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Robotics team design ROVs, test them at the pool
Fri, 10/29/2021 - 10:02pm admin
By Lizzy Hahn
On October 19 and 21, 2021, the Nome-Beltz Robotics class had the opportunity to build and test their hand made ROVs, short for remotely operated underwater vehicles.
Lauren Bien and Nicole Webster with the Prince William Sound Science Center in Cordova came up to Nome to teach students about ROVs. They brought tool kits for the students to be able to make their own ROV out of common materials anyone can find at a hardware store. The students made their ROVs on Tuesday and tested them out in the pool on Thursday. They had a series of tasks their ROVs had to complete. "What we're doing this week with the different groups is called the remotely operated vehicle challenge, ROV challenge, so that is a way to take hands-on science and bring it into the classroom," Nicole Webster said. "The students essentially make what are underwater robots to complete a series of tasks that are designed around the idea of servicing an oil station — the oil station in Valdez, where they put oil onto the takers at the end of the pipeline. They have a series of challenges to do that, kind of mimic what a real ROV would do in that situation [oil spill]. So, they have to inspect the berth of the boat, they have to attach an anchor chain, take pictures, clean up a small oil spill — we don't put oil in the pool — and just kind of get a sense of both an engineering challenge and real world application in the learning environment."
The oil spill was demonstrated using ping pong balls. The students had to corral the balls and pick them up as a part of their multiple ROV tasks. Their tasks included driving forward about five feet, moving up and down, drive through a hula hoop and back out of the hula hoop, attach an "anchor" hoop to a stationary cactus made out of PVC pipes, as well as retrieving ping pong balls out of the water.
Bien has been to Nome once before in 2018 to teach the same ROV program. "Our ROV program is kind of this traveling, hands-on, STEM project that we can take around the state to schools or communities that are interested," said Bien. Usually Bien is reaching out to schools, but Justin Heinrich remembered them coming to Nome in 2018. "We haven't been able to travel for the last two years with this program and we really didn't think we would, so to have a teacher and school reach out to us, was really great."
In addition to teaching the program in Mr. Heinrich's class, they also worked with ACSA students on Thursday, Oct. 22.


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War of the Currents
Thomas Edison vs Nikola Tesla
From the Series Scientific Rivalries and Scandals
In the early 1880s, only a few wealthy people had electric lighting in their homes. Everyone else had use more dangerous lighting, such as gas lamps. Eager companies wanted to be the first to supply electricity to more Americans. The early providers would set the standards—and reap great profits.
Inventor Thomas Edison already had a leading role in the industry: he had invented the first reliable electrical lightbulb. By 1882 his Edison Electric Light Company was distributing electricity using a system called direct current, or DC. But an inventor named Nikola Tesla challenged Edison. Tesla believed that an alternating current—or AC—system would be better. With an AC system, one power station could deliver electricity across many miles, compared to only about one mile for DC.
Each inventor had his backers. Business tycoon George Westinghouse put his money behind Tesla and built AC power stations. Meanwhile, Edison and his DC backers said that AC could easily electrocute people. Edison believed this risk would sway public opinion toward DC power.
The battle over which system would become standard became known as the War of the Currents. This exciting book tells the story of that war, the people who fought it, and the ways in which both kinds of electric power changed the world.
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UK government funds ARM to develop security IP
October 25, 2019	// By Peter Clarke
The UK government has announced it is helping provide £36 million to ARM to develop online security technologies and intellectual property.
The move is described as the next phase of the Digital Security by Design project which the UK government announced in July 2019. At that time the government said the Digital Security by Design project would be backed by Google and Microsoft, amongst others, and would receive up to £117 million worth of private funding combined with £70 million of government investment.
The original DSD description did say that measures taken under the scheme would range from a secure hardware prototype that can cope with cyber-attacks, to software protected from new vulnerabilities appearing online.
The DSD was scheduled to create projects over the next 5 years so it seems likely that the £36 million for the ARM secure project is not an additional sum, but rather a first spending out of the DSD pot.
"Achieving truly robust security for a world of a trillion connected devices requires a radical shift in how technology companies approach cyber-threats. Research into new ways of building inherently more cyber-resilient chip platforms is critical," said Richard Grisenthwaite, ARM chief architect and fellow, in a statement issued by the UK government.
"Our first step is to create prototype hardware, the Morello Board, as a real-world test platform for prototype architecture developed by ARM that uses the University of Cambridge's CHERI protection model. It will enable industry and academic partners to assess the security benefits of foundational new technologies we're making significant investments in."
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From the Editor's Desk
etiquette for the robotic tourist
By John Falcioni Leave a Comment
Categories: Engineering
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The phrase "historic sites on the moon" caught me off guard the other day when I first read it. Historic sites are eternally fascinating. I've been to quite a few—Independence Hall, Westminster Abbey, Cowpens—and I grew up a block away from Pennington Road, where General Washington led the Continental Army to the Battle of Trenton.
Then a press release showed up in my e-mail with this headline: "NASA Offers Guidelines to Protect Historic Sites on the Moon." It conjures visions of battlefields where Moon Men repelled Space Invaders.
But there are indeed sites on the moon of world historical significance. There is no wind to disturb the dust. Rain doesn't fall. Not only are there arrays of historic hardware on the moon, but Neil Armstrong's first footprint is still up there. So is Alan Shepard's divot.
Now with the Google X Prize offering $30 million as an incentive, the moon may soon be getting more traffic. Some of the prizes are offered for the first photographs of old landing sites, so rovers will be trying to get to them. This sounds almost like robotic tourism.
NASA has come up with recommendations for protecting and preserving "U.S. heritage lunar sites." The press release—issued jointly by NASA and the X Prize Foundation—says that Google has agreed to take those guidelines into consideration when it judges plans from would-be moon prize contestants.
As the press release explained it: "NASA recognizes that many spacefaring nations and commercial entities are on the verge of landing spacecraft on the moon. The agency engaged in a cooperative dialogue with the X Prize Foundation and the Google Lunar X Prize teams to develop the recommendations. NASA and the next generation of lunar explorers share a common interest in preserving humanity's first steps on another celestial body and protecting ongoing science from the potentially damaging effects of nearby landers."
The guidelines, of course, aren't mandatory. They are an effort to create standards for a new human endeavor. I read that "Experts from the historic, scientific, and flight-planning communities contributed to the technical recommendations."
This is sounding familiar. Like all useful standards, they have the force of consensus.
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Q: Internet application uploaded on Heroku does not show any graphics I uploaded the my whole application on heroku but I have a problem does not display any photos. The path to the pictures is defined in this way:
src="{{blog.image.url}}"

Therefore, the view should not only be local (I think so).
After uploading the application, my view of django.admin it also looks strange.
Any help will be appreciated! How can I solve this ( to be pictures will be displayed)? Can I do it without re-uploading the application (my database is completed)?

