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Q: Android BMI calculation in CM and KG hye, i want to create BMI simple android application. i found this code but this code calculate in LBS and also INCH. but, my program need to create in KG and also CM. i already try to recode back. but, i still cant find the solution.
this is the code.
package com.example.bmicalculator;

    import android.app.Activity;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.widget.TextView;
    import android.widget.EditText;
    import android.widget.Button;
    import android.view.View;

    public class BMICalculatorActivity extends Activity {

    private EditText txtheight;
    private EditText txtweight;
    private TextView txtresult;
    private Button btncalculate;
    private double bmi = 0;
    private double valueheight = 0;
    private double valueweight = 0;
    private String resulttext;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        initControls();
        /*TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        tv.setText("BMI Calculator");
        setContentView(tv);*/

   }

    private void initControls() {
        txtheight = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtheight);
        txtweight = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtweight);
        txtresult = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtresult);
        btncalculate = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btncalculate);
        //btnreset = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnreset);
        btncalculate.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() { public void onClick (View v){ calculate(); }});
        //btnreset.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() { public void onClick (View v){ reset(); }});
    }

    private void calculate()    {
        valueheight =Double.parseDouble(txtheight.getText().toString());
        valueweight =Double.parseDouble(txtweight.getText().toString());
        bmi = (valueweight / (valueheight * valueheight));
        //txttipamount.setText(Double.toString(bmi));
        if (bmi >= 30) { /* obese */
            resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is OBESE.";
            txtresult.setText(resulttext);
        } else if (bmi >= 25) {
            resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is OVERWEIGHT.";
            txtresult.setText(resulttext);
        } else if (bmi >= 18.5) {
            resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is IDEAL.";
            txtresult.setText(resulttext);
        } else {
            resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is UNDERWEIGHT.";
            txtresult.setText(resulttext);
        }
    }
    private void reset()
    {
        txtresult.setText("Your BMI is unknown.");
        txtheight.setText("0");
        txtweight.setText("0");
    }

}

thanks in advance.

A: To get BMI (Body Mass Index) in metric, you need to divide weight in kilograms by height in meters^2. So if you are asking for height in cm, divide it by 100 before you do the calculation. Example:
private void calculate()    {
    valueheight =Double.parseDouble(txtheight.getText().toString());
    valueweight =Double.parseDouble(txtweight.getText().toString());
    Double valueheightmeters;

    valueheightmeters = valueheight / 100; // Converting to meters.
    bmi = (valueweight / (valueheightmeters * valueheightmeters));

    //txttipamount.setText(Double.toString(bmi));
    if (bmi >= 30) { /* obese */
        resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is OBESE.";
        txtresult.setText(resulttext);
    } else if (bmi >= 25) {
        resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is OVERWEIGHT.";
        txtresult.setText(resulttext);
    } else if (bmi >= 18.5) {
        resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is IDEAL.";
        txtresult.setText(resulttext);
    } else {
        resulttext = "Your BMI of " + Double.toString(bmi) + " is UNDERWEIGHT.";
        txtresult.setText(resulttext);
    }
}

Hope that helps!

A: int dCentimeter = selectedValue;
int feetPart = (int) ((dCentimeter / 2.54) / 12);
int inchesPart = (int) ((dCentimeter / 2.54) - (feetPart * 12)); tvMyHeight.setText(feetPart + "'" + inchesPenter code hereart + "\" ft in");


