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Trang chủ Thi THPT quốc gia Đề Thi - Đáp Án
Đáp án đề anh thi THPT quốc gia năm 2017 - 2018 mã đề 404
Đọc Tài Liệu xin được gửi đến các sĩ tử đề thi và đáp án thi chính thức môn Tiếng Anh mã đề 404 kỳ thi trung học phổ thông quốc gia năm học 2017 - 2018.
1. Đề thi
2. Đáp án chính thức
Đề thi chính thức mã 404 - Môn Tiếng Anh THPT quốc gia năm 2017
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 1. Anna and Ms White are meeting in a bookshop.
Anna: "Good morning, Ms White. How are you?"
Ms White: "Hi, Anna. ______. And you?"
A. I'm fine, thanks B. I'm forty years old
C. I'm not working today D. I'm looking for a book
Question 2. Andrew is talking to a waiter in a restaurant.
Andrew: "Can I have the bill, please?"
Waiter: "______."
A. You are very kind B. Just a minute, please
C. My pleasure D. You're exactly right
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 3. They are going to declare details of the plan to the public later this week.
A. announce B. infer C. remind D. notice
Question 4. It rained so hard
that the roads were quickly covered in water.
A. heavily B. lightly C. softly D. badly
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 5. If you are at a loose end tomorrow, why don't we spend the day sunbathing and relaxing on the beach?
A. having a lot to do B. having nothing to do C. having nothing to lose D. having a lot to gain
Question 6. The twin girls are so identical that I can't distinguish one from the other.
A. similar B. alike C. different D. changeable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 7. A. washed B. passed C. worked D. opened
Question 8. A. hate B. face C. make D. dance
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 9. A. medical B. essential C. dangerous D. regular
Question 10. A. doctor B. student C. advice D. parent
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 11. The dog ______ my father gave me is very lovely.
A. who B. when C. which D. where
Question 12. There has been growing public concern about the use of chemicals in food ______ recently.
A. preservation B. protection C. reservation D. conservation
Question 13. Peter bought a ______ car as a present for his wife two weeks ago.
A. new German red B. red German new C. red new German D. new red German
Question 14. You ______ pass the exam in order to graduate from high school.
A. must B. can C. may D. might
Question 15. During a job interview, candidates are advised to ______ on the interviewer's questions and make an effort to answer them properly.
A. emphasize B. decide C. concentrate D. rely
Question 16. The higher the cost of living is, ______.
A. the life of the immigrants becomes the harder
B. the hardest the life of the immigrants becomes
C. the harder does the life of the immigrants become
D. the harder the life of the immigrants becomes
Question 17. Harmful environmental factors can ______ the development of certain diseases.
A. generate B. accelerate C. produce D. monitor
Question 18. Last week, we ______ an interesting film about the animal world.
A. see B. saw C. are seeing D. will see
Question 19. The pace of ______ life is much slower in the country than in the city.
A. an B. a C. Ø D. the
Question 20. The success of the company in such a ______ market is remarkable.
A. compete B. competitively C. competitive D. competition
Question 21. A lot of research in medical science has been ______ to improve human health.
A. made up B. carried out C. taken up D. given off
Question 22. It is important for students to ______ full use of university facilities.
A. take B. do C. find D. make
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 27.
Culture has a strong influence on non-verbal communication. Even the simple act of looking someone in the eye is not at all that simple. In the USA, Americans are (23)______ to look directly at people when speaking to them. It shows interest in what they are saying and is thought to carry a (24)______ of honesty. Meanwhile, in Japan and Korea, people avoid long periods of eye contact. It is considered more polite to look to the side during a conversation. The Lebanese, (25)______, stand close together and look intensely into each other's eyes. The action shows sincerity and gives people a better sense of what their counterparts want.
Given such differences with even the most common expressions, people (26)______ travel or work abroad have a real need to learn the other culture's body language. People tend to be unaware of the messages they are sending to others. So, it is (27)______ to consider your own body language before dealing with people from other cultures. Knowing about the body language of friends, clients, and colleagues can be very helpful in improving understanding and avoiding miscommunication.
(Source: Reading Fusion 1 by Andrew E. Bennett)
Question 23. A. encouraged B. forbidden C. assisted D. opposed
Question 24. A. sound B. sense C. taste D. touch
Question 25. A. in contrast B. moreover C. therefore D. in addition
Question 26. A. which B. where C. who D. whose
Question 27. A. usefully B. use C. usefulness D. useful
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.
When naming a child, some parents seem to choose a name based simply on their personal preference. In other families, grandparents or professional name-makers come up with a child's name. In some cases, the time of a child's birth influences how the child's name is determined.
In many European cultures, names are typically chosen by parents. Parents' choice for their child's name may be based on names of their relatives or ancestors. For example, in Italy, children are traditionally named after their grandparents. The parents generally use the father's parents' names first. If they have more children, then they will use the mother's parents' names. Similarly, some people in Eastern Europe name their children after relatives who have died. This tradition is seen as a means to protect the child from the Angel of Death.
Traditionally in some Asian countries, a child's grandfather or a fortune-teller chooses the child's name. In contrast to the tradition of naming children after relatives, the child's name is chosen to influence the child's character. For example, names may be based on a connection to certain elements such as fire, water, earth, wood, or metal. Or the name might include a written character meaning beauty, strength, or kindness.
In certain African cultures, when a child is born plays a large part in determining the child's name. In Ghana's Akan culture, the day a child is born determines the child's name. But each day has different names for boys and girls. For instance, a boy born on Friday is named Kofi, whereas a girl born on the same day is named Afua. Both Kofi and Afua mean "wanderer" or "explorer." Children with these names are seen as travelers.
No matter where the name comes from, a child's name is the first gift in life. Whether the name is chosen according to preference or dictated by tradition, it reflects something about a child's culture. For that reason, all names should be treasured and respected.
(Source: Reading Challenge 2 by Casey Malarcher & Andrea Janzen)
Question 28. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The choice of name for a child in Asia
B. The history of child naming around the world
C. The practice of child naming in Europe
D. The tradition of child naming in different cultures
Question 29. According to the passage, in many European cultures, names are typically selected by ______.
A. ancestors B. parents C. relatives D. grandparents
Question 30. The word "means" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. sign B. symbol C. route D. way
Question 31. What is a common belief in some Asian countries concerning the tradition of naming a child?
A. A child's name must include a written character meaning beauty, strength, or kindness.
B. The choice of a child's name is believed to have an impact on his or her personality.
C. A child's name shouldn't be connected with certain elements of nature.
D. The choice of a child's name should be based on names of his or her relatives.
Question 32. Which of the following about the tradition of child naming in African countries is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The arrival time of a child is an important factor in deciding his or her name.
B. Children born on Friday are normally given names meaning traveling.
C. Children receive the same name if they are born on the same day.
D. No matter how a child's name is chosen, it is related to his or her culture.
Question 33. The word "it" in paragraph 5 refers to ______.
A. preference B. culture C. name D. tradition
Question 34. The word "treasured" in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. ignored B. developed C. valued D. revealed
Tropical rainforests are being destroyed and badly degraded at an unsustainable rate. Some scientists estimate that in the early 1990s tropical forests were being destroyed at a rate of approximately 28 hectares a minute, or about 14 million hectares each year – an area about the size of the state of Wisconsin. This figure marked a decrease since the 1980s, when approximately 16 million hectares were destroyed each year, largely due to a reported decline of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin in the early 1990s. However, satellite images indicate that rates may have rebounded in the late 1990s as burning in the Amazon increased again. Over the past three decades alone, about 5 million square kilometers – or 20 percent of the world's tropical forests – have been cleared. During this time, deforestation in tropical Asia reached almost 30 percent. High rates of deforestation are inevitably followed by alarming rates of plant and animal extinction because many rainforest species cannot survive outside their pristine rainforest habitat. Some scientists estimate that dozens of rainforest species are becoming extinct every day.
Causes of deforestation vary from location to location, but certain patterns tend to be consistent across all forests. Logging companies in search of valuable rainforest hardwoods, or, less often, oil companies in search of petroleum, are often the first to enter a remote area of rainforest. Some logged forests, if left alone, can regenerate in a few decades. But typically, they are not left alone – the roads built by logging companies often provide access for landless farmers to enter a new area, as well as a means to transport agricultural crops to market. For every 1 kilometer of new roads built through a forested area, 4 to 24 square kilometers are deforested and colonized.
Once the loggers leave the land, a typical cycle of destruction ensues. When the landless farmers arrive, they clear the land for planting. Poor rainforest soils produce a low crop yield, especially after a couple of years. At that point, the farmers often sell their lands to cattle ranchers or large plantation owners. After nutrients have been exhausted and soils compacted by cattle, lands are then abandoned and often laid to waste. Rainforest does not readily regenerate on these lands without human intervention. Meanwhile, the colonist farmers and cattle ranchers move to a new piece of land made accessible by logging roads, where the cycle of deforestation begins again.
(Source: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation)
Question 35. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The size of tropical rainforest loss
B. Causes and effects of rainforest destruction
C. The rate of rainforest destruction in the Amazon
D. Typical patterns of extinction of rainforest species
Question 36. According to paragraph 1, which of the following about the rate of rainforest destruction is TRUE?
A. It was greater in the early 1990s than in the 1980s.
B. It was the same in the early 1990s as in the 1980s.
C. It was greater in the 1980s than in the early 1990s.
D. It kept increasing from the 1980s to the 1990s.
Question 37. The word "rebounded" in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by ______.
A. remained unchanged B. fallen again C. risen again D. gone up and down
Question 38. Which of the following can result from the loss of tropical rainforests?
A. The decrease in wasted lands
B. The disappearance of many rainforest species
C. The disappearance of landless farmers
D. The increase in the rainforest habitat
Question 39. According to the passage, what is the most common cause of deforestation in different regions?
A. The search for oil B. The search for valuable woods
C. The search for rare animals D. The search for new farm lands
Question 40. The word "regenerate" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. recover B. renew C. repeat D. refine
Question 41. The phrase "these lands" in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
A. lands for raising cattle B. lands sold and colonized
C. lands abandoned and wasted D. lands for planting
Question 42. What can be inferred about rainforests from the passage?
A. Rainforest destruction can be reduced with the help of cattle ranchers.
B. The cycle of rainforest destruction will come to an end.
C. Human beings are the main contributor to deforestation in tropical regions.
D. Most tropical rainforests have been sold to plantation owners.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 43. Working as a doctor would give me a chance taking care of people's health.
Question 44. Jane help her mother to do the housework when she has free time.
Question 45. Many living organisms depend largely on the environment for the satisfaction of its needs.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 46. They cancelled all the sporting events because of the heavy rain.
A. Without the heavy rain, they wouldn't cancel all the sporting events.
B. If it hadn't rained heavily, they would have cancelled all the sporting events.
C. If it didn't rain heavily, they wouldn't cancel all the sporting events.
D. Had it not rained heavily, they wouldn't have cancelled all the sporting events.
Question 47. I haven't heard from Susan for several months.
A. I last heard from Susan several months ago.
B. Susan didn't hear from me several months ago.
C. Susan heard from me several months ago.
D. I didn't hear from Susan several months ago.
Question 48. "I didn't give John the money," said Mary.
A. Mary denied giving John the money.
B. Mary admitted giving John the money.
C. Mary suggested giving John the money.
D. Mary remembered giving John the money.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 49. Many Vietnamese women are successful in their careers. They are excellent homemakers.
A. Many Vietnamese women are successful in their careers, and they are excellent homemakers.
B. Many Vietnamese women are successful in their careers, for they are excellent homemakers.
C. Many Vietnamese women are successful in their careers, so they are excellent homemakers.
D. Many Vietnamese women are successful in their careers, or they are excellent homemakers.
Question 50. Nam had all the necessary qualifications. They didn't offer him the job.
A. Despite having all the necessary qualifications, Nam was not offered the job.
B. They didn't offer Nam the job as he had all the necessary qualifications.
