With discounts like this, I see iPage consistently bringing new clients! Presently, it is $1.99/mo to have a fully-fledged hosting account at iPage which beats every significant competition on the industry.
I have a good deal of my own web jobs running as well. Although with the unlimited hosting offers that I do not require new hosting I love to try new things every once in a while.
IPage is one of those five internet hosts I personally hold an account with. I've personally launched a couple of websites using iPage and found it not only to be responsive and lightweight but also a powerhouse that permits incredible amounts of traffic and more innovative applications. Long story short, I am a very long time client of iPage.com, also I've outlined my findings within this particular review.
With over ten years of expertise in the field, amazingly fast servers, an wonderful track record of innovation and customer support, it is pretty easy to determine why iPage.com has rapidly become a leading 10 level player in the web hosting world.
IPage is owned by the Endurance International household. That is the business you'll find on BBB. Being accredited by BBB signifies the business is likely to create steps to deal with customer complaints professionally. It would be kind of an insurance plan for the consumers. Nevertheless, I would like to do my research before buying, and not needing to complete complaint forms. So you're at the ideal place .
One last note on BBB. People usually go there when they have a issue with a provider. That is why you'd often find a negative rating.
It's always comforting to hear that there is a 30 day money back guarantee. Some web hosts perform trickery and won't offer your money back in full. Not iPage. If you aren't pleased for any reason, you are able to get your cash back in total. No questions asked.
It is a good thing to understand that iPage buys sufficient Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) to offset energy usage by 200%. This is how RECs work. They are certificates proving that although you purchase your power from the grid, the part you use is made from renewable sources. Otherwise, there is not any way to tell where the energy is coming from through the grid.
The client support staff was always quick to answer all queries, and if there was a slight hiccup with the service (entirely my own fault), their techs were available to give me exactly the sort of step-by-step education that had me back up and better than ever.
When you have ever managed a hosting agency in your own life, you probably understand that Live Chat is sort of like a first line service. They mend the simple stuff, alter settings and point you in the ideal direction. Now, if there is a problem that requires an advanced set of skills, they will make a support ticket to the next line support and abandon you in the.
This is mission critical — with no solid reliability and uptimes you could give the coolest feature in an excellent speed, but when folks can not get to your website as it's down all of the time or even the servers are crashing, you are likely to be in a big heap of trouble.
Support is cool, but what is even cooler isn't needing to contact support the first place. That is why media uptime is monitored 24/7. If something goes wrong, support might respond immediately.
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Pretty ordinary stuff here for the majority of the top website hosts, but it is still a very robust feature set. IPage.com presents unlimited distance and MySQL databases (good news for people working with applications or CMS programs that want the capability to interact with MySQL), and the extensive features keep rolling with the capability to host unlimited domains with unlimited bandwidth all from precisely exactly the same account. For anybody who is seeking to host over a single site or managing a business which handles hosting, this is fantastic news which will save some bucks.
Here I'm going to help you through the control board items. Underneath the FTP management panel, you can examine your FTP information, create, edit and delete FTP users. It is possible to set the default directory location also. FileManager is merely a simple little tool used to perform the same stuff you can do through FTP, but without a customer. That is downloading and uploading files. You're able to create new documents from scratch and edit current ones as you like. The Free 1 GB Cloud Storage thing is simply a free offer for all iPage clients for JustCloud. It is a ceremony by EIG (owner of iPage and a bunch of different companies). I really think they want to construct something similar to DropBox. I didn't try it as I have all my storage needs covered. I might give it a go and post a review here in the future.
The Mojo Marketplace is exactly what the 1-Click Installer is called in iPage. That's a simplification since Mojo has more than that. It's a market connected into the 1-Click Installer. There is a good deal of spare things on the market, such as themes, plugins, graphics & logos, and all kinds of add-ons. The installer is quite simple, but should you need any help setting up something, Mojo also provides many solutions within this area. The one called My Installs (SimpleScripts) isalso, in fact, exactly the exact same matter as the Mojo market. It just shows you what is installed on your account.
MySQL is a easy way to tap into the ability of Structured Query Language. Mojo satisfactorily handles generating databases once you use it in order to set up your scripts. But if you're a potential user, it is possible to directly edit any field in the database.
I have not attempted Shopsite because I like open-source things better. There are numerous open-source alternatives with the same set of features. What speaks for Shopsite is that it's integrated into iPage. Meaning that in the event you have any problem with your store, service is not there for you. The drawback? It's not free, and it protects you in your iPage contract. You cannot transfer your store to another host, not as quickly as having an open-source solution.
Visitor Statistics is your old-style data all web hosts have. You can choose between Webalizer and AWStats. They are useful if you want to see raw information. It is completely useless when you want insight into conversion funnels, bounce rates, and the sort of statistics that assists a webmaster to craft a better website. For that, you can use Google Analytics or the open source alternative Piwik.
It is possible to see the uptime graph below. For 30 days 100 percent is a great score! The level they aim at is 99.99 percent. I recall a downtime about two weeks ago. That lasted for a single minute.
Let's look in the uptime . It is a wonderful score if you ask me. My WordPress installation loads fast enough, as standard, no issues in this area. That is only a snapshot though. Consistently among the best web hosts, iPage has developed quite the following in business and individual circles as one of those go to hosting companies.
Have you checked the hosting costs recently? In my estimates, a hosting package goes anywhere from $2 to $50 per month normally. Now for a while, you are able to get your site up and running to get a measly $1.99/month. That's a no brainer even when you're on an extremely tight budget.
I typically recommend my customers to choose the most fundamental hosting program they could find. My rationale behind that is that if it's a new project, following one year you may learn whether you need to stick with the project or shed it. If it turns out to be a dead-end, at the least you did not lose money. If it is a victory, you can decide whether you will need an update or not. I know this may sound harsh, but that is the reality. I had jobs that was shown to be failures, but some of them had good success. So it is always best to give your ideas a shot.
I discovered iPage to be right up there with the best of them when it came to reliability and uptime — you ought to be able to reasonably anticipate 99.99% uptime (even though they overlooked it right when I am writing this review).
Like all other hosts occasionally hardware fails or there is an unforeseen difficulty that has to be addressed, however for the large part, iPage has a solid uptime record and history. As I mentioned, iPage is one of the five hosting companies I've a long term hosting account with.
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In a large sauté pan set over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the shallots and sauté for 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 3 minutes longer until softened, stirring occasionally.
Add the clams to the pan and cook for another 5 minutes—keep an eye on them to ensure they are just opened and haven't overcooked. Remove the clams from the pan, and set aside.
Add the champagne, chicken stock, thyme & tarragon to the pan. Bring to a boil then reduce to a rolling simmer and cook until reduced to 2 cups, stirring occasionally.
Add the cream and additional 2 tbsp of butter and simmer for 3 minutes until sauce is beginning to thicken.
Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper.
Serve clams over cooked linguine, garnished with parsley and parmesan cheese, alongside grilled crusty French or sourdough bread.


