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Q: Where do I find the distance measure at k-means? I saw an article at towardsdatascience about using kmeans on timeseries. Link: https://towardsdatascience.com/clustering-electricity-profiles-with-k-means-42d6d0644d00
Now I have tried to use it on my own dataset and it works quiet good.
I have daily profiles, it looks like this:

My Question is: What ist the distance measure between the daily profiles?
So how its calculating the difference between the daily profiles?
I'm using the following code for the k-means function:
kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=2)
cluster_found = kmeans.fit_predict(X)
cluster_found_sr = pd.Series(cluster_found, name='cluster')
df_pivot = df_pivot.set_index(cluster_found_sr, append=True )

fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,1, figsize=(18,10))
color_list = ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'brown', 'yellow', 'black', 'white']
cluster_values = sorted(df_pivot.index.get_level_values('cluster').unique())
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for cluster, color in zip(cluster_values, color_list):
    df_pivot.xs(cluster, level=1).T.plot(
        ax=ax, legend=False, alpha=0.01, color=color, label = f'Cluster {cluster}'
        )
    df_pivot.xs(cluster, level=1).median().plot(
        ax=ax, color=color, alpha=0.9, ls='--'
    )

ax.set_xticks(np.arange(0 , 24))
ax.set_ylabel('watt')
ax.set_xlabel('hour')

before I use a method which helps me to decide how many clusters i should pick.
sillhoute_scores = []
n_cluster_list = np.arange(2,31).astype(int)

X = df_pivot.values.copy()

sc = MinMaxScaler()
X = sc.fit_transform(X)

for n_cluster in n_cluster_list:
    kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=n_cluster)
    cluster_found = kmeans.fit_predict(X)
    sillhoute_scores.append(silhouette_score(X, kmeans.labels_))


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VMware vSphere 4 Now Available
By Kurt Mackie
VMware on Thursday announced the general availability of the vSphere 4 family of virtualization products.
The company describes vSphere 4 as an "operating system" that enables private clouds while virtualizing IT infrastructure. The products had their debut late last month. vSphere 4 is the successor to VMware Infrastructure 3.
vSphere 4 products are aimed at both small-to-medium business and enterprise users. In addition to changing the product's name, the company expanded its offerings from three editions to six.
The various editions support a different number of processors. Up to six processors per core are supported by vSphere Standard and Enterprise editions. The Advanced and Enterprise Plus editions support up to 12 processors per core.
The lowest-cost edition is VMware vSphere Essentials, which is designed for small businesses. It's priced at $166 per processor, or $995 for a one-year subscription with optional support. At the high end, VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus costs $3,495 with additional charges for support and subscription. The company describes its overall vSphere pricing here.
VMware called out a number of features with the release of vSphere 4, including "control over application security and service levels," as well as customer choice on the kind of hardware to use. In addition, vSphere 4 can be located on the customer's premises or hosted in an external Internet cloud.
IT pros interested in VMware's VMotion feature, which can move virtual machines across servers with minimal disruption, need to buy the enterprise editions, according to VMware's vSphere 4 feature list (PDF). That's a notable contrast to Microsoft's more stripped-down Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 virtualization offering. Microsoft announced last month that Hyper-V now includes this virtual machine migration capability, which Microsoft calls "Live Migration," for free.
Basic management of vSphere 4 is performed with vCenter, which comes with the product. However, VMware is not supporting the use of some of its earlier management products with vSphere 4, according to a DABCC report. Products that do not work with vSphere 4 are vCenter Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Lab Manager, vCenter Lifecycle Manager, vCenter Stage Manager and VMware View.
More information on the vSphere 4 editions can be found at VMware's site here.
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for the 1105 Enterprise Computing Group.

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Federal and state regulations require healthcare clients to have backup and disaster recovery plans—as well as privacy protection—for patient information.
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But managed service providers Van, Dave, David, and Steven offer more than backup and disaster recovery services. They offer disaster resistance to their clients. Proactive planning, monitoring, and testing make their clients resistant to disasters that could destroy their data and disrupt their businesses.
Van Heath, Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer, Speros: Before StorageCraft, there wasn't a way to test our backups and restores properly. We had an incident with the previous agentless product—it failed when we needed it the most. We lost some clients because of that. Since then, we've relied on StorageCraft ShadowProtect. It's a very solid product with rapid restore time. A big advantage of StorageCraft is our restore time is usually hours, not days.
Dave Patel, COO, CompuTech City: Very few solutions do as good of a job as ShadowProtect. With ShadowProtect, healthcare compliance becomes easy. The product is so powerful and reliable, and the recovery process is so fast and unpainful, it takes the "disaster" out of disaster recovery. We've been StorageCraft products for more than four years.
David Spire, President and CEO, United Systems Computer Group: If we're putting our hides on the line, we want what works. We're willing to put our good business name behind it, and we've won a lot of awards by choosing the best business partners. At the end of the day, it's got to work. That's why we went with StorageCraft.
Steven Saslow, Vice President, Information Technology Group: We sought out StorageCraft years ago, when they were an infant company. They have a very strong image-based product, ShadowProtect, that works 100% of the time. With StorageCraft, we know our day-to-day tickets to recover data are easy to do. Other solutions aren't foolproof like StorageCraft.
When access to computer systems is actually life-or-death and acceptable downtime is zero, healthcare IT experts turn to StorageCraft.


