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Tralfamadore est la planète mère fictive de civilisations extraterrestres mentionnées dans plusieurs romans de l'écrivain américain Kurt Vonnegut. Les détails concernant les habitants de cette planète varient d'un roman à l'autre.

Tralfamadore dans l'œuvre de Vonnegut
 Dans Les Sirènes de Titan, Tralfamadore est une planète située dans le Petit nuage de Magellan et abrite une civilisation de machines. L'une d'entre elles, Salo, est envoyée comme messager vers une galaxie lointaine. Mais une panne d'une pièce essentielle de son vaisseau l'oblige à s'arrêter sur Titan, une lune de Saturne, où il se lie d'amitié avec Winston Niles Rumfoord. Le mode d'existence de Rumfoord, affranchi des contraintes spatio-temporelles est comparable à celui des tralfamadoriens d'Abattoir 5, alors que Salo, quant-à-lui, semble évoluer sur une mode linéaire. La traduction du mot Tralfamadore donnée par Salo est à la fois "Nous tous" et "541".
 Dans God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Tralfamadore est une planète extrasolaire hypothétique, utilisée dans un sens purement rhétorique dans le cadre d'une expérience de pensée.
 Dans Abattoir 5 ou la Croisade des enfants, Tralfamadore est le foyer d'êtres qui existent en tout temps simultanément, et ont donc accès à la connaissance des évènements à venir, notamment la destruction de l'univers par la main d'un pilote d'essais tralfamadorien. Ils enlèvent Billy Pilgrim, le protagoniste du roman pour l'enfermer dans un zoo sur Tralfamadore en compagnie de Montana Wildhack, une actrice de films pornographiques.
 Dans Abracadabra, le Tralfamadore est la plus proche planète où vont se rassembler d'anciennes créatures multi-dimensionnelles qui sont censées contrôler tous les aspects de la vie humaine y compris les affaires sociales et la politique. On dit que contrairement aux humains les véritables tralfamadoriens ont un sens de l'humour trop développé pour être influencés par ces êtres. Leurs exploits sont consignés dans Le Protocole des Sages de Tralfamadore (une référence explicite au Protocole des Sages de Sion), qui est publié périodiquement dans un magazine pornographique intitulé Black Garterbelt (le porte-jarretières noir). Bien que son auteur ne soit jamais nommé, le journal qui publie ses textes suggère qu'il pourrait s'agir de Kilgore Trout.
 Dans Timequake, Tralfamadore est mentionné brièvement comme le lieu de rencontre fantastique d'éléments chimiques anthropomorphes.

Autres usages du mot
 Le groupe Madrugada a sorti en 2005 un album live intitulé Live at Tralfamadore.

 Le Tralfamadore Cafe (ou "The Tralf") est un club populaire de Buffalo, bien connu pour ses spectacles de jazz expérimental et de rock.

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The Chart of Accounts is the most important QuickBooks list. It is the backbone for a company to track how much money it has, how much money it owes, how much money is coming in, and how much money it is spending. It is not necessary to have a chart of accounts that provides for every conceivable transaction. Instead, the chart of accounts should include the minimum number of accounts necessary to capture the appropriate financial information and be flexible enough to allow for future growth. The chart of accounts should be designed to include the accounts necessary for both financial and income tax reporting. QuickBooks makes it easy for you to set up a chart of accounts. When you create a company file in QuickBooks (File menu -> New Company), an EasyStep Interview is launched to guide you through the process. Follow its "wizard" to initially setting up your company in QuickBooks, selecting the appropriate legal structure and select a predefined chart of accounts for your industry. If you are unable to find your precise industry, you can: * select the industry closest to yours * copy a chart of accounts from another company in QuickBooks * import a chart of accounts from another source * or if you are adventurous, start from scratch No need to fear: virtually everything can be undone, which is one of the reasons QuickBooks is so very popular; it is all so forgiving. Always use account numbers. You have to enable the use of account numbers, from the Edit menu -> choose Preferences -> select Accounting -> and click on the Company Preferences tab, and then selecting "Use account numbers". Using account numbers allows your company the most freedom of organization and arrangement of your account format in your financial reports. By using numbers, you can arrange reports into meaningful sections, groups, or categories. By default, QuickBooks orders all financial accounts in financial reports in numerical order. If you wish to change the account order in the report, just change the account's number. This flexibility is not available when you use just using account names. Additionally, it is a simple process to rearrange these same reports in alphabetical order, if and when desired: simply select Modify Report -> Display -> Sort in Ascending order/Descending order. You are allowed up to 7 digits for an account number in QuickBooks; a minimum of 5 is recommended if you require numerous accounts and subaccounts. Unfortunately, QuickBooks preconfigures their numbering system using 4 digit – which is rather limiting. I often use, and recommend, a 5 digit account numbering system for construction companies: 10000 – 19999: Assets 10000 – 14999: Current Assets * 10000 – 10999: Cash * 11000 – 11999: Receivables * 12000 – 12999: Inventory * 13000 – 14999: Other Current Assets 15000 – 19999: Noncurrent Assets * 15000 – 15999 – Fixed Assets * 16000 – 19999 – Other Assets 20000 – 29999: Liabilities 20000 – 25999: Current Liabilities * 20000 – 20499 – Accounts Payable * 20500 – 20999 – Credit Cards * 21000 – 25999 – Other Current Liabilities * 21000 – 21999 – Accrued Expenses * 22000 – 22999 – Payroll Liabilities * 23000 – 23999 – Debt, Current Portion * 24000 – 24999 – Capitalized Leases, Current Portion * 25000 – 25999 – Other 26000 – 29999: Noncurrent Liabilities * 26000 – 26999 – Debt, Noncurrent Portion * 27000 – 27999 – Capitalized Leases, Noncurrent Portion * 28000 – 29999 – Other 30000 – 39999: Equity * 30000 – 30999 – Capital Stock * 39000 – 39999 – Retained Earnings Revenue: 40000 – 49999 50000 – 59999: Cost of Goods Sold * 50000 – 50999 – Materials * 51000 – 51999 – Labor * 52000 – 52999 – Subcontractors * 53000 – 53999 – Equipment * 54000 – 59999 – Other Direct Costs 60000 – 89999: Expenses * 60000 – 69999 – Selling Expenses * 70000 – 89999 – General and Administrative Expenses 90000 – 99999 : Other Income (Expenses) There is no excuse for not having a chart of accounts set up in a format compatible with what is reported on one's tax return as well as one's financial statement. Once set up, a simple click in QuickBooks prints a readable and well-organized financial report for internal management, bankers, other creditors, bonding companies, shareholders, et al. This format need not be inconsistent with that used for internal and external financial reporting, since subaccounts would provide any necessary detail required by management and interested outside parties; while a simple click under report modification in QuickBooks re-arranges the expense accounts in alphabetical order, often the desired presentation for banks. Important – Accounts may be added to or deleted from the chart of accounts at any time, but an account cannot be deleted easily once a transaction has been posted to it. Consequently, ensure the chart of accounts is complete and unnecessary accounts have been deleted before recording any transactions.


