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Q: How to hide my sliding side nav when i click elsewere? I'm trying to mimic android's side menu style. here is the link to my codepen
https://codepen.io/Killerbee98/pen/KqreZw.
My problem is that it doesn't close when i press outside of the navigation as it does on android. Now i have done some research on how to do smth like this; first would be to use:
$('#menucontainer').click(function(event){
  event.stopPropagation();
});

but this isn't a practical method and is wrong to use.
Second would be to add a click listener using :
$(document).click(function(event){
  if (!$(event.target).closest('.navigation').length) {
    $('.navigation').hide();
  }
});

But this doesn't work with my code since my code has a click listener:
$('.menu-btn').click(function() {
   console.log("button pressed");
   if($('.navigation').width() === 250){
   $('.navigation').width('0px');
}else{
   $('.navigation').width('250px');
  }
})

i tried doing this:
$('.menu-btn').click(function() {
   console.log("button pressed");
   if($('.navigation').width() === 250){
   $('.navigation').width('0px');
   $(document).click(function(event){
       if (!$(event.target).closest('.navigation').length) {
           $('.navigation').hide();
       }
   });
 }else{
   $('.navigation').width('250px');
  }
})

it closes but doesn't open back again as it should.
how do i go about solving my issue?

A: I Have managed to make a working example by using this answer
Here is the code
 $('.menu-btn').click(function() {
     if($('.navigation').is(":visible")) {
            $('.navigation').hide();
        } else {
           $('.navigation').show();
        }
})

$(document).click(function(event) {
    if(!$(event.target).closest('.navigation').length &&
    !$(event.target).hasClass('menu-btn')) {
        if($('.navigation').is(":visible")) {
            $('.navigation').hide();
        }
    }
})

EDIT:
Also I Have adjusted css style for navigation class
.navigation{
  position:fixed;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 250px;
  display: none;
  height: 100%;
  box-shadow: 1px 0px 15px 0px #999;
  transition: .2s;
}

Here is a working demo

A: The only changes you need to your EXISTING code is to add the same styles for both the button click event and the document click event.

$('.menu-btn').click(function() {
  event.stopPropagation();
  console.log("button pressed");
  if ($('.navigation').width() === 250) {
    $('.navigation').hide();
    $('.navigation').width('0px');
  } else {
    $('.navigation').show();
    $('.navigation').width('250px');
  }
})
$(document).click(function(event) {
  if (!$(event.target).closest('.navigation').length) {
    $('.navigation').hide();
    $('.navigation').width('0px');
    event.stopPropagation();
  }
});
* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.navigation {
  position: fixed;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 0;
  height: 100%;
  box-shadow: 1px 0px 15px 0px #999;
  transition: .2s;
  display: none;
}

.header-image {
  height: 150px;
  background: yellow;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
}

ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}

ul li {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 100%;
  background: #eee;
}

ul li a {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
}

.clearfix:after {
  content="";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}

.menu-btn {
  height: 50px;
  width: 50px;
  background: none;
  border: none;
  cursor: pointer;
  outline: none;
  position: fixed;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  z-index: 100;
}

.bar {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  width: 30px;
  height: 2px;
  background: black;
  left: 10px;
  right: 10px;
}

.bar:before,
.bar:after {
  display: block;
  content: "";
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  background-color: black;
  position: absolute;
  height: 2px;
  transition: .15s ease-in-out;
}

.bar:before {
  top: -10px;
}

.bar:after {
  top: 10px;
}

<button class="menu-btn">

</button>

A: Thanks to @Kukic Vladimir's solution, it works with a bit of change in the JS code he provided.
$('.menu-btn').click(function() {
 if($('.navigation').width() === 0) {
        $('.navigation').width('250px');
    } else {
       $('.navigation').width('0px');
    }
});
$(document).click(function(event) {
    if(!$(event.target).closest('.navigation').length &&
!$(event.target).hasClass('menu-btn')) {
    if($('.navigation').width('250px')) {
        $('.navigation').width('0px');
    }
 }
})


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Q: C# - Find the index of nearest value from decimal array decimal[] array = new decimal[5]{80.23,60.20,88.01,77.00,20.45};

decimal TargetNumber = 70.40;

Here, the nearest value  is 77.00, How can I find the index of nearest decimal array?
Note: It should stay in the same order as I need the exact index of the nearest value. Here, Index is important than value

A: int nearestIndex = Array.IndexOf(array, array.OrderBy(number => Math.Abs(number - TargetNumber)).First());

A: One nice thing about doing it the long way over using LINQ is you can stop checking early if you find a exact match. minIndex holds the index or will hold -1 if the array was empty.
decimal minDistance = 0; //0 is fine here it is never read, it is just to make the compiler happy.
int minIndex = -1;

for(int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
{
    var distance = Math.Abs(TargetNumber - array[i]);
    if(minIndex == -1 || distance < minDistance)
    {
        minDistance = distance;
        minIndex = i;

        //Optional, stop testing if we find a exact match.
        if(minDistance == 0)
            break;
    }
}

Just for fun I made a totally generic version, it requires you to pass in a delegate to calculate the distance factor, also it has a optional parameter to define the "minimum distance" it needs to be to stop checking for more results.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        decimal[] array = new decimal[5]{80.23M,80.40M,80.80M,80.00M,20.45M};
        decimal TargetNumber = 70.40M;

        var result = FindClosestIndex(TargetNumber, array, (target, element) => Math.Abs(target - element)); //Optionally add in a "(distance) => distance == 0" at the end to enable early termination.

        Console.WriteLine(result);
    }

    public static int FindClosestIndex<T,U>(T target, IEnumerable<T> elements, Func<T,T,U> distanceCalculator, Func<U, bool> earlyTermination = null) where U : IComparable<U>
    {
        U minDistance = default(U);
        int minIndex = -1;

        using(var enumerator = elements.GetEnumerator())
        for(int i = 0; enumerator.MoveNext(); i++)
        {

            var distance = distanceCalculator(enumerator.Current, target);
            if(minIndex == -1 || minDistance.CompareTo(distance) > 0)
            {
                minDistance = distance;
                minIndex = i;
            }

            if(earlyTermination != null && earlyTermination(minDistance))
                break;
        }

        return minIndex;
    }
}

Runnable example

A: int index = array.Select((x,i) => new {Index=i, Distance = Math.Abs(TargetNumber - x)}).OrderBy(x => x.Distance).First().Index;

A: You can use the Enumerable.Aggregate for this:
int nearestIndex = array
    .Select((x, i) => new { Diff = Math.Abs(x - TargetNumber), Index = i })
    .Aggregate((x, y) =>  x.Diff < y.Diff ? x : y)
    .Index;

This only doesn't require any ordering, and it only iterates through the array once.