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Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor Shine in Paris, Plus Timothée Chalamet, Keke Palmer and More
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor rock structured jackets as they arrive at the Fendi show as part of Paris Fashion Week.
Timothée Chalamet is all smiles as he arrives at the Jean-Paul Gaultier show during Paris Fashion Week surrounded by smartphones and cameras on Jan. 25.
Having a Laugh
Mom-to-be Keke Palmer visits The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and competes in the Jinx Challenge with the talk-show host on Jan. 25.
Justin and Hailey Bieber step out in New York City before the "Baby" singer heads to the studio.
Bradley Cooper keeps warm in New York City dressed in a baseball cap, sunglasses and a puffer coat.
Costars Salma Hayek and Channing Tatum pose together at the Magic Mike's Last Dance world premiere in Miami Beach on Jan. 25.
Funnyman
Eddie Murphy rocks a pair of dark sunglasses at Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles on Jan. 25.
Dove Cameron stuns in a monochromatic red look at the Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023 show during Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 25.
Megawatt Smile
Gabrielle Union flashes a smile while visiting Late Night with Seth Meyers on Jan. 25.
Model Alessandra Ambrosio strikes a pose at a Nespresso event in Rio de Janeiro wearing a golden fringe dress.
Meagan Good attends the Dark & Lovely brand ambassador announcement in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 25.
Jamie Chung is keeping warm at the CORE Foods event at Silver Lake Lodge celebrating CORE as the official nutrition bar of Deer Valley.
Fashion Week Queen
Doja Cat is pictured arriving at the Jean Paul Gaultier show during Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris on Jan. 25.
Gabrielle Union is super stylish in a white jacket, semi sheer black dress and gold heels as she departs her hotel in N.Y.C. on Jan. 25.
Abs-olute Perfection
Rita Ora shows off her ripped midriff while arriving at St Pancras International in London on Jan. 25.
Anne Hathaway and her hubby Adam Shulman attend the Valentino Haute Couture spring/summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 25.
Naomi Watts transforms into her character on the set of Feud: Capote and the Women in New York City on Jan. 24.
Superstar Glow
George Clooney glows while on the set of Wolves in New York City on Jan. 24.
Big Kiss
Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev share a kiss outside Good Morning America on Jan. 25 in New York City.
Brad Pitt hits the set of Wolves in New York City's Harlem neighborhood on Jan. 24.
Daddy Duty
James Corden watches his kids Max Corden and Carey Corden dance during a timeout of a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers at Crypto.com Arena on Jan. 24.
Late Night Guest
Actress Natasha Lyonne rocks zebra print during an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Jan. 24 in N.Y.C.
Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus are pictured at a private dinner celebrating the Gucci High Jewelry collection in Paris on Jan. 24.
Princess in Action
Kate Middleton meets with the Early Years Advisory Group at Windsor Castle on Jan. 25 in Windsor, England.
Cool Guy
Jason Segel attends a screening of Apple Original's Shrinking at The Paley Museum in New York City on Jan. 24.
Ben Stiller and Susan Kelechi Watson are all smiles at the New York Knicks vs. Cleveland Cavilers game at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 24.
Justin and Hailey Bieber bring their style to the streets of N.Y.C. on Jan 24.
Meeting Up in Style
Michelle Yeoh and Baz Luhrmann share a moment at the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture show on Jan. 24 during Paris Fashion Week.
On his way out of Watch Happens Live in New York City, show host Andy Cohen flashes the cameras his winning smile on Jan. 24.
Holding On Tight
Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth link hands while out and about in Manhattan on Jan. 24.
Rinkside Approval
Kenan Thompson and Rachel Brosnahan show their support for the New York Rangers at the team's game on Jan. 23 at Madison Square Garden.
Bumping Along
Rumer Willis shows off her growing baby bump while leaving a workout class in Los Angeles on Jan. 23.
Don't Rain on Her Parade!
Sarah Jessica Parker is ready for the rain on the set of And Just Like That ... season 2 in New York City on Jan. 23.
Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams wave from the stage at the 95th Academy Awards nominations announcement on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles.
Jason Mamoa takes a ride on a motorcycle in Malibu on Jan. 23.
Off the Court
Stephen and Ayesha Curry pose together at the Stephen Curry: Underrated premiere during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 23 in Utah.
Camera's Rolling
Mandy Moore hits the set in Brooklyn, New York, for Dr. Death on Jan. 23.
Breaking a Sweat
Shailene Woodley takes to the hills of Los Angeles for a run dressed in a Jack Daniel's T-shirt and sporting a pair of sunglasses on Jan. 23.
Three's Company
Tiffany Haddish, Kylie Rogers and Michael Gandolfini are all smiles at the premiere of Landscape with Invisible Hand at the Eccles Theatre during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Jan. 23.
Birthday Cheers
Chita Rivera poses with her birthday cake at her 90th birthday celebration at Bathtub Gin in New York City on Jan. 23.
Ally Maki posing in the SOREL Kinetic Breakthru Venture Mid at the Sundance Multicultural House Party on Jan. 21 in Utah.
Robin Roberts joins her Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan at the Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony honoring the former NFL player on Jan. 23 in L.A.
Anya Taylor-Joy shows off her statement sunglasses at the Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 23.
Justin Theroux is bundled up in New York City while taking his dog, Kuma, for a walk on Jan. 23.
Sarah Michelle Gellar poses during a visit to SiriusXM Studios in New York City on Jan. 23
Anna Camp is seen in Park City, Utah, in a bright blue floral coat during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 23.
Doing Big Work
With a little help from the ACLU, Julia Louis-Dreyfus shows she's got a lot to fight for at the IndieWire Sundance Studio on Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah.
Sing Now, Sleep Later
Wearing a Degrassi jersey in homage to his early aughts acting debut, Drake performs at the Apollo Theater in N.Y.C. on Jan. 21.
Trailer Chilling
Ryan Gosling relaxes between scenes while filming The Fall Guy in Sydney, Australia, on Jan. 22.
Olympic legend Simone Biles flashes a winning smile during the AthletaWell Gold Medal Groove event in Houston on Jan. 22.
Friendly in the Front Row
Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst and Rosamund Pike smile from the side of Christian Dior's Paris Fashion Week show on Jan. 23.
In a bold dress from the collection, Kylie Jenner attends Schiaparelli's Spring/Summer 2023 couture show at Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 23.
Lots to Say
Colman Domingo brings some passion to Cocktails and Conversations, hosted by Variety and Audible, on Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah.
Red Under Rain
Despite wearing a rather sunny expression on her face, Hilary Duff lets the rain fall down (from beneath an umbrella) as she heads out of Good Morning America on Jan. 23 in N.Y.C.
Catching a Flick
Vivica A. Fox poses at the red carpet premiere of Skilled on Jan. 22 during the Sundance Film Festival's ChefDance in Park City, Utah.
Laker Girls
Singer Karol G fires up the stage during Calibash Latin Music Festival at Crypto.com Arena in L.A. on Jan. 22.
Shades of Cool
Timothée Chalamet attends the Loewe menswear show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 21 in France.
Beyoncé performs on stage while headlining the grand reveal of Dubai's newest luxury hotel, Atlantis The Royal, on Jan. 21 in the United Arab Emirates.
Green Queen
Rebel Wilson attends the grand reveal weekend for Atlantis The Royal, Dubai's new ultra-luxury hotel, on Jan. 21 in the United Arab Emirates.
Jeremy O. Harris and Dakota Johnson attend Gucci Celebrates the Premiere of Bethann Hardison & Frédéric Tcheng's Invisible Beauty event at the Sundance Film Festival at the Nickel Bar at Firewood on Jan. 21 in Park City, Utah.
Suki's Singing
Suki Waterhouse performs live at the Metro in Chicago on Jan. 21.
Signing Star
Lea Michele poses at a Funny Girl CD signing event at the August Wilson Theater Lobby on Jan. 20 in New York City.
Bedazzled Babe
Nia Long attends the opening of Nobu Dubai, located at the new Atlantis The Palm, on Jan. 20 in the United Arab Emirates.
Rapper's Delight
Post Malone performs at the Mt. Smart Stadium on Jan. 21 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Dapper Dude
Burna Boy attends the Kenzo Menswear fall/winter fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 20 in France.
Dame Mary Berry and Dame Emma Thompson attend the Inspiration Awards For Women 2023 at The Landmark Hotel in London on Jan. 20.
Sunny Sundance
Emilia Clarke arrives at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Jan. 20.
Kendall Jenner attends the Sake Ceremony hosted by Nobu Matsuhisa and Meir Teper to inaugurate the grand opening of Nobu Dubai on Jan. 20
Haley Bennett sports head-to-toe denim while taking a walk at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 20.
Moustache Man
Tyler Posey dons a killer moustache while attending the Wolf Pack premiere in Los Angeles on Jan. 19.
Y2K Queen
Lindsay Lohan rocks an Aerie velour tracksuit reminiscent of iconic Y2K fashion while in Dubai on Jan. 17.
Father-Son Fashion
David and Cruz Beckham attend the Dior Homme menswear fall/winter show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 20.
Reese Witherspoon, Gabrielle Union and Octavia Spencer are all smiles while at the season 3 premiere of Apple's Truth Be Told on Jan. 19 in L.A.
When in Paris
Robert Pattinson attends the Dior Homme menswear fall/winter show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 19.
Coupled Up
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have a date night at the Wolf Pack premiere in L.A. on Jan. 19.
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones attend the BAFTA Annual Burns Bash at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows in Santa Monica, California, on Jan. 19.
Bangin' Around
Dakota Johnson shows off a full bang and long locks while speaking onstage at Sundance on Jan. 19.
Maisie Williams is nice and bright while wearing a chartreuse ensemble as she touches down in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 20.
Front Row Access
Gwendoline Christie looks striking while front row at the Dior Homme fashion show in Paris on Jan. 20.
Statement Attire
W. Kamau Bell attends Sundance Institute's Inaugural Opening Night: A Taste Of Sundance presented by IMDbPro at The Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 19.
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Colts fans have launched an online petition in hopes of keeping Jim Irsay from hiring Jeff Saturday as head coach.
TNT analyst Charles Barkley shared his thoughts about Shannon Sharpe's altercation with the Memphis Grizzlies last week.
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In theory, planning a child's birthday party should be nothing but fun. In reality, there's also a whole lot of stress that can arise from the logistics and expectations that come with this annual celebration. Vanessa Lachey has three kids and thus plans multiple parties a year — often in their new home in Hawai'i […]
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Kim Jones honors Yves Saint Laurent's legacy, while celebrating agency in fashion with the...


