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2015 Acura TLX Sedan Makes World Premiere in New York, Has Up To 290HP [48 Pics & Videos]
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This is the all-new 2015 Acura TLX in its final production form that will go on sale later this year replacing both the TL and TSX. It's 3.8-inches shorter than the TL, but because it keeps the same wheelbase length, it should offer similar space inside for passengers.
The styling is very close to the 2014 Detroit Motor Show concept, with only some minor alterations such as the bigger exterior mirrors, smaller wheels, and the absence of the bumper trims and spoilers – you could say that it's more of a bigger ILX than a smaller RLX, and that applies to both the exterior and the (rather uninspired) interior.
Two engines will be on offer in the States, a 2.4-liter 4-cylinder producing 206-horsepower linked to an all-new 8-speed dual-clutch transmission (8DCT) with torque converter, and a 3.5-liter V6 with 290-horses mated to a new 9-speed automatic transmission. Both engines transfer power to the front wheels as standard, but with the V6, you can opt for Acura's latest-gen Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) system.
According to Acura, the 2.4L engine returns an anticipated EPA fuel-economy rating of 24mpg city, 35mpg highway and 28mpg combined, while the V6 model with 2WD delivers 21mpg city, 34mpg highway and 25mpg combined, and with AWD, 21mpg city, 31mpg highway and 25mpg combined.
Acura says it has kept the weight down, and as an example, it mentions that, at 3,600 pounds (1,633 kg), the 3.5L V6 TLX with the Technology Package is 145 pounds (66kg) lighter than the TL Technology Package model.
Plenty of comfort and technology features will be offered either standard or optional, including Acura's signature Jewel Eye LED headlights, LED-accented side mirrors, taillights and license plate illumination, Smart Entry/Push Button Start keyless access system, a 7-inch On Demand Multi-Use Display (ODMD) touch screen and GPS-linked automatic climate control.
Acura said pricing will be released closer to the on sale date later this year.
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Let me, let me make one comment, Jim, on what Frank just said. If those people in Columbus had invited the Institute for Creation Research and our scientists to sit down with them, we could have provided them with a wealth of information.
Well they looked through your literature, but they couldn't find... you've never published any of this, Dr. Gish.
No, do you know that's not true.
Well, there is no positive evidence for creationism.
... ah, evolutionary paleontologist who made that statement.
But it wasn't there in the original French, Dr. Gish.
... femur you would say human.
Wait a minute, you're shifting ground again here. What you wrote in The Fossil's Say No was that Boule called these skulls monkey-like. I wrote about this in an American Atheist article.  It's interesting, in later editions of your book, you deleted that passage.
... I have not been able to locate the French, but I do know, I do know, what Boule said about Java man, which is equivalent, and you know it's equivalent, to Sinanthropus. They're now in the same species.
 Surely, Gish had just heard me say 'Sinanthropus' and 'monkey-like.' Is it possible that he doesn't realize the Australopithecines were more primitive than Sinanthropus (i.e., Homo erectus)? Is it possible he still doesn't understand that there is a difference between apes and monkeys?
"In an article published in 1937 in L'Anthropologie (p. 21), Boule wrote: 'To this fantastic hypothesis [of Abbe Breuil and Fr. Teilhard de Chardin], that the owners of the monkey-like skulls were the authors of the large-scale industry, I tak e the liberty of preferring an opinion more in conformity with the conclusions from my own studies, which is that the hunter (who battered the skulls) was a real man and that the cut stones, etc., were his handiwork [the nature of this stone industry will be discussed later].'"
Examination of page 21 of the Boule article shows nothing like this quotation. Nothing about monkeys is to be found. Moreover, the complete quotation is not to be found anywhere in the entire article, although on page 20 we do find a portion of the text in question: "To this hypothesis, as fantastic as it is ingenious, I may be permitted to prefer one which seems to me to be just as satisfactory, being simpler and more in conformity with the totality of what we know: the hunter was a true man, whose stone industry has been found and who made Sinanthropus his victim!"
The "monkey-like skulls" business appears to have been invented by Gish to make paleoanthropologists look dumber than the fundamentalists who swallow his line of creationist clap-trap.
 My article, "Maculate Deception: The 'Science' of Creationism," appeared in the March, 1985 issue of The American Atheist, and can be obtained from American Atheists, P.O. Box 8457, Columbus, OH 43201.
 After my article appeared, Gish re-issued his book under a new title, Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record. [Creation-Life Publishers, Master Books Division, El Cajon, California, 1985] The false quotation from Boule about "monkey-like skulls" is gone, and it becomes clear that Gish got his monkey idea from a Catholic priest named Patrick O'Connell. According to Gish, O'Connell was in China during the period that Peking Man ( Sinanthropus) was being excavated. Although O'Connell had never been to the excavation site, he decided (and Gish readily agrees) that Peking Man was a hoax. According to Gish (page 199), "O'Connell concludes that Sinanthropus consisted of the skulls of either large macaques (large monkeys) or large baboons killed and eaten by workers at an ancient quarry." Gish seems not to realize how incompetent such a claim is. Even a high school biology student can readily distinguish between a baboon skull and the skulls shown in photographs of the Peking remains or the accurate casts (Gish misleadingly refers to the casts as "models") which were made of the remains and sent to various museums around the world. The actual bones excavated during the 1920's and 1930's disappeared when the American marines to whom they were entrusted for safe-keeping were captured by the invading Japanese.
 It is unclear whether Gish here is simply confessing that Boule described the skulls as "ape-like" - not monkey-like - or whether he is actually trying to misrepresent Peking Man as having been judged actually to have been an ape.
 Homo erectus, of which both Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus (Java Man) were examples, had a brain capacity approximately intermediate between that of African apes or Australopithecines such as Australopithecus africanus on the one side and Homo sapiens on the other. Homo erectus is as perfect a "connecting link" as one could wish between modern humans and creatures neurologically on par with the apes. (The brain of modern human is approximately three times the size of the ape brain .) Generally speaking, the earliest examples of H. erectus had brains smaller than two-thirds that of modern humans; brains of late examples (such as some at Peking) were larger than two-thirds, some even slightly overlapping in size the smallest known modern brains. It is understandable that creationists would want to be able to sweep away so wonderful an evidence of human evolution, by claiming the many examples all to have been hoaxes!


