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Is 6690 a prime number? What are the divisors of 6690?
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Is 6690 a prime number?
It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
No, 6 690 is not a prime number.
For example, 6 690 can be divided by 2: 6 690 / 2 = 3 345.
Actually, one can immediately see that 6 690 cannot be prime, because 5 is one of its divisors: indeed, a number ending with 0 or 5 has necessarily 5 among its divisors. The last digit of 6 690 is 0, so it is divisible by 5 and is therefore not prime.
For 6 690 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 6 690 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.
What is a prime number?
Parity of 6 690
6 690 is an even number, because it is evenly divisible by 2: 6 690 / 2 = 3 345.
What is an even number?
Is 6 690 a perfect square number?
A number is a perfect square (or a square number) if its square root is an integer; that is to say, it is the product of an integer with itself. Here, the square root of 6 690 is about 81.792.
Thus, the square root of 6 690 is not an integer, and therefore 6 690 is not a square number.
What is the square number of 6 690?
The square of a number (here 6 690) is the result of the product of this number (6 690) by itself (i.e., 6 690 × 6 690); the square of 6 690 is sometimes called "raising 6 690 to the power 2", or "6 690 squared".
The square of 6 690 is 44 756 100 because 6 690 × 6 690 = 6 6902 = 44 756 100.
As a consequence, 6 690 is the square root of 44 756 100.
Number of digits of 6 690
6 690 is a number with 4 digits.
What are the multiples of 6 690?
The multiples of 6 690 are all integers evenly divisible by 6 690, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 6 690 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 6 690. The smallest multiples of 6 690 are:
0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 6 690 too, since 0 × 6 690 = 0
6 690: indeed, 6 690 is a multiple of itself, since 6 690 is evenly divisible by 6 690 (we have 6 690 / 6 690 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
13 380: indeed, 13 380 = 6 690 × 2
Numbers near 6 690
Preceding numbers: …6 688, 6 689
Following numbers: 6 691, 6 692…
Nearest numbers from 6 690
Preceding prime number: 6 689
Following prime number: 6 691
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About Daniel Pink
Short Bio:
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan's books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.
Long Bio:
Daniel H. Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about business, work, creativity, and behavior.
His books include:
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward overturns the conventional wisdom about our most misunderstood emotion and shows how regret, properly handled, points the way to a life well-lived. Based on two large and unprecedented research projects, the book was an immediate New York Times bestseller list and has been named a best book of 2022 by NPR, Amazon, Apple Books, and the Financial Times. It is now being translated into 27 languages.
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home. When spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. It was also a Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller. Several outlets (including Amazon, iBooks, and Goodreads) named it one of the best non-fiction books of 2018. It has been translated into 33 languages.
To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, which uses social science to offer a fresh look at the art and science of sales. To Sell is Human was a #1 bestseller on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post lists and has been translated into 34 languages. More than a dozen outlets, from Amazon.com to The Washington Post, selected it as one of the best books of the year. It also won the American Marketing Association's Berry Book Prize as the year's best book on marketing.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which draws on 50 years of behavioral science to challenge traditional beliefs about human motivation. Along with being a Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, Drive spent 159 weeks on the New York Times (main and extended) bestseller lists. A national bestseller in Japan and the United Kingdom, the book has been translated into 40 languages.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, which charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and describes the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced, automated age. A Whole New Mind was on the New York Times (main and extended) bestseller lists for 96 weeks over four years. It has been a Freshman Read at several U.S. colleges and universities. In 2008, Oprah Winfrey gave away 4,500 copies of the book to Stanford University's graduating class when she was the school's commencement speaker.
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need, the first American business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga and the only graphic novel ever to become a BusinessWeek bestseller. Illustrated by award-winning artist Rob Ten Pas, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko was named an American Library Association best graphic novel for teens.
Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself, a Washington Post bestseller that Publishers Weekly says "has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations." In 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Library of Congress selected Free Agent Nation as one of 100 Books That Shaped Work in America.
Pink was host and co-executive producer of "Crowd Control," a television series about human behavior on the National Geographic Channel that aired in more than 100 countries. He hosts a popular MasterClass on sales and persuasion. He has appeared frequently on NPR, PBS, ABC, CNN, and other TV and radio networks in the US and abroad.
He has been a contributing editor at Fast Company and Wired as well as a business columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Slate, and other publications. He was also a Japan Society Media fellow in Tokyo, where he studied the country's massive comic industry.
Before venturing out on his own 20 years ago, Dan worked in several positions in politics and government, including serving from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore.
He received a BA from Northwestern University, where he was a Truman Scholar and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale Law School. He has also received honorary doctorates from Georgetown University, the Pratt Institute, the Ringling College of Art and Design, the University of Indianapolis, and Westfield State University.
Pink and his wife live in Washington, DC. They are the parents of two recent college graduates and a college sophomore.
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Darwyn Cooke (1962 – 2016).
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Life of Dad Show Rewind – Freddie Prinze Jr.
Freddie Prinze Jr. is this week's guest on The Life of Dad Show – Rewind Edition
The Life of Dad Show, host Art Eddy shares an interview he did a few years back with Freddie Prinze Jr. Freddie Prinze Jr chats with Art about being a dad. Freddie talks about who were his role models when he was growing up and how he has taken what he learned from them and use it now that he is a father. He is a great dad with a caring heart. Not only is Freddie an actor he hosts a podcast called Prinze and the Wolf Podcast, has his own cookbook and is an avid gamer.
About Freddie Prinze Jr.
Freddie Prinze, Jr., starred in such movies as She's All That, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer as well as the Scooby-Doo franchise and Summer Catch. He is a recurring guest voice on Comedy Central's Robot Chicken, Star Wars Rebels, and other animated series and video games. In 2010 Freddie joined the cast of 24 for its final season. Also an active writer and producer, Freddie lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and their two children.
Follow Freddie Prinze Jr. on Twitter at @RealFPJr.
The Life of Dad Show is the multimedia flagship property of the world's largest network for fathers. With 600,000 downloads of its popular podcast and 300,000+ viewers of the Facebook Live show since 2017, The Life of Dad Show has gathered advice, stories and strategies from an unparalleled list of household names, from Shaq to Jim Gaffigan, to Michael Strahan and Mark Hamill, each offering a glimpse into their personal life as a dad. The show airs Mondays and Wednesdays on Facebook Live, YouTube and Instagram TV. The podcast comes out weekly.
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Eastman & Smith Ltd. secured a victory for Defendant Sky Bank - Ohio Bank Region (now part of The Huntington National Bank) in the Ohio Supreme Court in Spiller v. Sky Bank - Ohio Bank Region. The appeal dealt with Ohio Revised Code Sec. 1109.69, which sets the time periods for which banks must retain records and during which lawsuits against banks depending on such records must be brought. Firm member Matthew D. Harper led the firm's team and presented oral argument before the Court on March 25, 2009. The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed all of the plaintiff's claims against the Bank as untimely under the statute. The decision reversed both the Court of Appeals and the Trial Court, both of which had rejected the Bank's argument.