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Steer round the pitfalls of car buying
New car buyer
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There's a lot to think about when you're buying a car - whether it's new or used, or bought from a dealer or privately. You also need to consider the best way of financing it, or whether to just buy it outright.
That's why we've created this handy car buyer guide to help you through the process.
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It might not be as much fun as selecting the colour or interior finish, but choosing a car that won't let you down on those cold winter mornings is a big consideration.
Japanese cars tend to score well in reliability surveys, with a number of manufacturers appearing within the top 10 of the What Car?/Warranty Direct annual survey.
Top 10 reliable manufacturers
3 Hyundai / Subaru
9 Ford / Mazda
Source: What Car?/Warranty Direct, July 2013
All new cars fall in value the moment you drive them home. The trick is finding one that doesn't drop too much – that way, when you come to sell it down the line, you'll still have some value left in it. A good place to check is Auto Trader - or even Confused.com, which ranks the top 10 value holders (see below).
Top 10 resale value
3 Fiat 500
6 Vauxhall Corsa
7 Ford Ka
8 Mazda 6
9 Mercedes C-Class
10 Ford Fiesta
Source: Confused.com, 17 May 2012
Frugal cars could save you money with the tax man, and at the pump.
With fuel prices on the rise, it's really important to check how efficient the car is. Typically, cars with lower CO2 are the most efficient because they burn less fuel, plus savings in road tax can also be made by owners of fuel efficient cars.
Look for 'Band A' cars with zero road tax. There are plenty to choose from and you'll be spoilt for choice when flicking through all those glossy brochures.
Many new cars come with all kinds of helpful features like anti-lock brakes and electronic stability. But the best way to find which ones are safest is by checking their Euro NCAP performance rating. Check out the table below for the top 10, or go to the Euro NCAP "how safe is your car?" tool for a more detailed report of the car in question.
Safest cars
Top 10 safest cars
1 Volvo V40 hatchback
2 BMW 5 Series saloon
3 Vauxhall Mokka SUV
4 Ford Kuga SUV
6 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV
7 Audi A3 hatchback
8 Renault Clio hatchback
9 Mitsubishi Outlander SUV
10 Subaru Forester SUV
Source: Carbuyer.co.uk, July 2013 (based on on Euro NCAP data)
People often forget to think about insurance until it's too late. As a rule of thumb, more affordable, smaller, cars with modest engines and cheap parts have the lowest premiums.
Cheapest cars to insure
Top 10 cheapest cars to insure
1 Skoda Citigo
3 Kia Rio
4 Fiat Panda
5 Skoda Fabia
6 Seat Ibiza
7 Dacia Sandero
8 Kia Picanto
9 Toyota Aygo
10 Toyota iQ
Source: Carbuyer.co.uk, July 2013 (based on data from a number of insurers)
Find out about the different finance options available to you in our Ways to pay section.
You can also use our simple loan calculator to see how much a Nationwide loan could cost.
Cool factor
Despite everything, you might just go for a car because you love the way it looks. That's fair enough. But whatever you choose, make sure you test drive it first and don't be afraid to haggle with the dealer.
Don't just drive the car for 5 minutes up to the roundabout and back! See if you can borrow it for an evening or the weekend. If it's going to be your main family car then load everything into it too. Is everyone comfortable? Enough leg room? How is driver visibility. Do the kids' car seats fit?
Haggling tips
Most of us aren't great at haggling. But there's no secret formula. The key is to just be prepared – knowing exactly how much you can realistically spend, what your trade-in is worth – and, if possible, knowing the invoice value of the car you want. This is the amount the dealer has paid the manufacturer for the car, and is a good target to aim for – albeit with some margin for the dealer of course.
Pick your moment
New vehicle plates come out twice a year – March and September. So it stands to reason this is when dealers start shedding older stock for the new models. If you don't mind your new car being a tad out of date you could grab yourself a bargain. Buying towards the end of any given month could help too, as dealers will be under pressure to hit their targets.
Even if a dealer won't come down any more on the price, you might find they're more receptive to chucking in a few extras – like car mats, a year's road tax, an improved sound system, alloy wheels or even just a tank of fuel. It could mean you'll have a higher re-sale value on the car when you come to sell it too.
All new cars come with a warranty – but be sure to check how long it's for, and whether the dealer will extend it for free. Read the small print too. Some dealers insist the car is serviced at a main dealer during the warranty period, which can be an expensive way of doing things.
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If the Pipe Fits...
Clay Shirky, the well-known professor at the renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, in a recent interview gave this summation of the publishing industry:
"Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done."
You've probably heard similar sentiments, though not so succinctly expressed. You may even have had similar thoughts yourself. But is Shirky right?
Conflating the business of publishing with the mechanics of publishing obscures the larger issue of how publishers add value. The one thing that all publishers historically brought to the table and the one thing that secured their role and assured their success was access to an audience.
Traditionally, magazine and newspaper publishers laboriously assembled audiences to which they could sell content, or against which they could sell advertising. Large book publishers for many years held a chokehold on retail book distribution. Broadcast media worked the same way, aided by licensing rules that limited competition. To access an audience, you had to work through a media company.
With the Internet, those walls came tumbling down. Now, everybody has their own audiences through blogs, Twitter and Facebook. Things have swung so far that book publishers now favor authors who have sizable pre-existing audiences of their own. Yes, it's now BYOA – Bring Your Own Audience. Perhaps more ominously, advertisers are actively working to build their own audiences, and increasingly, are creating their own content as well.
As a consequence, publishers have to look beyond their distribution role to remain viable in this brave new world of information. The good news is that's there are lots of ways to go. First, publishers have strong brands that are trusted and neutral. That's a huge asset that can be leveraged. Second, publishers know their audiences. Does the person with 10,000 Twitter followers really know anything about those people? The answer is no, and that makes the BYOA inherently less valuable. Third, publishers can consistently generate quality content, something that is essential to maintaining an audience, and that is a lot harder than it sounds. Fourth, whether it is advertising or paid products, publishers know how to sell against an audience. Not easy or simple.
Bottom line: publishing is changing. The market sinecures many of us enjoyed for so long have eroded. The secrets to success in this new environment are to: a) get a lot smarter about the audience you do have in order to better monetize it (a/k/a audience development), and b) think about how you can help others build and monetize their own audiences (a/k/a marketing services). As an industry, we have to shift our focus from being the pipe to being the pipe-fitter.
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I picked up this book through a friend's recommendation. He told me this book, written by economist Levitt and New York Times reporter Dubner, has a unique way to explain the world by using data. When I got the book, I was totally surprised to find out there are two chapters devoted to parenting. The first one analyzed data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study done by US Department of Education in the late 1990s and the second one analyzed children's names from California since 1961. The conclusion challenges a lot of conventional thinkings on the subject. I enjoyed reading both chapters very much and I highly recommend the book to any parents who are in a quest of perfect parenting.
MIT's admission officer, Marilee Jones, just resigned, see New York Time article. The new admission officer may change how MIT evaluates new students. To make matters more complicated, Harvard and Princeton just ended early admissions. We might see a lot of changes in next year's college application process.


