in four major ways: as a battlefield, as a trap, as a lover, and as the self. The first two - as a stage set for our moral battles or as a prison to escape - are probably familiar, and have in many ways contributed to our lack of care for the world. But what of the other two? Might they shed some useful light on life in an interconnected world? The Dharma wheel, as it turns now, also tells us this: that we don’t have to invent or construct our connections. They already exist. We already and indissolubly belong to each other, for this is the nature of life. So, even in our haste and hurry and occasional discouragement, we belong to each other. We can rest in that knowing, and stop and breathe, and let that breath connect us with the still center of the turning wheel. Everything we do impinges on all beings. The way you are with your child is a political act, and the products you buy and your efforts to recycle are part of it too. So is meditation–just trying to stay aware is a task of tremendous importance. We are trying to be present to ourselves and each other) in a way that can save our planet. Saving life on this planet includes developing a strong, caring connection with future generations; for, in the Dharma of co-arising, we are here to sustain one another over great distances of space and time. It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -- release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened. Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation of society, you can still feel a compassionate impulse to help its suffering beings. In that case you tend to view the personal and the political in a sequential fashion. "I'll get enlightened first, and then I'll engage in social action." Those who are not engaged in spiritual pursuits put it differently: "I'll get my head straight first, I'll get psychoanalyzed, I'll overcome my inhibitions or neuroses or my hang-ups (whatever description you give to samsara) and then I'll wade into the fray." Presupposing that world and self are essentially separate, they imagine they can heal one before healing the other. This stance conveys the impression that human consciousness inhabits some haven, or locker-room, independent of the collective situation -- and then trots onto the playing field when it is geared up and ready. We know that we are not limited by the accident of our birth or the timing of it, and we recognize the truth that we have always been around. We can reinhabit time and own our story as a species. We were present back there in the fireball and the rains that streamed down on this still molten planet, and in the primordial seas. We remember that in our mother’s womb, where we wear vestigial gills and tail and fins for hands. We remember that. That information is in us and there is a deep, deep kinship in us, beneath the outer layers of our neocortex or what we learned in school. There is a deep wisdom, a bondedness with our creation, and an ingenuity far beyond what we think we have. And when we expand our notions of what we are to include this story, we will have a wonderful time and we will survive. The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. Author Picture First Name Last Name Macy, fully Joanna Rogers Macy Birth Date

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However, some cavity treatments could curb or prevent cavities, one of which is regular medical checkups. With a constant medical attention, tooth cavity and other dental conditions can be easily identified before they can cause any harm. Furthermore, it is best to seek immediate dental treatment to avoid further tooth complications. Dental treatment is mostly dependent on the severity of the tooth situation. Below we shall see some treatment options. Treatments through fluoride Perhaps your cavity is at its earliest stage, a fluoride treatment would be very appropriate to reinstate your dead tooth enamel. The best form of fluoride treatment could be liquid, gel, varnish, or foam that is placed in a tiny tray that fits over the teeth. Fluoride could also be from toothpaste, tap water, and mouth wash. Restoration is also called in filling. This is the major treatment administered when tooth decay has advanced from the primary stage. Fillings can be made of numerous components, such as porcelain and tooth-colored composite resins. Custom fitted cover The custom fitted cover is called the crowns. It is placed on a weak dental cavity or more advanced decay teeth. The crown replaces the tooth’s normal crown, and the dentist near me makes sure the decayed areas are properly drilled to enable the crown to fit it. Crowns are usually made of gold, resin, or high strength porcelain. Root canal This is mostly needed when the decay gets to the pulp of the teeth. This dental treatment can remedy a badly damaged tooth in place of removing it. Tooth removal Some times, teeth become badly decayed such that they can’t be remedied. At this point, it is necessary they are removed. However, a moved tooth can cause a gap that could make your teeth shift. It’s best at this point to get a dental implant to replace the moved tooth. Stages Of Tooth Decay Symptoms Sever toothache: this is a serious continuous pain or an occasional pain on the dental cavity that makes you restless. Tooth sensation: this when you feel some sort of pain in the teeth while eating or drinking cold, sweet, and hot substances. Abnormal spots: When you notice an abnormal brown, grey, or black spots on the tooth. Foul breath: when you have bad breath, it’s a symptom to look out for oral health. Types Of Teeth Cavities There are three basic types of teeth cavity they include Root cavities: this type of decay mostly affects the root of the tooth, and it is very common in adults who are likely to have recession gum disorder. Pit and fissures cavities: this is mostly located in the rear part of the molars, which is the chewing part of the teeth. Smooth surface cavities: this could be seen by the sides of the mouth, and they also affect the flat exterior part of the teeth. Faqs About Tooth Decay Treatment How does tooth decay occur, and how does fluoride help? There are several ways dental decay can occur in our teeth. Without brushing your teeth properly, food particles can be trapped in between your teeth and cause tooth decay. It could also be caused by bacteria or loss of tooth minerals essential to keeping the teeth strong and healthy. Beverages, high intake of sugary food such as carbohydrate food, and sticky food particles are the basic causes of tooth decay. However, fluoride helps the tooth to be free from decay by drinking water that contains fluoride and the use of fluoride tooth paste. Once the fluoride goes into your mouth mixed with saliva, calcium, and phosphate, it can fight and prevent cavities and tooth decay. Do dental sealants actually cause many cavities? Dental sealants technically don’t cause cavities. It is important to take note of them as they age. This is because, over time, the connection between the tooth and the sealant becomes visible. This visibility however, can create another kind of uncleansable fissure where bacteria could gather and cause a dental cavity.  The sealants are placed on the teeth to convert tough dirt to grooves and fissures. Thus these bacterias can be easily eradicated with the toothbrush. Therefore dental sealants are credited for being one of the best ways of preventing tooth decay in kids. What are some of the ways to prevent and cure dental cavities? Tooth decay is one of the dominant dental diseases amongst adult and children. The decay begins as a result of the worn out of the tooth enamel, which leads to holes in the teeth that causes cavities. However, Dental cavity can be prevented and cured through the following ways. Always brush the teeth at least twice daily. This is a simple routine that should not be ignored to prevent cavities. Preferably it’s advisable to brush in the morning after a meal and at night before bedtime. Floss and clean between your teeth daily for a complete brush. With good floss, crevices too tiny for the bristle of your brush can be reached and flushed out. It is important to keep a clean mouth and prevent gum disease that could cause tooth decay. Brush daily with fluoride toothpaste. This helps to enhance the tooth enamel in fighting tooth decay. While brushing don’t forget to pay attention to the tongue as well, as bacterias can also hide there to cause a cavity. Reduce your intake of sugary food. Sticky, Starchy, and sugary foods are some of the major causes of a tooth cavity.  To prevent it, it’s important we reduce our intake of sugar content foods. So the Silva doesn’t react with the bacteria in the saliva to form an acid that could cause the tooth enamel to decay. It’s also appropriate to brush our teeth after eating a sickly food. Pay a visit to your dentist every six months. It is very important to keep your teeth gum in check always. Regular cleaning and check up on the teeth will make your teeth healthy and cavity free. Dentist In Houston Near Me Are you asking, what is the best dentist in Houston near me? If so, you’re about to find out At Edge Dental Houston, we provide the best tooth decay treatment with maximum dental care. Our dental offices are fully equipped with advanced technological equipment to meet your most effective and operative tooth decay dental needs. You can’t get it wrong with us, at Edge Dental Houston clinics we provide an exceptional cavity treatment that would make you live healthy and strong. You can locate us within your neighborhood and book for an appointment and say goodbyes to that tooth decay problem.