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J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Mar;92(3):1073-9. Epub 2006 Dec 12.
Body mass index differences in pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a versus pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism may implicate paternal imprinting of Galpha(s) in the development of human obesity.
Long DN1, McGuire S, Levine MA, Weinstein LS, Germain-Lee EL.
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
Obesity is a prominent feature of Albright hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO), a disorder caused by heterozygous GNAS mutations that disrupt the stimulatory G protein alpha-subunit Galpha(s). Because Galpha(s) is paternally imprinted in certain hormone target tissues, maternal inheritance of AHO leads to multihormone resistance [pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a (PHP1a)], whereas paternal inheritance leads to AHO alone [pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (pseudoPHP)]. Classically, the obesity in AHO is described as occurring similarly in both conditions.
This observational study was conducted at the General Clinical Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; National Institutes of Health.
PATIENTS:
Fifty-three patients with AHO (40 with PHP1a and 13 with pseudoPHP) and two with progressive osseous heteroplasia were studied.
Main outcome measures were weight and height sd score (SDS), body mass index (BMI) percentiles, and BMI z-scores.
Patients with PHP1a had significantly greater mean weight SDS, BMI percentages, and BMI z-scores compared with patients with pseudoPHP. These differences in BMI were secondary to adipose content based on dual energy x-ray absorptiometry analysis. The mean BMI z-score +/- sem for PHP1a was 2.31 +/- 0.18 compared with 0.65 +/- 0.31 in pseudoPHP (P = 0.000032). Twenty-five of 40 (62.5%) patients with PHP1a had mean BMI z-scores greater than two SDS above the mean, whereas no patients with pseudoPHP had BMI z-scores in this range.
Although the AHO phenotype for PHP1a and pseudoPHP has been thought to be similar, we have found that obesity is a more prominent feature in PHP1a than in pseudoPHP and that severe obesity is characteristic of PHP1a specifically. These findings may implicate paternal imprinting of Galpha(s) in the development of human obesity.
10.1210/jc.2006-1497
Body Mass Index*
Chromogranins
Fathers*
GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits/genetics*
GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs/genetics
Genomic Imprinting*
Obesity/complications
Obesity/genetics*
Pseudohypoparathyroidism/complications*
Pseudohypoparathyroidism/genetics*
GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits
GNAS protein, human
GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs
ZIA DK043302-16/NULL/Intramural NIH HHS/United States
M01 RR00052/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
R01 FD-R-002658/FD/FDA HHS/United States
T32 DK007751/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States
Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1A - Genetic Alliance
Pseudohypoparathyroidism - Genetic Alliance
Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism - Genetic Alliance
Obesity in Children - MedlinePlus Health Information


