For several elderly people, the knowledge that they are becoming a burden to their active kids is a difficult reality to come to terms with. They should take time out of their busy lives to come out and check on the safety and well being of their parents. With a medical alert bracelet or necklace, this would be substantially reduced, with youngsters understanding their aging parents are not dangerous.
For any case of a heart attack or stroke, fast response and treatment is the most important thing. Without it, the individual could pass away. But with rapid medical attention, it could be entirely recovered from. With a medical alert bracelet, you get the correct attention straight away, and not when it's too late, and may get an ambulance immediately in the infrequent case that you just have a heart attack or stroke.
Everyone is more comfortable within their particular home that they have had for years. But as people age, it is not as safe to allow them to remain living on their own anymore. But using a medical alert necklace like LifeAlert, elderly folks will not be more dangerous to stay in their particular house for many years to come, without having to move into a retirement home.
Slipping and falling is one of the greatest health threats for North Carolina elderly people living alone. Prevent against being stuck for days with a Asheville medical alert necklace or bracelet.
Do you enjoy spending time on your own at home and are not emotionally prepared to let go of your independence?
Do you pride yourself on making smart lifestyle choices and would like to understand that medical assistance is only a touch away?
Would you like to continue an active lifestyle indoors and outdoors and not allow the anxiety about falling to control your activities?
Are many of the folks you may depend on active and love and do not consistently come over to see if you're not dangerous and out of harm's way?
Cain's Mobility North Carolina is ready to discuss a private crisis medical alert bracelet can help you as well as your loved ones.
In the event you do not leave everything to chance, it's possible for you to save your own life in certain emergency situations!
Emergencies occur in Asheville and many of us don't think they'll happen to us. Trust us, we have been in situations where unexpectedly a mobile, an ambulance and time are the only matter that you can count on to save the life of a loved one. Some people think that a mobile phone is all you need, but it's not common that we carry our cell phones round the home like we do when we're away from home. Additionally, a medical alert bracelet is watertight.
Why risk it which you haven't allowed yourself enough time to endure an emergency fall? The risk of being seriously injured in a fall increases with age. Take advised medically measures to safeguard yourself AS WELL AS reduce the danger of falling, but do not leave the outcome of an emergency fall to opportunity.
Emergency medical alert bracelets have reportedly saved people's lives when there's when a loved one tends to drift, gas leak, fire, robbery, or a fall. Now you may get the care you have earned in North Carolina if an emergency happens to improve your chance of survival and healing.
Lots of individuals develop a fear of falling as they get older and may increase their risk of dropping, so remain prepared, not scared.
That can cause a decreased quality of life. Your steadiness and balance and overall well-being can get worse, should you lower your mobility and fitness. Luckily, by knowing so, you can counter your anxieties and choose to remain prepared.
Help you prevent having to have a relative or caregiver track you all of the time and a medical alert bracelet is especially made to safeguard you. You can still love a particular level of privacy and freedom , not acquire a consuming fear of dropping.
Millions of people a year older and 65 are treated in emergency departments for nonfatal injuries from falls. Since their chances enhanced, our Asheville staff is prepared to answer your questions about obtaining a medical bracelet for you or your nearest and dearest.
2) Do I need a land phone line?
4) Can you deduct Life Alert medical bracelets as medical expenses on your federal or North Carolina taxes?
5) Can they be used with a cell phone?
7) Does health insurance cover life alert in North Carolina?
9) How many customers does Life Alert have?
Yes. Although it's specifically designed to safeguard all family members in a house health crisis and seniors living alone, there are many circumstances that Life Alert can help anyone in an emergency situation. The Life Alert system helps during home intrusions, fire protection, carbon dioxide protection, and medical emergencies. Some of their services are used for safety reasons when away from your Asheville house.
Yes. The system setup includes two components. You receive a base station that you plug into an electrical outlet and into your phone. Following that, you receive the part of the system that you simply carry or wear around.
No and Maybe. Medical Part B (medical insurance) just covers durable medical equipment. It doesn't cover medical alert systems. However, when you are in possession of a Health Component C (Medicare Advantage) plan, it might insure medical alert bracelets. People are automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A and Part B when they turn 65. Medicare Part C is a private insurance choice to the government plan. With it, you get Medical Component A and Part B coverage, but through a private insurance company.
Yes. There are two paths, but be careful that you just don't attempt to get a double benefit. (1) You might be familiar with health care FSAs. This really is a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) that may reimburse you or enable you to pay for eligible healthcare expenses that aren't covered by your health plan. The IRS does specify that one may think about the expense of a medical alert bracelet or necklace as an FSA Eligible Expense. There are several prerequisites that you need to complete before tax time. The Internal Revenue Service considers that a taboo double gain, since they want to prevent two tax benefits from the same expense. (2) Publication 502 states you could contain medical expense sums paid to a plan that keeps medical advice in a computer data bank and recovers and furnishes the information upon request to an attending physician.
Yes. It costs about $10 more than with a landline in Asheville. (1) they've an app for your smart phone with a speed dial feature to the Life Alert Center in addition to a speed dial for your standard cell phone. (2) Life Alert provides both protection services as well as a Life Alert HELP 911 cell phone for protection when you are not at home. In case you are walking and you are suddenly concerned for your safety, you can be helped by it during an emergency before an emergency occurs. Life Alert runs its own monitoring center where trained representatives in North Carolina stay on the line with users until the emergency scenario is addressed. The Life Alert HELP 911 cell phone directly contacts emergency services rather than the monitoring centre.
It surely depends upon which plan and phone you have, because some of these brands operate certain plans on wireless networks or VoIP services which are not compatible with particular medical alert systems. In case you have AT&T, you probably have a cable bundle sort of phone service or a VoIP. For example, the AT&T Wireless House Telephone Base user guide especially says in its manual it is inappropriate with Life Alert. With Life Alert to make sure that and assess your phone user guide and your phone service your equipment and service is harmonious with Life Alert. We are pleased to help you, because it can get very confusing fast.
No. It only is operational nationally.
Life Alert has well over 150k customers, spread all over the US, with a bunch of them in North Carolina.
In case you have Comcast or AT&T, you probably have a VoIP or a cable bundle kind of phone service. If the electricity goes out in Asheville, you must ask if losing phone service will impact your Life Alert. Also, some individuals report that Comcast Voice or any other VoIP service is not really dependable enough for Life Alert type systems. A cable bundle refers to when you have your cable, telephone, and net running by means of a box (modem). Make sure it says "Digital phone service" someplace on your Life Alert system. We are happy to help you, since it can get really confusing fast.


