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Competing Claims on Global Warming. What Should We Believe?
Bob Woods
As we navigate the uncertain waters of the 21st Century, we hear alarming reports of impending disaster as a result of the polar icecaps melting under the onslaught of the global warming phenomenon that some scientists are predicting and, in fact, may already be well underway. Others dismiss this theory out-of-hand and see it as a ploy to expand government control and increase taxes. As world citizens with a healthy concern for the environment and an interest in promoting social justice and a sustainable planet, how then should we react to these competing claims?
As in most current issues that are polarizing and debatable, there are two extreme views that we would do well to avoid, as the truth of the matter may lie in finding a balanced, reasonable world view that gives credence to valid scientific evidence, but is founded primarily on a faith-based approach from truths we find in scripture. On one hand, we have what some call the left-wing radicals, the environmental activists and tree-huggers. On the other hand, we have the camp that seems willing to exploit natural resources, drilling and fracking and strip mining with no concern for the future, thus hastening the impending doom.
An environmentalist view
We will examine first the claims of the environmental activists with the following information obtained from the website of the Environmental Defense Fund:
"Scientists have closed the case: Human activity is causing the Earth to get hotter. How? Primarily by two actions: burning fossil fuels, with a smaller contribution from clear cutting forests, known as deforestation …. When we extract and burn fossil fuels such as coal or petroleum, we cause the release of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping 'greenhouse gases' into the atmosphere. Though natural amounts of carbon dioxide have varied from 180 to 300 parts per million (ppm), today's levels are around 400 ppm. That's 40% more than the highest natural levels over the past 800,000 years. We also can tell that the additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere comes mainly from coal and oil because the chemical composition of the carbon dioxide contains a unique fingerprint….. Clearing forests also releases large amounts of carbon dioxide. On top of that, plants and trees use it to grow. Worldwide deforestation means we don't have as many trees to absorb the extra carbon dioxide. This means more of it stays in the atmosphere, trapping more heat."
The article goes on to predict that the Earth's water systems will be thrown off balance, that ocean levels will rise as much as four feet, and that the average temperature of the Earth will rise 7.2 degrees by the year 2100 if we do not do anything about it. Of course, this supposedly places most of Florida under water, if we believe some reports, in spite of the fact that most residences in South Florida are more than 10 feet above mean sea level. The article states categorically that "scientists have closed the case." However, there is wide disagreement within the scientific community about the magnitude and inevitability of these changes.
A view from Pope Francis
In addition, Pope Francis has issued an encyclical that discusses several themes on global warming, including: pollution and climate change, the issue of water, loss of biodiversity (i.e., the extinction of plants, animals, etc.), decline in the quality of human life and the breakdown of society, and global inequality. The Pope's encyclical focused primarily on the scientific evidence, and not as much on providing divine wisdom on this subject.
Concerning the idea that the climate is getting warmer in general, the pope writes:
"A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it [LS 23]".
Although the Pope sees there being scientific consensus regarding the idea of global warming, he is more cautious on the question of whether it is due to human activity. He refers to human responsibility to address "at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it"— suggesting that there may be other causes as well. He goes on to name some:
"It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanic activity, variations in the earth's orbit and axis, the solar cycle); yet a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity. Another determining factor has been an increase in changed uses of the soil, principally deforestation for agricultural purposes [Ibid.]".
In contrast to the "very solid scientific consensus" he points to for the issue of warming, he says only that "a number of scientific studies" indicate that "most" recent warming is due to greenhouse gases, and he also cites deforestation as a contributing cause.
A skeptic's view
Then we have a view held by Ed Moore, an engineer who was trained and employed by major oil and chemical companies. He was also a designer for the Trans-Alaska pipeline project. He has done "extensive Bible research" and has concluded that while man can in fact effect small changes in the environment, that these are insignificant in the larger picture of Bible prophecy, and that the Earth as we know it is scheduled for destruction by fire by God, and there is "nothing we can do about it." He has outlined his views in a book he has written called The Sweet Mystery of Humankind and Climate Change. We contacted Ed Moore and asked him for a brief summary or synopsis of his book, which we have not reviewed, nor do we endorse his views, but we include this to demonstrate that there is not a universal consensus today on the issue of global warming. Following is his brief and contextual response:
"To answer your question, the real climate change is coming soon, as ordered by God according to His time table (sic). The fact is that small variations of temperature, up and down, have been going on in history for centuries; i.e. the great flood of Noah's days and the long droughts of Egypt, etc. The latest claim they have published in great panic is that the temperature of the earth has risen, 0.01 Degree F. All that great? Then the president is blaming the Islamic war on the 'pollution' problem. His latest claim is that the earth is running out of water; then he says; 'the ice caps are melting and that will raise the oceans 4 feet.' Please, that claim is totally invalid," he said.
"It is true, we will have small changes. But the important ones will come at the exact same time when God begins His judgment of an Earth that has rejected Him and has increased their persecution of Christians and Israel. They are described in Revelation as:
the antichrist will take command of the 'New World Order.'
the 'peace' they now seek will be gone.
murder of man by man will take place worldwide.
famine follows.
"This is only the beginning of climate change; it gets worse and worse as time goes by, and mankind can do nothing about it…"
He goes on to state that his position is that the climate change issue is "just another move for more control and taxation of the people by the money cartel … as we draw nearer to the Tribulation years, we will see more evidence of mild climate change," he says. "But it will not be the disaster that is coming when God starts His judgments," as he references Isaiah 24:20, Revelation Chapters 6 – 19, and Matthew 24: 7-31.
As his views appeared to be strident and not open to debate or discussion, we asked him the following:
Do you believe that Christians should be good stewards of the planet, believing that it will all perish in flames within five years or five hundred thousand years? "Yes," he replied.
Do we have anything to worry about with greenhouse gases? "Not to panic proportion," he responded.
What does it all mean?
This means that we as Christians, as well as concerned world citizens, should restructure our priorities to take care of our environment and our planet, but not worship it. If we see the Earth as our Mother, but not God as our Father, then we are missing the purpose for which we were created. On the other hand, if we ravage the natural resources without regard for the fact that the End Times may be five years or five thousand years in the future, then we are doing a disservice to our children and grandchildren and demeaning their quality of life. The fact that the heavens and the earth are scheduled to perish in flames we know to be at least 1000 years from now, if we believe in the premillennial return of Christ, as most Christians do. The Great Tribulation, while bringing about wars, famines, and bloodshed, does not mean that the heavens and the earth will be destroyed during that time, but will clearly be after the 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth. It may take 1000 years to restore the environment to the paradise state that it had at Creation due to mankind's careless misuse of the planet.
More information is available at www.edf.org/climate, www.globalwarminghoax.com, and climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.
Bob Woods has worked as an engineer at AECOM Technical Services and WGI, and is a published Christian author. He can be reached at [email protected].
2 Responses to "Competing Claims on Global Warming. What Should We Believe?"
Joseph Altschul August 13, 2015
Thank you for your article on a timely topic. However, I think you do your readers, and the faith based community over-all, a disservice by not providing the position of non-religious skepticism. There is a large body of scientists who oppose the idea of man-made global warming because they believe the evidence does not support that the earth is continuing to warm, and indeed the climate has not warmed in 17 years, and that the evidence also does not support that global warming is cause by man. You have set-up a "religion v. science" argument, when in facts many climate change skeptics are not religious and base their skepticism on science, not religion. You would do well to not frame the argument as being "science v. the Bible," and instead primarily rely on the disputed science by reputable scientists.
Ben December 27, 2015
global warming is when the sun gets hotetr and starts to heat antartica.If it it melts that would add more water to the acean.Then that water will start to flood the below sea level places like florida.
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Action Max é um console de videogame que usava jogos gravados em fitas VHS. Foi criado em 1987 pela World of Wonders.