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While a church building may have many corollary uses its ultimate purposes are to glorify God and to facilitate the sanctification of God's people.
What is "Catholic" about a Catholic church building?
While God can work at any time, any place and any way, something badly conceived or poorly executed is not God honoring or appropriate. Therefore, can we know God's heart regarding what a building to be used for such exalted and sacred purposes should look like?
Fortunately, he has not left the Church to flounder on this issue. Through his Word in the Bible and through the continuing inspiration of the Holy Spirit he has given us many guidelines.
For instance, when Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments God also told him to fashion a Tabernacle in a way that would involve almost every form of representational art that men have ever known. (Schaeffer, 12) Then God said, "Make this tabernacle and all of its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you". (Ex. 25:9, NIV) Where did the pattern come from? It came from God.
Similarly, the temple was not planned by man. The Bible says that David gave his son, Solomon, "the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries of the dedicated things." (I Cron. 28:12, NIV) Like Moses, David knew what to have built because of what God had told him.
Statuary, furniture, stained glass windows, Stations of the Cross and other types of art in the forms of reliefs, mosaics, frescoes or murals are all designed to raise our minds and spirits to God and to things eternal.
In mystical theology an icon is a sacred image through which, one contemplates a higher level of spiritual reality. The importance lies not in the object but in the subject. The holy icon represents something invisible such as a saint now in heaven or a biblical event and is used as a tool to contemplate the event.
The wise stewardship of sacred icons such as inspirational stained glass includes the responsibility to care for them.
With regular and proper maintenance a stained glass window made using traditional materials and techniques should have a long lifetime. However, when neglected it can become unattractive, fragile and generally dilapidated and unworthy of being a part of God's house.
Because there are always competing demands for scarce resources when considering the cost of maintenance and restoration, could it be feasible to delay care or repair of a window and to put it off for as long as possible? In our opinion, definitely not. The more a stained glass window is allowed to deteriorate the more difficult and expensive it is to return to its original appearance and condition.
Therefore, are there any circumstances in which the removal and discarding of existing stained glass is ever in order? In our opinion if the stained glass is of high merit the benefits from investing in its conservation will far outweigh any cost savings from its removal.
Perhaps more important than the cost of repairing or replacing any damaged stained glass is the possibility of not being able to repair or replace it at all in the future because of the exquisite nature of the windows and the complicated steps and skills required to execute them.
Others agree with us to the extent that they will even make the special effort needed to move their historic stained glass into their new church building rather than leave it behind and replace it with something inexpensive and uninspiring.
No other art form can compare with the splendor and impact of stained glass which makes it a perfect tool for glorifying God and facilitating the sanctification of God's people.
Frueh, Erne R. and Florence, Chicago Stained Glass. Chicago, IL: Loyola University Press, 1983.
Rose, Michael S., Ugly As Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces and How We Can Change Them Back Again. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2001.
Schaeffer, Francis A., Art & the Bible. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973.
Schloeder, Steven J., Architecture in Communion: Implementing the Second Vatican Council through Liturgy and Architecture. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1998.


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Григо́рий Самуи́лович Ла́ндсберг (1890—1957) — советский физик, профессор МГУ, академик АН СССР.

Биография
Родился 10 (22 января) 1890 года в Вологде в семье старшего таксатора Самуила Абрамовича Ландсберга и Берты Моисеевны Бойм. Начал учёбу в Вологодской гимназии, но окончил гимназию уже в Нижнем Новгороде, в 1908 году, с золотой медалью.

Поступил на физико-математический факультет Московского университета и окончил его в 1913 году с дипломом первой степени. Ландсберг остался при университете, чтобы подготовиться к званию профессора, преподавал в 1913—1915, 1923—1945 и 1947—1951 годах (профессор с 1923 года). Доцент Омского сельскохозяйственного института (1918—1920), профессор 2-го Государственного университета в Москве. В 1945—1947 годах был профессором общей физики инженерно-физического факультета Московского механического института. В 1951—1957 годах профессор МФТИ. С 1934 года работал в ФИАН имени П. Н. Лебедева. Академик АН СССР (1946; член-корреспондент с 1932 года).

В годы Великой Отечественной войны Ландсберг был эвакуирован в Казань, где руководил разработкой новых методов эмиссионного спектрального анализа и использовал их для контроля качества плавок легких и цветных сплавов на оборонных заводах. Были разработаны простые и надежные стилоскопы, позволявшие проводить экспресс-анализы не только в заводских, но и в полевых условиях. Ландсбергом были разработаны методы молекулярного спектрального анализа, с помощью которых устанавливался состав трофейных бензинов.

Умер 2 февраля 1957 года. Похоронен в Москве на Новодевичьем кладбище (участок № 5).

Награды и премии
 Сталинская премия второй степени (1941)— за разработку метода спектрального анализа для определения состава сплавов и спецсталей
 два ордена Ленина (в том числе 10.06.1945)
 медали

Основные заслуги
Фундаментальные труды по оптике и спектроскопии. В 1926 году впервые выделил и исследовал молекулярное рассеяние света в кристаллах. В 1928 году совместно с Леонидом Мандельштамом открыл явление комбинационного рассеяния света (одновременно с Ч. В. Раманом и К. С. Кришнаном), экспериментально подтвердил существование тонкой структуры в линии рэлеевского рассеяния, как следствие рассеяния света на тепловых акустических волнах. В 1931 — обнаружил явление селективного рассеяния света. Положил начало отечественной спектроскопии органических молекул и изучению внутри- и межмолекулярных взаимодействий в газах, жидкостях и твёрдых телах. Разработал методы спектрального анализа металлов и сплавов (Сталинская премия , 1941), а также сложных органических смесей, в том числе моторного топлива. Автор известного курса оптики, редактор популярного «Элементарного учебника физики» (т. 1—3, 13 изд., 2003). Основатель и председатель Комиссии по спектроскопии, которая впоследствии была преобразована в Институт спектроскопии АН СССР (ИСАН, Троицк). Создал школу атомного и молекулярного спектрального анализа. Редактированный им коллективный труд — «Элементарный учебник физики» в 3-х томах — многие годы считается одним из лучших учебников физики для школьников и многократно переиздавался.

В 1955 году подписал «Письмо трёхсот».

Открытие комбинационного рассеяния света
Начиная с 1926 года, Мандельштам и Ландсберг развернули в МГУ экспериментальное изучение молекулярного рассеяния света в кристаллах, чтобы подтвердить предсказанное ранее Мандельштамом расщепление линии рэлеевского рассеяния. В результате этих исследований 21 февраля 1928 года Ландсберг и Мандельштам обнаружили эффект комбинационного рассеяния света. О своем открытии они сообщили на коллоквиуме от 27 апреля 1928 года и опубликовали соответствующие научные результаты в советском и двух немецких журналах.