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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRS[2] (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944)
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Kendal, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Eddington approximation
Eddington experiment
Eddington limit
Eddington number
Eddington valve
Eddington–Dirac number
Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates
Royal Society Royal Medal (1928)
Smith's Prize (1907)
RAS Gold Medal (1924)
Henry Draper Medal (1924)
Bruce Medal (1924)
Knights Bachelor (1930)
Order of Merit (1938)
Robert Alfred Herman
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar[1]
Leslie Comrie
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Hermann Bondi
Horace Lamb
Arthur Schuster
John William Graham
Around 1920, he anticipated the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars, in his paper "The Internal Constitution of the Stars".[3][4] At that time, the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery; Eddington was the first to correctly speculate that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium.
Eddington wrote a number of articles that announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. World War I had severed many lines of scientific communication, and new developments in German science were not well known in England. He also conducted an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of general relativity, and he became known for his popular expositions and interpretations of the theory.
1 Early years
2.1 Dispute with Chandrasekhar on existence of black holes
3 Relativity
4 Cosmology
5 Fundamental theory and the Eddington number
5.1 Eddington number for cycling
6.1 Idealism
6.2 Indeterminism
7 Popular and philosophical writings
8.1 Obituaries
9 Honours
10 In popular culture
12.1 Astronomy
12.2 Science
12.3 People
12.4 Organizations
12.5 Other
Early yearsEdit
Eddington was born 28 December 1882 in Kendal, Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, the son of Quaker parents, Arthur Henry Eddington, headmaster of the Quaker School, and Sarah Ann Shout.[5]
His father taught at a Quaker training college in Lancashire before moving to Kendal to become headmaster of Stramongate School. He died in the typhoid epidemic which swept England in 1884. His mother was left to bring up her two children with relatively little income. The family moved to Weston-super-Mare where at first Stanley (as his mother and sister always called Eddington) was educated at home before spending three years at a preparatory school. The family lived at a house called Varzin, 42 Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare. There is a commemorative plaque on the building explaining Sir Arthur's contribution to science.
In 1893 Eddington entered Brynmelyn School. He proved to be a most capable scholar, particularly in mathematics and English literature. His performance earned him a scholarship to Owens College, Manchester (what was later to become the University of Manchester) in 1898, which he was able to attend, having turned 16 that year. He spent the first year in a general course, but turned to physics for the next three years. Eddington was greatly influenced by his physics and mathematics teachers, Arthur Schuster and Horace Lamb. At Manchester, Eddington lived at Dalton Hall, where he came under the lasting influence of the Quaker mathematician J. W. Graham. His progress was rapid, winning him several scholarships and he graduated with a BSc in physics with First Class Honours in 1902.
Based on his performance at Owens College, he was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1902. His tutor at Cambridge was Robert Alfred Herman and in 1904 Eddington became the first ever second-year student to be placed as Senior Wrangler. After receiving his M.A. in 1905, he began research on thermionic emission in the Cavendish Laboratory. This did not go well, and meanwhile he spent time teaching mathematics to first year engineering students. This hiatus was brief. Through a recommendation by E. T. Whittaker, his senior colleague at Trinity College, he secured a position at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich where he was to embark on his career in astronomy, a career whose seeds had been sown even as a young child when he would often "try to count the stars".[6]
Plaque at 42 Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare
AstronomyEdit
In January 1906, Eddington was nominated to the post of chief assistant to the Astronomer Royal at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. He left Cambridge for Greenwich the following month. He was put to work on a detailed analysis of the parallax of 433 Eros on photographic plates that had started in 1900. He developed a new statistical method based on the apparent drift of two background stars, winning him the Smith's Prize in 1907. The prize won him a Fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge. In December 1912 George Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, died suddenly and Eddington was promoted to his chair as the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in early 1913. Later that year, Robert Ball, holder of the theoretical Lowndean chair also died, and Eddington was named the director of the entire Cambridge Observatory the next year. In May 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society: he was awarded the Royal Medal in 1928 and delivered the Bakerian Lecture in 1926.[7]
Eddington also investigated the interior of stars through theory, and developed the first true understanding of stellar processes. He began this in 1916 with investigations of possible physical explanations for Cepheid variable stars. He began by extending Karl Schwarzschild's earlier work on radiation pressure in Emden polytropic models. These models treated a star as a sphere of gas held up against gravity by internal thermal pressure, and one of Eddington's chief additions was to show that radiation pressure was necessary to prevent collapse of the sphere. He developed his model despite knowingly lacking firm foundations for understanding opacity and energy generation in the stellar interior. However, his results allowed for calculation of temperature, density and pressure at all points inside a star (thermodynamic anisotropy), and Eddington argued that his theory was so useful for further astrophysical investigation that it should be retained despite not being based on completely accepted physics. James Jeans contributed the important suggestion that stellar matter would certainly be ionized, but that was the end of any collaboration between the pair, who became famous for their lively debates.
Eddington defended his method by pointing to the utility of his results, particularly his important mass-luminosity relation. This had the unexpected result of showing that virtually all stars, including giants and dwarfs, behaved as ideal gases. In the process of developing his stellar models, he sought to overturn current thinking about the sources of stellar energy. Jeans and others defended the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism, which was based on classical mechanics, while Eddington speculated broadly about the qualitative and quantitative consequences of possible proton-electron annihilation and nuclear fusion processes.
Around 1920, he anticipated the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars, in his paper The Internal Constitution of the Stars.[3][4] At that time, the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery; Eddington correctly speculated that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium, liberating enormous energy according to Einstein's equation E = mc2. This was a particularly remarkable development since at that time fusion and thermonuclear energy, and even the fact that stars are largely composed of hydrogen (see metallicity), had not yet been discovered. Eddington's paper, based on knowledge at the time, reasoned that:
The leading theory of stellar energy, the contraction hypothesis, should cause stars' rotation to visibly speed up due to conservation of angular momentum. But observations of Cepheid variable stars showed this was not happening.
The only other known plausible source of energy was conversion of matter to energy; Einstein had shown some years earlier that a small amount of matter was equivalent to a large amount of energy.
Francis Aston had also recently shown that the mass of a helium atom was about 0.8% less than the mass of the four hydrogen atoms which would, combined, form a helium atom, suggesting that if such a combination could happen, it would release considerable energy as a byproduct.
If a star contained just 5% of fusible hydrogen, it would suffice to explain how stars got their energy. (We now know that most 'ordinary' stars contain far more than 5% hydrogen)
Further elements might also be fused, and other scientists had speculated that stars were the "crucible" in which light elements combined to create heavy elements, but without more accurate measurements of their atomic masses nothing more could be said at the time.
All of these speculations were proven correct in the following decades.
With these assumptions, he demonstrated that the interior temperature of stars must be millions of degrees. In 1924, he discovered the mass-luminosity relation for stars (see Lecchini in #External links and references ). Despite some disagreement, Eddington's models were eventually accepted as a powerful tool for further investigation, particularly in issues of stellar evolution. The confirmation of his estimated stellar diameters by Michelson in 1920 proved crucial in convincing astronomers unused to Eddington's intuitive, exploratory style. Eddington's theory appeared in mature form in 1926 as The Internal Constitution of the Stars, which became an important text for training an entire generation of astrophysicists.
Eddington's work in astrophysics in the late 1920s and the 1930s continued his work in stellar structure, and precipitated further clashes with Jeans and Edward Arthur Milne. An important topic was the extension of his models to take advantage of developments in quantum physics, including the use of degeneracy physics in describing dwarf stars.
Dispute with Chandrasekhar on existence of black holesEdit
The topic of extension of his models precipitated his dispute with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who was then a student at Cambridge. Chandrasekhar's work presaged the discovery of black holes, which at the time seemed so absurdly non-physical that Eddington refused to believe that Chandrasekhar's purely mathematical derivation had consequences for the real world. Eddington was wrong and his motivation is controversial. Chandrasekhar's narrative of this incident, in which his work is harshly rejected, portrays Eddington as rather cruel, dogmatic, and racist. Eddington's criticism seems to have been based on a suspicion that a purely mathematical derivation from relativity theory was not enough to explain the seemingly daunting physical paradoxes that were inherent to degenerate stars.[8]
RelativityEdit
During World War I, Eddington was Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, which meant he was the first to receive a series of letters and papers from Willem de Sitter regarding Einstein's theory of general relativity. Eddington was fortunate in being not only one of the few astronomers with the mathematical skills to understand general relativity, but owing to his internationalist and pacifist views inspired by his Quaker religious beliefs,[6][9] one of the few at the time who was still interested in pursuing a theory developed by a German physicist. He quickly became the chief supporter and expositor of relativity in Britain. He and Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson organized two expeditions to observe a solar eclipse in 1919 to make the first empirical test of Einstein's theory: the measurement of the deflection of light by the sun's gravitational field. In fact, Dyson's argument for the indispensability of Eddington's expertise in this test was what prevented Eddington from eventually having to enter military service.[6][9]
When conscription was introduced in Britain on 2 March 1916, Eddington intended to apply for an exemption as a conscientious objector.[6] Cambridge University authorities instead requested and were granted an exemption on the ground of Eddington's work being of national interest. In 1918, this was appealed against by the Ministry of National Service. Before the appeal tribunal in June, Eddington claimed conscientious objector status, which was not recognized and would have ended his exemption in August 1918. A further two hearings took place in June and July, respectively. Eddington's personal statement at the June hearing about his objection to war based on religious grounds is on record.[6] Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Dyson, supported Eddington at the July hearing with a written statement, emphasising Eddington's essential role in the solar eclipse expedition to Príncipe in May 1919. Eddington made clear his willingness to serve in the Friends' Ambulance Unit, under the jurisdiction of the British Red Cross, or as a harvest labourer. However, the tribunal's decision to grant a further twelve months exemption from military service was on condition of Eddington continuing his astronomy work, in particular in preparation for the Príncipe expedition.[6][9] The war ended before the end of his exemption.
One of Eddington's photographs of the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919, presented in his 1920 paper announcing its success, confirming Einstein's theory that light "bends"
After the war, Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off the west coast of Africa to watch the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. During the eclipse, he took pictures of the stars (several stars in the Hyades cluster include Kappa Tauri of the constellation Taurus) in the region around the Sun.[10] According to the theory of general relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would appear to have been slightly shifted because their light had been curved by its gravitational field. This effect is noticeable only during eclipses, since otherwise the Sun's brightness obscures the affected stars. Eddington showed that Newtonian gravitation could be interpreted to predict half the shift predicted by Einstein.
Eddington's observations published the next year[10] confirmed Einstein's theory, and were hailed at the time as evidence of general relativity over the Newtonian model. The news was reported in newspapers all over the world as a major story. Afterward, Eddington embarked on a campaign to popularize relativity and the expedition as landmarks both in scientific development and international scientific relations.
It has been claimed that Eddington's observations were of poor quality, and he had unjustly discounted simultaneous observations at Sobral, Brazil, which appeared closer to the Newtonian model, but a 1979 re-analysis with modern measuring equipment and contemporary software validated Eddington's results and conclusions.[11] The quality of the 1919 results was indeed poor compared to later observations, but was sufficient to persuade contemporary astronomers. The rejection of the results from the Brazil expedition was due to a defect in the telescopes used which, again, was completely accepted and well understood by contemporary astronomers.[12]
The minute book of Cambridge ∇2V Club for the meeting where Eddington presented his observations of the curvature of light around the sun, confirming Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. They include the line "A general discussion followed. The President remarked that the 83rd meeting was historic".
Throughout this period, Eddington lectured on relativity, and was particularly well known for his ability to explain the concepts in lay terms as well as scientific. He collected many of these into the Mathematical Theory of Relativity in 1923, which Albert Einstein suggested was "the finest presentation of the subject in any language." He was an early advocate of Einstein's General Relativity, and an interesting anecdote well illustrates his humour and personal intellectual investment: Ludwik Silberstein, a physicist who thought of himself as an expert on relativity, approached Eddington at the Royal Society's (6 November) 1919 meeting where he had defended Einstein's Relativity with his Brazil-Príncipe Solar Eclipse calculations with some degree of skepticism, and ruefully charged Arthur as one who claimed to be one of three men who actually understood the theory (Silberstein, of course, was including himself and Einstein as the other). When Eddington refrained from replying, he insisted Arthur not be "so shy", whereupon Eddington replied, "Oh, no! I was wondering who the third one might be!"[13]
CosmologyEdit
Eddington was also heavily involved with the development of the first generation of general relativistic cosmological models. He had been investigating the instability of the Einstein universe when he learned of both Lemaître's 1927 paper postulating an expanding or contracting universe and Hubble's work on the recession of the spiral nebulae. He felt the cosmological constant must have played the crucial role in the universe's evolution from an Einsteinian steady state to its current expanding state, and most of his cosmological investigations focused on the constant's significance and characteristics. In The Mathematical Theory of Relativity, Eddington interpreted the cosmological constant to mean that the universe is "self-gauging".
Fundamental theory and the Eddington numberEdit
During the 1920s until his death, Eddington increasingly concentrated on what he called "fundamental theory" which was intended to be a unification of quantum theory, relativity, cosmology, and gravitation. At first he progressed along "traditional" lines, but turned increasingly to an almost numerological analysis of the dimensionless ratios of fundamental constants.
His basic approach was to combine several fundamental constants in order to produce a dimensionless number. In many cases these would result in numbers close to 1040, its square, or its square root. He was convinced that the mass of the proton and the charge of the electron were a natural and complete specification for constructing a Universe and that their values were not accidental. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, Paul Dirac, also pursued this line of investigation, which has become known as the Dirac large numbers hypothesis, and some scientists even today believe it has something to it.[citation needed]
A somewhat damaging statement in his defence of these concepts involved the fine structure constant, α. At the time it was measured to be very close to 1/136, and he argued that the value should in fact be exactly 1/136 for epistemological reasons. Later measurements placed the value much closer to 1/137, at which point he switched his line of reasoning to argue that one more should be added to the degrees of freedom, so that the value should in fact be exactly 1/137, the Eddington number.[14] Wags at the time started calling him "Arthur Adding-one".[15] This change of stance detracted from Eddington's credibility in the physics community. The current measured value is estimated at 1/137.035 999 074(44).
Eddington believed he had identified an algebraic basis for fundamental physics, which he termed "E-numbers" (representing a certain group – a Clifford algebra). These in effect incorporated spacetime into a higher-dimensional structure. While his theory has long been neglected by the general physics community, similar algebraic notions underlie many modern attempts at a grand unified theory. Moreover, Eddington's emphasis on the values of the fundamental constants, and specifically upon dimensionless numbers derived from them, is nowadays a central concern of physics. In particular, he predicted a number of hydrogen atoms in the Universe 136 × 2256, or equivalently the half of the total number of particles protons + electrons.[16] He did not complete this line of research before his death in 1944; his book Fundamental Theory was published posthumously in 1948.
