Side-View mirrors have come a long way, from not existing at all to helping prevent horrific accidents by using sensors and alerts to help you detect blind spots.
You might remember in Driver's Ed when you learned how to switch lanes, you would turn on your turn indicators, check your side-view mirrors, and then give a quick glance over your shoulder into your blind spot to make extra sure the lane next to you is clear before cautiously veering over. Kudos to those of you who have stuck with that procession. Shame on you who haphazardly switch lanes without so much as a signal. The point of teaching this technique was to minimize the amount of accidents on the road caused by lane-switching because there are these spaces called "blind spots" where the driver simply can't see with just a mirror.
Side-view mirrors weren't always available though. Even in the late 1960s cars only had a side-view mirror on the driver's side of the car. Now they've come a long way, to where you can see a lot more next to you without having to turn your head. They even have bright flashing lights that indicate you're moving over to other drivers, and sensors that yell at you from inside of the car if you're about to crash into someone.
Volvo was the first manufacturer to make a Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) and implement it in a car in 2007. Ford followed suit in 2009, before Mazda in 2012, and then Mitsubishi in 2016. The BLIS is supposed to inform the driver of things in their blind spots, via sensors and cameras built into side-view mirrors. Since BLIS there is now lane departure warning (which is self-explanatory) and parking sonar, which helps you not bash your car into a telephone pole or curb while parking.
There's a decent argument for blind spot detection, lane departure warning, and parking sonar breeding a generation of lazy drivers. However, there's no arguing with the fact that these could reduce the number of accidents that occur in the US, and thereby save multiple thousands of lives.
These systems, while brilliant in their own ways, are all different depending on what kind of car is equipped with them, which means they all operate within different parameters. If a car were to somehow slip in beyond those parameters, the car might not warn you until it's too late. For this reason, it's still a good idea to look over your shoulder. Afterall, even with all the latest technology, the side-view mirror isn't exactly a "blind-spot mirror" quite yet. For the driver who's on the road a lot and suffers from fatigue, these systems are good to get you back on the road if you start to wander, but so are the little ridges on the sides of highways that are there to warn you when you're drifting into the freeway shoulder.
If drivers actually paid enough attention to the road, and realized they were driving a 4,000-pound steel and plastic death machine at 70 mph, perhaps we wouldn't need this radical safety equipment. The fact remains that relying on car development and technology shouldn't replace good driving habits. So yes, don't forget to check your blind spots.


Trading doesn't always mean sitting at your desk looking at a screen for 8 hours a day. It is very possible to trade successfully on a part-time basis too. You can even choose at what time suits you!
In this video I explain 3 ways in which you can trade in your spare time. All three ways work and I know first hand because I've used them all. Watch the video to learn more.
This is the third and final part of this series in which I test an outside bar strategy found on the internet for free, on USD/JPY. In the first part I showed you the rules and then began testing the best time period of the day to take the trades.
In this final part of the video I continue using the new exit and try to find the best times of the day to trade. Then I introduce some new filters taken from the daily timeframe. Lastly I put the strategy to test using some out of sample data. Data more recent than the data used to originally test and develop the strategy, to see how it performs going forward.
Finally I conclude with my thoughts on this strategy and this entry signal as a whole.
This is the second part of this series in which I test an outside bar strategy found on the internet for free, on USD/JPY. In the first part I showed you the rules and then began testing the best time period of the day to take the trades.
This time I look into those stop and take profit levels and then introduce a timed exit. Watch the video to find out how it works out..
Welcome to the third video series in which I give you an over-the-shoulder look at how I backtest and improve mechanical trading strategies.
In this first video I begin to code and test a free trading strategy found on the Forex Factory forum. It's a strategy for trading Forex on a 4 hr timeframe. In this series I am testing USD/JPY.
I did a previous series which I used the same strategy but tested on GBP/USD. You can see that HERE.
Welcome to this third and final part in the series in which I give you an over-the-shoulder look into a trading strategy development process. I test and develop a trading strategy to show you each step of the process. By the end of the development I hope to have a useable strategy, something that you may also consider trading.
In this third part of the development I look at the level at which the breakout entry will occur. I use a multiple of the High to Low range. And lastly, once I have some results I am happy with, I go on to apply the strategy to some out of sample data. This is to see how the strategy would have worked in unseen forward data.
Welcome to another series in which I give you an over-the-shoulder look into a trading strategy development process. I test and develop a trading strategy to show you each step of the process. By the end of the development I hope to have a useable strategy, something that you may also consider trading.
In this second part I continue going through the development. Firstly look into how trading each day of the week will effect results. Then look at the duration or time window we can take the trades. Lastly I introduce a previous day filter. Looking at what happens if the previous day was a white or black candle.
In this video I outline the strategy rules on the whiteboard then go ahead with the first stages of development.
Even after the first 2 stages, we have the start of a strategy with some promise.
We are trying to identify a time window within the trading session where we can take a breakout above the high or below the low of the session so far.
Firstly we start with a 1 hour time window. Let's imagine our time window is 1am to 2am. At 1 am we look at the high and the low of the session so far. The market we are looking at is USD/JPY and so the session began at 17:00 the previous day.
If within our 1 hour time window the high or low of the session is broken then we take the trade. We go long if the high is broken and short if the low is broken.
We will use a stop loss. And we exit the position at the end of the session. So trades last less than 24 hours.
This is the fifth and final part in this series where I take a Forex strategy I found for free and backtest it. I hope to make some improvements and by the end of the development process it could be a useable strategy.
In this video I continue the development process. I change the dynamics of the strategy turning it into a intra-day strategy. I do this by exiting the trades at the end of the day. Again, I will look at some stable stop loss and take profit levels. Watch the video to find out how it works.
This is the fourth part in this series where I take a Forex strategy I found for free and backtest it. I hope to make some improvements and by the end of the development process it could be a useable strategy.
In this video I continue the development process. I continue looking at Stop loss and Profit levels. But this time rather than using fixed pip or fixed Dollar levels, I am going to choose a level related to the volatility of the set up bar. Watch the video to find out how it works.


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package es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;

/**
 *
 * A representation of the model object 'Deployment Unit Type'.
 *
 *
 *

 * The following features are supported:
 *

 *
{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getName Name}

 *
{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getVersion Version}

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{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getDescription Description}

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{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getProvider Provider}

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{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getPackage Package}

 *
{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getExportedResources Exported Resources}

 *
{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getDependencies Dependencies}

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{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getConstraints Constraints}

 *
{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getUnitRepositories Unit Repositories}

 *

 *

 *
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public interface DeploymentUnitType extends EObject {

	String getE_id();
	void setE_id(String id);

	/**
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	 *
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	 *
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	 * @return the value of the 'Name' attribute.
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	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='name'"
	 * @generated
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	/**
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	/**
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	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_Version()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String" required="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='version'"
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	 *
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	 * @see #getVersion()
	 * @generated
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	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						An optional human readable description of the
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	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Description' attribute.
	 * @see #setDescription(String)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_Description()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='description'"
	 * @generated
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	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Description' attribute.
	 * @see #getDescription()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setDescription(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Provider' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						An optional reference to the deployment unit
	 * 						provider.
	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Provider' containment reference.
	 * @see #setProvider(ProviderType)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_Provider()
	 * @model containment="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='provider'"
	 * @generated
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	ProviderType getProvider();

	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Provider' containment reference.
	 * @see #getProvider()
	 * @generated
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	void setProvider(ProviderType value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Package' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						File that contains the resources/artifacts to
	 * 						which this deployment unit description pertains
	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Package' containment reference.
	 * @see #setPackage(PackageType)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_Package()
	 * @model containment="true" required="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='package'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	PackageType getPackage();