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Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona's System of Taxpayer-Funded Campaigns
For Immediate Release Contact: Greg Brooks
June 27, 2011 (602) 633-8969
Supreme Court Declares Arizona's Matching Funds System Unconstitutional
PHOENIX — Today, in a 5 to 4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision striking down the matching funds provisions of Arizona's taxpayer-funded campaign finance system known as Clean Elections.
Mirroring arguments from the Goldwater Institute that prompted the Supreme Court to block Arizona's matching funds system on June 8, 2010, the Court declared, "Any increase in speech resulting from the Arizona law is of one kind and one kind only: that of publicly financed candidates. The burden imposed on privately financed candidates and independent expenditure groups reduces their speech."
The Supreme Court added: "The First amendment embodies our choice as a Nation that, when it comes to [campaign] speech, the guiding principle is freedom---the 'unfettered exchange of ideas'---not whatever the State may view as fair."
The Supreme Court confirmed that Arizona's system of providing government campaign funding to candidates cannot be squared with its earlier decision in Davis v. F.E.C. In Davis, the Court struck down a regulatory scheme whereby "the vigorous exercise of the right to use personal funds to finance campaign speech produces fundraising advantages for opponents in the competitive context of electoral politics." Arizona's matching funds provisions similarly disadvantage citizen-funded candidates for exercising their First Amendment rights by causing their campaign contributions and expenditures to trigger taxpayer subsidies to opposing government-funded candidates.
"This decision protects democratic elections and gets government's heavy thumb off the scale," said Nick Dranias, the Goldwater Institute's director of constitutional studies and the lead attorney in the case.
Although labeled differently, similar matching funds provisions exist in Florida, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Additionally, Connecticut and Massachusetts previously had public-financing provisions, but repealed them.
The Court's decision puts an end to these unconstitutional experiments.
The Goldwater Institute Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation represented John McComish, Nancy McLain, and Tony Bouie, candidates for the Arizona Legislature whose campaigns were funded by donations from citizens, not the government. Previously, the Institute secured three rulings from U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn O. Silver that Arizona's matching funds provision violated the First Amendment. Those rulings were overturned by the Ninth Circuit on May 21, 2010.
But on June 8, 2010, responding to an emergency request from the Goldwater Institute, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Ninth Circuit's decision from taking effect and suspended Arizona's use of matching funds for its 2010 election cycle. Subsequent decisions arising from the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal followed suit, striking down equivalent matching funds provisions in Connecticut and Florida. The Supreme Court formally agreed to consider the Goldwater Institute's challenge on Nov. 29, 2010, along with a separate case that had been filed by the Institute of Justice.
Read more about this and other Goldwater cases to protect individual rights and uphold the constitution at www.goldwaterinstitute.org/litigation.
The Goldwater Institute is an independent government watchdog supported by people committed to expanding free enterprise and liberty.
ADDITONAL MEDIA RESOURCES:
• Summary, case documents and timeline: http://goldwaterinstitute.org/case/68
• Print-resolution headshot -- Nick Dranias: http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/sites/default/files/images/NickDranias.jpg
• Print-resolution and video-resolution graphics showing the other states affected by the ruling: http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/sites/default/files/images/McComishMap.zip
To reach John McComish, Nancy McLain, and Tony Bouie, the original plaintiffs in the case, contact Greg Brooks at (602) 633-8969.
For an online version of this news release, click here.
Posted by Rachel Alexander at Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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HomeSAAB NewsSAAB MotorsportSaab in Motorsport: STCC Season 2015 is over!
This year's STCC race season is over, and Saab motorsport teams Team Tido and PWR Racing team have achieved significant success. Thed Björk secures his third straight STCC title.
In theTeam competition, Saab teams were very successful, taking second and third place – with PWR Racing in second place on 340 and Team Tidö in third on 281 points!
At the end of the STCC season 2015, the best Saab driver was Richard Göransson who won 243 points and he finished the competition in the 4 position.
Daniel Haglof from PWR Racing Team made a strong push towards the end of the season with three podiums (1-2-2) out of four possible in the last races. PWR Racing Team with two Saab 9-3 also secured second place in the STCC team championship, despite being the youngest team by far. In the last race of the season, Richard Göransson from Team Tido was involved in the top fight at starting the race but made a mistake, out braked himself and spun down to the seventh position.
Ted did great! And it was as exciting as ever. Nice!