Eddington number for cyclingEdit
Eddington is credited with devising a measure of a cyclist's long-distance riding achievements. The Eddington number in the context of cycling is defined as the maximum number E such that the cyclist has cycled E miles on E days.[17][18] For example, an Eddington number of 70 would imply that the cyclist has cycled at least 70 miles in a day on 70 occasions. Achieving a high Eddington number is difficult since moving from, say, 70 to 75 will probably require more than five new long distance rides, since any rides shorter than 75 miles will no longer be included in the reckoning. Eddington's own E-number was 84.[19]
The Eddington number for cycling is analogous to the h-index that quantifies both the actual scientific productivity and the apparent scientific impact of a scientist.
The Eddington Number for cycling involves units of both distance and time. For example, an E of 62 means a cyclist has covered 62 or more miles on 62 or more days. 62 miles is the same distance as 100 km. However, it is possible that the cyclist, while having covered 100 km on 62 days or more, may not have covered 100 km on 100 days or more. Thus the order of bicyclists may change depending on units used. Using the original miles, one cyclist may have an Eddington number of 60 – 60 miles (97 km) in 60 days, another of 50 (corresponding to 80 km). However, the latter may be a regular on a distance like this and get a km-Eddington of 80, while the former only had those 60 days riding, and thus stays at a km-Eddington of 60.
PhilosophyEdit
IdealismEdit
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Eddington wrote in his book The Nature of the Physical World that "The stuff of the world is mind-stuff."
The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds ... The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time; these are part of the cyclic scheme ultimately derived out of it ... It is necessary to keep reminding ourselves that all knowledge of our environment from which the world of physics is constructed, has entered in the form of messages transmitted along the nerves to the seat of consciousness ... Consciousness is not sharply defined, but fades into subconsciousness; and beyond that we must postulate something indefinite but yet continuous with our mental nature ... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference.
—  Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 276–81.
The idealist conclusion was not integral to his epistemology but was based on two main arguments.
The first derives directly from current physical theory. Briefly, mechanical theories of the ether and of the behaviour of fundamental particles have been discarded in both relativity and quantum physics. From this, Eddington inferred that a materialistic metaphysics was outmoded and that, in consequence, since the disjunction of materialism or idealism are assumed to be exhaustive, an idealistic metaphysics is required. The second, and more interesting argument, was based on Eddington's epistemology, and may be regarded as consisting of two parts. First, all we know of the objective world is its structure, and the structure of the objective world is precisely mirrored in our own consciousness. We therefore have no reason to doubt that the objective world too is "mind-stuff". Dualistic metaphysics, then, cannot be evidentially supported.
But, second, not only can we not know that the objective world is nonmentalistic, we also cannot intelligibly suppose that it could be material. To conceive of a dualism entails attributing material properties to the objective world. However, this presupposes that we could observe that the objective world has material properties. But this is absurd, for whatever is observed must ultimately be the content of our own consciousness, and consequently, nonmaterial.
Ian Barbour, in his book Issues in Science and Religion (1966), p. 133, cites Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World (1928) for a text that argues the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for "the defense of the idea of human freedom" and his Science and the Unseen World (1929) for support of philosophical idealism "the thesis that reality is basically mental".
Charles De Koninck points out that Eddington believed in objective reality existing apart from our minds, but was using the phrase "mind-stuff" to highlight the inherent intelligibility of the world: that our minds and the physical world are made of the same "stuff" and that our minds are the inescapable connection to the world.[20] As De Koninck quotes Eddington,
There is a doctrine well known to philosophers that the moon ceases to exist when no one is looking at it. I will not discuss the doctrine since I have not the least idea what is the meaning of the word existence when used in this connection. At any rate the science of astronomy has not been based on this spasmodic kind of moon. In the scientific world (which has to fulfill functions less vague than merely existing) there is a moon which appeared on the scene before the astronomer; it reflects sunlight when no one sees it; it has mass when no one is measuring the mass; it is distant 240,000 miles from the earth when no one is surveying the distance; and it will eclipse the sun in 1999 even if the human race has succeeded in killing itself off before that date.
—  Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 226
IndeterminismEdit
See also: Indeterminism and Indeterminism in science
Against Albert Einstein and others who advocated determinism, indeterminism—championed by Eddington[20]—says that a physical object has an ontologically undetermined component that is not due to the epistemological limitations of physicists' understanding. The uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics, then, would not necessarily be due to hidden variables but to an indeterminism in nature itself.
Popular and philosophical writingsEdit
Eddington wrote a parody of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, recounting his 1919 solar eclipse experiment. It contained the following quatrain:[21]
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate
One thing at least is certain, LIGHT has WEIGHT,
One thing is certain, and the rest debate—
Light-rays, when near the Sun, DO NOT GO STRAIGHT.
During the 1920s and 30s, Eddington gave numerous lectures, interviews, and radio broadcasts on relativity, in addition to his textbook The Mathematical Theory of Relativity, and later, quantum mechanics. Many of these were gathered into books, including The Nature of the Physical World and New Pathways in Science. His use of literary allusions and humour helped make these difficult subjects more accessible.
Eddington's books and lectures were immensely popular with the public, not only because of his clear exposition, but also for his willingness to discuss the philosophical and religious implications of the new physics. He argued for a deeply rooted philosophical harmony between scientific investigation and religious mysticism, and also that the positivist nature of relativity and quantum physics provided new room for personal religious experience and free will. Unlike many other spiritual scientists, he rejected the idea that science could provide proof of religious propositions.
He is sometimes misunderstood[by whom?] as having promoted the infinite monkey theorem in his 1928 book The Nature of the Physical World, with the phrase "If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum". It is clear from the context that Eddington is not suggesting that the probability of this happening is worthy of serious consideration. On the contrary, it was a rhetorical illustration of the fact that below certain levels of probability, the term improbable is functionally equivalent to impossible.
His popular writings made him a household name in Great Britain between the world wars.
Eddington died of cancer in the Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge, on 22 November 1944.[22] He was unmarried. His body was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium (Cambridgeshire) on 27 November 1944; the cremated remains were buried in the grave of his mother in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge.
Cambridge University's North West Cambridge Development has been named "Eddington" in his honour.
ObituariesEdit
Obituary by Henry Norris Russell, Astrophysical Journal 101 (1943–46) 133
Obituary by A. Vibert Douglas, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 39 (1943–46) 1
Obituary by H. Spencer Jones and E. T. Whittaker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 105 (1943–46) 68
Obituary by Herbert Dingle, The Observatory 66 (1943–46) 1
The Times, Thursday, 23 November 1944; pg. 7; Issue 49998; col D: Obituary (unsigned) – Image of cutting available at O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Arthur Eddington", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
HonoursEdit
Bruce Medal of Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1924)[23]
Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1924)[24]
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1924)
Foreign membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1926)[25]
Prix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society) (1928)
Royal Medal of the Royal Society (1928)
Knighthood (1930)
Hon. Freeman of Kendal, 1930[26]
Named after him
Lunar crater Eddington
asteroid 2761 Eddington
Royal Astronomical Society's Eddington Medal
Eddington mission, now cancelled
Eddington Tower, halls of residence at the University of Essex
Eddington Astronomical Society, an amateur society based in his hometown of Kendal
Eddington, a house (group of students, used for in-school sports matches) of Kirkbie Kendal School
Eddington, new suburb of North West Cambridge, opened in 2017
Gave the Swarthmore Lecture in 1929
Chairman of the National Peace Council 1941–1943
President of the International Astronomical Union; of the Physical Society, 1930–32; of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1921–23[26]
Romanes Lecturer, 1922[26]
Gifford Lecturer, 1927[26]
In popular cultureEdit
Eddington is a central figure in the short story "The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt" by Bertrand Russell, a work featured in The Mathematical Magpie by Clifton Fadiman.
He was portrayed by David Tennant in the television film Einstein and Eddington, a co-production of the BBC and HBO, broadcast in the United Kingdom on Saturday, 22 November 2008, on BBC2.
His thoughts on humour and religious experience were quoted in the adventure game The Witness (2016 video game), a production of the Thelka, Inc., released on 26 January 2016.
Time placed him on the cover on 16 April 1934.[27]
1914. Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe. London: Macmillan.
1918. Report on the relativity theory of gravitation. London, Fleetway press, Ltd.
1920. Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33709-7
1923, 1952. The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge University Press.
1925. The Domain of Physical Science. 2005 reprint: ISBN 1-4253-5842-X
1926. Stars and Atoms. Oxford: British Association.
1926. The Internal Constitution of Stars. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33708-9
1928. The Nature of the Physical World. MacMillan. 1935 replica edition: ISBN 0-8414-3885-4, University of Michigan 1981 edition: ISBN 0-472-06015-5 (1926–27 Gifford lectures)
1929. Science and the Unseen World. US Macmillan, UK Allen & Unwin. 1980 Reprint Arden Library ISBN 0-8495-1426-6. 2004 US reprint — Whitefish, Montana : Kessinger Publications: ISBN 1-4179-1728-8. 2007 UK reprint London, Allen & Unwin ISBN 978-0-901689-81-8 (Swarthmore Lecture), with a new foreword by George Ellis.
1930. Why I Believe in God: Science and Religion, as a Scientist Sees It
1933. The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34976-1
1935. New Pathways in Science. Cambridge University Press.
1936. Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons. Cambridge Univ. Press.
1939. Philosophy of Physical Science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-7581-2054-0 (1938 Tarner lectures at Cambridge)
1946. Fundamental Theory. Cambridge University Press.
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Facebook's Quest For Cognitive Diversity: A Conversation With Maxine Williams
Last week I sat down with Maxine Williams, the Global Chief Diversity Officer at Facebook, to chat about Diversity and Inclusion at the social media powerhouse. If you are not familiar with Maxine Williams, let me say that she is a real force of nature when it comes to Diversity and Inclusion. Her passion for the cause is palpable and I have to admit the candor in which she talks about the inequities of the world made me feel like stepping up my own effort in making a difference.
Williams' passion has been central to her career since graduating from Yale University and receiving her law degree from Oxford University and then working as an attorney in criminal, civil and industrial courts and as a Director of Diversity at a global law firm. The skills she acquired as a lawyer from sifting through a lot of information to understanding the intersections of the data and prioritizing issues and outcomes all come into play in her current role at Facebook.
Cognitive Diversity Makes For A Better Business
Every time I ask diversity and inclusion (D&I) leaders about their effort, I never want to assume we start from the same idea of what D&I means to them and their company, so that is where I begin my conversation with Williams. She tells me that her focus at Facebook is to grow cognitive diversity in every team across the company. Cognitive diversity means having different ways of thinking based on people having different backgrounds, experiences and information. "We want people to think differently," says Williams, "because we believe that it will help us build better products, solve harder problems, come up with better solutions because the perspective each person on the team brings is unique." To achieve cognitive diversity, Williams takes a very pragmatic approach and one that fits in well with Facebook's DNA: she relies on data. Any company in the US looking to hire has data on five aspects of one's identity: race, ethnicity, disability status, veteran status and gender. These are the data points the Facebook's D&I team focuses on. They analyze the data and design hiring strategies that deliberately target the gap they have that prevents them from achieving total cognitive diversity.
Focusing on cognitive diversity rather than diversity per se also makes for an easier buy-in from everybody in the company because the goal is not closing a gap or hire more of this group or that group. The goal is to be the best, achieve the best results. "If you focus on cognitive diversity and the positive impact that has on the business and its products," says Williams "it's easier for everybody to see the value of diversity and get behind it because you shift the conversation from what is best for them to what is best for all of us."
Inclusion Impacts All
The more I listen to Williams speak, the more I believe that her practical approach makes it easier to understand the nuances of diversity and inclusion. You often hear people talk about diversity and inclusion in one quick breath. But, as Williams continues to explain what D&I means for Facebook, she says something that I have not heard before: "We hire for diversity, but we build an environment that is inclusive for all."
It seems such an obvious point and yet most people relate inclusion with those five variables you can address through hiring: race, ethnicity, gender, veteran and disability status. Building an inclusive environment, however, means to create a workplace where people of all religions or all sexual orientations or socio-economic status have a voice and can contribute.
Being practical also means recognizing that some people's voice can get heard more than others. In contrast, some people might find themselves in a situation that is unsafe because of the viewpoint or opinion they voice as, after all, "there is a tax in being the underrepresented group," says Williams. Creative an inclusive environment means making sure that those who would be penalized for expressing their voice are as safe as possible.
Taking this pragmatic approach of hiring for diversity and building for inclusion should result in better representation across the board.
Lack Of Data And History Are The Hurdles Faced By D&I
I had watched Maxine Williams's keynote address at Wharton People Analytics Conference and I have also dedicated a big part of my own work to research, so I understand how much of a hindering factor "the n is too small" (meaning a small sample base) is when it comes to tackling diversity. You need data to address diversity, but the data sample you can get is too small to be meaningful. In other words, you need a more diverse workplace to obtain sufficient data to better inform you of how to solve the lack of diversity in the workplace. Like Williams explained it in her keynote, "it is as if you are saying to me, if there were more of you, then we could tell you why there are so few of you."
I thought this lack of data, this "n" that is too small would be the most frustrating hurdle she faces as a diversity and inclusion leader.
It turns out, I was wrong. History is the biggest hurdle.
Williams explains how we often look at the world of D&I like an island. We might think that diversity and inclusion leaders can address diversity just by hiring more women or people of color, but what they are trying to solve is "one small piece of a way bigger, older puzzle that has to do with centuries of inequality and injustice, and unequal opportunity and oppression and discrimination. You're trying to make an impact and change. And because you're building on top of a foundation, which is shaky, faulty and problematic, the change that you want to see never moves as fast as you want it to move."
Diversity And Inclusion Is Not Charity Work
If the status quo recognizes that there are imbalances in power, they are also able to recognize their own privilege and the experience others have. Supporting diversity and inclusion should not be about other people; it should be about all of us. "The moment you start thinking you are doing something for someone else, it starts to feel like charity," says Williams "we are all better off in a diverse, inclusive and more balanced world."
Being supportive can be as simple as noticing whose voice is not being heard during a meeting and make space for it. Like when someone in a meeting is constantly cut off or talked over, say something. When you do, you are not helping someone, "you are making room for the potential that person has to offer that will benefit everybody in that room." So powerful to think about it as empowering the opportunity for greatness rather than empowering someone. You might think it is semantics, but it really is about shifting the focus to the result the "North Star" as Williams referred to. It changes the entire dynamic between those who have and those who don't.
In the end, it all comes back to the people. We cannot change history or make our foundation stronger, but we can change the pattern, we can make it better. As I worry about how "the n is too small" might make the foundation of our AI driving future shaky, Williams delivers the most insightful thought yet: "Computers are agnostics, they have no opinions. Machine learning builds on patterns, so we actually need to work on making what people do, how people interact with each other, what opportunities people give to each other, whose voices get heard. All of that matters, whether you are building a diversity and inclusion strategy or an algorithm. Rather than worry about how inclusive AI will be tomorrow, we should focus on changing society today."
This article was originally published on Forbes.com