A: If someone meet the same problem:
This provides support for files such as CSS in Heroku
1.) In file settings.py just add the following code:
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/static-files/
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# Extra places for collectstatic to find static files.
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)

Important links at this stage:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
Provides multimedia showing
2.) In settings.py would add:
#<-------------Elements Amazon S3 Beginning --------->

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'reviews/static'),
] #ok

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YYY'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'XXX'
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'name'
AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = '%s.s3.amazonaws.com' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME

AWS_S3_OBJECT_PARAMETERS = {
    'CacheControl': 'max-age=86400',
}

#AWS_LOCATION = 'static' #ok
#STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage' #OK
#STATIC_URL = "https://%s/%s/" % (AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN, AWS_LOCATION) # już wystęuje

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'winerama.storage_backends.MediaStorage'  # <-- here is where we reference it

#<-------------Elements Amazon S3 END -------------->

2.1) In the same folder add a file storage_backends.py
#FIle for amazon 3s
from storages.backends.s3boto3 import S3Boto3Storage

class MediaStorage(S3Boto3Storage):
    location = 'media'
    file_overwrite = False

*of course, we also have to create amazon 3s account.
Important links at this stage:
https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2017/08/01/how-to-setup-amazon-s3-in-a-django-project.html (very good tutorial how to use amazon 3s to media files and static files)
2.2)I also use these commands when adding an application to Heroku:
heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YYY
heroku config:set S3_BUCKET_NAME=s'name'

Important links at this stage:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3
3.) In deploy it helped me
https://tutorial-extensions.djangogirls.org/en/heroku/
(I think the link is helpful but to deploy the whole application help me the following answer in the forum)

*

*disable the collectstatic during a deploy
heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

*deploy
git push heroku master

*run migrations (django 1.10 added at least one)
heroku run python manage.py migrate

*run collectstatic using bower
heroku run 'bower install --config.interactive=false;grunt prep;python manage.py collectstatic --noinput'

*enable collecstatic for future deploys
heroku config:unset DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC

*try it on your own (optional)
heroku run python manage.py collectstatic

Author of the statement tomcounsell
Link: Collectstatic error while deploying Django app to Heroku
Please forgive my bad English.

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Source: Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1927.
WHEATLAND—Grant Walling, 75, died at 4 p.m. Thursday at the General hospital in McMinnville two hours after he was fatally injured with a limb striking him on the head.
With his son, Kirkwood and Harry Fowler, he was felling trees for fuel on his farm. A tree striking another one broke a limb off. He did not speak or regain consciousness afterward.
At Toledo, Ore., Saturday, March 23, Mrs. Florence Toner, aged 77 years. Beloved sister of J.D. Walling of Lincoln, Grant Walling of Hopewell, Mrs. Jennie McFarland of Salem and Mrs. Alice Pomeroy of Kimberley, Idaho. Funeral Wednesday March 27, at 2 p.m. at Zena, in charge of Salem mortuary, 545 North Capitol. Interment Zena cemetery, Rev. Kantner officiating.
Source: Salem Statesman Journal, March 26, 1935.
GRUBBS.—At Selba, Cal., December 5, 1903, at 4 p.m., Mrs. Dilla Lorain Grubbs, while undergoing a surgical operation.
Deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Walling, of Polk county. She was born April 12, 1861, and in 1886 became the wife of L.G. Grubbs, with whom she lived until she passed away. Deceased was a member of the M.E. church, and a devoted Christian. Besides the bereaved husband and only son, Harold, she leaves to mourn here a large family of brothers and sisters. They are: Mrs. S.S. Gimble of Salem; Mrs. O.S. Pomeroy, Woodburn; Mrs. F.W. Peaslee, Zena; John, Jesse and Grant Walling, Lincoln, Polk county; B.F. Walling, Nampa, Idaho; Mrs. Stella Johnson, Mrs. Pheba [sic] McGrew and Mrs. Jennie Glendon [sic], Portland, and Mrs. W.N. [sic] Toner, Yaquina. A host of devoted friends in Marion and Polk counties will grieve to hear of the lady's sad death.
Source: Salem Capital Journal, December 9, 1903.
WALLING—In this city Nov. 28, Benjamin F. Walling, Sr., husband of Georgia M. Walling, father of Jesse J., Frankie G. and Ben F. Walling, Jr., brother of J.D. and Grant Walling, Mrs. Alice Pomeroy and Mrs. Jennie McFarland. Funeral services will be held Monday, Dec. 2, at 10:30 A.M., in the drawing room chapel of Holman & Lutz, E. 14th and Sandy blvd. Vault entombment, Lincoln Memorial Park mausoleum.
Source: Portland Oregonian, December 1, 1929.
SALEM, July 7 (Special) – J.D. (Bird) Walling, 83, native of Oregon, died at his home near Zena Sunday.
Mr. Walling was born on his father's donation land claim. He was graduated from Willamette university and was later engaged in the photographic business at Zena. For the past many years he had operated a farm.
Surviving are the widow, Cora Walling; three daughters, Mrs. Eva Purvine, Amity; Mrs. Gertrude Stewart, Oswego; Mrs. Ethel Mott, Salem, and two sons, Jesse D., Salem, and Harold C., Portland. He also leaves a brother, Grant, of Dayton, and a sister, Mrs. Alice Pomeroy, Kimberly Idaho.
Funeral services will be held at the Clough-Barrick Chapel here Wednesday afternoon, with interment in the Zena cemetery.
Source: Portland Oregonian, July 8, 1940.


