Under Mayor-President Kip Holden, budget increases have been quite significant. During his reign over East Baton Rouge Parish, Holden increased the budget over 24% in the last 3 years, more than double for the previous mayoral administration.
This is not surprising since Holden has always held fast a spendthrift mentality with tax dollars.
Former Mayor-President Bobby Simpson, with an accounting background, was able to hold the budget to more desirable increases. Under Simpson, the 2003 budget was $221 million, the 2004 budget was $224 million, and his final budget presentation was $228 million in 2005. The outgoing mayor presents the budget for the following year. Previous figures are not available on the EBRP city government website.
Holden increased that budget by 24% since his election as Mayor of East Baton Rouge Parish. Parish reports indicate a $235 million city-parish budget in 2006, increased to $254 million in 2007, $278 million in 2008, and finally $282 million for 2009.
In 2004, total revenue for EBRP was $542 million, increasing to $588 million in 2005. By 2006, EBRP revenue was up to $664 million. Holden's finance team has failed to list revenue figures for 2007 or 2008. Surprising, given the public records requirements, unless there is a strategy here to not reveal a clearer picture of revenue to voters.
Simpson was working with less than desirable revenue, yet Holden, with more cash in the coffers, claims he still needs additional funds. The Mayor-President plans to make his own dreams of spending more tax dollars come true through his proposed tax increase aka bond issue set for an upcoming fall election.
Regardless of some positive conditions Holden rallies around on behalf of East Baton Rouge Parish, raising taxes is not desirable to voters who are reigning in their personal spending due to the recession.
Holden carries spendthrift baggage that he hopes voters will once again overlook. Increasing revenues, along with increased budgets shows he failed to keep a campaign promise. Holden promised to streamline EBRP government, and to meet bi-annually with each department head to justify spending and services. No reports of these meetings have been given to his employer: YOU, the taxpayer.
Our past is always a representation of our present mentality and things to come. Holden has proven this point.
In 1992, as a representative in the Louisiana Legislature, Holden voted 100% against business, as noted by LABI (Louisiana Business & Industry) in 13 votes for business and industry.
Continuing his plight against businesses, Holden targeted entrepreneurs by proclaiming his goal to 'remove the corporate welfare' by ending tax exemptions to businesses. In 2002, he attempted to remove tax exemptions for Louisiana manufacturers and businesses.
In a turnaround, Holden received a positive rating for voting against a sales tax in 2000 because LABI opposed a tax increase, but only because the tax would affect the needy. Holden proclaimed, "sales taxes hurt the poor". Interesting, since he plans to tax everyone, including the poor, in his upcoming bond issue.
In 1988, as a legislator, Holden won the ranking of #2 in the entire state for spending taxpayer monies to travel. Enough said.
I have made it no secret that Mayor-President Kip Holden's bond issue is nothing more than a tax on the citizens of East Baton Rouge Parish that we cannot afford.
Some would ask how we can strengthen our infrastructure without a tax. Easy. Cut spending. A cursory glance at the 2009 budget indicates expenses that can be easily cut without cutting essential services to taxpayers.
These cuts alone equate to $2.4 million. There's plenty more fat in the budget. We've all had to cut our personal budgets, why should city government be any different?
This is not rocket science. If we cut 12% of the annual city parish budget, we would not need tax increases. That $33.8 million annually times Holden's proposed 30 year tax/bond issue = over $1 billion. Sounds tough to do? Probably no tougher than it has been for you to make cuts in your family budget.


The May jobs report indicated a gain of 138,000 new jobs in May. This pushed the unemployment rate down to 4.3%. Depending upon what source you choose to rely on (Bureau of Labor Statistics or ADP), the U.S. economy has added over 650,000 new jobs since the beginning of the year. This is a good news!
There are some analysts that suggest that the U.S. jobs market is at or nearing full employment. If so, the next development should be some upward movement in wages as companies compete for employees.


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Technological evolution
Sony is to stop producing the 3.5-inch floppy disc. European production of the once ubiquitous storage device ceased last year, but now the last big producer of the discs is phasing them out from the remaining market, Japan. At first this news struck me as simply the natural course of technological evolution. Certainly no one uses them any more… do they? Buyers are hardly going to be sent into a frenzy of buying up boxes of floppies while stocks last. Well, you'd be surprised. The BBC asked readers why a market for these 1.4MB storage discs exists at all – and got more than 1,000 responses. Some people apparently continue to buy them for their aesthetic value, to be used as beermats, in works of art and as fashion accessories. But for others, the dics have a serious application still. The software for cashpoint machines is apparently installed from floppy; much telecoms testing equipment logs its data on to the discs and, given that the equipment was built to last, will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The UK rail industry backs up some data systems with them. Other BBC readers report the requirement in the UK and abroad for data to be sent to central government departments on 3.5-inch. The print industry is apparently a keen user still. So there must be some buyers out there who will be affected by this news. Is this you? What do buyers do when a product their organisation relies on becomes defunct?

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Philip Chenier (né le  à Berkeley, Californie) est un ancien joueur professionnel de basket-ball. Après avoir joué au lycée de Berkeley et à l'université de Californie à Berkeley, Chenier évolue sous les couleurs des Washington Bullets en National Basketball Association de 1971 à 1979. Il remporte le titre NBA avec les Bullets en 1978. Il joue aussi brièvement pour les Pacers de l'Indiana et les Warriors de Golden State.

Chenier est nommé en 1972 dans la , compile une moyenne de 17,2 points par match sur l'ensemble de sa carrière et est à trois reprises nommé . Il commente les matchs des Washington Bullets et des Washington Wizards durant de nombreuses années, travaillant désormais pour Comcast Sports Net en compagnie de Steve Buckhantz.

Chenier réside aujourd'hui à Columbia, Maryland. Son fils, Phil Jr., a suivi les traces de son père dans le basket-ball,  étant actuellement entraîneur de l'équipe de .

Chenier fut honoré comme meilleur commentateur de la semaine en NBA.

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Joueur américain de basket-ball
Joueur des Bullets de Baltimore
Joueur des Bullets de la capitale
Joueur des Warriors de Golden State
Joueur des Pacers de l'Indiana
Joueur des Bullets de Washington
Joueur de basket-ball des Golden Bears de la Californie
Joueur Champion NBA
Joueur sélectionné pour les NBA All-Star Game

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Welcome to the Young Voices 2019 page.
The Snaith Primary Young Voices Choir will be performing at the Sheffield Arena on the 11th January 2019.
To help you prepare you can access all the songs, lyrics and dance videos on the Young Voices website.


A Gurn from Nurn: "Nairn cannot put up the shutters to development and stagnate"
"Nairn cannot put up the shutters to development and stagnate"
"We, in our dual role as elected members and trustees of the Nairn Common Good Fund, need to move the process forward and agree a post-bypass plan for the future shape and development of Nairn."
Translation: once you've got a bypass then that becomes the de facto settlement boundary so landowners can develop all land up to the bypass.
A very broad translation taht one anon, here we think that the link between Common Good and development might be a strong hint of Sandown first?
Wow! Finally a practical statement by one of our elected representatives which all us residents must fully support "Nairn cannot put up the shutters to development".
It's true that Nairn cannot simply live in some imaginary Victorian Brighton Of The North, or 1960s glory day world. Telling stories of when I was a lad, etc. This is 2015. Nairn is what it is. And we must look forward with a POSITIVE view of what we can all make of living in Nairn.


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Johann Sebastian Degler (* um 1670 in Weilheim; † 16. Juni 1730 in Bamberg) war ein deutscher Bildhauer. Er war ein Vertreter der "Weilheimer Schule".

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Er entstammte einer Bildhauerfamilie aus Weilheim, welche ihre Tradition bis in das 16. Jahrhundert zurückverfolgen konnte. Mit seinem Bruder Ignaz Degler gehörte er  der letzten Generation dieser Familie an. Sie waren die Urenkel des Hans Degler, der in Weilheim die Bildhauertradition dieser Familie begründete.

Er lernte bei seinem Vater Ambros Degler; auf seiner Wanderschaft war er bei Johann Georg Götz in Bamberg gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts Geselle. Nach dem Tode von Götz 1697 ehelichte er dessen Witwe und übernahm die Werkstatt in der Immunität St. Gangolf. Degler starb am 16. Juni 1730 in Bamberg ohne Leibeserben.