Although this is not really new information; it appears that there is enough evidence that the major players in the e-book market have been collaborating to keep e-book prices higher than they should be in the US that an investigation has been started into this. The investigation comes just days after a similar announcement from the EU which is focusing on five of the largest publishing companies and Apple.
When the e-book first hit the market back in the days of the original Kindle the average book price was around $10. This was not exceptionally high, but was also not terribly cheap either. However, shortly after this it appears that publishers became concerned over the fate of their paper and hardback books sales and sought to push the prices up to compensate for what they felt was a danger to that side of the market. This fear and knee jerk reaction is very similar to what the MPAA and RIAA had over portable media players and the introduction of the DVR and HTPC.
However, while the RIAA and MPAA sought a way to legally stop the digital era, publishers tried to find a way to unfairly profit from it. The new publisher imposed pricing agreements began when Apple launched the iPad and their new iBooks application. They signed agreements with Apple and others that allowed them (the publishers) to set the prices instead of allowing them to be set by the retailers (who were now given a fixed 30% of the sale price).
These investigations are not the first of their kind though. Recently LCP panel makers were hit with a hefty fine for fixing the price of LCD monitors.


There is a movement afoot in this country. Some call it revolutionary. More than 110 new age "Villages" have cropped up in the United States. There are another 120 in development according to the Village to Village Network. You probably have not heard of this grassroots movement because it is the work of old people — senior citizens.
"It's a grass-roots movement on the part of older people who did not want to be patronized, isolated, infantilized," one participant recently told NPR. "That's what we felt was out there for us. And we felt quite competent in taking care of ourselves."
The village community model combines aging in place with an interdependent support network. This arrangement helps make aging alone possible as members progressively age and need more assistance. Older members of a neighborhood or group of neighborhoods are linked with one another as well as with a network of volunteer and paid services. It is this interdependence component that separates Villages from traditional assisted living.
Studies show that most Americans would prefer to stay where they are as they get older. One AARP survey found that 89 percent of Americans would like to live in their current homes as long as possible. That number rose to 95 percent when people over age 75 were asked the question.
If you are among the Baby Boomer generation, you need to be looking carefully at this development. Before you know it, figuring out how to live independently is one of the many challenges you will be facing. You will also find that it can be mighty lonely out there; families disperse, friends are lost or fade away. Many experts believe that a loneliness epidemic is developing in the United States and the U.S. should consider following Britain's lead in making loneliness a public-health priority.
While research on loneliness among all adults in the U.S. is scarce, a 2012 study found that between 20 and 43 percent of American adults over age 60 experienced "frequent or intense" loneliness. Loneliness wreaks havoc on health because it removes the safety net of social support. Feeling lonely has been found to increase a person's risk of dying early by 26 percent. It is worse for the body than obesity or air pollution.
Baby boomers need to realize that middle age will soon be in the rearview mirror. What will they do then — especially if they should find themselves alone? Research shows these to be questions people between the ages of 40 to 65 tend to avoid. This even holds true when they are caregivers struggling to assist an aging parent through loss of mobility, memory and independence. They still cannot imagine themselves in their parent's shoes some day. If they did, they might look differently at the limited choices in care their loved ones face.
In her book "With a Little Help From Our Friends," journalist and author Beth Baker notes that as recently as 1900, the average life expectancy in the United States was 45. In a typical family, the father would die before the children left home. "The whole notion of empty nest is a modern concept. The notion of retirement is a modern concept. These are hugely significant developments," she writes.
Baker believes that modern society has developed a sense of ambivalence about the meaning of old age. She reminds us that older people were once viewed with respect and admiration and seen as wise counselors. The loss and frailty that accompanies old age were understood to give elders more compassion and wisdom than younger people who had not yet faced life's trials. Today, old age is viewed as a vexing problem. It is often defined by physical and cognitive decline of people who are economically useless.
Baker writes about a 2013 Yale School of Public Health study documenting extreme ageism on Facebook. It found 84 groups consisting of more than 25,000 members focused on older people. Of these groups, all but one were sites where people espoused extremely negative views of their elders. One group even proclaiming that anyone "over the age of 69 should immediately face a firing squad," while other groups described elders as "infantile" people who should not be allowed to drive or shop.
Older people were seen as no more than a problem that needed fixing. The solution included the development of tens of thousands of nursing homes, assisted living and retirement communities. To fend off the stigma of aging, a $100 billion industry of "anti-aging" products emerged. Forgotten was the lesson of the Blue Zones, those rare longevity hotspots around the world where people value their elders and keep them close.
Increasingly today — through researchers, advocates and older people themselves — there is push back against long-held ageism. Aging in place and naturally occurring retirement communities such as The Village are challenging the assumption that being old, by definition, means being frail, vulnerable, and helpless.
Research shows that older people who believe they have something valuable to contribute to their families and their communities feel healthier. They are much more likely to successfully age in place than their peers who hold more negative views about their lives.
As Baker points out, the truth is that old age is a frontier that none of us can predict until we're trekking through the middle of it. The essential question facing each of us as we age is: how can we balance our desire for independence with staying connected to others?
The end of life is a nonnegotiable thing. What we cannot lose sight of is that the quality and exact length of that life is something we very much have the power to shape.