C. Nam had all the necessary qualifications, so they didn't offer him the job.
D. If Nam had had all the necessary qualifications, he would have been offered the job.
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Đáp án chính thức của Bộ GD&ĐT công bố cho mã đề 404
Câu Đáp án Câu Đáp án Câu Đáp án Câu Đáp án Câu Đáp án
1 A 11 C 21 B 31 B 41 C
2 B 12 A 22 D 32 C 42 C
3 A 13 D 23 A 33 C 43 D
4 A 14 A 24 B 34 C 44 A
5 A 15 C 25 A 35 B 45 D
6 C 16 D 26 C 36 C 46 D
7 D 17 B 27 D 37 C 47 A
8 D 18 B 28 D 38 B 48 A
9 B 19 C 29 B 39 B 49 A
10 C 20 C 30 D 40 A 50 A
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Đáp án kỳ thi THPT quốc gia 2017 môn Anh mã đề 415
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Gates and Company's COVID-19 Vaccine Boosterism Ignores Significant SARS Coronavirus Vaccine Risks Known for Over a Decade
Public Health / Science
Just as COVID-19 (reportedly caused by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2) has dominated the news cycle in 2020, so, too, the focus on an eventual coronavirus vaccine has crowded out needed attention to a wider range of prevention and treatment strategies. Self-appointed pandemic guru Bill Gates—through a complex tangle of direct and indirect funding mechanisms that includes being the World Health Organization's (WHO's) second largest donor—is gleefully leading the contingent promoting planet-wide coronavirus vaccination, unashamedly asserting that a vaccine "is the only thing that will allow us to return to normal." Gates has the effrontery to make such claims despite financial conflicts of interest blatant enough to be noticed even by the credulous, and a lengthy trail of vaccine-related destruction left in the wake of Gates-funded vaccine programs around the world.
Globally, roughly 70 COVID-19 vaccines are in various stages of development—a veritable gold rush that will be all the more lucrative since Gates has made sure that the vaccines will be indemnified against lawsuits. Gates funding, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), is helping to spur the accelerated development of some of the leading contenders, including two of the three experimental vaccines rushed into Phase I trials in humans without any preliminary testing in animal models. (A third experimental vaccine will soon proceed to Phase II trials in China.) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is running the trial of one of these vaccines (mRNA-1273), co-developed under CEPI sponsorship with Cambridge-based biotech firm Moderna. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania-based Inovio Pharmaceuticals is conducting a Phase I trial of INO-4800, a vaccine being developed with massive infusions of funding from both the Gates Foundation and CEPI.
In early April, Dr. Jerome H. Kim (Director General of the United-Nations-affiliated International Vaccine Institute) called attention to the "unprecedented speed" with which the Phase I trials launched, stating that it will be difficult to know whether a vaccine developed in a scant four, 12 or even 18 months "is really safe" and noting that the vaccine development process ordinarily takes anywhere from five to ten years. Although striving for enthusiasm about the "remarkable" speed-up, Kim warned that even when vaccine makers appropriately begin the process with animal studies, "vaccine development is characterized by a high failure rate of 'often 93%.'"
Dr. Kim's words of warning are far from theoretical. In the mid-to-late 2000s, scientists engaged in an ultimately futile effort to develop a vaccine to address the first SARS-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Researchers of the day developed four SARS-CoV vaccines that underwent testing in animal models and two (described in 2007 and 2008) that proceeded to Phase I trials in humans. The less-than-reassuring results of the animal studies, in particular, prompted one set of researchers to conclude that "Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated" [emphasis added].
Troubling results in animals
In 2012, Texas researchers with combined expertise in molecular virology, microbiology, immunology, biodefense and emerging diseases reported in the journal PLoS ONE on their evaluation—in mice—of four candidate vaccines designed to prevent SARS-CoV. All four vaccines had run into trouble in earlier experimental studies, which showed that the vaccines had a tendency to induce pathologic lung reactions in the unfortunate recipients—whether mice, ferrets or nonhuman primates.
The Texas scientists reevaluated the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of two whole-virus vaccines prepared in Vero tissue or Vero cell cultures (from African green monkey kidney); one recombinant (genetically engineered) DNA spike protein vaccine produced in insect cells; and their own virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine containing SARS-CoV proteins as well as mouse hepatitis coronavirus. They also compared versions of the vaccines containing an aluminum adjuvant with adjuvant-free formulations. The research team injected the experimental groups of mice with vaccine on days zero and 28, exposed them to live SARS-CoV on day 56 and sacrificed them two days later (day 58) to examine the lungs for virus and histopathology, comparing the experimental mice to control groups.
All four vaccines appeared to induce antibodies against SARS-CoV two days after exposure to live virus. However, the second set of results—the findings that persuaded the researchers to urge the utmost caution in proceeding to human testing—showed that all of the vaccinated mice, irrespective of the type of vaccine or the presence or absence of aluminum adjuvant, displayed unique lung damage not seen in the control mice, and the pathology occurred in the absence of any detectable SARS coronavirus in the lungs. The researchers described this "Th2-type immunopathology"—indicated in part by abnormal levels of white blood cells called eosinophils—as suggestive of vaccine-induced "hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components."
Troubling results in humans
To explain their findings, the Texas researchers pointed to studies showing similar immunopathologic reactions in human infants who, in the 1960s, received vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). That body of research found that the RSV vaccine "stimulated an unbalanced immune response" that "potentiated" disease in the vaccine recipients upon subsequent exposure to RSV, often leading to hospitalization and sometimes leading to death. Given that the very basis for developing a SARS vaccine was to protect vaccine recipients from infectious SARS-CoV, the Texas researchers concluded that a vaccine that instead elicited an immunopathologic reaction (as had occurred in the 1960s with the RSV vaccine) was cause for concern.
More recently, in 2016, scientists expressed similar worries when children in the Philippines developed serious complications or died after receiving a vaccine to protect against dengue disease. Far from protecting the children, the vaccine dramatically worsened risks of severe complications in children exposed to dengue after vaccination. The deaths of roughly 600 children are now under criminal investigation.
Two other worries highlighted by the Texas researchers in 2012 are worth mentioning in light of today's COVID-19 context. First, given that there are a number of human coronaviruses, the researchers suggested that their results raised important questions about the "safety of vaccinated persons exposed to other coronaviruses." Second, they noted that although the two Phase I clinical trials of SARS-CoV vaccines in humans had reported the vaccines to "induce antibody responses and to be 'safe,' . . . the evidence for safety [was] for a short period of observation." Today, knowing that even the WHO's top experts are questioning how vaccine safety gets evaluated, one wonders how the rushed COVID-19 vaccine trials will be able to address SARS-CoV safety concerns to any meaningful degree.
Cheech and Chong…and Gates
Bill Gates and his foundation have longstanding ties with the good-cop/bad-cop duo that has been headlining the official COVID-19 narrative: Dr. Anthony Fauci, long-time NIAID director, and physician and retired Army colonel Dr. Deborah Birx, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy. It is noteworthy that the two government doctors are long-time allies, having cut their professional teeth working "side by side" on the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and sharing overlapping career paths ever since. With HIV vaccine patents to both their names, neither Birx nor Fauci is a stranger to the lure and potential profits involved in vaccine development—regardless of whether the vaccine ever pans out.
In the early 2000s, Birx was one of the lead investigators of an HIV vaccine clinical trial in Thailand. Although the trial's methodology and results drew severe criticism, Birx and others—including Fauci—spun the study as a success. As her reward, Birx then spent the next ten years directing the CDC's Division of Global HIV/AIDS. In 2016, Fauci and NIAID dished out more taxpayer money to test the same HIV vaccine all over again in South Africa, but NIAID had to call a halt to the study in February 2020, when an interim review found that the vaccine was worthless.
Around the same time as the Thai vaccine trial, Fauci was active as one of the "principal architects" of the 2003 President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a still-ongoing program that has since ballooned into over 50 countries, where it coordinates (across seven different U.S. departments and agencies) promotion of HIV drugs and other measures. Since 2014, PEPFAR has been led by none other than Birx, who has been only too happy to accept generous Gates Foundation support. The foundation is the top source of philanthropic funding for all international HIV efforts, and development of an HIV vaccine remains one of its core "areas of focus." In the face of recent Trump administration threats to slash PEPFAR's budget, Birx has declared her willingness to seek out "other sources of funding wherever she can find them."
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), of which NIAID is a part, have been joined at the hip with the Gates Foundation for many years, together funding 57% of "global-health research and development on diseases that disproportionately affect populations in low- and middle-income countries." The close partnership has involved working to develop new vaccines (such as a malaria vaccine and a universal influenza vaccine) as well as mobilizing Gates funding streams to roll out NIH-developed vaccines across the developing world. In 2013, Gates declared himself "thrilled" with NIH for "pushing [vaccine research] forward" and stated, "We are just at the beginning of what we can do together."
Singing the same discordant tune
Despite writing on March 26 in The New England Journal of Medicine that the COVID-19 case fatality rate is likely to be no worse than the rate observed for a severe seasonal flu, Dr. Fauci continues to pledge alliance to extreme measures, parroting Mr. Gates' statements that more prolonged lockdowns are necessary and advising Americans to become a nation of obsessive-compulsive hand-washers who never share a handshake again. On these topics , Birx has been evasive and non-committal.
Recently, Dr. Zeke Emanuel—coronavirus advisor to both Joe Biden and the WHO, and one of the former ringleaders behind Obamacare—joined the fray, urging the banning of conferences, concerts, sporting events, religious services and restaurant meals for another 18 months, or "until we have a vaccine that protects everyone." The Guardian obligingly echoed this vaccine-centric propaganda on April 8 when, reporting on a Chinese study just published in The Lancet, the British rag stated that "Lockdowns can't end until Covid-19 vaccine found."
Listening to these individuals' carefully crafted public briefings on COVID-19 exit strategies, one could easily get the impression that a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is, indeed, the only way out. For a population amped up on hysteria and fear, it may be challenging to accept other solutions—including the historically documented benefits of natural herd immunity—but the studies on unsafe vaccines for SARS-CoV, RSV and dengue suggest that Americans would be wise to ask the age-old question of "who benefits" and push back against the billionaires and scientists looking to limit choices, control populations and make a financial killing.
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When my Grandfather suffered a stroke in my early twenties, the drywall business with our family name attached died off. None of the children were interested in taking over, and myself, I knew nothing of drywall. I'm sure it hurt him a little to see that no one was going to directly fall into his footsteps in that sense, but he was still happy with a roofer and painter son, and a landscaping daughter to carry on the traditions for him, but he seemed to push even further into me. Wanting me to learn a trade of some sort that could be used to bring more into the world, to build something.
When he passed, I learned that he willed me his violin. Out of everyone in the family, I was the one who followed in these footsteps. I may not have been into drywall, or roofing, or building, but I loved the music, and learned everything about violin making passed on through generations. I don't know why it became so much more important for me to keep that legacy alive than ever. I never paid much attention to legacy until he died, but I knew that I had to do something to keep this family tradition alive, as I was the only one who could.
So, I followed in my Grandfathers footsteps, laid out years before I was born. I bought a plot of land, and a building permit. It was my goal, to build a violin shop that sold handcrafted violins in our family style. Throughout my life I had made dozens, and only played them myself, and maybe, just maybe I could make a living out of it. It was such an ambitious reach that I was almost certain that I would fail, but I felt I owed it to my family, and to my Grandfather's hard work, for without it, I wouldn't be here.
I learned how to dig a foundation, we poured our cement and had the first piece of the puzzle figured out. With my aunts and uncles we began to team together to figure out every last aspect of the place. Framework and building, my uncle up on the roof getting it all laid in and properly installed, myself and my uncles putting up the drywall, talking the whole time about how Grandpa had done this almost his whole life and yet we all knew next to nothing about it.
As the outside work was being completed, and my aunt taking control of the landscaping, I needed help with the interior, so I wound up calling a local design team to bring us a hand as I knew nothing about this part of the build. They sent over a rep to look at the space and to help come up with a design plan, and I have to admit, it was love at first sight. We bonded closely over the project, and I proudly married her four years after the shop was done.


