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Airwave Records 276 Groups Using Network on New Year's Eve (1/16/13)
New Year's Eve figures released by Airwave, the U.K. public-safety communication provider, show that a total of 276 organizations were connected to the Airwave network 31 December. Of these, 83 different organizations in London used the Airwave network on New Year's Eve, reducing to 69 organizations the following day.
FCC: 7 States, Territories Divert 9-1-1 Fees in 2011 (1/15/13)
Seven U.S. states and territories used at least a portion of 9-1-1 fees and charges for non-9-1-1 related purposes during 2011, according to a new FCC report. The number of states diverting funds is the same as last year.
Public-Safety Broadband Revenues to Reach $10.5B (1/9/13)
The total value of the global public-safety broadband network service revenues will reach $10.5 billion in 2013, because of the increasing uptake of mobile broadband technologies into public-safety and emergency response applications, according to new research. The successful proliferation of commercial mobile broadband networks has spurred public-safety agencies around the
Racing Radios Named Two-Way Provider for GRAND-AM Racing (1/4/13)
Racing Radios was named GRAND-AM Road Racing's exclusive radio communications provider. The multiyear agreement runs through the 2015 season for GRAND-AM and the unified North American sports car series, which begins competition in 2014. In addition, Racing Radios will also be available to service all teams in the GRAND-AM paddock.
ITU Group Considers Global Emergency Services Number (12/17/12)
A new resolution tabled at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) would allow travelers to access a single well-known number to access local emergency services if the need ever arises. The formulation of the resolution at WCIT-12 instructs the director of the Telecommunications Standardization Bureau to take the necessary
Survey Finds Many PSAPs Experience Downtime (12/11/12)
A vendor-sponsored survey found that 72 percent of public-safety answering points (PSAPs) serving populations of more than 80,000 citizens experienced downtime in the past year, 50 percent had two to four outages, and 11 percent had more than five. PSAPs in communities of less than 80,000 fared somewhat better, with
Hacker Groups Interrupt Access to ITU Website During WCIT-12 (12/6/12)
Communications with one of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) websites was interrupted Dec. 5, interfering with external access to the main ITU site and disrupting the late meeting of Working Group 1 of Committee 5, the substantive working committee of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12), which began this
NTIA Creates Public-Safety Office (11/27/12)
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) created the Office of Public Safety Communications. The office will oversee the $135 million state and local implementation grant program authorized under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. Earlier this year, NTIA officials said the grant
Sepura Launches Engineer Apprenticeship Program (11/12/12)
Sepura launched a new apprenticeship scheme that is designed to help develop talent for the future. The scheme, which will welcome its first apprentices in January 2013, is a key part of Sepura's commitment to invest in the growth of the business as a whole and in the people that
IJIS Institute Creates Associate Program (11/7/12)
The IJIS Institute created a new associate program. For the first time, government, academic and non-profit employees who are interested in information sharing technology and standards, are invited to join the IJIS Institute in the role of an associate and to work alongside their industry counterparts. "The formation of the
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Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival 2015 Celebrates Female Chefs
This year's festival honors Mexico's leading female chefs and promises to be bigger and better than before
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By Kristin Busse
Cancún Local Expert February 17, 2015
Each year, the Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival celebrates Mexican and international cuisine and wows locals and visitors alike with its participants and events.
The 2015 festival will take place Thursday, March 12, through Sunday, March 15. The fourth annual edition, this Cancun event certainly seems to get bigger and better each year, while celebrating Mexico's culinary traditions and chefs. This year's Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival specifically honors Mexico's leading female chefs.
This year, the Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival takes place March 12 to 15 — Photo courtesy of Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival
Twenty-four events will take place over four days, including dinners, conferences, cooking classes, a gourmet tasting village, wine and spirits tastings and a yacht cruise. International, national and local chefs will participate in the festivities.
The Divas de la Cocina Mexicana ("Divas of Mexican Cuisine") Gala Dinner is arguably the pinnacle of this year's festival. The five-course dinner for this unprecedented event will be prepared by 10 of Mexico's best female chefs and accompanied by the best Mexican wines around.
The Divas Gala will be held at Secrets The Vine Resort and Spa in Cancun and will feature live entertainment.
Star Chef's Dinner, which will be held in the pool area of the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Resort & Spa — Photo courtesy of Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival
The Star Chef's Dinner, which will be held in the pool area of the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Resort & Spa in Cancun, is always a highly anticipated festival event. This culinary journey through Mexico, prepared by 20 world-renowned chefs, will also feature live music and entertainment. Top wines will be served from Mexico, Argentina, Spain and France, too.
The festival's most popular event is the Gourmet Tasting Village, which will take place at the Moon Palace Arena in the Riviera Maya on March 14 and 15. Attendees can try food and wine from the best restaurants in the Cancun area and more than 35 Mexican and international wineries.
Premium brand spirits and a French market with French gourmet products and wines will be available as well.
In 2014, over 5,000 guests attended the festival — Photo courtesy of Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival
Other events include the Taste of France Dinner & World DJ; Spanish Legends & Star Chefs in Mexico (which is already sold out); a conference with Juan Mari Arzak and Joan Roca; a cooking class with Chef Aquiles Chavez; and a Celebrity Yacht Cruise and Champagne Lunch.
In 2014, over 5,000 guests attended the the Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival, and organizers believe they will surpass that number at this year's event.
Tickets can be purchased directly through the the Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival website or by calling 1-800-456-3157.
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The World is Angry and its Leaders are Helpless
Is it possible that no one sees what's happening? Events of the scope and magnitude that have been building for the last two months cannot be met with one-off strategies and tactics. It has taken one hundred and sixty-three years for the slogan made famous in the Communist Manifesto "workers of the world, unite!" to happen: it is not happening under the direction of 'vanguards', as Marx and Engels expected, and under seemingly different banners, the upheavals taking place in the Middle East are all about equity, and will continue. Their variegated origins broke no single solution, however, the solutions, like the motivations, have an over-arching unity.
The protesters rise up from different parts of the political and religious spectrum, but share a determination to end the status quo imposed by the various regimes that rule each country. Some want more 'freedom' i.e., the opportunity to become rich. Others want more security, i.e., the right to survive in dignity. Similarly, their respective leaders cannot take concerted action, because they constitute different enemies vis a vis their respective peoples.
The kerfufle over who is to fill the United States' shoes in managing the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi is merely a symptom: led by the United States since the Second World War, the West has systematically rejected all notions of world government, precisely because it implies a common search for equity. (The label has been 'totalitarianism'.) Now it is too late. We have no purposeful disaster response capability, thousands of nuclear weapons still exist, and we have no common goals.
Each leader defends his belief system. But perhaps, beneath the surface, lies an unspoken agreement: that the planet will be unable to nourish nine billion people, and those who possess the means must focus on escape.
Whether the tacit decision is that the powerful must unite to start anew on another planet, or that millions must be eliminated, the millions will continue to rise up, even as the chaos unleashed by our mindless abuse of nature continues.
The article by the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Store, appearing in the current (April 7th) issue of the NYR, www.nybooks.com/articles/-archives/2011/-apr/07/-why-we-must-talk/shows how much further along the social-democratic Scandinavians are in their thinking compared to the capitalist holdouts. Alas, dated barely three weeks ago, his exquisitely reasoned case for dialogue with the Muslim world reads like a last hurrah, as six more countries, all with different grievances, follow the Egyptian lead and the most powerful Emperor is suddenly without clothes.
