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Q: Can google vision API accept external image URL? I am reading documentation on vision API request schema. In image source, I only see option of using url of GCS image paths. Is it possible to use external image url like http://example.com/images/image01.jpg ?

A: Yes it can, but ONLY using google cloud storage urls. Try this:
{
  "requests": [
    {
      "image": {
        "source": {
          gcsImageUri: 'gs://something.com/image',
        },
      },
      "features": ...
      "imageContext": ...
    },
  ]
}

A: Yes, you can do this with any image as long as it is smaller than 4Mb. It does not have to be on Google Cloud Storage.
Here is an example using the Golang client library:
// Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// [START vision_quickstart]
// Sample vision-quickstart uses the Google Cloud Vision API to label an image.
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"

    // Imports the Google Cloud Vision API client package.
    vision "cloud.google.com/go/vision/apiv1"
    "golang.org/x/net/context"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()

    // Creates a client.
    client, err := vision.NewImageAnnotatorClient(ctx)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create client: %v", err)
    }

    image := vision.NewImageFromURI("https://www.denaligrizzlybear.com/assets/images/scenic-denali.jpg")

    labels, err := client.DetectLabels(ctx, image, nil, 10)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to detect labels: %v", err)
    }

    fmt.Println("Labels:")
    for _, label := range labels {
        fmt.Println(label.Description)
    }
}

Here is the function on the Godoc:https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/vision/apiv1#NewImageFromURI
The docs state:

NewImageFromURI returns an image that refers to an object in Google
  Cloud Storage (when the uri is of the form "gs://BUCKET/OBJECT") or at
  a public URL.

A: Answer for python users.
def detect_labels_uri(uri):
    """Detects labels in the file located in Google Cloud Storage or on the
    Web."""
    from google.cloud import vision
    client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()
    image = vision.types.Image()
    image.source.image_uri = uri

    response = client.label_detection(image=image)
    labels = response.label_annotations
    print('Labels:')

    for label in labels:
        print(label.description)
# [END vision_label_detection_gcs]

A: Yes, this is working perfectly fine:
{
  "requests": [
    {
      "features": [
        {
          "type": "WEB_DETECTION"
        }
      ],
      "image": {
        "source": {
          "imageUri": "http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/242/592/1c8.jpg"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

A: Yes you can use external image URL and even can use BASE64 image content also.
You can find the same in official documentation also.
Documentation URL : https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/request#json_request_format
I have checked it with all available options and it is working fine for me.

A: Yes, Google Cloud Vision API DOES accept external URL images. I just used this image to get labels:
python label_sample.py -u "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Bleeding_finger.jpg"

Found label: red with 96.47 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: color with 95.46 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: pink with 92.15 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: finger with 91.06 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: hand with 90.45 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: nail with 73.23 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: lip with 73.09 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: jewellery with 68.84 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: produce with 68.39 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!
Found label: macro photography with 67.86 percent probability!!!!!!!!!!!

You have to give it the url in proper format using urllib library and comment the part of opening an image like this:
url = url_file
opener = urllib.urlopen(url)

#    with open(photo_file, 'rb') as image:
image_content = base64.b64encode(opener.read())

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BELLEVUE, WA – In a scathing Op-Ed sent to newspapers around the country, Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and CCRKBA Communications Director and a career journalist have deplored the Democratic Party leadership for endorsing, by their silence, the decision by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to ban and confiscate so-called "semiautomatic assault weapons" from citizens in that country.
After criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton for their remarks on Twitter that support the New Zealand gun grab, Gottlieb and Workman write, "not a single Democrat in Congress, and none of the Democrats now running for president have disavowed those sentiments, while reminding their constituents that our Constitution would not allow such parliamentary tyranny. There was not a single affirmative reference to the Second Amendment.
Equally distressing, they note, is the call for abolition of the Electoral College, which guarantees that a few states cannot dominate the politics of the entire nation. "They forget that the United States is a Constitutional Republic, where the rights of the minority cannot be crushed by the tyranny of the majority," the authors write.


I like using words that I like from other languages and incorporating them into my everyday vocabulary even though I don't speak any other languages.
I like wearing clothes that express the way I feel, not to look different or alternative (or like a noob, which is more than often the case) but purely because there's something I like about them.
I like taking certain skills of a sport that I like and getting good at that purely because it gives me joy without having to deal with the cheaters, the critics and the people that take away the beauty in it by getting consumed in the rules of what you can and can't do in order to win.
I like to eat food that tastes yum, regardless of the cost...And if I like it and I'm feeling spontaneous I like getting two or three of whatever it is just cos.
I like meeting new people, unique people, people doing cool things, with a unique perspective. I like having conversations...Brief ones, deep ones, silly ones and pointless ones.
I like to wear no shoes and no underwear sometimes cos I forget, sometimes cos I like the freedom it gives and sometimes just cos.
I like doing as much as I can, all the time. And doing nothing.
I like looking at things, listening to things or watching things on repeat or for a long time and trying to listen and interpret in different ways to see how it influences me.
Sometimes I feel like I like doing it because of the people that also like it.
Sometimes because it' feels right for me right now.
I like early mornings when the light has a gentle contrast, the vibe is full of opportunity for what the day might hold and the peace that comes from the people that are awake at that time.
I like life and dreaming about all the things that I want to do with it.
But like all of these things these emotions all come and go like the seasons.
But that's what cosmic vibes is all about. I reckon.
It's about doing what feels right for nobody but you, right now and a feeling that whatever it is, it's possible.
It's about the vibe of the thing, an environment where there is nothing but support, nobody questioning what you're thinking or doing with these aspirations.
It's not about going to space literally, but metaphorically, riding the wave of life, all together, side by side, bringing out the best in everyone, purely for the joy of living and the happiness that comes from that.
Something that should be celebrated and experienced everyday by everyone.
To me...What is it to you?