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Emily Pierini
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Bachelor Degree in Archaeology & ClassicsM.A. Sustainable Cultural Heritage
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Bristol - Bristol, UK
MA in Social Anthropology, University of Bristol - Bristol, UK
Degree in Scienze delle Comunicazioni, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza - Rome, Italy
Dr Emily Pierini is a social anthropologist with extensive ethnographic fieldwork experience in Brazil and Europe. Her research interests in the field of social and medical anthropology, and the anthropology of religion include: health and spirituality, notions of the body and the self, emotions and the senses, spirit mediumship and religious experience. Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Bristol with a thesis on mediumistic experience in the Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn), investigating notions of the body and the self in the process of learning mediumship, a research which was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute Sutasoma Award. She has also conducted research on Afro-Brazilian religions in the Federal District (Brazil), on Goddess Spirituality (UK and Italy), and on the temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Europe. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, researching upon the therapeutic aspects of learning religion in both Europe and Brazil. She is also a Research Associate at the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Brasil Plural, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, coordinating with Albero Groisman a research network on 'Spirituality, Health, Embodiment, Ethnography'.
Dr Pierini has taught Research Methods and Social Anthropology courses at the University of Bristol, the University of Rome Sapienza and the University of Sarajevo, and she has given invited lectures at Brazilian Universities.
You can find out more about Dr. Pierini at http://lamp.academia.edu/EmilyPierini
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Honorary Research Fellow, Member of the Research Committee of the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, UK.
Research Associate, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Brasil Plural, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Network coordinator with Alberto Groisman 'Spirituality, Health, Embodiment and Ethnography'.
Member of the Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition Research Centre (CRAFT), University of Turin, Italy.
Member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for the Study of Religious Experience.
Academic Publications & Appearances
2017 Incontri Incorporati: Pratiche Medianiche e Etnografia del Sentire. In S. Botta and M. Ferrara (eds), Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 137-156.
2016 Pierini, Emily and Alberto Groisman (eds), Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2.
2016 Pierini, Emily and Alberto Groisman, Introduction. Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2: 1-6.
2016 Embodied Encounters: Ethnographic Knowledge, Emotion and Senses in the Vale do Amanhecer's Spirit Mediumship. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2: 25-49.
2016 Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale do Amanhecer. In Bettina Schmidt and Steven Engler (eds). Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil. Leiden: Brill, pp 225-232.
2016 Incontri Incorporati: Pratiche Medianiche e Etnografia del Sentire. In S. Botta and M. Ferrara, Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo, Roma: Nuova Cultura (forthcoming)
2016 'Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer'. In Bettina Schmidt. The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies, London: Equinox, pp. 50-70.
2016 Becoming a Spirit Medium: Initiatory Learning and the Self in the Vale do Amanhecer. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 81(2): 290-314. (Published online in 2014).
2010 Aspectos Sócio-culturais dos Cultos de Matrizes Afros e Afro-brasileiras no Distrito Federal. In E. Pierini and M. Reis. Identificação dos Lugares de Matrizes Africanas e Afro-Brasileira no Distrito Federal e Entorno, Inventário Nacional de Referências Culturais/INRC Lugares de Culto de Matrizes Africanas e Afro-Brasileiras no Distrito Federal e Entorno Fase II. Brasília: Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, pp. 56-94.
2009 Identità Ibride: l'Esperienza Religiosa nella Vale do Amanhecer. Quaderni di Thule IX, pp. 215-220.
2008 L'Ibridismo Religioso della Vale do Amanhecer. Un'Analisi delle Interazioni tra il Globale e il Locale in Brasile. Quaderni di Thule VIII, pp. 513-518.
2017 The Mediumistic Body: Learning Spirit Mediumship in the Vale do Amanhecer. Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship Conference, University of Cologne, Germany (September 2017).
2017 Religions in Brazil between Categories and Experience. 'Defining Religious Pluralism: A Research Hub for the Study of Religions', Department of History, Cultures and Religions, Università di Roma 'Sapienza', Italy (May 2017).


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Armagnac is a grape brandy produced in the Gascony region of south-west France, as it has been since at least the 15th century. A fuller-bodied (some would say rustic) style of brandy when compared to Cognac, it is often aged for many years (decades in some cases) and makes an excellent digestif. Discover more »
Armagnac is a grape brandy produced primarily from four grape varieties (Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche, Baco 22A and Colombard), although 10 are permitted. Made in the Gascony region of France to the south of Bordeaux (split into three areas: Bas Armagnac, Tenareze and Haut Armagnac), it is distilled only once and often aged for many decades.
Armagnac hails from Gascony in south-west France
Believed to be the oldest brandy in France, the first written record of Armagnac dates from 1411, meaning it predates Cognac by at least 200 years. Due to the location of the region (away from the coast), it remained a local product until the River Baise was canalised in the 19th century and exportation became easier. Originally produced in large alembic stills, a local peasant created the Verdier still, patented in 1818. This new type of still allowed more of the flavour to be retained from the original wine, thus increasing complexity and setting it apart from Cognac. The resulting spirit is then aged in oak, normally 400-litre Limousin casks, for at least two years before it can be called Armagnac.
Types of Armagnac
Armagnac can be divided into two main categories: vintage and non-vintage. Vintage Armagnacs are distilled from grapes grown in a single year, with the date displayed on the bottle. Non-vintage Armagnacs can either be labelled by age, where the number of years quoted relates to the youngest component of the blend or by category: VS (minimum two years in wood), VSOP (at least four years), XO (more than six years) or Hors d'Age (10 years plus).
Armagnac vs Cognac
Armagnac and Cognac are both grape brandies, but are produced in different regions of France. Cognac must be made in the Charente and Charente-Maritime départements to the north of Bordeaux, whereas Armagnac comes from the Gascony region south of the city. Armagnac is almost always distilled only once, rather than the double distillation of its northern counterpart. This leads to Armagnac having a more robust flavour profile and body, and is one of the reasons why it is usually aged for longer before release than Cognac, as more time is needed to allow the flavours to integrate and to remove the impurities that remain from the distillation process. Armagnac production today remains largely in the hands of small producers, rather than the big brands prevalent in Cognac.
The main grape used in Armagnac production (Ugni Blanc) is one of the most commonly planted grape varieties in the world, especially in Italy, where it is called Trebbiano and accounts for around a third of all white wine produced there.
Members of the society which promotes Armagnac around the world are known as mousquetaires (musketeers)
Ortolan, a bird which was a French delicacy, would be prepared by being force-fed, drowned in Armagnac and roasted. The practice was outlawed by the EU in 1999 and has been enforced by France from 2007.
Typical Character and Style of Armagnac
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For a hot and long lasting fire you want dry seasoned hardwood logs. That is what we sell.
We cut logs to your preferred size and deliver in a high capacity Land Rover converted to a tipper. The tipper carries 2 cubic metres of logs which is equivalent to one ton of green wood.
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This wood was felled last winter and split to air dry a minimum of three months before delivery.
These prices are for a tipped load. the wood can be stacked for a small extra cost, but we will need prior notice. Stacking won't be possible at peak times so best to order early to avoid disappointment.
Where we work there is no mobile phone signal, please contact us here or call and leave a voicemail stating when you are available for a return call, we will call you back within 24 hours to arrange your delivery.
The trees are felled in the winter when the sap is low. The wood is then split into metre lengths, called billets, and stacked under tin sheets to air dry in the wood.
On demand these are cut to the size of log you require and delivered straight to your door. This way allows us to keep the log miles to a minimum.
The logs are from woodland which is classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to the rare plants growing in it. The woodland management is carried out with the approval of English Nature.