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SUNNERY JAMES & RYAN MARCIANO AND BRUNO MARTINI FOLLOW UP ON SMASH SINGLE 'SAVAGES' WITH BRAND-NEW SONG: 'SHAMELESS' (FEAT. MAYRA)
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AMSTERDAM, February 22, 2018 – When a song enjoys as much success as 'Savages', it's no wonder the world has been begging for a follow-up. Answering the crowd's cries for more, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and Bruno Martini have once again joined forces with songstress Mayra to deliver a track that's at least as undeniably strong and infectious as its predecessor. Enter 'Shameless'.
Listen to Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Bruno Martini feat. Mayra – Savages
Picking up where 'Savages' left off, 'Shameless' sees Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Bruno Martini and Mayra reach even greater heights with a stunning new vocal track. Juggling Mayra's dynamic vocals with stellar builds and powerful, club-ready drops, 'Shameless' could very well be one of their biggest records of the year. With the single already premiered on SiriusXM BPM and supported by Music Choice as well as dance music icons such as David Guetta, it can only get better for 'Shameless' as its creators introduce it to the world with a joint performance at Story in Miami on the eve of its release.
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and Bruno Martini: "We had such a blast working with Mayra and each other on 'Savages' and were really excited to see it do so well. In the studio, we inspire and bring out the best in each other, so we were looking to put this into practice again. The result of that is 'Shameless' and we hope the world will love this one as much as we had fun writing it."
Somehow always managing to trump the success of the previous year with their endeavors in the next, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano boast a track record that includes many stellar productions and even more blistering live performances. With spots at the world's finest festivals and venues, the Amsterdam-based duo continually stakes its claim as one of the most consistent and prolific House acts of the moment, and they're not afraid to show it, of which 'Shameless' is yet another sterling example.
From joining the likes of Steve Angello, Hardwell and Galantis on tour and mainstage slots at Electric Zoo Festival, Beyond Wonderland Mexico, Tomorrowland Belgium and Rock in Rio to producing a truckload of international chart toppers, Bruno Martini truly is one of the hottest talents of today's music scene. Since clocking up 350 million streams with debut record 'Hear Me Now', the Brazilian mastermind went on to raise the stakes with even more remarkably addictive singles, including 'Never Let Me Go', 'Living On The Outside' and 'Sun Goes Down'. 'Shameless' is without a doubt the latest addition to that list.
Hailing from the same country as her lifetime friend and partner-in-crime Bruno Martini, singer, composer, actress and songwriter Mayra ranks among the most talented and versatile Brazilian artists. Having inherited her musical gift from her father, she managed to become one of the most in-demand singer-songwriters in South America and her brilliant contribution to 'Shameless' could very well be touted as the icing on the cake.
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Katniss, the main character, wakes up in the day of the reaping. Her sister, Prim and her mother are sleeping. She lives at District 12 and the tributes of the Hunger Games is chosen. For the female tribute, Prim gets chosen so Katniss volunteers herself as tribute. The male tribute is Peeta and Katniss remembers how he gave her some bread when she was starving. Katniss and Peeta goes to the Capital and the game begins. She begins to run away like what Haymitch told her but she later sees Peeta with the Careers killing a person. She hides under a tree and a girl named Rue shows up and tells a bee nest on top of the tree so she drops it on the Careers. Then one of the Careers named Cato tries to kill her but gets stopped by Peeta. She meets Rue again and she joins Katniss. They go to the Careers secretly and destroy all their supplies. But Rue dies and Katniss covers her body with flowers. The next day, she goes out to find Peeta when the rule changes that two people from the same district can win and finds him injured badly during the fight with Cato. Katniss moves him into the cave and helps him recover. Then there is an announcement that there will be the supplies they need in Cornucopia so Katniss goes after she makes Peeta fall asleep. She sees Cato being chased by wolves which are the dead tributes who have turned into a monster. Cato gets killed and Peeta and Katniss thinks they won but they say it is only one person who can win. Katniss takes out the poisonous berries and both of them eat it until they stop them. Both of them became winners.
The strengths and weakness of the novel was that the book was really well written and grabs the readers mind. I do not think that there is any weaknesses that I can think of. The author used good word choice because there were some hard words that I did not know, but it was easy to understand because of the contest clues. The age group that will enjoy this novel is about 10- 15 years old about teenager levels. Some people would say this book may be a little violent but I thought it was pretty ok. If I would have gone back in time, I would have chosen this book again.It is very interesting and it is the right book for teenagers. I would give this book nine stars out of ten stars because it caught my attention and it interested me. Also it was easy to understand.
1. What does the main character, Katniss, say about her sister's cat, Buttercup?
1a. She says that it is the world's ugliest cat.
2. Who was the first mane to be drawn at the tribute?
3. Why do you think Peeta gave her the breed when she was starving?
3a. I think it was because he had interest in her or Peeta is nice.
4. Do you think it was a good idea for Katniss to show off her 'knife skills'?
4a. Yes because Haymitch was going to help her.
5. What was Haymitch's first advice?
5a. It was whatever the stylists do to them, they shouldn't resist.
6. How does Katniss react when Peeta declares his love for her?
6a. She shoved him and cut his hands on the broken shards.
7. What does the canon sounds reperset?
7a. It represents the mark of death of a tribute.
8. How does Katniss react when she heard Peeta's voice among the Careers?
9a. She is a District 11 girl who helped Katniss recover and become her ally.
10. How does Katniss destroy the supplies for Careers?
10a. She blows it off with the apple and the arrows.
11. How did Katniss find Peeta?
11a. He was lying on the ground, camouflaged in mud and his leg was badly cut.
12. What does Katniss put in the medicine?
12a. She puts a sleeping syrup in.
13. Why do you think Katniss said that she wanted to go back and is tired of the game?
13a. She doesn't want anyone to die and she is upset.
14. The people who win the Hunger Games go where?
14a. They go to the district called Victors Village.
15. How does she make both Katniss and Peeta win?
15a. She takes the poisonous berries from her pouch and they both eat it but the game leaders stop them.