Poison exposure or ingestion can cause illness and injury, and in severe cases, it can be fatal. Because many households contain potentially dangerous drugs and poisons, you may want to be aware of emergency treatments should someone you know ingest a poisonous substance in your home.
Emergency treatments for poisoning differ depending on the part of the body affected, the amount of poison involved and the overall severity of the case. Whether a first aid kit is needed, or the poisoning calls for a trip to the emergency room, the important thing to keep in mind is not to panic. With the right poison response and first-aid, you and those around you can safely help a victim of poisoning.
Antiseptic wipes: These can be used to disinfect and clean an area of skin that has been exposed to a poisonous substance.
Mouthpiece for CPR: In the event that someone is having trouble breathing, this can help you administer CPR.
Tweezers: In the event of a bee sting, tweezers can be used to remove the stinger from the skin.
If the poisonous substance is causing a severe reaction — such as vomiting, unconsciousness or seizures — call 911 immediately to be taken to the emergency room for medical attention.
There are four different ways someone can become poisoned — they can ingest, inhale, absorb or be injected by a poisonous substance. Each of these cases can result in a medical emergency, which is why it's extremely important to be prepared.
If poison has been ingested: Treatment for poison ingestion sometimes involves removing the remaining poison from the mouth. Unless the person is unconscious or having a seizure, give them some water to drink. Do not give them syrup of ipecac or activated charcoal. These should only be administered by medical professionals.
If poison has been inhaled: Get the person fresh air. Open windows or go outside. If the person is having trouble breathing, call 911. Avoid breathing in the fumes yourself.
If poison has been absorbed on the skin: Remove clothes that are contaminated, and wash the skin with water. Don't forget to wash your own skin — this can help prevent you from being exposed.
If poison is injected by a venomous insect: Remove any stinger gently, wash the area that was affected with lukewarm water and call the Poison Control Center near you. Do not use dirty or dull tweezers to remove a stinger. This can worsen the situation by leading to infection or pushing the stinger deeper into the skin.
Remember, try not to panic if you or someone else has been poisoned, and call 911 if you think you have a medical emergency.
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Medline Plus. (2010). Household products. Retrieved April 27, 2010, from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/householdproducts.html.
Minnesota Poison Control System. (2004). Poison first aid. Retrieved April 27, 2010, from http://www.mnpoison.org/index.asp?pageID=49.
National Capital Poison Center. (2010). Poison info. Retrieved April 27, 2010, from http://www.poison.org/current/.


Thu Sep 26 2013 21:07 Bouncy Baby: Yesterday Dalton got lost at school. I said, "come here Dalton" when he was playing at the playground and he headed toward the gate when I was headed to Maggie's classroom in the opposite direction. As soon as I noticed he wasn't at the playground, I went to the gate and saw him halfway down the block to the car - with a throng of people in between. I started running to try to catch up to him, but he just kept walking! Finally, a couple of moms we know from K last year noticed he was alone and crying and stopped him from crossing the driveway. Of course, we practiced "stickedy-stuck feet" and saying "Where's my mommy?" which he is very good about doing at Disneyland and Target, but apparently didn't occur to him when he thought he knew where he was going.
Anyway, the point of this blog was about me running to catch up to him. Maggie was very impressed that I could run faster than she! "And wearing flip flops," I said. "And carrying Nenna," she added. Yes, carrying Nenna. She was LAUGHING the whole time! She laughed so loudly, I thought she was crying. She LOVES being bounced. If I bounce her a bit and then stop, she will start rocking herself to get me to keep it up.


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Show History - Divorce Court
Divorce Court began as a dramatized court show in 1957, but later and presently is an arbitration-based reality court show. The program is nontraditional within the judicial genre as it mostly resolves the disputes of couples facing the end of their relationship. It has been presided over by many television personalities: former Cleveland Heights Municipal Court Judge Lynn Toler and Judge Mablean Ephraim, Judge Faith Jenkins, and currently Judge Star Jones. Divorce Court is produced by Lincolnwood Drive, Inc. and distributed by Fox First Run.
Divorce Court is the longest-running program in the legal courtroom genre, and of the shows now airing in the genre, is the oldest. It has been revived more than any other court show: the series has lived three lives in first-run syndication: from 1957 to 1969, from 1985 to 1992, and the current iteration, since 1999. Unlike the show's previous lives which portrayed standard court cases with opening and closing arguments and attorneys representing the litigants, litigants defend themselves in the present life of the show, which is similar to most current court shows.
The show's earliest life was dramatized and scripted. It had a total of 12 seasons, lasting from 1957 to 1969. During that life, Voltaire Perkins played the role of the judge, with Colin Male playing the role of courtroom announcer. The show's 2nd life, lasting 7 seasons, debuted over a decade later in the spring of 1985. This life began with the show's 13th season. It was scripted and William B. Keene played the role of the judge (Judge Keene was the presiding judge at the murder trial of Charles Manson from December 1969 to April 1970, when he was replaced due to a motion of prejudice filed by Manson). Former game show host Jim Peck played the role of courtroom reporter and announcer, but was later replaced by former Scarecrow and Mrs. King star Martha Smith near the ending of this life of the show. This life of Divorce Court lasted until 1992.
Divorce Court's current incarnation has been airing since 1999 with the following judges and is produced in Atlanta, Georgia.
Judge Mablean Ephriam - 1999-2006
Judge Lynn Toler- 2006-2020
Judge Faith Jenkins - 2020-2222
Judge Star Jones - NOW PRESIDING


