Choosing a car is a little bit like dating. There are so many different cars out there. What do you need in a car? What do you prefer in a car? Do you feel that special connection when you're driving it?
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Auto magazines are a great place to get unbiased information about particular models and the advantages/disadvantages associated with them. Consumer Reports is a very thorough publication with a reputation for bias-free reporting.
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Dealerships are often the worst place to get information. They have a lot of material, but it may be very heavily biased and you may have to endure a strong sales pitch just to get simple data points. If you visit the dealership when it is closed, you can look at the cars and read the information on the vehicles without worrying about the salespeople hounding you.
Take special care in buying a first-year model. The first year of a new model's rollout is a time to iron out the kinks and you may become an unwitting guinea pig for the problems the manufacturer has to correct for the next year's model.
You've compared numbers and features. You've checked into the gas mileage. Now it's time to put away all the theory and speculation and get to the point of choosing a car: how it drives.
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If you're not comfortable with visiting dealerships just for a test drive, try renting the cars you're interested in. It may cost you $100 or so to try out your favourites, but the price comes with the freedom of driving a whole day without listening to any sales pitches.
Shopping for a dealership is just as important as the other comparisons you have been doing. It can help you save a lot of money AND ensure that you have some customer support while you're still under warranty.
All dealerships buy the cars from the manufacturer for the same price. This is the "dealer invoice price." The difference between it and the "dealer sticker price" -- the public price of an automobile that is plastered to its windshield -- is both your haggling room and the dealer's profit window.