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Lego Oil-based Plastic Bricks Replacement Plans
By Nikita P.
Lego has decided to change the source material with which its bricks are made up of. From the Vice President, he stated that from the year 2030, bricks wouldn't be made with Oil Based plastic anymore.
Trying to get an alternative source that isn't oil-based, the Danish toymaker has invested about £310m. But this task hasn't been easy
How the Oil-based Plastic Bricks Replacement Plans have been working over the years.
Through five years, a team having more than one hundred and fifty scientists and engineers have been testing different recycled materials and plant-based materials. While doing so, making sure these bricks can stick together and come apart has been one of the most difficult challenges faced by these engineers and scientists.
Tim Brooks a LEGO Executive stated that the company has over time been testing bio-polyethylene. This is a type of plastic that can be obtained from ethanol. And this ethanol is created by making use of sugar cane. Thus creating very hard bricks.
The prototypes didn't go very well and some of them as a result of how hard they were has to be taken apart using wrenches and pliers.
Another difficulty faced by the active team in charge of this replacement plan includes getting to the point where the bricks have the same sound, shine, and the same color.
In the year 2015, the company announced that there would be a £116m investment going into materials that have sustainable sources for future Lego profits. It also estimated that LEGO made use of 90,000 tonnes of plastic to create its products annually.
Lego also made it publicly known that plastic bags too would be ditched along with its boxed sets, these are presently used in holding loose bricks.
Lego made this decision after getting letters from kids who were deeply concerned about the impact of these fun toys on the environment.
From next year, they would be phased out in favor of these paper bags. The company expects to fully switch to the new Lego toy bricks by the year 2025.
Niels B Christiansen stated they've been looking for different alternatives for a while and the ideas and passion from kids inspired them to take action on this change. He is the chief executive of LEGO.
The company states that their paper bags would easily be recyclable and it would be simpler for kids to open.
Other huge brands have been trying to find ways for plastic to stop being used because customers became more concerned about the impact it was having on the surrounding environment.
Hasbro also made it known that he planned to get rid of the plastic that was usually used for its packaging.
Among the issues from the environmental which was posed by plastic are those that wouldn't decompose. Instead, it breaks down into small pieces that birds, fish, and other wildlife can eat it. Which ends up endangering their health and affecting the food chain.
Presently, the firm creates its toys using different materials. But information gotten from the industry states that the main raw material that is used for these blocks is ABS(acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene). This is a copolymer of both acrylonitrile and styrene that are both synthesized to create polybutadiene rubber.
What brought about the desire to change from Plastics?
This desire came from the goals Lego has towards the environment. Getting different materials that would be used to make these LEGO bricks would reduce the impact of the Lego group on planet earth. This is what Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen said. The firm also desires to make its packaging from sustainable raw materials.
In the year 2014, LEGO made use of seventy-seven thousand metric tons of primary materials which were used to create more than sixty billion Lego pieces. Styrolution which is a styrene polymer maker which counts Lego as one of the important ABS refused to comment on these replacement plans Lego has.
Lego can't say it wants to get a biobased version of ABS or if it wants to make use of a brand new polymer. The company tells C&EN that LEGO is simply looking at all choices. The replacement that would be selected would be based on the chemical composition, material source, and how the material can be managed after it has been used until it is no longer usable.
This is quite a challenging project. In a briefing in the year 2012, Styrolution told C&EN that the necessary building block of raw materials needed to be made to a specific so that the Lego bricks would come apart freely and lock together without problems.
Lego has been trying to higher more scientists for this project. They are looking for materials specialists, chemists, parts designers, and engineers. The firm also desires people that are great at making networks. This is because Lego wants to merge with external organizations.
These are necessary for their research team to be housed. In the year 2015-2016, LEGO created the Lego Sustainable Materials center in Denmark.
The method Lego wants to use to replace these oil-based plastics is quite surprising. They want to make these replacements in a way that a lame man can't tell the difference between one that was made with plastic and one that was made with this new material that they are still searching for.
In the Lego company, petroleum-based plastics are not what's used to package these LEGO pieces, they are the actual product. These bricks which made up dinosaurs have barely changed in more than fifty years.
In the middle of Billund in Denmark, you can see a building that has lots of LEGO sets and pieces in it. This shows that though you can see different dinosaurs with various colors, the product they were built out of has not changed so much.
This is the aim of their expensive research. To find a perfect replacement that none would be the wiser.
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Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 10 November, 2017. These are important for the upcoming IBPS PO, Clerk Mains, NICL Assistant, OICL AO exams.
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Bridge railway station and seven major arterial roads.
dangerous situation to the pedestrians.
Planning and Architecture, GST office, etc.
and by DDA (Rs 10.87 crore).
specially-abled persons, including the visually-impaired.
due publicity in their bank branches and websites.
differently-abled persons for getting cheque books.
Citizen Account' based on the date of birth available in the bank's records.
tax deduction at source) once a year, preferably in April.
incorporating the accepted recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission.
deserving cases. The earlier cost ceiling limit was Rs 30 lakhs.
Financial Institutions/ Banks to HBA, if they desire.
passed three key bills including one on prevention of dangerous activities.
ordinance had come into force.
shops and commercial establishments as part of Ease of Doing Business.
Homoeopathy (Ayush) in any of the public institutions across India.
the first ever International Ayush Conference and Exhibition in Dubai.
initiative is to encourage and popularise the alternative system of medicine.
process and scholarship will soon be available with the Indian missions abroad.
of Health (MoH) of UAE.
member of UNESCO's executive board on 9 November 2017.
making body of the international organisation.
of the representatives of the member states of the organisation.
for its exceptional work worldwide.
is 'Compassion Beyond Borders' and UNHCR efforts aptly fit into this theme.
finally 15 were announced as winners across defined categories.
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In 1992, SeniorsNL (previously known as the Seniors Resource Centre of Newfoundland and Labrador) brought together expertise from government and the community to form a committee to raise awareness of elder abuse and to share information about referral and intervention services.
The role of this committee, then called the Interagency Elder Abuse Committee, evolved to include overseeing SeniorsNL's Elder Abuse projects. This included the development of a Speakers Bureau in 1996 to do presentations about elder abuse. In 2005, the committee developed a Strategic Plan to Address Elder Abuse in Newfoundland and Labrador and presented it to the provincial government. The plan made recommendations to both government and community around six key provincial elder abuse issues: elder abuse legislation; community response to elder abuse; public awareness and education; training and screening for service providers; caregiver support; and research.
In 2006, the Interagency Elder Abuse Committee changed its name to the Elder Abuse Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador (EACNL) to reflect its expanded membership and provincial structure. In 2010, EACNL received funding from the New Horizons for Seniors Program to develop into a provincial network. The inaugural meeting of the Newfoundland and Labrador Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NLNPEA) was held in October 2011. The Network is an integral part of SeniorsNL's efforts to address elder abuse in our province.
To provide information and support to individuals and organizations (from both community and government) working to prevent elder abuse and/or provide services to those affected by this issue.
Mandate (under revision)
The mandate of the NLNPEA is to:
Raise public awareness of elder abuse through the provision of information and by supporting activities associated with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day;
Serve as a resource for information about referral and intervention services in Newfoundland and Labrador;
Promote the implementation of the recommendations within the Strategic Plan to Address Elder Abuse in NL and other actions to address elder abuse as identified by the network membership;
Liaise on a regional, provincial, and national level with other groups dealing with elder abuse issues to share information, facilitate partnerships, and provide input on matters of policy;
Identify gaps in elder abuse services, information, and research, and work collaboratively with government departments, the Regional Health Authorities, and community groups to address them;
Act in an advisory capacity for SeniorsNL elder abuse initiatives and support other initiatives that address elder abuse.
This mandate will be reviewed on an annual basis.
Older persons will live in safe, caring communities where there is zero tolerance of abuse. This will be fostered by community awareness, protective legislation, and coordinated, responsive programs and services aimed at preventing abuse and providing a range of options for those who experience abuse and the individuals who support them.
NLNPEA believes that: Older adults should be respected and valued and have the opportunity to be engaged in all aspects of society. This can be achieved through supporting respectful relationships, choice, collaboration, and lifelong learning.
NLNPEA members are individuals from government, organizations, agencies, associations, and the community who have a direct interest in addressing the issue of elder abuse. This includes representation from the four health authority regions in the province. Membership is free to any interested individual or group, but registration with the network is required.
NLNPEA meets several times a year.
The NLNPEA is part of SeniorsNL and ultimately reports back to the SeniorsNL Board of Directors. It is guided by the recommendations of a steering committee. The steering committee strives to reflect the diversity of NLNPEA's member organizations and professions that deal with the issue of elder abuse and, when possible, will include several senior and community representatives, an ex officio government representative, one representative from each of the province's four regional health authorities, a representative from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, a representative from the RCMP, the Executive Director of SeniorsNL, and one representative from the SeniorsNL Board of Directors, who will serve as the Chair of the Steering Committee and the NLNPEA. Ad hoc committees are formed as necessary and report to the Steering Committee. This governance structure is assessed annually.
Click here to view the NLNPEA Steering Committee Terms of Reference


