Known as Adobe Flash, this multimedia software streams animations and videos through a required and free plugin browser modification. Through the manipulation of vector and raster graphics, Flash animates text, drawings, or still images and also allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video.
ActionScript is the main programming language used to create Flash applications and animations. Nearly all Flash browser plugins are free of charge and are available on almost every computer platform. Flash video is the default standard for online video and notable sites that rely on the use of flash are YouTube, Hulu and Reuters.
Benefits of Adobe Flash include the extremely fast load times and vector animation with user interactivity, while downsides of Flash include long Flash movie editing times, organizations not allowing Flash movies to play, and the fact that not everyone has flash or wants to install the plugin. Another downside to Flash is its potential for being hacked, exploited, or used as a portal for viruses.


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Q: Audioplayer plugins using a deprecated version of the android embedding I want to add Audioplayer package for my xylophone app but on running it, I get this following error:

The plugins audioplayers, path_provider use a deprecated version of
the Android embedding. To avoid unexpected runtime failures, or future
build failures, try to see if these plugins support the Android V2
embedding. Otherwise, consider removing them since a future release of
Flutter will remove these deprecated APIs. If you are plugin author,
take a look at the docs for migrating the plugin to the V2 embedding:
https://flutter.dev/go/android-plugin-migration.

A: I was having the same problem while using audioplayers library. So, after looking up on the internet I found out that I was using the old version of the dependency of audio player. So, I suggest you to check for the latest version of audioplayers library from https://pub.dev/packages/audioplayers, and add it in your dependency as
dependencies:
audioplayers: ^0.20.1
(For me it was 0.20.1). You can check for latest to avoid error. Hope it works for you.

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I take the same drug that is being discussed. I always fill all prescriptions (although I buy everything OTC) at the what used to be the Jewish farmacia next to the little Playero in Sosua. Alberto's IS open 24 hours (so is Caroll at Super Pola) but there was a huge scandal a couple of years ago wherein Alberto's was busted for selling placebos under real drug names and at real prices. They have also been known to sell things past the expiration date, which is something a lot of people (ex-pats and Dominicans) don't remember to check every time. And the coup de grâce was that time I had to use my AmEx card there to pay for a very expensive series of injections, and by the time I got home, I had a call from AmEx that my card had been hacked. So no: I don't use Alberto's any more.
Pay cash. But I don't know about placebos - everything I bought there worked.


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Q: Make a deploy version of Pre-join page So Have an application which web conference, when deploy it there is not showing pre-join page, but when I make some changes in local and run the pre-join is showing, my boss said me to make deploy version pre-join page, I have no idea how to do that
We use Make file to run the application
And for config we use Webpack
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RSC Advances
p-Hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid–formaldehyde solid acid resin for the conversion of fructose and glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural†
Wenzhi Li, a Tingwei Zhang, *a Haosheng Xin,b Mingxue Su,c Longlong Ma,*d Hason Jameel,e Hou-min Change and Gang Peia
* Corresponding authors
a Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
E-mail: ztwei@mail.ustc.edu.cn
b Institute of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu Univerisity, Hefei 230022, PR China
c Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
d CAS Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, PR China
e Department of Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8005, USA
A novel solid p-hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid–formaldehyde resin (SPFR) was prepared via a straightforward hydrothermal method. The catalytic properties of SPFR solid acids were evaluated in the dehydration reaction of fructose and glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). SEM, TEM, N2 adsorption–desorption, elemental analysis (EA), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and FT-IR were used to explore the effects of catalyst structure and composition on the HMF preparation from fructose. The effects of reaction time and temperature on the dehydration of fructose and glucose were also investigated. An HMF yield as high as 82.6% was achieved from fructose at 140 °C after 30 min, and 33.0% was achieved from glucose at 190 °C in 30 min. Furthermore, the recyclability of SPFR for the HMF production from fructose in 5 cycles was good.
This article is Open Access
Supplementary information PDF (608K)
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA03155F
RSC Adv., 2017,7, 27682-27688
p-Hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid–formaldehyde solid acid resin for the conversion of fructose and glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural
W. Li, T. Zhang, H. Xin, M. Su, L. Ma, H. Jameel, H. Chang and G. Pei, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 27682 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA03155F
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Q: Solve nonlinear equation on segment I am looking for a function which solves trigonometric equation on a given segment.
I've tried fsolve from scipy, but as I understood, there is not such option, just only the initial approximation point.
Does python have such a library method anywhere? Also I've looked at sympy, but did not find any appropriate solutions there.

A: For a single scalar equation, use brentq
In [1]: from scipy.optimize import brentq

In [2]: import numpy as np

In [3]: brentq(np.sin, np.pi+1, 2*np.pi+1)
Out[3]: 6.28318530718002

For systems of equations, use least_squares to minimize the sum of squares of left hand sides of the equations.