Nobody knows where things will go from here. If I had to pick those most likely to survive in a world that defies prediction, it would be the increasing number of small communities practicing simpler lifestyles and consensus decision-making. To remain transfixed by the latest news bulletins is as useless as focusing on the week's football matches.
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Labels: Climate Change, Domestic affairs, Foreign Affairs, ideology, Jonas Gahr Store, Libya, Miscellanouse, NYR
Lydia March 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Interesting, your saying their desire for "freedom" is a desire to be rich, compared with what drives a desire for security. I had not thought of it in those exact terms.
And this: . . . beneath the surface, lies an unspoken agreement: that the planet will be unable to nourish nine billion people, and those who possess the means must focus on escape. . . well, that is the nucleus inside the cell inside the seed inside the nut inside the cluster inside the branch inside the trunk that gets to the root of every single issue we face.
Your posts are the greatest asset to the blogosphere that I know.
Rich2506 March 26, 2011 at 3:57 PM
the planet will be unable to nourish nine billion people
True, but there's no need for the situation to get that far. When populations stabilize, that's because a certain level of wealth has been attained. When children routinely live to maturity and parents have a social security system in place, there's no need to crank out baby after baby.
With a modest level of wealth for everybody, there's no need for a punitive "one child" policy. If we see to the creation of more wealth for everybody, we can keep the population pretty much where it is.
Deena Stryker March 30, 2011 at 5:12 AM
I don't think you're up-to-date on the population crisis. It's already too late for that solution to work!
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Born in Philadelphia, I studied in Paris, became a French citizen by marriage, debuted at Agence France Presse in Rome, then, as Deena Boyer, followed Fellini's creative process for The Two Hundred Days of '81/2'. The proceeds from this book enabled me travel to Cuba to to interview Fidel Castro for a major French weekly, meeting with him again a week after the Kennedy assassination and several times in 1964 for a book, Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young, in which the other members of the government (including Che Guevara, Raul Castro and Celia Sanchez), tell in their own words why they made the revolution. My Cuba archive is on-line at Duke University.
In the seventies, I did graduate work in Global Survival, taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was a speech writer in the Carter State Department, publishing an article on U.S.-Soviet relations in the in-house journal in 1976.
Returning to Paris in 1981, with assistance from the Centre National du Livre, I published Une autre Europe, un autre Monde, the only book that foresaw the reunification of Europe and the breakup of the Soviet Union. I returned to Philadel-phia in 2000, and have been a contributor and senior editor at various on-line journals.
A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness hopes to change the way both seekers and skeptics look at good and evil - -and at the daunting problems of the 21st century. It shows that religious belief is not necessary to achieve serenity, but that awareness of the sacred as confirmed by modern science, is. It does this by viewing the world as a system and exploring what that means for the role of politics.
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World is a primer for Americans and others who find the policies of successive US governments difficult to square with their image of the country and its founding documents. The decades I spent living on both sides of the Iron Curtain provided me with a unique awareness of America's image abroad and of the mainstream media's failure to convey news and ideas to the voters in whose name policies are carried out. References to work by other political writers illustrate little-known or forgotten features of American history that have contributed to the tragic face the country presents today.
Cuba 1964 provides the definitive answer to the question: "Was Fidel Castro a Communist before he carried out the revolution, or did he become one because of the way the United States reacted when he ousted pro-US dictator Fulgencio Batista? While following day by day events, I had extensive conversations with the men and women who had joined the Castro brothers as early as 1953 and were now members of the revolutionary government. Together with Fidel, Raul, Che and Celia Sanchez, they told me in their own words why and now they made the Revolution hat continues to inspire countries in Latin America and around the world. The text is illustrated with photographs from my black and white archive which can be seen on-line at Duke University.
Lunch with Fellini Dinner with Fidel: How did it happen that a fourteen year old American girl found herself living among the French in post-war Paris? The answer to that question also explains why I went on to live in half a dozen countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain, becoming mutti-lingual, writing first about the cinema, then about 'the big picture' while raising two children, mostly on my own. A religious grandmother and a hedonistic lover accompanied me on a journal which has been both spiritual and political, and is illustrated by many photographs from my personal album.
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Transworld Futures specializes in futures and options trading, which sets them apart from many online trading firms nowadays that deal exclusively in real-time type products. Transworld Futures is headquartered in Ybor City, Florida.
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Unlike the other squares, the early Southwest Square was never used as a burial ground, although it offered pasturage for local livestock and a convenient dumping spot for "night soil". History By the late 1700s the square was surrounded by brickyards as the area´s clay terrain was better suited for read more
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The Experience The Liberty Bell has a new home, and it is as powerful and dramatic as the Bell itself. Throughout the expansive, light-filled Center, larger-than-life historic documents and graphic images explore the facts and the myths surrounding the Bell. X-rays give an insider´s view, literally, of the Bell´s crack read more
Audacious Freedom
Audacious Freedom, the major, new exhibit at the African American Museum in Philadelphia , explores the lives of people of African descent living in Philadelphia between 1776 and 1876. Discover how African Americans in Philadelphia lived and worked while helping to shape the young nation in its formative stages. Exhibit read more
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The Experience Museum Without Walls: AUDIO is a multi-platform, interactive audio tour, designed to allow locals and visitors alike to experience Philadelphia extensive collection of public art and outdoor sculpture along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Kelly Drive. This innovative program invites passersby to stop, look, listen and see this read more
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The Experience It only four pages long, but the U.S. Constitution is among the most influential and important documents in the history of the world. The 160,000-square-foot National Constitution Center explores and explains this amazing document through high-tech exhibits, artifacts, and interactive displays. The Kimmel Theater, a 350-seat star-shaped theater, read more
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For her recent article "Tempting treats await groups in Greater Seattle" for Meetings Focus, author Maria Lenhart looked to local experts to uncover some of the latest and greatest developments in the food scene for incentive and meeting groups visiting the area to take advantage of. Seattle and its environs, she noted, has made a name for itself as a 'foodie' destination, offering a wide array of fresh and locally-sourced options for all palates. Among the experts Ms. Lenhart polled was Uniquely Northwest's own Natalee Haldeman, a native of the Seattle area who loves uncovering hidden culinary gems for our clients.
One creative dining experience Natalee touted is the fleet of Seattle food trucks. These miniature roving restaurants, she explained, "are very flexible and reflect a whole variety of cuisines, ethnic as well as very upscale gourmet." The Seattle food truck scene represents everything from sushi to ice cream, seafood to international fare, pizza to crepes, and so much more – ready to roll to your event. The cuisine is top-notch, with four Seattle trucks making the 2013 "Best Food Trucks in America" list. And their flexibility means that food trucks can cater group events at many locations – a fun and unique catering alternative.
Natalee also highlighted the variety of fantastic food tours that are available to groups in the Seattle area. A memorable and mouth-watering tour through the legendary Pike Place Market, sampling fresh local fare along the way, is a perennial favorite. And the thriving craft beer scene in Seattle, along with the newer blossoming of distilleries in the area, have created one of the hottest new group tour options – brewery and distillery tours and tastings. These customizable tours include gourmet snacks and, of course, a designated driver so that participants can truly get into the 'spirit'!