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Good Pro-India, Bad Pro-India
By K Reader on March 27, 2014 Comments Off on Good Pro-India, Bad Pro-India
Partners in the state's ruling coalition, the Congress and the National Conference, have announced themselves allies in the forthcoming parliamentary elections as well. The arrangement is that the NC would contest all the three parliamentary constituencies in Kashmir, while the Congress would vie for the two in Jammu and the lone seat in Ladakh. Needless to say, this has become possible because of the personal interest of Rahul Gandhi and his all-powerful mother, Sonia. Significantly, even as the polls draw close, political fervour seems to be missing, particularly in Kashmir. It could have something to do with the heavy March snowfall, but no one should bet on that.
Though the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has fielded heavyweight candidates against the National Conference, it is generally believed that parliamentary elections hold no great importance here, given the winners' – mostly from the NC – ineffectual performance on any major issue concerning Kashmir. As it is, three members from the Valley would hardly have a bearing on the course in a 500-plus parliament. So, what virtually amounts to "sending" people to the Lok Sabha is either a political holiday or political exile. The recently-reaffirmed NC-Congress alliance, therefore, has had no political or emotional appeal, even among the cadres of the National Conference. It, however, has other meanings, when seen in the wider political perspective.
On the face of it, it appears as if the Congress has given the NC a fair deal by conceding the three seats of the Kashmir Valley. In fact, the deal is not so permanent, because if the National Conference loses at least two seats, most probably of Anantnag and Baramulla, to the PDP, it could be a strong indicator for the assembly polls, for which alliances could be rearranged by the Congress. Thus, the Congress has put the National Conference to a test, because the latter is traditionally on a stronger wicket in the Valley where the former can hope to do little electorally. And the Congress has actually snatched Ladakh from its partner, and squeezed it further by keeping the two seats in Jammu for itself. The alliance would have been meaningful had it shared seats in each province, which is not the case.
The political banishment of the National Conference from Ladakh and Jammu has far-reaching political consequences for the party. This is in accordance with the grand political design where power has been permanently shifted to Jammu because the so-called national parties, be it the Congress or the BJP, have strong bases in that region. Thus, any party from the Valley would always have to share power with a Jammu party. This has become possible because of the vertical division of the political structure in Kashmir. The National Congress and the PDP have split the Valley's political fabric, and there is no possibility of fusion in the near future because the division is strategically nurtured by New Delhi through its "good pro-India, bad pro-India" political theory and practice.
Since both the National Conference and the PDP are pro-India political parties, both can't share power with any national party (Congress or the BJP) that could be ready for an alliance at the winning edge of the electoral game. Only a good pro-India political party can be accepted. This much should be remembered: that being good or bad is not a permanent state, but a fluid situation. It is the giving capacity of a pro-India Kashmir party which makes it a good pro-India party.
When the National Conference cries for autonomy (never by heart or deed), passes a resolution as in 2000 (it could have passed a bill) and other similar gambits, it made itself bad pro-India. And the PDP came along on the political scene. It gave away the already much-separated Ladakh, passed the Land Transfer decision, the Women's Bill, the Roshni Act, ensured permanent quarters for the CRPF and 8 percent district-wise reservation for Hindu SCs in the valley – it was good pro-India. But other things made it bad pro-India, like demanding demilitarization, showing a certain concern for Muslims both within and outside Kashmir, seeking the resolution of the Kashmir issue and friendly relations with Pakistan. If nothing else, its election symbol of pen-and-inkpot with a green flag was bound to make it a bad pro-India party.
Then the National Conference's good pro-India qualities surfaced. It sold water resources and power houses to the NHPC, enacted the Hindu Shrine Boards Bill, lavished land on Army camps, dithered on the AFSPA, swallowed down 118 youth in 2010, and punched holes in Autonomy even by passing the 73rd Amendment.
This is not the end of the good pro-India, bad pro-India politics. It is in fact the beginning of the new strategy. The more a political party concedes to the "national interest," howsoever anti-Kashmiri the move may be, the more good pro-India it will be. The new Congress-NC alliance is another milestone in this direction.
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DVD Review: Simon of the Desert
No filmmaker despised the Catholic Church as much as Luis Buñuel, except maybe for Pier Paolo Pasolini, and yet both men would make two of the most important films about the life of Christ: the former Simon of the Desert and the latter The Gospel According to St. Matthew. In Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou, a man slices a woman's eye in half using a razorblade—a radical action that would introduce the world to one of its most incisive artistic voices. Buñuel would never live down Salvador Dalí's famous incision, a struggle mirrored in the horrors faced by the figure at the center of Simon of the Desert, a 45-minute fable that ends with Satan (the great Silvia Pinal) finally seducing a martyr off a pillar in the desert, possibly set in the Middle Ages, and wheeling him to a modern '60s disco club.
Critics often mistook Buñuel's anti-clericism for a lack of spirituality, but Simon of the Desert is proof that no other living director understood and respected Christ's role to society as deeply as he did. In The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson uses the postmodern sensation of violence to exploit the death of Christ and force a pathological connection between the man and his people. The film doesn't ask Christians to transcend the sadomasochistic guilt often associated with Sunday service, instead augmenting it. Gibson reduces Christ to a blood-and-sweat abstraction, an act that trivializes the role of Christ in society and, in turn, further distances us from the man's teachings. Simon of the Desert goes in the completely opposite direction, conflating asceticism and aestheticism to question both the relationship between Christ and his followers and filmmakers and their audiences—those who are watched and those who do the watching.
Both critics and fans of Simon of the Desert seem to think Buñuel condescends to the titular Simon (Claudio Brook), who has stood atop a pillar in the desert for six years, six months, and six days. But it's obvious that Buñuel respects the man's steadfastness and dedication to his cause in much the same way he admires the struggles of the Christ-like figure at the center of his equally brilliant Nazarín. Buñuel was a man of strong convictions, and while the director had no use for organized religion, his beef was never with God himself but the fickle, hypocritical masses (the "compassionate conservatives" if you will) that pretended to follow him. In Simon of the Desert, he evokes the wounds on Christ's body and celebrates his teachings, but condemns those who, like Gibson, belittle his love by deepening his pain.
Simon of the Desert's little Bible stories are twisted evocations of the dumbing down of faith by postmodern Christian anxieties and hang-ups. Throughout the film, a series of melodramas take place around the two pillars Simon sits atop. The martyr's move from the first pillar to a considerably taller one by a group of priests evokes Buñuel's belief that Christians are moving further and further away from Christ the more and more believers perpetuate and sell his suffering rather than his teachings. It's amazing to think how well Simon of the Desert works as a criticism of Passion of the Christ, a film for those who are so transfixed by Christ's crucifixion that they can't see anything else.
Gibson's evocation of the love between Mary and Christ in Passion of the Christ is heart-wrenching (thanks largely to Maia Morgenstern's strikingly existential interpretation of Mary's chaos), but Buñuel has problems with the flattened view of Mary in film, literature, and everyday life, one that Gibson's film certainly doesn't stray from. If Christ and his followers are far apart, then Mary is even further away. In Simon of the Desert, Simon's mother lives in a tiny shack on the periphery of his pillars. She forces herself to speak but can't, condemning herself to forever play the romantic, "sidelined" role of grieving mother assigned to her by the patriarchal authors of her (and her son's) story.
Buñuel understands the church's obsession with the female body—the desire to own it, control it, market it as an object of sin. In religious fetish films like Passion of the Christ, filmmakers like Gibson perpetuate the single-minded Catholic obsession with sex and the devil as a woman, an outmoded view Joseph von Sternberg grappled with in The Devil Is a Woman, which heavily influenced Buñuel's last film, That Obscure Object of Desire. Throughout Simon of the Desert, the devil attempts to seduce Simon with her sex, first as a tarty little girl, then as a seductress trapped inside a coffin, and finally as an androgynous Greek-like figure who bares her breasts. (It's almost impossible not to think of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl and the fury it summoned throughout our country's Bible belt.)
Simon makes a man's severed hands reappear, and almost as soon as he performs the miracle, the man proceeds to hit his daughter on the head for asking him if they are the same hands he had before. It's a funny sequence, for sure, but Buñuel uses it to suggest that self-serving, fanatical Christians are taking God for granted. They're no longer amazed by Christ's capacity for kindness; worse yet, they pay lip service to his teachings when they're inside his house, only to preach hate outside its doors. Simon loves everyone equally, even the prancing priest with the offensively tidy frock who condescends to a dwarf with a questionable relationship to a goat named Domitila, but that doesn't stop the man from advising the priest to abandon his classist tendencies.
"Your asceticism is sublime," says someone to Simon at one point. The same could be said about Buñuel's no-frills aestheticism. Unlike the expensive desires of the bourgeois and the gaudy outfits often worn by priests at Sunday service, Buñuel shunned all things extravagant, and it shows in his images. Like Simon, Buñuel's philosophy of life is raw, direct, accessible, and free of pretense. For almost 50 years, from 1929's Un Chien Andalou to 1977's That Obscure Object of Desire, the director never minced words and his philosophy never wavered, unlike, say, the elitist filmmakers and politicians who distort love and sell lies to people everyday. It's easy, then, to read Simon's self-imposed exile, relationship to his demanding public, and struggles with temptation as a metaphor for a headstrong and successful Buñuel's steadfast career.
An amazing image, possibly superior to that of The Exterminating Angel, though the characters in the film often cast subtle vertical lines of shadow as they walk across the frame. Dialogue is absolutely pristine but there's a noticeable hiss that's audible throughout the film's entire running time.
Emilio Maillé's 56-minute documentary doesn't break any sort of ground, but its annotation of Buñuel's life and work in Mexico should prove useful to strangers of the director's remarkable artistry, while Sylvia Pinal, in an interview recorded by the Criterion Collection several years ago, explains how nervous she was about showing her tetas on screen for the first time. Rounding out the disc is a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Wood and a 1970s interview with Luis Buñuel.
Buñuel's mini-masterpiece has smitten Patti Smith and Monty Python; all that's left now is the cult of Mel Gibson.
Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Antonio Bravo, Enrique del Castillo, Jesús Fernández Martínez, Enrique García Álvarez, Eduardo MacGregor Director: Luis Buñuel Screenwriter: Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 45 min Rating: NR Year: 1965 Release Date: February 10, 2009 Buy: Video
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Rana pipiens Daudin, 1802  est synonyme de Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802)
Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782 est synonyme de Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) ou Grenouille léopard

