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The Milwaukee Bucks Have a Top Defense. They Need to Change It.
The below has been excerpted from this week's Outlet Pass, to get caught up on everything else you need to know in the NBA this week read the rest of the column here.
The Milwaukee Bucks have a top-three defense and, whether Giannis Antetokounmpo is on the floor or not, are brick-walling opponents with a game-plan that couldn't be more different from the blitz-happy aggression encouraged by Jason Kidd over the past few seasons. Once upon a time, Milwaukee's goal was to sew the game with chaos. They'd trap, recover, and scramble all over the court. It was compelling, controversial, and, given Milwaukee's unprecedented length, theoretically a good fit. The Bucks forced a ton of turnovers and occasionally made Kidd look like he knew what he was doing, but they were inevitably done in by poor communication, missed rotations, and untenable execution. Pure talent and questionable shot selection aside, it was their defensive issues—Milwaukee surrendered a ton of corner threes and layups—that weighed them down.
Milwaukee isn't playing like that anymore, which is ironic because their new head coach, Mike Budenholzer, enforced a similar strategy in Atlanta. Instead, they've adopted a conservative base defense—right now they rank 27th in opposing turnover percentage—that was en vogue half a decade ago but has since been swallowed whole by the three-point revolution.
The approach plays out as such: When offensive bigs run up to set ball and flair screens, Milwaukee's defenders will drop back and stay in the paint. They want ball handlers to either meet their length at the rim or submit via a mid-range pull up. So far, so good! Only four teams are forcing more long twos; after they finished dead last in opponent shot frequency at the rim in 2017-18 and 2015-16, the Bucks currently rank first.
For the regular season, it's a low-risk, medium-reward tactic that fits their personnel and maintains order. Switching is mostly frowned upon, which simplifies defensive rebounding (long an issue for the Bucks) and reduces the negative side effects that long rotations tend to have, which is evident when you look at how often they foul shooters relative to the past four years.
It feels unfair to attack something that's obviously working, but this scheme can only do so much against the best offenses in the league. This is something I touched on in greater detail earlier this week in a column about Joel Embiid's individual defense, but the same principles apply: Against the league's most potent offenses, any plan that doesn't account for pull-up threes is antiquated and futile. And guess what: Milwaukee is allowing a higher three-point rate above-the-break than any team in the league!
In the Bucks' season opener, the Charlotte Hornets went 16-for-38 from deep. The Kawhi Leonard-less Toronto Raptors went 9-for-45 (Kyle Lowry took nine threes and missed them all). Milwaukee's first loss came against a Boston Celtics team that jacked up 55 triples (more than ever before in franchise history) and tied a league-record by making 24 of them. The Sacramento Kings finished 14-for-36 and, in Milwaukee's second loss, the Portland Trail Blazers drilled 17 of their 43 tries.
None of this is a coincidence. The Bucks want teams to take floaters and tough mid-range jump shots, but in doing so they're conceding a ton of pull-up threes. Even though the Golden State Warriors don't like running a bunch of high pick-and-rolls with Steph Curry, Fiserv Forum would spontaneously combust if they did.
Five years ago, guards and wings (and some forwards!) didn't have the freedom to jack threes up off the bounce. During the 2013-14 NBA season, only four teams launched more than six pull-up threes per game. Today, two-thirds of the league eclipse that volume. What Milwaukee wants/needs is for the ball-handler's man to earn his money at the point of attack. Either fight over a screen and take away the shot by pressuring from behind, or duck underneath and either allow a poor shooter to shoot his shot or recover in time to take it away.
This is where Milwaukee's length and tenacity comes into play. Khris Middleton, Giannis, Malcolm Brogdon, Eric Bledsoe, and Donte DiVincenzo are not terrible at navigating on-ball screens. But against just about anyone, it's still extremely difficult work.
But pull ups aren't the only threat. The league has never had more big men who can and will stab you from beyond the arc. And when their man is deep in the paint, trying to stop penetration, a kick back pass usually results in an open look.
Bledsoe has no interest in switching onto Al Horford, knowing it would let Kyrie Irving surgically remove Brook Lopez's ankles from his body. But it's unclear if leaving Horford wide open is a better strategy.
It makes sense to drop Lopez and Ersan Ilyasova because rim protection is good and neither guy is particularly mobile in space. But to have them do so while seemingly ignoring specific matchups is not the wisest move. Watch how the Celtics take advantage by having Horford set a flare screen for Irving. Ilyasova might as well take a nap.
And the strategy applies across the board! Why don't Giannis and Malcolm Brogdon make life easier for everyone involved by switching this? Instead they give up an open three to a good three-point shooter.
This brings us to the future, and how Milwaukee will solve a problem that doesn't currently exist. They may not feel this way, but adding an athletic big who's more comfortable switching and scurrying on the perimeter—while still providing offensive substance—should be a priority before the trade deadline.
If they run into an opponent who plays Lopez off the floor, the rangier Thon Maker isn't good enough to fill those minutes. The Bucks struggled mightily with Giannis at the five last season, too. (That doesn't mean it can't work—they have more two-way players this year—but assuming Budenholzer doesn't venture too far from a formula that's yielding terrific results throughout the regular season, how hard will it be for the Bucks to adjust after a sharp left turn in the playoffs?)
It's a fascinating conundrum and one worth keeping an eye on as the season goes on. Milwaukee's legitimacy as a true title contender may hinge on it.
Takeaways from Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks vs. Golden State Warriors
Draymond Green couldn't even process this monster Giannis Antetokounmpo dunk [VIDEO]


This hilarious story from Bloomberg is making the rounds. It turns out that Tea Party nuts support government spending more than the average Republican.
They rail on and on about "socialism" but don't know what it is. They overwhelmingly believe that the VA hospital system is not socialist -- when it's one of the most socialized systems we have in the US!
They even interviewed a couple Teabaggers who happened to be government workers.
I have talked to a few Teabagger types here and there, and, it's really surprising how much they were in favor of expanding Medicaid. One even went on about how messed up Obamacare was, but, really liked the idea of the mandate to purchase insurance, and the expansion of Medicaid. They were to the LEFT of Obamacare, it turned out in the end.
Personally, I think they just dislike Obama because he's Black. The hidden code language of racism is that "black" = "welfare" and "socialism". The only black leader they like is MLK, probably because he's dead and wouldn't bristle at the way he's being misinterpreted.
Submitted by RosemeadOne on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:39.
We saw the same thing in Rosemead, where people really didn't understand what the city government was and was not doing.
Actually, it's the same with religion. If you ask people their religion and then ask them about specific beliefs, you'll find out most hold a number of beliefs that make them apostates in their own houses of worship.
Submitted by night reader on Sat, 04/03/2010 - 11:29.
Yes. There are also great misunderstandings about the different roles of the Federal, State and local government.


A talented Maker by the name of "Berryjam" recently created a slick Arduino-based laser rangefinder.
As HackADay's Nicholas Conn reports, the project was originally inspired by a LIDAR system built around the popular board.
"[Berryjam] decided that he wanted to successfully use an affordable Open Source Laser RangeFinder (OSLRF-01) from LightWare. [He] measures the time between an outgoing laser pulse and the reflected return pulse; this time directly relates to the distance of the object," writes Conn.
In terms of final thoughts for the project, Berryjam notes that even though the OSLRF-01's $150 price tag may seem a bit steep, it is still "pretty good" for such a device.
Interested in learning more? You can check out the project's official page here.
This entry was posted in Arduino, Maker Movement and tagged Arduino, Berryjam, HackADay, laser rangefinder, Lightware, maker, Nicholas Conn, Open Source Laser RangeFinder, OSLRF-01 on July 2, 2014 by The Atmel Team.


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Die Tertie ist eine veraltete Zeiteinheit. Eine Tertie ist der sechzigste Teil einer Sekunde (162/3 ms). Der Name kommt aus dem lateinischen pars minuta tertia, zu Deutsch "dritter kleiner Teil (der Stunde)" und ist Teil der Systematik "1 Stunde = 60 minutae primae, 1 min prim = 60 minutae secundae, 1 min sec = 60 minutae tertiae, 1 min ter = 60 minutae quartae".
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Siehe auch
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Literatur
 Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Alte Maße, Münzen und Gewichte: ein Lexikon. Lizenzausgabe des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Wien, Zürich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2, S. 315.