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Gish Jen, The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
One time, teaching a course on the graphic novel, I described the differences in artistic form and storytelling technique between manga and Western comics. A student raised her hand and offered the opinion that the contrast between the two modes reflected the difference between individualist Western culture and collectivist Eastern culture. The student was Asian-American and so presumably permitted such an observation. I am professionally committed, I believe, to promulgating anti-essentialism; therefore I did not feel I was permitted to agree with it. Like the Holy Trinity, anti-essentialism is a mystery beyond human experience, as you have to be an essentialist—naïvely believing in the unity of your personality, the power of your conscious intention, and the stability of matter—just to walk across the room, so I did not press the point very hard, but I did caution against overly broad generalizations. All the same, cultural difference exists and is even visible to the naked eye: there should be some way to discuss it without undue reductionism or stereotype.
Novelist Gish Jen's nonfiction study The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap attempts a nuanced and well-informed exploration of this divide between Western and Eastern culture about the importance that should be accorded the individual—though Jen does dismiss "collectivist" and "individualist" as terms with too much Cold War bias and prefers to speak in the more neutral language of independence vs. interdependence instead.
The Girl at the Baggage Claim takes its title from its opening anecdote: an Asian woman applies to a prestigious Western academy and demonstrates her English-language proficiency in a Skype interview with the school authorities. Yet after she is accepted for enrollment, it is discovered at the airport that "the girl at the baggage claim" is not the girl they interviewed. The young woman had asked her sister, whose English was better than her own, to substitute for her in the Skype interview, and evidently saw no problem in doing so. What ideas about the self and society allowed her to think this appropriate behavior? Jen's book is essentially a comparative study of Western and Eastern sensibility attempting to explain and defend the latter to puzzled Westerners (and Jen, a first-generation American, as I am [on my mother's side], considers herself one such Westerner).
Jen divides West and East by two concepts of the self—the flexible, interdependent self of the East, embedded in its social environment and alive to its context, and the "avocado pit" self of Western individualism, self-assertive and self-esteeming. This book draws extensively on social-psychological studies to prove this split in sensibility, though the rapidity with which such studies seem to be debunked and the replication crisis affecting the field makes me wonder how persuasive this is. Her many examples from the arts are perhaps more convincing—to me, a humanist rather than a scientist—though obviously more impressionistic. The book concludes with a plea to synthesize the two sensibilities in an "ambidependent" self that would combine the freedom of the Westerner with the responsibility of the Easterner, and it is difficult to argue with this argument for nuance and complexity.
This book is a work of somewhat breezy, TED-like pop-nonfiction, though, and it definitely creaks under the complexity of its task. For one thing, Jen often admits that her binary barely holds—that, essentially, only well-off Americans fit the mold of the "avocado pit" individualist, while almost everyone else in the world, including most Europeans and many Americans (such as Catholics or the working class), exhibit higher interdependence. Attributing cultural difference to economics, Jen suggests that the source of divergent cultural sensibilities goes back to the differences among rice farming, wheat farming, and nomadism; but she also says that such difference is perpetuated through time by habit and "contagion." Even so, it does make one wonder how much culture on this model can really change if it is so determined at its source by economics? On the other hand, to note one detail that troubled me, it is surely ironic that she keeps mentioning Emerson and Thoreau as examples of Western or American individualism, when their Transcendentalist philosophy entails that what the individual actually expresses is nature and the world-spirit streaming through every particular soul. "Self-Reliance" as promoted by Emerson and Thoreau is a complicated dialectical notion bearing many surprising similarities to Taoist thought—and this is not even to note that both authors were early Western devotees of Indian, Persian, Arab, and Chinese thought. Like all binaries, independence and interdependence have a way of becoming each other in the mystic union of opposites foretold by many thinkers and writers, Western and Eastern alike.
Jen also makes things politically easier for herself than she probably should in defending interdependence. At one point, she mentions as an example of excessive American individualism the preference for choice in all things, alluding to ice cream flavors—but would she mock so readily the increasingly multiplicity of genders? Her critique of self-esteem-based education, meant to foster the student's individual expressivity, raises similar questions (though I agree with her at least provisional defense of prematurely discredited pedagogical methods like memorization). For better or worse, American individualism does not merely implicate targets agreed upon by the liberal literati, like rampant consumerism or such Republican clichés as the greedy businessman or the gun-toting bigot; it encompasses also figures and causes who would be sympathetic to this book's target audience—think of the role played by heroic individualism in African-American culture from the emancipatory slave narratives onward; or the assertion of individual preference and identity in queer culture—and I would have liked to see Jen deal with these harder questions of cultural politics. (In this context, it might be notable that the latest Chinese word to break into Western awareness is baizuo, or "white left," a term that like "social justice warrior" is used to mock cultural liberalism as so much whining and opportunistic—i.e., "virtue-signaling"—hypocrisy.)