It has been scientifically proven that when binaural beats are used at specific frequencies, they do alter your mood, depending on the target frequency. It has been stated that the binaural beats may not be limited to auditory stimulation, because the predominant brainwave frequency will move towards the stimulated frequency, a neurological process called entrainment, it has been documented that binaural beats relate to spatial perception and auditory recognition.
Humans perceive all sounds between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, yet the human brain perceives frequencies below 20 Hz. When the therapy of binaural beats is used, it is triggering a frequency range which will provide the patient with a specific response, for example if a tone of 315 Hz is played into one ear and a tone of 325 Hz into the other ear, the brain waves will entrain to a frequency of 10 Hz which is either the alpha or beta range, depending on the individual, and therefore they will feel either more relaxed or more alert.
A documented experiment which clearly indicates that the result of binaural beat therapy is highly dependent on the individual is one where some patients were subjected to binaural therapy in the beta range and others to the delta or theta range and the results showed that patients who were subjected to the beta range were more responsive to the therapy. Although binaural beats therapy has been used to change your conscious state of mind the main response are relaxation, focus and attention. Further studies have also indicated that repeated training to try and distinguish close frequency sounds result in the reorganization of the brain where the trained frequencies are capable of asymmetric hemispheric balancing.
Another result of studies is that patients who want a desired state of mind are more receptive to the binaural beats therapy if the session starts with them close to the desired state, for example, if you are wanting to be more alert and focused, it helps if you start your session of therapy in an awake and relaxed state, as the next frequency is the desired state.
Although binaural beats are known to alter the state of mind, there are other alleged effects which some patients have said to have experienced, these include stimulation of glands to produce specific hormones, reducing learning time and required hours of sleep. Other less controversial ways of using binaural beats are to increase lucid dreaming or encourage out-of-body experiences such as astral projection, telepathy and psychokinesis.
There have been successful results from binaural beats regarding addictions and the recovery of repressed memories. There have also been other studies involving binaural beats which have shown a positive effect on anxiety.
There are also people who claim that binaural beats therapy could lead to drug use, although it is important to note that this has not been proven.
Binaural beat therapy is not a 'quick fix' for some bad mood, it is a procedure that takes time and you will benefit more if you are willing to accept the changes that binaural beat therapy encourages. As with any type of therapy, if you are not a willing patient, the therapy will not be as successful as expected.
With this in mind, it is important to note that some people who are overzealous in their determination for the binaural beats therapy to work could easily be totally convinced that other benefits they notice in their body and their everyday life will be attributed to the binaural beats therapy.
Binaural beats are not magic, the process of binaural beat therapy does take active participation from the patient, if you simply just sit back and listen to binaural beats there are no guarantees that you will notice any changes in your state of mind or body.


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Liz Cheney & Will Hurd
Compare the voting records of Liz Cheney and Will Hurd in 2017-18.
Represented Wyoming's 1st Congressional District. This is her 1st term in the House.
Will Hurd
Represented Texas's 23rd Congressional District. This is his 2nd term in the House.
Liz Cheney and Will Hurd are from the same party and agreed on 93 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 1130 votes in the 115th Congress, they disagreed on 82 votes, including 6 major votes.
June 7, 2018 — Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act
June 27, 2018 — Langevin of Rhode Island Part A Amendment No. 9
Sept. 13, 2017 — Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico Amendment No. 160
March 1, 2017 — Moore of Wisconsin Amendment No. 11

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IDEF0 o IDEFØ (Integration Definition for Function Modeling) es un método diseñado para modelar decisiones, acciones y actividades de una organización o sistema. IDEFØ se derivó de un lenguaje gráfico bien establecido, el análisis estructurado y Técnica de Diseño (SADT por sus siglas en inglés Structured Analysis and Design Technique).

La Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos encargó a los desarrolladores de SADT desarrollar un método de modelado para analizar y comunicar la perspectiva funcional de un sistema. Los modelos efectivos de IDEFØ ayudan a organizar el análisis de un sistema y a promover una buena comunicación entre el analista y el cliente. IDEFØ es útil para establecer el alcance de un análisis, especialmente para un análisis funcional. Como herramienta de comunicación, IDEFØ mejora la participación de expertos de dominio y consenso en la toma de decisiones a través de dispositivos gráficos simplificados. Como herramienta de análisis, IDEFØ ayuda al modelador en la identificación de cuáles son las funciones que se llevan a cabo, lo que se necesita para desempeñar esas funciones, lo que el sistema actual hace bien o hace mal. Así, los modelos IDEFØ se crean a menudo como una de las primeras tareas de un esfuerzo de desarrollo del sistema.

En diciembre del año de 1993, el Laboratorio de Informática de Sistemas del Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología (NIST) dio a conocer a IDEFØ como un estándar para el modelado de funciones en la publicación FIPS 183.

Véase también
 Ingeniería de sistemas

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 FIPS Publication 183, publicado en diciembre de 1993 IDEFØ por Computer Systems Laboratory del National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). Retirado por NIST el 8 de septiembre de 2002 ver [https://web.archive.org/web/20100801020458/http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/withdraw.htm Visto FIPS en Numerical Order Index
 Vista de la familia de métodos IDEF, en www.idef.com

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Who doesn't love hot tub? The place where your body can feel the warm and relaxing feeling. It makes your blood flow smoothly, so you feel like you don't have anything to worry about. Enjoying this hot-tub session could be way more relaxing when it is accompanied by the beauty of nature.
Hot tub tent is the best thing to make your dream of feeling the relaxing hot water and enjoying nature's beauty comes true. By this, you can enjoy every natural scenery while soaking your body in hot water. You can feel the sensation of the natural outdoor spa in your home.
This kind of tent can also be used for other activities like exercise, plantation house, outdoor dining room, and other activities. It is also quite efficient which you can place it everywhere, like pasture and wood decking.
This Solardome® glasshouse, for example, is very beautiful and such a must-have dome to add a luxury yet natural touch to your house. Though it is mainly purposed as a plant house, but the idea to turn it into a spa dome is so brilliant.
The transparent glass of the dome allows you to watch the natural surroundings without any limit, and full protection from any extreme weather condition. The cost starts from about $8,180 for smallest diameter.
Lay Z Spa Dome by Bestway is another choice that you can use for your hot tub moment. You should not fear of any weather condition or any disturbances by this spacious hot tub tent. Just open one, two or more covers of this tent to enjoy the scenery around you.
It is more like a camping tent that is made from polyester with detachable fabric doors and mesh doors. You can easily set up this tent on any flat surface within 15 minutes. Spend your money for about $211 to own this one.
Spa Dome Orlando perhaps is our best recommendation to have a hot tub tent in your home. It has a beautiful look, and best spa features. The transparent panel of this dome protects you from harsh sunlight and provides you great visibility to explore the nature.
There are two panels variants that you can choose, the transparent one and the opaque one. If you prefer crystal clear visibility to the outside surrounding, you can go with the transparent panel, and chose the opaque panel if you more concern on private condition.
It is also easy to assemble on composite or wood decking, concrete, and ceramic block. The dome is offered in several gorgeous colors that you can choose. You can get it by spending around $6379.
So those are our reviews about hot tub tent products. You can choose one of them based on your own circumstances. Lay Z Spa Dome is the cheapest one which suits for your easy relaxing time. The other two are great to assemble in your big house to add a more luxurious touch that would amaze everyone. Remember that the price may change due to the products' terms and conditions.


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episode 517: #517: Dr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer's Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to Pull
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Q: Could a particles helicity be notated accurately by specifying a positive or negative spin? Would it be fitting or accurate to notate a particle's helicity by specifying whether that particle's spin is positive or negative?
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right-handed up quark
spin = +1/2
left-handed up quark
spin = -1/2
I understand this isn't the current notation system, and that these particle's don't necessarily retain their helicity forever, but if you were to describe the current state of a particle, could you do so with + and -, and would doing so reflect something accurate about these particles?