	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Package' containment reference.
	 * @see #getPackage()
	 * @generated
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	void setPackage(PackageType value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Exported Resources' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						A collection of the logical exported resources
	 * 						by the deployment unit
	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Exported Resources' containment reference.
	 * @see #setExportedResources(ExportedResourcesType)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_ExportedResources()
	 * @model containment="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='exportedResources'"
	 * @generated
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	ExportedResourcesType getExportedResources();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getExportedResources Exported Resources}' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Exported Resources' containment reference.
	 * @see #getExportedResources()
	 * @generated
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	void setExportedResources(ExportedResourcesType value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Dependencies' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						List of dependencies to other deployment units
	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Dependencies' containment reference.
	 * @see #setDependencies(DependenciesType)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_Dependencies()
	 * @model containment="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='dependencies'"
	 * @generated
	 */
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	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Dependencies' containment reference.
	 * @see #getDependencies()
	 * @generated
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	void setDependencies(DependenciesType value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Constraints' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						Section that incudes contraints on the execution
	 * 						environment, either to the containing runtime,
	 * 						or to the underlying operating system and
	 * 						hardware
	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Constraints' containment reference.
	 * @see #setConstraints(ConstraintsType)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_Constraints()
	 * @model containment="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='constraints'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	ConstraintsType getConstraints();

	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Constraints' containment reference.
	 * @see #getConstraints()
	 * @generated
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	void setConstraints(ConstraintsType value);

	/**
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	 *
	 *
	 *
	 *
	 * 						List of repositories where this deployment unit
	 * 						should be found
	 *
	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Unit Repositories' containment reference.
	 * @see #setUnitRepositories(UnitRepositoriesType)
	 * @see es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.UnitPackage#getDeploymentUnitType_UnitRepositories()
	 * @model containment="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='unitRepositories'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	UnitRepositoriesType getUnitRepositories();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link es.itecban.deployment.model.deployment.unit.DeploymentUnitType#getUnitRepositories Unit Repositories}' containment reference.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Unit Repositories' containment reference.
	 * @see #getUnitRepositories()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setUnitRepositories(UnitRepositoriesType value);

	/**
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	 * @param name The name of the resource, can not be null
	 * @return The matching ResourceType, null if no matches are made
	 * @generated NOT
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	ResourceType getResource(String name);
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A program in Howard County, Maryland teaches students how to plan their school meals.
Congrats to Howard County teachers and administrators for this initiative. The culinary class is part of Prostart – a career building program for high schoolers. Totally awesome.


Hydraulic bursting and splitting breaks concrete by applying lateral forces against the concrete. Rather than shattering the concrete into bits as impact tools would, the lateral forces build up to crack the concrete into smaller sections.
A hydraulic burster consists of a hydraulic powered motor and a burster head / ram, which is made of pistons. Prior to bursting, a series of holes needs to be core drilled into the area needing to be removed. Hole sizes usually range from 115mm or 200mm in diameter. The burster head is then placed into the holes one after the other, placed under pressure forcing the burster head pistons to expand within the hole, which in turn causes the concrete to break into manageable pieces. This is repeated until all the area targeted for removal has been separated.
Used in conjunction with drilling, powerful hydraulic wedges are inserted into pre-drilled holes and mechanically expanded until the material is forced apart. Once the integrity has been broken down, the concrete can be removed using your preferred method. Darda Splitting sequence: a hole of a precise diameter and depth is drilled into the material. The wedge set (one wedge and two counter wedges) is inserted into the hole drilled; the wedge is driven forward under hydraulic pressure, forcing the counter wedges apart. The material splits within seconds; with enlarging counter wedges the split can be expanded.


Sierra Nevada earlier this year announced they'd be opening in taproom in Berkeley. The new taproom, to be called "The Torpedo Room," is apparently on track to open this November.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is targeting early November to open its Berkeley, Calif., space, coined the Torpedo Room. The intimate venue—whose name is inspired by the brewery's innovative dry-hopping device, the Hop Torpedo—fits into a mixed-use building on Fourth Street between University Avenue and Addison Street. The Torpedo Room can host approximately 45 craft beer drinkers for educational tastings of unique and limited Sierra Nevada beers, as well as the occasional craft-centric event dedicated to beer science.
The Torpedo Room will feature 16 taps, and draught beer will be served in taster flights. Guests will also have the option of filling growlers to go, as well as purchasing six-packs, cases and individual specialty bottles. Light snacks will accompany beer flights, but there is not a full menu.
Here's what the building looks like now.
And these are artist's renderings of what it will look like when the build-out is complete, from the outside.
And here's what the interior is expected to look like.


Want to share some wonderful goodies with you all today because I my friends were kind enough to share them with me...thus I feel obligated to pass on the love!
Must put this photo in first, because I am head over heels for this perfume from Victoria Secret. Though we don't have one here in the Canadian West Coast, La Senza does carry it in some of their stores. I'm really just waiting for VS to hit here... the perfume is so gorgeous, very lush without being nauseous.
Now you may be wondering about that lonely bland looking lip balm in the background. My friend went to NYC and bought a WHOLE wack load of flavoured lip balm.
Next up is a face cream from California Baby!
The name sounds absolutely adorable, they are an organic natural based skincare brand...made for babies and everybody else too.
Lastly, I passed a store with a close-out sale a while back in the mall and happened upon these adorable polishes. The pink one is pretty standard but the black colour is STUNNING! I usually don't wear darks that often but this one has tiny micro silver glitter suspended the super black base. Really really beautiful.
Well that is all for today, I will likely be posting more hauls in the next couple of posts because its time for....BACKTOSCHOOL HAULING ^-^""
:D I have the Reese's Chocolate Flavored lip balm, too ^^ It smells just like chocolate, and tastes really sweet, too.


"New Halo White Dwarf Candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" by Kyra Dame, A. Gianninas et al.
We present optical spectroscopy and near-infrared photometry of 57 faint (g = 19–22) high proper motion white dwarfs identified through repeat imaging of ≈3100 deg2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint by Munn et al. We use ugriz and JHphotometry to perform a model atmosphere analysis, and identify 10 ultracool white dwarfs with Teff < 4000 K, including the coolest pure H atmosphere white dwarf currently known, J1657+2638, with Teff = 3550 ± 100 K. The majority of the objects with cooling ages larger than 9 Gyr display thick disc kinematics and constrain the age of the thick disc to ≥11 Gyr. There are four white dwarfs in our sample with large tangential velocities (vtan > 120 km s−1) and UVW velocities that are more consistent with the halo than the Galactic disc. For typical 0.6M ⊙ white dwarfs, the cooling ages for these halo candidates range from 2.3 to 8.5 Gyr. However, the total mainsequence+ white dwarf cooling ages of these stars would be consistent with the Galactic halo if they are slightly undermassive. Given the magnitude limits of the current large-scale surveys, many of the coolest and oldest white dwarfs remain undiscovered in the solar neighbourhood, but upcoming surveys such as Gaia and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope should find many of these elusive thick disc and halo white dwarfs.