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Why is Pluto no longer a Planet?
Once upon a time, not so long ago, schoolchildren all over the world learned that the planet farthest away from the sun in our solar system was Pluto. They learned mnemonic devices to remember the names of all nine planets, made models and mobiles, all with Pluto orbiting at the very end of their dioramas. But no more. In August 2006, after many years of intense debate, astronomers declared that Pluto was officially not a planet in "a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences," although the decision to create a fixed definition of what constitutes a planet is "already being hotly debated" within the scientific community (Britt, "Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet," 24 Aug 2006).
When the planetarium at New York City's American Museum of Natural History removed Pluto from the ranks of the planets, one astrophysicist said, looking at the changed model: "This tiny thing [Pluto] in this oddball orbit -- a planet? Give me a break...I think that, when the dust settles, people will recognize that there really are just eight planets" (Inman, 2006) Thus, with a sweep of the pen, suddenly, there were only officially eight planets in the solar system, and the models in museums across the country had one less spherical orb. The vote of the International Astronomical Union came after eight days of contentious debate that involved four separate proposals at IAU's meeting in Prague, and was voted upon by 424 scientists out of about 10,000 professional astronomers around the globe. When asked about the cultural place of Pluto, one astronomer replied: "For astronomers, this doesn't matter one bit. We'll go out and do exactly what we did," no matter what the public says, arguing that "for teaching this is a very interesting moment. I think you can describe science much better now by explaining why Pluto was once thought to be a planet and why it isn't now" (Britt, "Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet," 24 Aug 2006). To say that Pluto is suddenly not a planet though, of course, is somewhat incorrect, as Pluto has remained unchanged, rather it is the scientific definition and astronomer's perceptions (and voting patterns within the organization) that have shifted.
Surprisingly, until 2006, astronomy textbooks never had a single, universally agreed-upon definition for the word planet, as the IAU had never established exactly what constitutes a planet, and set specific scientific standards. However, defining a planet, or any astronomical body is always extremely difficult, as the definition must be universally applicable, to all solar systems, not just our own. In reaching a definition, one of the earlier proposed definitions during the 2006 conference read: "A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet." (Britt, "Controversial New Definition," 16 Aug 2006)
In this early proposal, gravity was the determining factor, in separating planets from moons and other astral bodies. Under this terminology, Pluto would remain a planet and its moon Charon would be reclassified as a planet, although both would carry the additional sub-classification of plutons to distinguish them from the other planets. Also, the asteroid Ceres, "which is round, would be classified as a dwarf planet, and "a far-out Pluto-sized object known as 2003 UB313 would also be called a pluton" (Britt, "Controversial New Definition, 16 Aug 2006).
But even the discoverer of 2003 UB 313 said such a definition was too broad, as it made no sense to consider the relatively petite Ceres and Charon planets and not call the larger earth's moon a planet. Also, under the definition, "a pair of round objects that orbit around a point in space that is outside both objects -- meaning the center of gravity (or barycenter) is between the two planets in space as with Pluto and Charon -- would be called double planets," and even triple planets would be possible, theoretically under the formulation, which could be problematic in classifying heavenly bodies in other solar systems (Britt, "Controversial New Definition, 16 Aug 2006). Finally, if they were round, asteroids could be classified as planets. All this would make the definition of planet simply to commonplace, or too confusing, or both, and thus render the new definition less than helpful. All taxonomies are supposed to be a guide, and if definitions are too broad, they have the opposite effect.
Instead, through a much more conservative motion made Pluto and its moon Charon, demoted in the astronomical hierarchy "because they are part of a sea of other objects that occupy the same region of space. Earth and the other eight large planets have, on the other hand, cleared broad swaths of space of any other large objects" (Britt, "Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet" 24 Aug 2006).Under the finally agreed upon definition, the only planets in the solar system were the eight planets of Mercury Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Dwarf planets included Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite" (Britt, "Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet" 24 Aug 2006). Small solar system bodies like asteroids and all other objects orbiting the sun will be classified as satellites.
Although the original proposal was criticized for diluting the meaning of the word 'planet,' the debate highlights how what constitutes a planet is hardly a solid, unchanging matter. The word 'planet' means wanderers in the sky, in contrast to the more fixed position of the stars, but this early observation of the ancients no longer holds scientific muster, as this depends upon how we see planets from earth, not how planets actually function in the universe. However, Pluto, which was discovered in 1930, was always assumed to be a planet, firstly because it was thought to be larger than it is. But its real size, combined with "an eccentric orbit that crosses the path of Neptune and also takes it well above and below the main plane of the solar system" made it more and more controversial in terms of its status within the astronomical community (Britt, "Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet." 24 Aug 2006).
Thus, it is not that Pluto is no longer a planet -- or that it never was, but that the definition has changed and grown more exclusive, one might say. And still the matter is far from settled amongst astronomers, as the debate rages on. The definition requires that a planet "has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit" (Britt, "Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet." 24 Aug 2006). But Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune all have asteroids as neighbors and thus, technically one could say that their neighborhoods are not clear and thus they fail to meet the standards of classical, full planets. One planetary scientist said the definition is ambiguous, and, only half jokingly added that the IAU has not answered the question "how round is round," for a planet to be a planet (Inman, 2006). "This will be an issue in the future" he said, because "dozens of objects are going to be straddling this line. The new definition is not going to help us with this," by adding geometric definition into the picture (Inman, 2006). He tenaciously added: "I'll still continue to maintain that Pluto is a planet," he said.
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… I wish it was that easy!
I have treated my SIBO using both antibiotics and herbal products. Treating it is not my biggest challenge though, it is managing and preventing it after treatment that is the tricky part.
Trying to navigate the realm of diet, prebiotics, probiotics, prokinetics and other routines to delicately restore, repopulate gut flora, manage digestive tolerance and ensure daily bowel elimination can sometimes feel like an impossible task!
So I'd like to share with you 7 routines that I currently use to manage and more importantly prevent SIBO from recurring. Please note that as with any person, what works for one may not work for another - we are all individual and you should always work with your practitioner to determine what is best for you.
I've had to be careful with this one because sometimes if I do it too much I can lose too much weight. Intermittent fasting has been shown to have numerous health benefits. The two main reasons I do it is for my (a) immune system; and (b) gut health.
Studies have shown that intermittent fasting has the ability to trigger stem cell immune regeneration. For someone like me with extremely low IgG immune killer cells, intermittent fasting seems like an easier fix than gamma globulin infusions (where you are receiving unknown blood donations).
Secondly, periods of fasting has been shown to better activate the Migrating Motor Complex (MMC). The MMC is known as the housekeeper of the small intestine and goes and "sweeps" the upper intestine of any excess gastric content and organisms. Impaired gut motility has been shown to be one of the leading causes linked to SIBO, an overgrowth of bacteria in the upper intestine.
I do anywhere between 12-16hr fasts overnight. It is usually 14-15hrs e.g. I finish eating by 8pm and will eat brekkie between 10-11am the next morning.
I am stringent on moving my body EVERY single day. I actually get irritated and more anxious when I don't get to move my body in the morning. It helps in so many ways including my mood and getting the toxins circulating but most importantly it gives my bowels a bit of a nudge (literally).
Given my other health conditions I'm managing, I choose walking, yoga and rebounding as my movements of choice.
The foods I choose is a big one for me. I have found that eating a low-fodmap, paleo type diet during treatment phase of a SIBO protocol works well for me. However, my biggest struggle has been reintroducing foods. If you read my blog post on 'Why I keep relapsing with SIBO', you would know that earlier this year I ate high carb and fodmap diet in order to gain some weight. In hindsight, I think I should've skipped the grains and processed foods and stuck to the clean, whole foods.
I am strict with these food restrictions midweek and then on each day of the weekend I allow myself cheat meals where I literally ignore the SIBO diet and order something that is going to fill me up emotionally and bring me joy. I mean, let's be honest, I LOVEEE food. And food is meant to be enjoyed. So don't be too hard on yourself at the end of the day.
After listening to The Healthy Gut Podcast episode with Michael Ruscio you too may realise that your hypothyroidism and SIBO may actually be connected. An underactive thyroid can affect the gut in many ways with the most common being to lower stomach acid, lower nutrient absorption and decrease gut motility or peristalsis. Although I am still getting to the bottom of the root cause of my hypothyroidism (I have a hunch it could be linked to both SIBO and the viruses running rampant in my body, EBV and HHV6 to be specific), I know in the interim it is important for me to be managing my underactive thyroid. My doctor has me on a daily dose of free T3 which I get compounded to ensure it contains no lactose. This has been imperative for propping my thyroid function up to ensure my body and immune system has sufficient ability to fight the viral and bacterial loads.
I take digestive enzymes with each of my main meals to help me break down my meal and help counterbalance my low stomach acid. I choose the enzyme based on the meal, it will be one of the following: Betaine & HCL, Super Enzymes or Ox Bile. I find this really helps with my bowels as well which is key for anyone dealing with Methane based SIBO. I also drink celery juice which naturally rebuilds my hydrochloric acid and HCL.
At the moment, I'm about 4 weeks post SIBO treatment phase and so I am using a maintenance dose of Atrantil to help manage the reintroduction phase. I don't take it every day religiously however more on an as needs basis and definitely on weekends when I have "cheat" meals. It honestly works wonders for me and rarely get digestive complaints when using it. I also love that it is a natural product and the polyphenol component in the Conker Tree ingredient act like a prebiotic to help support repopulation of healthy gut flora.
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High quality building design and safe routes for pedestrians and cyclists are among the key principles set out in a masterplan framework for Bishop's Stortford South.
The masterplan, for land between St James' Way and Whittington Way, will help ensure that the development becomes a good place for people to live and work in, with excellent opportunities for green travel and places to play.
Designated for development in East Herts Council's emerging District Plan, the site is expected to provide around 750 homes of varying size, including 40% affordable housing, a new primary school and a future secondary school.
Community benefits will include a local centre, sustainable transport, green infrastructure, open spaces and an employment area. The masterplan has been drawn up by East Herts Council, site promoter Countryside Properties, councillors, community representatives and other interested groups.
Linda Haysey, East Herts Council leader, said: "This masterplan has been created in collaboration with all parties involved in this development.
It is an exciting opportunity to set out the key principles for the site so that we have a high-quality development that people will enjoy living and working in, and will be an asset to the town of Bishop's Stortford."
Once the District Plan is approved later this summer, developers will still need to apply for planning permission in the normal way.
· Encouraging non-car travel - safe walking and cycling routes, bus-only section of road, buses to be routed through the site, a new roundabout on St James' Way.