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The Daily Catch-up
TV + Celebrity
Lindsey Graham continues to weigh in on Georgia election after being accused of interference
Graig Graziosi
Calls have been made for Donald Trump ally Lindsey Graham to resign over his controversial Georgia ballots phone call (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Senator Lindsey Graham, whose constituency is in South Carolina, is once again weighing in on the state of Georgia's elections process.
On Saturday, Mr Graham echoed Georgia Governor Brian Kemp's desire for the state to conduct an audit of mail-in ballot signatures.
His intervention comes a day after Mr Kemp accepted the results of the state's recount after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified that Joe Biden had won the election.
Mr Kemp said he would accept the results, but only because he was required to by law.
Donald Trump criticised Mr Kemp for not cracking down on Mr Raffensperger, and claimed without providing any evidence that a signature audit would prove that illegal voting had taken place.
"The Governor of Georgia and Secretary of State, refuse to let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots, and give the Republican Party and me, David Perdue, and perhaps Kelly Loeffler a BIG VICTORY," Mr Trump tweeted on Friday.
Mr Graham has been one of Mr Trump's most vocal allies in his campaign to overturn the election by invalidating votes — and has been accused of trying to influence local election officials to help the president achieve that aim.
Mr Raffensperger told The Washington Post earlier in the month that Mr Graham asked him if he could throw out all of the mail in ballots from counties with high rates of mismatched signatures. Later, Mr Raffensperger confirmed that he believed Mr Graham wanted him to throw out legally cast ballots.
Mr Graham denied he asked anything of the sort.
"We never talked about him throwing out ballots," Graham said. "We talked about how would you challenge a signature in Georgia," he said during a Fox and Friends interview.
If Mr Graham did ask Mr Raffensperger to throw out the ballots, he would have committed a crime under Georgia election laws. However, Mr Graham is unlikely to face prosecution as he is a sitting senator.
In a tweet on Friday, Mr Graham claimed the rate of signature rejections in the 2020 race was significantly less than in previous elections.
"The rejection rate for signatures in the 2020 race was significantly less than in past elections. A signature audit is necessary given how the Consent Decree affected mail in voting," he wrote.
The allegation that the signature rejection rate is higher is misleading. Mr Trump and Mr Graham's concerns with signature matching are based on a misunderstanding of the data currently available from the state of Georgia.
The state has not released data on the total number of mail-in ballots that have been rejected. It has released the number of mail-in ballots rejected due to missing or mismatched signatures, but those numbers are consistent with the rate of rejections in the 2018 midterms and is lower than the number of rejections in 2016.
While more mail-in ballots were rejected this year than in 2018, more mail-in ballots were also cast in 2020 than in 2018. When taking the volume of mail-in ballots into consideration, the rate is nearly identical to 2018.
Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting system implementation manager and a Republican, said the 2020 rejection rate has been "pretty consistent" and said the comparisons Mr Trump and Mr Graham are making are "apples and oranges."
Georgia certifies Biden won recount
GOP asks Michigan not to certify election results
'I'm facing a prison sentence': US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons
Donald Trump isolated and enraged ahead of Biden inauguration
The Voice UK: Tom Jones leaves viewers 'absolutely bawling' after emotional performance
Coronavirus news – live: Travel warning as new rules come in and Covid patient admitted 'every 30 seconds'
No one should go on holiday abroad or in the UK while the NHS is on the "cusp" due to the coronavirus pandemic, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab has said. More than 3.5 million people in the UK having now received their first dose of the vaccine, Boris Johnson said, as he celebrated those helping the "fantastic national effort".
Welsh singer's hits include 'Sex Bomb' and 'It's Not Unusual'
Amsterdam police tweeted "Go home and keep 1.5 meters away".
Coronavirus: No one should be going on holiday while NHS is 'on the cusp', says Dominic Raab
Quarantine checks to be stepped up, but doubt over workability of plans to use hotels, says foreign secretary
Government 'plans to end lockdown in March' while 'every adult could get Covid vaccine by end of June'
The government is planning to end lockdown in March after cabinet members agreed that waiting until the summer when most people will have been vaccinated would lead to yet more economic misery, according to reports. Ministers are drawing up a timetable to scale back restrictions despite the Sage Advisory committee calling for delays, it has been reported. A blueprint for the end of the lockdown is expected to be looked at later this week which will take into account the latest infection rates, deaths and hospitalisations.
HuffPost UK
These Are The Only 4 Areas In England Where Covid Cases Are Still Rising
The figures suggest the effects of lockdown are now being seen but despite the positive trend, case numbers remain sky-high.
COVID-19: Some restrictions could go by March and vaccine should be offered to every adult by September
All UK adults should be offered the first dose of a COVID vaccine by September - with the hope some restrictions can be lifted by March, Dominic Raab has told Sky News.
Duke of York's adviser contacted campaigner who claims Virginia Roberts photograph was doctored
The Duke of York's adviser reached out to an online campaigner who claimed to have evidence the photograph with Virginia Roberts was doctored, it has been reported. Mark Gallagher, the Duke's crisis management specialist, is said to have made contact with Molly Skye Brown who publicly alleges that Ms Roberts is not a victim but a "prostitute" who "trafficked" others. Ms Brown, who has attacked Ms Roberts on social networking site Twitter for a number of months, was said to have first been approached by a close aide of the Duchess of York, Antonia Marshall, who thanked her for her "online support". In screenshots of the conversation, which Ms Brown passed to the Mail on Sunday, Ms Marshall is alleged to have offered a meeting with the Duchess in order to gain her support and said she would pass on her greetings to the Queen. The possibility of setting up a fake Twitter account to ensnare the woman they suspect of altering the now infamous picture of the Duke with his arm around Epstein's sex slave was discussed, it is claimed. Ms Roberts, who now goes by her married name Giuffre, claims she was trafficked to the UK in 2001 by Epstein and alleged that she was forced to have sex with the Duke on three occasions in 2001 and 2002, when she was 17. She maintains that the photograph was taken in 2001. The Duke denies that he had any sexual relations with her. Ms Brown, 42, a former teen beauty queen from Florida who says when she was 14 Ghislaine Maxwell tried to recruit her as a masseuse, alleged she passed on "some evidence" that the image was doctored and then passed the exchanges on to the FBI. Ms Roberts publicly denied Ms Brown's allegations and said that she "blocked her because of her widespread lies".
Armed protesters gather at heavily fortified state capitols of Ohio, Michigan, Texas and elsewhere
Smatterings of 'boogaloo boys' have begun appearing at state capitols
Brexit: Raab claims EU trade agreement is 'great deal' for fishermen, as firms complain of costs and delays
Foreign secretary 'not convinced' woes of industry caused by Brexit deal
Democracy is dead if we don't hold Beijing to account for what is happening in Hong Kong
The international community has a responsibility to sanction China for its treatment of those seeking the freedom to make choices
People aged over 70 and those listed as clinically extremely vulnerable will be invited to receive coronavirus vaccinations starting this week. It comes as the national vaccine programme continues to expand, with 10 more mass vaccination centres due to open on Monday and the government revealing on Sunday that the vaccine is being given at a rate of 140 jabs per minute. More than 3.8 million people in the UK, including those over 80, care home residents, and NHS staff, have already had the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Lecturers warn they will strike if forced to resume 'unsafe' teaching
Lecturers warn they will strike if forced to resume 'unsafe' teachingUniversity and College Union warns any attempt to send members back to campuses too early will lead to ballot * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage
Giuliani associate told ex-CIA officer a Trump pardon would 'cost $2m' – report
Giuliani associate told ex-CIA officer a Trump pardon would 'cost $2m' – reportJohn Kiriakou, who was jailed in 2012 for identity leak, said his pursuit of a pardon came up in a meeting with Giuliani last year * US politics – live coverage
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was arrested immediately after returning to the country for the first time since he was poisoned with a nerve agent. The plane carrying Mr Navalny from Germany, where the 44-year-old had been recovering from a poisoning he blames on Russian authorities, landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport around 8:15 pm. The pilot had told passengers there was a delay for "technical reasons" and then that the flight had been diverted from Vnukovo, another Moscow airport where Mr Navalny's supporters and media had gathered for his return. President Vladimir Putin's most well-known opponent was returning to Russia for the first time since the poisoning in August, in defiance of warnings from officials that they would arrest him for breaking the terms of a suspended prison sentence. Mr Navalny is defying the Kremlin's threats to jail him under one of several active criminal cases, which are widely regarded as politically motivated.
'Mercenary' for UK lawyer to take case against Hong Kong democracy activists, says Dominic Raab
Foreign secretary calls on Beijing to admit human rights observers to Uighur camps
Denise Van Outen manages 'Dancing On Ice' debut despite dislocated shoulder
It was touch and go whether the star would be able to stay in the series.
Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine
National Care Association says some staff are nervous about vaccines due to health or cultural reasons


The trouble with personal information is that it grows and evolves as time goes on.
You collect an ever-increasing variety of documents, such as images, web pages and contact details. These are stored on a wide variety of devices like smartphones, PCs, and web servers belonging to companies such as Yahoo and Google.
Not only is it more difficult to collect all your information, but it is harder to organise and represent. Search engines that produce lists in return for even an advanced search entry are not really up to the task.
Georges Grinstein and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell say they can do better by displaying the results of a search as a 2D or 3D map, with related documents and information clustered together in space.
The team have developed new algorithms to do the clustering, as well as making it possible for results to be superimposed on relevant background images or 3D objects. For example, work information might be attached to a picture of your office, and receipts from a trip to Paris to a 3D Eiffel tower.
The team claim these personal information maps are easier to use because they are more akin to the way our minds store and organise information.
Read past Inventions: Diamond dialysis implant, Healing accelerator, Bespoke spinal splints, Excrement antibiotic, Self-replicating materials, Treatment for fragile X, Dust buster, Birthing computer, Eyeball stiffener, Hurricane pacifier, and Natural colour underwater photos.