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Czelesta (wł.celesta = rajski; skrót: Cel.) – klawiszowy instrument muzyczny z grupy instrumentów perkusyjnych wynaleziony pod koniec XIX w., przypominający kształtem fisharmonię. Dźwięk powstaje w nim w wyniku uderzania uruchamianych przy pomocy klawiszy młoteczków w metalowe płytki połączone z rezonatorem skrzynkowym, które wydają dźwięk zbliżony do dzwonków. Instrument ma zazwyczaj 49-65 klawiszy oraz skalę obejmującą trzy, cztery lub pięć oktaw.

Czelesty, z racji jej brzmienia, użył Piotr Czajkowski w tańcu wieszczki cukrowej w balecie Dziadek do orzechów. Innymi znanymi utworami, w których pojawia się czelesta, są Planety Holsta (część Neptun), Koncert wiolonczelowy Szostakowicza oraz Muzyka na instrumenty strunowe, perkusję i czelestę Bartóka. Po czelestę sięga też przemysł filmowy (m.in. muzyka Johna Williamsa do filmu Harry Potter). Wykorzystywana jest także przez awangardowy zespół jazzowy Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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import org.junit.Test;

public class TestDoubleMatrix {
  private static double E = 0.0001f;

  @Test
  public void testVectorAdd() {
    // The default value should be 0
    DoubleVector vec1 = new DoubleVector();
    assertEquals(0.0, vec1.get(0), E);

    // Basic get/set
    vec1.set(0, 0.1);
    vec1.set(10, 1.4);
    assertEquals(0.1, vec1.get(0), E);
    assertEquals(0.0, vec1.get(5), E);
    assertEquals(1.4, vec1.get(10), E);

    // Add another vector
    DoubleVector vec2 = new DoubleVector();
    vec2.set(0, 0.5);
    vec2.set(5, 1.7);

    vec1.add(vec2);
    assertEquals(0.6, vec1.get(0), E);
    assertEquals(1.7, vec1.get(5), E);
    assertEquals(1.4, vec1.get(10), E);
    assertEquals(0.0, vec1.get(15), E);
  }

  @Test
  public void testVectorSerialize() throws Exception {
    int size = 100;

    // Serialize from
    DoubleVector from = new DoubleVector(size);
    from.set(0, 10.0);
    from.set(10, 5.0);
    from.set(12, 1.0);
    byte[] data = WritableUtils.writeToByteArray(from);

    // De-serialize to
    DoubleVector to = new DoubleVector();
    WritableUtils.readFieldsFromByteArray(data, to);

    // The vectors should be equal
    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
      assertEquals(from.get(i), to.get(i), E);
    }
  }
}

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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
Bullying is something all of us have experienced to some degree. I certainly did as a child, and to some extent as an adult, as did my friends family, and acquaintances.
Defining bullying is a challenging endeavour. Barbara Coloroso's offers a concise definition in her excellent book, The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander (2006) Bullying she writes "is a conscious, willful, and deliberate hostile activity intended to harm, induce fear through the threat of further aggression and create terror." Bullies tend to leverage power based on many factors including: size, age, social status, race, gender... Bullying can also be a group activity.
There are various forms of bullying. Below I have outlined three broad categories. These do not have to be mutually exclusive and one form can certainly lead to another.
Verbal Bullying: This is the most frequent form of bullying. I can involve: name calling, insults, malicious rumours, racial slurs... As Coloroso writes, "Sticks and stones my break my bones, but words will never hurt me, is a lie." Moreover, verbal bullying can sometimes be a first step to physical violence.
Physical Bullying: Shoving, punching, grabbing, pinching, kicking, taking property such as money etc.... This is the most obvious and the easiest to detect.
Relational Bullying: This involves attacking the bullied person's social relationships and status. This can involves isolating, ignoring, shunning. It is more insidious than physical bullying and more difficult to detect.
Cyberbullying: Intimidation, humiliation, reputation tainting - all via email, and various social media sites. With the proliferation of mobile devices that is becoming a growing problem.
In future blogs, we will address these forms of bullying in greater detail and explore effective ways of dealing with them.


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Sua pergunta: What was the first kite made of?
When was the first kite made?
What was the purpose of the first kite?
Who was the first person to fly a kite?
How were kites first used in China?
Why can't we fly kites throughout the year?
What is the highest a kite has ever flown?
Who invented the diamond kite?
Why was the Chinese kite invented?
How did kites change the world?
Can a kite lift a person?
What do you call a person who flies kites?
How much can a kite lift?
Where were Chinese kites invented?
Where did kite fighting originate?
Why are kites important in China?
The first kites were what we today would call prototype kites: they were made of light wood and cloth. They were designed to mimic a bird's natural flight.
It is thought that the earliest use of kites was among the Chinese, approximately 2,800 years ago. The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By 549 AD, paper kites were being flown — in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission.
Ancient and medieval Chinese sources describe kites being used for measuring distances, testing the wind, lifting men, signaling, and communication for military operations. The earliest known Chinese kites were flat (not bowed) and often rectangular.
Though the exact origin of kites are not known, it is known that they were flown in China and the Malay Archipelago two to three thousand years ago. The earliest written accounts of kite flying were the exploits of the Chinese general Han Hsin, Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.).
ЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО: Which Manjha is best for kite flying?
Kites were invented by the ancient Chinese about 2,300 years ago! In Ancient Chinese, in very early times, kites were used by the military. They were used as messages and for measuring distances. Soldiers could see them flying and knew what they meant.
It depends upon the environment because if it is the monsoon time or in the winter time it is not possible to fly the kites so I think at the proper time when the sky will be clear that will be the utmost time to fly the kites and make sure kites are not available in the market all the time also, so this is also a key …
The highest altitude by a single kite is 4,879.54 m (16,009 ft) and was achieved by Robert Moore (Australia) in Cobar, New South Wales, Australia on 23 September 2014. The record was attempted at Cable Downs, a 50,000 acre sheep station in far western New South Wales, Australia.
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Why Were Kites Invented? Mainly, they were used for military purposes. The first kites were what we today would call prototype kites: they were made of light wood and cloth. … The first Chinese kites were used for measuring distances, which was useful information for moving large armies across difficult terrain.
Meteorological observatories around the world used kites to lift instruments thousands of feet into the air. This gave a great deal of information about the atmosphere, and vastly improved the weather forecasting of the time.
ЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО: How do you identify a kite?
In the 17th century, Japanese architect Kawamura Zuiken used kites to lift his workmen during construction. … At Pirbright Camp on June 27, 1894, he used one of the kites to lift a man 50 feet (15.25 m) off the ground. By the end of that year he was regularly using the kite to lift men above 100 ft (30.5 m).
Pilot: A term for the person who flies a kite.
It completely depends on the kite you are talking about and the wind. I've had a kite lift me like 15 feet off the ground, and I'm like 140 pounds. I've held down kites with 8 pound weights.
province of Shandong
Though kites were invented 2,500 years ago, probably in China, this type of kite fighting is said to have originated in India. The kites are made of simple colored tissue paper and bamboo.
Kites are linked to Chinese celebrations and symbolism.
Kites are important in Chinese celebrations because they are decorative and festive, representing Chinese culture. … As always, red is a color often found on kites in China because this is one of the colors associated with good luck.
How much wind do you need for skydiving?
Wind speed: Due to speeds that the parachutes can operate and how wind speed
Is skydiving a sport?
Skydiving is most definitely a sport and one in which thousands of people the
Is skydiving considered an extreme sport?
Skydiving, also called parachuting, is a sport in which athletes jump out of an
How far do you skydive from?
Skydivers usually jump from 10,000 to 14,000 feet up – that's around 2 miles!
How fast do skydivers go?
Terminal velocity is the fastest you'll fall during your jump; typically around 200 kph
How much do you have to weigh to paraglide?
What do you call a paraglider with an engine?
Melhor resposta: Can you skydive if you have high blood pressure?
How safe is skydiving Reddit?
Pergunta frequente: What happens to your body during skydiving?
Resposta rápida: Can you steer a round parachute?
How many kitesurfing lessons do I need?