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Veraltete Einheit (Physik)
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In a year which sees the introduction of new GCSEs and a new grading system in English and Mathematics, Darrick Wood School pupils and staff rose to the challenge and maintained the high standards we have come to expect. It has been another fantastic year for pupils, who gained an outstanding set of GCSE grades. 83% of pupils gained a 9 – 4 in both English and Mathematics. In English Literature, an impressive 7.5% of pupils gained a top grade 9, compared with 3.2% nationally. There were a considerable number of outstanding individual performances, including Chizute Ogbedeh who attained 3 grade 9s and 9 A* grades. Samantha Preston, Luis Munn and Francesca Groom obtained 12 A* and A grades, whilst Connor Abrahams, Millie Blake, Timira Ghoorbin, Grace Logan, Sophie Norman and Natasha White obtained 8 or more A* grades. Well done to all pupils and staff, whose hard work has clearly paid off.
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Sure, your vagina has been with you your entire life, but how much do you actually know about it? Whether you've been too shy to ask or don't know where to look for information, chances are there are plenty of things that you've wondered about the area "down there." From what to expect after childbirth to normal sexual functions, read on to find out surprising facts you may not know about your lady parts.
1. IT CLEANS ITSELF.
Step away from the soap and harsh cleansers, gals. Your vagina keeps itself clean. "It's lined by a variety of glands that produce the fluids needed to both lubricate and cleanse the vaginal area," says Lisa Stern, APRN, a nurse practitioner who works with Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles. "The vast majority of vaginal infections I see in my office are self-induced—generally by women who think they're doing a good thing by washing their vagina with soap and water, or worse, with douche." Bath products, particularly those with chemical dyes or fragrances, can irritate the vagina and wash away the beneficial lubricants and flora (bacteria and yeast) that are normal and natural, she says. When these beneficial compounds get washed away, anaerobic bacteria and yeast proliferate and can cause symptoms like discharge, odor and itching. Lesson learned: While a little mild soap on the labia area is OK, your body does a fine job of keeping the insides clean.
2. IT GROWS IN SIZE WHEN AROUSED.
"The average length of a vagina is 3 to 4 inches long," says Lissa Rankin, MD, gynecologist and author of What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend. Sounds sort of small, and possibly unaccommodating to your well-endowed husband or partner, right? Fear not, nature makes room. "It can double in length when aroused," Dr. Rankin explains. But she adds that many women still have pain during sex when their partner is on the larger side. She recommends using plenty of lubricant and going slow. "Encourage your partner to have fun with foreplay," she says. "The more aroused you feel, the less intercourse will hurt."
3. JUST LIKE YOUR FACE, YOUR VAGINA ALSO WRINKLES WITH AGE.
It's a fact of life: The appearance of your lady parts may change with age. "The labia may become less plump as estrogen levels wane, fatty pads in the labia shrink and less collagen can lead to more sagging," says Dr. Rankin. "The skin of the vulva may darken or lighten and the clitoris may shrink. It's normal either way." Scary? Nah. "These changes, which are often related to decreasing levels of estrogen, do not affect how much pleasure your girl parts can bring you."
4. YOU CAN'T LOSE SOMETHING IN YOUR VAGINA (LIKE A TAMPON).
Everyone's heard the myth that things can get "lost" in there. "The vagina is bounded at the inner end by the cervix and by the vagina's own tissue," says Stern. In other words, your vagina is not connected to another area of your body so don't worry about anything going missing! However, "Sometimes a tampon can get lodged deep inside the vagina, like if it's accidentally left in place during intercourse. If this happens, your healthcare provider should be able to remove it easily with a speculum and forceps," she says.
5. SOME WOMEN EJACULATE WITH ORGASM.
"It definitely happens, and it's not uncommon," says Dr. Rankin. "It seems to be a learned skill and happens more commonly as women get older and learn how their bodies work." So how does it happen? "There are glands around the urethra—the tube between the bladder and the outside world—that probably secrete fluid, particularly when the anterior wall of the vagina (a.k.a. the G Spot) is stimulated." Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, a sexuality researcher and professor at Rutgers College of Nursing, describes this area as " 'the female prostate,' a collection of glands, blood vessels, nerves and spongy tissue that, when stimulated, seem to create fluid in some women."
6. YOUR VAGINA MAY CHANGE DRAMATICALLY AFTER CHILDBIRTH.
"Post-childbirth the vagina doesn't so much look different as it feels different," says Dr. Rankin. "As a gynecologist, I can almost always tell if a woman has delivered vaginally or not. I need a larger speculum for a woman who has had two kids than for a childless woman. But from the outside, you can't tell unless a woman has torn during childbirth, in which case she may have a faint scar at the site of her tear or episiotomy." If you're uncomfortable with the way your vagina has stretched and changed after childbirth, Rankin has a one-word recommendation: Kegels! "These exercises can really help," she says. A refresher course: You can do them anywhere, anytime. Just squeeze the muscles you use to start and stop the flow of urine, holding for a few seconds at a time, and repeating in sets of 10—or more, if you're up to the task!
7. THE VAGINA IS LIKE A BICEP, USE IT OR LOSE IT.
"It's true that the vagina stays healthier when you're using it with some regularity," says Dr. Rankin. "Not only does sex keep the sensitive vaginal tissue healthy, but it's almost as if your yoni has a memory. If you keep reminding your vagina that it has a purpose beyond reproduction, it's likely to rise to the occasion." Case in point: If you neglect your vagina for too long (no sex, no Kegel exercises, etc.), the vaginal walls can become fragile, she says. And when menopause strikes, it may scar and close off a bit. But sex isn't the only answer: Your doctor can suggest specific exercises and instruments that can help the vagina stay in tip-top shape.
8. VAGINAL DISCHARGE VARIES FROM WOMAN TO WOMAN.
Dr. Rankin notes that the average amount of vaginal discharge a woman of reproductive age secretes over a period of eight hours weighs 1.55 grams (a gram is equivalent to about 1/4 teaspoon). But, some women produce much less and others produce much more—and the variations are completely normal! "You produce the greatest amount of discharge (1.96 grams) around the time of ovulation," she says. "Of course, every woman is different. Some women have ectropion, when the mucous-producing glands that are usually on the inside of the cervix evert onto the outside of the cervix. If your cervix has this normal feature, you may produce more cervical mucous, which increases the amount of vaginal discharge you have. Some women produce very scant amounts of discharge and others make much more. In the absence of infection, it's normal either way." And the color? It varies, too—and just because there's a pigment to it, doesn't mean you have an infection. "Normal vaginal discharge is whitish, but may appear yellowish when it dries," she says. "But if your vaginal discharge appears greenish when wet, you have itching or burning, your discharge smells extra-fishy or you think you're at risk for STDs, get it checked just to be on the safe side."
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by chrissythehyphenated | February 10, 2018 · 3:52 am
More Dirt on Corruption in Comey's FBI
Texts between Peter Strzok, then-FBI Chief of the Counterespionage Section, and his adulterous mistress, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, shed more light on the criminal intent of deep state players to avoid prosecution of Hillary Clinton and to block and destroy Trump's bid for the presidency.
This batch shows that senior FBI officials involved in investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server while she was Obama's Secretary of State:
Knew on or before Sept. 28, 2016, that thousands of new classified emails between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, had been found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Sat on this information until Oct. 28, just days before the Clinton-Trump presidential election, when then-FBI Director James Comey was basically forced to notify Congress because George Toscas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at DOJ, had found out about them.
"Andy" was then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
"sdny" is the Southern District of New York, where Weiner's sexting crime was investigated and tried.
Anthony Weiner was Abedin's then-husband and disgraced former congressman. Following a report from the Daily Mail in September 2016, the FBI investigated Weiner for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. His laptop was seized and emails related to the Hillary Clinton email controversy were found on it. Weiner is currently serving a 21 month sentence in federal prison for sexting with a minor.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senior-fbi-agents-knew-of-new-clinton-emails-from-anthony-wieners-laptop-weeks-before-congress-was-informed-report/article/2647765
http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/huge-comey-forced-tell-congress-weiner-emails-george-toscas-doj-found/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/anthony-weiner-sentenced-21-months-prison-transferring-obscene-material-minor
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Text messages recently released between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress FBI attorney Lisa Page reveal them saying that they "hate" pro-lifers and wanted to find an excuse to cancel the 2016 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Strzok: "F*cking marchers making traffic problems."
Page: "Yeah, some extremely offensive video screens set up in front of district. I truly hate these people. No support for the woman who actually has to spend the rest of her life rearing this child, but we care about 'life.' Assholes."
Strzok: "…Hey, I have an idea! Snow emergency, cancel the permit."
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-truly-hate-these-people-disgraced-fbi-agents-trashed-pro-lifers-wanted-to
Page: "No support for the woman who actually has to spend the rest of her life rearing this child, but we care about 'life.' Assholes."
Wow. That is… really, really twisted.Right up there with flap-ears talking about not wanting his daughter to be "punished" with a child.
These people seem unacquainted with the joys of parenthood!
Also with the teensy weensy FACT that pro-lifers are FAR MORE LIKELY to adopt!
'Nother think:
Back before there was a World Wide Web, back even before CompuServe, back before we had BBS, or online anything, I learned something very important: never commit to voice or paper* anything that you wouldn't want your mommy to read on the front page. Even the most privately-shared thoughts have a funny way of becoming publicly known.
Yet these people merrily leave a broad, plain digital trail of their conniving and criminality that now really is on the front pages. I'm grateful they're so stupid, though, for that.
Well, you know what they say: Dance like no one's watching. Text and email like it will be read aloud in court someday.
Say it,forget it;write it,regret it.
Succinctly put. Is that a Grannyism?
And of course, not so true in the days of the Hot Mic. Ask Mr. "More Flexible" about that.
LOL "Hot Mic"