An der Ausstattung der Neuen Residenz und dem Schloss Weißenstein ob Pommersfelden arbeitete er mit.  Er wird als Kunsthandwerker für die Einrichtung der Oberen Pfarre zu Bamberg genannt. Für die Orgelempore der Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Memmelsdorf schnitzte er 22 Engel- und Heiligenfiguren.

Seine Figuren sind oft an einer starken Drehung erkennbar und werden deshalb auch Achselzucker genannt.

Literatur

 Karl Sitzmann: Künstler und Kunsthandwerker in Ostfranken. Kulmbach 1983, S. 85–87.

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Bildhauer (Deutschland)
Bildhauer des Barock
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Free Spirit Film Festival :.
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Q: tdbloader2 fails with classpath error When I run the following command:
bin/tdbloader2 --loc=/store/data/here /seed/data/serverfault-dump.nt

And the response I get is:
10:52:31 -- TDB Bulk Loader Start
10:52:31 Data phase
Error: Could not find or load main class com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.store.bulkloader2.CmdNodeTableBuilder

Which is most likely caused by a problem with my environment variables, somewhere, of something. The problem is, I don't often work with Java and so I don't know enough to know how to figure out what that class cannot be found.
How do make tdbloader2 find the appropriate class?

A: I had forgotten to set the JENAROOT path variable.
https://jena.apache.org/documentation/tools/

An environment variable JENAROOT is used by all the command line tools to
  configure the class path automatically for you. You can set this up as follows:
On Linux / Mac
export JENAROOT=the directory you downloaded Jena to export
  PATH=$PATH:$JENAROOT/bin On Windows
SET JENAROOT=the directory you downloaded Jena to SET
  PATH=%PATH%;%JENAROOT%\bat

A: At a minimum you need to set the TDBROOT environment variable to the directory containing your TDB download.  This will be the directory above bin as some of the scripts use ${TDBROOT}/bin/foo to launch other scripts
The script attempts to automatically construct a valid class path by calling the tdb_path script which calls either make_classpath_mvn or make_classpath depending on your environment.  If you run the tdb_path script directly you can see if it generates a sane looking class path or not (or add what it does generate to your question if the output doesn't provide anything helpful).

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#182. Paisan (1946)
What's fucking maddening about this is I know I wrote an essay about Paisan, and I remember even thinking it was a good one; I just saw it the other day, occupying three pages in the same notebook from which I picked up the Children of Paradise essay. But now I can't find it. Maybe it wasn't actually there.
Fuck it. I remember the movie well enough to at least give these broad strokes: it's another war movie, set in Italy, by Roberto Rossellini, a follow-up to Rome, Open City; and it's also an anthology piece, which allows for a more comprehensive exploration of the postwar mood; it addresses PTSD in soldiers, the doomed maneuvers of rebel forces, the courage of civilians and the strange new shapes of romantic love. But, as tends to be the inevitable pratfall of anthologies, some stories work and others don't, and the full package ends up feeling imbalanced (I just wrote a piece about this, soon to be published at Jitney, covering the new Coen Bros anthology). Paisan, fortunately, starts strong and ends strong, and we get glimpses in between of that powerful stuff that made a masterpiece of Open City. But the anthology as a whole felt like the portrait of a filmmaker working through his chosen subject matter with more work ethic than passion. It's all rendered dutifully while Open City felt like he'd chiseled it outta stone with his fingernails.
Earlier this year I read and fell in love with Don Winslow's novel The Power of the Dog. It's the first volume in a trilogy about drug cartels in Mexico that also works as a history lesson. It's violent, exciting, erotic, educational, and exhaustively researched. Apparently Winslow's been on the literary scene for a while but only recently, with this series and another major novel about the NYPD, exploded to the heights of literary super stardom. I think I read somewhere that he just got an eight-figure payday for something, either movie rights or a book deal.
Anyway: I've bought and plan to read the second volume of that trilogy, Cartel, and I plan to wait in line at the bookstore this coming February when the concluding volume, The Border, is finally released. The reason I bring it up is because Winslow addresses this series of books in interviews as though they're the heart of his career, the text he was born to write and toward which his earlier work was a set of building blocks.
So I've got this two-pronged fascination: on the one hand, I love this series and I'm really interested to see how it ends; on the other hand, I wanna see how Winslow sustains his own interest, as well as the reader's, and if the trilogy will have vibes, upon its completion, of being a kind of fully-rounded opus.
Because I'd imagine that when you do encounter a topic that captures your heart and galvanizes you into a kind of creative renaissance, you wanna do as much as you can with it, wanna totally empty your bag of tricks, give it everything.
But there's also the challenge of knowing when to stop. This is a particular issue with short-form work, whether it's a short story of a vignette in a film, because there's an easy middle-ground to achieve, where it's longer than a short but too brief to be a feature. There's something about that purgatorial middle-space that feels lazy and exhausting.
I do think that Rossellini is exercising restraint here but it often feels more like he's trying to capture our imaginations with an idea, or a premise, more than he's trying to compel us toward the characters.
The first story, wherein an American soldier bonds with a young Italian woman before some Nazis appear, is the strongest of the bunch, I think, so that one's exempt, but I'm thinking particularly of the story that shows a beautiful young sex worker picking up a beautiful young GI and realizing that they fell in love at the start of the war, got separated, and now, though he talks of hodling out hope that he'll see her again, he doesn't recognize her as that woman. There's a sad ending to it, and the feeling resonates as we move forward, but it felt cerebral where it should have felt more like a gut punch. it wasn't the character that stayed with me so much as the haunting idea of how this might have actually happened. The tragic poetic irony.
Then there's a section where a soldier goes to see a bunch of Catholic leaders, I forgot their title, and there's some tension among them when they find out the soldier isn't Catholic too — something like that, I don't remember it very well, but it's interesting that Rossellinin would do a story on love and another on resistance and another on God — we can see that he's really trying to explore this hyperobject, the War, from so many different angles as though he's hoping that a well-rounded study will somehow crack it open, reveal some great truth.
My friend Steve, the book critic, has talked on camera about his fascination with the macro elements of WWII, the bramble and clash of nations and ships, but also the tapestry of a trillion different stories, episodes in the lives of civilians all over the world whose lives were affected by the whole thing.
Even now, writing about it, I feel like I'm talking myself into a greater appreciation of Paisan, or at least of the ideas and motives behind it.
Ahdunno. I say this a lot in the Project but I think this is another instance of appreciating a movie more than I enjoy it.
This bit here is from the first episode — which, if the movie's description doesn't compel you all that much, is still worth watching all on its own.
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Readers pointed to the incumbent's domain expertise and broad member base outweighing Amazon's innovative nature.
During the first week of our Focus on Innovation in September, we asked HIMSS Media readers which of the big partnerships currently coming together will have the greatest impact on healthcare?
Specifically, the choices were Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase vs. CVS Health and Aetna vs. Amazon itself. The final option was "too soon to tell," of which 20.2 percent of the 213 anonymous respondents chose.
CVS-Aetna as a merged entity led the pack at 31 percent. The reason?
CVS Health's $69 billion acquisition of Aetna is expected to close by year's end, with media outlets reporting last week that a judge could approve the deal in the next few weeks.
Other respondents to our poll pointed to CVS Health and Aetna having considerably more domain expertise than Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan and mentioned Aetna's 22 million members as being much broader than the 1 million employees Amazon and its partners have thus far said they intend to serve.
Granted, it's difficult to know exactly what Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan Chase — some readers anointed the partners ABHJPMC — have in store at this point since the company currently exists as two publicly-known employees: Noted author, surgeon and Harvard professor Atul Gawande, MD took the CEO post in late June and, in turn, brought on former Optum and Comcast executive Jack Stoddard as chief operating officer.
The enigmatic nature of the developing company is no doubt part of the reason why more readers picked Amazon itself (including but not limited to ABHJPMC) as having the potential to be the second biggest disruptor at 26.3 percent and 22.5 percent, respectively.
One could also interpret these results such that nearly half of readers expect Amazon, in one way or another, to the biggest disrupter to healthcare.
Amazon has "been prepping healthcare entry for long and is by far the most disruptive of the trio," a reader noted. To which another acknowledged the company's "visionary and single-minded focus on the customer," as a particular and unique strength.
Healthcare has plenty of room for innovation of course — different HIMSS Media research showed in 3 charts revealing where innovation is headed — so all of the above will play key roles in that disruption while the industry waits to see who makes the biggest impact and where.