In the song "New York, New York" (1977), Frank Sinatra (in a 1979 recording) said that he wanted to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep. The phrase is much, much older than the song.
"The City That Never Sleeps" was a newspaper headline to an August 1907 story about night mail delivery in Manhattan. "New York Is a City That Never Sleeps" was a headline in the New-York (NY) Tribune on March 12, 1911, "The Citi Never Sleeps" was a popular slogan of Citibank in the 1970s.
An indication of the progress that New York is making toward deserving the title of "the city that never sleeps" is afforded by Postmaster General Meyer's announcement that he intends to introduce an evening delivery of mail at 8 p. m. in the residential section of Manhattan.
A Trip Around the Clock with THose Who Keep a Metropolis on the Move.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6. -- In addition to the greatest electric lighting plant New York is now to have the greatest gas plant in the world, surpassing even that which supplies the needs of London, and as a result is soon to add to its title of the city that never sleeps that of the city that never grows dark.
1924--THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, a film directed by Jame Cruze.
1928--WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, a film starring Lon Chaney.
1928--"When the City Sleeps," a poem, FORUM, pg. 489.
1953--CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, a film starring Gig Young and Edward Arnold, with location shooting in Chicago.
1956--WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, a film starring Dana Andrews and Ida Lupino.
1958--WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, a song recorded by Polly Bergen.
1966--THE CITY NEVER SLEEPS AT NIGHT, a Lee Hazelwood song recorded by Nancy Sinatra.
1983--THIS CITY NEVER SLEEPS, a song recorded by the Eurythmics.
1984--WELCOME TO SALA, THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, a recording with music from the city in Java, Indonesia.
1986--SOWETO NEVER SLEEPS, a recording.


If you have a question about your LTB application, you can email the office that is taking care of your application.
You must include your file number in the subject line of your email. Check your file number to make sure you email the right office.
Questions about problems you are having with your rental unit, landlord or tenant. If you have these kinds of questions, visit the Your Rights and Responsibilities section of the LTB website at sjto.ca/ltb. Or, you can call us at 416-645-8080 or 1-888-332-3234.
Emails to the LTB to file an application. You use LTB e-File to file and pay for the most common types of applications. If you send the LTB an email that contains credit card information, the LTB will delete it.
Emails to pay for LTB services. If you have to pay for an LTB service, such as a hearing recording or photocopies, you can pay in-person at our offices, by mail or by fax. If you send the LTB an email that contains credit card information, the LTB will delete it.


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A soldier in a heathen army would have no compunction over taking, raping, and disposing of a captive woman. Not so in the army of the LORD.
According to the Torah, not everything is fair in love or war. (Image © Bigstock)
Ki Tetze
Ki Tetze (כי תצא | When you go forth)
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-10
Deuteronomy 21:10 | Female Captives
Deuteronomy 21:15 | The Right of the Firstborn
Deuteronomy 21:18 | Rebellious Children
Deuteronomy 21:22 | Miscellaneous Laws
Deuteronomy 22:13 | Laws concerning Sexual Relations
Deuteronomy 23:1 | Those Excluded from the Assembly
Deuteronomy 23:9 | Sanitary, Ritual, and Humanitarian Precepts
Deuteronomy 24:1 | Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce
Deuteronomy 24:5 | Miscellaneous Laws
Deuteronomy 25:5 | Levirate Marriage
Deuteronomy 25:11 | Various Commands
Isaiah 54:1 | The Eternal Covenant of Peace
Rabbi Meir said, There is a parable about this matter. To what can it be compared? It can be compared to two identical twin brothers. Both lived in a certain city. One was appointed king, and the other became a bandit. At the king's command they hanged the bandit. But everyone who saw him hanging there said, The king has been hung! Therefore the king issued a command and he was taken down. (b.Sanhedrin 46b)
A popular English maxim states, "All's fair in love and war." The implication is that rules of proper conduct can be suspended when fighting on the field of battle and when playing on the field of romance. The Torah disagrees.
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself ... (Deuteronomy 21:10-11)
According to the Torah, not everything is fair in love or war. Last week's Torah portion spelled out certain laws of conduct for warfare. This week's Torah portion introduces the prospect of romance on the battlefield.
The Torah acknowledges that the soldiers of a conquering army are likely to be tempted to take captive women, but it forbids acting on the impulse. Instead, the Torah demands that a captive woman be granted dignity and honor. She is to be allowed to mourn her parents. She is to be given the honor of marriage. She is not to be taken forcibly; she is to be married and given the status of a wife. She cannot be treated as a slave, nor can she be sold.
Before the conquering soldier can consummate his desire and marry the woman, he has to allow her to mourn the loss of her family for a full month. During this period of time, she is to shave the hair of her head and (according to Rashi's reading of the Hebrew) let her fingernails grow.
Shaving the head and letting the nails grow long are apparently mourning rituals of the time. However, Rashi suggests another reason for her hairless, unkempt appearance. He states that the Torah's laws are attempting to dissuade the man from marrying the captive woman by making her appear repulsive to him. The month of mourning is like a thirty-day waiting period during which the man has time to reconsider his intentions. Does he really want to marry the weeping bald woman with the long fingernails? If at the end of the thirty days the man has decided he is not pleased with her and does not want to marry the woman after all, he is to let her go free.
The Torah's wisdom in this matter teaches us several principles that apply to every romantic relationship. A person should never rush into marriage. Love at first sight is not real love. Before committing to marriage, a person needs to take time to see past the other person's sexual allure and fog of lust. "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised" (Proverbs 31:30).
These laws teach us to curb our natural desires and remember that the person we are so attracted to is, after all, another human being, not a sex object. Furthermore, the laws pertaining to the captured woman teach us that sex before marriage is never sanctioned. Even the battlefield soldier had to delay gratification thirty days and wait until the wedding document was signed.
More from Ki Tetze
Stoning Rebellious Children
Accursed of God
The Least of the Commandments
A Glutton and a Drunkard
The Escaped Slave and Philemon
The Special Treasure
Erasing God's Name
The Two Wives
The Ideal Family