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The HtmlInputText control allows programmatic access to the HTML <input type= text> and <input type= password> elements on the server. The MaxLength property specifies the maximum number of characters that can be entered in the text box. The Size property allows Web developer to specify the width of the text box and he/she can use the Value property to specify the value entered by the end user into text box. The HtmlInputText control provides a ServerChange event that is raised when the Value property changes values between posts to the server. Web developer can use this to create an event handler that performs a custom set of instructions each time the event is raised.
The HtmlInputText control does not provide a built-in way to post back to the server and Web developer has to provide another control on the Web page that supports posting to the server, such as an HtmlButton control, to send the value of the control back to the server.
This property is used to get or set the maximum number of characters that can be entered in the text box.
This property is used to get or set the width of the text box in characters.
This string property gets or sets the contents of the text box. Its default value is an empty string ("").


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BiografieBEHEMOTH have always pushed the limits of their abilities and defied the boundaries of death and black metal. Now, the Polish metal kings have returned with a new offering, The Apostasy, which is destined to become both the defining release of the band´s career and one of the most revered and dynamic offerings the genre has seen in years. The Apostasy´s basic meaning is "to go against religion," and with Poland being one of the top religious countries in the world, BEHEMOTH strives to convey that being religious is not the key to happiness. This album takes everything to the next level, as Nergal (guitars, vocals) promises "more speed, aggression and blasphemy than ever before." The Apostasy is easily the group´s most ambitious and epic offering yet and was recorded in the band´s hometown of Gdansk with Nergal and longtime sound engineer Malta in the producers´ chairs. The effort was once again mixed with the acclaimed Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah, SYL) at Dugout Studios in Sweden and will be mastered by Bjorn Engelmann (Rammstein).
BEHEMOTH built their career upon their unrelenting touring schedule, performing over 325 shows worldwide in support of their 2005 release, Demigod. The group kicks off The Apostasy´s worldwide touring cycle on Ozzfest 2007 as direct support to second-stage headliners Hatebreed. This event marks BEHEMOTH´s biggest U.S. tour yet, further setting the stage for the band to become the new leaders of the genre.
Originally formed by a teenage Nergal in 1991, BEHEMOTH quickly made a name for themselves in black metal circles with four early cult albums: From The Pagan Wastelands, ...And The Forests Dream Eternally, Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) and Grom. But it wasn´t until the release of Pandemonic Incantations and the addition of Inferno (drums) that the band started to realize their true potential. Songs became catchier, where the musicianship and production vastly improved. With Satanica, BEHEMOTH started to incorporate more of a death metal approach to their songwriting. The high, raspy, black metal screeches of the first four albums were replaced with a forceful yet audible death metal growl. Two successful European tours followed with Deicide and Satyricon as the band started to amass a rabid following. In 2001, Thelema.6 was released in the U.S. Truly a landmark in the extreme metal community, Thelema.6 saw the band combining their early black metal influences with the utter viciousness and technicality of Satanica.
Now an unstoppable live force, touring opportunities with bands such as Nile and Morbid Angel began to pour in. For those who thought the band had reached their peak, nothing could prepare them for what came next. Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond) was unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences in 2003. The album saw BEHEMOTH set a new standard in massive production and song craft for all others to meet, as they take a slight turn away from the more straight-ahead brutality of Thelema.6 and put more of an emphasis on groove. As rave reviews started to flow in, the group made its American live debut at the New Jersey March Metal Meltdown festival. The several extensive nationwide tours that followed (which included treks with the likes of Deicide, Amon Amarth, Halford, Testament, Superjoint Ritual, Opeth, Lacuna Coil and Six Feet Under) helped to make 2003 a breakthrough year for the band.
Demigod was the next logical progression of the band´s already colossal sound. The songs took on an even more aggressive feel this time around, with more traditional metal song structures and slightly more melodic lead work. In an effort to match the grandness of the composition, a professional male choir was brought in to record real vocal harmonies for "Sculpting the Throne ov Seth." A slew of major worldwide touring insanity followed with the likes of such acts as King Diamond, Suffocation, Danzig, Morbid Angel, Chimaira and The Black Dahlia Murder, helping the group to more than solidify themselves as one of the genre´s most exciting new artists. The touring campaign for Demigod was ultimately capped off with an appearance on 2006´s Sounds of The Underground tour alongside As I Lay Dying, In Flames and Trivium where BEHEMOTH quickly became the most talked about act due to their vicious and unrelenting live show, which immediately garnered them a whole new legion of devoted fans.
While most bands struggle to evolve and stay vital within the extreme music genre, BEHEMOTH manages to do so effortlessly. The Apostasy is destined to continue the legacy.Quelle: http://www.behemoth.pl/en/index.php?type=hiDiscografie2008 - At The Arena Ov Aion-Live Apostasy
2007 - The Apostasy
2006 - Demonica (2-CD)
2004 - Demigod
2002 - Zos Kia Cultus
2000 - Thelema.6
1999 - Satanica
1997 - Pandemonic Incantations
1996 - Grom
1996 - Sventevith
With Full Force 2016 - Samstag
Party.San 2015 - Donnerstag
Mittwoch 08.07.2015
Rockharz 2015 - Mittwoch & Donnerstag
Wir waren (wie eigentlich jedes Jahr) auf dem Rockharz 2015 in Ballenstedt, im schönen Harz. Das Festival in Kurzform? Stau. Metal. Wind. Dennoch sehr viel Spaß. (Teil 1)
BEHEMOTH - The Polish Satanist Tour
Donnerstag 14.08.2014
Summerbreeze Open Air 2014 - Tag 1
At The Arena Ov Aion-Live Apostasy
Wenn man ein herausragendes Genre-Highlight wie "The Apostasy" verbrochen hat, darf man auf der zugehörigen Tour gerne ein Live-Album mitschneiden, was BEHEMOTH ohne Umschweife getan haben
Conjuration
Ein neues ("Conjuration Of Sleep Daemons"), vier Live- ("Christians To The Lions", "Decade Of Therion", "Antichristian Pandemonium", "Chant For Eskaton 2000")- und zwei Cover-Stücke, die da heißen "Wi
Demonica
Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit: BEHEMOTH lassen ihre Anfangs- und Demo-Zeiten wieder aufleben.
Es mag ja Leute geben, die der Ansicht sind, Death Metal stecke allgemein in einer kreativen Sackgasse. Hauptsache, immer schön tief gestimmt und fette Growls, egal, ob schnell oder langsam.
The Satanist
Ohhh mein GOTT!!!