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WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution (WACK!: El arte y la revolución feminista) fue una exposición internacional de arte feminista organizada inicialmente en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Los Ángeles del 4 de marzo al 16 de julio de 2007 que presentó obras de 120 mujeres artistas y colectivos de todo el mundo.  La exposición viajó posteriormente al Museo Nacional de la Mujer en las Artes en Washington, desde el 21 de septiembre al 16 de diciembre de 2007, al MoMA PS1 en Nueva York, desde el 17 de febrero al 12 de mayo de 2008 y finalmente a la Galería de Arte de Vancouver, en Canadá, del 4 de octubre de 2008 al 11 de enero de 2009.

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution analiza el trabajo de una amplia variedad de medios, clasificados por temas como: abstracción, auto-fotografía, el cuerpo como medio, historias familiares, roles de género, conocimiento como poder, historia del arte, etc.

Artistas
Lista completa de artistas presentadas en la exposición y catálogo:

Catálogo
El catálogo de la exposición, también titulado WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution, documenta esta primera gran retrospectiva del arte y la revolución feminista. Editado por Cornelia Butler y Lisa Gabrielle Mark, el libro contiene ensayos de Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau y Jenni Sorkin.

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all the messy microcontroller stuff.
Some pins have special functionalities.
6 Analog input pins, labeled as A0,A1,...,A6.
USB or by an external power supply.
serial communication, pwm generation etc.
Reads the value from the specified analog pin.
Writes an analog value (PWM wave) to a pin.
The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started. The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega8U2 programmed as a USB-to-serial converter.


Is the Tread on Your Tires Adequate and Safe?
Tire tread is vitally important to your safety when traveling in your vehicle whether it be down the road or to the other side of the country. Having little to no tread on your tires not only puts your safety and the safety of others at risk it is actually illegal in many places to knowingly drive on tires with minimum tread.
So how can you tell if the tread on your tires is adequate and safe? There are a few different ways including some that you can do yourself at home. The penny test is always a good guide. This is where you place a penny in the tread of the tire. If you can see Abe Lincoln's forehead it is time to get some new tires for your vehicle.
Another way you can find out if the tread on your tires is safe to travel on is to bring your vehicle by [dealers name] and let one of our professional staff members precisely measure how much tread is remaining. If it's been a while since you changed your tires, it would be a great idea to check your tread today!


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Trying something different this year: Christmas in New Orleans at 26° C (78°F) with intense humidity. Unfortunately it is rather cloudy and rains from time to time, although it might be even more sticky if the sun was shining… All in all, it is rather strange to be away from home during this time of year. Missing the cold, it is also difficult to get into the Christmas holiday mood.
Christmas Decoration on Fulton St.
Last week Adobe announced to rename Flash Professional CC to Animate CC in 2016. In addition Adobe recommends to use modern technology standards such as HTML5 and WebGL. After many years of "Flash ain't dead yet" this might finally be the beginning of its last chapter.
This might be a good time to take a look at Steve Jobs' open letter "Thoughts in Flash" from 2010.
"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
Looks like they finally got the message.
Apple has indeed changed very much over the years. I don't want to talk about what happened in the 80ies or 90ies or how Steve Jobs saved the company. I also don't want to talk about the iPod or the even bigger iPhone and iPad era. Neither do I want to point out how Apple might be changing since Steve Jobs passed away. That has been said and discussed abundantly. Recently I started thinking more and more about Apple's rapidly growing software and services business with its subscription models.
Quite obviously, I couldn't agree more. iTunes, Apps, movie rentals and recent subscription services such as Apple Music are making up for a substantial share of Apple's revenue. Most interesting are developments with the subscription models, I think. These services provide a steady and projectable revenue stream and might be very appealing in contrast to regular sales, which are more volatile even for Apple.
That's probably why Apple is experimenting more with subscription based models for a variety of their products. There is iCloud storage, which is becoming more and more affordable, and Apple Music with family options but thats far from it. Apple also introduced a subscription model for the iPhone, the iPhone Upgrade Program, basically allowing customers to get a new iPhone each year for a premium starting at $ 32.41 per month for the smallest iPhone version. Apple is offering up to 0% financing and leasing models for creative professionals and businesses as well, which could be considered as kind of subscription like as well.
Apple could be offering subscription like models for every product they have, converting much of their regular sales revenues into projectable continues revenues. And since we are talking about Apple, they would not be not aiming for a $ 9.99 $ per month target, not even $ 99.99 if you think about it.
Take into consideration my current Apple outfit, which is far from high end compared im my opinion. I use a high end Macbook Pro 13″ Retina, a iPhone 6S 64 GB, an iPad Mini 4 64 GB, an Apple TV 64 GB, an Apple Watch, another moderately pimped Mac Mini, a Thunderbolt Display and some amount of adapters and software in addition to an Apple Music and iCloud storage subscription. Even if I consider yearly updates for the iPhone and updates for the Macbook Pro and everything else every 3 years (which I consider to be very conservative), it amounts to quite some money.
Based on current Apple product pricing (November 2015) in the US, this would amount to $ 9,137.16 over a 3 year period, not considering potential returns from reselling used products. But in fact, this might not be possible in a subscription model if things turn out the way they do with the iPhone Upgrade Program, where you are required to return the iPhone to Apple when receiving the newer version, as far as I understand it.
This insanely sum would come down to $ 253.81 per month. This is without tax and without any interest for a service offering like this. I would suppose if Apple adds Apple Care and other support coverages, it would be even more. On the other hand, there might be discounts and various other factors, which could reduce sum considerably. Anyway, a conceivable Apple as a Service subscription service might come down to something of a medium 3 digit amount of $$$ per month easily, even with just a moderate Apple outfit. Just consider a creative professional using an upscale iMac or Mac Pro outfit with some additional peripherals.
Taking Apple's huge profit margin into consideration (up from 1.23% in 2003 to 21.60 % in 2015), Apple might in fact be able to offer services like this for a select group of customers and could provide products in advance, collecting its revenue over the installment of the service.
In any case, it was kind of shocking to sum up the amount of money I spend on Apple products each year. Compared to any other subscriptions I have, this is definitely the most expensive one. But still, I wouldn't want to miss out on any part of it.