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Home / News / Clinical Eye Care / Health and Wellness / Head down yoga poses increase eye pressure in glaucoma patients
Head-down yoga poses increase eye pressure in glaucoma patients
Inquire about exercise, particularly yoga, with patients with glaucoma.
Four common yoga poses have been shown to increase intraocular pressure (IOP), a known risk factor for people with glaucoma.
A new study found that when people did head-down poses, their IOP increased within one minute of doing each pose. The increase remained throughout each two-minute pose, then IOP returned to baseline within two minutes of the person sitting down.
"For people with glaucoma, the optic nerve is compromised to some extent. Once the nerve becomes damaged, its ability to withstand repeated acute IOP elevations is reduced," says Murray Fingeret, O.D., chief of the optometry section, Brooklyn/St. Albans Campus, Department of Veterans Administration, at New York Harbor Health Care System, and a founding member and past president of the Optometric Glaucoma Society. "What this paper showed is when a person puts him or herself in a position where his or her head is lowered, the eye pressure goes up and the eye pressure goes up fairly quickly. You're looking at a greater than 10-point increase that occurs almost immediately."
The prospective, observational study compared 10 people with glaucoma to 10 people without the disease in 2013 at the Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, in New York City.
The poses were downward-facing dog, standard forward-bend pose, plow pose and legs-up-the-wall pose, performed in that order within one hour. The greatest IOP increase occurred with downward-facing dog, in which a person starts on his or her hands and knees, then rises with the legs and arms straight, hands and feet still on the ground, hanging the head.
IOP increased in all participants during all four poses. The difference in elevated IOP between the glaucoma and control groups was not statistically significant, but people who already have glaucoma are more at risk from IOP increases.
Previous studies on glaucoma and yoga only tested the handstand position, according to the researchers. Dr. Fingeret says reports have suggested over the years that things such as using inversion boots—a fad in the 1980s—and playing a horn instrument could elevate IOP, but that there have been no studies to show if such pressure damages the optic nerve long term. The new study doesn't show how the increase might affect people with glaucoma over time either.
"We assume these short bursts of elevated eye pressure are damaging, but there's no evidence," Dr. Fingeret says. "The message is that if you have patients who appear to be getting worse with glaucoma and appear to be well-controlled, one of the things to inquire about is their exercise and if they do yoga."
The AOA follows all research closely, including potential risk factors for people with glaucoma. Although this study is important, more research is needed to understand the potential long-term effects.
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Immigration: The European Experience
Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Development Studies Working Paper No. 326
50 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2012
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Christian Dustmann
University College London; Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Tommaso Frattini
University of Milan - Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA); University of Milan - Department of Economics, Business and Statistics
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Jan 2012
Date Written: December 2011
This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and discuss the disadvantage of immigrants and their children relative to natives. We show that immigrants – in particular those from non-EU countries – are severely disadvantaged in most countries, even if we compare them to natives with the same measurable skills. We conclude with a discussion of the role of regulations and institutions as one possible mechanism for these findings, and suggest directions for future research.
Keywords: Immigration, Europe, Integration, Institutions
JEL Classification: J15, J61, J62
Dustmann, Christian and Frattini, Tommaso, Immigration: The European Experience (December 2011). Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Development Studies Working Paper No. 326, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2023575 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2023575
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Tightrope walking meets poll dance
Reading the budget for fine print and asterisk marks
DS Saksena | February 19, 2018
#Budget 2018 #Modicare #Arun Jaitley #Economy #Income Tax
The general budget 2018-19 documents brought to the Parliament House premises, in New Delhi on February 1
Budget 2018, forecast to be a "please all" budget, has come out as a "disappoint all" budget. The public is looking askance at a budget that gives with one hand but takes away with both, the Sensex has gone into a tailspin and the pink papers are issuing dire warnings.
The government, on its part, is finding it hard to explain the contradictions in the budget. A scheme, quickly christened as Modicare (on lines of Obamacare), to provide health insurance benefits of up to Rs 5 lakh to 10 crore families has been announced with a budget allocation of a paltry Rs 2,000 crore. The finance minister has announced that agricultural produce would be priced 50 percent above the cost of cultivation, which has not been defined. Despite devoting most of his budget speech to rural issues and new schemes related thereto, the FM increased the allocation on central schemes from Rs 9.45 lakh crore to only Rs 10.15 lakh crore (increase of 7.45%) while aggregate budget expenditure has increased from Rs 21.47 lakh crore to Rs 24.42 lakh crore, that is, an increase of 13.74 percent, which would indicate that other sectors have benefited more than the rural sector. The budget document does not show the grand schemes announced in the current budget as stand-alone schemes – it appears that these schemes would probably be included in the existing broad-based schemes on health and agriculture.
The imposition of 10 percent tax on share sales has disrupted the share market. One of the tangible benefits of demonetisation was a huge inflow of money in shares via mutual funds, which is bound to diminish should the trend of falling share prices continue. Indeed, it would have been better, if the benefit of indexation was given on share sales. People would then have preferred to hold shares as long-term investments – an agreeable proposition for all concerned. Similarly, a higher cap on 80C savings would have partially solved the government's perennial fund flow problem. I strongly feel that to offset the effects of inflation and to keep real disposable income at earlier levels, income-tax slabs should have been revised upwards. On the other hand, the government has proposed an increase in tax surcharge from 3 percent to 4 percent, which will be a pinprick for everyone.
Except for the aforementioned provision, subjecting share sales to long term capital gains tax, the direct tax provisions in the budget are mostly corrective in nature. Senior citizens, particularly retired government employees, have benefited. They will not be taxed on interest up to Rs 50,000 (earlier Rs 10,000) and will get a standard deduction of Rs 40,000. Existing employees will not gain much because the proposed standard deduction would subsume tax-free transport and medical allowances of an almost equal amount and the interest concession is meant only for senior citizens.
Customs duty on certain products, such as mobile phones and televisions, sunglasses, cigarette lighters, toys, bus and truck tyres, select furniture, imitation jewellery and watches has been increased. Customs duty on crude edible vegetable oils like groundnut oil, safflower seed oil has also been increased from 12.5 percent to 30 percent; and duty on refined edible vegetable oil is now 35 percent as against the earlier 20 percent. Additionally, a social welfare surcharge of 10 percent has been imposed on imported goods. The government has stated that much of the increase in customs duties is to promote 'Make in India' but the exercise seems to have been undertaken more with a view to garner badly needed finances.
Indeed, no one would envy the predicament of the FM. At a time when the resource position is exceptionally tight and there is little room for manoeuvre, everyone is asking for a discount or freebie. Obviously, the FM can pay Peter only after robbing Paul. Added to this is his compulsion to keep everyone happy in the prelude to the 2019 elections. No wonder, his budget speech was exceptionally cheerful and the FM did not once refer to the red flags so assiduously raised in the economic survey. Probably, the most glaring anomaly is that the economic survey had predicted a downturn of 25 percent in agricultural income while Arun Jaitley cheerfully promised an increase of 100 percent in agricultural income by 2022. This anomaly needs to be resolved, more so because the current budget labels itself as a farmer-friendly budget.
The economic survey listed a number of things which had to be attended to in the coming year namely; stabilisation of GST to facilitate easier compliance, removal of uncertainty for exporters, and expansion of the GST tax base; privatisation of Air-India; and addressing threats to macroeconomic stability, notably from persistently high oil prices, and to provide for sharp, disruptive corrections to elevated asset prices. There is no mention of these constraints in the budget.
However, there is nothing unusual in the divergence in the tone and tenor of the economic survey and the budget. Reacting to the economic survey, released just before the budget, Bibek Debroy, the chief of the economic advisory council to the prime minister, had stated that it would not provide any clue to the budget. Still, it is a pity that the scholarship and research of the economic survey is nowhere reflected in the budget. It would appear that the budget is aimed only at increasing the feel good factor of the poor and middle class without a thought to long-term planning. Disruption of the symbiotic relationship between the budget and the economic survey would have one wonder on the need of having the latter at all.
In a welcome change, the budget this year has only 50 clauses and runs into 36 pages as against the 150 clauses and 75 pages of the budget 2017. It also does not have any non-monetary clauses. However, one discordant note which runs through all budgets is the neglect of the problem of implementation of the various schemes so liberally announced in successive budgets. The current budget now supports 83 schemes as against 73 in the last year. The budget does not provide any guidelines for implementation of these new schemes and committees are being set up for this purpose. Inadequate finances and hasty implementation may ensure that the schemes would not deliver the desired results.
Looking to the uniformly poor implementation of schemes through the years it appears that the time has come to create a cadre of dedicated rural workers who would ensure that the existing schemes are properly implemented and benefits reach the people for whom they are intended. Perhaps, if the FM is really interested in the welfare of the poor, he would frame schemes for their welfare after consulting with them rather than relying solely on the inputs of the mandarins of North Block who equate expenditure with development.
Another point of concern is the fiscal and revenue deficit projections which are galloping far ahead of their target. The fiscal deficit target of 3.2 percent of GDP has been breached by 0.3 percentage points despite the contrived sale of the government's stake in HPCL to ONGC which had garnered Rs 36,915 crore. The revenue deficit is touching 2.6 percent of GDP against the target of 1.9 percent, which would mean that the government is profligate to the extent that it is not able to finance its current expenditure.
Even more dangerous is the move to amend the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 (FRBM) to reset the targets of deficit financing. It is best if a nation, like a family, lives within its means. Stating the obvious for long-term financial stability, the FM should have made an attempt to curb government expenditure rather than change the FRBM to validate his government's extravagance.
Saksena, an IRS officer of the1979 batch, retired as principal chief commissioner of income-tax, Mumbai.
(The column appears in the February 28, 2018 issue)
#Budget 2018
#Modicare
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Q: Fetched data from mongodb viewing using ejs trouble I m creating a job search portal using nodejs,mongodb,and ejs view engine :
collection "filters" = 'username'  'tags'
collection "alljobs" = 'category' 'jobsdata'
In the following code I'm fetching 'tags' from "filters" collection and comparing with all 'category' in "alljobs" collection. And then all 'tags' array matched with 'category' view their respective 'jobsdata' using ejs view engine.
Problem: Code is working but in browser I can't see all matched category respective jobs only one category jobs data viewed. I am not able to understand where is the problem?
Code:
function processRequest(req,res){
    var tags,data,jobsdata = [];
    var len;
    if(condition)
    {....}
    else{
        var db = new Db('askhere', new Server('localhost', '27017'));
        db.open(function (err, db) {
            db.authenticate('', '', function (err, result) {
                var url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/askhere';
                client.connect(url, function (err, db) {
                    var col = db.collection('filters');
                    col.find({username:req.session.userName}).toArray(function (err, items) { // find tags of session user from collection filters
                        console.log('items: ' + JSON.stringify(items));
                        items.forEach(function (doc) {
                            tags = doc.tags; //save tags
                        });
                        var col = db.collection('alljobs'); //find all categories jobs matched with tags data in collection alljobs
                        for(var i=0; i<tags.length;i++){
                            col.find({category:tags[i]}).toArray(function (err, items1) {
                                if (items1 == false) {
                                    res.render('mainqa',{uname:req.session.userName,tags:'No Tags Selected',jobsdata:'No Tags Matched !!!',len:0});
                                }
                                items1.forEach(function (doc1) {
                                    jobsdata = doc1.jobsdata;
                                    var html = ["url : ", "Posted Date : ", "Job Title : ", "Company : ", "Location : "]
                                    for (var i = 0; i < 25; i++) {
                                        for (var j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
                                            data.push(html[j] + jobsdata[i][j]);
                                        } //Nested for loop
                                    }   //for loop covert 2D array in 1D
                                    res.render('mainqa',{uname:req.session.userName,tags:tags,jobsdata:data,len:len});
                                }); //forEach
                            }); //col.find collection=alljobs
                        }   //for loop
                    }); //col.find collection=filters
                }); //client connect
            }); //db.authenticate
        }); //db.open
    }   //else end
}   //function processRequest end