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Music Producer Phil Spector Passes Away at 81
Zendaya & Tom Holland Film Scenes For 'Spider-Man 3' - See the Set Pics!
Thu, 22 October 2020 at 11:20 pm
John Cena Accidentally Sent Eric Andre to the Hospital in Stunt Gone Wrong
Eric Andre is opening up about being sent to the hospital!
The 37-year-old comedian stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night (October 21) to chat about the upcoming season five of The Eric Andre Show.
During his interview, Eric revealed that he was sent to the hospital by guest star John Cena after a stunt went wrong.
"John Cena did the stunt right, but we prepped for the stunt wrong," Eric started, while a clip was shown of the 43-year-old former WWE player throwing Eric into a bookcase.
"That metal came over and clocked me in the head, and I got concussed," Eric explained. "I got concussed, and I went to the hospital … immediately."
"I had like a Fred Flintstone, like Bugs Bunny [bump] on the side of my head," Eric joked. "They did a CAT scan, and I haven't been able to speak English since."
If you missed it, John Cena has some big news in his personal life!
Season five of The Eric Andre Show will premiere on Sunday, Adult Swim on Adult Swim.
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Coaches navigating new rules pertaining to mission-bound LDS athletes
By Amy Donaldson@adonsports Feb 4, 2013, 8:00pm MST
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Woods Cross' #9 Sean Barton breaks into the secondary for a large gain as Woods Cross and Mountain Crest play Friday, Aug. 31, 2012.
Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
WOODS CROSS — Sean Barton believes he was born to play football.
So it wasn't always easy to commit to leaving the game — and everything else familiar to him — to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just a few days after graduating from Woods Cross High.
"I can't see myself living without (football) basically," said the 18-year-old linebacker and wide receiver, who will sign a letter of intent to play for Stanford on Wednesday. "Ever since I was a little kid, my dream was to play college football. That's just my love."
While he is not the first LDS athlete to struggle with that decision and wonder how it will impact his dream of playing sports, he does so in the wake of two changes that have changed how some college coaches view Mormon athletes who intend to serve missions.
The first change is the age at which members of the LDS Church may serve missions. For boys, the age was lowered from 19 to 18, and for girls, it was lowered from 21 to 19. The age changes, announced in the fall, have led to more Mormon young men choosing to serve missions because they can do so right out of high school.
Barton fits into that group. He turned 18 in November and will leave for Benin, West Africa (a French-speaking mission), four days after graduation.
So while he will sign a letter of intent to play for Stanford during Wednesday's national signing day, he will not enroll and will never attend classes before leaving on his mission.
Which is where the second rule — a rule change by the NCAA — affects some players like Barton. Last year, the NCAA reduced the number of scholarships schools can offer incoming freshman to 25.
The convergence of the two changes is reportedly causing some out-of-state college coaches to steer clear of LDS football players planning to serve missions.
"I think it's going to hurt our Utah kids who want to go out of state," said East head coach Brandon Matich.
He feels that way because when two out-of-state coaches visited his school a few weeks ago, they said they weren't interested in any LDS athletes who planned to serve missions.
"They said they didn't have a mission program in place," he said, referring to how schools juggle student-athletes who are gone for two years. One school was reportedly going to test the arrangement on a student-athlete this fall, but the other coach just asked to talk to non-LDS athletes.
Carl Barton, Sean's father, doesn't understand the reluctance of those coaches, especially those out west where most programs are accustomed to dealing with LDS missionary athletes.
"Without any intention of being critical of these coaches, but it seems like a stupid reaction to me," said Carl Barton. "Everything seems more predictable (with the age change)."
Instead of having players for a year, sometimes a year and a half, now most LDS athletes who want to serve missions will go directly to their missions, rather than first having a few semesters of college.
Matich said the new scholarship limits mean that his mission-bound players would sign a letter of acceptance, rather than the more binding letter of intent, which is usually the document signed when a scholarship is being given.
"It's more like a firm handshake is how it was explained to me," said Matich.
Carl Barton said he was told athletes could (and should) still sign letters of intent, but that the scholarship wouldn't count against a school's 25, if the student-athlete didn't enroll in school.
Either way, missionary athletes have to trust that the schools to which they commit will remain committed to them during their two-year hiatus from sports.
"He's going to have to recommit and re-sign when he gets home," said Carl Barton.
Sean Barton said that while no coach ever told him that serving a mission was a deal-breaker, some did try to undermine his plan.
"For the most part, coaches were pretty supportive," he said. "But a lot of them tried to change my mind later."
Carl Barton said coaches would "say what we wanted to hear" when the family was together, but then when Sean was alone with coaches, they changed their tactics.
"When they were talking with Sean alone, they'd say things like, 'So how strongly do you feel about going on a mission?' Or, 'You're bigger, faster and stronger than anyone we have starting at linebacker.' "
Often it went "way beyond hinting" that if Barton would skip the mission, he could earn a starting role as a freshman.
"One coach even came to me and said, 'I've talked to Sean and he doesn't seem like he wants to go on a mission that much and we'd like to have him here,' " said Carl Barton.
Sean admitted the enticements were tempting.
"It was a temptation," he said, adding that getting his mission call early in his senior year helped him stay committed to his decision. "It definitely was (a conflict) and, at certain points, I'd think about going to college instead of my mission. A mission is tough to come back from, and two years without football, but I just figured out that I've been blessed with football, so I could give two years of my life to serving other people. Football will still be here when I get back."
Carl Barton said the family gravitated to the programs that understood missionary athletes and supported them with more than verbal niceties. For Sean, that meant focusing on Pac-12 and Mountain West schools because not only did they have more experience with missionary athletes, but they nearly always had specific programs to deal with their unique issues.
The coach assigned to recruit the state of Utah for Stanford is a returned missionary and there are two missionary athletes there now, Carl Barton said.
But there are no guarantees that any school will accommodate a future missionary's plans.
It's not just out-of-state schools that may prefer athletes who don't want to serve missions. Interestingly, Carl Barton said some in-state schools were initially supportive of the idea but then tried to make the mission less appealing to Sean during the recruiting process.
Still, the majority of high school coaches contacted by the Deseret News said it's out-of-state coaches who tell them they're not interested in mission-bound players.
"To some degree, I think it's honest ignorance on their parts," said former Herriman head coach Larry Wilson. "I would think personally, if some of these guys get educated, I think they would see it's a real benefit to them. I think it's just a matter of them not understanding what it really is, (and) are they going to come back to them? There are so many unanswered questions because they have not had that type of experience with it."
Carl Barton said he believes as more schools recruit in Utah, they will come to understand and even incorporate missionaries in their efforts.
"People will gain a level of comfort with it like they have in the past," Barton said. "But I do know that in the last couple of months, many football programs, they tell the coach behind closed doors, 'I don't want to talk to any mission kids.' Some even say, 'No LDS kids,' which seems counter-intuitive, because before there were so many uncertainties. But now if a kid says, 'I'm going on a mission,' they generally go right away."
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GC-MS has been widely heralded as a "gold standard" for forensic substance identification because it is used to perform a 100% specific test, which positively identifies the presence of a particular substance. A nonspecific test merely indicates that any of several in a category of substances is present. Although a nonspecific test could statistically suggest the identity of the substance, this could lead to false positive identification.
The use of a mass spectrometer as the detector in gas chromatography was developed during the 1950s after being originated by James and Martin in 1952. These comparatively sensitive devices were originally limited to laboratory settings.