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Chinese food should come with a health warning, campaigners warn today as research shows some dishes contain five times more salt than a Big Mac.
Beef with black bean sauce is the worst offender, analysis of London Chinatown takeaway menus showed, with more than six grams of salt per serving, equivalent to an adult's total recommended daily allowance.
By contrast a McDonald's Big Mac contains just 2.3g of salt, which is still around a third of the recommended healthy limit.
The report, by campaign group Action on Salt, contained good news for fans of sweet and sour chicken, which was found to be the least salty dish, with around 2.3g of salt per portion.
Eating too much salt has been linked to degenerative health conditions including heart disease. In a bid to combat over-consumption the Government has set salt reduction targets for food producers, however they will not stretch to small takeaways.
The research also looked at supermarket ready meals and found that the saltiest Chinese dish was Slimming World's Chinese Style Banquet Rice, which contained 4.4g of salt per pack.
It also advised consumers to exercise caution when adding soy sauce to meals, as it is over five times saltier than seawater.
In 2016, Public Health England assumed responsibility for the UK's salt reduction targets, but since then Action on Salt claims there has been "little action". It has not yet published a progress report on whether the last set of salt targets,due to be met by the end of 2017, have been reached, or any plans to set new targets.
According to the campaign group every 1g reduction in salt intake prevents 7,000 deaths, 4,000 of which are premature, from strokes and heart disease.
Dr Alison Tedstone, Public Health England's chief nutritionist, said: "Our salt consumption has decreased over the last decade - a loaf of bread has forty per cent less than it used to. However, some products are still too high in salt and we know this can be reduced further.
Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary University of London, said: "Salt is the forgotten killer as it puts up our blood pressure, leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary strokes, heart failure and heart attacks every year.


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Swoon factor: 5/5. Visual: 5/5. Casting: 4/5. From start to finish, I was utterly enchanted by this gorgeous adaptation of Tolstoy's novel. The casting was just fab (although I suppose I wondered for a moment why Keira gets all the great roles in British productions. Oh well...) As my friend Jessica remarked afterward, "That was a Downton Abbey reunion," thanks to all the cast members from DA who appeared in the film (including Lady Mary Crawley as Anna's truest friend, Princess Myagkaya). It was great to see Ruth Wilson from Luther. She was perfect as the gossipy Princess Betsy. (BTW: I had to look up all the character's names before writing this post, so don't give me any special props for throwing down names as though I could actually keep track of them.) During the movie I was all #teamVronsky, but I thought better of it later and switched to #teamLevin. Which perfectly segues into my #1 takeaway (SPOILER ALERT!): Thank god women living in this time and place don't have to throw themselves under a train for choosing to love the wrong man (more than once sometimes) or, for that matter, making any mistakes in love. (As a sensitive soul with passion to spare, I've certainly made my fair share, so I would've been in BIG trouble had I lived among nineteenth century Russian aristocracy... but oh, those gowns and that decor!) I plan on trying to see this movie again while it's in theaters. Stay tuned for Amy's take on the film.
Speaking of Horatio Hornblower (which we are always doing around here--it's part of our blog's raison d'être), I thought I'd share a hot toddy recipe for those chilly winter evenings spent snuggled under a Pendleton blanket re-watching old episodes of our favorite series.
Recipe: Add 1/4 cup of appropriately seaworthy rum (like Kraken, pictured above) and 1/4 water to a small pot. Squeeze in a tablespoon of honey and about a teaspoon of lemon. Peel or grate some lemon rind, and add that in too. Mix it up and heat on the stovetop. Makes 1 serving. Enjoy!
This is the classic adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel about a married physician and poet (played by a smoldering Omar Sharif) during the Bolshevik Revolution who falls in love with the wife (played by Julie Christie) of a political activist.
This is the version of Tolstoy's novel with Vivien Leigh in the titular role. See Amy's overview of all the Anna Karenina adaptations here.
Charles Laughton stars in this adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel. According to IMDB: "At a cost of $1.8 million, this was one of the most expensive films ever made by RKO Pictures. The Notre Dame replica alone cost $250,000."
Yul Brenner is eldest brother Dmitri Karamazov in the adaptation of Dostoevsky's epic novel. It also marks the debut of living legend William Shatner.
We must've read this book a gazillion times, and how often do we thank our lucky stars that we've found kindred spirits like adopted orphan Anne found Diana?
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), 10:15 a.m.
I fell asleep with this book under my pillow when I was five. Shirley Temple is Rebecca in this ultra-sweet version of the book.
A Room with a View (1985), 2:00 a.m.
This Merchant Ivory production starring Julian Sands, Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, and Judi Dench is one of our most favorite adaptations ever. We watch it and read E.M. Forster's novel at least once a year.
Happy Turkey Day, Romancing the Tome readers! In honor of the holiday, we've pulled together some Colonial-related film and TV picks, plus one suggestion for an adaptation that's yet to be made.
There are a few adaptations of this Nathanial Hawthorne historical novel about Puritans in Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649. Perhaps the most notorious is Demi Moore's steamy 1995 turn as Hester Prynne with Gary Oldman as her illicit lover Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Lillian Gish starred in the 1926 version pictured above.
James Fenimore Cooper's novel takes place in 1757 in upstate New York during the French and Indian wars. Daniel Day-Lewis (currently in theaters as Lincoln) famously played a super-hot, Mohican-reared Nathanial Poe (aka Hawkeye) in a 1992 (wow, it's been that long?) adaptation directed by Michael Mann.
Winona Ryder starred with a somewhat scrawnier Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1996 film adaption of Arthur Miller's 1953 play about the Salem witch trials (symbolic of McCarthy's communist blacklisting).
Arthur Conan Doyle's novel spans two continents and tells the story of a French Huguenot family's flight to the New World from the court of Louis XIV. Once they arrive, they must travel through hundreds of miles of untamed wilderness, evading Indians as they flee a malevolent Jesuit priest.
1935: Here's a trailer for the Oscar-winning 1935 screen adaptation starring Greta Garbo, Frederic March, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Basil Rathbone. Perfection in black-and-white.
1977: Awesome Oblonsky facial hair and some rather jaunty Mazurka moves in this BBC miniseries version starring Nicola Pagett.
2000: Helen McCrory nailed Anna's feisty (well, unhinged) personality in this miniseries, as you'll see here.
On a long road trip this weekend, I listened to the audiobook of Stephen Greenblatt's Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Swerve tells the enthralling story of papal secretary and Humanist Poggio Bracciolini's fifteenth-century book hunt through Europe's monasteries, where he uncovered Lucretius's ancient philosophical poem, On the Nature of Things. The poem influenced practically all the great thinkers and artists of the Renaissance, including Moliere, Shakespeare, and Montaigne, just to name a few. The poem was translated into English in the seventeenth century by, of all people, a Puritan woman named Lucy Hutchinson. The story would make a great thriller--along the lines of The Name of the Rose, the adaptation of Umberto Eco's Medieval murder mystery.
With so many promising period films to check out in the coming months (Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, and Les Mis, to name a few), you might not have heard of the Danish historical drama A Royal Affair. The film tells the story of the mentally ill King of Denmark, King Christian VII, and his queen, Caroline Mathilde, who falls for the royal court's trusted doctor friend (played by the striking Mads Mikkelsen). Sumptuous costumes...scandalous affairs...sanity-skirting monarchs...count me in!
How perfect is this cast? Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan (yes!) play feuding exes, while my True Blood obsession, Alexander Skarsgård, is mom's new boyfriend in this modern-day adaptation of the novel by Henry James. Here's a thorough review from the Guardian UK. And here's another review from NPR. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, but I'm not sure what the U.S. release date is.
From the adage-filled tragedy Hamlet to the pastoral comedy As You Like It, the Bard's plays are veritable gold mines of advice for politicians -- and the body politic.


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Carbonell is een Spaans voedingsmiddelenmerk dat sinds 2001 in handen is van Deoleo en dat voornamelijk gebruikt wordt voor olijven en olijfolie.