Jen's comments on the arts, though, are welcome and suggestive, even if, as with the rest of the book, somewhat over-generalized. She argues that the great artist in Western culture is the genius, a grand individual expressing his or her vision in startlingly original terms, while the great artist in Eastern culture is the master, who has so totally merged his or her sensibility within craft, nature, and tradition that the resulting work has an air not of disruption but of smoothness and calm. She allows that this ideology of mastery may make the East a culture of excessive copying (in her own Westernized view) when she discusses plagiarism in academia and dwells at length on Dafen Oil Painting Village with its teeming replicas of classic paintings. But she also claims that mastery, in its emphasis on tradition and learning, is an aesthetic that can be a corrective to the West's enervating pursuit of novelty and transgression. Without referring to any binary of East/West, I have had similar thoughts when encountering arguments that seem to want to mandate avant-garde aesthetics for any writer with serious literary ambitions—see, for instance, my comments here, wherein I defend seemingly "traditional" novelists like Jonathan Franzen and Kazuo Ishiguro for using recognizable and even sociable literary forms to communicate their difficult truths, rather than willfully defying tradition and the reader with overt radical gestures like subtracting punctuation marks or paragraph breaks or whatever. It is just too simple to dismiss as hidebound complacency any use of traditional forms in art, and Jen's defense of mastery over genius helps to articulate why this is so.
In conclusion, The Girl at the Baggage Claim, while perhaps suffering from its pop-nonfiction simplifications, is nevertheless well worth reading as much for Jen's own genial, wise sensibility as for the examples and data she marshals.
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Exclusive interview with Omar on BETs Soul Train Awards, 1 Dec at 9pm
Catch an exclusive interview with Omar on the Soul Train Awards, hosted by Erykah Badu this Friday December 1.
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ANZ's Elliott warns coronavirus impact will be generational
Speaking on the phone from the bank's near-deserted head office in Melbourne, Mr Elliott said the crisis could lead to a spike in unemployment and also make people more averse to taking on big debts, both of which could lead to declines for housing prices. "I'm not going to give you a price prediction, but you'd have to think it was material," he said. "It's not going to be 2 or 3 per cent, it's got to be a material [effect]."
In a wide-ranging discussion, Mr Elliott said "more margin pressure" from falling interest rates, and the likelihood of higher bad debts could further hit shareholder returns. "Will returns in the banks be lower as a result of this? Clearly," Mr Elliott said.
Regulators in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe even this week moved to suspend banks from paying dividends. Mr Elliott said he could understand why some overseas regulators had declared a "time-out" for dividends, though he did not know if this would happen in Australia.
Yet despite the pain for shareholders, Mr Elliot said it was the duty of banks in crisis to wear loan losses and take risks to support their customers. Asked if ANZ was prepared to act as a "shock absorber" for the economy, Mr Elliott replied: "Yes we are prepared, that's our role actually, and that's what capital is for, that's what all the provisions and all the various things that we have on our balance sheet are for."
As part of the government's "Team Australia" plan for responding to the pandemic, the big four banks have a key role in cushioning the economy from a crisis Mr Elliott said would be "terrible" and "devastating for so many."
There was a whole generation of people who came out of the Depression who were frugal
ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott
Mr Elliott stressed the path of the crisis remained uncertain, and ANZ only this week ruled off its first half. Profits and the dividend will be announced at the end of this month after deliberations by the board.
Even so, with unemployment expected to rise sharply, he predicted the crisis could have lasting impacts on consumers' attitudes to debt, the housing market, and how people do their banking.
"Australia in the future won't look the same," he said. "It won't look the same because it will impact a whole generation of our customers, the way they think about technology, the way they think about borrowing, the way they think about employment, the way they think about frankly the capitalist system and democracy."
Social distancing might mean consumers become more willing to do their banking on their phones, which banks would welcome, but he also said people could potentially become "more fearful about taking on loans for example."
Mr Elliott, who is from New Zealand, cited the example of his grandparents, who lost their home in the 1930s Great Depression. He said his father remembered the stories growing up, and it "scarred him for life in terms of his approach to borrowing."
"That's a story of one, but you hear that a lot. You know there was a whole generation of people who came out of the Depression who were frugal, and you know, all of those sorts of things as a result. I don't want to over-dramatise it, but I think if this thing goes on for months, it will have an impact," Mr Elliott said.
He said the pandemic was crucially different to the 2008 global financial crisis and the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s because it was affecting the way of life in Australia."For Australia in particular and New Zealand, all of those other crises were something we almost watched on television, and we experienced in some ways. With this one it's fundamentally changing our way of life. That is I think psychologically massive compared to all the other ones," he said.
The Reserve Bank is giving banks $90 billion in cheap funding, and the federal government is providing $20 billion in loan guarantees to keep small and medium firms alive during the shock. Lenders have promised repayment holidays to small businesses, consumers and landlords with up to $10 million in debt.
Mr Elliott said small business clients have been especially hard hit, with 17 to 18 per cent of ANZ's 130,000 small and medium enterprise customers having requested a repayment deferral. Close to 50,000, or 5 per cent of its 1 million-odd mortgage customers have sought a repayment holiday. Hardship applications — for people who can no longer afford their loan, even with a deferral — have doubled.
My concern is we're only at the beginning of this thing, we're in like week two really, I mean this is going to go on for a long time,
ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott
The crisis has also forced big employers such as banks to rapidly activate work-from-home plans for tens of thousands of staff, including in ANZ's case, thousands in Manila and Bangalore.
Mr Elliott is one of the few ANZ staff still turning up to the office for work, with 90 per cent of non-branch its Australian staff working remotely. He said he was effectively working in a "bunker" of sorts, and work was "a bit lonely," with face-to-face meetings replaced with a stream of conference calls.
"I've got literally half a floor all on my own," he said.
"You spend your whole life on a phone, so you have your multiple conference calls. It's very quiet, it is a bit strange. It's a strange feeling to be perfectly honest, and you feel a bit disconnected."
The bank is trying to keep staff healthy by providing webcasts from psychologists on how to stay resilient, and he said staff were using the online video-conferencing program Zoom to arrange social events like pizza nights and morning teas.