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Recent Songs — шостий студійний альбом канадського автора та виконавця пісень Леонарда Коена, представлений 27 вересня 1979 року на лейблі Columbia Records.

Платівка стала повернення Коена до акустичної фольк музики після експериментів у попередній роботі Death of a Ladies' Man, проте із певним впливом джазу та східних мотивів.

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Після того, як попередня робота Коена Death of a Ladies' Man отримала найгірші в його кар'єрі огляди, музикант вирішив наступну свою платівку продюсувати сам із допомогою Генрі Леві, який раніше постійно працював із Джоні Мітчеллом. У піснях цього альбому вперше можна почути скрипку, уд та інструменти маріачі.

Запис альбому проходив у A&M Studios (Голлівуд) навесні 1979 року.

Метафорична композиція «Ballad of the Absent Mare» базується на серії чань-буддистських віршів «Десять биків», а такі пісні як «Came So Far for Beauty», «The Traitor» і «The Smokey Life» повинні були вийти у альбомі Songs for Rebecca у 1975 році, проте були відкладені та дороблені і представлені у Recent Songs.

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Учасники запису
 Леонард Коен — вокал, акустична гітара
 Мітч Воткінс, Рікардо Гонсалес, Філіпе Перес — гітара
 Еверадо Сандовал — гітаррон
 Авраам Лаборіел, Роско Бек, Джон Міллер — бас
 Джон Ліссауер — клавішні, аранжування
 Гарт Гадсон — клавішні, акордеон
 Білл Гінн — електричне піаніно
 Ренді Вальдман — орган
 Стів Мідор — ударні
 Джон Білезікджян — уд
 Раффі Акопян, Агостін Сервантес, Армандо Кінтеро, Luiz Briseño, Міґель Сендовал — скрипка
 Пол Остермаєр — саксофон
 Едгар Лустгартен — віолончель
 Хосе Перес, Пабло Сандовал — труба
 Ерл Думлер — гобой
 Дженніфер Варнс, Джим Жільстрап, Юлія Вотерс, Максін Вотерс, Roger St. Kenerly, Stephanie Spruill — бек-вокал
 Жеремі Лаббок — аранжування струнних та духових інструментів
 Luiz Briseño — Marachi band conductor

Примітки

Посилання
 «Recent Songs»  на Discogs

Альбоми Леонарда Коена
Альбоми Columbia Records
Англомовні музичні альбоми

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Due to the recent issues going around with security and hacking, I am going to be sending our how to's and security alerts to keep you informed of the latest issues and concerns. To start, I am sending out this email to remind you to change your password every 90 days to keep your accounts secure. This is a simple how to in order to make that happen.
1) Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and click change password. If your PC is connected to your office domain they this will change your email and pc password.
2) Non - Domain connected you can login to your browser based email (webmail) and click the gear in the upper right corner. If you see change password your all set. If you don't see that but see options, click that and then expand general and click my account. In the bottom right of that window you will see change password.
Use a minimum password length of 8 or more characters (required).
Also, due to several hacks over the last few years to companies like Adobe,Dropbox and LinkedIn, you can no longer be sure your passwords for external services are secure. We suggest you use a different password for each different service to prevent a mass hack to all your accounts.
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The membership of Minnehaha United Methodist Church gathered Sunday, May 21, 2006, and overwhelmingly approved the statement of reconciling above. Minnehaha now stands among those congregations refusing to withhold God's love from anyone.
In the United Methodist Church, a "Reconciling Congregation" is an official description of a church which has followed a prescribed process and voted to be welcoming to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.
Why are we discussing taking a stand on only this type of discrimination?
The official stance of the United Methodist Church is not welcoming to gays and lesbians. As a congregation, we can take a stand against our denomination, and declare that we do not agree and will not follow their lead in this matter. In addition, the laws in our country discriminate against GLBT people, and we believe as Christians that any form of discrimination stands against the teachings of Christ. If you'd like more information or want to find other reconciling and LGBTQ-affirming congregations, click here to go to: www.gaychurch.org.
Why do we have to talk about things that make some of us uncomfortable?
One of our major purposes has been to help us raise and discuss difficult questions about prejudice. Of course, reconciling ministries deal specifically with differences around sexual identity and sexual orientation. Though such conversations are often a breaking of family and cultural taboos, we want to continue to listen respectfully to the fears and confusion, as well as the hopes and optimism, of everyone without judgment.


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Masters of USD 1.3trn fund see ESG dominating for decades
Norway's government, which oversees the world's biggest sovereign-wealth fund, expects climate and social issues to dominate investment decisions in the coming decades.
Norway's Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner. | Photo: https://www.regjeringen.no / photo by Marte Garmann
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"There is a growing expectation, not only in Norway, but internationally that there will be a high level of ethical awareness," Norway's Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner said in an interview Friday.
"We must have the highest possible return on our money, but we also want to know that it is invested in a responsible way."
He spoke shortly after unveiling a new set of guidelines that could force the fund to cut about 2,200, or roughly a quarter, of the companies in its portfolio. Norway's government also wants the fund to stop adding emerging markets.
It's the latest sign that institutional investors can't afford to ignore environmental, social and governance goals. The agenda is going mainstream as investors and politicians realize they're running out of time to prevent a dangerous rise in temperatures that will make large parts of the planet uninhabitable for future generations.
The goal is "to increase the competence related to climate risk, investment opportunities, the consequences associated with the transition to the low-emission society," Sanner said.
"This is because this will be perhaps the most important framework condition for large investors in the next 10-20 years."
Western Europe's biggest oil nation is now trying to use its giant wealth fund to steer the planet toward a greener future. Its chief executive, Nicolai Tangen, has said he will use his clout to try to force companies to act more responsibly.
Under Sanner's proposal, which still needs parliamentary approval, about 25-30 percent of portfolio companies will be cut. Though that sounds like a lot, it only represents about 2 percent of the fund's total market value. Sanner says he wants to avoid investments in new emerging markets because they tend to have "weaker institutions, weaker protection of minority shareholders, less openness."
The changes will make it easier to manage the vast portfolio, and reduce complexity and risk, Sanner said.
The fund, which returned 10.9 percent, or USD 123bn, on its total investments last year, has followed strict ethical guidelines, including bans on certain weapons, tobacco and most exposure to coal, since 2004.
The Norwegian government decided in 2019 to review those standards, which include human rights conduct and climate change. Under the fund's mandate, the central bank needs to approve all markets in which it's invested, including those in the benchmark index set by the finance ministry.
"Reducing the number of companies will have little effect on the relationship between risk and return, but it could improve the possibility of responsible management, both because there will be fewer companies, but also because there is less information about the smallest companies," Sanner said.
The wealth fund's ethics council said last month it would start an investigation into questionable labor practices, covering a broad geographical area stretching from the Gulf states to Southeast Asia. The investigation, to be carried out by Verité, may lead to recommendations for the fund to pull investments from companies.
In February, the fund said it wants the companies in which it invests to start living up to explicit gender diversity goals. Boards on which women make up less than 30 percent of the total should consider setting targets for gender diversity, according to a position paper published Feb. 15.
The idea is to try to end the "persistent underrepresentation" of women on corporate boards.
"It's a further development of all strategy for the fund, where it's fundamental that there's the highest possible return at an acceptable risk, and that there should be a high ethical awareness and openness about the management," Sanner said.
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For hundreds of years, the slide rule has been a useful calculating device. In his second book, Joint Slide Rules: Sectors, 2-foot 2-fold and similar slide rules, expert Peter M. Hopp examines the joint rule, completing an important but neglected part of slide rule history. The book is a comprehensive account of joint rules and contains detailed information on over two hundred joint slide rule makers from around the world. Calculating devices that preceded the slide rule, such as sectors and timber rules, are examined, as are special joint rules that incorporate additional elements, such as callipers. Special jointed devices, such as dip rods that allow calculation, are also included. With the addition of over one hundred detailed illustrations of joint slide rules and a glossary of terms, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in joint slide rules and their history.


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The technology involved in making driverless vehicles is truly revolutionary, and some of the self-driving cars being created are already flawless drivers. However, it may still be a while before the public can start taking advantage of these vehicles as manufactures like Google work out the kinks. One problem is that automated cars are perfect drivers though conditions on the roads are far from perfect.
Human motorists skirt rules, have slower response times and make mistakes, so it is sometimes difficult for self-driving vehicles to smoothly integrate themselves into the flow of traffic. For example, Google's automated cars follow the laws exactly, which means they travel at the speed limit on highways while other vehicles speed past them.
Self-driving cars are supposed to save lives and reduce car accidents but currently have accident rates twice as high as regular vehicles. However, the driverless vehicles have never been responsible for the wrecks that have occurred, which were all minor. In most cases, aggressive or distracted drivers have rear-ended these vehicles.
Car programmers must now decide whether to let the vehicles break the law in some instances. Ideally, programmers want the vehicles to follow the laws while being as aggressive as a safe human driver.
While auto makers work out issues with self-driving cars, you have options when human error causes a car accident. Those who suffer injuries can file a personal injury suit against a responsible driver, and an auto accident attorney in Odessa could help ensure that one receives fair compensation.