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Cameron 'interested' in linking pension age to life expectancy
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Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed his admiration for the Norwegian pension system, where the retirement age increases as life expectancy goes up, but insisted he does not want people to 'work until you drop'.
Speaking at the Northern Future Forum in Sweden yesterday, Mr Cameron said he was 'very interested' in the Norwegian system, which he said had made retirement a 'process rather than a cliff edge' by making the state pension age more flexible.
The changes which the Norwegian government began introducing last year involve a new life expectancy adjustment being made to the retirement age. Higher payments are made to people who work the longest, up to the age of 75, while the also system aims to encourage people to both work and claim a pension.
Following discussions with Prime Ministers from eight Nordic and Baltic nations, Mr Cameron said everyone agreed there was a need for 'greater flexibility' in the pension and retirement options available to older people.
'For an increasing number of people, retirement will become a process rather than an event and I think what we're talking about here is to have things like flexible working,' he said.
In particular, he said it was important to make sure there was no 'culture of discriminating against older people'.
He added: 'What we're all saying is we need to have greater flexibility. We need to have a system that allows people greater choices and greater chances.'
Mr Cameron stressed, however, that 'I don't think anyone is saying you must work until you're 75'. He added: 'No one is talking about people who have done hard manual labour continuing inthose jobs year after year, but we should give people chances and choices to do other jobs.'
He claimed the coalition's plans, which will see the retirement age increase from 65 to 67 in 2026, would make it easier for people to stay on and work if they wanted to. He also said a later retirement age was necessary to ensure that an aging population still received a 'good' and 'well-funded' state pension.
This article appeared in our February 2012 issue of The Actuary.