But Mr Elliott said he was concerned about the toll it will take on people as the crisis drags on.
"Not everybody is living in a nice cosy family situation at home, some are sharing houses, some are on their own, and that can be quite isolating and difficult for people. My concern is we're only at the beginning of this thing, we're in like week two really, I mean this is going to go on for a long time," he said.
Clancy Yeates is a business reporter.
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gently compressing materials to record levels
Video: Physicist Dayne Fratanduono explains how NIF researchers put the extreme squeeze on materials.
The following is an excerpt from the cover story by Arnie Heller in the September 2019 issue of Science & Technology Review.
"Materials Under Ramp Compression" is the September 2019 cover story of Science & Technology Review. Cover image by Mark Gartland.
For the past decade, a team of scientists has been using NIF, the world's largest and most energetic laser, to determine equation-of-state (EOS) data for solid materials at pressures never before achieved, up to 5 terapascals (TPa), or 50 million times Earth's ambient air pressure.
From the instantaneous detonation of a nuclear weapon or high explosive to the evolution of a planet's core over millions of years, a material's EOS is required to fully understand the relationship between its pressure, temperature, and density.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers must determine accurate EOS data of key elements to inform the computational models of material behavior that support National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) applications. These models drive simulations that demonstrate how materials respond to enormous pressures and high temperatures and help to assure that the nation's nuclear weapons remain safe, secure, and effective.
Approximately 400 experiments are conducted at NIF annually, many of which support NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program, including inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. For a few billionths of a second during an ICF experiment, NIF's 192 lasers duplicate the same temperatures, densities, and pressures found within the interiors of stars and planets and detonating nuclear explosives.
The setup for a ramp compression experiment at NIF shows a cone-shaped device attached to the outside of the hohlraum wall. The device blocks stray laser light that can interfere with diagnostic measurements.
About 15 experiments per year are aimed at researching materials' equations of state. In addition, about four shots a year are devoted to Discovery Science EOS experiments that help reveal the likely composition of stars and planets.
For decades, the traditional method for determining a material's EOS was to send a sudden shock through a material and measure its response. This shock compression method relies on lasers, gas guns, and other tools to launch a virtually instantaneous shock wave through a sample, rapidly melting it.
However, shock compression limits the combination of pressures, temperatures, and densities that may be reached to a narrow portion of the material's EOS. To reach a broader set of conditions, an alternative route—ramp compression—is proving immensely useful.
Ramp compression experiments on NIF apply a carefully tailored laser pulse shape that more "softly" compresses a material without forming a shock. Jon Eggert, group leader for Dynamic Materials Properties, explains, "NIF allows us to control the energy of the beams as a function of time so we can compress the sample more slowly. NIF is fantastic for ramp compression."
The technique is helping scientists better understand the physics of solids compressed to extreme densities under a wider range of pressures and much lower temperatures.
To read the full story, which includes a related story, "Discovery Science Looks at Exoplanets," go to Science & Technology Review.
Story updated July 28, 2020
—Arnie Heller
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Family Matters Could Be Pivotal in Biden's Decision on Presidential Run
Official White House Photo by David Lienemann
Former Vice President Joe Biden is ahead in most polls in the crowded field of Democrat presidential hopefuls, and many pundits claim he may be in the best position to deliver President Donald Trump a one-term legacy.
But in an NBC News analysis on what Biden is weighing ahead of what would be his last shot at residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue reveals the very things that have made him endearing to many Americans could keep him out of the 2020 race.
Given Biden's fierce loyalty to his family and the tragedies he has faced — the death of his first wife and daughter in a car accident and the death four years ago of his son Beau — he may be too sensitive to any criticism of his personal life that could come his way from the GOP and/or President Donald Trump.
"I offered my general advice that he should do what he does best, which is focus on the positive and let others take up the mantle of defending his family, his record and his honor to the extent that's at all necessary," Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) told NBC News.
NBC News reported:
No line of attack would be more reprehensible to Biden than one directed at his family, and he and his team have been forced to consider that even as they also weigh the political dynamics.
Biden is the senior statesman and a largely popular figure in a Democratic Party eager to unite quickly behind someone who can win back the White House. But he's also a grandfather and a father trying to keep his family together.
Biden told his closest aides this week he has a few final "traps" to run before a final decision — including gut-check conversations with his children and grandchildren.
"Family is the beginning, the middle and the end. Everything revolves around family," Biden said at a recent public event.
And his family as it is constituted today is also part of Biden's decision process.
His wife, Jill, has penned a book that is due to be released in May that publishers are promoting as a "brave and vulnerable glimpse into the creation of a beloved American family."
Biden's other son, Hunter, has his own struggles, including going through a nasty divorce and substance abuse issues, according to NBC News.
"Discussions among his inner circle have included simulating what would happen on the campaign trail if Biden were asked to respond to a fresh Trump tweet or public comment directed at Biden's family," NBC News reported.
But, that said, the consensus is Biden is leaning in the direction of yet another political campaign.
"Elected Democrats and key party figures who've spoken with Biden, in person or by phone, say he has been giving percentages of the likelihood of him running — from 70 to 80 and even more recently 90 percent," NBC News reported.
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Q: sql query to find matches between two columns I have a table abc which has three columns a,b,c