Today, my parents went to their friends' house up the street, and didn't get home until 2 AM. I didn't even try to sleep until they got home, and when they did, my mom got on my laptop while I was trying to sleep, in my own room. I had already tried sleeping earlier with my laptop on, and couldn't, and as soon as I got tired enough to sleep, she went on it and wouldn't leave.


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Lake Ermistu (; also known as Lake Tõstamaa) is a  lake in southwestern Estonia. Administratively it belongs to the Ermistu village in Tõstamaa Parish, Pärnu County.

See also
List of lakes of Estonia
Lake Tõhela, another lake nearby

References

Lakes of Estonia
Tõstamaa Parish
Landforms of Pärnu County

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College leaders' body reacts to Nicky Morgan's reappointment as Education Secretary
FE Week reporter
Sun 10th May 2015, 12.29
The Association of School and College Leaders has reacted to news that Nicky Morgan will continue to serve as Education Secretary under the new Conservative majority government.
Ms Morgan, who replaced Michael Gove in the job last July, was re-elected as MP for Loughborough on Thursday with an increased majority as the Conservatives stormed to power with 331 seats.
And the Prime Minister's office confirmed last night that Ms Morgan would continue to serve in her cabinet role.
Brian Lightman (pictured right), general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: "ASCL welcomes Nicky Morgan's reappointment as Secretary of State for Education and we look forward to working with her during this Parliament."
He added: "In the constructive dialogue with the Secretary of State, to which we very much look forward, we will be proposing how we can work with government to create the conditions for us collectively to achieve that ambitious and compelling vision for the future of our education service."
It was also announced yesterday that Mr Gove, who was effectively demoted to the post of government chief whip last summer, is the new Justice Secretary.
The new Business Secretary is expected to be announced tomorrow, replacing Dr Vince Cable, who claimed last October to have fought off suggestions from civil servants in 2010 to cut budgets to a level that would have "killed off FE", became one of the most high-profile casualties of the General Election on Thursday (May 7) when he lost his Twickenham seat to the Conservatives.
Ms Morgan had already received the Prime Minister's backing to continue in the role in the event of a Conservative victory, and told FE Week sister newspaper Schools Week last weekend that she wanted to stay on.
Speaking during a Q&A with journalists at the NAHT conference, Ms Morgan said: "The Prime Minister said in a speech he gave back in March, he talked about me continuing in the role, and I couldn't be clearer about how much I love doing this job and very much hope to continue."


A very interesting question touching on complicated territory! Probably the best response I can give is to recommend the SEP article on "Pragmatics," available at this link . I think you'll find it contains lots of information highly relevant to your question.
I see no reason, in principle, why not. If knowledge were not possible without emotion, then no emotionless computer could achieve knowledge, which would come as a shock to the proponents of artificial intelligence (AI). Nor do I see anything in the concept of knowledge itself that rules out knowledge based on reason alone without any emotional content or associations. I don't mean to say that emotion can't play an essential role in some kinds of knowledge, only that I can't see how emotion would be essential to every kind of knowledge.


5 years ago I worked closely with CoreMedia(CM) as an IBM partner to produce a really compelling video series showing off the many integration points they had with IBM WebSphere Commerce.
The integrations to this day are excellent and can bring new life to your eCommerce investment. The series points out tight integrations with eMarketing Spots, Promotions, segments, and the catalog. Federating search results and even showing full asset management for all of your channels.
So you have invested years in your IBM Commerce platform and are not ready to throw it away but you are missing out on a complete omni-channel brand management experience.
Meaning, you want to be able to control image crops per device and management content across all channels in a single tool.
The good news is, you can still #beIconic and have true omni-channel brand management with CoreMedia Content Cloud. As we showed at NRF, this includes controlling content from a single CM Cloud for in store displays, web, mobile, billboards (yes, the ones on the road), and much more. It also includes things like inventory controlled content, shoppable videos, and shoppable images. So don't fret, you have an option to bring in a first class CMS with your existing IBM Commerce investment – CoreMedia Content Cloud!
Look at how simple you can make a banner inventory aware – which means it automatically removes the shoppable product from the image map so the user doesn't attempt to add it to the cart, only to find there is no inventory!
Believe it or not, you can actually lift and shift your current WebSphere Commerce v6 and v7 store front onto a newer release. There may be some initial effort and the effort becomes larger as your version goes further back, however, if you are on v7 FP 8, the lift and shift is actually very easy. The move, along with bringing in CoreMedia, will greatly enhance your platforms technology and usability for your eCommerce admins and marketing teams. You will not be able to take advantage of the new technologies in v9 immediately but it will be a start and you can immediately start supporting an omni-channel CMS strategy CoreMedia Content Cloud.
There is always the option to move on to another platform, and the good news there is the CoreMedia Content Cloud has very tight integrations with many eCommerce platforms. As a matter of fact, moving to an omni-channel brand management strategy means the eCommerce platform almost becomes comodotized. CoreMedia studio gives you the flexibility to move to any of the major platforms with very little disruption in your CMS and workflows.
Click on the eCommerce platform below to learn more or send me an email bob.balfe [at] coremedia.com to arrange a meeting.
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If you missed the amazing demo that sent shockwaves at NRF then you are in luck, because the exact same demonstration was given at DMEXCO 2018 a few months prior and we have a really good recording of that demo on YouTube. Take 8 minutes and watch this video and you will be impressed, let me know what you think in my comments below!
Since the world is coming to an end this week, I bit the bullet and upgraded to Windows 8. The install was seamless as I opted for the download version. A couple of reboots and my machine had a new look and feel. Unless you want a completely new Windows experience, I would not recommend this upgrade. If you are adventurous and like new things it looks like its a pretty polished upgrade.
It it going to take me a bit to get use to the operating system. The user interface is very responsive and kind of intuitive. The worst part of the process, and I may have messed this up, is it took all of my old applications and put them in a Windows.old folder. I had to essentially re-install all of my applications. It did preserve all of my data (the My Documents folder) and all of my songs, pictures, etc. I find navigation a little strange right now but I am slowly getting use to it. I also have to figure out how to get my Lenovo W500 Fingerprint reader working as Lenovo does not have a Windows 8 driver for it yet. Outside of that little problem everything seems to be working great!
By the way, I agree with Joe, the Windows 8 Logo is a disaster.