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Although rhinoplasty is used for therapeutic reasons, overall this surgery is often completely cosmetic, used just to improve the appearance. When there is a problem breathing, a septoplasty is done to ease blockages. It is the main method of correcting a crooked septum, the vertical wall of bone and cartilage between the two nostrils. It is possible that a crooked nose is the result of a crooked septum, so the septoplasty has a double function - corrective and cosmetic. A tiplasty is the reshaping of the tip of the nose and usually involves only the cartilage of the nose. All three of these procedures can be done at the same time.
Birth defects, an accident or disease can be the reason for rhinoplasty surgery. This type of surgery is referred to as reconstructive rhinoplasty. The nose is made of bone and cartilage, and is lined with a membrane. If there is a bump, crook, or lump on the nose, it is most often where the cartilage meets the bone. When a surgeon is performing a rhinoplasty he can break the bones of the nose and sculpt the cartilage in order to give the nose a new shape.
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, rhinoplasty was second only to breast augmentation in cosmetic surgeries. Most rhinoplasty surgeries are performed on younger patients, usually after the age of 14 for girls and later for boys. The nose needs to have almost completed its growth before the surgery can be performed and the patient has to have the emotional maturity to handle both surgery and recovery.
Ethnic rhinoplasty is a specific style of surgery peculiar to certain groups. Asian-Americans and African-Americans have particular requirements for rhinoplasty. It is important for ethnic people who want to have this type of surgery performed to hire a surgeon who knows how to reshape the nose in such a way as it maintains ethnicity and complements the rest of the face.
What Happens in a Rhinoplasty?
Depending upon how much work is being done and the technique the surgeon uses, the time required for a rhinoplasty varies between 1 and 2.5 hours. Other facial surgeries, such as eye lifts or cheek implant, can be performed at the same time, although the length of the surgery will increase.
This surgery can be performed as an open procedure (external), where the surgeon makes incisions on the insides of the nostrils and across the wall between the nostrils at the bottom of the septum. If the nostrils are being altered, incisions are made where the nostril meets the face. Scars are almost invisible when they heal. An internal rhinoplasty means all of the incisions are made within the nostrils. It is more difficult to make changes in an internal rhinoplasty, so the types of changes desired may dictate the kind of surgery used.