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What is PoE and Why is it Important?
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a standard that makes it possible for Ethernet cables to simultaneously transmit data and power using a single network cable. It eliminates the cost of installing additional electrical wiring to operate your network devices such as VoIP telephones and IP cameras.
A VoIP telephone, for example, requires both electrical power and a data network connection to operate. With PoE, only the data network cable is required. PoE has helped VoIP transform business communication and reduce deployment costs.
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VoIP phones are the most common use of PoE. With PoE, your telephones have a single connection to a wall socket.
IP cameras rely on PoE. Because the PoE-powered devices can be put at any location with a data cable in and around a building, it's easy to install or move cameras as necessary.
Points and RFID readers are typically PoE compatible. This allows you to install devices away from AC outlets.
You can add PoE to your network pretty easily. Simply connect other network devices to the PoE switch (which is a data network switch). The switch will automatically determine whether the devices are PoE compatible.
Depending on the needs of your business and your network, you can get PoE switches to fit a wide number of applications. Some switches might have a few PoE capable ports. Others can provide up to 48 PoE capable data ports, are rack-mounted, and can be clustered together to support an unlimited number of network devices.
Whenever you are preparing to upgrade or expand your data network infrastructure, consider implementing PoE capable network switches. They may cost a little more up front, but will provide a significant return on investment when deploying PoE compliant network devices.


Paul's last words to the church at Corinth are found in 2 Corinthians 13:14 - "14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." This final statement was very important to Paul, since throughout His letters to the church at Corinth he was dealing with issues that threatened their fellowship and intimacy with God. He wanted the Christians at Corinth to have direct interraction and empowerment from the Triune God.
So who is the God of the Bible? Passages such as Deuteronomy 6:5 tells us that He is One God whom were are to love with all of our hearts, souls and strength. Furthermore, the Bible tells us that in being one God in His existence, He is Three-fold in His identity. Passages such as the one above and Matthew 28:18-20 tell us that the God of scripture is identified as The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father, the Son and Holy Spirit have co-existed with one another for all eternity. Each one is His own center of personality while having in common the same undivided eternal inward life.
More could be said about how this One God can exist as three, co-eternal, co-equal persons, however I think it is helpful when contemplating the Triune God to begin with His works, followed by His names and then finally arrive at a point where we can adore His very nature.
When we say His works, we speak of the activities of the Triune God in relationship to His creation in general, and His people in particular. In the above passage, we see three distinct areas of God's overall work of relating to His people - grace, love and communion. All three are one great work, with three incredible properties. This work of the Triune God, in anchoring the Christian, is a loving, gracious communion. Thus the work of God here points us back to it's author - who being One in existence, acts within that existence as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The names of God point to His character. Scripture mentions hundreds of them. In this passage, we see When we speak of His names, His names help us identify various features of His character. It is not enough just to know the works of God, but as Psalm 103:7 states, there is that deeper level of know God, namely His ways. I have found the names of God to be helpful, since He often revealed His names in contexts where He was revealing His character. In this text we see three: Jesus Christ, God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Thus God is One in character, and three in identity. No conflict exists within God.
After we have begun with God's works, and proceeded to note His names, we can finally begin to know God. When we do this, we realize that our goal of comprehending God will never be met, since God's glory is beyond comprehension. We can legitimately know God, but never comprehend Him. I can for instance know how a light works when I enter a room - simply flick the switch. However I may not fully comprehend all the laws of physics, mechanics and engineering that it takes to make the switch work. In a much more profound way it is the same when it comes to developing a deeper appreciation for the Trinity. The only proper response is worship and adoration (Psalm 100).


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Women's All Stars too strong in historic clash
Fri 2 May 2014, 07:20 PM
In an historic curtain-raiser to Friday night's Trans-Tasman Test, the Women's All Stars have beaten an Indigenous Women's All Stars side 24-0 at Sydney's Allianz Stadium.
The Women's All Stars looked the slicker of the two sides in the first 40, taking a 14-0 lead to the break and continued on with their strong form in the second half.
Several passages of neat passing led to tries to Renae Kunst, Tegan Chandler and Emily Andrews in the first stanza, and Ali Brigginshaw was successful with one of three shots at goal.
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Despite a late scare when a penalty put the Indigenous Women's All Stars on the attack for one final surge at the try line, the Women's All Stars were able to protect their line and hold on to a 14-0 half-time lead.
The Women's All Stars also started the stronger after the break, keeping the Indigenous side pinned in their own half, and the pressure eventually led to points when a brilliant scything run from Brigginshaw saw her slide over next the posts and convert her own try for a 20-0 lead with around 20 minutes to play.
The Women's All Stars continued to press the Indigenous line, forcing a goal line drop out and coming close to scoring when a Brigginshaw cut-out pass almost put Sam Hammond across out wide.
The Indigenous side continued to make life hard for themselves with handling errors and paid the price when a great sweeping run from Maddie Studdon put her in position to grubber for right winger Karina Brown to pick it up and score just inside the dead-ball line.
Like in the first half the Indigenous side's best chance came in the final minutes, but again the Women's All Stars were able to keep their line intact to close out a 24-0 win.
After the game, Women's All Stars captain Ali Brigginshaw told NRL.com it was "pretty overwhelming" to have been involved on the same night and at the same venue as the men's Test.
"It's surreal that we finally get to play before the men. We've spoken to them before and they love women's league, they really love seeing us play. To play before them is a real big honour," she said.
"It felt like we actually meant something to women in league – the support's been great."
She said the squad only came together on the Wednesday shortly before the game with some new faces.
"We started afresh, started from the basics, did some defence and contact and it all came together this morning," she said.
Of the performance she said the team was most pleased with keeping the opposition to nil.
"We didn't care how many tries we scored, just that they stayed to nil – that's what we prided ourselves on," she said.
Indigenous All Stars captain Julie Young – a member of the World Cup-winning Jillaroos – told NRL.com that while disappointed at the final scoreline, it didn't represent the effort her side put in, nor did it overshadow the side's joy at taking part in the occasion.
"I'm real proud of the game that we've played," she said.
"I know the scoreline might say we got a bit of a flogging but we've played the best side in the World. The Jillaroos are No.1, we've got to give them credit for that.
"I'm really proud of my girls, I'm really happy with how they dug in, they never gave up."
To be playing on Allianz Stadium as the curtain raiser to the Trans Tasman Test is an "unbelievable feeling", she added.
"It feels really amazing and I guess it's not going to sink in for a little while. I'm really blessed to be here today and to be captain of the side is a real great honour," she said.
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Just give me Jesus / by Anne Graham Lotz.
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Originally published: Nashville : Word Pub., c2000.
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Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
New Critical Essays
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Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied Black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars and emerging critics; the essays take on a variety of subjects in Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles.
This is a far-ranging study which contextualises both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996
Branch Call Number: B Jacobs, H.A. HAR
Characteristics: vi, 306 p. ; 23 cm
Additional Contributors: Garfield, Deborah M.
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Alternative Title: Harriet Jacobs & Incidents in the life of a slave girl : new critical essays
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Jørgen Nash (March 16, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of Situationism.