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When the Color Line Ended
By Herman S. Wolk
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Fifty years ago this month, racial segregation was abolished in the armed forces.
The summer of 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman's executive order directing the military services to enforce "equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons ... without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." Truman directed that this policy be put into effect as soon as possible, consonant with efficiency and morale. Prior to the President's action, the fledgling United States Air Force in 1948 had already begun to move toward integration. Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington possessed the vision to lead the service in throwing off the shackles of segregation, in effect setting an example for American society.
The story of how the Air Force, in a few short years after World War II, moved from "segregated skies" to fully integrating its forces revolves around several themes: clear recognition of segregation as an inefficient military use of manpower; increased pressure from the African-American community; election-year politics in 1948; and farsighted leadership provided by officers and civilians in the Air Force and defense establishment.
The US Army (including the Army Air Corps) prior to World War II reflected the biases of American society; there were few blacks (in 1937, only 6,500 in an Army of 360,000) and segregation was the norm. During the military buildup prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the War Department directed the Air Corps to develop a plan for increased numbers of black Americans. These troops were to be in segregated units, in keeping with long-standing Army policy.
Separate but Equal
The Air Corps decided to establish technical training for African-Americans at Chanute Field, Ill., and pilot training at Tuskegee, Ala. The Air Corps directed that facilities at Tuskegee would be "fully equivalent, with respect to the character of living conditions, facilities, equipment, and training, to that provided for white personnel under similar conditions."
In other words, the concept was "separate but equal."
The Army's Chief of Staff, Gen. George C. Marshall, said that, in World War II, society dictated that it was absolutely necessary for the War Department to follow a policy of segregation. The military, he reasoned, should not be on the leading edge of change in this regard. However, after the Pearl Harbor tragedy, with increasing numbers of African-Americans entering the service, the Army Air Forces faced the difficult problem of attempting to absorb large numbers of blacks in a relatively short time.
The armed forces thus became a kind of proving ground. The military was forced to confront-within units and in the communities surrounding its bases-the same racial problems that plagued American society as a whole.
By June 1944, there would be almost 150,000 African-Americans in the AAF in a force of over 2 million. Most served in support units such as air base defense, quartermaster, ordnance, and transportation. The majority were assigned to jobs in aviation squadrons which did not require high skill levels. Not surprisingly, employment of these large numbers of Americans in menial tasks resulted in low morale amongst the troops, who protested being relegated to segregated units.
It was the black flying units, however, that attracted the most attention. In January 1941, the War Department announced the establishment of the 99th Pursuit Squadron and the Tuskegee training program. Observers noted that the Air Corps decided on pursuit training because bomber training would have required navigators, bombardiers, and gunners, with the great pressure this would have placed on segregated facilities. Subsequently, the AAF formed the 332d Fighter Group, consisting of three additional squadrons.
The 99th arrived in the Mediterranean theater in 1943 and the 332d deployed in early 1944 to the same theater. The AAF did form a black bombardment group, the 477th, which trained in 1944-45 at Selfridge Field, Mich., Godman Field, Ky., and Freeman Field, Ind. Subsequently, units of the 477th joined returning personnel of the 332d to form the 477th Composite Group, headed by Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a 1936 graduate of West Point and son of Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who at that time was the highest ranking African-American officer. During the war, the younger Davis commanded the 99th and then the 332d.
The 99th and the 332d enjoyed success in the Mediterranean theater, and in mid-1944 the 99th joined the 332d. The group, under Davis, participated in campaigns in Italy, France, Romania, Germany, and the Balkans. The 332d Group earned the Distinguished Unit Citation. Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commander in chief of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, noted that the 332d performed well in combat. The 477th Bombardment Group, however, suffered a different experience. It began training at Selfridge, moved to Godman Field, then to Freeman Field, and then back to Godman. White officers of the 477th were indifferent to the needs of the unit, and after more than 100 black officers staged a walk-in protest at the segregated officers club at Freeman Field in April 1945, this unit was on the verge of collapse. By the end of the war, it never had an opportunity to perform its mission.
The Role of Parrish
Despite overcrowding at Tuskegee Field, the 99th and the 332d, both units commanded by black officers, were fortunate to have Col. Noel F. Parrish as Tuskegee Field commander from December 1942 to 1946. Parrish was an enlightened Kentuckian who worked well with blacks and whites. He understood problems in the South and improved relations with the town of Tuskegee. He addressed local groups and understood white Southerners. Morale at Tuskegee improved and Parrish earned the respect of blacks. One African-American pilot noted: "The only thing that struck me was why have a white in charge of the base when there were qualified blacks, but if there had to be a white, he was the best one."
The AAF's experience with black units during the war indicated that the most important factors were the attitude and competence of the local commander. Parrish was a standout, but unfortunately, other commanders lacked his ability to understand the dynamics of race relations and how to improve morale. The fact was that African-Americans were patriotic. They made outstanding contributions to the war effort at home and abroad, but they were indignant at segregation in society and in the military. The black community during the war fought segregation and kept the pressure on the War Department to change its discriminatory policies. This pressure forced the Army Air Forces to increase opportunities for African-Americans.
Thus, in the immediate postwar period, the military realized it would have to formulate new racial policies. Pragmatically, military efficiency demanded it. In the wake of demobilization, there would be a higher percentage of blacks in the military since many wanted the security of a military career, preferring not to re-enter a hostile society. The AAF quickly realized that it had to make much more effective use of manpower, and this meant bringing AfricanAmericans into skilled jobs.
After the Japanese surrender, based on a recommendation by Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, the Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson, directed Marshall to appoint a board to review the Army's racial policy. The board, chaired by Army Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem Jr., was ordered to formulate a policy to more efficiently employ African-Americans in the postwar Army.
The Gillem board noted that the Navy's use of "limited integration" had improved the performance of blacks without attendant race problems. Late in the war, the Navy had integrated vessels in the auxiliary fleet. However, the great majority of black sailors remained in the separate Steward's Branch. The board concluded that the Army must make efficient use of black manpower in a proportion corresponding to civilian society and "must eliminate, at the earliest practicable moment, any special consideration based on race ... and should point towards the immediate objective of an evaluation of the Negro on the basis of individual merit and ability."
Not Nearly Enough
Although the board's proposals amounted to a clear advance, critics-including Truman K. Gibson, a notable black American who had advised the War Department on racial policy-emphasized that the report lacked a clear statement on segregation; failed to recommend elimination of the black quota based on a percentage (10 percent) of the civilian population; and also failed to articulate specific steps toward integration. The AAF's reaction to the report was perhaps best summed up by Eaker, at the time AAF deputy commander, who concluded the War Department "should never be ahead of popular opinion" in this matter. Eaker, however, also made clear that the AAF should emphasize integrated flying schools and that blacks should be based where community attitudes were favorable.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff, and Patterson approved the Gillem board's report, which was published as War Department Circular 124, in April 1946. Nonetheless, the fact remained that the War Department had not yet arrived at the point of ordering integration of its forces. As noted, after the war black civil rights groups in the United States stepped up their campaign to end segregation in the military. Although the Gillem report stopped far short of calling for integration, significant changes were on the horizon. Having achieved independence in September 1947, the United States Air Force was prepared to move in new directions, and this included race relations. Even prior to becoming the first Secretary of the Air Force, Stuart Symington, as assistant secretary of war for air, recognized the need for equal opportunity for African-Americans. His mother had been one of the earliest civil rights advocates in Baltimore. As president of the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis, Symington made it a point to place blacks in professional positions. He also integrated the cafeterias and the smoking lounges. Symington was not only a tough-minded businessman, he deeply believed in equal opportunity.