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Rani Bagai on "Ram Bagai"
Part of a video interview of Rani Bagai conducted on June 3, 2013. In this section, Bagai primarily discusses her mother, Leona Bell Parr, and father, Ram Bagai, the youngest son of Vaishno Das Bagai and Kala Bagai Chandra. She discusses her father's role in subtitling and screening Hindi films in the U.S., as well his encounter with Jawaharlal Nehru in Los Angeles.
Subject(s): Rani Bagai, Ram Bagai
Transcribed by Sweta Haldar
Rani Bagai (RB) (0:00): My parents met, let's see, around - it was just after the war - in Sandusky, Ohio. My mother worked for an Indian photographer, his name was Shanti, and she was his assistant and she would go with him to places where she would help set up the lights, and the cameras, and you know film, and whatever he needed she was there to hand it to him or whatever. And my father belonged to an Indian society of some kind - I don't know what the name of it was - but they would have dinner together as a group, and I think they decided one night to commemorate their group by taking some photos, and having this photographer come and kind of formalize this setting. I think they were all sitting down at a table, and facing the camera - it's a very kind of formal, kind of old-fashioned kind of photoshoot they were doing.
(1:07) And so, Shanti was there with his cameras and my mom was there, and I guess my dad basically wanted to meet her, and introduced himself and got to know her there at that dinner. So, it was from that time that I think they started dating. And then he said - I think they decided pretty quickly that they were made for each other. He wanted her to move out west with him, and meet his mother and his stepfather at the time. So they came out, and my father goes up upstairs to where his mom is living and says, "Mom, guess what? I found the girl I want to marry."
(2:04) And she says, "Really?" You know, like, "Wow, this is great. This is all a big surprise. Who is she?" And so he tells her, "Her name is Leona. And you know, she's from Ohio," and blah, blah, blah. She says, "Oh, that's great. Well, so is she in Ohio? Where is she?" And de says, "No, actually she's down in the car, she's sitting in the car in the street." My grandmother says, "Well, bring her up!" Like, let's meet her. I mean, like, bring her in. So he does, and of course my mom is very shy and very nervous about meeting her, but my grandmother instantly took to her.
(2:49) They became very dear to each other. And, you know, I think my grandmother could have perhaps been a little wary that - you know, she might have wanted her son to marry an Indian woman, or take him back to India to get married, and she might have maybe had it a little bit against my mom or something. But she loved her, and she treated her like her own daughter. In fact, I think she gave her the nickname that I heard her use so often, which is Tara, which in Hindi means star. So, that was what she would call my mom. And she taught her to cook Indian food. She became a great cook. And it was really, I think, a very happy relationship with my parents and the in-laws. Something you don't often find.
(3:42) My father got his undergraduate degree at Stanford in like a chemical engineering kind of specialty. And that's what he did - I think he graduated in the late 30s, and he kind of went into that during the war. So he traveled around the US, he mixed chemicals, and worked for different companies. And then he went on, actually, to get his master's degree in cinematography at USC. This is at a time also, you know, when it was just in its fledgling stage, and movies were still made with kind of hand cranked cameras. But my father was in love with the movies - really longed to be in the business.
(4:37) And what he did do with it - though he never attained the kind of success or work he wanted to do - what he did do was he brought movies from India to the United States. And they were mostly art films, designed for small art theatres, that sort of thing. One of them was a real classic old time Indian film called Two Eyes, Twelve Hands, and my father loved that film. And he invested quite a bit of his own money in adding subtitles to it - which actually my mother helped him with - all on his own and marketing it. He tried to market it to an American audience, who really is not used to Indian movies with all that sort of song and dance, but he thought that the theme of non-violence - which was a big theme of this movie - would kind of grab - idealistically, he thought - the soul of the American public, and that they would just be drawn to it for that reason.
(5:48) Well, American public is not known for its soul - in movies - or intellectual capability, and so the movie was, of course, not a success, as you can imagine, in America. But it was really beloved in India, and there are a lot of people who remember it quite fondly, and you know, light up instantly when he talked to them about it. But it didn't gain that much of an audience here.
(6:12) But from then he went on to join the Foreign Press, and he was actually very successful in that. He wrote a lot of articles about movies and-- my mom too, actually, she was kind of a budding journalist, and she would help write up things with him. Eventually, in 19... the early 50s, he became president of the Foreign Press, which you know, now is the Golden Globes-- or they give out the Golden Globes. And so he did that. In fact, I have a picture with my--my mom, actually handing one to Walt Disney for an awards night one night. So, yeah, they met a lot of celebrities, I have a lot of their autographs and stuff from them, but that was about as far as he went with that.
(7:05) And then he went into personnel development - kind of, you know, working with companies to-- as far as their hiring, managing people, letting them go or firing - you know, if there were personnel issues, he dealt with that. He was really a good people person. He simply loved dealing with people, and so I think that was a good fit for him. Even if he couldn't ultimately do what he so much wanted to do, he was--he was happy at that.
(7:36) My dad had a really-- as I said, he was very extroverted, very social - and he had this loud voice. There was no subduing his volume on his volume knob - it was turned up. And so, when he'd be sitting in his little den or study at home - that's where he kind of conducted all his business that had to do with his films and his other side businesses - I would hear him on the phone, and he'd be explaining to someone who he was. He would say, "The name is Bagai! Ram Bagai. B-A-G-A-I. Bagai, you know like bug eyes?" And you know the total exaggeration of it just would crack me up, and he would go through that constantly. So that was-- I mean when I think of like spelling my name I automatically think of my dad and how he sounded doing it.
(8:31) My dad's political ideology was with Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez... He was a huge, strong follower of Gandhi and non-violence, and he always felt that that was a movement that was introduced, but it never… and it was- no I mean, I don't want to say it wasn't successful. It was hugely successful in India, because it worked, didn't it? But he thought, you know, "Why can't this work everywhere else in the world where there's wars?" And he was totally against-- you know, anti-war, anti-violence - and, you know, I think he was quite a bit of a idealist, how that could be accomplished. But-- He just loved to tell stories, and talk about Nehru, talk about Gandhi, talk about--he had a few experiences with them, actually in person, where he met them, and he just held them in complete reverence.
(9:54) So, even now, you know-- Nehru, I have some photos that my dad took and blew up of when Nehru came to Los Angeles. This was in the early 60s and I was about eight years old... This is kind of another tangent, but he came in the early 60s and landed at LAX with his daughter Indira, and at that time Sam Yorty was the mayor. And somehow my father arranged it that he was on this welcoming committee-- or not he, well, he was maybe a peripheral part of it - but I was like the flower girl and I was supposed to present him with a bouquet of flowers as he came off the plane. And this was outside on the tarmac, you know, with the plane right in the background there and the group of them standing there posing for photos, and so the mayor was there, and I was there, and so they took some photos of me with Nehru bending down to kiss me and I'm presenting him the flowers and also Indira. And I still have those. They're very sweet. I'm in a little party dress with little white gloves. So it's kind of a neat thing, but I don't really remember any other interactions with anyone else after that, as far as meeting any other dignitaries.
(11:21) The story I want to actually tell you about, though, is the time my dad traveled with Nehru on a speaking tour he was giving - he was traveling from village to village. And this was a spur of the moment thing. My dad was interviewing him for an article, and Nehru gave him an interview and said, "Well," looked at his watch and said, "I'm leaving in an hour to go on this train trip to stop in these villages and speak, and we're scheduled to go. Would you like to come with me?" My dad just: "Yes!" And just decided, 'I must go like, I can't pass this up.' Grabbed a bag, grabbed, you know who knows, a toothbrush, met him at the train, train takes off.
(12:14) Train takes off and it begins pouring rain, and the train is delayed and has to stop - I don't know exactly why, maybe because of the bad weather - so they're gonna be delayed. But the time, I think, Nehru was supposed to speak was like early in the evening - maybe 6pm, something like that. They're not gonna make it, so they don't--let's see, they're still in the train I think at midnight. And as they're going, my dad says to Nehru, "You have to call this off. I mean, no one's gonna be there. I mean, look at it outside. It's ridiculous. It's pouring rain. No one is going to be there." Nehru says, "Don't worry about it. Don't worry, it'll be fine."
(13:05) They get in, I don't know at two or three in the morning, and as-- even before they're pulling into the village there are people massed along the rail tracks. They're waiting, and they're waiting to see Nehru. And they're not even at the place where he's going to give the speech - they just want to be there as he passes by. And my dad looks out, and he can't believe-- there's thousands and thousands of people out there, in the rain, waiting. And this is a thing that they call in Hindu philosophy, "Darshan," where being in the presence is enough. And they don't have to hear him. They don't have to hear what he's gonna say, or, you know-- they're not really there for the speech. They're there, more to be in his presence than anything.
(14:02) And they're showing their commitment to that, and to how they believed in him and how much they loved him and revered him. My dad just was dumbstruck and he, you know, looked at Nehru, and Nehru is like "What did I say? What did I tell you?" But he hadn't been worried at all. He knew, I think that you know, that this was going to happen. But the train stopped, they got out, they made their way to whatever this, you know, platform was. Nehru gave a speech, and they continued on. And it was the same kind of performance at each village, where the people were just thronged en masse to see him. And I know it made an incredible impression on my father. Just that alone - that feeling that he got from it, that commitment - was like nothing I think he had ever experienced and it just lasted. You know, he always remembered it and he told us that story.