Life

He was born in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark, baptized Jørgen Axel Jørgensen, the brother of Asger Jorn. He later changed his family name from Jørgensen to Nash. He was married three times and had six children. His last marriage was with the painter Lis Zwick and would last until his death in 2004. The last forty years of his life he lived in the artist collective Drakabygget outside Örkelljunga, Sweden.

From 1948 to 1951 he was involved with CoBrA. He went on to join the Situationist International.

In 1959 he produced Stavrim, Sonetter a book of poetry illustrated by Jorn.

In 1960 he founded the Situationist Bauhaus based at the farm Drakabygget with Jorn.

He is the editor of Drakabygget, a journal about art and social philosophy.

In 1963 became an honorary artist of the Royal Danish Academy of Art.

Exhibitions
He has exhibited at:

 Galerias del Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City
 Kobe Art Museum, Kobe, Japan
 Museum of Modern Art New York
 Moderna Museet
 National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
 Museum de Art Moderno, Mexico City
 Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
 Rooseum, Sweden
 The Modern Art Gallery Silkeborg, Denmark
 Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
 Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany
 Yokohama City Art Hall, Yokohama, Japan
 Tessin Institute, Paris
 Museo National de Belles Artes and Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
 Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden
 Kongelige Kobberstiksamling, Copenhagen, Denmark
 Centre Pompidou, Paris
 Royal Academi of Art, Stockholm
 Museu Dárt Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

Exclusion from the SI
On 10 February 1962, Nash voted with the majority of the Central Council of the Situationist International, for the exclusion of the Spur group. The majority was 5 to 1, with Dieter Kunzelmann be the only opposer. Nash rebuked those responsible for Spur, was initially in favor of them publishing a retraction, but stopped short of demanding an exclusion. After a debate on this subject, however, Nash decided on the option of exclusion. Kunzelmann too, the only opposing vote, and himself part of Spur, expressed his approval of all the Central Council's critiques towards the other Spur members.

In Sweden, in March 1962, Jörgen Nash suddenly attacked the SI in the name of the Scandinavian section, with the tract Danger! Do Not Lean Out, and planned to convert the section in another Swedish "Bauhaus". Reckoning on the considerable geographical dispersion of the Scandinavian situationists, Nash had not even consulted with all of them before his putsch. Surprised at not being unanimously followed and at finding himself countered on the spot by the partisans of the SI majority — Jeppesen Victor Martin, who immediately circulated a definitive repudiation of his imposture — Nash at first feigned astonishment that things had gone to the point of a complete break with the situationists; as if the fact of launching a public surprise attack full of lies was compatible with carrying on a dialogue, on the basis of some sort of Nashist Scandinavian autonomy.

According to the SI, Nash's main goal was to use the seal of "situationism" to attract a few highly profitable art dealers. The SI stated that this was confirmed by the fact that Nash's new Swedish "Bauhaus", which consisted of two or three Scandinavian ex-situationists plus "a mass of unknowns flocking to the feast", immediately plunged into "the most shopworn forms of artistic production". According to the SI, the development of this conspiracy was no doubt precipitated by the recent elimination of the SI's right wing, the Spur group, on whose support the Nashists had relied.

In the tract Danger! Do Not Lean Out, Nash, with Ansgar Elde and Jacqueline de Jong, stated that although there may be grounds to criticise the Spur group (Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hand-Peter Zimmer), the way they had been expelled, and the SI itself, were totalitarian. However, the decision followed a debate and was voted by the majority 5 to 1, with Nash also voting in favor of it. Nash also implied that Ansgar Elde was present at the Council and that Jacqueline de Jong was part of if, which was false. The SI, at the behest of Jeppesen Victor Martin, described those they had expelled as nashists.

On 24 April 1964 Nash with other members of Bauhaus Situationniste decapitated the statue of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbour. This manifestation was part of the movements campaign against consumerist society.

Following his exclusion he became involved in the Second Situationist International and the creation in 1974 of the Situationist Antinational.

See also

Stewart Home

See also

 Jorgen Nash, Hangegal. Gallisk Poesialbum, med illuminationer af J.V, MNartin og tegninger af Digteren. Edition Internationale Situationniste, 750 numerierte Exemplare

References

External links
ArtNetGallery page
 Jakob Jakobsen & Mikkel Bolt : Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere 2011

1920 births
2004 deaths
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Danish watercolourists
20th-century Danish artists
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A celebration of the music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, as performed by the OH WHAT A NIGHT! cast that toured New Zealand. Includes many of the great hits including Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like A Man and My Eyes Adored You.


Hayes has been practicing yoga for the better part of a decade, and she's been smoking cannabis for about that long too. At some point, she realized the two go together nicely, especially as a treatment for the migraines that creep into her skull on a daily basis. Now, she's among a small flock of yogis around the country offering to share their discovery with students—provided they can navigate tricky rules about when and where it's legal to practice yoga and smoke pot at the same time.
"When you're sober, it's easier to stay inside a box, follow the program, be linear," Hayes says.
The reason the combination works so well, Hayes says, is because yoga "inspires movement. It can put a pause in your reactive attachment to pain." Because some strains blunt the aches and discomfort that might accompany a particular stretch, for example, getting high before a session allows a person to ignore it, and focus more on mindfulness.
Hayes taught her first class earlier this month at the Prism House PDX, the Portland home of Samantha Montanaro. She and her husband had been hosting various themed gatherings at the house since moving there a few years ago from Chicago, where her use of cannabis was "totally illegal." The idea of pairing it with yoga was appealing, but the times she tried going to a class while high made her feel paranoid. In Oregon, that issue evaporated.
Dee Dussault has been teaching "ganja yoga" since 2009, back in Toronto, after talking to students who said they were interesting in attending while high. It's helpful, she soon discovered, to offer students a place and a window of time to consume cannabis before their class started. Now, she's in San Francisco and has gone from classes hosted once a month to twice a week, with 15 to 20 students each time. And she's heard from instructors also doing ganja yoga in Alaska, Seattle, Vancouver, Canada and across the bay in Oakland.
Because recreational cannabis isn't legal in California, Dussault's students all must have a medical marijuana card to practice. In Oregon, voters approved an initiative in 2014 that allows individuals to possess it and grow it—but not to consume in public. The city of Portland has begun a crackdown on gatherings of people at marijuana-themed events, saying they may run afoul of clean air rules and that those that involve paid admission and free samples might technically constitute an illegal "sale" of marijuana.