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The Understanding Series was put together by Texas Instruments that would help build the understanding of the specific subject step by step. The books from the series that we have in our collection are Understanding Communication Systems and Understanding Microprocessors.
Understanding Communication Systems covers basic concepts, basic fundamentals from the beginning to help the reader understand how information can be handled as electrical signals, and how these signals are converted from a form used by humans to communicate (sight, sound or touch) into electrical signals that are used to transport the information to remote locations throughout the world.
Understanding Microprocessors explains microcomputer systems which use a microprocessor as the central unit for processing and control. It is a book for the person who is not familiar with digital electronics, integrated circuits, analog systems, computers, microprocessors, microcomputers, software, programs, programming, source code,object code, machine code, assembly language, assembler, high-level language, compiler, cross-support and others. It was written to provide understanding of the basic concepts and fundamentals surrounding these terms.It was designed to help provide insight into what makes up a microprocessor, how the microprocessor fits into the microcomputer system, what other system units are required for the microcomputer system and how one gets a microcomputer system to do something.


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Suburban Sandwich Shop Stack Subs Takes Aim at Downtown
Ken Holloway
You'll soon be able to get this sandwich downtown.
Courtesy of Stack Subs
Ken Holloway | September 12, 2017 | 8:30am
Family-owned and -operated sandwich eatery Stack Subs originally opened in August 2012 on South Union Avenue in Lakewood before spawning a second shop in Belmar at 420 South Teller Street. Now owners Rick and Ann Koerner are taking aim at the big city and will open a new Stack Subs in mid-September just off the lobby of the Guaranty Bank & Trust building at 1331 17th Street.
The Koerners have been running Stack Subs Belmar for three years (the original location on South Union eventually closed because of a redevelopment clause in their lease), and while they love Lakewood, they're ready to expand their sandwich business to Denver. The couple's two children, Jenna and Caden, help out as well. "The harder I work, the luckier I get," Rick says about the growth of Stack.
While exact lunch and dinner hours have not been set, the new location will offer something new: breakfast service, starting at 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. A new line of breakfast sandwiches, as well as espresso and gourmet coffee made with Ink coffee beans, will join the existing sandwich roster.
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Although it's too early to tell what the LoDo customers will want most in terms of menu options, the Koerners plan to offer an ever-changing selection of new specials such as a sandwich of the month and special soups, desserts and milkshakes. Breakfast selections could also include pastries, croissants and burritos.
The Koerner family is bringing Stack Subs to downtown Denver.
The new shop will also sport an outdoor patio that will accommodate about fifty guests. Busy downtowners who want to order ahead for pick-up will be able to place orders online to save time waiting in line. Stack also offers catering in the form of individual boxed lunches and group platters of classic and signature subs.
The Belmar location won our readers' choice award this year for Best Sandwich Shop in Denver; Koerner says the secret to the popularity of his sandwiches is excellent bread, fresh, high-quality ingredients, and sandwiches that are "stacked" so that ingredients are uniform throughout, which means every bite tastes the same from beginning to end.
Stack Subs offers classic and signature sandwiches, which you can have toasted and topped with a variety of ingredients. Koerner notes that bestsellers are the Italian sub stacked with Genoa salami, mortadella, pepperoni, hot capicola and provolone cheese, and the signature Stack Sub, which includes roast beef, turkey, smoked ham, salami and Swiss cheese. The menu also offers vegetarian options.
Although Rick did not initially consider himself an entrepreneur, he and Ann both have MBA degrees and corporate backgrounds in the software industry. Rick calls it kismet, but they took a major leap of faith, said goodbye to the steady income of the corporate world and hello to building and running their own business. Lakewood residents will be happy to know that the Belmar store isn't going anywhere; operations there will be managed by longtime employee Diane Wilson.
The downtown location of Stack Subs is at 1331 17th Street. For more information, call 303-295-7827 or visit the company's website at stacksubs.com.
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Ken Holloway discovered his passion for food writing in 2010 when he began touring the country for restaurants showcased on the top food television shows. His travels have taken him to all 50 states and more than 300 eateries. He is an avid home cook who enjoys reading and collecting cookbooks and is a hopeful cookbook author working on a compendium of the best American comfort food recipes.


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Official in Merkel's bureau meets with anti-Zionist Jews
Anti-Zionist haredi sect holds meeting with German official in possible attempt to undermine connection between Israel, Judaism and Germany
Eldad Beck|Published: 02.03.14 , 14:17
A high-ranking official in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bureau met with representatives of the radical, anti-Zionist Neturei Karta haredi group on International Holocaust Day last week.
The official met with four members of the group in Berlin when they were protesting the existence of the State of Israel and the Zionist exploitation of the Holocaust for political reasons.
The openly held meeting last week
Ynet revealed that the official is a department head in the chancellor's bureau, and against convention met with them openly. Members of Neturei Karta confirmed that the purpose of the meeting was to make it clear to the Germans that Zionism doesn't represent Judaism.
The Neturei Karta delegation included two Holocaust survivors, Moshe Dov and Chezkel Klein, as well as spokesman Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, who said during the meeting that the "Holocaust was a divine punishment for Jews because Zionists didn't want to follow God and wanted to turn into independents."
Weiss said to the official that about 10% of Jews belong to the anti-Zionist movement.
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In recent years, officials in Merkel's bureau have worked to undermine the special connection between Israel and Germany in order to free Germany from the historical responsibility for the Holocaust.
The meeting, reported on in the leftist German paper Neues Deutschland, was not on condition of secrecy.
The Neturei Karta in the past has attended Iranian events denying the Holocaust, led by former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


Ribbon cutting for the Merriwether Center on Sweetwater Rd. drew a crowd from the area that included officials: County Council members Chm. Blackwell, Ashcraft, Talbert and Campbell; Sweetwater Baptist minister Rev. Paul Noe who gave a prayer; Sen Massey, Rep. Hixon, Administrator Lynn Strom and her assistant Jennifer Gilley and Mayor Durham; Ambassador Cooper who gave the land and original building; Merriwether Fire Department members and other local residents including Linda Anderson who was given credit for giving much energy to the project.
Ambassador Cooper points to the building; he and his family gave the building and grounds.


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Q: CMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target I created the following Directory:
FrameWork/
├── CMakeLists.txt ==> contains only add_subdirectory(UtilsBasic)
└── UtilsBasic
    ├── CMakeLists.txt ==> Contains only add_subdirectory(SmartSingleton)
    └── SmartSingleton
        ├── CMakeLists.txt
        ├── include
        │   └── SmartSingleton.hpp

The CMakeLists.txt in SmartSingleton directory contains:
set(codeprod_list
        include/SmartSingleton.hpp)

USR_add_shared_lib(SmartSingleton "${codeprod_list}")
target_link_libraries(SmartSingleton PUBLIC Common)
target_include_directories(SmartSingleton PUBLIC include/)

The main CMakeLists.txt of the project is the following:
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.4)

project (MyProject)
USR_init_project(MyProject)

add_subdirectory(src/FrameWork)

Error

-- Configuring done CMake Error: CMake can not determine linker language for target: SmartSingleton CMake Error: Cannot determine link
  language for target "SmartSingleton".

I don't understand Why I am getting that Error. I mean In the Framework I created a link to UtilsBasic and in turn a link to SmartSingleton.

A: Try this in your SmartSingleton/CMakeLists.txt file:
set_target_properties(SmartSingleton PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX)
This will directly tell CMake which language to use for that target.
If your library is truly only header files though, you will likely receive the error you mention also. Consider making this library an INTERFACE library:
add_library(SmartSingleton INTERFACE)
target_include_directories(SmartSingleton INTERFACE include/)

Here are the docs for INTERFACE libraries.