The development of affordable and miniaturized computers has helped in the simplification of the use of this instrument, as well as allowed great improvements in the amount of time it takes to analyze a sample. In 1964, Electronic Associates, Inc. (EAI), a leading U.S. supplier of analog computers, began development of a computer controlled quadrupole mass spectrometer under the direction of Robert E. Finnigan. By 1966 Finnigan and collaborator Mike Uthe's EAI division had sold over 500 quadrupole residual gas-analyzer instruments. In 1967, Finnigan left EAI to form the Finnigan Instrument Corporation along with Roger Sant, T. Z. Chou, Michael Story, and William Fies. In early 1968, they delivered the first prototype quadrupole GC/MS instruments to Stanford and Purdue University. When Finnigan Instrument Corporation was acquired by Thermo Instrument Systems (later Thermo Fisher Scientific) in 1990, it was considered "the world's leading manufacturer of mass spectrometers".
In 1996 the top-of-the-line high-speed GC-MS units completed analysis of fire accelerants in less than 90 seconds, whereas first-generation GC-MS would have required at least 16 minutes. By the 2000s computerized GC/MS instruments using quadrupole technology had become both essential to chemical research and one of the foremost instruments used for organic analysis. Today computerized GC/MS instruments are widely used in environmental monitoring of water, air, and soil; in the regulation of agriculture and food safety; and in the discovery and production of medicine.
For the analysis of volatile compounds, a purge and trap (P&T) concentrator system may be used to introduce samples. The target analytes are extracted and mixed with water and introduced into an airtight chamber. An inert gas such as Nitrogen (N2) is bubbled through the water; this is known as purging or sparging. The volatile compounds move into the headspace above the water and are drawn along a pressure gradient (caused by the introduction of the purge gas) out of the chamber. The volatile compounds are drawn along a heated line onto a 'trap'. The trap is a column of adsorbent material at ambient temperature that holds the compounds by returning them to the liquid phase. The trap is then heated and the sample compounds are introduced to the GC-MS column via a volatiles interface, which is a split inlet system. P&T GC-MS is particularly suited to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and BTEX compounds (aromatic compounds associated with petroleum).
After the molecules travel the length of the column, pass through the transfer line and enter into the mass spectrometer they are ionized by various methods with typically only one method being used at any given time. Once the sample is fragmented it will then be detected, usually by an electron multiplier diode, which essentially turns the ionized mass fragment into an electrical signal that is then detected.
By far the most common and perhaps standard form of ionization is electron ionization (EI). The molecules enter into the MS (the source is a quadrupole or the ion trap itself in an ion trap MS) where they are bombarded with free electrons emitted from a filament, not unlike the filament one would find in a standard light bulb. The electrons bombard the molecules, causing the molecule to fragment in a characteristic and reproducible way. This "hard ionization" technique results in the creation of more fragments of low mass to charge ratio (m/z) and few, if any, molecules approaching the molecular mass unit. Hard ionization is considered by mass spectrometrists as the employ of molecular electron bombardment, whereas "soft ionization" is charge by molecular collision with an introduced gas. The molecular fragmentation pattern is dependent upon the electron energy applied to the system, typically 70 eV (electron Volts). The use of 70 eV facilitates comparison of generated spectra with library spectra using manufacturer-supplied software or software developed by the National Institute of Standards (NIST-USA). Spectral library searches employ matching algorithms such as Probability Based Matching and dot-product matching that are used with methods of analysis written by many method standardization agencies. Sources of libraries include NIST, Wiley, the AAFS, and instrument manufacturers.
A mass spectrometer is typically utilized in one of two ways: full scan or selected ion monitoring (SIM). The typical GC-MS instrument is capable of performing both functions either individually or concomitantly, depending on the setup of the particular instrument.
The primary goal of instrument analysis is to quantify an amount of substance. This is done by comparing the relative concentrations among the atomic masses in the generated spectrum. Two kinds of analysis are possible, comparative and original. Comparative analysis essentially compares the given spectrum to a spectrum library to see if its characteristics are present for some sample in the library. This is best performed by a computer because there are a myriad of visual distortions that can take place due to variations in scale. Computers can also simultaneously correlate more data (such as the retention times identified by GC), to more accurately relate certain data.
Another method of analysis measures the peaks in relation to one another. In this method, the tallest peak is assigned 100% of the value, and the other peaks being assigned proportionate values. All values above 3% are assigned. The total mass of the unknown compound is normally indicated by the parent peak. The value of this parent peak can be used to fit with a chemical formula containing the various elements which are believed to be in the compound. The isotope pattern in the spectrum, which is unique for elements that have many isotopes, can also be used to identify the various elements present. Once a chemical formula has been matched to the spectrum, the molecular structure and bonding can be identified, and must be consistent with the characteristics recorded by GC-MS. Typically, this identification done automatically by programs which come with the instrument, given a list of the elements which could be present in the sample.
In selected ion monitoring (SIM) certain ion fragments are entered into the instrument method and only those mass fragments are detected by the mass spectrometer. The advantages of SIM are that the detection limit is lower since the instrument is only looking at a small number of fragments (e.g. three fragments) during each scan. More scans can take place each second. Since only a few mass fragments of interest are being monitored, matrix interferences are typically lower. To additionally confirm the likelihood of a potentially positive result, it is relatively important to be sure that the ion ratios of the various mass fragments are comparable to a known reference standard.
GC-MS is increasingly used for detection of illegal narcotics, and may eventually supplant drug-sniffing dogs. It is also commonly used in forensic toxicology to find drugs and/or poisons in biological specimens of suspects, victims, or the deceased.
Several GC-MS have left earth. Two were brought to Mars by the Viking program. Venera 11 and 12 and Pioneer Venus analysed the atmosphere of Venus with GC-MS. The Huygens probe of the Cassini-Huygens mission landed one GC-MS on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The material in the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be analysed by the Rosetta mission with a chiral GC-MS in 2014.
Dozens of congenital metabolic diseases also known as Inborn error of metabolism are now detectable by newborn screening tests, especially the testing using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. GC-MS can determine compounds in urine even in minor concentration. These compounds are normally not present but appear in individuals suffering with metabolic disorders. This is increasingly becoming a common way to diagnose IEM for earlier diagnosis and institution of treatment eventually leading to a better outcome. It is now possible to test a newborn for over 100 genetic metabolic disorders by a urine test at birth based on GC-MS.
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The family Bluegrass Gospel quartet from Ohio, New Jerusalem Bluegrass, has released a new album titled Where Ya' Goin'. The album was produced by Ron Fairchild and was recorded in Hendersonville, Tennessee. This family is about as musical as they come. Both Mom, Dad, and daughters, Candy and Calina, all play multiple instruments, as well as sing. The harmonies on the album are really good, especially on the song, "Sheltered In The Arms Of God." "All My Tears" is a song that really stands out on this album, as the melody is haunting and memorable, while the track shows the musicianship of this talented family. New Jerusalem Bluegrass is playing many live dates this year. You can bet they are even better live that they are on CD. Check out their website for their touring schedule, and go check out a show. Family groups are always fun to watch!
They are a gifted Gospel Bluegrass family quartet from Ohio, and New Jerusalem Bluegrass (Calina, Candy, Diana, and Rusty Boggs) received a pair of ICM nominations last fall. Here they give us twelve terrific songs, including covers of Hank Williams' A House Of Gold and He Looked Beyond My Faults (And Saw My Need) by Dottie Rambo. Teen-aged vocalist, fiddle/mandolin/banjo player Calina co-wrote the lead song, Tellin It. Their family harmonies are outstanding, as is the instrumental work on tunes such as the difficult, racehorse-tempo Bill Monroe favorite Get Up John.
Exciting things have been happening for New Jerusalem Bluegrass, the family Bluegrass Gospel quartet from Ohio. Crossing That Bridge Tomorrow, written by the quartet's 16-year-old fiddle and mandolin player and vocalist Calina Boggs, has reached the Top 5 of the Bluegrass charts. This album provides Precious Memories not just for the Boggs family (the quartet is made up of Rusty, Diana, Calina, and Candy Boggs) but for all their fans as well. A bonus track, Who Am I, features the stirring vocals of Diana's mom Opal, who passed on years ago, now combined in the studio with the harmonies of her daughter and grandchildren. "Through modern technology," as the liner notes tell us, "three generations of our family get to sing together for the first time." Like everything New Jerusalem Bluegrass does, it's pure magic.