A: You should stop using callbacks for nesting code of multiple methods unless you want to end up with the Callback Hell. Use the async module to simplify this task, in particular you'd need to use async.waterfall() since you want to run multiple tasks that depend on each other.
The async.waterfall() method allows you to pass values between the functions in a trickle-down manner. It is quite handy when you need the results of a previous function to perform an operation with the next function in the series.
Consider restructuring following this example:
var async = require("async"),
    userName = req.session.userName,
    locals = {},
    url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/askhere',
    db = new Db('askhere', new Server('localhost', '27017'));

async.waterfall(
    [
        // Open db
        function(callback) {
            db.open(function (err, db) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                callback(null, db);
            });
        },

        // Authenticate and connect
        function(db, callback) {
            db.authenticate('', '', function (err, result) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                client.connect(url, function (err, res) {
                    if (err) return callback(err);
                    locals.db = db;
                    callback(null, locals);
                });
            });
        },

        // Query filters collection for tags of session user
        function(arg, callback) {
            var collection = arg.db.collection("filters");
            collection.find({"username": userName}).toArray(function (err, result) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                locals.tags = result.map(function(item){ return item.tags; });
                callback(null, locals);
            });
        },

        // Query alljobs collection for categories jobs matched with tags data
        function(arg, callback) {
            var collection = arg.db.collection("alljobs");
            collection.find({"category": {"$in": arg.tags}}).toArray(function (err, result) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                locals.jobsdata = result.map(function (doc){ return doc.jobsdata; });
                callback(null, locals);
            });
        }
    ], function(err, result) {
        if (err)  { /* handle err */ };
        res.render("mainqa", {
            "uname": userName,
            "tags": result.tags,
            "jobsdata": result.jobsdata
        });
    });
);


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Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (31. ledna 1873 Drážďany–29. června 1950 Holzhausen) byla německá žena v domácnosti, která v roce 1908 vynalezla kávový filtr a založila společnost Melitta.

Život
Narodila se 31. ledna 1873 v Drážďanech jako dcera Karla a Brigitte (Reinhardt) Liebscher. Její předci byli vlastníky pivovaru v Sasku. Vdala se za Hugo Bentza, se kterým měla dva syny: Willyho a Horsta a dceru Hertu.

Jako milovnice kávy nemohla si zvyknout na usazeninu při posledním doušku kávy. Vynalezla kávový filtr ze sacího papíru, který vzala synovi ze školního sešitu. Sací papír vložila do plechovky, ve které udělala několik děr. Patent na svůj vynález obdržela 20. června 1908 od císařského patentového úřadu v Berlíně.

Zpočátku byla výroba filtrů prováděna v domě Bentzových a vyráběli je pouze členové rodiny. V roce 1909 představili Melitta a Hugo svůj vynález na veletrhu v Lipsku, kde prodali 1200 kusů filtrů a který jim pomohl získat více zákazníků. V roce 1912 společnost zaměstnávala 8 lidí. Během první světové války byli Hugo a nejstarší syn Willy povoláni do armády. Do roku 1928 byla poptávka po jejich výrobcích tak vysoká, že 80 pracovníků muselo pracovat na dvě směny. Jelikož v Drážďanech nebylo možné najít uspokojivá výrobní zařízení, přestěhovala se rychle rostoucí společnost v roce 1929 do Mindenu ve východním Vestfálsku. Do roku 1929 bylo vyrobeno 100 000 filtrů. Společnost se původně jmenovala M. Bentz (1930), poté Bentz & Sohn a od roku 1932 používá název Melitta.

Po vypuknutí druhé světové války byla výroba filtrů zastavena a společnosti bylo nařízeno vyrábět zboží podporující válečné úsilí. Po skončení války byly tovární budovy obsazeny spojeneckými silami na 12 let. Teprve v roce 1948 byla obnovena výroba filtrů a papíru. V současné době vyrábí nejen kávové filtry, ale také bytové doplňky a kávovary.

Melitta Bentz zemřela 29. června 1950.