Llandovery Sheep Festival celebrates droving, sheep farming & the wool industry. All weekend the town of Llandovery will be celebrating its farming routes and connection to the drovers trails of old. Highlights of the weekend include the fantastic sheep race, sheep dog trials & sheep shearing demonstrations amongst other great sheep-related fun. There is also a Food Theatre celebrating local produce with demonstrations from guest chefs including Michelin Star holder James Sommerin. Tasty food stalls and craft stalls will be throughout the town all weekend, with music and street entertainment throughout.


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Effects of a short-term exposure to alcohol in rats on FAAH enzyme and CB1 receptor in different brain areas.
Acute alcohol exposure in rats (8% ethanol in the liquid diet for a period of 24 h) is associated with a decrease in the levels of endocannabinoids (anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol) as well as in various N-acylethanolamines, in different brain regions. In the present study, we wanted to further explore: (i) whether these decreases might be caused by an increase in fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), the enzyme involved in the degradation of N-acylethanolamines including anandamide, and (ii) whether the changes in endocannabinoid levels are accompanied by parallel changes in the major cannabinoid receptor type, the CB(1) receptor, activated by these ligands in the brain. Our data proved that FAAH activity did not increase in any of the four regions analyzed, even it was reduced in the hypothalamus and the prefrontal cortex. Paradoxically, FAAH levels increased in the hypothalamus and, to a lesser extent, in the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, but not in the caudate-putamen. By contrast, the levels of CB(1) receptors were markedly reduced in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex of these rats, although no changes were seen in the hypothalamus and the caudate-putamen. These results suggest that reductions in the levels of endocannabinoids and related N-acylethanolamines caused by acute alcohol exposure are not originated by an enhanced degradation by FAAH enzyme, but they are associated with low levels of the receptors activated by these ligands, although this parallelism did not occur in all brain regions analyzed. In any case, these observations would support the notion of a general reduction in the activity of the cannabinoid signaling system by acute alcohol exposure.
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Rubio M
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
de Miguel R
Fernández-Ruiz J
Gutiérrez-López D
Carai MA
Ramos JA
Drug and alcohol dependence 99:1-3 2009 Jan 01 pg 354-8
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Rubio, Marina, et al. "Effects of a Short-term Exposure to Alcohol in Rats On FAAH Enzyme and CB1 Receptor in Different Brain Areas." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 99, no. 1-3, 2009, pp. 354-8.
Rubio M, de Miguel R, Fernández-Ruiz J, et al. Effects of a short-term exposure to alcohol in rats on FAAH enzyme and CB1 receptor in different brain areas. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009;99(1-3):354-8.
Rubio, M., de Miguel, R., Fernández-Ruiz, J., Gutiérrez-López, D., Carai, M. A., & Ramos, J. A. (2009). Effects of a short-term exposure to alcohol in rats on FAAH enzyme and CB1 receptor in different brain areas. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 99(1-3), pp. 354-8. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.08.004.
Rubio M, et al. Effects of a Short-term Exposure to Alcohol in Rats On FAAH Enzyme and CB1 Receptor in Different Brain Areas. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009 Jan 1;99(1-3):354-8. PubMed PMID: 18922654.
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Eski Meskené, désignée à l'époque romaine et byzantine sous le nom de Barbalissos, puis à l'époque musulmane sous celui de Bâlis ou Kalat Bâlis, est une ancienne ville de Syrie sur la rive occidentale de l'Euphrate, à  au nord-est de Maskanah, l'ancienne Emar, dans le gouvernorat d'Alep.