I am almost done with What Narcissism Means To Me by Tony Hoagland that Lindsay let me borrow. It is a wonderful book of poetry. I know, it goes against my vow of non-fiction, but its short and I needed a break. And sweet lord, its damn good.
This collection of poems is an amazing representation on what American culture is to those luckily thoughtful people and what thoughtful people might know about America deep in their hearts. Its not the news, its what you feel when you read the news but can't find the words for. His imagery is so simple but he says all the right things. He uses a free verse with little to no meter or rhyme (I am no expert), but those lines breaks are right where they need to be. He makes you pause when you need to and speeds you up when its gettin' hot. These poems read so well, poetically and contextually. He's so subtly funny, you don't even notice the beautiful images he puts in your head.
"Reasons to Survive November": This whole poem is great, expecially as November creeps up. He describes how he must survive, if just to piss off the people that hate him.
into the land of my enemies "Two Trains": A simple thought about a song on the radio turns into so much more.
one boxcar at a time. "Fortune": This is a hilarious poem about a fortune cookie.
Maybe you will marry a red-haired woman.
Maybe you are going to take a long journey.
then you stop, and rest on top of it.
A review of What Narcissism Means To Me entitled A Mean Zen Master Equipped with Pop Lyrics by Mike Schneider.


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The two main US political parties regularly voted along the same lines on clean air and clean water provisions in the 1970s but started to diverge in the 1990s. They now occupy opposite ends of the spectrum, according to data collated by the nonpartisan group the League of Conservation Voters (LCV).
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It said 2017 was a particularly extreme year, with Republicans in the Senate voting for environmental protections just 1% of the time. Forty-six Republican senators voted against environmental protections at every single opportunity.
"The average scores between parties used to be much closer with a lot of variation depending on regionalism," said Sara Chieffo, vice-president of government affairs at LCV, which uses a panel of about 20 conservation organisations to score key votes on issues such as global heating, fossil fuel production on public lands and wildlife conservation. "Now it's hyper-partisan. From 2010 it really accelerated and now we see that the difference has really ballooned."
As recently as George HW Bush's presidency, Republicans in Congress were voting for environmental protections about one-third of the time on average. That support rapidly ebbed and has virtually vanished under Trump.
Meanwhile, Democrats, steered by a base that increasingly sees the climate crisis as an urgent priority, have become far more pro-environment in their voting.
The divide has been exacerbated by funding from the fossil fuel industry, which now firmly backs Republicans.
Data collected by the transparency group OpenSecrets shows donations from oil and gas interests were split relatively evenly between the parties until the 2000s. By the 2018 election cycle, 87% of industry contributions went to Republicans, with the proportion in the 2020 cycle, which is yet to be completed, reaching a record 89%.
Republican lawmakers once led environmental protection in the establishment of national parks and then landmark clean air and water laws in the 1970s, before the Ronald Reagan presidency began a fundamental shift, according to Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University.
"This was linked to a change in Republican thinking, inspired by Reagan, to see the federal government as 'the problem' and to roll back federal regulations in a range of domains," Oreskes said. "Republican leaders in the US do not merely prefer market-based solutions, they refuse even to acknowledge problems that cannot be solved by markets. Climate change is the case in point."
Environmental groups have pointed to the influence of major energy companies, which knew about the dangers of the climate crisis for decades only to fund groups that spread misinformation and denial of the problem, while backing those who helped stymie action.
This has helped create an unusual level of denial about the climate science among Republicans, compared with leading political parties in other democracies. "Behind closed doors politicians will tell you they believe in climate change but they are terrified of saying that because they will get primary challenged for their position," Chieffo said.
Polling has shown that younger Republicans are more willing to accept climate science, with many worrying about the climate crisis and the party's unwillingness to address it.
"The Republican party has refused to accept the severity of most environmental issues, including climate change," said Benji Backer, the president of the American Conservation Coalition, a group of conservatives who support action on the climate crisis. "Instead of being for different environmental policies, many in the GOP have solely become anti-every policy."
Backer said Democrats and environmental groups were also to blame for the divide by supporting policies that "unnecessarily inflate the size of the US government, don't follow the science and are focused on non-environmental issues".
The Green New Deal, a resolution passed by progressive Democrats that calls for the rapid elimination of planet-warming gases as well as a jobs guarantee, has drawn particular ire from Republicans.
Chieffo said the division in Washington was in contrast to the growing public appetite for action on the climate crisis, as well as policies in ostensibly conservative states such as Idaho and South Carolina to bolster renewable energy.
"I think we are going to start seeing a greater diversity in voting and a move to sensibility," she said. "We may well have hit rock bottom. But it's really too soon to tell."
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Q: How to make PWA with manifest / service-worker? I have got a syntax error in my manifest.json

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I'm trying to delete all datas in the file and I get the same error.
Look at my manifest.json
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A: Have you spotted that stray comma after the icons?
Should be:
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Next time simply validate your JSON using any online tool.