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The Cities Issue: In Depth
10 Climate Conscious Cities—Electric Cars, Rooftop Farms, and Other Ways They're Preparing for the Future
Brooklyn Grange's Navy Yard rooftop farm does more than grow vegetables. It manages more than a million gallons of stormwater each year, ultimately reducing the amount of waste water that overflows into New York City's open waterways. Photo by Valery Rizzo.
There's no time to waste when it comes to acting on climate change. The world's most forward-thinking cities are curbing carbon and building for a sustainable future, now.
Cities Are Now
Want to See How Governments Are Making Real Progress? Look to the Cities Tackling Our Biggest Problems
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?
When the City Turned Off Their Water, Detroit Residents and Groups Delivered Help
How One Boston Neighborhood Stopped Gentrification in Its Tracks
How Gondolas and Hip Hop Transformed the Most Dangerous City in the World
Can You Imagine a City Where Trees and Swing Sets Matter More Than Cars?
In 10 Years, No One In Helsinki Will Even Want to Own a Car: 3 Simple Ideas That Are Making Cities Sustainable
How to Hack City Money: Let 16 Year Olds Vote on Budgets, Get Banks to Invest Locally
Three Ideas for Inclusive Cities: How Raleigh, Seattle, and Others Are Bringing Everyone Into the Fold
"They're driven by love. And they're fierce." Naomi Klein on the Climate Heroes Who Inspire Her
How to Feast Sustainably During the Holidays
Alaska Bolstered Its Economy and Curbed Inequality—By Paying Everyone Thousands in Oil Dividends Every Year
Meet the Lobstermen Arrested for Blocking a Coal Freighter—and the DA Who Kept Them Out of Jail
Permanent Housing for 85 Homeless People Saved Taxpayers $1.8 Million (And 18 Other Facts to Think About)
Sit Still and Listen: What White Men Can Do in Times Like These
Book Review: After Landing Herself in ICU, This Woman Changed Her Lifestyle, and Built a Tiny House
A Baltimore Public School Teacher Explains Why It Pays to Put Kids in Control
How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms at Home (and Get Plenty of Flavor and Protein for Free)
These Gorgeous Photographs Show Indigenous Americans Without the Stereotypes
Photo Essay: At a Half-Mile-Long Table, Chefs, Farmers, and Volunteers Feed a Neighborhood for Free
The New Economy Comes of Age: 7 Steps Toward Shared Prosperity
By Natasha Donovan
This article appears in Cities Are Now, the Winter 2015 issue of YES! Magazine.
PlaNYC 2030, New York's renowned climate change response plan, aims to simultaneously accommodate a quickly growing population and reduce emissions by focusing on infrastructure. By updating building codes, retrofitting older buildings, and encouraging sustainable design and architecture, NYC is well on the way to meeting its goal of 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
2. Bogotá
Bogotás public transit system. Photo by DearEdward / Flickr.
Bogotá's bus rapid transit system offers an alternative to traffic-snarled highways. Exclusive lanes allow Bogotá buses to travel rapidly throughout the city, mimicking the efficiency of rail systems at a fraction of the cost. With a 32 percent reduction in transit travel time, bus rapid transit is making the city cleaner and more accessible.
3. Portland
The newest bridge across the Willamette River in Portland Ore. named Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People is designed to carry light-rail trains buses cyclists pedestrians and streetcars—but no cars. Photo by Victor von Salza.
Portland is creating "20-minute neighborhoods" to address climate change on a city-wide scale. By increasing urban density and improving pedestrian infrastructure, the city is building resilient low-carbon communities where basic needs are within a 20-minute walk or bike ride. The city aims to have 90 percent of its residents living in 20-minute neighborhoods by 2030.
4. Seoul
Sunrise in Seoul. Photo by slack12 / Flickr.
Seoul's array of solar technology programs is breaking the city's dependence on nonrenewable energy resources. Rooftop photovoltaic installations—more than 10,000 of them—will raise energy capacity by 290 megawatts per roof. With one energy self-sufficient village in each district, the "Sunshine City" is pushing forward into a cleaner-energy future for post-Fukushima Asia.
Chicago. Photo by Ann Fisher / Flickr.
In 1995, a five-day heat wave in Chicago caused about 750 deaths. Global warming threatens to raise the annual number of extremely hot days (over 100 degrees) in Chicago from just two to 31, making future heat waves like the one in 1995 nearly certain. In recent years, the city has focused on reducing its temperature by increasing the spread of urban forest and installing four million square feet of green roofs, both of which soak up carbon and reduce urban heat-island effects.
6. Melbourne
Melbourne botanical gardens. Photo by Raider of Gin / Flickr.
Melbourne is transforming its urban landscape. Stormwater harvesting, permeable pavements, and cool roofs are helping to protect the city from the effects of climate change, and an increased urban tree canopy will provide crucial ecosystem services like carbon sequestration. The adaptation program is projected to reduce the city's temperature by 7 degrees Fahrenheit.
Amsterdam. Photo by Moyan Brenn / Flickr.
Drawing on its long history of financial acumen, Amsterdam has created a sustainability fund of $103 million that allows businesses, residents, and communities to invest in green projects. The fund is available to everyone in the city, from individuals and start-ups to large commercial ventures. Participants are required to recover the initial investment, making the fund a smart, long-term option.
TGV in Barcelona. Photo by Aleix Cortes / Flickr.
Barcelona is improving the way the city makes decisions by gathering more accurate real-time information on the relationship between the environment and urban infrastructure. A comprehensive "Urban Platform" uses environmental sensors that detect everything from air pollution and humidity to use of parking spaces. The project provides insight into effective management of city resources, enabling the city to address climate change.
9. Boulder
Above the Valmont power plant viewed from Boulder Colo. The last coal unit at the plant is scheduled to retire in 2017. Photo by John Crisanti.
Instead of waiting for the federal government to implement a nation-wide carbon tax, citizens of Boulder took matters into their own hands. In 2007, the city enacted the country's first municipal carbon tax, which funds Boulder's climate action plan. The tax generates $1.8 million a year. In 2010, the tax prevented nearly 85,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.
10. Oslo
Electric car in Oslo. Photo by Robyn Lee/Flickr.
Oslo is leading the charge toward making electric vehicles a realistic option for the average citizen. The city has built 500 free recharging stations, with 400 more in the works. Oslo has also declared that all city-owned vehicles will be emission-free by 2015.
Natasha Donovan is a former editorial intern for YES!