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Cows to get carbon credits for not burping
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Posted Mon 9 Dec 2013 at 10:26pm Monday 9 Dec 2013 at 10:26pm Mon 9 Dec 2013 at 10:26pm , updated Tue 10 Dec 2013 at 2:00am Tuesday 10 Dec 2013 at 2:00am Tue 10 Dec 2013 at 2:00am
Droughtmaster cattle in a paddock in the Northern Territory.
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Beef producers may soon be able to claim carbon credits by changing the type of feed supplements used on their herds.
By replacing urea supplements with nitrate salts, the amount of methane burped by cattle can be reduced by up to 20 per cent.
Using a new methodology, producers could then claim credits on their herds' reduced methane emissions through the Federal Government's Carbon Farming Initiative.
RAMP Carbon developed the methodology with Meat and Livestock Australia and the Australian Agricultural Company.
Director Phil Cohn says it could have a big impact on overall agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Australia
"The major component of Australia's agricultural emissions actually comes from livestock as they digest their feed," he said.
"65 per cent of Australia's agricultural emissions actually come from livestock burping methane.
"It's actually around 10 per cent of Australia's national emissions, so it's a significant challenge.
"In some regions producers already supplement their animal with urea.
"If you supplement with nitrate salt instead, you get the same nutritional benefits to your cattle, but in addition you get this reduction in methane emissions.
"Using the methodology, we can quantify those emission reductions and then translate those into carbon credits which can be sold."
Mr Cohn says the scheme may benefit larger producers initially, due to the higher cost of nitrate salts.
"It is more expensive than urea supplementation," he said.
"So the early adopters of this methodology are likely to be the very large-scale, commercial cattle producers.
"But we're really really confident that over time the economics will stack up for smaller producers.
"That's not to say individual farmers can't get together to aggregate up.
"I think in the livestock sector in particular, that's what we're going to have to see for projects to be feasible and deliver a decent return in emission reductions and funding as a result."
The methodology is open for comment until January 11.
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Internationally renowned actress and producer Nicole Kidman first graced the stage in 1983, starring in the film Bush Christmas. In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the racing film Days of Thunder. Kidman went on to star in many commercially and critically successful films, including Dead Calm, To Die For, Moulin Rouge!, Batman Forever, The Hours and Rabbit Hole. Her work earned her an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globes and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
While Kidman has appeared in dozens of films, grossing more than $4 billion worldwide, she describes herself as being exceptionally shy, a circumstance that was only worsened by her childhood stutter. "I am very shy – really shy – I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness," she admits. "So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself. I don't like going to a party by myself."
She still recalls struggling to speak as a child. "I remember when I was little just being so excited to get it out and I couldn't get it out," she states. "I just remember everyone always saying to me, 'Calm down, think about what you're gonna say.'"
Kidman continues to grapple with her shyness, but refuses to allow it to control her. "I'm never going to let fear dominate my life," she asserts. "Many other things I've let pull me off my path, but not fear."
The fearless actress continues to inspire the stuttering community not to shy away from their fears.
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A whole and unique concept of aesthetics in accordance with Marx and Althusser within the modernist Marxist culture (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno). the most ideas that come up from this paintings are: the classy point of perform, aesthetic nation apparatuses, aesthetic interpellation, and pseudo dialectics, all of that are used to appreciate the position of aesthetic event and its position in daily life.This ebook seems to be at emotions, affections, tendencies, sensibilities and sensuality, and their social position in paintings, culture, ritual, and taboo. With the vintage Marxist techniques of base and superstructure divided into fiscal, ideological, and political degrees, the classy point of perform is the realm that has frequently been lacking or misrepresented for political purposes. This aesthetic point of perform fuels and helps the media, or as Althusser defined it the site visitors among base and superstructure. From this vantage aspect, the classy country apparatuses should be analysed either long ago, for instance in artwork heritage, and this day, in modern politics. What function do paintings, emotions and alienation play in our tradition?
This can be a sourcebook of records of democratic dissent lower than chinese language communism. The essays diversity from eye-witness money owed of a bloodbath to theoretical opinions of chinese language Marxist idea. The advent keeps that the records display a convention of democratic suggestion and perform that strains its descent to the recent tradition move of the 1910s and the founding new release of the chinese language Communist celebration.
Marx used to be a hugely unique and polymathic philosopher, unhampered through disciplinary barriers, whose highbrow impact has been huge, immense. but within the wake of the cave in of Marxism-Leninism in jap Europe the query arises as to how vital his paintings fairly is for us now. a tremendous size of this quantity is to put Marx's writings of their historic context and to split what he truly acknowledged from what others (in specific, Engels) interpreted him as announcing.
In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the connection among Marxist concept and bourgeois philosophy, and insists at the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a dedication to progressive praxis. even if commonly attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a spot one of the most vital works of twentieth-century Marxist concept, and keeps to advantage serious reappraisal from students and activists at the present time.
Lix EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION EDITOR's INTRODUCTION and in the second he characterized the whole institutional structure of the constitutional monarchy as a self-contradictory hybrid.! In The Philosophy of Right Hegel describes the Assembly of Estates as a political organ by which the people come to participate in the affairs of the state while, conversely, the aims and concerns of the state become the concerns of the people. 2 But here too, according to Marx, Hegel's own texts betray the truth of the matter, the fact that the Estates are nothing but the formal illusion of popular participation in public affairs, and that the thought and will of the people cannot find realization in the state.
Moreover, only in democracy do the people fully participate in determining and executing public affairs, the affairs of the state, that is, their own affairs as social beings. The means for this participation is universal suffrage, both active and passive. This alone can achieve what the Estates effect in a purely illusory way, namely, the transcendence of the dualism of political state and civil society. The implementation of universal suffrage elevates civil society to political existence, thereby dissolving civil society as a separate sphere, and simultaneously dissolving the state as a separate and opposed sphere.
It is the strictly political state and its constitution. Here the subject is 'the necessity in ideality', the 'Idea within itself', and the predicate 1s political sentiment and the political constitution. 1 Marx's insertion. 2 Marx's ellipsis. IO J Knox's addition. § z69. The patriotic sentiment acquires its specifically determined content from the various members of the organism of the state. This organism is the development of the Idea to its differences and their objective actuality. Hence these different members are the various powers of the state with their functions and spheres of action, by means of which the universal continually engenders itself, and engenders itself in a necessary way because their specific character is fixed by the nature of the concept.


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Hospital gowns leave patients open & vulnerable - their time is up!
Most of us feel vulnerable when hospitalised, and being told to strip off and put on a pre-worn, revealing, backless gown does nothing to improve matters. Being escorted in this attire, often through public areas of a hospital, pretty much completes the humiliation.
What you wear affects how you feel about yourself. Studies suggest that clothing affects self-esteem, and getting dressed is a process of self-expression. What you wear informs others of your social standing, your ambitions, emotions, motivations and even your employment status.
So what role does clothing play when you find yourself in a vulnerable situation, such as in a hospital, awaiting medical treatment? If you are what you wear, what impact does wearing a backless hospital gown have on how you perceive yourself and how others perceive you?
Do we really need to bare all?
Arguably, there are advantages to hospital gowns. They are functional, allow doctors to gain easy access to the patient to conduct a physical examination. They are also cheap and easy to clean. But researchers in Finland have argued that wearing a hospital gown is often unnecessary and can even be traumatic for some patients. A recent study found that patients are often asked to wear hospital gowns even when there is no medical reason for them to do so.
Although research on this topic is scant, the limited findings so far suggest that the hospital gown is undignified and adds to a sense of disempowerment and vulnerability. And this is made worse by the professional, authoritarian, white coat worn by doctors, which can further increase the power imbalance.
The healthcare hierarchy often plays out in the power dynamic between the patient and medical staff. Despite efforts to empower patients with so-called patient-centered care, the institutionalised acceptance of the hospital gown persists.
It is important to challenge these sorts of cultural norms as dehumanising aspects of care can increase a patient's risk of further episodes of hospitalisation. Loss of control, loss of the power to make decisions and loss of autonomy may increase a patient's vulnerability to psychological distress which could have a negative effect on well-being and recovery. As such, patients need to be given a say in hospital clothing, with more humanising and dignified options explored, for example, limiting the use of hospital gowns to when they are needed for medical reasons, allowing patients to wear their own clothes when possible (especially when they are in public areas) and by redesigning gowns so they are less revealing and more dignified.
To better understand these issues we are engaged in a collaborative research project that aims to explore people's experience of wearing hospital gowns. By drawing on their experiences, we hope to better understand how hospital gowns affect their identity, well-being and recovery, with the aim of influencing change to policy and practice in hospitals.
Clothes serve more than function. Rather than having to bare all, let a little dignity, choice and humility be at the forefront of our thinking about hospital clothing.