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Buying molds from LCCs is no way to stimulate the economy
Clare Goldsberry
The Original Equipment Supplier Assn. (OESA) held a seminar in Troy, MI in March called "The Smart Approach to Tooling." According to information released in a letter by the American Mold Builders Assn. and some of its members who attended the OESA seminar, Stuart Spiers, director of global cost engineering for General Motors, made the following statement: "General Motors presently purchases 49% of its vendor tooling from LCCs (low-cost countries, such as China) and if the chairman had his way, it would be 100%." One estimate puts GM's tooling purchases between $3 billion and $5 billion annually.
It seems that at first, GM officials denied making this remark, but then apparently backtracked somewhat. GM wouldn't confirm the remark, but didn't deny it, either. And according to one source, GM officials then apologized for making the remark. It's well known in the mold manufacturing industry that GM has been pressuring its mold suppliers for a number of years to purchase molds offshore (primarily from China) in order to reduce GM's costs.
One Michigan mold company manager said recently that GM has mandated that 70% of all tooling purchased through its U.S. vendors must be bought from LCCs. "GM comes to our shop and says, 'Yes, this is nice, but what can you do to get tooling from LCCs,'" he said. Ultimately, said this company manager, these cheap tools put U.S. molders for the automotive industry at a competitive disadvantage because many can't make cycle times or conforming parts.
A tooling study from Harbour-Felax Group released at the OESA seminar showed that the New Domestics (auto makers from Japan, Korea, and Germany) enjoy an 8% cost advantage over the Detroit Three in tooling costs, which Harbour-Felax "largely attributed to payment practices and the positive behaviors that these business terms generate." Other studies from automotive consulting groups in recent years show the same thing: When it comes to supplier relationships, Toyota rises to the top. Which makes me wonder why anyone would even want to do business with the Detroit Three!
It's obvious that the Detroit automakers will continue to push their suppliers to the brink, probably because misery loves company. The Detroit Three's purchasing policies of the past two decades have forced U.S. mold manufacturers to be leaner, smarter, and more savvy when it comes to dealing with these 800-lb gorillas. The result has been that U.S. molds enjoy an enhanced competitive edge over molds coming from LCCs in terms of reducing the price gap.
We need to put the Detroit Three on notice that buying molds from LCCs won't be tolerated, especially from GM and Chrysler, who are taking taxpayer dollars to bail them out of their mess. The so-called "stimulus" package is meant to stimulate our economy, not that of the LCCs. —[email protected]
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It's Not Over...The Hits So Far is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Daughtry. It features most of the mainstream singles released from the band's first four studio albums, with two new songs. "Torches" was released on January 29, 2016 as the compilation's lead single.