Damian Lillard exploded for 41 points Thursday night, largely due to a heckling Orlando Magic fan.
After struggling through the first two quarters, Lillard lit up the second half with a franchise-record 34 points, and led the Portland Trail Blazers to a 128-114 road win.
Lillard responded with a second half for the ages, erupting for 34 points and making 11 of 15 shots, including 5 of 8 three-pointers, inspiring the Blazers to a 128-114 victory. By the end of the barrage, Lillard had recorded 41 points, seven rebounds and six assists in a performance the folks of Orlando won't soon forget — including one fan in particular.


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HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
05 Apr 2010Research & Ideas
by Julia Hanna
Book publishing is changing before our very eyes, even if the industry itself is fighting the transition with every comma it can muster. Harvard Business School professor Peter Olson, former CEO of Random House, wonders if books themselves may be in jeopardy. Key concepts include:
The traditional book publishing and distribution system is under pressure to change to digital e-books.
Publishers should consider a strategy of cooperation rather than competition with online retailers.
Adding video and other multimedia capabilities will make e-books more attractive in the textbook industry.
The fundamental question to be asked in the Internet age is, how popular will books remain?
Two days ago, the first buyers of Apple's iPad began putting it through its paces, playing games, navigating the Internet, and downloading electronic books.
That groan you heard was from dozens of book publishers across the United States, reeling from yet another onslaught against their bread and butter: the paper book. First it was Books on Tape, followed by books on phones, and then the king of business model killers, Amazon.com's Kindle.
"Traditional trade book publishers are scared."
Now the iPad, with its magnificent color display, glitzy "bookshelves," and easy-to-use interface, is poised to take another bite out of the hearts (and profits) of companies from Doubleday to Putnam.
"Traditional trade book publishers are scared," says Harvard Business School professor Peter Olson. "The world that they have known, of print books and brick-and-mortar bookstores—the whole physical distribution system—is on the cusp of changing fundamentally."
Olson has a particularly informed view of the issue. Before arriving at HBS in 2008, he was CEO of Random House. In a recent unpublished case study, "The Random House Response to the Kindle," Olson and professor Bharat Anand give students an introduction to the book publishing business and the emerging landscape of e-readers before presenting them with the conundrums that face Random House CEO Markus Dohle (Dohle succeeded Olson in 2008):
Should the company pursue a policy of confrontation or cooperation with Amazon? Are there other strategic partners to consider?
As the largest publisher in the world, should Random House take a stand on e-book pricing and royalty rates?
Finally, if the entire structure of the book publishing industry is changing, what role will Random House play in the future?
Olson has some thoughts—but no easy answers—to those questions.
What About The Customer?
E-book pricing is one of the biggest sources of friction. In a recent dustup between Amazon and Macmillan, the online retailer briefly removed the publisher's Kindle editions and print books from its site after Macmillan indicated it would begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books than Amazon's standard charge of $9.99 for new releases. Amazon capitulated after a few days: Under Macmillan's new terms, the publisher will set the consumer price of each book, and Amazon will take a 30 percent commission on every sale. (E-book editions of most new fiction and nonfiction releases will cost between $12.99 and $14.99.)
"Publishers are worried that more and more customers are going to get used to the sort of cheap prices that will undercut print books," Olson says. "As with other media products, there's the perception that all things digital should be less expensive, or free. So I think this most recent skirmish has resulted in a truce at most."
"The odd thing is that no one is really focusing on the reader. A disproportionate amount of publishers' resources are dedicated to the manufacturing and physical distribution of books, when in fact their key function is editorial in nature. In a sense, many book publishers are trying to buy time, to postpone a reckoning with reality."
Instead of making books more accessible and attractive, publishers are attempting to prop up the print book business by upping the price of e-books, Olson says. Some companies even hope to introduce parallel pricing by selling e-books at the same price as the edition (hardcover, paperback) currently on the market.
"I don't know of many successful examples of pricing a product based not on what it costs or what people want to pay for it, but based on another format that is completely different, just because you want to keep that format alive," he remarks.
So the ongoing power struggle between publishers and key online retailers like Amazon remains an open question. For his part, Olson endorses a strategy of cooperation over confrontation. Macmillan may have won the pricing war, but what have they lost? After all, Amazon can retaliate by promoting other publishers' titles more.
"I don't understand what you're winning in the pricing war," Olson says. "It's really only an advantage if you think each e-book cannibalizes print book sales. If you don't believe e-books grow readership at all, then Macmillan's push-up-the-price strategy is more understandable."
Surprise Ending?
The industry may have bigger problems than how much to charge for a title. Less than half of all American adults ever read a book after leaving school. Most of the remainder read, at most, only one or two books a year. Industry estimates indicate that somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of the population purchase books on a somewhat regular basis.
So with competition for eyeballs increasing from the Internet, television, and video games, publishers know they have a tough road ahead, regardless of how digital readers change their business model.
"The situation is fraught with complications," Olson says. "It's a mess. It's wonderful."
"I think the fundamental issue is not the rate of adoption of the e-reader, or whether publishers will survive in their current form, or what their role will be in the future," Olson comments. "The fundamental question at the very bottom of this is, will people read books at all?"
The textbook market is another potential target for e-book disruption, especially as new devices such as the iPad add video and other immersive technologies to the mix.
"If we as a society are concerned about the next generation acquiring knowledge and skills, the e-reader offers tremendous potential to bridge the gap that a lot of young people experience between a very exciting digital reality and the dead world of the textbook."
On an emotional level, the death of the paper textbook will carry less societal angst than trade books, he adds. "We're not generally attached to our textbooks. If they go, nobody but the textbook publishers will cry."
Disruption Happens
The Random House-Kindle case, recently taught in the first-year Strategy course at HBS, prompted some interesting conversations in the classroom, Olson says. Students were excited to discuss an ambiguous situation that is unfolding day by day.
"One thought they proposed that seems well worth pursuing is the idea of bundling the e-book and print book together," he says. "After all, why should they be viewed as adversaries? Why not offer both and see if you can make the market more attractive, with additional features like a video interview with the author? An e-book can be a much richer and deeper experience than anything we've seen before."
Students were also intrigued by the concept of dynamic pricing, or charging varying amounts based on how many "extras" are packaged with an e-book. Another discussion topic was the difficulty of downsizing the print publishing side of the business while simultaneously forging a new strategy for e-book publishing.
"The situation is fraught with complications," Olson says. "It's a mess. It's wonderful."
And as a former book publishing executive, Olson recognizes that his outlook might be a bit less cheerful if he was reporting to the company's head office in Gütersloh, Germany.
"It's a very nice time to be at HBS and not in the book industry. It's fun to watch, but it's probably not as much fun to be in the middle of this."