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Hello, I'm Llanos. Professionally, I'm an accomplished visual designer who has led major redesigns for companies such as TripAdvisor, Capital One, Walmart, Microsoft and now Google. I'm currently the lead visual designer on the Google Play team set to embark on many beautiful projects within the world of design. Personally, I hold a Brown-Belt in the art of Jiu-Jitsu – I love animals, music and I'm an obsessed Yankee baseball-fan. Also, I can go to the movies every single day and never get board of it. Lastly, humility, empathy and respect for others will always continue to shape the human I am. Back to Top

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Immigration Under INS, Immigration Under USCIS Before 2003, most administrative tasks related to US immigration were handled by the INS (the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service). After the attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York, the INS came under some criticism after it was revealed that many of the attackers were in the US on legal visas and had overstayed those visas. According to Time magazine, 13 out of the 19 attackers involved in the September 11 attacks entered the US on student, tourist, and business visas and overstayed their visas. In fact, Time reported that of the 7 million people entering the US on visas, about 3 million of them violated the terms of their visas by staying longer than authorized as of 2001. The problem was worse because the INS had about 2000 enforcement agents in 2001 to monitor an estimated 6 million undocumented US citizens. Worse, many INS agents did not have access to federal crime databases and interaction between INS and law enforcement varied, so that information was not widely shared. The INS was overseen by the US Justice department and its focus was naturalization and the services the average immigrant would need. Directly as a result of the 2001 attacks, the US immigration system received a major overhaul. A part of that overhaul resulted in the end of the INS. Instead, US immigration services were taken over by the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services). The USCIS was created in March 2003 and even today the USCIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The link with the DHS ensures that part of the role is not just to offer immigration services but also to focus on security. Separate agencies were created under the DHS to take care of immigration enforcement and border security. This ensured that the USCIS was free to focus on the administration of US immigration services while a much larger group of professionals could focus on any violations of immigrant laws in the US. The creation of the USCIS also led to more information sharing and the creation of better databases about immigration. Now, law enforcement and immigration officials work together and share information to keep the US safe. As well, new rules under the USCIS ensure that there are stricter controls for immigrants. An immigrant must notify the USCIS about changes of address, for example, and employers and schools are required to keep information about immigrants on work and student visas to ensure that these visitors do not overstay their authorization or violate the terms of their visas.

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Falling on your crotch is funny, when it's in a video game. So is dying multiple times over for no apparent reason. Achievement Hunter hosts a separate YouTube channel, called Game Fails, that they fill with random deaths, glitches, and outright outrageous instances in all sorts of games. It can sometimes be hit or miss. But that's why I love when they do roundups of the best of the year, or, say, the best of April 2013. You can watch their compilation above, but be wary of the number 1 fail of last month, cause it's a little NSFW. If you've got favorites to add, show 'em down below.

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Readers Questions… The Tarot Answers… The first reader asks: The markets continue to slide for the sixth day in a row. When will the bleeding end? When do you forsee a day when all stock indexes (DOW, NASDAQ, S&P) are up? Well I asked the Tarot if the markets would be up next week? The answer: Yes. I started having a much better feeling tonight. We’ll see some steps taken here and over seas to change the path of the markets, and they will rally toward the mid-end of the week. Probably Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.  But don’t get your hopes up too high. I asked if the markets would continue to go down? The changes that are coming next week will help, but my feeling is we are going to be on a seriously crazy roller coaster ride until it all explodes in December. So next week will look better and then things will get wonky again. So take advantage of the small upturn coming. The second reader: Could you please tell me your feelings about these 2 stocks? I would really appreciate it. WB- Wachovia Corporation and JPM-JPMorgan Chase & Co. I asked the cards if you should sell Wachovia right now: The answer: Maybe. I hate when the tarot does this. Here’s the deal, there will be some good news coming up about this stock, they are going to go into hiding for a while and regroup. Their leadership was wonky and the change over will be difficult, but there are some good people coming on board to help them. I would say, use your intuition. This stock will not fold right now, you have at the very least a few months to figure it out. Right now is not ideal. You are really going to have to pay attention to get out at a good time unless you want to wait. For more clarification, I asked will this new version of Wachovia still be around in the next few years? The answer: So it looks like you might want to find a decent time to sell over the next few months. It seems that for all the good intentions there are deep rooted problems, secrets, and seriously bad business decisions that can not be reversed. JP Morgan Chase: I was seeing a down turn and asked the cards if it was going to continue or go that direction in the immediate future. The Answer: No  But here’s the weird part I also got the feeling that they would go under and asked about that and it came up: Yes. It seems to me they will do OK right now, seem stable compared to a lot of other banks, but around March of 09 you’ll start to see things shift, some bad news, some bad decisions. They’ll try to merge with another company and that will end up killing them. So I would say based on this, you might want to try to find a point when they are up and take advantage of getting out. There is a possiblity that they will merge with the other company and be absorbed by them which is why the death card comes up, but I’m not a financial expert so I don’t know what that means in terms of your stock. If another company gets ownership of JP Morgan and dissolves them into this other company, I don’t know what reprucussions if any that would have but you probably do. So, basically it will ultimately be a better more stable company and if your stock still applies to that situation then you should sit on it.  Sorry, I’m not an economist. I don’t understand the finer points of how the stock market works. I wish I could give you more precise info, but basically JP Morgan is OK for now and will merge or be bought out by someone better next year, probably in about 6 months, but you’ll see rumblings of problems in about 3 months or around March of 09. Hope that helped. Good luck and best wishes. Readers Questions… The Tarot Answers… 3 thoughts on “Readers Questions… The Tarot Answers… 1. curious123 says: I have been watching the news coverage of McCain/Palin rallies and I can’t believe all the hatred especially from some of the African American people. It leaves me uncomfortable as a black person. Literally, the feeling I have is down right sick to my stomach. Why are people negative about Barack Obama? I understand having a difference in views and opinions but HATE…why? I am not for Obama because he is black. I’m for Obama because of his policies and the sense of his character. Like I’ve said before, I feel something about him that is different and honest and feel he is for the people. I would encourage any candidate if I felt the same way about him. I don’t understand why McCain is encouraging this hate by speaking the way he does at these rallies. McCain is not speaking about the issues important to me and the policies he has I don’t agree with. But, I don’t wish him harm or hate. I just won’t vote for him…that’s all. Karma has to come and take care of McCain/Palin. All this negative energy is unbelievable…it too much. I’m not naive, believe me, I know racism but come on. I don’t see any democrats yelling out ignorance…why do republicans? Yes, Obama is a bi-racial. Yes, he has a Kenyan name. Ok, let’s move on! 2. Celli says: Much thanks for posting your guidance in these troubling times. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s