In 1866 begon Antonio Carbonell in Córdoba de olijfolieplantage Carbonell & Cía. de Córdoba SA. In 1878 nam zijn zoon Carlos Carbonell y Morand het over en deze wist een exclusief leveringscontract af te sluiten met de Britse marine. Dit contract liep pas af aan het einde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. In 1904 werd de afbeelding van de Cordobase vrouw ontworpen door Pere Casas Abarca in de stijl van de art nouveau, die nog steeds de verpakking siert al is deze in 2010 iets aangepast. In 1970 werd Louit uit San Sebastián - bekend van de mosterd - overgenomen.

Ergens in de jaren '80 komt Carbonell wegens schulden in handen van de bank Banco Hispano Americano die het vervolgens van de hand wil doen. In eerste instantie werd de koop gesloten met het Franse bedrijf Lesieur die al eigenaar was van het eveneens Spaanse Koipe. Daar stak de Spaanse regering een stokje voor aan de vooravond van de Spaanse toetreding tot de EEG, en vervolgens werd in 1985 Carbonell over genomen door Aceites Españoles, een Spaans bedrijf dat speciaal voor dit doel was opgezet door Aceites Elosúa S.A. uit León en Industrias Pont S.A. uit Tarragona met behulp van een schappelijke lening van de staatsbank Banco de Crédito Agrícola (Unilever was ook nog even in de race).

Maar de twee eigenaren Elosúa en Pont konden niet met elkaar tot overeenstemming komen over de te volgen koers. De schulden en de hevige concurrentie die opkwam na de toetreding van Spanje tot de EEG legde een zware wissel op de nieuw gevormde onderneming. Ook binnen de familie Elosúa begonnen verschillende kampen te ontstaan en sommigen familieleden begonnen hun aandelen te verkopen. Lesieur kocht deze aandelen stiekem op via tussenpersonen. Lesieur wordt overgenomen door het eveneens Franse Béghin-Say dat op zijn beurt in 1991 wordt overgenomen door het Italiaanse Ferruzzi die het een jaar later samenvoegt met het Italiaanse Eridania. Ferruzzi doet een eerste overname poging in 1991. Een aantal jaar later, in 1994, werd het bedrijf alsnog door de Ferruzzi overgenomen middels hun dochter Eridania Béghin-Say. Zij voegde het bedrijf samen met Koipe.

In 2001 werd Eridania Béghin-Say opgesplitst en kwam Koipe onder de hoede van Cereol die er direct afstand van nam door deze, en daarmee ook Carbonell, te verkopen aan het Spaanse Grupo SOS dat in 2011 verder ging als Deoleo.

Spaans bedrijf


On Monday, the Prime Minister made a statement to the House of Commons on last week's EU Council meeting, her first as Prime Minister.
I asked the Prime Minister a question on the position of the Government and the weakness of the Labour Leader towards Russia's actions in Syria. Below, you can see a clip of me raising this important point with the Prime Minister, and if you can't view the video you can view the text in Hansard, the official transcript of Parliament, at this link: https://goo.gl/UNVLD4.


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Mississippi Photography History Southern History
By Eudora Welty
Foreword by Reynolds Price & Natasha Trethewey
Hardcover : 9781496821232, 232 pages, 252 b&w photographs, March 2019
In hardback again for the first time in thirty years, the definitive book of photographs by the Pulitzer Prize winner, including a new foreword by Natasha Trethewey and sixteen new photographs
Eudora Welty's Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer's photographs. Her camera's viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are pictures from Welty's travels to New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, and Europe in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
The photographs in this edition are new digital scans of Welty's original negatives and authentic prints, restoring the images to their original glory. It also features sixteen additional images, several of which were selected by Welty for her 1936 photography exhibit in New York City and have never before been reproduced for publication, along with a resonant, new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey.
Reynolds Price, who wrote the foreword, detects in her short stories and novels the same 'instant indelible force' that we hope to find in a photograph—and do, in Ms. Welty's. . . . Above all, Ms. Welty stresses the importance of the subjects of her photographs.
Welcome both as the definitive collection of Welty's pictures and as an important part of her career: the foundation upon which the great edifice was built.
- Washington Post Book World
Welty's portraits uncovered dignity and even joy in these hard years.
- People Weekly
Her literary legacy—not only her stories but her novels, essays, and reviews—traces the full arc of a writer's imagination. But the pictures bring us back to the time and the place it all began.
- Smithsonian
Welty captured a way of life in spontaneous scenes as lyrical and atmospheric as her fiction.
- Chicago Tribune
We are better too for the soft still moments, the occasional humor, the quiet inarticulateness of many of the faces Eudora Welty has shared with us from her family album; and we remain grateful for her enduring consummate artistic honesty.
- Sewanee Review
This album of her black-and-white shots reveals a sensitivity to place augmented by a keen eye for drama.
- Booklist
Thirty years after its publication, this defining monograph of the writer's photography has been revivified, thanks to digital scans of Welty's work. A new foreword by Natasha Trethewey joins Reynolds Price's original.
- The New York Times Book Review, 5/17/2019
Welty's photographs were, for me, a resource, a way to see a time and place I'd only encountered in history books and my grandmother's stories. I began writing poems with those images in mind, each one a starting place to anchor visually what I'd heard in the cadences of my grandmother's voice, how she'd say—reaching the end of a story—That's just the way it was.
- from the new foreword by Natasha Trethewey
As a teenager in 1971, I first became aware that the great writer Eudora Welty was also a photographer. Her photographs had a profound effect on me. In addition to the actual images, perhaps as significant was Miss Welty's statement: 'A better and less ignorant photographer would certainly have come up with better pictures, but not these pictures; for he could hardly have been as well positioned as I was, moving through the scene openly and yet invisibly because I was a part of it, born into it, taken for granted. ' This gave me a framework for my own work. I was honored to have known her much later, and in 1999, to show her my book Delta Land, which was, in large part, an homage to her pioneering work chronicling Mississippi.
- Maude Schuyler Clay
Other Books By Eudora Welty, Reynolds Price, and Natasha Trethewey
Mule Trader
Some Notes on River Country
One Time, One Place
The Capers Papers
Early Escapades
On William Faulkner
On William Hollingsworth, Jr.
Country Churchyards
The Shoe Bird
Mississippi Zion
Heritage and Hoop Skirts
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
Black Bodies in the River
Improvising the Score
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
The South Strikes Back
Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen
Love, Daddy