Symington's first months as Air Force Secretary coincided with initiation of a study ordered by Lt. Gen. Idwal H. Edwards, deputy chief of staff for personnel, on the impact of segregation in the Air Force. Edwards had been a member of the McCloy committee, and he believed that the Air Force's policy on the employment of blacks was wasteful and had a negative impact upon effectiveness. In early 1948, Edwards directed Lt. Col. Jack F. Marr to investigate and deliver an in-depth study of segregation in the Air Force.
"Eliminate Segregation"
Marr found waste and inefficiency. The 10 percent quota remained a serious problem; in the all-black 332d, for example, in the event of a combat situation, it would not be possible to find sufficient replacements to maintain the unit. Based on Marr's study, Gen. Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz, the first Air Force Chief of Staff, emphasized in April 1948 that the Air Force must "eliminate segregation among its personnel by the unrestricted use of Negro personnel in free competition for any duty within the Air Force for which they may qualify." Meanwhile, the Army was dragging its feet. Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall stated that his service would attempt to improve the status of blacks within a segregated Army. Royall seemed perturbed that the Air Force continued, under Symington, to move toward integration.
There were also difficulties within the Air Force. In 1948, some amongst the top leadership opposed integration. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, whom Symington had designated as his project officer for integration, noted that there were many who needed to be convinced that integration would work for the Air Force. On the other hand, there was an important, dynamic coterie that took its lead from Symington. During a meeting of the Air Board in early January 1948, Jimmy Doolittle, Air Force Association president, retired Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, and Edwards strongly advocated integration. "I am convinced," emphasized Doolittle, "that the solution to the situation is to forget that they are colored." Industry was in the process of integrating, Doolittle said, "and it is going to be forced on the military. You are merely postponing the inevitable and you might as well take it gracefully." The Air Board noted Army Secretary Royall's reluctance, the problem being the "Army's concept" of moving toward integration.
Symington, Zuckert, and Edwards pressed the issue. In retrospect, it is clear that they made the difference. Symington in effect told the Air Force leadership to get with the program. Then, in mid-1948, the entire landscape of race relations was transformed by President Truman. The subject of civil rights already had been thrust to the forefront in this election year by the work of the President's Committee on Civil Rights--which addressed, among other issues, discrimination in the military--and by Truman's Feb. 2, 1948, message to Congress. Although he noted that progress had been made in the armed services, Truman in his message declared: "I have instructed the Secretary of Defense to take steps to have the remaining instances of discrimination in the armed services eliminated as rapidly as possible. The personnel policies and practices of all the services in this regard will be made consistent."
Truman's emphasis on civil rights in 1948, and his acceptance of a strong platform in this regard at the Democratic convention, would lead to a walkout by some Southern states and the birth of the "Dixiecrat revolt." The President persevered, however. Truman had been genuinely outraged at violence perpetrated against blacks in the South.
Truman's Order
Aided by political advisors Clark M. Clifford and Oscar R. Ewing, among others, Truman on July 26, 1948, issued Executive Order 9981-shown in advance to the reluctant Royall--which stated "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible." Truman directed creation of the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services (known as the Fahy Committee) "to examine into the rules, procedures, and practices in order to determine in what respect such rules, procedures, and practices may be altered or improved with a view to carrying out the policy of this order."
It should be noted that Truman's Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was an advocate of equal opportunity although he believed that integration could evolve only through specific actions and educational programs of each of the services. Critics denounced Forrestal's approach as "gradualism."
Truman's executive order lent great impetus to the drive toward integration. The Air Force was already on the move. The President's committee would monitor the progress of the services. Symington declared that integration was "the right thing to do" morally, legally, and militarily. Edwards noted in early 1949 that black officers and airmen could now be assigned anywhere in the Air Force according to their qualifications "and the needs of the service." African-Americans would no longer be assigned solely to black units. They would be assigned according to merit rather than quotas. Thus, Benjamin Davis' 332d Fighter Wing would be deactivated, with its men reassigned throughout the Air Force. Black service units would also be deactivated.
As to why the Air Force did not instantly integrate, Marr, who wrote the Air Staff's integration study, emphasized to the Fahy Committee: "We are trying to do our best not to tear the Air Force apart and try to reorganize it overnight." Also, the Air Force wanted to reassure its own doubters that the task could be completed efficiently. Some have observed that the Air Force almost had completed integration of its forces before the Army even started.
Although historians have generally concluded that integration was primarily fueled by the strictly pragmatic approach of efficiency and the politics of President Truman, an anti-racist philosophy in the Administration certainly existed. At the highest levels of government, this was best expressed by Truman and Secretary Symington. The President, along with close associates Ewing, David Niles, and Clifford, was appalled at the treatment that returning black veterans had received, especially in the South. Symington was a believer, an integrationist whose experience with industry preceded him into government. Everyone in the Air Force would be judged on capabilities. It can truthfully be said that Symington's view was simply, "Get the job done," without regard to race.
In mid-1950, the Army finally agreed to abolish its racial quota, and the Navy gave petty officer status to stewards. At the same time the President's committee pointed to the outstanding success in 1949 of the integration program in the US Air Force, where blacks had clearly demonstrated their ability.
By 1952, integration had been completed in the Air Force and the last segregated unit had been deactivated.
Herman S. Wolk is senior historian in the Air Force History Support Office. He is the author of The Struggle for Air Force Independence, 1943-1947 (1997) and a coauthor of Winged Shield, Winged Sword: A History of the United States Air Force (1997). His most recent article for Air Force Magazine, "The First Five Years of the First 50," appeared in the September 1997 issue.
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The interrelationships of tyrannosauroids are unclear owing to a proliferation of taxa and an incomplete knowledge of variation in the clade. A review of the taxonomy, based principally on the skulls of North American forms, is necessary because multiple new specimens have been collected since the publication of the initial taxonomic works. These fossils include diagnostic specimens collected from the southeastern and southwestern United States, regions where tyrannosauroid diversity was previously unknown. Restudy of the holotype and referred specimens of North American forms allowed for a taxonomic revision and permitted the discovery of new phylogenetically informative characters.A cladistic hypothesis of tyrannosauroid phylogeny is proposed, based on the taxonomic revision and new characters. The results consist of three successively remote basal taxa and a monophyletic Tyrannosauridae that is comprised by two lineages, Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurinae . The latter clade includes a new genus from Utah, and a clade formed by Daspletosaurus and a monophyletic Tyrannosaurus .Tyrannosauroids are among the few large theropods for which segments of growth series or adults and juveniles are known for several species. This relative wealth of data allows for the integration of ontogeny and phylogeny. The neontological method called "event-pair cracking" is applied to identify shifts in the sequence of developmental events between the growth series of Albertosaurus libratus and Tyrannosaurus rex. Five events were shifted early in T. rex relative to A. libratus. Also, the juvenile and adult states of four tyrannosaurids (A. libratus, Daspletosaurus sp., T. bataar, T. rex) are compared to identify general heterochronic changes that underlie evolutionary transformations; evidence of heterochronic change was found in six characters. The evolution of two characters show evidence of peramorphosis, three show paedomorphosis, and one displays isomorphosis. Since event pair cracking provides evidence of the rate of growth and the comparison of juvenile and adult states provides evidence of the onset and offset of the growth for a given character, the results of these analyses were combined to identify the specific heterochronic processes that produced evolutionary novelties.
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import { fakeAsync, inject, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';