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Changing the text of a skill name will change the name everywhere the name appears (PDF checklists, reports, etc). Evaluations made before the skill name change will appear with the new name.
Deleting a skill is permanent, and will prevent anyone from performing new evaluations using that skill.
Changing the text of a skill choice will change the choice text everywhere the choice appears (PDF checklists, reports, etc). Evaluations made before the section name change will appear with the new choice text.
If you delete a choice (ie clear all text from the choice field), the choice will no longer appear as an option to evaluators. However, you can "reactivate" the choice by re-entering it's text. All evaluations will be retained.
If you re-order your choices, note that this will significantly affect any past evaluations. For example, if your skill's first choice is "Up" and second choice is "Down", and you re-order those choices, any evaluation made using those skills will be reversed (ie a person with "Up" previously selected will now have "Down" selected).
Changing the point slider ranges and increments will have no affect on past evaluations. For example, if your previous range was 0 to 10, and your new range is 0 to 5, a past evaluation with value 6 will not be changed to 5.
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If you accidentally removed part of your checklist, please get in touch with us immediately! In some circumstances, we may be able to restore it.
How will deleting part of my checklist affect my evaluator counts?
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Ellie Hazlett is a multimedia artist based in Chicago. She experiments with textures and materials to transform environments and perspectives. Most of her fine art examines and reflects sociopolitical issues regarding gender, privilege, and positionality. Ellie's work has been shown in galleries and shows throughout the United States.
In 2018, she began Ellie Hazlett Studio upon multiple requests for custom wallpaper designs based off her art installation, "Untitled (A Period Piece)". With her love of design, fine art, art history, and spatial transformation, Ellie Hazlett Studio has become a collaborative platform to work directly with clients to create unique art and spaces.
Ellie received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and her BA in Visual Art and Art History from Union College in 2009.


– AUSTRALIA'S FIRST COOPERATIVE BREWERY!
9 December 2016: Sydney, AUSTRALIA: A once crazy dream to own a brewery is now becoming a reality for a mixed group of beer loving Sydney siders that have decided to share the beer and bragging rights with everyone by building Hopsters; Australia's first and only cooperative brewery!
Hopsters is now taking community memberships and are also offering their first 250 Early Harvest members the opportunity to purchase additional shares at the par value and immortalizing their names on to the walls of the brewery. This is one of many joining benefits on offer – for a full list see http://Hopsters.com.au/membership.
Collaboration – Hopsters will be a birthplace for great beer. Our members will have an integral part in designing and voting on what we brew. The beer will not simply be the Brewery's beers, but will truly be a reflection of our members and belong to them.
Education – We believe that beer education will foster a deeper appreciation for beer. We will promote beer education through a range of on-site activities that will develop according to the wishes of our members and size of the brewery.
Community – Hopsters plans to be a viable member in the local community. We look forward to building relationships with craft brewers, other co-ops and local businesses.
Membership of Hopsters, the first ever Australian co-op brewery, is now open to the public, just in time for Christmas. Community Memberships start at $250 which includes 5 shares in the co-operative, up to Foundation members where you get part of the brewery named after you and 2,000 shares. Distribution of profits will be amongst the members of the co-operative with dividends payable as and when profit and cashflow allows it and subject to board approval.
"The Hopsters vision is a brewery owned by its members where everyone has a stake and a voice. A laid back atmosphere where you can taste a great and varied range of quality craft beer brewed from within. Hopsters is something for beer lovers of all tastes and backgrounds and aims to unite and educate people with diverse interests in fine quality craft beer.
This unique co-operative model has garnered tremendous success overseas in America and the U.K. Not to be out done, these self made Aussie craft beer lovers are making the co-op brewery dream a reality.
Hopsters is the first brewery in Australia established under the Co-operative Principles. It is a place to meet like-minded craft beer lovers who share a similar commitment to sustainability, community, innovation, and education. Members may nominate to sit on the managing Board, comprise important committees and task forces. Best of all, we have plans for members to directly participate in the beers that carry the Hopsters name by voting on styles, submitting recipes (hello, homebrewers!), and judging our continuing series of homebrew competitions. All this, plus, as a distributing co-op, subject to sufficient profitable financial performance and cash flow, profits payable based on your shares holding.


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The goal of this project was to create a reliable way of automatically provisioning new OSX hosts and upgrading old ones. Previously this had been done using Chef, but the decision was made to start from scratch as the deployments were rather error-prone and unreliable.

I was responsible for designing the project structure, CI-pipeline and also the actual deployment workflow. In addition, I wrote down the development guidelines for the project and implemented majority of the Ansible-roles. An important success criterion in this project was to make the upgrade and setup process reliable, but at the same time to support multiple environments allowing them to contain some differences but still keeping the configurations as consistent as possible. In addition, when designing the CI-pipeline and development guidelines, high priority was given to ensuring that the deployments will stay reliable also in the future when the project evolves and more people start working on it.