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Bethesda Says id Software Layoffs Are Normal
By Kevin Parrish published 11 January 12
id Software is laying off employees, but it's nothing out of the ordinary, claims Bethesda.
On Tuesday Ubisoft Toronto level artist Adam Bromell confirmed that id Software was currently laying off employees, and that perhaps more layoffs would come soon. The news arrives after the recent release of the studio's first new IP in decades, Rage, which initially suffered technical issues on both the PC and console platforms.
But parent company Bethesda Softworks swooped in and explained the situation before the rumor mill began churning too quickly, claiming that it's common practice. "As part of its standard business practice, id regularly evaluates staffing to ensure it has a workforce that meets the needs of the studio," Bethesda said in a statement. "As part of that process, some id employees were recently let go."
That said, all is well in the house of id, so don't fret. Even more, the studio is still recruiting and hiring qualified developers, and says that "development work on future id titles continues unabated." id Software is reportedly working on additional content for Rage while continuing to slowly bake Doom 4 in the oven, a process which has thus far taken four years.
It's apparently not uncommon for a studio to hire on a huge load of contractors to work on a specific game, and then terminate their contract after the title is released. IndustryGamers calls Rage "commercially unsuccessful," but many fans may disagree. The game actually pulled in slightly above-average scores, ranking an 82-percent average for the Xbox 360, an 81-percent for the PlayStation 3, and a 78-percent on the PC.
Bethesda Game Studios
beardguy
Hopefully they got rid of the incompetent workers who ultimately led to the failure of RAGE.
It's obvious that more than a few people dropped the ball on this title.
While on the surface, a metacritic average of 78-82 isn't all that bad, we all know that the way reviewers skew numbers "AAA" titles that anything below 90 is just bad.
rawful
Rage was just not that great of a game, technical issues aside. Just when it started to really get interesting, and seemed like the story was going to take off... the game ends. Such a disappointment. It just felt like an incomplete game.
RipperjackAU
beardguyHopefully they got rid of the incompetent workers who ultimately led to the failure of RAGE. It's obvious that more than a few people dropped the ball on this title.
Yes, like John Cormack. He might have been on the founders behind DOOM, but he screwed the pooch big time on RAGE. He needs a reality check, and a pink slip might be the best way to drive that message home.
digitalzom-b
Yes, this is common practice...
For games that fail.
I am so worried about DOOM 4 !
If you can't . . . just let it go!!!
RipperjackAUYes, like John Cormack. He might have been on the founders behind DOOM, but he screwed the pooch big time on RAGE. He needs a reality check, and a pink slip might be the best way to drive that message home.
He has majority ownership of the studio. Good luck with that. He would probably just make another game studio if you could, anyway. And he is the engine designer, he doesn't write the story or make the art. The problem with Rage was that the creative design team and management behind it ignored blatantly bad story telling and plot throughout the games development and ignored the reality that the characters were flat.
de5_Roy
how well did rage sell exactly? did it sell bad enough to be called a failure? the figures in the last paragraph look like review scores to me.
Steveymoo
This is not called "being laid off," this is called "coming to the end of your contract."
In the vfx and games industry, contractors are usually hired for 6, or 12 months, depending on the length of the project. This is totally normal, there's no point keeping hold of 50 staff members, when there's no work for them to do...
IndignantSkeptic
I won't be getting Doom4 and that is because it's being designed for this generation of consoles instead of the next.


Located in prestigious Valley Ranch, MacArthur Ridge is approximately ten minutes from Las Colinas and a mere twenty-five minutes to DFW, Love Field and the Galleria. Our spectacular grounds and peaceful setting offer an oasis from your daily grind. Each home features beautifully coordinated paint, carpets, tile accents, white washed oak cabinetry and full sized washer/dryer connections. Take a dip in our bi-level pool after a vigorous work out in our fully equipped fitness center. Come and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of this haven. We anxiously await your arrival.


Wineries that have faced issues from drought or extreme cold can now sign up for federal farmer and rancher disaster assistance programs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that farmers and ranchers can sign-up for disaster assistance programs, reestablished and strengthened by the 2014 Farm Bill, beginning Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Quick implementation of the programs has been a top priority for USDA.
Enrollment begins on April 15 for producers with losses covered by the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) and the Tree Assistance Program (TAP). The TAP program is relevant to wineries.TAP provides financial assistance to qualifying orchardists and nursery tree growers to replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes and vines damaged by natural disasters.


Wuhan has become the second city in China, after Shanghai, to register negative population growth, according to city officials.
The capital of Central China's Hubei Province had, for the first time in the past 55 years, minus population growth in 2004, according to statistics.
The city's natural population growth was minus 1.89 per thousand last year compared with 2.88, 2.16 and 2.15 per thousand respectively for the 2001-03 period.
One major factor was the high death rate, said Gao Huixiang, an official with the Wuhan Family Planning Working Committee. "Last year's death rate was high, 9.39 per thousand."
According to the Wuhan Statistics Yearbook, the city's death rate was 4.97, 4.92 and 5.01 per thousand from 2001 to 2003 respectively.
Meanwhile, the annual birth rate was relatively stable, standing at 7.85, 7.08, 7.16 and 7.5 per thousand from 2001 to 2004 respectively.
"Fewer newborn babies and more senior citizens indicate that the city has gradually turned into an ageing society," Gao said.
A rough indicator of an ageing society is when people aged 60 or above account for 10 per cent of the total population.
This year, Wuhan is to focus on striving for a reasonable balance in the proportion between the newborn baby boys and girls.
In Hubei, there were 128 newborn boys for every 100 newborn girls last year compared to the international norm of 106 to 100.
"We'll make more efforts in combating illegal and improper foetal gender checkup and non-medical termination," Gao said.
Wuhan is not alone in having an ageing society. Shanghai is believed to be the first city in China to encounter the ageing phenomenon.
In Beijing, people over 60 and 65 accounted for 12.54 and 8.4 per cent of the general population by 2000, an obvious indicator of an ageing society. So, too, Tianjin, which has been reporting a low population growth.
Zhang Kaidi, deputy director of the China National Scientific Research Centre on Ageing Issues, told China Daily that among the cities reporting low or negative population growth rates across China, Shanghai's figures are the most accurate and the city can be categorized as an ageing society.
The city first showed signs of minus population growth in 1993 after a national census.
"The use of different statistical methods may lead to the inaccuracies," Zhang said.
Most of the population surveys are done door-to-door, which excludes the floating population by and large, he said.
Zhang's view is shared by other demographers.
"In big cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the census is probably conducted only among local household registered population," said Qiao Xiaochun, a demographer with Beijing-based Renmin University of China.


Well.. I tried to add special characters (Ää, Üü, Öö and ß) just.
I hope all is right.
Åå Čč Ćć Žž Šš Đđ were added to the second package.
Źź Óó Ńń Śś Łł are available now.
New characters: Áá Íí Úú Ññ ¡ ¿ and "em dash"
Thanks for your comments and Report bugs below please.
Add Ðð and Þþ for Icelandic pls.
Lower-case 'z' character is replaced with cyrillic 'з'. Fix that, please!
only need "Ş" and "ı" for full turkish support. pretty good job!
This font is a backward.
Let's see the problematic parts.
1. Version means that here should be only numbers without year.
2. Copyright info contains only the software created with.
3. Italic angle is not set. Appr. 14.2°.
4. Unicode ranges not set to default, so ie.: IPA extension is not useable.
5. MS Code Pages is not set to dafault, so ie.: Turkish codepage is useable.
6. There is no GSUB and GPOS lookups. It means that there is no ligatures and kernings.
7. Missing glyphs in codepages. It means that in default set (ISO8859-1) there aren't even some necessary glyphs.
8. The highly important codepage (Windows ANSI) is not filfulled with the paragraph symbol.
9. The diacritical combination is not set carefully. The following glyphs need correct direction: Ccedilla, ccedilla.
10. Ccedilla and ccedilla need remove overleap.
11. The "Copy reference" issue is not known in this font.
12. Russian iibreve contains uacute.
13. The little ya contains an extra hook and the glyph itself is too high.
14. The little ucyrill and tse is close similar. The tse needs an extra hook.
15. The little shcha needs an extra hook.
16. The little sha has an extra underline. I don't know why.
17. The following glyph needs remove overleap: AE.
18. I don't know why there are extra glyphs at U04D4 and U04D5. They exist in their original places.
19. The following glyphs come in the font lately: numbersign, dollar, percent, ampersand, asciitilde. They have no rounded endings as others have.
20. The Iociryllic contains a character what is similar to English "I" with dieresis. I think this is not Iocyrillic.
I think extremas are correct.
how can i ins this font?
excuse me for not answering so long. new characters will be available tommorow I think.
Š Ķ Ī Ļ Ģ Ā Ņ Ķ supported?
Excellent job! We plan to use this font in our company's logo. It means that it will appear in cards, website, merchandise and so. Where would be the right place to place the credits in order to comply with the CC-By license and give you the well-deserved acknowledgment?. Thanks a lot!
but it still doesn't provide few polish characters: ę, Ę, ż, Ż. In Unicode 0119, 0118, 017C, 017B.
If you could add them, that would be great.
Hi! your font is amazing.
Can you add these two characters: ì and ò?
well at least ï, for spanish poetry :/. we use it to "break" words in more sillabuses :/. hate metric in poetry xD.