Vers 253-256, le roi des rois sassanide Chapour  remporte sur les Romains la  où il bat une armée romaine de  : cette victoire lui permet de piller toute la Syrie romaine.

Sous l'Empire byzantin, Barbalissos est entourée par un rempart garni de tours dont certains murs seront encore visibles en 1930. La tour nord abrite un prétoire, siège de l'administration.

Après la conquête musulmane de la Syrie, la ville, appelée Balesh ou Beit Belesh en araméen, est le siège d'un petit évêché de l'Église syriaque. Le rempart est restauré sous les Ayyoubides ().

Au , Bâlis est le chef-lieu d'un sandjak (district) de l'Empire ottoman, dépendant du pachalik d'Alep.

Décrit par les voyageurs occidentaux à partir de 1832, le site d'Eski Meskené, l'ancienne Bâlis, fait l'objet de relevés par l'archéologue allemand Ernst Herzfeld au début du , puis de fouilles d'urgence entre 1970 et 1973, portant principalement sur les niveaux de la période médiévale. Son emplacement est ensuite recouvert  en grande partie par les eaux du lac Al-Assad à la suite la construction du barrage de Tabqa. Deux tours du rempart byzantin, restaurées, sont aujourd'hui visibles au bord du lac.

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Bibliographie
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 Julien Guey, « Les Res Gestae divi Saporis ». In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 57, 1955, n°1-2. pp. 113-122
 Evliya Çelebi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, Volume 1
 Revue de l'Orient chrétien, 6 (1901), p. 192

Ville du Proche-Orient ancien
Site archéologique en Syrie
Histoire de la Syrie

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va ser una noble aragonesa.

Va ser elegida abadessa del monestir de Trasobares i confirmada pel papa Benet XIII, parent seu, que la dispensà per la seva minoria d'edat.

El 1413 es fugà amb el seu parent Antón de Luna i Xèrica, amb el qual tingué un fill. Durant la revolta del comte d'Urgell va liderar la defensa del castell de Loarre i va ser empresonada després de la rendició.

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Prevent sulfur from poisoning the noble metal catalysts in the subsequent catalytic reforming of the naphtha; and
Reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions to meet more-stringent clean fuels specifications.
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These Transformers are more than meets the eye, they are 3D Night Lights in disguise! All lights include the 3D Crack sticker to give the appearance that the character has smashed through your wall. The soothing glow provides the necessary light for midnight changes, feedings, reassuring check-ins and, of course, to keep the 'boogie monster' at bay! All Lights are LED lite and battery operated and use 3 AA batteries sold separately. They have a convent ON/OFF switch, ideal for rooms with limited wall outlets. Don't forget to collect them all!


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Plane crash in Swiss
Four people died when their light aircraft crashed into the summit of a glacier in the Swiss Alps, police said Saturday, in the latest fatal accident to hit the popular tourist region.
The plane went down 3,300 metres (10,800 feet) above sea level at 4:45 PM (1445 GMT) on Friday in an area known as the Dunand Pass, police in southern Valais canton said in a statement.
They identified the plane as a four-seater made by the French firm Robin and which had taken off from Sion airport for "a pleasure flight".
After receiving an alert, authorities dispatched rescue teams to the summit but found the pilot and three passengers dead at the scene.
"The circumstances of the accident have not yet been determined," police added. The victims have not yet been formally identified.
The accident comes after an unusually deadly winter season in the Swiss Alps that saw multiple hikers killed in a series of avalanches.
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Flavia Robalo is an Argentinian artist originally from Buenos Aires. She attended courses at schools of painting and sculpture, focusing since the nineties on the processing of marble. She was first a student then collaborator of the Italo-Argentine sculptures Orio Dal Porto.
She obtained a degree in psychology in her native country, and then moved to Italy, based in Pietrasanta, where she deepened her sculptural education and where she began a large exhibition activity. Her sculptural activity is enriched thanks to her mastery in the use of different natural materials, with particular care for wood and marble.
Her artistic production is mainly focused on the human figure, with the intention of representing its visions and mutations. Her works have won prizes and numerous distinctions due to merit in Europe and Latin America.