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By Michael Andor Brodeur Globe Staff,August 2, 2014, 4:59 p.m.
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This will come as a surprise to many of you (I was only just made aware an hour ago), but I am Tyr, the Norse god of heroic glory and combat, whose right hand was famously bitten off by a monstrous wolf.
But don't be scared. I am also a daisy. Update: Be scared because I'm also a snow leopard.
I owe this recent wave of self-realizations to online quizzes, which, you may have noticed, are everywhere — well, at least Facebook's version of everywhere. You know the ones, beckoning you from the boardwalk of your News Feed like shady fortunetellers, purporting to divine which "RuPaul's Drag Race" contestant you are, or how you'll die, their allure almost entirely due to their inexplicable interest in you.
Many of these quizzes are dispatched into our feeds from otherwise little-known outposts like Quizrocket and Quibblo and Sporcle and Zimbio, but more often they issue from the ever-gushing quiz geyser of Buzzfeed. Slate even offered a deliciously meta "Which Buzzfeed Quiz Are You?" quiz.
The pull of the quiz is difficult to resist and easy to understand. From the countless forms we complete for our various profile pages, to the statuses we update, blogs we blog, and tweets we tweet, the Internet is fueled by narcissism — a renewable resource if ever there was one. It's no coincidence that the clickbaity questions of online quiz headlines echo those workhorse slogans of advertising, the grilling of second-person concern that simultaneously invents and attends to our every need (e.g. "What's in Your Wallet?" "Where Do You Want to Go Today?" "Are You in Good Hands?" "What Are You Eating Today?" "Is It in You?")
Quizzes combine this tried-and-true grilling-and-shilling with the promise of revealing to us something new about our favorite subject. Like which Björk song I am ("Bachelorette"). Or which cheese (Gouda). Or if I have any useful skill (book smart, so no, not technically speaking). The important thing is that it's about me. You can't spell "quiz" without the "I" — even though results say I'm actually an "O."
As hard as these quizzes are to resist taking (I'd call them guilty pleasures if they delivered on the pleasure part), they're even harder to resist sharing (i.e., recruiting). It may be bad form to trumpet what you perceive as your best qualities on Facebook, but if a spreadsheet determines how sexy you are, it's not like you're bragging. (By the way, I'm supermodel sexy. Which is probably why my husband is 93% awesome. This is just science talking.)
Of course, as infallible as we'd like some of the results to be, the true degree of useful self-awareness one can glean from online quizzes is somewhere between knowing thyself and containing multitudes. One battery of quizzes on Brainfall attempted to spiritually triangulate me according to different regions: Turns out, I'm 52% Southern (um, no), 40% Texan (by marriage, kinda), and 50% Los Angeles (and 49% California in general; must be the winter half of me).
Another range of quizzes offered to help me pick the best city for myself, which, clearly, is Chicago. Either that or Paris. Or Vienna. Or Boston – and it's a good thing I finally got that last one, since Buzzfeed affirms I'm 84% supposed to be here.
An attempt to confirm with multiple sources which Golden Girl I am resulted in a vexing identity crisis. Confessing a fondness for shopping and chocolate-covered strawberries clearly moved Brainfall to designate me Blanche. Asserting that crudeness was forgivable but stupidity wasn't, Quizilla pegged me as Sofia. My choice of flight as a superpower plus my Harry Potter illiteracy had Buzzfeed calling me Rose. And Quibblo said I was Dorothy — which was surprising if only because I'm just 53% bitchy – what they call a "balanced bitch."
On that front I'm only 23% neurotic according to the Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory, regarded as the first personality test, and used to screen draftees during WWI with questions like "Are you bothered much by blushing?" and "Have you often fainted away?" This is better news now than it would have been then, when I'd have teetered on the cusp of instability. (What can I say? I'm bothered here and there by blushing.) And in the realm of Jungian-derived, Myers-Briggs inspired four-letter-non-word personality tests (that you don't have to pay for), I'm somewhere between an ENFJ (a teacher and a giver, you see) and an ENFP (a champion and an inspirer). Not one of my results made any mention of how I leave coffees on my desk until they form lily pads of mold, so I trust their veracity.
Of course, no static quiz can capture the fluid self. Gotoquiz's "Which Philosopher Are You?" quiz had me strolling the colonnades with Aristotle by night and chain smoking with Sartre when I took it the next morning. Meanwhile, Buzzfeed considers me more of a Marxist at heart — a determination partly informed by my selection of Bree Van de Kamp as my favorite Desperate Housewife.
It's a lot to take in, and it might all seem — dare I say it — meaningless. But even if all of these individual pixels of revelation are hard to immediately synthesize into a clear self-portrait, at least there's some quiet reassurance to be had in knowing that Benjamin Franklin would be the founding father I'd be most likely to hook up with long term (I'm guessing because I chose "competence" as a turn-on and completed "give me liberty or give me ____" with "back rubs").
The undiscovered self is in there somewhere, advertisers are counting on it. But if life's little questions ever seem like too much ("Are You Doug?" Yes, we are all Doug. "Which Member of Phish Are You?" I don't care), take a step back and entertain some of the bigger ones. Like, "Are you wasting your time taking quizzes?" (I'll save you the trip: Yes.)
Michael Andor Brodeur can be reached at mbrodeur@globe.com.
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By Adrianne Pasquarelli . Published on September 27, 2018.
As it battles competition from online travel agencies and the growing influences of Google and Airbnb, Hilton is doubling down on its "book direct" messaging with a new marketing push. The McLean, Virginia-based hotel chain, which operates 14 brands, has tapped actress Anna Kendrick for what a spokeswoman describes as the brand's first celebrity-driven campaign, called "Expect Better. Expect Hilton."
In a series of spots, which will begin airing this weekend on TV and run through 2019, Kendrick promotes the strategy of booking through Hilton.com even as she mocks travel sites. "Book at Hilton.com and get the Hilton price match guarantee," her voiceover says at the end of one 30-second spot. "If you find a lower rate, we match it and give you 25 percent off that stay."
The push happens as Hilton and other hotel chains compete with Airbnb and Google, which now allows consumers to book through its platforms, and online travel services such as Expedia and Priceline. TripAdvisor recently rolled out a new Facebook-like social feed for its customers that purports to be a one-stop-shop for all things travel. Hilton wants consumers to book direct for stays in its 5,300 properties in order to build repeat visits and capture data from its loyalty programs. It first rolled out a "book direct" message in 2016 with "Stop Clicking Around." That campaign resulted in 4.5 million worldwide bookings and 9 million new Hilton Honors loyalty program members, according to Kellyn Smith Kenny, who joined Hilton as chief marketing officer in January.
"Since that campaign, we've spent time listening to customers on what they want and need within the travel journey and how can Hilton truly deliver against their needs," she said, noting the new campaign "is about reassuring our customers of the value and perks they'll receive when booking directly with Hilton."
Hilton, which spent more than $60 million on measured media in the U.S. last year, according to Kantar Media, worked with TBWA/Chiat/Day New York on the new campaign. Mediacom, which Hilton named its media agency in June following a review, handled media duties, and iProspect is Hilton's digital agency. In addition to 30-second spots, the new marketing will include a series of 6-second digital clips.
For the most recent quarter ended June 30, Hilton reported revenue of $2.3 billion, a 10 percent rise over the year-earlier period, alongside a 44 percent rise in net income to $217 million.


Art Tour Extraordinaire: Part II | That's what B said.
Our little art tour was starting to feel like a bit of a roller coaster ride. Up, with the elation of seeing my own image gracefully interpreted in a phenomenal display of the largest proportions — down with the anxiety of the plump, formless, pedestrian bear installation. Eee gads! I felt it timely to ride easy and drop into the La Chapelle show at Lever House for some Pop-Art numbing. The show went round and round like a merry-go-round, awakening memories of childhood with its paper link chains.
It was then that I truly scrutinized the existence of the American Dream.
I was walking on Dean Street in Brooklyn today and came across this absolutely dreamy yard sculpture. I feel the ambient lighting accentuates my perfect cheekbones.