United Way of Dane County announced the election of the 2012-2013 Board of Directors during their Annual Meeting on March 1, 2012. The board is comprised of community leaders who guide the organization in its efforts to change lives through our community's Agenda for Change. The Agenda is focused on seven goals in the three areas of Education, Safety and Health.
Perry Ecton, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Dane County, Inc.
Chairman- Gary Wolter, President & CEO, Madison Gas and Electric Co.
Richard M. Lynch,President, J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
Richard E. Bourne,President & CEO, Home Health United, Inc.
Perry Ecton, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Dane County Inc.


Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey—mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flavia's own backyard.
Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of many short stories, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir "The Shoebox Bible." His first Flavia de Luce mystery, "T"he "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, " received the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, and the Agatha Award, and was nominated for the Macavity, the Anthony, and the Barry awards. His second Flavia de Luce mystery is "The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag." Bradley lives in Malta with his wife and two calculating cats, and is currently at work on the next Flavia de Luce mystery, " I Am Half Sick of Shadows."


Dubai is well known for its unbelievable man made structure and only city who is having first 7* star hotel in the world. The palm Island is also one of the reasons of increasing tourist from all over the world, and Dubai tour package with Ghum India Ghum is the perfect combination for a memorable trip.
Day 04: Enjoy Breakfast at hotel , first half of day is free for leisure , Depart for Desert Safari Tour in afternoon , pick up and drop will be provided for desert safari , Enjoy Dune Bashing , Oppurtunies for clicking pictures, See beautiful Sunset at Desert , Later reach camp site and enjoy camel ride , try henna designs , Later enjoy Bar be Que Dinner , Enjoy Belly Dance or Angora Show , Retun back to Hotel , Overnight stay.
Day 05: Enjoy Breakfast at hotel , check out from hotel and transfers to the airport and board to flight for Delhi, Tour ends with happy memories.
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Writing about climate change often falls into one of two opposite traps - predicting either calamity or apathy - both of which this book avoids. This is not a story of gloom and doom, of inevitable climate catastrophe. On the contrary, this book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. Nor is it one of complacent congratulation for "win-win" initiatives, cautiously incremental steps, and "green" consumer choices. Climate Protection and Development summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century - towards bold initiatives with big costs, and much bigger benefits.
This book explores the interconnected issues of climate and development, laying the groundwork for just such a new deal. It presents a challenging agenda, and highlights the needs and perspectives of developing countries which may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable to readers in high-income countries. The unfortunate truth is that any large country, or group of mid-sized countries, can veto any global climate solution by refusing to participate, so a solution will only work if it works for everyone.


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STARTUPS IN-DEPTH
BY THE BUSINESS TIMES
BEST DIGITAL NEWS START-UP, WAN-IFRA 2019 GOLD AWARD
SEEDS Capital seeks co-investors to dole out S$150m to deep-tech startups
Thu, Dec 03, 2020 - 2:32 PM
Olivia Poholiviapoh@sph.com.sg@OliviaPohBT
3 -min read
Olivia Poh oliviapoh@sph.com.sg @OliviaPohBT
ARMED with up to S$150 million from the Startup SG Equity scheme, SEEDS Capital is on the lookout for more co-investors to back early-stage, deep-tech startups in the Republic.
During Budget 2020 in February, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said that the government will set aside an additional S$300 million under the Startup SG Equity co-investment scheme to catalyse investment into deep-tech startups.
As these startups need larger investments and longer gestation periods, and face higher risks, investors are less prepared to invest in them, he said.
The additional S$300 million allocated to Startup SG Equity is expected to draw more than S$800 million of private funding over the next decade, Mr Heng added.
For this scheme, SEEDS Capital - the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore (ESG) - aims to appoint between 10 and 15 private-sector partners to invest into these early-stage, deep-tech Singapore startups over the next five to eight years. It has launched a call-for-partnership (CFP), hoping to broaden, diversify and refresh its current pool of 30 active co-investment partners.
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Ted Tan, chairman of SEEDS Capital and ESG's deputy chief executive officer, said: "Through the co-investments with these private-sector partners, we hope to provide the appropriate guidance and resources that will enable deep-tech startups to succeed in developing new and disruptive technologies that can help our enterprises emerge stronger."
SEEDS Capital has three deep-tech sectors - advanced manufacturing and engineering, health and biomedical sciences, as well as urban solutions and sustainability.
These sectors are in line with Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2020 Technology Domains, which aim to increase Singapore's research capabilities, as well as support economic growth in key focus areas such as digital health, agri-food tech, urban mobility and logistics & supply chain that have emerged due to Covid-19.
SEEDS Capital is seeking partners who can identify and co-invest in Singapore-based, early-stage deep-tech startups in these three sectors, provide hands-on assistance in helping these startups fast-track commercialisation, as well as connect them with potential clients globally.
The CFP will open on Dec 7 and is set to close on Jan 17 next year. Interested parties can submit proposals to cfp_ssge@enterprisesg.gov.sg. Locals, as well as foreign parties with a presence in Singapore, are welcome to apply.
Singapore has some 3,800 technology startups, and about 150 venture capital funds are investing in startups in the city-state and in the region.
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For Mark Twain's hierarchy of lies, damned lies and statistics, we should really add epidemiological lies, those reports showing that brown rice or trans-palmitoleic acid will prevent diabetes and diet soda will make you fat, which appear every week or so in ABCNews. (I mean the generic media, but ABCNews and I have a close relationship: sometimes they even print what I tell them). If you've been eating white rice instead of brown rice and you develop diabetes ten years later, it is the fault of your choice of rice. Everybody knows that this is ridiculous but the data are there showing an almost 4-fold increased risk, so how can you argue with the numbers.
These kinds of studies are always based on associations and the authors are usually quick to tell you that association doesn't mean causality even as they interpret the data as a clear guide to action ("Substitution of whole grains, including brown rice, for white rice may lower risk of type 2 diabetes.") In fact, to most scientists, association can be a strong argument for causality. That is not what's wrong with them. Philosophically speaking, there are only associations. All we really know is that there is a stream of particles and there is an association between the presence of a magnet and the appearance of a spot on a piece of photographic paper (anybody remember photographic paper?). God does not whisper in your ear that the particle has a magnetic moment. It is the strength of the idea behind the association and the presentation of the idea that determines whether the association implies causality. What most people really mean is that "association does not necessarily imply causality. You may need more information." What's wrong with the rice story is that the idea is lacking in common sense. The idea that the type of rice you eat has any meaningful impact by itself, or even whether one can guess whether it has a positive or negative impact on a general lifestyle, is absurd. But what about the statistics? Here the problem is really presentation of the data. The number of papers in the literature pointing out the errors in interpretation of statistics is very large although it is still less than the number of papers making those errors. There are numerous problems and many examples but let's look at the simplest case: limitations of reporting relative risk and alternatives.
2. Now, ask yourself what this means? If 1000 people with high cholesterol take pravastatin, how many people will be saved from a heart attack that might have otherwise killed them? Think about this, then look at the data, the data that should have been reported in the media.
Right off, it doesn't look as good as you might have thought. Overall, death from a heart attack is a major killer, but if you take a thousand people and watch them for five years, not that many people die from a heart attack. Now there are three standard ways of representing the data.
4. Data presentation – Relative risk reduction.
Risk reduction (number of people saved per thousand) = 41-32 = 9. Saving 9 lives doesn't sound that great but lets get the per cent as reported.
Relative risk reduction = 9/41 = 22 % as indicated, and it does sound like a big deal but there are other ways to look at the data.
5. Data presentation – Absolute risk reduction. Again, you start with risk, the number of cases divided by total number but you calculate the actual fraction. The absolute risk reduction is the difference between these two fractions.
number that you have to treat to save one life = NNT = 1000/9 = 111 people .
7. Conclusion: 22 % risk reduction is true enough but it seems like it didn't really tell you what you want to know. Cutting to the chase, would you take a statin if you had high cholesterol (more than about 250 mg/dl) and, as in WOSCOPS, no history of heart attacks. On the basis of this study alone, it's not clear. First, the risk is low. There is clearly a benefit but how predictable is that benefit? In the study, 99 % of the people had no benefit. Of course, if you are the one out of a hundred, the drug would be a good thing. The question is not easy to answer but the point of what's written here is that the statistics as reported in the media might have led you to jump to conclusions. Before you jump, though, you might ask about side-effects. This is a complicated subject because although the side-effects are rare, their incidence is not zero and they can be severe but this post is only about the statistics.
I am not sure what the point is here. I don't see that all statin studies are so well done or so compelling that we don't need placebo. The ethics is determined by informed consent. I wouldn't volunteer because I might get the statin and I see little evidence that I am the sort of person who might benefit.
Care to elaborate on that. I know of none that stand up to closer scrutiny and seem to somehow or other always tainted by other 'interests' or really do nothing that an aspirin and extra Vitamin D would not accomplish. Without the nasty side effects.
I don't know where the quotation is from. Did I say that? I am certainly not a fan of RCTs but, again, it is what you do with it. Can you explain the quotation source?
…Oh, I see. It is somebody else's comment. I am in agreement that "successful RCTs" are smaller in number than one might think. That is the point of the post.
You are entitled to your opinion. However, it isn't really valid. The large statin trials stand up to scrutiny. You are of course free to explain why you think differently.
Well, then don't volunteer. I fail to see the relevance of this in … well, anything.
The same goes for this post, which doesn't really contain anything anyone concerned with treating CVD patients doesn't already know. But if you wanted to explain ARR and RRR to laymen, that's fine too.
I'm glad you are so well-informed. Maybe it's a good idea for the rest of us to understand this also.
Yeah, that commenter was a little crabby. I re-read the post and I like it. I edited slightly and added a link to Gigerenzer's book which I recommend.