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Now You Know: What Happens If the President Gets Drunk?
President Richard M. Nixon, right, and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev drink a toast at the White House in Washington, June 21, 1973. The toast comes after the two leaders signed a pact to limit offensive nuclear arsenals.
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While the 25th Amendment provides guidance about what happens if the President is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office" there's no clear provision for the extremely temporary instance of having had too much to drink. The law provides no standard guidelines for what to do if the President drinks to excess and no clarification of how much is too much to govern or be seen in public—and social standards on that last point have changed dramatically over the years.
"When you talk about presidents drinking in the White House, alcohol is a moving part like anything else," says Brian Abrams, author of Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief From the Oval Office. "I don't think there's some definitive answer that when the president gets drunk it's bad." Abrams says history is full of both positive and negative stories about presidential drinking habits, ranging from favorite liquors and celebrations to the appearance of extravagance and questions of who is in charge.
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Abrams does note that presidents tend to curtail their drinking by the time they get to the White House. "I don't care if it's the 1880s or the 1980s, people are watching you, and your time is more precious," he says. "There are more people to see, there's more to do and so you probably, on a practical level, don't have time." Take, for example, Ulysses S. Grant: While there are stories of Grant being very intoxicated while in the army, even as a General during the Civil War and even to the point of illness, Abrams says there was no real account of Grant being recklessly drunk during his time as President.
Which is not to say that presidents don't drink. For example, Lyndon Johnson was known to drive around his Texas ranch in a white Lincoln continental convertible, followed by Secret service agents in a station wagon, enjoying a drink. Joseph A. Califano Jr, who served as Special Assistant to Johnson, described the scene:
The President drank Cutty Sark scotch and soda out of a large white plastic foam cup. Periodically, Johnson would slow down and hold his left arm outside the car, shaking the cup and ice. A Secret Service agent would run up to the car, take the cup and go back to the station wagon. There another agent would refill it with ice, scotch, and soda as the first agent trotted behind the wagon. Then the first agent would run the refilled cup up to LBJ's outstretched and waiting hand, as the President's car moved slowly along.
Abrams says that Johnson's drives weren't just an opportunity to relax, but were also an instance in which Johnson would use the casual atmosphere to butter up reporters and congressmen alike.
Stories about presidential drinking often lead to Richard Nixon, who provides perhaps the best moment-by-moment example of what actually does happen if a President is drunk. Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote a book about Nixon's last days in the White House in which they note that the President's "inability to handle more than one drink was well known to his intimates." Between Nixon's low tolerance and his tendency to record what was going on in his office, he provided a helpful record for historians of this question. The answer, if Nixon is any indication, is that business continues as usual—with the assistance of those who can run interference until the President sleeps it off.
For example, on Oct. 11, 1973 at 7:55 p.m., transcripts of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's telephone conversations show he took a call from Brent Scowcroft, who was then an assistant in the administration. The Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt was underway and 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's office, had called to inquire if Nixon would be available to talk to the British Prime Minister on the subject of the Middle East. Kissinger and Scowcroft decided that, despite the pressing business, the P.M. could either talk to Kissinger or he could wait.
"Can we tell them no?" Kissinger asked Scowcroft. "When I talked to the President he was loaded."
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Amazon forest area is burned in rural Novo Progresso north of Brazil on Thursday, August 28, 2019. (Photo: Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
'Terrifying' New Climate Models Warn of 6-7°C of Warming by 2100 If Emissions Not Slashed
"Global greenhouse gas emissions need to decline today rather than tomorrow, and global CO2 emissions should be brought to net zero."
New climate models unveiled by French researchers Tuesday showed Earth's average temperature could rise a "terrifying" 6.5-7.0°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century if dramatic action is not immediately taken to slash carbon emissions.
The findings, presented at a press conference in Paris, suggest the planet may be warming significantly faster than scientists previously believed as the world's major economies continue to burn fossil fuels at unsustainable rates.
"Unfortunately, our global failure to implement meaningful action on climate change over recent decades has put us in a situation where what we need to do to keep warming to safe levels is extremely simple," Joeri Rogelj, an associate professor at Imperial College London, told AFP. "Global greenhouse gas emissions need to decline today rather than tomorrow, and global CO2 emissions should be brought to net zero."
The new models are expected to form part of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report, which is set to be published in 2021. The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, published in 2014, presented a worst-case scenario of five degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century.
Olivier Boucher, head of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace Climate Modeling Center in Paris, which developed one of the new models, said the latest data provide a better look at where the climate is heading without drastic changes to global energy production.
"We have better models now," Boucher told AFP on Tuesday. "They have better resolution, and they represent current climate trends more accurately."
Bloomberg reported that just "one of the updated climate models used by the researchers allowed for the global temperature increase to remain below 2°C by the end of the century." That model assumed global carbon neutrality by 2060.
The worst-case scenario of 6.5-7.0°C of warming assumed continued economic expansion driven by growth of fossil fuel production.
That 2.5 degree global temperature increase that was predicted to happen this century has been revised to 6.5-7 degrees. This is not good. https://t.co/DDZFSRAmSj
— Megara9 (@Meg9Time) September 17, 2019
The IPCC warned last year that even limiting planetary warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century, the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement, would not prevent many of the disastrous effects of the climate crisis. Warming of 6.5-7.0°C would be catastrophic.
"Higher warming would allow less time to adapt and mean a greater likelihood of passing climate 'tipping points' such as thawing of permafrost, which would further accelerate warming," said Boucher.
In an email to Common Dreams, Penn State University climate scientist Michael E. Mann sounded a note of caution about the dire scenarios predicted by the new models.
"Some earlier versions of the models appeared to underestimate climate sensitivity somewhat," said Mann, "and I suspect that some of these more recent versions are actually over-estimating it a bit."
"I suspect, when all is said and done, we're probably looking at something in the range of 3-4°C and no higher, at least for near-term warming," Mann added. "If we allow the warm[ing] to persist for centuries, then other long-term positive feedbacks (vicious cycles) could kick in, giving us substantially more warming."