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Michelin-starred experiences are lovely treats, but when you factor in tasting menus, matching wines, aperitifs and postprandial sips, your gastronomic evening out can result in a rather painful 'Are you sure this is our bill?' moment.
However, there is a way to dine high-end for a fraction of the usual cost, and it's simple: book in for a set lunch.
Several incredible restaurants offer daytime deals for the same quality cuisine at a much lower price. While the choice might be a little more limited, it's often full of dishes you'd find on the dinner menu and there are usually options for two or three courses.
The team at Vouchercloud has handily put together a list of the UK restaurants in the Michelin guide offering lunch, ranking them from the most affordable to the most expensive. And nine come in under £20 a head – expanding to an incredible 24 options if you're willing to spend another fiver per person.
The discount voucher website has created an infographic on the most affordable Michelin lunches in the UK (click here for the full list), but below we've listed the 10 cheapest, traversing the UK from Padstow to Birmingham to Belfast. And for those wanting more than three courses, check out our list of the UK's top tasting menus under £50 a head. Enjoy.


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Dee: NBA Playoffs 2011: Team Balance and Matchup Analysis
by Tommy Dee
As the Numbers Dictate, the Playoffs are About Balance and Matchups
Injuries aside, look at the numbers (courtesy of basketball-reference) and you will notice some interesting tendencies surrounding the 2011 NBA playoffs. By nature, I'm not a numbers guy in terms of relying on them to force opinions about things that happen on a basketball court, but I understand tendencies and most importantly I firmly believe in the Law of Averages.
I believe Offensive and Defensive Ratings are the most important relevant statistical findings. Look at the numbers of the four remaining teams to date (Offensive Rating/Defensive Rating)
Chicago Bulls (11th/1st)
Dallas Mavericks (8th/8th)
Miami HEAT (5th/3rd)
Oklahoma City Thunder (15th/5th)
Without question, health, match-ups and home court advantage are incredibly important to playoff success, but it's obvious how important defense is in the early rounds. Of the 8 first round match-ups, 7 teams with a better defensive rating advanced with the exception of the Atlanta Hawks, who were 13th in defensive rating to the Orlando Magic's 3rd. In total, 7 of the 16 teams were outside the top 10 in defensive rating with just one advancing (Atlanta).
In the second round, things changed a bit. In the Western Conference the Mavericks (8th) got past the Los Angeles Lakers who statistically ranked higher than them in both offensive (6th) and defensive (6th) rating and who possessed home court advantage. The Thunder (15th) got past the Grizzlies (9th) in 7 games thanks in most part to their offense, which, again, ranks 5th in the NBA. In their four victories, which included a 133-point performance in triple overtime, the Thunder averaged 111 points per game (ppg), and 101.75 points in regulation, some 4 points higher than the Grizz gave up on average (97.6) throughout the year.
In the East, the HEAT capitalized on some injuries to the Celtics, but overpowered the NBA's second-best defense with both their offense and defense. Miami held the Celtics to 5.5 points below their scoring average, while scoring 4 points more per game (95.4) than the Celtics gave up on the season (91.1). That combination allowed the HEAT to breeze through in 5 games.
The Bulls benefited from facing the Hawks who boasted the league's 10th-worst offense, yet managed win two games in the series. In their 4 losses, however, the Bulls held the Hawks to 17 points below their season/playoff average as Atlanta could only manage 78 ppg (verses season average of 95 ppg).
So as we watch the NBA version of the Final Four, home court advantage still comes into play, but it will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Statistically, the Bulls own the league's worst offensive rating of the 4, while the Thunder possess the worst defensive unit, whereas the Mavs and the HEAT both have better combined balance.
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After teaching for about a month, I became used to the classroom and the students. I kept things to be informal and casual in class. I'm not very good at Thai so teaching beginners was good because it was easy. I taught by the textbook that the Foundation provided. However, P' Muay told me at the beginning that I can adapt my teaching to have games or create other incentives for the students.
I tried my best to engage the students in the lesson; for example, I let each student take turns reading what was written on the board for the whole class to hear. Some students were very bright; they could understand very quickly which made me feel very proud. However, other students were relatively slow in learning so I tried to explain to them so that they could understand. What impressed me was that the students who already understood the subject tried to explain it to their friends in Thai Yai. The kindness they showed to each other made the slow learners feel less uncomfortable.
During the University Sport's Day, I was quite exhausted and stressed out. But when I saw how determined the migrants were in learning Thai, how much fun they were having, not to mention their smiles and laughter, all of it made me feel better and relaxed. I momentarily forgot about the stressful things happening at the University. There was this one time when I asked a student to answer a question but he merely smiled back without saying anything. At that time, I admit that I was pretty upset that he could not understand what I tried to teach him. After a while, the boy said "For someone like me, it will take years before I can understand this". I felt sorry for him as he must have been very discouraged. I tried to encourage him by saying "Don't give up. If other people can understand this, so can you. If I had to learn Thai Yai, I would have difficulty learning it too". So he said "I won't give up. I will fight!" I was impressed by those words and all the resentment disappeared. At that point, I was very inspired to teach them all that I know. Besides teaching, I had the opportunity to ask some of the students about their lives and what they do. Most of the men work at construction sites while the women work in factories and in houses. They usually don't have time to review the lessons, which is actually a must. So I tried to explain it to them in class as clearly as possible and gave them homework so that they could practice.
Early March was exam time so I had to take a break for two weeks. I told my students that I will be back after the exams. When I returned, there were no students. On the next day, a student showed up then another group followed. They told me "We thought you were not coming back. You've been gone for so long so no one came to class anymore". I was very sad when I heard that but there was nothing I could do because I, too, have a responsibility. All I could do was do my best.
In late March, P' Muay was very busy so she did not have time to teach. Also, my other friend had to teach English because there were students who wanted to learn English. Therefore, I had to cover two classes, which was very challenging for me because the students in each class were at different levels so I had to prepare for both classes. The students were very cooperative.
I had trouble communicating with students in class. The students were afraid to speak up; they would speak in Thai Yai which I did not understand. I tried to communicate with them by using my hands. This experience made me understand how difficult a teacher's job can be; they have to very patient. Another problem I encountered was students playing with their cell phones in the classroom. When the staffs at the Learning Center saw this, they confiscated it. Before they could get their cell phones back, the students were punished e.g. by standing up and reciting the vocabularies etc.