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Via Brad Plumer: a traffic jam in in a bottle.
To me, it's pretty remarkable how closely the real-world experiment above matches up with this java-based computer traffic simulator.
Warning: if you click the last link, and you're at all geeky, prepare to lose your afternoon!
A few years back I wasted hour after hour playing with the java settings, and watching "traffic" jams materialize and melt — just like in real life. My favorite quirk: for one lane-narrowing scenario, I could make traffic flow along beautifully at 40 miles per hour, but seize up like glue at either 20 mph or 60 mph. Another fave (and very relevant to congestion pricing debates) was letting traffic flow along smoothly at, say 1,400 "cars" per hour, and then increasing traffic volumes to 1,500 — and watching the traffic jam crystallize within moments.
Obviously, a java-based traffic simulator, or even a controlled experiment like the one in the video above, can't perfectly replicate real driving. But it's interesting to consider how sensitive traffic flow is to subtle changes. A seemingly negligible increase in traffic volumes, a tiny obstacle, a driver's hesitation: any of those can precipitate a phase change, turning free-flowing traffic into viscous muck. But conversely, a seemingly intractable traffic mess can free itself — if you remove an obstacle, smooth out a choke point, or simply reduce the peak traffic volume.


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[Review] The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
By playing.librarian on February 27, 2011
Title: The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel (This link goes to Amazon)
Author: Jed Rubenfeld
Page: 565 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery/Thriller
Subject: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), Carl Jung (1875 -1961), Psychoanalysis, Manhattan (New York) , Murder Invertigation
Manhattan, 1909: On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New York on his first – and only – visit to the United States, a stunning debutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse apartment, high above Broadway. The following night, another beautiful heiress, Nora Acton, is discovered tied to a chandelier in her parents' home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or recall her ordeal. Soon Freud and his American disciple, Stratham Younger, are enlisted to help Miss Action recover her memory, and to piece together the killer's identity. It is a riddle that will test their skills to the limit, and lead them on a thrilling journey – into the darkest places of the city, and of the human mind.
- Synopsis from book cover
I wasn't really sure what I was getting myself into when I first embarked on reading this book. I have to admit that I had some reservations. For one, having briefly studied psychology in college (I was actually a course away from getting a minor in social psychology!), Freud's psychoanalysis theory wasn't really unfamiliar to me. I remembered about the id, ego and superego and I thought Freud's "sexual and Oedipus complex" theory was absurd and preposterous. And I was quite skeptical about books using actual historical figures and putting them into fiction. How do you portray the person's characteristics and personalities in a fictitious situation?
Nevertheless, I put my reservations aside. Boy didn't I know what I was getting myself into! The Interpretation of Murder took me on a surprisingly delightful and thrilling roller coaster ride of a literary murder/mystery novel set during the the turn-of-century New York. It is a rare find that every element in the novel works for me. The setting, the plot, the characters, the writing and the pace of the story.
The setting. I don't really read novels set in the early 1900s that often, I've always preferred the ones set during wartime, particularly WWII. But I'm positive that things will change after reading this novel. With this book, I get insights of the high society New York during the turn of the century and not to mention the advent of new technologies (bridges, tall buildings, automobiles) and the importance of education and knowledge.
The plot. A note at the beginning of the book:
In 1909, Sigmund Freud, accompanied by his then disciple Carl Jung, made his one and only visit to the United States, to deliver a series of lectures on psychoanalysis at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The honorary doctoral degree that Clark awarded him was the first public recognition Freud had ever received for his work. Despite the great success of this visit, Freud always spoke, in later years, as if some trauma had befallen him in the United States. He called Americans 'savages' and blamed his sojourn there for physical ailments that afflicted him well before 1909. Freud's biographers have long puzzled over this mystery; speculating whether some unknown event in America could have led to his otherwise inexplicable reaction.
In the Author's Note section, Rubenfeld explained his idea for the book: taking the real-life mystery surrounding Freud's visit to America as noted above and creating a fictional psychoanalytic and murder case to explain the mystery. He then created a fictitious character named Dr. Stratham Younger, Freud's American counterpart and fellow believer of his psychoanalysis theories to lead the investigation.
My initial reservations was immediately compromised. Although I still don't buy Freud's "sexual and Oedipus complex" theory, I can accept the virtue of the psychoanalysis explanation of Shakespeare's Hamlet "To be or not to be" which evidently was author's own. Sigmund Freud and Shakespeare are two subjects close to the author as he studied them as an undergraduate and at Julliard, and as per explained by the author at the end of the book, though The Interpretation of Murder is a work of fiction, but much is based on actual fact.
The characters. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and a few others mentioned in the book are actual historical figures; the character of Miss Nora Acton is based on Freud's actual case study; and some are totally fictitious, like Dr. Stratham Younger (oh how I love the sound of his name!) and the detective Jimmy Littlemore. Some scenes and conversations between Freud and Jung were taken from actual occurrences based on their own letters, essays and statements drawn from published sources.
My favorite character from the book is the city's Coroner Hugel, with his rude and mocking comments, moody and grumpy character; and Detective Littlemore, with his determination to solve the case despite Hugel's criticisms. And it is easy to get "acquainted" with Dr. Younger as he is the narrator for the major part of the story.
The writing is easy to read. Even the scholarly talk about Freud's psychoanalysis theory, the engineering of The Manhattan Bridge and the interpretation of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy are easy and a delight to read.
The pace. With its whopping 500+ pages I thought it's going to be a slow read for me but the reverse was true. If I had the whole day not having to do anything else but read, I would have finished it in a day, hands down. It was such a page-turner that I can't seem to put it down.
I read somewhere that The Interpretation of Murder is going to be made into a movie (release date still TBA) and I can't wait!
Tags: 5 out of 5 historical fiction jed rubenfeld mystery/thriller review
Jenny said…
Awesome review!! I really can't wait to read this now! It's sitting here on my TBR. I didn't know it was going to be a movie!
A Journey in Reading said…
I almost bought this one tonight! I wish I would have now! Great review! (on my way to do more damage to be bank account)....
marmalade said…
hey, perhaps, you may want to start reading malay fictions too. good ones, of course. we do have the national laureates in english, you know :)
playing.librarian said…
marmalade: I know... I've already added "Interlok" in my wishlist =)
Nina B. said…
This sounds like it's really exciting! Adding this on my wishlist now!
Our TBRs are really growing every time we visit each other's blogs, huh? :D
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This is the third novel in Jeffrey Archer's compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles.
1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him.
But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma's son, who ultimately influences his uncle's fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction.
Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret will answer all these questions, but once again, pose so many more.
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Toyota Motors (NYSE: TM) once again is showing strength the first hour of trading, gapping up from Friday's close, the day of option expiration.
Like most auto stocks last week, Toyota stock (NYSE: TM) succumbed to the bearish drive downward into Friday's option expiration. However, it found buyers on Friday and confirmed the move with more on Monday, today's first hour of trading.
On the fundamental side, Toyota's recall issues had taken its toll on its position in the U.S. auto market, falling from second to third place, behind General Motors and Ford Motor Co., and the stock fell from its lofty price of 134.31 in 2006.
Lately, though, the stock price hasn't reflected any extreme downgrade by investors since the lows of summer 2010; and experienced only a slight sell-off into January's option expiration.
Per the market's response, this appears to be a buying opportunity. By 10 a.m. today, it reached a high of 83.02.
From the technical chartist perspective, Toyota stock has been trading technically above its 50-day moving average since early November, but in a sideways channel until a breakout movement in late October drove it to its present heights and a recent high of 86.10.
The latest sell-off, though, started last Tuesday from the previous Friday close of 85.96. However, the lower highs, lower closes and lower lows met some buying on Friday, the last day for January options. In fact, TM closed up for the day.
Most market technicians, those who use technical analysis to divine the dynamics of price to assess the market, noticed as early as last Thursday, the day before option expiration, the bottoming tail with Thursday's candle.
Note again that long tail below the close and keep it in your arsenal of technical tools for future evaluation. It seems to have paid off this time.
With Friday being the last day for January options, the bottoming tail proved to be a valid signal that buyers were setting up to come back in early, and not wait until today (Monday) to get long Toyota.
Nobody can say for sure how long this move will last, but it makes sense to look at the price dynamics in terms of probabilities.
Again, be apprised Toyota received positive press at 2011 NAIAS in Detroit these past two weeks.