a      b
apple    ram
ram      apple

apple can be eaten by ram but ram cant be eaten by apple
I want to write a query to fetch all the rows which has the above said relationship in order to delete all the rows with the relationship

a        b
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A: I think a join with itself could do the trick:
SELECT t.a, t.b
FROM "abc" as t left inner join on "abc" as t2 on (t.a = t2.b and t2.a = t.b)

A: SELECT *
FROM tbl1
NATURAL JOIN tbl1;

OR for one table
SELECT a.column_name, b.column_name...
FROM table1 a, table1 b
WHERE a.common_field = b.common_field;

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Doctoring the evidence: what the science establishment doesn't want you to know
Science has a dirty secret: research is plagued by plagiarism, falsification and fabrication. So how can the sociopaths in lab coats be stopped?
Brian Deer
August 12 2012, 1:01am, The Sunday Times
In nearly seven years since being appointed editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal, Dr Fiona Godlee has won a name for upsetting consensus.
Publishing hard-hitting investigations alongside traditional research articles, she has challenged drug companies and professional societies like an old-school muckraking reporter rather than editor of the medical establishment's house journal.
Hammering out an editorial last week at the British Medical Association's redbrick headquarters off Euston Road in London, she tackled one of the toughest problems of all: science fraud and research misconduct.
"It is difficult to know how prevalent misconduct is," Godlee wrote, "but there is evidence that it happens frequently."
She was commenting on a voluntary "concordat", just signed by a crowd of research-funding agencies, that is supposed to outlaw scientific fraud…


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Compare the teachings of Mormonism to the truth of God's Holy word, The Bible. Click on the links below.
Core Differences - Core differences between the Bible and Mormonism.
Good News! - Some Biblical verses to share with Mormons.
A Brief History - A list of key events in Mormonism.
Gospels Compared - The Mormon "gospel" compared to the true Gospel.
Doctrines Compared - Topics: Salvation, God, Jesus and Humanity.
Joseph's Grove - Joseph Smith's misuse of James 1:5.
Broken Promise - Total apostasy contradicts God's promise.
Atonement- Where? - Must we work for our salvation?
The Veil Is Torn! - There's an important connection with the veil being torn and Jesus' death.
Did God Create? - Mormonism: No! We are eternal and can become gods.
The Fall (Part 1) - The Fall of Adam and Eve according to Mormonism.
The Fall (Part 2) - The Fall of Adam and Eve according to the Bible.
Worthy To Enter - Do we need LDS temples to enjoy God's presence?
Murder Forgiven? - Are there sins God cannot forgive?
Jehovah Elohim - Are these names of two separate gods?
Who Is Jesus? - Was Jesus created, or is He Creator?
Virgin Birth - Was Mary a virgin when she conceived Jesus?
Pray To Know - Is it proper to pray about the Book of Mormon?
Prayers to Jesus - Is praying to Jesus Biblical?
Eternal Spirit - Was the Holy Spirit always God?
Abiding Spirit - Does the Holy Spirit dwell in true believers?
Salvation? - We are either fully saved through works or by grace alone.
Authority? - Who has the authority to preach the Gospel?
Book of Mormon Errors - Is the Book of Mormon the most correct book?
Who Are the Lamanites? - Principle ancestors of the American Indians?
Humanity - Did we pre-exist and are able to progress to become gods?
It's In The DNA - Does science prove Lamanites are American Indians?


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Q: How to get web-app in taskbar using URL? I'm really new to Ubuntu and Linux OS, and I have been digging around trying to find the answer to my question.
I want to have a shortcut to a specific URL address in the Unity taskbar (the menu bar to the left).
What I want it to be and how to work: I want to have the shortcut to µTorrent web-app using the URL, and I want it to open up in a new Firefox window. Pretty much how the YouTube application works.
Is this possible to do, and if so, can I have the µTorrent icon on my shortcut?

A: I am not sure what the µTorrent web-app looks like, but to make an icon (desktop file) call a specific url you can create a desktop file, with an Exec= line, like:
firefox -new-window <url>

To do that:

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*Open the existing firefox.desktop file in /usr/share/applications with gedit (open gedit and drop the file on the gedit window)

*Save the file as torrent.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications.

*Remove al the lines below, and including Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;
Change the following lines

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*The line starting with Name= replace with: Name=Utorrent, remove the other lines like Name[language]=

*The line starting with Exec= replace with firefox -new-window <the _url_you_want>

*The line starting with Icon= replace with Icon=/path/to/your/icon
Drag the new `torrent.desktop file on to the launcher and it will work.
A few remarks:

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*The window of the url you are calling with the starter will appear under the existing Firefox icon in the launcher.

*As a general rule, I would prefer not to have multiple desktop files, calling the same application in their native command (the first 'Exec=` line of the file). The solution below is therefore a "cleaner" solution, and still makes the url available from the launcher:

Alternatively
You can add the torrent link to your existing firefox icon:
To do that:

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*Copy the existing firefox.desktop in /usr/share/applications to the local directory:
`cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop`

*Open the file with gedit (like in the first example)

*Add the following to the end of the file:
[Desktop Action utorrent]
Name=utorrent
Exec=firefox -new-window <url>
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

*Change the line (further above) starting with:
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;

to:
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;utorrent;

After log out and back in, the link will be added.

A: Run:
gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/<DESIRED NAME>.desktop

Add following lines to the resulting empty document :
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=<WHATEVER NAME>
Comment=<WHATEVER>
TryExec=firefox <URL>
Exec=firefox <URL>
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=<PATH TO A ICON .PNG FILE>
NoDisplay=false
MimeType=applications/php

Then in the dash you will able to find the icon which opens the firefox with your URL.
Click on add to task bar. Then the icon eill appear in task bar.
** Put necessary things to the < >.