Synonyme d'anoures (nom scientifique)
Ranidae

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Pigeons belong to the family of birds known as Columbidae. There are a number of varieties in the wild while several breeds are also kept as pets. Most domestic Columbidae types of pigeon differ merely in color. Discussed below are the varieties which possess some distinct features on the basis of which they can be easily distinguished from the other breeds.
One of the most common types of pigeon is known as feral rock pigeon. This blue variety is well-adapted to survive in the cities and suburbs. Owing to this reason, flocks of feral rock pigeons can be seen foraging around for bird food or on roosts in public places. Therefore, they are commonly referred to as street pigeons or city doves.
Feral rock pigeons often cross breed with other types of domestic pigeons. As a result, the color and variations in the features of the plumage are passed down to the upcoming generations.
Another common variety which belongs to the Columbidae family is known as homing pigeons. The color of their plumage is blue or white or – more commonly – a combination of both. Their distinguishing feature is the strength of their muscles and flying ability. For this reason, homing pigeons are raced on special events, such as weddings or sports events. They are, therefore, also known as racing pigeons. The word "homing" is used for this variety owing to the natural homing instinct of these birds. They can be trained to return to a loft after being raced.
Homing pigeons possess distinctive bands which help in their recognition. Often, if the bird is lost, it can be traced through the banding information and returned to its owner.
One of the wild types of pigeons is the band tailed pigeon. As the name implies, members of this variety possess a banded tail which is grey in color. In addition, an iridescent patch exists at the nape of the neck which is another one of their distinctive features. Both the feet as well as the beak are yellow in color. These pigeons do not exhibit large variations in color as in the case of feral rock pigeons. Moreover, banded tailed pigeons are rather large in size with an average length of fourteen to eighteen inches.
The natural habitat of this special variety of pigeons is found in areas of North America as well as the Pacific Coast. These birds prefer lurking around in trees. Therefore, they are not only found in coniferous forests, but also on deciduous trees. The most favorite food of band tailed pigeons consists of acorns, berries and grains.
One of the fancy breeds of pigeons is called the African Owl. The short beaks of these pigeons make them resemble owls. This special variety has been developed over a number of years through the process of selective breeding. Once originated, African Owl was introduced to England from Tunisia in the nineteenth century.
Members of this variety are the descendents of rock pigeon. One of their most distinctive features is known as the jabot. It consists of a crest of feathers which run down the chest of the bird. It is also often referred to as the tie of the African Owl. On the other hand, these pigeons consist of smooth heads with no distinctive arrangement of feathers. Their body is short in size and plump in stature. In addition, the beak is also small and pointed downwards which resembles the beak of owls.
A special variety of homing pigeons is known as the American Show Racer. This breed has been developed through cross breeding by selecting the best racing varieties. The first breed of the American Show Racer was developed in the United States in 1950s. This bird is popularly referred to as the Bird of Dignity. It is used on special occasions such as opening ceremonies of sporting events and weddings.
One of the fancy varieties of pigeons developed through selective breeding is known as the trumpeters. Members of this distinct breed are descendants of the rock pigeon. The distinguishing feature of trumpeter pigeons is their special cooing. It sounds like human laughter or trumpeting.
The group of trumpeter pigeons is further divided into several varieties. They exhibit slight variation in colors and other physical features, but produce the same characteristic trumpeting sounds while cooing. The most common varieties of these pigeons are listed below.
One of the most beautiful kinds of pigeons is the archangel. Since it belongs to the group of fancy pigeons, it is popularly kept as a pet or used for exhibition in zoos or bird shows. The unique feature of an archangel pigeon is its attractive feathers which exhibit a metallic sheen. Other than the feathers, its eyes are also attractive. The vivid dark orange color of the iris truly stands out. The bird's wings are long and extend up to the tail. However, the overall size of the body itself is small. It weighs only around twelve oz.
The capuchines consist of one of the most bizarre looking group of pigeons. This fancy breed originated in the sixteenth century. It is, therefore, one of the oldest varieties of pigeons. Dutch sailors introduced this variety to Holland from India.
The most unique trait of capuchine pigeons is the set of rosettes found on either side of the neck. The front part of these rosettes forms a chain which runs down the hood. This chain appears in the form of a "U" when the bird is viewed from the front.
There are many other breeds of pigeons as well. Indeed, it is one of the most common types of birds which exist in a large number of varieties all around the globe.