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With 26 public and private sector companies applying for bank licences, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that there was no ceiling on the number of entities which can be permitted to operate a bank.
'I don't think there is a ceiling. I don't think there is a number in mind. It all depends upon how many applicants are eligible applicants. The fact that somebody applies doesn't mean he is an eligible applicant,' he said.
'If there are very few eligible applicants, then the number of banks that will get licences will also be few. I don't think that the Governor has any ceiling in mind,' he said.
On whether India needs large banks or large number of banks, the Finance Minister said there is a case for both.
'A large number of banks will mean more competition and a quicker reaching into the country and faster financial inclusion.'Large banks will mean that we are able to finance large projects using our own bank resources rather than depending upon foreign bank resources. So, both are required in this country,' he said.
On Monday, RBI announced that 26 entities, including Tata Sons, LIC Housing Finance, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Department of Posts, Reliance Capital, L&T Finance and Bajaj Finserv, applied for grant of bank licences.The RBI had issued guidelines for 'Licensing of New Banks in the Private Sector' on 22 February and came out with clarifications in the first week of June.
RBI Governor D Subbarao had earlier said that 'our effort will be to make that judgement as transparent as objective as contestable as possible...I want to say that not everybody who is fit and proper will be given a (bank) licence because we expect the number of eligible applicants will be much larger than what is meaningful number of licences we can give'.
In its clarification, the RBI had said the entities getting licences to open new banks will be given 18 months to open branches, and promoters would have to transfer their holdings to the non-operative financial holding company (NOFHC) in a stipulated period.The NOFHC envisages holding of the bank and other regulated financial services entities of the promoters under the NOFHC and prudential exposure norms for the entities.
The Reserve Bank is expected to grant new licences by March next year.
India has 26 public sector banks, 22 private sector banks and 56 regional rural banks.Ten banks were licenced on the basis of guidelines issued in January 1993. The guidelines were revised in January 2001 based on the experience gained from the functioning of these banks, and fresh applications were invited.
Of the 10 licences issued in 1993, four banks merged with other lenders over a period of time. Times Bank merged with HDFC Bank, while Global Trust Bank was amalgamated with the state-owned Oriental Bank of Commerce. Centurion Bank took over Bank of Punjab to become Centurion Bank of Punjab, which merged with HDFC Bank in 2008.
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Remember the differences between the words. The words all ready mean completely prepared. The word already means previously.
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The man was (all ready,already) to scold his little son about breaking the window when the man realized the boy was innocent.
Sonya rushed home from work to prepare dinner, and was pleasantly surprised to find dinner (all ready,already) prepared and on the table.
My daughter was (all ready,already) to attend UCLA when she was accepted to Cal Tech, so she changed her mind.
The overweight man had (all ready,already) eaten a slice of cake, but was tempted to eat the ice cream,too.
Rosie bragged that she had (all ready,already) fed the dogs, swept the floor, and vacuumed the carpets by noon time and planned to do some gardening in the afternoon.


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layout: post
status: publish
published: true
title: Pushing Limits - Running View 5 on iomega PX6
author:
  display_name: mcowger
  login: mcowger
  email: matt@cowger.us
  url: ''
author_login: mcowger
author_email: matt@cowger.us
wordpress_id: 113
wordpress_url: http://www.exaforge.com/?p=113
date: '2011-09-09 18:04:48 -0400'
date_gmt: '2011-09-10 01:04:48 -0400'
categories:
- iomega
- View
- VMware
- ESXi
tags: []
comments:
- id: 33
  author: ''
  author_email: smrteapnts@gmail.com
  author_url: ''
  date: '2011-09-12 15:37:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-12 15:37:00 -0400'
  content: If you had 2x 256GB MLC SSD, how were you able to present both a 50 and
    a 362g datastore to ESXi?  Or does the PX6 allow you to span volumes across both
    the SSD and SATA pools?
- id: 34
  author: Matt Cowger
  author_email: matt@cowger.us
  author_url: http://www.exaforge.com
  date: '2011-09-12 15:48:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-12 15:48:00 -0400'
  content: |-
    I was wondering if anyone would catch that :).  Good eye.

    I have to admit that the configuration screen shots were taken *after* the tests had been completed while a different test was being run (one for pure IO performance) where the devices were configured as RAID0.
- id: 35
  author: Jmayers
  author_email: jmayers@737consulting.com
  author_url: ''
  date: '2011-09-12 18:32:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-12 18:32:00 -0400'
  content: $300/user for a test environment, not to be used in production?  Not even
    remotely appealing...
- id: 36
  author: Matt Cowger
  author_email: matt@cowger.us
  author_url: http://www.exaforge.com
  date: '2011-09-12 18:55:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-12 18:55:00 -0400'
  content: |-
    I'm sorry you aren't interested, but thanks for the comment.

    I'd stress that I had to stop my testing at 50 users because I couldn't test any higher.  Given the early results, I'd expect this to be able to support more like 100+ users.
- id: 37
  author: Christine
  author_email: ''
  author_url: http://www.notebooklaptopreviews.net/
  date: '2011-09-24 23:06:14 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-25 06:06:14 -0400'
  content: |-
    laptop notebook...

    I've been browsing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. It's pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all site owners...
- id: 38
  author: Nos
  author_email: nos@nwcd.net
  author_url: ''
  date: '2011-09-29 14:25:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-29 21:25:00 -0400'
  content: Can you share the model SSD's you used?
- id: 39
  author: Matt Cowger
  author_email: matt@cowger.us
  author_url: http://www.exaforge.com
  date: '2011-09-29 14:49:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-09-29 21:49:00 -0400'
  content: Micron C300's
- id: 40
  author: artist wallpaper
  author_email: ''
  author_url: http://www.briggsphoto.net/
  date: '2011-09-30 20:11:50 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-10-01 03:11:50 -0400'
  content: |-
    wallpaper...

    Hi there, You\'ve done an incredible job. I will definitely digg it and personally recommend to my favorite...
- id: 41
  author: Sumedh
  author_email: sumedhsakdeo@gmail.com
  author_url: ''
  date: '2011-10-05 18:12:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-10-06 01:12:00 -0400'
  content: Do you have a step by step description of configuring loginVsi with Vmware
    view. The video seems to be removed? :(
- id: 42
  author: Matt Cowger
  author_email: matt@cowger.us
  author_url: http://www.exaforge.com
  date: '2011-10-05 22:28:00 -0400'
  date_gmt: '2011-10-06 05:28:00 -0400'
  content: I dont have that, but its a good idea for a blog post!  Will work on getting
    that video back up.
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Introduction

One of the tasks I undertook for VMworld 2011 Prep was a demonstration of View 5 running on small, limited hardware.  We were asked to 'see what it can do'.  The ultimate goal was to run as many VMware View 5 guests as we could on a small set of hardware - something that could be reasonably acquired for a small remote office to use for virtual desktops.  We started with a budget of about $15,000 and wanted something that could fit in a small half rack that you stuff in the corner.