Background
The album features two original songs, "Torches" and "Go Down", with the former being released as the album's lead single. Frontman Chris Daughtry spoke with Entertainment Weekly about "Torches," saying It took a long time to get to the two songs that we felt were a nice introduction to where this next record may go. "Torches" was an instant favorite at the label. I love working with Dave [Bassett] and I finally got to go out to his house in Malibu, which is the most beautiful setting to write at. You look off his balcony and you see the ocean and the mountains and it's gorgeous. I was looking at all the dry brush talking about how if someone flicked a cigarette or something the whole place would just go down. It got me thinking about how fire spreads.

We were talking about all the bulls— on the Internet and how people just hate on stuff. We were saying, "What if we used that energy to spread positivity? Would it spread as fast as the hate does?" "All the hate and lies around us like an ember in the brush": It just started writing itself from everything we were talking about. I think it's a message that we all need to hear. None of us are impervious to being negative. It's easier to complain about what's wrong than it is to talk about what's going right. We're all a part of this, whether we want to believe it or not — why don't we try shining some light in the darkness?

Daughtry then explained the second song "Go Down", saying We were like, "You know what, we already know we're bringing guitars back on this next record, so why not put it on the greatest hits. Who cares if it goes to radio, this is for the fans." It's about letting loose and not really giving a crap. Just… get your freak on. It's got kind of an indie, heavy alternative vibe. It's definitely heavy, but it's got this danceability to it. Almost a little bit of Garbage in there — the band, not the trash.

Track listing

Charts

Band members
Chris Daughtry – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Josh Paul – bass, backing vocals
Josh Steely – lead guitar, backing vocals
Brian Craddock – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Brandon Maclin – drums, backing vocals tracks (12–13)
Elvio Fernandes – keyboards, piano, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals tracks (10–13)
Joey Barnes – drums, piano, backing vocals tracks (1–8)
Jeremy Brady – rhythm guitar, backing vocals tracks (1–5)
Robin Diaz – drums tracks (7,9–11)

Release history

References

Daughtry (band) albums
19 Recordings compilation albums
Albums produced by Howard Benson
RCA Records compilation albums
2016 greatest hits albums