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Help Me Identify a North American Bird
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By Miss Marge,
January 7, 2021 in Help Me Identify a North American Bird
Miss Marge
Is this a Red-tailed hawk? Taken in British Columbia, Canada in December a few years back.
AlexHenry
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3 hours ago, AlexHenry said:
The Bird Nuts
17 hours ago, AlexHenry said:
Yes to Red-tailed? The breast and even the belly band looks fine for a Red-shouldered, but the tail doesn't. Could it be a hybrid?
Edited January 7, 2021 by The Bird Nuts
21 minutes ago, The Bird Nuts said:
Yes to Red-tailed?
The initial question posed by the original poster was "Is this a Red-tailed Hawk?", I was responding yes to that question.
Hybrid buteos are quite rare, though they do occur occasionally. Also this out of the range of Red-shouldered Hawk (too far northwest).
This looks like a normal Red-tailed Hawk to me - a calurus/alascensis Red-tailed Hawk, the expected subspecies on the west coast, which often have more rusty tones on the underparts than the eastern birds.
Okay, I'm sure you're right. Sorry about that. I was just struck by how similar it is to an Eastern Red-shouldered.
Seanbirds
2 hours ago, Seanbirds said:
Yeah, but again subspecies is everything
Charlie Spencer
On 1/7/2021 at 1:31 PM, The Bird Nuts said:
This is the second bird this month that I thought was RSHA because of red horizontal breast streaking, but that others identified as RTHA. In fact, on the earlier bird, I recall you were in the RTHA camp!
31 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said:
Haha! Well, I'm in the Red-tailed camp on this one, too. I can see now that it's too bulky and I guess even the belly pattern isn't quite right for a Red-shouldered. I should point out that I'm just comparing photos online here, because Red-shouldereds turn the other way when they see me in the field. ?
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This two day field based course is aimed at climbing arborists looking to improve their understanding of pruning techniques in line with current industry good practice, specifically BS3998, or any arborist looking to achieve an industry recognised qualification in the aerial pruning of trees.
This course has been developed to give the candidates a better understanding of how, where, when and why tree pruning may be required, or not!
This course will also provide the candidate with all the theoretical knowledge and practical skills requires to undertake the NPTC Level 3 Unit 002107 assessment.
Be able to demonstrate competence in both crown reduction and crown thinning techniques and understand the principals of a range of pruning operations.
Pruning tools including: top handled chainsaw, hand saw (silky saw), secateurs, long reach loppers or pole tools.
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The Early Day Miners Good Time Band is back with another platter of Midwest post-goth. Having already introduced their new rhythm section (Matt Griffin on drums and Jonathan Richardson on bass) to the world over the course of their last two tours, with All Harm Ends Here Early Day Miners have combined the lushness of their second album Let Us Garlands Bring with the conciseness of their last full-length Jefferson At Rest.
Moreso than on any of their previous efforts, EDM take both musical and tonal cues from the principal architects of the 80′s sad-as-hell dark underground – Echo & the Bunnymen, the Church, early-the Cure, and most notably the Bauhaus/Tones On Tail/Love And Rockets axis.
While contemporaries like Bedhead and Interpol have mined primarily the darkest aspects of these long shadows, there lies in Early Day Miners' method an innate sense of hope that transcends even their darkest themes (decay, suicide, desertion). Perhaps this is most evident in the guitar interplay of long-time collaborators Dan Burton (Ativin) and Joseph Brumley.
Arpeggios abound, the works of Roger McGuinn and The Edge come to mind in that there is a sense of hopefulness and sublimation which drives the songs to a better place. While the album is filled with death and ghosts of all sorts, its unifying theme is the individual's ability to escape the death and ghosts. Even the making of the album (which was done just outside of the band's hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, on the outskirts of Hoosier National Forest) was plagued by ghosts and phantoms. Recorded at the Old Mt. Gilead Church – recently revamped into a recording studio and still immediately surrounded on three sides by a dozen acres of 150-year old cemetery – principal tracking for All Harm Ends Here was halted for days at a time on multiple occasions when inexplicable flutter infected the reels of tape, almost requiring EDM to relocate its principal tracking altogether.
Mixing and overdubbing was done at Burton's own Grotto Home Studio in an effort to evade those ghosts in the machine which possessed Old Mt. Gilead. While the Early Day Miners don't make flashy music, their layered music rewards the repeat listener. If you listen closely enough, in fact, you can hear ghosts in the distance.
With "All Harm Ends Here", Early Day Miners have combined the lushness of their second album "Let Us Garlands Bring" with the conciseness of their last full-length "Jefferson At Rest".
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"Bloomington, Indiana's Early Day Miners are building sonic templates that pay tribute to the ambient models of Brian Eno, the feedback zombie drones of the Jesus & Mary Chain, the frosted alienation of Joy Division and the sublime melancholy heart of Trembling Blue Stars."
"It's a marvel to see this sort of restraint in rock music. It almost seems unnatural or paradoxical at first. But when done properly, as with EDM, the results are very convincing."
"The nearest reference points are Low and the Red House Painters. They are equally adept at drawing out a sketch of sound, starting near blank, filling in lines, shading with shimmers of guitar building up into a louder, thicker sound and weaving patterns."
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Quins in Galashiels (by Tesco Superstore) is an eating place that gets it right at all levels. It's just fine for a cuppa (and home made cake) in the morning, a tasty reasonably-priced lunch with home made puddings, and reliably delicious dinner in the evenings.
Partners Sylvia Scott and chef Stephen Boggs didn't stumble upon this place by chance. The location is well-thought out with the merging of a former restaurant combined with its neighbour, a coffee shop.
Sylvia honed her skills in The Waggon and the Mayfield Garden Centre, Kelso followed by worthwhile stints in The Kingsknowe Hotel, Gala, and the Carters' Rest in Jedburgh. All along the way her standards have attracted foodies and with chef partner Stephen's catering skills make for a winning formula.
The decor is tasteful, and wooden rather than clattery laminate floors make the place feel homely. The loos are shiny clean too - that's always a good sign!


Hasco Hasenclever GmbH + Co KG, Lüdenscheid, Germany, has extended its product range of ready-to-install single needle valves with the H44201/… and H44202/… hot halves. The entire needle shut-off unit is installed directly in the corresponding size of mold, making it easy to maintain, and is designed and produced in close cooperation with the user for the application in question.
According to the manufacturer the hot half is ready for immediate use, as it comes equipped with Vario Shot nozzles, all the hot runner and connection components, the clamping, frame and nozzle retainer plate, and also the standard parts. The ready-to-connect system simply has to be assembled to the fixed mold plate. After connecting the system to the peripheral control and supply units, users are able to start production straightaway.
All the electrical components and pneumatic or hydraulic drives have been tested by the company to ensure their correct functioning and wiring. In addition, all the relevant dimensions such as the nozzle protrusion, nozzle tip and needle position, and guides and centering units are checked on coordinate measuring machines after they have been mounted. The test results are documented in the corresponding protocols. For each hot half, Hasco supplies detailed documentation with system drawings, parts lists, and installation and maintenance instructions, as well as a test report.
H44201/… and H44202/… both come equipped with a USB 2.0 data memory. All the available data and information such as drawings, parts lists and measurement protocols are stored on this and can be called up directly at any time irrespective of the point of use and the mold. Customers can also use the data memory to store their own information about the mold or the injection parameters. The range includes all the common mold sizes from 190x246 mm to 696x696 mm. With individual columning, size 196x196 mm can also be adapted as the smallest mold.
According to the company the concept of the hot half allows moldmakers and injection molders to reduce their design and manufacturing times.