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Perfect for 6-10 friends. It can be carried in the back of a small pickup truck. It takes about 3 hours to get up to temperature and cost about $650.
Get a 55 gallon steel barrel with a closed top. I got mine from a guy in Bradford, VT who calls himself the "Barrel Man," but if you don't live in the area, you can usually find them on craigslist. Make sure you get a barrel that hasn't been holding anything toxic, since you'll have to spend a fair amount of time crawling around the inside during the assembly process. This barrel formerly held palm oil, and there was a small puddle of it on the inside (it had the consistency of crisco) and every once in a while I accidentally stuck an elbow in it.
I bought a Vogelzang Barrel Stove Kit, Model# BK100E from Amazon.com. Assemble the stove following the directions in the kit. The kit comes with the door, the chimney collar and the legs. The stovepipe is not included in the kit. I bought mine at Home Depot.
When cutting the holes for the chimney and collar, make sure you use a blade designed for cutting sheet metal, and when drilling holes, make sure you have a sharp drill bit, otherwise it will take forever to drill your holes.
After assembling the kit, I added firebricks to prolong the life of the bottom of the barrel. I used 2" x 4" x 8" bricks there were 3 rows of 4 and a final row of 2 for a total of 14.
The copper tubing comes from the store as a flat coil. First straighten it out by hand. Then crimp one end of the tubing with a pair of pliers. Fill with fine dry sand. The tube should be held almost vertically when filling with sand or the tube may be filled unevenly. Once the tube is full of sand, crimp the other end. The longest length of tubing I could hold vertically and still reach the top to fill was about 10 feet, so I cut the tubing into 10-foot lengths and filled each one separately.
The tubing can now be bent into a coil. I found a piece of 4 inch pipe to wrap the tubing around. There were a few sections where the sand had not completely filled the tube and it kinked. I cut these sections out.
After bending the tubing into a coil, you have to get rid of the sand. Cut the crimped ends off with a hacksaw. Then shake and tap the coil to remove the sand. Getting the sand out of the coils took a lot of time. After most of the sand was out, I used compressed air to remove any last remnants.
5 short coils were soldered together to make the large coil. In order for the coils to fit together nicely, make sure they're all coiled in the same direction.
The heat exchanger was inserted into the chimney (2 sections of 6 inch stove pipe). I drilled a hole in the bottom for the tubing to come out. Two pieces of angle iron were used to reinforce the tubing and the chimney, along with a lot of bolts (probably more than necessary).
The heat exchanger was plumbed to the bottom of the barrel to keep the hoses low to the ground (don't want anyone tripping over them) and also to keep them away from the heat of the stove. The copper tubing was terminated with a female hose fitting. In the photos you can see a short section of 3/4 inch iron pipe, but that was not necessary.
Finally, we added handles by connecting short sections of galvinized pipe (electrical conduit, I think) to the barrel with wire rope and bolts.
The tub is a 300 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank. It has a 1 1/4 inch threaded opening at the bottom. Using a series of adapters, I was able to connect this to 3/4" CPVC pipe. Next, there's a union fitting. This allows the pump to be easily connected and disconnected. Then I added a ball valve. The ball valve was basically unnecessary. Then I added another adapter to bring the 3/4" CPVC up to the 1" threaded diameter of the pump intake.
The pump output is also 1". It's connected with regular PVC (CPVC probably would have been a better choice, but it's a short enough section that heat flexibility isn't a problem) to an elbow. The elbow is important because if you try to connect the garden hose to a vertical fitting, it will kink. The elbow has a male hose fitting on the end.
To control the pump I use an inline portable ground-fault circuit interruptor. The "test" and "reset" buttons can be used to turn the pump on and off. Side benefits of added safety from electrocution.
Pile everything in the truck. Strap the tub down to keep it from blowing away.
When we fired it up, we decided to attach the exhaust of a shop vac to the barrel to get the fire going a bit faster. It worked great. In fact, it caused the end of the barrel to glow. With the stove closed up, we were able to adjust the temperature of the tub by turning the shop vac on to increase the temperature in the tub and turn it off when the tub was warm enough.
I used a digital logging thermometer to measure the temperature of the tub over the course of the evening. There are a few missing data points, I think this might have happened when the logger got splashed.
Time 0 was at 4:30 pm when we lit the fire in the barrel and started filling the tub. The outside temperature was about 65F and the water from the hose was 45-50F (I didn't get the thermometer until 2 hours in.) After 3 hours the tub had reached a comfortable 105F. The heating was greatly accelerated by using the shop vac blower. When the blower was turned on you could feel the water in the hose get warmer. The stove heated it at about 20 degrees F per hour.
The next 5 hours (hour 3 to hour 8) was spent lounging in the tub. The temperature was controlled by turning the shop vac blower on and off. During this time the temperature fluctuated between about 100F and 108F.
At hour 7.5 the tub had 10 people. When 8 of them left we needed to fill it up with more water. I think the temperature drop from time 7.50 to 7.55 was a result of the "cold hose" being pointed at the thermometer. Later on the temperature jumps to 130F, which is probably from the "hot hose" coming out of the stove. I was in the tub at the time and it was quite comfortable despite local variations in temperature.
The stove was turned off after 9 hours and the tub cooled down at a rate of about 7 degrees per hour for the next 5 hours.
Doing a bit of math, we can see that the heater was generating about 13.4 kW, the tub was losing about 3.4 kW and the remaining 10 kW is what was getting used to heat the water. To put it another way, we lost 1/4 of our energy from cooling, which suggests that the tub might benefit from an insulated cover.
I'd estimate we used about 1/12 of a cord of wood, which works out to about $17 (for wood at $200/cord).
Always keep water circulating through the copper coil. Otherwise the solder joints will melt and start to leak. Started the fire about 10 minutes before turning on the water, and the coil started leaking so much that it put out the fire. To fix the problem, I had to disassemble the chimney, take the copper coil out, clean off the solder joints (all 5 of them were leaking), resolder and reassemble the stove. I'd estimate the procedure took about 4 hours. It occurred to me that brazing might have been a better choice for joining the tubing sections instead of soldering.
Dude! I am building an outdoor wood fired furnace using the same barrel stove - your creative solution to stabilize the chimney are exactly what i needed :) I plan to add on even more chimney height!
I too am going to put a 3/4 inch copper coil (around 100 ft or so) inside the tank and then send that into my house. Thanks!
Wow, looks great. Making the copper coil is a huge pain. How are you planning to do it?
There are lots of suggestions on the internet about filling the tubing with sand. I found that it was very difficult to get the sand in, and very difficult to get it back out. There were lots of gaps where the sand hadn't completely filled the tubing, and this would cause the tubing to kink (which later had to be cut out). Getting the sand out took a few hours of banging and rotating. So my recommendation is to find something other than sand to put in your tubing when you're trying to bend it. Maybe wax?
The wood furnace is up and running nicely! Thanks man!
Looks great. Do you have any problems with creosote building up on the pipes? The last time I fired up my hot tub, it took a lot longer to heat up, and I think the creosote build-up may be the reason. I'm planning to try to clean things out a bit before next time.
Ohh hell yeah! I have Creosote galore! It builds up fast too! You know, I just leave it. I notice that when I run the appliance in overdrive, it tends to burn off any creosote. That's how I take care of it. However, there are parts of the appliance that "should be" cleaned - like my top-down batch feeder. Gassified wood that does not combust sticks to the inner wall, creating a nice crispity, crackly creosote egg-shell! Well, if your appliance has a thick build up of anything (even installing the fire bricks), it will definitely add to the operating temp timing.
How deep is the tub?
That's an interesting idea and one that I thought of, but never systematically tested. I've set up the heat exchanger in both orientations (just depends which hose I connect to which side of the pump), but haven't noticed anything dramatic.
Here are my thoughts on the theory. The temperature difference between the water going in and the water going out was at most 10-20 degrees F. When I really got things cranking on the stove, it would start to glow red, suggesting that the temperature was around 1000-2000 degrees F (the chimney wasn't glowing, so it probably wasn't that hot, but might have been close). Heat exchange is determined by the temperature difference between the pipe and the exhaust gas, as you pointed out. So if we consider an example where the water in is at 90F, the water out is at 100F, and the chimney exhaust gas is at 1000F, the temperature difference changes from 900F to 910F, which is about a 1% difference.
A much more serious problem that I've noticed is creosote buildup. The efficiency of the copper coil heat exchanger has been getting much worse over time. I think the last time I fired up the tub I was only seeing a 5 degree difference between the inlet and outlet water, so it may be time for a re-design.
I agree, the change in water temp is low. However, I'm betting the change in flue gas temp is high, especially with all that water cooling it down. There's not a lot of energy per unit volume in gases, so it looses temp fast. With the fire cranking and the water cold, I bet the output at the top of the chimney isn't hot enough to burn you. All in all, I agree that the difference in design probably isn't much in this case, but I bet the counter current design works at least a little better.
1) completely combust the fuel to where there is no unburned carbon left to form the deposits. This one is tricky. Stove design is important, where you want to use either secondary combustion or a catalytic converter to get complete combustion. This is a complicated and expensive way to fix the problem. Also important here is using dry wood. Wet wood adds water to the flue gas, and slows combustion to create cooler gases with much higher concentrations of unburned carbon. Wood from firewood dealers is rarely dry, even if they say it is. 20% water by weight is good, 10% is better. Find this by taking a small piece, weight it wet, and then put it in a 210° oven for 1 day and weight it again to get the dry weight. The equation is 100*(wet-dry)/dry. If you're using even somewhat wet wood, this is the bulk of your problem.
2) Keep your flue gas hot. This is done in two ways: burn a hot fire, and insulate your chimney. Contrary to popular opinion, insulated chimney pipe (aside from where it passes through the ceiling/wall), is not a safety feature for the reason most think it is. It's sole purpose, especially on the exterior chimney section, is to keep the interior flue wall temperature high to reduce condensation and creosote buildup. In your case, insulating the chimney might help, but it only solves half the problem. The water in the pipe is doing most of the cooling, and we can't insulate that.
My guess is you're using wet wood if you're needing to use a shop vac to get hot temps.
The flue is a convenient place to put the coil, but difficult to make effective because of the creosote. It's also the coldest part of the stove. You'll always struggle with creosote with this design. I think if you used copper pipes running across the top of the inside of the fire box, it would be more effective and less of a headache. You could use elbow fittings on the outside to send the pipe back and forth without having connections to fail inside the stove. I think this is the way I would do it if I were limited on resources.
I'll make one of these someday. When I do, I plan to use a boiler design with a water jacket. I'll use 3/16" or 1/4" steel plate to weld an internal fire box which will be surrounded by a chamber (water jacket) filled with water. The hot tub water will be circulated through the chamber, and heated directly by the heat of the fire. I'm sure there'll be issues I'm not thinking of though.
I agree that the chimney is not the best place for the coil. I wanted the coil to be vertical to allow for easy drainage, so I wouldn't have to worry about the water freezing when I'm not using the stove.
To get rid of the creosote problem, the flue gasses have to be kept above 250 F. I think the only way to do this is with a bit of insulation between the water and the fire. I like your idea of putting the water piping along the top of the stove, but I think I'd just leave the whole thing on the outside.
FYI, if you want to go the water jacket route, a 30-gallon steel drum nests nicely inside a 55-gallon drum.
If you allow the water to bypass the pump, a natural convention current will occur, mitigating the risk of your low temp solder joints from melting.
The solder joint melting was caused by user error. The tub only had a few inches of water in it when I started the fire.
The pump is a centrifugal pump, so when it is turned off, there is no barrier to water flow. Nevertheless, I haven't found much of a convection current. I think that for a system like that to work, both the inlet and outlet have to be submerged. Also, the highest point in my coil is about 5 ft. above the water level of the tub, and the natural convection systems seem to have the top of the coil at a level that's lower than the surface of the water.
This is an awesome instructable. I am dying to give this a try.
You can braze the copper just fine using something like stay-silv or (way cheaper) a phos-copper brazing filler. In fact, using phos-copper brazing rid means you won't need to use flux.