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#YOLO Programming Path Finding With Genetic Algorithms I had read about genetic algorithms a long time ago, thinking to myself, "hey this sounds neat, I should try that one day!"  Well, ten years later (what is that in Internet years?) I've finally scrounged up some time to play around with the concept.  As with similar posts I've made in the past, I like to start off with a disclaimer: I've never formally studied genetic algorithms, nor do I claim to be an expert.  I like to write about what I learn because it helps solidify the concepts in my head and because it forces me to actually finish small projects. Hopefully the reader learns something new, or corrects me where I get something wrong.  In other words... The code for the project is available on Github. The Problem Space Before discussing genetic algorithms, let's briefly discuss the problem we will be throwing at it.  Our little program will take in as input a maze (or if none is provided we will randomly generate one).  Mazes are bitmap files, where the color black (#000000) is uncrossable  and white (#ffffff) is a crossable path.  A single blue pixel is the starting point and a single red pixel is the end point. Here is an example (zoomed in) maze generated by the program. The goal of the GA is to find the shortest path between the starting point and the end point. Some notes if you're playing at home: 1. We move one pixel at a time 2. Our instruction set is "Up", "Left", "Down", and "Right."  Note that we do not have the ability to move in a diagonal within a single step, so design your maze accordingly As a final word before we get started, I want to just state that I selected this problem space because I thought it would be an easy project. There are other algorithms that are better suited to path finding, such as A*. Genetic Algorithms Genetic algorithms (GA) are adaptive heuristic searches based off of very (and I mean very) simple models of sexual reproduction and Darwin's theory of evolution.  Like similar algorithms (hill climbing, simulated annealing, etc) GA's are a randomized search that use historical information to get closer and closer to the goal state.  The GA difference is the use of crossover, where parts (genes) of a chromosome (algorithm) are spliced with another selected chromosome. Selection usually combines the best chromosomes together such that with each successive generation only the most fit chromosomes survive and reproduce.  GA's also have a mutation component to them, where every so often some genes randomly mutate.  This is to keep genetic diversity in the population and keeping us from getting stuck in local minima (or maxima). Chromosomes are made up of genes, and those genes need to be encoded.  Binary encoding used to be the preferred method (as I will use), though other types of encoding can be used.  Regardless, you'll need a way of reading a chromosome and interpreting the algorithm. Example: Using a binary encoding, each gene will be two bits, and interpreted as follows: Gene Instruction 00 Move Up 01 Move Left 10 Move Down 11 Move Right An example chromosome would be 0100101100. A population is compromised of a set of chromosomes, from which some will be selected (discussed later) to reproduce into the next generation's population.  You'd think that a very large population would introduce more variance into the population which would help yield better results, but bigger population sizes slow down the GA. Population sizes that I've seen recommended are 20-30, or 50-100, depending on the problem. Crossover and Crossover Rate As discussed earlier, crossover is the process of combining genes from one chromosome with genes from another.  There are different crossover methodologies such as: Single Point Crossover Two Point Crossover Uniform Crossover (Above images taken from the Wikipedia article on GA crossover). We will be using uniform crossover. Not all chromosomes will crossover.  The rate of crossover is determined by the crossover rate.  The crossover rate is recommended to be high for best performance.  We will be using 0.6, which is actually on the low end of recommendations. Chromosomes from a population must be selected to mate to generate the next generation.  There are few strategies, such as tournement or roulette wheel.  Selecting the best chromosomes is called elitist selection.  We will be using elitist selection. Mutation and Mutation Rate Randomly a GA will modify a chromosome's genes, based on the mutation rate.  Unlike crossover rate, the mutation rate is suggested to be low.  If the mutation rate is too high, it will be difficult to converge on good solutions because the GA will start diverging away.  Some people like to start off with a higher rate to promote genetic diversity and slowly lower the rate through the generations to let evolution do it's work.  There are multiple mutation strategies such as flipping a bit or swapping genes. Throughout this post we've been discussing "solutions," "best chromosomes," etc.  But how do we know which chromosomes are the best?  This is done via the fitness function, and this is really where all of the magic happens, and where you'll be spending most of your time experimenting.  The meat and potatoes of our fitness function is shown below: var steps = walker.Walk(out repeatedSteps, out closest); if (steps < int.MaxValue) steps = steps + repeatedSteps; steps -= this.maze.Height * this.maze.Width * 50; // prevent overflow var open = 0; for (int x = 0; x < this.maze.Width; x++) for (int y = 0; y < this.maze.Height; y++) if (m[x, y] == Maze.State.Open) steps += (open * 50) + ((int)closest * 2); return -(steps); The Walk() method (not shown) walks the genes of the chromosome, where each gene represents an instruction for a step to be taken in the maze.  Walk() counts the total number of steps taken.  Steps that were crossed one or more times are represented by repeatedSteps.  A repeated step is weighted by the number of repeats.  For instance, if the number of steps taken were 10, and 2 pixels were repeated 5 times, repeatedSteps would be 5, not 2.  If Walk() does not encounter End, steps returned will be Int.Max.  If End is encountered, instructions past End (in terms of genes in a chromosome) will not be counted as steps. Walk() will also return the closest point to End encountered in the walk. If the walk reaches the end point, we return the negative of steps, since the goal is to minimize the number of steps taken (so fitness is highest when the score is lowest).  To discourage the algorithm from walking around like a drunken sailor, we add repeatedSteps to steps (to give a lower fitness). What do we do when the walk has not encountered the end point?  Here we get a little creative to help (we hope) the GA converge faster.  In this situation, we sort of want the opposite of what we wanted earlier; we want to encourage more steps so that we cover more ground in search of the end point.  We also give a slight preference to chromosomes that edge toward the endpoint. So how does our GA perform?  Here's a run on a randomly generated maze.  It was instructed to stop at 5 minutes or at stagnation, which was set at 300 (meaning no new better was found within 300 generations). As noted earlier, the white lines represent the crossable paths, the blue point is the where we start and the red point is the target.  Green represents paths that were only crossed once, and yellow are steps that repeated one or more times.  We can see that the algorithm quickly found the shortest path and then optimized away most of the repeated steps. Setting the stagnation rate to a higher number would have optimized the remaining repeated steps away. Now let's try a maze that I hand crafted.  In this case the GA was still finding better and better results before we hit the 5 minute cap (by the way, all of these caps are configurable via command line options, but 5 minutes was the extent of my patience.  Use the --help switch for a list of options). It looks like here the GA was close to finding the shortest path, but still had much optimizing to do to get rid of the repeated steps. Finally, can we come up with a maze that tortures our GA?  Here's what I came up with.  While this is laughably easy for a human, it kills our GA because it will take a boat load of mutations before it covers the entire maze to find the end point (note that the start and end are on the opposite ends of the maze, and there is only a single path).  I set the parameters to (what I thought) were obscenely large numbers.  Apparently not obscene enough though; this run terminated at the 50 minute mark without ever hitting it's goal; though you can see that it got close and would have hit it's goal sooner than later.  I wouldn't want this thing driving my taxi around town though. Libraries Used GeneticSharp is a genetic algorithm library that's pretty easy to use and has a bunch of options and is well documented and is actively maintained.  As I've stated earlier, I'm far from an expert in GAs, so I can't speak to the quality of the library when compared to others, but given all of the positive aspects I noted I imagine that it is a strong contender. Command Line Parser is a library for parsing command line arguments.  I almost feel silly for saying this, but I'd never considered even looking for a library for parsing command line arguments and for displaying help hints; leading me to reinvent the wheel quite a few times (and probably a poor job in doing so).  This library can be a fantastic addition to any console application. Gifed is a library used for making animated gifs.  Finding a gif library was more challenging than I thought it would be, and finding an easy to use library was even harder.  This one did a great job though. Every so often the program would throw an error that I had never seen before; "Attempted to read or write from corrupted memory."  Very odd, I certainly am not using any unmanaged code (I'm not sure where in managed code memory would get corrupted), and I briefly looked through GeneticSharp and didn't see any unmanaged code in there either.  Perhaps the issue is further down the stack, such as in his use of  the SnippetSmartThreadPool library.  It was quite annoying to have a long running evolution get  stopped by an exception, so my solution was to catch the exception and not evaluate the "corrupted" chromosomes.  Note that this type of exception cannot be caught normally, so I had to use  [HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions]. Final Thoughts While I had fun with the project, should I now use GA's anywhere I need a heuristic search (not that I personally run into that need often)?  No, I don't think so.  The entire time I was working on this project, it just felt like a good fitness function with some randomness would yield similar results.  Apparently I am not alone in this.  As I later looked for sources to write this post, I ran into the following: and then the following quotes: [I]t is quite unnatural to model applications in terms of genetic operators like mutation and crossover on bit strings. The pseudobiology adds another level of complexity between you and your problem. Second, genetic algorithms take a very long time on nontrivial problems. [...] [T]he analogy with evolution—where significant progress require [sic] millions of years—can be quite appropriate. I have never encountered any problem where genetic algorithms seemed to me the right way to attack it. Further, I have never seen any computational results reported using genetic algorithms that have favorably impressed me. Stick to simulated annealing for your heuristic search voodoo needs. — Steven Skiena That's not to say that GA's have never been used to produce anything.  