Beethoven at his best, unfettered by fugue or sonata form and free to be introspective, delving into his inner self. Not as dynamic and dominant as in his 32 sonatas, but equally interesting and rewarding to the listener whose ears are truly attentive.
LvB's late quartets are among my favorite works; this set by the Emerson String Quartet is well recorded, and well performed. If it's the right price and you always wanted to treat yourself, do it.
One of the touchstones of Western Music are the late quartets of Beethoven, since they inhabit a different plane of art that is reserved for only the very few great masterpieces. The Emerson performances are fist class. My only complaint had to do with the CD burn feature. I was able to find it on the Amazon Cloud, but I could not transfer it to my I Pod. The instructions are very poor and eventually I used the CDs on ITunes to effect the transfer. Every time I need to download from this Cloud feature I have trouble. Amazon needs to provide simple, step-by-step instructions that help to solve this problem.


Entertainment Journalist Anna Azcona fires your legal immigration questions at NYC immigration lawyer Brad Bernstein live from the Law Offices of Spar and Bernstein in New York City. 4::52 - How can you renew your green card? 5:25 - Can you refile for a 10 year green card if you were denied for not providing enough documentation? 5:39 - If you are an H2B Visa holder, can you get a green card? 6:14 - Will you be able to file for a green card, if you married someone less than 90 days after coming to the United States? 6:54 - If your spouses' ex-wife used your marital address for their I-130 application while you were living there, will your I-130 application be denied ? 7:75 - How long will it take to get I-797 approval for a green card? 8:57 - How long does it take to become a citizen of the United States? 9:03 - How can you get the case number for your deportation case if occurred more than ten years ago? 9:35 - How do you file for asylum? 9:57 - How long will it take to complete the US citizenship process and get a passport? 10:39 - Can you apply for advance parole after you've received your green card and work permit? 11:05 - What should you do if your work permit will expire before you can renew it? 11:59 - What can you do to become a legal resident of the United States, if you overstayed on a visitor visa and are working and paying taxes? 13:10 - Why is the application process to become a US citizen taking so long? 13:38 - Do you have to wait 5 years before you are eligible to become a citizen of the United States if your spouse died and you recently became a 10 year green card holder through marriage? 13:51 - Should you renew your green card if it will soon expire or just apply for US citizenship? 14:33 - What is the filing fee to apply to be a citizen of the United States? 15:25 - If you were married to a US citizen but divorced them before obtaining your green card, what is the best way to get a green card ? 15:48 - How long after filing for a child should you receive paperwork? 16:26 - If you are green card holder who spent more than 6 months outside of United States, will you be able to renew your 10 year green card? 16:57 - How long will it take to get approval for a waiver if you filed for a divorce while adjusting your status? 17:27 - What should you do if the status of your petition to come to the United States has not been updated for years? 17:54 - How long will it take to file for children under the age of 21 years old, if you are a green card holder? ***SUBSCRIBE/Follow Us*** Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBradandSqueezeShow Twitter: https://twitter.com/BradAndSqueeze Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BradAndSqueeze Everyone has a right to the American Dream, and we want to help you reach yours! Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein Call 1-800-529-5465 Today! 225 Broadway, 5th FL New York, New York 10007 Attorney Advertisement. Prior Successful results do not guarantee a similar outcome.