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Руколата, още ерука или рокет (Eruca vesicaria sativa), е подвид годно за консумация едногодишно тревисто растение от семейство кръстоцветни (Brassicaceae).

Зелените ѝ листа се използват в салати, ястия с паста, пици, ризото. В кулинарията се използва и масло от семената на рукола, което се добавя при консервиране на зеленчуци.

Разпространение
Растението е разпространено в Близкия Изток, най-вече в Турция, Йордания и Мароко. Среща се в Източна и Централна Европа, Северна, Югозападна, Източна и Централна Азия и Северна Африка. Внесено е също и в Австралия.

Расте в суха и рохкава почва.

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Руколата достига на височина до 60 cm. Листата са сравнително месести със специфичен аромат. Цветовете са с диаметър от 2 до 4 cm, с кремаво-бели венчелистчета и жълти тичинки.

Плодовете са овални или продълговати. Семената са светлокафяви, подредени в два реда, 1,5 – 3 mm дълги и 1 – 2,5 mm широки.

Цъфти през май – юли. Плодовете узряват през май – август.

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I Am the Masked One. Thanks Giving.
With the Thanksgiving holiday almost upon us I thought it would be a good time to express some gratefulness. Thank you Fox Sports and ESPN. Thanks to all media outlets who stream our favorite sport on any device. Thank you Chris and Al for making MNF what it is. Strahan, Long, Bradshaw and gang, it just wouldn't be Sunday without you. Something else, just can't remember what.
Sometimes highly touted match ups turn out let's say, toutless. Spell check says I just made up a word. Go me. Well you can be thankful if you were able to witness the offensive battle between Kansas City and the Rams. Two nine and one records pitted on the gridiron in LA. After the home team jumped to a quick 13-0 lead my first thought was, toutless. Thankfully the giving started and the game was on.
Kansas City was not about to go down easily capitalizing on a turnover and gaining enough momentum to battle to a 23 all tie at halftime. The second half turned out all dessert as each team put on an impressive display of offense. Hard to really see a loser in a 54-51 point game.
Well it was Black Friday all ready for the Philadelphia Eagles as New Orleans put on an impressive display of offense and defense. Crushing the Eagles 48-7, the Saints show why they are counted among this years elite. I wonder if there are any GM's out there saying, " Sure am glad we didn't take that Brees guy".
We can thank the example of Pilgrims and Native Americans gathering in friendship for this special holiday. I am sure they would be impressed we have three different, three hour services, in their honor. Lions host the Bears in the appetizer round. Dallas and Washington are the main course finishing up with brandies watching Saints and Falcons. I expect the visitors to fare well in the first two games and New Orleans saying farewell to Atlanta in the night cap.
Oh that's right. Thanks to my wife for liking football. And Direct TV Sunday Ticket.
Masked Musings – A Happy Thanksgiving to all!


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Of the Dog Days in Kashmir
Ather Zia
Back in Srinagar after a year, the first thing I noticed was packs of dogs hanging at every nook and cranny. A few dogs ran after us while boarding the car at the airport. The dogs looked well fed and territorial. They ran snarling through streets – a sight which should be unusual for any city that claims to be well-administered. As the dogs hurled past squirming people, grimy and emaciated children with huge flailing gunny bags were raking through mountains of debris lining the road. We hit a traffic jam that that did not open for almost an hour. Srinagar gets clogged with traffic that has grown exponentially in the past decade with little improvement in the roads. Paramilitary bunkers stood at strategic places as checkpoints; thanking people for their cooperation and "Regrrtted any inconvnence (sic)."
Most of this scene was predictable except for the number of dogs, which I had noticed since last year seems to have swollen to unbelievable numbers.
Dogs exist in the city of Srinagar (capital of Kashmir) in unusual numbers; doing what they can do best in an urban situation - running amok, begging, snatching, defecating, and fighting. They are ever-present - outside the butcher's shop, stores that sell chickens, on highways, plazas smelling around the stores that may display the hip "Reebok" and "Nike" labels, near homes scouring through trash, waiting for wedding feast leftovers that will soon be thrown into the street and of course outside the bunkers.
It is quite usual to spot a fresh litter mewing at alley corners. People despite the problems they face on account of the unbridled dog aggression, will try to keep the young pups and their mother comfortable especially in the cold winter. They collect rags, gunny bags and cardboard pieces to make a snug nest, and make sure that the mother has a meal to eat.
A recent report claimed that Srinagar with 14 lakh humans has 80,000 dogs. (1 lakh = 100,000). An expert claims that there will be no less than 20 lakh dogs in another five years, exceeding human population. In the last couple of years mauling by dogs has become very common. Since 2005, there have been seven fatal attacks and the Srinagar hospital has received more than 20,000 dog bite cases. People are afraid to step out alone after hours for the fear of being attacked. It has become a common norm for children to be accompanied by parents even for some a minor errand, say buying a piece of gum from the store next-door, lest they be attacked. Women do not venture out alone for morning walks but form groups to ensure their safety. People feel the need to carry sticks and machetes to ward off any attack. One lady's face was ripped off last year in a dog attack and she barely survived. A four year old child died of complications from a dog attack.
In early days of militancy it was common for the Indian troops to raise stray dogs around the bunkers. These dogs became default guard-dogs – a kind of animal militia. It was not uncommon to find huge well-fed dogs around the bunkers that people abhorred for mainly two reasons. One, Kashmiris are not dog people, if anything they hate them (sorry Donna Haraway). Second, these dogs would often show unbridled aggression to people in the vicinity. The people of course could not do anything but complain amongst themselves and suffer the formation of huge packs which would congregate outside the bunkers waiting for leftovers, occasional pats and many merciless beatings from the soldiers on some errant behavior (whatever that was).
Nowadays the presence of dogs in Kashmir, in this manner and at this level is deeply metaphoric of what is happening or what has happened to Kashmir. The way dogs run amok in the city, in large packs during the day and especially at nights gives an impression of being in a jungle.
One late night after attending wedding, while driving home we had to pass huge packs, some fighting and others dragging rotting carcasses. It was as if no one lived in the city except dogs that ravaged through the heaps of refuse. At the street where I got off, I had to literally wade through dogs that for reasons I attribute to being a dog-owner once gave me way without showing any aggression (and I was channeling the Dog Whisperer). They of course, did not spare the person who was accompanying me. He was jittery and had to run fast inside the house for safety.
The unchecked population of dogs in Kashmir at this time in history reeks of disregard for human life and administrative neglect. A deep sense of imbalance permeates the relation between animal and man. The current dog situation in Kashmir gives rise to the question: how did Kashmir come to this?
Most of the burden of the situation can be put on the animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi who is against any move to control dog population through selective killing mechanism. She advocates neutering and restraining dogs in pounds. Although legislations from the central government (in India) need to be passed by the Kashmiri legislature, Maneka's dictates have been accepted without demur.
There has also been a dearth of effective solutions to curb the menace except for some questionable ones. Last year,the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) flew in a team from the United States to train their staff in dog-catching. It produced no results. In another attempt, SMC attempted to hire Khursheed Ahmad Mir, touted to be a pied piper of dogs. Khursheed claimed to use scientific technology but since his method cost around 20 crore, the project was shelved.
As of now, the SMC is planning to train the dog catchers in trapping and dog care. These dog catchers will be posted at dog pounds coming up in Srinagar at the cost of Rs 900 crore over 312.5 acre of land.
To be concluded…
Dogs, Kashmir
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This Endon Hal one light short table lamp is finished in aged pewter and aged copper plate. The single light sits directly on the base plate and it has a conveniently placed toggle switch. Pair it with vintage bulbs (sold separately) for the added wow factor. This light would make an wonderful addition to any industrial or contemporary room, especially when paired with a matching light.