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How much food does India produce?
Does India produce enough food?
How much crops does India produce?
Is India self-sufficient in food?
What is India's rank in food production?
Can India feed the world?
Does India have a lot of food?
Why farming is not profitable in India?
What is India's biggest food export?
Is India still an agrarian economy?
What percent of India's population is hungry?
Is India producing surplus food?
Is India a food surplus country?
What India produces the most?
What is India's main source of income?
Which country is No 1 in agriculture?
In 2017-18, total food grain production was estimated at 275 million tonnes (MT). India is the largest producer (25% of global production), consumer (27% of world consumption) and importer (14%) of pulses in the world.
India is self-sufficient in a number of food crops including rice and wheat, which are among the national staples, and there is enough food to meet demand. … Micronutrient deficiencies are common in India, mainly as a result of a focus on calorie availability and not dietary diversity.
NEW DELHI, INDIA — India is expected to produce a record 305.4 million tonnes of grain in 2020-21, an increase of 8 million tonnes from last year's record harvest, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Since Independence, India's foodgrain production has registered an over a five-fold increase, with a seen record at 292 million tonnes in 2019-2020. The country has largely achieved self-sufficiency as over the past 70 years it has transformed itself from a 'ship-to-mouth' status to an exporter.
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Each year India produces roughly 1.5 million engineers. 14000 research graduates every year in india.
World's ranking in agricultural productions.
With the global population expected to touch 9 billion by 2050, food from forests in India and elsewhere have potential to address needs of nutrition and food security at a time when the limits of boosting agricultural production are becoming increasingly clear.
India, with a population of over 1.3 billion, has seen tremendous growth in the past two decades. Gross Domestic Product has increased 4.5 times and per capita consumption has increased 3 times. Similarly, food grain production has increased almost 2 times.
Significantly, the report cites federal policies as a key reason for holding farm incomes back. In the policy trade-off between prices consumers pay and prices farmers get, government trade policies had the effect of keeping farm incomes low.
India is the world's largest producer of milk, the largest producer and exporter of spices, the second largest producer of food grain, fruits and vegetables and wheat. It is the world's 10th largest agricultural exporter.
Rural India is no more agrarian, in economic and employment terms. … His verdict: since 2004-05, it has become a non-farm economy. Farmers are quitting agriculture and joining non-farm jobs.
It is constructed in the same fashion as the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2008 and was calculated for 17 states in India, covering more than 95 percent of the population.
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He said the country has been producing surplus sugar production of about 4-4.5 million tonnes for the last few years, with the production of over 30 million tonnes and domestic demand of around 26 million tonnes.
As per the statistics, in 2020 India has remained in the 94th position among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index. … If this situation continues it is meaningless to call India a food grain surplus nation. Despite its developed economy and adequate food production it has failed miserably in tackling the hunger problem.
India is the world's largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit and cotton. It is also one of the leading producers of spices, fish, poultry, livestock and plantation crops.
Nearly 60% of India's GDP is driven by domestic private consumption. The country remains the world's sixth-largest consumer market. Apart from private consumption, India's GDP is also fueled by government spending, investment, and exports.
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Bonding Time
By Holly Brown, LMFT
Last updated: 6 Jul 2013
This is the last of my blog post trilogy, and the one that is, in a sense, closest to my heart at the moment. It's inspired by the movie "Before Midnight", the third movie about Jesse and Celine, a couple who met for one night and then were reunited ten years later and now, have been together nine years and have twin daughters.
It's a very different movie than the ones that came before, in that Jesse and Celine now truly know each other–they're not just two people with an intense attraction, meeting for one moment in time. They're now two people sharing a life and a family.
And of course, that's much more complicated. It's not just about love and romance and idealization anymore. So what does it mean to love in your late 30's/early 40's, to weather disappointments with life and each other and the strain of raising children?
I was very excited to see the movie and know how the question would be answered for that particular couple. What struck me as most poignant was the way the couple–away from the kids for a night–tried to recapture their old magic, to sound like their old selves, and it felt forced and a bit sad.
That's one of the things you don't know about love, when you're in your twenties. You don't realize that love requires reinvention. The way you related to each other when you first fell in love might not fit anymore as the years go by, and the children arrive.
To last a lifetime, love–and the lovers–need to adapt. And what we learn about Jesse and Celine is that in some ways, their love hasn't quite adapted.
That leads to all sorts of resentments and hostilities that can bubble over at inopportune moments (like when you're supposed to be having a romantic night away from the kids.)
We can become angry at our spouse for not being who we thought he/she was, as if the whole things a bait and switch. But really, in a lot of ways , we might be turning our anger outward. Because we might be disappointed with who we've turned out to be, or with just how hard and complicated life becomes when you need to manage so many elements.
You need to figure out how to be a spouse and a parent and a worker and a friend. The late 30's and early 40's, to me, is about juggling. It's about balancing, and rebalancing. What we learn is that it's not about finding your way, but about being able to recalibrate.
Couple in an embrace image available from Shutterstock.
Holly Brown, LMFT
Holly Brown is a marriage and family therapist in the San Francisco Bay area. She has a private practice in Alameda (http://hollybrownmft.com/ ). She is also a novelist (http://hollybrownbooks.com/). Her latest is HOW FAR SHE'S COME, a workplace thriller which received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly: "This provocative tale will resonate with many in the era of the #MeToo movement."
Brown, H. (2013). Before 43…. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 16, 2019, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/bonding-time/2013/07/before-43/
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"You pay a high price for a cheery consensus." No wonder everything always comes back to Warren Buffett. How can you impart more investing wisdom about the importance of getting the valuation right than those nine words?
That quote was on my mind when I reviewed the various possibilities for someone purchasing shares of BP at different price points since 2010. An incorrect intuition that I sometimes have is the notion that, over medium periods of time, investors in the same corporation ought to earn somewhat similar results. If you buy shares of BP, you are the owner of an entity producing 1.2 million barrels of oil and oil equivalents per day, and whatever the business results of that may be, that is going to be a close approximation of what you get.
Of course business performance is important, but valuation is such an important variable that it prevents business performance alone from becoming the destiny of your investment.
After the 2010 oil spill, BP shares fell to a low of around $27 per share. It has gone on to pay $12.99 per share in dividends since then, or $14.37 in cumulative dividends if you reinvested. With the stock trading at $33.71 per share today, you would be looking at a total value of $48.08. The investors that bought after the Gulf oil spill have compounded at 10% annually.
And if you had the worst timing? That would be in 2014, when oil was over $100 per barrel and BP was indicating certainty regarding its legal liability and had shed assets to build up a $30 billion cash position to resolve its $20 billion bill.
The outlook was sunny, and the stock price was $53 per share. You got to collect $4.80 since then, but you're still down from $53 to $37.80 in value. That is annual negative compounding of 15.5% per year for a loss of about a third of your investment value.
This helps me understand a little bit better why Benjamin Graham was impatient with the question "Do you like Stock X?" because it is incomplete. The question: "Should I buy BP stock?" is incomplete. The answer to that question in parts of 2010 was yes, the answer during the first part of 2014 was a no.
I mention this not as a journey in hindsight bias. Instead, it is because I want to point out how sentiment shapes future returns. After the oil spill, no one wanted the stock. That is when the valuation was so favorable that the stage was set for high subsequent returns. The losses of 2014 are probably more explained by bad timing than a poor investment process–a day will come when the investors that bought at $53 per share in 2014 and held for the long haul will report double-digit returns.
My own view is that the current price of BP at $33 per share is analogous to the cheap pricing that was available after the oil spill. Here, the reason for the risk is uncertainty about the dividend payout. Investors have a very reasonable basis to think the dividend payout is ripe for slashing. But a higher than usual possibility of a dividend cut is not the same thing as a bad long-term investment. It is the most common delusion that I see educated investors make. Even if your goals are tailored to income production, you shouldn't use that as a plausible cover to give in to your quick sell impulses. Right now, BP isn't earning enough to cover its $7.4 billion dividend commitment. But the company also has $23 billion in cash, so it could wait a year or so to see if prices rise above $60 to cover all of its pre-existing commitments.
This uncertainty of the future of the dividend is a reason why you are setting the stage for capital gains.
The post-spill to modern day results are a vindication of Graham's "margin of safety" principle. The valuation was low then, and it is low now, and you still got 10% returns. Rushing in during periods of uncertainty lock you in because (1) the dividend cut may not be as extreme as projected, if it materializes at all, and (2) given the fluctuating nature of the commodities business, there can be a quick turnaround in which the dividend starts growing annually within a year or so of a hypothetical cut.
The investors that got in low at $27 in 2010 earned 18% annual returns from 2010 through the summer of 2014 (a low to moderate comparison period) and 10% annual returns from 2010 through 2016 (a low to low comparison period.) This is exactly how getting the valuation right ought to operate. If poor business results follow, you still get mid single digit returns. If things are just OK, you set yourself up for double-digit gains. And if things go well, you are looking at five-year returns in the 15-20% annualized range. The past three years haven't been great for BP's stock price, but recency bias can easily give you the wrong lesson if you project this past onto the future. As the price has come down, the probability of impressive future total returns increases.