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Will Google Buy The New York Times?
Andrew Sargus Klein
Or does it make more philanthropic and financial sense to buy the AP? Either way, someone needs to bail out print media.
On The New York Times' book blog Paper Cuts, Barry Gewen recently reviewed One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost. We learn that of the 6900 spoken languages, 69 percent of the world speaks four of them. Just as species of animals reach the end of the line, so do languages—more often than not it is not a matter natural selection or choice. Gewen writes:
When a small population gives up its language voluntarily (as opposed to compulsorily), it does so to become part of a larger or more powerful community. To preserve such peoples, we'd have to isolate them or maintain their languages through some other artificial, even coercive, means.
The point is not lost when applied to the very real dismantling of paper media. The Tribune Co.—piloted by Sam Zell and owner of The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun, among others—is on the verge of collapse. The New York Times, the media world's onetime bastion, is frantically circling the wagons as it borrows against its own assets to protect its brand new building. As the paper seeks to cut loose dead weight, it's finding that brand amputation costs more in the short run than the former assets are currently worth. The paper has declined 70 per cent in value over the past five years. It's a grim situation. (I wonder how many New Yorkers see the Times' stake in the Boston Red Sox as the metaphysical culprit…) Media pundits have been singing print's swan song for years now. And that song is blaring as America's storied dailies, weeklies and magazines shudder to a halt, one fiscal quarter at a time. The business models cannot support the medium, as the Internet has so deftly shown—and expedited.
It seems newspapers were just starting to jam their homepages with dozens of blogs, just starting to "get" the whole Web thing. It seems we were just starting to feel out some sort of reconciliation between the "just the facts," hard-line old media with the loose, first-person new. But as theoretical and invigorating as that debate was and is, it's largely irrelevant. Newspapers as we know them have failed.
Pulitzer Administrator Sig Gissler told Editor and Publisher that journalism's top prizes are now open to many "text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet" in an effort to "keep up with the changing media landscape." It might be that in 20 years time Pulitzers will only be given to online outlets.
But if the money, the audiences, and the prize committees are moving online, there still remain the newspapers and their reporters. There still remain the beats, the institutional knowledge and the print world's existing infrastructures of information. No business model can be found to support Baghdad bureaus and years-long investigative reporting. Yet the Sulzbergers, who have owned the Times for more than a century, do not want to sell their paper. It is a point of fact they're devoted to their paper and see it as the high-water mark of journalism—and it is their duty to protect it.
A new favorite recipe for salvation that's kicked around the blogosphere involves none other than Google. The Times has an estimated price tag of $3 to $4 billion. (Rupert Murdoch paid $5 billion for Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal's parent company.) A fistful of billions, even in this economy, might not be too big of a dent in Google's bottom line and, it's argued, the ends would soon pay back the means. The anonymous blogger at Dear John Thain divided his pro-acquisition reasons into four points: it would give Google an even more highly integrated advertising model; if Google distributes the Times, it takes in the paper's ad revenue while also moving the medium away from dead trees; the Times' push to personalize content couldn't be better supported by Google; the Times' product—the news—is priceless, and it would benefit Google and the rest of us if it stayed available.
All valid points, but none that take into account the irrationality of immovable human devotion. The Sulzbergers don't want to sell their paper. But John Ellis, from Real Clear Markets, sees the Google acquisition as perhaps the only defense against Rupert Murdoch:
[Murdoch] did not buy Dow Jones because of its growth potential. It's a crowded market, to say the least. He did not buy Dow Jones because he sees limitless growth opportunities in financial news and business information. It's a crowded field. He intends to use The Wall Street Journal as a precision-targeted weapon. And the target he has locked onto is The New York Times.
The Times Co. simply doesn't have the pockets to match Murdoch. How righteous will the Sulzbergers feel if they watch their beloved paper choke to death. As a family business, will they attempt to nobly go down with the ship? The Times isn't privately owned, and it's very possible outside shareholders would attempt a hostile takeover of some kind—of any kind—in order to at least earn a few bucks selling the daily to a random business magnet.
For the Sulzbergers, it seems, it's all or nothing. They don't want to see their product diluted or mismanaged. They don't want to slash reporting teams in half or close down overseas bureaus. As they say out in the Midwest somewhere, Go big or go home.
The thought of Google buying the Times is a giddy one: the search giant's unofficial motto is "don't be evil," and what could be less evil than saving the world's greatest news outlet—journalism itself, if you're the emotional type—from bankruptcy? Google's product is access to any and all information. If an information hub like the Times dies off, what happens to Google's product?
In June, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said there is a "moral imperative" in saving news media. Betsy Schiffman wrote in Wired, "we'd venture to guess there's a financial once, too." Schiffman argued that Google should buy the Associated Press instead. The AP is co-op of some 1500 daily newspapers across the world. Head to head, which is more valuable? To the public? To Google or AOL or Microsoft?
The language of newspapers is dying off, replaced by blogs and videos and the ever-churning Web—Gewen's "large and more powerful community." Whether news media evolve voluntarily or not remains to be seen.
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commented Dec 10, 2008, 06:30AM
I do think someone will buy the Times, since shareholders, if presented with a premium stock price, will finally successfully revolt against the Sulzbergers, but Google? I don't think so. Seems like they're having their own problems.
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domesticavalanche
Yes, AP would be a better fit for Google. Or they should go about with Global Dominance and buy out all the major newspapers. Tribune Co (Chitrib, LAT BaSun) , NYtimes, Washpost and all the major newspapers in the top 20 media markets.
Timothy, Dec 10, 2008, 08:59AM
But what kind of shape is Associated Press in? Sure, they're getting more use from dailies who've let go local reporters, but with less papers in business, I can't see A.P. having the $$$ to make a major purchase.
domesticavalanche, Dec 10, 2008, 10:48AM
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That is exactly where Google comes in. Google should come up with a business model where they could get more news with less money and make most money with that news. At least Google has the coffers to support it until they fine tune it. The way AP is now, I do not see it alive in 15 years.
Anyway, do not ask me how Google would make it work. I do not know. That is why I am what I am and Google is what Google is.
BillSanford
commented Dec 10, 2008, 12:44PM
The problem with the New York times os not Murdoch... it is the simple fact that they lie. Does ANYONE trust the New York times? The Associated Press is drifting in that direction, too. The answer to their circulation/economic problems lies in regaining their journalistic integrity. Then, and only then, people will want to buy, and read, their product. Liberal lies, slant, bias, and distortion is a big red "avoid me' flag in today's news market.
While I agree with the spirit of BillSanford's criticism of the Times, I don't think it's true that the editors and reporters consciously "lie," despite what conservative detractors say. Rather, it's their worldview that informs the writing in the paper, the presentation of picture and headlines. Yet even if the paper became less partisan, it wouldn't matter: print is dead, and that's why I believe the Times will be sold, as shareholders try to recoup as much money as they can before things get even worse in the newspaper industry.