Descrição
O sistema exigia que seu proprietário também tivesse um videocassete, pois o console não conseguia reproduzir fitas em si. Usando uma pistola de luz que era o único controle disponível para o Action Max, o jogador devia atirar na tela. O jogo era estritamente baseado em pontos e depende apenas da precisão do tiro. O jogador não pode na realidade "perder" ou "ganhar" um jogo, pois o jogo era um filme em que em certos objetos apareciam o alvo para ser mirado e acertado. Isto, junto com o fato de que o único gênero de jogos desse sistema era de pistola de luz e que o jogo será exatamente da mesma maneira todas as vezes, não permitindo inter-atividade entre jogador e jogo e isso tornava muito limitado o recurso do sistema e o levou à sua queda rápida.

A idéia de mirar em alvos na tela com jogos baseados em filmes (FMV) foi muito utilizada na década de 90 no console 3DO, principalmente pela American Laser Games em jogos como "Crime Patrol".
Como os Fairchild Channel F, Atari Pong, Atari Super Pong e Ultra Pong Doubles este console também teve um alto-falante interno.

Jogos
.38 Ambush Alley (simulador policial - live action);
Blue Thunder (baseado no filme de mesmo nome e lançado em 1983);
Hydrosub: 2021 (simulador de submarino futurista);
The Rescue of Pops Ghostly (casa mal assombrada);
Sonic Fury (Simulador de aviões de caça - era incluído na caixa do Action Max);
Fright Night (não lançado).

Sistema de alvo
Antes de jogar, um sensor vermelho devia de ser colocado ao canto inferior direito da tela da televisão. O sensor piscava quando o jogador acertava algum alvo. Este canto continha um círculo que normalmente era preto, mas que piscava rapidamente sempre que algum objeto na tela pudesse ser alvejado. Ao mesmo tempo, os alvos eram destacados por painéis que piscavam, para o jogador atirar nos mesmos. O console Action Max usava o círculo do canto e a luz dos alvos (recebidas pela pistola de luz) para determinar quando algo tinha sido atingido. Quando piscava em sincronia com o círculo de canto contava como tiro acertado no inimigo, e isso somava pontos para o jogador. Porém luzes fora de sincronia com o círculo de canto contava como tiro em um "amigo" / personagem da mesma equipe do jogador e neste caso o jogador perdia pontos.

Especificações Técnicas
CPU: HD401010
Alto-falante interno e fone de ouvido
Display LCD de 7 segmentos para exibir a pontuação

Atualidade
Apesar de os gravadores de DVD serem lançados no mercado vários anos depois que o Action Max foi descontinuado, uma cópia em DVD-R de jogos das fitas de VHS usadas para este console são tecnicamente compatíveis com o console, pois o hardware do Action Max era mais dependente do sinal de vídeo que do hardware real que reproduzia o filme (jogo).

O console também pode ser compatível com DVD-Rs de imagens simples de vídeo feitos em casa ou por pequenas empresas, criados com software de edição de vídeo utilizando os critérios necessários para bom funcionamento no Action Max.

Ligações externas
Emulador para Action Max

Consolas de jogos

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'You knew he was special' - Tyrese Campbell recalls life growing up with Phil Foden
Stoke City favourite Tyrese Campbell was in the same youth side as England and Man City star Phil Foden from seven to 16 and is looking forward to a massive summer
Tyrese Campbell, who had starred alongside Phil Foden in the Manchester City youth team, has emerged as one of the main men at Stoke City.
Tyrese Campbell got a good idea at the age of seven what the rest of the world is seeing now.
Campbell, now a key figure at Stoke City, joined Manchester City's junior set up and met Stockport lad Phil Foden when they were both at primary school. They would find prolific form together in a brilliant, all-conquering youth side.
Foden was always destined for the top and, having just helped win the Premier League title, will take a lead role in the Champions League final against Chelsea on Saturday. The stage is set for the European Championships beyond with England too as a chance to prove, at the age of 20, he is up there with the best in the world.
Campbell said: "I joined City at the age of seven and Phil was already there. We were in the same team then until under-16s.
"You knew he was special straight away. He had unbelievable ball control and all that. The way he played no one could tackle him, he was so nimble. City pushed him as well, wanted him to progress.
"That team we had is probably one of the best age groups they've had in a long time. There was Phil; Jadon Sancho; Ed Francis, who's at Harrogate now; Luke Bolton, who's been at Dundee United; Matt Smith, at Doncaster; Tom Dele-Bashiru, who's just won promotion with Watford.
"There was a point when we were all growing and Phil had stayed the same size but sort of grown into his body. He was small but strong and quick and he could beat anyone. He always had the talent to play at the highest level and it doesn't surprise me to see just how well he's doing.
"How he's playing at the moment and form wise he's definitely in the group with some of the best players in the world. The big thing for those players is to keep doing it year in year out for a long time.
"He's got a massive summer and he'll shine even brighter in the Euros, playing with Harry Kane and Sancho, if he plays. All that talent, it's really exciting."
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Campbell was one of the chief beneficiaries of Foden's creativity back then.
"I got 49 goals in the season at under-15s and 46 for the under-16s," he told StokeonTrentLive.
"We used to go into every game, no matter who we were playing against, knowing that we were going to win. We beat Liverpool 9-0, United 4-0… We used to batter a lot of teams."
Foden hasn't particularly had a glamorous lifestyle to match increasing fame.
Phil Foden with a 13lb catch at Cudmore Fisheries, in Whitmore. (Image: Cudmore Fisheries)
He has been a regular at Cudmore Fisheries, in Whitmore, since he was a boy and his dad, Man Utd-supporting Phil Sr, has featured on these pages in the weekly angling results.
Indeed, when Man City clinched the title in 2018, Foden turned down a boozy evening in Hale to pop down the M6 for a spot of night fishing.
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Campbell said: "He enjoys his fishing. He's a humble lad who's got a boy now and loves his family.
"He's always just loved football. You'd never see him not kicking a ball about. Walking out to the training pitch, he'd do it with a ball. Even if we were playing abroad, he'd be the one running down the corridor with a ball at his feet."
Campbell had joined Stoke by the time they met Man City in the semi-final of the FA Youth Cup in 2017, seeing Foden in full flight.
Sancho was well-handled by Tom Edwards that night but was set for superstardom too, although that was to come at Borussia Dortmund, who he joined a few months later for an initial £8m that is looking like a bargain.
"Sanch joined us at under-14s and I'd never seen anything like it in my life," said Campbell.
"I enjoyed two years playing with him. He'd get a hat-trick one week then I'd get a hat-trick. We all played well together as a team.
"We've all gone on different career paths but most of that side is already playing pro football and I'm sure at one stage we'll cross paths again."
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Who was Xerxes?
THE reign of Darius had been mainly peaceful. Just at its close one of his generals was defeated by the Greeks of Athens at Marathon. This battle, which meant so much to Europe, seemed very unimportant to the Persians; it was a mere frontier reverse of a small force. Darius was, however, succeeded by his son Xerxes, under whom the was with Greece was carried to a disastrous climax. Xerxes was accounted the handsomest man of his time, but proved also the most feeble; he was as idle and foolish as his father had been active and wise.
Inexperienced in warfare, Xerxes planned an expedition of numbers so vast that he expected them completely to overwhelm the rebellious Greeks. It was not easy for a Persian army to travel all the way to far-off Greece, and Xerxes was weary of the march before it was well begun. When at length his forces reached the strait which separates Asia from Europe, a bridge of ships was built from shore to shore. A storm swept this away, and Xerxes showed his petty wrath by commanding his soldiers to give the sea three hundred lashes with whips, as if it had been a human slave. He also had a set of fetters thrown into the water as a symbol of its bondage to him. After this punishment, though possibly not because of it, the sea behaved better; the bridge of ships held firm, and Xerxes entered Europe.
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Угрору́ська мо́ва (угроруський язик, руський язик) — місцевий книжковий варіант української літературної мови Закарпаття, побудований на основі середньозакарпатських говірок з широким залученням елементів церковнослов'янської, російської і навіть угорської мов з метою створити окрему літературну мову для закарпатців.