import { Angulartics2 } from '../../angulartics2-core';
import { advance, createRoot, RootCmp, TestModule } from '../../test.mocks';
import { Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics } from './ibm-digital-analytics';

jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 5000;
declare var window: any;

describe('Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics', () => {
  let fixture: ComponentFixture<any>;

  beforeEach(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      imports: [TestModule],
      providers: [Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
    });
    window.console = jasmine.createSpyObj('console', ['warn', 'log']);
  });

  describe('on init', () => {
    beforeEach(() => {
      window.console = jasmine.createSpyObj('console', ['warn', 'log']);
      window.cmCreatePageviewTag = undefined;
    });

    it('should complain if global IBM Digital Analytics functions were not loaded', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          advance(fixture);
          expect(console.warn).toHaveBeenCalled();
        },
      ),
    ));
  });

  describe('while active', () => {
    beforeEach(() => {
      window.cmCreatePageviewTag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreatePageviewTag');
      window.cmCreateProductviewTag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateProductviewTag');
      window.cmCreateShopAction5Tag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateShopAction5Tag');
      window.cmCreateShopAction9Tag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateShopAction9Tag');
      window.cmCreateOrderTag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateOrderTag');
      window.cmCreateRegistrationTag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateRegistrationTag');
      window.cmCreateElementTag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateElementTag');
      window.cmCreateConversionEventTag = jasmine.createSpy('cmCreateConversionEventTag');
      window.cmDisplayShops = jasmine.createSpy('cmDisplayShops');
      const provider: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics = TestBed.inject(
        Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
      );
      provider.startTracking();
    });

    it('should track pages', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.pageTrack.next({ path: '/abc' });
          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreatePageviewTag).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/abc', null, null, null);
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateProductviewTag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateProductviewTag',
            properties: {
              productId: '123',
              productName: 'Apples',
              categoryId: 'Fruits',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
              virtualCategory: 'virtual category',
            },
          });
          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateProductviewTag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
            '123',
            'Apples',
            'Fruits',
            'attributes',
            'virtual category',
          );
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateShopAction5Tag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateShopAction5Tag',
            properties: {
              productId: '123',
              productName: 'Apples',
              quantity: '5',
              unitPrice: '1.99',
              categoryId: 'Fruits',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
              extraFields: 'extra',
              virtualCategory: 'virtual category',
            },
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateShopAction5Tag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
            '123',
            'Apples',
            '5',
            '1.99',
            'Fruits',
            'attributes',
            'extra',
            'virtual category',
          );
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateShopAction9Tag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateShopAction9Tag',
            properties: {
              productId: '123',
              productName: 'Apples',
              quantity: '5',
              unitPrice: '1.99',
              registrationId: '001',
              orderId: '777',
              orderSubtotal: '19.90',
              categoryId: 'Fruits',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
              extraFields: 'extra',
            },
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateShopAction9Tag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
            '123',
            'Apples',
            '5',
            '1.99',
            '001',
            '777',
            '19.90',
            'Fruits',
            'attributes',
            'extra',
          );
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateOrderTag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateOrderTag',
            properties: {
              orderId: '777',
              orderSubtotal: '19.90',
              orderShipping: '1.00',
              registrationId: '001',
              registrantCity: 'Atlanta',
              registrantState: 'GA',
              registrantPostalCode: '30303',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
              extraFields: 'extra',
            },
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateOrderTag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
            '777',
            '19.90',
            '1.00',
            '001',
            'Atlanta',
            'GA',
            '30303',
            'attributes',
            'extra',
          );
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateRegistrationTag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateRegistrationTag',
            properties: {
              registrationId: '001',
              registrantEmail: 'john@doe.com',
              registrantCity: 'Atlanta',
              registrantState: 'GA',
              registrantPostalCode: '30303',
              registrantCountry: 'US',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
            },
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateRegistrationTag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
            '001',
            'john@doe.com',
            'Atlanta',
            'GA',
            '30303',
            'US',
            'attributes',
          );
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateElementTag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateElementTag',
            properties: {
              elementId: 'form_001',
              elementCategory: 'forms',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
            },
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateElementTag).toHaveBeenCalledWith('form_001', 'forms', 'attributes');
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should track cmCreateConversionEventTag event', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'cmCreateConversionEventTag',
            properties: {
              eventId: 'event_001',
              actionType: 'form submitted',
              eventCategoryId: 'forms',
              points: '10.00',
              attrbute: 'attributes',
              extraFields: 'extra',
            },
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(window.cmCreateConversionEventTag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
            'event_001',
            'form submitted',
            'forms',
            '10.00',
            'attributes',
            'extra',
          );
        },
      ),
    ));

    it('should complain for unsupported event type', fakeAsync(
      inject(
        [Angulartics2, Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics],
        (
          angulartics2: Angulartics2,
          angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics: Angulartics2IBMDigitalAnalytics,
        ) => {
          fixture = createRoot(RootCmp);
          angulartics2.eventTrack.next({
            action: 'unsupported event',
            properties: {},
          });

          advance(fixture);
          expect(console.warn).toHaveBeenCalled();
        },
      ),
    ));
  });
});


PAS (Prevención de Agresión Sexual), is a bicultural and bilingual prevention program that has progressed over the last 8 years through women of color educators and advocates within Proyecto UNICA's, domestic and sexual violence agency. This webinar will utilize story-telling as a methodology to describe how the PAS program developed culturally specific prevention and anti-oppression curriculum for Latinx youth, ages 12 to 24. In addition to curriculum development, the PAS program has connected youth with art and media practices, institutions and community events outside of the classroom to nurture healing, self-care, and intergenerational resilience and resistance. Participants of the webinar will grow a critical lens of trauma-informed and culturally specific prevention programs that move beyond a single-issue approach to preventing gender-based violence within youth prevention and education programming.


Agnes E. (Keene) Mueller, age 93, formerly of Quinebaug, died Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at Webster Manor.
She was born on December 24, 1914, daughter of the late Edward and Ellen (Bridges) Keene.
She leaves her children, Lorraine Sharples of Dudley, Lenny Mueller and his wife Lorraine of Billerica, Loretta Downie of Ocala, FL, Laurie Fiste and her husband Stephen of Medford; 26 grandchildren, 72 great grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Mueller in 1967, her son, Mervin Mueller in 1982, by four grandchildren and her siblings.
Agnes had lived at Webster Manor since 1998. The family would like to thank the nurses and staff for the wonderful care given to her all these years.
In accordance with Agnes's wishes, there are no calling hours. Private burial will be in Puritan Lawn, Peabody, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Webster Manor, 3rd Floor Activity Group, c/o Rita Haire, School Street, Webster. Shaw-Majercik Funeral Home, 48 School Street, Webster is directing arrangements.