We caught up with a bearded Dustin Hoffman as he made a quick stop to a newsstand.
The Oscar-winning star gave us a rather empathetic point of view of Trump and his supporters and suggested checking out the book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by J.D Vance in order to understand that perspective.
But the best part of this video, is at the end when The Hoff (yes, we're gonna call him that), asks our camera guy if the picture of Biggie Smalls on his t-shirt is his son. HA! Really?! Who doesn't know who Biggie is? Dustin Hoffman doesn't, that's who. But that's ok, because he's busy making great films, and winning Oscars, and reading books to understand the Trump mentality.


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Michelle-Antoine David, zwany Dawid Starszy (ur. ok. 1707, zm. 17 marca 1769) – typograf i wydawca francuski, jeden z Encyklopedystów.

Pochodził z rodziny drukarzy. Był synem Michela Etienne'a Davida, paryskiego drukarza i konsula, wnukiem drukarza Michela Dawida oraz siostrzeńcem drukarza i bibliotekarza Davida Christopha. Szkolił się od września 1727 do stycznia 1732 u paryskiego drukarza Claude'a-Louisa Thiboust'a. Członkiem gildii księgarzy i drukarzy Paryża został w 1732 roku.

Działalność edytorską prowadził w Paryżu w latach 1732 - 1769. Jeden z czterech głównych wydawców Wielkiej Encyklopedii Francuskiej (Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences) wraz z Bretonem, Durandem, Briassonem i Durandem. Jej kolejne tomy ukazywały się sukcesywnie od 1751 roku.

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Bibliografia
 Augustin-Martin Lottin, Katalog chronologiczny księgarni i drukarni Paryża od roku 1470... do tej pory, Paryż, 1789, 2 t.
 Marie-Anne Merland i Jehanne Reyniers, "Fortune Andre-Francois Lebreton", Revue française d'histoire du livre, 1979 roku.
 Jean-Dominique Mellot i Élisabeth Queval, Katalog drukarni (ok. 1500 - ok. 1810), Paryż, Biblioteka Narodowa Francji, 2004, str. 170.

Francuscy drukarze
Księgarze
Francuscy wydawcy
Twórcy Encyclopédie
Urodzeni w 1707
Zmarli w 1769

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The diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) vaccine can prevent diphtheria, but its protection does not last forever. Children need another dose, or booster, at about age 12. Then, as adults, they should get a booster every 10 years. Diphtheria is very rare in the United States because of the vaccine.


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Plusieurs navires de la Marine française ont porté le nom dÉole, d'après le dieu grec :
 l', un navire de ligne de 36 canons lancé en 1656 ;
 l', un navire de ligne de 44 canons lancé en 1674 ;
 l', un navire de ligne de 44 canons lancé en 1692 ;
 l', un navire de ligne de 44 canons lancé en 1734 ;
 l', un vaisseau de 74 canons de classe Téméraire lancé en 1789 ;
 le , navire de ligne de 64 canons, est nommé Éole pendant sa construction ;
 l', un vaisseau de 74 canons de classe Téméraire brièvement renommé Éole durant la Restauration ;
 l', navire de ligne de 100 canons de classe Hercule, est nommé Éole durant sa construction.