A: Hi & Welcome to Ask Ubuntu,
I'm very sure you'll get different types of answer and indeed this question made me to play with certain applications and bash scripts. Well, I had a quick go through and it seems working perfectly on my 12.04 LTS. Refer below steps
Add PPA, Update your system & install Ubuntu tweek
I do not know your OS version you're on but this should work without causing you any errors. Refer mroe on installing and understanding Ubuntu Tweak tool.
Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) & do below;
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa      # add apt repository for ubuntu tweak
sudo apt-get update                            # update the system before installing pkg
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak              # install ubuntu tweak

One a related note, install the gnome-panel
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel               # installing gnome panel
sudo apt-get install -f                        # only run if any dependency problem raises

Preparing the bash script to open firefox & url
You may use your favorite editor on a terminal (vi or nano). In here, I've opened vi editor on terminal.
vi filname.sh               # if you have nano, then use "nano filename.sh"

Paste the script shown below;
#!/bin/bash

# Launch clean firefox profile with parameters:
# -no-remote    don't connect to any running instance of firefox
# -P        run firefox through a profile
# firefox -P 'Another Profile' &
sleep 4 # wait for firefox to load

# Open URLs
firefox -new-tab 'https://askubuntu.com/users'

and to save it hit Esc once then type :wq! which will write the script to the file and force quit. Make sure you replace the URL with your preferred one. You may refer more on customizing the script here. Once you've saved the script, give executable permission to it.
chmod +x filename.sh             # this will make the file executable

Important: note down the /path/to/the/filename.sh, which will be needed when creating the script shortcut.
Making the script work with Ubuntu Tweak & pin to Dash menu

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*Open the Ubuntu Tweak tool from the dash menu

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*Click on Admins tab -> click on Scripts

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*You'll see Create Launcher.. at the bottom of Disabled scripts (right column), and drag it to Enabled scripts (left column).

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*Afterwards, go to the location of where you've saved your filename.sh, -> right click -> Script -> Create launcher (which will give you below screen).

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*Fill in accordingly to fit your need (seen above) & make sure to select the filename.sh file by browsing and finish it with Ok. There'll be a shortcut created on the same location where your script file located. Simply drag it and put it into the dash panel.

Hope this helps! :)