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India's podcast buzz is now getting loud and clear
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By Ananya Bhattacharya
Tech reporter
At the heels of India's online video-streaming boom, another phenomenon is gathering steam: podcasts.
A portmanteau of iPod and broadcast, this small yet significantly growing segment of online entertainment holds great potential in a country with a massive youth population, abysmally slow internet speeds, and perennially long daily commutes.
Already, music streaming has gained popularity in India for these reasons.
"Video and audio are like siblings where video leads and audio runs behind," Gautam Raj Anand, founder & CEO of podcast-hosting platform Hubhopper, told Quartz. "Already 98% of the apps are fighting for screen time. There's room to capture some potential passive consumption hours where they're not actively looking into their phones."
Currently, only 40 million of India's nearly 500 million internet users listen to podcasts. The number, though, is growing rapidly. In 2018, there was an almost 60% growth in podcast listeners in India.
The right tune
Audio streaming is growing in India like never before. In fact, Indians are so hungry for audio content that they're using the world's biggest video-streaming site, YouTube, to just listen to music.
As the internet and smartphone penetration increases, experts believe more audio content will find takers. "It's kind of a grassroots movement happening via word-of-mouth, not too dissimilar to other new media-based phenomenons. We've seen photo- and video-sharing spreads via friends, families and social networks," said Michael Mignano, co-founder and managing director of podcast-creation app Anchor.
In 2019, competition in India's music streaming segment intensified as Stockholm-based music streaming app Spotify launched operations in February, and less than three weeks later, Google-owned YouTube Music entered the country. Incumbents such as Apple, Amazon Music, Gaana, JioSaavn, and Hungama, continued to widen their offerings.
"Creating original music is a very expensive proposition with labels signing on artists. That only leaves spoken word or podcast."
As the audio streaming segment expands, podcasts could prove to be a key differentiator, experts say.
"The artistes and library are the same across every platform give or take a few labels. That is not going to differentiate things. The key differentiator is going to be original content. Creating original music is a very expensive proposition with labels signing on artists. That only leaves the spoken word or podcast," Aman Goklani, former India head at on-demand audio and podcasting distribution platform Audioboom, had said in August this year. (In November, he joined JioSaavn as the director of podcast and partnerships.)
The right content
Although the term podcast is new to India, the country is fairly familiar with the concept. Traditional channels such as radio and news publishers gave podcasts the first push in India, and now myriad companies and individuals are hopping onto the bandwagon.
"This is almost the rise of the intellectual."
"This is almost the rise of the intellectual. New ideas are getting formulated and presented in a way that haven't had the luxury for a long time in traditional media," said Ramya Ramamurthy, host of the Feeding 10 Billion podcast on Indus Vox Media (IVM).
A pioneer of sorts, radio channel RedFM has been among the biggest publishers on Audioboom, an on-demand audio and podcasting distribution platform, since 2016. "Radio shows already have (a) deep connect with (the) audience but radio is very linear. You have to listen to it then. With podcasts, they give the audiences the opportunity to listen on-demand," said Goklani.
Moreover, there's a "huge gap in talk radio where India is concerned," Kavita Rajwade, co-founder of IVM, a premier podcasting company launched in 2015, told Quartz. "FM stations aren't allowed to do current affairs, politics, and so on."
This is a void podcast can easily fill. In fact, established news organisations such as Network18, Moneycontrol, and CNBCTV have already fared well. Indian Express, which got into the game in mid-2018, has seen success with many podcasts, too.
Looking beyond renowned media houses, podcasts are a welcome break from the mainstream mayhem.
Ayesha Aleem, a journalist-turned-podcaster, thinks the medium offers respite from fake news. "I thought it would be powerful to have people speak about their experience in their own words. It allows for less manipulation," the 33-year-old host of The Ilm with Ayesha Aleem said, adding that she wanted to include new voices and have greater diversity.
The medium also makes room to discuss taboo topics.
For instance, Aastha and Ankit, hosts of a Spotify original podcast Love Aaj Kal, will get direct messages on Instagram where people ask things like "Is it safe to have sex in an OYO room?" In a country where sex education is lacking and judgment is rampant, this is an arena people can turn to for knowledge and candid advice. Other topics they cover include LGBTQI relations and even more alien concepts like polyamory.
One hack that's working to spread the word is leveraging one of India's biggest obsessions: Bollywood.
JioSaavn's #NoFilterNeha is already on its fourth season and IshqFM's shows hosted by Karan Johar and Kareena Kapoor have garnered massive listenerships, too. Kalki Koechlin got a second season of BBC podcast "My Indian Life." Clearly, in a country where Bollywood is all the craze, celebrities can help podcasts go the extra mile.
The right numbers
For Sanjay Manaktala, who created the Global Comedian podcast, about 50% of the listens on his episodes came from iOS devices three years ago. Apple pre-installs the podcast app on its devices but its market share has always been in the low single-digits, so the push has been slow. However, more platforms and devices are catching on now.
Since it is among the more seasoned players, Apple Podcasts leads the way, but JioSaavn is catching up. Spotify recently placed a big bet on the space, announcing a handful of originals. "Everybody who listens to music also listens to podcasts and they want one place for that," Amarjit Singh Batra, managing director at Spotify, said during a Nov. 19 press conference at Mumbai's Soho House.
Audioboom audience
Apple podcasts 25-30%
Castbox 10-12%
JioSaavn ~30%
In India, Audioboom has a sticky run-rate of ~3.5 million listens each month. Three-quarters of its listeners in India fall in the 18-34 years age group, Umesh Barve, the company's head of India partnerships told Quartz.
"We think, for anyone who is between the ages of 16 and 28, their attention span is short, that they're a headline generation. They've gotten upset with this perception," said Gaurav Kapoor, host of Spotify original podcast 22 Yards. "They're swinging the pendulum the other way and are extremely interested in doing deep dives."
In fact, what works in favour of creating podcasts is the longer timeline compared to videos on television or on the web. Kapoor, who has hosted the IPL show on television and Breakfast with Champions on the web, is generally "medium-agnostic but subconsciously, something kicks in," he said. "If you give me one minute to answer versus 10 minutes, my response will change." A podcast gives more opportunity for interviewees to ruminate.
While entertainment is taking the cake, storytelling, business, horror, and children's podcasts are doing well, too, Audioboom found. The devotional category, which includes the likes of Hindu religious text Bhagvad Gita and epics like Ramayan and Mahabharat are also hits.
Currently, the audience skews towards young and male (67%), as it does for Facebook and pretty much all of the web in India.
The right creators
With the buzz mounting, more and more people are taking to podcasting.
Though it's still a technical job, it's perhaps not as expensive, time-consuming, and labour-intensive as producing videos. "Bhaskar Bose has a great cast and original music production. It's a film," RJ and actor Mantra, who's launched the Spotify original fiction thriller, said. "Just visual hatado, budget kam kar do, aur mazaa double (remove the visual, reduce the budget, and double the fun)."
However, the process isn't that straightforward.
When someone wants to write a blog post, they can go to portals such as Medium. When they want to post videos, the can log on to YouTube or Vimeo. But with podcasts, most people don't know where to begin.
AI-based platform for podcasts, content aggregation, and publishing, Hubhopper, has tried to remove the barriers, Anand told Quartz. "It's such a travesty and shame that technology hampers their (podcasters') creation," he said. "We gave free hosting, free recording as software, free basic editing like pre-roll, post-roll, background music, cropping, fade in and out, and so on." Other paid platforms like BuzzSprout ($12/month) and Transistor ($19/month) also offer similar podcast hosting services.
In India, thousands of podcasts have been launched by Anchor, a New York-based podcast-creation tool that was recently bought by Spotify. The company expects a ripple effect of sorts as the sector opens up. "Once people see friends and families and influencers making podcasts, they'll want to jump onboard and make their own," Anchor's Mignano said. Anchor takes a 30% commission from podcasters' revenues for sponsorship products.
Already, a lot of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands are taking note of podcast advertising, Mignano told Quartz. Companies such as website-designing service Squarespace and eyewear brand Warby Parker are among those. In India, IVM, which has 93 shows, is creating a 15-part series for Accenture which revolves around tech careers.
The right pitch
On the podcasters' end, getting the quality right, both in terms of technology and content, remains challenging.
Proper recording setup: When left to users who aren't experts, "audio is still iffy," says Rajwade. "Here, you're using a single sense so we need a hi-tech setup like we have at IVM. You need to get that experience down pat."
Content is king: A stronghold on content is the make-or-break factor for any and all podcasts.
Aping the west to score success won't come easy. Serial, one of the most popular podcasts ever, had 10 New York Times journalists working on it for one year before they put out a single episode. "To hire the quality team and get them to put out one piece is a huge investment," said Rajwade.
Funding constraints: Often, Indians don't have the financial bandwidth to make, popularise, and sustain podcasts. For instance, Aleem, inspired by podcasts like Serial, Stance, and NoSugarCoat by chef Pooja Dhingra, self-produced her first season and used her personal social media accounts to promote it. Although her first season of weekly podcasts spanning three months was well-received, season 2 has hit a wall. "I pay an editor, which costs me per hour," she said. "If I want to do another season together, it's going to cost me money again and I need to figure out a source of funding before I can move ahead with season 2."
It's a chicken and egg problem. Without enough users, spending is sparse. And without enough funding, reaching users remains a task. "Even in the US, just one in three Americans have listened to a podcast in the past month. The Indian market is still a few years behind," said Matthew Lieber, founder of podcast network Gimlet.
"The key challenge is discovery of content."
Seeking tech solutions: Music-streaming companies could change the scene. "JioSaavn is at it probably first among music streaming companies. Gaana is looking more meaningfully (at podcasts). Spotify's entry will be a big boom for podcasting globally," Goklani said. "The key challenge is discovery of content. As companies like Spotify try to tackle curated playlists and algorithms to increase discoverability, it will get the industry to inflexion point."
On the technology side, Spotify is trying to smoothen the listening experience with "podmarks," which will function like bookmarks. The company is also creating trailers for podcasts to generate more buzz, Spotify's Batra shared.
On Dec. 12, Amazon launched a free podcast app called Audioble Suno in India, which is separate from its audio books platform Audible, to pay special attention to the medium.
Catering to the many Indias: Overcoming the language barrier in a diverse country like India is crucial. For now, the listenership is mostly urban. For IVM, 40% of it is the Indian diaspora internationally. A large part of actress Koechlin's audience is also Indians residing abroad. However, data show that the regional markets offer a massive opportunity. "Most podcasts are created in English but most listens we get in Hindi and other languages," said Barve. "One Bhojpuri and one Assamese podcast are always among top 10 or 15 most heard."


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Harskirchen ist ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Adlkofen im niederbayerischen Landkreis Landshut.

Lage
Der Weiler Harskirchen liegt im oberen Aichbachtal etwa zwei Kilometer östlich von Adlkofen.

Geschichte
Harskirchen entstand vermutlich zwischen dem achten und zehnten Jahrhundert. Es handelt sich um einen der zahlreichen auf -kirchen endenden Orte im Raum zwischen Isar und Bina, die auf das adelige Eigenkirchenwesen zurückzuführen sind. Die Harskircher waren Salzburger Ministerialen, die an der alten Straßenkreuzung im Rodungsgebiet am Kröninger Forst ihren Sitz hatten. Heinrich der Harskircher war sogar siegelberechtigt, wie 1261 und 1304 in den Traditionsnotizen von Kloster Raitenhaslach bezeugt ist. Mit Hartprech, der zuletzt in Zangberg lebte, starben 1416 die Harskircher im Mannesstamm aus.

Harskirchen gehörte zur Obmannschaft Reichersdorf im Amt Adlkofen des Landgerichtes Vilsbiburg. Seit der Gemeindebildung 1818 ist Harskirchen ein Teil der Gemeinde Adlkofen.