BillSanford, Dec 10, 2008, 12:44PM
jonathansalembaskin
Humm...so any agreed standard for authority, however imperfect, gives way to the democracy of popular vote? Aside from a bank account, Google is no more qualified to run a newspaper than it is to operate NASA... ...wait, don't tell me they're going to buy THAT, too?!
Timothy, Dec 11, 2008, 03:10PM
Yeah, Google is not in the newspaper business, but then again, who is today? The most likely buyer is someone like Murdoch, whose holdings in media are nearly monolithic. And a vanity buyer, like George Soros, is decreasingly unlikely since so many people like that have seen their own net worth decimated. The Times sale, or lack thereof, is going to be VERY ugly.
jonathansalembaskin, Dec 11, 2008, 01:44PM
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"There will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring" (Luke 21:25).
A total solar eclipse crossed north of Nineveh (which is the modern city of Mosul) on June 15, 763 B.C. during the reign of King Asher-Dan III. It is not provable but plausible that the solar eclipse was one of the omens which led Nineveh to repent (history records that there was also a civil war and plagues). In other words, along with Jonah's preaching, a series of signs caused the people of Nineveh to repent. History records that it was one of the most famous solar eclipses in ancient history.
The sun is a sign to the Gentile nations, and the moon is a sign to the Jews. A solar eclipse is a warning of judgment to the Gentiles. The Ninevites were Gentiles, and Jonah declared these words to them: "Jonah began to enter the city, going a day's walk. And he cried out, "In forty days' time, Nineveh will be overthrown!" (Jon. 3:4).
Since judgment begins in the house of God (1 Pet. 4:17), could the church in America be receiving perhaps a similar last call to repentance preceded by a series of omens that will also grab the attention of a lost and dying world?
There is also a solar eclipse in the Bible.
When Jesus was crucified there was also a solar eclipse, but it was a supernatural one (solar eclipses require a new moon; since it was Passover, it was a full moon) as the day turned to darkness in mid-afternoon and there was an earthquake. Isn't it interesting that when the Pharisees and Sadducees asked Jesus for a sign from heaven He responded with the sign of the prophet Jonah?
"But He answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matt. 12:39-40).
Interesting parallel.
Other Significant Solar Eclipses
More recently, a little over a century go on Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse crossed into Eastern Europe. It was dubbed the World War I eclipse. WWI started two months prior with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914.
We know that our two world wars set the course for massive change.
June 8, 1918 was the last time a solar eclipse crossed through the USA.
What happened in 1918? Interestingly, this was the year that saw the close of World War I and the beginning of America's rise to prominence, but there was also a flu pandemic equaling a death toll of 675,000 in America. A pandemic is called a plague or pestilence in the Bible. The death toll worldwide was 50-100 million people.
God doesn't go around killing people, but He removes His presence, and evil is unrestrained. When God is rejected enough times, He withdraws His presence and protection.
What might be coming? Patterns and history can help us determine that.
Perhaps the most precise coincidence between war and a solar eclipse was the solar eclipse that passed over the center of Korea just before the Korean War. This was an interesting development. On May 10, 1948, major elections were to begin throughout Korea. But just one day before, the United Nations declared that it was only going to monitor voting in the south. This was an unrighteous and unjust U.N. resolution. Ensuring a just and righteous election in the communist north was definitely problematic. So perhaps they decided to take the low road and ignore the issue. But on that very day, May 9, 1948, there was a total solar eclipse that passed right over the center of Korea. This was most assuredly an omen of impending events, and a harbinger of dark days ahead for those under its shadow. Violence on the Korean peninsula soon erupted in a major way. And by 1950, the conflict had grown into a full-scale war.
There have been other examples where solar eclipses have proven to be omens of significant historical events.
The Aug. 21 solar eclipse will cross all the earthquake zones in America—West Coast, Yellowstone Park and New Madrid being the worst or higher risk. Seven years after this upcoming eclipse, there will be another solar eclipse crossing America on April 8, 2024.
This eclipse will cross from the northeast to the southwest and combined with the other, make an X shape with a bullseye in the middle of the country near where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet over the seismic zone.
It appears like a seven-year countdown between the solar eclipse of 2017 and 2024. Could these seven years mark a time of preparation for the church and even the nation? Will we be like the evil and adulterous generation that seeks signs, but still will not repent and believe, or will we be like Nineveh and humble ourselves in sincere repentance?
"Though He had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in Him" (John 12:37).
"The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And now One greater than Jonah is here" (Matt. 12:41).
More on the Aug. 21st Solar Eclipse
This American solar eclipse of 2017 is the first to be crossing America in 99 years. The U.S. is the final Western superpower. All the other nations of Western Christendom have already had their time in the sun. They have all fallen. Most Americans do not realize this. There is no other great Western power waiting in the wings to follow America. It is the last bastion of Western Christendom. If America falls we likely go into the New World Order. It is as simple as that.
This is an interesting eclipse. It seems that there are some possible connections to the yet-to-be-fulfilled Fall Feasts of Israel. Since solar eclipses always occur on an astronomical new moon, the next new moon following the Aug. 2017 solar eclipse happens to be the new moon of Tishri. This is that autumn Hebrew new moon that, in some future year, will see the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets. Could this yet-to-be-fulfilled divinely appointed time be the opener to the final seven years of this age?
Here is a YouTube video showing the precise way the Fall Feasts of Israel are set to stake out the 70th Week of Daniel and the final seven years of this age.
So while this upcoming American solar eclipse may mean absolutely nothing, it could also mean something significant. It could be an omen of important things to come. There is no doubt that we are seeing some strange happenings in America and around the world. The wise will be watchful and prayerful concerning all these events.
Solomon said that the wise will see the evil coming and do something (Prov. 27:12). So we have a number of options here. We can ignore unfolding events and be caught unawares and unprepared and suffer the consequences; we can see omens of developing evil and just fret and worry; or we can live in a state of soberness and preparedness and count this as the church's finest hour to shine and seize the opportunity to warn the world and reap a harvest of souls.
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Biological Reason Gold Can Turn Skin Black
Gold is a soft, inert, elementary metal. This means it rarely reacts with other elements or living tissue. However, it can still happen. Gold used for jewelry is not pure. Pure gold is so soft that one could mold it like clay in one's hands. As a result, base metals are often mixed with gold when it is used for jewelry in order to harden it. The degree of gold's purity is determined by karats. Essentially, a karat is a fraction, divided up into 24ths. For example, a 10-karat gold ring is 10/24 gold, the rest being made up of base metals. Jewelry made from 14-karat gold is as close to pure as functionally possible, though some decorative pieces not meant to be worn are even more pure. If gold in excess of 14 karats causes black or dark green marks on the skin, there is only one reason: an iron deficiency. If a person has an iron deficiency, the hemoglobin in the blood is less able to carry oxygen. Iron is not all that dissimilar from gold, chemically speaking. If a person with an iron deficiency wears gold consistently, a black or dark green mark will form over the area where the gold touches the skin. The process by which this happens is not fully explained, but it's theorized that the hemoglobin in the blood migrates toward the gold, causing bursting of minor blood vessels in the affected skin, creating a black or dark green bruise-like color.