Однако в том же 1928 году индийские ученые Ч. В. Раман и К. С. Кришнан искали некую комптоновскую компоненту рассеянного солнечного света в жидкостях и парах. Неожиданно для себя они обнаружили явление комбинационного рассеяния света. По словам самого Рамана: «Линии спектра нового излучения были в первый раз наблюдены 28 февраля 1928 года». Таким образом, комбинационное рассеяние света индийские физики впервые наблюдали на неделю позже, чем Ландсберг и Мандельштам в МГУ. Тем не менее, Нобелевская премия по физике 1930 года была присуждена лишь Раману, а комбинационное рассеяние света в иностранной литературе с тех пор носит название «эффект Рамана».

Книги
 Современное учение о магнетизме / Б. А. Введенский и Г. С. Ландсберг. — М. ; Л. : Гос. изд-во, 1929.

Примечания

Литература

 Гинзбург В. Л., Фабелинский И. Л. «К истории открытия комбинационного рассеяния света»

Ссылки

Оптики СССР
Оптики России
Выпускники Нижегородской гимназии
Выпускники физико-математического факультета Московского университета
Преподаватели физического факультета МГУ
Преподаватели МИТХТ
Преподаватели кафедры общей физики Московского физико-технического института
Подписавшие «письмо трёхсот»
Похороненные на Новодевичьем кладбище
Сотрудники ФИАН
Авторы учебников
Доктора физико-математических наук
Преподаватели Омского аграрного университета
Преподаватели 2-го МГУ