Odkazy

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Narození v roce 1873
Narození 31. ledna
Narození v Drážďanech
Úmrtí v roce 1950
Úmrtí 29. června
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After grabbing 3 of these mammoths, I had to figure out what to do with them. Wanting something lemony with shrimp, I stumbled upon this paleo zucchini noodle recipe. Subbing the cherry tomatoes with chopped up Komets, skipping the mushrooms, this dish still turned out fantastic.
Don't have a spiraler? Don't fret. I actually used the cheese grater plate on my favorite mandolin slicer and made perfect long stripes from the zucchini! The large zucchini made it super easy to grate, I ended up grating each "side" skipped the center, it is too soft to grate (waste not, cut that up in cubes and serve with tomatoes, salt, pepper, olive oil and vinegar as a simple salad!).
When "zoodles" are drained, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add olive oil and wait 15 seconds.
Add garlic to the hot pan and saute for a minute or 2. Toss shrimp with cayenne pepper add to pan. Saute, stirring frequently until shrimp are bright pink.
Add tomatoes, saute for a few minutes until heated through. Then add zoodles and lemon juice and stir just to heat through.
Remove from heat and serve immediately. Season with additional sea salt (if desired) and freshly ground black pepper.
Getting Wrinkly and Crunchy – Don't Skip this Step!


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Anti-Semitic Va. Democrat Dumped Water on Fox News Host in 2016
Geraldo: Ibraheem Samirah is a 'chicken s—t Mother f—ker'
Ibraheem Samira / Getty Images
Charlie Hoffmann - August 7, 2019 5:00 AM
The Virginia lawmaker who interrupted President Trump's speech in Jamestown has been identified as the individual who dumped water on Geraldo Rivera at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
A reporter for the Daily Beast filmed Rivera interviewing a group of protestors outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. As Rivera speaks with one of the protestors, a man in hat with the Palestinian flag approaches him from behind and dumps water over his head, dousing the news anchor.
Demonstrators shout at Fox News' @GeraldoRivera. One pours water on him. #DemsInPhilly pic.twitter.com/SXYbMITezZ
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) July 26, 2016
Ibraheem Samirah, who was more than two years away from joining Virginia House of Delegates, identified himself as the perpetrator in two Facebook posts.
"I swear it wasn't on purpose, Geraldo!" Samirah posted on his personal Facebook page linking to a story about the interaction.
"FOX News' Geraldo Rivera wanted to dance with the stars, so I gave him a little taste of it," he said in a another post featuring the raw video.
Samirah did not respond to requests for comment about the incident.
This appears to be the first time Samirah has been publicly linked to the interaction with Rivera.
Responding to the news that Samirah had been identified as the perpetrator, Rivera called Samirah "an intolerant, back-stabbing punk," in an email to Washington Free Beacon.
"[Y]ou can add 'chicken s—t Mother f—ker,'" Rivera said.
After the incident occurred Samirah's smiling face can be briefly seen from the reporter's video. He pushes a man who knocked the bottle of water from his hand before ducking into the crowd.
"Dude! Well f—king done," one Facebook friend of Samirah's commented on the post. He also received other commendatory remarks for dousing Rivera.
The Washington Free Beacon was the first to report on Samirah's longstanding connections to anti-Semitic groups and his vocal support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the state of Israel. While in dental school, Samirah was an active member of the Boston Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and participated in a protest against an Israeli film festival.
Samirah became the second Muslim American elected to the Virginia legislature after he won a special election for a northern Virginia House of Delegates district in 2019.
He garnered national headlines for protesting President Trump's speech commemorating the 400th anniversary of the first meeting of representative government in America in July. During the president's speech, Samirah stood up in front of the podium holding up a sign and loudly shouted until he was removed by security.
The next day he published an essay in the Atlantic explaining why he chose to protest the president's speech, comparing himself to the civil rights protestors who participated in the Selma civil rights march.
"[T]o the critics of incivility," Samirah wrote, "I say it's time to think critically about whom such decorum has traditionally served: the white, wealthy, and comfortable."
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged Anti-Semitism, Democrats, Fox News, Virginia. Bookmark the permalink.
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Charlie Hoffmann is a Media Analyst for the Washington Free Beacon. He is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he majored in Journalism and Economics. Charlie was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and remains an avid Packers, Badgers, and Brewers fan. Before moving to DC he worked on numerous political campaigns in Wisconsin. He can be followed on Twitter at @choffmann10.


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Q: Disable button based on text input I have 2 fields, email and password and a button:
The button is disabled based on password.length, but I also want it to be disabled based on valid email address.
I tried doing:
Template:
<v-btn
 class="btn white--text"
 :disabled="password.length <= 6 && isValidEmail"
 @click="onSignIn"
 >Sign In</v-btn>

Script:
computed: {
    isValidEmail() {
      return validateEmail(this.email);
    },
  },

But it doesn't work, only password.length works.
What am I missing?

A: Found how to do it, Like Liel Fridman said you need simple expressions in v-bind( no && ||):
  computed: {
    isValidForm() {
      return (this.password.length > 6 && validateEmail(this.email));
    },
  }

A: You can add another computed property and use that. Only simple expressions work inside v-bind

A: I think you should use OR instead of && operator, so whenever one of the condition return false, its disabled

  <v-btn
  class="btn white--text"
  :disabled="password.length <= 6 || !isValidEmail"
  @click="onSignIn"
  >Sign In</v-btn>

A: you can use direct bind data :
:disabled="password.length <= 10


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Maynard has worked with each of those filmmakers over his four decades or so in the industry, from Campion's first feature Sweetie, to Lang's The Monkey's Mask.
Some four years ago, Maynard together with partner Bridget Ikin established Felix Media, borne out of a desire to collaborate with exceptional artists on projects with unconventional presentations. Prior to that, the pair produced through their separate companies, Arenafilm and Hibiscus Films.
Maynard says filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, who he and Ikin worked with to produce Coral: Rekindling Venus, is one such example.
"Her first big budget project was in fact Coral: Rekindling Venus for the fulldome cinema. She then went on to make a fantastic documentary called Tender," he says.
Then there are the artists who only work in moving image, such as Angelica Mesiti, who Ikin has worked with on four separate occasions – on multi-screen works The Calling, Citizens Band, The Ear of the Tyrant and The Begin Again.
Ikin and Felix Media also collaborated with William Yang, whose dream to convert his theatre pieces into a moving image work took three years. In the end, three of his monologues were recreated for the screen: My Generation, Friends of Dorothy, and Blood Links.
"It's a wonderful record of an artist reimagining a way to tell a personal story in a new medium," Ikin says.
And most recently, Felix Media produced Hossein Valamanesh's 4-screen work Char Soo, which is playing at Carriageworks until July 17. It also screened as part of this year's Sydney Film Festival as well as showing at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival. And Felix Media also produced Jennifer Peedom's acclaimed feature documentary Sherpa, which made more than $1 million at the box office.
In their efforts to encourage collaboration and ideas in moving image production and presentation, Felix Media are also running a two-day masterclass from June 30-July 1 at Carriageworks, where they are a resident company.
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It makes it challenging, but it's also why Maynard and Ikin are drawn to working in this way – forever pushing themselves and others to think outside the box.
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She is still somewhat blocked up but my mom guilt has started to subside. We had had such a big weekend, there was so many places that she could have caught it. It was also the first time we went outside with no car seat cover…BUT I know it was bound to happen one of these days and honestly it wasn't even that bad!
To top off her big girl week, Nora hit a big milestone today. She ROLLED. How cool, on her 4 month birthday. I had just told Brittany that she had no interest in rolling, when like maybe an hour later there she was! Oh that little rebel of mine.
As much as I love these milestones and am so proud, this picture hurts my heart at how fast she is growing. Where is my teeny-tiny could-barely-move baby?!
Because of her cold, and now because she rolled, Nora is officially in her big girl crib tonight. It's been almost an hour and to stop me from checking on her every thirty seconds, I hoped in the bath to write this post. As much as I want her to sleep the night, I also still want her to need her Mommy beside her. We shall see!
Is every milestone this hard? They do get worse though right? Trying to mentally prepare myself. Even though I know that's not possible, it makes me feel better trying.
She is adorable. Those are some cheeks!!!