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The most commonly available slot machines that you are likely to come across the world over are of course casino slots, and they can take many different forms, such as three-reel classic slots or bonus game awarding video slots for example.
However, over in the UK there is another type of slot machine known as an AWP which stands for Amusement with Prizes, and those gaming machines are very low stake machines but ones that have been designed in a special way that ensures that players get much more entertainment value out of playing them.
The most standard AWP's which are also known as fruit machines, are designed as three reel slots on which there is just one single pay-line however you could come across fruit machines and AWP's that have more reels and more pay-lines.
What will happen for sure when you do set about playing AWP's is that a very large number of bonus games and built in bonus features will be on offer on the ones you choose to play and they will tend to trigger very frequently too.
Some commonly found bonus games and bonus features include a hold feature on which players can hold any reels and lock them in place for the next spin, and nudges allow players to move reels upwards and/or downwards to help the nudge in winning combinations form time to time.
The only downside about fruit machines however, is that they can legally be set to return some very, very low long term expected pay-out percentages, so when you do fancy playing them you will be best advised to only play those with the highest possible pay-out percentages, or you bankroll may not last very long!
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Highlights of 2015 Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS): MENTAL HEALTH
Reference Number: SR 2018-16
The Global-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) is a survey designed to measure and assess the behavioral risk factors and protective factors among young people aged 13 to 17 years old. The survey aims to obtain data on young people's health behavior and protective factors related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adults. The result of the survey provides policy makers with insights and tools necessary in creating more responsive health interventions.
The GSHS measured alcohol use, dietary behaviors, drug use, hygiene, mental health, physical activity, protective factors, tobacco use, HIV/AIDS related knowledge, and violence and unintentional injury. The survey was funded by the Epidemiology Bureau of the Department of Health with technical assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC).
Mental Health is a person's condition with regard to their psychological and emotional wellbeing.
The most usual problems on mental health among adolescents include anxiety disorders,depression and other mood disorders, and behavioural and cognitive disorders.
12 in 100 students aged 13-15 years old seriously attempted suicide
For ages 13-15 years old, 11.5% of the students had seriously considered attempting suicide in the past 12 months before the survey.
Closely the same percentage of students who made a plan on how they would attempt suicide wth 11.1%.
The percentage of students aged 13-15 years old who attempted suicide one or more times in the past 12 months was recorded at 17%.
Table 1. Percentage of Students Aged 13-15 Years Old Who Experienced a Vision of Suicide and Loneliness by Sex,
Philippines: 2015
More female students aged 13-15 years old experience a vision of suicide and loneliness
There were more female students aged 13-15 years old who seriously considered attempting suicide with 13.6% compared to male students with 9.3%.The percentage of female students who made a plan about how they would attempt suicide was also higher compared to male students. Female students had a percentage of 12.5% compared to 9.5% of male students.
More female students considered attempting suicide one or more times with 18.7% compared to male students with 15.1%.
Female students were most likely to feel lonely in contrast to male students, with 19.4% for female students and 10.9% for males.
19 in 100 students aged 13-17 years old feel lonely most of the time
The percentage of both male and female students aged 13-17 years who most of the time or always felt lonely was recorded at 19.4%.
The percentage of students aged 13-17 years who attempted suicide one or more times was 16.8%.
Those seriously considered attempting suicide was 11.6% and those that made a plan on how they would attempt it was 10.9%.
Figure 1. Percentage of Students Aged 13 - 17 Years Old Who Experienced
a Vision of Suicide and Loneliness, Philippines: 2015
More female students aged 13-17 years old consider suicide
The percentage of female students aged 13-17 years old who considered attempting suicide one or more times was higher compared to their male counterpart with 18.5% in females and 15.0% in males.
Female students aged 13-17 years old who seriously considered attempting suicide had a percentage of 13.9%, also higher than the male students with a percentage of 9.2%.
Female students had a higher tendency to feel lonely most of the time compared to males with a percentage of 19.5% and male students with 17.6%.
Students who made a plan about how they would attempt suicide was also lower for males compared to female students. As for male students, the percentage was 9.3% while female students was 12.3%.
Figure 2. Percentage of Students Aged 16-17 Years Old Who Experienced
16 in 100 students aged 16-17 years old attempted suicide
The percentage of students aged 16-17 years old who attempted suicide one or more times was 16.2%.
Among the female student respondents aged 16-17 years old, 17.2% attempted suicide one or more times. While the male students of the same age group, 15.5% said they attempted the same.
There was a higher percentage of female students aged 16-17 years old who seriously considered attempting suicide with 14.7% while their male counterparts was lower with 9.1%.
The percentage students aged 16-17 years old who made a plan about how they would attempt suicide was 10.1% and higher percentage was noted among females than among males.
Male students aged 16-17 years old had a lower tendency to feel lonely most of the time (15.5%) as compared to their female colleagues with 19.8% .
Adolescent is of a young person who is in the process of developing from a child into an adult.
Attempt is an act of trying to achieve something, typically one that is unsuccessful or not certain to succeed.
Plan is an intention or decision about what one is going to do
Suicide is the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.
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I remember going to Disney World in Florida when I was a kid. I was really young, but I noticed that the signage was bilingual, like in Canada, except here it was English and Spanish.
And I found that I could read the simple warnings and instructions almost fluently.
Let's try a little experiment. What does this mean?
Io voglio una bottiglia d'acqua.
That's actually Italian. It means, "I want a bottle of water." But you likely already knew that. You can probably even pronounce it well enough for an Italian to understand you.
You think that's hard? Now let me explain the numbers next to the Pinyin. Mandarin has 5 tones: the first is like singing a high, level note. The second goes from the middle of the register upwards, the third starts in the middle then goes down and up again. The fourth goes from a high register to a low one, and the fifth is a neutral tone.
You would think that similar words would be grouped together so that the tone would mean a different but similar thing, such as "to have" and "to want" being the same word with different tones. Nope. The word for 4 means "death" if you pronounce it wrong.
Meanwhile, I now impress my friends by saying, in my best action hero voice, "It's death o'clock!" and then striking a pose.
Four is actually an unlucky number because of stupid foreigners making fun of it, but it's also really memorable to me since I have three friends now whose names are "four four." They have real English names, but I like to respect the culture and just translate the actual meaning to English.
Anyway, I'm chugging along fairly well thanks to this thing called the Pimsleur Method. Basically, you take one half-hour lesson a day that involves listening, repeating and answering questions with words that you're taught as you go. The concept revolves around the idea that you learn better in intervals. For example, if I made you repeat a word a thousand times, you'd probably get it. But if I made you repeat it 5 times now, 5 times 2 minutes from now, 3 times 5 minutes from now, 2 times 15 minutes from now and once or twice periodically days afterwards, you'd remember it as well as if you'd sat there all day writing the thing on a chalk board. Maybe better.
The Pimsleur Method is available in tons of different languages including Italian and French, so if you want to learn a language conversationally in three months or less, seriously check this out.