EDIT: this version breaks out of the loop early if it finds an exact match, as @ScottChamberlein suggested:
int exactMatch = 0;
var nearestIndex = array
   .Select((x, i) => new { Diff = Math.Abs(x - TargetNumber), Index = i })
   .TakeWhile(x => x.Diff != 0M || exactMatch++ == 0)
   .Aggregate((x, y) =>  x.Diff < y.Diff ? x : y)
   .Index;

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What would it take to return to that childlike wonder, where every moment was a surprise, offering something new and exciting? When the little things were meaningful, and it was easy to be filled with joy and wonder….
As I write this article, it is exactly two weeks from Election Day, and we are barraged with insults, indignations, and in my opinion, injury. We've witnessed the worst campaign battle to date, so what's this writer to do?
Here at the Happy Herald, both honoring where we are and where we need to go, we felt a trip back in time, when it was easy to smile and feel the goodness in the world, would be most beneficial!
Looking ahead, no one knows what will be. We can only bring, as Oprah says, Our Best Self forward. Show me a picture of Mickey or Minnie Mouse and I'm transported. So for the next moment or two, activate a memory to open your heart, and allow the good feelings to roll in. Indulge in remembering your first Mickey Mouse experience or look at the cover photo and feel your own childlike wonder again. Let the world of today, fall away… just for a second, be free.
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So we now have Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for President. It's an odd thing in many ways, not because the party grandees threw their lot in with him–that's par for the course. It's odd because they were able to get it past the people who supposedly dominate the party–the "Religious Right", those dreadful Evangelicals who are supposedly gunning for a theocracy that would make John Calvin look like a wimp.
Such a result reminds us that only God is omnipotent. Yes, we will have base enthusiasm problems, but both parties are having that, and those tend to get papered over with our polarised Electoral College system. But there are still many Evangelicals out there who are uneasy about voting for a Mormon. The obvious question is why.
There are serious doctrinal and theological differences between Mormonism and Christianity. And I don't think that it's unfair to make the distinction either; many Mormons do. Mormonism was intended to restore the faith to a supposedly pristine state, as the other churches were characterised as corrupt. Since same churches (and the ones formed after them) haven't gone along with the "Restoration" churches, it's fair to say the Mormons' basic opinion about the rest of us hasn't changed, and we're happy to reciprocate.
I could detail many of the differences between Mormonism and Christianity, and between Mormonism and itself. For the moment, I'll leave that to others. What I want to concentrate on is the broader political and social implications of the conflict between Mormonism and Christianity on the one hand and both arrayed against a secularising culture with an "upstairs/downstairs" political alliance to advance that secularisation.
In trying to condense a great deal of American history and demography, let's make a few stipulations. First, if you want to be the central religion of a culture, you want to capture its key demographic. In the United States, that means the "middle class" with all the complexities that go with that characterisation. Up until the 1960's, and especially in the immediate post-World War II era, that pride of place among religions belonged to Main Line Protestantism. Other religions out there–including Evangelicals such as the Southern Baptists, the Pentecostals, the Roman Catholics, the Mormons and even in a different way the Jews–were on the outside, not just looking in but trying to arrive themselves. Each of these had their enclaves, be they regional, ethnic or what not, but none of them had the broad appeal to the American middle class that Main Line Protestantism had.
The decline of Main Line Protestantism is a well documented story, and that decline has become especially steep in the last twenty years or so. That has created is a vacuum, and one knows that nature abhors a vacuum. Each of the aforementioned contenders would like to fill that vacuum, and a great deal of the story of Christianity the last forty years or so is the story of the various attempts to fill that vacuum. (I emphasise Christianity because Judaism, and to a lesser extent Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism aren't the seekers of converts that Christianity is).
But none of these groups has really gotten the job done. Roman Catholicism, for all its ability to get its people into the middle and upper reaches of our society, lacks the strong pastoral system and desire to mobilise its laity either for God or country to command the field. Evangelicals, incessantly demonised by their media opponents and hampered by their own "low hanging fruit" approach to evangelisation and church growth, can't get the breakthrough they're looking for. Charismatics and Pentecostals are even further behind the demographic curve than their Evangelical counterparts, although they have one key advantage which they haven't figured out how to make best use of: their broad appeal to non-white people groups.
That of course leaves the Mormons. In many ways they are the perfect cast for the role: superbly organised, hopelessly bourgeois, economically prosperous. Those reasons and more explain Evangelicals' hostility towards them: from their own perspective, they see Mormonism as their most single dangerous rival. More than the isolationist Jehovah's Witnesses or the apolitical Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons are to Evangelicals what Mao Zedong was to Chiang Kai-Shek: a cancer to be removed at all costs. Having a Mormon President, with all the favourable publicity and testimonial value that he would have for the LDS church, is a major source of consternation for Evangelicals in particular.
Unfortunately there are more serious problems out there. The most serious of those problems is the growing appeal of secularism in our society. It's hard to communicate what that means and the appeal it has in a society as consistently religious as ours has been, but the possibility of secularism becoming this country's favourite middle class religion is real–except for one trout in the milk…
That smelly fish is, of course, the current structure of American liberalism, embodied in the Democrat Party and the current Occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Same Occupant got there with what we call in politics an "upstairs/downstairs" coalition. The way you keep such a coalition together is through patronage, which has become a powerful force in American politics, one overlooked by the mind-numbing pundits with their prognostications based on elections past. The upstairs–be that upstairs employed by the state or by the very wealthy–basically spreads enough money around the downstairs so that the latter will keep them in power. They get those funds from those caught in the middle, whom the upstairs thinks will continue working as always while they are taxed and regulated without relief. When same middle falls down the stairs and quits being a cash cow, your economy collapses and you have poverty.
What Evangelical and Mormon have come to realise–implicitly if not explicitly–is that it doesn't matter who becomes the new middle class religion if there is no middle class. We have to save the middle class before we can fight over it, among ourselves or with the secularists.
That, ultimately, is the glue that holds the Republican Party's hostile religious groups together. To succeed we must convince a critical mass of the American people that it's still possible to succeed by merit in a real economic system, and stacked against patronage that won't be easy. Whether this new-found unity will be enough to make the difference in November will be one for the record books.
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One curiosity of Christian records in the "Jesus Music" era are albums where one side is recorded by a different group than the other. A helpful way for two groups to share the cost, it had the added bonus of not requiring one group to come up with more that 20-25 minutes of music. Given the quality of some of the groups, that was a big plus for everyone.
Although both groups get lead vocals from David Pope, that's where the similarity ends. The Alethians are a straight-up, Fisherfolk type group whose acoustic guitars and very light percussion will gladden the heart of any 1970's Christian folk fan. The Right Angle, however, did something that few other Christian groups tried: a "lounge lizard," jazzy style that would be happier in a bar than in a church. Their "rat pack" rendition of "Pass It On" is an absolute classic, and reason enough alone to have the album.
The songs:
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And now a word about the Field Mass…
Last week I took a page from "cassock and surplice" Anglicanism–the funeral of World War I flying ace Manfred "Red Baron" von Richtofen–to show what "1662 BCP" Anglicanism looked like in a celebrated event. The significance of my slighting the alb was well understood. So I guess a little "equal time" might be in order. (Well, sort of…)
The "field Mass" is part and parcel with Roman Catholics serving in the various armed forces they do. In years past and in countries such as Italy and Austria-Hungary, the field Mass was an important part of their military tradition. (We also see it in our own armed forces as well).
The photo at the right is one reason this is so. It shows a field Mass during World War I for Italian Alpine troops in the Tyrolean Alps. Italian Alpine troops were some of their nation's finest, as were their Austrian counterparts. Superbly trained and fighting in the most difficult conditions, it was a special duty for a chaplain to minister to them.
In the years immediately following Vatican II, American Catholics were told that, before that watershed event, the Mass was "vertical" in focus, i.e., towards God, while afterwards it was more "horizontal" (community) in emphasis. Be that as it may, this photo shows the most vertical Mass I have ever seen.
As was the case uniformly before Vatican II, the priest is facing the altar and behind it. Generally speaking the congregation in its turn is behind the priest. But, in these conditions, the faithful had to view the elevation of the Host from whatever place they could stabilise themselves in.
We're still waiting for Anglo-Catholicism to rival this…
Same-Sex Civil Marriage: Not Quite Ready to Go for Broke
The famous (if unlikely) team of Boies and Olsen are backpedaling on their case to overturn Proposition 8–and establish same-sex civil marriage by national default:
The two high-profile lawyers who started the nation's most significant lawsuit attempting to gain marriage rights for same-sex couples told the Supreme Court on Friday that it might find it very interesting to take up that issue now, but urged the Justices not to do so in the only case now at the Court that could raise that question — the case testing the constitutionality of California's "Proposition 8." Attorneys Theodore B. Olson and David Boies argued that the case has procedural flaws, made no change in the law, involves no conflict among lower courts, and might raise core constitutional issues that the Court may not be ready to confront.
I'll try to avoid oversimplification, but there are two major tracks running through our court system on this subject.
The first are all the "DOMA" cases, such as this (HT to Rubin on Tax for keeping up with this). Basically these seek to overturn the 1996 law, which denies federal recognition for same-sex civil marriages permitted by state law for purposes such as the tax code. Success in this wouldn't mandate same-sex civil marriage everywhere, but it would take the campaign to a new level.
The second are cases like this, which seek to mandate same-sex civil marriage based on equal protection under the laws. Although opponents of same-sex civil marriage hate to admit it, our élite opinion has given an air of inevitability to the success of this venture.
Or has it? It's sometimes hard to know why attorneys do what they do, but my guess is that Boies and Olsen are afraid that SCOTUS will issue a muddled, narrow opinion which would overturn Proposition 8 in California but which might in the long run make winning a broader case difficult. That, more or less, is what happened with the Obamacare case, especially with the Medicaid issue, which is why liberals, while relieved at its basic upholding of the "Affordable Care" act, aren't dancing in the streets just yet.
I still believe that abolition of civil marriage, with or without civil unions (I would prefer the latter) is the best way to go on this issue, and the one that advocates of "traditional marriage" should have pursued to start with. Boies and Olsen are in a tight place right at the moment, but one of these days people will see Proposition 8 for the strategic error that it was.
The Difference Between Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood
On a recent edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, he discusses with Tawfik Hamid the difference between the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. (That discussion starts at about 13:30 into the video below).
Five years ago, I got into an extended email debate with an Indonesian Salafi. One of the points he tried to make with me was that the Salafi Islam he practised was different from the Sayyid Qutb-inspired version that appeared in places such as al-Qaeda, one which incorporated concepts from Western political ideologies. That certainly includes the Muslim Brotherhood; Qutb was a leading figure in the Brotherhood in the 1950's and 1960's.
To be honest, I was sceptical. But now the two "versions" of political Islam are on display for everyone to see. As was the case with my Sudanese imam friend on the difference between Sunni and Shi'a Islam, my Muslim contacts/debaters were more educational than sources on either side of our political divide, all of which look uninformed at times like this. The difference between the two has practical significance; which one ends up on top in Egypt (and the Brotherhood has the distinct advantage at this stage) will end up driving events in the Middle East for some time.
If you want to learn about Islam, start by asking a Muslim, or better more than one, you'll get more perspectives.