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module Euler
  module Helper
    module HTML2PlainTextFormatter

      # inclined towards converting math-like html to math-like text
      def self.run(html)
        scrubber = Loofah::Scrubber.new do |node|

          if self.respond_to?("__#{node.name}2text")
            text = self.send("__#{node.name}2text", node)
            node.add_next_sibling Nokogiri::XML::Text.new(text, node.document)
            node.remove
          end
        end

        # remove \r and remove any whitespace before a new line
        html = html.strip.gsub("\r\n", "\n").split("\n").map(&:strip).join("\n")
        CGI.unescapeHTML Loofah.fragment(html).scrub!(:strip).scrub!(scrubber).to_text.strip
      end

      private

      # convert powers
      def self.__sup2text(node)
        node.text == node.text.to_i.to_s || node.text.length == 1 ? "^" + node.text : node.text
      end

      # convert subscript references
      def self.__sub2text(node)
        "[" + node.text + "]"
      end

      # convert images to their alt text
      def self.__img2text(node)
        alt = node.attribute("alt").to_s.strip
        src = node.attribute("src").to_s.strip

        return " #{alt} " unless alt.empty?
        return " [Image: http://projecteuler.net/#{src}]" if src =~ /^project\/images\//

        case src.match(/images\/(.*)\.gif/)[1]
        when "blackdot" then "/"
        else "[<missing-image>]"
        end
      end

      # converts a table to nice rows and columns in plain text
      def self.__table2text(node)
        table = []; width = nil
        # text = html_to_text(node.inner_html)
        node.children.each_with_index do |tr, i|
          table.push []
          width = [0] * tr.children.length unless width
          tr.children.each_with_index do |td, j|
            text = self.run(td.to_s)
            width[j] = text.length if !width[j] || text.length > width[j]
            table[i].push text
          end
        end

        return "" if table.empty?
        return table[0].join(" ") if table.length == 1

        plain = ""
        table.each do |tr|
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Since 1990, every newly built property requires the installation of a water meter. From 1st April 2010, we have implemented a policy meaning that all newly installed water meters are capable of being remotely read. This eliminates the need to gain entry to the property to obtain a reading and offers more choice to where the meter can be installed.
As a result we have reviewed the policy for new build properties, aiming to provide customers with more choice in regards to water meter location, thus allowing safer and greater access to the home owner.
• We will install an external boundary control in the footpath in most instances, however if the property directly fronts the highway and the point of entry for the supply pipe is within 2m of the connection point, a boundary control will not be required.
We install a WRAS approved stop tap within the footpath in all instances, in addition to the meter chamber within the Homeowner's boundary. We will install a meter in the meter chamber provided by the Developer.
• The maintenance of the meter chamber within the Customer's boundary will be the responsibility of the Customer. The maintenance of the stop tap within the highway will be the responsibility of Yorkshire Water.
• The maintenance of the water meter shall be the responsibility of Yorkshire Water.
This form can be used to apply for a new domestic water connection to replace an existing connection through a joint supply pipe.
If you are connecting a newly built property, commercial property or a property which has been divided into a larger number of properties you will need a different application form.
There is a charge for processing your application and providing an estimate for the work required.
This form can be used to apply for up to 6 new domestic service connections on the same site or for a connection to a field or trough supply for the purposes of animal welfare.
If you are connecting more than 6 domestic properties, or commercial properties, you will need a different application form, please contact us on the number below and we can send this to you.
0345 1 20 84 82.
Just like planning permission from the council you need approval from your water company before you install or change certain fittings and fixtures.
A Notification (Reg5) form needs to be submitted to us prior to the development starting. It gives us details of your plans which we will look over and then give our approval or tell you the changes required to ensure it complies with the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999.
The term "wholesite protection" means that the public drinking water supply is protected at all times from the risk of any possibility of backflow contamination which may occur from a plumbing system by the installation of a suitable backflow device at the point of entry to the site.
Should a backflow incident occur from an unprotected plumbing system, it is the customer that will be held responsible for any contamination caused to the public drinking water supply.
Premises that incorporate Rainwater harvesting and or Grey Water systems.
Premises that have an alternative source i.e. borehole/spring.
Our whole site protection policy gives full details of how to comply.