Here's an antenna used by NASA that was "designed" by a GA (Source): I'd love what some of you that have more experience with this type of thing have to say about it!    Follow Up In response to this post, a Redditor made the following comment, which I thought was fantastic: Every time an article pops up about GA, I'm excited again for the prospect of finding something useful to do with GA. And every time I'm disappointed again. While I commend the author for implementing a genetic algorithm for path finding, what the author does is really just evaluating random walks and selecting the best. Sure, there is a bit of breeding in there, but especially the last example shows that we're basically waiting for a random walk to the end of the tunnel, and then would use GA to "optimize" away the unnecessary steps. In fact, this could be more easily achieved by preprocessing the labyrinth and turning it into a graph of possible routes. All the shown examples would have been solved much quicker had the GA algorithm not tried to step its way through it. At least, the GA algorithm should have killed solutions that back-track, ie. that cross their previous path, immediately, since those solutions are never good solutions. This would have turned it into somewhat of a genetic Dijkstra.And at the very least, the GA algorithm should have dis-allowed immediate backtracking, ie. taking a step and then stepping back, which would have helped with the last labyrinth massively and with the others greatly.And that's the main gripe I have with GA in general: you implement something silly and random and get very bad solutions that take ages. Then you add a bit of domain knowledge, then a bit more and another bit more until you finally arrive at a regular algorithm for solving your problem. If you go that far before you give up. Note that any of the well-known path-finding algorithms would have solved each of these mazes in milliseconds. Here's another point I'd like to make in connection to what the guy said: GA isn't an optimization algorithm, it's a search algorithm. It searches really well if your solution space is full of viable solutions, without any obvious gradients and very rich in non-obvious parameters. The kind of problems we usually apply it to (like path-finding or crossing-minimization or any of the well-defined NP problems) aren't like that, and that's why we see no real benefits with GA over them. And if you look at the inspiration for GAs, biological systems, that's exactly how they are: lots of parameters with rather un-defined functions (genes), lots of solutions (basically any combination of millions of genes) and completely non-obvious gradients. Also bonus points for being greatly parallelizable, because that's another real benefit if you're doing massive searches. Regarding his/her note about GA's and path-finding;  I did find it necessary to point out at the beginning of my post that an algorithm like A* would be far better at pathfinding than a GA.  I really hope that this isn't lost on anyone reading. Comments (1) - • Tom Tran 5/23/2018 10:25:14 PM | Reply It's great article. And it's greater when I found your blog. It's useful. Keep moving !!! 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There tends to be a difference of provision between schools which have a class based timetable: primaries (including infant, junior, nurseries) and those which are subject based: secondaries (including middle, 6th form). Most secondary schools and some primaries provide PPA time in timetabled sessions or teaching periods. Some primaries use specialist teachers to cover some or all of these sessions. Many primaries provide either a full day every fortnight or half day every week covered by a supply teacher, in-house cover teacher or HLTA. Schools should have an agreed policy on the provision of PPA time, but they are not required to do so. Most of the issues dealt with here can be anticipated by such a policy and an agreed solution used. Most schools with timetabled sessions of PPA time adopt an even-out approach: loss of one or more blocks of time are presumed to balance out against time gained at another time. Some of the following questions relate principally to schools which adopt a half or full day provision of PPA time What is PPA time? PPA is Planning, Preparation and Assessment time, which was made a statutory right for all teachers, including those in the leadership group, from Autumn 2005. The School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document makes the following points very clear: PPA time is part of the 1265 directed hours for non-leadership teachers All teachers with a teaching timetable, including heads and deputies, are entitled to PPA time PPA time must be no less than 10% of the teacher’s timetabled teaching time PPA time can only be provided in units of not less than 30 minutes, ‘during those parts of the school time-table in which pupils are taught the core and other foundation subjects or religious education’. If a teacher has 22.5 hours of timetabled teaching time they must receive 2.25 hours of PPA time per week, which can be broken up into blocks but if the school’s pattern is to provide this in 3 blocks none can be shorter than 30 minutes so if the teacher has 2 hours of PPA timetabled, the 15 minutes would have to be rounded up to 30. Alternatively sessions of 1hr and 1 hr 15 minutes would meet the minimum requirement. Fractions of an hour can not be rounded down. A teacher can not be required to carry out any other duties during their PPA time, including covering for absent colleagues. Can my school decide not to have PPA time? PPA time is an entitlement for all teachers in maintained schools. Who arranges PPA time? It is the responsibility of the headteacher to ensure that PPA time is planned for and included on the individual teachers’ timetables. How much PPA time should I be getting? Each teacher’s PPA time should be a minimum of 10% of the time they spend teaching. This would exclude breaks, assemblies (unless the same person is leading the same assemblies each week and the content is seen as part of the school’s curriculum), non-contact time of any description, registration, form tutor periods and extra curricular activities. Where a 2 week timetable is in use the amount of teaching time should be added up across both weeks and the PPA time likewise spread across the 2 weeks. Secondary and middle school teachers and support teachers would find probably find it easier to simply add the number of their teaching periods together. How much PPA time should I be getting as an NQT? NQTs have exactly the same entitlement to PPA time as every other teacher. The only difference concerns the calculation of teaching time: NQTs are entitled to 10% of a comparable teacher’s teaching time as non-contact time each week and this should be deducted from their weekly or fortnightly total before calculating the minimum 10%. How much PPA time should I be getting on a part-time contract? Part-time teaching hours can be added up in the same way as for other teachers and 10 % calculated. Taking a school total and then applying a decimal fraction of say 0.6 for a 3/5 days contract is probably not as reliable as the former method. I am a supply teacher, am I entitled to PPA time? No. As with many other teacher entitlements guaranteed by the Teachers Pay and Conditions Document, supply teachers do not have any entitlement to PPA. If you are employed on a regular fixed time at the same school for a prolonged period and the school asks you to plan, or just attend planning meetings, as well as mark the work set, then you should discuss an appropriate amount of PPA time with the head. Can I be directed to undertake particular tasks during my PPA time, e.g. cover for a colleague, attend a course or meeting? No.  You can be asked but the school can not require it. In the interests of goodwill, smooth running of the school, the welfare of children or simply because it suits you, you might wish to swap your PPA time with another teacher or defer the PPA time to another occasion, that is up to you, but your PPA time is an entitlement, guaranteed by the STPCD, it is not a benefit or privilege. Covering for an absent colleague is specifically mentioned as being unacceptable. Who sets and marks the work when I am on PPA time? There is no requirement on a teacher to plan lessons they will not teach but as with other covered lessons, medium term objectives will probably have been planned. If a regular supply teacher, HLTA or in-house cover teacher is used they should plan and mark work. What happens if the cover teacher is absent? The school should arrange for a replacement and if that proves impossible and the PPA time can not be provided it should be restored as soon as possible. The school should  cover this eventuality in its policy. Can my PPA time be included in an INSET day? No, INSET days are an entitlement to CPD but your head can disaggregate them to be used in other ways for other purposes. PPA time must take place during taught sessions, Any PPA time offered to staff in this way is additional to the 10% entitlement. Can my head take away my PPA time when granting paid or unpaid leave? No. The school must decide whether or not to grant paid or unpaid leave in accordance with its normal policy. If your PPA time happens to fall on that day the school’s policy for dealing with such eventualities should be implemented. What happens if the school is closed on the day I have PPA time? The school’s policy should anticipate the eventuality of planned closures (Holidays, Election Days) as well as unplanned closures (weather, heating or other service breakdown, illness etc). The principle of even-out works well if the school uses the ‘periods’ model but if PPA time is provided in days or half days the impact is so great that the planned absences should have been anticipated, if they were not then the school should restore the lost time. In the event of an unplanned closure the school should have a policy to cover the eventuality and the result will have to be negotiated. What happens if I am off  sick on the day I have my PPA time? If the school has an even-out policy you would simply lose your PPA time, as, by the same principle, if you are off sick for 4 days but return to work on the day you get your PPA time it should not be lost or reduced. Can my timetabled PPA time be cancelled and given back? While it is not good practice for schools to cancel PPA time at short notice, unforeseen circumstances can create situations which will inevitably mean that PPA time might have to be cancelled, particularly in Primary Schools. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that the amount of PPA time lost in this way is recorded and given back to the teacher as soon as possible. There are no stipulations in the STPCD covering this eventuality, so a school policy should attempt to anticipate it.