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OPINION: You Should Question Trump's MS-13 Stats If You Want To Get Sleep At Night
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Raoul Lowery-Contreras Contributor
November 06, 2018 7:25 PM ET
For those that hide in their basements and closets, arm themselves with shotguns and lose sleep night after night because there is an illegal alien crime wave led by gangsters from El Salvador — the vicious gangsters in President Trump's "MS-13" narrative — you can rest easy; there isn't an illegal alien crime wave and MS-13 barely exists.
Here's what Trump has wrong about MS-13, according to ProPublica:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called MS-13 the most brutal of the gangs driving the drug trade … experts have found the gang has barely any role in the international drug trade. The Congressional Research Service said that it could be misleading to call MS-13 a transnational criminal organization at all because it has no central leader or global ambitions.
In a phrase, MS-13 is no "Mexican Mafia," a real gang.
In fact, MS-13 has about 10,000 members, the amount MS-13 had in 2005, according to Newsweek's "The Most Dangerous Gang in America" article. The math: law enforcement estimates there are 1.4 million documented gang members nationwide. Ten-thousand divided by 1.4 million is 0.007 percent.
Big deal, Mr. President.
Trump Suprema supporter and "anorexic-looking" writer Ann Coulter wrote in her book "Adios America" that there are 36 million illegal aliens in the United States. That is three times the accepted estimates of the Trump administration, Pew Research and most observers and commentators who study the situation.
Fox's Tucker Carlson promotes a bogus study from some graduate student at MIT and two Yale professors claiming their research indicates 22-million illegal aliens in the U.S.
Bogus study? Yes. Or, in the words of Mohammad Fazel-Zarendi, the MIT researcher who helped create the 22-million illegal alien estimate: "Are our numbers foolproof? No. But while our models are based on a number of assumptions and uncertainties…"
Face it, Mr. Researcher, far more "assumptions and uncertainties" than observers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security use every day in the normal course of their work and duties. Ditto — Pew Research and Center for Migration Studies.
Thanks, Mr. Fazel-Zarendi. Amateurish estimates of border crossers and visa over-stayers make no sense at all and fit into the Ann Coulter School of Amateurism. One will notice that no one in the Trump administration including Mexican-hating White House staffer Stephen Miller is promoting the study or its conclusions.
Now, let us get back to illegal alien crime; we've disposed of the MS-13 myth perpetrated by the Trump administration, but what about President Trump's claim at a rally on Monday, November 5 — the day before the mid-term election — i.e. that 1,800 Americans (a year? He didn't say) are killed by illegal aliens, the kind walking through Mexico to the United States in a "caravan" from Central America.
President Trump has no idea how many Americans are killed by illegal aliens. No one does. But there are two other numbers kicked around by those who are virulently hostile to immigrants, legal and illegal.
One is by controversial Iowa Congressman Steve King who endorsed a White Supremacist for Mayor of Toronto, Canada and the other by Mary Ann Mendoza (she is not Hispanic, her name is) whose police officer son was killed in his patrol car when a drunken illegal alien crashed his vehicle into the patrol car.
King claimed in a 2006 speech that "12 Americans" a day would live if illegals weren't in the U.S. That is 4,380 a year. Mary Ann Mendoza claims she came up with 63,000 American deaths at the hands of illegal aliens since 2001. King came up with his figure out of thin air.
Mendoza, obviously not a researcher, relied on a study conducted by the Government Accountability Office published in 2011 that studied 1000 prison and local jail inmates who were foreign-born (no distinction as to legal residency) and incarcerated between 2004 and 2008.
She arrived at the 63,000 figure the study didn't by adding the years 2001-2004 and 2008 until 2016 on her own, calculating the 63,000 figure without any input from government sources.
In other words, 63,000 is a fantasy of hers just as King's 12 Americans murdered daily is.
Real numbers from the state of Texas related by CATO Institute's Alex Nowrasteh:
In 2016, 746 native-born Texans, 32 illegal immigrants, and 28 legal immigrants were convicted of homicide. In that year, the homicide conviction rate for native-born Americans in Texas was 3.2 per 100,000 natives while it was 1.8 per 100,000 illegal immigrants and 0.9 per 100,000 legal immigrants (Figure 1). The illegal immigrant conviction rate for homicide was 44 percent below that of native-born Americans in 2016 in Texas.
Imagine that. Now add in the bogus estimates of illegal aliens in the United States by Ann Coulter's 36 million illegal aliens and VOILA! The 1.8 per 100,000 illegal aliens actually convicted in Texas of murder would be – using Coulter's figure – 0.6 per 100,000. That's one-fifth of native-born Americans.
Or, as the highly paid anti-immigrant Executive Director of the suspect Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Mark Krikorian admits, "A lot of data does suggest immigrants are less likely to be involved in crime."
Congressman King? Ms. Mendoza? Mr. Trump?
Contreras is the author of "The Armenian Lobby & U.S. Foreign Policy" and "The Mexican Border: Immigration, War and a Trillion Dollars in Trade;" he formerly wrote for the New America News Service of the New York Times and was a member of the International Seafarers Union in the 1960s
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Netflix Lands Nick Kroll Animated Series 'Big Mouth'
Netflix continues to grow its ever-expanding slate of original series, and now the streaming service has landed a new animated comedy from a very funny writer/performer. Netflix announced today that it has ordered to series Big Mouth, a 10-episode half-hour "edgy, surreal animated comedy" that hails from The League and Kroll Show alum Nick Kroll and his real-life best friend Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy).
The new animated series is pitched simply as "teenage adventures in puberty," which is the only selling point you need when the show comes from Kroll. He's enlisted a number of terrific actors to lend their voices to the series, including John Mulaney as Andrew and Kroll as Nick, the two lead characters. The rest of the ensemble is filled out by Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate, and Jessi Klein.
This animated series serves as Kroll's official follow-up to the Comedy Central sketch series Kroll Show, which garnered swell reviews throughout its three-season run. Kroll serves as creator/executive producer on Big Mouth alongside Goldberg and screenwriter-directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, with the series poised to be released on Netflix in 2017.
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Enlisting Masculinity
The Construction of Gender in US Military Recruiting Advertising during the All-Volunteer Force
Melissa T. Brown
Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
First published study to explore the content of volunteer-force recruitment advertising
Analyzes more than 300 print advertisements published between the early 1970s and 2007
Is today's All-Volunteer Force still "This Man's Army"?
In a nation that has seen the rise of feminism, the decline of blue-collar employment, military defeat in Vietnam, and a general upheaval of traditional gender norms, what kind of man is today's military man? What kind does the military want him to be?
In Enlisting Masculinity, Melissa Brown asks whether appeals to and constructions of masculinity remain the underlying basis of military recruiting-and if so, what that notion of masculinity actually is. Are the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines courting warriors or breadwinners; patriots or pragmatists; dominant masters of technology, or strong yet compassionate masters of themselves? Is each military branch recruiting the same model of masculinity?
Based on an analysis of more than 300 print advertisements published between the early 1970s and 2007, as well as television commercials, recruiting websites, and media coverage of recruiting, Enlisting Masculinity argues that masculinity is still a foundation of the appeals made by the military, but that each branch deploys various constructions of masculinity that serve its particular personnel needs and culture, with conventional martial masculinity being only one among them. The inclusion of a few token women in recruiting advertisements has become routine, but the representations of service make it clear that men are the primary audience and combat their exclusive domain. Each branch constructs soldiering upon a slightly different foundation of masculine ideals and Brown delves into why, how, and what that looks like.
The military is an important site for the creation and propagation of ideas of masculinity in American culture, and it is often not given the attention that it warrants as a nexus of gender and citizenship. Although most Americans believe they can ignore the military in the era of the all-volunteer force, when it comes to popular culture and ideas about gender, the military is not a thing apart from society. Building a fighting force, Brown shows, also means constructing a gender. Enlisting Masculinity gives us a unique and important perspective on both military service and prevailing conceptions of masculinity in America.
List of Illustrations and Tables
Chapter 2: Concepts and Context: Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Creation of the AVF
Chapter 3: The Army
Chapter 4: The Navy
Chapter 5: The Marine Corps
Chapter 6: The Air Force
Chapter 7: Recruiting a Volunteer Force in Wartime
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Assistant Professor of Political Science at CUNY-Borough of Manhattan Community College
"When we say that military service 'builds men' we usually think of military socialization - dismantling the old and building the new man. Melissa Brown's careful reading of military advertisements returns us to the enticement, the gendered seduction of military masculinity. If boot camp is the 'shock,' these ads of manhood based on glory, honor and manhood, are the 'awe." --Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and author of Manhood in America