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Q: Derivatives relation Please, help me solve the following problem:

Suppose $$\frac{df(x,y)}{dx}>0, \qquad \frac{df(x,y)}{dy}<0, \qquad  \frac{d^2f(x,y)}{dxdy}<0$$ Is it true that if $y_{2}>y_{1}>0$ then $\dfrac{df(x,y_{1})}{dx}>\dfrac{df(x,y_{2})}{dx}$?

Will be very grateful for help!

A: It seems to me that the statement is true as it possible to write $\frac{d^2f(x,y)}{dxdy}=\frac{d(\frac{df(x,y)}{dx})}{dy}<0$ so derivative $\frac{df(x,y)}{d(x)}$ stricktly decrease while $y$ goes up.


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WASHINGTON — Three out of 10 white evangelical Protestants in the United States say "there's almost nothing President Trump could do to lose my approval," a new survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute has discovered.
As exit polls from last November found that about 81 percent of self-identified white evangelicals voted for the billionaire real estate mogul, the religious demographic has been criticized by mainstream pundits and commentators for being one of Trump's strongest and most important political bases despite Trump's character flaws and immoral behavior.
On Tuesday, PRRI released its annual American Values Survey titled "One Nation, Divided, Under Trump," which found that just over four in 10 white evangelicals (42 percent) were weak Trump supporters, answering that although they support Trump, it is still possible for them to lose their support. Meanwhile, 30 percent of white evangelicals say they approve of Trump and "there's almost nothing President Trump could do to lose my approval,"
Eleven percent of white evangelicals were "weak" Trump opponents, saying that their opinion of Trump could still change. However, 13 percent of white evangelicals were "strong" in their opposition to Trump, answering that there is almost nothing the president could do to win their approval.
By comparison, a total 34 percent of all Republicans polled were "strong" Trump supporters and 50 percent of Republican respondents were "weak" supporters. Only a total of 12 percent of Republicans were weak or strong Trump opponents, suggesting that white evangelical Protestants are about twice as likely to oppose Trump than the average Republican. However, the data on white evangelical protestants also includes responses from non-Republican evangelicals.
The survey also found that 72 percent of white evangelicals approve of Trump's job performance through the first year of his presidency while 84 percent of Republicans as a whole favor Trump's job performance.
"What struck me is that Trump supposedly got 81 percent of the white evangelical vote and he now has 72 percent approval, which means that white evangelicals are still tracking roughly what they voted," Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told The Christian Post in an interview after participating in a panel discussion about the newly released survey at the Brookings Institution.
"That suggests to me that if you looked at the Trump-backers among white evangelicals that he would have closer to 40 or 45 percent of "strong" support. ... I don't have historical data to fall back on ... but that would make sense in the sense that there are people even among supporters of Trump [that recognize] that there is something that they are not 100 percent on [about Trump]. [Maybe] his behavior causes them to pull back."
White mainline Protestants were split with 49 percent approving of Trump's performance and 49 percent disapproving. As for white Catholics, 49 percent approve and 47 percent disapprove.
The PRRI research also found that white evangelical Republicans were more likely than average non-white evangelical Protestant Republicans to prefer Trump to some other GOP nominee in the 2020 presidential election.
While 68 percent of white evangelical Republicans said they prefer Trump over "someone else" in the 2020 GOP race, 63 percent of average Republicans and 56 percent of Republicans who are not evangelical, said the same.
Twenty-five percent of white evangelical Protestant Republicans prefer another candidate to be the Republican nominee in three years, while 37 percent of non-white evangelicals said they also prefer "someone else."
On average, 31 percent of Republican respondents said they prefer a candidate in 2020 other than Trump.
When examining these numbers, Olsen said that one thing to keep in mind is that the PRRI data shows that the majority of both Democrats and Republicans thinks that the other political party is "so misguided they pose a threat to the the country."
"There certainly was a lot of people voting for Trump because they couldn't vote for HIllary. The exit polls made it clear that more people liked Hillary than like Trump but the reason why Trump won is because he won more of the people who didn't like both of them. He won them by almost 20 percent. A lot of those are those who tend to be Republican who don't like Trump," Olsen, the only Republican on the panel and the author of the upcoming book The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue Collar Conservatism, told CP.
"That's something that gets overlooked almost all the time," Olsen added. "You can take a look at this data and see that 41 percent of the people like Trump. Well, that is actually higher than when he won the presidency. So, if the same number of people don't like a hypothetical Democrat and don't like a hypothetical Trump but would still break for him by 20 points, he wins re-election even though more people don't like him. That's what people are overlooking. It's not just about Trump. It's about choices."
Joy Reid, a liberal MSNBC talk show host, listed a number of reasons during the panel in which conservative religious voters would support Trump.
She touched on the conflict on religious liberty in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision on marriage to which Trump vowed to protect religious freedom. Reid also touched on the other desires of evangelical conservatives, such as having the United States embassy in Israel moved to Jerusalem, advancing pro-life policies and nominating conservative judges.
"Christians see Donald Trump as a figure that, while he may be personally heretical, is carrying the Gospel into public policy because he is putting judges in who will protect Christian cake bakers; who will, in this tax bill, sign a piece of legislation that will drop the federal prohibition against churches getting directly involved in politics; whose tax policies will favor people who educate their children in homeschools and in private schools and disproportionately disfavor public schools, which a lot of these Republican voters also think [public schools] are [indoctrinating] children with liberal and almost communistic values."
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