The U.S. and China: Passing Each Other in the Night on Academic Freedom?
Students in China are caught between two systems, one Marxist-Leninist and one capitalist. The result is this:
The curious collision of ideological coercion and material opportunity births a conformity-breeding exhaustion. To resist the constant current of ideological homogeneity requires relentless energy and vigilance: to remember that no matter how compelling the words of the anchor on the nightly news, certain facts have been blacked out by the pernicious party pen; to read and trust media published in countries that you have been taught have interests antithetical to your own; to sustain beliefs that cannot be given voice beyond your own scattered thoughts. The few students who voice dissenting views emphasize that they have never raised these concerns beyond hushed conversations with one or two close friends. Socially, emotionally and academically, it is easier to follow the path of least resistance.
My university is now wrestling with how it plans to respond to the Freedom from Religion Foundation's gripes about prayers at our football games. But such high-visibility disputes mask the real drama that is going on in our educational systems: how do our students react to the conflicting demands placed on them?
China is a country that "started out" with Marxist-Leninist hegemony and a political system to enforce that, then grafted into the system capitalist achievement and the performance expectations to go with that. So students getting an education and moving into a career find themselves caught between two worlds, both of which they feel they have to make happy to succeed. So the result is silence.
The U.S. is a country going in the opposite direction. We started out with a system that engendered economic and political freedom. But now various "politically correct" groups are attempting to take the latter way by enforcing ideologies and thought processes. But we still expect our students, before and after graduation, to perform as before and do so in an open way. Although the court system has slowed this process down, it has not stopped it, and academics have all kinds of means at their disposal to make whatever ideology or life view they think their students should have a prerequisite to their success.
Although no one wants to admit it, my guess is that our students here are dealing with it in a way not so different from their Chinese counterparts. They just keep their heads down and move forward; high-profile disputes are by far the exception more than the rule. Our countries may be "passing each other in the night" without realising it.
The problem with this is simple: when the system's cognitive dissonance issues finally push things to a crisis, you really have no idea where your people, silenced by years of "you can't say that"! are really at. The results are generally highly unpredictable and destabilising, to say the least. The Chinese learned that the hard way in the years of "democrazy" and I guess that we may well get an expensive lesson in that too.
The High Price of Anti-Semitism
I've put off writing this piece for a long time. The subject is sensitive for a number of reasons. But given the things going on both here, in Europe and the Middle East these days, perhaps it's time to visit this subject, although I'd be the first to admit the example I'm presenting isn't the most profound.
My parents, after their divorce, both lived in Boynton Beach, Florida. My father lived the last fifteen years or so of his life in very poor health. When my wife and I would come to see him, sometimes after spending time he wouldn't feel like going out to eat and would need a rest. So we were on our own.
We'd cast about in the phone book (this before the Internet) for a good place to eat. I spotted a restaurant called Streb's, which recognised from my days at St. Andrew's in Boca Raton. It had a location in Boynton Beach, not so far from where my father lived. So we ate there a couple of times.
Streb's had two dishes which especially caught our taste. The first was an excellent centre-cut pork chop, a dish that's very difficult to prevent turning into sole (as in shoe). The second was the baked sweet potato; it was the first restaurant we ever saw this at, and my wife, a big fan of sweet potatoes in just about any form, was enthusiastic about this. Sometimes when we'd get there in late afternoon we'd catch the early bird special, which was a good deal (although they included a mandatory tip, something we don't see back in Tennessee).
When we went down during the spring, we'd see the advertisement for the Passover meal. We didn't think anything about it; South Florida has a large Jewish population, and in any case we were impressed that such an Old Testament holiday was celebrated.
We finally got my father to go with us one night. He went. Once. And only once. We could not get him to go back. He would not explain why. When my brother spent their last Christmas together on the earth, they went to a restaurant called "The Clock". I think it was named that because you sat there and struggled to get the food down while watching the time, hoping it would pass quickly and you'd get out of there.
My father passed away and my mother, brother, wife and I went down for the "final visit". Again the question of eating came up and I suggested Streb's. We went there and my mother immediately picked up on why my father didn't like the place: it was a "Jewish restaurant". My mother philosophically observed that it was really good to go and eat where the Jews did; they had no tolerance for poor food or bad service, so you were guaranteed a good meal if you ate with them.
I find it sad that my father would forego a decent meal because of an attitude like this. But he was raised in a WASP world where there were Gentiles and there were Jews and n'er the twain met. That kind of social segregation was the rule in Palm Beach when I grew up (and still is to a large degree). Fortunately the schools, public and private (including St. Andrew's) were not, so I had Jewish friends.
My mother's more "philosophical" attitude was conditioned by the fact that she was a Southerner. More to the point she was raised in a Baptist home where the Bible was taken literally and seriously. The Jews were and are "God's Chosen People". God did not choose the WASP or the Scots-Irish in this way. When Judah Benjamin (later to become the first Jewish person to hold a cabinet level position in North America, in the Confederacy) was attacked by a Kentucky colleague for his religion, he replied that, while his ancestors (or one of them) were on the mountain receiving the law of God, his attacker's were in the remote fastness of Northern Europe, raising pigs. His attacker had to back down, not only because he knew the Bible, but because his own constituents were still doing the same thing!
Traditionally Christians have embraced what is called "replacement theology", i.e. the concept that Christianity has basically replaced Judaism as God's operating covenant. Much of the hostility that Christians have had towards Jews has been justified by this and other ideas. But, while the Jews (and many Christians) weren't paying attention, people like J.N. Darby were positing from Scriptures that God's purpose for the Jews hadn't run out and that we should regard them more favourably.
Now with the Iranians pursuing nuclear weapons, the Egyptians governed by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Wahhabis still enthroned (literally) in Saudi Arabia and the West (especially the Europeans) in fear of these people, anti-Semitism, made odious by the Holocaust, is making a comeback, and becoming fashionable again. But our memories are short.
We have forgotten that the Jews have survived the destruction of their nation and their Temple under the Romans, plus the endless persecutions of Christian and Muslim alike over the centuries. Blaise Pascal noted that the continuation of the Jews was a divine act, and he was right. But we have also forgotten all the Nobel Prizes awarded to Jews for all kinds of accomplishments, and that Palestine was a sparsely populated Ottoman backwater when the British established the Mandate after World War I. Today Israel is a (maybe the) leader in technology, even courting the Russians, who have been unenthusiastic about Israel, to say the least.
The Jews have awoken to the fact that, in the Evangelicals, they have a reliable ally. Same has a memory of some of the same things my mother had from the Bible, that supremely Jewish book. They remember the mighty heroes they learned about in Sunday School–Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David and at the end Jesus Christ–were all Jews. They remember that Paul, for all the differences he had with his fellow Israelites, proclaimed that they were still at the centre of God's plan. So they have become the darlings of the State of Israel (well, at least the Tourism ministry).
Many Jewish people find this astonishing, even disturbing. Many are sceptical to the point of atheism; being affirmed on the earth because of a literal interpretation of the Scriptures is hard to take. But why? The Jews, masters at appreciating and laughing at the ironic and nonsensical in life, should be the first to catch the drift of this strange turn of events.
But it's those Scriptures, and the living witness of those who are descended from the people who walked their pages (or scrolls), which confirm the Jews and Judaism. God's promises are still true, and it's not good–and that includes eating bad food at a restaurant–not to live in them.
They will come from far away. They will come from the north and from the west, and they will come from the land of Sinim. Sing with joy, you heavens! Rejoice, you earth! Break into shouts of joy, you mountains! The LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his humble people. But Zion said, "The LORD has abandoned me. My Lord has forgotten me." Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers may forget, I will not forget you. I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are always in my presence. Your children will hurry back. Those who destroyed you and laid waste to you will leave you. Look up, look around, and watch! All of your children are gathering together and returning to you. "I solemnly swear as I live," declares the LORD, "you will wear all of them like jewels and display them on yourself as a bride would." (Isaiah 49:12-18)
Cassock and Surplice Anglicanism's Finest Hour…
…or at least one of them: the burial of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", on 22 April 1918, at Bertangles, France.
He was buried by the Australians, as is clear from the uniforms. I don't know whether the chaplain, doubtless holding the 1662 BCP, was English or Australian, but the Anglican Church in Australia was not autocephalous until many years later.
I doubt wearers of the alb in the AC will match this any time soon…
The Reformation and Missions: Theology and Doctrine
From J. Herbert Kane's A Concise History of the Christian World Mission:
One would naturally expect that the spiritual forces released by the Reformation would have prompted the Protestant churches of Europe to take the gospel to the ends of the earth during the period of world exploration and colonisation which began about 1500. But such was not the case. The Roman Catholic Church between 1500 and 1700 won more converts in the pagan world than it lost to Protestantism in Europe. Why did the Protestant churches take so long to inaugurate their missionary program? What were some of the contributing factors?
The first, and perhaps the most potent, factor was the theology of the reformers. They taught that the Great Commission pertained only to the original apostles; that the apostles fulfilled the Great Commission by taking the gospel to the ends of the then known world; that if later generations were without the gospel, it was their own fault–a judgement of God on their unbelief; that the apostolate, with its immediate call, peculiar functions and miraculous powers, having ceased, the church in later ages had neither the authority nor the responsibility to send missionaries to the ends of the earth…
Moreover there were the Predestinarians, whose preoccupation with the sovereignty of God all but precluded the responsibility of man. If God wills the conversion of the heathen, they will be saved without human instrumentality. If God does not will the salvation of the heathen, it is both foolish and futile for man to intervene. Calvin wrote: "We are taught that the kingdom of Christ is neither to be advanced nor maintained by the industry of men, but this is the work of God alone".
Added to this was the apocalypticism which anticipated, with some dismay, the rapidly approaching end of the age. Luther particularly took a dim view of the future. In his Table Talks he wrote: "Another hundred years and all will be over. God's World will disappear for want of any to preach it".
Federal Agencies and Ammo: Make Sure You Don't Overlook the Important Thing
Federal agencies such as NOAA and the Social Security administration are trying to contain the excitement over their substantial ammunition purchases:
Obscure federal agencies triggered a firestorm of conspiracy theories this week after they put out orders for thousands of rounds of deadly hollow-point bullets.
But the agencies, most recently the Social Security Administration, are trying to put a damper on the speculation — noting the ammunition is "standard issue" and simply used for mandatory federal training sessions.
"Our special agents need to be armed and trained appropriately," said a message on the official blog for Social Security's inspector general office
explaining the purchases.
One question everyone overlooks is this: why does every Federal agency have its own security force? Why can't there be a single agency to help secure the rest? Sounds like we have a duplication of effort problem that needs to be addressed.
There's no question that our Federal government is, in a desultory way, "locking down" for a feared insurrection. With all the panic-mongering the left has put over the years about the intentions of their opponents, it's little wonder someone is putting shoe-leather and funding to this.
But, as I discussed in this piece inspired by some DoD types doing the same thing, our government better keep its financial integrity in order. For all the ammo they may have on had, if Uncle Sam misses a payroll or two–or skips "the eagle flying"–all the security provisions they have made, be they good or bad, will be to little avail.
And, sad to say, there's no sign that things are getting better with the financial integrity of our government.