"After reading Melissa Brown's smart, engaging Enlisting Masculinity, one never again will imagine a monolithic military. Brown shows us how each of the U.S. military's four branches has coped with its peculiar anxieties, while wielding its own myths and strategies to enlist 'just enough' women so that their own preferred masculinity can be preserved. Brown reveals that it hasn't been easy."--Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
"Written in a highly engaging style, this work raises interesting questions and should appeal to specialists and general readers alike." --CHOICE
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J. Ann Tickner
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N Korea at crossroads
North Korea says ship seizure by US violates spirit of Trump-Kim summit
May 14, 2019 16:13 JST
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump broke off their last summit early. Their relationship has been growing more strained ever since that February meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. © Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea said on Tuesday the seizure of one of its cargo ships by the United States was an illegal act that violated the spirit of a summit between the two countries' leaders, and demanded the return of the vessel without delay.
The North's foreign ministry said in a statement that it rejected U.N. Security Council resolutions against it which the United States cited in impounding the vessel, as a violation of its sovereignty.
"The United States committed an unlawful and outrageous act of dispossessing our cargo ship," an unnamed ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.
"The latest U.S. act constitutes an extension of the American method of calculation for bringing the DPRK to its knees by means of 'maximum pressure' and an outright denial of the underlying spirit of the June 12 DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement."
North Korea's formal name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
It would be the "biggest miscalculation" if the United States believed it can control the North with force, the statement said, adding it will keep a sharp eye on future U.S. behaviour.
North Korean ship seized by US as provocations escalate
The U.S. Justice Department last week said a North Korean cargo ship known as the "Wise Honest" was seized and impounded to American Samoa. The vessel was accused of illicit coal shipments in violation of sanctions and first detained by Indonesia in April 2018.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump held an unprecedented summit on June 12 last year in Singapore and pledged to establish new relations and a peace regime on the Korean peninsula. They held a second summit in Vietnam in February which collapsed without agreement.
Tensions again have mounted since the failed summit. The U.S. announcement of the ship seizure came hours after the North fired two short-range missiles on Thursday.
The North Korean leader called for "full combat posture" following the U.S. seizure of the North Korean cargo ship.
The test of two short-range missiles on Thursday and the firing of a series of projectiles on Saturday were the first missile launches by the North since it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in November 2017.
A senior North Korean foreign ministry official on Saturday lashed out at last week's statement by the U.S. State Department that Pyongyang's regime subjected its people to "egregious violations" of human rights including 100,000 in political prison camps.
But South Korea's President Moon Jae-in called the recent weapons tests a calibrated protest against Washington in the wake of the summit's breakdown and the North still wants to negotiate.
Adam Mount of the Federation of American Scientists said the North's recent state media reports may signal an escalation of rhetoric, albeit relatively sedate.
"If so, they would become part of a ongoing trend in which the regime sends increasingly alarming signals in an attempt to force a breakthrough in negotiations," Mount said.
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I didn't think that the first Hellboy feature was all that great, but I was excited for Hellboy II – probably because it seemed to Guillermo Del Toro appeared, in all of the promo materials, to have taken a leaf from his Pan's Labyrinth book. That's not to say, in the final breakdown, that The Golden Army is anywhere near the level of Pan's Labyrinth, but it's a good enough time.
After Elven Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) crashes an auction to steal a third of the crown that controls the legendary Golden Army, the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defence is put on the case. Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair) have been having their differences of late and, with Hellboy acting even more brashly than usual, ectoplasmic entity Johann Krauss (Seth McFarlane[!]) accompanies them. Things get rather more complicated when Abe (Doug Jones) falls clumsily in love with Nuada's twin sister, Nuala (Anna Walton), and bargains are struck and things are investigated, and on and on.
Honestly, the plot is less important than the set pieces – and what set pieces they are! Some feel like this film was cobbled together from the leftovers of Pan's Labyrinth, but that's probably nothing to be ashamed of. It's certainly a much more visually interesting film than its predecessor, worth the price of admission simply for the scenery underground in Ireland – but it's also not without its charms. Despite the near catatonic performance of Selma Blair as Liz, the interplay between the characters is fun and the theme song of the movie makes the whole thing work. The movie ends on my pet hate of a freeze frame, but it manages to get away with it because it reprises the theme in such a deliberately horrid way that you can't help but smile and go along with it.
The early stages of the film feel largely the same as Hellboy, with the notable absence of John Hurt in modern times to ground Red, but things pick up when Nuada goes to see his father in the Elven High Court. Nuada has a point: the world of elves, goblins and abandoned folklore is approximately one billion times more interesting than that of the humans. At the best of times, in the Troll Market, I felt almost like I was watching a Star Wars movie from the days when Star Wars was both interesting and organic. Del Toro is a fan of make up and prostheses rather than CG smoke and mirrors, and that manifests itself effectively here. The elemental battle around the Brooklyn Bridge area is obviously not all real, but it's a treat to look at nonetheless.
The love story is sweet, if unimposing, and there's definitely a total lack of an epic or urgent feel to the movie despite it being about an indestructible army. Nuada himself is unimposing, but his understatedness is fairly effective at getting the point across. Most of the grand ideas on offer seem somehow undernourished, as if the movie is just progressing from one scene to another with the appearance of narrative sense, but with the bare minimum of satisfactory development.
Basically, my feelings are mixed: Hellboy II: The Golden Army is very nice to look at and enjoyable overall, but is also unimpressive. It certainly has multiple strengths, but it's not a movie that I'll think back on, or one that will haunt me, as did Pan's Labyrinth. Del Toro is certainly a director worth watching and, if Hellboy III eventuates, I'll definitely be there to check it out.
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Maurice decides to buy an investment property in Vine Grove, KY that costs $380,000. Since he doesn't have enough cash for the transaction and cannot get a bank loan, he obtains a hard money loan from West Side Investment Group . The lender loans Maurice 70% of the sales price of the house (LTV), so he will be required to fund the remaining 30%. They also agree to a 2 year, interest-only note at a 10% rate of interest, with a 4 point origination fee paid at closing. According to this deal, Maurice will make the following payments: 1) $114,000 down payment at closing (based on the 70% LTV), 2) $10,640 in origination points (4% x $266,000 principle), and 3) $2,217 per month in interest payments.
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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche and His Family
The only person of Color on the Titanic and of Creole Heritage
The Laroche Family
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was born in Cap Haitien, Haiti on 26 May 1886.
In 1901, at age 15, he left Haiti and travelled to Beauvais, France, where he hoped to join the high school to study engineering.While visiting nearby Villejuif Joseph met Miss Juliette Lafargue; After Joseph graduated and got his degree, he and Juliette were married in March of 1908.
Their daughter Simonne was born 19 February 1909; a second daughter, Louise, was born prematurely on 2 July 1910, and suffered many subsequent medical problems.Racial discrimination prevented Joseph Laroche from obtaining a high-paying job in France.
Since the family needed more money to cope with Louise's medical bills, Joseph decided to return to Haiti to find a better-paying engineering job, the move being planned for 1913.In March 1912, however, Juliette discovered that she was pregnant, so she and Joseph decided to leave for Haiti before her pregnancy became too far advanced for travel.
Joseph's mother in Haiti bought them steamship tickets on the La France as a welcome present, but the line's strict policy regarding children caused them to transfer their booking to the Titanic's second class.
On April 10 the Laroche family took the train from Paris to Cherbourg in order to board the brand new liner later that evening.
Joseph - who is thought to have been the only black passenger on the Titanic - died in the sinking but his family were saved, possibly in lifeboat 14.
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A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 Versions), and The Book of the Luminaries. This volume offers the first critical edition of the Hebrew text, with English translation and commentary, of seven astrological treatises by Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Book of Elections (3 versions); the Book of Interrogations (3 versions); and the Book of the Luminaries. This volume, then, covers the astrological doctrine of elections, which is concerned with finding the best time to begin a particular activity; the doctrine of interrogations, designed to allow astrologers to reply to questions related to daily life; and the astrological theory behind the doctrine of the critical days, when marked changes take place in the symptoms of a disease. These three systems of astrology were combined in a single volume because Ibn Ezra considers them to be closely interrelated. BRILL 2011, 669pp., searchable pdf.