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Epilepsy study links mossy brain cells to seizures and memory loss
A small group of cells in the brain can have a big effect on seizures and memory in a mouse model of epilepsy. According to a new study in Science, loss of mossy cells may contribute to convulsive seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) as well as memory problems often experienced by people with the disease. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health.
"The role of mossy cells in epilepsy has been debated for decades. This study reveals how critical these cells are in the disease, and the findings suggest that preventing loss of mossy cells or finding ways to activate them may be potential therapeutic targets," said Vicky Whittemore, Ph.D., program director at NINDS.
Mossy cells, named for the dense moss-like protrusions that cover their surface, are located in the hippocampus, a brain area that is known to play key roles in memory. Loss of mossy cells is associated with TLE, but it is unknown what role that plays in the disease. Using state-of-the-art tools, Ivan Soltesz, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurosciences at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and his team were able to turn mossy cells on and off to track their effects in a mouse model of epilepsy.
"This study would not have been possible without the rapid advancement of technology, thanks in part to the BRAIN Initiative, which has encouraged scientists to develop innovative instruments and new ways to look at the brain," said Dr. Soltesz. "It's remarkable that we can manipulate specific brain cells in the hippocampus of a mouse. Using 21st century tools brings us closer than ever to unlocking the mysteries behind this debilitating disease."


Leica iCONgps 60 is a construction GNSS SmartAntenna for versatile positioning tasks specifically developed towards construction needs. Featuring superior GNSS technology and various integrated communication options, it meets all requirements for reliable and precise positioning work on site.
Its integrated display shows you full status information of the system simplifying operation and configuration. Leica iCONgps 60 offers exceptional network capability allowing you to work with Leica SmartNet and other RTK networks for high-accuracy GPS positioning.
For this project Infinity worked directly with the Swiss Leica office to design and develop the product. Working with a European partner brings some challenges in scheduling meetings due to the timezone differences, but we have developed methods for working internationally and exporting our services.
This was a major new project for Leica head office and Infinity was trusted with this important project which took over 18 months to complete due to the complexity and high degree of accuracy of the electronic components and all the mechanical assembly.
This product has been well received by the market and has become one of the highly accurate and reliable construction mapping devices available in the Leica range.
Those who use Leica Geosystems products every day trust them for their dependability, the value they deliver, and the superior customer support. Based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland, Leica Geosystems is a global company with tens of thousands of customers supported by more than 3,800 employees in 33 countries including a Brisbane based R&D; office. Leica Geosystems is part of Hexagon, Sweden.