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They are two of Australia's biggest social media stars. But while one is worth $486m today, the other has been hit by scandal after scandal.
For years on end, two names have dominated Australia's fitness scene: Kayla Itsines and Ashy Bines.
Both women are undisputed social media stars with millions of followers online — and millions of dollars in the bank.
Last year, Ms Itsines, 27, and her fiance Tobi Pearce, 26, even catapulted to equal fifth and sixth place on the coveted AFR Young Rich List with an estimated combined wealth of $486 million.
But that success has also come with its fair share of controversies, with Ms Bines in particular facing allegations of plagiarism, overcharging customers, blocking and deleting negative comments, and bitter legal feuds over the years.
In 2015, it was revealed large sections of her clean eating recipes were taken from other websites, and in a YouTube video Ms Bines claimed her books had been outsourced to a nutritionist and that she had been "too naive in not checking the origins of these recipes".
According to Aussie public relations expert Nicole Reaney, Ms Bines, 30, was one of the pioneers of fitness social influence and she managed to leverage her position as a "social media juggernaut" to establish her empire, boasting a "massive following" to this day.
She said Ms Bines had aligned herself with some positive causes and had been quick to share her side of the story when things went wrong.
But when a brand was so closely linked to a personality, she said handling negativity was even more critical.
"With Ashy a favourable aspect is that she has got in front of a camera and explained her side by creating a YouTube video. She was on the front foot in terms of the speed of response," she said.
But she said it was a mistake to react defensively instead of acknowledging opponents' perspectives.
"You need to demonstrate how you will make a change. If you've got X number of consumers complaining, you need to take steps to make things more transparent and build trust that way," she said.
Fellow PR expert Catriona Pollard said Ms Bines' reputation had taken a serious hit from those early accusations of plagiarism, which she has denied being directly responsible for.
"When something like that happens while you are building your personal brand, if it's not dealt with effectively and taken really seriously, it can impact the brand moving forward," she said.
Ms Pollard said the best way to respond to the crisis would have been to go "above and beyond" by giving away cookbooks or holding an event so she could meet people in person to build "real relationships" with followers.
"With Ashy there's also that idea of coming from a place of humility, finding and demonstrating a purpose as well as coming back to the value you're offering people — a lot of social media influencers can be seen as coming across as being in it for the money, but people don't relate to that," she said.
"Another thing is how you deal with comments, and unfortunately Ashy had so many negative comments at times there was even the suggestion it was bordering on bullying.
Meanwhile, Ms Itsines, who owes the bulk of her fortune to the success of her fitness app Sweat, was also helped along by the brand's "interesting" origin story and the way she's harnessed social media with humility, Ms Pollard said.
Mr Pearce famously went through troubled teenage years and Ms Itsines originally studied teaching before their company changed their lives.
Ms Pollard said Ms Itsines had been able to demonstrate how she was adding value to her customers' lives by posting "interesting, relevant and on-brand content while treating people with respect" on social media.
But Ms Reaney said Ms Itsines had also copped criticism over the years — most notably her exercise techniques, and for exercising with weights while pregnant.
"Kayla too faces the media and is not afraid to share her perspective but she explains her position assertively and with compassion; she doesn't delete comments and her army of followers act as support when one person does critique her," she said.
She said Ms Itsines' decision not to accept sportswear collaborations demonstrated her commitment to "live her brand values".
Ms Bines told news.com.au she had "taken the time" to learn from those negative experiences and "grow as a person, wife, mother, and business owner".
"When I started out in this industry, I was quite young. So timing definitely had an impact on my success as I was early to Instagram and at that time, there wasn't a lot of competition in terms of nutrition plans," she said.
"Over the years however, I have come to realise that you can't please everyone (despite any attempt).
She said she hadn't been prepared for the backlash which came her way in the past.
"I fell into this industry at a young age, and things took off pretty fast. At the time I wasn't at all prepared for what was to come my way and had no experience in dealing with it," she said.
"Having such mistakes broadcasted in the public eye however, whether correctly or misinformed, definitely has its challenges. In saying that, I've grown up, I have taken every roller coaster ride and learned from it.
She said her mission had always been to empower women and help them to "healthy from the inside out".
News.com.au also contacted Ms Itsines for comment.
Rachael Finch and the Herald Sun's Kara Irving demonstrate six exercises mums can do while at home.