Hardware

For hardware, we used the following:

iomega PX6

 2x 256GB MLC SSD

 4x 1024GB SATA 7200 RPM drives

Cisco C200

2 x 6-core 2.93 GHz CPUs

96 GB RAM

Small Cisco Switch (3750)

If you were to buy this (or similar equipment) on the open market today, your could do it for right about $15,000 US if you shop for a few deals (but still getting server class hardware from Cisco or Dell or similar).

Our initial goal was to hit 30 virtual machines.  We chose this goal to be in line with what we feel a real small office might do.  If you were building out a brand new branch office, you'd go off and purchase somewhere around 30 machines for your users, you'd spend around $1250 or so per machine, making your total outlay (excluding software licensing) somewhere around $38,000.  Our though was that instead, you'd spend $15K on this solution, $15,000 on thin client's (laptop style or desktop style, as needed), and still have 8K left over for a decent backup solution or similar.

So how did we set it up, and more importantly, validate our architecture & design?

Software

We started with a base of VMware vSphere 5 installed locally to the C200's disks.  This was totally unncessary of course, as ESXi could easily run from USB, but we had trouble getting the C200 booting from USB, so this was the path of least resistance.

On top of that we installed 2 Windows 2008 R2 virtual machines that had been joined to an existing Active Directory environment.  One of them had VMware vCenter 5 installed andthe other had the VMware View 5 connection broker.  Lastly, we also installed View Composer on the vCenter server (its required to be co-resident).

We then built a single 'golden image' virtual machine that would be the virtual desktops that our users would access.  This was a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine with 1GB RAM and Office 2010 & VMware Tools installed.

Array Configuration

The px6 array was very easy to configure over its web interface.  The disks were configured into 2 pools as follows:

ReplicasClones:  This pool was a RAID1 set of both SSDs in the system, and by its name you could guess that it was designed to hold the high IO aspects of the View environment.

UserData: This pool was a RAID5 set of the 4 remaining 1TB SATA drives, giving a useable capacity of around 2.8TB useable after RAID & base2/base10 conversions.  It intended purpose was to hold

Host Configuration

The ESXi was configured with defaults for the most part.  Using its 4-port NIC, we connected 2 of the ports on the array to 2 ports on the host with short patch cables.  This was done so that we could maximize the bandwidth and paths going into the px6 array from the host.  The replica datastore was mounted via NFS over vmnic2, while the desktop-ssd (linked clones) datastore was mounted over NFS over vmnic3.  As a result, these 2 high IO datastores have the best possible, lowest latency and contention-free paths to the storage.For external access, all management traffic & virtual machine traffic is routed through vmnic0 to the outside world.

VMware View 5 Configuration

After getting View 5 installed (which is very easy, by the way - just Next, Next, Next, Finish), we began to configure a single pool using Linked Clones and persistent disks:

We let it process and deploy the desktops for a bit (about 20 minutes or so), and voila, we have 50 desktops ready to go!

Very cool stuff!

Performance Testing

As cool as that easy deployment is, we need to test more than just booting and running 50 idle desktop.  While a previous boss of mine always said that his "favorite network is one with no users", I don't think I could swing $30K for a 0-user system.

As a result, I needed to find a way to generate some real world load on the environment.  There are a few reasonable choices out there, but the easiest (and cheapest) one I found was the LoginVSI tool from Login Consultants.  This tool uses a clever combination of AD group policies, shared folder, batch files and keystroke generators to simulate real world user behaviors with Excel, Word, Outlook and Internet Explorer.  Even better, for testing with a 'Medium' workload and up to 50 users, its free!

The tool constantly monitors response time to user actions as the number of virtual machines active increases to determine the maximum number of systems that can be running before the user experiences poor performance.  It ends up outputting a graph like this:

That blue line is the average response time, and you really dont want it above ~2500ms.

As the tests run, its fascinating to watch them go.  You get to see the system open RDP, login, run the batch file, and loop through the testing procedure:

Results

So where did we end up?  First let me demonstrate the host's view of the performance:

Looking at the summary view on the top right, you can see we consumed 74GB of the memory on the system, and over 22GHz of CPU performance, so we are definitely starting to push the limits of what this host can do.  Lets take a look at the core CPU & Storage metrics:

Clearly the CPU is pretty healthy, peaking out at around 60%.  Now the most interesting part - the storage performance:

This is really fantastic performance.  We see that the overall average response times (both read and write) for the disks as less than 2.8ms, well below the ~10-15ms value that we'd call 'good' in the storage world.  Even better, the read latencies were less than half a millisecond.  Clearly, this array has the horsepower to handle this workload with aplomb.

So where did we get?  What did LoginVSI says is our max?  Well here's the graph:

We see here that user response times are always sub 1.2 seconds, and average less than 1s overall.  What does this mean for capacity?  It means this system with this design can easily handle 50 users.  I bet it could handle at least 75, but I simply didn't have the testing resources to try to go any larger (more hosts, non-free LoginVSI license).

If you'd like to see a ScreenFlow of this whole process with captions, you could check out this YouTube video:

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Design Considerations

I can hear people screaming already.  'This isn't viable in the real world - single controller no backups blah blah blah'.  Yes, I know.  I would not implement this in a business critical environment.  This was simply intended as a demonstration to show what View 5 can do with absolutely minimal resources.  Please, for the love of all things production, do not use this design for anything that matters to your business.

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Q: Why can't I use Data.Function.(&) in the same expression as Control.Arrow.(>>>)? Why can't I use Data.Function.(&) in the same expression as Control.Arrow.(>>>)?
I'm learning Haskell after spending a lot of time in F#, and I find that right to left notation is making it tough to understand longer pipelines. (I know it's not idiomatic)
I'd read that & and >>> were the Haskell equivalent to F#'s |> and >>. However, this fails:
[someList] & take 5 >>> sum

with a "precedence error":

Prelude Data.Function Control.Arrow> [1:10] & take 5 >>> sum
<interactive>:4:1: error:
    Precedence parsing error
        cannot mix `&' [infixl 1] and `>>>' [infixr 1] in the same infix expression

while
sum . take 5 $ [someList]

obviously doesn't.