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A new record for home prices—but fewer owners to benefit
The housing bust is officially over, 10 years after it started. But like much else in the economy, the real-estate recovery has benefitted the wealthy more than others, with many ordinary folks still falling behind.
A prominent gauge of home prices, the S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller index, set a new record high in September, surpassing the previous high, from July 2006. Home prices on average have risen 5.5% during the last 12 months. "This indicates a completed recovery of US home prices since the Great Recession," S&P Global said in a release. Here's the home price index since 1988, with the solid line representing the national average:
Great news, right? Well, sure, if you're a homeowner enjoying an ongoing boost in wealth. But the portion of Americans owning a home has been dropping since 2005, with the homeownership rate now at levels of the mid-1960s. In late 2004, the homeownership rate peaked at 69.2% of all households. Today, it's just 63.5%.
The homeownership rate went too high during the housing boom, fueled by gimmicky mortgages, bogus underwriting standards and bad purchase decisions by consumers. But it may have overshot to the low side as millions endured foreclosure and banks severely tightened lending standards.
Though healthier now, the housing market is still uneven, with more buyers locked out than in the past. The biggest price gains have occurred among the priciest homes, and mostly in the west and south, where the economy is growing faster than much of the rest of the country. Research from Trulia shows that just 7 cities—Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Denver, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Tulsa, and San Francisco—have enjoyed full price recovery in all segments since 2006, when adjusted for inflation. In every other market, some segment of the housing market remains below the prior peak, in real terms.
Housing affordability peaked in 2012, thanks to a combination of low interest rates and relatively low prices. Back then, the mortgage payment on a median-priced home took about 12% of the median national income. But there was a catch: Tight lending standards meant many consumers with middling credit couldn't qualify for a loan.
Lenders have loosened up a bit since then, but affordability has worsened as prices have rebounded, with a typical mortgage payment now costing about 15% of income. And that will likely rise into 2017, since interest rates have been going up since Donald Trump was elected president. There's also a shortage of starter homes in many markets, since gun-shy builders burned during the bust are cautious about committing to new projects. And since they make bigger profits on costlier homes, that's where builders tend to focus.
With the economy continuing to heal, more people are likely to qualify for a mortgage and feel comfortable committing to such a big purchase. But the housing market may never go back to the way it was 10 or 15 years ago. Like a lot of other things.
Rick Newman is the author of four books, including Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.
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The Hebrews wept for thirty days after the death of Moses.
One will often find a "very short segment or phrase" that matches.
Matches appear much more frequently than one would expect on the basis of chance.
Matches appear "only on references to do specifically with the birth of Jesus."
This relationship holds in the case of other names and actual numbers in the biblical text. The examples cited are not specially chosen. Similar matches appear throughout the Bible.
"It is absolutely, completely, and totally impossible to mathematically disprove theomatics. The overall validity of this discovery ~ the fact that God did it is unimpeachable." They feel that they are sitting on an amazing discovery. Unfortunately, "statisticians and theologians in major universities...are generally not interested in having the Bible proven to them."
Attempts at Falsification: They have tried to disprove the validity of theomatics by scrambling all the values associated with each letter. For example, instead of the first three numbers of the Greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma) being assigned the values 1, 2, 3, they might be given the arbitrarily selected values 6, 5, 3; the last three letters (chi, psi, omega) which normally are given values of 600, 700, 800 might be assigned 100, 300, 600. Then the biblical text was analyzed with their computer program, using these random value allocations. Relatively few matches were found. Repeat runs with other random values assigned to the letters produced similarly dismal results. It appears that only the values traditionally assigned to the letters produce large numbers of matches. It is their belief that these values were picked by God.
Further investigations: Before Theomatics could be accepted as a proven fact, the findings of Theomatics Research would have to be replicated independently by other investigators. This should include an analysis of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures using Theomatics, as well as secular texts of a similar length.
evidence for Theomatics would be greatly strengthened.
There exists the possibility that an intelligent human mind inserted very complex codes into the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. The next step would be to evaluate the difficulty of actually creating these codes in text. If it is beyond the mental capacity of humans, then one must speculate that a super-human intelligence exists, of some type, somewhere in the universe.
A possible problem: One complexity that has apparently not been evaluated yet is the choice of which Hebrew and Greek texts to use in the studies. There are many versions of both in existence. Each is based on thousands of ancient documents that disagree in thousands of places. No original autograph copy of any book in the Bible has survived. The most ancient surviving copies of the Hebrew Scriptures are currently the Dead Sea Scrolls. But they are based on copies by untold generations of scribes for over a millennia. Mistakes have been made; letters have been left out; words have been changed. In the case of the Christian Scriptures, margin notes of some books in the Bible appear to have ended up being incorporated in the text. Certain passages appear to have been inserted by authors other than the original author. The error rate of our "standard" Greek and Hebrew texts may throw great suspicion on Theomatics. There seems to be little merit in either this technique or ELS codes.
Another applications for Theomatics: If Theomatics could be proven to extract meaningful patterns out of the biblical text, then it might be possible to use it in the reverse direction. Theologians continually argue over which ancient manuscript of a given passage in the Bible reflects the original wording of the author. By testing the passage as it appears in all of the ancient manuscripts, the correct copy -- the one with the greatest number of matches -- might be the correct one.
Hidden "ELS" codes in the Bible: prophecy or hoax?
Who wrote the 5 books of Moses, the Pentateuch?
A description of over a dozen "Christian urban legends"


Masters degrees in Quantitative Psychology equip postgraduates with the skills to measure, model and statistically analyse psychological processes, often on a large scale.
Related subjects include Experimental Psychology, Applied Psychology and Research Methods in Psychology. Entry requirements normally include an undergraduate degree in an appropriate subject such as Mathematics, Computer Science or Psychology.
Why study a Masters in Quantitative Psychology?
Quantitative psychology is interested in research design and methodology, particularly in methods for psychometrics. On one of these courses, you'll typically analyse and develop a variety of research methods to measure psychological function, and model the statistical data you gain from them.
Techniques are often drawn from fields such as Mathematics, Computer Science and Social Science, making learning approaches highly interdisciplinary in nature. The main areas of research include methods for testing human intelligence, modelling emotional response and predicting other psychological functions to determine how people will react in different situations. For example, this could include comparing how people respond when on their own to when they're in a group.
You might apply expertise in this subject to a range of professional roles, from helping educational facilities to design appropriate assessment methods, to consulting research on the best survey techniques.
. Our course draws upon the expertise of research and clinical psychologists to provide you with a unique education in the foundations of, and current issues in, the psychology of mental health.
With a focus on infant and child development, the course addresses a comprehensive range of topics surrounding typical and atypical development.
The MSc in Psychology is a conversion programme that provides graduates in disciplines other than psychology with the opportunity to obtain the Graduate Basis for Chartered membership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society (BPS).
The programme will lead to the award of the MSc in Psychology of Language. Psycholinguistics, the scientific study of the psychology of language, is one of the most important areas of cognitive psychology.
Supporting the requirements of the British Psychological Society's Division of Forensic Psychology, this course focuses of developing the expertise and qualities you will need to gain employment at a senior level.
The purpose of the course is to provide a pre-professional qualification in psychology, which confers eligibility for graduate membership of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and allows a student to proceed to postgraduate training, including higher degrees by research, and to specialise in an area of professional psychology.


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Klinsmann calls for 11-month MLS season
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Jurgen Klinsmann calls for 11-month MLS season
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National team coach Jurgen Klinsmann has called for an 11-month MLS schedule to help combat fatigue, an issue the German cited as a factor in the United States' 3-2 loss to Chile on Jan. 28.
"What happens here is that maybe soccer is not as far yet as American football, baseball, basketball where athletes in their offseason basically go then specifically in their own preparation before they join the preseason with their professional teams," he said in an interview with Fox Sports.
"We don't have that culture yet. The MLS season goes nine months, and they should take a month off but then they should then go back to preparing themselves for their next year. A couple of guys haven't done that and that's why they are looking a little bit shaky right now. But we're going to get them back on track and hopefully they learn out of it."
He continued: "My wish is that the domestic league here, the MLS, is going to an 11-month season like the rest of the world. Just extending that season of MLS would solve my issue that I have right now but we're working on it."
Klinsmann also feels the pressure MLS players face pales in comparison with their NFL, NBA and European soccer counterparts.
"At the end of the day, you are a little bit a child of your environment. And soccer is not there yet where the NFL or the NBA or the NHL are in terms of peer pressure. They don't have that same sense of accountability here in the U.S. that they would have in Europe."