Baudenkmäler
Siehe auch: Liste der Baudenkmäler in Harskirchen
 Kirche St. Andreas. Die Nebenkirche der Pfarrei Adlkofen ist ein Werk des Landshuter Hofmaurermeisters Felix Hirschstetter und wurde in den Jahren 1743/44 erbaut. Die spätgotischen Statuen des heiligen Andreas und der heiligen Barbara stammen noch aus der Vorgängerkirche, die 1752 abgebrochen wurde. Das Zwiebeltürmchen wurde im 19. Jahrhundert durch einen Spitzhelm ersetzt.

Weblinks

 Harskirchen bei www.adlkofen

Ort im Landkreis Landshut
Geographie (Adlkofen)
Weiler in Niederbayern

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# Stepping Stones (1878)

![Stepping Stones by William Hamo Thorneycroft, 1878](image:stepping-stones.jpg)

The young girl carrying her infant brother across a brook is captured
by [William Hamo Thorneycroft][1] who lived from 1850 to 1925.

The statue is made of marble, is 1.46m high and was exhibited at the
RA in 1879.

The statue was accompanied by a couplet:

    Pausing with reluctant feet
    Where the stream and river meet

The statue was presented to Glasgow Museums in 1919 by Captain
Wallace.

[1]: /wiki/Hamo_Thornycroft


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Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies
Tag: Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies
U.S. Foreign Service Veteran Offers Insights on Middle East in Lawrence University International Studies Lecture Series
Jonathan Greenwald, a former Lawrence University Scarff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, discusses current U.S. strategies for peace in the Middle East and the challenges of building democracies in the region in the fourth and final installment of Lawrence's Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies.
Greenwald presents "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" Tuesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium on the Lawrence campus. The event is free and open to the public.
A veteran foreign service officer and former director of the U.S. Department of State office of counter-terrorism, Greenwald's address will focus on current developments in Iraq, the Israel-Palestine problem and the potential danger posed by Iran, where he recently spent two weeks. He will discuss some of the latest headlines from those areas while analyzing the strategic concepts the Bush administration is employing to foster peace and democracy.
Greenwald is currently the vice president of research and publications at the headquarters of the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental, conflict prevention organization based in Brussels. As such, he oversees some 90-100 full length reports and briefing papers the ICG publishes on conflict situations around the globe, based on extensive on-the-ground research and analysis by ICG experts. The reports make policy recommendations directed to governments and international organizations.
During a 30-year career with the U.S. State Department that began in 1969, Greenwald held embassy and consular posts throughout Europe, including Budapest, Madrid and East Berlin, where he supervised the incarceration of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison. He served as the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy when the Berlin Wall fell, providing crisis analysis to Washington and later assisting with German Unification negotiations.
From 1991-93, Greenwald directed the state department's office of counter-terrorism. He devised diplomatic strategies for dealing with Libya, negotiated U.N. sanctions against Mu'ammar Qadhafi for the Pam-Am 103 bombing and led a State Department/CIA/Special Forces response team on a classified counter-terrorism mission abroad during the Gulf War. He spent the 1998-99 academic year teaching courses on the origins of war and the Cold War at Lawrence under the auspices of the Scarff Professorship.
Greenwald is the author of the book, "Berlin Witness: An American Diplomat's Chronicle of East Germany's Revolution" and serves as a member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations.
He earned a bachelor of arts degree summa cum laude in history from Princeton University, spent a year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Classics at Princeton and earned a degree in international law from Harvard University Law School in 1968.
Named in honor of Lawrence's long time professor of government, the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies promotes interest and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions.
Posted on April 13, 2004 November 15, 2010 Author Rick PetersonCategories Press ReleasesTags Appleton, Jonathan Greenwald, Lawrence University, Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies, Wisconsin


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Facebook takes Instagram fact-checking global
By Cat Zakrzewski
December 18, 2019 — 11.27am
Facebook is increasing its efforts to thwart misinformation on Instagram, which it owns.
The company has announced that Instagram's fact-checking program is going global, allowing 45 third-party organisations to review and label false information on the platform. Instagram began fact-checking in the US earlier this year, after a pair of 2018 reports commissioned by the US senate highlighted Russian actors' efforts to target voters on the photo-sharing service.
Facebook's network of 45 fact-checking companies will now evaluate Instagram posts around the world.
Facebook will also be further integrating its fact-checking efforts across its flagship product and Instagram, which it acquired in 2012. If something is labelled false by fact-checkers on Facebook, it will now also be labelled as false on Instagram.
"We want you to trust what you see on Instagram," the company said in a blog post announcing the changes.
Instagram has been playing catch up to Facebook in the fight against misinformation. But Facebook's approach has been far from perfect, and it's likely that Instagram could face many of the same pitfalls as it borrows heavily from its parent network.
"This is a promising step, but it will take some time to tell how effective it will be," said Paul Barrett, a New York University professor who authored a report on the ways disinformation could alter the 2020 US elections. His report called on Instagram to develop a clearer strategy to address falsehoods ahead of the election.
Misinformation on Instagram did not receive as much scrutiny in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 US election, as experts heavily focused on how the campaign played out on Facebook and Twitter. But that's changed in the past year, especially as experts like Barrett warn that Instagram is a prime target for bad actors.
The service has seen rapid growth in recent years, and it's especially popular among younger users. The company's visually focused interface also lends itself to memes, photos and videos; which experts say could be a key vehicle to spread misinformation.
"Instagram has been a problem all along, but for whatever reason we don't pay as much attention to it," Barrett said earlier this year.
But there are some key limitations to Instagram's initiative. Posts and ads from politicians will be exempt from Instagram's global fact-checking program as they are on Facebook, said company spokesman Andy Stone. That won't change as Instagram expands its fact checking efforts. Political ads from outside groups will be eligible for fact-checking, however.
Even when fact-checkers identify a post as false, it will still usually remain available on Instagram. Like Facebook, Instagram will largely seek to limit the content's spread. It will apply a label that states a fact-checking partner has marked the post false, and it will reduce distribution of the post on the service and will prevent it from appearing in the Explore or hashtag pages. The company has said that people should be able to decide for themselves what to read and trust.
The expanded Instagram initiative comes as criticism of Facebook's fact-checking program has intensified. A Columbia Journalism Review story reported that Facebook's fact-checking partners have criticised the company for not being transparent enough. Full Fact, one of Facebook's nonprofit partners, said the company needs to speed up its responses to the fact-checks.
In addition to the US elections, antitrust scrutiny could be a key motivation for Facebook to make a greater investment in fighting misinformation across its platforms. Facebook executives have argued the company's large size is actually a benefit when it comes to investing in guarding against misinformation, and they might argue breaking the company up would limit their ability to fight false posts across services.


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to correspond (usually fol. by to).
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Nicole Farhi appoints new CEO
After being acquired last year by Maxine Hargreaves-Adams, Nicole Farhi has announced the arrival of its new CEO, Martin Mason, effective 1 April. The exectutive previously served as head of Lulu Guinness and has worked in several prominent British fashion houses, including Pringle of Scotland and Mulberry.
Nicole Farhi saw the departure of its previous CEO, François Steiner, in May 2013 following bankruptcy proceedings at the beginning of last summer. In the interim, Sion Kearsey, of Kelso Place Asset Management, had taken over management duties on a temporary basis before handing over the reins to Maxine Hargreaves-Adams, daughter of the founder of Matalan, in July 2013. Ex-Acquascutum boss Joanna Sykes, meanwhile, has been serving as creative director.
Present at both men's and women's London fashion weeks, Nicole Farhi owns six stores and has concessions in nine department store corners as well as an online shop.