Термін утворено від книжкового топоніма Угорська Русь, яким у Галичині та Росії з 17 століття називали південні схили Українських Карпат.

Угроруська мова представлена у «Русько-мадярскому словарі» Л. Чопея (1883), «Методичних граматиках угроруського языка» А. Волошина (1907, 1909), у граматичних і правописних правилах Г. Стрипського тощо.

Після розпаду Австро-Угорщини (1918—1919) за окрему угроруську мову виступали мадяронські керівники утворюваної на Закарпатті автономної «Руської Країни», а в роки угорської окупації Закарпаття (1939—1944) — створене в Ужгороді «Подкарпатское общество наук»; форми цієї мови відбивають передусім видані в той час «Грамматика угрорусского языка для середнихъ учебныхъ заведеній» (1940) та «Грамматика руського языка» І. Гарайди (1941).

Термін «угроруська мова» не однозначний. Він частково входить у ширші поняття «русинська мова» та «руська мова».

Див. також
 Угорська Русь
 Язичіє
 Русинська мова

Джерело
 Енциклопедія «Українська мова»

Діалекти української мови


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Симба — река в Мурманской области России. Протекает по территориям городских округов город Оленегорск с подведомственной территорией и город Кировск с подведомственной территорией. Левый приток Печи.

Длина реки составляет 29 км. Площадь бассейна 218 км².

Берёт начало на северной границе Хибин на высоте около 550 м над уровнем моря. Протекает по лесной, местами болотистой местности. На высоте 183,6 м проходит через озеро Симба-Лумболка, на высоте 180,4 проходит через Симбозеро. Впадает в Печу в 9,4 км от устья.

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Баренцево-Беломорскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — река Нива, включая озеро Имандра. Речной бассейн реки — бассейны рек Кольского полуострова и Карелии.

Код объекта в государственном водном реестре — 02020000312101000010386.

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HomeHistoryAmerican HistoryFunctioning of the US Congress
Functioning of the US Congress
FROM THE LECTURE SERIES: UNDERSTANDING THE US GOVERNMENT
March 29, 2021 American History, History, Washington, D.C. History
By Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Ph.D., George Mason University
The individual members of the United States Congress not only have to serve their constituents, but also have to work with one another. How do they handle this strategically? Read on to learn about the puzzling way the US Congress works.
A member of Congress may feel the pressure to do one thing for his constituency but something different for his political party. (Image: Everett Collection/Shutterstock)
A puzzling aspect of Congress is how it can be that Congress sometimes passes legislation that a majority of its members oppose.
An example from public policy in agriculture known as price supports, or subsidies, illustrates how this happens.
Agricultural Subsidies for US Farmers
The US government supports several agricultural industries with subsidies. (Image: vlalukinv/Shutterstock)
For a number of decades, the US government has supported several agricultural industries with financial support. Subsidies come in several forms.
A farmer might be paid for growing—or not growing—a particular crop, in order to control its supply on the market. Or, a farmer might be guaranteed a particular price for their crop, no matter what the current market price is.
Agricultural subsidies benefit American farmers and provide stability in their markets. A member of Congress who represents farmers that benefit from subsidies is under great pressure to ensure they continue.
Learn more about the Electoral College.
Downsides of Agricultural Subsidies
However, there are a number of downsides to subsidies. When prices are kept artificially high for cotton, sugar beets, corn, or milk, any product made from these products will also have higher prices. Subsidies help farmers, but they increase prices for consumer goods.
In addition, a farmer who benefits from subsidies is typically able to bring his product to more markets than he would without that aid. This means that other farmers may be excluded from those markets.
Thus, agricultural subsidies are not great public policy for anyone except the farmers who directly benefit.
So, if only a minority of legislators support them, how do they come about?
This is a transcript from the video series Understanding the US Government. Watch it now, on Wondrium.
Agricultural Subsidy: An Example
The following example explains how this happens. In a small legislature, members are debating two proposed agricultural bills. One of the bills would create subsidies for sugar, and the other would create subsidies for milk products. In this hypothetical legislature, 25% of the legislators come from districts with sugar producers. Another 30% come from districts with milk producers. And 45% of the legislators have districts that include neither of these industries.
The following table shows the first, second, and third ranked policy choices of each group of legislators:
Sugar supporters (25%) Milk supporters (30%) Opponents (45%)
1. Sugar only 1. Milk only 1. Neither
2. Sugar & Milk 2. Milk & Sugar 2. Milk only
3. Neither 3. Neither 3. Sugar only
(Image: TGCD)
Looking at the chart, it can be seen that the sugar supporters prefer a bill that only includes sugar subsidies. If the sugar folks can't get that bill to pass, then they prefer a bill that includes subsidies for sugar and milk. If those bills won't fly, then the sugar representatives prefer to pass nothing. It is similar for the milk supporters, whose first choice is for the legislature to pass a bill that only includes milk subsidies.
Among the opponents, this group's most preferred choice is that neither bill is passed. If one bill must pass, this group prefers the milk only bill, and then the sugar only bill, as a way of minimizing the total amount of subsidies adopted by the legislature.
If a sugar price support bill came to the floor in this legislature, it would lose. The sugar supporters would vote for it, but the milk supporters and opponents would vote no. Also, if a milk only bill came to the floor it would fail because of a unified coalition of sugar supporters and opponents.
Since none of these three groups has an outright majority, none can control the outcome with only the members of their group.
The sugar and milk supporters find that if they form a coalition, however, they can rally enough votes between the two groups to form a majority. So, the sugar and milk supporters strike a deal for a logroll.
Logrolling is the practice of exchanging favors, in this case, vote trading. The sugar supporters agree to vote for milk, and the milk supporters agree to vote for sugar.
Learn more about the concept of civil liberties.
Logrolling
Logrolling is a form of strategic voting behavior that rational political actors use in the course of pursuing their policy and electoral goals. In practice, this can happen a couple of ways.
Logrolling is the practice of exchanging favors among the members of Congress. (Image: United States House of Representatives/Public domain)
There might be more than one bill on the floor, in which case the members of the groups would just agree to vote for one another's bill.
More commonly, the two individual bills would be packaged together in a single bill of agricultural subsidies that would include subsidies for both products.
The Farm Bill: A Logroll and a Coalition
Logrolling and coalition-forming behavior are very common in legislative contexts. Every six years, or so, Congress passes a piece of legislation known as the Farm Bill.
The Farm Bill is essentially one giant logroll, filled with a lot of little goodies for a fair number of agricultural constituencies. As a matter of principle, most members of Congress would probably agree that subsidies are not great public policy. Some will even disagree with the policy openly. But when it comes time to vote on the Farm Bill, a broad coalition of legislators climb on board.
Logrolling and coalition formation are key strategies in legislating. Through these strategies, Congress can sometimes pass legislation that a majority of its members oppose on individual grounds.
Learn more about the role of Supreme Court in policymaking.
US Congress: Working among Challenges
To summarize, Congress is a bit broken. Its staff are overworked and underpaid. Its capacity to handle increasingly complicated social and policy issues is strained. It is enormously unpopular, slow, and seems to be constantly plagued with a particularly sour form of partisanship.
But for the most part, it still manages to get the big things done. It funds the government, even if not always very smoothly. It aims to provide oversight of the executive branch, although its oversight is inconsistent now because party loyalty overcomes branch loyalty for many of its members. It performs its basic functions.
Common Questions about the Challenging and Puzzling Way the US Congress Functions
Q: How do agricultural subsidies affect prices for consumer goods?
An increase in the prices of consumer goods is a downside to agricultural subsidies. When prices are kept artificially high for a product, anything made from that product will also have higher prices.
Q: Which are two key strategies in legislating?
Logrolling and coalition formation are key strategies in legislating.
Q: What is logrolling?
Logrolling is the practice of exchanging favors. It is a form of strategic voting behavior that rational political actors use in the course of pursuing their policy and electoral goals.
The Panic and Banking Crisis of 1819: America's Economic Depression
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Professor Jennifer Nicoll Victor
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There are many types of governments. In order to distinguish one type of government from another, two basic questions need to be asked: First, who governs? That is, who is in control of the rules. Second, how much government control is allowed in a particular system? […]
Governments: Why Do People Need Them?
A government serves many purposes. Throughout history these purposes have been debated by prominent philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and David Hume. […]
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the government was ineffectual. The United States Constitution was then developed to create the public good that everyone desired—an effective government. […]