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Legal Theory Lexicon: Balancing Tests
Balancing tests are ubiquitous in American law. From the Due Process Clause to the Freedom of Speech and from the federal joinder rules to personal jurisdiction, U.S. law makes the outcome of legal disputes dependent on the balancing of various interests and factors. Law students quickly become familiar with the idea of a balancing test, and moreover, are likely to quickly develop a cynical attitude about their constraining power. "So it's just subjective?"--is a question often asked in classroom discussion when a balancing test is announced. This post provides a rough and ready introduction to the theoretical issues raised by the notion of a "balancing test." As always, my intended audience consists of law students, especially first years, with an interest in legal theory.
Case-by-Case versus Systemic Balancing
The first distinction to master when thinking about balancing tests is that between case-by-case and systemic balancing. When a court adopts a case=by-case balancing test, the test is applied to each case, one case at a time. For example, in personal jurisdiction law, a case-by-case balancing test is used to determine whether assertions of personal jurisdiction are consistent with the Due Process Clause. But not all balancing is done on a case-by-case basis. For example, Mathews v. Eldridge announced a balancing test for determining whether pre-deprivation hearings are required by Due Process. This balancing test is applied to general categories (types) of deprivations. Once it has been determine that the balancing test does not require a hearing in category (e.g. Social Security disability benefit cases), the result is a categorical rule that can be applied to the category without further balancing.
There is, of course, an analogy between the difference between case-by-case versus systemic balancing and the difference between act and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism makes the rightness of an action depend on the consequences of that individual action. Rule utilitarianism makes the rightness of an action depend on whether the action conforms to the system of rules that would produce the best consequences. This analogy points to a larger concept--the scope of decision problem. Many legal theories assume that the scope of decision is an individual action or case, whereas others look to individual legal rules and yet others look to types of rules.
Here is a nifty move, made famous by David Lyons (the legal philosopher who teaches at Boston University). Lyons argued that rule utilitarianism could be shown to be extensionally equivalent to act utilitarianism. His argument was beautifully simple. Take a rule and a particular action that would be required by act utilitarianism but forbidden by the utility maximizing rule. Now imagine an exception to the rule that would allow the utility maximizing action to be treated differently. The new rule-plus-exception produces more utility than the old rule. Hence rule utilitarianism requires the new rule. Lyons argued that we can iterate this move until rule utilitarianism and act utilitarianism require exactly the same results.
One more point about case-by-case versus systemic balancing. Both kinds of balancing can be done ex post (backwards looking) or ex ante forward looking. Take the Learned Hand balancing test for negligence. This test requires us to compare the cost of safety (ex post) against the benefits (ex post). This is ex post, case-by-case balancing. But when courts decide whether to issue an injunction, they sometimes "balance the equities," ex ante, asking whether the injuries done if the injunction does not issue will outweigh those that will result if the injunction is entered--in the future. Likewise, systemic balancing can be done either ex post or ex ante.
What is Balanced?
Yet another question that must be faced by any balancing test is "What is balanced?" Courts seem to think that just about any sort of interest or factor can be balanced. One kind of balancing test is represented by the International Shoe test for personal jurisdiction. This test balances interests--i.e. the interest of the plaintiff in the forum, the interest of the forum in the dispute, and so forth. The idea that the function of law is to reconcile "social interests" is strongly associated with Roscoe Pound.
Another kind of balancing test takes a variety of so-called factors into account: "prejudice to the defendant," "the impact on nonparties," and so forth in the case of tests for mandatory joinder. Properly speaking, such factors cannot really be balanced. Interests belong on the same scale--at least if they are the right kind of interests, but "factors" are usually considerations that bear in complex ways on a decision. The integration of multiple factors into a decision may involve balancing, but it also may involve reasoning that doesn't actually weigh and compare commensurables.
The Commensurability Problem
This last point about balancing tests leads to a very fundamental idea in legal theory. Some approaches to moral theory make all ultimate values commensurable. In contemporary law and economics, for example, one approach reduces all value to preference-satisfaction, which then can be weighed via a Bergson-Samuelson social utility function. W(x) = F {U1(x), U2(x), . . UN(x)}, where F is some increasing function, U1 is the utility of state of affairs X for individual number 1, and so forth. Although some forms of consequentialism have the property of making all values commensurable, many moral theories do not have this property. Deontological ethics and virtue ethics, for example, generally are interpreted as maintaining that not all values are commensurable and hence as denying that balancing is even possible in some choice situations.
The commensurability problem also provides a nifty move for legal theorists. If someone proposes a balancing test, ask yourself if the things that it requires to be weighed are such that they really can be measured on the same scale. If not, then the proposed balancing test simply will not be able to do the work assigned to it.
The use of balancing tests is closely related to another idea in legal theory, "cost-benefit analysis." Whereas balancing tests are associated with judges and legal doctrine, the idea of "cost-benefit analysis" is usually associated with policymaking by legislatures and regulatory agencies. Cost-benefit analysis requires that all of the good and bad consequences associated with a decision be reduced to monetary values & this requires information and analytic techniques that are rarely available to judges. Whereas interest-balancing is holistic and intuitve, cost-benefit analysis requires calculation based on cost and benefit information.
Balancing Tests and the Rule of Law
Yet another issue concerning balancing tests is the fancy version of the law student's intuition that balancing tests are subjective. Justice Scalia, for example, has argued that balancing tests undermine the rule of law because of their subjectivity and elasticity. If we believe that the rule of law values--certainty and predictability of the law--are very great social goods, then we have a general reason to prefer categorical rules to balancing tests. On the other hand, some balancing tests may be actually be more predictable than some rules with respect to a particular problem. For example, a case could be made that the "purposeful availment" component of the International Shoe test for personal jurisdiction is more subjective than the multifactor balancing component of the Shoe test. Some rules are very fuzzy; some balancing tests are quite precise.
Balancing Tests and Consequentialism
Balancing tests are related to consequentialist approaches in moral philosophy, but the relationship is not a simple one. Case-by-case balancing resembles act-utlitarianism (act to produce the most utility). Systemic balancing looks a bit like rule-utilitarianism (act in accordance with the rule that produces the most utility). But judges who employ balancing tests may not be making the decisions that utilitarianism (in either the act or rule form) would recommend. For more on consequentialism, see the Legal Theory Lexicon entry on "Utilitarianism" (link below).
Balancing tests are so common in American law, that you might begin to take them for granted, but that would be a mistake. Almost every balancing test raises interesting issues of legal theory. I hope this post has provided you with the tools to begin asking those questions.
Legal Theory Lexicon 008: Utilitarianism
Legal Theory Lexicon 025: Social Welfare Functions
Legal Theory Lexicon 060: Efficiency, Pareto, and Kaldor-Hicks
Balancing Test, Wikipedia.
Roscoe Pound, Law and Liberty (1914).
James G. Wilson, Surveying The Forms Of Doctrine On The Bright Line-Balancing Test Continuum, 27 Ariz. St. L.J. 773 (1995).
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Constitutional Law in the Age of Balancing, 96 YALE L.J. 943 (1987).
Roscoe Pound, A Survey of Social Interests, 57 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1943).
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The woman at the register behind the counter at Charleston Bread was trying not to laugh at the big jar of change under my arm.
My guess is that she'd seen that kind of thing before. Someone is a little short on cash before payday or maybe has built up just enough change to be a nuisance and they come into the store to buy bread or cookies with whatever they have.
I picked out a couple of scones. No blueberry, craisin or golden raisin today. They had parmesan and pumpkin scones with white chocolate.
I got the pumpkin. It was seasonal and I have yet to find love in my heart for a savory scone.
"Five dollars," she said.
But then I pulled out my debit card to pay and she seemed puzzled.
"What's that?" She said as I put the jar on the counter and placed it behind the paper coffee cup that was already filling up with quarters, nickels and stray dollar bills.
The jar, a glass vase I'd found under the sink in the newsroom, which had been used to deliver flowers once upon a time, loomed over the ragged, little cup.
She looked down at the money.
I thought about explaining that this was my swear jar, that every quarter, every dollar, represented a somewhat regretted word that flew out of my mouth, but that seemed unnecessary. Besides, it was the day before Thanksgiving. There were people lining up behind me to buy rolls and bread for their holiday table.
Instead, I said, "It's yours. This is a tip. Keep the jar."
The woman thanked me, as did a couple of the others working behind the counter, filling orders and slicing fresh loaves of Charleston Sourdough.
"The glass won't last," one of them said and then joked, "We can't keep anything nice."
I shrugged. It didn't matter.
"Have a nice Thanksgiving," I said to them, took my scones and went on my way.
I left them with just under 30 bucks, which doesn't sound all that bad for a 30-day exercise to curb cursing — just a dollar a day and I set the price at a quarter a swear.
Of course, what was in the jar was merely an estimate. I didn't carry it around with me all day, every day. Mostly, the jar represented just what I said at my desk and what I half remembered when I was away.
I'd probably have to match those funds if I'd kept better track of every foul thing I said at the gym or while driving around for Meals on Wheels (Seriously, folks. Stop running red lights).
If I'd done that, I'd have had to have set the penalty fee lower or considered a second mortgage.
But the exercise did make me become more aware of how often I drop "bad" words. It also made me look at why. I don't swear out of anger, generally. Mostly, my cursing is just about garden variety frustration over my own bumbling.
I should probably take it easier on myself.
I finished my month of gratitude with some insights about what it means to be grateful and how to actually count your blessings and be thankful.
I had a lot of help. Readers wrote in. People called. A Facebook friend named Patricia posted a note on my page about my struggle to feel grateful.
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She said, "It isn't necessary to always have variety in what we are grateful for. It's perfectly OK to repeat, because gratitude is not something we can manipulate. It just is or isn't."
She added, "I don't God cares, but must be glad when we are grateful."
It was food for thought and made it easier to look at this month's practice of writing down three things I was grateful for every morning with some clarity.
With the journaling, I'd tried to hit the high points. I was thankful for the roof over my head and the means to keep it. I was thankful for my family, friends and the little white dog that sleeps at the foot of my bed and snores.
I was thankful for my health and for the freedoms, rights, and privileges I have just from the good fortune of being born in this country and living in this sometimes very curious corner of it.
But what then?
I'd struggled to come up with more and more reasons to give thanks. The daily mental gymnastics were tiring, self-sabotaging and unnecessary. You don't have to unearth brand new reasons to feel grateful for anything. It's really kind of self-evident –or it's not.
Also, I've found the best way to feel ingrateful is to let other people tell you what you ought to be grateful for. You don't have to be thankful for people (including family), jobs or situations you don't like or did you harm, even if you've somehow benefited from any of these in some way.
You can be grateful for the effect and not the cause. You can be grateful for the money you earn, but still hate your job, for example.
I don't think there's no faking it until you make it with being thankful — either you are or you aren't.
That's just what I got out of this past month. As always, not everything I learn makes sense to anyone else but me, but I'm always grateful when I come away feeling like I learned something I can use down the road.
While this month wasn't as obviously difficult as some other things I've done, I feel like I got something out of it.
The end of these monthly projects can sometimes be a little awkward. Often, I'm beginning the next month's plan a week or two before I finish the project I'm currently writing about.
This time, the writing needed to start early in order to keep up with what I'm doing.
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From what I can tell, there are more things to see and do this Christmas season than any other year in recent memory — or this could just be because there was so little happening last year.
But it feels like we're trying to make up for last year's muted holiday season, where many of us remained nestled all snug on our couches, while visions of Netflix danced in our heads.
Through December 25, it's going to be Christmas every day for me and I'll be sharing the spree in daily reports, bad pictures and here with One Month at a Time. Once again, I'll be turning in short, daily reports about all the holiday stuff I'm getting into –parades, parties, tree lightings, concerts and more.
There is so much. Look for the first of these starting December 1 with updates along the way until Christmas.
This will be a little like my summer project "55 in 55" — but with fewer selfies and pictures of county road signs, but hopefully even more baked goods.
I hope you'll follow along and let me know what kind of holiday fun you're getting into. Maybe I can pencil that in, too.
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Q: Как выровнять 3 разные li относительно одного div блока Случился с проблемой при верстке, есть один див блок с тремя ul. В каждой ul не одинаковое количество li. Надо сделать так что бы li в каждой ul находились на одинаковом расстоянии по высоте.
Пробовал сделать через vertical-align, не получается.