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The University of Southern California (USC) Law School recently considered making the average grade a B-plus, moving the grading curve .1 from 3.2 to 3.3. The dean felt that their students were at a disadvantage in competing for jobs with other schools that had a higher average grade. Meanwhile, compare that to Harvard and Stanford who are all considering, or have, changed their grading system to simply "Pass/Fail," though there will be distinctions of "honors pass" and "low pass."
The question is what does it matter? It was interesting reading the responses from law students in response to this story and it appears that grading is all over the map. In my law school, a 60 is a C minus and an 80 is an A minus. Multiple choice and essay exams are very difficult, unlike any other program I have participated in, and most students end up in the B to C range.
Students from other law schools, however, claimed that they received an A just for showing up (probably an exaggeration. law school is difficult), and most seemed pretty disgusted with the whole system. Of course, for those wanting to practice law, the great equalizer is the bar exam.
But clearly grades should matter, and those that work harder in school should be rewarded with better opportunities. But does it? When was the last time you heard someone ask a lawyer how he or she did in law school? They passed the bar exam, and except for the most prestigious positions, that is all that legally matters. There is even a saying in law school, "C= J.D."
So how do we compare one attorney that was graded on a pass/fail system and another that had a B minus average at another law school? And if it doesn't matter, why does it matter-to the point that USC would change their grading system by .1?
It's not just law school. My Master's of Business Administration (MBA) program was predominately projects and written papers/reports. Many of the projects took place in groups, in which some people worked really hard, and, unfortunately, others did very little. Unlike law school, there is no exam to give someone the right to practice as an MBA. Certainly, there are those people benefitting from a degree they did not earn.
I have written before that I feel as though colleges have watered down their work loads and grading standards. I spoke to one professor who gave "bonus" points for turning in a paper in time. I asked if he was kidding, he said "no," that he received too many complaints for taking away points from late papers. Students complain, make excuses and think nothing of appealing their grades to department heads.
In some circumstances, it seems that a number of professors are afraid to challenge their students. It is easier to keep everyone happy by dividing them into three categories- A, B or F. That is probably also an exaggeration, and oversimplification, but what happened to the grading curve, in which the best students received As, most received Cs and others did not pass? Does it still exist?
I fear we are moving in the same direction as kid's sports, where we do not keep score and everyone gets an award just for showing up. And if we do not get our award, we complain and threaten the authorities until we do get it. I believe in equal opportunity, not equal reward. It is not win at all cost; it is that not everyone wins. Some people have learned to exchange hard work with good excuses. School and sports should teach us that it takes hard work to be successful, that there are few short cuts, and that results do matter-as does process, respect and integrity.
The diversity now seen in colleges is a positive reflection of our time. There are young students, old students, on-line courses, weekend classes, career centers and traditional campuses. The evaluating of factors and programs is becoming more difficult, particularly when an 80 is a B- in one school and an A- in another. The proof is in the job offers, and colleges like USC understand this. They want to attract students by stating, "Attend our school, and you'll get a great job."
It becomes more difficult, however, evaluating a young student from a notoriously challenging traditional program, with no responsibility except for school, with a single mom of two, working two jobs, and attending school part-time on weekends at a perhaps less demanding career center. Following graduation, what factors, in addition to grades, will be considered in hiring?
Today the competing environment for jobs is escalating; there are fewer jobs and intense competition. Everything matters. Applicants in most fields need to be well-rounded-education, work and volunteer experience, character (and it still does not hurt to know someone!). But education will always be a significant factor, and colleges, despite their need to attract and keep students, need to provide a challenging environment, one that adequately prepares a student for the "real" world. A world that does most certainly keep score-in dollars and cents.
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Ever wonder how they do it? Ever wonder how McDonald's and other companies can sell their double cheeseburgers for one dollar. When I was in college, and struggling to make ends meets, I nearly lived on one dollar double cheeseburgers. Where else could I get a meal of two burgers, fries and soft drink for fewer than five dollars? It carried me through several semesters, and, secretly, I always feared that what I thought was a temporary promotion would end.
But even then I wondered: How was it profitable, except of course from the money made off of all other products like the soft drinks, to sell a double cheeseburger so cheaply? Consider all of the people that need to be compensated to make a double cheeseburger. There is the farmer that raises the cow, and all of his overhead-such as feed, water, antibiotics, equipment. There are the people in the slaughterhouse that must kill the cow and process the meat. The meat must then be packaged and sent to McDonald's (or their suppliers) who certainly does their thing to it-such as apportion, season and freeze it in preparation to send it to its outlets. Then the meat must be transported to those outlets, which assumes all of the costs of McDonald's management and transportation. Next, after getting to McDonald's, the meat must be cooked and served, so we need to toss in the overhead of running a McDonald's and the salaries of their employees. I am sure I missed a few steps, and I know there are economies of scale when it comes to a corporation as large as McDonald's, but it seems like one dollar is a heck of a deal.
I might be slow, but I figured it out, and it comes down to a single word: Corn. Michael Polland's book, entitled The Omnivore's Dilemma, has a shocking and insightful section on the agricultural background and economic influence of America's largest crop. Inspired by the book, some filmmakers developed the idea in a documentary entitled "King Corn," in which they grew an acre of Iowa corn and followed its process from beginning to end. Here is just a bit of the story.
Corn cannot be grown profitably by most farmers and in order to encourage its development, it is subsidized by the federal government. The days of the small ranch in which farmers grew corn in their fields and raised animals in their pastures are long gone. It is a business in which the only criterion is profit. Welcome to factory farming.
Much of the corn grown is not readily edible, it must be processed-and the truth is that a large percentage of it is grown strictly for feed. Farmers grow more and more corn, and enhanced by technology and fertilizer, and unhindered by a demand curve, the amount of corn grown far exceeds its consumption. The technological breakthrough has come largely in developing strains of corn that can be grown very closely together-yet maintain its military-like posture. Today, 30,000 plants can grow per acre whereas one generation ago it was closer to 8,000. It is a genetically-engineered hybrid whose offspring are not nearly as productive-which means that seeds must be purchased new each year.
This cheap corn, and here is what those that sell cheap hamburgers are interested in, is sold as feed to cattle-in differing capacities and blends, including the addition of antibiotics. If you know your cows, you are probably thinking, I thought cows ate grass. Well not much anymore, we have forced-fed cows corn in order to grow them more quickly. That is where the antibiotics come in. Cows did not evolve to eat corn and the large amounts fed to them give their stomachs painful ulcers-acidosis. If they were not taken to slaughter at such a young age, their diet would kill them. Another problem is bloat, which is the fermentation in the rumen that produces "copious amounts of gas." And when the diet contains too much starch and not enough roughage, the rumen can trap the gas, pressing against the animal's lungs and suffocate the animal.
Polland notes, "Here animals exquisitely adapted by natural selection to live on grass must be adapted by us-at considerable cost to their health, to the health of the land, and ultimately to the health of their eaters-to live on corn, for no other reason than it offers the cheapest calories and the great pile (of corn) must be consumed." It gets worse, and the truth is not only do the cattle gorge on corn, they also, as Pollan reports, eat other cattle, "The FDA ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants makes an exception for blood products and fat, (the cattle) will probably dine on beef tallow recycled from the very slaughterhouse they're headed to."
One farmer noted that on his grandfather's farm, where cattle were still permitted to graze, it took four to five years to get to slaughter. In the fifties it was two to three years. Today, cattle are slaughtered in fourteen to sixteen months going from 80 pounds to 1,100 in that time. One farmer in the "King Corn" documentary noted in part that that is why they are not permitted to move around-it would burn off calories and take longer to reach slaughter weight. It is sick manipulation of economics and science-all to feed Americans more inexpensively than any other time in history. Any suggestion of a "happy cow" is a bold face lie.
That's not the end of the corn story-not even close. Some of the corn that does not end up as cattle food is then processed into high-fructose corn syrup-a dirty word these days. This corn syrup, which was developed in the 1970s, is in much of our food and beverages, including the soft drinks at McDonald's. That, however, is a story for another day.
The American diet is out of control and as the 20-something year-old film makers note, their generation might be the first to have a life expectancy less than their parents.
I recently visited McDonald's. I still love their Big Macs, though now I replace their hamburgers with a veggie patty, making a tasty "Veggie Mac." On my last trip, I got the meat on the sides for my dogs (something I should not, and only rarely, do). However, I now look at the small hamburger patties as a disgusting blend of meat and fat-grown on corn, to the detriment of every moral value I endorse.
Though I am now a vegetarian, my diet still leaves a lot to be desired, so I am not necessarily the right person to lecture people on what they eat. However, I have spent some time recently learning about how our food is processed and the increased danger of the American diet-not only its effects on our bodies, but also our economy, environment and ethics. It is truly in a pitiful state, and Americans need to learn more about where our food comes from.
My vegetarian diet is kinder to the animals, healthier and more eco-friendly. Even as I struggle with my own fitness, from the damage done by the years in which I ate fast foods, I have a moral and ethical sense of contentment that I am doing the right thing. Michael Pollan sums it up perfectly in his book, "To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of the industrial food chain, without a thought in the world."