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import rope.base.pyobjects
from rope.base import exceptions, utils

class PyName(object):
    """References to `PyObject` inside python programs"""

    def get_object(self):
        """Return the `PyObject` object referenced by this `PyName`"""

    def get_definition_location(self):
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class DefinedName(PyName):

    def __init__(self, pyobject):
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    def get_object(self):
        return self.pyobject

    def get_definition_location(self):
        lineno = utils.guess_def_lineno(self.pyobject.get_module(), self.pyobject.get_ast())
        return (self.pyobject.get_module(), lineno)

class AssignedName(PyName):
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class UnboundName(PyName):

    def __init__(self, pyobject=None):
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    def get_object(self):
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    def get_definition_location(self):
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class AssignmentValue(object):
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    def __init__(self, ast_node, levels=None, evaluation='',
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        The levels for for `a` is ``[0]``, for `b` is ``[1, 0]`` and for
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    def get_lineno(self):
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class EvaluatedName(PyName):
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    def __init__(self, callback, module=None, lineno=None):
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    def invalidate(self):
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class ParameterName(PyName):
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class ImportedModule(PyName):

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                            self.module_name, self._current_folder())
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                            self.module_name, self._current_folder(),
                            self.level)
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                    pass
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    def get_definition_location(self):
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        if not isinstance(pymodule, rope.base.pyobjects.PyDefinedObject):
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class ImportedName(PyName):

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    def _get_imported_pyname(self):
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    def get_object(self):
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    def get_definition_location(self):
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def _get_concluded_data(module):
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def _circular_inference():
    raise rope.base.pyobjects.IsBeingInferredError(
        'Circular Object Inference')

class _Inferred(object):