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JEA plans electric 'base rate' increase but still sees overall bills going down
A JEA rate increase proposed in April for the "base rate" portion of electric bills would fall heaviest on customers whose consumption is in the lower range − such as someone in an apartment or a small house − while those who tap into higher levels of electricity might end up seeing a comparative reduction in the base rate part of their bills.
While the change in the base rate would vary among residential customers, the biggest factor on the bottom-line cost for all JEA customers continues to be the fuel charge part of the bill that ballooned because of global spikes in the cost of natural gas used for generating electricity at power plants.
JEA's outlook shows its fuel cost, which caused bills to grow in leaps and bounds, on a path to fall over the next five months so customers will pay less even with an increase in the base rate.
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"Our forecast actually shows everybody having a decrease because the fuel charge is also impacting the cost," JEA CEO Jay Stowe said.
A typical JEA residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours paid a $108.33 bill in October 2021 before state and local taxes and fees, and that shot up to $156.86 by October 2022. With taxes and fees, the typical bill went from $123.35 in October 2021 to $174.89 a year later.
JEA forecasts that by April 2023, the total bill for 1,000 kilowatt hours will be $125.03 before taxes fees and $141.03 after those are added in, so it still will be higher than it was in 2021.
Base rate change will impact customers differently
For residential customers, the proposed change in the base rate would boost what's called the "basic monthly charge" from $5.50 per residential customer now to $15 in April.
By collecting more money from the basic monthly charge, which is the same for all customers regardless of how much electricity they actually use, the impact on overall base rates would vary among JEA customers.
For a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity, the base rate will rise from $77.83 to $80.46 per month.
For those who use more electricity, however, the base rate part of their bill will decline. A customer consuming 1,500 kilowatt hours pays a base rate of $114 now and that would dip slightly to $113.19. Someone using 2,000 kilowatt hours pays a base rate of $150.16 now and that would go down to $145.92 and customer using 2,500 kilowatt hours would see a dip from $186.83 down to $178.65.
But for those who use less electricity, the base rate would go up because of the impact from increasing the basic monthly charge. The base rate for 800 kilowatt hours a month is $63.36 now and that would rise to $67.37, while the base rate for 600 kilowatt hours would go from $48.90 now to $54.28.
Stowe said the change in the base rate "will affect people in slightly different ways, but it will provide more stable rates long-term."
"It's also pennies on the dollar for the change in rates that we're talking about," he said.
He said JEA has about 450,000 residential customers so it's difficult to generalize about what customers fall into the lower range of electric use, but it's most likely to be residents of apartments and smaller homes in the group.
He said if the forecast on falling fuel charges holds up, that will "more than offset" any change in the base rate by the time April arrives.
The JEA board's Finance Committee discussed the proposed rate increase during a meeting Friday. The full board will take it up Jan. 24 to vote on calling a rate hearing for the board's meeting on Feb. 28. If the board approves the change in the base rate, it will kick in April 1.