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Take the 2-minute tour × I have started a download using Icon Downloader for NT that doesn't look like it will ever finish. In my notification area, it has survived two reboots and the uninstallation of the app. How can I get rid of it? share|improve this question God I hate download manager. It's possibly the buggiest piece of software on Android even on ICS. –  Richard Borcsik May 6 '12 at 10:34 4 Answers 4 up vote 4 down vote accepted Usually if you long press on the downloading item in download manager there's an option to delete it, thus stopping the download. If this doesn't work you can clear the Download Manager's data. Settings -> Apps -> All Tab -> Download Manager Here press force stop, than clear data. Now reboot. share|improve this answer Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but I just had the same problem of needing to stop a download and solved the problem by activating Aeroplane Mode. A less invasive solution and more easily reached in the UI - for anyone else ending up here from Google (like I did :-)) share|improve this answer Long press the notification and select "App Info". This will take you to the application which is responsible for the download, which you can then force stop. share|improve this answer In Android 4.4 (KitKat) / Galaxy S5, go to Settings > Under Applications section > Application Manager > All. Look for Download manager. Force stop, Clear data, and Clear cache. share|improve this answer Your Answer

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really awful Crashes / Fires: 1 / 1 Injuries / Deaths: 0 / 0 Average Mileage: 5,133 miles About These NHTSA Complaints: 2002 Honda Odyssey electrical problems electrical problem Find something helpful? Spread the word. Unsubscribe any time. We don't sell/share your email. 2002 Honda Odyssey Owner Comments problem #3 Jul 152004 Odyssey 6-cyl • Automatic transmission • 10,398 miles While driving, all the warning lights illuminated on the dashboard. The dealership replaced the alternator on November 2002 then the consumer received a NHTSA recall letter on the alternator. The dealership replaced the alternator. One month later, while driving the problem recurred. The dealer replaced the component on April 29, 2003. - East Brunswick, NJ, USA problem #2 May 102004 • miles Consumer states while driving, sometimes all the indicator dash lights came on. The consumer was told by the mechanic, since they were unable to duplicate the problem, they could not repair the vehicle. Then she states the same thing happened again and she took the vehicle to the dealer, this time she states they told her that the problem was her alternator, which they replaced. Then she states on 4/16/04, while she was driving all the indicator lights came on again, but this time she heard a funny noise. She states that her spouse, then got out of the vehicle and lifted the hood. There he found that the serpertine belt had come completely off. - Pembroke Pines, FL, USA problem #1 Jul 212003 Odyssey 6-cyl • Automatic transmission • 5,000 miles When driving my Odyssey, normally in the 30-50 mph range, all or most of the dashboard indicator and warning lights will flash intermittently for a brief second or two. The numerous (25 + ) times this has happened is frightening because one thinks the van has stalled. There seems to be no pattern or connection such as playing/not playing radio, A/C, amount of gas, etc... I will say 75-85% of the occurences happen on the road leading to our subdivision (usually 30-50 mph driving). Also, I'm sure there have been instances I have missed it because it can happen so quickly; one actually has to be looking at the panel. Honda says to drive the van since it is not stalling and there appears to be no inherent danger. Honda's policy is they cannot do anything until they replicate the problem. Interesting! what are they going to do when it happens --- there's no time to take a picture. I've considered running a video camera, but it's so unpredictable when it will happen. There seems to be about a dozen different instances of this happening (according to Honda), but they cannot replicate the problem. Guess what" the replication is not likely going to happen unless a service manager or technician takes temporary ownership of one of these vehicles for a month or two. Sometimes the flashing occurs once every month or two, maybe several times in one day or a week. Just because the service technicians cannot duplicate the problem, does that mean some of us are hallucinating? is anything being done or explored based on the information given. Honda, imagine this: If you actually replicated the problem and saw all the dashboard panel warning and service lights flash, what would that mean to you and what would you do" this is not imaginary! I am keeping written documentation of each time this issue is checked and reported, mainly for post-warranty issues. - Knoxville, TN, USA Not what you are looking for?