    def __init__(self, get_inferred, concluded=None):
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Next Louisville: Community Health
Sick & Tired
For Many Minorities, Chronic Diseases Go Undiagnosed and Untreated
by Ja'Nel johnson
Thomas Usher played a Brazilian musical instrument and danced while teaching a group of Lexington children capoeria, a martial art that combines acrobatics and dance. He looked like a picture of health.
"I love doing capoeria. I love to dance. I want to pass that on to children," he said.
Usher's own childhood was plagued by shortness of breath, coughing spells and fatigue. But it wasn't until two years ago, at 26, that he learned he had asthma.
"My doctor down in Berea … said, 'You should have been hospitalized, you should have been hospitalized all your life,'" he said. "And I was like, 'Well, that's good to know.'"
For many minorities, chronic diseases often go undiagnosed and untreated — at a rate far higher than their white counterparts. This is not a new problem.
In 1985, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the Heckler Report. It was the agency's first time conducting a comprehensive examination of the impact of behavioral and societal issues on the health of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans.
The agency identified six causes of death that accounted for more than 80 percent of fatalities among minorities: cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, chemical dependency, diabetes, homicide and accidents, and infant mortality. The report also found that there were 60,000 more deaths among minorities than whites facing the same health circumstances each year.
Dr. Nadine Gracia, director of the Office for Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said the Heckler Report was a call to action to end racial health disparities in America. It outlined eight recommendations ranging from patient outreach and education to creating better financial options, conducting research and collecting data in order to address health disparities.
To some degree, the recommendations worked.
Between 1980 and 2010, deaths due to heart disease were cut in half for blacks. The disparities in childhood vaccination rates between white and minority children have nearly closed. And overall cancer deaths among blacks have also decreased.
But despite that progress, the health status of minorities continues to lag behind that of white Americans.
''Race and ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, age, disability, socioeconomic status, geographic location all contribute to an individual's ability to achieve good health.'' Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Stephanie Mayfield
"The condition that we see now is that minorities are less likely to receive preventive services needed to stay healthy, and that they are more likely to receive a lower quality of care, and therefore experience poor health status," Gracia said.
Today, black women die from breast cancer at much higher rates than white women, and black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than white men, according to the Office of Minority Health.
The enduring disparities can be attributed to social and economic challenges, such as poverty, lack of education and substandard housing.
And much of the problem can be linked to a lack of health insurance.
Usher said he doesn't think his mom had the best insurance, if any at all, when he was a child. He only recalls seeing a doctor when it was time for a back-to-school physical exam.
"I'm fairly sure my mom knew I had asthma and everything like that, but we could never really do anything about it," Usher said. "The best thing I could do was stay in as top shape as possible and not pass out through force of will."
Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Stephanie Mayfield said that from a statistical standpoint, Usher had several factors working against him, including the fact that he's African-American, male and grew up in a single-parent home.
"Race and ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, age, disability, socioeconomic status, geographic location all contribute to an individual's ability to achieve good health," Mayfield said. "So, if there is a disparity in any one of those factors, there is not equity."
"The best thing I could do was stay in as top shape as possible and not pass out through force of will." - Thomas Usher
J. Tyler Franklin
Disparities in quality and outcomes of care by income, race and ethnicity are large and persistent, and have not been improving substantially, according to the 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, produced by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The state is trying to address those disparities through a new initiative called kyhealthnow. Gov. Steve Beshear unveiled the effort last year as a strategy to improve the overall health of Kentuckians.
Mayfield said the public health campaign aims to meet seven health goals by 2019, including reducing the state's smoking, obesity and cancer death rates. It also has the goal of reducing the state's uninsured rate to less than 5 percent.
Sick & Tired is a four-part web and radio series examining health disparities among racial minorities in Kentucky. It's part of the Next Louisville: Community Health project, a partnership between WFPL News, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and the Community Foundation of Louisville.
Currently, 9.8 percent of Kentuckians don't have health insurance, according to the Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index. That's about twice the goal — but it's progress. Before the Affordable Care Act went into effect in January 2014, 20.4 percent of Kentuckians were uninsured.
Usher is one of more than 500,000 Kentuckians who have enrolled in health insurance through the state's exchange, Kynect, created under the federal health law.
He said his days of being doubled over wheezing in pain are behind him. But he sometimes wonders what his quality of life would have been had he gotten treatment sooner.
"It made me feel like I wasted a little bit of potential, but it didn't sadden me or anything," he said. "I just kept going. I'm going to try to stay in good standing health so I can still be an upstanding citizen … a productive citizen, if you will."
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Keep It or Delete It?: Deadlight (X360)
August 26, 2012 August 26, 2012 Kyle Droll
Deadlight
Developer: Tequila Works Release Date: August 1, 2012
Publisher: Microsoft Studios ESRB Rating: M
Platforms: Xbox 360 (XBLA) MSRP: $15.00
In all honesty I am a sucker for an interesting world and an intriguing story. When I was younger and my parents bought my games for me I was willing to play just about anything, as long as the premise had me hooked I was more than willing to sit down and enjoy. But, now I have a job and a budget, and not a large one at that. So buying games is done with two ideas in mind: is this worth what I am paying for it and will I have fun? The latter question is particularly important, because if the game is not fun I probably will not end up playing it for very long. So, Deadlight, a game made by Tequila Works, comes along and impresses me in advance with its zombie hordes and 1986 setting. Unfortunately, that good first impression did not last long, as I realized how difficult it is to survive the zombie apocalypse when faced with awful controls and frustrating gameplay.
Deadlight has you taking on the role of Randall Wayne, a gruff voiced survivor, who has banded together with some others and wants to find his family. Right off the bat, those "others" basically leave you for dead, and so alone in Seattle Wayne must live long enough to see his wife and child again. Insert zombies here. Deadlight up front sets you up to be afraid of a few zombies; you cannot just mow down hordes of the undead with any weapon at your beck-and-call. Wayne starts without weapons; all he has is his wits and the environment to use to kill or more likely escape from the "Shadows". That is a primary goal in the beginning of the game. Escaping from the dead is more important than killing them; alive is alive, even without racking up a huge body count. The most interesting part of this game is how well it opens, but that quickly loses momentum as Deadlight ignores many of the rules it establishes early on, the biggest one being that zombies are not to be messed with in numbers.
The axe is a nice weapon for one or two zombies at most. Any more; just run, you will last longer.
I want to keep bringing up the less problematic sections before I get into the parts of Deadlight that made me realize how frustrating this game was. There is an ambience that stays fairly level throughout the journey through Seattle. The world has a gray/blue color palette for most of its design but mixes it up with other color cues to lead Wayne in specific directions. Important items, and pieces of the environment, will be outlined in brighter blues and yellows to signify: "Pick this up!" or "Climb on this". Deadlight also uses shadows and dark areas effectively to give the game a sense of dread and fear. Even in daylight cars and objects in the foreground may be completely black, this will help you both realize where to climb or run and constantly insinuates this idea of a dark world, one with shadows cast upon everything. The music is not played too often; much of the game's audio is noises from the city, car alarms, and shuffling feet. This makes it feel like you are hearing only what Wayne hears, only the sounds of his surroundings. But, when a track does come on, usually in a cutscene, it easily evokes that eerie feel of loneliness, despair, and fear that should be found anywhere near zombies. Now, the cutscenes themselves are animated illustrations, with use of heavy contrasted light and dark colors. They look great and feed into the darkness and calamity Randall and the rest of the world is facing.
The collectibles in Deadlight help shed light into more of Randall's past. Diary pages unravel some of the mysteries behind the story of the game and give a better glimpse into Wayne's inner thoughts and motives. Driver's licenses can also be found throughout the game, on dead bodies strewn about the different environments, each of these are small Easter eggs that if followed lead to interesting story possibilities. In relation to the story, Deadlight uses flashbacks and dreams to help develop Randall as a character and shed more light on what is going on between him and his family, and how the rising dead have changed everything for him. They are few and far between but add a nice change of scenery and tone to the game, as well as bring up questions as to who Randall Wayne really is, and what he has become since the dead have come back.
Diaries; a great way to keep track of day to day activities or go crazy and scribble every bit of nonsense that comes to mind.
The look, the sounds, and the setting all point toward the possibility of a great game. Unfortunately, Deadlight stumbles too quickly for anything to take hold. Even with the great world and ambiance, the dialogue becomes heavy-handed and Randall Wayne's voice sounds a little too close to a heavy smoker, or Christian Bale's Batman. But, even with these intense scenes becoming a little awkward, the game is able to keep its horror theme going so that you are more worried about the "Shadows" and less about what Wayne will say next.
By far the most frustrating aspect of Deadlight comes from the game parts of it. It amps up the difficulty without warning. This would be fine if it were not for the fact the controls can barely keep up. Using the sprint button to get a running head start for a long jump becomes a small hop because of timing error. Randall has to make some distanced leaps off of ledges that look like they can barely fit him, let alone allow him to sprint for an extended time. I found myself jumping into hordes of zombies many times because I could not perfectly stick a long jump; after playing the same section four or five times because of this, the game was no longer any fun. Also, the cues that were so apparent before begin to get lost with all of the commotion in the later levels. Not having a clue what to do, or where to go, is a possibility; one that had me stuck in areas for long periods of time pulling my hair out and wanting to kill Randall myself. This comes into play heavily at one section. Two words: Sewer Level.
You may make this jump; but do not be surprised if you miss it.
Finally, as Deadlight moves into its later acts, small numbers of lurking undead become larger groups swarming Randall Wayne. Even when Wayne finally gets his weapons the zombies are still almost unbeatable in greater numbers. You are expected to think on your feet and escape because fighting becomes too difficult, but the issue is that with the unresponsive controls Randall will end up in a brawl. The fighting leaves little to be desired but a Prozac because it causes so much frustration. When escaping is barely possible and fighting is a death wish, players may look into the only other way to end their misery: shutting off the game.
Deadlight will teach players to fear the dead, fear the living, and to fear laggy controls. For everything it does to build an amazing world, it stumbles when trying to put together the parts of the game that truly matter. Even if it looks good, sounds great, and has zombies does not mean that it will be fun. Unfortunately, Deadlight proves that at every game's core there must be some level of enjoyment for the player, or they will stop playing.
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Q: Assuming GCC and G++ are installed how to compile a file which uses boost library? (threading) So I am new to linux stuff. I have set linux Debian up, I have gcc installed. I have a simple C++ file that uses boost threading library. Let us call that file example.cpp we have exect path to it. how to compile it? (sorry I came from windows world=)