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  text-align: center;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 36px;
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  vertical-align: bottom;
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  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 18px;
  line-height: 22px;
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A: Что если сделать внутри карточки выравнивание через flex, а для цены задать верхний отступ?

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  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

ul.services__item{
  background-color: #fff;
  width: 360px;
  padding: 45px 30px;

  display: flex; /* Добавлено */
  flex-direction: column; /* Добавлено */
}

.services__item li{
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 18px;
  letter-spacing: 0.6px;
  color: #242121;
}

.services__item .services__item-name{
  text-align: center;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 36px;
  line-height: 40px;
  color: #01353E;
  margin-bottom: 58px;
}

.services__item .services__item-num{
  text-align: center;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 36px;
  line-height: 40px;
  color: #01353E;
  vertical-align: bottom;
}

.services__item-num sup{
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 18px;
  line-height: 22px;
  color: #01353E;
}

.services__item-num {
  margin-top: auto; /* Добавлено */

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A: vertical-align работает только в ячейках таблицы или если элемент имеет свойство display: table-cell, а родительский display: table, поэтому и не работает.
Есть вариант назначить каждому ul position: relative, а вашим ценам -- position: absolute и выровнять по низу
Например так:

.services__items{
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

ul.services__item{
  background-color: #fff;
  width: 360px;
  padding: 45px 30px;
  position: relative;
}

.services__item li{
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 18px;
  letter-spacing: 0.6px;
  color: #242121;
}

.services__item .services__item-name{
  text-align: center;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 36px;
  line-height: 40px;
  color: #01353E;
  margin-bottom: 58px;
}

.services__item .services__item-num{
  text-align: center;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 36px;
  line-height: 40px;
  color: #01353E;
  /* абсолютное позиционирование + выравнивание по низу */
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}

.services__item-num sup{
  font-weight: 400;
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You Can Help TRAC
(10 Dec 2007) As we come to the end of another year, we at TRAC would like to thank you for your past support and ask for your continued help. Your tax-deductible donations assist us in our continuing efforts to make available well-documented information about what our federal government is doing -- and not doing -- to uncover terrorists, protect the environment, regulate immigration, combat white collar crime, etc.
Since the Freedom of Information Act was first passed more than four decades ago, every administration has resisted the mandate of this important law. But in the last few years, obtaining the data the public needs for genuine oversight has become more and more difficult. Nevertheless, with your help, in the past year we:
provided information that allowed The Denver Post to investigate how serious violent crimes are not prosecuted and go unpunished on Indian reservations;
were the central source of information for The Washington Post story on the dramatic change in enforcement priorities under the Bush administration;
enabled The New York Times to explore Attorney General Michael Mukasey's sentencing record when he was a judge serving in the Southern District of New York;
made it possible for newspapers, immigrations rights groups and lawyers all over the country to examine how special administrative judges decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are seeking asylum;
published five in-depth investigative reports of our own on topics ranging from terrorism enforcement to IRS audits of tax returns;
did much more!
With your help, TRAC's information has repeatedly been central to important public debates on a range of different issues. And this, friends, is what representative democracy is all about. With your continued support and donations, you are helping to fulfill a function vital to our country.
To make a secure online tax-deductible donation, go to http://trac.syr.edu/ and click on the Donate button. Or you can call or write using the contact information below. Again, thank you.
Sue and David
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