The number of 2007-later performance engines is increasing. But Nightrider.com still recommends staying with fairly conservative upgrades. We are only listing a few bolt-in cams right now that meet the performance needs for all but the most radical of engine builds.
Please be aware that complete exhaust systems and cam shafts are very specific to all 2007-later 96/110 CID engines and 2006 Dyna models. Exhaust systems for these bikes have bungs installed in them for the O2 sensors required to maintain EPA compliance. While any exhaust system can have O2 bungs welded into them, placement of these bungs is important and the chrome will be damaged when welding in a bung.
We will continue to expand the recommended engine upgrades section as more parts become available for the 2007-later bikes.
It seems that many riders believe that using Screamin' Eagle performance upgrades have no effect on their HD Warranty. Despite what the local HD Dealer may tell them, only HD parts that are listed in the 2007 Catalog with a "green light" designation can be installed on their bikes without having a negative effect on the warranty. This means that most Screamin' Eagle components will void the warranty on much of the engine.
While in some cases your local HD Dealer can "sneak" a warranty issue through Harley's process as a courtesy to its own customers, it is highly unlikely that another Dealer will extend the same courtesy.
No matter what your local Dealer may tell you, the explanation of the warranty listed above is an honest interpretation of how Harley-Davidson is now enforcing its warranty.
The chart below lists recommend parts for upgrades that can be performed to your 2007/2008 Harley-Davidson. While the list is not all inclusive, it does contain a list of parts that Nightrider has extreme confidence in. These parts and suppliers have historically provided the type of components and upgrades that have above average performance.
For serious performance work on the 2007 and later bikes, the first thing that should be done to the bikes is alter the final drive ratio by installing a 30 tooth transmission driver. A second recommendation is to add the 70 tooth rear driver from 2006 earlier twin cam engines. The change in final drive ratio is required to allow the engine to turn enough RPM's to take advantage of the power a modified engine can make. Without the final drive upgrades, the dyno sheet might be impressive, but the OEM gearing is not compatible with a performance engine. So unless you are willing to invest in the upgraded gearing, we highly recommend you leave your engine as stock as possible.
There are many good exhaust system upgrades, however we have chosen to list the systems we know produce above average power. These are systems that we would use as "reference" performance when dyno testing other pipes.
True Duals. There is a wide performance difference between Manufacturers of true dual exhaust headers. Some of the pipes work quite well, but many perform worse than the OEM header.
Aftermarket EFI Notes: While we recommend the use of Wide Band O2 sensor upgrades with aftermarket ECUs when this type of upgrade is available, most upgrades do not utilize this technology. The ability of the ECUs like the ThunderMax and Daytona Twin Tec to self-tune with their WBO2 sensors add-in can save riders money over the long term. Rather than having to pay for tuning when you make changes to your engine, you simply put the ECU into "self learn" mode and the fuel map can be updated.
For fine tuning to maximize power, some dyno time may be needed. But the 4-6 hours required to create a custom fuel map from scratch is eliminated.
Gear Drive cams are not required for the 06 Dyna's and 07 engines. HD has dramatically improved the cam drive mechanics.
Performance Cylinder Head Upgrades While the SE cylinder heads can produce nice improvements in performance, Nightrider recommend the use of professionally ported heads from the aftermarket to maximize power capability. The top rated performance shops are constantly refining their product to improve power output. The best performance shops are able to get 100+HP and 100+ft.lb. torque from 95/96 cubic inch engines with 9.5:1 compression. This would translate to 110/110 from a 103CID engine and 120/120 from a 110CID. Nightrider recommend the use of professionally ported heads from the aftermarket to maximize power capability. A well configured and tuned 1200cc engine is capable of 100-110HP.
Maximum Compression Ratio 9.5:1 compression ratio is recommend to prevent detonation and overheating that frequently occurs in the heavy FLH based bikes. A properly built 9.5:1 engine makes about 97% of the power of the higher compression engines. 9.5:1 compression is recommend for most bikes.
Ratios up to 10.5:1 can be used when the top end of the engine is properly blueprinted. It is highly recommend that RPMs be kept above 2500 RPMs while riding to prevent detonation.
Crankshaft Bearings 96 CID engines are known to have weak crankshaft bearings. For serious performance work these bearing must be replaced with the heavy duty bearings used in the CVO 110 engine. The 110 upgrade kit does not contain these bearings.
Any 96CID based engine that is going to experience 'severe use' or is expected to produce over 110HP should consider this bearing upgrade. When the OEM bearings have a problem, the engine will experience a catastrophic failure.
Hot exhaust and engine temperature The 2007 engines have a reputation for very hot exhaust systems. This problem is well documented for the 2007 FLH's, but does exist on all the bikes. All these bikes including the 2006 Dyna's are also know to have high operating temperatures and poor throttle response while cruising. This issue is directly related to the EFI closed loop operation mode at idle and cruising speeds. In closed loop mode, the narrow band O2 sensors used by the Delphi ECU hold the air fuel ratio at 14.6:1 which is good for EPA compliant emissions but creates a very hot exhaust pipe. Nightrider has a fix for this issue that will reduce the exhaust temperature, improve throttle response and increase HP.
Nightrider.com's Patented XiED technology was designed to improve the closed loop fuel mixture on stock bikes and those with exhaust/air cleaner upgrades.
Want to be able to accurately monitor the fuel ratio of your bike?
The only way you can know for sure what the AFR your engine is running is by using a wide band O2 sensor. We have taken our LC-1 WBO2 technology and created an accurate monitoring upgrade for your bike. These kits will produce more accurate AFR readings than a Dyno sniffer because it determines the fuel mixture in the exhaust header, not the muffler where readings can be compromised because of air getting into the exhaust system.
Here is a first look at the electronic control module used for the Nightrider wide band AFR gauge. The size of the main electronics module is 3.5"Lx1.5"Wx0.9"D and is intended to mount on the lower front frame or the seat of the bike.
The upgrade will consist of the LC-1 electronic module, one WBO2 sensors, programming instructions for the LC-1, 1-LC1 to H-D wiring harness adapters and installation instructions to connect the upgrade to your motorcycle.
No ECU upgrades or ECU programming required for HD/SE Stage 1 and Stage 2 upgraded engines. The upgrade is 100% compatible with any of the HD or SE ECU downloads, HD Stage 1/2 upgrades (96/103/110CID), is compatible with SERT/SEST/TTS for highly modified bikes and aftermarket EFI upgrades like PCIII/Fuel Pak/TFI.
So no matter if you have a sport bike, import cruiser or american v-twin, the LC-1 WBO2 upgrade package will have a place in your performance plans.
Copyright Nightrider.com Performance Products. All Rights Reserved.
Nightrider is changing its distribution to Dealer Only. We will no longer be taking orders directly from consumers.


We all look forward to spring, when the trees bud, the birds sing and the grasses are that beautiful, rich green. It's a time when nature can help undo some of the damage that bad weather, low-quality forage—and yes, even less than perfect management techniques—may have inflicted on your herd.
Spring pastures deliver the maximum levels of protein and energy, according to Ted Perry, Purina Animal NutritionBeef Nutritionist. While spring grasses are loaded with nutrients, a balanced mineral supplement should always be offered, he explained.
When preparing cows for calving and rebreeding, there are clear benefits from utilizing as many of those spring grass nutrients as possible to increase body condition, especially in cows that have become thin over the winter. Rotational grazing is one method that helps us take advantage of the nutrients in spring grasses. If a farm is set up to accommodate this practice, moving cows through different pastures, he recommends allowing them to graze down to 3-4 inches before moving them to other pastures where grasses are 8-9 inches high.
Forage analysis can also be helpful in determining mineral needs, Perry explained, but they only paint a "wide brush stroke". You can't rely on such analyses alone to prescribe exactly what's needed.
Approximately 40 percent of cows in the United States never get any supplemental minerals, according to Perry. And, minerals are key to a cow's production efficiency, both in terms of feed efficiency and milk production.
Purina Animal Nutrition offers more than 100 different formulations of minerals that target different seasons, different forage and pasture types and different weather patterns. The Wind & Rain® Storm® minerals have been specially formulated for consistent, predictable intake and also resist losses due to wind, rain and even storms.
Talk to us all the mineral supplement options available to you and how we can help you choose the mineral program that's right for your operation at any given time of year.
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Must Watch! Harrison Ford Deals With Some Unfinished Chewbacca Business
Apparently there was a lot more to the relationship between Han Solo and Chewbacca than we ever knew about. Harrison Ford recently made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote director Jon Favreau's current film, Cowboys & Aliens. The veteran actor and former, intergalactic smuggler got an apparently unwelcome visit from a certain Wookie while he was in the makeup chair.
Check out the video below!
Harrison Ford Settles a Feud
Cowboys & Aliens (the movie where Daniel Craig plays Harrison Ford's Wookie bitch) is in theaters now!
Written by Jason Moore
is a member of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and the Founder/Editor In Chief of SciFi Mafia®


Experience a new and unique awareness through fun activities and guided meditations that are designed to inspire a joy in living, as well as in-depth conversations to support learning and growth in the challenging areas that we get the most questions. How do I approach this with mindful awareness?
Mindful Living is a community of members who meet to enjoy workshops and support each other. You can choose to drop into workshops that interest you, or sign up for a Mindful Living membership that will give you discounted rates and a guaranteed spot in all workshops, as well as other benefits.
Do you have an idea for a Mindful Living workshop? Let us know by emailing info@mindfulme.me – we love to create workshops that are meaningful for you!
Watch this space as we release new workshops!
Drop ins are a great way to experience what Mindful Living is about and meet our community. If you want to sign up after your first session your drop in payment will go towards your membership. There is no limit to the number of drop in sessions you can be part of.