A: Assuming example.cpp is in the current directory, this will create an executable called example, linked against boost-thread. g++ will search the system library locations for the library.
g++ example.cpp -lboost-thread -o example

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China rages against Bolton meeting with Taiwan as anti-invasion drills begin on the island
A Taiwan Mirage 2000 jet prepares to take off on a highway, during an exercise outside Taichung on Tuesday. I
The Chinese government has slammed Washington for engaging with Taipei and ordered the Trump administration to cease diplomatic engagements with the island, after a highly unusual public meeting between top officials from the US and Taiwan.
In May, US national security adviser John Bolton met with one of Taiwan's top defense officials, National Security Council Secretary-General David Lee, who was visiting the US. Taiwan's official news agency CNA said it was the first meeting between the top security advisers of both governments since 1979, when Washington severed formal ties with Taipei.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Monday that Beijing "deplored and strongly objected" to the meeting and urged the US to stop "having official exchanges or upgrading substantive relations with Taiwan."
Taiwan and China were separated at the end of a bloody civil war in 1949 and officially the US only has official diplomatic relations with Beijing.
"The one-China principle is the political basis for China-US relations," Lu said. "We are firmly against the US engaging in any official contact with Taiwan in whatever form and under whatever pretext.
"We also stand resolutely against any attempt to create 'two Chinas' or 'one China, one Taiwan.' This is our clear and consistent position."
As the China and US engage in a tense trade war, however, Washington has been building closer ties with Taiwan, the island that China views as a renegade province.
On Saturday, Taiwan announced it had renamed its unofficial embassy in Washington from the Coordination Council for North American Affairs to the Taiwan Council for US Affairs, after discussions with Washington. That marked the first time a Taiwan government organization had been renamed to include the words "Taiwan" and "US."
"Really got to love the new name," Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on the ministry's official Twitter.
And in March, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen announced she wanted to purchase advanced new weapons from US President Donald Trump's administration.
Beijing's comments came as Taiwan began its annual Han Kuang Exercise on Tuesday. The military drills are aimed at ensuring the island's readiness for an invasion by communist China's People's Liberation Army (PLA).
President Tsai watched as the air force landed F-16V aircraft on a highway in eastern Changhua county, an exercise designed to test the military's refueling and rearming capacity if major airfields on the island were occupied or destroyed by the PLA.
Hundreds of Taiwanese flocked to the roadside to watch the drill, waving flags and displaying banners showing their support for the island's airforce.
When asked about the future of US-Taiwan defense relations — and whether the Bolton meeting was the new normal — Taiwan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Chen Chung-Chi said the two governments would continue to work together.
"In the Asia Pacific region, we are just like the US, who share common core values including freedom of democracy and human rights (with)," he said.
"We also hope that we can play the role of defender of peace in the region. This is to serve the common interests of Taiwan and the US."
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Kilmartin stands in an attractive glen in the Lorn District, which is famous for the number of impressive historic sites.
The area around Kilmartin contains more than 350 ancient monuments, 150 of which are prehistoric. This extraordinary concentration of monuments that includes rock carvings, standing stones, and Neolithic and Bronze Age burial cairns distinguishes the Kilmartin Valley as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. Dunadd, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dalriada also stands nearby. A good overview of the remarkable archaeology of the area can be found in the audio-visual presentations at Kilmartin House in the village.
Another key historical site in the area is the substantial ruins of the 16th century Carnassarie Castle. In the grounds of Kilmartin Church there are two groups of richly decorated gravestones dating from the 13th century, carved in the west Highland tradition featuring armed warriors and delicate foliage.


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HSS brings forward investment as revenue growth continues
By Murray Pollok02 November 2010
HSS Hire Service Group has brought forward its 2011 fleet investment programme because of continued growth of its business.
The company invested £12.3 million in the first nine months of the year and will spend an extra £2 million this year using funds taken from 2011 budgets. Chris Davies, HSS chief executive said the company planned to further increase spending further, with investment in all product sectors.
The company's revenues for the quarter to 2 October 2010 were up 14% to £44.6 million and profits before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased 31% to £12.1 million for the three months.
"The company continues to make very good progress in challenging conditions. This has been achieved by focusing on customers, colleagues, costs and cash", said Mr Davies. "Although we remain cautious on the outlook for the rest of the year and into next, our progress has prompted us to bring forward investment in the business from next year into this."
Caution remains, however, because of the uncertainty over the wider impact of government spending cuts which will see department budgets cut by 25% or more.
Mr Davies told IRN; "Behind the numbers there are real cuts to real jobs. People are expecting a knock on impact from that." However, he said HSS had an opportunity to market its ability to save costs for its customers; "In difficult times companies are looking to control their costs...That's our job."
He added that HSS was less reliant on new infrastructure constructon than other rental companies, with HSS focusing on the maintenance and operation of existing facilities.
Meanwhile, HSS's business in Ireland - including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - actually grew year-on-year in the first nine months of the year. Mr Davies said growth had been "strong" and paid tribute to a "terrific team" in Ireland. The company operates both HSS-style rentals in Ireland and also heavy equipment - Mr Davies said that even this heavier equipment had performed ahead of expectations.
During the quarter, the company launched its estimated time of arrival (ETA) service as an add-on to its LiveHire system, which is now being used by 6000 customers.
HSS said it also used the quarter to continue its focus on key accounts, winning a five year multi-million pound rental contract with Thames Water.
However, it has lost a major contract with Network Rail. Although still working with Network Rail on an existing non-rail contract, the customer has now combined its non-rail and rail rental contracts and awarded the package to a competitor.
HSS said there would be no material impact as no single customer accounts for more than 3% of revenues.
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A study of coral core samples has extended the known history of bleaching by more than 350 years but warns it is becoming more frequent and may be approaching a "tipping point" beyond which reef survival is uncertain.
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science, the research by scientists from Glasgow and Edinburgh universities reconstructs temperature-induced bleaching patterns over 381 years spanning 1620-2001. The findings are at odds with claims that mass coral bleaching is a recent phenomenon due to climate change. Scientists studied the tree ring-like lines of annual growth in 44 coral drill core samples. They were able to reconstruct the history of bleaching events each coral had survived. Results showed the number of bleaching years per decade had increased between 1620 and 1753 when up to six years of each decade showed bleaching in at least 20 per cent of coral cores.
The frequency then reduced until the first half of the 19th century when only one year of every decade had evidence of bleaching in at least 20 per cent of coral cores. Bleaching increased again between 1821 and 2001 to three years per decade but there were periods of low prevalence and frequency, including from the 1820s to 1830s.
Large-scale observations of the Great Barrier Reef first began in the late 1970s.
"Bleaching has been occurring on the GBR at least during the last four centuries, and has increased 10 per cent in prevalence since the 1790s," the paper says.
Researchers said the results placed recently observed increases in Great Barrier Reef bleaching into a wider context.
Bleaching occurs when water temperatures rise too high and disrupt the symbiotic relationship between the animal coral and the tiny algae that live inside it.
The coral then expel the algae, leaving the coral a stark white. While algae can be reabsorbed when the water temperature drops once more, corals will die if this separation is too long.
A big question in coral research is whether coral species will be able to adapt quickly enough to cope with rising temperatures. The Frontiers research says "while the processes of acclimatisation and adaptation indicate that, given enough time, the coral holobiont (the coral host, the symbiotic microalgae and associated micro-organisms) may be able to adapt to new, higher thermal levels, post-1850 increases in bleaching frequency and prevalence suggest corals may struggle to survive in the future as conditions continue to rapidly change".
"The increase in prevalence and frequency (of bleaching) indicate that we may be coming to a tipping point beyond which survival is uncertain," the paper says.
Nick Kamenos of the University of Glasgow's School of Geographical and Earth Sciences said the research provided vital extra context for the observations carried out over the past half-century. "We can see that corals have been able to acclimatise and recover from past bleaching events,'' Dr Kamenos said.
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Inspirational quotes are great as they give you the inspiration that you need to move on with life. Have ever thought about the deeper meaning of a quote? Here is an explanation of the most popular motivational quotes.
This quote lets you know that there are many other factors that define success and happiness. The first step to being happy is loving what you are doing. When you love your work you will commit yourself in it and you will provide your customers with the service that they need.
While you might be complaining that you aren't achieving what you desire, this quote tells you that you shouldn't blame any other person other than yourself as it's your fault that you aren't achieving what you want. If you want anything in this world you need to get out of your comfort zone and seek it. If you take action you will definitely achieve what you desire.
You shouldn't be scared of your competitors as they empower your business to strive for excellence. When your niche has competitors, you are faced with the challenge of being the best in your field. You also become creative and come up with techniques aimed at beating your competitors.
For you to achieve anything in this world you need to be confident of your abilities. Whether you are in employment or business you need to always maintain a strong belief that you can be able to survive any challenge that comes your way. You also need to have self belief that you can achieve anything that you want.
This quote aims at giving you the desire to advance in your life and fulfill your goals in life. According to Benjamin, it's your decision to be at any position in life. For example, you can choose to be immovable, movable or move with the people-it's all up to you. If you want to be successful you need to move and get what you want to achieve.
John lets you know that you need to put in time in every task that you are undertaking in order to achieve absolute greatness. If you are determined at achieving something you have to stop procrastinating and start doing it now. In short you should never waste any time when planning of doing something.
You need to focus at the positive aspects of life for you to be successful. For example, if you are in business you need to avoid focusing on the possibility of losing money and concentrate on growing your business.
These are some of the most popular inspirational quotes. In addition to using the quotes to encourage you, you should also use them to encourage others. This will not only make you appear intelligent, but it will also make you aware of your environment.