We recently hosted a SF Growth Engineering meetup at the Pinterest office to discuss how some of the most successful companies drive growth at scale. See the video below to hear what speakers from Pinterest, Airbnb and Twitter had to share.
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Michael Lin covers Twitter's Onboarding Component Framework which allows backend systems to construct personalizable signup flows using generic client-side components. This talk addresses the infrastructure, experiments and learnings from building this system.
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A 13-year-old boy from Iowa died Sunday when he fell while rock climbing in Snow Canyon State Park in southern Utah.
Elijah Baldwin of Farragut, Iowa, died between 4:15 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. when he fell while climbing alone in the Pioneer Names area of the park. No one witnessed his fall.
"Elijah was free climbing at the time of the incident and it is believed he fell from between 75 and 100 feet," said Eugene Swalberg, a spokesman for Utah State Parks.
According to Swalberg, Baldwin was using no equipment, not even ropes.
Snow Canyon State Park is about 10 miles northwest of St. George.


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Assalamualaikum, I am a born-Muslim but I just recently take my interest in Islam now, as if I just discovered my religion. As I try to adjust my life to Qur'an and Sunnah, my relationship with friends and family have gotten worse for they find me to be suspiciously religious, but for me personally I find peace and comfort as I practice more. However, such a pressure at times is having its toll on me that I even wonder could it be possible that because my relationship with Allah is not firm, and thus are other relations who are close to me? If that's the case, how then can I fix my relationship with Allah so that I can have a peaceful life? Jazakallahukhairan.
Short Answer: Fix yourself and Allah will fix your life. Hold fast to the rope of Allah by reciting Quran and also learning to understand its meaning. Doing good makes us better people, and by helping others we also please Allah. Ask yourself each day if you are becoming a better and better person, caring for others and helping them for the sake of Allah. If you can do this, you will have achieved something great and you will truly be one of the friends of Allah, inshallah.
Many thanks for that question.
Having a strong relationship with Allah Almighty is what we all strive for as Muslims.
Some years ago I got an email from a Muslim doctor in the UK.
He told me that he was born as a Muslim, but that he wanted to become a Muslim.
I have never forgotten his remark and you remind me of it now.
As I tell people who come to Islam late in life, it's easy to become Muslim, but it's not so easy to remain one.
Being a good Muslim is a lifetime's work. When someone becomes Muslim, there are no forms to fill in, and there is no membership fee to pay.
For a person to become Muslim they must declare with their lips and mean with all their heart that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger (peace be upon him).
Even with those new to Islam, though, it is easy to forget those words we once meant so dearly. It is easy for us to get into a rut and begin to take our Islam for granted.
Just as we can take our wife and husband for granted and find out, when it is too late, that we have drifted apart, so we can take for granted the gift of faith that we have been given.
If that applies to new Muslims, how much more it can apply to people who were born Muslim and never discovered the importance of Islam in their own lives?
It is true that there are in the world many "cultural" Muslims, for whom Islam never made a direct appeal to their hearts.
Many of those people go through the motions of what they are supposed to do as Muslims, but it has no effect on the way they live their lives.
Others, too, become far-removed from their religion, neither praying nor reading Quran.
The fact that you are asking yourself all these questions now, sister, is good. It shows your intention to be closer to Allah.
If taking Islam seriously makes your relatives sit up and wonder what has happened to you, then this is good.
Maybe, in time, your own example will cause them to think seriously, too, about their own faith.
As for coming closer to Allah, in the Quran we are told to "hold fast to the rope of Allah and be not disunited" (3:103).
This teaches us two things: that we must cling fast to Allah, whatever troubles or difficulties might come our way.
It also teaches us that we are not alone in this, but have other Muslims around us to help us.
Nowhere are we promised that if we live as Muslims should live we will see rainbows and butterflies and reach the highest levels of iman.
What we are promised, though, is that by living as Muslims live we will enter Paradise, inshallah.
So, sister, you must hold fast to the rope of Allah by praying five times a day and, if you can, praying on time.
You must hold fast to the rope of Allah by reciting Quran and also learning to understand its meaning.
And there is something else. I learned long ago that we become good by doing good things.
If we do bad things in our lives this will ultimately reflect itself in the kind of person we become.
Doing good, on the other hand, makes us better people.
Just remember how good we feel, for example, after a day's fasting for Allah's sake in Ramadan.
Helping those less fortunate than ourselves is a part of Islam. By helping others we also please Allah.
If our charity is done in secret, we please Him even more. By pleasing Allah, we are surely coming close to Him.
I have a small test for myself that I apply when people tell me that this or that person is a good Muslim.
I ask myself if that person's Islam is words only or does it reflect itself in that person's life?
In other words, is he or she a good person?
If Muslims are not good people then they have missed something central to what it is to be Muslim.
My suggestion to you, sister, is not to reflect inwardly on your relationship with Allah. By doing that your question revolves around you.
Instead, ask yourself each day if you are becoming a better and better person, caring for others and helping them for the sake of Allah.
If you can do this, you will have achieved something great and you will truly be one of the friends of Allah, inshallah.


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Q: If I use a for loop with a string, will it check character by character? I don't particularly care about what happens at the end at this point. I'm merely trying to understand Python's behavior with string inputs more intimately by asking this question.
Specifically, I'd like to know what using a for loop applied to a string will do in this example. Does it look for the whole string and consider the loop over after it checks for the whole string, or will it look for each character in the string individually (or neither of these things and if neither, what?)?
def some_procedure(sentence,characters):
    for character in characters:
        if character in sentence:
            do something

print some_procedure('This is a test','iae')

I want the code to cycle through every character in a given string and look at another string to see if any of those characters are present, then do something else that I will introduce once I understand how this part of the code works. To be specific to my example above, I want to cycle through all characters ('i', 'a', 'e) in the string characters and if a character is in sentence, do something to it in sentence (eventually).
I understand that I may need to introduce a .find at some point and that the code isn't complete, but please humor me. I'm a beginner, so I'm still just trying to understand what reason I would even want to write code like the above for strings. To do that, I need to understand how the for loop interacts with a strings and play with it a bit. Thanks!