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Steel Films, Steel (film)
Steel (film)
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Producer: Quincy Jones
David Salzman
Joel Simon
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Kenneth Johnson
Steel is a 1997 film that follows the origin of Steel.
John Henry Irons (Shaquille O'Neal) is a weapons designer who invents high-tech laser guns and protective armor for the United States military. One soldier, Nathaniel Burke (Judd Nelson), decides to show just what Irons' weapons can do and sets one of Irons' laser guns at the highest power setting, firing the device at an abandoned building. However, the weapon backfires and destroys the building the team is situated in. Irons' partner, Susan "Sparky" Sparks (Annabeth Gish), is crushed by a large slab of concrete in the ensuing chaos. In court, Irons reveals Burke's role in the incident and Burke is dismissed from the military. Because his weapons resulted in Sparks becoming a paraplegic, Irons resigns in disgust. Meanwhile, Burke hatches a plot to sell Irons' weapons to criminal gangs, recruiting a video arcade manager to help him carry out this deed.
Irons witnesses a bank robbery organized by gang members wielding Burke's modified guns; they escape before he can interrogate them on where they obtained the weapons. The gang does not tell Irons anything when confronted directly in their hideout. Irons visits Sparks in a veteran's hospital and takes her to his own assembled laboratory, where he hopes he and Sparks can create weapons needed to combat the criminals. With the help of Uncle Joe (Richard Roundtree), they forge a suit of armor and the weaponry necessary for Irons to carry out his war on crime and become the vigilante "Steel". However, during his crusade against crime, Irons is pursued by the cops and is forced to return to his lair. The next night, the robbers arrange to rob another bank. Irons, as Steel, tries to stop them, but is hindered by the robbers' weapons. When Irons returns to his grandmother's (Irma P. Hall) house, he is arrested. Meanwhile, Burke prepares to auction off all his modified weapons to every criminal organization in the world over the Internet. When Irons is released from jail, Sparky is captured by Burke's thugs. Irons, as Steel, attempts to infiltrate Burke's headquarters, but is captured himself in the process. When Burke continues with the auction, he is tricked by Steel, which allows him and Sparks to rebel and decimate Burke's lair. Burke himself is killed when a laser he fires towards Steel reflects back towards him due to Steel's suit. In the end Burke was arrested by the army. John Henry Irons, Susan Sparks, Uncle Joe and Martin get together at Grandma Odessa's new restaurant.
Shaquille O'Neal as John Henry Irons/Steel
Annabeth Gish as Susan Sparks
Judd Nelson as Nathaniel Burke
Richard Roundtree as Uncle Joe
Irma Hall as Grandma Odessa
Ray J as Martin
Charles Napier as Col. David
Hill Harper as Slats
Thom Barry as Sgt. Marcus
George Lemore as Cutter
Kerrie Keane as Senator Nolan
The film was shot in Los Angeles, California.
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Number of visitor arrivals from Malaysia to Macao 2008-2018
Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 8, 2020
This statistic shows the number of visitor arrivals from Malaysia to Macao from 2008 to 2018. In 2018, the number of visitor arrivals from Malaysia to Macao reached around 228 thousand, showing a 4.4 percent of annual growth compared to last year.
Number of visitor arrivals from Malaysia to Macao from 2008 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
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As helpful as the relativity-related information on the web might be – for a broader and deeper understanding, there's nothing like a good book. On our "Further reading" pages, you'll find a few select examples.
First of all, there are the classic, "100% math free" popular science books. Why not explore the search for gravitational waves with
Marcia Bartusiak, Einstein's unfinished symphony
or satisfy your relativistic curiosity with the other books in our Popular science section.
Or do you want more – and are ready to re-activate a bit of that old high school math knowledge, just a few simple formulae, if it means a much better understanding of Einstein's theories? Then the Beyond prose section is for you – for instance,
Bernard Schutz, Gravity from the ground up.
Here, you will find a small, but growing selection of popular-science books dealing with Einstein's theories – no formulae, no math.
Bartusiak, Marcia: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. Listening to the Sounds of Spacetime
Berkley 2000
Exhaustingly researched and engaging description of the hunt for gravitational waves – from the beginning in the 1960s to the construction of modern interferometric detectors. Apart from acquainting the reader with the basic physics, Bartusiak does a great job showing how science actually works – from funding politics to the human face of research.
Thorne, Kip: Black Holes and Time Warps – Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
W. W. Norton 1995
Thorough presentation of general relativity, from the basics via historical developments and astrophysical applications right down to wormhole time-machines (and a look at the media circus surrounding them). The focus is on the relativistic physics of compact objects, from White dwarfs to black holes. Thorne, himself a relativistic expert, clearly knows what he's writing about, and has himself played a role in the developments recounts. With lots of historical information, this book should be of interest not only to the general public, but also to physicists working in the field.
Greene, Brian: The Elegant Universe. Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The popular science book about string theory, one of the candidates for a theory of quantum gravity. In the opening chapter, the reader is taken onto an entertaining tour of both special and general relativity, itself a masterpiece of lucid explanation. Then Greene, himself a string theory expert, moves on to superstrings and M theory. A great book that has won justified acclaim; if anything, one might criticize the somewhat too optimistic picture of the status quo and future of string models that Greene paints, and the fact that the increasing complexity in the final chapters will likely overwhelm most readers.
Greene, Brian: The Fabric of the Cosmos. Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
In how far is space absolute or relative? What does spatial separation mean in a quantum world? Why is there a past and a future? Following up on such fundamental questions, Greene takes his readers on a journey from Newtonian physics to quantum gravity where often times, for seemingly simple questions, modern physics has found fascinating and surprising answers. Written as intelligibly and engagingly as the Elegant Universe, but with a significantly broader scope.
Hawking, Stephen: A brief history of time
Bantam 1988
Stephen Hawking's "Brief history of time", now available in newly illustrated and expanded editions, is truly the classic of popular science writing about physics, and one of the best-selling popular science books of the planet. For millions of readers, this was where they first heard about curved spacetime, black holes or cosmic inflation.
Hawking, Stephen: The universe in a nutshell
A colourful panorama of general relativity, quantum theory, time travel and brane worlds – with many playful professional graphics, with an emphasis on Hawking's personal areas of research, from black holes to his favourite candidate theory of quantum gravity, quantum cosmology with "imaginary time".
Beyond prose
Here, you will find books that allow you to dig deeper and gain a more thorough understanding of Einstein's theories – using simple formulae and basic high school mathematics.
Born, Max: Einstein's theory of relativity
Dover Publications 1962
A classic introduction to special (and a bit of general) relativity, using only basic high school mathematics. In this way, readers who have seen a square root before and dimly remember what triangles were all about (calculus not required) can gain a much better understanding of Einstein's theories than from a mere prose description. However, given its age, the book does not include any modern developments of the theories and their applications.
Schutz, Bernard: Gravity from the Ground Up: An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004
A thorough and extensive presentation of pretty much all aspects of gravitational physics, from Newton to gravitational waves. Again, basic math skills are required, but nothing as fancy as quadratic equations or, god forbid, calculus. Schutz, one of the directors of the Albert-Einstein-Institute in Potsdam, uses many instructive examples to guide the reader through the world of gravity – from the basics to interplanetary space travel, from stellar equilibrium to galaxies, and of course Einstein's ideas are explored in depth: The basics of general relativity are patiently explained, and the last quarter of the book is devoted to relativistic astrophysics, from black holes and gravitational waves to cosmology. As a bonus, the book has its own web-site with helpful simulations, animations, exercises (with solutions). Heartily recommended for high school students as well as undergraduates.
Website "Gravity from the Ground Up"
Mermin, N. David: It's About Time
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2005
Take a physicist bent on really understanding what relativity is all about, let him think long and hard about the subject and about the simplest way to teach it to non-physicists, add the ability to write exceptionally clear prose, and you have David Mermin's first book on special relativity, "Space and Time in Special Relativity". Let the author's ideas and views evolve and mature for about three decades, leavened by the experience of teaching special relativity to non-science students, pour the result into a highly readable form, and you get "It's About Time" – probably the best book for anyone who wants to understand the basics of special relativity using no more than the simplest geometry and algebra.
Giulini, Domenico: Special Relativity. A First Encounter
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005
An excellent basic introduction to special relativity and its consequences. The first four chapters give an overview of the theory, from its history and its basic concepts and formulae to important applications in various areas of physics. In the fifth chapter, each section takes a closer look at some special aspect of relativistic physics, including the key experimental tests of the theory, the question of superluminal velocities, and more abstract concepts like the group property of Lorentz transformations. The text is very clear and concise. Great care is taken in including all those caveats that sometimes fall by the wayside in simplified texts about special relativity. All but a few parts of the presentation can be understood with the help of pre-calculus high school mathematics. While familiarity with vectors will be of advantage to the reader – vectors are briefly introduced and sometimes used in the manner of a short-hand notation -, it is by no means a prerequisite. The book can be recommended both to students – high school and beyond – looking for a brief introduction to Einstein's famous theory, and to anyone looking for a compact refresher course.
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