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By Robin Armstrong
As discussed in the last issue: A degree is 1/360 th portion of a circle or cycle. Degrees begin at a central point and radiate out. As they radiate out they increase in size. A degree can be decimals of an inch or millimetre near the core but will reach out endlessly. At the nearest star 1 degree (or 1/360 th of a circle) is 7 trillion (6,934,937,596,647 km) kilometres across and it will continue to radiate out and increase in size to infinity.
DEGREES ARE NOT SIMPLY DIVISIONS OF A CIRCLE.
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DEGREES HAVE VOLUME:
The shape of a degree resembles the shape of a segment of an orange.
A degree is a segment of space.
DEGREES HAVE HEIGHT AND DEPTH:
At the middle of the orange slice is the Equator where a degree is at its widest expression. As a degree moves up or down from the Equator it decreases in width.
Each degree contains 180° degrees of height and depth. Height and Depth is usually referred to as North and South.
Each degree within itself contains 180° degrees of Latitude or Declination (North and South).
From the Equator where a degree is at its widest, there are 90° degrees stretching North and 90° degrees stretching South.
These Latitudinal degrees also expand in size as the move away from the Equator.
These Latitudinal degrees (latitudinal divisions of a degree) will decrease in width within the degree as they move North or South, away from the Equator.
Something within a degree will also be at a certain height or depth (N or S) within that degree.
As a bookshelf has several shelves each holding different books, so to a degree has differing compartments (degrees N & S)
each containing different stars.
Instead of looking like a bookshelf,
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Because Space has a variable density so to each degree will contain a variable number of stars and matter. Also each section of a degree will have a variable number of stars and matter.
Each degree will contain a different density of stars, light, and matter.
When a degree is looked at directly, we no longer see the orange segment shape from the side. We see it from the outside surface area. It is fattest and widest at the middle, and it becomes a point at the top and bottom.
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The Degree Looks Like A Tribal Shield, and the North and South divisions look like shelves or compartments. These compartments (N & S degrees) will contain differing quantities and patterns of stars. Each degree will have differing densities and substance distributions.
No two degrees will be identical in content. They will all have unique amounts of light, mass, space, density and distribution of density.
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The Challerhocker Label: An Investigation, Part II
Welcome back to our continuing investigation into the true nature of Challerhocker Boy, he of alarmingly intense eye contact and smiling-but-in-an-unsettling-way mouthparts. Here's where we left things: after many sleepless nights and dog-chewed pants legs, we received our first legitimate lead in the case. This came in the form of Columbia Cheese's Glenn Hills, the US importer of Challerhocker and also, therefore, of the likeness of its terrifying Boy. Glenn agreed to speak with me and provide any help he could. Did he have answers? In short, yes. But that doesn't solve anything.
Upon first hearing of Glenn Hills, I was taken by his wonderful name. As we all know, glenn is the Gaelic term for a narrow, gently sloping valley, typically one with a romantic run of water moving through it. By virtue of being valleys, glenns converge downward. In other words, they are the direct opposite of hills, which rise and converge upward. How can two such concepts be reconciled within one man? What powers must he have? What other paradoxes might he contain? Suddenly I had many more questions to ask.
"Hello, this is Glenn," he said when I called him.
"Glenn, are you able to chew on cotton candy before it dissolves?" I asked.
"What is it like? I must know."
"Oh, right. I get this question a lot. Imagine, if you can, a perfectly medium-rare steak with the flavor of bubble gum. It's kind of like that."
"Magnificent," I whispered.
"I'd also like to note," Glenn said, "for the record, that this part of the conversation never actually happened and that you are completely fabricating it due to having an overactive imagination within a mind that has difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality. Please put that in whatever it is you are writing."
"We'll let the readers draw their own conclusions, Glenn," I said.
Then, upon speaking further, it became clear that Glenn is a fantastically kind and helpful individual, and so thoroughly decent that I would be remiss if I did not myself state that no questions were in fact asked about cotton candy and none of the heretofore conversation took place. I vow to henceforth maintain my journalistic and investigative integrity and not bring in blatantly false or misleading lines of narrative.
Instead, I will tell you what Glenn told me about Challerhocker and the Boy. First, lets discuss the name. Challerhocker does indeed roughly translate to "sitting in the cellar." Or, if you want to mimic the sound of the name, we can say that it means Cellar Dweller. In that translation, the word can be thought of with a slightly pejorative connotation. "Imagine," Glenn said (actually, this time), "someone in their parents' basement playing World of Warcraft. That can be a Challerhocker."
This, perhaps, is our first inroad into the psyche of Boy. He may indeed be a World of Warcraft gamer, so thoroughly and enthusiastically so that it appears he's begun to channel the spirit of a troll from within the game. He's a child whose imagination is active and unboundedly alive.
But how is it that Challerhocker even acquired its name in the first place? According to Glenn, it was but one of the potential candidates that Walter Rass dreamed up for his cheese. In total, he developed fifteen options. Then he took those names to the town architect. The architect liked Challerhocker for a name, and it was he who then conceived of the label. The Boy is an architectural design.
"To them," Glenn told me, "the boy is just smiling. He's coming out of the cellar to announce the cheese is ready. End of story."
But the end of the story is really only the beginning of the mystery. Who is this architect, and why did he draw his Boy to look as though he's finished feeding on the cheese and is now breaking through a prison wall to hunt for brains? In short, though we now know who created the Challerhocker Boy, the greater question remains: why does he interpret happiness to look like this?
That is the question I put to Glenn, who confessed that he could not say. What he could do, however, is put me in touch with his Swiss counterpart, the man who exports Challerhocker to the United States. So, reader, our investigation continues. Can you smell it? That is the scent of progress. We are on our way. Boy has so fully consumed me that I imagine I'd be having nightmares in which he comes for me. Perhaps one upside of losing so much sleep over this is avoiding such terror. Please stay tuned as we continue charging onward.
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Open Universe?
Tue, 2009-03-31 18:20 — abele derer
Most cosmologists believe that the universe is open and non-oscillating. This means that the universe will eventually become cold and dark. According to these scientists, before the big bang the entire universe was condensed into a tiny speck. This speck does not have a beginning. It always existed. If so, why did this speck suddenly explode into a big bang? You might respond that, somehow, it is in the nature of this speck to eventually explode. My question is, then, if this speck always existed why did it not explode into the big bang infinitely earlier? In short, my question is if the universe is infinite how could something which can only happen once (the big bang) EVER happen?