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About Those NATO Nukes Kept in Turkey
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Now, in (post-coup attempt) Turkey it's a choice between the democratically elected but paranoid narcissist Erdogan, who's been intimate with the CIA in the worst of the criminal efforts to overthrow Assad, or we'll get whoever NATO (the future CIA sponsored coup) will again attempt replacing him with. Some choice. Now, Erdogan is behaving somewhat like Mao's 'Gang of Four' had during the cultural revolution (democratic principles have recently died in Turkey the attentive might notice) while embarking on a massive purge of the CIA sponsored Fethullah Gülen movement and turning to the Russians to keep him in power.
Meanwhile (pre-coup attempt) a Gulen associated newspaper, Today's Zaman, had been shut down by Erdogan following its' reporting Turkey's intelligence agency MIT was doing business with Islamic State (supplying arms), as well MIT had facilitated supplying the sarin components used by al-Qaida at Ghouta, Syria in August 2013 (blamed in western media on Assad.) The journalists were jailed. The CHP deputies (members of parliament) who'd produced the sarin investigative files (by now jailed investigating police and judges) have since had their immunity lifted. The main opposition CHP (Republican People's Party), also under repression, can hardly be accused of any historic sympathy for Gulen. The censored reporting checks out as absolutely legitimate and had been doing the CIA no favors. So, who did the shutting down of Today's Zaman benefit? It follows, the post-coup attempt Gulen 'fifth column' purge argument is simplistic, inaccurate, serves as cover for a much wider purge on behalf of the blossoming dictator Erdogan, and as well has been about shutting up news outlets exposing Erdogan as complicit in CIA associated crimes; as many more journalists have since been arrested. It's not a black & white Gulen versus Erdogan movie folks. If the CHP has been recently linking up with the so-called Gulen movement, it is most certainly survival driven. Then, there'd been the reporting on the (not so small) matter of Islamic State doing the bulk of its oil exports via Erdogan's Turkey, as noted previously by the Russians among others (as well admitted by the Pentagon.)
A bit of post-coup attempt levity brought to Turkey's purge of the so-called 'Gulen movement' or 'fifth column' story racing through alternative media would be an analogy; if every Reform Jew in the USA were fired from their civil service job, inclusive of police, judges, educators, military, legislators, mayors and more, because their leadership were international criminals in bed with MOSSAD via AIPAC, the result would be tens of thousands of honest civil servants who went to work every day simply to do a honest job; purged as a so-called 'fifth column.' Tens upon tens of thousands of firings and arrests in Turkey because Gulen has slept with the CIA (Erdogan has done that as well) cannot be construed to be neutralizing a 'fifth column' but should rather be construed to be a fracturing society on the road to a police state and likely civil war. The CIA associated Gulen's notorious rival, the (until just recently) CIA associated paranoid-narcissist Erdogan, might be in some respects popular but popularity does not excuse world class crimes.
Meanwhile, the Russians might consider the criminal character and motives of Erdogan, now that he's pivoting in their direction (I'm certain Mr Putin has no illusions about the filthy character embodied in the viciously corrupt, current President of Turkey.) It follows, NATO is about to come apart at the seams, as Turkey had been their historic under-belly access to Russia and storage site of up to 100 tactical nuclear weapons, guarded by Erdogan's military. No one should envy the blackmail our Pentagon will be required to perform (or be subjected to) in attempt to correct another CIA world class screw-up that can never be admitted; as it would appear the CIA, with a failed coup attempt, just handed control of a Pentagon nuclear arsenal to an unstable paranoid, Erdogan, nominally in charge of a nation in process of imploding.
Note 1: The several months previous to the attempted coup evacuation of American dependents at Incirlik points to previous coup attempt knowledge and contingency planning by the Americans.
Note 2: Those inclined to endorse Erdogan's likely mistaken belief the attempted coup was orchestrated by the US military at Incirlik airbase should be disabused of such a fantasy; recalling military career is a common CIA operative cover, little different to the Department of State diplomatic corps. Any USA initiated coup out of Incirlik would involve military cover but is unlikely of military origin. Former Pentagon liaison to the CIA, Colonel Fletcher Prouty, had pointed to the distinct danger to democracies by career CIA advancing in seniority so far as the Pentagon under cover of United States military officer career (in his suppressed book 'The Secret Team')
Note 3: Seven thousand militarized Turkish police suddenly mobilized at Adana, Turkey, location of NATO's Incirlik airbase coinciding with the emergency visit of the USA's top military commander, sends a message concerning the facility where Turkey secures up to 100 of NATO's (one source gives 90, another source states 50, a third source gives 70 USA provided) tactical nuclear weapons. Setting aside Turkish military, the suddenly mobilized Turkish police alone considerably outnumber the Americans securing the nukes at Incirlik.
Note 4: One wonders what role the apocalyptic Doug Coe cult plays in a circumstance of having penetrated the CIA and USA military intelligence: "A lot of their key men in a country would be the intelligence [CIA] officers in the American embassy. Throughout their correspondence, that's the kind of guy they would like to have involved [And] They always had a lot of Army intelligence guys involved, Pentagon guys." The better analysts should get on with investigating that creepy connection; by comparison it could make Gulen look like a saint. When it comes to a religious movement, and possibility of the Doug Coe cult using Fethullah Gülen for cover, Erdogan could be altogether barking up the wrong tree.
How Dumb is the CIA (all episodes)
I wouldn't be doing much of this (at all) but have kids and care about the world we're handing to them –
Tags coup, Doug Coe, Erdogan, Gulen, Incirlik
Categories CIA, corruption, counter intelligence, crime, Morons, transcendent warfare
stuartbramhall says:
Seems a legitimate concern given recent reports about 7,000 Turkish troops surrounding Incirlik airbase where the nuclear weapons are kept: https://www.rt.com/news/354042-turkish-police-incirlik-nato-coup/


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Our objective was to identify responsive areas for nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertiliser use on rice (Oryza sativa L.) within Takeo province from trial results obtained at 2336 sites. Regression tree analysis identified in order of decreasing importance the following factors which explained the variation in yield from on-farm experiments: season, location, fertiliser, soil type. Semi variograms of the same data set indicated that a maximum spread of 12 km in datum points was required to map yield across the province. Separating the results into N response classes decreased the maximum spread of datum for mapping to only 8 km. The maps generated indicated areas in which response to fertiliser is more or less likely. Whereas P responses were predicted to be relatively uniform across the province, N and K responses were more varied. Results suggest a very strong positive response to N, particularly on the central-west of the province. They also suggest negative effects of high N rates on the most fertile soils (Kbal Po, Krakor) in the east of Takeo, and in the Prateah Lang and Koktrap soils in the flooded areas of the south east of Takeo. At the provincial scale, the maps identified areas that can be used to target extension effort to where it is likely to be most effective, and areas where further research is needed to clarify reasons for poor responses. This should enhance the strategic planning capability for delivery of extension services and fertiliser inputs.
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Схо́ди Фаренго́льца — пам'ятка архітектури місцевого значення в Кам'янці-Подільському (охоронний номер 15-XM). Розташовані в північно-західній частині Старого міста. З'єднують вулицю Кузнечну вгорі з вулицею Руською внизу на березі Смотрича.

Історія пам'ятки

Згідно з довідкою, укладеною працівниками Національного історико-архітектурного заповідника «Кам'янець», сходи збудовано 1850 року з тесового каменю за кошти міста. 1870 року проводився ремонт, внаслідок якого закріплено зруйновані східці. 1874 року на сходах Фаренгольца влаштовано нові дерев'яні перила. 1934 року проведено чергові ремонтні роботи .

Сходи розпочиналися біля будинку на Кузнечній вулиці, який 1850 року придбав штабс-капітан Федір Фаренгольц (батько лікаря Едмунда Фаренгольца). Невдовзі Федір Фаренгольц зніс стару споруду та її місці збудував триповерховий будинок (зруйновано під час Німецько-радянської війни). Краєзнавець Галина Осетрова зазначає, що кам'яні сходи, влаштовані в середині XIX століття на кошти міста (в давнину тут проходила стежка в скельному обриві), кам'янчани стали називати сходами Фаренгольца за прізвищем власника будинку, біля якого вони починалися .

Хмельницький обласний виконавчий комітет 4 вересня 1982 року ухвалив визнати сходи Фаренгольца пам'яткою архітектури та містобудування місцевого значення.

2010 року завдяки підприємству ТзОВ «Український кристал» зроблено капітальний ремонт сходів Фаренгольца .

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Література

 Кам'янець-Подільський: Туристичний путівник. — Львів: Центр Європи, 2003, 2007. — С 174.
 Будзей Олег. Вулицями Кам'янця-Подільського. — Львів: Світ, 2005. — С. 106—107.
 Будзей Олег. Михайло Коцюбинський і сходи Фаренгольца: Невідоме про відоме // Подолянин. — 2012. — 3 серпня. — С. 8.