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## A variable looks like
### Declaration only
`var myVar int`
### Declaration with initialisation
`myVar := 1`
### A constant

`const myVar 1`

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const (
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)
```

## A function looks like
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func foo(myVar int) string {
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```
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}
```
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}
```
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A TikTok User Discovered That Disney Reuses Animated Footage, And It's Blowing People's Minds
Posted on 11th February 2021 by
Photo Credits: Upworthy.com
Each Disney animated movie feels familiar, as they all share similar themes of love and happy endings. But the TikTok user buzzzi_ discovered another reason why Disney movies can give you a sense of deja vu. In the video, they show how Disney recycles their animation sequences.
The TikTok video puts a scene of Mowgli from "The Jungle Book" next to one of Christopher Robin from "Winnie the Pooh." Their bodies move in the same way, making their actions sync up perfectly.
https://www.tiktok.com/@buzzzi_/video/6922793772661165317?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1p=v1
However, this isn't the only animation sequence Disney has recycled. They also reused the "Sleeping Beauty" dance scene in "Beauty and the Beast." Additionally, some animated sequences in movies "The Aristocrats," "Robin Hood," and "The Sword and the Stone" are the same.
Before Disney had MASSIVE budgets, it saved money by recycling animation for different movies.
e.g., The dance scene from "Sleeping Beauty" was re-used for "Beauty & The Beast" 👀 pic.twitter.com/25FI7JYXmG
— Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (@TrungTPhan) February 6, 2021
Floyd Norman, a previous Disney animator, gave some insight on why Disney recycles animated sequences:
"It was done probably to save time, save money," Norman said in an interview with Cartoon Hangover. "Although I don't think it saved much time and I don't think it saved much money because it was much more of a hassle to go dig this old footage out of the archive."
Norman also told GeekDad that past audiences didn't consume media in the same way we do now. So, viewers who watched these movies in the 60s and 70s would be less likely to spot the identical sequences between films.
He also stated that the director of many movies from that era, Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman, liked to "play it safe" by using scenes that had worked in the past.
While some people are a bit startled by this news, people are also thrilled to learn this fun fact about Disney.
TikTok user Deb Lowell commented on the video, "That's great! Recycling…I never knew about it, but it makes sense!"
Now that we know about these reused animated sequences, we're sure to pay closer attention the next time we watch an animated Disney movie!
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EconPapers: Constructing the female coffee farmer: Do corporate smart‐economic initiatives promote gender equity within agricultural value chains?
Constructing the female coffee farmer: Do corporate smart‐economic initiatives promote gender equity within agricultural value chains?
Abstract: The quest for gender economic equality is becoming a component of corporate and transnational institutional antipoverty initiatives in the Global South. Framed as "smart economics," this approach explicitly ties women's empowerment to economic growth. On one hand, this framework employs a discursive construction that depicts women as attentive, family‐oriented entrepreneurs and caregivers who are more likely than their male counterparts to invest in their household and in their children's future; on the other hand, it involves a set of practices that register and reward women's participation. The smart‐economics movement operates on both public and private registers, ranging from women‐oriented government welfare programs to NGO‐managed microcredit schemes and, in this article, corporate actors and public–private partnerships engaged in agricultural value chains. Here we examine recent smart‐economic coffee industry initiatives, namely, a case study of microbatched "women's coffee" projects such as Allegro Coffee's Café La Dueña. We explore how coffee‐market value‐chain discourses and economic actions affect gendered ideologies and agricultural practices in coffee‐producing communities. We compare the impact on members of an Oaxacan (Mexican) fairtrade, organic producer organization that has implemented a women's microbatching coffee initiative relative to other organizations that have not adopted such programs. We find that although the program fails to demonstrate improvements in gender equity by reducing agricultural asset gaps or enhancing women's economic decision‐making power, landownership, or access to important agrotechnical services, it does lead to practical changes that are positively correlated with an increase in women's organizational participation, an openness of both women and men to gender‐equity programs and services, and women's increased access to land titles. Smart‐economic depictions of women as caring entrepreneurs also found a mixed reception in coffee communities: although women producers agreed with the notion that their coffee is superior, their risk aversion countered the entrepreneurial imaginary.