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Are Untestable Statements Necessarily "Bad Science"?
glipsnort (Steve Schaffner) January 25, 2020, 11:12pm #1
Rumraket:
Okay. I'd ask him how he knows that, and if that method of knowing can be shown to be reliable in any way, and then watch in horror at the special pleading.
Well, okay, but what does that have to do with whether the statement was bad science or not?
Questioning Evolution: The Push to Change Science Class
Rumraket (Mikkel R.) January 25, 2020, 11:19pm #2
glipsnort:
If it's untestable, it's bad science.
"It's not a scientific claim" is not a good excuse for making untestable claims. Are we to now say that you can just respond "Okay so my claim is untestable, but at least it's not bad science."?
C'mon.
Where did you get that idea? Many claims have nothing to do with science,
"It's not a scientific claim" is not a good excuse for making untestable claims.
It is, however, a factually correct statement – which puts it ahead of "If it's untestable, it's bad science".
Are we to now say that you can just respond "Okay so my claim is untestable, but at least it's not bad science. "?
Are you unable to evaluate claims except in terms of their scientific status? Why not say, 'That statement is wrong', or 'You have no evidence for that statement', or 'Your belief is ungrounded'?
For claims about things that happen in the real world(why is the weather the way it is?), as opposed to purely fictional subjects(what would Darth Vader do?), I think that's a bug, not a feature.
This "it's not a scientific claim" idea appears to me to be the go-to bad excuse people come up with when there is no good evidence in support of their beliefs. When they made testable claims that proved false, they start making them untestable instead, and then make the excuse that "it's not a scientific claim".
I don't see why I should agree that an untestable claim isn't bad science. Come to think of it, that would be one way to determine that a claim is bad science, by it being untestable.
I believe I am able to do all of that, and more. Nothing prevents me from saying that, and also saying that unestable claims are also bad science, and that simply saying untestable claims are by definition outside the remits of science is a bad excuse for making unsupported claims.
T_aquaticus January 27, 2020, 4:04pm #5
gbrooks9:
So, this sentence you have contrived: "It's bad science to say God … [etc. etc]" is rather beyond the point. This is what makes I.D. proponents so vulnerable. They attempt to make a Scientific statement with the word God in it.
"God" in this context is really a place holder for "it happened through untestable and undetectable processes that I believe through faith". It is the unsupported belief in an untestable and undetectable process that makes it unscientific.
gbrooks9 (George) January 27, 2020, 9:42pm #6
T_aquaticus:
@T_aquaticus,
I think you forgot where you are. This is a Theist forum for Theist views. There's no point in trying to convince people that "God is a placeholder".
naclhv (David Kwon) January 29, 2020, 8:06am #7
Is there a rule or a condition which tells us which statements are scientific statements and which are not?
Let's say that there is. It may be helpful to think of "falsifiability" here as an example, but it can be any such condition. So now, we can make the statement that "scientific statements are those that meet this condition X".
Is that statement now a scientific statement?
Isn't philosophy fun?
Roy (30-year veteran) January 29, 2020, 9:26am #8
naclhv:
Indeterminate. It may be true, false, undecidable or paradoxical depending on what 'X' is.
This isn't philosophy - just a simple logic exercise.
dga471 (Daniel) January 30, 2020, 12:11am #9
This "it's not a scientific claim" idea appears to me to be the go-to bad excuse people come up with when there is no good evidence in support of their beliefs.
What does "testable" mean? Please define it rigorously. For a statement to be "testable", does mean that I can conduct a quantifiable study to find out if it is true? Or do you have a broader definition of "testability"?
CLAVDIVS (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) January 30, 2020, 6:59am #10
Testable claim:
There are empirical observations I can make that will justify rejecting the claim
gbrooks9 (George) January 30, 2020, 12:11pm #11
CLAVDIVS:
@CLAVDIVS
I think it is perfectly acceptable to use an aggregate of observations to "justify rejecting" Atheism and its related ideas.
But it is another thing entirely to use these subjective observations as "proofs" or even "definitive deductions".
Proofs and/or definitive deductions are in the realm of science.
Dan_Eastwood (Dan Eastwood) January 30, 2020, 4:05pm #12
There is an aspect of Specificity to consider. For example, we know the fossil record shows a nested hierarchy as predicted by evolution, and there are numerous examples (ie: Tiktaalik). But for specific fossils A and B we may never find an intermediate fossil. Questions about specific intermediate fossils are scientific because the more general case is scientific, even if we never find that specific fossil. We may also find other fossils which could falsify the hypothesized relationship between A and B.
I am personally sympathetic to certain hypotheses which have a certain aspect of necessity. For example, any region of the universe more than some 48 billion light years away is forever beyond our ability to observe. BUT according to everything else we know, those unobservable regions should also exist. We would some additional knowledge for it to be reasonable to think otherwise.
Faizal_Ali (Faizal Ali) January 30, 2020, 4:06pm #13
I like what Sean Carroll had to say on this subject:
One of the struggles that we have as modern physicists and cosmologists, is that the conventional ways we have of talking about how to do science might be too simplistic. One way we can put this that is very dramatic is, there is a t-shirt or bumper-sticker-sized motto that was given to us by Sir Karl Popper about what demarcates science from non science, namely, scientific theories are falsifiable, which doesn't mean you can prove them wrong, it means that if they were wrong you could prove them wrong. A good scientific theory according to Popper sticks its neck out. It says, here's what I think is true about the universe. There's something very definite that I'm saying. If you look for this aspect and don't find it there, then that theory is not correct.
What Popper had in mind was attacking things like Freudian psychoanalysis. He thought that there was nothing that a patient could tell a psychoanalyst that the psychoanalyst would not be able to say, "Ah, yes. I have a perfect theory that would explain that." Popper felt that if you could explain everything, you're explaining nothing. You're not sticking your neck out. This idea that scientific theory should be falsifiable has caught on. Popper was not completely right about that. He's not taken as the last word by any respectable philosopher of science, but he was onto something important. He was pointing out that a good scientific theory should be carefully definite. It can't have infinite amounts of wiggle room.
Some scientists, bless their hearts, have taken this subtle piece of philosophy of science and made it a little bit overly simplistic. When we have a theory now, like string theory which says that there's little loops of string at a submicroscopic scale, or the inflationary universe scenario that says there are other universes that we can't see, these theories are saying something very definite. It's not like anything goes in these theories, but what they are saying seems to be inaccessible to our practical experimental abilities. Maybe even our impractical ones if you're talking about the multiverse that is further away than we can possibly see.
In some weird overly literal sense, these theories are not falsifiable because we just don't know how to do the experiments to falsify them even though they're saying something definite. In my opinion, if you ask Karl Popper about that, he would say these theories are perfectly scientific, there's nothing wrong with them. He never said it would be easy to falsify things, he just said that a theory should make definite statements. But certain zealous colleagues of mine are saying that because you can't see the other universes in the multiverse or because you can't see the little super strings moving around, these theories are not falsifiable and, therefore, should not count as science.
It's a bit of a tempest in a teapot because science is going to march on one way or the other.
https://www.edge.org/conversation/sean_carroll-layers-of-reality
T_aquaticus January 30, 2020, 5:08pm #14
Dan_Eastwood:
For example, we know the fossil record shows a nested hierarchy as predicted by evolution, and there are numerous examples (ie: Tiktaalik). But for specific fossils A and B we may never find an intermediate fossil. Questions about specific intermediate fossils are scientific because the more general case is scientific, even if we never find that specific fossil.
A proper test is to use the fossils we do have. As you note, the theory of evolution says nothing about our chances of finding a specific fossil, or any fossils for that matter. Those questions are more about geology than biology. What the theory of evolution hyhpothesizes is that species in the past should also show a nested hierarchy. Each and every fossil we do find can be used to test that hypothesis.
Faizal_Ali:
I like what Sean Carroll had to say on this subject
One of the best one liners in the history of physics came from Wolfgang Pauli's: "It's not even wrong".
It's a bit self serving for Sean Carroll to massage the definition of science to benefit his own field of work, but he does make some important points. I think the most important point is that scientific theories need to make risky statements. As Carroll describes it, scientists have to stick their neck out and see if new evidence backs them up.
A good example to use here is the Higgs Boson. When Higgs proposed the existence of the particle there was no way to test for its existence, but it made risky predictions for certain experiments that could be performed in the future. One of the coolest scientific presentations I ever saw was at CERN when the two independent teams both showed evidence of the Higgs at the same energy, and Higgs himself was there at the meeting. The fact they found it during his lifetime is still one of most heart warming stories there is in science, IMHO.
Whereas if the restrictive definition of science that Carroll is arguing against is applied, then the Higgs Boson was not a scientific claim until the means to detect was invented. Then it suddenly became science.
nwrickert (Neil Rickert) January 30, 2020, 6:16pm #17
There are many important statements in science that are not testable.
We need to judge science as a whole, not at the level of individual statements.
Whereas if the restrictive definition of science that Carroll is arguing against is applied, then the Higgs Boson was not a scientific claim until the means to detect was invented.
In essence, that is correct.
Another way to describe Carroll's approach is that science is a multi-step process, a part of which is coming up with definitive questions, ideas, and hypotheses. Science is also a communal process, so part of it is other scientists reviewing, debating, and then latching onto your idea as something worth pursuing.
Postdictions are also important. According to my hazy memory of a Michio Kaku book I read about a decade ago, string theory has been able to reproduce Einstein's equations from first principles. If Einstein had not already discovered relativity we might very well hold string theory in higher regard. The important part here is that new ideas need to explain the data we already have. The next step is coming up with experiments that can differentiate between new and old ideas.
AllenWitmerMiller (Retired Professor & Minister.) February 1, 2020, 1:30pm #19
Roy:
Logic is a sub-field of philosophy.
I was once asked to teach a course in mixed Boolean logic. The Dean planned to cross-list the 400-level course in three departments: Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy.
RonSewell (RonS) February 2, 2020, 12:45pm #20
When Higgs proposed the existence of the particle there was no way to test for its existence, but it made risky predictions for certain experiments that could be performed in the future.
True. If one is to define science in terms of testability, then it quickly becomes apparent what constitutes a testable hypothesis has to be grappled with. For instance, we can have:
Tested and done.
Tantalizing low sigma hints in the data.
Building the technology.
Blue sky proposals.
Technology doable, but nobody is gonna fund this thing, ever.
Technology conceivable, but beyond practicality whatever the level of commitment.
Technology not yet conceived, but at least in principle would not violate known laws of physics.
Thought experiment.
Not in our universe, but the math works.
Required by the plot.


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— японський сімфо-метал-гурт. Їх лірика будується на ідеї поєднання  музики минулого (класичної) та майбутнього (метал).

Історія
Гурт сформований Соно (вокалістом Jeniva) в жовтні 2006. Їх перший сингл, «alkaloid showcase», вийшов 4 березня 2007 року, одночасно з першим офіційним концертом гурту у Urawa Narciss, що і вважається офіційним початком гурту.

У 2007 році клавішниця Karen та гітарист Mika покинули гурт, їх замінили Аяме (ex-Ry:dia) і Анзі.

У 2008 році вони перейшли на лейбл Sherow Artist Society й випустили на ньому сингл «Ruri Iro de Egaku Niji», який потрапив на 11 місце в чарті Oricon Indies Chart; EP  Gilia  отримав 7 місце і також був виданий не тільки в Японії, але і в Європі. Продюсером гурту є вокаліст Versailles Каміджо, також гурт регулярно бере участь в його заходах і турах.

2008 рік для гурту почався у новому складі, фотокартки та профілі нових музикантів з'явились на сайті гурту, цей рік став зовсім новим початком. Вони визнали, що в 2007 році не випустили багато того, чого хотіли, але пообіцяли в 2008 виправитися.
І гурт стримав обіцянку. Незабаром було оголошено, що новий сингл буде випущений 5 березня, і доповнили цю новину тим, що наприкінці березня Matenrou Opera відправляться в турне по Європі разом з групою Versailles. Тур складався з шести виступів в містах Швеції, Фінляндії, Німеччини, Франції та Іспанії.