A: It's not  "precedence error", it's "precedence parsing error" (emphasis mine).
If we try it in GHCi, > :i & replies with infixl 1 &, while > :i >>> replies with infixr 1 >>>.
So one (&) parenthesizes on the left (infixl) and the other (>>>) on the right (infixr).
The one with the higher precedence would win, but these two have the same precedence (1). And that's what the error message is telling us (a bit ineptly):
    Precedence parsing error
        cannot mix `&' [infixl 1] and `>>>' [infixr 1] in the same infix expression

means, because they have the same precedence, the parsing of these left- and right- associating infix operators mixed together in this expression is ambiguous, and hence impossible.
So you end up having to use explicit parentheses for this expression to parse properly:
[someValue] & (take 5 >>> sum)

By the way, [someValue] is already a list. Because you use sum its one element's type must be in Num (someValue :: Num a => a, [someValue] :: Num a => [a]).
But if you rather already have someList with several numerical values in it (someList :: Num a => [a]), you just write
someList & (take 5 >>> sum)

because [someList] is a list with a single value in it, which happens to be a list of numbers (presumably). So with [someList] the expression wouldn't work anyway:
> [5] & (take 5 >>> sum)
5

> [[3,4,5]] & (take 5 >>> sum)

<interactive>:431:1:
    No instance for (Num [t0]) arising from a use of `it'
    In a stmt of an interactive GHCi command: print it

Another way to make it parse, with  explicit parentheses on the left, is
(someList &) $ take 5 >>> sum

So the parens are closer together and the whole expression is potentially more readable, if you have long chain of expressions connected with >>> on the right.

A: & has the right precedence to be chained on its own:
[1..10] & take 5 & sum

You don't need >>> for anything here, and & and >>> weren't co-designed so their precedence doesn't really fit for this use case.

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Back around the end of January, I found myself pouring through the masses of "Best of 2010" lists, trying to find all the good cuts I missed that year. It's a tricky thing – being presented with seemingly endless lists of what was, at one point in the previous year, considered "hot". This is funny, because most of it's still crap. But even still, there's plenty of good things I stumbled across, and it made me realize how I should really be on top of this.
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Cruise Ship Covid Suits Show High Bar for Pinpointing Exposure
By Robert Iafolla and Jake Holland
Aug. 26, 2021, 9:30 AM
Covid-19 exposure location difficult for consumers to prove
Data minimization key to lowering legal risk, attorneys say
The limited success of cruise line Covid-19 lawsuits showcases the high bar consumers must meet to hold businesses liable for alleged virus exposure, suggesting they can overcome legal hurdles—but only in the right circumstances.
Cruise ship passengers filed at least 42 lawsuits in federal court alleging injuries—ranging from emotional distress to death—due to exposure to Covid-19, an analysis of Bloomberg Law data shows. About 15% of those cases have settled on undisclosed terms, and 40% of them have been dismissed. None have advanced to trial.
The data highlight the long odds consumers face to win such lawsuits in less confined environments than a cruise ship. The pervasive presence of the virus makes it very difficult to prove that spending time at a specific business caused a consumer to get sick, legal observers say.
"The cruise cases have probably the easiest circumstances to prove causation, but even in that context, they've not had much success," said Christopher Robinette, a professor at Southwestern Law School who focuses on tort law. "If you can't prove it after being on a ship for two weeks, how can you prove it after you went into a restaurant to have a sandwich for half an hour?"
Covid-19 liability shields enacted in 30 states provide businesses with additional protection from exposure suits.
Even with legal guardrails in place, however, companies are taking steps to mitigate the risk of lawsuits by displaying in-store signs about masks and having some customers sign waivers. Still, collecting personal information comes with its own legal risks if that data is mishandled, so companies should act cautiously and only take in what's necessary, attorneys say.
There have been more than 38 million confirmed Covid-19 cases in the U.S., according to the Bloomberg virus tracker. The CDC recommended on Aug. 20 that people who are at high risk of severe illness from Covid-19 avoid cruise ship travel regardless of vaccination status.
A 77-year-old woman recently died from Covid-19 after testing positive while traveling with the Carnival Vista cruise ship, making her death the first one reported since cruises restarted in the U.S. in June.
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To prevail in coronavirus cases, consumers generally have to show that businesses breached their duty to protect their customers from exposure to the virus and that the exposure caused them harm.
Consumers will have an especially difficult time proving causation given the ease at which the delta virus variant can spread and the challenge of pinpointing exactly where the person may have picked up the virus, attorneys say.
Imagine a person suing a restaurant for alleged virus exposure that caused Covid-19, said John Goldberg, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in tort law. Suppose evidence shows that person also went to a grocery store, a big-box retailer, and a party with 10 other people in the same period as the restaurant visit, he said.
"How do we know it's the restaurant, especially with delta being so transmissible?" Goldberg said. "I'm not saying it's impossible to prove, but it's definitely going to be a challenge for people who are out and about in the world."
The Covid-19 liability shield laws that passed in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and 25 other states make it even more difficult for consumers to win in court. The person suing must prove gross negligence, willful misconduct, or failure to follow public health orders, depending on the standard specified in each state's law.
But those liability shields laws don't protect cruise lines because state laws generally don't apply in the maritime context, said Michael Winkleman, an attorney with Lipcon Margulies & Winkleman P.A. who represents cruise ship passengers in coronavirus lawsuits.
Carnival Corp. and Princess Cruise Lines Ltd., which face virus exposure claims, didn't respond to requests for comment.
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Despite the advantages public-facing companies have in virus exposure lawsuits, they are taking steps to mitigate liability and avoid lawsuits in the first place, attorneys said.
Noticeable efforts to keep a store or restaurant clean and signs highlighting pandemic safety can make a company less likely to be the target of customer litigation, said Alden Parker, co-chair of Fisher & Phillips LLP's hospitality industry group.
Signs encouraging the unvaccinated to wear masks can beef up a company's legal argument in the event it does get sued, said Sarah Bruno, a retail, privacy, and intellectual property lawyer at Reed Smith LLP in San Francisco.
Businesses with greater potential for Covid-19 exposure—gyms, spas, salons, and the like—may opt for waivers, since those too can provide an important legal buffer in the event of a lawsuit, Bruno said. But many companies are limiting the number of forms they have consumers read, partly because of how burdensome they can be for a shopper who, say, is quickly popping into a store for a single item, she said.
Plus, the more information a company requires and collects, the greater the chance consumer or health data could be exposed or breached. Leaked consumer data could provide ammunition for lawsuits alleging negligence or violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, said Tom Zych, head of Thompson Hine LLP's privacy and cybersecurity team.
Limiting the types of information collected and only taking in what's necessary, a practice known as data minimization, can be a powerful safeguard to liability if that data is mishandled or accessed without authorization, he added.
"We're advising clients to keep information they collect for only as long as they absolutely need it," Bruno said. "Each time you collect some data, there's a risk there."
While some companies have opted for temperature scanners at store entrances, they're not storing that data afterward, said David Saunders, a privacy and cybersecurity attorney in the Chicago office of McDermott Will & Emery.
Part of the reason is because laws such as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, which penalizes companies that mishandle data such as fingerprints, can impose hefty fines, he said.
"It's almost like a 'No shirt, no shoes, no temperature, no service' situation," Saunders said. "It's acting more like a metal detector—that collection of data could damage their brand and trust, so they're scanning temperatures but not retaining it."
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Home Brussels Jury is out at Jewish Museum trial
Jury is out at Jewish Museum trial
by editor March 7, 2019
The jury in the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer has now retired to consider its verdict, which may be delivered at any moment.
The two men are accused of involvement in the attack in May 2014 at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, in which four people were shot. Three victims died at the scene; a fourth later in hospital.
The 12 jurors are accompanied in their deliberations by the judge leading the bench and two assessors. They do not, however, take part in the question of guilt; their role is to provide legal advice if requested. The jurors will have access to the full case file, including photographs and video footage.
The deliberations are taking place in a Brussels hotel, in order to be able to provide better security protection than those available at the Justice Palace. In an adjoining room, the substitute jurors are standing by to step in if for any reason one of the main jurors becomes indisposed.
The jury has a total of 56 questions to consider. For Nemmouche, the main accused, there is one main question for each of the four people shot dead in the attack: Is he guilty of having carried out a terrorist attack, in voluntarily committing homicide on the named person with intent to kill?
If the answer is yes, there follows a question, again for each victim, on premeditation. If the jury answers no, it was no a terrorist attack, then the question becomes: did he commit homicide with premeditation?
For Nacer Bendrer, the other accused, the jury must decide whether he is an accomplice of Nemmouche, having lent him active assistance, or a co-defendant, where his assistance must be considered indispensable.
There are also supplementary questions relating to the arms involved in the crime.
Once they have decided, the jurors fill out the question form in writing. We will never know what the balance of jurors in favour of the final verdict is, unless there is an absolute tie, in which case the benefit of the doubt goes to the accused. In the case of a 7-5 majority, the court steps in to settle the matter one way or the other.
Once the verdict is decided, all voting ballots are destroyed, leaving no trace of who voted how.
In the case of a guilty verdict, the jury then moves into the penalty phase of the proceedings, where the defence counsel may again present arguments on the sentences. Finally, jury and court decide together what the sentence will be.
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As I near the end of my time as a CUSO International Business & Management volunteer in rural Nigeria after close to two years, I inevitably find myself in a period of retrospection on everything that this experience has taught me. The lessons are endless.
Professionally, my eyes have been opened to the critical need and significant opportunity to create employment and secure livelihoods through socially conscious enterprise and to improve agricultural value chains for all stakeholders, particularly rural farmers and processors. I have lived through the challenges of working in a developing country with limited infrastructure and the frustration that comes with feeling insignificant in the face of such overwhelming inequality and injustice.
My final task as a volunteer was to visit key stakeholders in the cocoa value chain, including an international cocoa procurement company in Lagos and a farmer's cooperative in Ibadan, to gain insight surrounding the agricultural certification process as well as how to replicate their successes in the cocoa value chain development with the Mary Slessor Foundation's palm oil processing mill, and eventually a larger network of oil palm farmers and palm oil processing mills in the area. We also had the privilege of visiting cocoa farms in rural Osun State to hear firsthand how the training provided as part of the agricultural certification process, UTZ Certified in this case, has helped individual farmers to significantly increase their yields and profits.
Personally, I've found it incredibly rewarding to learn about another, vastly different culture through complete immersion. One aspect of the CUSO International volunteer experience that I've truly enjoyed is this immersion into a new way of life, experienced in everyday occurrences such as taking public transport, cooking using only locally available ingredients and participating in traditional celebrations.
I was honored to have been asked by one of the graduates of the Mary Slessor Foundation's Vocational Training & Skills Acquisition Center to act as an advisor on personal and family affairs, and to have been involved in settling a family land dispute for a friend in a nearby village. These invitations have shown me that, even outside my role at work, I have become a valued member of my community.
Overall, what this volunteer experience has made clear to me is that I must continue on this journey, which my mother accurately termed as a non-religious spiritual calling, to explore and work toward serving my fellow human beings with a compassionate heart, an open mind, contagious enthusiasm and valuable business and other practical skills.
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Q: r - select first values after lead/lag (dplyr) I am trying to simply select the first two or three values of a leaded variable.
Imagine my data looks like this
       id variable  leadvar
1       a        0     0
2       a        1     0
3       a        1     0
4       b        0     0
5       b        0     0
6       b        1     0
7       c        0     0
8       c        0     0
9       c        0     0
10      d        1     0
11      d        1     0
12      d        1     0