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The parents' guide to what's in this movie.
Kids will hear the same trivia about the First Thanksgiving that they probably learned in school: that in 1621, a group of English settlers at Plymouth Colony (the Pilgrims) and members of the local Indian tribe (the Wampanoag) shared in an autumnal feast together that included wild turkey. The animated Pilgrims also make it clear that they needed to trade with the Wampanoag to survive.
There's a message of collaboration, teamwork, leadership, and working toward the greater good. However there's also a borderline insensitive depiction of wild turkeys as being a lot like Native Americans.
Positive Role Models
Jake is devoted to helping the turkey cause; Jenny is a strong female character who's a great leader. The Chief is wise and self sacrificing. Reggie learns how to be a turkey who is part of something bigger than himself.
Violence & Scariness
The Secret Service hold guns. The Pilgrims hunt with guns. Myles Standish uses fire and guns to destroy the turkey habitat. The turkeys fight back.
Sexy Stuff
Reggie watches a telenovela about a loner who is always surrounded by beautiful women. Reggie falls almost immediately in love with Jenny, whose turkey body is a human-like hourglass figure with large breasts. They flirt and eventually kiss.
Insults like "dumb," "son of a gun," "coward," "the anti-corn."
Some of the pizza boxes say "Chuck-E-Cheese"; there's an overt reference to Angry Birds, Old Navy, and Auntie Anne's.
Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Free Birds is an animated time-travel adventure that tells the story of the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of the turkeys desperate to keep the Pilgrims and Native Americans from leading to the annual destruction of their kind. There's some gun violence and an important character is killed. The language includes some insults like "dumb" and "coward," plus there's some borderline insensitive depictions of turkeys as similar to Native Americans. Plus, there's a romantic subplot and glimpses of a telenovela where a man is always surrounded by beautiful women. Families may enjoy discussing the history of Thanksgiving.
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Adult Written bycalgreenusa November 3, 2013
This movie was GREAT !!!
More Power to the Birds !!!
If you appreciate really good family entertainment, Free Birds is a must see as this movie grandly delivers good fun!
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Adult Written bybcdiosa November 11, 2013
Good family fun movie for children under 9 years-old.
I took my 5 and 8 year-olds to this movie and they enjoyed it. Yes there were a couple of scenes where they said, "dang" but it wasn't extremely... Continue reading
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Teen, 15 years old Written byJonathan Arrel May 31, 2014
Fun Idea, bad movie
The film starts out okay, however, what could have been a great movie turned out boring. The plot line was boring, the humor wasn't there. Even more so, th... Continue reading
Teen, 13 years old Written bysophie14799 May 5, 2014
there is so much violence in this film i don't recommend
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What's the story?
In FREE BIRDS, Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson) has always been the odd turkey out. He's smarter than the rest of his flock and understands they're being fattened up for slaughter. When the president arrives for the annual turkey pardon, Reggie ends up the lucky fowl thanks to the young first daughter. Back at Camp David, Reggie is living it up with telenovelas and pizza delivery when he's kidnapped by Jake (Woody Harrelson), a strong, scatterbrained turkey. Jake tells Reggie that "The Great Turkey" has sent them on a mission to go back in time to the First Thanksgiving and "get turkeys off the menu." Reggie is skeptical, but soon the pair discovers a secret time machine and ends up in Plymouth Colony 1621.
The movie will undoubtedly please young kids who love talking animals, silly sight gags, and the idea of a group of turkeys fighting back to keep them safe. Writer-director Jimmy Hayward, a veteran animator (Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!), had a clever kernel of an idea -- what if turkeys could somehow get themselves off the Thanksgiving menu without condemning any other animals to their seasonal holiday-meal fate? But the simple storyline got muddled in the execution. Between the outdated Bill Clinton-esque president (voiced by Hayward); the insensitive Native American-esque wild turkeys of the 1600s; and the various time-travel issues, there's just too much happening all at once.
There are a few laughs, like George Takei as the voice of the HAL-like time travel machine S.T.E.V.E., and the alpha-turkey competitiveness between Harrelson's Jake and the chief's son. And it's always a treat to hear Amy Poehler, who plays the chief's courageous daughter Jenny and Reggie's love interest. But it's not enough to make this a must-see every holiday season, and Free Birds may disappoint parents and possibly confuse young kids not used to the time-travel plot device.
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Families can talk about how Free Birds compares to other Thanksgiving-set movies.
Does the movie change your opinion about eating turkey at Thanksgiving? Do you think the movie has a "vegeterian agenda" as some critics have suggested?
Is it culturally insensitive for the turkeys to wear headdresses and generally look like they're Native Americans?
In theaters: November 1, 2013
On DVD or streaming: February 4, 2014
Cast: Amy Poehler, Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson
Studio: Relativity Media
Genre: Family and Kids
Topics: Adventures, Holidays, Wild Animals
MPAA rating: PG
MPAA explanation: some action/peril and rude humor
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We are lucky, on the cusp of the Twenty-First Century, to be living in an age of genius.
In every field of human effort--from molecular biology to the color of music--the tools and rules are changing, generating startling innovations and then falling before them. Inspiration, arrogance, brilliance, stalk the land. So we present twenty-one innovators, creators, and thinkers whose work, in high fields and low, is transforming our civilization. Some you've heard of before, though probably not quite this way. Others you'll meet for the first time. There are a few who are so original we asked them to show what they do.
This soft-spoken twenty-nine-year-old commands a respect in cyberspace bordering on worship, his every move the subject of Silicon Valley scuttlebutt. Torvalds is the hacker wunderkind behind Linux, a collaboratively built computer-operating system that's turning the silicon world upside down. Linux is part of the open-source movement, a Net-connected band of hackers who think software code should be free to anyone who wants it. What has software Goliaths like Microsoft shaking in their wing tips is that the industry and Wall Street are taking notice. Red Hat, a company that makes a commercial version of Linux, stunned the market in August with an IPO that yielded a capitalization of almost $5 billion a day after its debut.
Technology is changing art as we know it. Maeda's digitally created designs are fiat-out beautiful, and playful onscreen pieces like The Reactive Square, which changes shape if you shout at it, and Time Paint, whose colors fly through space, puncture the notion that a work of art is timeless perfection on a canvas.
The big challenge in this field is for a digital artist not to be at the mercy of programmers, and vice versa. Maeda and his research assistants at MIT's Media Lab solve the problem by doing both, tickling, Maeda says, "the humanist side of computation. What I'm trying to do is help put soul into technology."
She has arrived just in time for the baby boom's dotage. This thirty-eight-year-old biology professor at Johns Hopkins is leading us to a new understanding of the life span of cells--and the potential to control their destiny. Greider's pioneering research on telomeres, the DNA stretches at the tips of chromosomes, has given scientists a clearer picture of the mechanism that dictates the number of times a cell divides before it stops doing so--perhaps a prelude to its dying--or whether the cell keeps dividing ad infinitum, possibly starting a tumor.
The limbic system is the part of the brain that controls hunger and thirst, but also emotional reactions and biological rhythms.
In Bill Joy's case, those functions hardly seem incongruous. Joy, forty-four, is a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, its chief scientist, and the inventor of many of the very best ideas in all of computerdom. All of them are aimed at making tasks easier, more natural. More beautiful. More democratic. That has meant Java, which enables users of all computers to share applications. And now it means Jini, which reaches beyond the desktop to permit the intercommunication of devices not anchored to the computer on your desk.
See, he didn't arrive at Gucci as some design star. No, Tom Ford was there in the back room, an imaginative kid from Texas with his own romantic ideas about what Gucci might be. When he got his chance, when he was given design control over the dying company in 1994--well, hello. By 1997, Gucci was the success story of the nineties. By earlier this year, it was the object of takeover fever. Company president Domenico De Sole maneuvered to retain control, attracted new financing, and began empire building himself, eyeing Fendi, Yves Saint Laurent, and Bulgari. Ford, thirty-eight, and De Sole are atop what may become the most influential luxury-goods enterprise in the world. The kid from Texas is now one of the arbiters of luxury, his ideas inevitably trickling down to influence the design of lifestyle at every level.
A political scientist might call him our leading "neorealist." Others just know him as the skunk at the garden party thrown by the American foreign-policy establishment to celebrate victory in the cold war. What he is becoming is the most influential foreign-policy adviser of his generation.
In Zakaria's view, spreading democracy should not be the first goal of U.-S. diplomacy. "America has an obligation to order the world," he says. "This, ultimately, will result in much more meaningful liberalization than going around hectoring despots to release political prisoners." He argues, for example, that order in Russia is preferable at this point to democracy. And that America should be less eager to pursue humanitarian interventions.
She has come to wake you up. Armed with a powerful and dexterous voice, McDonald, twenty-nine, is on a crusade to make the moribund art form of the American musical matter again as music. In recent years, she has appeared in three hit Broadway shows--Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime--and won three Tonys. Suddenly, young composers are feeling alive again, and they all want to compose new music just for her, because revivals are nice, but people don't live in revival. Among the new work McDonald is generating is a show by thirty-seven-year-old Michael John LaChiusa, which will debut this fall. It is a new telling of the story of Medea called Marie Christine, this time set in New Orleans. McDonald spent time down there memorizing the place, putting the moss on the trees, because she is also a very good actress. This "huge, dark role" has some people saying, Bad move, girl. But there's never been a moment's hesitation for her, because "this is my life," she says, "and this is a sort of mission."
Before Martin Nowak, if you'd asked even a very smart doctor how many cells are killed by a virus in a day, or how many times a virus replicates itself in a week, his best, most precise answer would have been A lot.
Martin Nowak can give you a number. And then he can offer "precise treatment strategies." He is thirty-four years old, and he is a mathematical biologist--that is, he describes biological processes through mathematics. It is a field that didn't exist much before him, and it is a field that promises to change our understanding of the behavior of life on earth.
His engagement in it was sort of an accident. In 1988, Nowak sat through a lecture on HIV at the University of Vienna, where he was finishing his doctorate in biochemistry. As he listened, he thought, "Guessing is not good enough. Biology alone can't provide a picture of the dynamic interactions of entire populations of viruses. Mathematics is the answer." The next year, Nowak began work on his first math model of the virus. And this model revolutionized the way the world thinks about HIV and other viruses.
He continues his groundbreaking research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is now working on a better understanding of the evolution of language and of genetic systems. When you're inventing a new science, of course, you have nothing to compare your work to. "I'm always asking, Am I doing this right?" Nowak says, his eyes crinkling. "But mathematics is a very honest language."
His work on everybody's second-favorite organ, to paraphrase Woody Allen, is so startling you needn't be a scientist to appreciate its implications. Few ideas in biology have been more fixed than the doctrine that people are born with a finite number of brain cells and go downhill from there, neuronwise, all the way to senility. But last year, Gage and his collaborators showed that the adult (and even the elderly) brain can generate new nerve cells, a discovery that foreshadows the day when neurologists will repair injuries and diseases of the brain and spinal cord by tapping the nervous system's unrealized potential to replenish itself.
Gage, a forty-nine-year-old neurobiologist at the Salk Institute and the University of California at San Diego, says the finding is cause for optimism. For one thing, it suggests future therapies for ailments such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. For another, it transforms our sense of who we are. Under the old view of the brain, we recklessly squandered the cells we inherited at birth; under Gage's revisionist view, we might hold off dissipation with fresh reinforcements. Just don't tell that to the teenagers.
If almost any doctor in the world said he'd find a cure for cancer in a few years, you'd laugh. But if Keith Black said it, you'd get chills. Black is forty-two and heads the neurosurgical institute at Cedars-Sinai in L.-A. He is a brain surgeon. He's very, very good: Since he started cutting twelve years ago, brain tumors that were once inoperable are now removed every day--by Black, of course, 250 times a year, with hands that cannot move and cannot miss. What's remarkable is that Black is also among the world's leading cancer researchers. Cancer is his enemy and his muse. Since last year, he's been conducting clinical trials on a way to stimulate the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells spontaneously--in the brain, in the breast, in the lymph nodes, on the skin--which could lead to a cancer vaccine. In November, he'll present preliminary findings. If his research holds up, Black sees doctors putting away their scalpels for good. "In ten or fifteen years, the whole idea of surgery will seem primitive."


Summertime is just about upon us, and if you're planning on going out to the woods at all to enjoy these long days, that can mean battling bugs. Most commercial bug sprays are filled with nasty neurotoxins like DEET. Making your own bug repellant can be easy and effective. I travelled South East Asia with a spray I made from lavender essential oil and I didn't get a single bite (sleeping in a mosquito net also helped I suppose). Give it a try and let me know what you think. You may need to re-apply more often than you would with commercial products.
I look forward to trying this come the summer.
What proportion of Ess oils to liquid is used? there is much variance with 30 – 50 drops.
Would 30 drops in a 100 mL container be about right?