Склад
 Sono (苑) — вокал
 Ayame (彩雨) — клавішні, аранжування
 Yo (燿) — бас-гітара
 Yu (悠) — ударні

Колишні учасники
  – гітара (ex.ANCIENT MYTH )
  - клавішні
 Anzi – гітара

Дискографія

Альбоми
 «Gilia» (14 травня 2008)
 «Anomie» (24 червня 2009)
 « Justice» (07 березня 2012)
 «Kassai to Gekijou no Gloria» (06 березня 2013)
 «AVALON» (03 вересня 2014 року)
 «Chikyuu» (20 січня 2016 року)
 «Phoenix Rising» (19 жовтня 2016 року)
 «Pantheon -Part 1-» (12 квітня 2017 року)
 «Pantheon -Part 2-» (15 листопада 2017 року)

Міні-альбоми
 «Abyss» (22 грудня 2010)

Максі-сингли
 «Alkaloid showcase" (4 травня 2007)
 «Ruri iro de egaku niji» (瑠 璃 色 で 描 く 虹 5 березня 2008 року)
 «SPECTACULAR» (24 вересня 2008)
 «LAST SCENE» (17 грудня 2008)
 «Acedia» (25 березня 2009)
 «Murder Scope» (16 грудня 2009)
 «「 GENESIS / R 」» (17 травня 2010)
 «Helios» (2011.07.06)

Сингли

 «Sara» (live-distributed only, 30 жовтня 2007)
 «Eternal Symphony» (live-distributed only 23 липня 2009)
 «R» (24 лютого 2010)
 «Otoshiana no Soko wa Konna Sekai» ( 「落 と し 穴 の 底 は こ ん な 世界」 2011.10.19)
 «Gloria» (03 жовтня 2012)
 «Innovational Symphonia» (05 грудня 2012)
 «Orb» (04 грудня 2013)
 «Tonari Ni Suwaru Taiyou» (23 липня 2014 року)
 «Chimaishou» (29 жовтня 2014 року)
 «ether» (8 квітня  2015 року)
 «Kimi to miru kaze no yukue» (18 червня 2015 року)
 «Aoku toumei na kono sinpi no umi e» (20 липня 2015 року)
 «Tataeyou hahanaru chi de» (21 серпня 2015 року)
 «Burning Soul» (21 жовтня 2015 року)
 «Honoo no hito» (9 березня 2016 року)
 «Shine On» (23 грудня 2016 року)

Збірники
 «COUPLING COLLECTION 08-09» (2009.10.28)
 «INDIES BEST COLLECTION» (2010.11.24)

PV
 Alkaloid showcase
 ANOMIE
 Murder Scope
 R
 Mou Hitori Hanayome
 Helios
 Otoshiana no Soko wa Konna Sekai
 Justice
 Gloria
 Innovational Symphonia
 Kassai to Gekijou no Gloria
 Orb
 Tonari Ni Suwaru Taiyou

Live
 DAWN OF ANOMIE in Akasaka BLITZ
 Emergence from COCOON ~ Tour Final Live Film ~ "Birth of GENESIS"
 MATENROU OPERA -1214- at SHIBUYA AX
 GLORIA TOUR -GRAND FINALE- LIVE FILM in Zepp Tokyo

Сторонні збірки та альбоми
 CROSS GATE 2008 ~ chaotic sorrow ~ (honey drop 31.01.2008)
 Visualy {zm] The Cure Century (alkaloid showcase 30.07.2008)
 Crush! -90's V-Rock best hit cover songs- (26.01.2011)
 Hitotsudake ~ We Are The One ~ (14.09.2011)
 V-ANIME ROCKS (01.08.2012)

Примітки

Посилання
 Official Website
 Official MySpace
 New Official Website

Музичні колективи за алфавітом
Рок-гурти Японії
Visual kei
Музичні колективи, що з'явились 2006
Засновані в Японії 2006


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Q: Contraction between basis vectors and basis one-forms Discretion: The title may be misleading, because I am not certain whether the one-forms are actually basis one-forms.
I always thought by definition, $dx^i (e_j) =\delta^i_j $.
But, I am confused because of what it says on one of the book I am reading, "Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics", by Arnold. In page 178 - 179, he says if we define the metric $g = diag(E_1,E_2,E_3)$, then $dx^i (e_i) = 1/\sqrt E_i$.
I cannot wrap my head around this. Is $dx^i$ the dual basis one-form, or is it something else? Thank you so much for your help.

A: To any coordinate system on a manifold (Riemannian or not) there is associated a basis for the tangent space usually denoted by $\{ X_j \}$ or $\{ \partial/\partial x^j \}$. For these basis vectors, it's always true that $dx^i(X_j) = \delta^i_j$. However, if you have a metric, it's usually not the case that the vectors $X_j$ form an ON basis with respect to this metric. In the case that Arnold considers, the metric tensor is assumed to be diagonal, so the $X_j$ are pairwise orthogonal, but they are not normalized, and the unit vectors $e_j$ are what you get when you normalize them: $e_j = X_j \,/ \sqrt{E_j}$.


In modern programming, there's a lot of cool stuff that can be done with metadata. Failing to consider it in one form or another is setting aside a major tool in any system architecture. Sadly, I see this from time to time, a project with a lot of information associated with it... typically the metadata ends up being expressed only as requirements... and is not applied any further in automation. My post on Edgewater's blog highlights code generation as one of my favorite ways metadata can be leveraged using things like standardized requirements documentation as metadata.
Metadata in information systems has two major aspects: expression and application. Expression is everything from the media used to the language (even characters) that are used to communicate information. Expression implies how the information can be managed and transmitted, and even how the information can be applied. Application is all about how the information is used, impacting utilization of resources requried to leverage it at the time that it is applied.
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Con's: Any "beholder" must typically be created from scratch, making it typically tightly coupled with its application. Harder to manage in terms of media & transmission.
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Con's: Plain text can take any form, often has to be parsed using custom tools, care has to be taken to make sure plain text is extensible, human readable, and structured enough for processing.
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Common application: code generation based on metadata or metacontent information.
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Common application: Deployment targets/configuration based on build content metacontent.
Code generation is one of the most compelling uses for metadata in information systems, but it's certainly not the only use. One of my other favorite topics, SharePoint, highlights this by making metacontent a cornerstone of content and document management, classification, reporting, and search indexing. Throwing a document in a plain old file share provides you with a little metadata; the folder names it its file path typically has meaning, as well as the dates, times, and even the permissions applied to it. Throwing the same document in SharePoint provides a ton more information about the document content by default, and typically indexes it, making search a far more powerful tool.


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Lions' Glover Quin: Foxboro is a 'weird' place to play
The New England Patriots have more home wins than any team in the NFL since Gillette Stadium opened in 2002
Lions' Glover Quin: Foxboro is a 'weird' place to play The New England Patriots have more home wins than any team in the NFL since Gillette Stadium opened in 2002 Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/1uSsc8g
Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press Published 4:50 p.m. ET Nov. 19, 2014 | Updated 10:04 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2014
Glover Quin of the Detroit Lions celebrates after the interception off Drew Brees during the game at Ford Field on October 19, 2014 in Detroit, Michigan. The Lions defeated the Saints 24-23.(Photo: Leon Halip Getty Images)
The New England Patriots have more home wins than any team in the NFL since Gillette Stadium opened in 2002, and they haven't lost a game in Foxborough in almost two years.
They've had plenty of great teams and players during that time, beginning with Tom Brady, but Lions safety Glover Quin said there's something else that makes their home field stand apart, too.
"Foxboro's a weird place," Quin said. "You go up there and you're in a hotel and then you got to drive through like back woods to get there and then all of a sudden a stadium appears like it seems like in people's backyard and it's like, just a weird place out there. And they love it. They play great there. I've never won there. I've played there three or four times, I've never won there. It's tough to win there."
The Patriots average 36 points per game at Gillette, and Quin said a big reason is their home fans know how and when to be loud.
"That the crowd is so silent on offense and Tom Brady is able to really control the offense as opposed to having to signal a lot," Quin said. "Look at a TV copy of a home game from New England and just listen, you can hear everything that he's saying."
For that reason, Quin said it's important the Lions get off to a better start than they have in recent weeks.
The Lions gave up touchdowns on their first two defensive possessions in last week's loss to the Arizona Cardinals, and have scored just one of their own first-half touchdowns in the last four games.
"I just know you're going through like the back woods, and you're just like, 'Oh my God, what am I going to?' And then all of a sudden it's like you see like a little trailer park or something like that, and then all of a sudden you see the stadium, you're like 'Whoa, right in the backyard?'" Quin said. "It's weird out there. It's weird out there, I can't even lie."