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Federal Structure of Indian Polity
# What is Federal Polity
# Indian Federal System
# Emergency Provisions
This article is the part of Polity Guide Initiative. To access complete material – Click Here
A federal constitution establishes the dual polity with the Union at the Centre and the States at the periphery, each endowed with the sovereign powers to be exercised in the field assigned to them respectively by the constitution.
In the Indian federal set-up, the constitution divides powers between Centre and states as:
1) Legislative
2) Administrative
3) Financial
LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS
Parliament law for whole or part of India; extraterritorial as well; State legislature only for the state or part of it (Article 245)
(I) Union list; (II) State list ; (III) Concurrent List. (Article 246)
Dispute between Centre and state; SC to adjudicate (Article 131); Doctrine of Pith and Substance; the doctrine of colorable legislation.
Residuary powers of legislation (Article 248)
Parliament shall have power
Including powers to impose taxation on such matters.
Article 249 – Power of Parliament to legislate with respect to the matter in state list in the national interest
Special resolution by Rajya Sabha; 2/3rd of members Present and Voting.
Law can be made by Parliament
Law passed will cease to be in force 6 months after the expiration of resolution.
Article 250 – Power of Parliament to legislate with respect to the matter in state list during Proclamation of Emergency
Parliament can legislate on any matter in the state list; during the proclamation of emergency.
Only 6 months after the invocation of the National Emergency.
Note: Power of Parliament under Article 249 and 250 doesn't deprive the state legislature power; State Legislature concurrently makes legislation; to the extent of contravention State Legislature Act becomes inoperative.
Article 252 – Power of Parliament to legislate for two or more States by consent and adoption of such legislation by any other state
When two or more states pass a resolution on any matter in the State list; Parliament can pass legislation on such items; amended and repealed only by Parliament.
Such law applies only to such states; other state legislatures can pass resolution and adopt it.
Article 253 – To implement international treaties
Parliament to make laws to implement international treaties.
Even related to the state list.
Article 256 – Parliament to make laws w.r.t. all matters in the State list when Article 356 is imposed.
A law made so by the Parliament continues to be operative even after the President's rule.
ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONS
Obligation of states and the Union (Article 256)
Executive power of every state shall be exercised as to ensure compliance with laws made by parliament; and any existing laws in that state.
The executive power of the union extends to giving such directions for state as may appear necessary to Government of India.
Control of union over State in certain cases (Article 257)
Union government can give directions to the state
Construction/maintenance of communication lines declared as national or military importance
Declare National highways or waterways
Protection of Railway in the state.
Cost incurred by the state in performing such duties shall be paid by Government of India.
Power of Parliament to confer powers on states in certain cases (Article 258)
President with the prior consent of the Governor of a state; confers powers upon state executive on which executive power of union extends.
Also, through laws made by Parliament even under the Union list.
Power of the state to entrust functions to the Union (Article 258A)
of state with the consent of the GoI; entrust to GoI any function to which the executive power of the state extends.
Public acts, records and Judicial Proceedings
Full faith and credit shall be given throughout the territory of India to public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the union and every state.
FINANCIAL RELATIONS
Articles 268 to 293 in Part XII of the Constitution deal with Centre–state financial relations.
No taxes shall be exercised except by authority of law (Article 265)
There must be a law
Law must authorize tax
Tax must be levied and collected according to law
Stamp duties within a state to be levied by the union; but collected and appropriated by the state (Article 268).
Union and states should have adequate financial resources at their disposal; distribution of financial resources;
Distribution of legislative power to levy taxes
Union has the power to levy taxes on items in Union list. Example: Non Agricultural land; income tax etc.
Union has the power to levy taxes on all items in state list. Example: Agricultural land, Agricultural income etc.
Residuary power of taxation belongs to the union (Entry 97 list I). Example: gift tax, expenditure tax.
The Constitution also provides for specific for specific grants for promoting the welfare of the scheduled tribes in a state or for raising the level of administration of the scheduled areas in a state including the State of Assam.
The statutory grants under Article 275 (both general and specific) are given to the states on the recommendation of the Finance Commission.
Discretionary Grants – Article 282 empowers both the Centre and the states to make any grants for any public purpose, even if it is not within their respective legislative competence. Under this provision, the Centre makes grants to the states.
Other Grants – The Constitution also provided for a third type of grants-in-aid, but for a temporary period.
Parliament can provide for grants-in-aid to states by the Centre. Such sums are charged on the Consolidated Fund of India.
Distribution of Tax Revenues
Taxes belonging to the states exclusively. Example: profession tax; taxes on agricultural land etc.
Duties levied by the union but collected and appropriated by the states. Example: Stamp duties on bills of exchange (Article 268).
Taxes levied as well as collected by the Union but assigned to the States. Example: taxes on interstate consignment of goods (Integrated GST).
Taxes exclusively belonging to union govt. Example: surcharges, cess, etc.
Taxes to be levied and collected by the Union and distributed between Union and States. Example: Income tax, GST (CGST), etc. (Article 246A)
Note: There is no concurrent power of taxation due to Article 248. Residuary powers of taxation lay with central government. Exception GST (Article 246A) CGST and SGST
Sources of Non-Tax Revenues
Centre: railways; post; currency and mint; broadcasting; commercial undertakings. Example: SAIL, Hindustan Shipyard Ltd. etc.
States: forest; commercial enterprises (road, electricity etc.), industrial undertakings (soap, sandalwood, iron and steel, paper in MP).
GST (101st Constitutional Amendment Act) aims to make India a common market with common tax rates.
The important changes made to the Constitution are:
Article 246A – This is a new article inserted in the constitution.
It says that Parliament and the Legislature of every State, has power to make laws with respect to goods and services tax.
Parliament has exclusive power to make laws with respect to goods and services tax where the supply of goods, or of services, or both takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce.
Article 269A – Goods and services tax on supplies in the course of inter-State trade or commerce shall be levied and collected by the Government of India and such tax shall be apportioned between the Union and the States in the manner as may be provided by Parliament by law on the recommendations of the Goods and Services Tax Council.
Goods and Services Tax Council (Article 246A)
Union Finance Minister (Chairperson)
Minister of state in charge of revenue or finance (member)
Minister in-charge of finance (Concerned state) (member)
Functions of the council
Taxes, cess and surcharges to be levied on goods and services
goods that may be exempted from GST
Principles governing apportionment of GST levied on Inter-state goods and services (IGST)
Special rates during certain period
Any other matter reported to the council
Quorum: One-half of the total members of the council.
The majority required: 3/4th of the weighted votes of members present and voting.
1/3rd weightage to central govt.
2/3rd weightage to state govt.
GST council shall establish any mechanism to adjudicate dispute between Centre and state or between State vs. States or Centre and state or state vs. state
The GST would replace the following taxes currently levied and collected by the Centre:
Duties of Excise (Medicinal and Toilet Preparations)
Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance)
Additional Duties of Excise (Textiles and Textile Products)
Additional Duties of Customs (commonly known as CVD)
Special Additional Duty of Customs (SAD)
Central Surcharges and Cesses so far as they relate to supply of goods and services
State taxes that would be subsumed under the GST are:
State VAT
Entry Tax (all forms)
Entertainment and Amusement Tax (except when levied by the local bodies)
Taxes on advertisements
Purchase Tax
Taxes on lotteries, betting and gambling
State Surcharges and Cesses so far as they relate to supply of goods and services
An Integrated tax (IGST) would be levied and collected by the Centre on inter-State supply of goods and services. Accounts would be settled periodically between the Centre and the States to ensure that the SGST/UTGST portion of IGST is transferred to the destination State where the goods or services are eventually consumed.
Inter-State River Water Sharing Disputes
Adjudication of disputes relating to waters of Inter State Rivers and river valleys (Article 262)
Parliament may by law provide for adjudication of any Inter-State River Water Dispute.
Parliament by law provides neither Supreme Court nor any other court have jurisdiction over such issues.
The resolution of water dispute is governed by the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956.
According to its provisions, if a State Government makes a request and the Central Government is of opinion that the water dispute cannot be settled by negotiations, then a Water Disputes Tribunal is constituted for the adjudication of the water dispute.
The act was amended in 2002, to include the major recommendations of the Sarkaria Commission which mandated a one year time frame to setup the water disputes tribunal and also a 3 year time frame to give a decision.
INTER – STATE COUNCIL
Article 263 of Indian constitution gives provision for establishment of an Inter-State Council.
President by an order establish Inter-State Council in public interest and also define nature of duties.
Inquiring and advising into disputes arising between states.
Investigating and discussing subjects in which some or all states and union have common interest.
Making a recommendation on any such subject for better co-ordination of polity.
First Council in 1990 on recommendation of Sarkaria Commission.
Composition –
PM- Chairperson
CM – All the states and UTs
UTs – Administrators
6 cabinet ministers of Union as nominated by the PM
In 26 years, it has met only 11 times. Recently the meeting was held after a gap of 10 years in Delhi in July 2016.
ZONAL COUNCILS
Zonal Councils aim at promoting cooperation and coordination between States, UTs and the Centre.
They discuss and make recommendations regarding common matters.
They are only deliberative and advisory bodies.
These are statutory bodies created by States Reorganization Act of 1956.
The Act divided the country into 5 zones:
Northern Zone
Western Zone
Southern Zone
Each zonal council consists of:
From Centre – Home Minister (acts as a chairman)
From States – CM of all States in Zone + 2 other ministers (Each CM acts as a Vice-Chairman by rotation, holding office for a period of 1 year at a time)
Administrators of all UTs in the zone
Following can be associated as advisors (without right to vote)
One person nominated by Planning Commission.
Chief Secretary of each state in the zone.
Development Commissioner of each state in the Zone.
North-Eastern Council
In addition to the above Zonal Councils, a North-Eastern Council was created by a separate Act of Parliament—the North-Eastern Council Act of 1971.
Its members include Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunchal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim.
Its functions are similar to those of the zonal councils, but with few additions.
It has to formulate a unified and coordinated regional plan covering matters of common importance.
It has to review from time to time the measures taken by the member states for the maintenance of security and public order in the region.
EMERGENCY PROVISIONS
Part XVII (Article 352 – Article 360)
Aims to Protect Sovereignty, unity and Integrity and also Security of the state; exercised on Aid and Advice of Council of Ministers.
NATIONAL EMERGENCY (Article 352)
National emergency can be declared on the basis of war, external aggression or armed rebellion. The Constitution employs the expression 'proclamation of emergency' to denote an emergency of this type.
President can declare a national emergency when the security of India or a part of it is threatened by war or external aggression or armed rebellion.
Has been proclaimed 3 times so far; (1962, 1971 and 1975);
1962 and 1971 – External Aggression;
1975 – Internal Disturbance
38th Constitutional Amendment Act – President Satisfaction for proclaiming emergency beyond judicial review.
39th ConstitutionalAmendment Act 1975 – Barred Jurisdiction of courts; Election Dispute of PM and Speaker.
Declared null and void by S.C; Raj Narian case 1975.
Separation of Power – Basic Structure.
President invoked Article 359; F.R'S were suspended (Example: Article 14; 21; 22 etc. ADM Jabalpur Case; No Jurisdiction for Courts even it Life and Liberty of Person is Deprived During emergency.
Procedure for Proclamation of National Emergency
President Declare national emergency (on has Satisfaction)
38th CAA (no Indicial review); undone by 44th CAA, 1978
Written Recommendation from cabinet 44th CAA 1978
Proclamation to be approved by both the houses within 1 month (44th CAA)
Proclamation can be extended indefinitely, provided approved by parliament every 6 months (44th CAA)
Approval by special majority i.e. 2/3rd members present and voting + Absolute majority (44th CAA)
Proclamation may be revoked by president : Lok Sabha passes a resolution by simple majority
Executive and legislative relationship (Article 353)
Centre can give executive directions on any matter to the state
The parliament can legislate on any matter under state list or confer such power to any offices or authority of the union.
Financial Relationship (Article 354)
Distribution of revenue between Centre and states can be modified
Effect on Fundamental rights
Article 358 – Automatically suspends Article 19 (war and external aggression)
Article 359 – suspension done through presidential order; can't suspend rights under Article 21 and 20.
Article 355 – Duty of the union government to protect the states against external aggression and internal disturbance
STATE EMERGENCY OR PRESIDENT'S RULE
Article 356 – President satisfied that state govt. administration not in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. For Example:
Council of Minister's lost majority in the assembly
State administration fail to maintain peace and public order
State administration against secular values [S.R Bommai case]
Failure to comply with directions given under Article 365 is a ground to invoke Article 356,
SR Bommai guidelines [1994]
President proclamation subject to judicial review
State govt. should be given opportunity to prove majority; floor test to be the only forum.
Not to dissolve the state legislative assembly; pending approval of parliament.
Burden lies on central govt. to prove relevant material existed.
Court can provide complete justice to affected state govt.
State pursuing anti-secular politics is liable to action under article356.
Note: Article 356; extraordinary power; to be sparingly used;
B.R. Ambedkar envisage it to remain a dead latter in the constitution.
Imposition of President Rule
Article 356 – President can impose President Rule; receipt of report of governor or otherwise; governance not according to the provisions of the constitution.
To be approved by both houses within 2 months
Duration- 6 months; one approved; for a maximum of 3 years.
Beyond 1 year subject to conditions
National emergency in whole of India or any part of the state.
Election commission certifies it's difficult to conduct election on account of national emergency.
Simple majority (Approval and extension)
Proclamation may be revoked by president at any time.
All the executive authority is taken up by the President or any other authority as decided by the President.
Legislative powers are exercised by the Parliament (or) confer such power upon the president [Article 357].
FINANCIAL EMERGENCY
Article 360.
Financial Emergency is declared when the President satisfied that financial stability and credit of India
Proclamation to be approved within 2 months by both houses by Simple majority.
One approved continues indefinitely till revoked.
President can revoke emergency at any time.
Union govt. give direction to observe canons of financial propriety
Reduction in salaries of all or any class of person saving in the state.
Reservation of money bills or financial bills for consideration of the president.
Reduction in salaries of any classes of persons serving in the central govt. Including judges of Supreme Court and High Court.