Gold and Nickel
In gold lower than 14 karats, a common metal included in the mix is nickel. It's easily worked and helps the gold to retain its shape. However, it is more chemically active than gold is. If nickel from a piece of gold comes into contact with foundation makeup, it will create a black mark where it touched. Also, many people have a mild allergy to nickel, creating a dark, bruise-like rash over the affected area of the skin.
Gold and Copper
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No. 339 - The Wesleyan Methodist Church at Ulverstone - "Like a Pack of Cards"
Wesleyan Methodist activity began in the Leven River area in that late 1850's at a house at Gravel Hill (about 2km from the centre of Ulverstone). By the 1860's Reverend Cooke and Reverend Edward Nye were conducting services in a building known as 'Rats Castle' on a farm on the outskirts of Ulverstone owned by Samuel Tongs. It was a very rough building which had had its partitions knocked out to create a space for the congregation. Reverend George Heywood continued to hold regular services at 'Rats' Castle' until it fell into ruin. After the demise of 'Rats Castle' Sabbath meetings were held at the Ulverstone residence of Mr Stratton up until a church was built in 1880.
Planning for the church began in July 1880 and by the 17th October a weatherboard building was opened for service. A report in the Devon Herald provides a record of the services:
"The attendance on either occasion was not large; no doubt the very heavy rain we had on Sunday morning and the threatening aspect of the weather had a deal to do with keeping the numbers away, who had any distance to come".
The inclement weather did not keep the local rabble rousers away. In the same report, the Leven correspondent for the Devon Herald complained:
"Towards the close of the evening a few sailors and larrikins, headed by the ever green "Valentine", somewhat annoyed those present, by their conduct outside the building".
A report in the Examiner provides a description of the building which had been constructed in less than a month:
"The building is about 30ft. by 22ft., and has a high gable roof which imparts an ecclesiastical appearance, the windows and door being in the Gothic style. The site of the Chapel is in Reibey-street, not very far from the Post-office, and is in that part of the township where building has not yet commenced, excepting the Independent Chapel…. Both of these edifices…may be regarded as pioneers of civilisation as well as in the matters of religion…"
Unfortunately, it was uncivilised behaviour that targeted the church in 1885. The Examiner's correspondent for Ulverstone reported:
"I am sorry to say that a most disgraceful piece of larrikinism was perpetrated here a short time ago. The Wesleyan Chapel had lately been done up - the door painted, also a neat batten fence in front, when one night all the fresh work was daubed over with tar. It is believed that a new door must be supplied, as the tar cannot be got off, while the fencing it will always show through. I wonder if the argument "doing as you would be done by" were submitted and earnestly pressed upon these vandals, whether it would produce legitimate results. I think high-toned morality should be taught in the public schools in place of dogmatic theology".
It was not the larrikins but mother nature which was to have a devastating impact on the little church. On Wednesday 17 May 1893, the church was flattened by a cyclone which struck Ulverstone at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Apart from destroying the church, the storm caused considerable damage in the town. The "Typhoon" was described in some detail by the Coastal News and North Western Advertiser:
"An unusual and unwelcome visitation in tho shape of a typhoon swept over Ulverstone on Wednesday afternoon,..The full force…was felt by the schooner "Isabel" which was lying at the wharf empty, being blown over on her side, the masts resting on the wharf keeping her from going under, .… The buildings on the Esplanade near Crawford Bros., quivered with the shock, the plate-glass window in Heatley & Co.'s shop was blown in, and the skylights out of the blacksmith's shop, and a fence demolished near the Bank of Australasia. Passing to the rear of Messrs House and Mason's store, an agricultural implement, standing about 4½ ft high and weighing several hundred weight was lifted bodily off its feet and landed 4 or 5 feet away on a heap of packing cases, …Sweeping towards Badger street, the current must have been met by that travelling in the opposite direction, the full force of both currents being diverted across Mr Webb's boarding house and the Wesleyan Church. A considerable portion of the galvanised iron roof was stripped clean off the roof of Mr Webb's and was scattered hundreds of feet away.
The resistance to the course of the current offered by the Wesleyan Church was very short-lived, the porch and doors being blown down and the whole building lifted bodily several feet off the foundations, the building then buckling up and crashing down like a pack of cards….With regard to the Wesleyan church, the whole structure is completely demolished, with the exception of the flooring and foundations, a considerable portion of the furniture being also destroyed. When the news was known, a number of persons set to work to get out the books, organ, and such effects as were liable to further damage from the element's. Fortunately the organ was uninjured, being, protected by joists falling in a slanting position….The building is practically smashed up, very little of the material will be serviceable for re-building".
Following the disaster, the Wesleyans were able to use the Congregational church for services until a new church could be built. The brick church which was built in 1894 will be the subject of a second blog entry on the history of the Methodists at Ulverstone.
A detail of the wrecked church. Source: Queen Victoria Museum Launceston (QVM:1998:P:0793)
Original photograph: Source: QVM:1998:P:0793 (Queen Victoria Museum)
The new church built in 1894 - This will be the subject of a follow-up article. Photo: Duncan Grant 2019
Devon Herald, Wednesday 21 July 1880, page 2
Devon Herald, Saturday 16 October 1880, page 2
Devon Herald, Wednesday 20 October 1880, page 2
Launceston Examiner, Saturday 23 October 1880, page 1
Launceston Examiner, Friday 13 February 1885, page 3
Launceston Examiner, Thursday 18 March 1893, page 6
Coastal News and North Western Advertiser, Friday 19 May 1893, page 2
Launceston Examiner, Tuesday 23 May 1893, page 7
North West Post, Saturday 7 October 1893, page 4
Advocate, Saturday 4 October 1930, page 13
Advocate, Thursday 6 June 1935, page 2
Advocate, Friday 11 October 1940, page 4
Examiner, Saturday 12 October 1940, page 6
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Q: Analysis Ratio Test Give an example of a sequence $(a_n)_n$ such that $|a_{n+1}/a_n|<1$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$, but where $(a_n)_n$ does not converge to $0$.
This question came up in a text book and I've no idea what the answer it, any help, sorry for not knowing how to type math equations!

A: Take $(a_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ s.t. $a_n=\frac{1}{n}+\frac{1}{2}$ f.a. $n\in\mathbb{N}$. You have that $a_{n+1}<a_n$ f.a. $n\in\mathbb{N}$, i.e. that $(a_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ is strictly monotone decreasing(check this). Thus
$$\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}<1$$
as all $a_n$ are positive but clearly $\lim_{n\to\infty}a_n=1/2$.
EDIT: To give some suggestion of how to come up with such examples: analyze you conditions. Note that in your case, if $a_n>0$ f.a. $n\in\mathbb{N}$, then $|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}|=\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}$ and thus
$$|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}|<1\Leftrightarrow\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}<1\Leftrightarrow a_{n+1}<a_n$$
Thus, under some assumptions, your condition is the same as requiring that the sequence decreases strictly monotone. From, this on, it might be simpler to come up with examples.