Voir aussi

Nom de bateau de la Marine française


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Original Language Title: Ley 30
law no 030
LAW OF JULY 14, 2010
EVO MORALES AYMA
CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA
For the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, it has The following Act:
THE PLURINATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
D E C R E T A:
Article 1. Is it ratified? Agreement between the Republic of Bolivia and the Republic of Chile for Cooperation
between the National Police of Bolivia and Carabineros of Chile?, signed in Santiago de Chile on November 21, 2008.
Article 2. The Executive Body through an Interpretive Declaration, must communicate to the Government of the
Republic of Chile, that the denominations of? Republic of Bolivia? and? National Police? should be understood as? Plurinational State of Bolivia? and? Bolivian Police, in accordance with the Constitution of the State, promulgated on February 7, 2009.
Remit to the Executive Body, for constitutional purposes.
It is given in the Session Room of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, seven days of the month of July of the year
two thousand ten.
Fdo. René Oscar Martínez Callahuanca, Héctor Enrique Arce Zaconeta, Andrés A. Villca Daza, Clementina
Garnica Cruz, Pedro Nuny Caity, José Antonio Yucra Paredes.
Therefore, it has been enacted to comply with the law of the State. Plurinational of Bolivia.
Palace of Government of the city of La Paz, at the fourteen days of the month of July of two thousand ten years.
FDO. EVO MORALES AYMA, David Choquehuanca Cespedes, Oscar Coca Antezana , Sacha Sergio Llorentty Soliz.


As individuals, every single day we are faced with making decisions. Some decisions are routine and easily made. Others take time, are more complex and involve a detailed thought process. Certain times, we are faced with major decisions. The type that can change the course of our life significantly, setting it in a new direction. These life-altering decisions not only affect the individual making them, but also the loved ones surrounding that individual. Life has an interesting way of presenting opportunities at just the right time. Life also has an interesting way of clearing the haze of thoughts in our mind and showing a preferred path that we know deep down inside, must be taken.
We are constantly learning throughout our lives. One very important lesson I learned over the last five years is patience. I learned that patience has two parts, as it relates to making decisions. The first part is time. That is, take your time in making any major decisions. The more time taken will allow the haze of thoughts to clear in your mind. It will also allow certain unforeseen events to unfold, making your decisions clear and more manageable. Quite often things happen to us in our lives either good or bad and we are caught up in the moment. It is here we tend to make a quick decision without really taking our time to think through the situation. The second part is your gut. We all know the phrase, "go with your gut feeling." It is usually always right.
As I sit back and take my time with the many decisions I have needed to make over the last five years, I often find myself debating the outcome in my head. The problem is we don't really know what the outcome will be all the time. That is the beauty and essence of life. We can put out best foot forward, take our time with our decisions and once made, support those decisions to the best of our ability. If we set aside a sufficient amount of time to make our decision and went with our gut feeling, we place ourselves in a good position to see a positive outcome.
For my life, in recent years, I have surrounded all of my decisions with one thing in mind. That one thing, which is always backed with good intent, is the well-being and bright future of my two daughters. All of my decisions in life are made with their lives in mind and with this; I know that when making the hard choices, those decisions are predicated on giving them the best opportunity to live the most fulfilled life possible. I am telling you this because life is hard. Making big decisions sometimes can be hard. Really hard. I've learned though that if you figure out your WHY in life and surround your most important decisions with your WHY, you are giving yourself the best chance possible at making the right decision.
My WHY in simple. My daughters. They are the reason I wake up every morning. They are also the foundation for every major decision I make in life. I am building a life for them to grow up in and I am setting an example for them to learn from. The formula I learned in recent years for making decisions is this.
Take sufficient time to make big decisions.
Make your WHY the foundation of your decision.
Nothing in life is perfect and nothing in life is guaranteed but I am learning this one thing. The more I begin to use this formula, the better chance I have with making the right decisions.


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Jordan David Steen (ur. 26 czerwca 1991) – kanadyjski zapaśnik walczący w stylu wolnym. Olimpijczyk z Tokio 2020, gdzie zajął dziesiąte miejsce w wadze 97 kg. Dwunasty na mistrzostwach świata w 2018. Piąty na igrzyskach panamerykańskich w 2019. Mistrz igrzysk frankofońskich w 2017, a drugi w 2013. Brązowy medalista igrzysk Wspólnoty Narodów w 2018 i mistrzostw panamerykańskich w 2017 i 2018, a także mistrzostw Wspólnoty Narodów w 2013 i 2016. Ósmy na akademickich MŚ w 2016. Zajął 21 miejsce na uniwersjadzie w 2013 roku. Zawodnik Uniwersytetu Concordia.

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Bibliografia
 Dane na Wrestling.ca

Kanadyjscy zapaśnicy
Urodzeni w 1991
Kanadyjscy olimpijczycy
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2020


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Seeking Closure — Infected Blood Victims' Quest for Compensation
Zia Sherrell
Image by SebGross via Shutterstock
People affected by contaminated blood in the UK may not receive compensation any time soon. Dubbed the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history, around 30,000 people were exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, or C through contaminated blood products between the 70s and 90s.
In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people with hemophilia became infected with bloodborne illnesses through contaminated blood products.
The contaminated blood products were largely sourced from countries with lower safety standards than the UK.
Around 30,000 people are estimated to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis C.
It is thought that 1,820 of these people have died.
Victims of this tragedy continue to fight for justice and proper compensation from the government, but despite promises of an interim payment, no date has been set.
Blood transfusions are a cornerstone of modern medicine, and blood products in the UK undergo a rigorous screening process to protect patients from potential contamination.
However, in the 1970s and 1980s, poor safety standards led many people with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders to be infected with bloodborne illnesses through contaminated clotting factors extracted from blood.
Factor VIII
The new treatment — a clotting agent called Factor VIII — was introduced to help their blood clot.
The idea was to improve lives. Before this revolutionary treatment, people required lengthy stays in the hospital and blood transfusions, even for minor injuries.
Unfortunately, the UK struggled to keep up with demand, so Factor VIII was largely sourced from the US and other countries that were not as rigorous about safety standards.
Much of the plasma used to make Factor VIII came from donors like prison inmates and drug users, who sold their blood, people at an increased risk of blood-borne viruses. At the time, far less was known about HIV and hepatitis.
The risk of contamination was increased further as Factor VIII was made by pooling plasma from up to 40,000 donors and concentrating it into a single batch. As a result, even if only one donor was infected, all the vials of Factor VIII could be contaminated.
Consequently, contaminated blood products entered the UK's health system and were given to thousands of people with hemophilia, many of whom later developed life-threatening illnesses such as HIV or hepatitis C.
A recent study calculated that 1,820 people died as a result of being infected with Factor VIII, but the true number could be as high as 3,320.
The victims of this tragedy are still struggling for justice. For decades they have been demanding recognition and adequate compensation for their losses.
As yet, the government has paid no compensation to the victims. However, it has provided various funds to pay people infected with HIV and hepatitis. In 2017, these funds were replaced by infected blood support schemes that provide financial and psychological support to victims and their family members.
In August 2022, the government announced that people registered on these schemes were eligible for an interim compensation payment of £100,000 after retired High Court judge Sir Brian Langstaff argued there was a compelling case to make payments urgently.
Because many victims have died, and others have delicate health after developing hepatitis C and HIV, campaigners are pushing for a full compensation package to be announced as soon as possible.
However, earlier this month, Paymaster General Jeremy Quin — the minister who makes payments on behalf of departments — told MPs he could not set a timetable for these payments. Although Mr. Quin said there was a "moral case for the payment of compensation," it is not clear when, or indeed if, these payments will be made.
The victims of this tragedy continue to fight for justice, and authorities must take action soon. The longer it takes to put in place a proper compensation system, the more lives are at risk and the greater the injustice done to all those affected by tainted blood products in the UK.


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