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Characterization of engineered alumina nanofibers and their colloidal properties in water
Title Characterization of engineered alumina nanofibers and their colloidal properties in water
Authors Saunders, Z, Noack, CW, Dzombak, DA, Lowry, GV
Journal Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Aluminum oxide nanofibers having different fiber diameters were characterized to determine if and how the fiber diameter affects their colloidal behavior and solubility in water. The measurements provide initial data on the behavior of alumina nanofibers in aqueous systems. Three different aluminum oxide materials with average fiber diameters ranging from a few nanometers to a few hundred nanometers were acquired from ANF Technology (Nafen™), MemPro Materials, and Pardam Nanotechnology. The morphology, dimensions, chemical composition, and surface properties of each material were measured using scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, and N2-BET surface area analysis. Properties measured for aqueous suspensions of the fibers included electrophoretic mobility, point of zero charge, apparent hydrodynamic radius via dynamic light scattering, and solubility. TEM images were used to determine the size distribution of the fiber diameter, and the smooth, non-porous, non-tubular structure of the materials. Fiber diameters were 5–10 nm for Nafen™, 90–175 nm for MemPro, and 150–600 nm for Pardam. SEM showed that samples of the dry materials consisted of long (micron sized) fibers having these diameters. Specific surface area ranged from 2.7 m2/g for the largest diameter Pardam fibers to 136 m2/g for the smallest diameter Nafen™ fibers. The pH of the point of zero charge for the three materials ranged from 5.0 for Pardam to 8.5 for Nafen™ in 10 mM NaCl. Dynamic light scattering revealed that the fibers readily aggregate in both deionized water and solutions of high ionic strength. Fiber solubility ranged from a dissolved aluminum concentration of 23–83 μg/L for pH from 6.67 to 8.23. The observed solubilities were similar to those calculated from thermodynamic data for corundum (α-Al2O3) and boehmite (γ-AlO(OH)), phases that were observed by XRD in the aged materials.
URL http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11051-015-2942-4http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11051-015-2942-4
Short Title J Nanopart Res