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Effi Naveh Affair: An independent inquiry committee is needed
MQG / 26 בFebruary 2019
We addressed the Attorney General of Israel and made our demand clear: an inquiry committee regarding the Effi Naveh Affair needs to be established. Thousands of citizens have alrady signed our public petition regarding the matter.
Just when we thought we have heard and seen everything, a new affair just popped out in the press, with claims about sex in return for nomination – allgedly, of course. Effi Naveh, former chairman of Israel Bar Association, is the person in the centre of this new affair.
According to publications, a police inquiry has been going on concerning the conduct of the Committee for the Appointment of Judges in general and that of IBA chairman Effi Naveh in particular. According to what has been released for publication up to now, there are suspicions of sever offenses concerning integrity, bribe, fraud and breach of trust, all of which can cast heavy shadows on the Committee's conduct as a whole. This affair harms not only the people directly involved but also the public's trust of the judicial system altogether. The Committee for the Appointment of Judges is the judicial system's holy of holies whose ethical image – that is supposed to be impeccable – is being harmed by publications such as the current affair. The more the rising of doubts regarding the propriety of the Committee's decisions the greater the public's distrust of the judicial system and the authorities. The resulting public cost might be high, as well as the social prices we will be forced to pay for this affair. The damage is so severe that it requires an intensive and comprehensive inquiry of the complete procedure of appointing judges throughout the time of Naveh's service as IBA chairman. As consequently the establishing of an independent State Commission of Inquiry is unavoidable, we contacted PM Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Avihai Mandelblitt in demand of establishing such a commission that will genuinely and extensively examine all that happened in this Judges Appointment Affair. We have backed up our call with a public petition signed by thousands of citizens. The current call follows another one made earlier this month to the Minister of Justice in demand to expose all of the judges' appointments in which Naveh had been involved.
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Fashion and design students or anyone with a sartorial lean will be pleased to discover some of Auckland Libraries fashion related resources.
The Heritage Images database is a great place to spot images of fashion fads. Advertising shots, candid family snaps and professional portraits all show clothing trends through the decades. A great way of refining an image search is by using what librarian's call 'subject headings': this is a defined keyword or tag. In the advanced search screen subject headings can be entered in as a search term. Some examples of fashion related subject headings are: 'clothing and dress', 'fashion' and 'mens clothing'.
Using their library card barcode and PIN, Auckland Libraries members have access to the Vogue Archive which contains the entire run of the United States edition of Vogue magazine from the first issue in 1892 through to the current month. Pages are reproduced in high-resolution colour images. Browsing through the covers from the late 1920s reveals brilliant examples of Art Deco design. It is a bountiful resource for anyone researching the history of fashion. Plus, reading the magazine for the articles may be a genuine claim with Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell writing for the magazine.
Unlike traditional museums, the New Zealand Fashion Museum is not located in a building, instead, its home is online. The museum's aim is recording and sharing "the stories of the people, objects and photographs that have contributed to the development of New Zealand's unique fashion identity." The online museum allows for fashion treasures held by national institutions and private individuals to be uploaded. Search their collections, upload a photo of your own beloved garment or browse images from their past pop-up exhibitions.


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Q: How to create a div with border and radius only at the bottom, inside another div with border and radius I need a component that have a box wit border and border-radius and inside this component i need a header with border*and border-radius at bottom.
I write this fiddle to better understand:
Fiddle
The code:

border-1 {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background-color: #ccc;
  margin: 50px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  display: flex;
  border-radius: 3px;
}

border-2 {
  flex: 1 1 auto;
  border: 1px solid black;
  height: 30px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
}
<border-1>
  <border-2>

  </border-2>
</border-1>

Expected result:

But some time i get this when add some padding or appear the scroll bar:

Can someone explain me why?
Thanks.

A: Use position:relative to parent and position:absolute to child
Also add to child width:calc(100% - 2px); (-2px : 1px for border right + 1px for border left )

border-1 {
    width:100px;
    height:100px;
    background-color:#ccc;
    margin:50px;
    border:1px solid black;
    display:flex;
    border-radius: 3px;
    position:relative;
}

border-2 {
  flex:1 1 auto;
  border:1px solid black;
  height: 30px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
  position:absolute;
  width:calc(100% - 2px);
}
<border-1>
  <border-2>

  </border-2>
</border-1>

A: Here is your changed Fiddle.
You just need to change border:1px solid black; to border-bottom:1px solid black; so that you border is only on the bottom.
Result looks like this:

Here is the full css of border 2:
border-2 {
  flex:1 1 auto;
  border-bottom:1px solid black;
  height: 30px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
}

border-1 {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background-color: #ccc;
  margin: 50px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  display: flex;
  border-radius: 3px;
}

border-2 {
  flex: 1 1 auto;
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;
  height: 30px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
}
<border-1>
  <border-2>

  </border-2>
</border-1>

A: Hope you will find it useful!