Displacement sensors are also known as displacement gauges which are used to measure the travel range between the object's current position and its reference point. These are used for dimension measurement to determine an object's thickness, height, and width. The displacement sensors work in two different ways include non-contact measurement using the magnetic field, light or sound waves and in direct contact with an object. There are various applications such as detection of stacked printed circuit boards (PCB), positioning of electronics components on the PCB during manufacturing and many others wherein the displacement sensors are used.
The key factors which drive primarily the growth of the global displacement sensors market are significantly increasing industrial automation along with growing electronics industry due to robust growth in the demand for smartphone and other electronic products over the forecast period. Rising demand for non-contact sensing technology in automotive industry fuels the global displacement sensors over the forecast period. Furthermore, robust growth in construction industry along with food and beverages industry are the major factors which drive the global displacement sensors market due to its high usage for supervision in various construction projects and in the packaging of products respectively. Additionally, high product innovation in displacement sensors such as compact and robust design from key manufacturers leads the global displacement sensors market towards significant growth over the forecast period. The key factors such as high development and installation cost and high labor cost in North America region hinder the growth of global displacement sensors market over the forecast period.
Global displacement sensors market is segmented by technology type, measurement type, product type, end-use industry, and region type.
Among above mentioned end-use industry, electrical and electronics segment, as well as automotive industry, are anticipated to uplift the global displacement sensors market over the forecast period due to the significant usage of displacement sensors in the assembly of electronics components. Additionally, among the above-mentioned measurement type, the non-contact segment is estimated to witness the rapid growth rate in the global displacement sensors market due to its growing demand for industrial automation.
Based on geographies, the global displacement sensors market is classified into seven regions such as Western Europe, North America, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific excluding Japan, Japan and the Middle East and Africa. Among above-mentioned regions, North America accounts high market share in the global displacement sensors market over the forecast period, attributed to growing innovation such as displacement sensors with laser technology across the region followed by Western Europe. Asia Pacific excluding Japan is anticipated to showcase a significant growth in the global displacement sensors market over the forecast period, owing to significant growing electronics industry along with robust growth in manufacturing industry in emerging countries such as China and India across the region. Latin America is predicted to see extensive growth in the global displacement sensors market due to significantly growing manufacturing industry in Brazil. Japan is predicted to see a significant CAGR in the global displacement sensors market over the forecast period, attribute to high usage of displacement sensors in the automotive industry for thickness measurement.
Few key players of the global displacement sensors market are Omron Corporation, ifm electronics GmbH, Lion Precision Inc., Continental AG, Schneider Electric SA, Panasonic Corp, Spectris PLC, Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG, and Riftek LLC. Key manufacturers are focusing toward innovation in products such as non-contact linear displacement sensors with laser technology which provides high speed and efficiency.


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Brooke Floyd charged with manslaughter
Brian Floyd, 10-month-old son Harper found dead after 4-day search
Updated: 3:47 PM CDT Aug 25, 2014
On Monday, Aug. 25, the District Attorney Tom Tatum said they will not be releasing the autopsy report for Brian Floyd. Tatum cites "ethical concerns." Brian Floyd's wife and the mother of their son, Brooke Floyd, 21, of Greenwood was charged with felony manslaughter on Aug. 5. Tatum said Monday that Brooke Floyd is not facing any additional charges. Her husband and 10-month-old son were found July 29 after a four-day search near Blue Mountain Lake. According to the probable cause reports, Brooke told investigators she and Brian left their home in Greenwood because they believed someone was attacking them.She said they drove into the woods to escape the people that were trying to kill them. Brooke said she and her husband took several prescription drugs and "speed." She said later that they both were hallucinating. Investigators said a forest service worker spotted Brooke Floyd while driving along a rural mountain road Friday in Yell County.Click here to read the previous updates from the report. Funeral services were held Saturday Aug. 2 for 33-year-old Brian Floyd, at the Community Bible Church in Fort Smith.Pastor Ed Saucier spoke at the funeral, and said he's helping the family cope with their loss."The family is obviously very sad, very troubled. But, you know, they loved Brian," Saucier said. "They knew Brian to be a kind-hearted man, a good dad, a good husband."Saucier said the family knew Floyd battled addiction. "They have a pretty high I.Q. in regard to the types of struggles that Brian faced as a young man whose life was of constant battle with addiction. They understand a lot of that," said the pastor.WATCH: More of Jonathan's interview with Pastor Ed Saucier.A separate, private service, as requested by the mother, was held for Harper. 40/29 spoke exclusively with Brooke Floyd's cousin Kandis Howard. She said she reached out to Brooke's mom after hearing about the death of Brian and Harper.WATCH: Exclusive interview with Floyd relative."She was always one of the quietest, meekest people that I've known," said Howard.
YELL COUNTY, Ark. —
On Monday, Aug. 25, the District Attorney Tom Tatum said they will not be releasing the autopsy report for Brian Floyd. Tatum cites "ethical concerns."
Brian Floyd's wife and the mother of their son, Brooke Floyd, 21, of Greenwood was charged with felony manslaughter on Aug. 5.
Deputies find bodies of missing father, baby
Authorities release information on death of Greenwood man and son
Tatum said Monday that Brooke Floyd is not facing any additional charges.
Her husband and 10-month-old son were found July 29 after a four-day search near Blue Mountain Lake.
According to the probable cause reports, Brooke told investigators she and Brian left their home in Greenwood because they believed someone was attacking them.
She said they drove into the woods to escape the people that were trying to kill them.
Brooke said she and her husband took several prescription drugs and "speed." She said later that they both were hallucinating.
Investigators said a forest service worker spotted Brooke Floyd while driving along a rural mountain road Friday in Yell County.
Click here to read the previous updates from the report.
Funeral services were held Saturday Aug. 2 for 33-year-old Brian Floyd, at the Community Bible Church in Fort Smith.
Pastor Ed Saucier spoke at the funeral, and said he's helping the family cope with their loss.
"The family is obviously very sad, very troubled. But, you know, they loved Brian," Saucier said. "They knew Brian to be a kind-hearted man, a good dad, a good husband."
Saucier said the family knew Floyd battled addiction. "They have a pretty high I.Q. in regard to the types of struggles that Brian faced as a young man whose life was of constant battle with addiction. They understand a lot of that," said the pastor.
WATCH: More of Jonathan's interview with Pastor Ed Saucier.
A separate, private service, as requested by the mother, was held for Harper.
40/29 spoke exclusively with Brooke Floyd's cousin Kandis Howard. She said she reached out to Brooke's mom after hearing about the death of Brian and Harper.
WATCH: Exclusive interview with Floyd relative.
"She was always one of the quietest, meekest people that I've known," said Howard.