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EAAA listed as 7th in the top 100 not-for-profit companies in the UK to work for
Written by Nicki Blake
East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) listed as 7th in the top 100 not-for-profit companies in the UK to work for, as part of the Sunday Times' Best Companies To Work For listing. They also went from receiving a one star to a three star rating in the year's listing – which means they have received 'extraordinary levels of engagement' from their staff.
The placing and rating of companies is based solely on staff survey feedback results, and as such is down to employee satisfaction within each organisation.
EAAA is a helicopter emergency medical service provider covering East Anglia, with offices in Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge, Melbourn and Peterborough. They provide a 365-day-a-year life-saving service, taking an expert crew consisting of a doctor, a critical care paramedic and two pilots directly to patients who have suffered life-threatening or life-changing accidents or medical emergencies. The clinical crew are supported by charity staff, consisting of a number of teams including; fundraising, operations, communications, HR and executive teams.
At an awards ceremony in London the charity found out their official ranking, and say they are delighted to have gone up 36 places and be ranked 7th place. The Sunday Times' Best Companies Awards are awarded every year and aim to showcase and highlight the best companies to work for throughout the UK.
Sarah Atkins, Head of HR at EAAA, said: "This is the second year we have been a part of these listings and are delighted that we have not only been rated at 7th, an amazing 36 places above last year, but have also achieved a three star rating. We have invested a lot of time over the last year focussing on the wellbeing of our staff and ensuring they are well supported, so to know that they themselves rated us highly in this area is very reaffirming. EAAA is such a wonderful place to work because of the whole team that works here – we are incredibly proud."
As a celebration of The Best Companies Day held today (March 1st), the EAAA team will be having celebratory fish and chips at their upcoming Staff Day to enable duty crew and everyone to be together in one place. A full list of the top 100 Best Companies to work for was published in The Sunday Times.
Founder and CEO of Best Companies, Jonathan Austin, said; "I would like to congratulate East Anglian Air Ambulance on their achievement of their Three Star Accreditation status and being named as one of the UK's Best Companies to Work for. Best Companies have been producing the Accreditation standard since 2006 to acknowledge excellence in the workplace. We are proud that organisations like EAAA focus on their employees and have been rewarded with an engaged workforce who tell us that they're a best company to work for."
For more information on the work of East Anglian Air Ambulance, visit www.eaaa.org.uk or call 03450 669 999. You can also follow us on Twitter at @EastAngliAirAmb or 'like' our Facebook page – East Anglian Air Ambulance Charity.
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By Katherine Lawson-Phillips
The medical teams from East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) will be flying the flag for East Anglia in the next series of the increasingly popular Emergency Helicopter Medics which airs on Sunday 10 November, 9pm on More4.
This is the third series EAAA has featured in the programme, which regularly pulls in more than 500,000 viewers per episode. Alongside Great North Air Ambulance and Thames and Valley Air Ambulance, the show documents emergency call outs from June to August of this year.
Every Step Counts – Coastal trek a hit for air ambulance
By Kat Lawson-Phillips
On Sunday 8th September more than 200 people took to the Norfolk coastline to complete either a 24 mile or 24 kilometre walk for the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA). This is the first time EAAA have held the Trek 24 event – designed to raise awareness and funds for the charity's mission to fly 24/7 from the end of next year.
The Trek 24 event is expected to raise over £70,000 for the charity, which needs to raise an additional £1 million each year (bringing the total funds needed to £13 million a year) in order to develop and deliver a 24 hour helicopter emergency service in East Anglia.
Taking in the stunning Norfolk coastline, 123 people braved the longer walk, from West Runton to Holkham Hall, over Beeston Bump and along a great distance of shingle, which made this walk especially challenging.
Among the 24 mile trekkers were several former EAAA patients and EAAA Critical Care Paramedic, Rod Wells. Some 24 mile participants even chose to run the route, or run a mile then walk a mile. On average, it took the 24 milers eight hours to walk the 24 mile route, including stopping for breaks.
Paramedics to trek 24 miles next week for charity
On Sunday 8th September hundreds of people will be supporting the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) and their mission to fly 24/7 from Norwich next year by completing either a 24 mile or 24 kilometre trek along the north Norfolk coast.
The 24 mile trek will start at West Runton and the 24 K trek from Cley, both finishing at Holkham Hall.
Taking part and passionately raising funds for the life-saving charity is EAAA long-serving critical care paramedic, Rod Wells, who will be leading a team of paramedics along the coastal trek.
Trekking with Rod will be his two close friends, Martin Harris and Jared Grove, who both work for the East of England Ambulance Service as paramedics. The team of three have previously completed a 100K Artic Circle Trek together, and have joined forces again to complete Trek 24 and raise vital funds for EAAA.
Norfolk Nurses to take on coastal trek to help EAAA
On Sunday 8 September hundreds of hardy walkers will take on either a 24 mile or 24 kilometre coastal walk along the North Norfolk Coast in aid of the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA), with both routes finishing at Holkham Hall.
The 'Four for 24' group is made up of four Norfolk nurses who have all had experience working at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital: Louise Langham-Hill, Natasha Pickett, Clare Johnson, and Bev Macfarlane (in the picture from left to right) .
This team know first-hand how important the air ambulance is in getting seriously ill or injured patients to them as quickly as possible and are taking on the 24 kilometre walking challenge to support the charity's mission to expand their service to fly 24 hours a day.
Bev MacFarlane, ex ED nurse at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and current nurse at Cromer Hospital, said: "Supporting EAAA is very close to our hearts. All of us are ED nurses or ex-ED nurses so we have seen first-hand the benefit EAAA gives to patients who have suffered a life-threatening incident or medical emergency. Personally, my husband was knocked off his bicycle in an accident and taken to Addenbrooke's by EAAA, so I am proud to take part in Trek 24 and do my part to raise funds for this vital charity".
East Anglian Air Ambulance launch campaign to become a 24/7 service
By Nicki Blake
East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) has launched an ambitious plan to become a 24/7 helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) provider by 2020. The charity currently operates 365-days-a-year but not 24-hours-a-day, meaning that if an incident happened between midnight and 07:00 there is currently no HEMS provision in the region. The charity is aiming to cover this gap and become a full 24/7 HEMS service by 2020. To do that they need to raise an additional £1 million a year to fund the operation.
The type of incidents the charity attend – serious road traffic collisions, cardiac arrests, traumatic injuries and other medical emergencies - do not stop when their crew go offline. While a 24/7 service seemed to make sense, the charity needed to be sure, so have been gathering evidence to prove it. They worked with the East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST), who task them, to review incidents over the course of a year where critical care was required but unavailable. They also assessed the need first-hand by trialling an overnight service via rapid response vehicle (RRV) four days a week from the Norwich base. The results of this work confirmed a significant region-wide need for overnight critical care, particularly in rural Norfolk. In the first twelve months of the overnight trial they attended 220 missions, but they say that with the helicopter they could do so much more.
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Often asked: Why Did The United States Want To Remain Neutral In The European War?
1 Why did America want to be neutral when WWII started?
2 What were the reasons for US neutrality?
3 During what war did the United States try to stay neutral?
4 Why did the US remain neutral in ww1 quizlet?
5 What if US never entered ww2?
6 How did American isolationism lead to ww2?
7 What home front impacts did World War I have on the US?
8 How did the Neutrality Acts affect America?
9 What was the point at which US actions were no longer neutral?
10 Why was it difficult for the US to stay neutral during the First World War?
11 Why did the United States decide to enter the war and fight on the side of the allies?
12 What were some of the reasons America eventually entered WWI in 1917?
13 What factors caused the US to abandon neutrality and enter the war?
14 Was the US truly neutral in ww1?
15 What made neutrality difficult?
Why did America want to be neutral when WWII started?
The best policy, they claimed, was for the United States to build up its own defenses and avoid antagonizing either side. Neutrality, combined with the power of the US military and the protection of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, would keep Americans safe while the Europeans sorted out their own problems.
What were the reasons for US neutrality?
When war broke out in Europe in 1914 President Wilson declared that the United States would follow a strict policy of neutrality. This was a product of a longstanding idea at the heart of American foreign policy that the United States would not entangle itself with alliances with other nations.
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During what war did the United States try to stay neutral?
As World War I erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States, a position that a vast majority of Americans favored, on August 4, 1914.
Why did the US remain neutral in ww1 quizlet?
Americans adopted a policy of neutrality in WWI because the war didn't concern the United States. Wilson protested that "sinking merchant ships without protecting the lives of passengers and crews violated international law", and wrote a letter to Germany demanding that it stop unrestricted submarine warfare.
What if US never entered ww2?
Without the US in WWII, the western Allies would have had no resources or manpower to defeat Germany. Russia was able to turn back Germany largely on the strength of money and materials that the US provided. In the Pacific, no power would have effectively resisted, let alone defeated, Japan.
How did American isolationism lead to ww2?
Although U.S. isolationism was not the only cause of WWII it was one of the main reasons for the start of the war because it allowed authoritarian rule to sweep the world with the weakened League of Nations, contributed to the worsening of the Great Depression, and made diplomatic resolve abroad impossible.
What home front impacts did World War I have on the US?
World War I led to many changes at home for the United States. As international migration slowed considerably, the availability of wartime factory jobs led half a million African Americans to leave the South and move to northern and western cities for work.
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How did the Neutrality Acts affect America?
After a fierce debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed. This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of "cash-and-carry." The ban on loans remained in effect, and American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports.
What was the point at which US actions were no longer neutral?
U.S neutrality ended when Japan expanded, in my opinion. As President Roosevelt refused to enact the Neutrality Acts, since war was not declared. A cash and carry policy was enforced, China paid for supplies and Britain carried the supplies to China.
Why was it difficult for the US to stay neutral during the First World War?
Why was it difficult for the United States to stay neutral during the first part of World War I? The U.S. had a close relationship with Great Britain, and the war interfered with trade. Germany was forced to accept responsibility for the outbreak of the war.
Why did the United States decide to enter the war and fight on the side of the allies?
Why did the United States decide to enter the war and fight on the side of Allies? Wilson could not keep America out of war so they fought on the side of the Allies. Germany kept on being aggressive, ships invading Belgium, etc. This made America join the British.
What were some of the reasons America eventually entered WWI in 1917?
Reintroduction of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. Knowing they risked provoking the United States into joining the war, Germany gambled on defeating the British before the US had a chance to mobilise.
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What factors caused the US to abandon neutrality and enter the war?
Why did the U.S abandon its policy of neutrality to enter the war? German U-Boats sunk ships at an alarming rate, faster than replacements could be built. This resulted in the allies loosing crucial supplies. This forced the allies to sail merchant ships with war ships to protect them.
Was the US truly neutral in ww1?
Beginning July 28, 1914 with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia in retaliation for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a complicated web of alliances plunges the nations of Europe into war within a month. The United States stays politically neutral.
What made neutrality difficult?
Why was neutrality difficult for the United States to define and maintain after WWI had begun in Europe? Neutrality was difficult for the United States to define and maintain after WWI had begun in Europe because they wanted to remain neutral without damaging the American economy.
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