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The Most Fascinating Facts About Netflix You Probably Never Knew
Megan Elliott
Half a billion: That's how many hours Netflix users around the world spent streaming Adam Sandler movies between December 2015 and April 2017. Critics might have hated movies, such as The Ridiculous 6 (which is part of the exclusive 0% club on Rotten Tomatoes), but viewers aren't so discerning it turns out.
The sheer amount of time we're all wasting watching unfunny comedies, the new season of The Defenders, and every episode of Friday Night Lights is pretty staggering. People around the world stream 1 billion hours of content on Netflix every week, on average, according to internal data. Over the past 20 years, the company has grown from quirky startup to a dominant force in entertainment, producing some of the most talked about TV shows (hello, Stranger Things) and changing the way we all consume media. But what do you really know about the company you've welcomed into your living room? Here are 10 amazing facts you probably don't know about Netflix.
1. It all started because of a Blockbuster late fee
The company wouldn't last long once streaming came onto the scene. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
You have a Blockbuster late fee to thank for Netflix — maybe. According to the most-told Netflix origin story, founder Reed Hastings was annoyed when Blockbuster charged him a $40 late fee for not returning Apollo 13 on time. That tale was more smart PR than truth, co-founder Marc Randolph later said, but the messaging worked. Later, Blockbuster passed on a chance to buy Netflix for $50 million, one of several fatal mistakes that eventually doomed the video rental company.
Next: Netflix versus cable
2. It's more popular than cable
Netflix is more popular than cable. | Thinkstock
Netflix is killing cable. The streaming service has more than 50 million U.S. subscribers, compared to the 48.61 million people still paying for traditional cable service, Forbes reported. But don't count out old-fashioned pay TV just yet. There are also about 38 million people signed up for satellite TV services, such as Dish Network and Direct TV, plus another 1.7 million who pay for Sling TV and similar streaming services. All in, there are about 93 million pay TV subscribers in the U.S., nearly double the number of people signed up for Netflix.
Next: The one event that made people stop streaming
3. People stopped watching Netflix during the eclipse
Netflix via Twitter
It takes a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event to pull people away from their screens. During August 2017's total solar eclipse, Netflix viewership dropped 10%. "Well played, Moon," the company tweeted in response.
The eclipse wasn't the first time a big real-time event has eaten into Netflix traffic. The streaming service doesn't usually report dips in viewership, but in 2014 usage reportedly dropped 20% during the first half of the Super Bowl. Overall, 35.2% of all internet traffic in North America is due to Netflix, according to Sandvine.
Next: Are you a Netflix cheater?
4. Half of couples are Netflix cheaters
Don't get caught cheating. | Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Half of couples are cheaters — Netflix cheaters, that is. Forty-six percent of couples around the world have watched a TV show ahead of their significant other, according to company data. Most cheating happens when one half of the couple is away on a business trip, asleep, or at work. People were most likely to cheat on Narcos, Stranger Things, Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, and Black Mirror.
Next: The truth about Netflix and sex
5. Netflix is bad for your sex life
Couples are more inclined to catch up on their series. | Thinkstock
Secretly binging on House of Cards without telling your partner isn't the only way Netflix affects your relationship. Streaming is also hurting your sex life. Couples are having less sex now than they were in the '90s, going from five times a month to three times a month on average, according to Cambridge University professor David Spiegelhalter. The decline is due in part to people squeezing in extra episodes of their favorite shows before bed, he claimed, something that wasn't an option a few years ago when there was nothing good on TV after 10:30 p.m.
Next: The incredible shrinking Netflix library
6. There's a reason you can't find a decent movie to watch
Original content, such as Jessica Jones, has taken up movie space. | Netflix
Netflix has 125 million hours of content, so why can't you find a decent movie to watch? Blame the shrinking content library. Even as the company has spent billions of dollars developing its own original content, the number of movies and TV shows available to subscribers has actually dropped by 50% over the past few years, going from 11,000 titles in 2012 to about 5,300 in 2016. In the near future, Netflix expects half of its library to be made up of original content. That's good news for people who want to watch shows, such as Ozark, but bad news for people looking to stream classic films.
Next: The red envelope isn't dead yet.
7. Netflix still has a ton of DVD subscribers
A surprising number of people still watch movies the old-fashioned way. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
DVDs by mail was once the core of Netflix's business. The number of streaming subscribers has long exceeded the number of people getting discs via the USPS, but there are still around 4 million people in the U.S. watching their movies the old-fashioned way. Some are likely among the 34 million people who don't have access to broadband internet. Others just want access to a deeper catalog of movies and shows than you can get via streaming. Though the number of subscribers is small and shrinking, Netflix says it has no plans to cut the DVD-by-mail service entirely.
Next: The cost of password sharing
8. Millions of people are Netflix thieves
Netflix might change its password rules. | Thinkstock
Ever shared your Netflix password with someone else, so they didn't have to pay for their own subscription? Not only are you technically breaking the law, but you're also cutting in on Netflix's bottom line. People who use another person's account to stream content could be costing the company $360 million or more in revenue, The Motley Fool estimated. More than 20% of young people and 12% of adults overall are sharing log-in credentials for sites, such as Netflix and Hulu. Netflix might have to clamp down on password sharing if revenue growth continues to slow, Fortune predicted.
Next: Netflix will pay you to watch TV.
9. You can get paid to translate Netflix shows
Everyone deserves to watch Stranger Things in their language. | Netflix
Netflix is everywhere these days. The company's 104 million worldwide users can watch streaming content in virtually every country in the world (China, Syria, Crimea, and North Korea are the only places where it doesn't have a foothold). And with a worldwide audience comes a need for an army of translators who can create subtitles in the 20 languages the service currently supports.
Think you have what it takes to be a Netflix translator? The company has created a test, Hermes, designed to identify the best translators and avoid the clunky translations that have marred the viewing experience in the past. You can take the test here and find out whether you're eligible for subtitling work.
Next: The science behind those weird recommendations
10. There's logic to those weird recommendations
What does House of Cards say about you? | Netflix
You might not realize it, but if you watch Netflix you're part of a "taste community" (actually, several communities). The company sorts viewers into 2,000 different groups based on their viewing habits and then uses that data to recommend other TV shows and movies for them to watch. The strategy allows the recommendations to go beyond genre and find more subtle connections between movies and shows that suggest someone might enjoy something.
It also explains the sometimes confusing suggestions you see on your home screen. You might not think Master of None, Making a Murderer, and Jessica Jones have that much in common, but all were enjoyed by people who like "sharp humor and dark crime." Certain people who like Grace & Frankie, on the other hand, are also likely to enjoy Iron Fist, at least according to Netflix's algorithm.


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Q: Python Convolution equivalent in Java? - Java - Python I am implementing a Weighted Moving Average algorithm with the help of convolution.
It is quite easy in Python using the convolution function provided by numpy.
The codes are as follows:
# Method 2 WMA
WINDOW_SIZE = 70
DATA_SET_NUMBER = 7090
smoothedAcc = ndarray(DATA_SET_NUMBER)
weights = ndarray(WINDOW_SIZE)
accWindow = ndarray(WINDOW_SIZE)

for i, v in enumerate(weights):
    weights[i] = (WINDOW_SIZE - i) / (WINDOW_SIZE * (WINDOW_SIZE + 1) / 2)

for x in xrange(0, (DATA_SET_NUMBER - WINDOW_SIZE)):
    for y in xrange(0, WINDOW_SIZE):
        accWindow[y] = acc[x + y]
    smoothedAcc[x] = np.convolve(weights, accWindow, 'valid')

However, in the end I have to implement this in Java. I tried to find the readily-built convolution API in Java, but failed.
Anyone can help me get the equivalent Java codes of the above-mentioned Python snippet?
Thanks in advance!