What I want is to first lead the variable, with the condition that lead minus 1 = 0 (for each id) (which means that the lead variable should take 1 if a 1 is preceded by 0), such as :
       id variable  leadvar
1       a        0     1
2       a        1     0
3       a        1     0
4       b        0     0
5       b        0     1
6       b        1     0
7       c        0     0
8       c        0     0
9       c        0     0
10      d        1     0
11      d        1     0
12      d        1     0

and then select the first rows after the lead (as well as the lead variable itself), like this :
       id variable  leadvar
        a        0     1
        a        1     0

        b        0     1
        b        1     0

I am struggling with the last step. I would like to be able to select freely the numbers of rows after the lead. How can I do this ?
My code is :
In order to compute the lead
library(dplyr)

dt = dt %>% group_by(id) %>% mutate(leadvar = ifelse(variable == 0 & lead(variable == 1, default = 0), 1, 0) )

What I tried for selecting 2 rows after the lead, but it doesn't work
dt %>% group_by(id) %>% mutate(V4 = variable + leadvar) %>% mutate(m = 1:n()) %>% filter(m < 3)

The data
dt = structure(list(id = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L), .Label = c("a", "b", "c", "d"), class = "factor"),
variable = c(0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1), lead = c(1,
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)), class = "data.frame", .Names = c("id", "variable", "lead"), row.names = c(NA, -12L))

A: There are a few solutions to this problem using dplyr, the first involves creating an additional variable (tailvar) to catch if both variable and leadvar are 1. As dplyr does not preserve row numbering, I have created an extra column (rowid) to demonstrate that the solution selects the requested rows.
dt %>% mutate(leadvar = ifelse(variable == 0 & lead(variable) == 1, 1, 0),
          tailvar = ifelse(lag(leadvar, default = 0) == 1, 1, 0),
          rowid = row_number()) %>% filter(leadvar ==1 | tailvar ==1)

which gives:
     id variable leadvar tailvar rowid
  (chr)    (int)   (dbl)   (dbl) (int)
1     a        0       1       0     1
2     a        1       0       1     2
3     b        0       1       0     5
4     b        1       0       1     6
5     c        0       1       0     9
6     d        1       0       1    10
5     d        1       0       1    11

To select the leading row and another 2 rows after the leader you would need to use lag(lag(leadvar)) instead. As you would need to nest as many lag calls as needed to get the value you want, it is perhaps not the best solution.
A more elegant solution using dplyr, would be to create a new column using group_by and cumsum. All that is required is to filter if leadvar is 1 or the new column (csvar) has the n value which you desire.
dt %>% mutate(leadvar = ifelse(variable == 0 & lead(variable) == 1, 1, 0),
              rowid = row_number()) %>%  group_by(id) %>%
  mutate(csvar=cumsum(variable)) %>% filter(leadvar == 1 | csvar == 2)

which gives:
     id variable leadvar rowid csvar
  (chr)    (int)   (dbl) (int) (int)
1     a        0       1     1     0
2     a        1       0     3     2
3     b        0       1     5     0
4     c        0       1     9     0
5     d        1       0    11     2

This solution only works for rows with variable == 1, if you wanted to get any row after the leader you would have to create a dummy column filled with 1 then group_by and cumsum on that.