She might be tardy to the party, but PINS' singer has fallen hard for the dystopic sparkle of No Joy. Now she just needs to see them live.
Boyfriend and I were recently discussing what I was writing about for the Talkhouse. I told him Warpaint. He asked me if I liked the band.


Have you found yourself asking the question, "What on Earth are those winged insects crawling all over my windows?" Well, you're not alone. Two of the most misunderstood pests are ants and termites. Both of which produce flying alates that are birthed for one purpose and one purpose only...to spread.
Termites and ants have many common traits. They're both insects, which means they have two antennae, six legs, and three body parts. They both create workers that go out and bring nourishment back to their nest. And they both produce fliers, also called swarmers, when a nest nears its maximum population. But the common trait that every property owner should be aware of is that swarmers are not usually an indication of an impending infestation. They are most often a sign of a current, mature infestation.
Which Is Worse: Ants or Termites?
When ant or termite swarmers appear, this is the question most folks want to know the answer to first, but it must be broken down into two parts. First, you must establish what type of ant you are referring to. While all termites are destructive to wood, not all ants are. There is only one type of ant you need to be concerned with in regard to property damage. That is the carpenter ant.
On a national scale, termites are the clear winner. Termite damage is in the billions, while carpenter ant damage is in the hundreds of millions.
When looking at national statistics we must understand that there are many species of termite, and not all termites do the same level of damage. Subterranean termites are far more destructive than drywood termites. And, of all the subterranean termite species, the Formosan subterranean is, by far, the most destructive. While there are many species of carpenter ant, they are equally destructive. So, it matters what type of termite you're comparing to carpenter ants.
When determining the destructive capability of carpenter ants you also have to take into consideration the location of the carpenter ant nest (or nests). Carpenter ants do not eat wood, like termites. They chew on wood and push frass out kick out holes. If this frass (sawdust) lands in a hard-to-see area, or in an area that has dust and sawdust, an infestation can go undetected. This is often the case with homeowners who store their firewood inside. Wood storage areas conceal frass and make it more difficult to recognize a carpenter ant infestation. When a carpenter ant infestation is not addressed, damage can be comparable to termite damage on an individual basis.
What Is The Difference Between Treating For Ants or Treating For Termites?
Termites live almost exclusively inside the wood they feed on. If you have a current infestation in your home, it is necessary to directly treat infested areas within your walls with an insecticide. At Arrow Pest Control, we trust Termidor, America's number one termite defense product. This product is applied directly to areas where termites are detected, and when they pass through it, they share the knockdown agent with other workers. Then, through Termidor's "Transfer Effect" the product is transported to the colony by "carriers" and the colony is destroyed. It is sort of like introducing a virus.
Carpenter ants do not live entirely inside the wood they infest. They come out to feed. Often, they feed outside a home so they don't reveal the true size of their colony to a homeowner. An educated pest control technician analyzes the path the ants are taking and put a bait down for them to take home. When the ants find the bait, they carry it back to their nest, and the nest is destroyed.
If you're seeing winged ants or termites on your walls, it is vital to have your home inspected by a certified and educated professional. Both of these insects are destructive, and arresting an infestation early can save you a lot of money and frustration. For more information, or to schedule a service call, reach out to us. We've been serving New Jersey with industry-leading pest control for over 40 years. We'll make sure those carpenter ants or termites are completely gone because, when wood-eating pests are gone, life is good.


IF YOU WANT EPIC HEALTH... GET OUT OF YOUR JAMMIES!
I just got back from an epic adventure in Cincinnati. You know the type of experience that leaves you feeling forever changed? That's the kind of experience I had.
And it was all in the context of attending a storytelling workshop, facilitated by storyteller & copywriter extraordinaire, Stella Orange.
I learned about telling stories.
In the past week, one of my clients has had a MASSIVE breakthrough. She's discovered something that was very deeply hidden. She's uncovered the heart of her health issues.
I share her story because chances are, it will also click with something in you.
Here's her story. I've modified parts of it to keep her privacy. We'll call her Rose.


Entrepreneurship is an increasingly global endeavor with connections that span far beyond College Hill. The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship — in conjunction with BrownConnect — offers a variety of programs and initiatives, such as our Startup Internship Signature programs, that support students exploring these critical linkages from Stockholm to Israel.
The deadline to apply to the international summer 2019 internship programs is February 21, 2019 and the Echoing Green Social Entrepreneurship Internship deadline is March 8, 2019 at 12:00 pm (noon) EST, both through Handshake.
The Germany Entrepreneurship Internship Program, with a focus on startups and technology opportunities, provides Brown students the opportunity to expand classroom knowledge to the world of business through an immersive professional experience in Berlin, where the startup culture flourishes. This year, companies include: 8fit, cargo.one, Comtravo, Datarade, Distribusion, Hackerbay, IPlytics, MADANA, Nyris, Quobyte, ShaktiMat, The DO School, and Twenty Billion Neurons.
The Israel Entrepreneurship Internship Program, with a focus on startups and technology opportunities, provides Brown students the opportunity to expand classroom knowledge to the world of business through an immersive professional experience in Israel, where the startup culture flourishes. This year, companies include: Cymbio, DreaMed Diabetes, fresh.fund, I Know First, Intlock, Preen.Me, prooV, SayVu, The Floor and Upstart.
The Sweden Entrepreneurship Internship Program, a partnership between the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and the BrownConnect Internship initiative, provides Brown students the opportunity to expand classroom knowledge to the world of business through an immersive professional experience with startup companies in Stockholm, Sweden. This year, companies include: Enkla.com, Findify, Kry, N, Qalora Capital, Result Nordics AB, Sana Labs, Textilita, and Upstream Dream AB.
An 8-10 week professional internship program for Brown Students organized by Echoing Green and the BrownConnect Internship Initiative with campus partners Nelson Center of Entrepreneurship and the Careers in the Common Good Initiative. The program offers qualified undergraduate students with professional practical experience related to social entrepreneurship in domestic and international. This year, companies include: Accountability Counsel, Building Tomorrow, Easy Own by Greenway Grameen, OnePower Lesotho, and Practice Makes Perfect.