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Proof! Water Ice Found on Mars
By Clara Moskowitz
These images from the Phoenix Mars Lander show sublimation of ice in the trench informally called "Dodo-Goldilocks" between Sols 20 and 24 (June 15 and 18, 2008. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)
Scientists said today they have "found proof" ofwater ice on Mars away from the polar ice caps, a discovery made by NASA'sPhoenix Mars Lander.
The finding is a crucial first step toward learningwhether the ground on Mars is hospitable, because all life as we know it requireswater. Now scientists can get on with the business of studying the chemistry ofMars dirt in more detail.
When the probe took photos of a ditch it had dug four daysbefore, scientists noticed that about eight small crumbs of a bright materialhad disappeared. They concluded those crumbs had been water ice buried under athin layer of dirt that vaporized when Phoenix exposed them to the air.
"It's with great pride and a lot of joy I announcetoday we have found proof that this hard material really is water ice and notsome other substance," Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith of theUniversity of Arizona, Tucson said at a briefing Friday.
The finding had been discussed tentatively yesterday, but ina press conference today, researchers left no doubts.
Phoenix's robotic arm first revealed the crumbs about 5 cmdeep in the trench called "Dodo-Goldilocks" on June 15. By June 19,they had vanished. If the crumbs had been salt, they wouldn't have disappeared,scientists said, and if the ice had been made of carbon dioxide, they wouldn'thave vaporized.
"What this tells us is we found what we're lookingfor," said Mark Lemmon, a Phoenix co-investigator from Texas A&MUniversity. "This tells us that we've got water ice within reach of the [robotic]arms, which means that we can continue the investigation."
The $420million mission landed on the arctic plains of Mars May 25,embarking on a quest of at least four months to search for signs that theenvironment was once habitable to life.
A "significant result"
Finding ice on Mars isn't completely shocking, sinceobservations from past satellites sent to orbit the planet, such as the 2001Mars Odyssey spacecraft, have indicated that ice is likely to lie beneath the planet'ssurface. Still, if confirmed, this would be the first direct finding of thatice by a probe on the ground.
??We certainly expected to find ice there," said BruceJakosky, a geologist at the University of Colorado who has been involved withpast missions to the red planet. "It was the [previous] evidence for icethat sent us to that location. But there?s a difference between expecting itand finding.?
Jakosky called the discovery a ?significant result? thatallows the Phoenix mission to go forward with its wet chemistry experiments,analyzing the soil for the history and composition of the ice.
?If they had found no ice, which was a real possibility, thatwould make this much harder,? he told SPACE.com. ?I?m anxious to see theresults of the chemical analysis.?
And although the 2001 Mars Odyssey satellite could measurethe average water ice content in roughly the top meter ofground over areas of several hundred kilometers, these data didn'treveal how that ice was spread out, said Maria Zuber, a geophysicist at MIT whoworked on past Mars missions, including the Spirit rover.
"We don't know the form of the water, beyond the factthat there is too much there to be explained solely by water bound inminerals," Zuber said. "So chunks, a layer, etc. are allpossibilities. The [Phoenix] observation is an important advance in ourunderstanding of water on Mars, and continued sampling willundoubtedly add to the story."
The next questions to answer are what chemicals, mineralsand organic compounds might be mixed in with the water.
"Just the fact that there's ice there doesn't tell youif it's habitable," Smith said. "With ice and no food it's not ahabitable zone. We don?t eat rocks ? we have to have carbon chain materialsthat we ingest into our bodies to create new cells and give us energy. That?swhat we eat and that's what has to be there if you're going to have a habitablezone on Mars."
To find this out, mission scientists plan to eventually putsamples of ice into Phoenix's oven instrument, the Thermal and Evolved-GasAnalyzer (TEGA), which is designed to bake Martian dirt and analyze the vaporsit emits to detectits composition. They also plan to use the onboard Microscopy,Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) instrument, a wet chemistrylab that measures levels of acidity, minerals, and conductivity in dirtsamples.
"Now we know for sure that we are on an icy surface andwe can really meet the science goals of our mission at the highest level,"Lemmon said. "I am just sitting at the edge of my chair waiting to findout what the TEGA and MECA can tell us about these soils."
Although the ice finding was expected, until Phoenixactually found it, many scientists were still holding their breath.
"As for the ice, we were expecting to find it, butscience is full of the unexpected, so until they actually found the ice and canbegin to study it there are real questions about whether or not the hypothesiswas correct," said Phil Christensen, a geophysicist at Arizona StateUniversity who worked on 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, and the MarsExploration Rover missions. "The real excitement will come when they startto study the ice in detail and attempt to learn how it formed and how old itis."
Additional reporting for this article was contributed byJeremy Hsu, SPACE.com staff writer.
Video: Digging on Mars
Video: NASA's Phoenix: Rising to the Red Planet
New Images: Phoenix on Mars!
Clara Moskowitz
Clara Moskowitz is a science and space writer who joined the Space.com team in 2008 and served as Assistant Managing Editor from 2011 to 2013. Clara has a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She covers everything from astronomy to human spaceflight and once aced a NASTAR suborbital spaceflight training program for space missions. Clara is currently Associate Editor of Scientific American. To see her latest project is, follow Clara on Twitter.
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Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ
The Sun Devil Fitness Complex renovation and expansion provides extensive new student recreation and social space while creating a new gateway into Arizona State University's Tempe campus. Located adjacent to the existing student recreation building, the expansion includes five new basketball courts, a fitness center, wellness center, lounge and gaming areas, and a multi-activity court (MAC) for indoor soccer and field hockey. Student input during the programming phase emphasized the desire for an active, dynamic facility enhancing the university's goals for wellness and community-focused campus life.