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Victory For Trucking Companies
by Paul Benfer | Jan 13, 2020 | Economy, Logistics, supply chain service company, Trucking, trucking company services
Ruling Seen As Major Victory For Trucking Companies & Transportation Industry
It appears that California's attempt to usurp Federal Authority in regard to interstate commerce has suffered a severe set-back. Superior Court Judge William Highberger's ruling against California Assembly Bill AB5 will hopefully deter further attempts by the state legislature to extend it's control over private sector businesses to the benefit of the Teamsters Union. My suspicion is that they will continue their assault on small and medium size businesses through more creative legislation. The ruling may deter the New Jersey Legislature from moving forward with similar legislation.
CALIFORNIA JUDGE RULES AB5 VIOLATES F4A
JANUARY 10, 2020 – ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a huge victory for trucking companies and the transportation industry, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Highberger ruled this week that California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) is preempted by federal law. In his ruling, Judge Highberger wrote that the statute (and the Supreme Court decision it reflects) "clearly" runs afoul of the Federal Aviation Administrative Authorization Act of F4A, which prohibits States from enacting or enforcing policies related to "price, route, or service of any motor carrier."
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"The 'birth dearth' is what demographers call plummeting birth rates in most of the industrialized world. Throughout Western Europe and East Asia, the birth rate is well below 2.1 births per woman -- which is the minimum needed to maintain a stable population. ... Throughout history, societies in demographic decline, usually as a result of disease, have faced two unattractive options: a decline in their standard of living or the replacement of their native population with a more fertile immigrant one. Europe has, essentially by default, chosen the latter. But as last week's bombings in London illustrate, turning millions of Islamic immigrants into 'Europeans,' however you define the term, is a dubious proposition. ... It's hard to imagine a better example of the importance of worldviews, and specifically in this case, the Christian one. [Mark] Steyn is right when he says that Europe's decline is directly linked to its hostility towards Christianity."


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Als Renette oder Reinette bezeichnet man eine Gruppe von Apfelsorten. Diese zeichnen sich durch dichtes, später markiges Fleisch aus, mit meistens kennzeichnendem Geschmack.
Die Bezeichnung Renette stammt ursprünglich aus dem Französischen, wobei zunächst die Schreibweisen Rainette und Reinette verwendet wurden. Die ursprüngliche Bedeutung des Wortes ist unklar. Zum einen wird diskutiert, dass sich der Name vom Diminutiv des französischen Wortes reine (Königin) ableitet und sich auf den Geschmack der Reinetten bezieht, die früher als besonders edle Tafelobstsorten galten. Zum anderen wird auch eine Herleitung vom lateinischen Wort rana (Frosch, frz. rainette) vermutet, wobei ein Bezug zu der Schale der Renetten hergestellt wird, die oft durch auffällige Lentizellen gepunktet erscheint.

In der historischen Literatur sind folgende Einteilungen vorgenommen worden (System nach Eduard Lucas, 1893):
 Rambourrenetten
 Einfarbige oder Wachsrenetten
 Borsdorferrenetten
 Rote Renetten
 Graue Renetten
 Goldrenetten

Diese Einteilung besitzt heute keine oder nur noch eingeschränkte Gültigkeit. Durch Züchtungsarbeit ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden viele andere Apfelsorten eingekreuzt, so dass dieses System in dieser Form nicht mehr aufrechterhalten werden kann.

Graue Renetten (englisch: Russet) weisen durch eine ausgeprägte und flächige Berostung, die oft die gesamte Frucht überzieht, eine bräunliche bis gräuliche Farbe sowie eine raue Oberfläche auf. Sie werden deshalb auch als  (deutsch: Rostmantel),  und  (deutsch: Ledermantel) bezeichnet. Letztere Bezeichnung war zu Shakespeares Zeit bekannt, z. B. in Heinrich IV., Teil 2, wo Davy zu Bardolph sagt: . In der pharmazeutischen Terminologie der Frühen Neuzeit hieß der Lederapfel in lateinischer Sprache Malus corius.

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Siehe auch
 Calville
 Liste der Cox-Orange-Cultivare
 Parmäne
 Pepping-Äpfel
 Liste von Apfelsorten
 Reinetten-Sorten aus Franz Jahn, Eduard Lucas und Johann Georg Conrad Oberdieck: Illustrirtes Handbuch der Obstkunde, Band 1, Ebner und Seubert, Stuttgart 1859

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Q: How to convert all images to JPG format in PHP? I am developing a website in PHP that let the user to upload images and then let him to decide how the image should be using jQuery - PHP integeration to select the area that wanted to be the picture and then click the crop button to crop it and save it.
The problem that I am facing is that not all images type are good to crop and save so I noticed that the easy solution for it to convert the image to JPG and then let the user to crop it because it's the easy way to do it in JPG format.
How I can do it?
Is this the best solution for images types problem?
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I am using this code to crop images and it's not wroking in PNG format and also limited to 3 ext.
$path_parts = pathinfo("../images/DVDs/".$_POST['logo_file']);
        if ($path_parts['extension'] == "png") {

                $src = imagecreatefrompng("../images/DVDs/".$_POST['logo_file']);

                        $tmp = imagecreatetruecolor(350, 494);
                        imagecopyresampled($tmp, $src, 0,0,$_POST['x'],$_POST['y'],350,494,$_POST['w'],$_POST['h']);
                        imagepng($tmp, "../images/DVDs/$filename".'t_'.$_POST['logo_file'],100);
            } else if ($path_parts['extension'] == "jpg" || $path_parts['extension'] == "jpeg") {

                        $src = imagecreatefromjpeg("../images/DVDs/".$_POST['logo_file']);

                        $tmp = imagecreatetruecolor(350, 494);
                        imagecopyresampled($tmp, $src, 0,0,$_POST['x'],$_POST['y'],350,494,$_POST['w'],$_POST['h']);
                        imagejpeg($tmp, "../images/DVDs/$filename".'t_'.$_POST['logo_file'],100);
                } else if ($path_parts['extension'] == "gif") {

                        $src = imagecreatefromgif("../images/DVDs/".$_POST['logo_file']);

                        $tmp = imagecreatetruecolor(350, 494);
                        imagecopyresampled($tmp, $src, 0,0,$_POST['x'],$_POST['y'],350,494,$_POST['w'],$_POST['h']);
                        imagegif($tmp, "../images/DVDs/$filename".'t_'.$_POST['logo_file'],100);
                    }

I want to convert images to JPG format because it's the easiest to convert without any problem.

A: Maybe it's not working with PNG because PNG only supports compression levels 0 to 9.
I'd also rather modify the behaviour based on MIME type, not extension. And I guess you're checking your POST user input before using it in code ;)
Here's my variant of the code:
$path = "../images/DVDs/";

$img = $path . $_POST['logo_file'];

if (($img_info = getimagesize($img)) === FALSE)
  die("Image not found or not an image");

switch ($img_info[2]) {
  case IMAGETYPE_GIF  : $src = imagecreatefromgif($img);  break;
  case IMAGETYPE_JPEG : $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($img); break;
  case IMAGETYPE_PNG  : $src = imagecreatefrompng($img);  break;
  default : die("Unknown filetype");
}

$tmp = imagecreatetruecolor(350, 494);
imagecopyresampled($tmp, $src, 0, 0, intval($_POST['x']), intval($_POST['y']),
                   350, 494, intval($_POST['w']), intval($_POST['h']));

$thumb = $path . pathinfo($img, PATHINFO_FILENAME) . "_thumb";
switch ($img_info[2]) {
  case IMAGETYPE_GIF  : imagegif($tmp,  $thumb . '.gif');      break;
  case IMAGETYPE_JPEG : imagejpeg($tmp, $thumb . '.jpg', 100); break;
  case IMAGETYPE_PNG  : imagepng($tmp,  $thumb . '.png', 9);   break;
  default : die("Unknown filetype");
}

For every filetype you want supported, you only have to add two lines of code.

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