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Scholar-Athlete Profile: Andrew Triggs USC co-captain Andrew Triggs Feb. 14, 2012 Scholar-Athlete Profile: Andrew Triggs Sport: Baseball Class: Senior (Graduate Student) Major: Business Administration (MBA) Growing up did your parents always support an academics first attitude? Growing up I never really saw athletics as a viable way to even make a living and there is a chance for that kind of possibility to be on the horizon, but really from the earliest age academics were stressed in my household. It's sort of been my mantra through undergrad and now on to grad school. Was college baseball always part of the plan? No, college baseball sort of became part of the plan half way through my junior year of high school. I saw that it might be a possibility and started taking things a lot more seriously. But from day one academics were always important and I always loved baseball, but I just didn't really see it as a realistic way to move forward until later in high school. Were academics a big part of you attending USC? No question it was a big part of it. The recruiting process with USC came about sort of last minute. I definitely wouldn't have ended up here or wanted to be here if the academics weren't as top-notch as they are. Having this strong academic foundation was unquestionably huge. What made you choose a political science major as an undergraduate? I took all of the government AP courses in high school and liked it and took a few as a freshman here. Enjoyed the major but always knew that political science was a layup for law school. And my father was an attorney, and moved on to business so I sort of new I was going to end up getting an MBA somewhere down the line. That was sort of always where my interests were. So when the opportunity presented itself that I could get started on that even earlier I seized it. As an undergrad was there a favorite class or professor or something fun that you took? Yeah, I took a Dostoevsky course with Professor Marcus Levitt in the Slavic languages and literature department. It was really interesting. One of the best things about political science is it was a relatively small major in the number of units, so I was able to take whatever I wanted to in lots of other courses. I could take art history or English or comparative literature or econ classes. I had fun with my undergraduate degree with picking and choosing classes that I thought were fun. You were selected by the San Francisco Giants but choose to come back to USC to pursue an MBA. Why books before baseball? I got rid of all my furniture and drove my car back to Nashville. I was ready to move on. I didn't know where I was going to get drafted. In all seriousness I thought it would possibly be a little higher, but even when it happen, I said this is going to be the next step I'm definitely going to sign and move on with it. As things developed over the summer with the opportunity to start a graduate degree, I decided I wanted to pursue it immediately. I came back here and play another year here at USC and possibly take care of some unfinished business from a baseball standpoint. We have a great core of guys and I think this is a group that could go on to regionals and possibly do something bigger. Once the MBA came into the picture I really started to take more seriously the idea of coming back. It was really something I didn't even consider until mid-way through July. You hope continue to play baseball for as long as possible but do you have any plans or goals to but your graduate studies to use? In a perfect world it's just sort of a back pocket thing after many, many years in the big leagues. But when your 50? Right now I don't know exactly where it's going to take me from a business stand point. The broader stuff like consulting or banking seem interesting but at the end of the day the idea of building a company or building an organization and having something that is your own is really appealing to me. Is there a specific emphasis you are studying or are interested in? Not yet, after the first year, which is foundational core courses that you have to take, you get to start moving more towards your concentration. I think I'm going to move towards finance once I get down to it. I think it provides the best foundation for what I think I want to do, so we'll see what happens. This is your first year as a graduate student how is going so far? It's good. It's really not too much of a transition from undergrad. Your classmates are definitely a little bit older and everyone is taking the material seriously because everyone is trying to better themselves. The courses are interesting for the most part and the professors have been great. I like it so far. Being an undergraduate student-athlete can be pretty time consuming. Is it different being a graduate student and an athlete? The majority of my classes are at night which means I have to get the majority of my work done during the day in between weights in the morning and practice in the afternoon so really besides when I do my work it really hasn't been that big of a transition. Even with the busy schedule do you still feel like you got the "college experience?" Oh absolutely. In the spring when you're traveling and playing four or five games a week it gets hectic. Your job is to be a student and your job is to play baseball games, so from there you are pretty two-dimensional in the spring. But in the fall you get to go the football games, get to be more of a college student. The stuff you get to do with baseball, traveling places and to play the College World Series is a blast and I wouldn't have wanted for my college experience to be any other way. I really like it. Is there anything that you learned as a student that transferred into helping you be a better athlete or vice versa? Something that I found out, that I think is true for a lot of people, is that you play up to your competition. If you challenge yourself with a class with the people who are in that class, then you are generally going to perform up to their level or maybe beyond them and the same thing with baseball. If you are playing in the PAC-12 in baseball you are playing with some of the stronger teams in the country. And at the end of the day the good teams and the good players, play up to those high levels of competition. That's something I feel overlaps between the classroom and baseball. So I always like challenging myself with a little tougher course work. Do you have a favorite academic moment or concept or ideas that you can look back on and make you smile? I feel like in every course you're going to have a "eureka" moment. But I think my proudest moment was right after Thanksgiving break last year and I had 5 papers due in 5 days. And I counted the total number of pages that were due and it ended up being something like 60 odd pages that I had to crank out. And one of them was a 20-page research paper. So I think just getting through that week successful was maybe a shining moment. What has been the best part about being a student-athlete? The blend and the mix of people you get to interact with from all of the other sports here. We have athletes who will go on to play professionally and others that have played on the international level. Everybody has an interesting story and the diverse group of people you get to interact with on a daily basis is the most intriguing aspect for me. We get to travel and go to different places during the year. Last year we got to go to Houston for a tournament, the year before we went to Hawaii and I think we're going to North Carolina this year. It's challenging, but fun to be a student and get to travel and get to play your sport throughout the year.