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Scale Factor, Perimeter, Area and Volume of Similar Figures
More Lessons for Grade 8 math
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Videos, worksheets, stories and songs to help Grade 8 students learn about Scale Factor.
In this lesson, we will learn the scale factors of similar figures, the ratio of lengths, perimeters, areas and volumes of similar figures.
Scale Factor
A scale factor is the factor by which all the components of an object are multiplied in order to create a proportional enlargement or reduction.
How to use scale to determine the dimensions of a proportional model?
Define scale factor.
Scale factor is similar to a unit scale except no units are given. Scale factor is a ratio comparing the scaled measurement to the actual measurement.
How to use scale factor to sketch a proportional scale model?
1. The scale factor of a model car is 1:24. If the actual car is 18 ft long and 8 ft wide, how long and wide will the model car be in inches?
2. You need to sketch a ladybug using a scale factor of 12. If a ladybug is 8 mm long and 4 mm wide, what will be the length and width of the sketch be in cm?
A brief course in scale factor for similar geometric figures
Scale Factor is defined as the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures.
Similar Figures are figures such that:
1. Corresponding angles are congruent.
2. Corresponding side lengths are proportional.
Ratio of Perimeters and Areas
This video explains how to find the ratio of areas and ratios of perimeters for similar polygons.
Ratio of perimeters = ratio of sides
Ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)2
Scale Factor/Perimeter Ratio/Area Ratio
Given that the polygon in each pair are similar. Find the scale factor, perimeter ratio and area ratio.
Areas and Perimeters of Similar Figures
This video discusses how to find the ratio of the perimeters and the ratio of the areas of similar figures from the scale factor. Also how to use these ratios to find missing perimeters and areas.
If the scale factor of two similar figures is a/b, then
(1) the ratio of their perimeters is a/b and
(2) the ratio of their areas is a2/b2
1. The trapezoids at the right are similar. The ratio of the lengths of corresponding sides is 6/9 or 2/3.
a) What is the ratio (smaller to larger) of the perimeters?
b) What is the ratio (smaller to larger) of the areas?
2. Two similar polygons have corresponding sides in the ratio 5:7.
a) What is the ratio (larger to smaller) of their perimeters?
b) What is the ratio (larger to smaller) of their areas?
3. The area of the smaller regular pentagon is about 27.5 cm2. What is the best approximation for the area of the larger regular pentagon?
4. If the area of the smaller triangle is about 39 ft2, what is the area of the larger triangle to the nearest tenth?
5. The triangles are similar. What is the scale factor? What is the ratio of their perimeters?
6. The areas of two similar rhombuses are 48m2 and 128m2. What is the ratio of their perimeters?
How does scale factor impact side lengths, perimeter, area, and angles?
If the scale factor from A to B is x then
The side lengths of B will be x times larger than A
The perimeter of B will be x times larger than A
The area of B will be x2 times larger than A
A and B will have the same shape and angles.
Ratio of Surface Areas and Volumes
Scale Factor, Length, Area and Volume for similar shapes
Ratio of lengths = ratio of sides = scale factor
Ratio of surface areas = (ratio of sides)2 = (scale factor)2
Ratio of volume = (ratio of sides)3 = (scale factor)3
Surface Areas and Volumes of Similar Solids Similar solids have the same shape, and all their corresponding dimensions are proportional.
If the scale factor of two similar solids is a:b, then
• the ratio of their corresponding areas is a2:b2
• the ratio of their volumes is a3:b3
1. Are the two rectangular prisms similar? If so, what is the scale factor of the first figure to the second figure?
2. The square prisms at the right are similar. What is the scale factor of the smaller prism to the larger prism?
3. What is the scale factor of two similar prisms with surface areas 144 m2 and 324 m2?
4. The volumes of two similar solids are 128 m3 and 250 m3. The surface area of the larger solid is 250 m2. What is the surface area of the smaller solid?
Similar Figures, Scale Factor, Area & Volume Ratios
1. The scale factor between two similar figures is given. The surface area and volume of the smaller figure are given. Find the surface area and volume of the larger figure.
Scale factor 5:6
SA: 275 cm2
V: 3000 cm3
2. Some information about the surface area and volume of two similar solids has been given. Find the missing value.
3D Figures - Scale Models and Factors
Learn about scaling 3D figures using scale factor
Problem: A 6 cm by 2 cm rectangular prism is built form small rectangular prisms of length 3 cm.
a) What is the scale factor from the smaller to the larger model?
b) Find the width and height of the smaller rectangular prisms.
c) Compare the surface area of the two rectangular prisms.
d) Compare the volume of the two rectangular prisms.


In the past five years, NALAS' Fiscal Decentralisation Indicators Report has became one of the Network's recognized products, with both regional and national impact. This Report is an ongoing effort to provide policy-makers and analysts with reliable comparative data on municipal finances and intergovernmental fiscal relations in South-East Europe. As decentralisation is one of the key issues of concern of NALAS' members and SEE local governments, we are ready to go step forward, in establishing NALAS Decentralisation Observatory.
With the project "Towards SEE Decentralisation Observatory", financed by "Support to the implementation of the SEE 2020 Strategy" programme of the Regional Cooperation Council, NALAS aims towards improvement of the application of the Subsidiarity principle in delivery of public services in SEE as per the standards of the European Charter of Local Self Government. The project will put in place conditions for decision-making towards establishment of a "SEE Decentralisation Observatory" and therefore strengthen NALAS as a regional dimension coordinator of the Pillar "Governance for Growth" of the SEE2020 Strategy. The action will result into a concept and methodology for establishment of the "SEE Decentralisation Observatory" and raised awareness for the need of such activity in the region.
The activities to be implemented involve: Desk research on the current practices in regional monitoring of the decentralisation process in SEE; Field research in all beneficiary economies on the national monitoring systems related to the decentralisation process; Regional workshop for development of methodology for the set-up of the Decentralisation Observatory based on the findings of the research; Preparation of a study/report with recommendations for future steps towards setting up of the "SEE Decentralisation Observatory"; and Dissemination of the findings and recommendations of the study.


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Dale Gardner (ur. 8 listopada 1948 w Fairmont, zm. 19 lutego 2014 w Colorado Springs) – amerykański astronauta i lotnik.

Życiorys
Dorastał w Sherburn i Savanna, w 1966 ukończył szkołę w Savanna, a w 1970 fizykę inżynieryjną na University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Służył w United States Navy, szkolił się na lotnika morskiego w Pensacoli na Florydzie, później w Glynco w Georgii, 5 maja 1971 został oficerem lotnictwa morskiego, następnie został skierowany do Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River w stanie Maryland. Od lipca 1973 służył jako pilot Grumman F-14 Tomcat w San Diego, potem skierowano go na lotniskowiec USS ENTERPRISE. 16 stycznia 1978 został wybrany przez NASA kandydatem na astronautę, od lipca 1978 do sierpnia 1979 przechodził szkolenie w Centrum Lotów Kosmicznych imienia Lyndona B. Johnsona.

Od 30 sierpnia do 5 września 1983 był specjalistą misji STS-8 trwającej 6 dni, godzinę i 8 minut; start nastąpił z Centrum Kosmicznego im. Johna F. Kennedy'ego na Florydzie, a lądowanie w Edwards Air Force Base w Kalifornii. Umieszczono na orbicie geostacjonarnej indyjskiego satelitę telekomunikacyjnego INSAT 1B. Od 8 do 16 listopada 1984 jako specjalista misji brał udział w misji STS-51-A trwającej 7 dni, 23 godziny i 44 minuty. Umieszczono na orbicie satelity telekomunikacyjne Telesat-H oraz Leasat F-1 (Syncom IV-1), przechwycono i dostarczono na Ziemię satelity Palapa-B2 i Wester 6, które nie weszły na prawidłową orbitę.

Łącznie spędził w kosmosie 14 dni i 52 minuty. Z NASA był związany do października 1986.

Zobacz też
 alfabetyczna lista astronautów
 grupy i oddziały astronautów

Bibliografia
 Oficjalna biografia na stronie NASA (ang.)
 Hasło w Encyklopedii Britannica (ang.)
 Informacje na spacefacts.de (ang.)

Amerykańscy astronauci
Amerykańscy piloci
Odznaczeni Defense Superior Service Medal
Odznaczeni Distinguished Flying Cross (Stany Zjednoczone)
Urodzeni w 1948
Zmarli w 2014


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import * as DOM from '../helpers/dom';
import * as Settings from '../helpers/settings';
import * as Storage from '../helpers/storage';
import * as Templating from '../helpers/templating';
import * as Tools from '../helpers/tools';
import * as FileInputs from './file-inputs';
import * as Widgets from '../widgets';
import MovableWidget from '../widgets/movable-widget';
import PopupMessage from '../widgets/popup-message';

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const DRAWING_WIDGET_HEIGHT = 500;
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const EDITED_FILE_POSTFIX = '-edited.png';