A: Welcome to the wonderful world of polymorphism. It's one of the coolest things in programming!
Did you ever wonder why they call it a string? Because it's a string of characters. If you're picturing a bunch of letters on an actual string or piece of yarn in your mind, good!
Like many things in Python, strings are iterable. That means we can treat them like lists. After all, in a way, they are lists: lists of characters.
In practice, this means we can loop over them:
>>> for letter in 'hello':
...   print(letter)
...
h
e
l
l
o

We can take slices of them:
>>> 'hello'[:2]
'he'
>>> 'hello'[3:]
'lo'
>>> 'hello'[2:4]
'll'

We can even index them!
>>> 'hello'[0]
'h'

So now what do you think happens when we pass them to a for loop?

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Debate Rages About Whether a 50 BMI is 'Fit'
Woke culture destroys another word; but we might be better off?
Cosmopolitan magazine recently published this article announcing "plus-size model", Tess Holiday, as being "Strong, Fit and 300lb".
Now, yes, this sort of garbage is to be expected of a trashy publication appealing to low IQ's with banal, cliched, factually-incorrect drivel. But this particular piece has erupted outside of Cosmo's typical readership, into an avalanche of baseless opinions debating whether Tess really is 'fit' or 'healthy'.
With over 300,000 words in the English language, you would think there are sufficient options for communicating precisely what you mean, thereby avoiding these sorts of asinine, unwinnable arguments about whether a person with a BMI of 50 is 'fit'. Seems not?
Instead, it seems that most of society has decided that the words 'health' and 'fit' do NOT mean what the dictionary defines them to mean. To most people, 'health and fitness' apparently now means everything from a quick wit to walking on a treadmill to running ultramarathons to climbing mountains to professional bodybuilding. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger tells everyone that bodybuilding is fitness. So it must be true. Right? It must be the dictionary and the monolithic volumes of documentation defining every measure of health and fitness that are wrong?
But who cares? How much harm can misuse of a word do? Well, given the epidemic levels of sports-drug abuse, malnutrition, chronic injury, illness, misery and even death resulting from the misunderstanding of the purpose of 'fitness exercise' and 'healthy eating', I think a decent argument could be made for suggesting a metric shit tonne of harm can be done!
Am I being melodramatic? Not even slightly. None of this should even be surprising.
So many people wrongly think that health and fitness means elite athleticism and boundless energy; which they absolutely do NOT. So then, logically, people figure that everything that is good for 'fitness' – like Yoga, Pilates, 'cardio', superfoods and pulling rehabilitation bands – is equally excellent for turning you into a professional bodybuilder or ultramarathon runner or bikini model or Zac Efron or Zena, warrior princess.
Amazingly, health and fitness DO have dictionary definitions. They even have volumes of legal and medical texts written defining their precise, objective measurements. If ever something should be clear as to what it is, it is health and fitness. But in 2021, why would anyone let truth or logic ruin a completely insane story with more holes than swiss cheese, and more contradictions than the Catholic Church?
The real issue is that everything in 2021 is about virtue signalling and bullshit to get the brain-dead masses to buy obviously useless shit from demonstrably dishonest charlatans. And nothing sells better than obviously empty promises to make people beautiful, virtuous and admired with absolutely no effort at all. Nobody has any interest in admitting the miserable level of decrepit, physical mediocrity that health and fitness actually is. People feel that acknowledging that truth is as cruel as teasing a retarded child. But now they have repeated the virtuous, moronic, white lie that "walking for 30 minutes each day is all you need [to look like a supermodel elite athlete]" that professional people actually believe it. And now the woke-insanity has reached epidemic, peak-retard levels, such that people are arguing whether a clinically obese person is really 'fit'?
"if the words 'health' and 'fitness' mean absolutely everything, they therefore mean absolutely nothing because they can no longer effectively communicate a specific, objective reality"
The reality is simple and irrefutable. One of the big, bold, headline measures of health and fitness is a BMI below 25. This is a primary health objective for the Worlds population, as documented by the WHO. Tess Holiday, at 5'5″ and 300lb (165cm @ ~136kg) has a BMI of 50; DOUBLE the documented level of 'fit and healthy'. So is she clinically fit and healthy, according to one of the simplest, most widely published, fundamental measures? No.
Like Tess, no competitive pro bodybuilders have BMI's under 25 either. Nor do thousands of elite athletes across numerous sports. They are all, therefore, not fit and healthy either.
Tess is no athlete. But in the eyes of health professionals, 300lb Tess, and 300lb pro bodybuilder, Branch Warren, are equal in their lack of health and fitness. If you see a problem with this, I salute you for your ability to see reality. But I would like to suggest you consider the actual problem being something else. The actual problem is the meaning and assumptions you are assigning to the words 'health and fitness'. If you recognise these words just do not describe what you or I are trying to communicate, then the solution is simple: use different words that more accurately communicate your intended meaning.
Here are 2 examples of accurate words to describe Tess Holiday's body composition: 'fat' and 'obese'. There is no need to be offended. Even Tess acknowledges it. Her bodyfat is very visibly above 30%; which is a more appropriate clinical threshold of obesity. It is likely that she would measure around 50%, depending on the testing methodology. If you are offended at me stating the objective, factual, measurable truth, the problem is with you; not Tess, nor me.
By the same token, your frail grandmother, who gets tired just by walking a bit too long, can be clinically defined as being the picture of perfect health and fitness. As long as she is active for 30 minutes 3x per week, her BMI is below 25 and her blood work is clear, she is more awesomely fit and healthy than Ronnie Coleman when he was squatting 800lb at 4% bodyfat with a BMI over 40.
These sorts of facts get many people very upset. They will argue aggressively that Ronnie Coleman at his best is vastly superior in fitness to a frail grandmother. Imagine the frustration then, when it can be objectively proven that virtually every elite strength athlete on the planet is not clinically "fit and healthy" by virtue of them being an elite strength athlete, but grandma is. The question is: why get upset? Has it never occurred to people that, maybe, in 2021, the measures that define 'health and fitness' are just not aspirational? I mean, health and fitness measures are openly admitted to be based on the 'average' person. So why would anybody aspiring to be exceptional be perturbed that they are not 'average'?
I would not get upset if somebody told me I am not Italian. Because, well, I am not Italian. Similarly, I do not get upset when someone says I am not 'fit' or 'healthy'. The only difference is, I would be perfectly happy being Italian, but I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was 'fit' and 'healthy'. I know what 'fit' and 'healthy' mean!
Losing massive quantities of muscle and strength, and gaining fat would make me clinically and objectively fitter and healthier. To be measurably fit, I would personally need to lose around 20kg of muscle. Would that make me live longer? No. Would it make me less susceptible to viruses or cancer? No. Would I be happier? No. Would I be better off in any way that is meaningful to me? No.
The misunderstanding of what health and fitness are is the cause of all the debates and confusion about training. It is at the root of the horrendous eating disorders, total failure of the epidemic levels of drug abuse in amateur and recreational bodybuilding. And the ongoing march toward the words 'health' and 'fitness' meaning absolutely everything – and thereby meaning absolutely nothing, because they can no longer effectively communicate a specific, objective reality – has, in my opinion, finally reached the zenith of ridiculousness with this debate over Tess Holiday being fit, or not.
If there can even be a debate about whether Tess is 'fit', then who even cares what 'fitness' means or is? Stop using the word! It is another 'woke' word, lost to virtue-signalling Marxist crazies, political vultures and bureaucratic robots. At best it is meaningless. At worst it is low-expectation shitness. In the same way that rational people need to abandon the words 'gender' and 'vaccine' (because they have been redefined to be useless for communication), we need to abandon the word 'fitness' so we can start talking about what we really mean. Case and point: people cannot even decide if Tess Holiday is 'fit'.