Firstly, and I'm not assuming that you intend a creator god to be the preferable explanation (though of course many do), the same question can be applied to that god. If one always existed, he/she just sat there for an eternity before acting. Why?
Secondly, models of an open, non-oscillating universe generally imply that time as we know it did not exist before (or as one apologist put it, "ontologically prior to") the Big Bang. As one part of Einstein's theoretical combination "spacetime", it was wrapped up with everything else in the singularity (speck) and its apparent forward flow began when the expansion did. Going by this type of model, it wasn't possible for anything to happen "before" the Big Bang. Stephen Hawking likened the question to asking what's north of the North Pole.
Thirdly, it's possible that there are systems of time and space outside the universe we know, and our universe was set off by one of these. There are various models of a multiverse, collectively infinite in both time and matter, where universes regularly beget other universes. There are also slightly simpler models of a single external mother universe or "metaverse" which spawns the others. These are speculative, of course, but at least the extra entities being posited are objects we know exist in at least one case, i.e. universes.
Finally, new evidence is emerging which may challenge the singularity's perceived lack of a beginning. It may be best to wait and see.
cosmological argument
You asked why God did nothing for an eternity. The answer is that He has free will to do whatever He wants. HOWEVER, if you hold that the world is completely random, you have to answer not WHY but HOW the big bang did not happen infinitely earlier.
Second, are you arguing that time can create itself? I think God is a more logical explanation.
Tue, 2009-03-31 21:33 — SmartLX
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I suppose I should have assumed that you prefer the creator god explanation after all.
A hypothetical omnipotent god can self-evidently do whatever it wants, whenever it wants. If it was the only thing that existed prior to the universe, though, why did its wants suddenly change 13.7 billion years ago, rather than 218.9 billion years ago? Or three years ago?
God often appears the most logical explanation, until you then have to explain God. Believing that God did something does not increase one's understanding of it, but merely lets one claim that there is no understanding it. God just did it, only He knows why, and that's that. It's useless. Furthermore, the only way to support it is to rule out every other possible explanation, natural and supernatural. That can take literally forever.
One only has to explain how the Big Bang didn't happen infinitely earlier if one posits that its makings first sat inactive for an eternity. I don't know of any model at all which posits that state of affairs. Open, non-oscillating models posit no time, let alone eternity, prior to the Big Bang. Multiverse models posit an eternal chain or tree of universes, such that the emergence of this one was part of an ongoing phenomenon. Oscillating models, which we haven't considered yet, posit that the singularity is one phase of a cycle, and the last occurrence was always a relatively short time ago.
I'm arguing that time wasn't created at all, let alone by itself. (You seem to think of everything in terms of deliberate creation, and then you wonder why my position sounds so strange in that context.) Independent time, according to Einstein, is an illusion. It's one part of spacetime, a continuum of four dimensions, all of which extended outwards from one point. The three spatial dimensions went up, down, out and sideways, and time went "forward". Until that happened, it was like the other dimensions: compressed together, and inactive. Imagining passing time while time itself is in this state is not just useless, it's nonsensical.
I'm not a theoretical physicist, so I can only give superficial answers to questions like this. Stephen Hawking, on the other hand, is the theoretical physicist. This 2007 lecture lays out the basis of the open, non-oscillating model you began by attacking. See what you think.
Mon, 2009-04-06 04:03 — Adam Porich (not verified)
Before the Big-Bang
Science may not have answered this question definitively yet but we sure have learnt a lot about it. And science is constantly pushing the envelope on this issue, for instance particle accelerator and gravity wave experiments.
Throughout history we have repeatedly found that simple mathematical descriptions of our observations are also the best tools to predict our universe.
This, along with theories such as Super-String theory. Makes a universe predicated on mathematical structures a sound theory.
In such a universe I feel the answer will likely be found in a form of darwinian evolution. Any theory that allowed the pre big-bang universe to evolve increasingly interactive mathematical structures would be able to explain our universe.
Which means I feel that the big-bang you referred to in your question would have been the geometric population explosion of a successful mathematical structure (with the properties of time and space we see) taking hold.
Mon, 2009-04-06 04:44 — SmartLX
Evo uni
An evolutionary model for universes, if nothing else, would be undeniably cool.
Mon, 2009-04-27 21:52 — jessicamh_917
From what I understand, time
From what I understand, time began WITH the Big Bang. Time didn't exist before; nothing existed before.
Scientists also discovered that the Big Bank theory is probably more than a theory because we now have newly discovered that the Universe is not only expanding from the explosion, but accelerating! If these observations are correct and the trend continues, it will result in the inability to see other galaxies. They have theorized on the end of the universe... but at the furthest point of our universe, essentially, beyond that just simply doesn't exist.
And as a note, people always just want to say that it's god when they can't explain something. But why on earth do they still believe the god theory even though there is scientific proof of many things?
Atheistic Mommy
More on the Big Bang
What I was trying to say is that even considering "before" in this scenario is a bit silly.
The Big Bang doesn't have to be more than a theory. A scientific theory by definition is backed by extensive research, experimentation, successful predictions and plain old evidence. Theories like this and evolution are scientific fact, but scientists continue to call them theories because it's actually a stronger word.
Folks generally believe religious explanations instead of scientific ones because they have a long-running emotional attachment to the religious ones. It's not easy to accept, let alone admit, that something you've believed all your life is wrong, no matter how obviously so.
Tue, 2009-04-28 10:31 — jessicamh_917
Yes you are exactly right.
Yes you are exactly right. All I had to do was think back on how I felt 14 years ago in my transition from Christianity to Agnostic Atheism. It was absolutely horrible actually and I'm pretty sure it paired right along with an identity crisis :) Especially when being an Atheist is being part of the minority in a schools with basically all Christians, I felt alone. What got me through it was just finding people like me. And new scientific discoveries and my own research, I knew that I had done the right thing.