Guitarist Cloet Hamman's name is a definite indication from the large Germanic existence in East Tx in the first 1900s, and his music was a lot more diverse. His longtime playing partner — both never documented in another music group aside from the East Tx Serenaders — was the fiddler Daniel Huggins Williams, and both hailed in the miniscule city of Linsdale, near Tyler, TX. Although their music group continued to trim some two dozen edges released on Columbia, Brunswick, and Decca, neither guy ever regarded himself a full-time professional musician. non-etheless, music was an exceptionally important element of Hamman's family members. His dad Will Hamman was a break down fiddler who put into contests all over the States, as well as the son's professional profession began by him support his father at many a public event or nation dance. Burning a fiddler needs severely accurate period, an encyclopedic understanding of tunes, as well as the ear necessary to connect the dots in the event something in the storage provides. Hamman had each one of these abilities, and afterwards shown a penchant for interesting single-string business lead runs, his build often as sharpened as though a raven was plucking the be aware along with his beak. Whenever the fiddler had taken a rest, the guitarist acquired plenty of area to play, because the group's tenor banjoists — you start with John Munnerlyn, afterwards Shorty Lester — each remained within a timekeeping function, except for an individual recorded number where the banjo got the melodic business lead. Rags, quantities that appear to be rags, and waltzes constructed a lot of the group's repertoire, using the waltzes learning to be a especially requested products among dancers. There have been many string rings of this period that played a more staid repertoire, actually sticking almost completely to square dance amounts played in mere several different keys. Additional organizations that performed many rags and waltzes included the Tx Nighthawks, offering the fine metal guitarist Roy Rodgers as well as the Humphries Brothers, as the fiddler Eck Robertson, among the state's initial recording artists, got a huge impact on Williams and therefore on the path a group where the fiddler was just about the captain from the dispatch. Tx music writers explain the partnership between groups such as for example these and Traditional western golf swing, where the idea of an eclectic repertoire was transported to great extremes. Your guitar design of Hamman had not been something that transported forward into very much Western golf swing music. Even though the old-time single-line selecting design of Hamman or players like the great Riley Puckett was a basis for significant amounts of nation & western acoustic guitar, it had been the jazz varieties of bebop and golf swing that most highly pointed the path for Western golf swing guitarists such as for example Eldon Shamblin and Tiny Moore. The blues impact could be handled just like handily with jazz much like old-time, and there is too little a really solid tradition of electric guitar in the last mentioned music, at least towards the extent from the fiddle repertoire. Electric guitar had been utilized mostly for back-up in the old-time music, whereas Traditional western golf swing was a location where guitarists could supposedly release a little, well beyond the small loosening from the reins symbolized by the task of Hamman. The just really valuable documented document of the group may be the Comprehensive Recorded Works released by Record; but many listeners touch this group with a fleeting glance offered on a variety of compilations, which range from the small concentrate of old-time Tx string bands, where the group certainly provides historic existence, to substantial multi-disc overviews of the complete background of American pop music, where the East Tx Serenaders occupy a very important niche aswell.


For much of the company's history, AT&T rented phones to users. But in the 1970s, the company tried a novelty line of phones that customers could actually buy, in stores. For these "Design Line" phones, the users were essentially buying just the housing — the working guts of the phones were still under the Bell System maintenance and ownership contracts.
This film profiles the range of models available in 1979 — both push-button and dial telephones, including the "Snoopy", "early American", "stowaway", "celebrity", "Mediterranean", "candlestick", "chestphone", "antique gold", "Mickey Mouse", "noteworthy", "coquette", "Telstar", and the popular "Exeter", which had interchangeable faceplates, including a crazy rainbow diffraction grating option. You not only get to see the imagined home décor that would have gone with these phones, but who the Bell System imagined was the ideal user for each.
These phones were not cheap — prices in 1976 for these phones ranged from $39.95 for the basic Exeter to a whopping $109.95 for the rococo Antique Gold model. That's about $150 to over $400 today. Not that much more than a smartphone, but, of course, no touchscreen. No ringtones.
These phones were manufactured in Western Electric's Indianapolis Works (for another view of the Works, see the film Draw Me A Telephone. The Bell System kept the Design Line series running for a few more years after this film, introducing only a few new telephone models throughout the 1980s. After the breakup of the Bell System, the Works were closed in 1986. A commemorative Design Line phonewas released to mark the occasion.


Maintaining an awareness of issues surrounding equality and diversity is essential to any organisation. This revealing course is split into four modules to thoroughly explore the issues involved and their relevance to us all, including protections laid out in the Equality Act 2010. With this course you will learn inclusion in terms of equality and diversity and the universal benefits of promoting an inclusive workplace. The course discusses protected characteristics and explains the problems surrounding prejudice and discrimination.


So prodigious was the number of the birds that the scattering fire of the guns, with the hurling of missiles and the cries of the boys, had no other effect than to break off small flocks from the immense masses that continued to dart along the valley, as if the whole of the feathered tribe were pouring through that one pass.
Oliver as bad as the rest of them, firing into the flocks as if he was shooting down nothing but Mingo warriors.
It's better for you, maybe, Billy Kirby," replied the indignant old hunter, "and all them that don't know how to put a ball down a rifle- barrel, or how to bring it up again with a true aim; but it's wicked to be shooting into flocks in this wasty manner, and none to do it who know how to knock over a single bird.
They are growing more thick every instant, Here is a flock that the eye cannot see the end of.
The sight of such an implement collected all the idle spectators to the spot, who, being mostly boys, filled the air with cries of exultation and delight The gun was pointed high, and Richard, holding a coal of fire in a pair of tongs, patiently took his seat on a stump, awaiting the appearance of a flock worthy of his notice.
The fire from the distant part of the field had driven a single pigeon below the flock to which it belonged, and, frightened with the constant reports of the muskets, it was approaching the spot where the disputants stood, darting first from One side and then to the other, cutting the air with the swiftness of lightning, and making a noise with its wings not unlike the rushing of a bullet.
Take care and fire low, boys, and you'll be sure to hull the flock.
Some millions of pigeons were supposed to have already passed, that morning, over the valley of Templeton; but nothing like the flock that was now approaching had been seen before.
On receiving this united discharge of small-arms, the front of the flock darted upward, while, at the same instant, myriads of those in the rear rushed with amazing rapidity into their places, so that, when the column of white smoke gushed from the mouth of the little cannon, an accumulated mass of objects was gliding over its point of direction.
He no longer spoke cheerfully to his flock, nor ran with alacrity to the shrine of Hastur.
In the demands of the hour he forgot his disappointment, drove his sheep to the fold and repairing to the place of worship poured out his heart in gratitude to Hastur for permitting him to save his flock, then retired to his cave and slept.
Because," she said, "thou didst thy duty by the flock, and didst not forget to thank Hastur for staying the wolves of the night, I am come to thee again.


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