.outer{
width:300px;
border-radius:10px;
border:4px solid #000;
background-color:green;
height:200px;
}
.outer .inner{
max-width:100%;
border-radius:0px 0px 10px 10px;
border:4px solid #000;
background-color:red;
height:80px;
}


https://top100project.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/sweet-smell-of-success.mp3 Rated R, just like this movie should have been (stupid production code).
The cynical and mean subject of the 67th Next 100 Project podcast is one of our favourites. Information is power. Burt Lancaster is remarkably good as the bullying gossip columnist, but Tony Curtis (just about) matches him. J.J. and Sidney are sharks who deserve every bad thing coming to them…but, man, they've got some great dialogue to say along the way. Guzzle down some Sparkplug Coffee as you delve into SSoS!


Magic Matt: Husband, Father, Fishmonger Extraordinaire | Home Cooks Unite!
Butchers and fishmongers fascinate me. Because my butchering skills are mediocre at best, seeing someone dissect a piece of meat or fish into neat little cuts is like watching someone walk on water. They can skin something or cut its head off without batting an eye, while I find myself apologizing to whatever I'm cutting, even though it's long past dead. Plus they all seem to like what they do. I've never met a butcher or fishmonger that didn't enjoy their work and take pride in their products.
Matt Kirkpatrick is one of those people.
I met Matt at a fishmonger competition. He was competing against other regional fishmongers for a chance to represent the Southeast in a national contest. Even before the competition began, he stood out from the other competitors with his humor and confidence. Once the cutting and slicing began, it was obvious he was there to win, which he did, handedly. It was a fun event.
When it was over, I introduced myself to Matt and his wife, Mandy, who was there with their two adorable children, Rowan and Lucy. I immediately asked if I could feature him on my blog. I had so many questions… What does a professional fishmonger cook for his family for dinner? Who were his biggest influences? Why did he choose to work in the food industry in the first place? Matt and Mandy graciously agreed, and I found myself sitting at their dining room table a few weeks later, listening to their story.
They met while performing in a production of Guys and Dolls in college. (As a former actor, this endeared me more than you can imagine!) Matt was a theater major, Mandy a music major. During and after college, they worked together at a Japanese restaurant in Rome, Georgia. Matt admired the precision, technique and flavors he discovered while working there and got his first inkling of making the culinary arts a career.
Matt continued cooking at home, learning new techniques and experimenting with flavors. After a stint managing the bar at Barnsley Gardens, he took the leap and entered culinary school where he was able to delve further into his passion for Asian/Japanese cooking, a style that resonated and came naturally to him. It was also at culinary school that he took on an apprenticeship at Aspen's West Cobb location. He had other opportunities to serve as a general manager/director of operations at other restaurants, but he knew he'd be miserable if he weren't able to work with food.
When the opportunity to serve as the seafood team leader at a national supermarket chain came his way, he gladly took it on. He's now living the dream, cutting up to 250 pounds of fish a day. Matt prides himself on his total utilization approach. He uses every inch of a fish to ensure no waste. Bones are used to make fish stock, other fish parts are made into mousse. It is his mission to be as environmentally responsible with his product as possible. I admired his commitment.
Matt lived with his grandmother growing up in Marietta, Georgia. She was every bit a Southern cook and made all of her food from scratch – fried chicken, ribs, pineapple-cheese casserole – you name it. Matt remembers going with her to Burger's Market to buy fresh produce. During peach season, they would get bushels of peaches, quarter them, douse them with sugar and throw them in the freezer. Then they would sit on the back porch and hand churn them with cream into ice cream. (Sounds like heaven to me!) He enjoyed spending time with his grandmother in the kitchen and earned a true appreciation for the planning and love that goes into making a great dish.
This was obvious in the food Matt prepared for me. I hope I can accurately put into words how incredibly amazing the meal was. Already it's a challenge, because I feel amazing isn't a big enough word. Perhaps I should say a-MAH-zing? Just know that his love for process, technique and flavor was evident in every morsel I consumed. It was the best food I'd eaten in a while, and I didn't want it to end.
Every single element of the meal was homemade. Every single one. From the sweet tea marinade to the pickled ramps, you could feel Matt's love for preparation and his eagerness to please his guest. There's a patience that comes with that kind of respect, and that patience made the meat more tender, the grits creamier and the ramps tangier.
The meal didn't end with those three components. Matt brought up some duck prosciutto that he had cured and hung in his basement for a week. (Can you imagine?!?). He served it thinly sliced with mustard seeds. He had also smoked some pork belly and fried up some bacon that literally melted in my mouth.
Watching Matt work in the kitchen was like watching any artist who works hard at their craft. He was calm, self-assured and meticulous. He didn't have that moment when a meal starts coming together when he has to yell, "It's about to get really fast in here! Everyone out!" His knife skills are amazing. I especially appreciated his willingness to share tips and information. Those who share are the truest of artists.
I asked Mandy what it was like to live with someone who made such great food. She answered, "I'm very satisfied." Could there be a higher compliment? To have someone love what they do and make their partner happy while doing it? It's some level of cooking feng shui that all home cooks strive to achieve. I left the Kirkpatrick's home very satisfied indeed.
Matt will be competing in the national fishmonger competition the second week of September. I will keep you posted on his progress! Good luck, Matt!
The following recipes are from the creative mind of Matt Kirkpatrick.
Prepare pork by removing skin if it has not been done. It also helps to trim a bit of the fat off to make it about an inch tall. Liberally season belly with kosher salt and ground black pepper. Get a saute pan screaming hot and sear belly off on all sides. You will not need to add oil to the pan, as the belly will release a lot of fat.
Bring tea to a boil in a medium sauce pot and add the remaining ingredients. Check the seasoning of the braising liquid and add a little salt if necessary. (Remember that the liquid will reduce by about 3/4 and you don't want to over do it.) Add belly to braising liquid and simmer for two hours. Once the belly is fork tender, pop it in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes and then return it to the braising liquid. Serve belly with a generous spoonful of liquid.
Inspect ramps for any damaged leaves and cut them off reserving the white parts. Trim the very bottom of the white part and wash off and any soil. (Most recipes will tell you to only pickle the white parts. Matt disagrees with this because the green parts are awesome too!) Bring all other ingredients to a boil. Matt likes to use large clamp down glass containers for his pickles, but any large mason jar will work. (No plastic, unless you hate having skin on your hands.) Pack ramps in the glass jar and pour in the boiling liquid. Leave the jar opened until cooled and refrigerate.
Notes from Matt: Just about every recipe I've ever read for ramps tells you to blanch the ramps before pickling. I find that simply letting them steep in the pickling liquid before refrigeration achieves a better texture. Let the ramps pickle for at least a week. It will be worth the wait.
The brine works great with a lot of other produce as well: Chinese long beans… small green heirloom tomatoes… gravel… anything!
Loved your blog about my son-in-law, Matt Kirkpatrick! I have dined many times on his sumptuous meals and, yes, it is always ah-mah-zing! And loved the pictures of the family with my beautiful daughter and my precious grand kids! Thank you!
So true… he took the simplest ingredients and made them sing!
Sort of, Mrs. B. They are wild onions that have a garlic flavor to them. They're in season for just a short amount of time, but absolutely delicious!