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    type: 'drawingOptionsWidget',
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  if (Tools.deviceType('desktop')) {
    options.minSize = {
      width: 550,
      height: 280
    };
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    options.maximized = true;
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      height: +DOM.data('height', file),
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The Woodmans2010
Directed by C. Scott Willis
The tragic story of Francesca Woodman, a young photographer renowned for her extraordinary self-portraits, is also the story of her brilliantly artistic family. With THE WOODMANS, director C. Scott Willis shows how the struggle for fame in the high-stakes world of art resulted in tragedy and then in healing and redemption. As a family, the Woodmans are noted for their talent. Betty Woodman, in particular, is an internationally renowned ceramicist whose work has been shown at The Metropolitan Musem of Art. But it is the fate of Francesca, the youngest Woodman, that will haunt them over the years. By piecing together Francesca's photos, never-before-seen experimental videos and personal journals, and through candid conversations with George and Betty Woodman, Charlie Woodman and a host of friends, Willis depicts four lives committed to art and whose art lives through them. It is an extraordinary debut film that explores what it truly means to create.
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2011 Gotham Awards
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"There's a famous Diane Arbus photograph in which a pair of elderly, incredulous parents stare up at a son so huge that their apartment can barely contain him. THE WOODMANS is that picture." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice
3 members like this review
Artistc complexity seems to pale here in contrast with the complexity of BEING in a family, in a "relationsip", in onesself, within skin. For all of the beauty of color and form and fabric must somehow contort into the desire for recognition by some other BEING.
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Long recognized for his deeply penetrating photographic record of America, this photographer works in the urban tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper and Walker Evans.
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Way too selfish for me to watch. A bore.
TL Kelly
Quite a provocative film of muted tones and smooth textures that make it worth taking the time to watch. The most fascinating aspect of the film comes around 70:00 when Francesca's artist family and friends admit to feeling competitive with and perhaps jealous of the dead woman's art. The way her death has interwoven into the tapestry of these living artists creates a stunning series of cinematic truths. Francesca's death feels as if it is suspended, she is neither dead nor alive. Perhaps this is what it truly means to be immortal.
1 member likes this review
willaad101
A wonderful documentary. I wish she would have lived. Thank you to the Woodmans for sharing their story and hers.
Lovely film, beautiful and quiet pace to it. I am envious of the genius in the Woodman family and how the parents encouraged it. Francesca was so very brave and made incredible, indelible images. Great introduction to her work.
josiejurczenia
So sad, so beautiful. why do we make art? What does it mean when art is successful? What does it mean when it is not?
This is a compelling film, but not a picnic.
Barry M.
There is (obviously) much more to child abuse than just the merely physical.....case in point, the Woodmans. The fact that the completely unnecessary death of what was and would have been one the greatest, if not THE greatest, artists of the 20th century only makes that dark truth all the more vile.
vanderflik
Francesca Woodman was an exceptional artist / photographer and it's great to see a movie about her and her work.
I thought it was very informative to learn more about her family and their artistic background but I was really hoping for a greater understanding about Francesca and her creative inspirations. Of course she is dead now and maybe that isn't possible.
Overall, this is a very good expose of an important artist and where she came from.
Lulu H.
This is a very touching documentary about an event in the life of a family of great artists. It's an unusual dynamic, as artists tend to live outside the norm. I've always wondered what it would be like as an artist to have had parents who were serious working artists. The Woodman family is very honest and courageous to show the camera themselves as much as they could to honor the work and life of their brilliant daughter. It inspired and enlightened me in art, life, and the different ways people cope with profound loss (although this was made twenty year later). At times there were uncomfortable pauses, which I believe were intentional and necessary to telling the story. The production value of this film was seamless, so I didn't notice any apparent flaws, and it was consistent with the art that it was witness to. It's a very good film about the life of a family of artists. We should all open our minds to understanding.
user1390440932055466-0
Very informative and from a psychological family dynamic perspective this film is interesting.
Greg L.
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Dictatorial is an acceptable word in Scrabble with 14 points. Dictatorial is an accepted word in Word with Friends having 16 points. Dictatorial is a 11 letter long Word starting with D and ending with L. Below are Total 299 words made out of this word.
Dictatorial Meaning :- Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as- a dictatorial tone or manner.
Note There are 5 vowel letters and 6 consonant letters in the word dictatorial. D is 4th, I is 9th, C is 3rd, T is 20th, A is 1st, O is 15th, R is 18th, L is 12th, Letter of Alphabet series.


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New Social Security Bill Will Benefit Millions Of Americans
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We recently published a story on social security changes for 2017 And, we discussed the importance of saving social security as means of creating a stronger America. But, it is the "Social Security Reform Act" that could bring the much-needed changes to fix the broken system.
Texas Congressman, Sam Johnson, is spearheading the legislation that will raise benefit amounts for low-income workers–one of the most vulnerable social security populations. The bill also promotes further raising the minimum benefit for those who have earned less over their lifetime careers.
Johnson is also proposing a new formula to calculate benefits. As the method stands now, low-wage workers receive fewer benefits than their higher-earning counterparts. The "proportional" formula Johnson has proposed would create a fairer system.
To further prioritize those who depend solely on social security. The congressman has suggested eliminating the…
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In 2017, the amount working retirees could earn while still receiving benefits was raised. The penalties for earning too much were lowered. However, eliminating the "Retirement Means Test," would also eliminate any penalty for working.
This change would offer social security recipients greater flexibility and more choices for securing their financial future.
When introducing his bill, Johnson said:
"For years I've talked about the need to fix Social Security so that our children and grandchildren can count on it to be there for them just like it's there for today's seniors and individuals with disabilities. My commonsense plan is the start of a fact-based conversation about how we do just that. Americans want, need, and deserve for us to finally come up with a solution to saving this important program."
Democrats have vowed to stop the legislation from becoming a reality. Offering further evidence that they are not concerned with protecting the neediest and most deserving people–senior citizens and American workers.
The legislation promises to preserve social security for future generations while modernizing it to meet 21st century needs. The goal is to "reward retirees and individuals with disabilities for their years of work." A goal that President Trump has every intention of achieving.
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The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the Bill of Rights is the amendment that protects all of the rest. It states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." I am opposed to any laws that prohibit law abiding citizens from owning weapons for their own personal safety, or for recreational use. I am opposed to any type of gun registry database or any legislation limiting the type of gun you can own, the type of ammunition you can purchase, or limits on magazine capacity. I fully support Constitutional Carry and the natural right for one to defend themselves and their families, without having to beg permission from the government to do so.
The private sector has improved living conditions of the poor all across the world by making essential daily goods more accessible, and cheaper through competition. I am an advocate for free markets without government manipulation and limited regulation. When the government intervenes in the markets through tedious, costly regulations (or bail outs), it is, by default, picking winners and losers. We need to stop this form of cronyism and allow good business to succeed without interference, and bad businesses must be allowed to fail.
Our country is rapidly falling behind the rest of the developed world and our state has followed a similar trend. Education begins at home and I am a strong proponent of homeschooling, private schools, and charter schools. Our Texas Constitution states: "It shall be DUTY OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools". Surprisingly, education spending continues to increase, while teacher pay stays the same, and we do not see any significant improvements in our test scores or graduation rates. It's time that we focus on the quality of education and stop throwing money around thinking that it alone will solve the problem. Education needs to be localized and focused on the needs of the student and the community. The power for the parents to choose how and where their child obtains their education must also be restored. Additionally, we need to stop teaching towards the test and teach our children to think more critically, so that they will be able to live a successful life once they complete school.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson noted: "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". As a believer in Liberty, I understand that you can't protect it without first protecting life. The government's role is to protect the life, liberty, and property of each individual; among the first of human rights is the right to life. I will work to promote a culture of life, and to protect the rights of all humans, from the elderly to the unborn – and to those who want to live a lifestyle that I don't agree with.
Politicians are salivating to regulate and tax the internet while snooping through your private information. The internet is arguably the most powerful and innovative private sector invention in modern history and should remain free – without government regulation.
It is made clear in the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that "Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." I believe that Texas needs to exercise its rights through nullification of overbearing Federal programs such as Obamacare, crippling EPA regulations, and other intrusive overreaches of the Federal Government into our state. Additionally, the State must also diligently protect the rights of citizens from overbearing and burdensome regulation from local municipalities. Private property rights are fundamental to the foundation of Liberty and a free society, and a patchwork of regulations from city to city only inhibits the growth and progress of our state.
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