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Skip to main content Synthesis of methanol from captured carbon dioxide using surplus electricity Periodic Reporting for period 3 - MefCO2 (Synthesis of methanol from captured carbon dioxide using surplus electricity) Reporting period: 2018-06-01 to 2019-06-30 Aim: develop an innovative green chemical production technology contributing to the EU objectives of decreasing CO2 emissions and increasing renewable energy usage improving Europe’s competitiveness. Concept: ordinarily emitted CO2 and H2 produced from surplus renewable electricity into methanol. Technology designed in a modular intermediate-scale, able to adapt it to varying plant sizes and gas composition. -Mitigation of exhaust CO2 and reduction of GHG by replacing methanol produced from fossil fuels (NGV or coal) with methanol produced from CO2 and renewable energy. -Stabilisation of electric grid by the consumption of the electric energy at its peaks. MefCO2 allows to increase the power supplied from non-manageable renewable energy resources since surpluses can be used to produce valuable methanol. Fast ramping electrolysers provide ancillary services and replace fast acting fossil generation such as gas turbines. -Production of methanol as a versatile chemical for further conversion. The EU is a net importer of methanol and MefCO2 results contribute to the reduction of imports. Low carbon footprint methanol can be directly blended with gasoline or transformed into fuel additives (DME or MTBE),reducing fossil fuel imports and improving air quality due to the improved combustion. Depending on the CO2 source, MefCO2 low carbon methanol and fuel derivatives could comply with the RED requirements and be considered as renewable fuel of non-biological origin. Conclusions: the technology has been successfully deployed at RWEs lignite fired power plant in Germnay producing up to 1 ton of methanol from1.5 tons of CO2 captured. MefCO2 technology can be adapted to any CO2 source either from fossil origin such as steel mills, cement kilns, refineries, power plants, etc. Key components of the pilot process were a fast acting PEM 600kW electrolyser able to ramp up or down H2 production within seconds. This flexible operation is highly suited to adapt to power prices created by fluctuating renewable power and for grid stabilisation contributing to the increase of renewable power in the grid. A fast response rectifier patent was filed. Other key component is a methanol reactor able to modify its output (demonstrated in test campaigns). Unlike standard chemical process designed for steady operation, MefCO2 reactor was steadily operated not only at its nameplate capacity but also at 40% of it. It was able to ramp up and down production within minutes. The modular reactor design can be scaled up and plant output can be adapted. The combination of fast ramping a electrolysis unit and a flexible methanol reactor allows MefCO2 concept to operate without oversizing the electrolysis unit and using intermediate H2 storage that would be required in a conventional methanol plant. Methanol produced from renewable energy for H2 production turns into an energy vector for renewable energy storage with higher energy density than H2 that is easily stored and transported. In terms of novel catalyst development and process optimisation through multiscale process optimisation, a comprehensive work was carried out. More than 100 catalysts were synthetized, characterised and tested in different operation conditions. A patent for a new method of synthesis for high performance catalyst was filed. Pilot Plant:Methanol production: 1t day/CO2 capture: 1.5t day/PEM electrolyser 600kWel with improved dynamic response: 120 m3/h Test campaign under flexible operation conditions:Conversion efficiency exceeding the design criteria: 97% vs 91% (55 kg Crude MeOH/h)/Dynamic Operation performance improving design criteria: 40%/min. vs 20%/min (Loop reaction time from 5 to less than 3 minutes)/Flexible Operation demonstrated. LCA&Thermo-economic analysis:Net emissions of methanol production are 68% lower than SMR’s process when wind power is used but using German grid power results into a more than 2x increase/Business case supported on simulations for technology scale-up Novel catalysts & overall process engineering improved:More than 60 catalysts synthesised and tested/Patent Pending GB1701382.2 – Catalyst suitable for methanol synthesis/Several scientific publications Business Plan and Technology Roadmap: Technology packages defined as the minimum exploitable unit/Technology value proposition and commercialisation channels defined/Market potential and dynamics analysis/Identification of market segments identified and go to market strategies -Technological impacts Starting from a commercial (Cu/ZnO/Al2O3) catalysts, a new generation of catalysts with increased activity and selectivity, able to deal with impurities in CO2 streams such as the flue gases from a power plant generation were developed. Process integration: extensive work carried out in order to integrate CC with methanol synthesis to optimise energy consumption of the process. Advanced control system developed to provide flexibility to a process that needs to encompass both methanol synthesis with the normal operation of a power generation plant and H2 production using variable renewable generation (strongly dependent on energy prices&grid requirements). Thermo-economic analysis carried including a sensitivity analysis for key variables such as electrolyser CAPEX, electricity price or the price of oxygen obtained as a by-product. -Economic/Social impacts Flexible operation of the plant allows to maximise renewable energy use and provide valuable ancillary services. Thus renewable energy curtailment can be minimised and the TSO/DSO may be able to operate the grid more efficiently. Low carbon methanol produced using MefCO2 technology contribute to the decarbonisation of transport as PowerToLiquid technology is an indirect electrification pathway of transport. Direct blending of methanol with gasoline in the EU-28 is currently much lower than the 3% v/v limit set in the FQD directive. Methanol can be used for biodiesel production helping to reduce its CO2 footprint by substituting fossil methanol normally used. DME or MTBE can also be produced from low carbon methanol as well as methanol for bunker fuel or used in Methanol to olefins or methanol to gasoline pathways. Methanol plants using MefCO2 technology can create number of direct jobs comparable to the conventional fossil-based methanol plants. Up to 120 direct jobs could be created for a high capacity plant. Indirect job creation can estimated using a multiple between 5.3-9. Job creation is estimated bw 750 and 1200 jobs per plant. -Environmental impacts MefCO2 pilot plant use 1.5t/day CO2 to produce 1t/d of methanol. Scaling up MefCO2 concept can offset significant amounts of CO2 since methanol is one of the most versatile chemicals and its demand is high. MefCO2 most relevant contribution to the descarbonisation of industrial processes and the energy system in the EU is that allows for a more favourable business case for CCS when CCS is coupled with green methanol production. Green methanol can also reduce the fossil fuel consumption. Up to 1 Mtoe/year of gasoline consumption could be reduced if methanol blending reached the 3% limit set in the regulation. Green methanol could not only contribute reaching the 14% target of renewable fuels use in transportation by 2030. MefCO2 concept can also have positive impacts in terms of renewable energy use. Green methanol can act as energy vector storing renewable energy surplus thus contributing to grid stabilisation. MefCO2 - Logo MefCO2 process MefCO2 pilot plant completed