Planned on the grid of a pre-war suburban neighborhood, the ASU campus has grown increasingly dense and urban over time to the point where new buildings must develop vertically to preserve open space for shade plantings and retention basins. This became evident in early planning stages for the Sun Devil Fitness Complex, where the limitations of the site area required that three of the six courts be located on the second level over the lower volume of the remaining courts and fitness area, thereby completing the south facing court around the large swimming pool and deck area. In direct response to crucial programming sessions with the university, the design embodies campus planning goals to increase open space, to establish a prominent presence along the southern edge of the campus, to provide a visual transition to the multi-story student residences to the south and east, and to create an open inviting vision into the campus from the surrounding community. The stepped and cantilevered building mass and carefully located openings create a successful gateway into the heart of ASU's campus.
By stacking the building forms, the design team created unique views and vantage points to and from the surrounding campus. Three of the five basketball courts are located on the second floor with large windows providing views of ASU. The MAC gym has floor-to-ceiling glass windows opening views to an adjacent campus roadway. An outdoor passageway under the second floor gyms provides a gateway for students entering the campus from the south. The tapered building mass is animated through implicit shifts and folds. Undercut masses provide shading and protect the internal playing surfaces from the effects of direct sunlight and glare.
The Sun Devil Fitness Complex is a highly visible facility where students inside and outside can view the activities happening around them. This interconnectedness also helped meet the user group's desire to enhance student life and build a sense of campus community. The facility is designed so only two additional staff are needed for building supervision and operation despite nearly doubling the total program area. Additionally, maintaining and renovating the existing main entry was crucial for the directors to not only avoid additional staff and security, but to retain the prominent termination of a main pedestrian mall on campus.
The facility incorporates a wide variety of energy saving and sustainable design features and is on track to achieve a LEED Platinum rating. Heat transmission through walls is reduced through the use of a cement panel rain screen system and continuous exterior insulation layer, combined with heavily insulated double walled spaces (used for storage and duct chases) along the east and west faces of the building. Further energy reductions were achieved through the addition of solar thermal collectors on the roof of the existing building, which generates a significant amount of chilled water through a new absorption chiller and uses the large pool as a heat sink. A 280 kilowatt photovoltaic array is also located on the expansive roof of the expansion building. All the surface water runoff for the project is contained within the site through the incorporation of underground storage tanks and large retention basins in the surrounding desert landscape.
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So, what's Lighting trends in 2016 will be like?
LEDs (light emitting diodes) are a popular lighting choice in 2016. Here's why: They cut energy usage making them kinder to the environment. LEDs cut costs- not only your electricity bill but the cost of the replacement bulb too. Some LEDs last 15 years! Yes they might cost more to start with, but because you barely ever need to replace them you'll end up save money in the long run. Check LED hut to find some great bulbs deals!
Swapping to LED (Guardian article)is a smart move. LEDs didn't use to provide the great light they do now. They shine out a clear warm or cold light and are available in all shapes, styles and sizes according to your preference and personal choice. I love what BrightGoods has to offer, it's definitely worthy to explore their site for great LED choices of trendy Edison lightbulbs like. IKEA also offers great LED choices of the filament bulbs but also the newest pendants that are all LED ready like the pendant Ikea Hektar pendant below.
Hiding functional objects is a major goal of big designers. Recessed lights have always been popular in functional areas but they're coming out of the kitchen and taking up residence on the landing, in the bedroom and even in the lounge. Let me point out my cost effective LED recessed lights in case you couldn't spot them.
Okey, I know, not all are the latest trends but something that in 2016 will be even more trendy. Anything from feathers, wood to natural brass and copper. Things we would naturally pick up from woods, from soil etc. This has been huge thing in past years and this aren't going anywhere!
Matching your room lends a professional, personal touch to your home. Curtains, cushions, lamps all in the same shade makes a room look well designed and complete. A certain colour scheme also creates a feature and focal point to a room and there is no need for pictures or ornaments which may create clutter and take up space.
Staple of the 18th century home, chandeliers may now seem old-fashioned. Oh wait, it's all about turning expectations around. Finding a traditional chandelier in an unconventional place like the bedroom or kitchen is a great design feature. You may prefer a less traditional style to hang over the traditional dining room table which is a popular 2016 lighting trend. Lampcommerce will help you with some inspiration and great chandelier designs for all tastes and rooms.
Circles, straws and geometric shapes are big news in the lighting world this year. Artemide supply a great range for people fed-up with dusty pendants. Create artwork with your lighting and be creative – two birds with one stone!
Industrial and upcyling has been trendy for so long now, but I think 2016 will be big boom. Interior exhibitions are now full on with all the quirky car parts lighting, upcycled from metal or old items. What is also cool, that now most of the upcycled items has LED lighting so making it even more eco!
So many DIY programs tell us the garden is simply another room waiting for its make-over, and how better than making a small change go a long way other rather refreshing the lighting options. Solar power makes outdoor lights accessible for all, but they can be a little dull on the brightness front particularly after a cloudy day. An external electricity supply makes lighting a lot brighter, even on those dark mornings. Imagine your cherry tree full of twinkling fairy lights all year round, or an illuminated path to the pond- amazing!
Not quite lava lamps, but light-fittings that glow and add fun colour to your design. These can be decorative accents around a mirror, a string of fairy lights across a bookshelf, or an array of lights under the kitchen cupboard – the choice is endless.
Lighting is a hugely overlooked aspect of design but with so much to offer. The whole ambience of a room can alter with a single switch from tired old bulbs to new LED lights. If you want to update your home in 2016 – switch on and rethink the lighting in your home!
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Love the handlebars light, that is so cute!
I love chandeliers, they always look so glamorous.
I love LED lights, pleased to see it could be a trend!
Wow nice. You definitely know your stuff. Wish you could come design my home Anna.
All of these are absolutely fantastic! I especially love the pom pom fluffy cloud lights (been trying to find some affordable ones on my Mums request for ages) and the primary coloured ones that look like little helmets.