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How Much Can I Use The Walls While Bouldering? – (For Beginners) Often many climbers tend to ask the question “How much can I use the walls while bouldering?” It should be simple but in reality, it’s not. Especially for beginners to understand what they can use for their beta, without cheating. We’ve gathered all the information about what you can use while climbing and also what you should avoid touching. As a short answer, we will have to say that there are some specific restrictions that depend on the bouldering gym that you are visiting. So there is no simple answer to that because the gyms are making the rules and those rules can vary a lot from each other. The quickest way to know the rules is to ask the staff or another climber about volumes and wall restrictions. How much can I use the walls while bouldering? How much can I use the walls while bouldering? But if there is not any special information about it then that means that this gym is using the most common approach to the rules and that means that you are allowed to use volumes and every inch of the wall to clear your route, also the top should be a single hold. There are some exceptions to that, as a limit to using volume and the top placement can not be even a handhold, so stay with us to learn more about it. What can I touch during my climbing route? The general rule is allowing you to touch any wall and any volume that you can reach. So that means that the route setters have more things to keep in mind while creating a bouldering problem for you. That can give you a lot of different ways to clear that problem and you can be creative because nothing is prohibited except one thing. To properly start a bouldering route you have to place both hands on the correct handhold using only the wall, volumes, and any of the hold that belongs to that problem, so that means that you can’t place yourself for the start using any other holds from different routes. Some bouldering gyms are restricting those rules. For example, they won’t let you use volumes that are not belonging to that problem, even if it will block your way up. If you can see many colored tapes that are connected to the volume that can mean that this volume is restricted to the colors on the tapes which represent the routes. If the bouldering gym is rich and fancy it can have colored volumes, so if that volume has a color of your route then that means you can use it, but that’s very rare to see. You can also try to use the sides of the wall. What can I touch during my climbing route? What can I touch during my climbing route? Setters think about the walls when setting the problems for climbers, so use the wall if it works. You should avoid using bolt holes that are in the wall or in the holds, those shouldn’t be used for you to support. Where is the finish of my bouldering problem? That is a hard question because gyms have different approaches to this topic. Some can expect you to grab the highest hold with both hands to finish the problem, but many gyms can expect you to grab with both hands literally top of the wall to count it as a finished route. The second approach is less common to see, but still very popular. It doesn’t let the route setter create a nice finish to that problem because the top of the wall is often easy to grab, so you can try to jump there if you are brave enough, or you are not afraid of falling. That also ensures the finish to every problem will be exactly the same. The first approach with the finish hold will force the climber to find the right body position to grab the last handhold with both hands. In summary – How Much Can I Use The Walls While Bouldering? Most of the time it’s very obvious whether you’re supposed to use volumes or not. Generally, walls, wall corners, volumes, and many others are intended as part of the route unless otherwise stated. You can ask staff that is working in this bouldering gym or any other climber if you can use volumes and walls without any restrictions and don’t hesitate because the climbers are one of the most friendly communities that you will ever face in any other sport.

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.mp4 video in CS3 I had another question, for some reason, my flash file won’t let me import this movie I have that’s an mp4. If I put it there, the sound will play but the screen is just white, and I tried converting it to other files using different programs but it always messes up the video. I made this video in after effects, it’s a demo reel, and I lost a few files since I made this months ago, so I can’t just go back and render it out in another format. Is there anything I can do? I just need the mp4 to play as an embedded video

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Rihanna has not accepted the apology Drake Рианна не приняла извинения Дрейка Hot Barbados girl Rihanna is not going to forgive past grievances of my ex-Boyfriends. As reports the edition RadarOnline, the ex-lover of the singer Drake is trying by all means to regain his former lover. However, she saw them all in the bin. Literally. As reported by insiders, Drake recently sent former lover three dozen roses and a gold bracelet, hoping that the singer will forget what scandal they broke up, but Rihanna’s not one to forgive such. The singer has sent the jewelry back, attaching to it made Polaroid the bouquet in the bin. So she made it clear to Drake that the reconciliation cannot be considered. “She’s not going to forgive him for treason. It happened not once in her life and she’s had enough,” said the insider. Recall that the pair broke up last fall just a few weeks of Dating. Before Drake for many years was considered a friend of Rihanna. Everything stopped after the artist caught him cheating. The audience was puzzled, why so long to achieve its location, to spoil all the adultery.

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To: Noriyuki Soda <> From: None <> List: netbsd-bugs Date: 01/24/2001 13:30:51 >We don't have to provide dlopen()-less library for dynamically linked >binaries for same reason. again, if we ship libnolocale.a for statically linked binaries, people can use it for dynamically linked binary as well! it is not us who decides to use libnolocale.a.

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© 2021 WOSU Public Media Play Live Radio Next Up: Available On Air Stations News Partners Ugandans Worry Insurrection In D.C. May Affect Elections In Their Country Uganda is in the middle of a contentious presidential race featuring a young singer challenging the 35-year rule of President Yoweri Museveni. Election day is just a week away, but today the insurrection in Washington was the talk of the town. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: On Ugandan radio and TV, I hear some gloating. Ha, U.S. democracy is just like the rest of us. But that's not what I hear from people I speak to in downtown Kampala. MATT BISH: What I saw yesterday was very, very - you know, like, disappointment at its highest level. PERALTA: That is 45-year-old Matt Bish. BISH: When you see something like that happen, you start thinking everything's going to trickle down to our country. PERALTA: He says Ugandan leaders now have a trump card. If the election goes wrong, if a crackdown turns violent, a lecture from the United States will mean much less. BISH: So it'll be like, you first. Go back and clean up your mess before you come down here and tell us how to run our business. PERALTA: Hadia Serenjogi, who is 25, says when she was watching videos of the American chaos, she felt sad because it was clear President Trump had lost and the transition of power was in order. HADIA SERENJOGI: So when a person wins, they get into office, and the other one gets out. That's how life is. You can't die in office. PERALTA: She says this knowing full well that she's only known one president her entire life. But with less than a week to go before elections, President Yoweri Museveni is facing the toughest challenge of his 35-year rule. Bobi Wine, a young singer-turned-politician, has revived the opposition and revived this idea that maybe Uganda could see a peaceful transfer of power. But watching an assault on American democracy like that, says Serenjogi, shook her. SERENJOGI: It's scary to talk about democracy now here. Being able to recognize a real democracy is kind of a dream. Yes, it's kind of a dream because even the people who say they have a real democracy are like that. What about us? PERALTA: What happened at the Capitol makes it seem like democracy is always elusive, that it's this thing that could never be realized, she says. And that's what scares her. Eyder Peralta, NPR News, Kampala.

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Nightly News   |  October 22, 2013 Wearing the Niqab: Why Muslim women are choosing to wear the veil   Wearing a full face veil, or Niqab, in public in Britain is a way of life for some - but not all - Muslims. The Niqab isn't compulsory in Islamic law but there is now a new generation of younger Muslims who are opting to wear it regardless of whether their mothers or immediate family do. Channel Four Europe’s Darshna Soni reports.  Share This:

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